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» posted on Thursday, March 28th, 2013 at 11:00 pm by DaTechGuy
Under the Fedora, the Joys of Doing it Yourself
It’s CPAC plus one week and after shooting over 100 pices of video scheduled as posts over a two week period and with my youngest’s school schedule giving him Mon & Wed off till summer I actually had time to solicit my radio show door to door in person in Concord Ma this week.
I know in theory someone should be selling this for me and I’m constantly on the lookout for people willing to do commission sales for me but there is something about important and special about doing the work yourself, meeting people and talking your show and web site, nobody knows your show or business like you do and it’s good for people to see the host of the show in person.
If you have a business I strongly suggest you devote at least a few days a year to getting out and meeting your customers or potential customers in person, you won’t regret it.
Some things are just so ridiculous that you have to see them to believe them. Al Sharpton hitting people for anti-Semitism is a great example
@bethanyshondark @amandacarpenter Al Sharpton cries #antisemitism on @morning_joe Heads must be exploding in #newyork @yidwithlid #tcot #p2
— Peter Ingemi (@DaTechGuyblog) March 25, 2013
Yid with lid’s head didn’t explode but Jeff did comment:
When people falsely use terms like Antisemitism, ESPECIALLY when they are anti-Semitic haters like Al Sharpton, it waters down the effect of what should be a horrible label.
Al Sharpton has no right to determine what is anti-Semitic, but as a Jew who has faced Antisemitism many times during his life..I do. People who are fighting for the Second Amendment, like me for example, are not doing so because of Jew hatred.
Al Sharpton, the MSNBC broadcaster/professional agitator who used the term this morning is an Anti-Semite of the worst kind.
It’s amazing what you can get away with if you have the gumption to do it:
If you ever question Glenn Reynolds deserved the lifetime achievement award for blogging at CPAC consider that it takes 4 bloggers to replace him on his site when he goes on vacation.
Stacy McCain continues to be busy, he is now Editor in Chief of a new site Viral Read which combines both cultural news and political news. (This BTW is an excellent idea, we need to be part of the bigger culture if we are going to win) but he is also on the road again heading down to SC-1 to cover the Sanford Bostic GOP primary.
Mark Sanford’s history makes him a kamikaze choice for the GOP. Even if he wins both the primary and the general election the GOP loses, meanwhile Bostic has already been endorsed by both Rick Santorum and Ann Coulter.
If I was a democrat I’d be shoveling money to the Sanford campaign and readying mailings attacking Bostic ASAP they would rather avoid facing a Marine with Deployments to Kuwait & Saudi Arabia than a pol whose most famous deployment was to Argentina.
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A few months ago I interviewed some writers who were big Dr. Who fans. It appeared that there were two distinct Dr. Who cultures. Guys like me, the straight guys into history & SF and a very liberal subculture full of Gay men who absolutely adored the series.
This came to mind with the daily mail story concerning John Nathan Turner producer of Dr. Who who took over for the last Tom Baker season and presided over it’s steady decline and cancellation.
The BBC faces a new sex scandal over claims two senior Doctor Who staff abused their positions to exploit fans.
A book alleges the show’s longest-serving producer, John Nathan-Turner, and his partner, production manager Gary Downie, preyed on young male fans in the 1980s.
Many of the men, the book says, were under 21 – at the time the homosexual age of consent.
I guess that explains why the series had its decline, the producer had other things on their mind. It took a lot of years for this stuff to get out to the public, if only a Catholic Priest was involved perhaps it might have generated some interest before now.
BTW this weekend I’ll have the pleasure of both the new 50th anniversary special with the 3rd Doctor and the new season with Matt Smith. For all the talk of the Gay fan subculture without them I wouldn’t be enjoying both of these series this weekend.
I wonder if they had time to film anything with Caroline Jones (Liz Shaw) before her death last year?
While the MSM is all Gay Marriage all the time Dave Weigel (one of my guests on DaTechGuy on DaRadio last week) pointed out something that is a sore spot for me:
The new Democratic advocates for SSM fall into two camps. The first consists of people who always liked the idea of this but worried about losing national elections. In his memoir, Democratic consultant Bob Shrum remembers John Kerry fretting that the Massachusetts Supreme Court had forced Democrats to talk about gay marriage before they were ready to. “Why couldn’t they just wait a year?” he asked Shrum, mournfully. The second camp consists of people who really do oppose the idea of gay people getting married. Republicans argued that this second camp was tiny, and that liberals were hiding behind it. They were right!
The “We don’t need a constitutional Amendment” has been and always was a lie, and the democrat party that has always been beholding to the entertainment and media industries in which the homosexual community is highly overrepresented while believing Christians are highly unrepresented
The left is the secular party; Christianity and traditional values are the enemy. I recognized it almost 20 years ago, it remains to be seen when everyone else will get it.
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This is Holy week the most sacred time in the Church’s calendar. A lot of people think that Christmas is the holiest day of the year, and some think Easter but Good Friday and the Easter Vigil beat them both. The Easter Vigil mass is a minimum 3 hours and can run 4-5 depending on the number of people joining the church that day.
A lot of people don’t realize it but the Catholic Church is very serious about adult and family conversions. You don’t just get baptized it takes a fair amount of time, preparation and study to join the church. I think this is why converted adults tend to be stronger and more knowledgeable about the faith than cradle Catholics, they HAVE to learn the faith to become a part of it.
It appears the Boston Red Sox streak of sellouts is going to end this year. The Sox have a 6 state customer base, one of the most historic franchise in the nation and a ballpark that is not only one of the smallest in the majors but is itself an attraction in itself.
“It’s going to rest in peace sometime in April, I suspect,” Lucchino said of the streak, which began in 2003 and is the longest in U.S. pro sports history. “That’s not such a terrible thing. It’s an extraordinary accomplishment.”
But even that isn’t enough if you don’t put a worthwhile product on the field. Or the fact that it is prohibitively expensive for a family of four to attend a game. 4 tickets in the nosebleed seats run $120 (if you shift to the bleachers the price drops to a mere $112). If you want to sit other than in nosebleed land in left field you will pay over $200 and that’s without the premium you pay
That doesn’t count parking, hotdogs or drinks, or a program. In an economy where people are making half or less than what they were making 4 or 6 years ago
On the bright side so many people have fled NE the Red Sox can be sure that no matter what park they play New England expatriates who likely couldn’t afford good Red Sox seat will be in the stands to cheer.
You might leave to find a job but Red Sox fans never leave their team behind.
Happy Easter all.
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» posted on Thursday, March 21st, 2013 at 11:30 pm by DaTechGuy
Under the Fedora CPAC etc…
Well CPAC has come and gone but the GOP seems to have learned little. Monday the talk is all re-branding and tweaking things to that suddenly the MSM will decide that the Republican Party is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Earth to GOP, your problem isn’t branding it’s principles. Look at the last few weeks.
At CPAC there were 10,000+ conservative activists ready to fight, all they need is somebody willing to step up.
The poured in to hear Marco Rubio talk about the future and take the attacks of the left in stride, he turned the democrats watery attacks into a flood of fundraising dollars and a packed hall.
Rand Paul stood on principles, he bluntly (and concisely) pointed out the principles of limiting the power of government and defended the constitutional amendments from the 1st the 2nd the 4th and the 10th.
And Ted Cruz in a speech where he eschewed the Teleprompter walked before the podium and about the stage to tell a cheering audience when it came to drones. And the government asking: Don’t you trust us?:
The answer is exactly that. No we don’t trust you and we don’t trust the next guy or the next guy or the next guy whether he’s a democrat or a republican.”
