Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve no doubt heard about the rich Nigerian that tried to blow up a NorthWest Airlines jet from Nigeria to Detroit.
This story kinda touches on my feelings on the subject: LINK, as the media seems to be taking the wrong approach to the issue.

Stories on the Liberal and ‘moderate’ sites are all focusing on the Nigerian’s sadness and depression, but here’s the thing: he was a rich socialite with all the gifts in life most people dream of. So booo hoooo that this rich kid was depressed and lonely; how many Americans do you think are depressed and/or lonely? Now how many Americans use that depression to radicalize their faith and try to blow up an airplane?
Zero.

Why? Because depressed and lonely people just eat their sadness away, they don’t join Islamic groups and try to kill people. So why not start calling a duck a duck and stop trying to make us feel bad for someone that had intentions on killing innocent people?!
I fail to see why it’s OK to demonize Arabs when they try to blow up planes, but when it’s a black kid from Africa, the political correctness police scour the Liberal airwaves to make sure we don’t make any black people in America mad or make them think the news is attacking his color/race. It’s sickening and only shows how pathetic the political correctness movement is and how it does nothing to curtail/quell the racism in this country.

He was a terrorist. Let’s stick with that and stop trying to play our heartstrings.

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There’s a new fad that I noticed more, now that I moved to Texas: “KEEP CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS”.
While I’m all for expressing one’s faith and beliefs, there’s an air of hypocritical assholery that accompanies these magnets and stickers, plastered to the back of the SUVs I see.

From what I can tell, there are two distinct camps of people that buy these magnets/stickers:
- Those that believe ‘Merry Christmas’ should be all anyone says, rather than ‘Happy Holidays’ (thanks Bill O’Reilly!)
- Those that believe there is a detachment from the purpose of the holiday and Jesus needs to be more of the focus again.

So let’s discuss the two, shall we?
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I’m a new guy to Linux and I have LinuxMint KDE running on my PC as a dual-boot to Vista (still need it for music!). One of the greatest things to ever hit Vista was Google Chrome and for the past year that I’ve used it on Vista, it’s been my primary browser; it’s faster and uses less resources than FireFox or IE does in Windows.
So when I loaded up Linux and saw that there was a Chrome version in testing for this operating system, I jumped on it and downloaded the ‘unstable’ 4.0.249.30 version. Right away, I could tell there were issues, as it was far slower than on the Vista OS and seemed to freeze when javascript ran or when I opened a new tab as a page was loading. Sadly, I stopped using Chrome on Linux and stuck with Opera.
On December 8, Google announced the Beta version for Linux was released and I leaped with joy! I thought “I bet they solved all the issues with the freezing and the bugginess”, and why wouldn’t I believe that? Their email notification even stated:

Google Chrome is go for beta on Linux! Thanks to the many Chromium and WebKit developers who helped make Google Chrome a lean, mean browsing machine. Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Linux team:

60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written
23 developer builds
2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed
12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, 48 external code contributors
Thanks for waiting and we hope that you enjoy using Google Chrome!

I immediately downloaded the new debian file, uninstalled the version of Chrome on my PC and loaded the new one. What I found is that the Beta release was the very same version as the buggy and annoying ‘unstable’ version I previously had. No problem, because they said they solved thousands of bugs, so that version HAS to be flawless now, right?
Alas, the same problems exist and the browser is as buggy and slow as before. So, it is with a heavy heart and crushed soul that I continue to use Opera in my Linux OS and only use Chrome in my Vista OS. I hope that my problems are unique to me… or if not, that others have voiced disdain in the current version, so it can be improved and I can, once again, make it my primary browser.

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