Archive for March, 2009

I guess he’s served his purpose

Posted: March 6, 2009 by datechguy in oddities
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…so D.L. Hughly can be safely canceled.

At least he managed to bloody Steele before he went eh?

Morning Joe: No Imusing allowed

Posted: March 6, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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So Morning Joe begins and it’s proved that you can’t be Imused over a black republican.

6:00 a.m. Hey Pat here’s a buck or two buy yourself some AIG and Citi.

6:01 a.m. Looks like we can still make Joke’s about Rush, but the great Obama. Nein est verboten!

6:02 a.m. What we need is optimism.

6:04 a.m You know normally the rats don’t leave the ship while it’s still launching.

6:06 a.m. Barnicle mocks Harry Sunshine Reid.

6:18 a.m. George Bush didn’t make tough choices? What planet is Joe on?

6:32 a.m. It’s worse than they are telling us.

6:44 a.m. Rush might have been irrelevant during an Obama administration? This guy is a reporter?

6:50 a.m. Still making Bush jokes, no Obama ones.

6:58 a.m. They are on thin Ice with Mika over the good looking stuff.

7:06 a.m. Still attacking Steele for not standing up, Obama hasn’t answered yet.

7:14 a.m. Did Albright just say that Iraq was lost? I was distracted by something.

7:22 a.m. Pat asks her about Freeman she ducks the question, Pat “I’m not an anti-semite” Buchanan likes him. He does have a point as to why all these guys who worked for and with him won’t speak up for him.

7:24 a.m Why do I think that Mary Albright would have been a better sec of state than she was?

7:38 a.m. Wesely Clarke loves ethanol. I don’t mind it as an extra card in the deck particularly in wartime as an alternate fuel.

7:47 a.m. They show Gibbs getting the radio, did they mention that Rush arranged it?

7:49 a.m. They push the leave Islam alone and it will leave us alone story in Newsweek. What a crock.

8:01 a.m. Lets cheer ignoring the threats of the world. Peggy Noonan is the guest.

8:12 a.m They are showing the Obama stock market chart.

8:14 a.m. The rich republican canard is trotted out. Joe shoots it down. Obama’s failures are apparently Michael Steele’s fault.

8:27 a.m. They need the smartest people regardless of race, wasn’t that the argument they made on this show FOR Geitner just a month ago?

8:33 a.m. Erin: “If you use the word crash for 10% what will happen when it is down 20%?”

8:50 a.m. That is still the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen (train+truck)

Watchmen YAWN!

Posted: March 5, 2009 by datechguy in hobbies
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James Hudnall writes a tribute to the Comic Books series The Watchmen at Big Hollywood:

“Watchmen” opens Friday and we’ll see how well it performs in the theaters, but the graphic novel has been a best seller for DC Comics since its inception in 1985. And not without surprise. It’s been voted the best graphic novel of all time by many people. It even showed up in Time Magazine as one of the best literary novels of the 20th century. The only comic to make that list. Personally, I don’t care much for lists or other popularity contests. They seem too high school to me. A lot of stuff on “best ever” lists tends to be crap. It’s all someone’s opinion, after all. But “Watchmen” is definitely a work of art. One that will stand the test of time and already has.

Count me in the minority here. I’ve been reading comics for 34 years. I didn’t care for the Watchmen when it came out and I don’t care for it now.

I have absolutely no interest in the movie. As for Alan Moore’s work I’d check out his Swamp Thing Issues instead.

Give me Stan Sakai , Steve Englehart and Gardner Fox or Denny O’Neil anyday.

And the Greatest Comic Series ever Written? Lone Wolf and Cub hands down!

Some Nasty Rosters

Posted: March 5, 2009 by datechguy in baseball
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Let’s talk World Baseball Classic.

Looking at the WBC Rosters particularly the South American Teams i’m seeing some of the nastiest rosters I’ve seen in a while.

There are going to be some intense games going on particularly in Group D when we get to see Panama vs the Dominican Republic likely Monday unless Puerto Rico manages to upset Panama or unless a real miracle happens and the Dutch manage to upset the Dominican.

Bernie Williams fans will be able to watch him on Team Puerto Rico. I hope he does well, he is a class act.

Japan’s defeat of China was not a big surprise today, China able to hold Japan to 5 hits is.

It will take a real miracle for Cuba or Mexico to fail to get to the 2nd round sharing a bracket with South Africa and Australia. Australia would like to think otherwise but sorry that’s the way it is.

I would love to see the US and Italy advance in group B. I can’t however see how Italy avoids going 0-3 in the toughest bracket in the group. I’d really like to see the US step all over Hugo’s boys.

I’d be even happier if some of Raul/Fidel’s boys manage to jump the fence during the tourney.

Play Ball!