Rand Paul stood up and fought, things happened.
Ted Cruz stood up and fought things happened.
Marco Rubio stood up and fought, things happened.
One you start leading, people will follow, the trick is to be willing to lead.
Speaking of leading Reince Priebus might be doing well on the fundraising side but his gigantic document on “rebranding” the GOP had a glaring omission:
For the RNC to produce a 100-page report and not have a single mention of the need to interact with and support the conservative blogosphere tells me that the RNC simply has rearranged the deck chairs on the HMS Consultant.
We may not be all that, but it’s clear that the RNC doesn’t want us to be any part of that.
Meanwhile look who showed up at Blogbash…
Perhaps that why Ted Cruz is winning and other aren’t.
Note to the GOP listen to Ted Cruz and these people and you will win, fail to do so and you will not only lose, but you will DESERVE to lose.
Speaking of CPAC there were a lot of interesting people there Pols
Writers
Advocates
Pols
And regular people
Not to mention folks with Cannoli recipes
All the video in the world won’t change the fact that you can’t understand CPAC without seeing it close up.
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The WBC has also come and gone and the Dominican Team went a perfect 8-0 to win it all. One can look at that killer roster but it was a pitching staff with an ERA of under 2 for the entire 8 games that really made the difference.
That’s what baseball is all about, Pitching, Pitching, Pitching.
I suspect the Red Sox will not have an 8 game winning streak in 2013, but you never know.
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Two weeks away from the series 7 of Dr. Who. I really don’t like this short half season stuff nor do I think they should only have a single episode for the 50th anniversary (monthly repeat specials not withstanding. I think they should include as many past doctors as they can in the season and make that anniversary the entire theme.
But it’s easy for me to say,
Is it just me or does the Big Bang Theory get funnier every year? The character growth has not retarded the show one bit in fact the interaction between Howard & his wife has really added a great dimension to the show.
I really hope they don’t play the “Make Raj gay card”. Nothing says I’m not edgy more than giving into a social convention in that way.
Speaking of social conventions we have a new Pope and the left is trying to wrap their heads around Francis I, particularly after his initial mass
When he talks about Joseph “receptive to God’s plan and not his own” it is a direct challenge to those who worship the world. That the day after Hillery Clinton changes with the wind on “gay marriage” and Memeorandum trumpets the latest support for it in the polls its chief opponent in the entire world takes the world stage talking about God’s plan which directly contradicts all the media loves.
On CNN the irony became more pronounced as Chris Cuomo brother of the Governor of NY who has been pushing Abortion even beyond the pale in the hopes of the nomination of the Democrat party in 2016 bluntly said there was nothing unorthodox in his message. CNN as soon as the Homily was done pivoted toward the Sex scandal but they couldn’t sustain the conversation in that direction as the Pope’s Homily pushed them in into a different direction.
This Pope’s humility and popularity is going to be a thorn in the media’s side and his weight with the common people will force the media to continue to highlight his every move.
Do not let this fool you. The media will follow him, will report on him and quote him whenever it serves to advance their agenda while, as Judas did “look for an opportunity to hand him over“ Mark 14:11b
As I said the day he was elected the left will hate Francis the way Satan hats the church.
Finally on the subject of “immigration” Jeb Bush took a hit for suggesting that people who came illegally go back to the end of the line in terms of citizenship while being made legal to get on with their lives.
You would have thought he killed the Lindbergh baby he was roundly denounced for his words by the left but how could he NOT be.
For the left Amnesty is all about creating democrat voters, period. To pretend otherwise is to fool yourself.
See you next week.
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» posted on Thursday, March 7th, 2013 at 11:30 pm by DaTechGuy
Under the Fedora Chavez, CPAC & Baseball
Hugo Chavez has died and some on the left are in mourning including some in congress like Jose Serrano
Hugo Chavez was a leader that understood the needs of the poor. He was committed to empowering the powerless. R.I.P. Mr. President.
People were expressing outrage, I don’t’ see why. The left has supported totalitarians since Vietnam, they tried to hinder Reagan in central America and opposed his standing up to the soviets, they did all they could to protect Saddam, why should anyone be surprised that the Democrat left should support yet another dictator?
That doesn’t fly as well in an internet age and Think Progress is doing it’s best to protect the left from itself when it comes to Hugo
Chavez’ policies harmed Venezuela’s poorest in other ways: the value of the Venezuelan currency dropped while prices soared, making it harder for people to buy basic necessities, and crime skyrocketed…
…Chavez also attacked Venezuela’s democratic political system. Human Rights Watch reported in 2012 that “the accumulation of power in the executive and the erosion of human rights protections have allowed the Chávez government to intimidate, censor, and prosecute critics and perceived opponents in a wide range of cases involving the judiciary, the media, and civil society.” Contra Serrano, Venezuela’s elections were not certified as “free and fair” by international monitors of late: Chavez had not allowed international election monitors to observe Venezuelan elections since 2006.
Alas poor Think Progress they didn’t think of shutting off comments on their post. They don’t seem to share that opinion.
While the Think Progress crew is seems to miss the dictator there are signs that some other groups are moving in the right direction. As you might have heard an attempt was made on Lars Hedegaard’s life over his cartoons hitting Islam, what you might now have heard is how the Islamic society of Copenhagen reacted:
When the news broke on Feb. 5 that Mr. Hedegaard had narrowly escaped an attack on his life, recalled Imran Shah of Copenhagen’s Islamic Society, “we knew that this was something people would try to blame on us. We knew we had to be in the forefront and make clear that political and religious violence is totally unacceptable.”
I’ve never been shy about hitting Radical Islam, conversely when you see Muslims do the right thing that needs to be highlighted and encouraged. If we don’t’ support people willing to object to this kind of thing in the Muslim community the hard liners will roll right over them.
Meanwhile in the US being willing to speak against Radical Islam or it’s enablers will get you banned from CPAC
This year, I applied to speak and was ignored. I tried to get a room for an AFDI event, “The War on Free Speech,” and was ignored. So, for the first time in five years, I won’t be at CPAC. Last year Suhail Khan bragged out loud that he (and his other operatives) had successfully kept Robert Spencer and me from being invited to speak. He went so far as to warn people not to attend our events or read our books.
In fact you might not even be allowed to accept awards that you win:
But as time went by and no announcement was made of this victory, and the voting continued despite my having been told that it officially ended last Friday night and that I had won, and the promised links and other placement promised to the winning blog didn’t materialize, I started to wonder. So I contacted the organizer who had written me telling me I won and asked him what was going on.
He told me that there was a slight problem: the Tea Party group, which co-sponsored this People’s Choice Blog Award, didn’t want to allow me to receive it at CPAC next week unless I promised not to criticize Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan as I accepted the award.
I told the organizer that I couldn’t agree to that. He asked me if I had planned to talk about Grover and Suhail. I said no, I hadn’t, but I had to now.
So that’s that. The People’s Choice Blog Award is now the Grover’s Choice Blog Award. I will not be going to CPAC and will not be receiving this award.
Hugo Chavez might be dead but apparently his spirit lives on, I just didn’t think it would live on at CPAC.
Meanwhile while some try to deny the dangers of Radical Islam others are counting on it.
Mind you the Kimberlin crowd is not doing this because they object to some Muslims being critiqued as murderous barbarian bastards who would kill or threaten a person who objects to Islamic threats. They are doing this specifically because they BELIEVE Muslims to be murderous barbarian bastards who will threaten or harm those who critique them, in fact they’re counting on it!
And these guys don’t have the excuse of trying to please God
Just picked up the in the 2nd Season of the 4th Doctor Adventures at Mike’s Comics/Anne’s Book Stop of Worcester The Sands of life.
