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Doctor Who Series 5 on BBC America in order today: Review The Eleventh Hour

Posted: July 24, 2010 by datechguy in doctor who
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Ok to any of my readers and all my pals who didn’t take my advice to watch Series 5 of Dr. Who on the BBC site before they were taken town, here is your last chance for you to watch them all free.

Series 5 of Doctor Who staring Matt Smith and Karen Gillian here is your chance. Starting at 9 a.m. EST they will be playing them in order starting with The Eleventh Hour and finishing with the US premiere of the finale : The Big Bang.

If you haven’t seen them I suggest you do so now, if you’ve missed any here is your chance to catch it.

Oh and one thing. The 11th hour is actually much longer than the time slot allows so it is likely they will have the cut down version. That is a shame since the cut version loses a full quarter of it’s run time and highly suffers for it.

I will be putting up quick reviews of the episodes during the day.

The Eleventh Hour is an excellent introduction to the series: Matt Smith plays the “confused” and newly regenerated Doctor with Pizazz, Karen Gillian is at her sexiest in the whole series in her police outfit, her young cousin makes a first rate Amy and the supporting characters are a lot of fun, I expected to see a few more of them to return during the series.

If possible find the full version as classic scenes such as the “food scene” and the “clothes scene” are cut mercilessly in the shortened version.

A regeneration episode is one you want to lead strong with, some succeed (Castrovalva) others don’t (The Twin Dilemma) the Eleventh Hour does.

Ranking Uncut ***** Easily in the top 3 of the season
Cut *** 1/2 Drops it like a rock not quite to the bottom.

Next Episode: The Beast Below

Update: Combom notices

My fight for faith and freedom: Amazon Review

Posted: July 24, 2010 by datechguy in amazon reviews
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My review of Sabatina James book My Fight for Faith and Freedom via the Amazon vine program is available at Amazon.com here.

Although the book was really good, I would really love to see the day when a story like this is regulated to history. I’ve read too many such stories lately and it breaks your heart.

Well there goes any sympathy I had…

Posted: July 23, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech
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It’s one thing to be angry over a situation, it’s another to decide to demagogue:

SHERROD: I know I’ve gotten past black versus white. He’s probably the person who’s never gotten past it and never attempted to get past it.

I think he would like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery. That’s where I think he would like to see all black people end up again.

COOPER: You think — you think he’s racist?

SHERROD: … I think he’s so vicious. Yes, I do.

And I think that’s why he’s so vicious against a black president, you know. He would go after me. I don’t think it was even the NAACP he was totally after. I think he was after a black president.

So. I’ve gotten by black and white but the person I don’t like is a racist who wants to return us to slavery and hates the administration because Obama is black. As opposed to the actual administration that fired her which by her interpetation did so due to an attack by a racist, or the NAACP that backed said firing even though they had full context of the videos available.

It’s one thing to be angry for a day but once you decide you are going to be part of the national debate then you are a legitimate target for comment, and if she thinks Breitbart wants to bring back slavery then yup she has lost any credibility she had and deserves any ridicule she gets from it.

As Hotair puts it:

One of the lessons of this week, supposedly, is that we should beware of caricatures in racial matters, not only because people are more complicated in practice but because the fallout from misjudgment is culturally poisonous. See, e.g., the initial clip of Sherrod versus her full NAACP speech. But here she is pushing a caricature of her own — with no evidence to support a charge this incendiary — and Cooper the journalist lets it slide, presumably because he’s squeamish about siding with Breitbart against someone who, to his audience, is a sympathetic victim..

Some people handle attention different ways. I think she is in real danger of letting this stuff go to her head. Quite a shame really.

Of course this might be the media trying to bait the right too, keeping the story alive to take copy space from Journolist. We’ll see.

Memeorandum thread here.

Update: Ed Driscoll puts it much better than I did complete with Airplane Gag.

Lets not get carried away here

Posted: July 23, 2010 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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I actually watched all the Clinton Hearings and fully supported and still support the impeachment of Bill Clinton, I trace the decline in democratic honor from the moment of the disgraceful press conference after the initial vote.

That being said, Tancredo’s case for impeachment of president Obama is just off, it has no more justification than the left’s nonsense of the same toward George W. Bush.

I think this president has been disastrous domestically and adequate at best on defense (which was way ahead of my expectations for him) but certainly not impeachable. Most of what this president has done is bad policy, bad decisions, based on a bad philosophy but you don’t impeach that. (The virtual ceding of parts of Arizona to the Mexican Cartels has potential in that direction but we are nowhere near there yet).

Clinton directly lied to a grand jury, this is an actual crime, and he used the power of the presidency to cover that, he was disbarred for this.

There is nothing that Barack Obama has done to this point that rises to that level, being wrong or mistaken is not an impeachable offense and both legally and politically we waste our time going in that direction.

Memeorandum thread here.

Oh and one note, I’m not arguing that Clinton was a worse president than our current one or was worse for the country, I’m arguing the legalities and the purpose of impeachment as a constitutional tool. It should be used sparingly for actual crimes not as a political club.

Update: And of course here are the democrats also talking smack in the other direction, pure hogwash.

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