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Archive for November, 2010
Quote of the Day: “There should have been more fat people”
Posted: November 11, 2010 by datechguy in odditiesTags: big bang theory, comedy, I wish I said that
Fatwa on Bruce Majors? Then I am Bruce Majors!
Posted: November 11, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speechTags: bruce majors, fatwa, I am Bruce Majors, radical islam, tea party
Got an e-mail today informing me that another American has a FATWA against him:
Moslems in Eritrea, following MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s lead, have declared Jihad against me, a “racist American homosexual,” because of my Visitor’s Guide to DC for tea partiers attending Glenn Beck’s and other rallies
The tea party is made up of people of all different races, religions, sexual preference and locations but bottom line is we are all Americans, and as far as I’m concerned if Moslems in Eritrea are coming after Bruce Majors, then they are coming after me.
I am Bruce Majors and so is every American who believes in free speech. And if you aren’t, you ought to be.
Update and here is my flag!
We are all Bruce Majors!
If you come for one of us you come for us all.
The unknown debt
Posted: November 11, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: history, poetry, veterans day
As the TV droned the Nurses aide
Came to clear the tray
No note of the ancient
Who seemed a world away
Down at the park the gang hung out
Sampling their weed
With no thought to the wizened guy
Whose bench was near the tree
The teller felt her day crawl on
As the customer line grew long
It was a pain that people waited
As the old man counted wrong
On the subway the teen rocked on
His earbuds rang its din
Noting of his ancient fellow
an unripe smell within
The code came through
and DNR was stamped upon the chart
a waste of dough the panel said
to fix his creaky heart
So many times when they go by
Do we avert our gaze
Forgetting what these men accomplished
In their Halcyon days
Noting not the beaches
Dyed a bloody red
That age before through firestorm
The man before them tread
Through sky and bursts
With steady eye upon the bomber sight
Ignoring their fellows fall
Through the terror of the night
At station stood upon his quad
While cruising through the slot
Upon a wet and oily death
The seaman. he dwelt not.
Those old eyes that we ignore
Avenged the dead at Pearl
But for them South Korea
Would be unknown to the world
In cold peacetime
They did confine
The iron curtain reach
And twas by their M1 Garands
The 1000 year Reich ceased
Yet every day we walk away
We have no time you see
What interest does that gray ole mane
Have for the likes of me?
If but a word
was asked them: “Sir
What happened in those days?”
Then first hand we’d know the path
They trod for all our sakes
So give a thought
To that old lot
Not just on Veterans Day
For in their youth
They gave to you
A gift you can’t repay
Can you help Randy Altschuler in NY-1?
Posted: November 10, 2010 by datechguy in congress, opinion/news, politics, special eventsTags: 2010 elections, election 2012, ny-1, randy altschuler
In a conference call with the ACU I was able to talk to Randy Altschuler the republican in NY-1 who currently leads the count in that district by about 600 votes.
The machines in Suffolk county have been impounded and they are being audited right now, so far no problems have been found in machines. In addition 11k absentee ballots are still to be counted and there is a slight advantage in republican ballots to be tallied.
The other side is as you can guess is suing to force a full hand recount of all ballots. As you might realize one of the strategies for stealing an election is to keep recounting until you can disqualify enough ballots of your opponent or allow enough ballots of your own to be counted till you get a lead and then stop at once.
As you can guess this is a cash intensive problem to pay for lawyers and watchers to make sure everything remains on the up and up. Can you help?
You can contribute online at Randy’s site here or if you wish you can send checks to:
Randy Altschuler Recount Fund
PO box 657
Stony brook NY 11790
Your help can make all the difference between a seat going to our sides or theirs.
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