It’s a simply delightful episode the first of two parts, the second being released next month. While a great pleasure it makes one sad. How many great Doctor Romana #1 stories could we have had if Tom Baker had jumped on Board with Big Finish in 1999 rather than in 2011.
Not to mention Sarah Jane Stores.
I don’t know if they will do any Lalla Ward stories, her being his ex wife it might be complicated.
BTW David Warner guests in The Sands of life, is there anything at ALL he isn’t good in?
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I’ve been following the World Baseball Classic. Three interesting stories thus far.
The Dutch Team. Last time they shocked the world by eliminating the Dominican Republic this time they advanced at the expense of Korea.
Don’t’ think for one minute that performance last time didn’t help build up the team for this time around.
Brazil vs China: Brazil blew two 8th inning leads vs Japan and China but the Chinese game was incredible, in the 8th inning Brazil walked five batters (three ties forcing in runs) hit one and give up the key bases loaded single that gave China a lead they would never surrender.
Did you know China has a General Secretary of Baseball. She stood behind the manager during the game. She didn’t react when China took the lead but when they turned a 5-4-3 double play after Brazil put on the first man in the ninth she cheered like a person who didn’t have to go back to communist masters and tell them they qualified for 2016.
Italy is playing in Pool D. If you are a non-baseball country it’s got to be the worst bracket to be fighting in, Mexico, Canada and the US. Despite this Italy managed to beat Mexico in the first game 6-5 surviving a bases loaded 3-2 situation in the last of the ninth.
And THAT is why baseball is the best sport ever made.
See you all at CPAC next week
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» posted on Thursday, February 28th, 2013 at 8:00 pm by DaTechGuy
Under the Fedora Christie, Woodward and MacFarlane
I’m looking at the dust up between Chris Christie and CPAC and can’t help but remember the movie Witness for the Prosecution from 1957.
There was a speech by Marlene Dietrich’s character at the end of the trial that was the true climax of the movie.
(spoiler alert)
Mrs. Vole: Remember when I came to see you, you said that no jury would believe an alibi given by a loving wife no matter shown she swore he was innocent. That gave me the idea.
Sir Wilfred: What Idea?
Mrs Vole: The idea to not be a witness for my husband but for the prosecution. That I should swear Leonard was guilty and would expose me as a vicious liar because only then would they believe Leonard was innocent.
When I look at CPAC not inviting Chris Christie I see the same dynamic.
MSNBC not withstanding Christie is smart enough to know that the left is not going to lay off of him or paint him as anything other than a right-wing extremist. I suspect he figures with the president winning the state by that wide a spread and Obamacare being the signature achievement of this president (and I use the word achievement VERY loosely)this move takes at least one target off of his chest.
And when it comes down to it, there is nothing CPAC could do better for his re-election efforts than keeping him away.
By staying away nothing he says there can be use to call him a “right-winger” in a +18 Obama state. It also precludes a nasty confrontation with conservatives that could hurt him among a base where he can’t spare a single vote.
And Christie is playing it to the hilt.
“It’s not like I’m lacking for invitations to speak, both here or around the country, it’s not like I have a whole lot of openings in my schedule,” Christie said. He added, referencing the damage to his state wrought by Superstorm Sandy, “I can’t sweat the small stuff. I got a state to rebuild. I can’t sweat the small stuff.”
Every day this is in the news is a day of the MSM lionizing Christie. That certainly can’t hurt because he know the national media will be turning on him as soon as it fits their purpose. Every day that moment is delayed helps him.
BTW CPAC has invited Dr. Ben Carson who gave that famous speech at the National Prayer breakfast this year. Somehow that hasn’t captured the attention of the MSM. I wonder why?
Incidentally the Original witness for the prosecution is one of the best films you will see. Not only is it a spectacular courtroom drama but the chemistry between Charles Laughton & Elsa Lancaster really makes the movie. As they were Husband and wife it should not be much of a surprise.
Ironically the 58 year old Laughton was playing a lawyer recovering from a Heart Attack defending the 43 year old Tyrone Power, who would die of a heart attack within a year of the movie’s release.
Nobody is promised tomorrow. That’s why I’m such a big fan of the Sacrament of Confession.
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Sequestration is coming and it’s bringing back memories of my youth to the days of Proposition 2 ½ in Massachusetts
After the measure was passed practically EVERY teacher at the High School was given a pink slip directly after the election. (One teacher generated a lot of laughs by asking the students “do you want to see my pink slip?” and when they said “yes” raising her skirt just enough to see her slip which was in fact pink). Today that would get you fired but in my day we had a sense of humor.
But then after all the worry the teachers were put through a strange thing happened:
Nothing!
The next year the teachers were still there, the school was still there and everything pretty much remained as it had been before. It put the lie to the hype.
The Sequestration argument is pretty much the same and the attacks on Bob Woodward hasn’t made this business any easier for the White House:
Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a “very senior person” at the White House warned him in an email that he would “regret doing this,” the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester.
CNN host Wolf Blitzer said that the network invited a White House official to debate Woodward on-air, but the White House declined.
This has gotten a lot of play but as American Glob and Breitbart’s John Nolte put it the real story is the number of people attacking Woodward on the left.
If you want to know who is a member of the current version of Journolist this it’s a handy guide.
BTW Nolte is right, Sequestration is going to be blamed by this white house for every economic problem it has over the next two years. It’s going to be their version of Global warming.
The sad this is it has overshadowed the idiotic release of illegal aliens in detention. It will not make The White House’s case any stronger.
The Department of Homeland Security has started releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants held in local jails in anticipation of automatic budget cuts, in a move one Arizona sheriff called politically motivated — and dangerous.
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement released more than 500 detainees in his county alone over the weekend. A spokesman for Babeu told FoxNews.com that ICE officials have said they plan to release a total of nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants.
Some Doctor Who. Saw the special on the 2nd Doctor this week. I thought it odd that while they had Frazier Hines and Wendy Padbuty as guests on the special they didn’t have Deborah Watling particularly since Tomb of the Cyberman was the first episode that featured her as a companion.
I’m also surprised they didn’t include Patrick Troughton’s son David Troughton who is active in the series, but that might wait till the next special on the 3rd Doctor where he appeared as King Peladon.
The special was on at the same time as the Oscars which I totally ignored. White uninterested I do find it amusing that so many people like Jane Fonda are so angry at Seth MacFarline for acting like….Seth MacFarline.
Anyone who has watched any episode of Family Guy or saw the movie Ted knew this was coming (particularly the musical numbers, MacFarline LOVES musicals). The amount of racist, sexist and offensive humor directed against people is considerable. If anybody thought MacFarline was going to change for the Oscars, they have a screw loose.
So I guess they’ll have to find new hosts for next year. I hear Trey Parker and Matt Stone have the day free…
Spring training has started, nobody picking the Red Sox this year, but this is the time when hope springs eternal for Red Sox fans and even for Cubs fans.
One thing that is also coming up is the World Baseball Classic that starts this Friday. A lot of people tend to ignore it but I think it’s a great thing for the game. Including the already completed qualifying rounds teams from 28 nations (now paired down to 16) are competing for the title.
Japan has won both WBC’s so far, and Daisuke Matsuzaka remains the only player to win a World Series, WBC and Japan Series.
Japan has a great chance to threepeat but I’d love to see a Netherlands vs Italy final. That’s unlikely but I suspect the odds are better of Italy vs Netherlands in March then a Red Sox vs Cubs in October.
