Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs has been on extended sick leave and had to skip the last stage presentation or two because of it. His lack of visibility lead many to believe he was terminally ill or maybe even had already died and was being kept as a Weekend At Bernies type secret for as long as possible. But today – tadaa! – Jobs is back on the job..z, and conducted the expo thingwhatever today revealing new ipod nano’s with cameras and a software upgrade to the iPhone full of features no one will ever notice. yeay! but his entrance… so blah… dude just walked out on the friggin stage with no announcement.
The video below is the whole thing if you’re interested, but for purposes of this blog, only the first 60 seconds is important.
Jobs squandered a huge opportunity here. No one had any idea he was going to appear on stage and he just strolls out and starts talking?? wtf Steven? He could have tripled the publicity for this event if he had taken the Willy Wanka route:
See Mr Jobs? thats how its done… Maybe a full floor tumble was out of the question, but a fakeout still could have been pulled off subtlety and been just as awesome. Imagine him limping out with a cane and beginning to tell that story about his recovery only to drop it and erect himself to announce how great he feels. Apple stock would have risen an extra 4 points, I guarantee.
President Obama made a speech in front of a class that was encouraged for teachers to show their own classes.
The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props.
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The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.
The Washington Post wrote the first half and the Democrat, House Majority Leader said the second part after the dashes… in 1991. responding to President Bush giving a speech aimed at students. right before they had a hearing to investigate the matter.
Bush’s speech contained such controversial material as talking about importance of studying math and science and answered other questions, ranging from “How difficult is it to be our president?” to whether he would like his dog – Millie – to be the first dog in space.
As for Obama’s speech: Like Bush’s in 91, it had some nice common sense stuff in it that kids should hear. unlike Bush’s, it contained needlessly controversial self praising stuff about how hard OBAMA, not the country or bipartisan government, is working to save the world.
But wait… Obama actually did exactly what the Dems groundlessly freaked out over Bush doing? but that.. would make them… hypocrite political hacks….
While its true that liberal doctrine claims that persons A accomplishments must come at person B’s expense, I’ve always known that was bullshit bumper sticker pandering pap, so its not that that’s the cause for a “wtf man”. The reason praising yourself to young students is “needlessly controversial” as i stated, is not because it negates someone elses work as liberal theory would assume, but rather its just 1) bad taste and 2) bad politics.
Obama changed his speech from being the political commercial that republicans flipped their toupee’s over at first (The original Department of Education directive asked children to write letters with promises on “how they could help President Obama.” and changed it to how kids “could achieve their long-term and short-term goals”) yet still left in the self stroking stuff about how “he” alone is working for them. why hand your opposition a victory like that when the rest of your 2nd draft speech is so praise-worthy by honest members of said opposition? 10% of school funding comes from “Obama”. why not show some love to the mayors, governors and state politicians? when the guy who does 10% of the work takes all the credit, he’s usually called an a-hole. unless he’s the Obammessiah.
Young Alaskan self described redneck Levi Johnston entered the public stage when his unprotected sex with his girlfriend resulted in that one thing that unprotected sex results in. I forget what its called, but its the thing when you put your sperm into a girl and she gets all fat n stuff afterward? you know what I’m talking about? anyway, a baby was produced out of that and the reason it was a news making event was because the girl he knocked up was the Governor of Alaska’s daughter at a time when said Governor was running as Vice President of the united states. If you’re confused what is so newsworthy about a potential Vice Presidents child engaging in bad behavior then knowing that we’re talking about Republicans should clear that up for you.
During the knock-up news, they were together and engaged (with still no sign that they were threatened or forced into said engagement) and Levi was saying nice things about Sarah Palin and the Palin family at large. Then he realized he could get WAY more attention if he did the opposite, so he did. Now he’s doing photoshoots that may or may not include his famous baby-making penis, on red carpets with young popular hotties at the top of their game such as Kathy Griffin and he’s got a book deal claiming to “tell all” about the Palins dirty little secrets that he knows (because banging someones daughter obviously results in a wealth of insider-knowledge about her parents. clearly).
Now we learn that poor Levi has been victim, er, to exactly the kind of sell-out betrayal he’s doing to the Palins. Just look at this lamenting in an article without a hint of irony:
A busboy came by and filled our glasses. He and Levi knew each other from before Levi got famous. They exchanged heys. He told Levi that he tried to call, but that his number didn’t work. Levi told him that he has to change his number a lot. As the boy walked away, I caught something a little sad in Levi’s expression. A lot of friends have sold him out, giving details about his life to reporters, Rex told me. I asked Levi about it.
“I lost all the friends that are trying to do that. I let ’em go a long time ago,” he said. “I know which ones I can trust now.”
