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Year: 2008

1.1.4 Released

If you’re a happy owner of an iPhone (like me) you’ll be glad to know that a new software version has been released by Apple. 1.1.4 can be obtained by connecting your iPhone to iTunes, or by direct download.

By the way, I just did the upgrade and my phone is happy as can be. Your mileage may very, so proceed with the usual caution (i.e. backup).

Oh, if you’re in the mood to spend money, Apple bumped the specs of their Macbook and Macbook Pro notebook computers.

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iPhone, Apple, Technology, Cell Phone, Software, Upgrade

Latest Clinton Trick Foiled

A letter to the editor response to a New York Times story written by Patrick Healy suggesting that the Clinton campaign was fading fast has been rejected by the newspaper.

The editorial page editor said the letter was really nothing more than a press release in disguise.

Apparently, this particular space of newsprint real estate is held for “ordinary readers”, and not campaign talking points. Who knew?

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2008 Election, Hillary Clinton, New York Times

Hey, Who Turned Out the Lights?

I wonder if a janitor accidently spilled coffee on a control board at a nuclear plant in Florida today?

After knocking almost 3 million people off the grid, officials found an equipment failure and fire at a substation in Miami. That, in turn, shut down the nuclear plant. While a lot of the power has been restored, at this hour, 20,000 are still dark.

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Miami, Nuclear Power, Blackout

Dodd Hearts Obama

In yet another blow to Hillary Clinton, Senator Chris Dodd goes for the Messiah, and brings with him some big time influence on the hill in Washington.

If you’re keeping track, that’s another nail in the coffin.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Endorsement

Naomi’s Flesh

Super-dee-duper model Naomi Campbell has been hospitalized in Brazil and is being treated by one of them top notch doctor types who specializes in infectious diseases. Official reports say a small cyst has been removed. Unofficial reports claim she has ‘flesh-eating’ disease.

Here’s another official report – after thinking for a second about flesh-eating disease, I actually threw up in my mouth, just a little bit.

Get well soon, Naomi.

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Celebrity, Naomi Campbell

Channeling Jimmy Carter

The shape of things to come?

Based on his Senate history, Barack Obama as president would likely push to expand human rights and reduce poverty abroad using cooperation rather than confrontation, if foreign events permit. Aside from his vigorous opposition to the Iraq war, Obama spent more of his time on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on speeches and inspirational trips than on investigations and aggressive oversight.

With the bright lights of the media on Mr. Obama these days, it’s easy for people to get caught up in the “dream” of his probable nomination and his subsequent ascension to the presidency. That’s where the fantasy will end. Unfortunately, the MSM is completely in love with this guy, so the chances are nil that any of his extreme leftist beliefs will surface prior to November ’08.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, President, White House

Polls! Polls! Polls!

The Gallup people asked, “Who Do You Think Will Win the Democratic Nomination for President?” The results are pretty clear.

Not only does Obama enjoy this perceptual aura of inevitability, but he also is widely seen as the candidate who would provide the stiffer challenge for John McCain in November. Republicans say he would be tougher for McCain to beat, and Democrats say he would have the best chance of beating McCain come November.

Rasmussen Reports polled likely primary voters in Ohio. Hillary Clinton shows 48% to Obama’s 43%. He’s up 5 percentage points in one week. That’s got the Clinton Campaign in panic mode, and their flight or fight situation has put them in a precarious position. Voters hate overtly negative stump speeches and advertising, yet when you’re backed into the corner, you have few choices.

Such is the state of Hillary’s world today.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Polls

She Don’t Know Nothin’

Following Maggie Williams’ lead, Hillary dummies up about the Obama photo kerfuffle.

“I know nothing about it,” Clinton told ABC affiliate WFAA. “This is in the public domain. But let’s just stop and ask yourself: ‘Why are you — why is anybody concerned about this?'”

Clinton said that she found questions about whether her campaign leaked the photo to be “really laughable.”

“This is one more attempt by my opponent’s campaign to change the subject,” said Clinton, “From his health-care plan that won’t cover everybody, from an economic plan that won’t produce jobs, and from a record that is pretty thin when it comes to national security and standing up for our country around the world.”

Why is she acting like everyone in the world is a complete idiot? Like we really believe she doesn’t know who pushed that photo to the media today. Puhleeze.

Clinton politics – rough and tumble, and no one gets out alive, except Hillary, of course.

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Hillary Clinton, Dirty Tricks

Oscar Flop

First the Emmys died, and now the Oscars.

Following the lowest-rated Emmys since 1990, the strike-hindered ratings performance of a severely truncated version of the Golden Globes and a nonstruck airing of the Grammys that nonetheless disappointed, Sunday night’s presentation of the 80th Annual Academy Awards on ABC hit an all-time ratings low.

According to overnight fast national ratings, the awards averaged a 10.7 rating among adults 18 to 49 and was seen by 32 million viewers. In the demo, that’s down a sharp 24% from last year and the lowest on record. Among viewers, that’s a 20% drop. The previous all-time low was in 2003.

Sunday night’s Oscar telecast, where “No Country for Old Men” took the top prize, was expected to underperform given the lack of movies with broad boxoffice appeal vying for best picture. ABC and producers also were unsure whether the Oscars were going forward with a full production until the writers strike was resolved Feb. 12, resulting in a last-minute scramble to prepare and market the show.

I stuck around for the first 45 minutes or so, then I just had to split. It was boring. It was lackluster. John Stewart was barely funny. Heck, the actors looked like they didn’t want to be there.

Not.memorable.

Or maybe I’m just getting too old?

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Academy Awards, Oscars, Hollywood

Bush: GOP Will Stay in White House

President George W. Bush is picking his political comments with strategery these days. No use gettin’ into a fight just yet.

“I’m confident we’ll hold the White House in 2008,” Bush told donors at the Republican Governors Association annual dinner, which raised a record $10.6 million for GOP gubernatorial candidates.”And I don’t want the next Republican president to be lonely,” Bush said. “And that is why we got to take the House, retake the Senate, and make sure our states are governed by Republican governors.”

I’m not convinced that the GOP has a great chance to take a majority of the House, the Senate AND call the White House home. It’s more likely that we’ll have a McCain presidency, but a Democratic majority in Congress. I don’t think the Democrats will be able to run on an anti-war message like they did in ’06. They’ve been able to accomplish exactly nothing since taking the reigns more than a year ago. I think the electorate will be sure not to allow a one party majority rule in 2008.

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George W. Bush, White House