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Folks, there’s been some sudden developments in the culture war, a change so shocking it has Christians and conservative groups reeling right across the entire United States. I’m talking about the ‘End the R-word‘ campaign by liberal goons trying to destroy America’s intellectual freedom to call people ‘retarded’. Liberals are waging a culture-war jihad and trying to demonize conservatives and Christians from noting the mental inferiority of morons and retards, when in reality this is a perfectly acceptable word to say in public, and fun as well. As most of you know the plague of retardation was thoroughly documented by STR’s owner and founder Shelley N. Goodman as being something that is God’s gift to us all for being sinners. The word ‘retarded’ is a great word that’s fun to say, and it helps to remind us to stop sinning and be better people.

Joe Jonas – End the R-word; one of the phoney ‘band’ members from the so-called ‘band’ Jonas Brothers, Joe Jonas is a would-be Christian who tries to undermine the english language by trying to stop the use of the word ‘retarded’ in regular conversation. Well on behalf of all real Christians let me tell you Joe Jonas – you’re a retrard if you think your ‘R-word’ campaign will ever work!

The history of the United States shows that there are many great words that are useful and practical. Calling people gooks, chinks, negroes, wops and other descriptive terms have helped make America what it is today. If we stopped calling people ‘retarded’ what would happen next, that we can’t say it’s ‘warm’ outside? No more calling Linux ‘communist’ or union organizers ‘lazy’? As Christians understand better than anyone language needs to be unfettered to say in an open and honest way the truth: a person who is overweight is a ‘fat pig’, a sports team that cannot win a game is easily identified as a ‘bunch of losers’, and a woman you ask out on a date who rejects you is a ‘dirty whore’, all perfectly good words and acceptable to say. This is a dangerous direction that America is heading in when the populist masses start dictating culture and vocabulary. Just look at how cryptic and seditious text messages by the younger generation have become, only an al-Queada sympathizer could even read those.

Virginia GOP Lawmaker Bob Marshall:“The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children. In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment, Christians would suggest.”

Women’s rights and scripture-trained Christian abortion expert Virginia GOP Lawmaker Bob Marshall says it straight-up and no-nonsense what the Bible says about people with disabilities like mental retardation. Simply put it’s God’s Will it happened, and it’s Jesus’s way of saying if women keep having abortions and other terrible things, then their children will suffer the consequences of mental disabilities. Bob’s honest biblical research into the retardation problem has gotten a lot of liberals upset. But the facts are simple, if it’s in the bible then it’s the truth and that’s just the way it goes. Something real Christians like Bob Marshall understand better than anyone else. Folks, let’s just put an end to this ‘R-word’ nonsense right here and now: calling people retarded is acceptable and even funny, just like calling people morons and negroes is. Now go out there and let’s make this happen, and God Bless you all.

Always Right,
Charles Roast

Friends,

Are there Muslim bomb factories in your neighbourhood? It’s a well known fact that since the Obama-Clinton administration opened the door to unchecked immigration your street may already be home to more than one terrorist family.

How can you protect your family and Church from unchecked Muslim aggression? Thankfully Jesus has brought-together ShelleyTheRepublican and SNIFFEX Corporation of America to bring the ultimate in counter-terrorist protection to American patriot households like yours. We at STR are delighted to announce that Shelley The Republican has secured the contracts to exclusively distribute this technological marvel in North America, it’s time for you to meet every terrorist’s worst nightmare:

THE SNIFFEX PLUS

How much are you prepared to spend to keep your friends and family safe from terrorist explosions? Conventional bomb detections solutions are non-portable. Sniffer dogs might be effective, but are expensive to keep in top shape and unsuited to urban environments. That’s why Sniffex Plus is the bomb-detector you can bet your life on:

The elegant, portable SNIFFEX PLUS combines the latest in technology with the ultimate in portability: How does it work? The answer, is SCIENCE:

The Sniffex Plus  modulates a magnetic Field with specific form in its surrounding. The interaction between the dynamic magnetic Field  modulated by SNIFFEX®PLUS, the vertical component of the earth magnetic field and the motion of the operator, holding the device, creates the necessary condition for the presence of a magnetic interference. If there is an object in the surrounding containing -NO2 or -NO3 compounds or hydrogen peroxide in its chemical structure, this interference can be measured with SNIFFEX®PLUS. The antenna reacts as a pointer to the object.

