tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86642672012-02-07T07:48:04.154-08:00My own personal rants about politics, faith, and anything else that I just have to shout out loud.Nigel Tufnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08627232379566006247noreply@blogger.comBlogger531100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8664267.post-47622386236238536172012-01-15T15:25:00.001-08:002012-01-15T16:53:13.098-08:00

There has been a lot of things speculated about the new AMD Bulldozer architecture. One thing that I haven't seen mentioned in the web/blogosphere is the complete scope of the failure. If stockholders were a little more tech savvy they'd realize that the release of the Bulldozer architecture as it is was a colossal management failure, not just an engineering one. Here's why.CPU's are like

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I've been having a lot of fun following the "feud" between John Stewart and Jim Cramer, and think the whole thing is really pretty funny. However, I came across an interesting piece of tape I really think I should share with you.Unfortunately I can't cut the part out that I want to share with you, but if you go here:.cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/

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I don't have a lot of time to write about this, but as I have read about how Limbaugh is being anointed by the press the de-facto head of the republican party (I wonder if he'll claim liberal media bias here?) it occurs to me that the problem is that none of the sane, non-racist, non-partisan hacks who were staunch republicans ever stood up to Limbaugh before. None. Ever. I can't remember a

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It occurred to me when watching the Congressional hearings with then head of the U.S. Justice Department Alberto Gonzales that here was a man who was using incompetence as his defense against a wave of evidence that indicated criminal wrongdoing. Either way, he needed to go.Along the same vein I've been reading about Nanosolar. I was first exposed to them a couple of years ago in an episode of

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I'm sorry to say this, but it's been clear to me for years that Glenn Greenwald, who writes over at Salon.com, is the most impotent writer ever. While he may make good, intellectually well reasoned points about the legality of torture and the moral and legal obligations we have to prosecute all those Americans (and here I use the term loosely) who participated, condoned, or allowed torture to

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There's a new war brewing, which is only occasionally mentioned in the media today. While President Obama has been fulfilling his promises of closing down Guantanamo and secret interrogation sites around the world, it seems that he is as commited as Nanci Pelosi to protecting those who broke the law during the Bush administration.The war is really one of the rule of law vs. executive privilege.

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My home page happens to be CNN. I have reasons to like CNN and reasons to dislike it. For the past few days I've noticed an unexpected shift at CNN.com, they've been posting editorials attacking Rush Limbaugh. Now, I'm no defender of Limbaugh, but what's up with that? Is this CNN finally taking up a clear political stance, or are they just towing the party line? Where have they been for the

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The Republican shocked me last week by electing it's first black chairman, Michael Steele. I was pretty sure they'd elect another white, southern, closeted racist (if not closeted homosexual) to be the director again this time.Even though I think this action does prevent the Republican party from collapsing under the weight of it's neo-con fringe, it doesn't do much else. Steele is just OK.

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A lot of people have posted very long discussions about the game World of Warcraft having groups which are meant to be racist takes on actual groups of poeple. Frankly, they've done a better job, and I think they miss the underlying issues with World of Warcraft.In my mind, the big issue with World of Warcraft is not whether or not the Trolls are supposed to be racist views of African

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An article in Salon.com today mentions that the Obama campaign is looking at launching investigations into crimes that may have been committed by the Bush administration related to torture and human rights abuses. They point out that George W. Bush could in fact provide blanket pardons for everyone, everywhere.While this is correct, they forget one thing. That pardon only works in the US.

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According to an article in CNN today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pushing to keep Leiberman in the Democratic cuacus. To be honest, I haven't looked closely at Leiberman's record, but wouldn't it be better if we found a Republican who was more moderate than Leiberman on Iraq, more rational in his pro-Israel hawkishness, and a better fit for the Democratic party than Leiberman? There

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Honestly, being a white man I really didn't know how passionate black people everywhere were until I saw Jesse Jackson's face on TV. That he was truly speechless speaks volumes about the effect this election has had on the nation. To all those who voted for Obama, well done. Well done.

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According to a preliminary secret study conducted before the elections, wives of Republican men are reporting that their husband's were able to maintain erections during sex lasting an average of 30 to 40 minutes, effectively tripling or quadrupling the figures reported before the invasion of Iraq.According to the researchers the wives were able to drive their husband's prowess up by asking them

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I kid you not, but Britney was going to play the Virgin Mary in an upcoming motion picture directed by Philippe Rebboah until she pulled out this week:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,448452,00.htmlWhat's funny is that the picture the article uses has her singing next to the person who we would all imagine playing the Virgin Marry, Maddona of course! Steel breast shields and all! However,

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becuase at least with that ridiculous claim, the question about whether he was "black enough" for the African-American community got completely silenced.

