Ok let me get this straight, Obama will not use nukes…

Posted: April 6, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…against any non-nuclear country. What does it mean?

1. First it means that if we choose to use our Nuclear Deterrent it will automatically trigger a nuclear exchange.

2. Secondly it means that any non-nuclear country may decide to take aggressive action knowing that any US response will involve the time it takes to assemble and transport a conventional force to said area.

3. Ok lets say you are a country that counted on US deterrent to help protect them, after this announcement where we limit the use of said deterrent what do we do now? We now start thinking either capitulation or nuking up themselves.

The whole idea of a deterrent is to deter, it is to prevent the need of its use. This is going to do exactly the opposite.

Symbolism over substance, that’s liberalism all over.

Update: Pundit & Pundette bottom lines it with their title:

Do you feel safer now?

That’s what it comes down to.

“Obama is a man of the center-left“

Posted: April 6, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…says David Remnick in his book The Bridge The life and rise of Barack Obama the morning after I crashed on the couch after re-organizing my playlists etc as I’ve finally moved my stuff from the ipod to the new PC. I had to double check to make sure that I was actually awake since nobody on Morning Joe disagreed with him on this statement.

Can there be a worse time to put out an Obama book?

First he releases it as his numbers are below the tea parties.

Then appears on TV the week after the “book/blowjob” access stories come out.

And in one week the Tea Party Express will be pulling into Washington DC to highlight disapproval of the Government, the president and the congress.

As you might guess Mr. Remnick wasn’t challenged much although Joe referred to the title as the “rise and fall of Barack Obama”. It was a slip but boy did it get reaction on the set.

Anyone want to make odds on how long it take to make it to the dollar bin?

I have one thing to say about “Settled Law”

Posted: April 5, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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“Settled Law” is settled only until the Supreme Court decides it isn’t.

Never forget Plessy v Ferguson stood for 58 years before the Brown Decision came along. You don’t get much more settled than 54 years do you?

I was going to comment on this story…

Posted: April 5, 2010 by datechguy in doctor who, fun, oddities
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…about the bees disappearing last week:

The decline in the US bee population, first observed in 2006, is continuing, a phenomenon that still baffles researchers and beekeepers.

Data from the US Department of Agriculture show a 29 percent drop in beehives in 2009, following a 36 percent decline in 2008 and a 32 percent fall in 2007.

Scientists are stumped:

Researchers have looked at viruses, parasites, insecticides, malnutrition and other environmental factors but have been unable to pinpoint a specific cause for the population decline.

Of course some of us aren’t, we know the Bees come from Melissa Majoria, there is even a blog about the gardens there.. but I couldn’t talk about that last week.

What a difference a week makes

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