Whoa
Ladies and Gentlemen, the iPhone is amazing. That is all.
UPDATE: I’m blogging on my iPhone right now. The keyboard is a nonissue for me.
It’s 4:21 p.m.
Less than two hours to go. I await my iPhone.
BTW, I have been very productive today. I have a plug for my laptop (or at least did till the Fire Marshall showed up) and free wifi.
Yes I Am
. . . in line at the Apple Store that is. My friend Clayton and I are in Alpharetta at the Northpointe mall store. We’re 35th in line.
Yes, we’re nerds. Shut up.
I Will Be Getting This on Friday. Will You?
This reminds me
I need to pay my garbage bill.
Obama To Christians: We, Not Christ, Are The Way, The Truth, and The Life
We should be prepared for a lot of this in 2008. The Democrats, in cooperation with the MSMTM, have decided to start pushing the idea that Christians are outside the mainstream of American values. We Christians are, to borrow a phrase, dividers not uniters.
B. Hussein Obama is the latest to put forward that idea.
“Part of it’s because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who’ve been all too eager to exploit what divides us,” the Illinois senator said. “At every opportunity, they’ve told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage, school prayer and intelligent design,” according to an advance copy of his speech.
The profound absurdities in that statement are just overwhelming.
It is the left that has advances a secular agenda. It has tried to remove God from our coinage and our pledge. It is the left that has been most aggressive in denying students the right to pray in graduation ceremonies. It is the left that would rather starve the homeless than allow churches to participate in federal aid programs. It is the left that has forced church affiliated healthcare providers to provide services that go against church teachings. It is the left that has pushed church affiliated adoption providers to cater to the homosexual lifestyle — a lifestyle those who actually follow Christ believe is sin. In short, in the left’s eagerness to embrace the Christ’s telling of the Good Samaritan as the sole tenet of Christian faith, it has ignored all but a very superficial understanding of Christ’s telling of the rich man and Lazarus.
I could go on and on and on.
Pachelbel Rant
I love Canon in D. It has been my favorite piece of music since I think I was 7 years old and heard it on the radio in Dubai during one of those times when a Sheikh died and all radio played was classical music.
The shifting tone, the start in the deep chord, the fade out, it was beautiful to me. It was the first time I really appreciated classical music. So, this cracked me up and is very much worth sharing. It reminds you how unoriginal music is these days.
Learn Something New Every Day
I was watching this History Channel documentary on hippies last night and learned that Charles Manson was a student of Scientology. He apparently found L. Ron Hubbard’s scheme a useful way to brainwash his acolytes.
I suspect Tom Cruise and John Travolta will remain in Scientology PR material without Charles Manson being listed.
Fred Thompson on Life
The lack of nuance is refreshing.
Those Stale Crackers
The Macon Telegraph is taking a novel approach to candidate endorsements this year. Instead of the usual grilling, the Telegraph has released in advance five questions for which it hopes candidates will provide detailed responses. Details are here. The questions are:
• What will you do in your first year in office to promote fiscal solvency and responsibility, specifically as it regards financial records, the budget and city operations? • What will you do in your first year in office to reduce street crime? • What will you do in your first year in office to promote collaborative leadership? • Would you be willing to participate in an early organizational retreat if paid for with private funds? • What will you do to promote and enhance development, redevelopment and the natural environment in the city of Macon?
What really got me though was this next bit and the reaction to it.
One aspect of the six-page report did cause a bit of controversy Wednesday. Candidates will be asked to pledge not to play the “race card to excuse any poor performance,” the report states. Betty Bond, a county resident who attended the meeting, said the question offended her because it’s focused on black people. “No other race can play the race card,” said Bond. “If you’re white, you can’t play the race card.”
It’s a sad day when people get upset by a pledge not to use the race card. I will gladly take that pledge. The key, of course, is when I say someone is incompetent, if that person happens to be of a race different that me, I should not be saying the person is incompetent because of their skin color and the rebuttal should not be that I am saying so because of their skin color.
That’s what happens in this town. There is a large contingent of people who say we should not make race an issue and if you vote for Robert Reichert in the Democratic primary then you are a racist for failing to give the black candidate a chance. At the same time, there are a lot of white people in town who think black people would never vote for Robert Reichert because they’ll only vote for a black candidate. This whole bit of race baiting madness descends into a catch 22 where black voters vote for the black candidate because they don’t think the white voters would give the black candidate a fair shot and the white voters vote for the white candidate because they think the black voters will, in the commonly heard vernacular around here, “stick to their own kind.”
Macon will never advance until both the black voters and the white voters choose the best candidate instead of the [insert color choice here] candidate. I was absolutely gobsmacked recently when I was criticized for actively supporting several black candidates in town. It completely floored me.
Maybe all the candidates should go around in town during campaign season in hermetically sealed opaque costumes so we can’t see what race they are. Then put their resumes on pink paper with purple ink to totally keep the black and white issues out of the campaign.
*Yes, I did just use the word “gobsmacked.”