Archive for April, 2010

There is nothing more likely to throw away the GOP fall advantage

Posted: April 8, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/news
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…than equivocation:

King asserts that Republican leaders need to be clear on what they would do on Obama’s health law if they took control of Congress.

“I talked to some of the leaders in the Tea Party groups, who ask to make sure that we define this repeal as 100 percent repeal. They are not going to have any patience with equivocation,” the lawmaker said.

Every indication that I saw on the Brown campaign trail, the reactions at CPAC, and the comments from my interview with Liz Carter indicate that it is Obamacare that has driven the collapse of democratic prospects. It has caused tens of thousands across the country to get involved when they were indifferent before.

If the GOP decides to hem and haw over this not only will they lose these involved people they will deserve to lose them. As I said back in January about the Brown race:

…it all comes down to what the GOP does with this. We are being given the best shot they will ever get and we’d damn well better take advantage of it.

Now is not the time to go wobbly.

Update: The American Spectator has more on the subject.

The BBCWorldwideTv channel “frees” The Doctor

Posted: April 8, 2010 by datechguy in doctor who, fun
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Sometime around 1978 I was channel surfing the way we used to in the days before Cable: (We turned the knob) and on Channel 12 in Rhodie Island I found a strange TV show with a fellow with a long scarf traveling in a blue box.

I thought it was cool but didn’t note the time but several months later on another Saturday I turned on the TV and found the very same episode on the very same channel. Shortly after that I discovered Channel 2 and I was hooked.

I was big into history and that episode not only took place in the past but took place in 15th century Italy. You couldn’t find a combination more likely to attract me. If I had managed to find the episode before or the episode afterward I might not have been so excited, but the Masque of Mandragora started me off and the rest was history.

It’s a good episode but not my favorite, it’s not even my favorite episode of season 14 (The Deadly Assassin) but because it was my first experience of the character it holds a special place to me.

Imagiane my surprise and delight when I discovered that BBC Worldwide has all four episodes available for free viewing online. They don’t allow an embed but the direct link is here if you want to give it a shot.

You will have to set up an English Proxy Server if you want to watch it.

DaTechGuy’s Field guide to Bloggers: Andrew Ian Dodge

Posted: April 7, 2010 by datechguy in short films/interviews
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Yeah Yeah I know that I had Andrew Ian up as one of the Reagan award winners but I’ve run out of the interviews I’ve already filmed (with two exceptions that I’m holding back for specific reasons) and I want to include these bloggers in the Field guide:

I will be including a few more “recycled” CPAC bloggers who were not in the field guide before as I wait to shoot some new material with other bloggers. Meanwhile you can also find Andrew on Facebook and twitter

Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Doug Shulman, What Mandate?

Posted: April 7, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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I guess it is not worthwhile to try to get a comment from Debbie Wasserman on Doug Shulman’s statement because as far as she is concerned the mandate doesn’t exist:

At an April 5 town hall meeting in Fort Lauderdale (see video below), a constituent asked Wasserman Shultz where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandate that individuals buy health insurance. She responded that the new health care law did not require individuals to buy health insurance.

In a written statement to CNSNews.com on Wednesday, her press secretary, Jonathan Beeton, said it was true that the health care law did not mandate that individuals buy health insurance and that Wasserman Schultz stood by her assertion at the townhall meeting

Baghdad Bob eat your heart out. But we shouldn’t be too surprised, after all this kind of thing runs in the Schultz family.

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