Archive for August, 2010

The thing that makes the George/Laura Bush visits the troops story…

Posted: August 12, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…so devastating to the White House is the contrast with the with the Michelle Obama’s trip to Spain.

Powerline nails it.

He’s a good man. When people can’t see that, it tells us more about them than about President Bush.

Bingo!

Memeorandum thread here

Update: Glenn certainly can sum things up in one sentence can’t he?

JUST AS THE DEMOCRATS DECIDE TO TIE REPUBLICANS TO GEORGE W. BUSH, these photos appear. Hmm.

Bazinga!

Update 2: Michelle Malkin’s site quotes the USO’s facebook page:

This morning at DFW Airport, George and Laura Bush greeted 150 (very surprised) troops as they arrived home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Their expressions were so priceless!

Bazinga!

It’s not every day that you hear Holocaust Joke first thing when you turn the TV

Posted: August 12, 2010 by datechguy in media
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but when I got downstairs Joe Scarborough making fun of Bill McCollum’s plan concerning Illegal aliens.

His point about him trailing and trying to make up ground with this is valid but saying his plan involves having them wear something yellow on the shirt just here and advising illegals “not to get on the train, they’re not taking you to Kissimmee.”

Joe I like ya but C’MON!

If I’m Imus I’m playing this clip over and over and over for the next week.

See what happens when Mika takes a week off?

Nellie King, born too early

Posted: August 11, 2010 by datechguy in baseball, oddities
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Baseball Musings announced the death of Pirates Announcer Nellie King. I wasn’t familiar with the man but something in the post on his death struck me.

He pitched two outstanding seasons in 1955 and 1956, and then was out of baseball after the 1957 season.

I looked at his stars from baseball reference.com and his stats looked ok.

What struck me was the 4 seasons and out. If he came up today he might have made enough to live pretty comfortably and with current sports medicine the injury (of which I have no details about) might have only shelved him for a season or less.

Then again the pirates would have been deprived of a fine announcer.

Pretty soon we will run out of players who played under the old reserve clause and there will be nobody with actual baseball experience to remind young ballplayers just how lucky they are to have been born after 1970.

DaTechguy’s Field guide to (Catholic) Blogs: Barb in Nebraska

Posted: August 11, 2010 by datechguy in blogs, catholic, short films/interviews, special events
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also known by her real name Barb Gillman.

We talked a little CNMC and a little blogging, her blog is here and her twitter page here

Update: For some reason the YouTube embed was going a tad wacky so if this post seemed to come and go that is why.

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