Morning Joe: No Imusing allowed

Posted: March 6, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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So Morning Joe begins and it’s proved that you can’t be Imused over a black republican.

6:00 a.m. Hey Pat here’s a buck or two buy yourself some AIG and Citi.

6:01 a.m. Looks like we can still make Joke’s about Rush, but the great Obama. Nein est verboten!

6:02 a.m. What we need is optimism.

6:04 a.m You know normally the rats don’t leave the ship while it’s still launching.

6:06 a.m. Barnicle mocks Harry Sunshine Reid.

6:18 a.m. George Bush didn’t make tough choices? What planet is Joe on?

6:32 a.m. It’s worse than they are telling us.

6:44 a.m. Rush might have been irrelevant during an Obama administration? This guy is a reporter?

6:50 a.m. Still making Bush jokes, no Obama ones.

6:58 a.m. They are on thin Ice with Mika over the good looking stuff.

7:06 a.m. Still attacking Steele for not standing up, Obama hasn’t answered yet.

7:14 a.m. Did Albright just say that Iraq was lost? I was distracted by something.

7:22 a.m. Pat asks her about Freeman she ducks the question, Pat “I’m not an anti-semite” Buchanan likes him. He does have a point as to why all these guys who worked for and with him won’t speak up for him.

7:24 a.m Why do I think that Mary Albright would have been a better sec of state than she was?

7:38 a.m. Wesely Clarke loves ethanol. I don’t mind it as an extra card in the deck particularly in wartime as an alternate fuel.

7:47 a.m. They show Gibbs getting the radio, did they mention that Rush arranged it?

7:49 a.m. They push the leave Islam alone and it will leave us alone story in Newsweek. What a crock.

8:01 a.m. Lets cheer ignoring the threats of the world. Peggy Noonan is the guest.

8:12 a.m They are showing the Obama stock market chart.

8:14 a.m. The rich republican canard is trotted out. Joe shoots it down. Obama’s failures are apparently Michael Steele’s fault.

8:27 a.m. They need the smartest people regardless of race, wasn’t that the argument they made on this show FOR Geitner just a month ago?

8:33 a.m. Erin: “If you use the word crash for 10% what will happen when it is down 20%?”

8:50 a.m. That is still the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen (train+truck)

Watchmen YAWN!

Posted: March 5, 2009 by datechguy in hobbies
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James Hudnall writes a tribute to the Comic Books series The Watchmen at Big Hollywood:

“Watchmen” opens Friday and we’ll see how well it performs in the theaters, but the graphic novel has been a best seller for DC Comics since its inception in 1985. And not without surprise. It’s been voted the best graphic novel of all time by many people. It even showed up in Time Magazine as one of the best literary novels of the 20th century. The only comic to make that list. Personally, I don’t care much for lists or other popularity contests. They seem too high school to me. A lot of stuff on “best ever” lists tends to be crap. It’s all someone’s opinion, after all. But “Watchmen” is definitely a work of art. One that will stand the test of time and already has.

Count me in the minority here. I’ve been reading comics for 34 years. I didn’t care for the Watchmen when it came out and I don’t care for it now.

I have absolutely no interest in the movie. As for Alan Moore’s work I’d check out his Swamp Thing Issues instead.

Give me Stan Sakai , Steve Englehart and Gardner Fox or Denny O’Neil anyday.

And the Greatest Comic Series ever Written? Lone Wolf and Cub hands down!

Some Nasty Rosters

Posted: March 5, 2009 by datechguy in baseball
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Let’s talk World Baseball Classic.

Looking at the WBC Rosters particularly the South American Teams i’m seeing some of the nastiest rosters I’ve seen in a while.

There are going to be some intense games going on particularly in Group D when we get to see Panama vs the Dominican Republic likely Monday unless Puerto Rico manages to upset Panama or unless a real miracle happens and the Dutch manage to upset the Dominican.

Bernie Williams fans will be able to watch him on Team Puerto Rico. I hope he does well, he is a class act.

Japan’s defeat of China was not a big surprise today, China able to hold Japan to 5 hits is.

It will take a real miracle for Cuba or Mexico to fail to get to the 2nd round sharing a bracket with South Africa and Australia. Australia would like to think otherwise but sorry that’s the way it is.

I would love to see the US and Italy advance in group B. I can’t however see how Italy avoids going 0-3 in the toughest bracket in the group. I’d really like to see the US step all over Hugo’s boys.

I’d be even happier if some of Raul/Fidel’s boys manage to jump the fence during the tourney.

Play Ball!

That’s why he is an Archbishop and I’m unemployed

Posted: March 5, 2009 by datechguy in catholic
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Via the corner and the Catholic key Archbishop Naumann bottom lines it:

I am also concerned personally for Governor Sebelius. Her appointment as Secretary for HHS places her in a position where she will have to make many decisions that will in all probability continue her personal involvement in promoting legalized abortion and her cooperation in this intrinsic evil.

I am also concerned that the appointment of Governor Sebelius places another Catholic supporting legalized abortion in a prominent national position. She joins Vice-President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and unfortunately a host of Catholic Senators and members of the House of Representatives who support legalized abortion contrary to the clear and consistent teaching of their Church. It saddens me that so many Catholics, to gain political advancement, have chosen to compromise their Catholic faith by their failure to defend the most fundamental of all human rights – the right to life.

I am reminded of the powerful scene in A Man for All Seasons, the play about the heroic Catholic English Martyr, St. Thomas More. After Richard Rich has perjured himself in order to make it possible to convict Thomas More of treason, the Judge asks Thomas More if he has any questions for the witness. Thomas More notes that Richard Rich is wearing a chain of office and asks what it signifies. He is told that Richard Rich has been appointed Attorney General for Wales. Thomas More then paraphrases the Gospel saying to Richard Rich: “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul, but for Wales?”

This is where the rubber meets the road. The soul. If you are a Catholic Pol you have to decide if you actually believe in Catholicism or not. And if you do is your soul worth it? Ted Kennedy is near death. A knighthood won’t do him much good for much longer.

I may tweak these people with the ” …rest of your life after that it’s up to you” line. The Archbishop’s is actually trying to save their souls, to give the warning. May he succeed.

Update: The Curt Jester got there ahead of me.

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