As D-Day continues to close in and the job cupboard remains bare I continue to look for any way to augment my income before unemployment disappears.

In that vein I’ve written what is (at least for now) my first Examiner article on the subject of Boston area tea parties:

They didn’t look very dangerous to me.

On April 18th Bill Clinton suggested the tea parties “create a climate” that makes a Tim McVeigh more likely to act.

Yet four days earlier the atmosphere on the Boston Common was festive not angry. People had come from all over the state and beyond as they united in making their point about taxes, spending and government responsibility.

If you have the time an inclination I’d like to ask you to click on the article and read the whole thing. Every hit on that site helps, and of course if you click around a bit that certainly doesn’t hurt.

Next to the tip jar (or hiring me yourself) this is the easiest way you can help put a couple of dollars in the pocket.

After all it doesn’t look like this guy is going to:

…good sport though he is.

I know it’s a very bad video, should have interviewed him in the lighted tent.

A Kind of inside FYI

Posted: April 22, 2010 by datechguy in personal
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As you might know I finally broke down and picked up a cell phone during the trip to Washington on the bus last week. This is a silly inside baseball fyi to people who know me well enough to have that number.

If you have my cell number you have my home number too. DIAL THE HOME NUMBER. I never turn on my cell nor do I take it with me. It’s only function is to be with me if I go on a trip.

If you can’t reach me by the home number, e-mail me. My hits and e-mails have increased to the point where I don’t dare ignore my mail for any length of time. Even when I dead sick the 2nd think I did was to check the e-mail.

If both fail then go ahead and call, when I check the messages on the cell I’ll get back to you ASAP.

…that gives me a great excuse to put up the final three videos that I missed the last time, these came from the end of the conference.

I missed all of them before. My bad

Morning Joe gets full marks for reporting on the South Park business, pointing out the threats, the difference between the way Mohammad was treated vs Christ, the foolishness of pretending that what was said wasn’t a threat, and the extra censorship on the rebroadcast. All very important, glad to see it happen.

However it was put under Wille Geist’s “News you Can’t use” section.

News you can’t use? Let me get this straight, Bill Clinton tries to link the Tea Parties to Tim McVeigh, that is fine. Radical Islam who you might have heard has a bit of history, “warning” south park is News you can’t use?

I suppose I should take what I can get from MSNBC, ya gotta walk before you run.

Update: Glenn has the line of the week: “Those who have no backbone will do the bidding of those who do.”