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Bill I’ll call them liars…

Posted: March 23, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…even if you won’t in this clip. Let’s put it this way:

This is 2010. Video is everywhere.

I remember at the Scott Brown Bus tour, When Brown got off the buss in Middleborough one of the first things he did was to thank the person from the Coakley campaign who’s job was to follow and film them.

Does anyone actually think that people were not filming the tea party protesters? Does anyone actually think that if they actually had video they wouldn’t not have released it?

I’m constantly telling my boys to remember that if they do anything stupid anywhere near a cell phone it will be captured. I warn my friend daughter if some boy talks her into flashing it the shot will be around the world within an hour.

The idea that there is no video in this location with the attention of the entire country on what’s going on, I’m sorry that’s stretching the bounds of credibility beyond the common sense point.

So yes Bill I’ll call the congressman a liar and yes Bill I’ll call the media liars. We’ve seen this game before and I’m calling them on it.

Update: Jim Hoff produces exhibit A

Erin Burnett thows cold water on the Google Hero stuff…

Posted: March 23, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech, tech
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…she points out on Morning Joe that google gets only 1 1/2% of its revenue from China and has struggled there. She must have read this Wall Street Journal article on the subject.

So Apparently google is making lemonade out of lemons here. A pretty smart move.

Then again it doesn’t change the fact that it is the right thing to do so I’ll give them kudos anyway for taking the road less traveled by, as the Journal says:

Google is trying to continue to offer search services to Chinese users outside the purview of mainland Chinese law, a strategy that few other companies, even those who have expressed growing frustrations with doing business in China, are likely to follow. Google appears to be setting itself up to fight China’s rules on its own and to manage what is likely to continue to be a complicated relationship with Beijing as it tries to ensure the government allows it to maintain some of its operations in the country. “This is an elegant solution if it were to hold, but I’m not convinced China will allow this to continue,” said John Palfrey, an Internet scholar at Harvard Law School.

Could it also be that Google sees that China’s bubble might be ready to burst too? If so such a move has even greater rewards long term.

We did this to ourselves collectively

Posted: March 22, 2010 by datechguy in elections, opinion/news
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I know I’m beating a dead horse here, but never forget that in a representative republic we always get the government we deserve.

We as a nation let ourselves be taken and voted for President Obama when his voting record, beliefs etc were all out there. In an information age we decided to ignore the info.

Conservatives sat on their hands and decided to teach the republican party a lesson, well here is a lesson for you, congress will still get first rate health care, it is you conservatives who decided that John McCain was too liberal who will see your care change, but you are not alone. You republicans who considered Sarah Palin’s populism so bad for the country that nothing could be worse, try socialized medicine on a grand scale.

David Frum’s idiocy not withstanding (I guess he hasn’t recovered from the free beer party at CPAC yet) only the conservative Tea Party movement prevented this lemon from passing a year ago but even that awakening is likely not going to be enough to make the difference.

As a nation we elected these people to make our laws. As a nation we will live and die (literally in this case) with this decision. We are responsible and we are going to pay.

Like other great changes it will take a generation for the full impact to be seen but it will be, and our current issues with the healthcare system will be a walk in the park compared to this.

Update: I disagree with Phil Klein. I don’t blame Bush. His primary issue and duty was victory in the war and he provided it. I suspect that a lot of the reason he let some of this spending through was to provide victory in the war.

With Iraq safely won it is easy to through rocks and George Bush, but let me tell you, although I don’t think this will be repealed it is a lot better to have a bad bill to repeal than to have to recover from a lost war.

A quick point about the statement reprinted at both…

Posted: March 22, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…Little Miss Attila’s and the Anchoress’ sites. Near the end of the presentation the writer asks a question.

I am not certain why this very obvious outcome has not been openly discussed more often

It is because when your goal is to socialize medicine this result is a feature not a bug.

Let’s ask a better question. Considering the number of years that it takes to become a doctor and the result this will have on the profitability of that business, will the best and brightest choose medicine? Given what will happen to the pharmaceutical field will the smart young person go that route when choosing a career?

The best in the batch can usually write their own ticket, the government just canceled the tickets to the medical field and unfortunately for me and my sons the primary effects of that cancellation of that ticket will hit when I am of retirement age and when they are my age. Perhaps by then I will not be considered cost effective enough to be allowed care. Not to worry, with some luck the heart problems my father had might hit me well before then…but I’d have to take up drinking and smoking.

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