Yeah but stand up is a skill set. Being President is not. There are NO specific qualifications for being President and some of the most woefully thin resumes have become respectable Presidents. Truman was a machine politician Senator and thought so weak they didn't tell him anything about the prosecution of WW2. For his part FDR had almost no foreign policy briefing at all. Ike was sort of the head of Columbia U before becoming President but essentially had zero non military experience his entire adult life.

I'm not sure it really matters a great deal who is President or what their CV looks like. It's one of those jobs that are shaped by the office holder not the other way around. For all the criticism of Bush, he's not actually a stupid man. He's an incurious dunderhead. A Philistine utterly convinced of his own firm course. He would and has been the same man in everything he's ever done. And sadly and somewhat incorrectly, in 50 years people will talk about the 'boy president' who failed at everything until he became President...

So it really doesn't matter whether you're a blueblood FDR, a brilliant and misunderstood technocrat Hoover, a foreign policy prince like Bush I, a well meaning national confessor in Carter or a mercurial paranoid evil genius like Nixon. The job is whatever you turn it into.

Screechy preachy anti cell phone columns on Salon.com. For my part I'm throwing my shoes into the Jacquard looms.

The Iowa run is historically filled with people over 50. Obama managed to get out the vote of younger people with 57% of that vote. Full stop. Re-read that. In every recent Dem debacle they lost because they assumed that every pot head under 30 would automatically vote for them and whether that's true or not, that demographic didn't bother to vote at all. It's of CRUCIAL importance that Obama is getting younger voters out. This demographic will win the election for them.

Saying you want to do the Christian thing by your fellow man and prying loose the almighty tax dollar to help he who is not a hedge fund manager, are in fact two different things. If you watch the Republotards on CNBC like Larry Kudlow they don't even sound rational anymore. This year NASDAQ is down 4.4% and he's screaming that it's the best of times. Followed up with the statement and I quote "The price of oil does not matter, $100 dollars, $150 dollars a barrel, everything is fine!" You can't trust the conservatives, not because they aren't earnest but because frankly, they're insane.

And has zero intention of doing anything for the common man. Even if he wanted to, he predecessor bankrupted us. Second, who cares what the WSJ op-ed pages say? If I wanted to hear a vacuum cleaner say rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I'd turn it on.

We call that populist demagoguery.

We should just appoint a President. No elections needed. It's kind of a damn joke anyway. We're already a year in and there's a year left to the campaign?

Where people are allowed to sell a kidney for money. They get about 10 years of income and someone here gets to live.

BTW 'extreme' is a rhetorical device. By local standards 'extreme' means they're so far off the grid you'd never find them to even ask them if they're interested. 'Extreme' means in this context, lower class even lower middle class, locally speaking.

Otherwise if you hate this and object then you figure out some way other than blogging and giant puppet protests to help those people.

That whole up from the ghetto praise de lawd used to dabble in Marxist revolution down at the methadone clinic line seems to jibe better with Big White Liberal Bwana's patronizing attitude.

Someone pays for it. Subscribers to Earthlink, TW and others who for whatever reason don't care who piggy backs on their line.

Actually the innards are between 2000-15000 solar powered repeater antennae installed on rooftops that are supposed to have a 700ft range or twice that as normal indoor WiFi with 7dBi antennas. That's quite of bit irradiated power. Each point uses about $150 worth of antenna and router gear. Note, a NEW router. So you're committing to not only give away bandwidth, but running another router as well. Why? Meraki uses a unique routing protocol to handle the interference and overlap issues as well as the flat mesh network topology. I wonder what upper layer protocols are supported? P2P? Voip? QoS? VPN? IPSEC?

Today Meraki has given away 500 points to cover a 2sq mi area supporting in theory 40,000 people. Who knows how many are online at a time. 20%? 30%?

I would even consider it if I could throttle & prioritize anyone else's use across my line. Because honestly, the first slacker who bitorrents 5GB of Lil Wayne, is getting kicked off.

An angry heard of Salonbots will flip open their metal faces and turn their flame throwers on you.

If his plan comes off the GOP shelf it's basically give money to the rich in order to screw the middle class and give that to the poor. I don't care if he is the second coming. I am not signing up for that.

Let's overbuild to the sky and by a process, called 'magic' it will result in mysterious free 'innovation'.

You do know that the dotbomb bubble wasted hundreds of billions in capital, put hundreds of thousands of people out of work and slagged the stock market for 6 years, don't you? In fact one upside is that it's permitted my company to forgo 'innovation' completely and just buy small companies that ran short of VC money. Then we take that intellectual capital and send it Asia where it's cheaper to deploy.

Hell current course and speed some bright light will figure out a way to build all of "our" power plants in China and drag the long lines to us.

Ahh I remember that $600 check George Bush mailed me back in 01. It was the most expensive $600 I ever lost money on.