On Friday, cellular giant AT&T announced that its no. 1 selling mobile device, and quite possibly the only reason anyone would switch to AT&T in the first place, was (finally) being outfitted with a nearly 10-year-old technology already available for quite some time on those pre-paid phones you buy at WalMart. That's right -- that pricey, state-of-the-art iPhone 3G S can now finally send and receive picture messages, which has prompted some tech experts to wonder whether or not this surge in MMS traffic could actually result in a crash of AT&T's GSM network. As a recent iPhone convert, I can say that AT&T's coverage, in general, has been comparable to Verizon's in the DC Metro area, minus one very important location -- my house. A former dead zone during my VZW days, I am thankfully able to adequately send and receive calls from my own home, which, for the time being, is enough to assuage my other concerns. I have heard a lot of horror stories, though, particularly about AT&T's allegedly abysmal customer service, and a new surge in MMS traffic across their ostensibly shaky GSM network might not be a good thing -- although perhaps they're hoping for a bailout at some point soon. As I keep telling myself and others, it's not the iPhone -- it's the network.
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Rush Limbaugh was a guest star on The Jay Leno Showthis week, and, as Andrew Breitbart points out quite correctly, the two men had a civil, engaging, and entertaining exchange. What I found so interesting were the responses of the crowd to some of Limbaugh's comments -- arguably a relatively random sample of "average" Americans (whatever that means these days), it seemed the audience supported strongly many of the positions Rush was advocating for. Keeping government out of healthcare was a big one -- check out the video in the Andrew Breitbart link and see for yourself.
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On a more serious note, a disgusting display surfaced on YouTube this week of elementary school students being forced to sing the praises of America's 44th president. I cannot wait to see who could possibly defend this overt display of brainwashing and blatant indoctrination -- in a public school. What's more, according to a recent news article, the school's principal who was responsible for the Nazi-esque tandem song-and-dance routine remained "unapologetic" according to parents who have spoken to her:
Parents said Elvira James, the teacher of the class that was videotaped, also seemed to be promoting Obama.
"She praised him, she put pictures on the walls," said Jim Pronchick, whose 8-year-old son, Jimmy, was in James' class last year. "When he won (the election) they really went off."
Leslie Gibson, who has two children at the school, said she was "shocked" at the videotape, adding that political beliefs, like religious views, should be kept at home. She also said King made a "big deal" about her attendance at the inauguration.
"Throughout the school, there were signs posted supporting Barack Obama quite a bit," Gibson told FOXNews.com. "I understand it's a historical event, but on the same token, I like politics to be left at home and I think she should follow that as well."
A copy of the song's lyrics can be found here.
Amazingly -- and dishearteningly -- parallels to Hitler Youth programs in the 1930s and 1940s are not overstatements. Of course, Obama was not responsible for the musical display in this New Jersey elementary school, but the intentions and motivations behind both are the same. I'm pretty certain that an eight-year-old can't tell me -- or Barack Obama, for that matter -- what "equal work for equal pay" really means.
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Lastly, it was revealed on Friday that "Ahmadinejad has enough uranium to go whole way" -- it turns out that Tehran's resident lunatic has been hiding and building not one, but two nuclear power plants. And to quote The Washington Examiner's Chris Stirewalt, "And in other news, water still wet":
Western sources said the plant at Qom, 120 miles south-west of Tehran, is not yet operational. But it is designed to hold about 3,000 centrifuge machines, which would provide the uranium needed to produce one atomic bomb a year. "Iran has enough uranium to go the whole way," one Western diplomat said. A senior US official said that number of centrifuges could not produce enough uranium to make sense commercially for power generation. "But if you want to use the facility to produce a small amount of weapons-grade uranium, enough for a bomb or two a year, it's the right size."
Ahmadinejad's claims that Iran is operating well within the International Atomic Energy Association's guidelines is obviously spurious, and it will be up to Obama to decide on a strategy of how best combat a very real and very dangerous enemy of the United States. But with the specter of healthcare still flailing in the political breeze, in the coming weeks this under-pressure and inexperienced president will have to balance Afghanistan, national healthcare, Ahmadinejad, a worsening economy, and, importantly, plummeting poll numbers.
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