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Morning Joe Mika strikes back!

Posted: February 9, 2009 by datechguy in baseball, opinion/news
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Mika seems to think that the republicans are in trouble and seems to glow.

6:01 a.m. Joe corrects Mr. Summers record, it would be nice if they mentioned the daily calls between George S at ABC and the white house guys.

6:03 a.m. I think the prime the pump with wars is an unfair statement, I wouldn’t actually be surprised if President Bush actually gave that spending to buy votes on the war. If so it was a good investment.

6:12 a.m. I won isn’t an argument but I disagree, nobody is making the point that they could pass this without republicans, let us vote against it if you think the public will object.

6:16 a.m. Can Mika explain to me why a bill with at most three republicans in both houses for it is “bi-partisan” but 10 nations with troops in Iraq is the US being unilateral?

6:20 a.m. I actually think the Rodriguez business is a tad unfair, I’ll discuss this in a different post. Doesn’t make the headline wrong. I’m really surprised that Barnicle didn’t jump all over it.

6:22 a.m. I don’t know what these guys make but if MIka buys uses then she has even more brains then i give her credit for.

6:35 a.m. Maybe they ought to think of it like a child in high school don’t give them the $100 dollars at once, dole it out.

6:41 a.m. Broken Clock Alert! Even Andrea Mitchell agrees that waiting a few days or a week isn’t a bad idea.

6:47 a.m. The SNL clip reminds us that these guys will never get over President Bush.

6:51 a.m. Level of transparency my a–, people have been putting the stuff on the net, Todd is full of it. Those differences are due to the times.

6:53 a.m. I had a stomach ache this morning, much more Andrea Mitchell isn’t helping.

7:09 a.m. Everyone is going to have an asterisk since there is an asterisk in the fan’s mind.

7:11 a.m. As far as the cynical stuff, remember the sign Lowell stuff after the world series? I agree with the Ken Griffey stuff too.

Doing my unemployment claim brb

7:42 a.m. Joe gives the: We are all … fill in the blank line.

7:44 a.m. Meachem: “The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program.”

7:46 a.m. I would not pay for Time or Newsweek or the New York Times. I can find out much more from one week with Glenn Reynolds then with all of those magazines put together. These guys in my opinion actually know that there product isn’t popular with at least half of the country. They can’t sell their product when they are giving when we know it is 90% spin.

7:51 a.m. This idea that it is all relative is a bunch of bull, there is a difference between cheating and moral issues.

7:54 a.m. Pete Rose should NOT be in the hall. Every day he passed a sign that gave the penalties for betting on baseball and every day he ignored it.

7:56 a.m. Anyone who starts a book “A people’s history of”…naturally brings suspicion to me, I can see it is earned.

7:58 a.m. Why am I not surprised to constantly seeing ads for W on MSNBC?

8:05 a.m. Great exchange: Joe: “I want to go back to the Bush years for the moment…” Schumer: “I don’t.”

8:07 a.m. So much for the rehabilitation of John McCain.

8:09 a.m. If the payroll tax is so regressive why not cut that instead of giving income tax refunds to people who don’t pay it? Why doesn’t anyone ask this?

8:15 a.m. Do nothing or pump in money, I vote A.

8:24 a.m. Maloney D-NY”: If there is not bi-partisan support we will just pass it.” Good do so lets see if you can win back any of those 11 dems who voted no first.

8:29 a.m. Money party wants disclosure. She says no earmarks, pork by any other name would still be tasty. Mmmm tasty.

8:29 a.m. Maloney: “We need you back in congress Joe”

8:31 a.m. It’s how you direct it , tax cuts for the rich.. blah blah blah.

8:37 a.m. Private money is waiting to buy assets. What they want is a floor to then bid and what is the split on the take for the taxpayer and the investor.

8:39 a.m. 93% of people ARE paying the mortgages. You would never know what would you?

8:42 a.m. This is the A-Rod show. “This will make it ok” says Mika?

8:49 a.m. The Jonas brothers and Stevie Wonder = the day the music died.

8:50 a.m. Paul McCartney is always worth watching. I’d pay to see him but not much.

8:52 a.m. Are these the only people in America who actually watched this show?

