Friends, the day has finally arrived. No longer shall we be confined to the free, feature rich web based email providers like Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo. No longer shall we be forced to support the liberal companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft that support them. No longer.  This week, the first and only conservative web based email platform launched.

Fast Company covered the launch earlier this week and the complete details on the email service from Reagan.com can be found here. This is an excerpt from Michael Reagan’s call to action:

People who believe in true Reagan Conservative Values are unwittingly supporting the Obama, Pelosi and Reid liberal agenda! What do I mean? Well, every time you use your email from companies like Google, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Apple and others, you are helping the liberals. These companies are, and will continue, to be huge supporters financially and with technology of those that are hurting our country.

Is that where you want your money to go? I didn’t so I changed things. I came up with the very first conservative email service provider. You now can put your name next to the name of the Greatest Conservative of all, my father Ronald Reagan.

[Michael Reagan - Reagan.com]

For the low price of $39.95 per year, anyone can have their very own @reagan.com email address.  As a launch special, the first year is discounted to $34.95 until 8/23. There’s no better time than now. Many addresses are still available at registration. Apparently Jimmy Carter hasn’t claimed his address yet as JimmyCarter@Reagan.com is strangely still available.  Unfortunately, Ronald@Reagan.com has been claimed.

As an an added bonus, anyone who who signs up to place their name next the greatest conservative of all gets their very own copy of the “Tear Down This Wall” speech DVD!

God Bless America!

During the annual MGX (Microsoft Global Exchange) event, Microsoft released their newest tagline, “Be What’s Next.” In honor of this event we decided to take a trip down memory lane and reminisce about our favorite Apple and Microsoft taglines and slogans over the years.

[via Engadget]

Here are some of the classics. Which company do you think has better slogans?

Apple:

-”Think different”

-”I think, therefore iMac”

-”The plot thins” – Used to market “thinner” PowerBook G3 models

-”So much to touch.” – (2008) Used to advertise 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB iPod models

“The first phone to beat the iPhone.” – (2008) Used in their advert for the iPhone 3G

-”This changes everything. Again” (2010) Used to market the iPhone4

-Redesigned. Reengineered, Re-everythinged.” (2008) Used to market the new aluminum  MacBook

Microsoft:

-”Your potential. Our passion.”

-”Where do you want to go today?”

-”Life Without Walls”

-”People-Ready”

Today, 9to5mac.com asked: Who is Apple’s biggest adversary?  Take the test here at 9to5mac.com or by clicking here:

Apple used to be the underdog in comparison to Microsoft.  Watch the first Apple 1984 commercial:

In 1984, however, Apple decided break away from Big Brother Gates.  Then, last night on the Daily Show, John Stewart called out Apple on the lost iPhone 4G prototype response,  Steve Jobs, and Apple in general:

So Apple has grown into a corporation that makes seductive products as tasty as bad Chinese food.  What’s the big deal? Maybe Apple has become “the man.”  We aren’t hippies anymore at Woodstock and making flower chains.  Apple is a corporation. MacBook Pros, iPhones, iPods and etc., have only been able to be produced because of the Apple evolution from an indie company into an empire. Do you think that the iPhone came by people sitting around and listening to Simon & Garfunkel?  So here’s to Steve Jobs and corporate America. May you keep inventing and producing everything that I want.

I have recently heard of these “Meatless Mondays” policies.  What does this mean? Essentially “Meatless Monday is an increasingly popular movement in which carnivores cut out meat one day a week for health and environmental reasons” [via CNN]. This policy is slowly touching upon the lands of many and wasting the time and taxpayers money.

In San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors actually congregated to officially pass San Francisco as the first city to have “Meatless Monday.”  In the land of Rice-A-Roni, where the homeless roam in Golden Gate Park muttering, chasing and scaring small children, adults and the like, I think that the Board of Supervisors could have discussed other more pursing issues (i.e. Unemployment, homelessness, etc).  This blog is not meant to be political, but this “Meatless Monday” campaign made me think about how can a government impose upon individual choices?

I understand the issues at hand with “Meatless Monday”: reducing carbon foot print, healthier lifestyle, etc. Where is the line drawn?

Different cities have implemented this policy, which I think is a grave mistake.  In a private industry, companies have more flexibility with policy implementation.  For example, if Bill Gates wanted all of Microsoft employees to wear a t-shirt with his face on it and call it a company uniform, he could:

Not to say that Microsoft is not already like this…Anyways, the point is that I do not think that the government has the right to step into the private lives of individuals.  Would it necessarily be fair if the government stepped in and forced individuals to use the iPad?  Currently the iPad is very green in comparison to other technologies.

The moral of the story is that whether you are a carnivore, omnivore, vegetarian or vegan, the government should not step outside of their boundaries of the government and onto the dinner table of anyone.So the next time that you think of participating in “Meatless Monday” think about what else the government will try to implement.

Is Mac-less Monday next?

Disclaimer: All of the views expressed in this specific blog do not necessarily reflect the values and beliefs of the switchtomac.com blog.

Appendix A: “Meatless Monday”

According to:

a study by Cranfield University, commissioned by WWF, the environmental group, found a substantial number of meat substitutes – such as soy, chickpeas and lentils – were more harmful to the environment because they were imported into Britain from overseas.

The study concluded: “A switch from beef and milk to highly refined livestock product analogues such as tofu could actually increase the quantity of arable land needed to supply the UK.”

The results showed that the amount of foreign land required to produce the substitute products – and the potential destruction of forests to make way for farmland – outweighed the negatives of rearing beef and lamb in the UK.

An increase in vegetarianism could result in the collapse of British farming, the study warned, causing meat production to move overseas where there may be less legal protection of forests and uncultivated land. [via Telegraph]

*Take that you hippie vegetarians.