Archive for February 9, 2009

I’m sorry that’s just funny

Posted: February 9, 2009 by datechguy in catholic, opinion/news
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A lot of the noise about the Williamson case is smoke and grandstanding these days Williamson’s statements on what the Vatican has ordered are not so odd:

Williamson does not plan to immediately comply with the Vatican’s demand that he recant, and has rejected a suggestion that he might visit the former Auschwitz death camp, the German weekly Der Spiegel reported Saturday.

Williamson said he would correct himself if he is satisfied by the evidence, but insisted that examining it “will take time,” Der Spiegel reported.

…but the last line of this associated press story just make me smile and laugh:

Several efforts by The Associated Press to reach Williamson at his home in La Reja, Argentina, have been unsuccessful.

Argentina, ARGENTINA? Boy you don’t get a better fit than that do you?

He doesn’t know my brother

Posted: February 9, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Tim Blair links to an article by John Hawkins about how online stuff has changed the way things are done:

Well, you have individuals from all over the world who can talk anonymously to people with whom they have no personal connection, and they can say absolutely anything without fear of being punched in the nose. Put another way, the Internet takes away all the factors that keep people from saying the rude things that they may be thinking, but wouldn’t blurt out if they were face to face with another human being. On a more sinister note, the Internet allows misfits, sexual deviants, and sociopaths to form communities outside the mainstream where they can reinforce each others’ values.

I once mentioned that everyone has a crazy uncle who has odd ideas. Link them by the net and you have not an Army of Davids but an army of crazy uncles.

Blair has a suggestion:

It’s generally best when writing online – anonymously or otherwise – to observe the “would I say that if the person I was saying it about were right in front of me?” rule.

That wouldn’t make any difference at all if it was my brother who was talking. He thinks “tacit” is what you use to put up things on a bulletin board.

Morning Joe Mika strikes back!

Posted: February 9, 2009 by datechguy in baseball, opinion/news
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Mika seems to think that the republicans are in trouble and seems to glow.

6:01 a.m. Joe corrects Mr. Summers record, it would be nice if they mentioned the daily calls between George S at ABC and the white house guys.

6:03 a.m. I think the prime the pump with wars is an unfair statement, I wouldn’t actually be surprised if President Bush actually gave that spending to buy votes on the war. If so it was a good investment.

6:12 a.m. I won isn’t an argument but I disagree, nobody is making the point that they could pass this without republicans, let us vote against it if you think the public will object.

6:16 a.m. Can Mika explain to me why a bill with at most three republicans in both houses for it is “bi-partisan” but 10 nations with troops in Iraq is the US being unilateral?

6:20 a.m. I actually think the Rodriguez business is a tad unfair, I’ll discuss this in a different post. Doesn’t make the headline wrong. I’m really surprised that Barnicle didn’t jump all over it.

6:22 a.m. I don’t know what these guys make but if MIka buys uses then she has even more brains then i give her credit for.

6:35 a.m. Maybe they ought to think of it like a child in high school don’t give them the $100 dollars at once, dole it out.

6:41 a.m. Broken Clock Alert! Even Andrea Mitchell agrees that waiting a few days or a week isn’t a bad idea.

6:47 a.m. The SNL clip reminds us that these guys will never get over President Bush.

6:51 a.m. Level of transparency my a–, people have been putting the stuff on the net, Todd is full of it. Those differences are due to the times.

6:53 a.m. I had a stomach ache this morning, much more Andrea Mitchell isn’t helping.

7:09 a.m. Everyone is going to have an asterisk since there is an asterisk in the fan’s mind.

7:11 a.m. As far as the cynical stuff, remember the sign Lowell stuff after the world series? I agree with the Ken Griffey stuff too.

Doing my unemployment claim brb

7:42 a.m. Joe gives the: We are all … fill in the blank line.

7:44 a.m. Meachem: “The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program.”

7:46 a.m. I would not pay for Time or Newsweek or the New York Times. I can find out much more from one week with Glenn Reynolds then with all of those magazines put together. These guys in my opinion actually know that there product isn’t popular with at least half of the country. They can’t sell their product when they are giving when we know it is 90% spin.

7:51 a.m. This idea that it is all relative is a bunch of bull, there is a difference between cheating and moral issues.

7:54 a.m. Pete Rose should NOT be in the hall. Every day he passed a sign that gave the penalties for betting on baseball and every day he ignored it.

7:56 a.m. Anyone who starts a book “A people’s history of”…naturally brings suspicion to me, I can see it is earned.

7:58 a.m. Why am I not surprised to constantly seeing ads for W on MSNBC?

8:05 a.m. Great exchange: Joe: “I want to go back to the Bush years for the moment…” Schumer: “I don’t.”

8:07 a.m. So much for the rehabilitation of John McCain.

8:09 a.m. If the payroll tax is so regressive why not cut that instead of giving income tax refunds to people who don’t pay it? Why doesn’t anyone ask this?

8:15 a.m. Do nothing or pump in money, I vote A.

8:24 a.m. Maloney D-NY”: If there is not bi-partisan support we will just pass it.” Good do so lets see if you can win back any of those 11 dems who voted no first.

8:29 a.m. Money party wants disclosure. She says no earmarks, pork by any other name would still be tasty. Mmmm tasty.

8:29 a.m. Maloney: “We need you back in congress Joe”

8:31 a.m. It’s how you direct it , tax cuts for the rich.. blah blah blah.

8:37 a.m. Private money is waiting to buy assets. What they want is a floor to then bid and what is the split on the take for the taxpayer and the investor.

8:39 a.m. 93% of people ARE paying the mortgages. You would never know what would you?

8:42 a.m. This is the A-Rod show. “This will make it ok” says Mika?

8:49 a.m. The Jonas brothers and Stevie Wonder = the day the music died.

8:50 a.m. Paul McCartney is always worth watching. I’d pay to see him but not much.

8:52 a.m. Are these the only people in America who actually watched this show?

8:57 a.m. I missed Susan Collins saying she wouldn’t vote for the bill if she doesn’t like it. I suspect she will find a reason to do so, but mark my words the media lionizing her has given her power and if she is smart she will use it.

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