It’s better looking than I had anticipated, thinner and slightly heavier than I expected. It is the most user friendly device I have ever used. You can just start reading on it right away. Anyone, no matter how technologically challenged, will be able to use this. It’s about as complicated as a calculator (not the scientific kind).

I was able to “get lost” in my first book as easily as the marketing blurbs promised. I experience no difficulties with the greyish background – as long as you read in sufficient light (daylight or a reading lamp), the contrast is similar to a paper book.

What surprised me most is that I now prefer the Kindle over paper books. I’ve had to read some since getting my Kindle and it was so uncomfortable. I realised that I had to keep shifting position to keep the book open at a comfortable reading angle, turning the pages meant moving my arm and the text had to be read at a slant, due to the stiff binding of some new books. With the Kindle, you can maintain a comfortable position for as long as you like, turning a page is as easy as clicking with either hand, no need to move your arm and the text is always perfectly flat in front of your face.

With the recent update, the Kindle 2 can read PDFs natively, with no conversion needed. Amazon also added a rotate function, so that you can read on the Kindle sideways. I will continue to convert my PDFs using the free software available, however, because I like the ability to increase the font size on the Kindle.

I am extremely satisfied with my Kindle. I am able to catch up on my reading anywhere, and I’ve also bookmarked several Wikipedia pages to read when I get a minute or two.

Thanks for bringing up the fact that Jenkins was from the same area as the boxer, Kelly. That kinda negates any of her innocent “I didn’t know” claims right there.

Hey, Sam. We’ve got a whole thread dedicated to you over on my new LOST forum!

if she had say, known about that bill.. would that make her more on the side of stupid,liar? or more on the side of ‘racist’ ?

what if she not only knew of the bill, but added her name to it as an endorsement.. and again, this was asking Obama to pardon the black man who inspired the phrase ‘Great White Hope’ along with such racism that he was tried and convicted of marrying a white woman …and this congresswoman voted for this pardon a month ago..

what if the man who was recruited to be THE Great White Hope, lived just 27 miles from the Congresswoman’s hometown? and was in the same congressional district she is responsible for now..

what does that do for her excuse.. hell, what does it do for yours?

ask yourself…did her recent exposure to information on Jack Johnson make it even more likely that she used the phrase because she knew its meaning?

story
http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200908270009

story
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/31/gop-rep-behind-great-whit_n_272589.html

Soon if you question Obama you’ll be called a racist.

Of course, this isn’t to mean, some stuff out there isn’t racist. Watermelons on the lawn? It’s not NOT racist if you know what I mean.

But, let’s really take a step back into reality for a few minutes.

A refernce a 1900’s boxer? This is the smoking gun of Racism alive and well? Great white hope… how come it wasn’t a big deal when it was a movie?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116448/

I’m not saying people are being a little bit overly sensitive, but people are being overly sensitive… ummm…. OK, yeah… that works.

Seriously though, I, like 99.9% of the people in the world did not know the etymology of that phrase. It’s a bit disingenuous to the conversation on racism to bring up a 1900’s boxer as some sort of proof. There is enough relevant history to make a case, this sorta phishing experiment is a bit of a stretch.

of course you don’t.. but that’s to be expected..

“and I called her story of ‘Ooo I didn’t really mean anything by it when I was talking about beating a black president and I said we need a great white guy’.. a line of bullshit.. there is no doubt in my mind as to what she meant.. but I don’t think that makes her a racist, I think it makes her stupid..”

If she didn’t have any racist intent, there would be nothing “stupid” about her statement. So… I guess I’m not seeing the fine line between you saying that she intentionally made a racist statement, but oh, you are not calling her racist. If you are not calling her a racist, you don’t have much of a topic. So why not admit that you are calling her racist? That’s clearly what Howey got out of your comments.

“so the next one has to actually use the words “Great White Hope” in her description.. and we will just have to bite our tongue thru it, because calling her on it, or not letting her have the benefit of the doubt.. to call it what it really is, will just fall on deaf and partisan ears..and be excused with a ‘oh, those dems are just seeing sheets and hoods everywhere’ ..”

Go ahead call it what it really is. Call a spade a spade!

http://muchedumbre.com/forum/index.php/topic,17630.msg255085.html#msg255085

You saved your ass with that one, Kelly. I came here to bitch at you because…well, what good does a little tit flashing do me???

But all I get is the upper torso??? You know my predeliction towards the um…lower torso. Remember Jeff Probst? Ahhhhhhh……even after I created a whole new forum for you to talk LOST too?

Sheesh.

