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| Bill Maher: Sarah Palin is a 'Category 5' Moron |
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David Brooks spoke frankly about the
presidential and vice presidential candidates
Monday afternoon, calling Sarah Palin a
"fatal cancer to the Republican party" but
describing John McCain and Barack Obama as
"the two best candidates we've had in a long
time."
In an interview with The Atlantic's Jeffrey
Goldberg at New York's Le Cirque restaurant
to unveil that magazine's redesign, Brooks
decried Palin's anti-intellectualism and
compared her to President Bush in that
regard:
[Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to
the Republican party. When I first started in
journalism, I worked at the National Review
for Bill Buckley. And Buckley famously said
he'd rather be ruled by the first 2,000 names
in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard
faculty. But he didn't think those were the
only two options. He thought it was important
to have people on the conservative side who
celebrated ideas, who celebrated learning.
And his whole life was based on that, and
that was also true for a lot of the other
conservatives in the Reagan era. Reagan had
an immense faith in the power of ideas. But
there has been a counter, more populist
tradition, which is not only to scorn liberal
ideas but to scorn ideas entirely. And I'm
afraid that Sarah Palin has those prejudices.
I think President Bush has those prejudices.
Brooks praised Palin's natural political
talent, but said she is "absolutely not"
ready to be president or vice president. He
explained, "The more I follow politicians,
the more I think experience matters, the
ability to have a template of things in your
mind that you can refer to on the spot,
because believe me, once in office there's no
time to think or make decisions."
The New York Times columnist also said that
the "great virtue" of Palin's counterpart,
Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe
Biden, is that he is anything but a "yes
man."
"[Biden] can't not say what he thinks,"
Brooks remarked. "There's no internal
monitor, and for Barack Obama, that's
tremendously important to have a vice
president who will be that way. Our current
president doesn't have anybody like that."
Brooks also spent time praising Obama's
intellect and skills in social perception,
telling two stories of his interactions with
Obama that left him "dazzled":
Obama has the great intellect. I was
interviewing Obama a couple years ago, and
I'm getting nowhere with the interview, it's
late in the night, he's on the phone, walking
off the Senate floor, he's cranky. Out of the
blue I say, 'Ever read a guy named Reinhold
Niebuhr?' And he says, 'Yeah.' So i say,
'What did Niebuhr mean to you?' For the next
20 minutes, he gave me a perfect description
of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought, which is a
very subtle thought process based on the idea
that you have to use power while it corrupts
you. And I was dazzled, I felt the tingle up
my knee as Chris Matthews would say.
And the other thing that does separate Obama
from just a pure intellectual: he has
tremendous powers of social perception. And
this is why he's a politician, not an
academic. A couple of years ago, I was
writing columns attacking the Republican
congress for spending too much money. And I
throw in a few sentences attacking the
Democrats to make myself feel better. And one
morning I get an email from Obama saying,
'David, if you wanna attack us, fine, but
you're only throwing in those sentences to
make yourself feel better.' And it was a
perfect description of what was going through
my mind. And everybody who knows Obama all
have these stories to tell about his capacity
for social perception.
Brooks predicted an Obama victory by nine
points, and said that although he found Obama
to be "a very mediocre senator," he was is
surrounded by what Brooks called "by far the
most impressive people in the Democratic
party."
"He's phenomenally good at surrounding
himself with a team," Brooks said. "I
disagree with them on most issues, but I am
given a lot of comfort by the fact that the
people he's chosen are exactly the people I
think most of us would want to choose if we
were in his shoes. So again, I have doubts
about him just because he was such a mediocre
senator, but his capacity to pick staff is
impressive."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/davi
d-brooks-sarah-palin_n_133001.html
Tags : Sarah Palin stupid idiot Barack Obama Hardball Chris Matthews Real Time with bill maher john Mccain Joe Biden economy speech interview debate |
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Durée : 655 s |
| Aliph Jawbone Bluetooth Headset - Category5 Technology TV |
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Military-grade noise cancellation technology
for your cellphone. Now, business people who
are constantly on the go can take calls, even
in the noisiest environments. This ten-minute
video shows you how well the Jawbone works in
real environments (driving in a noisy car,
listening to music, standing in a noisy
shopping mall while waiting for your mango
slushy, etc.). All audio is actual; no
filtering has been performed--what you hear
is exactly what is heard through the Jawbone
Bluetooth Headset.
