Mark of The giant wakes joins the field guide via the current land of Doctor Who:
His point about people who come here by choice vs native-born Americans is well made.
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DaTechGuy’s Field Guide to (Blogcon) Bloggers: Mark Robinson from the Giant Wakes
Posted: September 14, 2010 by datechguy in blogs, short films/interviews, special eventsTags: blogcon, blogs, datechguy's field guide to (cpac) bloggers, have fedora will travel, mark robinson, short interviews, the giant wakes
Primary Election day in Massachusetts
Posted: September 14, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/news, politicsTags: 2010 elections, attorney general, auditor, election 2010, election day, guy carbone, jim mckenna, kamal jain, mary connaughton, massachusetts state elections, primary day, republican primaries, worcester county sheriff
Lots of interesting races but for me there are three that stand out for me.
Kamal Jain at the Twin City Tea Party March 2010
Mary Connaughton in Framingham August 2010
For Attorney General Guy Carbone and James McKenna are both running Sticker campaigns. Again both are more than acceptable. Carbone is paisan, his story is the story of my family, his patron saint is the patron of my church (St. Anthony di Padua) and his positions sync with mine, James McKenna is not paisan, I have no idea of his family background, but our positions also sync, I have some familiarity with his work as a prosecutor and his work with ethics and he will get my vote today.
Jim McKenna (right) at the Reading Tea party 9/2010
There are also contested primaries in the congressional races for the 5th, 3rd and 10th districts, most of the action is on the GOP side.
The other race that interests me in on the Democratic side and is local. For Worcester County Sheriff you have Tom Foley vs Scott Bove. Massachusetts is one of the few states where the Sheriff’s office is not very powerful. Foley has a long experience in law enforcement but Bove has 20 years at the prison itself as a Co. Since the primary duty is to run the prison Foley has to have my nod.
Scott Bove (D) for Sheriff
These races won’t get the press that Christine O’Donnell vs Mike Castle is getting in Delaware but the names in these small races often are where future reps, governors, and congressmen come from. The Mass GOP is building up its farm system and will be ready to play hardball in 2012.
Quick post blogcon thoughts:
Posted: September 13, 2010 by datechguy in special eventsTags: blogcon
Every blogger at one time in their lives should visit the Krusier cabana.
It is very hard to manage the trade-off between gathering info and posting it. Doing it will make you a better blogger.
The greatest pleasure of Blogcon is to see people whose company I enjoy and get to know some of them better.
The scariest thing is to realize how many of them are young enough to be my children.
The most classic moment of Blogcon was watching Cynthia Yockey give her business card to an elderly conservative volunteer for Freedomworks saying : “Obama has created a lot of conservatives”
I ended up spending several hours with Cynthia on the 11th, what a pleasant person to spend time with.
And Nice Deb is the ultimate in truth in advertising
My trips to Washington have convinced me that we would have better government if the congress and the taxi drivers of the country switched places for a week.
Steven Crowder is a deep and quiet young man.
The official fedora count is -1 but I know where they are.
To anyone I’ve shot for short interviews they will all be on YouTube today but I won’t give “official” note of them until they are on the blog.
The worst part of Blogcon was not catching more people to say goodbye.
I owe an apology to Paul Johnson of George Washington is back
Posted: September 13, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech, special events, tea partiesTags: blogcon, economics, have fedora will travel, mea culpa, obamacare, paul johnson, tea party
I interrupted his dinner at a Washington Restaurant two nights ago to interview him on camera about the tea party.
Paul Johnson at George Washington
His site has video of his appearances in costume but the most important thing on his site is the parable of the closed steakhouse:
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA A CHEF BUILT A FINE STEAKHOUSE. CUSTOMERS CAME FROM FAR AND NEAR FOR HIS SPECIAL NEW YORK STRIP WITH TWO SIDES FOR $12.95. ONE DAY A GOVERNMENT MAN CAME IN, FLASHED A BADGE, AND SAID, “THE NET COST OF THAT FOOD IN THAT PLATE IS ONLY $5.00 AND YOU CAN’T SELL IT FOR MORE THAN $6.25….
…the rest is on his site. His talk about ratios and expenses is business 101. Would that more people in the White House had his sense.
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