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Another look at scrooge

Posted: January 4, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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Since this is still the 11th day of Christmas this post I found at DarwinCatholic seems an excellent companion to my long one on a Christmas Carol.

I’m far from being alone in my affection for A Christmas Carol, and so there are any number of movie adaptations available as well. This particular year, it happens that I saw two versions, the George C. Scott adaptation which is an absolutely superb film, and also The Muppet Christmas Carol with Michael Caine.

A number of comparisons might spring to mind when watching two such different treatments a few days apart, but in this case what struck me immediately was the way in which each movie attempted to convey the heartlessness of Scrooge’s business methods.

It’s an interesting look at 19th century economics through the eyes of Dickens greatest character.

I’m iffy on this

Posted: January 4, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news, Uncategorized
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The ground war in Gaza is a very risky move for Israel.

Unless Hamas can actually be destroyed on the ground and unless there is intelligence that can allow them to find them I can’t see how a sustained ground war will help.

One might go in and destroy the tunnels and the infrastructure of terror to make things complicated for Hamas and then pull out but I can’t see anything sustained. If the incursion is too brief however then it has the potential to turn into the 7 days when McClellan won 6 of seven battles but treated them as defeats or Tet which was a military disaster for North Vietnam but was portrayed as a defeat for the US.

The wild card here is Fatah. If they are actually giving underground support to Israel in this offensive then Hamas is in trouble. Of course it is not unlikely that if or when Hamas is neutralized Fatah will go back to their normal support of their own terror objectives but we will see.

The north is still the wild card. If we see strikes from Lebanon, and I’m very surprised we haven’t already the whole game will change in a hurry.

The biggest news you haven’t heard today

Posted: January 2, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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Gateway Pundit reports on some huge news in Iraq:

The US turned over control of the Green Zone to Iraq today in what is being called a restoration of Iraq’s sovereignty.

This would seem huge news to me but apparently to nobody else since I don’t see it being widely reported.

In a few years you will read about how “we” succeeded brilliantly in the Iraq war and the we will be used by pols and commentators who opposed it bitterly. It will be like France post WW II where there saying went if everybody who said so was in the resistance then there would have been nobody left to collaborate.

The Battle of the Blogs

Posted: January 2, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized

The War on the net continues as the spokesman for the IDF has started his own blog.

It’s a pretty smart move and a great way to bypass the media.

It will be interesting if Hamas and their guys decide to do the same.

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