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The New York Times story on the Lutheran Church…

Posted: July 26, 2010 by datechguy in Uncategorized

…manages to downplay the schism being caused by the ECLA’s decision that we covered here.

However stories like this are being repeated all over the country:

When First Lutheran Church of Washburn, which has about 600 members, took its final vote May 9, it was no squeaker. Eighty percent voted to sever the church’s affiliation with the ELCA, said the Rev. Erik Johnson.

First Lutheran has not yet decided which denomination it will join, he said. But it has talked with LCMC (Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ) and also with CORE, a group of congregations formed in protest of the ELCA’s proposal for changing clergy standards, Johnson said.

Hey if the ECLA is looking for more priests? We Catholics have three we would love you to take off our hands.

Memeorandum thread here.

If the Australian story is right…

Posted: July 26, 2010 by datechguy in Uncategorized

…then this is going to hit this administration:

Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.

The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama’s claim last week that all Americans were “surprised, disappointed and angry” to learn of Megrahi’s release.

Back when this happened I said this:

I can’t see how England did this without at least informing the US if this is true the big loser is Not going to be president Obama.

Back when Hillary was named Sec of State it seemed a shrewd move for both parties. By making Mrs. Clinton a part of the administration she is tied to it, and by taking State she not only avoids having to deal with a declining economy but she puts herself in a position to resign in protest at a key moment if she wants to make a move.

Since Mrs. Clinton has become almost an afterthought in this administration it looks like I’m going to be wrong, it will not hit Clinton it will hit President Obama.

memeorandum thread here

Will Morning Joe and everyone else who have been pushing this story continue to do so if this blows up in the Administration’s face. I think Mika still will, but I wouldn’t be on anyone else in the MSM.

Update: Michelle Malkin: So much for Smart Diplomacy.

Doctor Who: Series 5 Episode 12: The Pandorica Opens

Posted: July 24, 2010 by datechguy in doctor who, Uncategorized
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Considering how much I liked the Lodger it would take an extraordinary episode to go higher in my ranking. The Pandorica Opens pulls it off. It is the single best episode in the entire 5th series.

The direct tie ins with previous episodes work very well. Alex Kingston not only gets an incredible array of interesting costumes (her final costume is in my mind stunning on her, particularly the hip hugging belt, it is absolutely unrevealing yet incredibly attractive, The perfect uniform for the character.) but show stealing scenes and scene stealing lines: “I hate good wizards in fairy tales, they always turn out to be him.“.

However everybody gets into the act, simply manic moments and lines such as:

The Doctor: “Look at me! I’m a target.”,

The Doctor: No, I’m missing something obvious, Rory! Something big, something right slap in front of me, I can feel it!
Rory Yeah, I think you probably are
The Doctor: I’ll get it in a minute.

The Doctor: Remember every black day I ever stopped you. And then, and then, do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first.

Roman General: “I leave camp for one week and find out we’ve been hosting, Cleopatra who’s in Egypt…and Dead!”

And in case you think this is only comedy, the drama is so thick you can cut it with a knife, A lot of answers are provided in this episode but even more questions. It leaves you emotionally drained yet desperate for more. This episode is a dramatic tear jerker and an emotional roller coaster with sizzling aliens of every type for good measure. The cliff hanger is surpurb

It doesn’t get any better than this, but lucky for you it gets damn close.

Rating *****

Last Episode: The Lodger

Next Episode: The Big Bang

Lets not get carried away here

Posted: July 23, 2010 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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I actually watched all the Clinton Hearings and fully supported and still support the impeachment of Bill Clinton, I trace the decline in democratic honor from the moment of the disgraceful press conference after the initial vote.

That being said, Tancredo’s case for impeachment of president Obama is just off, it has no more justification than the left’s nonsense of the same toward George W. Bush.

I think this president has been disastrous domestically and adequate at best on defense (which was way ahead of my expectations for him) but certainly not impeachable. Most of what this president has done is bad policy, bad decisions, based on a bad philosophy but you don’t impeach that. (The virtual ceding of parts of Arizona to the Mexican Cartels has potential in that direction but we are nowhere near there yet).

Clinton directly lied to a grand jury, this is an actual crime, and he used the power of the presidency to cover that, he was disbarred for this.

There is nothing that Barack Obama has done to this point that rises to that level, being wrong or mistaken is not an impeachable offense and both legally and politically we waste our time going in that direction.

Memeorandum thread here.

Oh and one note, I’m not arguing that Clinton was a worse president than our current one or was worse for the country, I’m arguing the legalities and the purpose of impeachment as a constitutional tool. It should be used sparingly for actual crimes not as a political club.

Update: And of course here are the democrats also talking smack in the other direction, pure hogwash.

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