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The Kagan vote of Arlen Specter will be quite interesting

Posted: July 1, 2010 by datechguy in oddities, opinion/news
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Glenn Reynolds links to this post at Cato concerning Specter’s questioning of Kagan and dissatisfaction with her answers.

The most memorable part of today’s first session of questioning (9am till after 1pm) was undoubtedly Arlen Specter pressing the nominee to answer questions about various lawsuits of special concern to him … Specter was extremely dissatisfied, to the point where his vote is legitimately in doubt.

Why is this so interesting? Well Specter’s time in the senate will be over in January. He has been rejected by democratic primary voters and no longer needs to please him and can’t and won’t get anything from Republicans. Thus for the first time in decades has absolutely no political skin in the game.

This vote will likely be one of the few times where he will be voting solely on what he actually thinks. I don’t know if anyone really cares but it will be interesting to see.

Amazon vine review: Secret Clinical Strength, Light and Fresh Scent-Advanced Solid

Posted: June 19, 2010 by datechguy in amazon reviews, oddities
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One of the interesting things about the Amazon Vine program is that you aren’t just reviewing books, you often get a chance to review various products that are offered. Once in a while they are rather exciting and people rush to get them, such as treadmills, computer servers and mp3 players. When those are up for grabs it is like a department store at Christmas during the Tickle me Elmo Craze.

Other times there are everyday products that nobody thinks of “wasting” their freebies on, after all what’s so exciting about an underarm solid?

Well I disagree with that idea. If there is a product that you would use anyway I see no reason not to get it though the vine program and actually save yourself a few bucks while getting something useful.

And on that note my review of Secret Clinical Strength advanced solid through the Amazon vine program is available at amazon.com here.

One other nice thing about such a review is that because the only thing at state is wetness, people will judge such a review by what is said. Of course the review is short and to the point, how many different ways can you say your underarm stuff either works or doesn’t?

I would never ever try to snarf…

Posted: June 15, 2010 by datechguy in oddities, opinion/news, tea parties
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…Stacy’s attempt to snarf Perez Hilton’s “Naked Miley Cyrus Upskirt Photo” googlebomb or even latch onto his attempt to get traffic from the “Britney Spears naked upskirt” post either, but there is an actual legitimate point to be made here to wit:

Would any girl wearing a short skirt get out of a car that way? Especially a very famous girl who knows that every move she makes in public is being photographed by 50 paparazzi? And especially if she was only 17 and not wearing panties?

Take a look at that phrase, lets apply that to something else.

Explain to me again how (assuming that the photo is not a fake) how it is possible that we have this (or the Britney Spears photo) but we don’t have any video of the supposed Tea Party/Black Caucus Nancy Pelosi “incident”? Oh I forgot, according to Jon Meacham the lack of evidence doesn’t matter

I wonder how much interest Andrew Breitbart has earned on that 100k since March?

Something hit me today…

Posted: June 13, 2010 by datechguy in oddities
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Civil War Monument at Monument Square

When I attended and covered the Twin City Flag day event in Monument Square in Leominster something that I had thought of a few days a go struck me.

If you do any amount of driving in Massachusetts and New Hampshire it is totally impossible to pass through any city or small town without seeing monuments to civil war vets or any others for that matter. In Fitchburg for example we have monuments to Civil War vets, Spanish American War Vets, WW 1 vets, WW 2 vets and Vietnam vets.

WW 2 Monument in Fitchburg

I spent a week in Georgia, I drove through many towns, other than the large Stone Mountain Memorial I didn’t see a single statue in a single square. Not one, zip zero nada. The only marker of any type I saw was a marker for the grave of unknown confederate dead at a cemetery as I passed in Stone Mountain

Unknown confederate dead at Stone Mountain

Now I presume that the people of Georgia once they were done rebuilding from General Sherman’s war, found the funds to put up some kind of monuments in towns etc. Am I wrong about this or were the monuments once there removed for the sake of better relations once the political winds changed? Was a compromise reached where monuments at graveside and significant historical ones such as Stone Mountain would stay and the rest go? I have no idea

I’m sure something like that must be the case, but it just struck me as odd. Does anyone out there know for sure?

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