Where Has the Honor Gone?

I know in general people are not perfect. I know we all have our faults. I also know I tend to lean toward the republican side. However, as the road to the election lingers on, It would seem to me the honor of serving as President Of the United States honorable would be the first desired trait.  The democrats have been stacking questions they are prepared for in each debate. How are you going to react off of the cuff in any situation? Then plant loaded grenades in the crowd at the republican debate. How is that honorable?

Obama has some great plans. Hilliary’s appeal is she is a strong woman. However, Obama lacks the experience of any military experience and international diplomacy roles. Hilliary has a huge agenda that will tax us more and make sure the middle class pays for it. Health care for all! One way or another you will pay for it. There are so many people who don’t pay taxes. Abolishing the income tax and implementing the national sales tax would be smart. It is not biased. Leaving the healthcare system alone and reducing non-paying patients would reduce the high healthcare costs.

 Now Guliani and his views on immigration are hurting him. I understand 40 million immigrants one third being illegal are a large pool of voters. Implement a guest worker program. If they can make it 3 years to what ever is deemed appropriate, grant citizenship. Brake the law and you can’t. My issue isn’t the people it is the taxes it is costing me. If they are paid and taxed I am fine.  Romney, seems like a fair man. Smart business minded, and political savvy. I just don’t think he will get the nomination. Huckabee a smart , well balanced, and seems to have the pulse of the general population.

My words to abide by for the politicians. Handle the issue people want addressed.  Immigration, Social Security, taxes. Don’t raise taxes!! Heck abolish and do the fairtax.org proposal. Quit quibbling! State your platform, make your case, and show us why we should pick you. Don’t lie, don’t be two faced. Quit changing your position!!!! Good luck and be Honorable!!!

Apple’s “Gadget of the Year”

I finally did it. I sold my Blackberry Curve and made the upgrade to the Iphone. I have had it for about two weeks. I am impressed and yet see some room for improvement. The outer design is sleek and the epitome of apple’s elegance. The menu is straight forward. If I to credit to a principal, “keep it simple stupid”, applies here. The wireless is cool if you decide not to opt for a data plan. However, you can get a 16 GB touch which is the iphone without the phone. I know the one thing I miss from my blackberry is the passwords application. Now apple promotes all the web based apps for it’s iphone. The last thing I would want is to upload my accounts and passwords to a web based company were it can be hacked or copied by a disgruntled employee.  Hopefully they will add something we can use and password protect along with 3G support.

I bought the DLO leather pouches. One in black and one in brown and I love them. I had to get a new output cable for my car. The headphone jack is much smaller than you have with an Ipod. I have a really nice set of Bose OE headphones. I had to get an adapter for them.  I kept the apple headphones and picked up a send-station pouch to keep them in.  Just in case I don’t want to lug around my Bose.

Overall I am impressed. I like the phone. The blue-tooth with my headset is sporadic. I also get a lot of browser crashing in Safari and Ipod interface. Although other than that no other complaints. If you decide to wait the rumor is June 2008 for the new release of what comes next. In the meantime I suggest opening up the Phone so we can buy or acquire apps and truly implement it into our life’s to make it the digital necessity of the decade.