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DaTechGuy on DaRadio with Val Prieto + our Arizona special
Posted: January 12, 2011 by datechguy in DaTechGuy on DaRadio, media, opinion/news, special eventsTags: datechguy on daradio, gabrielle giffords, jared loughner, shooting in tuson, wcrn
Long memories on the internet
Posted: January 11, 2011 by datechguy in media, opinion/newsTags: gabrielle giffords, media malpractice, still angry left
One of the reasons the internet has been the bane of the left is it allows us of the right to permanently document their own actions.
Zombie Time Michelle Malkin and Pam Geller (who repeats much of Zombietimes’ imagery) go long on some of the violent public imagery of the left that for some reason never produced any bits of objections from the now breast beating left. Unfortunately like Boss Tweed said it is impossible for the public to miss “Those Damn Pictures”.
And Ann Althouse contributes but a single picture but is it more shocking being that a business considered it an appropriate item to have in their window to the public where she was.
Meanwhile at Berkeley the template has not changed:
I believe that it is not a coincidence that this calamity has occurred in a state which has legislated discrimination against undocumented persons.”
Again the “We’re better than them” mantra of the left has not changed.
I strongly suggest that we don’t let the left off the hook for both their misrepresentations and this nonsense. Each of these items on the internet is a testament to their mind set.
The Liberal Obituary writers
Posted: January 10, 2011 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: dick winters, dishonorable left, dishonorable media, gabrielle giffords, jared loughner, obituary
Yesterday it was announced a great American, Dick Winters Major of Easy Company, Normandy vet and the commander of the 101st airborne paratroopers who were immortalized as the “band of brothers” died at the age of 92.
As a gentleman of advanced age whose past was well known it is very likely that the majority of his obituary was written quite a while ago with a few things added to cover any new events that might have happened. This is quite normal when a narrative is already known.
When I look at the media reaction in Arizona it is plain that the obituaries of those who were killed were written a long time ago.
The left has been writing the narrative that the tea party is a violent extremist group and that Sarah Palin is toxic. The have attempted and failed over and over to paint the tea party as racists, bigots, gun nuts and people outside the mainstream of political thought. As their failure became plain they took comfort that, although the public didn’t understand how dangerous the Tea Party is they did and sooner or later something would happen to prove it.
So their commentaries and their stories lay dormant until a suitable event could come around an event that would reverse their fortunes and be, as described in Time: Barack Obama’s Oklahoma City moment.
When Jared Loughner fired his shots on Saturday Liberal pundits were sure they have their story. The person shot was a democrat who voted for Obamacare, he lived in a state where the gun laws were loose, and her opponent was a tea party favorite, it HAD to be true.
So the media pulled out their obits, filled in the blank names and told their story confident that events would prove it true.
Alas what a difference 48 hours makes, from the accusations of the shooter being a military vet to his connection to tea party rhetoric, each meme collapsed under the weight of facts until they were reduced to pointing to maps and and trying to restrain “both sides”.
Simple mathematics suggest that if you bet on a a particular number on a roulette wheel continually sooner or later it will come up, however if it comes up after you have lost over and over again, it is not proof of your gambling prowess.
Likewise the left will pull back and keep their obituary columns in reserve waiting for that one moment to bring them out again as a weapon, and they will prove just as wise as the gambler above.
Update: Stacy Links and irony of ironies includes a picture of him in my well traveled fedora at the wheel in Vegas.
“Introspection” was one of those MSNBC drinking-game words yesterday — evidently they got the memo from Paul Begala — and yet it never occurs to people like that to look inside themselves and question the root causes of their anti-Republican, anti-conservative, anti-Tea Party prejudices.
As I sit here this morning, with my office TV tuned to MSNBC, Joe Scarborough is rambling on about Glenn Beck and Michelle Bachmann and Fox News. No matter how wrong his liberal friends have been, Joe knows in his heart that liberals aren’t the problem. No, the real problem is those Republicans who have stubbornly refused to recognize the moral superiority of Joe Scarborough.
Just bet on black one more time, Joe. Your lucky number is way overdue. And you’ve only got to be right once.
(Hope my fedora did well in Vegas) Also included some fixes in grammar.
Update 2: Instalanche, hi guys take a peek around and don’t forget Glenn will be the guest on my radio show DaTechGuy on DaRadio this Saturday at 9:00 p.m. on WCRN AM 830 in Worcester 50,000 Watts reaching all of New England and beyond. (There is still a little ad time left as well). and if you are a NE Blogger join me tonight for a bloggers meeting at Linguini’s Italian Eatery route 20 Marlborough (take the route 20 west exit off 495) tonight at 7 p.m. to talk about a few things.
Update 3: Welcome Hillbuzz readers, you might be interested in my examiner column of today. Money quote:
The shooter in Arizona will likely cop an insanity plea for his actions. No word if the left will do the same for theirs.
Blog of the month yes its late
Posted: January 10, 2011 by datechguy in blogsTags: Blogroll, blogs of the month, climate change, dr sanity, gabrielle giffords, katy's conservative corner, shooting in tuson, tim blair
Running late again this month so let me give a found farewell to are blogs of the month for last month. Holysmoke, DaScienceGuy and SISU.
This month we have Katy’s conservative corner. She Joins into the debate on the Giffords shooting thus:
The Associated Press reported on Sunday morning that, despite the fact that this person had been turned down by the US Army for enlistment, had dropped out of high school, and been kicked out of his community college, somehow Sarah Palin was to be blamed.
Katy wishes congresswoman Giffords a speedy recovery.
Our next pick is Tim Blair who is always a pleasure to read he has spoken on the Giffords shooting but you will enjoy this global warming post more:
Doomstruck US scientist James Hansen essentially launched the modern global warming movement with his 1988 testimony before Congress. Batting on a friendly pitch and facing only the softest of attacks, Hansen scored easy runs and has remained in the opening slot ever since.
Against more probing questions, Hansen is prone to wild slogging. In 2009 he was forcibly removed from the crease during an anti-coal demonstration outside the White House and later that year called for a carbon tax equivalent to one dollar per US gallon of petrol.
Hansen’s opening partner, US panic merchant Bill McKibben, wrote one of the earliest books on global warming and continues writing books on the same subject, hoping that one day they’ll be read. Currently campaigning to have Earth re-named as Eaarth. Seriously.
He is using Cricket imagery and the whole post is a ton of fun.
Finally we bring on Dr. Sanity who has a gem on an e-mail he received in reaction to the Giffords shooting:
It takes a truly ‘sick’ person, in every philosophical/moral/spiritual and ethical sense of the word to say that such an ill person’s motivations are the exact motivations of those with whom they happen to disagree.
I have been treating schizophrenic patients for almost 35 years now. The point is that their illness impairs their cognitive functioning. Schizophrenics have a biological cause for their dysfunction.
I wonder what my emailer’s excuse for his behavior is?
I suspect it derives from the voluntary suspension of his cognitive functioning in order to maintain a certain worldview or ideology that explains a disturbing reality he does not want to face.
I think we can take the word “suspect” out of it.
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