Archive for February, 2010

Baldilocks in profile.

A good face

I don’t think her head is so big, there just isn’t a lot hair to contrast it.

I really wish I talked to her more. There was just not enough time in the day to make the difference.

I don’t care what the disagreement was I can’t believe that even Mr. Johnson could have banned her if he had ever met her.

Morning Joe talks to Ron Paul

Posted: February 23, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Lets see what everyone has to say.

Joe asks him about the young people who supported him.

“When I go to the campus’ I’m encouraged, but when I go to the hill…”

Joe: “Does the Republican party get it yet?…”

Ron Paul: “I don’t think so.” He goes on about not cutting the foreign aid or the “empire” He hits the federal reserve.

Capeheart: How do you translate that energy to the actual polls?

Paul: In a few years they will be in the job market and will care. I’m more interested in changing philosophy than policy

Sorkin: Are we ever going to get financial reform?

Paul: “Lets hope not because they would make things a lot worse…Pretending regulations would make things better is incorrect…let the market regulate it.”

Melissa: This seems like a stunning overstatement about young people. Is this really about their perspective or are you just a “character”.

Paul: Revolutions don’t come without the support of the young. Any time I see a young person I give them a copy of the constitution.

Joe quotes his book quoting Paul: “Ironically by transferring risk the government risks a crash” quote is from 2003

Paul: I’m competing with Keynes economic system every day with the idea of the free market.

Joe: Would Romney make a difference?

Paul: At the moment no, but if the movement grows then the pressure will grow. He is certainly right about Romney, he will go were the people take him.

One of the big advantages that Paul has in a setting like this is that he comes across very reasonably. He actually has a great potential to take “liberal” votes due to his isolationism in terms of the anti-war absolutists. I do think that MSNBC likes to promote him because it gives Republicans fits.

…in fact it was so important that my little clips are woefully inadequate to describe them.

Lucky for you that you can get the whole shabang here thanks to Pam.

You go watch it, it is an incredibly important 2 hours.

And if you missed it there is a short follow up interview I did with Simon featuring Barbara Espinosa of American Freedom here.

One of my great regrets of CPAC was not getting a chance to say goodbye to Pam or Val Pierio. Don’t think for one moment that the dictators and killers that they face down wouldn’t like to make them go away permanently, but they do it anyway…

…yet they still have such a love of life that any room either is in becomes almost a party. Those who attack them are not only wrong, but they deprive themselves of great company.

They tore down the drive in while I was gone!

Posted: February 22, 2010 by datechguy in fun, local stuff
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Or perhaps just before and I didn’t notice it. Tri-Town drive in has been a fixture in Lunenberg for decades, they have been talking about a housing project going in there but every time it was scheduled to start something put it off.

Apparently whatever it was that was stalling it was completed because when I drove by the giant screen that I have seen there all my life had disappeared.

I don’t know if there is another Drive in Movie Theatre in Massachusetts but I’m going to miss it terribly.

Suddenly I feel very old….