Ya, it’s hard to know who you can trust these days eh Leev’s? People who you thought were your friends and then all of a sudden go public with details about your personal lives? What is this world coming to? You trust people and open your life up to them and as soon as they realize there may be money and fame in revealing “secrets” about you they pull a 180 and sell you out?
That’s right. This artery-clogging, heart-stopping dish is among eight new deep-fried concoctions that will be unveiled to the public at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas later this month. Each year, fair concessionaires try to outdo themselves by dreaming up recipes that could send you racing to your cardiologist if they became regular staples of your diet. The friendly competition has become so intense that fair officials have dubbed the fairgrounds the “Fried Food Capital of Texas.”
This year’s fried butter entry is the brainchild of 39-year-old Dallas resident Abel Gonzales Jr., winner of past state fair competitions for his Texas Fried Cookie Dough, Fried Peanut Butter, Jelly and Banana Sandwich and Fried Coke recipes.
(That’s right. Fried Coke.)
Dude whips up fresh, 100% pure butter, chops it into squares, freezes it and then wraps the frozen chunks in dough, frys em up and creates a heavenly little ball of joy.
Gonzales says “I mean, butter by itself does not taste good,” Gonzales said. “Nobody just grabs a stick of butter and eats it. That would be gross.” – Obviously he’s not a Simpsons fan (and if anyone can find a clip from when Homer did that, send it my way).
A few weeks ago, a group no one has ever heard of, called Color of Change, started a boycott against Fox News opinion show host Glenn Beck because Beck stated an opinion they found unacceptable: Beck said he thinks Barack Obama is essentially racist (oh no he di-int!).
Color of Change, under the headline Stop the race baiting, immediately organized Beck-haters to call or contact advertisers to notify they will be boycotting their product as long as they continue to run their ads on Beck’s show.
Problem: Van Jones, the leader of Color of Change is the Dictator of Race Batia. He has first place trophies on his shelves for the annual Race Bating County Fair. If he were on the supreme court he would be Race Bater Ginsburg.
The picture to the right from the Hannity show makes it look like Van Jones is wearing a Hannity pin on his jacket. so. like. i thought that was funny.
First: Jones called President Bush a racist…
Stop the race baiting? In a Sept. 1, 2005 Huffington Post op-ed, “Bush’s Role in the Drowning of New Orleans,” Jones wrote:
Don’t say that a hurricane destroyed New Orleans. Hurricanes don’t drown cities.It was a “perfect storm” of a different kind that put that great city underwater: Bush-era neglect of our national infrastructure, combined with runaway global warming and a deep contempt for poor African-Americans. [emphasis added]
Hmmm. Should someone be getting outraged over a person accusing the President of being a racist, if..um.. they called the President a fkking racist?
Van “Stop the Race Baiting” Jones also thinks white people are poisoning black communities. Hmm. that’s a pretty inflammatorily race baiting accusation. Plenty evidence to call this hypocrite boycott against Beck a fraud and and a scam, but as the late Billy Mays would say: But wait! there’s more!
Goodness… So the guy Beck has been calling out then orders a boycott against Beck for saying one thing that was less offensive than any of the things he himself has said. and he works in the Obama administration. Awesome.
Oh ya, and he thinks President Bush was behind the terrorist attacks on September 11th. Maybe he changed his mind though? Cuz last night he issued a statement apologizing and said the petition he signed suggesting that President Bush “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen” perhaps to justify war in Afghanistan or Iraq, “does not reflect my views now or ever.” Except, it seems that “or ever” should have had an asterisk after it to clarify that in *this* case “ever” means “except in 2002 when he endorsed the same claim”.
An administration source told Jake Tapper of ABC News that Van “Stop the Race Baiting” Jones did not carefully review the language in the 9/11 conspiracy petition before agreeing to add his name in 2004 – but oops – this morninginformation surfaced that shows Jones was on the organizing committee of a 2002 march making the same 9/11 conspiracy claims.
Van Jones pictured with the 3 most powerful men in the world
Okay, so Van Jones is a raging hypocrite and a master-race-bater who is almost as intolerant of white people as he is of criticism. Big deal. What liberal isn’t, right? (yuk yuk). Charles Krauthammer nails it in the video below where he rightly notes that calling Republicans assholes and the fact that he had admitted to being an actual Communist [and black nationalist] may be lame and all but pretty small potatoes, but goes on to say that being a 9/11 conspiracy wingnut IS in fact a big ass fkking deal showing signs of psychotic paranoia and must disqualify you from working in the federal fricken government.
As for that “stop the race baiting” boycott? Fail.
