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Ollie’s Barbaque and short memories

Posted: February 28, 2011 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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Ann Althouse who has done the best reporting on Madison period (BTW how does she have time to do all of this. Doesn’t she teach law somewhere?) brings us a blast from the past.

Ollie’s Barbecue is a family owned restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama, specializing in barbecued meats and homemade pies, with a seating capacity of 220 customers… The restaurant caters to a family and white-collar trade with a take-out service for Negroes….

What really amazed me concerning the Walker Restaurant story wasn’t so much the veracity of the story or the reaction of the restaurant. It was the unmitigated glee of democrats once again cheering the exclusion of people they don’t like from public accommodation.

Yes I said once again. Remember those Jim Crow laws were DEMOCRATIC laws supported by democratic legislatures and Democratic governors. Ann continues:

And who thinks about tomorrow? The state capitol is occupied right now and plastered with thousands of signs this week, and isn’t that just great? You haven’t give a moment’s thought — have you? — to what free speech rights will apply to the next group that wants to appropriate the state capitol? Are you planning on advocating viewpoint discrimination to keep the signs you find loathsome off the walls?

Back at Mindstain the person who broke this story regrets the notoriety that has come with speaking in the open square but most instructive is her critique of Gov Walker:

I feel that Governor Walker is crossing that threshold from despicable action to despicable person. Why do I say this? Because he refuses to listen. He refuses to back down, and therefore propagates the refusal to back down on the left. There’s no reasoning with a person who considers their own stance “THE ONLY” stance. To have someone like this in office is terrifying.

Take a close look at this. She equates refusing to back down with refusing to listen and because he doesn’t back down it forces the union not to back down.

Forget that there was an election, forget that republicans won both houses and the governorship, forget that the positions are all well-known and the governor knows the left’s position. He is despicable because he will not give in. He id despicable because he refuses to abandon those who elected him for a reason. What does that remind you of?

Read the whole thing, it is instructive.

I’ll give the last word to Ann:

The whole point of principles is that you’re supposed to follow them all the time — especially when you would find it most satisfying to violate them…

What children!

That’s pretty much it.

CPAC 2011 FYI’s

Posted: February 14, 2011 by datechguy in Uncategorized

CPAC ended for me about 2 a.m. as I said my last goodbyes at the primary blogging area and took the metro back to my hotel in Largo. I dropped off in my room about 3:30 AM was up at 7 to pack and hit Mass at the national Cathedral (that will require a very long post of its own),

I finally uploaded the last of my interviews today, my plan is to stagger them one each from the various “voices of” series a day along with the other interviews. They will go up as time permits.

I plan on a longer post concerning Pam Geller’s event. That will likely be late in the week or next week, the video is embedded but I have to go through my written notes . As usual BTW Pam’s event was a “don’t miss” one btw.

I still have some photos to upload, I will do that this week as time and catching up on sleep permits.

(note I actually fell asleep before I could hit publish on this one DaBody is trying to tell me something.)

The Blogger take over of WCRN continues…

Posted: January 28, 2011 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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First DaTechGuy live tweets and blogs Conservatively speaking

Then DaTechGuy on DaRadio premiers on WCRN giving them the first blogger show of its type in the area.

Then it’s confirmed on Jan 5th DaTechGuy on DaRadio goes to two hours doubling the time of bloggers on the air.

Now Val Prieto of Babalu Blog appears as a guest on Conservatively Speaking just before me on WCRN 830 AM out of Worcester from 7-9.

The topic is going to be Communism and this Val’s family has some expertise on that subject and the timing is excellent as Babalu blog notes that Hollywood is making that rarest of rare movies. A film depicting Communism as bad:

I haven’t found any reviews, so far, that hail this as Hollywood’s first Gulag movie, perhaps because hardly anyone noticed that there weren’t any before. Weir told me that many in Hollywood were surprised by the story: They’d never heard of Soviet concentration camps, only German ones.

That shows an amazing lack of Historical knowledge. As Humberto Fontova Asks

If they haven’t even heard of the Soviet one–imagine how many have ever heard of the Cuban?! (and remember, these Hollywood types sneer at the educational levels of the yokels in flyover America)

Powerline also comments on Hollywood’s startling discovery of the Gulag:

In her Washington Post column on the film, Applebaum makes a point that didn’t occur to me. Applebaum points out that in one respect the film is unique and groundbreaking: “It represents Hollywood’s first attempt to portray the Soviet Gulag, in meticulously researched detail.” Applebaum’s informed judgment is that “the film is ‘true’ in every way that matters” (including the final scene).

They mentioned the whole 4 movies that came to mind if you can only think of 4 then that tell you everything. Maybe Conservatively speaking should have them on too.

Slowly but surely WCRN is becoming THE Radio station for bloggers. With 50,000 watt of power and a reach for all of NE and beyond. It’s a good choice.

Looking at Harry Reid talking about the president…

Posted: January 27, 2011 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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…it spoke like a man who know that he will still be in Washington after 2012 no matter how the election turns out and frankly doesn’t care if President Obama is.

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