Posts Tagged ‘reality’

My mother did that once…

Posted: April 1, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news, personal
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…running into a burning building to try to save a neighbor. She ended up missing him but only a foot or two and ended up with lung damage, however it is a proud story and it is no less proud now that she is 84.

I suspect if she acted in the way the police did here she would have 40 years of guilt instead.

There is nothing sadder than watching one of the father’s of all cultures commit suicide.

April 1st Virus, here is some advice…

Posted: April 1, 2009 by datechguy in tech
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… don’t worry. In my opinion people who are going to be hit by this are the same people who will be hit by a dozen other virus due to unsafe practices.

The thing to do is not to worry on one day of the year, it is to be careful on the net as a normal way of acting and then the “big virus release day” will be just another day.

So don’t open unsolicited e-mails, ignore items that are forwarded a million times, beware of stuff like limewire and don’t be sharing files or passing around stuff, and be careful on the net where you surf.

The basic stuff hasn’t changed it just is stuff that people don’t want to do.

If only this was an April Fools joke…

Posted: April 1, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…but the joke is on us.

And remember this is only possible because we let it happen.

Katrina vanden Heuvel I’m not the only one…

Posted: April 1, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…who noticed that she is still out there defending communists:

When it is suggested that the Kremlin was involved in the assassination of journalists, including Putin critic Anna Politskaya, she shakes her head and tell Scarborough that the “rot started in Chechnya.” One reporter for Novoya Gazeta, a paper vanden Heuvel recently visited while in Moscow and holds up as an example of Russia’s free press, told Reuters that “prosecutors had tried to solve the case and were ordered to back off when the trail led to someone ‘quite high up in the ruling hierarchy.'” But when the deaths of journalist Anastasia Baburova and lawyer Stanislav Markelov are discussed, vanden Heuvel quickly assigns blame to “neo-Nazis,” though no arrests have been made in the case and many at Novoya Gazeta, where Baburova worked, suspect government involvement.

What people forget is the before the Soviet Union fell and the Venona files came out, intellectuals often spouted this nonsense, Kennedy, Biden et/al the worshiped senators/vp’s now where talking about working with or appeasing the Soviets. The press and the smart people hated Reagan for his willingness to stand up to Soviet Aggression. (At the time it was the one thing I agreed with him on.) After they came out they and the press conveniently forgot which side they had been on.

Expect a lot more of this stuff as these people are mainstreamed.