Years of Refusal

**my words. this is very true among a lot of people. they are doing what they think they are supposed to do. which is being persuaded into thinking they have to vote for one or another and getting the facts from others instead of actually listening to the candidates and keeping up on the issue for their own knowledge. this is the sad reality of this election. there seems to be a lot of people who they encouraged and actually got to register to vote, and this is the outcome. a bunch of people who were persuaded to do something and told who to vote for. and a lot of minorities are only voting for obama because he is not white. and for that reason only. this is not the situation with everyone, but it is the situation for a percentage of voters going to the polls this year.**

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Howard started off the show playing a few clips of Sal asking black people if they were voting for Obama, and attributed all of McCain’s political policies to Obama to see if they would still vote for him. All the interviewees readily agreed with Obama when Sal lied to them about his pro-life, anti-stem-cell research and pro-war policies. Howard said the clips were revealing, and Sal came in to say he thought the election had become less about ideas and, instead, some kind of race war.

recently my twitter experience has spiked. thus prompting a search for an application to manage the flow of tweets. twitterrific was an application that offered very basic options for tweet management. it is also an application which i have used before and deleted off my system once and reinstalled months later.

through searching the web for applications i found two adobe air based twitter desktop applications.

the first was twhirl which many twitteraddicts already know of. twhirl was not a new finding, as i had previously heard about it. for some reason i was reluctant to try it out in the past months. until today that is. the application is very user friendly with many options to manage your twitter experience. the customization options are nice as well. i personally like the transparency option for the application windows. an option i did not see in other applications. twhirl is my first choice in twitter desktop applications due to its simplicity and manageability features.

tweetdeck is the second twitter desktop application i installed. the first thing i noticed was the window size. not so compact, and a lot of things going on at one time within three columns. this was the default settings which can be changed to a single column view. not as obviously user friendly to some i am sure. although the grouping options seemed attractive i am not sure that i would actually use the feature.

this is the first day of these applications and it seems that twhirl has rubbed me the right way from the start.

feel free to check them out. they are free, with an option for donation.

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screenshot, originally uploaded by [rubenito].

this is my current desktop screenshot. loaded some new icons and a new background. also added a new wood dock.

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