"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
Well, actually, nothing in this video was done in a corner, but with cover from the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind (A.K.A. “Bylines for Barry”) most people simply have no idea why The Zero fiddles while the Middle East burns, the US economy crumbles*, our security wanes… This video points to part of the reason. The rest? Well, his stated goal to “fundamentally transform”** the US* explains even more.
http://youtu.be/TJfufR7dUM8
OK, maybe that’s overstating things a wee tad. Perhaps this:
1 in 4 tablet owners say it is now their primary computer
…is merely evidence that a whole lotta much “computer users” are just media consumers, not really “computer users”. Doing anything productive on a tablet is just silly, if a desktop or notebook is available. Tablets are good (for different values of “good” depending on the activity) for limited email, web browsing (*meh* if you like the limited tablet web browsing experience, I suppose) and viewing videos or listening to music. Yes, despite all the apps available for the iPhad, it, too, is an extremely limited platform. Almost everything else that falls under the rubric of actually doing anything is better done on a so-called “legacy” platform (so-called by tablet fanbois-n-gurlz).
So, yeh, if the article has its facts straight, 1/4 of “computer users” are just consumers of stuff (I’m counting their limited web browsing, “social media” faux socializing, etc. as “stuff” here), using their tablets to get their consumer fix.
Color me impressed that so many are being removed from the pool of those who REALLY need to be inhabitants of Assisted Computing Facilities.
So, The Zero appeared on “The View” instead of, oh, I dunno, doing his job, and offered, “I’ve been told I’m just eye candy here.”
I’ve seen better:
Come one! Somebody tell me that’s racist.
Stolen from Woody:
Howard Stern exposes 2012 Obama supporters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeJbOU4nmHQ&feature=share
A companion piece to this one from another source in 2008:
I really have no idea how common this is with other folk, but I have certain false “memories” that, no matter how much I exorcise them with facts, keep recurring. All the ones I’ve identified are dream-based.
Example: I sometimes wake in the night with a sense of loss, of having done something really, really stupid, and then I “recall”–very vividly–that I left the first car I ever bought behind in a move, just sitting in a parking space in front of a neighbor’s house with the key in it. Now, we moved from that house more than 20 years ago… and that was eighteen years after someone *cough* drove my car into the ground and had it hauled off to the junkyard while I was traveling with a music tour for the summer.
But still, every now and then, despite knowing what happened to that car, I “remember” leaving it behind, sitting in front of a neighbor’s house when my wife, kids and I moved.
Now, I’m always able to–temporarily–exorcise the “memory” and, like other false memories, I’ve always recognized it as such (though sometimes, in the middle of the night, not until I’ve given it some thought). But do I recognize all such false memories as being false?
How can I know?
Here’s one answer:
Good stuff. Why is the guy giving his talk in someone’s walk-in closet? (Note: exaggeration for effect. *heh*) Because most people can’t handle the truth.
“Cliff’s Notes” version* here.
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*sigh* Why does she just HAVE to say it better than I can? Why? *mutter, mutter-gripe-complain*
At a private gathering, Romney told donors that Obama had a lock on the 47 percent of voters “who pay no income tax” and “believe the government has a responsibility to care for them.” This was deeply offensive to people who pay no income tax and believe the government has a responsibility to care for them.
Finally! The contents of the Kaaba revealed! See below the fold!