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“I do not accept second place for the United States of America.” With these words President Obama pretty much summed up his message tonight. Whether it was “clean energy”, education or health care Mr. Obama made it clear that we need to work harder to achieve the stature that we would like to think we have in the world.
I must say I’m not too happy about his emphasis on nuclear, clean coal and off-shore drilling. I would have liked him to include an increased emphasis on solar, wind and hydro-power.
I think he summed up what the madashell party was hoping to hear when he said, “We were sent here to serve our citizens, not our ambitions.”
Finally, we would all do well to take his advice to stop taking cheap shots and pointing fingers and instead work together.
Please contact your system administrator.
I’ve been collecting the increasingly easy-to-find examples of American ignorance for a while now, so I think it’s time to start displaying them. Most of these come from two primary sources, Florida and airports. You’ll see what I mean as the collection grows.
I think I’ll start out with one of the most common indicators that something is terribly wrong with the way we’re educating our workforce. You, no doubt, have yourself seen examples of the kind illustrated here. They seem to plague airports more than anywhere else, except the desktops of the hapless “knowledge workers” who must sit in fear everyday of a similar event occurring on their “information appliance.”
I’m glad the auto industry doesn’t hire the same computer “science” graduates to program the computers that run our cars. Can you imagine what your daily commute would be like if you never knew whether you speedometer might suddenly (and sometimes did) display the message “Please contact your system administrator”?
I just saw an ad on the Weather Channel, I think it was sponsored by Accura. They identified G Gordon Liddy as a “Radio Talk Show Host.” How nice. Have we all forgotten his role in the White House Plumbers that resulted in his spending four years in prison?
The Plumbers, if you’re too young (or too old!) to remember, were a extra-legal group organized by Nixon’s white house to perform illegal acts of sabotage, etc. against Nixon’s opponents. The whole operation eventually led to Watergate and Nixon’s resignation. Liddy was a key player and went to jail for his part. How many other crimes did Mr Liddy and his crew commit that were never discovered? We’ll never know. Now we “respect” him as a “Radio Talk Show Host.” turns my stomach.
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