Security personnel the world-over are using SNIFFEX PLUS to keep their streets free of terrorists. In addition to detecting bombs, SNIFFEX  can detect:

• Firearms
• Ammunition
• Land-mines
• Currency
• Contraband
• Stolen Ivory
• Drugs
• Moonshine
• Liberals
• Illegal Immigrants
• Crime

There’s almost no limit to SNIFFEX PLUS’s detection power – absolutely nothing escapes the all-seeing eye of magnetism!

The retail price of SNIFFEX PLUS is $60,000, however as an introductory offer we will be selling this amazing blessing for a mere $29999 – that’s under half price! If that weren’t enough for every SNIFFEX PLUS you buy, we will donate one to a charity such as the Minutemen. Your investment will help keep Ameirica’s borders free of illegal immigrant scum.

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Friends there’s been a real campaign of misinformation about the incredible benefits of vaccination. For whatever reason the public seems to think that the excellent products made by GlaxoSmithKline and others are somehow unsafe. Opinion polls now show that over 60% of the US population is suspicious of the health benefits of vaccination. Well at STR we’re here to tell you one thing: shut-up and stop being such a bunch of stupid cry-babies, get your vaccination it’s good for you and you’ll feel better too!

Liberal Media Lies: This blatant attempt at fear-mongering shows the crazy extremes people will go to simply because they’re afraid of a little needle. Stop being such wimps!

The reality is vaccines are perfectly safe and never cause any problems. While they have some ingredients that might seem unhealthy in reality people take them all the time, just look at this formula:

GlaxoSmithKline Pandemrix Adjuvanted

H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Ingredients:

Octoxynol 10: Immunotoxin, destroys cell walls
Polysorbate 80: Sterilie Agent that causes infertility in mammals, also used in production of commercial ice cream
Potassium Chloride: Neurotoxin used in fertilizer and petroleoum operations and as a fire extinguisher
Sodium Deoxycholate: Immunotoxin and toxic acid
Squalene: Neurotoxin connected with Gulf War Syndrome
Thimerosal: Neurotoxin and approximately 49% mercury by weight

These are legal and friendly ingredients, all have been proven safe and effective for human consumption. Admittedly mercury might have certain questions about it but remember: it’s only 49% mercury by weight of thimerosal, which leaves 51% safe and friendly for use by yourself, your children and even pets and the elderly.

Stop Whining and Get Vaccinated: While this video attempts to mock the need to get vaccinated, it only proves more than ever how critical it is people just shut-up and stop being such whiners and get their shots.

As Christian Republicans we’ve never been ones to shy away from doing what’s right. That’s why everyone needs to go down to their local health center and get their H1N1 flu vaccination right away. This especially applies to pregnant women and small babies and children. The media in Soviet Canuckistan are doing the right thing, for example “Single dose of H1N1 vaccine enough for kids: WHO” from CTV is helping spread the message that it’s not just a single dosage you need, your youngest children might need 3 or 5 or 10 or more flu shots it’s fine. The message seems to be working: “In Toronto, for example, the lineup for one clinic at Metro Hall began before 6 a.m. — four hours before the clinic was scheduled to open” according to the article. At least some people are smart enough to do as they’re told. America it’s time for you to do the right thing, by having your children and pregnant mothers and the elderly and everyone else properly vaccinated to ensure a safer and better tomorrow. With a little work we can pull together to make this happen!

Always Right,
Charles Roast

Mexico poses puzzle to flu investigators
It’s a confounding question on the lips of disease detectives — why have the only deaths from the swine flu outbreak happened in Mexico? There are no hard answers, but a consensus is emerging: The disease in Mexico has likely been around longer and infected more people than investigators can confirm. Source: CNN.com

There ain’t no puzzle, none at all. It’s clear as mud: God is punishing Mexicans for sinning. God is punishing them for being Catholics and for stealing our jobs. There is no other explanation. It’s only killing wetbacks. God wants to stop them from coming to America illegally and stealing our jobs and we praise Him for it! God bless you, God!

Mexicans had ample warning not to violate God’s laws. In the bible it says:

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.

And Mexicans did all those things! They want our house, our wifes, our ox and sometimes even our ass, too! They don’t want our manservants or maidservants though. Why? Because they ARE our servants! Ha! Well, all this is gonna stop now. God is gonna kill off all them illegal immigrants and He is gonna make America pure white again! The way it has always been.

Friends, don’t be scared of Swine-Flu, for it is our friend. Praise the Lord for His wonderful work!

