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The Georgia Massachusetts Axis of hatred

Posted: September 17, 2009 by datechguy in baseball, fun
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Considering the nature of the McCain/Johnson fight I can’t get this clip from the movie One Two Three out of my head. Key moment comes at :45

Although he denies hatred of Yankees citing his wife, when people as universally respected * as James Edwards, Charles Johnson and Michelangelo Signorile talk attention must be paid.

So I have a blockbusting confession to make. Here in Massachusetts the bluest of blue states Yankee hatred is so prevalent that at the Butcher shop there is a photo that says:

Red Sox fan’s 10% off, Yankeee Fans F— Off

With the exception of Berra and Jeter I must confess that I share that unyeilding Yankee hatred.

Oh and I strongly advise not watching the Movie it has horrible scenes of torture.

Where is Human Rights Watch when you need them, drop the Nazi medals and get on the case!

* Full Disclosure I didn’t specify which universe

Can’t anybody play this game?

Posted: September 17, 2009 by datechguy in fun, opinion/news
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Nancy Pelosi sure can’t:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she is clueless about an amendment to prohibit government funds for embattled ACORN, although it overwhelmingly passed the Senate Monday and the White House is calling for the group to be held accountable.

Via that Beck supporting, Breitbart interviewing, “9/12 crowd truther” Glenn Reynolds.

(I’m having way too much fun with this meme today)

Meghan McCain nails it

Posted: September 17, 2009 by datechguy in oddities
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She hasn’t been right much lately but when she is she is in spades:

John McCain’s daughter Meghan has a message for 19-year-old Levi Johnston, who has been on a media tour slamming John’s former running mate Sarah Palin.

“I think he should go back to Alaska and take care of his baby, which he claims that he wants to be doing, but I just see him going to events,”

I enjoy politics but reality trumps it. She isn’t conservative enough for my tastes in politics but if either of my sons brought her home I would not be displeased. (Except she is a tad too old for at least the youngest)

I can see the LGF headline now…

Posted: September 17, 2009 by datechguy in fun, opinion/news
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…Glenn Reynolds links false conspiracy theory suggesting 500k plus people at 9/12 march:

What can we take away from this exercise? Here are the main points:

* The estimate widely used in the legacy media is not from an authoritative source, and it isn’t even consistent with itself: “full back to 3rd Street” is around 250,000 by Park Sevice methods, not a quarter of that.
* Many estimates, using different assumptions and different methods, arrived at numbers well into the hundreds of thousands.
* This is clearly consistent with the panoramic photo that we can source reliably.
* With everything above, and with several more estimates, I don’t think there is a plausible argument for any total attendance figure much less that 500,000 to 600,000. That is, nearly ten times the reported attendance.

How much does this matter? It’s hard to say. It might be that a precise number isn’t needed, and at any rate it may not be possible to get a good one. What we can say is that the number being reported is wildly wrong. Wildly too small.In any case, the number that will really matter is the count at the polls in 2010 and 2012. Given this, I’d say that any politicians who hope to retain their jobs better look very carefully at that panoramic photo — and remember.

Sounds like a Glenn Beck fan to me, if only he based his posts on more credible sources, such as Press releases from Color of Change or Acorn.

Update fixed the block quote and added the fun catagory, I’m going to be laughing a lot today.

Update 2: I have it! He’s a 9/12 crowd truther!

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