Intel can't compete with charcoal - Bob Colwell, former Intel chief architect
TECHNOPHOBE JOHN McCAIN has had to rely on a computer to pull his nadgers out of the fire over another controversy over his running mate Sarah Palin.
McCain has released a string of emails that support Palin's statements that she dismissed her public safety commissioner over budget disagreements, not because he wouldn't fire her ex-brother-in-law.
One of the emails was a farewell written by the public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, when he suggested the governor had reason to believe she had lost his support.
However, in the weeks after the firing it emerged that Palin, her husband, Todd, and several high-level staffers had contacted Monegan about state trooper Mike Wooten, who had gone through a nasty divorce from Palin's sister.
Monegan says no one from the administration ever told him directly to fire Wooten, he says they didn't have to. There was nothing subtle about the repeated contacts, he said.
In July, the four Democrats and eight Republicans on Alaska's Legislative Council voted unanimously to investigate the circumstances of Monegan's dismissal.
But the emails also reveal that Palin staffers believed Monegan and the Department of Public Safety worked outside 'normal channels'. He also miffed Palin by signing a public letter of support for a $3.6 million project designed to keep troubled teens off the street in Anchorage, even though she had vetoed the idea.
Either way it is looking like Troopergate will run and run. And the email release will do little to stop anything. McCain is probably wondering why he has a member of Monty Python as a running mate anyway and why this woman with the glasses will not bring him coffee when he asks for it. ยต
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LOL. Not even a link to support your opinions. Democrats AND Republicans vote to dismiss someone and it's her fault. A cop TASER's her nephew and people are surprised she thought he was a threat to her family?...ROFL. Google it, the guy admits to using a TASER on her nephew. What the hell is up with that? There is NO reason to TASER your stepson. I'm surprised this guy isn't in jail!

Get used to it, this chick kicks A$$ and she's going to be your next president (after Mccain or Obama). Unless she screws up the debates royally (doubtful, she's smart, witty, etc), she's unstoppable. Hell she has more experience running things than Obama or Mccain and actually has a SURPLUS in her state, AND returned money to taxpayers (when was the last time you heard that?). She eloped to save her parents money (couldn't afford a wedding), shops for her own groceries, shoots assault rifles, hunts/kill's for food, raised 5 kids (I didn't see a nanny), picks them up from school etc, ran a billion dollar budget, supervised thousands etc.

Obama? He voted "PRESENT" over 100 times as a senator. I thought we elected people to actually VOTE in government. Not yes, not NO, but PRESENT. WTF? This guy has spent the last two weeks running against Palin...LOL. The press has tried to fry her and all they're doing is burying OBAMA...ROFLMAO. She's got an 82% approval rating (HIGHEST EVER) running her state, while Obama is still trying to figure out how to hit YES/NO in a voting booth. Mccain isn't much better but at least he fights for what he believes in (and actually believes in something to begin with - Translation: He votes yes/no instead of PRESENT).

This chick will be a thorn in Democrats AND Republicans sides for years. She vetoes spending stupidly, and moves to axe government bozos. If the best the democrats have on this chick is a pregnant daughter or a Taser happy sister's ex-husband, the dems are in trouble for years. 

Clinton can't even stop her. What kind of respect should I have for a woman willing to be made a fool of in public by her husband 3-4 times, cheated on taxes 75,000 before he took office, and still is willing to sleep at the other end of the house to further her political career. Palin would cook that guy for dinner if it was her husband...LOL. I love this chick.

Having said that, FIRE your senate/house. Presidents don't do squat other than VETO or start/end wars. Congress screws us, earmarks, pork etc is voted in by these useless bozos. Terminate them every 2 years so they can't get affiliated with lobbyists. Stop lobbying all together. Stop campaign funding. Just put these bozos on local tv a few hours a piece each month and let us here debates. We don't need ads etc, and a different msg in each state. Let them tell us ALL AT ONCE so they can't straddle or blow the way the states winds blows. Why do my tax dollars go to campaign crap? If you're not rich you can't even run for office. A lot of smart people are NOT filthy rich and I shouldn't have to support ANY campaign. Force cable/NBC/CBS etc to give equal airtime at well known hours each month until we vote and forget all this travelling blowhard crap in each state wasting BILLIONS with all these races. Publish all voting record for ALL senators etc on govt websites for all to see easily. Kill riders/earmarks and watch who votes for what. Force them to vote on an actual BILL and not 3000 riders/earmarks that make it useless. Fire anyone who has ever voted "PRESENT". You're too stupid to figure out if you think a YES or NO is needed? Too afraid to actually have an opinion so we can figure out if you suck or not? Chicken $hit. Obama should have taken Clinton, but they would have still lost. He can't even admit he made a mistake on the surge, was a lawyer for ACORN (the worst offender in cheating on election voting), taught Acorn training classes (learn how to cheat here...LOL), is connected to drugs (rezko, google him), his mom has 3 bibles (she can't figure out a religion I guess, just like he can't vote) etc. This guy's no president. Though I was for him over mccain until Palin/Biden entered. I'm really voting for the next president here, not this one... :) Senators shouldn't even be able to run for president. Most don't know how to GOVERN and are useless lawyers. Biden? 35 years of being paid by hollywood/media lobbyists to try to pass stupid DMCA type laws kissing their A$$E$. Yeah, that's a ticket for change. At least they're running against mccain now...Jeez.

