Posts Tagged ‘irony’

I’m sorry that’s just funny

Posted: February 9, 2009 by datechguy in catholic, opinion/news
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A lot of the noise about the Williamson case is smoke and grandstanding these days Williamson’s statements on what the Vatican has ordered are not so odd:

Williamson does not plan to immediately comply with the Vatican’s demand that he recant, and has rejected a suggestion that he might visit the former Auschwitz death camp, the German weekly Der Spiegel reported Saturday.

Williamson said he would correct himself if he is satisfied by the evidence, but insisted that examining it “will take time,” Der Spiegel reported.

…but the last line of this associated press story just make me smile and laugh:

Several efforts by The Associated Press to reach Williamson at his home in La Reja, Argentina, have been unsuccessful.

Argentina, ARGENTINA? Boy you don’t get a better fit than that do you?

Meanwhile in the land of Obama jr…

Posted: February 7, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff
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While the President is making trade enemies on a global scale. Here in Massachusetts our Governor Obama Lite Deval Patrick is making trade war on a more local scale.

Gov. John Lynch said yesterday he will offer a new law to protect New Hampshire businesses from being forced to collect Massachusetts sales taxes.
“We need to send a clear message that Massachusetts and other states shall not impose their sales taxes on New Hampshire businesses,” Lynch said.

Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-Exeter, will be the bill’s prime sponsor and will be joined by other Senate and House members. Lynch and Attorney General Kelly Ayotte announced Thursday that New Hampshire has filed a brief at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Council protesting efforts to force Town Fair Tire Center to pay more than $108,000 in back-taxes on sales to Massachusetts residents at its New Hampshire stores.

Lynch termed the tax collection effort as “outrageous” in announcing the legal action the state will take.

The idiocy on using state resources to do something clearly unconstitutional is so breathtaking even our papers are noticing it:

How ironic it is that the state that once had the gumption to start a war over unfair taxation imposed from afar is now trying to spread its tax tentacles beyond its own borders.

That’s right: Massachusetts, the state that boldly took on the tax-happy British Empire, is now doing a little imperial number of its own. And instead of depending on musket-toting militiamen, this time we’re using hapless store clerks as our frontline troops.

and he that sows the wind will reap too:

Massachusetts ought to be careful of the whirlwind it might reap. The Bay State has the second lowest sales tax in New England. One has to wonder whether neighboring states with higher rates, like Rhode Island and Connecticut, might get the same hunger for the cross-border enforcement of a “use tax.

I really thought that the country might reject Obama because of our experiences with little obama Patrick. I was wrong but will be really shocked if he wins re-election here.

Little ironic hints

Posted: February 7, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Watching the last hour of On the Waterfront this morning I was struck by the thought that Marlon Brando’s character of Terry Malloy in fiction is Elia Kazan in real life.

A man who saw evil and was willing to talk and because of this was and still is hated by those who supported and still either support or venerate that same evil. The only question is when people will actually acknowledge it.

I think things like these are little clues to us in life.

Like the removal of Britiannia from circulating British coins it is a symbol of British ideals, liberty and identity. Now it will only be on Bullion. Something to be locked away as a memory. And what have seen happening in England? The rights of Englishman fading away. Sharia law growing.

Or remember this Danial Webster quote:

“Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.”

On May 3rd 2003 the Old Man of the Mountain collapsed. God removed his shingle. And the very next month New Hampshire Episcopal elected Gene Robinson Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire.

The most graphic i can think of it Lady Diana’s death. The media fawned all over it, declared her a secular saint and turned it into an international day or morning. Then mother Theresa dies the same week as Mike Barnicle put it “A tap on the shoulder from God.” and the media was shamed into covering the Funeral live.

Gotta love indirect proofs.

A gift to Ben Stein

Posted: February 6, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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I think Big Hollywood nails it:

Does anybody else find it supremely ironic that Ben Stein made a documentary about academia’s intolerance toward those who question evolutionary theory — and then a university effectively rescinded an invitation to speak? Seems to me that nothing in Ben Stein’s Expelled is more compelling evidence of the truth of his thesis than that.

I don’t have a horse in this race myself but I think this is a gift to Ben Stein it validates his thesis and strengthens his whole hand. Even if you disagree much better to let him talk. I suspect he would have been a great speaker.

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