Under the fedora: Boston Gosnell & Doctors

The topic of the day is the Boston Marathon Massacre

When I started writing this we didn’t know who had done this.

With the level of camera and smart phones it was highly unlikely that the placement of the bombing wouldn’t have been caught on camera, When it comes down to it we actually found out who did this pretty quick.

Things continue to be happening fast, the best thing we can do right now is:

1.        If there is anything we know or can do to help contact authorities & do so

2.       If we can’t be of help to the authorities then stay the hell out of their way

As for the Chris Matthews, Alex Jones and Michael Moore and Jansing& Co and NPR who have all made allusions to nonsense without evidence I’d like to say I’m surprised, but I don’t think I should be lying to you.

Instapundit linked to a piece in the NY Post from last year by Gabriel Malor about the media trying to blame the right seven times in the last 3 years

The media’s habitual blaming of the political right is endemic and incurable. Media figures sincerely believe the right wing is violent, so naturally assume that violent people must be right-wing. This won’t be the last time they make that mistake.

Sooner or later a person on the right is actually going to do something like this and when it happens the left will never let us forget it.  It will be the exception that proves the rule, that’s why they’re called Exceptions.

The Senate Campaigns Democrat & Republican have been suspended in the wake of the Bombing of Boston but oddly enough the Senate Campaign of Gabriel Gomez was almost permanently suspended.

Gomez ran the Boston Marathon finishing  before the bombs went off but not by much

Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Gabriel Gomez is reflecting on yesterday's explosions at the Boston Marathon, giving thanks for the safety of his family and staff and offering condolences for the injured and deceased

Think for a second if he had chosen to wade into the crowd and shake a few hands near the finish line we might be reading about the dead or maimed GOP candidate for senate.

Life and death can be a very arbitrary thing.

Speaking of life and death there was an awful lot of death going on in Philly at the practice of Kermit Gosnell but the mainstream media didn’t really care.

NBC-10 Philadelphia reported that, Stephen Massof, a former Gosnell worker, "described how he snipped the spinal cords of babies, calling it, 'literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body." One former worker, Adrienne Moton, testified that Gosnell taught her his "snipping" technique to use on infants born alive.

Massof, who, like other witnesses, has himself pleaded guilty to serious crimes, testified "It would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place."

The media was dragged screaming and kicking to the story:

The grisly details drew mainly local attention. But after an online furor that the case was being ignored by the national news media because of troubling accounts of late-term abortions, reporters from major newspapers and television networks descended Monday on the Court of Common Pleas

James Tarento at the WSJ was amazed

What an amazing headline that is. The editors of the New York Times declare that they're covering the trial under protest, yielding their news judgment to an angry online mob. It's probably the most honest thing they've ever published.

I’m not, the MSM absolutely hates the Gosnell story but they certainly don’t want to BE the story.

On the bright side for the MSM thanks to the Boston Bombing they now have an excuse to put something else on the front page.

What a difference a couple of weeks make, a few weeks ago the gun control debate was all about how nothing was going to happen, then last week it was all about how suddenly it had all the momentum and this week suddenly the Same Senators who won a vote to advance the bill as saying it’s doomed.

The MSM would like to continue their full court press for gun control that has been going on since Newtown after all it keeps the press away from the economy but just as the Boston bombing gave the press a reason to keep Gosnell off the front page it also prevents them from keeping gun control ON the front page.

Pressure cooker control, well that’s a different debate.

This was tax week and I got my taxes in Friday.  I still do them myself, it’s a bit of a pain in the neck but it saves me at least hundreds and when money is tight that counts.  I still send in Paper copies on my federal return but on the state version due to current laws and the nature of my return I’m required to file them online. 

I generally don’t have a lot good to say about the Massachusetts tax system but I have to say their free online filing system is one of the most user friendly programs I’ve ever used. 

It’s nice when  state government does something right.

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There are all kinds of tricks you find when money is tight, here is one story out of DC:

The Panel Crasher lost his job at a nonprofit organization at the end of March when a federal grant that was funding his position expired. He suspects it might have been hacked off because of the mandatory budget cuts that went into effect because of sequestration.

After losing his job, the Panel Crasher says he started joking with his friends about how to fill his time between now and the fall, when he enters grad school. Finding a full-time job for just a few months seemed unlikely. But with the loss of income, he needed to figure out how to feed himself, and remembered all the lunch events he attended.

"I said, 'Oh, I won't have to worry about feeding myself because I can go to all these panels around town',

He goes on to critique the various meals.