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It's Wednesday, the hangover is over and I'm procrastinating work I should be doing. I can't believe I'm typing this, but Barrack Obama actually won the 2008 Presidential Election. Wow!And while I'm proud of my country for electing him, I'm also surprised that at this point in time, with all the challenges that we face that he won the popular vote by only 7%. That's a slim margin given how low

Nigel Tufnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08627232379566006247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8664267.post-19918119352181369252008-10-30T07:24:00.000-07:002009-01-09T11:21:27.377-08:00

The George W. Bush administration announced today that in order to help relieve big oil companies like Exxon Mobil from the stress of having record profits they would offer a stimulus package to them in the form of free government sponsored massages.Said a Bush spokesperson:What America needs most right now is a stable, well functioning, and well lubricated oil industry. In times of crisis and

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And I'm not asking if we need Fox, clearly it is a needed institution, if only to keep the Republican base from loosing one of it's two main sources of self-validation.What I'm asking is if good news should be balanced? In fact, I'm asking if good news can do both?Let me explain. Some poor blog whose name I can't recall argued that because positive news stories about Obama outnumbered positive

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Convicted Republican senator Ted Stevens from Alaska is the latest Republican to use the incompetence defense. Despite being one of the most powerful senators in office, he claims he didn't know anything about what was going on in his own home, or what he did know, that people were giving him or loaning him items, that he couldn't get them out of his own home. How many times during the Reagan

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Aparently the Republican mouthpieces are all in a tizzy about Colin Powell's "betrayal" of the Republican party, and are accusing him of voting for Obama based on race.Let me just say this. There is a difference between race, and racism. Powell's not voting for Obama because he's black, he's voting for Obama because Obama's party isn't running a racist campaign.Enough said.

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Early in the Democratic nomination process I wasn't really much impressed by Obama, Clinton or McCain. I was disappointed that the McCain who had been a true conservative had been perverted by the Roves and Sith Lords into becoming a neo-Con, i.e. a mindless drone of weak justifications for everything wrong in the current administration. I was in fact disappointed that the Democratic Senate had

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Just thought it was interesting. As a commentator noted, Harvard's current president, Drew Gilpin Faust and Emily Raugh Pulitzer are both alumni of Bryn Mawr College, and it deserves it's own shout-out here.

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You know, I love Harvard University, I really do. It's an amazing place. Just some weeks the news seems funnier than other weeks. First we had the $45 million dollars and 31 major works of art donated to the University by Mrs. Pulitzer, and Sunday we have what is probably a case of being quoted out of context.According to the Monday's Boston Globe, Jeffrey Miron, senior lecturer in Economics

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Palin and McCain have been disingenuously using the terms "spreading the wealth" and "redistribution of wealth" to once again appeal only to the right-most fringe of the Republican base. They are also throwing in some statements about controlling the growth of government. Let's put a reality check on this. The most important thing about Obama's tax plan is not about "redistribution of wealth".

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Colin Powell just announced his endorsement for Barack Obama. And in doing so, he surgically extracts and disects the racism in the Republican campaign I'd complained about earlier. It's almost at the end of the video, but it's worth going through.Addendum Oct 21I should also mention how suprised I was at just how joe-sixpack some of Powell's reasons for endorsing Obama are. I mean, he served

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Many times I post very opinionated pieces in this blog, some even backed up by well reasoned arguments and irrefutable facts. This isn't one of those pieces.An article in today's Boston Globe was announcing the donation by Emily Rauh Pulitzer of $45 million dollars and 31 major works of art to Harvard University. According to the Globe:As an assistant curator, Pulitzer worked in Harvard's Fogg

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It turns out that the Obama Bucks campaign got started in part by the attempt of a blogger to poke fun at what they perceived as the position of a lot of white republicans. As he himself points out, it's not really that good a posting. There were some who saw it and thought it was genuine. Fortunately for him, he's not the only one attempting racial satire and failing, remember this famous cover

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In case you haven't been following the news, Republicans in San Bernadino, California have been circulating fake food stamps, which have been accused of being racist, and which they are denying. It may actually be difficult for younger people who are not from the South to understand the range of racist messages in these pieces of paper, so I'd like to help deconstruct it. It may also be hard

Nigel Tufnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08627232379566006247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8664267.post-44632863953282276922008-10-16T12:29:00.000-07:002008-10-17T08:30:04.638-07:00

