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Apple iPad: Could be a Game Changer.
I’ve been following the stories about the Apple iPad and with the release announcment now official I wanted to take a few minutes to comment on this technology and how it might effect the future.
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I am a real fan of Apple technology. I use a Mac every day and use it exclusively for web development, graphic design and video production. Mac has always been on the creative cutting edge. When the iPhone and subsequently the iTouch were released, I couldn’t help but think then that Apple’s next step would be a highly portable, but more functional unit that was similiar, but better than what those products offered. They have done exactly that with iPad.
I am convinced that the Apple iPad is the next step in the evolution of computer/human interface concepts. Cell phone technology has been improving rapidly, but let’s face it, the physical limitations that cell phone size presents to operator interface and data storage limits not only the audience for that technology, but how far it can be advanced. The Apple iPad has solved that problem by creating a book size device, with very intuitive interace, that anyone can use. I don’t text much on cell phones. My fingers are to big. My vision is to poor and for my types of usage, it just doesn’t quite hit the mark. My mom uses here cell phone just for calls for the same reasons. The Apple iPad’s size is probably it’s best asset. Small enough to be portable but big enough to usable, iPad will bring a lot of people “into the fold” when it comes to using this kind of technology.
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The newspaper business is dying. The internet and cable TV are killing it. It’s probably better to say that the newspaper business is having to convert into the content development business and the internet advertising business. People who still subscribe to a daily newspaper for home or office delivery, read it over breakfast, or after dinner in the easy chair, maybe on a break at work or in the train station during a commute, but millions of people have abandoned the historic interface between humans and the newspapers we read to access news and information easily and instantly via the internet and cable news. Now comes the iPad. It’s portability makes the breakfast table, the easy chair and even the morning commute a great place to read the newspaper again. However, instead dropping a quarter in a newspaper stand, you just touch your iPad link to your favorite newspaper.
The iPad is green technology too. Think of how many trees can be saved because instead of printing books or newspapers, you can just download them onto your iPad. Think of the savings in manufacturing.
It has long been the stuff of science fiction and science fact that computers would become easier to use. Instead of you having to get smarter to use the computer, which is the way it used to be, the computer is now getting smarter so it is easier for you to use. The Apple iPad is leading a giant leap forward in towards easier interface and more daily usage of technology by everyone.
100 PEOPLE WHO ARE SCREWING UP AMERICA
Bernard Goldberg has true grit. He is the author of “Bias”, the best-seller that gave an insiders view of liberal bias in the media. To support the selling of his new book he had to do…what? Go on the mainstream media. Those they gave him air time, which were few, tried there best to lay him out cold. He held his own just fine, thank you. Of course, truth has a way of helping you stand up straight. But to open up a lions mouth so you can stick your head in it and tell the lion he shouldn’t be eating people takes cajones. (I think the spelling is correct.)
His latest offering is the wildly poplular “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America”, and yes, he names names. You can probably guess a few of them, Al Franken, Tim Robbins, Rep. Sheila Jackson Leah and a few more prominent liberals He also names categories of people, including Hollywood liberals, rappers, lawyers. Again it’s his marketing efforts demonstrate his grit as much as the content of his books.
To promote “100 People” Goldberg recently went on The Daily Show with John Stewart. A hostile host, a loaded audience and yet again, Goldberg’s truth of thought wins the day.
Goldberg’s basic premise in this book is that abusrd ideas and actions put forth in the name of political correctness are harmful to this country and what we stand for, especially when they’re not denounced by the so called main stream. Its even worse the it’s the socalled mainstream doing the talking.
Example: Rep. Shelia Jackson Leah (E) thinks we need a law that would force the national weather service to give “black” names to Hurricanes. The implication by Leah is that the lack of “black sounding” names for hurricanes is robbing black youth of self-esteem.
Goldberg, while accepting the basic absurdity of this view, points out that there could be some black people named Katrina or Andrew. So don’t they count? Is Leah saying to those people, you aren’t really black because your name isn’t Rashonda or Tamiqua? Rep. Leah is one of the most powerful memebers of the congressional black caucus and she thinks theres so much racism in America that even our hurricanes are too white?
Yes, theres a problem and on page after page Goldberg shines a light of truth on examples of absurd thought and even hate-speech promoted by the supposedly “open-minded” liberal establishment.
Yes, most of the people in the book are liberals, but if the shoe fits, right?
This book is a must read for any true conservative. It offers up great fodder for the next time you go toe to toe with a liberal whiner, and trust me, if any liberal sees you reading this book, you will be having a conversation.
Bill O’Reilly Books
Bill O’Reilly has been laughing at liberals on Fox New’s O’Reilly Factor
for years. Mr. O’Reilly regularly speaks out against the music industry’s promotion of violent and sexually explicit lyrics and tracks issues like gay marriage from the closet to the courthouse. Bill O’Reilly covers conservative political issues and confronts some of the most laughable liberals on the O’Reilly Factor. Even on the rare occasions when his liberal guests are right, he simply shouts them down. By the way, Bill O’Reilly is "not a conservative," he says.
Anne Coulter Books
Laugh At Liberals admires the unabashed conservative wit of Ann Coulter. Among
Ann Coulter’s book titles that point out laughable the fallacies of liberalism are:
- Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
- Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right and
- High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton.
P.J. O’Rourke Books
P.J. O’Rourke political humor has given comic relief to conservatives through the years in such works as Peace Kills : America’s Fun New Imperialism, Eat the Rich, and Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government.
Dennis Miller Books
Dennis Miller may not be a conservative, but that doesn’t stop him from making conservatives laugh at liberals. Dennis Miller’s style of wit often points out insanities that should be obvious to everyone, but that have been clouded by society’s reverance of political correctness. Dennis Miller is best known as a television personality and author of his series of "Rants" books. Have you read a Miller Book? Please comment.
Robert Bork Books
Were it not for Robert Bork’s prolific works of writing, he might just be a supreme court justice now. Robert Bork’s books are not humorous, but serious and worthy analyses of liberalism, morality and the American judicial system. You will find Slouching Towards Gomorrah and other books listed here in association with Amazon.com.
Newt Gingrich Books
Newt Gingrich has written works of fiction, but his most controversial works are his conservative nonfiction books such as To Renew America, published around the time of the Republican congressional revolution in 1994. Also listed here are some liberal books that attempt to rebut or parody the Newt Gingrich’s work. Laught at Liberals loves Newt!
Sean Hannity Books
Sean Hannity can be seen regularly lambasting, exposing, and laughing at liberals and liberalism as co-host of Hannity and Colmes on the Fox News network. Sean Hannity is one of the most widely listened to conservative radio personalities and talk show hosts. Sean Hannity has written two popular works entitled Deliver Us from Evil : Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism and Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism Sean Hannity is one a Laugh at Liberals favorite.
William F. Buckley Books
Not that William F. Buckley Jr. needs an introduction, but for the record, he has not only been one of the most respected conservative writers over the decates, but is credited with defining the American conservative movement going back to the Goldwater era. William F. Buckley Jr. is founder and editor-in-chief of the National Review. William F. Buckley Jr. has written prolific works of nonfiction as well as many notable fiction books. Other related books on conservatism appear in this books section.
