Crying Wolf, Then Confronting Trump
Crying Wolf, Then Confronting Trump
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Conservative commentators and die-hard Republicans often brush off denunciations of Donald Trump as an unprincipled hatemonger by saying: Yeah, yeah, that’s what Democrats wail about every Republican they’re trying to take down. Sing me a song I haven’t heard so many times before.

Howard Wolfson [...] the communications director for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid in 2008, told me this week: "I’m quite confident I employed language that, in retrospect, was hyperbolic and inaccurate, language that cheapened my ability — our ability — to talk about this moment with accuracy and credibility.” Did Democrats cry wolf so many times before Trump that no one hears or heeds them now?
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Democrats were indeed dire about Romney, even though many of them, including President Obama, now speak of him fondly, as a Republican whose prescriptions might be flawed but whose heart is true.

Four years ago, he was a bloodsucking capitalist vampire whose indictment of Obamacare was ipso facto proof of his racism. In The Daily Beast, he was called a “race-mongering pyromaniac.” On MSNBC, he was accused, by a black commentator, of the “niggerization” of Obama into “the scary black man who we’ve been trained to fear.”

Romney was supposedly out of touch with reality — never mind that he had governed a blue state, Massachusetts, without cataclysmic incident — just as McCain was described, in some quarters, as a combustible hothead who couldn’t be allowed anywhere near the nuclear codes. He was Trump before Trump, which makes Trump less Trump.
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“It’s only when you find yourself describing someone who really is the definition of an extremist — who really is, essentially, in my opinion, a fascist — that you recognize that the language that you’ve used in the past to describe other people was hyperbolic and inappropriate and cheap,” Wolfson said.

“It doesn’t mean that you somehow retrospectively agree with their positions on issues,” he added. “But when the system confronts an actual, honest-to-God menace, it should compel some rethinking on our part about how we describe people who are far short of that.”

“We should take stock of this moment,” he said, “and recognize that our language really needs to be more accountable and more appropriate to the circumstances.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/opinion/campaign-stops/crying-wolf-then-confronting-trump.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/opinion/campaign-stops/crying-wolf-then-confronting-trump.html

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Google Buzz Is Brilliant.
Google Buzz Is Brilliant. Like Ground-Breaking, Game-Changing Brilliant. Facebook Just Lost Half Its Value, Jason Calacanis, Feb. 11, 2010
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My 30 second review of Google Buzz:

1. Google Buzz 1.0 is better than Facebook after six or seven years.

2. Facebook's history is one filled with stealing other people's
innovations and doing them better (i.e. Zuckerberg has stolen every
idea Evan Williams and the Twitter team have released). How ironic now that Google has out "Facebooked" Facebook.

3. Google has an excellent privacy record and Facebook is a disaster.
Most folks do not trust Zuckerberg and Facebook any more because of their privacy record (filled with lawsuits) and because they steal
every good idea they see (i.e. Twitter's innovations and FourSquare's
checking in).

4. Google Buzz auto generates your network--this is MUCH better
process than Facebook's.

5. Google Buzz is way faster than the sluggish Facebook--this is a
HUGE advantage.

6. Google Buzz puts relies and updates into your GMAIL as
threads--this is BRILLIANT and a HUGE advantage.

Facebook is going to see their traffic get cut in half by Google Buzz.

This really is game over for Facebook because you know Microsoft and Aol are going to copy Google Buzz as quick as they can. In fact, Aol would have a HUGE renaissance if they simply knocked off Google Buzz's exact feature set. You would than have a reason to keep your @aol email address.

This could actually derail the Facebook IPO. It's that serious.
Facebook usage is going to plummet in the next year or two because of this. There really is no reason for non-game playing people who use GMAIL to log into Facebook.

If Google Ads social gaming to Google Buzz Facebook is 2012's Pointcast.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/google-buzz-is-brilliant-like-ground-breaking-game-changing-brilliant-facebook-just-lost-half-its-value-2010-2
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-buzz-is-brilliant-like-ground-breaking-game-changing-brilliant-facebook-just-lost-half-its-value-2010-2

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Orca Encounter with a Kayaker at Army Bay, New Zealand
Orca Encounter with a Kayaker at Army Bay, New Zealand
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Tim Stewart [...] After hearing about sightings of a pod of orca in the area, he headed down to Army Bay to try his luck.

"I was down at Army Bay and waited for about another half an hour or so and they came around. I went out in the kayak and yeah,'' he says happily.
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The drone footage has been uploaded by Kynman-Cole, who started his photography business after initially capturing scenic sights and environments on a drone as a hobby.

The 30-year-old, also of Army Bay, said he had heard about the sightings via a whale-dolphin interest group on Facebook, where people regularly posted information on sightings so people may enjoy wildlife in the area.
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"I went to Army Bay with the hope of seeing them again. At that point, I saw them and I had the chance to get the drone out and fly it out to see them, [...] The lighting wasn't fantastic, but the human element - having the kayaker there - is what has made this really special.''
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11704622

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErCfpYYuWuo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErCfpYYuWuo

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