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Friday, January 27, 2006

New virus hits Intel-based Macs.

Symantec offers NAV 10.0 for Intel Macs

Friday, January 13, 2006

Video Footage

Here's my first attempt at recording a movie while driving.. I use this local road to commute to work so this view is what I see monday through friday..yet I can never get enough of it. This is a pretty long clip and if you don't like jazz, better turn off the sound by clicking on the speaker icon...;b

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Tolerance and Understanding...

A Police Chief in Texas, why am I not suprised, was suspended for 10 days for making this comment : "as long as I'm police chief, we won't have any gooks in this department".

Teens sent to prison for lynching
5 white teens in South Carolina, I see a pattern here, were senteced from 2 1/2 to 6 years in prison for beating and trying to lynch a black kid.


Although I don't subscribe to people should "tolerate" people of different race and/or nationality since that can be taken as "I don't like those people because they look different so I'll just ignore them", at least it's a start. Those people mentioned above even lack the basic level of tolerance which unfortunately is a rather common thing even in the "greatest country" in the world.

All this is just another proof that "Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings."

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

More "Intelligent Design" nonsense.

Kentucky's governor wants Intelligent Design taught as science.

Kentucky's governor, Fletcher, at his state of the common wealth speech advocated for teaching Intelligent Design as science in Kentucky schools.
I find it quite amusing that in the same speech, the governor espoused :

“Educational achievement and Kentucky’s economic future go hand in hand,” Fletcher said. “To improve education we must keep and attract quality educators.”

This is just so priceless. We have Kansas board of education redefining science to include supernatural means and now a governor advocating for thinly veiled religion to be taught as science. Republicans always bemoan about how liberals, "activist" judges are trying to circumvent the U.S. constitution but the repugs are actually doing the very same thing they're falsely accusing liberals and judges of doing. Hello, separation of church and state? You repubs who claim to be holier than liberals/democrats/independents have heard of that, right?

We've admonished Muslim countries for their inability to separate government and religion. We've mocked them as having third rate governments for letting religion influence government policies yet the very same reasoning we give to admonish, mock and justify claims of why there appear to be so many fundamental extremists in Arab world is happening here, in America, right now. Preaching something you don't practice is one of the prime reason why so many people around the world despise America. Current Intelligent Design debacle is yet another shining example of American hypocrisy at its finest.