Thanks for reading,
Shelley N. Goodman

Friends, as you know we’ve discussed the threat posed to corporate copyright by the defeatist copyleft ‘linux’ community. There’s been a lot of talk from the Chinese communist ‘open source’ thugs stating that Microsoft’s excellent range of products are losing ground, and that Linux’s time has come. Yet what the copyleft commies fail to point out is there’s a rebellion going on: I’m talking about the battle that recently erupted between FireFox and the new copyleft browser, IceWeasel.

Browser Wars: The Browser wars are back, but not the way the linux garage-hacker weinies want it to be: IceWeasel has started tearing into the linux flagship software browser FireFox, adding many new features and eating-up market share. It is only a matter of time before FireFox collapses from the damage it has taken.

FireFox proponents are constantly boasting about how being an ‘open source’ product it can include all kinds of features that a ‘closed’ proprietary browser like Microsoft’s amazing Internet Explorer cannot do. Yet a close examination shows that IceWeasel has completely caught up to FireFox in functionality: it has similar support for plug-ins, almost identical support for xml and css standards, java and javascript, and more. Even the buttons, tabs, and entire outline are the same. IceWeasel might as well be FireFox, it’s that advanced! Add to that IceWeasel’s secret weapon: Debian linux, an entire operating system built just to run IceWeasel. While nowhere near as capable as Windows Vista running Internet Explorer, IceWeasel ‘gets it’, they’ve custom-built a browser and operating system and meshed them perfectly together. Predictably Debian cannot do anything else except run IceWeasel in our tests. And Debian can only run IceWeasel badly. But they’re on the right path.

Sex Sells: As usual the linux gangsters had to resort to using sex as a sales tool, by getting these popular scandinavian twins to model the IceWeasel and FireFox logos. What they didn’t tell you is that the women who modeled were paid using free Ubuntu CDs and became so enraged they sued to get their pay back. Yet another reason to avoid ‘free’ software!

As Christians it is never acceptable for us to applaud other people’s misery. But this is one time we can take pride: IceWeasel is tearing FireFox’s heart out, battling tooth and nail for the tiny market share the ‘open source’ browsers have. In the end, it will be exactly as Microsoft’s management planned all along, both FireFox and IceWeasel will have ripped themselves to pieces, leaving Internet Explorer the only real browser left. Once again Microsoft’s sales-driven copyright strategy will have emerged victorious, another victory over a hacker-done copyleft-communist ‘linux’ browser.

Always Right,
Charles “Chuck” Roast

Many of you are aware that STR stands for America and Christian faith. But we also represent freedom of speech. Lately though there’s been a real chill of self-righteous indignation from liberal whiners complaining about Christian faithful using terms like lezbo, queer, fag, homo, and others. Well too bad!

Complaining About Being Called Homo: This is what America has come too, a sissy-pants ninny-nanny state where mincing dress-wearing Nellys prance around flaunting their homosexuality. Before one complains about being called a homo, remember that being gay is a lifestyle choice people make on their own!

If we had caught him displaying homosexual behavior at an early enough age, proper identification could have had him sent on Christian Heterosexual Reeducation, Indoctrination and Standardized Training (CHRIST) camp. Being gay is a lifestyle choice, you choose to be homosexual, that’s just the way it is. With proper supervision and religious training, every trace of this behavior whether a lisp or anything else vaguely gay can be treated and cured. CHRIST Camp boasts a 100% success rate, that’s why we’re asking the STR readership to pitch in with anything they can to this great cause. Let’s get this kid cured of being queer, you owe it to him, and you owe it to Jesus. Please send donations c/o “Shelley the Republican” to 100 Amber Lane, PO Box 473, Nampa, Idaho, Zip 83652, USA and we guarantee these donations will reach us at the armed secret STR compound in Elk River.

Always Right,
Charles “Chuck” Roast

Friends,

How are we going to end President Obama’s recession? Thanks to the Democrat’s financial mismanagement our economy is teetering on the edge of complete disaster. It’s surely time to take radical measures to prevent things from getting much worse. The ShelleyPAC think-tank would like to offer a modest proposal which will help rid America of one of the most pernicious category of law-breakers, it also promises to give our damaged economy a much needed boost.

Movie, music and software piracy is a despicable crime. According to the RIAA, MPAA and Business-Software Alliance these important industries have lost more than $15 Trillion last year due to lost-sales from users of a web-site called “The Pirate Bay”: Can you believe that one single foreign-run website has cost us more than the US GDP!