This really gets me A person who had a job that at a "non-profit" that was funded by taxpayers loses his job and then when the government won't pay for his food (except for the unemployment check and foodstamps if the person qualifies) decides to find organizations that have free lunches for eats, the critiques the food if it isn't good enough.

Now THAT's what I call the entitlement culture.

A while back I did a piece on The Good Wife and liberal propaganda, we saw another example of this from this week’s episode trying to turn Anonymous into heroes.

The problem with noticing this stuff is that once you learn to see it you see it everywhere.  The trick is to make sure you aren’t creating it in your mind.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar but you general y aren’t going to lose if you bet on media bias.

I’ve been following the Doctor Who 50^th anniversary stuff with great interest.  So far the only former Doctor who has been confirmed is the 10^th Doctor David Tennant

I understand that historically the Doctor Who staff wants to keep details secret but if you have none of the living doctors (Doctors 4-8) then it’s not a 50^th anniversary of Doctor Who, it’s the 9^th anniversary of the new series.

Additionally everyone EXPECTS the past doctors to be in the show,  it wouldn’t be a huge spoiler if the team announced they would be there and if they are not including them what’s the point?

I’d really appreciate it if they didn’t yank us around.

Finally on Friday while Boston was locked down I took my wife to the Golden Geese Quit shop up in Concord NH,   I don’t like the idea of being locked down on principle, especially by a terrorist but forget that for a second, there is always a big story to cover, an internet discussion to have or something so important that you just have to say something, but in the end you only have one wife and so much time in a life to spend with her.

There are a lot of people who recommend investments, but the investment of a half day with the wife or husband, even if it’s shopping for fabric or at a Doctor Who convention, is the best investment you can make in your life

See you all next week.

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Holocaust in Philadelphia

By Amy Lidster

Now that I have your attention, let’s discuss the many reasons you should know and recoil in horror at the name Doctor, and I use that term very loosely here Kermit Gosnell.

Gosnell has been practicing his brand of butchery on women since the early seventies. But it was the bipartisan breakdown of lax regulation that enabled this monster to really shine in his chamber of horrors until his 2011 arrest.

Boasting 46 lawsuits over a 32-year period, the list of allegations against him is long and horrendous and begs the question of why is this one medical procedure held so far below that of all others?

Lets compare abortions to tonsillectomies. Both are surgical, invasive and generally speaking in many cases non-emergencies.  All cases involving the removal of tonsils require a licensed phyisian and if being plucked from a minor; parental consent. The same cannot be said of abortions. Abortion is the only invasive surgical procedure that can be done by someone who is not a surgeon and in some cases, not a doctor. This Holocaust in Philadelphia has shown that abortion is still a back alley practice, but thanks to Roe V Wade, it’s a front door one. And thanks to abortion leviathan Planned Parenthood, it’s an extremely profitable one.

Let’s move on to the veritable media blackout of this trial. The details of this case are grisly and need to be known. In a report dated Nov 3, 2011, one witness Steven Masoof who pled guilty to two counts of third degree murder testified at Gosnell’s grand jury that he snipped the spines with assault scissors of 100 born alive infants as part of standard operating procedure as detailed here. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/crime&id=8417220

In Redstate, http://www.redstate.com/dloesch/2013/04/12/even-if-saves-just-one-life-abortion-regulation-now/ 

Dana Loesch included in her April 12, 2013 op/ed

the complete transcript with pictures of babies easily identifiable by gender and old enough to be sustained outside the womb. No matter ones position on abortion, this was murder and by turning a blind eye, the pro-choice side of the debate does it self a huge disservice. By providing it’s usual duck and cover, the media continues to discredit itself with its steadfast refusal to make the Den of Horror front-page news while they dutifully chirp falsehoods about ‘assault weapons’ upon command.

Which brings us to my final point. On August 24 2012 disgruntled Jeffrey Johnson killed a former coworker with five rounds. The police took down Johnson, who made no further threats in busy midtown Manhattan with 16 rounds injuring 9 bystanders. Before the dust settled Mayor Michael Bloomberg was thrilled to be screaming a for gun control while smart New Yorkers were screaming for shooting lessons for New York’s finest.  

In similar fashion, the same thing happened on that tragic day in December while the tears of a nation flowed and the blood not yet dried the same bells started tolling.  Obama showed up for the memorial service and used the occasion to set his predictable narrative. Gun control would have stopped this, when will these awful conservatives see the light? How many more children need to die?

How many indeed? Is the left willing to trade Roe vs. Wade for the 2^nd Amendment? Are we? The only thing the two remotely have in common is one camels nose into one tent for another. I am quite sure the founding fathers were FAR smarter than the supremes of 1973 and I am not willing to gamble the selfless foresight of the founding fathers against the beholden Supreme.

