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What Aspin needs is more Sgt. Garcia and less Pam Anderson

Posted: September 28, 2009 by datechguy in oddities
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If you remember the old Zorro TV show Sgt. Garcia was a good natured bumbler who dreamed of catching Zorro to get the reward:

But he knew what to do about bears.

Maybe if Aspin had more Sgt. Garcias around they wouldn’t have to worry so much about bears or the Bears would stay away.

Via Glenn to whom this is a pet peeve.

Update: At Moe Lane’s a commenter gives a lesson in cause and effect:

Gene K says:
September 28, 2009 at 7:56 am

Colorado Issue 10 (1992) was a measure was to prohibit the taking of (hunting) black bears. It passed. The bear population has increased with all the expected consequences.

It looks like the city shot itself in the foot and didn’t have charcoal instead of gunpowder in their muskets.

The most important phrase in Robert Stacy McCain’s piece for the American Spectator…

Posted: September 23, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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…is this:

“Beck seems to be a roiling mix of fear, resentment, and anger — the antithesis of Ronald Reagan.”

That Reagan was himself smeared by the journalistic predecessors of Von Drehle is evidently beyond Wehner’s scope of knowledge. If Americans had gotten their opinions of Reagan from liberal writers, the Gipper never would have been president and the victims of Soviet tyranny would still fill the gulags.

If YouTube existed in 1982 you would be able to see clip after clip of democrats who now hold power in the house and senate and media people who are among the most respected in their profession going on and on about nuclear freezes, the folly of deploying missiles in Europe and the danger Ronald Reagan posed to world peace.

The difference between Ronald Reagan and Ted Kennedy is that the Media revealed Kennedy and reverently covered his death to the indifference of the people of the United States. When Ronald Reagan died the media grudgingly gave coverage to his death and burial as a nation mourned to the media’s confusion.

Watching the media today you would never know they ever opposed Reagan or Reaganism. Sorta like this.

Remember If everyone who claimed to be in the French resistance in World War II really had been, there would have been nobody left to collaborate.

Beck isn’t really my cup of tea but he gets results, if we let the media pick our team we are going to lose. Politically they are on the other side and we should never forget it.

This one goes to 11

Posted: September 22, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff, personal
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My city is a small city of 35,000, as you might know, we have a gang problem (we have become a drug hub over the last couple of decades just as we were a trade and manufacturing hub in the 19th century) and the violence that comes with it problem, our budget is in trouble, it’s so bad that to save money streetlights are turned off at night all over the place. And we pay I believe the 3rd highest electric rates in the entire country (Thanks Unitil!) It is a mess.

So naturally we should do whatever we can to avoid spending money when it isn’t necessary.

Which brings us to today’s primary election…..

In Fitchburg we have 6 ward counselors and 5 “at large” counselors. Under the rules of the town if more than 10 people run for the “at large” seats a primary has to be held to bring the total back down to 10 before the general election.

We have 11 people running.

On the plus side it’s nice to see so many people interested in getting involved to turn things around, and it will be the first vote ever that my son casts. That is a right of passage into the rights and responsibilities of American democracy and republican government (and by “republican I of course mean the system of government not the party). UPDATE Both he and I thought he registered at the DMV but he’s not on the list, so he will go to city hall and have to wait for the general election in November.

On the other hand we are going to the expense of a city wide primary election to shave ONE STUPID NAME off the ballot when we can’t even afford to keep our streetlights on.

Can’t anybody play this game? What would Rush Limbaugh Honorary Lizzardoid say? Now that the kid can vote I hope he votes for smarter people than we have.

No 9/11 moment of silence for me

Posted: September 11, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Our enemies are not going to get the satisfaction. When we constantly mourn we give our foes a victory once every year they haven’t earned.

Update: 9/11 is the day of two great American Victories in history. Later tonight I will detail them.

Update 2: Lileks says it best:

there’s still a space in the sky where no one will ever stand again. We could stand there once. That we couldn’t stand there eight years ago was their fault. That we cannot stand there today is ours.

Bingo!

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