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America defends Africa – Excellent Move
With Obama's decision to send a small force to help turn the tied against the Lord's Resistance Army, we must commend the White House on an excellent move that's both humanitarian and strategically important. Committing US forces, even such a low strength level and in an advisory capacity, throws a harsh spotlight on possibly the most despicable guerilla group in Africa today, and one that is devastating the host nation, and destabilizing Central Africa. Not only will this move save lives, but it will show that American power can be used for good, and will greatly increase our positive influence in the region, combatting China's ever increasing klepto-colonialism throughout Africa. Kudos.
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The Studiously leaderless Occupation of Wall Street
The Occupy Wall Street Crew have been absolutely true to the total equality and leaderlessness of their cause. In fact, over time, I'm guessing it will probably be the only thing they can agree on. But attempting to emulate what was, and continues to be, a profound weakness in the fabric of the "Arab Spring" seems to be taking their flattery a little too far. Drilling a little deeper into their dogmatic rejection of hierarchy can lead to only two conclusions. 1. They all want to be leaders, and can't bear the idea that they might not be. 2. Nobody wants to be leader because then they'd have to have a plan.
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We're not Democrats. We're not Republicans. We're Americans
The picture on the left is from an Occupy Wall Street Protest. The picture on the right is from a Tea Party Rally. Both groups are hurting badly. Both blame Wall Street. One has been manipulated by the right. The other has no puppeteers, but no allies either.
There's only one way to rally both groups. We need a new party. The American Party. It's motto will be simple.
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Like the protesters in Tahrir Square they'd bizarrely like to emulate, the Occupy…
Like the protesters in Tahrir Square they'd bizarrely like to emulate, the Occupy Wall Street Protesters imprison themselves in a series of supposedly symbolic locations, where they can be corralled, observed, and bypassed. Their movement ossifies almost immediately before it can spread its message door-to-door. Endless meetings about nothing will lead to internal dissent and dissipation, as the anarchists try absurdly to organize. And once the winter sets in, and they all go home, they will have achieved nothing, the nearby square will be abandoned and Wall Street will declare victory. America will only remember that last, sad, sodden moment.
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The Recession comes to Disneyland.
The Recession comes to Disneyland.
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Not recognizing value is quickly becoming a national pastime.
Not recognizing value is quickly becoming a national pastime.
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What Does Excellence Look Like?: A new study shows the role of school libraries in learning
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Sticking tariffs on Chinese goods if they don't stop cheating their currency…
Sticking tariffs on Chinese goods if they don't stop cheating their currency down will create a million jobs here in the US, but will die in the House. Where's the President's support for this?
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The Republican Primary process this year is a total circus
It's primed for failure, which must please the President no end. The smartest candidate ( Gingrich ) and the most electable ( Huntsman ) are languishing in the basement, while the Clowns parade on the balcony. It's self-destruction on a medieval scale. Great to watch.
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Google Plus Pushes Facebook To Wrong Side Of Tracks
The real threat that Google Plus represents for Facebook is not that it’ll outsize it anytime soon, but that it outclasses it in short order. At a billion minus users, Facebook is the internet equivalent of Shanghai (with its puny real life population of thirty million), a shiny, boosterist, creation which is mostly facade (pardon the pun). Google Plus represents something that – in the short term at least seems to have more, dare one say it, integrity. Certainly Facebook’s apparent amorality doesn’t help. It seems too bent on exploiting its users. G+ doesn’t appear to be so brazen.
Last year Myspace was the wrong side of the tracks and FB was the high-rent district. But now the tracks have shifted ever so subtly. Myspace is now the internet version of the municipal dump. FB is the formerly wealthy neighborhood that’s now getting a little seedy at the edges, and G+ is the shiny new district on the hill, full of hope, and definitely less gaudy (i.e. no ads as yet). If Google can maintain the shine on it’s brand upgrade (born of a new cohesion and better leadership), it might just solidify its long term better than anyone could have anticipated.
Chromebook’s Big Day. Not.
Can't you nerds get anything right?
Ah, the charming uselessness of Google. They promise us the world but can never quite deliver.
Today is supposed to be the great unveiling of the Chromebook, an impressive idea if ever there was one. A simple netbook with a stripped down operating system that does one thing and one thing only – it connects you to Chrome via your Google ID. It boots in seconds, works real fast (because it doesn’t have all the other OS baggage to contend with) and is blessedly free of unwanted features.
There’s only one problem.
Even though today is supposed to be C-Day, you can’t actually see one unless you buy it online via Amazon and Bestbuy.com. Thereisnoplan was so keen on the idea of this wonderfully genericized web-book that I actually arrived at BestBuy in West LA the moment it opened, only to find that nobody knew much about them. There were none in stock, none on sale, no colorful bunting, no knowledgeable nerds in Google t-shirts wowing us with what they could do.
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