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03/07/2008 10:06 #43573

Black vs Woman President
Category: politics
Hillary is not the greatest woman candidate but I think it would be way more radical to have a woman president than a black one.

I mean black men had the right to vote fifty years before any woman. Why not let it be the other way around this time and let the woman have a first, first. What really surprises me is that making fun of Hillary for being a woman, calling her bitch, etc is acceptable while calling racially demeaning names at Obama is considered unacceptable. I guess woman still are just less equal in the main stream - thats sad. On democracy now they just had a news brief saying that on average woman are paid 16% less then men for he same job. That just blows my mind.

According to it looks like Blacks are only 12.4% or 37.1 million of the US population while women are probably closer to 50% of the US population and maybe more.

I guess I always thought there were more black people. Probably because I grew up in buffalo which has such a large black population and then moved to South Carolina for a while which also had a lot of black people. Before reading that I seriously thought blacks were like 40%+ of the population. I guess I was just judging on my own observations.

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james - 03/07/08 21:00
I try to not to get hard over things like "a black president" or "a woman president" because having one or the other isn't going to change the reality that both are marginalized in our society.

We should elect a S&M gimp to the presidency. Now that would be progress!

03/07/2008 01:27 #43571

iphone tommorow?
Category: mobile
Really, I need another mobile device says my inner phone whore to myself this evening. Do I spend the money now on the iphone only to have to buy an android phone and iphone 2 in June or not?

Luckily, fate and ATT answered this for me. Turns out that the iphone sim works in my tilt and the the iphone sim is cheaper per month than the tilt plan so I can switch back and forth and pay less.

So then I just needed to find an iphone. I bid on one on ebay that was reasonably price and lost in the last few seconds. Then I remembered a friend of mine had one and hated it and she loved my new nokia 7900. They cost about the same. So I IMed her and we scheduled a trade for tomorrow. I, however, am having a little bit of pre-partum depression as the nokia 7900 was the cutest, smallest, fastest 3G, tethering dream phone I ever had ;( At least my friend can tether now too.

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On a side note this is the second night I worked on work from work till midnight. I think I might be a loser?
jenks - 03/07/08 14:28
wait, what iphone 2 in june? I've heard rumors about a 3G iphone, but not that soon... but they are releasing the app store in june, and iphone software v2... is that what you mean? (or do you know something I don't know?)

Anyway, you totally need an iphone, and you need the SDK (downloadable NOW!) so you can write awesome iphone programs.

Yes. do it.

(and I thought i would use my iphone sim in my treo, but haven't done it once. but i like knowing I could.)
fing - 03/07/08 10:01
If you don't want to risk anything you probably should be getting one of these:

:::link:::
james - 03/07/08 09:57
Paul, I would be careful if I were you. I knew this guy who switched phones on a regular basis and then he got chlamydia.

Play safe.
mrdeadlier - 03/07/08 09:34
So does that make him a phone swinger?
fing - 03/07/08 09:31
You know your a phone whore when:

1) You meet someone for a phone swap
2) see #1

However, seeing that you know the person then I might let you slide on this one.
mrdeadlier - 03/07/08 08:45
I wouldn't say your inner phone self is a whore per se - just the "love 'em and leave 'em" type.
imk2 - 03/07/08 02:08
well if that makes you a loser than i am one too, every week.

03/06/2008 10:11 #43565

Hillary Clinton is unfairly treated
Category: politics
I have to say, I think she is unfairly treated by the media. I know you might hate her, or her policies but seriously she is constantly slammed by the media in little ways that add up.

She is not fat. But look at this picture at the top of google news. Its so messed up.

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Or this one, where its all about Chelsea Clinton and the Clinton campaign but the pic is of Obama.
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mrdeadlier - 03/06/08 21:46
Wait-a-minute, wait-a-minute, wait-a-minute, wait-a-minute, WAIT-A-MINUTE!

STOP!

...You mean Hillary's *not* an ugly, manic fatty?

I'm confused.
dcoffee - 03/06/08 16:56
Ha, the picture thing has become obvious to me too, whether the Buffalo News or some online outlet, Clinton usually looks Manic or pissed, and Obama looks Presidential, this is even true when they put the 2 photos next to each other in the same article.

