Morning Joe (Mika today)

Posted: May 8, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
Tags:

No Joe today:

6:01 a.m. Nancy Pelosi trying to save her skin, Mika openly doesn’t seem to buy it.

6:09 a.m. How is one half of one percent important. That is bs and even the MSNBC guys admit it but then again it is the 6 a.m. hour.

6:11 a.m. Mika wants to ask him the question herself.

6:13 a.m. Back to Nancy, this is definitely the conservative hour

6:19 a.m. Apparently flooding in Alaska will keep Sarah Palin out of DC. Mommy I think likes Palin a lot.

6:21 a.m. Haven’t they ever heard of masking drugs?

6:27 a.m. If only 600,000 jobs lost that’s good?

6:35 a.m. Harold Ford is on but the idea that the democratic party has moved to the center is just funny.

6:41 a.m. Harold Ford gets it when it comes to the attacks.

6:44 a.m. Focus on the family is not opposed to a gay supreme court justice, what a bunch of bigots they are eh?

6:52 a.m. Dominic Dimaggio is dead. That is a huge hit to Red Sox Nation, my older brother knew him.

6:59 a.m. Notice that they won’t show the actual Miss California picture, because it is a side shot that doesn’t actually show anything. It’s the old Errol Flynn business let people imagine it is worse than it is.

7:02 a.m. will have to scoot shortly to drop off a car at a garage.

7:04 a.m Mika is having the staff try to get her office, you know she is a real journalist.

7:06 a.m. Not yet got me married (hypothetically)

7:11 a.m. You know Dick Cheney was never considered polarizing until he was president Bush’s vice president he never fed the dog but did pet it.

7:24 a.m. Back from dropping off car, the problem is its not a cut says Todd.

7:26 a.m. Crown of the Statue of Liberty will re-open July 4th.

7:44 a.m. Here comes Ariana.

7:46 a.m. The kindle idea is a good one.

7:47 a.m. MAYBE THE NY TIMES SKEWS LEFT? Willie Willie Willie…

7:48 a.m. Ariana keeps hitting the war, but other than that she is not far off in her contentions today.

7:51 a.m Ariana takes on Peggy on the clicking through vs changing the channel.

7:52 a.m. Mika is exactly right about the forced ad overlay. I hate them!

8:08 a.m. I understand the old America, when people humiliated other people, I don’t understand how people humiliate themselves.

8:10 a.m. Weren’t these same people arguing about newspapers being needed when the MSN suppressed this story for months?

8:12 a.m. That is really tough stuff to have your parent not recognize you.

8:15 a.m. We’ve both been fired by CBS but I’ve been fired by NBC too.

8:42 a.m. The state of American journalism is discussed, it is a story about money.

8:45 a.m. Who wants to be that the side view of Miss. California’s breast makes the news but the fact that all we see in the photo doesn’t.

8:48 a.m. Now that Jon Stewart has allowed it will they mention the Mustard? yes they can!

8:51 a.m. Yes they can! Will they show the shot? No they can’t!

8:53 a.m. They mention Joe the plumber leaving the party, they didn’t mention if he is joining Obama.

No wonder the mainstream media loves Tom Ridge…

Posted: May 8, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
Tags: , ,

…they always love republicans who won’t vote for republicans:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: If you had to vote between Toomey the conservative Republican or Specter the ex-Republican, who would you vote for?

TOM RIDGE: It’s a wonderful country, this America: it’s called secret ballot.

MATTHEWS: Come on!: aye or nay?

RIDGE: You got my answer, Chris: that’s hardball.

You know I don’t recall them having a lot of love for Ridge when he worked for homeland security in the Bush administration, but they will love him as long as he feeds the dog.

That Theo Epstein is really smart

Posted: May 7, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized
Tags:

I must confess I wasn’t a big fan of getting rid of Manny, a first ballot HOF and one of the best hitters in the game. Although a lot of credit goes to Curt Schilling the Sox won two more World Series rings with him than they did with Yaz, Ted, Rice and Lefty Grove combined.

But considering this news I’d say he makes a better choice than me.

David Pinto is all over this. One particular link really is funny as Jose “Whitaker Chambers” Canseco was asked about Manny and drugs last month:

Canseco laughs and offers his theory. A-Rod was exposed only when his name was leaked from a list of 104 major leaguers who in a 2003 test showed up positive for steroids. Because the test was anonymous, those names were not supposed to be made public. But in Canseco’s mind, baseball’s power brokers know who is on it: players he is sure will be seen as toxic if the truth comes out.

He says this, despite the fact that A-Rod isn’t being treated as toxic, nor are other players who were caught up in the steroid scandal but publicly apologized, including Miguel Tejada, starting shortstop for the Houston Astros, and Andy Pettitte, a starting pitcher with the New York Yankees.

Why didn’t Ramirez get a long-term deal? Canseco asks. Why were owners gun-shy about signing arguably the game’s best hitter?

Never mind that Ramirez was asking for a mega-deal at age 36. Or that he was negotiating in a sickly economy, while weighed down by the heavy baggage of a surly reputation. Canseco will have none of it. To Canseco, the drawn-out negotiation, the lack of a long-term deal, the lack of interest all raise red flags, and so he tells the Bovard crowd that Ramirez’s “name is most likely, 90%,” on the list.

Canseco admits later that he has no way of knowing. But it makes sense to him, so he threw it out there — kaboom! — swinging for the fences, still.

Late Saturday, I tracked down Ramirez to tell him what Canseco had said. The immediate response is pure Ramirez: He laughs. Sitting at his locker, he says, “I got no comment, nothing to say about that. What can I say? I don’t even know the guy.”

Now the question comes, Manny is going to lose 7.7 million because of this but without the ‘roids would he have made the millions he already has?

UPDATE: This post got a ton of hits from something called Alpha inventions. I found this post on the subject here. Unfortunately I hit the sack early yesterday so I didn’t catch the hits till this morning but there is a way to test this…

…if you are an actual human coming from Alpha Inventions you can confirm that you are real by picking any one other post, any post at all and clicking on it. If I might suggest pick on from December or January that way it would prove that Alpha inventions is the real thing…

…And of course welcome to the blog take a look around lots to see here.

Escape from Hell: Amazon Book Review

Posted: May 7, 2009 by datechguy in amazon reviews, fun
Tags: , ,

escapefromhell1My review of the Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s novel
Escape from Hell the sequel to his work from the 70’s Inferno is available at Amazon.com here.

One thing you will find in the book that I didn’t mention in the review is the amount of red meat there is for conservatives like myself. From professional victims to the sympathizers to radical feminists, radical environmentalists we see them all. If you are on the right you can’t help but like this book. For the left there is J. Edgar Hoover converted to a demon named Pink Talon. I have to admit that was really funny.

This is very much worth your money. I’d advise picking up Inferno first.

Older Entries
Newer Entries