Archive for August 23, 2010

I haven’t gotten my cut? I must be doing something wrong.

Posted: August 23, 2010 by datechguy in elections, internet/free speech, opinion/news, politics
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According to Tucker Carlson (who hasn’t hired me even slightly) or more properly Jonathan Strong says at least half of conservative bloggers are getting paid for coverage.

To that I say. I wish! Today I was at the Charlie Baker event in Framingham. I got up at 5, filled up the car, bought batteries and spent 95 minutes on the road at Rush Hour to get to Forte’s Parts connection in Framingham where he was appearing. Once there Interviewed the owner, one of his competitors who was there for the appearance, Charlie Baker, Mary Connaughton (Candidate for Auditor) and two state rep candidates Ed McGrath and Chris Resmini. I walked in the door back home just after 12 noon.

Once I got home I started uploading pictures and videos so they could be posted and shared with people interested in Massachusetts races. If you have to count the dollars I got for doing this, I’d say it amounts to nearly…..nearly one. Call it none.

I am very out of work and have been for a long time. If any of the people that the Daily caller seems to know wants to help kick in to pay for this I’d be more than happy to take their money. If candidates who want coverage want to pay me to go anywhere in the country to cover their story, I’d love to do it, but the daily caller not withstanding it’s more like what Robert Stacy said today:

Most conservative bloggers are part-timers, for whom a couple of hundred dollars a month would be a godsend. Trying to “monetize” Web traffic is a notoriously difficult task, and even successful full-time bloggers aren’t exactly “farting through silk,” to borrow P.J. O’Rourke’s colorful phrase.

That’s me all over, so Tucker if you know republicans willing to finance conservative bloggers send them right over.

Oh and here are the photos from the appearance:

Update: memeorandum thread here

The Morning Joe crew in their obsession with …

Posted: August 23, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…blaming the Mosque opponent for everything from Bigotry to trouble in Afghanistan are missing the most important card in the deck.

As we speak the Ground Zero Mosque is functioning as…a Mosque. Americans Muslims are currently worshiping there. It is right now a Mosque.

Americans are not going to force other Americans to vacate a place of worship without their consent. We who oppose the mosque like myself are not about to kick people out of the place where they are praying.

We will do our best to persuade them it is a bad idea, we will likely offer private and public concessions to try to get them to move, but if they choose to stay, then they will stay.

The Anchoress Nails it…

Posted: August 23, 2010 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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…but only because she gets it right:

One of my husband’s friends–hated Bush, loved Obama and defended him vociferously for the first year, less passionately the second–told him over lunch this week that he’s done with Obama and “I never thought I’d say this but I miss Bush. We knew that he said what he meant, even if we didn’t want to hear it. We knew who he was, even if we didn’t like him. And we never had to wonder whether he liked us. He always did.”

And that is it, in a nutshell. Bush is missable, because we miss having a president whose affection for his country and its people–even the ones who hated him–was never in doubt.

We miss Bush because he never lectured us or harangued us, and when people disagreed with him, they were not immediately called names in an attempt to simply shut up debate.

This is an awful lot like a person who sick of the faults of their Husband of wife takes off with someone who promises them something different and exciting. For a time different and exciting is fun, but sooner or later the hard work of actually living together takes place and reality takes over.

George W. Bush was and is a decent and honorable man, who did what he thought was right and never went after people who absolutely despised him. Remember this?

Do you think that Obama could have shaken that kind of thing off like President Bush did? I think not.

Memeorandum thread here.

btw: The title and first line of this post is in keeping with my plan of writing posts in the style of the New York Times Editorial page in the hopes of landing a plum writing job.

Sure it’s legal but that’s only because it’s not against the law!

Posted: August 23, 2010 by datechguy in congress, media, politics, the courts
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I know there are times when I hit the publish button much too fast, or accidentally erase a word or two but this is the New York Times, they have you know editors?

But many of Mr. DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them.

and just to show they are fair minded they point out that Nancy Pelosi is also not breaking the law in the very same way! Does that mean they want her to resign?

Hey once we start permitting actions just because they aren’t illegal where will it end? Apparently in Nicaragua.

All last week we heard about Blago, being “vindicated” after he was found guilty of a single charge out of over a dozen, There has been commentary hitting the prosecution for bringing such a poor case. We won’t hear the same complaints about what happened to Delay because as an effective republican he meets the “Just Because” standard.

Can someone please explain to me why these people have a writing job and I don’t?

Memeorandum thread here.

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