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Just another web consultant whose boss is a complete slave driver. But I take my revenge by reading - a lot - when he's not looking. I believe in the role of government to help improve society, but I'm fully aware of the dangers of entrenched bureacracy and the how money corrupts. I'm not so much a liberal as I am appalled by what passes for modern conservatism. And as the pendulum swings back and the left finds its voice and strength again, I'm ready to damn its excesses. "To you, I'm an atheist. To God, I'm the loyal opposition."

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Presidents and technology: a timeline
Contributed by: Ralph Dosser   on 6/28/2008

1922 - Warren G. Harding has a radio installed in the White House.

1929 - President Herbert Hoover has a telephone installed on his desk in the Oval Office.

1936 - John McCain is born.

1939 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first president to speak on television.

1947 - Harry S. Truman makes the first presidential address broadcast on television from the White House.

1958 - John McCain - like his father and grandfather before him - graduates from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, fifth from the bottom of his class.

1958 - John McCain loses a Navy jet in Corpus Christi Bay while practicing landings.

1961 - John McCain loses a Navy jet "flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula, (Spain/Portugal)" when he hits power lines.

1961 - Barack Obama is born.

1962 - John MCain loses a Navy jet returning from flying a Navy trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game.

1967 - John McCain loses a Navy jet in an accident that costs the lives of 134 sailors on the USS Forrestal when another plane accidentally fires a rocket into the plane next to his.

1967 - John McCain loses a Navy jet to enemy fire over North Vietnam. He is captured by enemy forces and subjected to privation, poor medical care, isolation and torture for five years.

1981 - IBM model number 5150, the "Personal Computer," is released.

1982 - Jimmy Carter uses a word processor to write his memoirs.

1983 - Barack Obama graduates with a B.A. in political science with a specialization in international relations from Columbia University.

1990 - George Bush Sr. becomes the first sitting president to use a computer.

1991 - Barack Obama graduates magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.

2005 - Al Gore receives a Webby lifetime achievement award for three decades of contributions to the Internet. He never claimed to have invented it, but right-wing critics never stop repeating the lie. "He is indeed due some thanks and consideration for his early contributions," says Vint Cerf, often called the father of the Internet.

2006 - George W. Bush says in an interview that he has used "the Google."

2008 - Barack Obama, asked the most efficient way to sort 32-bit integers, answers "The bubble sort would be the wrong way to go." He is correct.

2008 - John McCain, asked if he uses a PC or a Mac, says he doesn't know how to use a computer.



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Submitted By: Brian Crandall
posted on 7/4/2008 @ 10:36:20 AM
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Here's a Presidential Time-Line for DEBT: Just the facts, no perceptions, hard data taken from the White House itself: http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
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posted on 6/30/2008 @ 10:39:52 AM
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You forgot the Keating 5 scandal!
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Submitted By: Doug Wray
posted on 6/30/2008 @ 12:29:17 AM
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John McCain is a symptom of what's WRONG with this country's 'leadership' - none of these shiny-suited s--theads could make the first cut for a $35K/yr job.
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