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DaTechGuy on DaRadio 9 p.m. EST with Little Miss Attila PLUS some great deals from our advertisers!

Posted: January 22, 2011 by datechguy in blogger for hire, blogs, DaTechGuy on DaRadio
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Tonight Little Miss Attila Joins us from the left coast for DaTechGuy on DaRadio.

Her posts may take a minimalist approach but her opinions sure don’t. Last week I suggested Glenn Reynolds would be a tough act to follow and her reaction was:

I can beat Glenn Reynolds any day of the week. Especially on a Saturday.

Well tonight at 9 p.m. on AM 830 WCRN we will find out if it’s true, and if you are on the left coast and wish to listen to the The scourge of the blogosphere from the WCRN web site:

Also we welcome two new advertisers to our show including some special offers:

Our first new advertiser is Central Plaza Pizza 220 Main Street in Townsend Ma. They not only have great food (try their new half pound burgers) and a killer pinball machine and a nice flat screen TV with the games on, but they have a bonus you won’t believe. Go there for a bite to eat (or even just a soda) write your name and number on the back of your receipt drop it in the jar and you’re entered for a monthly drawing for two tickets to see the Boston Bruins at the Garden! A great meal and a chance to win Bruins tickets? If that’s not worth a call to 978-597-2223 or trip to Townsend I’d like to know what is? (and don’t forget to mention you heard about it from DaTechGuy).

Our second new advertiser is T & R Custom Automotive 621 Lancaster Street Leominster, MA right on route 117. Not only do they repair everything from the family car to dump trucks and John Deere Tractors. Not only do they do bodywork, general repairs and detailing, not only do they offer used cars and a low price, but for the next few weeks they are running a DaTechGuy on DaRadio special. Starting tomorrow mention their ad on DaTechGuy on DaRadio when you call 978-401-0364 and get $10 an hour off labor!

With gas prices where they are that can ad up to a few more gallons in your tank once your car is up and running!

Finally one of our first advertisers Aaron Pallet 150 Benson Street Fitchburg is offering a deal to new customers who find them through DaTechGuy on DaRadio. Mention their ads on DaTechGuy on DaRadio and get 5% off your first Pallet order. So your small or large business not only gets Aaron Pallet’s decades of quality and dedication but you get an extra 5% in your pocket.

Please patronize these and all our advertisers from the 5th Street diner (134 Harvard St. next to Romano’s Mkt and the 5th street Bridge) , to Joyce’s Pies and Bakery 580 N Main St, Leominster (my favorite is the Key Lime Pie)

From DLott’s Insurance (in the same building as Joyce’s Pies call 508-277-1427 for a quote or ask at Formal Attire) to The Natural discount shop 614 N Main Street (Killer Rootbeer there)

From the FCA flight center at Fitchburg Airport (only $59 gets you in the air for your 1st lesson) to Bee’s Shipping (908)-656-3941 (the best and most cost effective way to ship to Ghana, Liberia, Guinea or Nigeria with pickup points in New york, NY, New Haven,Hartford and East Hartford CT, Leominster, Fitchburg and Worcester, MA and Newark & Elizabeth, NJ)

From Sharp Designs Hair Salon at their new location 360 Summer Street (say hi to Bernadette for me). To Little’s Floor Covering at 359 Summer right across the street from Sharp Designs.

From Linguini’s Italian Eatery 350 Boston Post Road West Route 20 in Marlborough (two words Chicken Pizzola) to Putnam Street Lanes 14 Putnam St Fitchburg (remember show up for the creation of Tea Party bowling team (or teams) Wednesday Jan 26th at 6 p.m.).

Remember these people and all the others who have advertised with me make the show possible. When you support our advertisers and thank them for advertising on DaTechGuy on DaRadio you are helping me support my family without having to hit DaTipJar so on my family’s behalf thank you for your patronage to all of our advertisers.

I’m official for CPAC

Posted: January 20, 2011 by datechguy in blogs, DaTechGuy on DaRadio, special events
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DaTechGuy back at CPAC

I am once again going to be a credentialed blogger at CPAC. it will be an opportunity to catch up with all the folks I met last year, interview a bunch more people, touch base with potential guests and hopefully suggest to potential advertisers that Glenn Reynolds evaluation of my radio show is spot on:

Given that it’s a 50,000 watt station that blankets New England — including New Hampshire — I would have expected that a show reaching so many bloggers and Tea Party types would be running national political ads, but either (1) it’s too early for those yet, or (2) those advertisers just haven’t caught on yet. If not, they’re missing out, I think.