8:57 a.m. I missed Susan Collins saying she wouldn’t vote for the bill if she doesn’t like it. I suspect she will find a reason to do so, but mark my words the media lionizing her has given her power and if she is smart she will use it.

That’s how you do it

Posted: February 8, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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There is opinion and reality, a lot of people tend to confuse them. One of those people however is not Tom Switzer:

WHETHER it was worth doing remains highly doubtful, and how it will end remains to be seen. But it looks as if the US is achieving some kind of success in Iraq. That is quite a mouthful from someone who strongly opposed the war from the outset.

But these are the facts: Coalition military and Iraqi civilian casualties are down significantly. The level of violence is the lowest in six years. Iraq’s economic growth levels are today nearly one-third higher than under Saddam Hussein. The Sadrist militia and other Shia militant groups have been halted. The Sunni Arabs who once formed the heart of the Iraqi insurgency are among the most steadfast coalition allies in the battle against al-Qa’ida. The sectarian civil war has ended.

Note that this doesn’t effect his opinion on the war itself:

Now I’ve long believed the Iraq invasion was unnecessary. The incompetence of president George W. Bush, and in particular the neo-conservative architects of this misbegotten venture – which has cost the US dearly in not just blood and treasure but also prestige and credibility – merely adds underlining and an exclamation point. Any threat that Saddam posed could have been dealt with via the tried and tested policy of containment (UN sanctions, naval blockade, no-fly zone).

I think that opinion is dead wrong but it is an opinion that a reasonable person can hold. Yet he doesn’t allow that opinion to change his perception of facts on the ground.

The final line says it all.

… for now, as the largely violence-free weekend elections demonstrated, the situation on the ground has improved dramatically. Too bad many opponents of the war won’t concede that simple fact.

One who can see how things are is worthy of respect.

Maine Senators no. Specter yes

Posted: February 7, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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If you are one of the thousands of conservatives who are bombarding the offices of Senators Collins and Snowe in Maine concerning their support of the so called “compromise” bill. Or if you are a site suggesting calling will make a difference let me tell you one word.

HA!

No amount of outside pressure is going to change the way a person from Maine votes. No amount of shouting ranting threats etc will change the way that Maine votes. And the rants that they should have been kicked out like I’m seeing at Lucianne would mean 60 Democrats in the Senate. Those two votes gave us majorities in the past. Don’t so lightly through them away.

Now Arlen Specter is a totally different story, he is not only vulnerable to pressure but we have candidates such as Rick Santorum or Pat Toomey ready who can beat him in a primary is we put in the effort. That is where the direction should lie. The reports that no republican wants to be vote 60 is certainly referring to Specter.

I’m an agnostic on this either way. As Rush suggested we are not going to stop this bill. Any change to improve it is better than none. The best we can do is to pin it on Obama and the democrats so that if it is the disaster we all think it is they will own it.

Remember if they thought it was such a good bill they wouldn’t care if republicans voted for it they would be happy to take the credit and let us twist in the wind. The media will try to twist as a bi-partisan bill. That’s the fight we need to have.

Update: Michelle disagrees.

Little ironic hints

Posted: February 7, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Watching the last hour of On the Waterfront this morning I was struck by the thought that Marlon Brando’s character of Terry Malloy in fiction is Elia Kazan in real life.

A man who saw evil and was willing to talk and because of this was and still is hated by those who supported and still either support or venerate that same evil. The only question is when people will actually acknowledge it.

I think things like these are little clues to us in life.

Like the removal of Britiannia from circulating British coins it is a symbol of British ideals, liberty and identity. Now it will only be on Bullion. Something to be locked away as a memory. And what have seen happening in England? The rights of Englishman fading away. Sharia law growing.

Or remember this Danial Webster quote:

“Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.”

On May 3rd 2003 the Old Man of the Mountain collapsed. God removed his shingle. And the very next month New Hampshire Episcopal elected Gene Robinson Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire.

The most graphic i can think of it Lady Diana’s death. The media fawned all over it, declared her a secular saint and turned it into an international day or morning. Then mother Theresa dies the same week as Mike Barnicle put it “A tap on the shoulder from God.” and the media was shamed into covering the Funeral live.

Gotta love indirect proofs.

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