Finally by the time you read this the Catholic Church will have no Pope. To my knowledge this is the only time in history when the church and the people knew the exact day and hour when the Chair of St. Peter will be empty.
I suspect it won’t be the last.
Catch you next week
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» posted on Thursday, February 21st, 2013 at 4:01 pm by DaTechGuy
Under the Fedora 2-21-13
I’ve been watching the constant attacks on Marco Rubio for drinking water coupled with the hits on Ted Cruz for daring to question Chuck Hagel and the outside money that he won’t disclose details on.
It’s been fascinating to see the media continue to embrace this while doing their best to shield Senator Mendenez. CNN actually ran 8 minutes in prime time defending Menendez on the hooker side and downplaying the corrupting side the “everybody does it” argument.
It’s amazing the indulgences you get in media when you have that D next to your name.
Sissy Willis put out a tweet on Senator Cruz on Wednesday that says it all:
If you want to know why Ted Cruz is hated or feared by the left. This is why.
On the same subject Morning Joe argued Tuesday that Rush Limbaugh had hurt republicans because Democrats had won 4 of the last six presidential elections. Actually republicans are 3 for seven in elections since Rush was syndicated but here is a better measure.
Both Joe Scarborough and I are going to be fifty this year. From the day we were born till Rush Limbaugh went on the air happens to be 25 years, half our lives. During that time GOP controlled the House of Representatives exactly 0 years and the senate 6 years. At no time did the GOP control both houses of congress.
During the 25 years since Rush came on the air the GOP has controlled the house for 14 years and the senate for 10 years and for the first time in our lifetimes controlled both house and senate for 10 of them.
I’ll make that trade any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
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Interesting story out of NY, Katherine Connell at National Review notes Mayor Bloomberg has “won” in his confrontation with School Bus Drivers in NYC. The drivers returned to work but apparently He might have done even better for the city if the Bush Strike Continued for a while:
Walcott estimated the city saved $80 million because it wasn’t paying bus companies during the strike
NRO reports the city’s contract pays $7,000 annually per student to get them to school and back.
Personally If I was a New Yorker I’d offer to take 4 Kids to school every day for them at $14,000 a year even at 3 hours per school day that would come out to $25.92 an hour for 3 hours work., but lets get more creative.
$7000 a year per student that works out to $38.88 per school day per student based on a 180 day school year.
If you offered students $20 a day if they got themselves to school and back without city help how many do you think would do so. In fact how many would make SURE they didn’t miss a day or drop out if they knew, they could get a $20 for just showing up? Or even better lets say parents had a deal where they could get $3500 deposited annually into an UGMA account for kids if they got them to school on their own. Over the course of 12 years that $42,000. Enough for an inexpensive community college or enough for a youth in a trade to start his own business. Meanwhile NYC would save $500,000,000
It would make for an interesting study wouldn’t it
Talking about Schools a while back Massachusetts was debating a “Transgendered Rights” bill a while back. Opponents nicknamed it the Bathroom bill and talked about girls being forced to shower with boys etc and they were dismissed. The Transexual rights bill was passed by the legislature and signed by the Governor on Jan 19th 2012 supposedly with the “shared bathroom ” aspects of it removed.
However with elections safely won by democrats in November what could not be supported by legislation politically has become the rule in Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Department of Education on Friday issued directives for handling transgender students, including allowing them to use the bathrooms or play on the sports teams that correspond to the gender with which they identify.
It gets better:
The document said whether a student identifies as a boy or girl is up to the student or, in the case of younger students, the parents.
While the subject is snarkworthy:
Who needs a hole in the wall of the girls shower anymore? In Massachusetts all you need is a teenager desperate enough to see actual naked girls in the shower and viola you have access, and if those girls cover up, or scream or run into a stall to avoid you, remember THEY are the ones being unreasonable:
Scott said disciplining students who won’t acknowledge a student’s gender identity is appropriate because it amounts to bullying
Got that? If you girls don’t totally welcome Pee Wee into your locker room you are a BULLY and we all know how bad bullying is!
these are the actual guidelines issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Education Department!
This bill is the logical extension of Gay Marriage, after you redefine what marriage and INSIST that those who don’t agree are bigots redefining what boys and girls are is no great leap.
People on the left, particularly Mike Barnicle have constantly said with snark “how does gay marriage effect you.” Well now you know and it only took nine years.
If you are a parent of daughters and send them to a Massachusetts public school my advice is to get them out before high school and perhaps before middle school if you can financially swing it.
I’ve been writing a series on George Washington and why he remains the greatest president and greatest American who ever lived. The first three parts here, here and here with one more on the way.
Washington is lost in the politically correct time we live in but consider one thing, he willingly gave up power twice, once after the revolution and once as president? What pol today do you think would do the same?
A psychic opened up shop on the Fitchburg Leominster line. I’ve always laughed at that kind of thing. I always figured a real psychic would have won a lottery and retired once they figured out they had any such gift but what I’d really like to see is someone open such a shop and as soon as a person walks through the door says: “Yes he’s cheating on you $20 please”, or “no you don’t want to quit $20 please.”
It would be interesting to see how many people would fork over the $20 given something like that.
I have to admit this story made me smile:
The malware had been designed to attack Mac computers.
The same software, which infected Macs by exploiting a flaw in a version of Oracle Corp’s Java software used as a plug-in on Web browsers, was used to launch attacks against Facebook, which the social network disclosed on Friday.
The malware was also employed in attacks against Mac computers used by “other companies,” Apple said, without elaborating on the scale of the assault.
For a very long time, I’ve been a big critic of those who recommend Mac because “they are safe from virus”. The truth has always been the only reason why you didn’t have a lot of malware for Apples was they were such a small segment of the market and the Willie Suttons of the net went where the computers were.
Now that Mac’s profile has grown they have become targets and a lot of people who never bothered with anti-virus software because they had Macs are going to be burned.
And remember your “smart phone” that’s a computer too so be careful.
As time has gone by we’ve more details on Pope Benedicts physical condition I find myself wondering less and less why he decided to retire and more and more wondering if he will live to see retirement.
Finally I was pleased to see Bonnie Langford back in on Big Finish doing audios with Colin Baker after a very long absence, but have we really reached the point where we are doing paradoxes inside of paradoxes?
I blame Steven Moffett. This is his vision of Doctor Who , in small does it’s fine but as Faye Dunaway said in the Classic Move Little Big Man about working in a brothel:
if I was married and could come here once or twice a week,… …it might be fun, but every night is just boring
I sure hope things change with Dr. Who before it becomes boring.
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Under the Fedora: Syndication DaPope and More
Michael Graham has now gone into Self Syndication in the same way I have, from the same studio I broadcast from, soliciting advertisers in the same way as I am, at the same time of day as me (except during the week rather than Saturdays) and on all of the stations I’m on as well.
Who says great minds don’t think alike?
BTW FTR Radio has picked up the show as the first station added to our syndication. This is hopefully only the first step in the expansion of the show in New England and beyond. Frankly if there was ever a time to jump onboard as either an advertiser or to take advantage of my commentary deal, it would be now!
Pope Benedict XVI shocked the entire Catholic world by announcing his resignation this week effective February 28th. As Jazz Shaw put it The last time something like this happened the only Europeans who knew America existed were Vikings.
The news has been a Godsend to Catholic Dissident groups, not because there is any chance of the new Pope being a supporter of Gay Marriage or Abortion etc etc etc, as every voting Cardinal has been appointed by either Benedict XVI or John Paul II. The odds are better of me being named Rush Limbaugh’s permanent replacement on EIB.
However it does allow them to pretend that they are relevant, get some airtime and generate the money necessary to support their status as leftist gadflies.
