Archive for April, 2009

Morning Joe Catfish in a barrel

Posted: April 24, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Finally up early enough to see it!

6:13 a.m. The difference between the two leaders is interesting and everyone notices it.

6:15 a.m. You overreach and have showtrials it will blow up. He doesn’t know the half of it.

6:17 a.m Personally I think the president likes this. I think this gives him power over congressional democrats.

6:23 a.m. Gee they never had a chance until suddenly a major change came to the ticket. Pat mentions seems to remember what actually gave McCain a chance.

6:29 a.m. I’m sorry but seeing that rather statuesque woman talking about going out to play shortly will certainly wake up a certain percentage of the viewing audience.

6:31 a.m. “Honoring” horses? That is going to be a killer lawsuit.

6:32 a.m. Hey they are constantly promoting the Green stuff, lets decide it’s an NBC construct and totally ignore it.

6:34 a.m. The promos for Olberman and Maddow are just hilarious considering the headlines. Apparently this is a problem for Republicans?

6:35 a.m. And then the show comes back on and Gibbs statement and ducking brings the reality. This is unsustainable.

6:40 a.m. Joe hits the nail on the head, you don’t do this while the war is on.

6:43 a.m. FDR and Wilson and Lincoln, Joe is on a roll.

6:45 a.m. Malkin’s book is looking better and better!

6:57 a.m. You know if Blago didn’t exist Willie would have to invent him.

7:01 a.m. Willie who was a judge is saying NC was goign to win everyway. Mika insists that she was discriminated against.

7:02 a.m. Willie won’t answer the Gay Marriage issue. Mika is really hot on this, boy I wish I was up early this week to see it all play out.

7:03 a.m. Pat brings up the Perez c— stuff. Mika points out that people who agree with Hilton are poorly represented by him.

7:05 a.m. Joe: “Some people on the left like to feel morally superior.” It seems this dovetails a lot with the Miss California stuff. This is a great debate.

7:06 a.m. I was very angry and divisive my first year in congress. If you feel yourself getting angry you have to step back and think is his advice. That is a function of experience.

7:16 a.m. What is this wired stuff? This is the Jacksonian side of America.

7:17 a.m. Letter writers figure Mika put a target on herself. Who cares what Perez thinks. She wasn’t shy about hitting Rancic.

7:27 a.m. Hoekstra : “They were for this program before they were against it.”

7:33 a.m. Will this stuff get destroyed? Bureaucracys tend to protect themselves.

7:43 a.m. The democrats running were for this. John Edwards is mentioned.

8:00 a.m. Oh boy more NYT magazine!

8:10 a.m. Gene Robinson is unwilling to take the logical step about war crimes.

8:12 a.m. Gene Robinson: “I’m comfortable with my moral argument but I’m uncomfortable where my legal argument leads me.”

8:14 a.m. The Nixon pardon comes up again. This is going to be the left’s escape clause in the end.

8:28 a.m. The theory is to let the Taliban gain strength to justify taking them down violently? Did I hear that right?

8:58 a.m. What we learned with Pat and Mika were spot on.

A real danger

Posted: April 23, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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Via lgf, Gateway pundit a bit of a danger sign concerning the Ron Paul supporters and the teaparties:

Citing the importance of the taxpayer movement in California, California Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring today strongly condemned the use of anti-Semitic material used to promote the recent April 15 TEA party in San Mateo County.

“The taxpayer movement is incredibly important for California, and we applaud the success of the tea parties that took place across the state on April 15. Because we remain intensely interested in the growth and success of the mainstream taxpayer movement, we strongly condemn the use of anti-Semitic imagery in the promotion of the recent event in San Mateo County.

Ron Paul has several good points in terms of small government and unnecessary spending, however that doesn’t and can’t justify anti-semitic garbage like this.

I am very pleased that the California GOP jumped on this to hit it. The group in general issued this response:

Anti-semitism is too real, not to mention despicable, to be charged lightly, and Mr. Nehring’s reactionary charge is regrettable. It amounts to an unjustified smear of Dr. Paul and the people who support him.

One irony in this matter cannot be overlooked. A large, growing contingent of Ron Paul supporters has been elected to Republican County Central Committees throughout California. By indirectly smearing them, Mr. Nehring harms his own party.

I would be a lot more convinced of their group’s good intentions if the spot where the cartoon appeared wasn’t suddenly made private. This looks a lot like the disabling of comments on Huff Po whenever a person of the right is sick or dies. Gotta hide the hate.

Like the Larouche groups the Paulians are going to do their best to co-op the tea party movement. If they want to join in tax protests that’s fine, after all they pay taxes just like everybody else. If they want to argue the US spends too much money on foreign wars that is a legitimate debatable issue. The idea that this is a big Jewish conspiracy is not. If the Paulians want to advance an anti-semitic agenda and use the tea party protests as their vehicle, we must respectfully decline their company.

I expect the media to jump on this hard, in fact I am shocked that it already isn’t’ being reported.

Can somebody give me the year…

Posted: April 23, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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…when people suddenly decided that Gay Marriage was the norm and marriage as it has been practiced for thousands of years became “controversial“? Maybe our brilliant miss USA contestants can answer this question. What year did all of us who maintain this belief, (the majority of the country and the world) suddenly convert into bigots? Can anyone name the year when people could believe this without being a bigot? What was the year? 1990, 1994, 2002? What year did you magically become a bigot by not supporting gay marriage? Were people like Richard Cohen and Frank Rich always bigots without knowing it until they changed their mind or was there a moment where they could remain unbigoted?

Do we have to assume all our parent and grandparents were bigots for their entire lives. Have all of our president been bigots?

It would be interesting to hear the answers to this. Any takers?

The Rani’s back?

Posted: April 23, 2009 by datechguy in doctor who
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Via the Corner the Daily Mail reports that the Rani will return to try to befuddle the new 11th doctor:

The 40-year-old is expected to play a Time Lady, the Rani, a glamorous but evil scientific genius, reprising a role played by actress Kate O’Mara in the 80s.

A source told the Express: ‘Gillian obviously has a massive sci-fi following and it’s felt it would be a major coup to have her appear in Doctor Who.

Gillian refers to Gillian Anderson of x-files fame. The story is also picked up by the telegraph as well so perhaps it is more reliable than the Joan Collins story from 2007.

I always liked the character of the Rani, lets see if she is half as good as Kate O’Mara.

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