Kermit Gosnell needs to face finish his process and face a jury of his peers. If found guilty, Pennsylvania does have the death penalty and I for one will be standing in what I imagine will be a long line brandishing rusty scissors, because no one is calling for a ban on scissors now are they?

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Taking Down ObamaCare One Tweet At A Time

Low information Obama voters are beginning to hum the conservative anthem that Obama care is bad for your health, wallet and job.

Even worse, for all three are stampeding RINOs determined to hang onto their jobs by quelling conservative voices better able to take down the monstrosity of this bill. It is relevant to note, no voting senator, of any political stripe will ever have to suffer under Obamacare, yet Conservatives like Senator Ted Cruz are willing to hang their entire career on taking it down. Who do YOU trust?

Looming in the near future are 130 billion dollars in new taxes from medical devices, restaurants, and retailers, all of which will be passed on to the already beleaguered consumer.  Overturning of the medical device tax even has Democrat support at this point as a number of said senators are facing re-election in 2014 and their constituents are awakening from their stupor. Free birth control suddenly doesn’t seem so free anymore.

In a grass roots effort to show the sheer enormity of this California redwood sized bill, Atlanta based actor and director Jake McClain has taken it upon himself to tweet each and every word of this 900 page bill. With each tweet bearing the hashtag #TCO McClain has a few volunteers * stepping in as needed, the hashtag #tweetobamcare is used to chronicle the efforts of the endeavor and should be used when tweeting senators urging them to get off their duffs and take this thing down in pieces. If Jake McClain can show Americans in 140 characters what an intrusive, economic disaster Obamacare is, surely our Republican senators, besides Ted Cruz can pause from their photo ops to take this thing down.

Nancy Pelosi got her wish, the bill was passed, we’ve seen what’s in it, and that is exactly what conservatives knew all along.

*Volunteers include this blogger

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Under the fedora: Baseball has returned

An amazing thing happened at the Supermarket yesterday.

I was in the 12 items or less line when a family of three were behind me started talking to the cashier.  I tend to hear all kinds of things that I store away but when the young lady named Catlin told her friend about her father talking about putting a TV in the shower for her it stopped me cold.

I had to turn and inquire.  “What about water on the set”

“It would be high”

“The water is going to splash off of you and up”

“We’re going to put plexiglass over the screen.”

As my head continued to spin I finally turned to this young 15 year old girl standing with her parents  and asked the following question:

“Young lady, can you tell me one thing that is going to be on your television set that is so important, so critical and so unavailable in repeats thatit can’t wait for a time when you are not wet and naked in the shower?”

She silenced me in three words:

“Red Sox Games”

How does any New Englander answer that?

It is totally impossible to explain Red Sox fandom to a person from outside New England but let’s put it this way…

When you’ve lived in New England in General and Massachusetts in particular there is one fact that is incontrovertible.

No matter how bad things get in Massachusetts and their pretty bad, when the Red Sox open with two wins in Yankee stadium all is right in the world.

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Totally unrelated, next time you feel sorry for a career minor leaguer just remember if they have at least one day of MLB experience the minimum wage is $67,300.

Don’t tell Elizabeth Warren

Weasel Zippers reports on a new FATWA out of Saudi Arabia:

a Saudi cleric, Sheikh Abdullah Da ‘ud, took it a step further on live Arabic TV  by insisting that “it is forbidden to be around handsome youth, those beardless boys who have a touch of temptation in them [fitna].”

No word on if this is going to be extended to homely teen boys.  I can imagine the teen insults now: 

You’re so ugly the ban on “handsome” beardless boys doesn’t apply

Do they have crucifixion for teen bullying in Saudi Arabia?

April Fools day I only tweeted out jokes or things I considered funny.

Although some of them were really good  a quick read though the lot confirms that my future is not in Standup.

Michael Graham had an event this week to try to figure out what the GOP should do in the state.

http://youtu.be/BCHWIH2InuI

The thing is the GOP has figured it out, they left and became powerful elsewhere.  Why do you think Massachusetts has lost 5 electoral votes since they took control of the state legislature and never lost it?

If Massachusetts in particular & New England in general doesn’t change they’ll be down to 24 EV or less and then  the GOP won’t care if we have power in the state or not.

Maryland has decided they want to pass tough guns laws even though Barettamay have reached their limit and is thinking of pulling a magpull on them.

Who Knew Maryland was doing so well they could spare the jobs?  Then again they abut DC so since Obamaconomy is all about growing government they might have a few extra jobs to spare

I wonder if CPAC will consider moving as well?