And of course if anyone is in a position to kick in and give a hand to defray the costs this year DaTipJar is right here.

The Reclusive Leftist weighs in

Posted: January 18, 2011 by datechguy in blogs, internet/free speech
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One of days I must have the Reclusive Leftist on my show on the subject of Sarah Palin and the left. We disagree on almost everything else but she has been willing from day one to call out her fellow leftists on Palin Derangement syndrome.

I finally had a chance to take a peek at her blog to see what she had to say about the last week and she wrote a series of post that confirmed her dislike of the right but were as honest as the day was long.

She started on the 9th:

As soon as I heard the news Saturday and read an online article (forget where) with the gleanings from the guy’s various communiques, that was my impression. Mind control, grammar, the possible constitutional ramifications and/or mind control of said grammar, strange obsessions with the currency and its frightening message to trust in God, nonsensical ramblings: it could be a page out of Vaslav Nijinksy’s diary. It’s not just the content, but the style. Classic paranoid schizophrenia.

So imagine my surprise when I checked in on the news later last night and saw that Sarah Palin had been blamed for the shooting.

In the post she insults the tea party but that doesn’t stop her from seeing nonsense for what it is.

Later that same day she reminds us of some of the non violent memes of the lefts opposition to Sarah Palin and says:

That’s right. He was busy calling for Hillary Clinton’s death and then, when Clinton was over, foaming at the mouth about

Palin hunt image via the reclusive leftist

Sarah Palin. Lots of people were foaming at the mouth about Sarah Palin. There was the “art” exhibit in New York inviting people to play at shooting her with a rifle. She was hung in effigy in Los Angeles. Sandra Bernhardt said she should be raped, and not a few other people gleefully called for her death.

Was there any outrage about this at the time? Only from people like me, who were running around with our hair on fire, screaming to our allegedly “progressive” brethren and sistren “UR DOIN IT WRONG!!!!!” Everybody else seemed to think it was just fine. After all, Sarah Palin really did deserve to be raped and murdered and shot and lynched because she’s a foul c*** who needs to die, so what was wrong with saying so? Lighten up, bitch. What are you, a secret Republican?

And again she is the reclusive leftist so she makes it clear what she thinks of Sarah Palin’s political positions:

Sarah Palin is a Republican. That’s all. She’s just a silly rightwing Republican. The country’s crawling with them. Look, they’re all around you! They’re your county supervisors, state senators, congresspeople, governors, and former presidents. Remember Bush? Remember Reagan? Sarah Palin didn’t invent any of this stuff. She didn’t invent any of the ideas or any of the rhetoric. She certainly didn’t invent extremist violence, nor does she seem to be in any way connected with that kind of thing. She’s just an ordinary idiot Republican who believes ordinary idiot Republican things, like the millions of other ordinary idiot Republicans in this country.

What is it about her that’s so special? What could it possibly be that makes this utterly ordinary idiot Republican somehow a billion times worse than all the rest?

…and she gives her explanation but go to the link and read it, she deserves the hits.

Finally on the 16th she hits it out of the park on RFK Jr’s essay:

He just wanted to talk about the dangers of right-wing hate. Okay, fine. That’s cool. Let’s talk about it. But still: how do you leave out the sentence about Oswald? As a writer, how do you do that? I couldn’t. It feels obligatory. You write this highly-charged essay, you make a big deal about how ugly the right-wing stuff was in Dallas, you evoke the horror of the president’s death; even if you want your takeaway message to be about the dangers of superheated rhetoric, how do you leave out the undeniable historical reality that Oswald was cut from an entirely different bolt of cloth? Even if you tuck it in as a parenthetical throwaway (”of course, ironically…”), you still have to acknowledge it. Don’t you?