Rant over... :) ...Ahhhh.
Ah, why bother... Nick is a unrepentant Bolshevik butt-boy. He won't bother listening to anyone but the voices he hears in his head. Ya know, the instructions from his lord and master, Georgie Soros, the former Bulgarian apparatchik who stole billions from the Bulgarian treasury and now fancies himself as a philanthropic investor.
This whole "troopergate" thing is the most pathetic attempt at whipping up a scandal I've ever seen. The man in question was violent, showed up to work drunk and was generally a complete arse. The guy *tasered his own son*. If that's not grounds for dismissal then I don't know what is. The real scandal is the people protecting him for so long, not the fact that he was fired.
The INQ is now at the point where articles are being published that have absolutely nothing to do with computer or electronic technology, but still take up space on thee front page simply because they bash Americans and Republicans and our leaders. WTF? Things have gotten completely out of control around here - I think since Mike left.

Of course, you have the right to post whatever you want on your site, but now I will exercise my right to choose another online rag for my tech news. Not that there are any great alternatives, but I'd rather read the garbage at Toms Hardware or the uneven HardOCP than be subjected to insults and condemnation from a bunch of foreigner tech writers who know far less about American politics than they think. 

Write what you know. Or not. I won't be here to read it.

Goodbye.
What the hell was he thinking picking Palin as VP???
Isn't there enough religious fundamentalists in positions of power throughout the world without adding another!
Technophobe McCain? Who writes this junk? The man had his arms and shoulders repeatedly broken, cracked, and re-set incorrectly... His war injuries don't allow him to do keyboard typing... And Palin had all the right to fire Monegan... if you use your police tazer to tazer your 10-year old son... you definitely don't belong on the force!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpBXYcgXV8M

Mike Gravel, who's so far left he's abandoned the Democratic Party, happens to be from Alaska and says in this interview that the Troopergate business is nonsense and the trooper in question is a thug who needed to be fired. Palin made a lot of enemies in her attacks on corrupt Alaskan officials, including in her own party, so it's not surprising that some of them are out for a little payback.
Sirs, where is the ignore feature? I wish to place all articles by Nick Ferrell on permanent ignore. Reading anything written by him is a complete waste of my time and is destroying the credibility of the INQUIRER.

If an ignore feature is not available, please place the "journalist's" byline on the article summary so I can avoid them.
If McCain and co get elected, they may decide to outlaw open source or
lock IP eternaly, or transform the Internet into Big Brother.
You call that irrelevant ?
This is an excellent article. A lot of fun. I'm so bored of this election thing, it's on the news and I live in Europe. Please get this boring rigged stunt off the air.

USA - Money rules, oil rules, world murder for money with no rules, boring donkeys in their 1000's praising and dancing in front of politicians.

Why do Americans dance and cheer for their corrupt politicians? They have enough guns to do what the French did and get a government that's more focused on doing things for it's people, and not the rich sly foxes killing for money around the world.

Fun article, please write some more.
far afield in search of grist for the mill. If Nick wants to continue in this vein and at the same time show that he is not carrying water for McCain's opponents he might write about how a fashion photographer working for the Atlantic Monthly bragged on her blog that she tricked Sen. McCain in order to take particularly unflattering pictures which were then posted on her blog after digital editing to make McCain look like various man-monsters. Or, he might write about how a notoriously anti-Republican blog site posted an image of a birth certificate which was easily shown by a document expert to have been crudely forged using techniques commonly employed by criminals to create fake documents in an apparently misguided attempt to prove that the Democrat candidate is qualified to run for president.
Once again I find meself in awspecious companies. McAnic showed foul scents in hiring that Haras Plain.
Isn't that right, Firken Cellar?
So many right-wing nut jobs come to the Inquirer. Hey, I got news for you capitalists who come crying to mama for a bailout at the drop of a hat but won't give a dime to help a starving family -- the Brits are socialists. SOCIALISTS!!!!
Republicans are the best at playing victim even when they developed the tactics of sensationalism and accusation. None of them were crying when Kerry was maligned with the u-boat defamation of their attack ads but if you question any of their characters, you become the evil oppressor of women, Christians, freedom and/or capitalism.

While I prefer to get tech type info here, I don't mind an "off-subject" topic here once in awhile because I have the choice to not read it. Though, it seems that sensitive Republican readers can't stand to have their leaders scrutinized by anyone or even report on it. They would just rather follow them and this country further into the shitehole.
What does this have to do with computers?? The numbnuts trooper used a tazer on his 10 year old stepson, drank while on the job, shot an illeagle moose and made death threats to Palins dad, sheesh
I'll take a gun toting, moose hunting, beauty queen over any tea sipping inbred any day. That's right, you heard me Nick. Stick to MS bashing and leave people out of it. While you raise your revenue with sensationalism, I'll be cleaning my shotgun, praying to my God and planning who else I'll be reading. You guys suck, I've had enough.

Bye!


Don't know why I'm even posting, you won't run it, and like Peace above, I'll never know, cause I'll not read this dribble any more. Keep hyping linux, will rise to 1 percent of the market one day.
As soon as he (McCain) wins he'll probably get a heart attack and die leaving palin to run the country. The good thing about that is, atleast she has years left and can do some serious damage to the world including but not limited to taking over russia and iran.

If Obama were to win, he'll be able to serve his full term as the guy is young and healthy - can't say the same about his running mate biden or whatever his name was.... damn all those new people that no one has heard of before making headlines... madness.
He land a jet on an aircraft carrier but can't figure out a computer.....Go fish somemore.
SirRichard above claims Mc"family values" is too disabled to use email. What apologist swill.

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"There are indeed lots of ways for people with disabilities to use the internet," he said. "I myself am completely blind and my computer uses synthetic speech...there is voice recognition...and on screen keyboards. Also tablet PCs with hand writing recognition."

If John McCain and his wife can afford eight houses, they can afford a machine that lets him send email

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I can't take this anymore. Right-wing NUTJOBS are spamming every message board and every comment section on every web site on the Internet(s) with neocon propaganda. They're obviously paid shills for the Republican Party.

STOP IT.