"Thinskinned" McCain needs to know…
when you run for President you are going to be asked questions. Unfortunately, McCain screams “foul” when legitimate questions are asked or legitimate points raised. McCain is using his military service to “say” this is a reason he should be President.
Now George McGovern has joined the fray. We both agree with Wesley Clark. Flying combat missions, being a courageous war hero, doing your duty as a military person, and/or being a POW does NOT utilize the skills and knowledge that a President needs. McGovern flew numerous bombing missions in Europe and he did not “rely on this or promote this” in his run for the presidency. (I would also add that graduating 894 out of a class of 899 at Annapolis is just another reason folks should question you ALOT about your presidential qualifications.)
Note: No one is “disparaging” McCain’s military service. We just want him to tell us “how” this military service qualifies him to become the next President of the USA…a question that McCain has NOT answered. Instead his people (who McCain obviously can NOT control IF he is NOT behind the swiftboat attacks) will go on point to attack the questioner….This is entitlement politics at its worse.
If McCain wanted to be President so bad maybe he should know what skills a U.S. President needs BEFORE he decided to run. He should at least realize that when someone runs for office folks SHOULD be asking questions.
For McCain to say that ALL the vets organizations are for him, then to say that is NOT true (later in the same town hall meeting) and then declare that he will no longer tolerate questions about vets? This surely does not sound like anyone that I know with the skills necessary to be President.
Oh yeah and then there was that McLAME (h/t to the Daily Show) “joke” that is NOT a joke–about U.S. cigarette exports being a way to “kill” Iranians. It sounds like McCain has never met an Iranian he can treat like a human being. His foreign policy seems to be America is always right, always good and all the other countries should bow down before us…or we will kill you.
McCain himself has stated that the economy is not his strong suit (no joke!), denied he made the statement and then said it was “taken out of context” (it wasn’t). This man is lying and/or flip flopping on the issues often, maybe daily.
How can anyone take this man’s run for the White House seriously? Why does the media treat this candidate with kid gloves? Are they scared he will hit them if they ask him the questions that need to be asked?
Buzz….Buzz….
McCain Needs To Be Vetted
John McCain is using his wife’s jet airplane….yet his wife Cindy refused to release her tax returns. She made millions off of “insider short-sale profits involving Swiss re-insurance put option stock orders placed prior to the September 11 attacks-profits of death which have remained untaxed by the U.S. government and raise questions as to her 9/11 tip-off.”
This alone is disturbing….heap onto this possible off shore accounts (to avoid taxes?) and allegations of “war profiteering” and it starts to make sense why Cindy McCain REFUSES to release her tax returns. Tax returns that contain valid information for anyone “considering” voting for John McCain for president….even though they maybe few and far between hopefully these folks care enough about their vote that they will demand to see these tax returns so they will have the info they need to vote intelligently.
buzz…buzz….
Is Plurk the new Twitter?
Plurk.com
It is tough to stay open minded about microblogging when I’ve been “in love” with twitter for so long. When twitter turned off the reply tab for days and just wouldn’t respond, we were forced to try something else for NECC and after playing with Pownce and others, lots of plurk-ing emerged. (See the plurk page “who likes to plurk?“)
So, after setting up ping.fm to update all of this microblogging sites, I’m warming up a little to plurk.
Now, do not expect plurk to be twitter, it is not!
It is a hybrid between twitter and discussion threads — sort of a microdiscussion thread type of approach.
To see what I mean, take a look at this “plurk page” that was built when I asked for educators who are plurking to share where they are from. I’ve done this over and over with twitter and struggled with getting all the information and replies on one page. It was a struggle and all of the code knocked down my rss feed.
Because some people were public and some private, I couldn’t just share my reply tab. It was quite difficult.
Now, each “plurk” makes its own page and others can respond to a specific “plurk.”
The disadvantages are that it takes some getting used to! I’ve found that I have to tell it to “view only my plurks” to see the responses — then, I go to the one page and tab through them that way!
It is very different. I’m still using both twitter and plurk although plurk has some cool things going on. It looks like to me in twitter that many are at least trying out plurk.
I hate to say that twitter has been its own worst enemy in this entire thing. Their unreliability and unresponsiveness (spurred by their growth) has pushed people to try other things.
