Archive for February, 2009

10 years ago this was shocking…

Posted: February 4, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…but now it is normal. As we live more of our lives on the net we it is only natural that we will be ending them there.

Please keep Amy & family in your prayers today.

Morning Joe kinda late

Posted: February 4, 2009 by datechguy in baseball, opinion/news
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Had to drop off the wife to work and her car to the garage so late to Morning Joe. Ironically on Imus today Doris Kearns Goodwin was echoing Andrea Mitchell in the its no big deal business. She has no excuse she grew up in a working class house.

8:01 a.m. Calling William Henry Harrison’s start as worse than the president is unfair. He lasted a month before dying and didn’t make the same mistakes that this president had.

8:06 a.m. Tell me since ball clubs stadiums are often paid for with public funds are we going to get a pay limit on players. I guess Manny might have been wrong turning down that 20 million

8:09 a.m. Would Ronald Reagan say to Tip that “I won”? Noonan After 6 p.m. with some wine in him.

8:12 a.m. Isn’t the money that Wells Fargo was going to spend on their employees money that provides stimulus to the economy?

8:15 a.m. There is a time for profits? What is the point of being in business if you are not trying to make profits? A business that is not trying to be profitable isn’t a business, it is a hobby or a charity.

8:23 a.m It’s amazing how once the poll numbers on the package tanked and the thought that the emperor might not have clothes how people like Huffington suddenly will come up against it.

8:29 a.m. You know the small local banks in town here are doing fine.

8:31 a.m. Back to back commercials,

Then this:

The standard MSNBC viewer’s heads are going to blow up on this one.

8:36 a.m. Mark Haynes: Get people on who know what they are talking about…”Ariana doesn’t know what she is saying”

8:39 a.m. Edited the 8:31 entry to replace the descriptions of the ads with the ads themselves. Since our friends on the left reflexively believe both of these sources as gospel they are likely to go Kryten.

8:41 a.m. Only in America are the poor fat. Who said that last week?

8:42 a.m. Mentioning that the Army has fat camps for recruits.

8:43 a.m. The ethics of the octuplets. They are all crying foul. I wonder if they would be crying if she aborted them. At game night the cry was jail the mother and take the kids away. I thought that liberals decided that a woman’s right to control reproduction is absolute?

8:46 a.m. Avoid dying? You can put it off but you can’t avoid it.

8:56 a.m. This is the age of Blago, and Mika is still rather fetching in those black boots. (Does anyone say fetching anymore?)

I mentioned this morning while Morning Joe blogging that I didn’t care for Andrea Mitchell. Its for reasons like this:

During MSNBC’s live coverage on Tuesday of the sudden resignation of Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle, reporter Andrea Mitchell suggested to Republican Senator Jim DeMint that the American public will see this as the GOP having “brought him [Daschle] down.” The Democratic nominee resigned over a growing controversy which revealed that the former Senate majority leader owed $140,000 in back taxes. (He has since paid them.) Mitchell sympathetically described talking to the ex-senator: “I just got off the phone with Tom Daschle. And it was an emotional conversation. He was clearly- it sounded as though he were tearful, overwrought.”

So let me get this straight. Tom “Tax cheats should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law” Daschle didn’t pay 140k in back taxes. The GOP objects and he ends up withdrawing and this is a BAD thing?

I certainly hope the GOP gets blamed for this.

Update: Added the missing “l” and Doris Kearns Goodwin is in that turf today.

Age of Empires or Talisman?

Posted: February 3, 2009 by datechguy in hobbies
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tonight is game night and its my choices of games. Did Napaleon in Europe last time and I got slaughtered.

I’m torn between Age of Empires the boardgame or Talisman. I haven’t played Age in a long time while Talisman has a new expansion that I haven’t given a shot to.

Well after a full family dinner of NY Sirloin, Brishole, Spinach and green salad, Fresh chicken breast Patties, baked potatoes , sauteed onions and peas I’ve settled on Age of Empires