Archive for February, 2009

Morning Joe: The grownups gotta pay

Posted: February 20, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Apparently the consensus is the grownups gotta pay.

6:32 a.m. It’s not fair but that’s the way it is.

6:38 a.m. Pat: Is Iran working on a nuclear weapon, apparently he needs more sleep in the morning.

6:38 a.m. Martin: Iran hasn’t been transparent NO itshay.

6:40 a.m. Joe notices that our troops surround them.

6:51 a.m. Charles Barkley on his arrest, That was Turrible Turrible Turrible.
6:41 a.m. Iran could be helpful? What planet is he on?

6:42 a.m. Palin approval in the 60’s they seem disappointed.

6:49 a.m. Apparently Letterman still is afraid of making fun of Obama

6:53 a.m. You know I never saw them laugh once about all the weird Obama stuff. One Sarah Palin Calender and they are in hysterics.

7:01 a.m. I’m going to be generous and say they are laughing at Pat, but I get the feeling that Mika wouldn’t put up with it.

7:06 a.m. I guess its impossible to ignore the CNBC Obama stuff. Joe might like it but I bet its killing the doc.

7:11 a.m. In the stock market we are now gambling on the government not on the companies, time to pull the kids account.

7:34 a.m. Mayor of SF and Pat is asking him about tax stuff, not culture? What a waste of a chance.

7:56 a.m. Server Blip, Dean says its in the country’s best interest for people to not lose their houses.

8:06 a.m. Revert to his partisan role?

8:11 a.m. Illinois has its own set of interesting rules: Howard Dean.

8:14 a.m. Barnicle is right why would Burris resign, no other democrat in the congress ever does.

8:23 a.m. Money party crashes the show.

8:38 a.m. Elections are destabilizing in Iraq? You’ve gotta be kidding.

8:41 a.m. Petraeus isn’t liked among generals. Its not odd he is successful and General officers can be very jealous.

8:43 a.m. You know it would be nice if someone on this show pretended to support the war sometime.

Online chat with Willie and Barnicle today here.

New Pelosi Pope News

Posted: February 19, 2009 by datechguy in catholic
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Via the Curt Jester apparently there is more to the Pelosi/Pope meeting that we knew about. Apparently there was also a secret meeting with her Archbishop first:

Michael Voris of Real CathlicTV reports today in his daily Vortex column that this meeting between Pelosi and Archbishop Niederauer took place quietly and clandestinely on Sunday, February 8th in a private residence in San Francisco. Realcatholictv.com confirmed this fact with both the Archdiocese of San Francisco and Pelosi’s office in DC.

Pelsoi’s spokesman Brendan Daly said Pelosi described the meeting as quote .. “cordial and pleasant .. a fair exchange and good.”

When pressed by realcatholictv.com producer and host Michael Voris , if “good” meant that she had changed her position on abortion and finally gotten in line with Catholic teaching, Daly replied, “You won’t see that happening. She is not changing her position on abortion.”

Pelosi’s office won’t comment on the meeting:

Pelosi aides wouldn’t comment on the content of what they described as a private meeting between a practicing Catholic and her archbishop.

Fr John Mallow sees Deceit Deceit Deceit:

1) I believe that the Speaker decided it was in her best interest to meet with the Archbishop before her trip to Rome, but not to have the meeting known before the trip to Rome. I believe Pelosi’s meeting the Pope was conditional on her meeting with the Archbishop. I believe that someone from the Vatican told them (especially her, but through him): meet now or forget about meeting with the Holy Father.

2) I believe the meeting was covered up because that was a condition made by the Speaker, (easily acceded to by the Archbishop, because he saw it as a private pastoral meeting). For Pelosi, what is the political upside of having her meeting with the Archbishop known? None—it’s all downside. If it were publicly known, then the questions among faithful Catholics immediately arise: Well, do you now accept settled Church teaching? Do you plan on remaining a Catholic? If not, why do you want to meet with the Holy Father? She’d lose Catholic votes, without picking up any corresponding votes on the other side, because they know she’s not really Catholic anyway—if she were they would not be voting for her. What’s the upside? She gets to meet the Pope.

3) I believe the timing of the leaked information (from both the Archdiocese and Pelosi’s office) to “Real Catholic TV” is deliberate—it came too late to affect Pelosi’s meeting with the Pope (with the hoped-for but not-to-materialize papal photo-op), but allowed her spokesman and the Archdiocese to claim they’ve done their duties as Catholics to prepare her for meeting with the Holy Father.

Related post on it here, bottom line:

The Archbishop has met with her and has explained Church’s teaching- – and Speaker Pelosi has said .. good meeting .. thank you. I still support abortion.

The bottom line is will Archbishop Niederauer now refuse her Holy Communion?

Your move Archbishop — a lot of people are watching.

This is a prayer request just waiting to happen.

British Gold prices on the rise

Posted: February 19, 2009 by datechguy in hobbies
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Just got my latest catalog from the Royal Mint. It has an insert that increases the price on all Royal mint gold products.

Hope you followed my advice and picked up those quarter sovereigns at the lower price. They are tiny but cute.

Between the price increase and the exchange rate changing its quite a price change.

Tim Blair on the Blogroll

Posted: February 19, 2009 by datechguy in fun
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By the time you read this post Tim Blair will be added to the blogroll.

Blair writes in Australia and I’ve been reading him for many years. His commentary can be devastating to those who are on the receiving end of it as demonstrated by this post:

In Jeremy Sear’s imagination – what a tormented little place that must be—he’s fighting the Third Reich:

Taking them on might be personally unwise, in the sense of offering an alternative mark, but it’s better than leaving them unchecked. Look the other way while they ravage Czechoslovakia, and bullies will soon have a go at Poland…

Brave kid. You can guess who play the Nazis in Jeremy’s fantasy. Strange thing, though; when someone carrying a Nazi sign turned up at a Hamas rally in his own city, Jeremy urged that we look the other way and instead concentrate on “what the thousands of people not carrying pro-Nazi signs” were saying.

He’s a selective Nazi-opposer.

This is followed by 7 different updates where the target of this scorn complains, corrects re-corrects on Update 6 we see this exchange:

UPDATE VI. Now Jeremy is all upset too:

Nice work blowing that analogy about bullies out of all proportion.

Good point. I should never have connected it to Hitler’s conquest of Eastern Europe. Oh, wait; that was you.

This post alone justifies the addition to the blogroll. If you don’t read him daily, you should.

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