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Morning Joe almost Beclowns itself…

Posted: January 8, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…by featuring Mike Allen’s “Scoop” concerning Sarah Palin that she actually wrote all about in her book months ago.

After a long segment pushing this scoop. Willie gives one sentence as Allen fades acknowledging that Palin already wrote about these things.

I guess they are trying to cover themselves a-la Luke in Yes Prime Minister buried in a 189 page report on one paragraph on page 107.

Why do I get the feeling that someone in the place saw the instapundit link this morning just before it was broadcast and fed Willie that fact about the book just in time to cover him?

You know there is a reason why MSNBC is in last place, it’s stuff like this.

Checking the ground for Brown

Posted: January 8, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/news
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Today I’m going to be meeting a friend of mine at the local coffee shop for lunch. They have first rate fish so it will be hopping a bit.

After lunch I’ll hit Romano’s to pick up something to cook for supper.

It is a great opportunity to make an experiment, I’m going to bring up the Brown Race and see what people say.

Let’s see if there is any excitement. His abortion stance certainly doesn’t excite me…

…but the Boston Phoenix must be actually scared because they are trying to paint him as anti-abortion…I wish.

Update: The Right Wing Gaming room left a comment on my earlier post concerning the subject. He lives in a different part of the state so It will be very interesting to see if he is hearing different things than I am. How about it fellow gamer, what are you hearing up in the Northeast corner of the state?

I admit I don’t believe it myself…

Posted: January 7, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…but it should be pointed out that this is still only the first year of the Obama administration. There is actually plenty of time for things to actually be turned around.

I don’t think that this administration is capable of doing so, but to deny that possibility is simply wrong. As I recall Reagan’s first year numbers were pretty poor.

The problem is he will have to govern more like a president and a less like a Chicago machine pol.

That is unlikely but I’m a Catholic and with God all things are possible.

Did I hear Mika refer to radical Islam as a cult?

Posted: January 7, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news, war
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Either that or suggest it is like a cult?

I have a pal, very Roman Catholic who has always considered Islam as a whole a Satanic cult. I don’t think I would go there myself, but I think cult is one of the best ways to describe Radical Islam.

If you think of it as a cult their beliefs, their methods and their violence make perfect sense, personally I think of it more as a Mafia family but either way it pressures even those outside of it to conform or suffer the consequences.

If we are going to actually win this war two things are necessary, the first is to separate Radical Islam from mainline Islam and the second is to call Radical Islam what it is:

A dangerous and murderous group that is totally incomparable with democratic and free society that has to be at best restrained and at worst destroyed.

The biggest danger of radical Islam is for it to become “mainstream” within Islam. If it does and/or becomes the most prominent sect of Islam then we will have an actual war against Islam to fight. Even a win would be disastrous as the slaughter would be horrible.

All our efforts should be to prevent the above from happening, because if we don’t then the cost for stopping it will increase dramatically.

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