The other point is that the media is far to important in elections these days. Let's face it, the vast majority of people get their news from TV, and newspeople have far too little space to have any serious discussion between commercial breaks. Network news only has about 40 minutes to cover the entire world, and cable newspeople don't seem to take their duty of being the gatekeepers of Democracy very seriously.
megan - 03/06/08 14:43
Ugh I really hate a lot of parts of this election. It seems like the media is playing against Hillary for being a woman and are kissing Obama's ass because he is black. And that is not to his discredit, it just seems like people are afraid of making a bigoted remark but have no problem with being sexist. And NOW they are starting to talk about how unfair the media has been to Hillary (a little late I'm sure I don't need to add). Hey maybe she can win it all back by crying publicly, blaming it on her period, and apologizing to the country the next day.
jason - 03/06/08 13:46
I tend to agree, at least as it pertains to putting up "ugly" photos of her. It seems with her there is no middle ground - the photos are usually the gratuitous "looking off into the distance with the American flag in the background" kind or the really ugly kind. I don't get it. I'm sure there are normal photos of her somewhere.
zobar - 03/06/08 13:35
While she was losing they kept running really happy pictures of her … but it wasn't like 'happy' happy, it was like 'i have some sort of manic disorder' happy.

And dammit I can't find a single one, now.

- Z
james - 03/06/08 11:39
Overly Hard: they used a fat, wrinly picture of her.

Overly Generous: She has not changed the delegate dynamic. She was down a 100. Now she is down around 90.

And did you see the ad against Obama she put out where she made his skin darker?

:::link:::
joshua - 03/06/08 10:53
You are right (e:paul) - the media have been ganging up on her a bit, in particular the past few months. Someone would have to be naive to think that this horribly unflattering picture ended up being used by happenstance.

The truth is (at least in my estimation) that the cult of personality that is Barack H. Obama has overtaken many of the journalists in the media. Its patently obvious who they want elected. Don't even get me started on how the media is treating his wife in comparison with McCain. The New Yorker recently had a 10-page fluff piece on Michelle Obama that referred to her as "regal" etc. - in the same article they do not mention McCain's wife by name but specifically mention "Stepford Wives" to contrast the others from Michelle. It was patently obvious who they were referring to.
jacob - 03/06/08 10:52
I saw this and thought of you.

:::link:::

03/04/2008 23:00 #43556

Jesse in China
Category: work
My friend Jesse in China sent me this email. If you are a stenographer this could be your dream come true. You can call him at the number on his site which is Phone: +86 138 1131 5130

I also have his email if anyone is interested.

Dear All, sorry about the mass email:

We need to find a stenographer for the Olympics (Beijing Olympic
Committee, the organization that administers the Olympic planning and
execution in Beijing).

The position starts now (now!), and will continue through the Olympics
(end of August).

1] The person would have to come to Beijing.

2] Airfare and housing are included.

3] The salary is 15000 RMB per day, that is more than $2000 per day,
continuing for 156 days.

Its a great deal, it's a great opportunity, the salary is many
times the US average yearly salary (the person could buy a new house
after the Olympics complete).

I am at the Beijing Olympics complex (in the media building), and so
am very close and could help with any problems, or interpreting, etc.

Pass this around, we need to find someone!

Best regards,
forrest fabian jesse


mike - 03/05/08 17:38
teres is a stenographer, or wait she never made it to the school but she wanted to be one, if only she had
jason - 03/05/08 15:49
"I'm obedient as well." Hahahahaha
joshua - 03/05/08 13:54
Wow - I certainly have no commitments that could keep me away from living in China for 5 months or so. Unfortunately I'm not a stenographer. :( This is devastating! Because of my lack of qualifications I'd be more than willing to accept 25% of the offered salary to compensate. I'm obedient as well. Lemme know.
james - 03/05/08 10:25
how hard can it be to learn stenography?
fellyconnelly - 03/05/08 09:55
wow!
paul - 03/05/08 09:16
This is such an amazing opportunity. I am sure I knew a stenographer at one point but I can't remember who.
fing - 03/04/08 23:06
Paul I am driving to the airport now with my DVD "Learn Stenography in 15 Hours"

03/03/2008 18:36 #43543

Whats going on with my hair?
Category: hair
Seriously, my hair is insane. Today i was starting to think my beard might be too long but then at the same time, I want to just keep growing it because I know I won't want to start over and I want to see what it would look like really long.

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As I get older I can see how I am going to end up looking a bit lot my nonna.
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jbeatty - 03/04/08 10:51
I really wonder what you would look like with a ZZTop kinda beard.
paul - 03/03/08 22:31
I just want to point out that I put nothing in my hair to make it stand up like that. Sometimes I think it is obvious that it just does that but other times I think that other people think I am using some sort of product to make it do its thing.
james - 03/03/08 20:00
Paul, normal hair can't do the amazing things yours can.

You have a gift for awesome big hair. Now rock out with it!
mrdeadlier - 03/03/08 19:37
I meant to tell you today that your hair was starting to look very Moz-tastic. :)