I had just about persuaded myself to forget about it—chalk it up to a single editorial decision not to muddy the main point—when I learned today that Eric Boehlert wrote an extremely similar essay in 2009: A President was killed the last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this. It’s exactly the same argument RFK Jr. makes, and with exactly the same stunning omission. No Oswald! Oswald has simply disappeared. He’s gone. And everything that motivated the man is gone. No Cuba, no Fidel, no Soviet Union, no Marxism, no Communism, no nothing. There’s not even a nod to Oswald’s real motive, which was the inchoate longing to be somebody, to be a great man, to be important.

Read this whole essay, yeah it’s hard on the right, but it’s honest and fair and from the left.

I will never agree with the Reclusive Leftist on religion, abortion, George Bush and a million other issues, but boy do I respect her.

Update: Thanks for the lanche Glenn but thanks even more for linking to Violet, honest leftists should be celebrated. BTW Insty readers make sure you read all three of her posts on the subject.

Update 2: A lot of readers think that I’m giving Violet too much credit. Remember a lot of us on the right were once on the left, it took a while for us to get it, its not a switch. If you want to let people find their way to truth the best way is to encourage them along the way.

Charles Johnson commits projection: UPDATE I spelled Jim name wrong “Hoff” vs “Hoft” Update 2: “Hoft’s revenge”

Posted: January 15, 2011 by datechguy in blogs, internet/free speech
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I must confess when I saw this story at gateway pundit

On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that they were surprised by the applause at the memorial pep rally on Wednesday for the victims of the Tucson shootings.

I will say that I read the speech several times and thought that there wouldn’t be a lot of applause if any. I think many of us thought that. But I think there was a celebration, again, of the lives of those who had been impacted. Not just at that grocery store but throughout the country. And I think that, if that is part of the healing process, then that’s a good thing.

Oh really?
Then why was it printed on the Jumbotron?

my first thought was: “It has to be a photoshop, not even this administration can be that crass and/or foolish.”

Some of Jim commentators suggest it was closed captioning. Assuming that is correct it seems to me odd that the “applause” tag would have been fed into the feed if the jumbotron was simply for the audience (who being there could see it without being told). Also since the remarks were prepared remarks it suggests that those applause markers would have been pre-programmed too. A bit tacky to say the least, but I don’t know for sure and a little digging from people there can establish the truth. I’m willing to give the admin the benefit of the doubt till then.

What IS much more interesting is Charles Johnson’s reaction. Not that he is hitting Jim Hoft, at this point anyone right of media matters is the enemy to Charles. What is absolutely classic is this bit:

Since Hoft likes to float these smears and then delete them when it finally sinks through his dense cranial matter that they make him look like an idiot, here’s a screenshot:

I am not aware of Jim Hoft deleting posts however Charles Johnson’s efforts in trying to change is history has been documented which prompted this classic line from Tim Blair:

Little Green Footballs is becoming littler by the day.

Interesting note, do a bing search for “jim hoff” deleting posts and you get 39 results. Do the same with “Charles Johnson” instead of “Jim Hoff” and you get 89,100 results as of 5:07 p.m. today. That isn’t just projection, that’s a 12 screen multiplex with features offered in 3D. UPDATE: It would help if I spelled Jim’s name right. The corrected search is below.

I’m certainly not inclined to take Mr. Johnson’s word concerning Mr. Hoft (who I met at Blogcon and had the pleasure of interviewing) when it comes to bad form by a blogger, but he is welcome to provide actual evidence to back the slander libel up. Till then it is just another case of Mr. Johnson signaling that he continues to need our prayers. Remember while there is life there is hope and no soul is worth abandoning.

Plus I like happy endings.

Update: It’s been pointed out that slander is spoken and libel is print, corrected to reflect that.

Update: BIG correction I misspelled Jim name, the search should have been “Jim Hoft” redid the post with the right spelling and redid the search. Number of results is 3120 vs Johnson’s 89,100. My very big bad.

Update 2: Revenge is a dish best served ironic:

Yesterday Charles Johnson was praising this far left crackpot for blaming conservatives for the Tuscon shootings.

Today that same freak was arrested and charged with with threats and intimidation and disorderly conduct.

Jim finishes with this gem:

UPDATE: Fuller will undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Charles is still on the loose.

Mr. Fuller at least has an explanation for his actions having recently suffered the trauma of a gunshot wound. No word on what Mr. Johnson’s excuse is.

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