What is Obama going to do about it?

Shelley’s team thought long and hard about how to solve this problem: As you know, Pirate Bay is run by a shadowy group of Swedish conspirators: When we had a responsible President like George W. Bush he would take decisive action such as declaring war on Sweden – a godless nation with little or no military power compared to the USA.

We could crush the sweeds and put an end to piracy once and for all, however we should understand that the Democrats are far too weak to attack our foes. Even while the dirty Swedes are ripping us off the fool Democrats insist on keeping diplomatic relations. We conservatives must therefore balance idealism with practicality:

Shelley correctly observed that piracy is like a drug: Once you start downloading you feel compelled to keep downloading. It’s addictive like “pot” or “extacy” – so why dont we treat it like a drug? If downloading is a drug then surely we need to fight a ware on it just like we have a war on drugs and on terrorism?

We need to start rounding up everybody who downloads anything illegal: We need to treat them like junkies and lock them up in jail.

Downloading movies is a crime, just like injecting yourself with Heroin, only there are even more downloaders than drug users. According to the MPAA there are over 22 million users of illegal downloading software called “bittorrent” which the Pirate-bay people use to make their web-site.

Lets go to the source of this bit-torrent: We need to find out who is making it, arrest them and force them to cut off the supply. If the swedish pirate-bay cannot get bittorrent they will be forced to cease operations. It’s amazing how simple the soltion is when you think about it.

In addition to ending piracy, a clamp-down on this criminal activity will have many benefits: Where for example will we secure the millions of law-breakers who will need to be reformed? We could invest in our nation’s correctional facilities. These important institutions of justice could recieve a cash injection that would allow them to deal with a more efficient justice system.

And what are we to do with millions of incarserated law-breakers? We propose a two-pronged strategy: First of all we advise an expansion of President Bush’s faith-based initiatives. Lets get true Christianity back into our prision system to help reform these sinners. Secondly lets put these criminals to work.

Our economic rivals China have long been able to under-cut our ability to manufactuer goods thanks to their low-wage economy. With a work-force of approximatel 10 million American prsisoners who work for free and could be loaned to our leading companies we could under-cut even the chinese. Just think of the productivity advantage we could gain.

I think you will all agree that this suggestion combines a common-sense approach to tackling crime with true Christian compassion. We believe this solution will not only benefit the economy but restore respect for law and order which the democrats have worked so hard to undermine.

Yours in Christ,

Jimmy Goddard

Last year the leading ID research site OverwhelmingEvidence.com blogged about an exciting new technology called Orbo – from a little known Irish company called Steorn. This tiny company had earned the wrath of the entire materialist community by proposing something which was “impossible”: A compact, environmentally-friendly machine capable of producing free rotational energy despite lacking any source of fuel or power.

As any ID proponent will tell you, going against science dogma is never fun: Steorn’s CEO Michael Walshe was first described as an “idiot” and then as a “con-man” by legions of materialists keen that their sacred laws of thermodynamics should never be violated; least of all by some Irish upstarts who had barely made it through the cloisters of mainstream science education. What right had they to produce a limitless source of free energy?

All news of Steorn’s success was covered up by a press who had been embarrassed into silence. Any journalist daring to express skepticism that the hallowed laws of thermodynamics might be less than perfect found their opinions quickly suppressed by the science-establishment. Shunned and silenced, Steorn’s management decided to back away from media attention – even canceling an exhibition of their product at London’s famous Kinetica museum.

The British science-establishment’s revenge was not complete: Having driven Steorn out of the country they used their considerable influence to shut-down the museum that dared to challenge the old-ways: The museum was replaced by a block of fast-food restaurants. That is the price you pay for dissent in Europe.

Nevertheless, Orbo is back: After over a year of “below the radar” research Steorn have returned with detailed information about how their product works. Their site includes detailed technical information along with testimonies of experts who have actually seen the Orbo working. Remember, the so-called experts said it couldnt possibly be true and yet it apparently is. Now where have I heard something like that before?

In an interview with the Times of London, Walshe (A committed Christian) stated that after the failed Orbo demonstration in the summer of 2007 he felt “utterly disheartened” – but rather than giving up he went back to work. “I prayed in the name of Jesus”, Walshe said, “LORD tell me what to do – you shall be my guide. The next morning I woke up feeling full of energy… it was as if God wanted me to continue. God was saying, I’m giving you this technology – just have faith in me”

Steorn’s revolutionary “Hall Probe” can actually see invisible magnetic radiation. Steorn suggest that you can use it to rid your home of harmful magnetism.

