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Monday, March 17, 2008 02:36 PM

The never ending campaign

But this is what the Clintons do. They never give up, they never concede but just wear down their opponents until everybody is so sick and tired of the whole thing, that they just say:OK, since you want it so much, have it, we can't take it anymore. If the Clintons are unable twist the arms of enough super delegates to give them a slim overall majority, which is now mathematically all but impossible, they'll use a string of law suits against the DNC, ranging from the Florida/Michigan issue to caucus proceddures "imprprieties" as part of their overall attrition strategy. They will just not give up.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 07:50 AM

Why does Apple have such terrible service?

I've always used Mac computers, I just find them vastly superior to Window based machines. However, Apple service is just awful. Six weeks ago I sent my g5 iMac to Apple for a new power unit through a 3rd party, since my extended warrenty had expired. I was told by the 3rd party that based on their experience with Apple, the unit should be ready in 5-10 days. After 5 weeks of not hearing a damn thing, I called the 3rd party, and eventually was told that Apple informed them(only after an inquiry) that while testing the iMac with the new power unit, the motherboard went down. As of today, more than 6 weeks after my iMac was sent to Apple(just down the road in Santa Clara),there's no sign or news of my Mac. What's the point of making suprior computers if the service is so infuriatingly bad?

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 08:22 AM

What kind of reforms

The most important reform/regulation that needs to be put in place is that the short term trading of debt instruments like mortgages is strictly illegal. A debt is by definition a negative value instrument that may or may not be payed off at some future point. Generating profits out of an instrument that has no monetary value is the manipulative recycling of speculative valueless assets without generating real growth. That's the main reason our economy shrinks as far as our industry and manufacturing capacity goes-"growth" is only phony, speculative electronic traffic of phantom money.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 07:37 AM
Original article: Was Obama's speech enough?

The nation just doesn't deserve Barack obama

The majority of this nation is dumb, ignorant and deeply racist. The tragic and simple fact is that it's far more ready for a third Bush term, which it will get with a McCain presidency, and to a lesser extent with a Clinton presidency, with it's endless wars and the stablishment of a warrior American empire, financial disasters and economic collapse and profound divisivness, than a leader like Obama, who wants to end our sorry legacies and drag us into the 21th century as a modern, progressive and peaceful society.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 07:46 AM
Original article: Murtha endorses Clinton

Pelosi

Actually, Nancy Pelosi seems to be leaning toward Obama, although she has stayed publicly neutral. Pennsylvania is the prototype Reagan Democrats state, with its large population segment of blue color whites who are uncofortable with black candidates in particular and with black people in general. It's a state Obama has no chance of winning when running against Clinton, whose power base, along with white women and over 50 latinos, is blue color white voters. Murtha would have deeply antagonized his constituency had he endorsed Obama, so his endorsment of Clinton was totally expected.

Thursday, March 20, 2008 07:17 AM

McCain IS a media invention

McCain couldn't debates economics with a reasonably intelligent high school junior. His incredibly simplistic and childish mentality of war worshipping and instinctive desire for military response to any crisis as well as his explosive and mean temper as well as his perpetual anger and corruption, would label him as a corrupt chuvinistic and pshchotic moron in any other normal nation. McCain has so many profound defeciencies, he wouldn't be able to run for a local school board in Arizona, but the MSM has created and cultivated his totally phony image of an intrepid mavrick, and now he's very close to becoming the next US president.

Friday, March 21, 2008 08:24 AM

Take the money and run

This woman's chutzpah is very much like one you get from the bank robber who says:forget about my decision to rob the bank, that's all in the past. The important thing right now is to figure out how I should invest that money.

Sunday, March 23, 2008 02:45 PM

Guilt by association

Tim Mcveigh was a right wing white man who, with the help of a bunch of other right wing white men and women, committed the worst domestic terrorist act in US history. How come neither McCain nor any other conservative politician is ever asked or expected to apologize for his deeds or to disassociate himself from right wing white men? A white man with right wing political views walked into a San Francisco office building and murdered scores of innocent employees with a semi-automatic assauly rifle back in 1993, but no conservative politician, including those who oppose any restriction on the sale of semi-automatic assault weapons, were ever asked to disassociate themselves from people like him. An ultra-extreme white evangelical who engages in hate speech against catholics supports McCain's run for the presidency, yet McCain refuses, and isn't expected by the MSM to reject his endorsment. Barack Obama on the otrher hand is held responsible by the MSM and many whites for anything his former pastor is saying. Why did we have to replace South Africa as the most racist country in the world?

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