Sunday on my ride home from work just before I reached the fifth street bridge to turn to my house I ran into a bunch of roadblocks from a huge fire that was practically flooding the road.
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Can you help my Great Niece & her husband who just lost everything in the huge IED fire in Fitchburg that left a bunch of people homeless?
Posted: September 24, 2019 by datechguy in local, News/opinion, personalTags: fire, fitchburg
Posting will be a tad light as you might guess.
I haven’t been sick for a while so I shouldn’t complain.
Meanwhile Rich’s Comix Blog knows the date, Huffpo remains silent and Stacy and Attila have 24 hours till the showdown of the century.
Let me say bluntly Robert Stacy McCain is worth 20 of you
Posted: March 7, 2011 by datechguy in internet/free speech, personalTags: friendship, robert stacy mccain
In my comment exchange at Wonkette the latest comment that went up was this from glamourdammerung :
Want to see someone make a parody of themselves?
Apparently the left’s degree of hate is so large and their sense of honor so non-existent that the death of a 8-year-old girl and a federal judge is just another club to hit republicans in general and Sarah Palin in particular. https://datechguy.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/my-thou…
When you are gushing about being pals with folks like noted white supremacist Robert Stacy McCain, one would think you would have better sense than making such remarks like the one I quoted.
Forgetting the fact for a moment that the left DID use the shootings in Arizona as a political football and their denial of it proves my point, when you insult a friend of mine, that’s a line.
Robert Stacy McCain has stayed in my house, I’ve stayed in his. I know him well, I know his family, I’ve driven with him, covered stories with him, attended conventions with him and learned how an actual reporter covers facts with him. He is no white supremacist. If you have half the tolerance that he does you would be a better person.
Stacy is my friend, I’m proud to have him as my friend and he’s proven his friendship more times in a year than I can count. He’s a bit of a wild child and I’ve never seen a person go through coffee and cigarettes like him in my life and he’s been known to raise the wrist a bit more than I do, (of course that’s not hard to do). There are very few people outside of my family that I’d rather have at my side in a time of trouble.
He’s a big boy and doesn’t need defense from me, but any success I’ve had in this field can be traced directly to his door. Succeed or fail, It’s a debt I can’t repay. I have no patience for people who attack my personal friends.
So let me say it one more time Glamourdammerung: Stacy McCain is worth 20 of you (except in the eyes of God).
I don’t remember if it was Chuck or Tony…
Posted: March 1, 2011 by datechguy in culture, personalTags: culture wars, nostalgia, sex
…but after seeing all the exchanges from Attila’s post and Ace’s update combined with Stacy’s post last night reminded me of this story from my youth.
There were two different crowds I hung with, one was a Massachusetts crowd from high school and one was a NH crowd I met in college. The NH crowd was less sober but generated a whole bunch of very interesting stories.
They would do various pickup stunts. One of the guys would try to pick up a girl at a bar, when she turned him down the others standing at the door would loudly hum the Old Spice theme, toss him a bottle, He would put on the Old Spice and as the girl was laughing he would ask her out again (still didn’t work but it was a laugh)
One of the most interesting stunts they would do was to find a woman at a bar, go up to her and directly ask her if she would sleep with him.
Before the girl could hit him or tell him to get lost, he would ask to explain. He would say that normally he would make small talk, maybe buy a few drinks, perhaps a meal and invest an entire night and only at the end of it find out if he was going to actually get laid, which was the whole idea.
This way she has no illusions about him and he doesn’t waste the whole night on a wild goose chase.
Two things would always happen after this. The girl would agree he made sense, and would tell him to get lost.
Given the times I wonder what the result would be today?
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