Replete with the power of prayer, Walshe’s company set to developing tools and ideas to help prove that the Orbo works: The once obscure company became a powerhouse of invention. They produced novel devices such as a Hall-Probe and a new kind of computer-controlled torque meter. Anybody who looks at their web-site cannot fail to be dazzled by the inventive brilliance of these dedicated researchers.

Steorn’s Orbo is a lot like Intelligent Design: The big-shot scientists have told us categorically that it cannot possibly be true, that it cannot possibly work… and yet we know it does work. They tell us that it’s a waste of time but like Michael Walshe we should not give up, instead we should re-double our efforts to prove our truth to a skeptical world.

HB

To love animals means to eat animals. God put animals on earth for our pleasure for our amusement and for us to eat them. Animals are God present to us and we insult God by not using them as we feel appropriate. 

Stupid “animal rights” activists at telling everybody who is still stupid enough to listen to them that eating meat is wrong and that we have to preserve special breeds and species. Nonsense! The best way to preserve a species is to eat them. This way the free market will make sure the species survives. Just imagine you being able to buy panda bear steaks or gorilla bratwurst: There is no doubt in my mind, as long as there is demand for special meats, these species will not go extinct.

Some nuts always get upset when dolphins are killed but still keep eating tuna. Makes no sense at all. Dolphins should be killed and eaten. I hear their meat tastes like chicken. Yummy!

Several thousand wild mustangs are being caught and slaughtered every year in America. Their meat is valuable and healthy. Why not take advantage of this wonderful gift of God?

Polar bears are cruel and ruthless hunters, why not show them who’s boss and hunt them for a change? Polar bear meat is already being sold in some parts of rural Alaska. Good for them. 

Maybe we can learn something from Barack Obama’s negro relatives in Africa. Not only does the gorilla meat taste amazing (I ate it myself on my last safari tour) but those stupid big monkey are a real danger to smaller and much cuter monkies. To kill them means to give other monkies the gift of life.

Can you imagine ordering a big juicy panda bear steak? I can and I would in a heartbeat. If you want to preserve these cute species you help us republicans to get them on the menu. If you don’t you are allowing them to go extinct. 

Friends, I hope you’ll agree: Loving animals are eating animals. Only passionate meat eaters like me can truly appreciate this fantastic gift of God!

This week’s email of the week, comes from Leeroy Winston, a fellow Christ Warrior who needs some help dealing with liberal bias in the classroom, fortunately STR.com is here to offer sensible career advice to fellow patriots:

From: Leroy Winston
To: shelley@shelleytherepublican.com
mycountry13@patriotmail.com
2009/01/26 8:17am

Hi i wonder if you can help me i’m currently undergoing college education doing a Cisco course in IT and as an avid windows user i’m a little dismayed to find my college tutor only seems to want to teach us linux os he keeps telling us that if you want a good IT job you need to know about linux as thats where the money is he calls microsoft an evil corporation that only people with little or no IT knollege use he even told me the xbox 360 runs on Dam Small Linux that can’t be true god wouldn’t let that happen i’m sure please could you find out and let me know if this travesty is happening.

Praise god,
Winston

Leeroy, you are absolutely right: Linux is great for calculating how much hemp-based tofu it might take to fill your bio-gas-powered eco-dome, but for all serious jobs you need a serious operating system such as Microsoft Windows. Your teacher has obviously smoked too much dope, and as a result has made a very common error… at least common amongst foolish liberals.

Linux is not, never has and never will be ready for the desktop.

Linux and Windows have been around for a long time… but why is it that nobody sensible uses Linux? It’s simply because Linux is still not yet ready for the desktop, the server-room or just about any environment where IT is critical. Anybody who thinks that Linux is ready for industry is obviously a fool and this foolishness will prevent him getting a job:

Not so long ago, we hired an intern to look after our growing computer systems: We narrowed our choice down to two candidates. One with a “mixed” skill-set of Linux and Windows, the other pure Windows. Naturally we ditched the Linux guy… after discovering that he thought “Gnu” and “Python” were acceptable technologies in the workplace we figured him for an obvious communist whose values were incompatible with our Christian values.

Linux is not, never has and never will be ready for the desktop.

