Archive for March, 2010

Meanwhile in the repressive state of Israel…

Posted: March 19, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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…the evil zionists held a protest attacking Palestinian culture by daring to suggest that honor killings might not be a good thing:

Sixty of these Israeli Arab Bedouin women recently came in busloads from the Negev to Nazareth to join a total of 500 Israeli Arabs in a protest against honor killings in their communities. They constituted the largest continent of women, “thanks to the work of Hind el Sana, a lobbyist in Shatil’s Bedouin Women’s Leadership Project.

It got some coverage in the Arab press but other than Pajamas media I haven’t seen any major network talk about it. It is important to note that although the killings being protested took place in the west bank and Gaza and among Israeli Arabs there was no mirror protest in Gaza. I’m sure this was a mere oversight and that Hamas would certainly have no problem allowing Arab women to protest freely.

/sarcasm off

Why are people relieved about the Cao no?

Posted: March 19, 2010 by datechguy in catholic, opinion/news
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Anyone who has followed Ahn Cao knows that he is not going to vote for a pro-abortion bill. Stupak was the only reason he voted for it the first time.

The idea that he would vote any other way on a bill that was ambiguous about abortion was simply uninformed.

Update: Of course I just might be a sucker.

Limbaugh channels No Runny Eggs…

Posted: March 19, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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I just finished reading Steve Eggleston’s post here concerning what constitutes when a bill passes and when not:

Allow me to translate that for you – as of right now, the ONLY court-acceptable evidence that an “enrolled bill” actually passed Congress, or was even introduced into either House of Congress, is the signatures of the Speaker of the House and the Vice President (or presumably the Senate President Pro Tempore) on said “enrolled bill”. That’s right – a troka of the Speaker, Vice President and President have had the power to unilaterally enact law regardless of the other 534 members of Congress and indeed the Constitution for the last 118 years.

I turned on Rush he is pointing out what I’ve said before. Once the Senate bill is “deemed” passed nothing else matters. The president will sign it and anything else you do won’t mean spit.

Take a Bow Steve.

Answer: Because nobody actually knows what the count is

Posted: March 19, 2010 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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Question: DaTechGuy, why aren’t you talking about the various whip counts.

All of the whip counts are guesses, they have been all over the map. You have a better chance of getting your entire bracket correct in March Madness than to get an accurate whip count.

I still don’t think it is going to pass. Until the vote actually takes place that can’t be confirmed, so I’m not going to play guessing games with numbers. However I will point to Robert Stacy McCain’s American spectator article comparing this push to the end of Animal House:

Even then, Scott Brown was driving his Dodge truck through the snow en route to the Jan. 19 Senate victory that most political observers at the time believed was the final death-blow to this unpopular legislation. Could there be a more decisive electoral verdict than for a Republican to be elected in liberal Massachusetts on a promise to stop the health-care bill?

Well, the voters be damned.

He concludes thusly:

At this point, however, the arguments for passage resemble another Animal House scene, with Obama in the role of Otter when he announces, “I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.” It remains to be seen whether House Democrats will supply Bluto’s famous answer: “We’re just the guys to do it.”

It’s an amazing thing to watch people walk off a cliff while insisting that they will fall up.

Who knew that Sen Blutarski was still in Congress?

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