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“If we want to avoid making Iran a very nasty country…”

Posted: June 19, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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These word on Morning Joe today are one of the reasons why I have a hard time taking Zbigniew Brzezinski seriously.

The idea that if we even speak in support of the people in Iran that it will prevent us from talking them out of nukes or make them repressive.

Listen, these guys are going to blame all of this on us anyways. These guys aren’t going to become repressive, they already are. We aren’t going to drive them toward a bomb, they are already going there.

Forgetting the morality of it (which clearly says to speak up) and speaking practically, this is our best chance of accomplishing the downfall of the chief sponsor (as Yoda once said there is one other but that’s a post for another day) of terror in the world. It is a chance to do it without a military strike. These guys are very worried, particularly since we have 2 armies right next door.

We need to support these guys, both with public pronouncements and in small ways like the twitter update delay.

President Obama scoffed when his rhetoric was called “just words”, now he is unwilling to even deploy them.

Harvey vs Morning Joe

Posted: June 18, 2009 by datechguy in personal, Uncategorized
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You know when I woke up today I put on Morning Joe and started to catch the news concerning flyswatting, the president’s polls etc and I happened to check the menu on the set and noticed that the 1950 movie Harvey staring Jimmy Stewart was on HBO.

I thought about it for a bit and decided that it’s very important to forget the silly troubles of the world for a few hours and not live for them, so Harvey is on the TV as I type. At the moment we are at the scene in Dr. Chumley’s office where Jimmy Stewart and the good doctor are discussing Harvey:

Fly specks, fly specks! I’ve been spending my life among fly specks while miracles have been leaning on lampposts at 18th and Fairfax!

It is important not to ignore the world but just for a time, it is very important to notice the little pleasantries of the world. Not Obama this or Iraq that or Letterman this or Gitmo that.

As I’ve been watching the movie it hits me that this is the entire theme of it.

The world is what it is; but usually your life is made up of moments not in Washington, London, Tehran. It is made up of moments in your house or apartment or at the corner butcher shop or the little diner/ice cream shop there. If you spend too much time worrying about the rest of the world all your life you will forget to live it.

And even on the worst of days when everything is pressing against you, if you find a bench in the park there is the sun or the rain and the beauty of life around you, the still small voice of God reminding you that although your problems may loom large life is good and it’s a gift.

That doesn’t generate a lot of hits but when they close the coffin they won’t says about you, boy he had a lot of hits.

Maybe its because I’m looking for work…

Posted: June 12, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…but even though it would be politically advantageous to push Letterman to the brink I’m not inclined to force him out, but I’ll tell you this…

…Every day that the mainstream media defends Letterman they lose credibility, and if the sponsors eventually force a stronger apology, a suspension or even a firing it will show the MSN for the paper tiger it is.

Cripes even MSNBC’s Morning Joe came out and said out loud what everyone already knew:

BRZEZINSKI: I’m telling you that when she came out on the scene I was– thought it was refreshing. I thought it was exciting. I thought it was interesting. And I also saw a lot of people behind the scenes looking for ways to find a way to bring her down because of her ideology. And I was excited by her ideology because I thought, wow, a very interesting, forty-something, my generation, working woman with five kids on the national stage could really inject something into this conversation about things like abortion.

She goes on:

BRZEZINSKI: What I hated was, what I saw happening behind the scenes, among my colleagues in the media, where there was this rabidness.

Peggy Noonan expands on this:

NOONAN: Yeah, they– Palin from the moment she came out, people looked at her kids and sort of went after the kids. It was vicious. It was offensive. It made me use in a column a word I wouldn’t normally use, rhymes with witch, talking about the people in the media who had just decided to gun for these kids. I mean, it was just awful.

This is being said openly on MSNBC! We even get it from Norah O’Donnell today. Even Megan McCain is defending Palin now.

This is Ted Williams playing Tee ball. As long as they keep putting the ball on the tee it will end up over the fence.

Update: Ace and Pursuing Holiness (via the green room) are still in a fighting room.

Why fighting back works, even NOW comments

Posted: June 12, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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You know we’ve heard a lot about how conservatives have to sit back and take it, we have to become more calm. Today on morning Joe they are talking about how Republicans and conservatives have to change.

Under the advice of people like Peggy Noonan we would have just ignored all of this. The Governor would have yet again been the butt of a joke and de-legitimized in the back of American minds. (Which is the general idea.)

Instead Governor Palin fought back, conservative bloggers fought back appealing to the basic decency of people. True liberal feminists who value respect for women over party loyalty spoke up and slowly and surely the coverage went from “thin skined palin”, to “she had it coming” to “well nobody agrees with attacking a 14 year old” to the culmination of today NOW putting out a statement (although not without a jab to conservatives).

It is very hard now outside of NBC and MSNBC to find someone willing to defend Letterman, and if you do it on morning Joe you risk the wrath of Mika.

This is something that anyone can relate to and understand. That’s why it is so devastating.

This demonstrates why fighting back makes a difference and works. If you don’t think the advertisers are noticing what happened think again.

And if you are a liberal feminist you will see dividends.

So I repeat: Conservatives; Fight! take the words of U.S. Grant at the Battle of the Wilderness to heart:

“Bobby Lee this, Bobby Lee that! I’m sick to death hearing about Bobby Lee! You think he would do a somersault and land in our Rear! Stop thinking about what he will do to you and start thinking about what you will do to him! Bring some guns up here!” as quoted by Shelby Foote in The Civil War a Narrative

If Grant had thought like Frum & Co the US would be under two flags.

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