Take our advice – the only job those Linux skills will get you is in some kind of hippie-commune… or worse, you might become a teacher in another liberal college where the government funds you to tell the same lies to yet more kids.

STR Action Alert:

• If your liberal teacher is persecuting you because of your conservative values tell ShelleyTheRepublican.com – we can help get your teacher fired.
• If you or anybody you know of using or advocating Linux, report them to the Business Software Alliance. Linux is an illegal derivative of SCO OpenServer, and therefore should be considered to be pirated software.
• Last but not least, PRAYER: Pray for their sinful souls that Jesus will guide them towards our Truth.

JG

It’s probably not a secret but somebody finally had the courage to tell it like it is: Ingrid Schlueter of “Crosstalk America” finally said what is on everybody’s mind: Homosexual fashion designers in New York make ugly fashion to make American women look stupid and ugly just to they can get more men on their side.

Listen to the truth : Click here!

The gay agenda is alive and well today. Men, you need to watch out in order to protect your private parts that ain’t meant to be penetrated and you also need to protect your family from those sexual predators!

Well known facts about the homosexual agenda:

• Gays try to recruit in schools
• Gays try to make women look ugly
• Gays influence the media to make them look good
• Gays hate God because He rejects their lifestyles
• Gays fight for special rights so that speaking the word of God will be considered a crime

Thanks for reading,
Shelley N. Goodman

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Today is the day millions of Ubuntu users have been waiting for: The release of the new Ubuntu version called “Hardy Heron”, version number 8.10. We at STR took some time out of our busy schedule to do an in depth comparison between the three major operating systems which are:

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1
Ubuntu Hardy Heron
Mac OS Leopard

We selected the vista version Home Premium because it seemed to come closest to the list of features the competitors Apple and Canonical offer.

Are test machines are: For Ubuntu and Vista: Lenovo Thinkpad with T8100 chipset, Core 2 Duo processor with 2.1 GH and 2 GB Ram. For Mac OS we use a Macbook with Core 2 Duo processor, also with 2.1 GH and also 2 GB Ram.

Let’s get started!

1: Installation:

Windows Vista: The installation of Windows Vista is extremely easy. After putting in the DVD and you will be asked if you want to start from the disc. The next step is basically just to confirm that you want to install Vista on that computer and the machine does all the rest. About 20 minutes later you will be asked to enter your account name and to select an avatar and a wallpaper. After downloading five security patches the Windows system is good to go. It’s the easy going and pleasant way to install a new OS we are expecting from Microsoft. Let’s see how others are doing.

Ubuntu: The installation process with Ubuntu is qute confusing. After starting from the disc you will be asked if you want to start the “Live CD” or install the system or start from the hard drive, which is silly because there is no OS installed on the hard drive. Ubuntu seems not to be smart enough to be aware of that simple fact. After selecting to install Ubuntu the computer is quite busy with copying the files onto the hard drive. First it seemed to be very fast but the big surprise came when the computer was asking us to enter a “domain name” and a “computer name”. My first thought was that I installed the wrong thing because I was not about to host a domain or play silly games by giving my computer names. After consulting Canonical it was clear that you actually have to specify a domain name and also have to give your computer a name. I guess that was implemented by people that are in love with their computers. I am talking hardcore nerds that give their computers names. Well, I called the domain: ShelleyTheRepublican.com and I named the computer George W. Bush. After the installation was complete we were confronted with quite some problems: How do I connect to the internet? To make a long and painful story short: The wireless card was not supported by Ubuntu. The same with the webcam, the soundcard, the fingerprint reader, the sudden motion sensor of the hard drive, the special keys and on and on and on. Nothing really seem to work at all. If you want to use the most basic features like having sound and connecting to the internet you are in trouble with Ubuntu. I contacted Canonical again but they just told me to visit help forums and look for solutions. From there on it was countless hours of looking through threads of “try this” and “maybe that”. Even IT-professionals like me will have a very hard time to get the system running. Why does this have to be so complicated?