Twitter needs to:
- Keep their service reliable and scalable (sounds easier than it is!)
- Make threaded replies possible (this really is an advantage)
- Make it easier to look at fans who aren’t following to add them as friends more easily.
Plurk needs to:
- Give another way for us to update via mobile b/c many of us don’t have smart phones.
- Figure an easier way for us to read the replies. I’m struggling with this.
- Changing fans to friends HAS GOT TO BE EASIER!!!
- I hate the “karma” thing. I really do. Guess some like the extrensic motivation to use their service but I don’t. Wish I could turn it off.
I don’t think Plurk is the new Twitter…. yet. But who knows? What do you think?
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How will BO justify selling out?
FIRST–TELECOM IMMUNITY IS A BIPARTISAN ISSUE. This is not just the crazy “Frankenstein villagers of the far left” condemning telecom immunity….but I bet our alleged leaders will try to spin it that way. The American people are speaking out against shredding our constitution and our rule of law. What the House did yesterday has disillusioned the vast majority of folks in this country NOT just on the left…There is NOTHING benefiting the public interest in the concept of telecom immunity and the American people understand that this is the ultimate rape and we are forced to pay for the vaseline. Yesterday’s post has a youtube of Cspan callers– REPUBLICANS, Democrats, and Independents. EVERY CALLER was shocked, disgusted, and appalled with what Congress was doing. The people get it but Congress doesn’t. (On the Cspan show I only heard ONE caller happy with the Congressional decision and he was definitely an extreme right winger. “For the first time” the people of America made me very proud and our leaders shamed our country.
I am shocked and appalled that OB “chose” to sell out. I waited with bated breath for his press release. Feingold is correct and honestly direct when he said this is NOT a compromise it’s capitulation and there’s no reason for this….not if we honestly have a two party system in this country. Surely my most hopeful candidate, OB, would speak out strongly against this injustice to the people. Unfortunately I only got a rude awakening.
The telecom immunity clause crushes the brave Americans who worked within the system to try to do the job that Congress was NOT doing….the people who stepped up took the burden upon themselves to protect our Constitution and our rule of law by utilizing America’s justice system. So Congress and BO spring into action to PREVENT Americans from getting the accountability and rule of law that is our birthright? Congress and BO REFUSE to hold anyone accountable, REFUSE to honor their oath of office and they do Bush’s dirty work and cut Americans off at the knees who attempt to make the “elite” accountable.
So Obama now faces a true test. He promotes participatory democracy….IF he is true to his word then we will see Obama change course and strike out strongly in words and deeds to strip the telecom immunity clause from that bill.
This is my hope for the Obama for president campaign. And it is not because I’m a Frankenstein villager of the left. It is because I am an American who continues to hope.
Buzz…Buzz…
NECC Live Webcast Wrap up Saturday 7/5/08 11am EDT
Just got this note on this NECC live wrap up on Saturday, July 5th at 11 am EDT:
“A message to all members of Classroom 2.0
We’ll be having an NECC wrap-up and review show Saturday morning–while memories are still fresh! EduBloggerCon, NECC Unplugged, the Bloggers’ Cafe, and all the rest. The best links, leads, streams, podcasts, vlogs, and blogs. What you loved, what you didn’t. We’ll try and document all in a special 90-minute show.
Details at http://www.classroom20wiki.com/live+conversations/, or log in directly for the show at https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=1101&password=M.8DAFD346DA4B268DC185FED8466556
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New Google Favicon
Many people noticed a small change: Google has a new favicon. and it’s a 16×16 pixels image, a standard size for favicons. Google replaced the upper-case “G” in blue border, green and red borders with a lower-case purple “g” in a rounded corner rectangle.
The first time when I saw the new favicon at Google Image Search, I thought there was something wrong with my browser’s cache or I typed an incorrect address. Google’s new favicon is less cheerful and comforting, but it makes a lot of sense: the small g is a symbol for infinity (∞). A googol (10100) is just a poor approximation for the huge amount of information that needs to be indexed, organized and made useful by Google.
{ Thanks for the tip, Louis, John and Aleksandr. }
Update: If you want the old favicon back, try (requires Greasemonkey for Firefox, Opera or a userscript plug-in for other browsers).
