Steve Jobs Nearing the End of Life?

I heard that Steve Jobs resigned as head of Apple a few days ago.  I assumed it must have been from some corporate shenanigans, but I was wrong.  Steve Jobs suffers from pancreatic cancer and resigned because he could no longer perform his duties.  Pancreatic cancer is almost always a death sentence.  Less than 5% of white men survive five years after diagnosis.

I think we will lose Steve soon.  He has been a great capitalist, a great producer of technological innovation and creator of wealth for many people.

Photo, left:  That's Steve Jobs on the left, photo taken yesterday.

Source:  TMZ

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The Culture Wars are Back:


Manhattan Declaration -  a movement associated with Brian Brown's Washington DC based National Organization for Marriage  -  has said that it has gathered over 7,000 signatures protesting Apple's deletion of their app.  Traffic has been so heavy to their website that the servers have nearly shut down.


Apple had originally granted the app a rating of 4,  indicating that no objectionable content was found.


After LGBTQ advocacy groups protested, the app was deleted.  What Apple CEO Steve Jobs' response will be remains to be seen.   Apple has thus far ignored the group's request to reinstate their application for iTunes.


 Clearly,  the GLBTQ advocacy groups and the Traditional Marriage movement are butting heads.  The Culture Wars are back...

Despite the uphill battle, the Manhattan Declaration has no plans to go quietly into the night.

“We really think that once Apple sits back and takes a breath and really looks at this from a reasonable perspective that they’re going to reinstate it,” said Farmer. “We still have hopes that they’ll do that.”

So while gay rights groups may be saying, “not a chance in hell,” the Manhattan Declaration thinks it has a prayer.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/12/02/christian-group-has-plea-ignored-by-apple-begins-petition-to-reinstate-app/#ixzz16yiWzj9V

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Group for Traditional Values cries foul after Apple pulls their app. 


The Manhattan Declaration app was accepted by Apple and rated as a 4+, which indicated that the app contained "no objectionable content".  


However,  after a "small but very vocal"  protest coming from gay advocacy,  Apple pulled the app during the Thanksgiving holiday.  


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