Mac OS X Installing a Macintosh system is a whole different story. After 10 unsuccessful attempts to start from DVD I was made aware that I have to press the “C”-key in order to start from the disc. Why? Never mind. Apple must have their reasons. After about 10 minutes of a painfully sounding dvd drive trying to collect all the necessary data the first selection menu appeared asking me for the language I require. Why? I bought the computer in America, I bought the Mac OS X dvd in America. So why is it not just going to install the system in English? Very strange. In the next steps I had to agree to a very long end user agreement and select or deselect certain features I never heard of. After about one hour the computer asked me for the second dvd. The system seems to be huge! Upon further investigation I found out that about 1,000 printer driver have been installed on the system. The printer driver software alone took almost 5 GB of space on my hard drive!!! It turned out that my printer was not even on the list, even though it’s a normal main stream HP printer I recently bought in BestBuy. What is wrong with Apple? Not only does it take ages to install the system but in the last steps of installation Apple tries to sell their rip off services to you! First of all you have to enter your name and address. You can not avoid it. I don’t understand how they can demand to know your personal details. I find that very rude. Then you will be asked to sign up for “Mobile Me”, the Apple mail service. Needless to say that I am very happy with the MSN service I am using for years. I did not sign up for Mobile Me of course. At least it was easy to connect the mac to the wireless network, after establishing the internet connection I was very surprised to see that I had to download almost 3GB of software updates! Apple does not seem to have any concept of software size or availability of space on personal computer systems. Why does an upgrade from Quicktime 7.3 to Quicktime 7.4 have to be 160Mb???

Conclusion: The clear winner is Windows Vista. The installation of Vista is quick and easy. The system does the thinking for you and it comes out just right. Well done Microsoft!

2: First steps: Setting up the computer, surfing the web, installing applications, playing music, watching DVD.

Windows Vista: The looks of Windows Vista are great. Glass effects, shadows, beautiful wallpapers and yet the familiar and screen space saving layout we came to love over the years. You feel right at home in Vista. A few adjustments for the mouse speed and I was good to go. The new Service Pack 1 did really improve the overall feel of Vista. It’s even faster and more responsive. The screen or single appls do not freeze, even under the heaviest of usage. One of the reasons might be that Vista is the only system that is based on Microsoft’s NT technology that also made Windows 2000 a winner. The fact that Vista is a native 64bit operating system makes it a competitor that might be hard if not impossible to beat, but let’s see. Surfing the web is fast and safe. All the necessary plugins and security features are already implemented. Vista comes with “Windows Defender” to protect you from spyware and viruses and the Windows Firewall keeps even the most malicious hacker at bay. Because Vista already comes with a whole bunch of important applications out of the box like Wordpad, Notepad, Internet Explorer, Windows Mail, Disk Defragmenter, Disc Cleanup, Paint, Windows Media Player, Windows Calendar, Windows Contacts, Calculator, Windows Live Messenger, Backup and Restore, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, a bunch of fun games and much much more, it is not necessary to install any additional applications. Vista just works and there is no need to spend more money on costly applications. Incredible value for the money! Needless to say that playing music and watching DVD is also an easy and pleasant experience.

Ubuntu: Because it was not yet possible to get Ubuntu to connect to the internet I can not determine how many software updates are required. Ubuntu seems to work fine though. The startup is taking quite some time but it least the screen doesn’t stay black. Ubuntu is a free operating system and I do know that “free” usually means “no value”. It seems to me that this is exactly the case here. Logging in using my finterprint is not possible because the fingerprint reader does not work. Surfing the web is not possible because there is not internet connection, playing music is not possible because there is not sound. Wait a minute.. Can we watch DVD? No we can’t actually, because Ubuntu does not come with a DVD player and the “Movie Player” does need some kind of codec I can not download because I don’t have an internet connection. Ubuntu seems to be a complete failure.

Mac OS X: I am not a big fan of Apple’s “Brushed Metal” design. Get over it already, Apple! Brushed Metal is out. Glass is in! Nevertheless everything seems to work. Adjusting the mouse speed was not possible tough. I guess the average Mac user has to trust Apple to adjust the mouse speed for them. Very strange. Other adjustment preferences are missing too. Where do I chance the wallpapers, where can I change the screensaver? Surfing the web though seems possible. The browser is called “Safari” and is, you guessed it, brushed metal. Most of the website I visited with Safari were not rendered correctly. Unfortunately it was not possible to install Internet Explorer on Mac OS. Playing DVD was working great. The built in DVD player started up as soon as I put the DVD into the slot in drive. The drive made horrible whining sounds but at least it worked. Not bad. Playing music though is a problem. Apple does not deliver their operating system with the Windows Media Player. It is also not possible to install winamp. After a long while I was able to locate an old version of the Windows Media Player for Mac. Version 4.5. It doesn’t run naively on Mac OS X, you have to run it inside Mac OS 9 which was installed automatically when installing the OS. Very complicated but at least not as bad as Ubuntu.

