Predictions


9
Mar 10

Resigned to GOP Dominance in Delco and Pennsylvania Politics

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  1. Resigned to GOP Dominance in Delco and Pennsylvania Politics

This is normally the sort of post that I would write and post as a “draft” until my prediction would come to fruition, running late Election evening or the following morning.  I feel that it might be most useful to write it now, so anyone stumbling across it will look at political events in the near-term future through the frame of a likely-outcome that I’ve defined,  hopefully reaching the same conclusions.


13
Nov 09

WTFCatholicism?

What the hell is going on with the Catholic Church?

I have been seeing a ridiculous amount of Catholic-related news, starting with the local archdiocese announces they are closing my high school. I can remember the following exchange, at North Catholic, junior year, in Father DeMeo’s Psychology class, and how it illustrated the problem with absolute adherence to dogma:

“Children, if you use condoms and have premarital sex, you’re going to hell!”


16
Feb 09

Designed by Committee

As the Obama Administration charters a ‘presidential panel’ (via the NYT) to ’save’ the domestic automobile industry, I’d like to introduce you to an automobile designed by a committee:

Oh, this will end well.


3
Dec 08

Carmageddon!!1

After the atrocious sales figures for the month of November with sales are at their lowest point in 26-years with per capita sales at their lowest levels since the 1950s, its fairly easy to forecast what comes next – widespread dealer liquidations.


30
Apr 08

The War on Economists

As we speak, somewhere in this country, an oil industry lobbyist is whispering in the ears of Gooper Congresscritters, telling them that all those elitist economists don’t understand how much normal Americans need that $0.184 per gallon cut in Federal taxes in gasoline, facts be damned.


28
Apr 08

Newest Faux Outrage: Rebates and Tax Freeloaders

In light of the first of the stimulus checks being deposited into Americans accounts, it is high time we discussed the previous old next new conservative outrageFreeloaders!

Our friends on the right have quietly been condemning the freeloaders who will be receiving stimulus rebates, despite having paid no income tax, previously referred as Lucky Ducks in the Wall Street Journal (note how Awesome it is to be making $12k annually and paying no Federal Income Tax).

The Tax Foundation describes it thusly:


26
Mar 08

The Genius of Jonah Goldberg

No, you read that correctly.


9
Jan 08

Thought on McCain, Going into South Carolina

There's a VERY legitimate argument that both Romney, Giuliani, as well as the Democrats, if they are smart, should be having with regards to McCain…

He's already hinted that he's likely to be a one-termer.  At the risk of practicing ageism or age discrimination, he's quite old.  His captivity as a POW has certainly had a physical effect on him (particularly melanoma), and if the claims of George W. Bush circa 2000 (8-years ago) are true, his mental health. 


8
Jan 08

Live Free or Die

The real story in New Hampshire will be turnout and share of the vote. NH registratlons are as follows:

Ind: 44%
Rep: 30%
Dem: 26%

The current polling indicates Independents breaking 2:1 for Democrats, which would give us:

Rep: 45%
Dem: 55%

I suspect NH plays a role in identifying how Independents will vote nationally, just like Iowa informs about rural voters. It will also serve to determine which messages (hope, change, experience, status quo, fear, etc.) resonate with those voters.

You can check the results from the Concord Monitor’s Primary Blog here.


31
Oct 07

More Google and gPhone Rumors on the Internets…

It started with an announcement that Google was going to delay the announcement of their social networking plan so as to not get lost in the noise surrounding Facebook's pending debut of their advertising (and AdSense) competitor for their own platform.

The Wall Street Journal (via Mashable ) later announced that Google was actually about to announce their plans for the gPhone (previously), with other rumors indicated Verizon (US) had been courted, along with British carrier '3' and German carrier T-Mobile, as well as Chinese hardware manufacturer e28 (who produces handsets for LG and HTC – you'll recall an earlier rumor that Google was going to supply 50,000 units produced by HTC to developers around Christmas-time).  e28 most recently has had a GSM-WLAN-VOIP Linux-powered phone, the R2821, before the FCC for approval.

Also of interest is the focus on inter-operability between the various Google Products, and the possibilities as to how they may converge in the mobile space (think Picasa + Talk + Maps + Docs + Gmail + Open Social). 

The keystone of their plan may be that of Open Social implementing a bundle of open API (application programing interfaces) for interoperability between several networking platforms (such as Marc Andreeson's Ning, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster) and related services (such as iLike, Plaxo, and Slide).  This new platform, codenamed "Maka-Maka" as reported by TechCrunch (more links via Buzzfeed) will tie these services together and more importantly, as stated by GigaOm, provide a common authoring language to make application development easier.

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