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Those methodists are at it again

Posted: March 30, 2009 by datechguy in oddities, opinion/news
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Newsbusters notices something missing concerning a shooting in Minnesota:

We have a shooting incident in Minnesota perpetrated by three Muslim Somali immigrants but for some reason almost every single media report about the incident omits the names of the shooters, names of obvious North African origin. So, the question is, did the Old Media in Minnesota purposefully leave the names unreported so that they could cover up the fact that the criminals were Somali immigrants? And, if so, why would they do this?

How about that!

Morning Joe You take my money so I’m the boss

Posted: March 30, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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The talk of the town is GM and my son is finally sleeping in his own room so I’m blogging again:

6:01 a.m. Richard Hass says get used to it with the GM stuff.

6:04 a.m. The North Korea and the Cig Tax are the really big stories but they don’t understand that.

6:09 a.m. Company’s will think twice about taking money in the future.

6:13 a.m. The best route might have been bankruptcy? DUH!

6:17 a.m. I guess that Etheridge joke is sorta an Obama joke.

6:20 a.m. No progress on anything at G20 did anyone expect any?

6:21 a.m. Why do they love the LA Times?

6:22 a.m. You know everyone is going to die of something

6:27 a.m. They are having Danny Hannan the loud the English MP. It would be a lot more interesting if they had him in the 7:00 hour when more people are watching.

6:36 a.m. “They are following Obama blindly”

6:38 a.m. It’s funny he has been saying it for a year and nobody noticed, I guess it’s location location location.

6:40 a.m. Talking about accounting tricks, why do people follow. He answers that frenzied activity can give the impression that you actually know what you are doing and they won’t admit they are wrong so they carry on.

6:45 a.m. He closes on the comparison between the head of the Bank of England and Bilbo Baggins and points out Bilbo was right in the end.

6:59 a.m. The Sham Wow guy is getting hit now.

7:01 a.m. brb

7:13 a.m. What kind of question was that? I’m not much on Steele but that was a stupid question and Joe and Mika are nailing it.

7:15 a.m. Jon is trying to avoid the racist angle of the question and Mika is answering a call from her kids.

7:24 a.m. I must confess I have no interest in college basketball.

7:28 a.m. Wagner is a “sacrifical lamb” says the Guv on Michigan.

7:30 a.m. Then again if these guys were making cars people wanted at a price we can afford then they wouldn’t need this stuff.

7:35 a.m. Ariana is a bit of a nut but she is certainly a handsome woman.

7:39 a.m. Rangel has a real point in that clip. Doesn’t change his tax situation.

7:41 a.m. Yeah Arianna is going to be investigating democrats I believe that.

7:49 a.m. Putting the people in charge who messed it up is foolish as they all seem to agree.

7:51 a.m. The mainstreaming of the Nation magazine and of Katrina Vanden Heuvel in particular is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen over the last decade. The amazing thing is she is just as much of a pro soviet, pro socialist, pro communist, the US is evil etc as she ever was. It is the press that books her that have become more radical.

8:02 a.m. Burns was the only reason to read the NYT concerning Iraq.

8:26 a.m. You know people go after the US for it’s wealth but they forget that that wealth end up supporting a lot of people all over the world.

8:27 a.m. Fertility isn’t the problem, corruption is.

8:32 a.m. The New York Times already tried that, remember how well that went Joe?

8:34 a.m. My Brother had a Fiat 128.

8:38 a.m. Katrina uses the “reset” word with Russia she doesn’t follow the news much does she?

8:42 a.m. Oh it is Neo Nazi’s killing people not Putin. Does she actually believe that? Oh it is Yelsin’s fault.

8:43 a.m. Joe is calling her on it. Yup she is still pro-soviet.

8:45 a.m. She compares Putin favorably to Bush as a “democrat”. This should be required watching by everyone who wasn’t born before the wall fell so you can see what a soviet apologist actually looks like.

…or he might hear some trouble over this:

The government of Rio de Janeiro is building concrete walls to prevent sprawling slums from spreading farther into the picturesque hills of this world-famous tourist destination, an official said on Saturday.

Construction has begun in two favelas, or shantytowns, in the southern districts of Rio de Janeiro, a government spokeswoman told Reuters. One of the two is Morro Dona Marta, which police occupied in November to control crime and violence caused mostly by rival drug gangs.

Officials say the wall is to protect the remaining native forest but critics fear the move could be seen as discriminatory and become a blemish symbolizing Brazil’s deep divisions between rich and poor.

What I think is behind this is ceeding an area of the city to the mobs and gangs rather than risking police and services. Eventually you will see a Mafia type feudal society that collects tribute and provides “services” in return for loyality.

This is the natural end result of the mirror image crimes of ignoring social ills and not opposing violent crime. In my opinion it is exactly the type of society the leaders of the small group of marchers in Oakland would like to see, with their groups playing the role of the lord of the manor.

It’s news but it’s sad

Posted: March 29, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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You know like many I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. He has been wrong on most foreign policy issues for over 35 years, but there is something about him that just hits you as right. He was clearly the most qualified candidate on the democratic side and would be a far better president (don’t laugh) than our current one.

That being said the story concerning his daughter is news and can’t be suppressed particularly since the act is illegal, but I think it’s an ugly one.

As the father of teenage sons this could be any one of us. I trust I’ve taught my kids well enough to avoid this idiocy but you just never know. The partisan in me remembers the sensitivity that the left showed Governor Palin’s and her teenage daughter in a difficult time but the parent in me has to trump it. I feel bad for old Joe but the daughter is an adult you can only teach them right and hope for the best. If they want to be idiots when they are grown no power on earth is going to stop them.

If a law has been broken it has to be enforced particularly when involving the daughter of the VP, but anyone who shows delight in this kind of think has never been a parent worried about their kids.

Update: Looks like Don Surber and Captain Ed are a lot smarter than me. I do feel happy for Joe, he has enough on his plate already.