John McCain shook the ground by announcing Governor Sarah Pailin as his VP choice. On the surface, Gov. Palin seems like a great choice. She is a hard working person, a great mother and wife to a great family. She is very attractive, confident, and well spoken. But as one delves deeper in to her record and experience, you find that her experience is greatly lacking. And serving under a president who not only is old but has had a long track record with cancer, I can’t possibly believe that she would be qualified to be President of the United States should the unthinkable happen.
Governor Palin is a first-term governor of the state of Alaska. Before that she was the mayor of a town of about 7,000 people. Alaska itself isn’t the most populated of states. And though her track record as governor is I guess acceptable (if I hear “The Bridge To Nowhere” nonsense one more time I might snap) but is it enough? Remember, should John McCain not be able to serve his term, Palin would be responsible for something MUCH bigger than just the state of Alaska. Honestly, I think after her appointment, the GOP shouldn’t be allowed to bring up Obama’s lack of experience anymore. Obama may lack experience as well, however he has not only earned his party’s nomination despite that, he also appointed Sen. Joe Biden, someone who brings a lot of experience in many different areas to the Democratic ticket.
However, Sarah Palin isn’t the problem here at all. The problem is John McCain himself. What does this say about John McCain’s judgement. All of his banners read “Country Comes First” however, this isn’t putting the country first at all. John McCain is 72 years old, and he has had to battle cancer four times. In our histroy 8 presidents have died in office, 4 from assassination, and 4 from illness, making this an unfortunate possibility for any president. John McCain has chosen Sarah Palin after one or two meetings. She is obviously quite in experienced to be so close to the presidency. If the VP were elected by the party I wouldn’t be saying this because, you know, the people have spoken. But this is McCain’s choice, and his choice alone. I am surprised more members of his party are not concerned. He passed over great choices like Tom Ridge, Mitt Romney, Joe Lieberman (a Democratic defector), and Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Texas Senator and most importantly a woman. If John McCain thought that he was going to steal some Hillary supporters with Sarah Pailin, he is wrong. Palin is too socially conservative for Hillary supporters to even consider becoming “McCainocrats”. In the end, Sarah Palin is a first term governor who lacks experience, more so than Barack Obama. I think this decision reflects poorly on not only John McCain, but on the GOP as well. A political party who has had a rough couple of years. I guess time will tell, but speaking as an American voter, I can’t see myself voting for John McCain.
Yeah, he kicked ass. He started off a bit weak but ended very strong. You gotta hand it to the guy, he knows how to draw a crowd. Barack Obama has successfully out campaigned McCain and the GOP over and over again. A, 70,000+ crowd is proof that the GOP is failing badly in communicating a message. The new Democratic catch phrase is that “John McCain is more the same.” If I were John McCain I would go all out argueing the opposite. The GOP is in a delicate position right now that I am not sure they can get out of. George W. Bush has single handedly run the GOP straight in to the ground. There is a great article in most recent issue of Rolling Stone that details the “downfall”. I found the article online here. Whether you’re a democrat, republican or neither, those are facts that at this point and time, you can’t refute. Either way, Obama is taking advantage of the MASSIVE public disappointment in the GOP, and if he keeps going the way he is going, he’ll be sleeping in the White House in no time. Anyway here is the speech…
I was at Jiu-Jitsu for most of the night, but I made it home just in time to catch the rear end of Bill’s speech, and of course all of Joe’s. I did catch the highlights of Bill’s speech though. It was nice to see Bill finally bury the hatchet and try to unite the party. He had to eat some words sure, but in the end I think he learned a valuable lesson. Bill needs to deal with the fact Hillary lost, deal with the fact that Obama didn’t ask him for advice, and try to unite a party he effectively divided. Of course, he did an excellent job.
But I think the star of the night was Joe Biden. He delivered a poigniant speech, and went after John McCain like a hungry dog haha. But all in all, it shows that Joe Biden is damn good guy. Here is his speech in it’s entirety I believe. I can’t verify it now, I am in the FIU Library. If I play this I will get dirty looks. Here is Joe’s Speech…
And here is Bill’s
All in all I think it was an important night for the Dems. The GOP is still reeling from the mess George Bush has created, and they are absolutely, 100% at their most vulnerable.
You know Hillary Clinton has always bothered me. She always came off as snobby and self righteous. “Oh look at me I am a woman running for president.”But I have to admit she rocked it last night. Maybe it was her finally coming to terms with defeat, or maybe it was the DNC telling her to “shut up and be nice” but I think she finally calmed her constituency and got them all behind Obama. I think one of two things is happening as we speak. Either the Dems are realizing that they need to cut this drama out and unite because the GOP is weak and the time is right, OR, the GOP is SO weak that it doesn’t matter what the Dems do, they’ll win anyway. I guess we’ll see. Anyway good for you Hill! I am glad to see you are using your attitude and sass for good instead of evil.
You probably don’t know me, but I am the guy who drives the gray Audi, I see you at the stop sign on Oakmont drive. I noticed that you drive a John Cooper Works Mini Cooper. As this is an unsual choice for an attractive girl such as yourself, I am left to wonder slightly. I mean a girl would normally go with the standard Cooper, or if you are feeling adventurous, the Cooper S, but the JCW Mini?
I nearly dropped my iPhone in to the dead space that is the floor of my car when I saw you. You are a pretty girl, who drives a REALLY awesome car. I can only conclude that your choice of car reflects the level of maturity and class. Next time, I will maybe allow my brain to communicate with my hand and wave at you the next time. Maybe I’ll give you a lame thumbs up, which you probably will take as dorky, but just know this. It’s not a “hey you’re hot” thumbs up, or a “hehe sweet ride” thumbs up. It’s a “Your car choice shows what a cool girl you must be” thumbs up.
