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Seemingly general philosophy of tradition and progression: Plan B > Conservatives

In Opinion, Social, technology on Mar/24/2009 at 11:46.30

… a Brooklyn federal judge yesterday found that under the Bush administrations, FDA restriction on the morning-after pill had been influenced by conservative ideology and involved “political considerations, delays and implausible justifications,” rather than being grounded in science and “reasoned decisionmaking.”
Source:  Dosomething.org

In his 52-page decision, Korman repeatedly criticized the FDA’s handling of the issue, agreeing with allegations in a lawsuit that the decision was “arbitrary and capricious” and influenced by “political and ideological” considerations imposed by the Bush administration.

“These political considerations, delays and implausible justifications for decision-making are not the only evidence of a lack of good faith and reasoned agency decision-making,” he wrote. “Indeed, the record is clear that the FDA’s course of conduct regarding Plan B departed in significant ways from the agency’s normal procedures regarding similar applications to switch a drug from prescription to non-prescription use.”
Source:  WashPo

Another liberal baby-killing, far-left capitalism destroying, Ché hailing communist win and another conservative principle down for the count.

Strange how this is how it will played off throughout the country.  Whenever the beliefs (in general) of the Democratic party are upheld, or in this case Roe v. Wade, it is simple dismissed as LLLIIBBeral (focus on enunciating the LIB part of the word and quickly finish the rest), Unamerican and by the way did you know in one of President Obama’s HQ’s during campaign season there was a massive Ché Guevara flag, which means your a pinko-commie.

The fun thing is, this is real, and it happened throughout the campaign, and has really has continued.  It seems at least to me, some network pundits”tend” to report the facts but then using some rather sneaky psychology tricks, tend to opine their beliefs and force them upon you.  While I have no problem with ones personal opinion, I despise these little games.  Story A is reported, times are changing is the summary by the pundit, and with a witty, sardonic comment at the end the pundit reminds his audience of how things were better then traditional beliefs were upheld.

Oh how it irks thee!  I feel as if a burning orange poker is being stuck into my side.  Tradition!  How wonderful a thing tradition is to this country!  Slavery, sexism, racism, population transfers!  No need to get into specifics for each of these, as I pray one knows a bit of history.  It seems to me that “tradition” is always relative to the generation and and especially for my generation; technology and science.

My Grandfather’s generation had the invention of the mass-produced latex condom.  (Made from rubber by Goodyear company beforehand)

Followed by my Mom and Dad’s being introduced to the pill which would allow Reagan to describe “the mess” at UNC Berkley.

“advocates of sexual orgies, drug usage, and filthy speech,” who wanted only to “disrupt the academic community” and who therefore must be brought under control immediately.

And now for my generation.  We still have the condom, only quite a few more designs and accessories and the pill will always be around and we’ve made a few more; like Plan B.

My whole point of this entry was not to demonize tradition or conservatives more directly.  But to applaud progression AND tradition.  I stated sarcastically the great things tradition has brought us and by no means believe that is all it has done.  The belief of liberty and freedom are things that will always be conserved in this country and they will always guide progression as well.

The questions I have are how much tradition do we save?  How far forward do we go?  I don’t mean these rhetorically and I’m not implying if we take one step forward we’re going to sprint the rest of the way and break apart all that we have saved.

I don’t know where else to go with this, I’ll finish this up later..    –>Publish

Joining the rebelling to fight the dark side.. Or, there’s more than alt-tab?

In lol, Random, technology on Mar/28/2008 at 01:56.17

By rebellion I mean mac, and dark side I mean Windows/PC. A few weeks ago I picked up a brand new MacBook from the mac store at twelve oaks mall in Novi, MI. Just entering the place was fun. Thirty or Forty people just messing around, completely O-faced and repeating my former favorite MMORPG acronym WoW! These things are truly amazing machines, and I will never go back to my old ways.

Examples

-Managing documents, using the spaces program I navigate in between my various notes for various classes with a simple hotkey. Instantly, my document switches windows/desktops, up to 16 of them, with a nice small interface in the middle of my screen to help me select which exactly I want to switch to. Which compared to Windows, isn’t a big deal, but its smoother and aesthetically nicer.

-Computer speed, its only 2.1ghz/120gb HD/1gb RAM, but damn, its faster then my old 3ghz 2gb RAM desktop, nothing lags, I can have multiple high memory programs – photoshop, dreamweaver and my mail client, while listening to iTunes radio stream runs perfect.

-OS/Interface, nothing compares. I’ve used Windows since, well, I don’t really remember, but it was the version or two before Windows95 and WoW! Not even Vista can touch this.

-Applications, amazing, simply amazing. Every program I need came preloaded (except my office suite) with their own version of anything I needed. Its search tool nearly memorizes your HD, finds everything instantly, and even picks up keywords and phrases out of documents, so if you can’t remember the filename, it finds it for you. No more searching for folders, all my apps are in one folder. No more useless I’ll never need to see – ya know those .dll and .sys files that clutter up tons of your folders? Or just anything that doesn’t pertain directly to you using the program? Yeah, their not there. I didn’t even use one of those “Mac for Dummies” books. Frankly, I don’t think anyone needs to if you have a stable broadband connection. Everything is self explanatory. Use the finder or spotlight to find things, iWhateveryouneedtodo to do whatever you need to do and the rest you can figure out. I searched for some keyboard shortcuts no in the users manual and thats all I really had trouble, actually not trouble, that is the only thing I couldn’t think of from using a PC. There’s more than alt-tab?-Complaints, nothing to do with it in general. On the web I am pissed there are not many torrents for macs, but thats really it. I paid for the word/excel programs by mac (pages/numbers) and snagged a sweet mouse and I’m happy. Oh wait, there isn’t a free wordpress compatible blogging application, yet. So, I’ll end up paying $17 for a third party program.

-Memories of my PC.

  • Video game addiction, good bye (enter montage – game played – my online alias of applicable)
    • Warcraft 1-3
    • All Star Wars games before 2000
    • Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2 : DE_iRoN_K – KDD_KNIGHTMARE – iRoN_K_JCS – iRoN_K – other clans KoAJ, GE, Ji, JE.Jedi Outcast : iRoN_K_JCS
    • Quake 2: KDD_KNIGHTMARE – Fragthis[ZT]
    • Quake 3: Zt Fragthis/Northy
    • Team Fortress Class: DLC~AtomicJim – ZT_Northy -
      ep. Down_to_Business
    • World of Warcraft:
      • Firetree server
        • Jimbotronik (70 Dwarf Marks/Surv, Pure Surv Hunter), Democracy (64 Gnome Fury Warr) < No Gank For You >
      • Thunderlord server
        • Halligan (60 Orc ele shaman)

It’s been fun, maybe someday I’ll be back :) PS, if DE_Jedi316, Kyle_JCS, Bartolo_JCS or Element_God ever read this, fucking reply or email me. There was no ingame voice or vent back when we played and I’d love to see what you motherfuckers are up to.

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