The internets are scared

From today's "Good Morning Silicon Valley"

"Many people have a false impression that the Chinese government fears the Internet. In fact, it is just the opposite."

— Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang,

So, the opposite would mean the Internet fears the Chinese government? That's food for thought.

Maybe if I keep posting like this, I can get blocked too!

Was Gov Palin also Miss South Carolina?

We know she was almost Miss Alaska, but maybe she is also Miss South Carolina.



While this interview didn't touch on "the Iraq" or "the Asian countries", it did talk about the plight of "US Americans".



I do come at this from a computer science background, but it seemed to me that perhaps this isn't the real Sarah Palin! She must be kidnapped because she was replaced by a poorly coded artificial-intelligence robot who strings together political buzzwords.

I may be forgiving because I'm in the industry, but the machine was doing pretty well right up to the "one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today" phrase was not inserted in an appropriate place.

Fake news: Palin's daughter's pregnacy confirms she is Pro-Life

This story from cnn.com if not fake news, is at least very confused news or a reporter desperate to find a story.

If you've been away for the weekend, the story broke that Republican VP Candidate Sarah Palin's unmarried daughter is having a child at age 17. For the record, Ms. Palin is a supporter of abstinence education.

Teenagers will do what teenagers do, so I'm personally not concerned with respect to the story. We all know that children are independent human beings that make their own choices and after a point, parents should not be responsible for the actions of their children, good, bad or ugly. For me, a lot of the interest comes from how the media and the talking heads are treating this story.

From the CNN story, as you can imaging the "Family Research Council" is a conservative, pro-family group.

"Fortunately, Bristol is following her mother and father's example of choosing life in the midst of a difficult situation," Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said.

Another segement continues:

Evangelical leader Richard Land also backed Palin completely.

"This is the pro-life choice. The fact that people will criticize her for this shows the astounding extent to which the secular critics of the pro-life movement just don't get it," Land said in a statement.

Oh wait, but she made the "choice" to keep the child, maybe you don't get it Rich. The fact that she has a choice and not a government fiat that decrees she must have the child sure seems like a good thing to Libertarian minded me. I love the fact that people can keep their children (unlike China) and the fact that people can choose to not have children (unlike America a while ago).

Granted, in her position, she has no choice as it would be the end of her mother's political career if she didn't have the baby, but that is another blog post.

Somehow someone being pro-choice to the people in these articles means they are pro-abortion in all cases and somehow choosing to have a child means you are pro-life when in fact it means you've made a choice. They missed the "choice" part. Pro-choice means a woman has the right to choose either an abortion OR having a child.