Ohh boy thats gonna be interesting. For Kimbo, not for Ken. For Ken it’s going to be painful. Say Ken have you seen any of the reasons EliteXC signed him? Here is one…
So all in all my first day of school wasn’t so bad. Sadly however, it is not over just yet. Currently I am sitting in Mini-FIU (Broward Center) currently awaiting the start of my Accounting for Decisions class from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Relax, it’s only once a week and not too far from where I live. The movie theater I frequent is just down the street so if I can go and see a movie, I can come here. I had to plow through a moderate rain storm in order to get here, but at least I get this class out of the way, move on to more interesting stuff.
Math class is all good. The teacher is very PowerPoint focused which is good and bad in a way. In case you want to see a picture of him here he is…
Sadly I am not joking. He literally looks (and sounds) like Ricardo Mantoblan from Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn. I am afraid he might try to trick me with his superior intellect and leave me abandoned with the Genesis project.
International Relations has turned out pretty good too, considering that Monday from 9-9:50 AM I have a “discussion period”. We’ll see how that goes, it looks like one of those classes that will go in to chaos after debating the issues. Anyway, I might head over to that class now. Peace Out.
Oh wait some dude just showed up in army combat boots and a black trench coat. Wait…he is carrying a Luis Vuiton…umm purse? False Alarm.
So I saw one of these the other day and it suddenly struck me, the Segway can easily become more popular than walking. Though here is my question, why are we allowing this? I mean, it’s really dorky looking. Sure it’s a breakthrough in transportation and all that but come on…it’s not really a chick magnet. But I mean come on, whatever happened to walking? Seriously, I am afraid that as soon as this picks up, and we will abandon walking all together. And then the only companies that will flourish will be funeral homes specializing in heavy duty caskets and of course…Segway.
So, in case you have been living under a rock for the past 3 days, Obama chose Senator Joe Biden as his running mate. Well as I was still indecisive in making a choice, so I was looking in to Senator Biden and I found this article. The articles shows Biden’s voting record on issues such as peer-to-peer networks and is very anti-encryption. Gizmodo sums his record up nicely…
“He asked Congress to spend $1 billion to monitor peer-to-peer activity. (In fairness, much of this is to prevent child pornography, but the tactic is apparently a little blunt.)
Two Biden bills have been explicitly anti-encryption, because you know, encryption makes it hard for the FBI to read people’s e-mails.
He has expressed support for internet taxes and internet filtering in schools and libraries.
The RIAA seems to be one of his best buddies: Biden sponsored a bill that would restrict recording of songs from satellite and net radio, and another one that would make it a felony to “trick” a computer into playing back unauthorized songs or running bootlegged videogames. That latter one died when Verizon, Microsoft, Apple, eBay and Yahoo all argued against it.
Biden was one of just four senators invited to attend a celebration of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hosted by the MPAA’s Jack Valenti and the RIAA’s Hillary Rosen, two of American file-sharer’s most wanted.
When he was asked in 2006 about proposing net-neutrality laws, he said there was no need, since any bit-filtering violations would provoke such a huge public ruckus they’d have to hold congressional hearings anyway–and they’d be standing-room only. (Wonder if Biden reads Gizmodo.) [CNet]“
So as of right now, as a staunch supporter of net neutrality and the such, I don’t think I can give Barack Obama my full support. Though I believe the man wants to change things, and though he is a supporter of net neutrality, I think his choice of Joe Biden as Vice-President is not a sound one. I think in an age where the internet plays such a big part in our lives, Senator Biden would do nothing but hinder it.
I love instant messaging. It’s on my PC and my phone, and it sure beats SMS and MMS by a long shot. But seeing as though instant messaging has evolved from something imbedded in to AOL to something that has become a primary way we communicate with each other, we need to realize how sometimes it could be a bit ‘overused’. Seriously, I think IM was sort of invented for the sake of small talk. If I need to reach my friends with any sort of urgency, well, I will call or text them. But lately, I have been victim to what I had dubbed “Boredom Chat”. Boredom Chat is when a person, out of boredom, frequently contacts another person who they normally don’t talk to and sort of share with them, mundane and uninteresting thoughts and plans they have for the very near future. It usually starts off with “What’s up?” or something along those lines. Now this question will probably be repeated several times throughout a 2 to 3 hour span. As if anything significant can happen within those few hours. Replying with “not much” or “nm” will do nothing for you. This will in no way throw a wrench in to this machine. Soon after that, the person will sort of speak to you like if you know more or less everything they are talking about. This comes to fruition as maybe a reference to an event in their lives. An example of that would be “Man that project was real hard.” See, at this point is when our curious nature tends to betray us. This usually leads to something along the lines of “What project is that?” After this you enter the point of no return. It is this very point one must fight to stay away from. Because once you hit it, the flood of completely pointless information will drown you. From here you will not only find out what the project is about, but this will spring in to various paths of conversation that will eventually lead you to either make up an excuse and sign off, or, go completely insane. How can this be avoided you ask? At this point it’s up to you to be resourceful. Just as a couple of people had to get shot before they perfected kevlar vests, a few people must go insane before we can escape something like this. Anyway, stay tuned for part two of “The Art of Instant Messaging” where I am going to delve in to how emotion doesn’t exist in the world of text communication.
