Entries from January 2005

Monday, January 10th, 2005

Our government lies to us

The Bush administration has led a propaganda campaign against its own people to a degree not seen since Joseph Goebbels or Soviet Russia Through intimidation of the press and ever decreasing budgets the fourth estate has been co-opted into question-nothing shills for the Republican party. The news that Armstrong Williams was paid by the administration [...]

Monday, January 10th, 2005

spineless democrats in the senate

Barbara Boxer was the only Democrat in the Senate with a spine last week The Republicans called Barbara Boxer and the Democrats in the house that protested the election results in Ohio the X-Files wing of the Democratic party, and they were able to do that because the rest of the party left them out [...]

Friday, January 7th, 2005

This may make me reconsider buying another PC desktop

I thought I’d bought my last PC desktop, but Shuttle just announced a new killer Small Form Factor Machine Got this from Engadget, Shuttle has announced a new machine which looks like it has some pretty awesome performance in a very small package. It can support Pentium 4 chips, it has a GHz front-side bus, [...]

Friday, January 7th, 2005

Is Microsoft trying to rewrite history?

Bill Gates’ CES Keynote webcast has been following a very interesting path… I didn’t go to CES, but I wanted to see Bill Gates’ keynote. Microsoft was nice enough to host a webcast on their site. Before the event, they even had it set up to put a reminder in your outlook calendar. The time [...]

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

Anger To Hope

I’ve had a revelation which is giving me hope in these dark political times I’ve been on sort of a self imposed news blackout for the last week and a half. I often find myself becoming nostalgic at the end of the year, looking back a bit and also looking forward. This year’s elections really [...]

Tuesday, January 4th, 2005

The new year

2004 sucked. Well, 2004 started with hope and ended with betrayal and death. 2005 is starting out pretty sucky, lets hope that it will end better.