Archive for October 23, 2009

Apple Strike one

Posted: October 23, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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Well we called apple today and we apparently will have to PROVE that it wasn’t accidental.

My son is 18, this is the first computer he has ever purchased, he bought it with his own money. He is active in facebook and school and has a father who blogs loudly.

With currently life expectancy he has 50+ years of computer purchases ahead of him.

We are heading to the apple store to determine if any of those future purchases will be of apple equipment and to determine if my first personal experience of Apple quality and support will convince me to steer people away from the company.

So far it’s apple 0 and Squat 1 but we will go direct to the store and see. I’ll update you in a few hours.

And here comes more of the herd…

Posted: October 23, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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Steve Forbes joins the heard now streaming toward Hoffman:

Former presidential candidate Steve Forbes, chief executive officer of Forbes Inc., will endorse Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in New York’s 23rd congressional district. A source close to the campaign tells NRO that “many more conservatives will be announcing their support in coming days.”

And I should note that Michelle Bachman actually expressed support for Hoffman a few hours before Palin, but did so when questioned rather than as a flat endorsement.

Minnesota’s always entertaining Michelle Bachman is already in Hoffman’s camp, telling radio show host Laura Ingraham that “Hoffman is on the ascendancy, and we have to win this seat. And people need to get behind the winning candidate, and it looks like that’s Hoffman.”

If the NRCC is smart they will make a deal with Dede and have her pull out, if they don’t they will be embarrassed no matter what happens, and they can’t afford to go after Palin who they will need in 2012.

Vote Hoffman.

Q: How bad a candidate is Dede Scozzafava?

Posted: October 23, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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A: So Bad she can’t convince Kos himself that the weekly standard is unreasonable.

Via Michelle.

Vote Hoffman.

Lawrence O’Donnell thinks of something I didn’t about Married Priests…

Posted: October 23, 2009 by datechguy in catholic
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…I mentioned the difference in pay but on Morning Joe just they were talking about the Pope and the Anglican communion etc and the suggestion was it might lead to changing the rules on married priests. (I think it’s a bad idea but there is certainly nothing that would contrast with eternal truth) O’Donnell said the Church even if it wanted to can’t afford it, (the quote is from memory):

Right now the church has to pay for health insurance for its priests, how are they going to afford health insurance for wives and 9 kids since married priests won’t be using birth control.

That thought never occurred to me. When O’Donnell isn’t dealing with a topic like Iraq or Palin that afflicts him with Sullivan’s Syndrome he can be quite wise. He also said something else that was telling (again quote might not be exact):

Nobody has asked priests for marital advice for 50 years, go see a shrink instead.

I can certainly believe that, perhaps if people were taking advice from their parish priest instead of their shrinks the divorce and illegitimacy rates wouldn’t have gone through the roof over the last 50 years.

Personally I don’t think that the decline of marriage was a bug of the 60’s, I think the people who celebrate the turning away from the church consider it a feature. Certainly the other side would.

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