Speaking of CPAC it’s been two weeks since CPAC and I’m still posting video, boy I shot a lot down there.

The sudden re-definition of acceptable belief concerning Gay Marriage is putting a defacto religious test on all sorts of walks of life.  That nobody in the media seems to have a problem with this tells you how disconnected the media has become with the other have of US culture.

In fact we’re already seeing it:

Two homosexual students at George Washington University have announced a coordinated campaign to try to rid the campus of its Catholic chaplain, the GW Hatchet, the school’s independent newspaper reports.
Seniors Damian Legacy and Blake Bergen said they can no longer tolerate what they describe as Father Greg Shaffer’s anti-homosexual and anti-abortion beliefs. They say they are upset that Fr. Shaffer counsels homosexual students to lead a celibate lifestyle.

As this IS the official belief and doctrine of the Catholic Church this complaint if upheld would effective bar Catholic teaching and Catholic chaplains at George Washington University

Well at least Catholic Universities aren’t doing this, I mean you wouldn’t see a Catholic University like Gonzaga for example refuse to recognize the Knights of Columbus or something:

“The Knights of Columbus, by their very nature, is a men’s organization in which only Catholics may participate via membership,” says a letter obtained by The Cardinal Newman Society written by Sue Weitz, Vice President for Student Life. “These criteria are inconsistent with the policy and practice of student organization recognition at Gonzaga University, as well as the University’s commitment to non-discrimination based on certain characteristics, one of which is religion.”

I wonder how much money Gonzaga gets from endowments and donations from Catholics who think it is a Catholic University?

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There are two ways to look at this story, the first is the idea that political correctness has gone crazy

There’s a good reason the city is hiring lifeguards that can’t swim. Public pools are largely used by Latino and African-American kids, but most of the lifeguards are white and this creates a huge problem. “The kids in the pool are all either Hispanic or black or whatever, and every lifeguard is white and we don’t like that,” says a Phoenix official quoted in the story. She added that “the kids don’t relate; there’s language issues.”

The second is more incredible, the idea that officials care so little about the lives of their own citizens they are willing to put Latino and black children in danger of death in order to shut them up.

Words can’t adequately describe this.

Finally film critic Roger Ebert has died.  There are three movie reviews he did that should be read by everyone.  The first is his review of the Passion of the Christ:

This isn't a movie about performances, although it has powerful ones, or about technique, although it is awesome, or about cinematography (although Caleb Deschanel paints with an artist's eye), or music (although John Debney supports the content without distracting from it).

It is a film about an idea. An idea that it is necessary to fully comprehend the Passion if Christianity is to make any sense. Gibson has communicated his idea with a singleminded urgency. Many will disagree. Some will agree, but be horrified by the graphic treatment. I myself am no longer religious in the sense that a long-ago altar boy thought he should be, but I can respond to the power of belief whether I agree or not, and when I find it in a film, I must respect it.

The Brown Bunny (the re-cut version):

Chambers might in fairness have explained that I was responding to Gallo calling me a "fat pig" -- and, for that matter, since I made that statement I have lost 86 pounds and Gallo is indeed still the director of "The Brown Bunny."
But he is not the director of the same "Brown Bunny" I saw at Cannes, and the film now plays so differently that I suggest the original Cannes cut be included as part of the eventual DVD, so that viewers can see for themselves how 26 minutes of aggressively pointless and empty footage can sink a potentially successful film.

And Birth of a Nation:

Some of the film's most objectionable scenes show the Ku Klux Klan riding to the rescue of a white family trapped in a cabin by sexually predatory blacks and their white manipulators. These scenes are credited with the revival of the popularity of the Klan, which was all but extinct when the movie appeared. Watching them today, we are appalled. But audiences in 1915 were witnessing the invention of intercutting in a chase scene. Nothing like it had ever been seen before: Parallel action building to a suspense climax. Do you think they were thinking about blackface? They were thrilled out of their minds.

Today, what they saw for the first time, we cannot see at all. Griffith assembled and perfected the early discoveries of film language, and his cinematic techniques that have influenced the visual strategies of virtually every film made since; they have become so familiar we are not even aware of them. We, on the other hand, are astonished by racist attitudes that were equally invisible to most white audiences in 1915

Politically I disagreed with Ebert a LOT, but in his field which was movie reviews and analysis he was a master and no amount of disagreements on other subjects will ever change that.

Rest in peace.

There will be no Under the Fedora next week in honor of my 25^th Anniversary.  Thanks Val.

 



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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 50^th anniversary special with the 3^rd 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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