First, quick shout out to my pal Barack Hussein Obama for repeatedly telling the US in debates what I've complained about here, the National Debt is being used to finance China's military expansion. Though the Republicans like to use his middle name to instill racial and religious fears, I'm deliberately using his middle name, because frankly, I'd vote for a well educated Arab (Could he be an

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I've decided to run an e-campaign to run for president. My platform is very simple, and based on the following:Out in Two MonthsThat's right, we should be out of Iraq in two months after I take office. Nothing but embassy personnel, and the soldiers needed to secure the embassy. If we can't secure it, we'll leave and send e-mail. No BS about how we can't leave the country in such a state,

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I'll let you in on a little secret. I'm a true feminist. I believe that women should have the same legal, and moral rights as men.I also believe that adult relationships are formed on the basis of some sort of mutually beneficial exchange. Sometimes this exchange is healthy and sometimes it isn't. Some people exchange love for sex, or sex for power, or wealth. Sometimes it's in socially accepted

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Some Simple Facts on March 24, 2008 for you to Ponder.Number of Dead from 9/11 Attacks: 2,974Number of US Soldiers Killed in Iraq since the start of the war: 4,000Number of Iraqi Civilians Killed in Iraq from conflict since the start of the war: Approximately 85,000Number of Days Osama Bin Laden has been in captivity: 0To look at this in business terms, George W. Bush has multiplied Osama Bin

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Or why we should get out of Iraq now.As I watch the ongoing battle between Senators Clinton and Obama, I'm struck by just how similar their positions are to Senator McCain's. Their policy on Iraq is to stay the course. Stay as long as it takes, and leave no sooner than we have to. Forgive me Senators if I don't get very excited over any of you.Spending even a single extra hour in Iraq is

Nigel Tufnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08627232379566006247noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8664267.post-74845054601239168592007-06-09T16:13:00.000-07:002007-06-09T16:18:15.897-07:00

As in Curly, Larry, and Moe, the guys who designed the online software.Did I mention I almost never go to their site without encountering a new bug?Well, this time it's f*d the entire remote. I am doing a tricky thing, let me explain.I run all of my audio through a surround processor. In order to make things easy on myself, I used the default settings for my old TV, and then taught the remote

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As I sit here and read the news about the Democratic house passing the Iraq funding bill with basically NO controls over Bush at all, one overarching truth appears.The Democratic leadership is comprised of spineless cowards. It's as if the lobster faced alien from Predator has assaulted them all in the middle of the night and removed their brains and spines completely from their bodies. Where

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Pray, brethren, for if the US is allowed to further interfere with the Middle East situation we are all going to hell.The smartest thing the Europeans and middle eastern powers could do is to shut Bush and his administration completely out of the negotiations. They need to realise that the hawks are absolutely nuts, and really will never be rational about their desire for blood and turmoil, so

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According to this blog on Salon The middle east is in a melt down and George W. Bush isn't doing much about it.We should all get on our knees right now and praise whatever you hold holy in thanks. GW is so prone to making mistakes of judgement, and so lacks the funamental ability to lead without threatnening, that the single very best thing he can do for Middle East Peace is to stay the hell out

Nigel Tufnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08627232379566006247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8664267.post-1144023631586102872006-04-02T16:50:00.000-07:002006-05-18T21:56:02.626-07:00

A new cold war is being launched between China and the U.S. My supposition is that the United States has asked Microsoft to embed software which makes it easy for U.S. intelligence organizations (the NSA and the newly re-named Total Information Awareness) to monitor and even take over any computer which runs Windows. The US in the mean time has accused Lenovo of potentially installing the same

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It occured to me this morning as I was getting dressed, that perhaps Marvel Comics could take The Incredible Hulk to a whole new level. Just imagine the new by-line:Dr. David Banner, in a futile attempt to reverse the uncontrolable metamorphosis caused by his experiments with gamma ray radiation accidentally merges his intelect and biting wit with the enldess supply of green testosterone,

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Ok, here's a breakdown of the Apple planning over the next 5-10 years, and an explanation for why they are releasing OSXi only on their own hardware for now. The reason Apple is not immediately releasing OSXi as an independent OS is critical mass. They can't compete head on with Windows, so by isolating their OS to their own product line, they can delay how long until Microsoft notices the

Nigel Tufnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08627232379566006247noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8664267.post-1118287273455825372005-06-08T19:39:00.000-07:002005-06-08T20:21:25.320-07:00

So Apple has announced that they will be running on Intel chips on Macintosh only hardware. They're dreaming if they think that will last much longer than six months. For those who don't remember, Apple tried licensing their hardware to manufacturers in the past. I don't remember the reasons they stopped, but my suspicion is that Apple as a company had never fully commited to becoming an OS maker