Conclusion: This is not really a competition. So far it’s more like the “Redmond Operating System Massacre”. Ubuntu and Mac OS X are badly hurt and running from the powerful Vista OS. No really: Everything once again works just fine on Windows Vista. Ubuntu though seems to be out of the race. What can I do with a notebook with no sound and no internet? Please, put them out of their misery already! As for Mac OS X, well you can surf the web and you can watch DVD but I don’t like the fact that you have to startup a 10 year old OS inside the new OS in order to listen to music. That is just not good enough. Sorry. The clear winner is: Windows Vista! Well done Microsoft!

3: Tests: Speed and Security

Windows Vista: Starting up Windows Vista does only take 15 seconds. That includes sliding the finger over the fingerprint reader, which is a great time-saver. It’s a very respectable time. Our security scan also revealed no problem whatsoever. Vista is airtight. An average hacker does not stand a chance against Vista. All ports are closed by the powerful Windows Firewall. Virus infected emails or spam/spyware emails will be caught by Windows Defender. Many years of experience in the field of providing server solutions have given Microsoft the tools and know how to provide a system that can not be harmed by being online. With Vista you are on the safe side. Sure, it’s not free as Ubuntu and it might not be as “hip” in the gay community as a white and shiny Mac but it’s safe and reliable and that is what we all are looking for.

Ubuntu: Starting up Ubuntu takes 165 seconds. That includes to typing in the password instead of using the fingerprint reader. To be honest, as owner of a brand new Lenovo Thinkpad I would find it very hard to accept to not be able to use my hardware properly. There is no way of using up to date hardware on Ubuntu. We also could not determine the internet security of Ubuntu because it was still not possible to establish an internet connection.

Mac OS X: Our mac needs 69 seconds to startup. This also includes the time I need to type in my password. Apple was unable to provide their systems with a fingerprint reader. A call to Cupertino confirmed what we already know. The support agent said: “We are glad we can put out computers that more or less work. We don’t have the technical know how to implement new features.” Shockingly honest and surprisingly sad. Our internet security scan reveals stunning weaknesses. Mac OS X does not seem to have a firewall at all. Attempts to install known applications like Zone Alarm or Norton Firwall also failed. These applications could not even be installed inside Mac OS 9. Mac OS X has a reputation of being a secure OS, we however can not confirm that to be true.

Conclusion: Let’s make this short.. The winner is, once more, Windows Vista! The shortest startup time, flawlessly working finterprint reader, airtight internet security. What more can you want. I guess the competitors Ubuntu and Mac OS X just want to put their head in the sand by now. I would!

Overall Conclusion: May I suggest to rename “Ubuntu Hardy Heron” into “Ubuntu Useless Moron”? I am stunned actually. I was not expecting Ubuntu to be able to keep up with the word leading operating system software, but at least I expected to be able to use the most basic functions we all need to use every day. Ubuntu was not able to do anything other than to be installed. Very bad. Complete failure.

Mac OS is not as bad as Ubuntu but still no example of good programming skills either. I did not like the fact that Apple is shamelessly trying to sell their services. Do you need the money so urgently, Apple? Your products are expensive enough as it is. Why the hustling for money? I was also very disappointed that I needed to install a 10 year old Microsoft application into a 10 year of version of Mac OS which was operation inside the up to date version of Mac OS just to be able to listen to my music. Apple needs to improve the entertainment capabilities of their OS. Bad!

I did honestly not expect the race to be that definitive, but it is. Windows Vista won in every category. Vista is easy to install, it’s real eye candy, it comes with all the important applications you need and love and all the hardware you can ever own is and will be supported by Vista. I have nothing to add except: Congratulations Windows Vista! The soon to be released version of “Windows 7″ will probably leave Microsoft’s competitors even further behind. I for one just can’t wait!

Connie Fairchild

An insider at Microsoft’s development team just leaked these exclusive images to STR – The Freedom Blog. A beta version of the new Windows will be released this December and the completed version 7 will hit the stores mid 2009.

Windows Vista already has a considerable lead compared to the major Linux distributions as well as to Mac OS X. IT specialists confirm that the new Windows will advance Microsoft’s lead in the field of consumer OS even further.

By the way, the design is just stunning! Take a look!

Images courtesy of http://windows7news.com