People are thinking what should you call an ex Pope. I vote for Holy Grand Father.
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My co-blogger Roxeanne tells he she’s been having trouble with her internet for 4 weeks. Comcast has really fumbled the ball on this. I keep reminding her she has access to a blog now ranked 101 among conservative web sites. Comcast should consider this too.
As I’m typing this Chris Dorner has apparently been killed by police but not before he took hostages and killed one officer and wounded another.
The celebration of Dorner based no race and ideology has been one of the more disgusting things I’ve seen. It is in my opinion symbolic of a portion of society where fatherhood is a rare thing but even with that rationalization it’s still a shock, but it shouldn’t be after all there are those who celebrated Charles Manson, but there was a time before the net that people would be ashamed to celebrate evil publicly.
Welcome to post Christian America.
This week’s DaTechGuy on DaRadio BTW will feature Bishop Daniel Reilly in the first hour on the subject of the Pope’s resignation, and author Dave Carter talking about his book to be released Friday “Che the lost diaries”. It would not surprise me to see Christopher Dorner to be celebrated in the same way as Che. On the bright side it beats him being lionized like Muma
It has been announced that the 2nd Doctor Adventure that will be showed this month for the 50th anniversary of Dr. Who is Tomb of the Cybermen.
I wasn’t surprised but I would have preferred the War Games, but there is no chance a 10 part adventure would be picked, particularly as it was a regeneration episode.
I usually don’t’ have much good to say about Deval Patrick but in my opinion the state did an excellent job with the Blizzard of 13. The lessons of 1978 and the ice storm seem to have been learned.
He’s still a bad governor but credit when credit is due.
I prefer one huge storm vs snow all winter. There is a lot of back breaking shoveling but it’s only done once.
Meanwhile there are some people in a in NY who as of Tuesday still haven’t had a plow pass by. I guess Cuomo is too busy worrying about passing laws to help him in 2016.
Robert Stacy McCain is used to covering stories others have ignored:
It’s Ash Wednesday, and a 29-year-old kindergarten teacher was laid to rest in Westchester County, N.Y. Her story is now gaining international attention, but the New York Times and the national TV networks can’t be bothered to report the death of a woman who died after a late-term abortion by Dr. LeRoy Carhart. So the story got covered by Viral Read:
Some have objected and he has answered:
Accuse me of disrespecting the Morbelli family’s grief, denounce me for seeking to exploit this woman’s death for the sake of politics and I will repeat what I’ve said before: I don’t care, just stop ignoring this story.
This story isn’t about me or you or Jill Stanek. This story is about an abortionist who left a woman to bleed to death. If you want to target Jill Stanek for a lawsuit, please go right ahead, Bridgette, and I’ll cover the lawsuit, because that will call attention to the shameful enormity of the bloody career of this disgraceful butcher, LeRoy Carhart.
Double-dog dare ya.
No, Bridgette, you wouldn’t dare pursue such a lawsuit, because you know as well as I do that the more Americans learn about what “late-term abortion” really means, the more they’ll be horrified to know that the United States is one of only four countries in the world — along with China, North Korea and Canada — where abortions are legal in the 33rd week of pregnancy.
I’ll have Stacy on the show next week, I wonder if anyone will bother to report this story by then?
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CPAC & Blogbash is coming, my friend Jerry Wilson is not impressed:
For the uninitiated — you haven’t missed much, believe me — BlogBash is a party thrown for political bloggers during CPAC (an annual gathering of conservatives) by one Ali Akbar, with whom my encounters have been well chronicled, and associates. It’s quite the to-do, with awards and sponsors and special guest star appearances by high rollers in conservative new media and politicians. Gaining admittance to BlogBash is the modern equivalent of trying to get into Studio 54.
Come BlogBash night, you will see scads and scores of blog posts and tweets from those in attendance hanging out with others in attendance, 99 44/100% of which will feature photos of said attendees in various states of inebriation hanging onto other attendees.
Assuming I make it to CPAC (my credentials have been approved) I’ll likely be at Blogbash. You’ll find me sitting on the floor near an electrical outlet typing away as I always am.
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The GEICO ad of Dikembe Mutombo is simply brilliant. It’s one of those things you can watch and just smile. With the political scene being what it is you need a reason to smile these days.
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I hang with a group of friends on Tuesdays playing board games as we have since the 70’s. Three of us went to High School Together. The oldest of the three of us turns 50 this week.
I feel very old seeing this.
This is my least favorite time of the year, waiting for the start of baseball season. The snow is on the ground and the first spring training games have yet to start Doctor Who hasn’t yet returned to TV.
Spring can’t come fast enough.
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Some TV? My wife has started watching Arrow, it’s an interesting re-write of the old Green Arrow comic, its big into the whole Anti-hero theme but no matter how you slice it, you have a bunch of six packed guys doing very manly things.
Women were never big into superhero stuff but once you had movies and TV’s full of hunks you KNEW that was going to change.
Finally I want to thank the readers, when I decided to have a weekly tip jar goal so I could finally start paying myself I was very worried. When I made my $300 weekly goal the first time I felt good but it’s not the first time but the 2nd time that makes the difference. Well Week two raised the $300 and then some.
None of this is possible without you. I won’t forget it.
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Under the Fedora: Courage Models et/al
This morning I was looking at Morning Joe when they said we had the potential for a repeat of the Blizzard of ’78 this weekend. Apparently there are several computer weather models and the spread is as much as 1” to 16” inches in parts of NY State.
If 72 hours out our computer models have a 1600% margin of error what makes anyone think it’s sensible to base spending on computer models forecasting “climate change” over 30 or 50 years?
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Lost among the talk of the Robert Menendez and the Hookers and the Dominican donors is this story out of New Jersey:
An Elmwood Park man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring with his brother to violate federal election law by steering $21,400 in illegal campaign contributions to U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez.
Benedetto Bigica, 45, admitted that he worked with his brother, Joseph, of Franklin Lakes, from April 2005 to April 2008 to make the illegal contributions, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said.
And Joseph threw in his share:
Joseph Bigica, 47, an insurance broker, was a prominent Democratic contributor who won millions of dollars in no-bid government contracts across North Jersey. Authorities said he recruited 19 people, including family members and business associates, and used them as straw donors to make 30 illegal contributions to Menendez’s campaigns, totaling $98,600 from 2005 to 2009.
How did senator Menendez describe this? His office called the Senator a “victim”
That’s why he didn’t pay those Hookers, he didn’t want them to be victims.
Would we even be talking about Menendez if Jay Leno didn’t crack a joke about him?
I was really excited about Robert Spencer being a speaker at the annual Catholic Men’s Conference for the Worcester Diocese. It’s a great event, it was the first such men’s conference in the country and spawned a slew of them nationwide and there is no sight like 1000+ men lined up for confession.
Then this happened:
I was scheduled to appear at a Catholic Men’s Conference in Worcester, Massachusetts on March 16, until today, when the Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Robert McManus, directed that my appearance be canceled. McManus was under pressure from Islamic supremacist groups who were calling and emailing the diocese demanding that he cancel my appearance. I’ve been informed that they were asked to call the diocese and demand the cancellation by a Boston Globe reporter named Lisa J. Wangsness, who contacted me this morning and appears to have instigated the entire controversy.
Meanwhile He spoke at the Natick VFW this week I interviewed him afterwards:
I know the Bishop and he’s a pretty decent guy who has not given in to the media in the past. I suspect he was badly played by the various groups involved but what really confuses me is this:
The Globe has not and likely will not be any sort of ally of the church and when the “new evangelization” gets into full swing the same people screaming for the removal of Spencer will be objecting to Catholic proselytizing .
