(446) STEVE JOBS, IRAQ, AND RAND PAUL'S TAKE ON 9/11

I have been buried under Steven Jobs’ information. The story that is being circulated is that he was a computer genius. However, the truth of the matter is far, far removed from Jobs being a genius with computers. The Apple II computer from top to bottom was designed by Steven Wozinak. The Apple II was a tremendous instrument in its day. Jobs was apparently jealous of the success of Wozinak, and he designed the case for Apple III. No matter how much the engineers protested that it was impossible to get the processors in the computer that Jobs wanted in that size a case, Jobs insisted on using the case that he had designed. As a result, many add-ons had to be put in the computer on an after market basis, and his computer was a mammoth failure. He was also known to cry if he did not get his way. He had no regard for personal hygiene, walked around barefooted, and smelled bad. He denied paternity of his first child, and was abusive and abrasive to servers most of the time. With the invention of the Lisa, which was named for the daughter that Jobs had abandoned, rather than admit it was named after his daughter, Apple said that Lisa stands for ‘Local Integrated Systems Architecture.’ Apple got back on track, but Apple engineers, not Jobs, designed the computer. Jobs was good at designing cases, but the computer technology was left to Wozinak and other engineers.
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At last we’re supposed to be getting out of Iraq. It only cost us 4,000 lives and 40,000 wounded. However, we did get rid of Saddam Hussein, which has caused a continuing strife in the country, and may for the next hundred years.
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I read an interesting editorial by Rand Paul. He makes brilliant observations. He states that Al Quaida was not formidable, the Department of Defense withheld intelligence from the FBI. The FBI was advised time and time again by its field agents who were in possession of lap top information that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. As a result of this bureaucratic bungling, we’re now being strip searched at the airport, and, as Rand says, we are subject to the failures of imperfect men and women in bloated bureaucracies. The fact that the government is taking away our liberty in the name of fear and protection should not be allowed, and I say the only way to stop this is to let your representative and your senators know that they will not be re-elected unless this bull dung stops.

Respectfully submitted,
Donald M. Heavrin,
A concerned citizen