A few advertisers simply diverted their commercials on Fox News to other programs on the channel rather than Beck’s. Some boycott. Color of Change allegedly lied about advertisers dropping out, and Beck’s ratings have never been higher. His show airs at 5 freakin PM eastern (2pm Pacific) and is getting at least 2.5 million and often going over 3 million viewers. To put in context how massive 3 million viewers is on a daytime cable news channel, consider this perspective: The CBS Evening News averages about 4 million viewers a night. The Daily Show and Colbert Report each get around 1.5 million viewers a night, in primetime.
Far from Beck even inching in the direction of losing his job, to make things even more hilariously embarrassing: many are predicting that Jones will be the victim of “backfire scheme of the year” and have to resign before Monday.
When super gay dudes call a piece of media involving female nudity “really hott” and lavish praise on it, I usually know to stay away. Not because they can’t judge female-hottness very well – because they can’t do so in media very well. They’re too easily distracted by special effects, style and sparklie objects.
So when a front line soldier in America’s army of gheay recommended I see Shakira’s new music video for the hot-factor, I was less than enthused. For the previous reason, but also because Shakira always came just short of hot on the rating scale for me 10 years ago, so it sounds impossible that she could pass that mark now.
I started watching out of duty, and although everything seems to be working against this being entertaining and/or sexy: her age (I Googled to find that she’s 32), the theme of the video (werewolf? seriously?…), the techno vibe, the — wtf? – is she popping and locking?? robot dances in a werewolf music video? no.. no, this is all wrong.
Except it isn’t… it’s good. it all works. and it works beautifully.
UPDATE: This version of the song is…also…good?
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Dr Marc Lamont Hill, a young charismatic Columbia University Professor and Fox News liberal political analyst escapes every facet of the Blac[k]cent, except one: pee-poo. He says “white people” as “why pee-poo”.
Glenn Beck reads Dr. Keith Ablow a list of names people have called him “just this week,” including “idiotic,” “delusional” and “full of crap” and then says that addicts will save the country…
Toward the end, Beck says, “If you are a racist… you know who you are.” lulz.
Why don’t blacks visit National Parks? DUH. Because the dirt and soil remind them of slavery. Obviously. This was revealed when ABC News ran a story last month profiling Yosemite National Park Ranger Shelton Johnson.
According to Mr “first and only black ranger at Yosemite” (cuz that’s significant for some reason), blacks are also so tribal and easily led that if Oprah or Snoop Dog would just recreate at a park now and then, that would let the dark-skins across the nation know that these areas are safe for their kind too. After first asking why stats on the race of park attendee’s are taken anyway (which I giggled at even though I took the mention of visitor-race to be Johnsons eyeballing and not official stat-counting, but who the hell knows), John Stossel (who works for ABC but was not involved with this piece) asked on a blog “Why must racism be the first thing to which some people assign blame for every problem, real or imagined?”
Hmmm . . . maybe the reason they don’t like national parks is that Yosemite’s only Black ranger wears two earrings, if ya know what I mean. Maybe Blacks don’t go to national parks because they don’t want to. Maybe they prefer something else for their free time. Why is this a problem? It’s their business what they choose to do with their free time and their free choice, not a national crisis that needs to be socially engineered otherwise.
In 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted by a man and woman in a grey sedan as she walked to catch her Lake Tahoe school bus. Her stepfather could only watch in horror as Jaycee was dragged into the car two blocks away, kicking and screaming. A massive manhunt ensued, the media rounds made, but she was never heard from again. Police had suspects over the years, including a defrocked priest, but the case of Jaycee Dugard had gone cold…
Police say this is the tent in which Jaycee Lee Dugard lived. Kidnapped at age 11, Dugard was snatched on her way to school and was hidden for nearly two decades behind a series of fences, sheds and tents, even giving birth to her alleged abductor Phillip Garrido’s children in this suburban backyard compound less than 200 miles from her childhood home. More pictures here: Inside Jaycee Dugard’s Terror Tent Photos.
The Nevada cop who rescued a woman raped by sicko Phillip Garrido 33 years ago lambasted authorities on Saturday for allowing the sex fiend to go free.
Long before Garrido abducted Jaycee Lee Dugard, Reno Police Officer Clifford Conrad caught the psycho raping a 25-year-old casino worker he also had kidnapped.
“Someone dropped the ball,” the retired Conrad, 66, told the Daily News.
Child safety expert and ex-pedophile Terry Parker drops in on the morning show to share some insider tips from his years spent as a sex offender and share with all the parents in the audience, vital tips on how to make your kids less attractive.
Young Alaskan 
The picture to the right from the Hannity show makes it look like Van Jones is wearing a Hannity pin on his jacket. so. like. i thought that was funny.