What will happen when these same people start objecting then?
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In Massachusetts the GOP has only 11% registration, last week the state party had an election for a new Chairman. Kirsten Hughes was the winner and spoke to me after her election.
She is a competent and energetic person who might be able to pull it off, unfortunately the method by which she was umm less than optimal:
Thursday’s debacle left the activists who attended outraged. They were upset with the blatant attempt to steal the election during the first ballot, angered at the attempt to block the 2nd after the votes were cast, befuddled when their candidate was made to announce his defeat ad simply outraged that they had to literally scream for the vote count of the second ballot (41-39) before it was given.Meanwhile the Mass GOP managed to shoot itself in the foot during the election for party chair between eventual winner Kirsten Hughes
Karl Rove, Scott Brown and Mitt Romney not withstanding , you can’t win an election attacking your party and you can’t grow a party by treating your base this way. Perhaps when the GOP figures that out I’ll come back.
Things continue to go poorly in Egypt, in addition to the issues with freedom now they have an issue with bread:
the government is telling Egyptians (almost half of whom live on less than $2 a day) to eat less. You can’t make this sort of thing up. Egypt lost another $1.4 billion in foreign exchange reserves in January, and probably is flat broke after figuring in arrears to oil and food suppliers, and it imports half its food, so something had to give. In response, Egypt’s Islamist government is emulating North Korea’s approach to food shortages:
But …but I thought with Mubarek out his family wasn’t stealing anymore? Where is that money going? Well that’s a good question but the origin of this issue likely comes from another source:
“We need stability to get tourists back. But the Islamist rule is provoking more instability and rage,” said Sayed Abdel Tawab, a 33-year-old tour guide who has seen his daily earnings shrink from $32 per day to $11.
“I have no hope there will be stability,” said Yasser Bahlol, 33, in his own souvenir stand as he idly surveyed what would previously have been a bustling, high-season flow of visitors. Only a few Egyptian visitors wandered past, spending little.
It’s hard to pay for imported calories when you chase away the tourists who provide the capital for them. As Spengler puts it…
We are watching something unique and terrible in modern history, namely the disintegration of a society of 80 million people, with the prospect of real hunger–a self-made famine brought about by social and political disaster rather than crop failure or war.
I don’t know how unique it is. There is a certain fellow named Mugabi who managed to turn his country into a land of food shortages.
The Ravens won the Superbowl, that didn’t surprise me, that they were able to strop the 49ers on a goal line stand, that didn’t surprise me either, but I object to the entire philosophy of the entire non-call on the 4th and goal play.
Either holding is a flagible offense or it is not. The rule book doesn’t say holding is allowed if it is in the 4th quarter of the Superbowl with under two minutes to play.
That’s why I like baseball, umps might blow a play on occasion but the rules are the rules are the rules and you can’t run out the clock to win.
The game has become a lot about the ads, some ads like the Paul Harvey Farm ad will be remembered long after they are done, others like the Go Daddy Kiss will soon be forgotten.
The ad that I will remember most is the Prom Ad. I hated it and its personal. I always was told there were plenty of people at the prom alone, but at my senior prom I was the only single there. A cloth was tied to the empty chair next to me Single most humiliating experience of my life.
The real irony, my wife to be, same High School Class was at home, wasn’t asked.
Shoulda woulda couda ….
This week on DaTechGuy on DaRadio Noon till 2 EST Lee Stranahan joins us for the 1st Hour to talk Steubenville while in the 2nd hour Michael Graham will stop by briefly to tell us about his new show premiering Monday the 11th on the New England Radio Network.
Join us on the Money Matters Radio network and on FTR radio. Don’t miss it!
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» posted on Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 at 3:00 pm by DaTechGuy
Under the Fedora, Conventional wisdom and boobs
In the MSM this week it’s been all about Hillary Clinton and her inevitable nomination and election to the presidency. Didn’t we see this movie five years ago?
Don’t count out Joe Biden for a moment. Goofball image (I think that’s deliberate) not withstanding he served in the Senate for 36 years. I suspect he has more to do with the Senate “no budget” move and the Obamacare passage than people realize.
Anyone who believes conventional wisdom unquestionably must be all excited to see the Patriots play Green Bay in this week’s Superbowl.
Speaking of football the debate on the game continues, Bernard Pollard has this to say about the future of the game as things are done to make it safer:
“Thirty years from now, I don’t think it will be in existence,” Pollard told CBSSports.com. “I could be wrong. It’s just my opinion, but I think with the direction things are going — where [NFL rules makers] want to lighten up, and they’re throwing flags and everything else — there’s going to come a point where fans are going to get fed up with it.”
The pro-bowl was this week, once a year you have a game that is pretty much a flag football game without the flags in Hawaii to celebrate the best players of the year just before or just after the Super Bowl.
I’m sure a lot of people watched as the last game of the year when it comes on after or as the only game of the week before. But ask yourself this: If every game was like that one would you pay to see it? Would you buy an NFL package? Would you go to the bar to watch it?
As these changes continue the viewers of the NFL will drift elsewhere, I suspect to the Legends (read Lingerie) football league. Did you know there was such a thing with twelve teams in a national league nationwide? If fans can’t have big hits they’ll just have to settle for big…..em ha well….moving on….
Did you know I have a co-blogger on my site? I met Roxeanne De Luca in Boston the night of Scott Brown’s victory party back in 2010. She is a brilliant young lady who has become a friend. If I had a daughter I wish it would be her and if my sons were older, she is who I’d want them to end up with.
Yesterday she wrote a piece called: How’s that women-empowering sexual revolution thing working out for you?
The author of this article, Allison Pearson, talks a lot about the porn culture and the ready access to a “virtual world” (online, texting, etc.). But she misses the point. We could have thrown mobile phones at women in the 1860s, but no man would have dared to ask a lady to perform fellatio on him, because her dad would shoot him. As in, dual to the death, all members of her family lined up to protest the treatment of their sister. (I will note that some very backwards countries shoot the wronged woman, not the offending man.)
This is a sexual revolution issue. Once we started saying that promiscuity is empowering, that sexual experimentation is fun for women, that pregnancy is the only obstacle a woman faces in intimate acts, we gave young men license to treat young women like unpaid prostitutes. (Actually, worse – a man might understand if a prostitute said that she was off-duty for the night.)
She only posts maybe once or twice a week but she’s a gem. I’m proud to have her here.
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As the Media continues to push gun control/confiscation/etc etc etc At PJ media Vodkapundit reprints a petition to eliminate armed guards around the president. If Gun Free Zones are sufficient to protect our children they should be good enough for the politicians:
What’s the Biblical quote: “No servant is greater than the master?” Then again maybe today’s public servants have a different view of who serves who.
Of course a lot of definitions can be flexible for example words like “Newsworthy” for example when one is a US senator and there is word about an FBI investigation concerning say, Underage Dominican Hookers and you’re scheduled to be on a national TV show. You could cancel but if you can’t or won’t you may consider a strategy of deny, Deny DENY!
I suspect this was the strategy of Senator Robert Menendez as he appeared on ABC’s THIS WEEK two days after news of the FBI investigation of a sexual scandal involving underage Dominican Hookers broke.
Alas for the Senator ABC News’ Martha Raddatz totally foiled that strategy by cleverly choosing to refuse to ask a single question on the subject
If Martha Raddatz, who we were all assured was an unbiased and professional journalist when questions arose before the vice-presidential debate last year, doesn’t find a scandal involving underage hookers and a US senator newsworthy when it involves a democrat why would any member of the party of Jackson feel restrained in anything?