Back on topic

I’ll agree that not all R’s are racist, just most. Out of the group you mentioned above I’d be comfortable saying at least two definitely are. I base that not on their replies to racial jokes, but rather their thinly (or openly) veiled bigotry in their day to day words.

for everyone else..er, who is not Howie
NSFW

and for those who are Howie..

I didn’t call her a racist I said she was a fucking idiot..

and I called her story of ‘Ooo I didn’t really mean anything by it when I was talking about beating a black president and I said we need a great white guy’.. a line of bullshit.. there is no doubt in my mind as to what she meant.. but I don’t think that makes her a racist, I think it makes her stupid..stupid for saying it in the 1st place and stupid for thinking she was going to get away with it..but no, I don’t believe she’s a closet clan member..

I didn’t call the entire (R) party racists either.. I said Glenn Beck was a retard who was out there infecting other retards.. so unless he is the entirety of your party.. then I think you owe me an apology for misrepresenting what I said on both accounts..

as to your definition.. well, that’s no different than someone defining a watermelon patch now is it.. it’s how the word or phrased is used and you know it..

Fag-
–verb (used with object)
1. to tire or weary by labor; exhaust (often fol. by out): The long climb fagged us out.
2. British. to require (a younger public-school pupil) to do menial chores.
3. Nautical. to fray or unlay the end of (a rope).
–verb (used without object)
4. Chiefly British. to work until wearied; work hard: to fag away at French.
5. British Informal. to do menial chores for an older public-school pupil.
–noun
6. Slang. a cigarette.
7. a fag end, as of cloth.
8. a rough or defective spot in a woven fabric; blemish; flaw.
9. Chiefly British. drudgery; toil.
10. British Informal. a younger pupil in a British public school required to perform certain menial tasks for, and submit to the hazing of, an older pupil.
11. a drudge.

out of 11 tries.. still not one definition for what we use it for.. does it make the ’slang’ any less prejudicial?

The other examples I listed tho make it pretty apparent that it’s not me or my party ‘fishing’ for the ‘racists’ comments.. but it is your party who glances over them.. ppl like Beck, Ice…Gordo, Gyff.. they see the watermelons and the presidential portraits and the gorilla comment and cry that that’s not racism, that’s just a joke and the person didn’t mean anything by it..they scream that we’re just too damn PC and we need to get over it.. and so it just keeps on going..

and that’s what creates this ‘hyper’ racial era.. because the next person will always have to top the last one since you let the last one get away with so much.. kinda like what happened here, teh melon patch, portrait and gorilla weren’t nearly enough.. so the next one has to actually use the words “Great White Hope” in her description.. and we will just have to bite our tongue thru it, because calling her on it, or not letting her have the benefit of the doubt.. to call it what it really is, will just fall on deaf and partisan ears..and be excused with a ‘oh, those dems are just seeing sheets and hoods everywhere’ ..

kinda like you just did..

I don’t think any of the ppl who I listed are anymore racist than Darth is.. I seriously don’t.. but they did make racists comments and your ignorance of that distinction will cause more ppl to actually cross over from just making the comment to actually disliking the race..

Now you do have a good case with Mayor Grose. It’s hard for a reasonable person to draw any other conclusion other than racist intent. Same thing for Sheri Goforth and Rusty DePass. But when you try to stretch the behavior of a small town mayor and an administrative assistant to a state legislator, to cover the entire Republican Party, well, it’s kind of small time. It’s not like a senator saying that a former Klan leader would have made a great leader during the civil war…

As far as the expression, “great white hope” goes, I had not known it’s origins, although I did know it had something to do with boxing, or that it had a racial basis. But I had thought the phrase was more generic.

Noun 1. great white hope – someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given field; “this company is the great white hope of the nuclear industry’s waste management policy”
white hope
hope – someone (or something) on which expectations are centered; “he was their best hope for a victory”

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/great+white+hope

I know it has been used to describe:

Sharks http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/jul/30/greatwhitehope

Cricket http://cricketactionart.blogspot.com/2009/07/great-white-hope.html

Books http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/08/22/whales/

Laundry detergent http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,839927,00.html

And Amazon’s Kindle http://www.micropersuasion.com/2009/03/the-amazon-kindle-will-monetize-media.html

Racist e book readers!

I had hoped that if there was any good to be gotten out of the election of President Obama, is that we would really move into a post racial future. But my hope on that was pretty slim. Really, we are moving into a hyper racial era. Race defines everything we do and say. It’s all politically correct posturing to establish racial motives to discredit your opponents. You’re not fishing for real racism, only the apparent possibility that a word or expression might be racial. Then you declare victory and go home. I guess we should ban all idioms that have either the words white or black in it, since they all must be inherently racist correct?

Now, about that tit thing. If there is anyone who deserves a flash of tit, it’s me. Pay up.