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But are you impressed by FreeBSD 7 after the upgrade? Or were you tracking 7 before it went to production?

After seeing Kris Kennaway's graphs on performance for 7 with the new scheduler, I decided to take the plunge.

I find it more than a little odd how deeeeeeeep the MSM thought it was. Having spent a couple of weeks campaigning in one of the US's most Hispanic cities, I think Barack might have over looked a few things.

And would it be wrong to point out that he equated disowning his grandmother with disowning his crazy, offensive preacher? Was I the only one who noticed?

It wasn't a bad speech. And since it wasn't all that bad, I wish he had started talking about this 12 months ago as part of a larger discussion, not as a hail mary to put a cap on his political complications.

I'm as suspicious of The Barack as the next fellow (probably more, but then I trust nobody) but c'mon, kids: it was a good speech. Did Al "I lost my home state in 2000 and doomed the country to an eight-year GOP misery" Gore give as good? Did John "my shop produces a mean white paper on poverty but holy hannah I can't win a primary" Edwards?

I say this liking all three politicians. We're all flawed. If you're not building the new society in the shell of the old -- and these days, who has the time or energy for the old Wobbly program? -- you could stand to inject a little distance and objectivity.

WASPs are the exception, not the rule.

wcw, clearly you didn't understand my critique.

I did. And I'm guessing I liked the speech more than you did, MB, for a couple of specific reasons, but yeah. Problems.

Coming from a family that has a few more colors than black and white, I can award points for style, but not for substance. He spoke about his problems, not the country's problems.

I grew up and went to school in the segregated South and that wound hasn't healed, but there are many other wounds that need attention, wounds inflicted by the government on other Americans. When is it their turn?

I couldn't listen to the speech. I am tired of the subject. Too bad he isn't Catholic. Priest have been pedifiles and the priest I had as a kid was nasty. People are Catholic anyway. It is not about the clergy, it is supposed to be about religion. I have heard alot of seriously vile things in the church especially during weddings against women.

When I was older, my mom asked if I thought that priest could have gotten away with what some had. I told her that nobody like him or would ever go anywhere with him. I got yelled at by the priest when I was to say a prayer out loud in a meeting with him in the pews previous to my first confession. I added a line that the priest says at the end of a prayer and was yelled at for quiet a while.

Also, all the stuff about the US creating Aids was originally printed in Rolling Stone, quite the news magazine a very long time ago.

I believe that none of the candidates care a whit about anything I will ever care about. I don't think they understand poverty and poor working conditions. They have forgotten too much.

Tracy