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Allen West is now working for PJ media doing a feature called Next Generation : This week talked about women in combat saying
This mission of the United States Military is to fight and win our nations war, fairness is an evaluative criteria.
While the media will ignore his words except to critique it the most significant thing he said was talking about how the enemy can strike anywhere
And as we saw four years ago at Fr. Hood Texas the enemy can strike where our troops should feel most secure their own military installation. At Fr. Hood a pregnant soldier lost her life.
Ft. Hood WAS an enemy attack, the left likes to pretend otherwise, it doesn’t fit their worldview
As a now syndicated radio talk host this might be a dangerous opinion but I’ve never understood the various commercials for testosterone or for erection pills (yes they have a name, but lets face it that’s what they are.
Let me tell you something. If a woman doesn’t want you sexually none of this stuff is going to make a difference. I don’t care what brand of after shave you use, how many pills you pop, how must testosterone you take or how many little blue pills you have stashed in your wallet, none of these things are going to make a woman who doesn’t want you, want you.
Victor Davis Hanson talked about the state of the state of California this week
Also, when you say, “My God, one of every three welfare recipients lives in California,” or “California schools are terrible,” you mean really, “Not in Newport or Carmel. So who cares about Fresno, or Tulare — they might as well be in Alabama for all the times I have been there.”
He continues
Thank God for Mississippi and Alabama, or California schools would test dead last.
Somehow, in just thirty years we created obstacles to public learning that produce results approaching the two-century horrific legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. About half the resources of the California State University system are devoted to remedial schooling for underperforming high school students (well over half who enter take remediation courses; half don’t graduate even in six years; and well over half have sizable financial aid). The point of CSU’s general education requirement is not so much any more to offer broad learning (who is to say what is “general education?”), but rather to enter a sort of race, class, and gender boot camp that allows some time off to become familiar with how the culture and politics of the state should continue.
Hey as long as Mexico remains a bigger basket case, California will remain heaven to those who would cross.
As Glenn Reynolds says, “They’ll make us all beggars because they are easier to please.”
Well the first doctor who special is over and done as is the episode The Aztecs, it’s available on Netflix and you should watch it if you can. It has a great message for today explained here.
See you next week and remember DaTechGuy on DaRadio is now Syndicated every Saturday Noon to 2 EST on the Money Matters Radio Network
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» posted on Thursday, January 24th, 2013 at 6:00 pm by DaTechGuy
Under the Fedora: The Man
Stan Musial died Saturday.
Youngsters might not recognize the name although their spell checkers will. Musial never dated movie stars, he wasn’t known for fights with the press, brawls in bars, or bad behavior of any time. He was married for 72 years to the same woman who died last May and was never known to mistreat anyone expect opposing pitchers whose offering he deposited all over the field or over the fence from 1940 till 1962.
Musial won 3 MVP and was runner up 4 times. Think of that a second, for one third of his career it was the consensus that he was the best or second best at what he did in the league.
That’s simply incredible.
There have been many tributes to Stan Musial over the last few days, but I think the greatest tribute to him was paid last year by Albert Pujois.
When he was signed by the Angels they put up promotional signs referring to him as El Hombre. Given his numbers in 11 years he averaged 40 HR & 121 RBI a season while hitting .328. certainly number that would justify being called “El Hombre”, “The Man” but he would have none of it.
"I still have the same respect for him as I had, not just for what he's done in baseball but for what he did for his country. That's something you have to appreciate."
That really says it all doesn’t it? BTW the Angels took down the billboards.
Best description of Stan Musial I ever read came from Bill James when declaring him the best left fielder of all time over Ted Williams :
…if I had to choose between the two of them, I’d take Musial in left field, Musial on the basepaths, Musial in the clubhouse and Williams only with the wood in his hand. And Stan Musial could hit a little, too.
Someone not thinking of death these days is Andrew Cuomo. His latest abortion proposals bid to secure the Democrat left for 2016 are so extreme it produced this exchange between Elizabeth (The Anchoress) and her husband:
“he wants to be president. He is pandering to Planned Parenthood and Emily’s List because there is gold in them thar purses.”
My husband was appalled to ponder it: “a lot more than 30 pieces of silver,” he said, and it’s not going to get him to heaven.”
“Yeah, well, he’s not seeking heaven, just now,” I shrugged. “He’s seeking the White House, and power.”
Nobody is promised tomorrow, Andrew Cuomo might consider that, if he actually believed. But I don’t’ think he does.
I have given no pixels at all to Steubenville OH Rape case that has the left and the occupods in an uproar. Lee Stranahan has and can tell you Everything you know about the case is wrong:
Among the widely reported and false claims:
- Steubenville is so corrupt that no justice is possible.
- There has been a massive cover-up in the case.
- The victim was drugged, put in a car trunk to bring her to a series of parties, urinated on, and left for dead in a field.
- That there a number of witnesses to the assaults who have not come forward.
- The school’s football coaches were involved in the night’s activities.
- That football players were given easy or preferential treatment in this case.
- No media was covering the case except for one blogger until Anonymous got involved.
- That no justice would happen in this case were it not for the intervention of Anonymous.
- The infamous video of Michael Nodianos joking has nothing to do with the legal case.
To reiterate, those claims are rumors that are unsupported by evidence and yet if you click on any link to a story about the case, you’ll find any number of in whichever story you read.
Lee positively owns this story and that ownership is making a lot of people angry, must mess with the approved narrative don’t you know .
The Atlanta Falcons Tony Gonzalez moved one step closer to being the Ernie Banks of Football. A well-loved Hall of Fame player who never made it to the big game. It’s quite possible Goonzalez is the best Tight End to ever play the game but he has some interesting opinions concerning marriage, (via Wikipedia)
Gonzalez had a commitment ceremony in July 2007 with his girlfriend, October, and considers himself married.
Considers himself married? Really? Well why not? If we can redefine marriage one way why shouldn’t we redefine it any way anybody wants it to be? After all it’s not like marriage is anything important.
And if you object you are a racist, bigot sexist homophobe.
People are laughing at this story about a guy at Verizon who outsourced his own job for a 1/5 of the price and pocketed the difference that he was being paid.
Two thoughts: If Verizon was satisfied with the work and the price they were paying for it, what do they have to complain about?
And frankly how is this any different than a contractor hiring a subcontractor to do a job?
Chip Jones at Conservative Report Online has a hell of a question concerning Benghazi:
You see, the Kalashnikov rifle chambers a 7.62 mm round. The US M-4 rifle chambers a 5.56 mm round. What is widely reported and accepted is that at least two of the TDY Green Berets who were assigned by the CIA as ARSO’s (assistant regional safety officers) were badly wounded and were treated for multiple gunshot wounds after they rescued over 20 civilian CIA workers from the compound.
The single question that needs to be asked is: “Were the rounds taken out of the wounded ARSO’s 7.62 mm or 5.56 mm?” And when the answer comes back “5.56 mm”, it opens the door to the proof that the cover up was meant to hide the fact that the Obama administration had been caught once again arming offshore groups that did not have the interests of our country at heart. It would open the door to proof that Benghazi was “Fast and Furious on Steroids.”
Considering the MSM’s lack of interest in Fast and Furious it’s going to take an awful lot of steroids to get the MSM’s attention
Covered a GOP forum on Monday with two of the candidates for Mass. GOP Chair
I think these two candidates perfectly encapsulate the question the GOP faces nationally.
If you are a bit sleepy this from NiceDeb will wake you up:
Dr. Jim Garrow, a renowned author and humanitarian, made the shocking claim on his Facebook page, yesterday.
