The crux of the issue is simple:

1. Sarah Palin has unequivocally associated Barack Obama with the idea of terrorism and specifically with "terrorists".
2. Republican President George Bush has defined in our National Security Strategy, and the Republican Party's platform affirms, that we may identify and strike at terrorists before they have committed any defined acts of aggression against American citizens.
3. George Bush has made clear, by stating before a joint session of Congress that "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
4. Palin has used deliberate choice of language to avoid these connections being highlighted by the media, while increasing the likelihood that the target audience for her message will be incited by her statements.

Oh this would be fucking GREAT! I can just imagine the unconstitutional expansion of power by the executive branch being used AGAINST the chief executive! Can you say irony? I knew you could.

What Sarah Palin Is Saying - Anil Dash

t is unusual to see so many prominent Republican politicians and columnists shift, even allowing for the fact that party affiliations are more fluid in the US than Europe.

Powell has blazed the way and made it easier for people to come out of the party closet.

US election: Prominent Republicans cross the aisle to endorse Obama

There are hundreds of sites where job seekers can go to find a new job, and virtually none where you can find reviews of bosses or companies or jobs.

Excellent!

Seth's Blog: Be careful of who you work for

The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supporting the Aristocracy, only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America.

Fuck you, Fuck you, Fuck you, You're cool... Fuck you, I'm out.

Andrew Lahde bows out in style

I know there are a lot of developer jockeys on this site. I'm working on a project where I'd like to use RoR. My background has been in Java development and I've been doing web stuff since the CGI was coined. But I've not set up a dev environment for RoR and I want to know what people use and what they find productive and efficient. I'll be doing this on Mac OSX, so any approaches on that platform are especially appreciated.

What editors are you using? How do you have your terms set up for optimal effectiveness? Are you using Mongrel or the OSX Apache? What's promotion from dev to production like? Do I have to install the whole XCode framework? Using MacPorts or is it a waste of time? Any other frameworks or tools that you find indispensable?

Also, is anyone using Spaces to keep the clutter from your dev environ separate from your "work" environ (email, irc, etc)? I'd almost like to boot into an image that was just for developing, do my thing, and then switch out. Just to keep those two worlds apart.

“There have been a lot of studies that have found narcissistic leaders tend to have volatile and risky decision-making performance and can be ineffective and potentially destructive leaders,” she said.

VERSUS????

Narcissistic People Most Likely To Emerge As Leaders

This will be the URL to see the live video feed from this weekend's event. #nsw on Twitter.

Nashville Startup Weekend live streaming on uStream

Accordingly, coupled with his affordable health care program, necessary tax reductions and renewable energy incentives the components of the Obama "New Deal" for middle-income America could include the following options:

There's a thick sheen of partisan rhetoric pasted over this posting, but I like a lot of the points that he articulates as part of the plan, save for the last one about tax credits for 401k losses. I would also tone down the unemployment program numbers. This would be especially necessary because if you believe the other components should work and that other programs will be successful (green jobs, investment in alternative energy, new infrastructure programs, etc) then unemployment will be a temporary bump.

Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Obama's New Deal for America

Top 150 words spoken at 2nd Obama-McCain presidential candidate debate

Top 150 words spoken at 2nd Obama-McCain presidential candidate debate on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

My fair neighborhood gets transformed for the height of political theater. I expect Auschwitz, but what I find is actually more like the county fair. With a dash of secret service and Red Bull girls.

Debate 2008 - a set on Flickr