So Santa Brought you an iPad

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Many folks got an iPad over the holidays.  Everyone acts like they LOVE their iPad, but do they really?  Is it a big toy?  Is it a large iPhone that just doesn’t talk?  (you can set it to become a phone)  Or is the iPad a netbook?  What is an iPad?  Do you need one if you have an iPhone? 

How is that word processor you can buy to go with it?  How about the wireless keyboards and stands?  What is a good one to get?  What makes an iPad better than a netbook? 

This is your chance.  Talk tech to us.

See The Complete List of iPad Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials

It has all sorts of tips and hints to make your iPad experience even better.

 

Shep Flips Fox Over 9/11 First Responder Bill

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That Jon Stewart.  He’s an activist.  Oh well, that’s apples and oranges.

1.  Jon Stewart addressed the 9/11 first responders bill with interviewees on Thursday night.

2.  Shep and Chris Wallace responded to Jon Stewart of Friday.  There was no 3 days of 9/11 first responders special by Shep.  That was simply a lie.

3.  Shep flipped Fox, to his credit. 

The Tres Amigos, Fox and Friends, were really on Jon Stewart’s pork chops though.  The Gretch had the nerve to say people already thought Jon Stewart was real news. Hmmmm…and what about HER show?  Real news or satire?

Who cares.  He’s an activist.  {{{snicker}}}

The New York Times had nothing but praise for the efforts of Jon Stewart:

Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause?

And does that make that comedian, Jon Stewart — despite all his protestations that what he does has nothing to do with journalism — the modern-day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow?

 

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Anti-Snowmageddon: The Storm that Missed Manassas

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We paid our dues last year.  Anti-Snowmageddon here.   Our layer of protection worked.  The nor’easter went right around us. 

It’s official.  No post Christmas snow storm.  Georgia, North Carolina, the Eastern Shore, all points north…but no snow storm for Manassas or the nation’s capital.  So we dodged the snow bullet!

Are we living right or were we cheated?  Who is happy and who is sad?  In many respects we are still snowbound since transportation throughout the North East has been disrupted by the storm.  When Newark closes, thus goes the rest of the county.  Planes are grounded and trains have been halted. 

How is the non-snow storm affecting you?  Watch those ferocious winds today. 

 

Somewhere, on the East Coast, but not here.

Snowpocalypse 2010 – Time Lapse – Extended Version from Peter Harsha on Vimeo.

A Moral Dilemma

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From Yahoo News:

An Iraqi man killed his 19-year-old daughter after he discovered al-Qaida had recruited her as a suicide bomber in an area north of Baghdad, a police spokesman said on Friday.

Al-Qaida has been recruiting women for suicide attacks because they can pass police checkpoints easier than men by concealing explosives under an abaya, a loose, black cloak that conservative Muslim women wear. Suicide bombers have been al-Qaida’s most lethal weapon in Iraq, killing hundreds of civilians and members of Iraq’s security forces.

The killing of the young woman was discovered when security forces, searching for her on suspicion she had ties to al-Qaida, raided her father’s home Thursday outside the former Sunni-insurgent stronghold of Baqouba, 35 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, said Maj. Ghalib al-Karkhi, a police spokesman in Diyala province.

The father, Najim al-Anbaky, was detained in the raid. During questioning he told police he had killed his daughter, Shahlaa, a month earlier because he found out she intended to blow herself up in a suicide attack for al-Qaida, al-Karkhi told The Associated Press.

Al-Anbaky showed police what he said was the woman’s grave, al-Karkhi said. The father remains in custody and is under investgiation, but no charges have been made yet.

A police official at the interior ministry in Baghdad confirmed the killing. He spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

A female suicide bomber was behind one of the deadliest attack this year in Iraq, after she blew herself up among Shiite pilgrims Baghdad in February, killing 54 people.

 

So….is this murder?  Is this like killing Hitler rather than waiting to send him to trial?  Is the father wrong and should he be prosecuted?  Could he have saved hundreds, maybe thousands of lives?  While we often hear  rhetoric demanding that Muslims denounce terrorists, we need to think about several of the parents who have come forward and warned about their children being agents of terrorists. (underpants bomber for example).