I have just been informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a new “litmus test” in determining who will stay and who must go in his military leaders. Get ready to explode folks. “The new litmus test of leadership in the military is if they will fire on US citizens or not.” Those who will not are being removed.
Garrow noted in the comments that “the man who told me this is one of America’s foremost military heroes,” prompting this relpy from one of his followers, “if this man is truly a military hero, he had better not be keeping this a secret. Military hero’s (sic) do what’s right, not what’s comfortable for themselves.”
Garrow responded, “have folks forgotten that the word is now out. I believe that the gentleman has done what he should and allowed all of us to sound the alarm.
If this is the slightest bit true it will be very interesting to see the reaction in the ranks.
Jack Mitchel’s book Fireside Chat is becoming more and more relevant
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A bit of a cultural thing, when I wanted that Bill James quote from the start of this piece I didn’t search the net. I remembered reading it and ran upstairs grabbed the book I saw it in, leafed through it until I found it. I tend to do that an awful lot when writing. In this internet age/kindle age it must seem a quaint and amusing thing to do. I’m sure some of the younger set must laugh at it. Let them. I’ll take the printed word over the pixel every time. With the printed word I can say with 100% certainty that what it says on the page today will be the same thing it says on it tomorrow.
You know you are old when you find yourself using the words “the younger set” in a sentence.
Finally there is huge news concerning DaTechGuy on DaRadio. Last week was my final week on WCRN AM 830. Starting Saturday at 1 PM my radio show will be Syndicated by Cameo Productions. The first stations carrying me will be in Massachusetts from the Money Matters Radio Network, a fourth online station will be added Feb 2nd and from there, who knows?
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» posted on Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 at 4:00 pm by DaTechGuy
Under the Fedora: Saints and Sinners
On Morning Joe Monday I was treated to yet another day of people praising members of the GOP who are willing to attack the party and being told how far to the right Republicans have gone.
Somehow they never note how far left democrats now are. Katrina Vanden Heuvel would never have been considered a mainline guest on a show just a decade ago, now she is on regularly. You never saw people citing the Nation or Mother Jones, now they are treated as mainstream left.
And what ever happened to the DLC that Joe cited when he brought up Bill Clinton? Gone with the wind.
You would think by now I’d be used to this, I hope to God I never am.
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Speaking of our 42nd president Bill Clinton has been picked as Father of the Year. Less than 15 years ago that would have been a one liner in a SNL sketch, now it’s reality. I wonder, has there ever been a father of the year whose reputation is such that no mother would trust her daughter with him?
As the 10th doctor once said: “The World is very strange.”
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If, like me, you are a Doctor Who fan you will want to keep an eye on BBC America. For the 50th anniversary of the show they will broadcast a special on each of the 11 doctors followed by an episode of Doctor Who from that era. They will be starting with William Hartnell, the 1st Doctor (or as he was called then: The Doctor). I think today he is often forgotten but if he doesn’t pull it off, the Doctor with no background, no real history and the total lack of special effects there is no show today.
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Last week’s DaTechGuy on DaRadio really caught a lot of people off guard.
Our first guest was Dr. Paul Byrne, he talked about the difference between so called “brain death” and “true death” stating that we are literally cutting brain injured people open alive for their organs for profit.
The reaction from people to his show has been shock. They have never been told the other side of this story and that it’s coming from somebody who is one of the pioneers of neonatal care and a former head of the Catholic Medical association makes it even harder to take.
In our second hour we had Mike Hummell a member of the Hostess Bakers union who rejected the contract offer that led to the closing of Hostess. He presented a case for rejecting the union contract that seemed pretty reasonable to me.
What really surprised him though was his treatment, he wrote to me afterwards that he expected to be “ambush” interview and had his defenses up for a sneak attack that never came.
I think it’s pretty sad that we’ve reach a point where people expect to be insulted or mistreated in a discussion.
Our treatment of him won some praise at the Daily Kos site. I’ve got to say I certainly never thought I’d be typing that, then again I suspect Mike didn’t expect to be saying it either.
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A group of British Bishops talking about Gay Marriage said bluntly that it is going to lead to a new era of Catholic persecution on the island as the Catholic Church. If anyone in England doubts this, see how many children the Catholic Church places for adoption in Massachusetts these days.
People forget that England has a long history of anti-Catholicism dating back to the church’s unwillingness to allow Henry VIII to discard wives at will. In some ways Catholics are still 2nd class citizens in the UK. It is no coincidence that Tony Blair didn’t convert until he was out of office. The Catholic Church’s ,
The age of easy Christianity for the west is about to end. We are going to be pushed by the secular left, the anti-Catholic right and radical Islam. Keeping the faith is going to come with costs. Outside of the western world it the costs can be fatal. It’s going to be really bad for my sons.
People say it’s not fair, but then I remember this biblical passage:
“If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you. Remember the word I spoke to you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin. Whoever hates me also hates my Father. John 15:18-23
And I remember that no matter how unfair it might be, if you are a Christian in general or a Catholic in particular, you would know it’s part of the job description.
It’s still on Guns all the time on MSNBC and Morning Joe. It’s a great distraction from the economy. On Wednesday they were really upset at this NRA ad
I understand why they are so pissed:
The Democrats won an election by pushing the class warfare line, the 1% line, the idea that Mitt Romney was an elite that didn’t care about you and your families. It was a sell that worked with low information voters.
Now you have the same message being played by the NRA to the same voters. It’s the class warfare argument, the 1%, the argument that the President and the rich Washington elites don’t care about your families as long as their own kids are safe.
The left hates this argument; they just used it and know it works.
The most interesting argument I’ve heard on the subject comes from Ann Althouse:
It occurred to me, after the Sandy Hook murders, that blaming guns is a secular substitute for blaming the devil. People find it too challenging to figure out why a human being would do this terrible thing and they latch on to the idea that the gun made it happen.
The post starts with the question: Don’t I have the right to die? I think that’s one of the most stupid question ever, you have a destiny to die, it’s just a question of when.
A big fuss was made about Jodie Foster’s “coming out speech” for myself the thing that struck me was that she is my age and has been working in the business since she was 43. I have a vivid memory of her in the last season of Daniel Boone as the a ragamuffin girl taken in by Jimmy Dean’s Josh Character. If the series had lasted another year she might have become a regular on the show. She was pretty good even back then.
Hollywood is a nasty environment and a lot of people particularly as the standards of “acceptable” behavior moved closer to the behavior that many in the entertainment industry indulged with relish outside of the eyes of the public paid the price for living in it.
That Jodie Foster has managed to be anything resembling sane with a lifetime of such an environment is an achievement greater than any accolade that the film industry can give her for her work.
That people decide to give additional credence to people from this environment never ceases to amaze me
Finally Football. I’m a baseball guy but the footballs playoffs have been very exciting. The Seattle Atlanta game was incredible, although the pats make it look easy it was still a great game. Baltimore vs Denver was classic, (Baltimore scares me more than any other team) but the greatest irony is in Denver.
Last year Tim Tebow led Denver to their division title and a playoff win before losing in the 2nd round. One year and 11 million dollars later Payton Manning got Denver a 1st round bye, but didn’t get the Broncos any farther than Tebow did. Meanwhile the Jets who absolutely refused to start Tebow even as Sanchez tanked and the 3rd string QB when down managed to go 6-10.
I’m a pats fan so Payton Manning and the Jets are both rivals so I naturally don’t mind them going down but I’d be a liar if I said that the treatment of Tebow by the Jets and Denver didn’t make both of those results sweeter.
I’ll put it on my confession list for this month…
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