I was cleaning through my files and ran across this funny screen capture I took shortly after the earthquake in Chili.
I was looking at CNN to check out the latest news and couldn’t help but laugh at the awkward video ad that was in rotation. Have a look for yourself.
I came across this article on digg. Its about a Glenn Beck program on Fox News called ‘War Room’. The article provides an interesting read (though a bit long). The embedded fox videos contain a fair bit of fear mongering, a la… <The government isn’t upholding the values of the constitution and the militias (or bubbas) may need to fight a new civilwar in 2104>
The videos will mean different things to different people based on their views. The reason I’m writing THIS post is to point out a glaring error in Fox News’ fact checking.
War Room Scenario #2 paints the very bleak outlook :
50 million people worldwide are unemployed. There are riots in the streets.
The problem is, as of 2007 there were 180 million people unemployed!
Just image the carnage that would be unleashed if 130 million people got new jobs!
I’ve been posting a lot of blog entries recently. There are 2 reasons for the increase in frequency. First, it gives me something to do if I’m commuting to the city. Second, and more importantly, it lets me experiment with a variety of things.
My recent posts have been mostly non-technical. I find writing detailed tech posts takes longer. Instead, as I said, I’m experimenting. So, what am I experimenting with?
Publicizing.
My new blog posts have been shared via twitter (sorry for any tweet spam), facebook, technorati, readburner, digg, stumbleupon, reddit, rssmeme, and mybloglog. I think the results will be relative to the size of the community I have for each, and since I just signed up recently for most of them I’m not expecting much. So far reddit is providing the most traffic.
Typo-optimizing.
I’m experimenting with SEO and typos. In a recent post I intentionally misspelled ‘FirendConnect’ twice because I noticed that the google search results for that misspelled term were empty. I managed to get the #1 spot for that term by doing so.
Diggability
My last post was purely to see how many diggs I could get. There are 2 very common themes among popular digg articles recently: Lists & Anti-Clinton. I figured by writing an anti-Clinton list I might get dugg. I think, however, that you probably need a group of friendly diggers to help get you over an initial threshold. I only got 5 diggs (nowhere close enough to get dugg).
As the battle for the democratic nomination continues in the US, here are 3 more reasons not to vote for Hillary Clinton.
1. She’s Losing
2. She’s Out Of Money
3. She Can’t Spell
Sound harsh, trivial, or silly? Let me explain. Each of these reasons are the result of very real and very significant leadership flaws exhibited by Mrs. Clinton.
1. She’s Losing
Senator Clinton is, undoubtedly, an accomplished woman; even if her experience is questioned. She was the clear favorite near the end of 2007. In fact, she held a 23% lead over Obama in the polls. By all accounts the nomination was hers to lose – and lose it she did. If her leadership throughout her campaign has seen her turn from a dominate favorite into an also-ran, just imagine what her leadership for America would do.
2. She’s Out Of Money
The Clinton campaign recently announced it is $20M in debt. The campaign to date has raised $194M, so she has overspent by more than 10.3%. This clearly demonstrates her willingness to be fiscally irresponsible in order to pursue her goals. To demonstrate what this would look like on a national scale, the 2007 tax receipts were $2.568 Trillion and the deficit was $162 Billion; this was only a 6.3% overspend. Let me stress this point: if Clinton ran America like she ran her campaign, the country’s deficit would be significantly higher than it is under the current Bush administration. America can ill-afford more fiscal disasters.
3. She Can’t Spell
Good leaders surround themselves with intelligent and capable people. This recent open letter, from Clinton to Obama, contained several mistakes including the ‘creative’ words “untaken” and “publically“. I can’t fault her for making some typos – I make them all the time. With such an important letter though, one or more of her staff should have checked it. So did Clinton not have her staff read it, or did they just miss the obvious mistakes? I’m not sure which is worse but neither is what you want from a president.
A candidate’s positions on the issues and their leadership abilities are both important to consider. I truly commend Hillary Clinton; She has done well to get to where she is today. She is not, however, a leader that can be trusted as President. A president should be able to win a battle, especially when they start in the lead. A president should be responsible. A president should surround themselves with capable staff. Clinton has demonstrated through her campaign that she does not have these 3 leadership traits.
I find the US election process interesting. It’s convoluted and archaic, but insanely important to the world as a whole.
I was just looking at the results of the Indiana and North Carolina primaries today and noticed a very interesting result on CNN. I think their statistician may be a little bit biased toward Obama. I’m not sure what’s more interesting; that Obama is projected to win despite have less votes, or that he is projected to win despite 0% of votes being reported.
Okay, in reality, the projection is probably based on exit polling, whereas the numbers are based on actual counted votes. It was still funny to see though….
This is completely unrelated to rails, but I thought it was moving so I had to post it somewhere.
It is a song by Will.i.am. It is based on an Obama speech. The video is like one of those pictures that is made up of lots of tiny pictures. It’s just cool http://www.hopeactchange.com/