Edited down to a ten-minute video from
Category5 Technology TV Episode #29.
www.Category5.tv
Tags : jawbone aliph bluetooth cellphone phone headset wireless cordless noise cancellation quiet good microphone |
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Affichage : 2594
Durée : 600 s |
| OBAMA A CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE FOR DEMOCRATICS COMING IN ! |
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Affichage : 27
Durée : 235 s |
| Hurricane Dean 1st CATEGORY 5 2 land Since Andrew in 1992 |
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Current Florida Forecast at
http://www.a1abeach.info Gustaf should hit US
Saturday
DEAN MADE LANDFALL ON THE EAST COAST OF THE
YUCATAN PENINSULA NEAR
THE CRUISE SHIP PORT OF COSTA MAYA AROUND
0830 UTC...AND THE EYE IS
NOW JUST INLAND. OBSERVATIONS FROM AN AIR
FORCE HURRICANE HUNTER
PLANE INDICATE THAT THE HURRICANE WAS
INTENSIFYING RIGHT UP TO
LANDFALL. A PEAK FLIGHT-LEVEL WIND OF 165 KT
WAS MEASURED JUST
NORTH OF THE EYE. MAXIMUM SURFACE WINDS FROM
THE SFMR WERE 124
KT...BUT IT IS HIGHLY LIKELY THAT THE MAXIMUM
SURFACE WIND SPEED
WAS NOT REPORTED BY THE SFMR INSTRUMENT. A
GPS DROPSONDE IN THE
NORTHERN EYEWALL MEASURED A WIND SPEED OF 178
KT AVERAGED OVER THE
LOWEST 150 METERS OF THE SOUNDING. BASED ON
THE DROPSONDE AND THE
FLIGHT-LEVEL WINDS...THE INTENSITY IS SET AT
145 KT. A DROPSONDE
IN THE EYE MEASURED A CENTRAL PRESSURE OF 906
MB JUST PRIOR TO
LANDFALL. SOME HISTORIC NOTES ARE IN ORDER
HERE. THE 906 MB
CENTRAL PRESSURE IS THE NINTH LOWEST ON
RECORD FOR AN ATLANTIC
BASIN HURRICANE...AND THE THIRD LOWEST AT
LANDFALL BEHIND THE 1935
LABOR DAY HURRICANE IN THE FLORIDA KEYS AND
HURRICANE GILBERT OF
1988 IN CANCUN MEXICO. DEAN IS ALSO THE
FIRST CATEGORY FIVE
HURRICANE TO MAKE LANDFALL IN THE ATLANTIC
BASIN SINCE ANDREW OF
1992.
DEAN WILL WEAKEN AS IT TRAVERSES THE YUCATAN
PENINSULA AND
THE AMOUNT OF WEAKENING WILL DEPEND ON HOW
LONG THE CENTER REMAINS
OVER LAND. OUR CURRENT THINKING IS THAT THE
CYCLONE WILL STILL BE
A BORDERLINE CAT 1/2 HURRICANE WHEN IT
EMERGES OVER THE BAY OF
CAMPECHE...BUT THERE IS CONSIDERABLE
UNCERTAINTY IN THIS FORECAST.
ASSUMING THAT THE INNER CORE IS NOT TOO
DISRUPTED BY ITS
INTERACTION WITH LAND...DEAN SHOULD REGAIN
MAJOR HURRICANE STATUS
BEFORE ITS FINAL LANDFALL IN MAINLAND MEXICO.
Tags : Hurricane Dean Gustaf |
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Affichage : 30379
Durée : 40 s |
| Hurricane Wilma Category 5 - Survivor |
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I wanted to share a part of my life with
everyone. The film is roughly 8 minutes long
but I hope you take the time to one day watch
this. I was on vacation in Cancun for 3
nights 4 days.. When a category 5 hurricane
made landfall in Cancun the 4th day I was
there. I was immediately evacuated to a
shelter which I spent 4 days in. I had to
stay not by choice.. 13 nights 14 days in
Cancun before I could finally find a flight
home. I will never forget this..this has
changed me both physically and emotionally.
We honestly never realize how fortunate we
all are, so be thankful for what you have, be
kind to one another, and appreciate the close
family and friends you have.
Tags : hurricane wilma cat5 natural disaster cancun mexico travel trapped alone paradise help royal solaris tradegy life |
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Affichage : 1518
Durée : 489 s |
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