Lindsay Lohan – Revisited
Lindsay Lohan – Revisited
So, Lindsay Lohan got 90 days and a really stiff probation list of “To Do’s” in response to her being an irresponsible spoiled brat and thinking that she can violate probation and skip court mandated alcohol classes.
Judge Marsha Revel evidently, FINALLY, had enough of Lohan’s diva crap and dropped the double whammy on her. Good for Judge Revel!
Well, it’s ABOUT TIME! The general public has had well enough of crap like Lohan and others of the same ilk thinking they can totally do whatever they want and everyone’s just supposed to accept it for whatever reason.
I’m Don Rima and that’s the view From Where I Stand.
OK Steve Jobs and folks at Apple, I’ll make this simple.
OK Steve Jobs and folks at Apple, I’ll make this simple.
NO VERIZON SUPPORT, NO IPHONE. Period. End of story. Finito. Don’t call us, we’ll call you. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200.
I more than had it with Apple and Jobs thinking they can force us to switch to a carrier of lesser repute just so that we can have the iPhone. Granted, Verizon’s FAR from perfect but AT&T? Are you KIDDING???
Palm tried doing a similar stint with the Pre’s when they only allowed them to be available on Sprint. Palm has paid dearly for this in market share and product market penetration and acceptance. HP just recently bought Palm. Hopefully they won’t do something stupid like Apple has done with the iPhone, and that other product the iPad – not to be confused with feminine products please.
Phones, PDA’s, what ever you want to call them are becoming a commodity and quickly. The bridge that needs to be dealt with now is service providers. We users aren’t going to switch. It’s too much of a headache and frankly, we shouldn’t have to.
Jobs and Apple, if you want my business your product offering needs to have Verizon as a service provider. End of story. No exceptions.
I’m Don Rima and that’s the view From Where I Stand.
Helen Thomas – Revisited
Helen Thomas – Revisited
Caveat: Before you read this, understand that I’m neither a Zionist or am I anti-Semitic. If you have a problem with that, tough!
Well, the realm of the politically correct ass kissing drones raised their ugly heads again this past week in response to Dean of the White House Press Corp, Helen Thomas’s, reply to a question put to her. In the wake of the incident, she opted for an early retirement and out of the quagmire. Chances are she’ll write a book and make a fortune off it.
If you believe the papers, what happened was that Rabbi David Nesenhoff evidently stuck a recording device in front of Thomas during a White House event and asked her “Any comments on Israel?” Frankly, he should have known better as Thomas is basically on the record with her opinions of this area of the world. Perhaps he did it intentionally.
Her response to him was something to the effect that Israeli Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home” to Germany, Poland, US, etc.
For this, Thomas has evidently paid with her job.
Frankly, there’s a lot of Americans that agrees with Thomas, but that’s not the point of my comments here. This event happened in the White House, where the President is supposed to have taken an oath to uphold and support the Constitution of the United States. In this Constitution are the articles which constitute FREE SPEECH. Perhaps it is the current politically correct Obama policy to suspend the first amendment when people speak against Israel. I don’t know. Thomas isn’t employed by the White House, but her press agency evidently felt some heat from them.
Clearly, Thomas was asked a question and she gave an honest response. Did Rabbi Nesenhoff expect her to lie and tell him something politically correct that he wanted to hear? If so, too bad.
After all, just what DID the Rabbi expect her so say? Perhaps “Oh, yes, Rabbi, I think it’s great what they’re doing. By the way, while Israel’s annexing all this new land, why don’t they go ahead and annex Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt also?? And while they’re at it, how about starting to board ships out in international waters IN THE ATLANTIC as well!”
In this land the law is that a person can speak their mind freely, provided it doesn’t present a threat to the president or cause violence, etc. Thomas was clearly within her rights to say what she did. Clearly Nesenhoff was antagonistic in his choice of venues to ask such a question and well, he got a snootfull.
I would surmise that a writer of our constitution, Thomas Jefferson no less, is probably rolling in his grave at this event. For it is he to whom the statement of “I may disagree with what you say but I will fight to the death for your right to say it” is attributed.
Perhaps it’s time to fire politically correctness and remember the rights of free speech that Jefferson and our founding fathers gave us!
Perhaps it’s also time our President remembered is Oath of Office.
I’m Don Rima and that’s the view From Where I Stand.
