Thursday Bird Droppings

It got middling reviews and the trailers rang hollow for me.

People that don’t have insurance? maybe. Dems trying to get re-elected? Probably not. Don’t you think?

1st of all, can someone tell me what the point is to Rahm Emanuel? I thought he was supposed to be the hatchet man. A cross between Atwater & Rove but without their redeeeming qualites. A Carville who didn’t quit & hit the yip-yap circuit 20 minutes after the election. Instead he gets rolled by a worthless pissant like Lieberman. You know what that makes Rahm, and by extention Obama look like? In the words of Keith Olbermann, “here kitty, kitty, kitty”.

And what is Lieberman thinking? He’s barely tolerated in his own state, hated by the Ds & the Rs see view him as ALL collaborators are viewed – as someone they’ll wait until last to kill. Unless he knows that all Reid will ever be capable of doing is crawling into a corner, curling up in a ball & whining “please don’t hurt me”. Or he knows that as of Jan. ‘13 he’s going to be openly whoring for the insurance firms instead of doing so while pretending to represent voters.

Eh, best to let the House kill it in conference & then start again in ’11 after Durbin or Schumer has replaced Reid & they get it through by reconciliation.

If not – Dean/Grayson ’12!

People who rely on the police to protect them instead of protecting themselves.

For me it descibes people who think they know better as to what is good for everybody and then utilize government to apply it once they find out people aren’t interested in what somebody else thinks is good for them.

Helmet laws, seat belt laws, bans on trans fat, etc, etc , etc. Freedom of choice takes a back seat to making sure somebody’s sensitivities are not offended. Like the Washington State ledgislature a couple of years back debating a new standard for child safety seats. Seems a distraught mother, who lost her son in an auto accident when he was thrown from the vehicle when she went off the edge of the road and the shoulder crumbled, felt it was her mission in life to get the standard changed, SO THAT THIS CAN NEVER HAPPEN TO ANOTHER CHILD. (Standard reason for nanny types even though it is complete BS.)

Her son was legally of age that he wasn’t required to be in a safety seat. He was also small for his age. As a result, he suppossedly could not be securely fastened by the seat belt. The House and Senate argued over who was going to be “more safe”, with competing standards of 7 yrs old and 70 lbs or 8 yrs and 80 lbs. (I believe the latter was settled on. More is always good to nanny staters.)

Lets completely ignore the fact that nothing prevented the woman from continuing to place her son in a safety seat if he was too small to use a seat belt. Or that there is zero evidence that increasing the standard will save any additional lives. Nor the fact she was at fault for the vehicle rolling in the first place, which is what really killed her son. That would require accepting personal responsibility. Instead she has realized the “worthy” accomplishment of assuaging her guilt. At the minor cost of increased expense to both the tax payers and those families with childern that now may have to make additional purchases of child seats.

She’s from Baltimore, has sung the Anthem at games before, and presented Cal with something or other when he caught and passed Gehrig’s record.

and she drove off after he jumped/fell out. Unless they were waiting to see if manslaughter charges were possible, not sure they’re gonna charge her with anything.

Pretty much exactly the same except for an extra 500k. For somebody who’s worse (definitely worse defensively, and while he might have had good offensive years in the past – in an absurd stadium – this past year was dramatically worse than feliz).

But yeah I don’t care too much about the money, but if we were going to spend that much why not spend it on Feliz where at least you know you’ll get awesome defense? With this there’s the potential to get bad defense and terrible offense (OPS+ of 68?)

Paying more for Atkins than Pedro Feliz cost is ugly

Everyone says this like they know Feliz would have signed with the Orioles for the same amount. Which they obviously don’t. The Feliz ship sailed a week ago, and hIndsight is 20-20. Do you really think the Orioles just considered Feliz, then decided, “no, let’s sign this other guy instead”, or is it possible, just possible, that they tried to sign Feliz and he had no interest in playing in Baltimore?

But, really, as much as I’ve criticized the individual moves, they still don’t add up to an awful lot of anything. Right now, there have been some things lost (which is incredibly irritating to me, because as a rebuilding club those are the things we probably need the most) but the fact remains that the success or failure of this team still lies in the hands of Brian Matusz, Brad Bergesen, Jake Arrieta, Chris Tillman, Matt Wieters, Nolan Reimold, Adam Jones, Josh Bell, and Nick Markakis (to varying degrees). And that’s what The Plan was really all about.

I thought he bounced around a bit.