Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is an important part of world events, but he didn't sell iPads.

In a couple of weeks Time magazine will unveil its Person of the Year. Last year, Mark Zuckerberg was named Person of the Year because of a movie. I said at the time that the Tea Party made the most sense given the historical nature of the mid-term elections, but Time is a liberal rag so what do I expect?

If Zuckerberg was the pick last year then it seems like a slam dunk that Steve Jobs would be the pick this year. There’s no clear choice and some of the choices on Time’s website are comical, including Lionel Messi, Anonymous, and the 99%. The most popular choice at the moment is Turkey’s Prime Minister. Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Since most American can’t even tell you who the chief justice of the Supreme Court is I doubt Time chooses Erdogan.

The dark horse candidate is Gabrielle Giffords. The story of her recovery is amazing and it also pushes the liberal meme that right-wing extremism led to the shooting. Don’t worry, the facts of the case are beside the point. Think I’m wrong? Liberals are still blaming JFK’s assassination of right-wing extremists even though Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist. Frank Rich’s recent article in the New Yorker that continues the facade is comical. It would be funnier if it was actually satire.

I would like to see Seal Team 6 get the nod. The operation against Osama Bin Laden is the story of the year. In a culture of apathy, sensationalism, and cynicism it would be nice to see the heroes of that operation get the credit.

It’s easy to use. The download manager finds all the music on your computer and uploads them automatically. It even syncs with iTunes. The manager imported all the information (ratings, play counts, artwork) out of iTunes. That’s a huge plus considering that I’m OCD about keep my music labeled correctly.

The beta has an upload limit of 20,000 songs. That an enormous amount of space. Google hasn’t announced how much the service will cost when it comes out of beta. For me, Google Music means the end of the iPod. The only real reason I still have an iPod is a way to back-up and carry all my music. Now that everything is backed-up on the cloud and I can access my library from my phone the iPod is obsolete.

Now I can finally free my computer from the space resource hog iTunes. Hopefully, Google Music won’t be too expensive.

For some reason it’s easy to hate corporations. I blame it on too many shallowly-written cartoons. Almost every evil character is some rich corporate overlord trying to exploit the average man. It’s kind of like Scrooge McDuck vs. Flintheart Glomgold. In Disney’s Duck Tales there are two rich Duck rivals with the names Scrooge and Flintheart. That doesn’t sound very charitable, does it? How did Scrooge McDuck make his money? He made it being “smarter than the smarties, and tougher than the toughies.” No, seriously! Is it any wonder why so many people distrust corporations? For whatever reason government bureaucrats don’t make good cartoons. One of my favorite Stuff White People Like entries is #82 Hating Corporations. Yuppies love Target, but they hate Walmart.

When engaging in a conversation about corporate evils it is important to NEVER, EVER mention Apple Computers, Target or Ikea in the same breath as the companies mentioned earlier. White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like.

You can add Google to that list as well. Google’s smug motto “don’t be evil” would be an excellent piece of satire except that’s actually their motto. So I guess we’re supposed to take it seriously? Apple, on the other hand, is the king of all branding. Where is the outrage about their products being assembled in China? Also, what about Apple’s profits? Mark J. Perry at Carpe Diem compares Apple’s profits to ExxonMobil.

Apple is getting taxed less and making a higher profit margin. How can this be? Where is the outrage? Where are the calls for a windfall profit taxes? President Obama floated the idea of a windfall profit tax on oil companies during the 2008 election. Would companies like Apple be a better target? By any measure these type of farcical taxes are dangerous and counterproductive, but there are those on the left who think it’s a good idea.

Americans should be more concerned with windfall debt. Profits from ExxonMobil and Apple aren’t damaging the nation. Windfall profits are a fake problem.

‘Everyone’s God and if we don’t wake up to that there’s going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we’re doing bad things to the atmosphere.

‘If we don’t change that as rapidly as I’m speaking to you now, if we don’t put the green back on the planet and put the trees back that we’ve butchered, if we don’t go to war against the problem…’

Who is this you ask? Al Gore? Matt Damon? Some random Hipster Dufus? It’s none other than Charles Manson. Not only is he a psychotic serial killer (Tom Harkin), he’s also a climate change alarmist. That sounds just about right.

Economics 101: It looks like Jesse Jackson Jr. has solved the problem behind the nation’s unemployment issues. It’s technological progress. More specifically, Apple’s iPad is probably responsible for the loss of thousands of American jobs. Unfortunately, Jackson hasn’t lost his job since the iPad debuted last year.

Hypocrisy Thy Name is Obama: There’s not much doubt that it’s been three years of amateurism from the White House. The President lacks the leadership and experience to be President of the United States. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney says Obama never said he was opposed to signing statements in all cases. Of course this is a fabrication. Just add it to the list of things the left doesn’t care about anymore.