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Perhaps it is that we are now in June and I'm still wearing my winter coat. Perhaps it is having to deal with CompUSA when I needed something urgently. Perhaps it's being on a diet that prevents me from having a coke whenever I feel like. I'm not sure what it is, but I've decided to put together a list of things that blow, as in chunks, and things which do not. Here we go, in no particular

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I'm of two minds regarding Bolton as Ambassador to the U.N.On the one hand, very little could do more to show what Bush and his team are like than to let Bolton run all around the UN making a more public ass of himself and the administration. If the Democrats would stop taking the "advice and consent" part so seriously and let Bush just appoint whoever he wants to such posts. Eventually his

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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld defended himself recently with the statement "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you want."This pathetic excuse is yet another demonstration of why the Bush White House has no knowledge of business practices. Remember, Bush has never ever made stockholders money in a company he worked at. It's always been the other way around. Companies made

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Just so I have proof I said this, the Arab/Muslim world now sees the US as being selfish, self-righteous and self centered. Also very powerful. Because of this, the general Arab/Muslim world doesn't just WANT nuclear weapons, they MUST acquire them. The entire muslim world is now looking to Iran to come to their rescue, and show that they can produce nuclear weapons that would make the US not

Nigel Tufnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08627232379566006247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8664267.post-1099847467310007072004-11-07T08:54:00.000-08:002005-01-01T00:22:07.256-08:00

Occasionally some one will make a statement which causes me to see a shimmer. Like a spider's web which you see better when it is shaking than when it is still, these comments act like insects touching a thread, who's contact unwitingly announces their presence. In this case it was a reply made to a news item on Slashdot: Google Censors Abu Graib Images The article comments on how Google

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According to this article: http://www.hillnews.com/under_dome/110404.aspx Bush's bulge was a bulletproof vest. To which I say, horse hockey. A bullet proof vest explains the ill fit, but it does not explain the rectangular mass and wires that you could see under Bush's coat. I have two big complaints about the media in general and this article specifically: The media has reported that the bulge

Nigel Tufnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08627232379566006247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8664267.post-1099286761130796302004-10-31T21:22:00.000-08:002004-10-31T21:26:01.130-08:00

Can I just say that I find it ironic that an international criminal organization that has protected pedophiles from criminal prosecution worldwide (yes, worldwide) has for the first time in the history that I know tried to tell their worshippers that they should not vote for a candidate who does not renounce abortion? That the Catholic church is taking a pro-Bush stance is yet another symbol for

Nigel Tufnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08627232379566006247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8664267.post-1099239567381573152004-10-31T08:04:00.000-08:002004-10-31T08:27:01.146-08:00

Today on ABC in an editorial Ben Stein parroted the Republican party's position that arguing against the Iraqi war is disrespecting the troops. Ben, get a grip. Sending our men and women to die for an immoral and unnecessary war is the worst kind of disrespect. No matter what John Kerry says, and I agree with him, it can't be worse than starting the Iraqi war. Also, Ben, since when does Bush

Nigel Tufnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08627232379566006247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8664267.post-1099238662277021602004-10-31T07:58:00.000-08:002004-10-31T08:04:22.276-08:00

My last blog was about how muslim extremists don't hate us becuase we love democracy, but because of our foreign policy. Osama Bin Laden's video taped message released this past week seems to echo this message. So, the question is, do we read each other's blogs, or maybe, just maybe I was right?

Nigel Tufnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08627232379566006247noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8664267.post-1097857246255304022004-10-15T08:29:00.000-07:002004-10-15T09:20:46.256-07:00

The idea that muslim extremist terrorists hate freedom and our way of life is something Bush and the Republican propaganda machine is constantly repeating, It's important for us to understand our enemies if we truly want to defeat them. Part of winning the so-called 'war on terror' is to defeat their support. We must know the real reason why otherwise good people want to support efforts which

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I want to answer some posts on the web about Bush being a Harvard MBA, which according to them is why he is such a good leader, and that the Iraq war is evidence of this. In particular articles by The American Thinker and ..... forgot his name, but he's a regular commentator on PBS's News Hour. Shields? The bald one. Gergen? First, let's get one thing straight. Being stubborn is not in and of

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Hi! Welcome to my blog. I decided to start my own blob when I realised that observations which I were making to the current political maelstorm were not being made or discussed in the media. Other bloggers may be talking about them, but I haven't sen them. So, since I have a few pent up things to say, I know this will be a rambling hello. I'm a social liberal, intelligent fiscal conservative. I

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