How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett
Good job politicians, kill a bill in committee that could have helped avoid the meltdown of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Anyone know if the California budget got signed yet. Last I saw the Democrats agreed to remove their hairbrain schemes of coming up with more money (collecting more in tax withholdings one quarter and less the next doesn’t actually increase the amount you bring in).
But Barack Obama has the best strategy ever! Tell people you’re going to give them free stuff! I heard a newsclip of him saying that people shouldn’t lose their homes. He didn’t mention that other people would have to pay for their irresponsible behavior though.
I’m curious why a blog called Geeky Weekly feels the need to blog about politics. I like your blog when it focuses on tech stuff: electronics, games, net, whatever. Your political posts just reiterate views and stories that are posted on every other political and news site out there and adds no relevant view or point to the story other than making it clear that you’re a republican who hates Obama. And your one sided view doesn’t encourage any room for intelligent debate or conversation among your readers on, what are extremely important issues.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m as interested in this election and it implications it has on the future of our country as the next guy. But I subscribe to sites like this to get away from all the political garbage I hear and read everywhere else.
So we get it, you’re voting for McCain and you think Obama would lead the country into the furthest reaches of hell if he’s elected. Now that we’re all clear on your opinion, can we get back to geek stuff and leave the politics to drudge, cnn, and msnbc?
Haha, have you never heard of a personal blog? People can post about whatever they want.
Instead of demonizing the blog or trashing his posts, how about you grow some balls and debate an issue.
That would actually require some intelligence though.
Not sure what you do at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, but I have to work closely with non-geeks who tend to talk about things like politics and the economy. If I brought up the Large Hadron Collider with any of my co-workers I’d get blank stares. And I’m not really a true geek where I’m fixated on single topics. I deal with technology 11 hours a day/4 days a week and when I get home I don’t feel like blogging about it especially when there’s so much going on in the world.
Please don’t put words in my mouth that I “hate” Obama or think he lead us in the “furthest reaches of hell”, neither statements are true. I strongly disagree with his ideologies and the government he’d want to implement. The Republicans have disappointed me numerous times, but they are still in line with my philosophy of smaller government (believe me I am not a big fan of Bush or the previous Republican congress because of their failure to reduce government).
The main problem is that I don’t know people like you are reading my blog because you’ve never commented before. I usually just assume family and friends are reading. Once the election is over I’ll move back into other things. I’ve got a lot of old games I want to play so I’ll post some thoughts on those, I’m assuming video games are geeky enough? I’m becoming a bit of a gun geek, are they okay to blog about?
And if you are blogging then feel free to share your site, I’ll add almost anything to Google Reader.
First off, Andrew, thank you for posting a well written thoughtful response. I apologize for being harsh and rude in my initial comment.
The point I was trying to make was that given the name of the blog, and the fact that it was a recommendation made by Google when I searched for tech blogs, I subscribed to it thinking it would be technology focused. Which it is. When I started seeing more political posts recently, I was a bit disappointed. One because, I like the tech posting you’ve done, and find the site an interesting resource. And two, because I happen to disagree with your political views. I read a lot of political blogs posted by or about both parties on all kinds of issues. It’s just that I like to keep that reading separate from my tech\geek readings.
nathan118, yes, I have heard of a personal blog. And yes, I know that he can post about whatever he wants. And since he allows people to comment on his posts, I’m also allowed to post whatever I want. I’ve said, my initial comment was rude, what it was not was a personal attack on the author. Why you felt it necessary reply with a personal attack on me by suggesting that I lack balls, or that I’m not intelligent is beyond me. As I suggested in my initial post I would welcome a post that encouraged a debate among readers. However posts with titles such as “How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis” and “My Real Problem with Liberals” don’t give me the feeling that anyone is interested in having a debate with someone else who’s opinions differ from their own.
Andrew, I don’t have a blog, but if I ever start one, I’ll let you know. Overall I think you have a great blog. Better than a most. I’ll just skip reading the political ones in the future.
You’ll have to forgive nathan118, he’s just sticking up for his little bro. Your desire to only read my geekier posts got me thinking about customizing the WordPress RSS feed. Turns out you can do some customization using query string parameters. I disabled the Feedburner plugin to make the direct RSS url accessible again and the following url will filter out posts in the “Political Stuff” category:
http://geekyweekly.com/?feed=rss&cat=-2
This gives me another idea for a WordPress plugin, My Custom Feed. Give the user an interface to choose which categories they want to show up in the feed. If permalinks are on like my site then the category ID isn’t available. I’ll have to add that to my list after the “My Shared Google Items” plugin I’ve talked about before.
See, now if I’d have know he was your brother, it would have made more sense.
Another approach to ‘filtering’ posts would be to use Yahoo Pipes. You would need to have category ID’s on, but if you did, then you can filter posts based on the category. I’ve done this in the past to filter out categories I don’t care about from lifehacker.com:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/dpwillipipes/lifehackerfiltered