So I bought Delicious Library a little while back to catalog all of my books, cds, etc. It works great. One new feature is the ability to catalog gadgets. Being an iPhone owner, I happily tried to enter mine in the software and lo and behold, you can’t. After confirming with DL support, it’s not possible unless you want to just manually hack something into it instead of using your real barcode info.
Guys, the number one gadget of all time is an Apple product and you can’t easily enter it into arguably one of the premier Mac apps?
I know you use Amazon to do the product lookups but please find a way to work with the Apple store to input the iPhone. This is just bizarre and slightly lame.
CNN is running this series that promises to “reveal” the candidates like never before. Please. Like you didn’t reveal how there were no WMDs in Iraq.
Anyway, one of the videos being offered is a clip about the first time John McCain met his current wife, Cindy.
This is probably the most disgusting video because in case you don’t know, at the time McCain introduced himself to Cindy, his actual wife was at home, crippled from a horrific car accident taking care of his kids by herself.
This is the face of “the other woman” when asked to describe the first time you met the man who was trying to cheat on his wife:
Makes me want to puke.
Hey religious right wing Republicans, get a good look at that smile. That’s your potential “Other” First Lady.
David Brooks, infamous assmonkey from the New York Times, wrote a horrific article today in which he complains that “too many 25 year old reporters and producers seized on every comment [McCain said] to set off little blog scandals.”
Hey David, it does kinda matter that McCain doesn’t:
1. Know that McCain said he thought Afghanistan and Iraq shared a border - when in reality they don’t.
2. Know the difference between Sunnis and Shias - which kinda matters since they occupy your Iraq War Wet Dream.
3. Know that Czechoslovakia hasn’t existed for 18 years.
I’m glad they’re catching those obvious foreign policy comments by McCain since he thinks being a shitty pilot who was captured means he has “foreign policy experience” and is basing a good chunk of his campaign on it.
Keep it up 25 year olds! The world needs to know that McCain is on the verge of senility and has absolutely no grasp on world affairs let alone basic geography.
Not everyone reads Jack Cafferty’s blog on CNN so I’m reposting his latest commentary piece here. Please read this. I’m highlighting things in bold for emphasis.
Russia invades Georgia and President Bush goes on vacation. Our president has spent one-third of his entire two terms in office either at Camp David, Maryland, or at Crawford, Texas, on vacation.
His time away from the Oval Office included the month leading up to 9/11, when there were signs Osama bin Laden was planning to attack America, and the time Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city of New Orleans.
Sen. John McCain takes weekends off and limits his campaign events to one a day. He made an exception for the religious forum on Saturday at Saddleback Church in Southern California.
I think he made a big mistake. When he was invited last spring to attend a discussion of the role of faith in his life with Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, McCain didn’t bother to show up. Now I know why.
It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current president. When asked what his Christian faith means to him, his answer was a one-liner. “It means I’m saved and forgiven.” Great scholars have wrestled with the meaning of faith for centuries. McCain then retold a story we’ve all heard a hundred times about a guard in Vietnam drawing a cross in the sand.
Asked about his greatest moral failure, he cited his first marriage, which ended in divorce. While saying it was his greatest moral failing, he offered nothing in the way of explanation. Why not?
Throughout the evening, McCain chose to recite portions of his stump speech as answers to the questions he was being asked. Why? He has lived 71 years. Surely he has some thoughts on what it all means that go beyond canned answers culled from the same speech he delivers every day.
He was asked “if evil exists.” His response was to repeat for the umpteenth time that Osama bin Laden is a bad man and he will pursue him to “the gates of hell.” That was it.
He was asked to define rich. After trying to dodge the question — his wife is worth a reported $100 million — he finally said he thought an income of $5 million was rich.
One after another, McCain’s answers were shallow, simplistic, and trite. He showed the same intellectual curiosity that George Bush has — virtually none.
Where are John McCain’s writings exploring the vexing moral issues of our time? Where are his position papers setting forth his careful consideration of foreign policy, the welfare state, education, America’s moral responsibility in the world, etc., etc., etc.?
John McCain graduated 894th in a class of 899 at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. His father and grandfather were four star admirals in the Navy. Some have suggested that might have played a role in McCain being admitted. His academic record was awful. And it shows over and over again whenever McCain is called upon to think on his feet.
He no longer allows reporters unfettered access to him aboard the “Straight Talk Express” for a reason. He simply makes too many mistakes. Unless he’s reciting talking points or reading from notes or a TelePrompTer, John McCain is lost. He can drop bon mots at a bowling alley or diner — short glib responses that get a chuckle, but beyond that McCain gets in over his head very quickly.
I am sick and tired of the president of the United States embarrassing me. The world we live in is too complex to entrust it to someone else whose idea of intellectual curiosity and grasp of foreign policy issues is to tell us he can look into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and see into his soul.
George Bush’s record as a student, military man, businessman and leader of the free world is one of constant failure. And the part that troubles me most is he seems content with himself.
He will leave office with the country $10 trillion in debt, fighting two wars, our international reputation in shambles, our government cloaked in secrecy and suspicion that his entire presidency has been a litany of broken laws and promises, our citizens’ faith in our own country ripped to shreds. Yet Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been.
I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.
Note to Jack: If that doesn’t convince you, I don’t know what will.
I never EVER watch Fox News. I wouldn’t if you paid me. Not for 10 minutes. I value my life too much to be wasted on that total cess pool.
However, via Michaelmoore.com, I did watch a short video on YouTube that is just classic.
“The John Edwards Affair” is fresh meat for the rabid talking heads on Hannity & Colmes right now. Their on-air Democrat Colmes (honestly, I have no idea what this guy’s first name is because I just don’t watch the show to know) took great advantage of his time on the floor to bring up the double standard Republicans have toward John McCain.
McCain had a well-documented affair with his current wife, Cindy, 30 years ago after he came back from Vietnam. Hannity tried to make the case that being tortured for 5 years gives you a free pass to cheat on your spouse when you return from war. Truth is, when McCain returned, his then-wife was horribly damaged in a car wreck. McCain returned, saw the devastation, and cheated on his wife with Cindy.
In this video clip, you will see how all three “guests” simply refuse to directly address the contradiction if at all and Hannity constantly attempts to interrupt Colmes’ one single question during the segment like an angry little boy who didn’t want to be caught with his pants down.
CLASSIC!
You may say hey, calling Republicans hypocrites is too rough. Really? If you’re supposed to love thy neighbor, why do they universally hate gay people but love it when they take care of their lawns or try to hook up with other gay people in airport restroom stalls? Why do they hate minorities but have no problem employing them at low wages to do the jobs they’d hate to have their own white kids do or cheering them on in sporting events?
I have to say. The whole “walk out if the deal changes” line is absolutely true. I did that when I was recently shopping for a used car and the dealer froze in his chair.
I walked about 500 feet across the parking lot to my car, got in, and started to drive away when I shit you not, the dealer ran all the way over to me and was knocking on my window. I rolled it down and said yes? He said well we can do X for this vehicle now. I said, “Well I think I need to continue shopping because I can’t do X. You have my phone number. If you can do a better deal, please call me.” Then I drove off.
Even though I didn’t take that car, I felt so great afterward. I’m not the best negotiator but my willingness to walk from the deal really paid off.
It also doesn’t hurt when you can look as stone-faced as I can, too.
Folks, is this the man Republicans want in the White House? Seriously? Please God I want as many debates as humanly possible. Obama will destroy this confused old man.
