…maybe even a little later but I’ve got to get myself organized in some more straightforward way if I’m going to avoid being in this mess again.
I’m thinking on it….
Archive for May, 2010
Well D-Day is still scheduled for D-Day…
Posted: May 3, 2010 by datechguy in personalTags: unemployment
Welcome to The Carmelite
Posted: May 3, 2010 by datechguy in catholic, personalTags: blogs, catholic, Da blog children
A friend of mine has just become my latest blogchild. She is a former SEPD teacher locally and blogs under the name The Carmelite.
As indicated by the name she will be writing on the Catholic Church and it’s teaching etc. She has taught courses on the Church at local parishes and at local community colleges and has been a guest speaker locally on Catholic Faith and doctrine.
You can find her first post on the search for God here. Stop by and say hello.
A very friendly invitation to Pa-12
Posted: May 3, 2010 by datechguy in blogger for hire, elections, opinion/news, personalTags: 2010 elections, andrew sullivan, pa-12, robert stacy mccain, Roxeanne De Luca, tim burns
Stacy McCain continues to beat the Bushes to find the details in Pa-12 and some of these seem to be familiar:
While I was at Burns campaign HQ Friday, I interviewed a registered Democrat from Fayette County who stopped by the office to pick up a yard sign. This was a blue-collar working man who had voted for Murtha in the past, but who has no use at all for the agenda currently being pushed by Obama and Nancy Pelosi.
Again we have a situation where a district was comfortable with a longtime member of congress and perhaps looking the other way on certain things because he brought home the bacon and had power, but now that he’s gone people will now vote their own interest.
Where have I seen this before?
I was kinda busy this weekend so I missed Robert Stacy’s & Roxeanne’s suggestion concerning PA 12.
I don’t mind doing the drive down there although the election is on my Birthday so the family might be a tad annoyed, but if the time to panic is at hand any kind of thing that generates income is welcome.
So if you want to the DaTipJar to send me to PA 12, that’s great. (Specify PA-12 in the comment) Stacy’s calculations leave out any kind of Hotel or place to sleep but we are talking 10 hours down and ten hours back. Assuming I can get a cheap hotel for $50 a night. If I can Get $500 by the end of the week to DaTipJar then I’ll head down. If by the 8th I have said $500 I’ll pick a day to head there. For every extra $250 a day that comes in I’ll add an extra day. (That covers hotel plus my fee).
It’s all up to you guys. Should I stay or should I go, or to put it another way: Is what I do here worth it to you? Excitable Andrew actually managed to raise $80k a year to blog independently from his readers before he got his Atlantic gig. What would this on site reporting be worth to you?
Once every 41 years? Morning Joe lets the cat out of the bag…
Posted: May 3, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: drilling, economy, energy, gulf oil spill, morning joe, obama administration, reality, sarah palin
…While Charlie Crist and environmental activists and democrats jump all over the oil spill in the gulf Morning Joe accidentally undermined their argument while bringing on an environmental activist to argue against the drilling.
There are a ton of wells in the gulf and in Alaska etc that produce oil every single day. Joe asked why people weren’t prepared for this and the answer was because the last time something like this happened was 1969.
Run that number through your head and think of the reality once again:
Basically an industry that provides a vast amount of energy for the country has a bad accident once every two generations that might take say six months to a year to clean?
Think about the things we wouldn’t do if we judged what we do because of a problem once every 40 years.
The people who are suddenly running away from drilling are using Rahm rule of never wasting a crisis and have decided not to waste this one. Tens of thousands of high paying jobs in the worst economy we have seen in 70 years are going to be sacrificed due to the political advantage for the left.
Palin is exactly right on this, and moreover she is proving that she is one of the only pols with the guts to say the truth:
All responsible energy development must be accompanied by strict oversight, but even with the strictest oversight in the world, accidents still happen. No human endeavor is ever without risk – whether it’s sending a man to the moon or extracting the necessary resources to fuel our civilization. I repeat the slogan “drill here, drill now” not out of naiveté or disregard for the tragic consequences of oil spills – my family and my state and I know firsthand those consequences. How could I still believe in drilling America’s domestic supply of energy after having seen the devastation of the Exxon-Valdez spill? I continue to believe in it because increased domestic oil production will make us a more secure, prosperous, and peaceful nation.
The question is who else will have the guts or political will to say this aloud
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