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Thank you hackers
May 25
As Dick Cheney emerged from his cave in 2009 and began to overshare with the media about his approval of the Bush/Cheney Administration’s torture policy, I began to wonder what his motivation could possibly be. It’s certainly not what his lawyers would want him to do. It’s clear that the former vice-president is doing nothing to improve the current Republican situation: Everyone hates this guy (save the few folks on the far right who love Limbaugh and believe the earth is a mere 3,000 years old). So what’s the rationale?
In considering it, I think Cheney has one primary goal: Cheney wants the inevitable torture prosecutions to appear politically motivated. Right now, basically every day, Cheney is out in the press picking a fight with the Obama administration. He’s goading them into a fight. He’s kicking dirt on their shoes. Calling them ugly. Claiming the administration’s policies are hurting our security. He’s like a baseball manager coming up face to face with the umpire just begging to be thrown out of the game. He’s figuring the fans will interpret more anger and more hopping around angry as some sort of yardstick to help determine whether he’s right: they’ll believe that the more he argues the more likely the umpire is wrong.
And when the Cheney goes too far and the umpire has enough and tosses him out, perhaps people will only remember the comic display he’s putting on and not the fact that 3,000 Americans died on 9/11 on their watch. And thousands more died in their Iraq boondoggle. And Al-Qaeda is still a threat to the U.S. after all they did.
My personal belief is that given the evidence of the law being broken that has already been released, the Justice department must appoint a Special Prosecutor and be done with it. I think once those wheels are in motion, you’re not going to hear anything from the lawyered-up Cheney, Yoo, Bibey or the others in the Torture Cabal.
And Congress should pass on holding hearings as they can’t help themselves when they get in front of the camera. The idea of letting the idiots in Congress grandstand and pretend to police this issue after they basically rolled over for years is pathetic.
This weekend, the trolls at Fox News, Drudge and Newsbusters created a bogus story about the Coal industry and here’s the facts about that “hidden” tape. Watch this:
Sublime.
Apple’s Macbook Firewire F U
Oct 17
In a quick break from the politics of the day, I have to take a moment to rant about Apple’s decision to eliminate a Firewire port from its new Macbooks and reduce to one, the number of Firewire ports on the Macbook Pro.
As you may have heard, Apple released newly designed Macbooks and Macbook Pros this week and they have eliminated all Firewire ports from the Macbook and left a single Firewire 800 port in the Macbook Pro. Every Mac since the advent of Firewire 1394a in 2000 has had at least one Firewire port. Hell, eMacs even came with two Firewire 400 ports.
According to an email that may or may not have come from Steve Jobs, Apple’s explanation for this nickle-and-dime elimination of the Firewire connection is because “all of the HD camcorders released in the last few years use USB 2.0.”
We get that you’re a visionary product guy, Steve. We understand that you can see the future and Firewire is nowhere in it according to you. However, in the real world present day us long time Apple fans have a shitload of Firewire products that need a way to get connected to our computers. We generally don’t toss out all of our existing electronic gizmos like hard drives, video cameras and iPods because Apple has decided it’s no longer appropriate for us to use.
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