A Hard Day’s Night:

He Should Have Blamed Bush: At a Comerica Bank in Naples, Fla., a crazy person named Phil Nguyen intentionally crashed his car into the bank. His reasoning?

Nguyen believed the CIA did this by giving clients at the Naples Grande Beach Resort radiation guns, the report said. He also told police he thought he would die shortly thereafter.

Not so much. The correct answer we were looking for is… President Bush, who is to blame for everything.

As the World’s Climate Changes: The greatest thing about the unproven theory of man-made global warming is that no matter how the climate changes it’s because of CO2. Lately, the world has been experiencing colder winters and no alarming change in worldwide temperatures. What could possibly be causing nothing to happen? You guessed it, global warming.

Climate change could lead to colder winters in northern regions, according to a study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research on Tuesday.

Vladimir Petoukhov, lead author of the study, said a shrinking of sea ice in the eastern Arctic causes some regional warming of lower air levels and may lead to anomalies in atmospheric airstreams, triggering an overall cooling of the northern continents.

I think it’s the other way around. Change occurs after something changes, not before. Or maybe the Earth has always changed? Is that possible? Is there anything global warming cannot do? It heats, it cools, it rains, it droughts, it doesn’t happen and it happens all at the same time.

Rape Rape: Here’s a video of Whoppi Goldberg explaining her sanctimonious walk-out on The View when Bill O’Reilly happened to point out the 9/11 terrorists were Muslim. This is typical of the intolerant Hollywood left. It seems perfectly reasonable for TV shows to cast all pro-life supporters as insane clinic bombers. There seems to be no outrage at the stereotypical typecasting that all Catholic priests are molesters. Even my new favorite show, The Walking Dead, has a stereotypical Redneck racist and there’s no harm done. It’s hilarious to me that someone like Goldberg who thinks raping a 13 year old girl is no big deal is outraged by a meaningless remark by Bill O’Reilly. I mean, really?

Double Rainbow: I’m a few days behind this internet sensation, but the Double Rainbow video is amazing. At first I thought the guy was on drugs, but after seeing an interview of the guy and seeing where he lives, I’m not so sure. He sure does love rainbows.

Apple iPerfect: Steve Jobs told everyone what we needed to know; they’re not perfect. Perfection aside, according to Jobs, 0.55% of all iPhone 4 users have called Apple Care to complain. For those scoring at home that’s one half of one percent. It should be noted that calling Apple Care is almost useless. Also, if someone is having problems getting a signal how exactly are you supposed to call Apple Care?

Foxes Running the Henhouse: The ass clowns who told us there was nothing wrong with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are now celebrating the new “consumer protection bill.” When Nancy Pelosi, Christopher Dodd, and Barney Frank talk about “consumer protection” it’s almost certain that consumers are about to be screwed. These people should be in prison. Instead, they’ll continue to get sweetheart deals the rest of us can only dream about.

The Holy Trinity of Politcal Evil

While these idiots trade high fives some of the problems that led to the crisis aren’t being addressed. The Democrats are either too corrupt or too ideologically tied to the welfare state (take your pick) to deal with the problem.

Sheila Jackson Lee: Finally, we have a fantastic history lesson from Democrat Representative Shelia Jackson Lee. Did you know there’s a North and South Vietnam still living side by side? Nope, neither did I. Before anyone simply says she had Vietnam confused with Korea, she cites the correct number of American casualties from the Vietnam conflict. I only point out the ignorance of this representative because of white privilege.

That’s all for today… I’ll close with the Rainbow Guy song. Classic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA

The ad only makes sense if it’s aimed at people who acknowledge the moral authority of the green police — people who may find those obligations tiresome and constraining on occasion, who only fitfully meet them, who may be annoyed by sticklers and naggers, but who recognize that living more sustainably is in fact the moral thing to do. This basically describes every guy I know.

In other words David Roberts is okay with a police state as long as it suits his political beliefs. This is the great thing about totalitarianism. Someone ultimately gets to be in control. Everything is cool until someone has a gun in your face telling you to stop emitting C02.

Anyway, the point of my post today is to discuss what I thought was the best advertisement last night during the Super Bowl.

Google’s Parisian Love ad is simple. Google’s service is simple. The ad told a story and the sole focus was the brand. From a marketing perspective it was perfect. Evidently Microsoft’s search decision engine Bing is slowly gaining traction. Google has never advertised like this before. Plus, the fact there was a Google ad and nothing for Apple must make someone unhappy.

I have frequented the forums in the meantime looking for an answer. The only thing I’ve found is confirmation that other people are having the same problem and the same terrible service from Apple. If Apple wants iTunes to stick around they need to drastically improve the support drastically or the word is going to get out.