Archive for August, 2021

Biden Administration channels “Yes Prime Minister”

Posted: August 19, 2021 by datechguy in Uncategorized

In the episode of Yes Prime Minister The Bishop’s Gambit: there was the following following exchange concerning a Nurse arrested in an Arab country for having of whiskey.

PM Jim Hacker: A British National is facing a barbaric punishment for a trivial offense committed in a foreign country. The Foreign Office is there to protect British nationals.

Sir Humphrey: The Foreign Office is there to protect British interests

PM Hacker: Well it’s not in her interest to be flogged

Sir Humphrey: It’s not in our interest to prevent it.

PM Hacker: Yes it is, this could hurt the government very badly.

Sir Humphrey: Well I understand that tomorrow the foreign secretary will deliver a strongly worded note of protest to the Kumranis.

PM Jim Hacker: Why can’t they do it now?

Sir Humphrey: Well we haven’t got their agreement yet! They’re seeing the Ambassador privately now, once they’ve approved the wording we’ll hand it over, then we’ll have done all we can.

This came instantly to mind when I saw this concerning our response to people being slaughtered in Afghanistan since Biden ran away.

“We are hearing from people in Afghanistan that they are getting threats from the Taliban, and we have expressed in no uncertain terms, here at the United Nations, through a very strongly-worded press statement from the Security Council, that we expect the Taliban to respect human rights including the rights of women and girls.”

Perhaps someone should explain to the Biden administration that this Yes Prime Minister segment was not a “how to” guide.

How fitting that the Yes Prime Minister segment came with a laugh track and the Biden Administration is a joke.

We are now paying a tremendous price for surrendering the culture war to the political left

Posted: August 19, 2021 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Very few of us Conservatives and Libertarians ever attempted to fight the political left in the area of cultural issues.  We abounded Hollywood and the rest of the entertainment industry to progressives and other Marxists. 

Now the vast majority of movies and television programs are a cesspool of leftist propaganda.  Hardly any at all present America or its founding principles in a positive light. 

America bashing is one of the most prevalent themes encountered today.  Conformity, the liberal orthodoxy, and doing whatever those in authority demand have been hammered into the heads of all that partake in any form of entertainment. America’s sins of slavery and racism are constant themes,  They are portrayed as being the absolute foundation and soul of this nation, which are very much far from the truth.  All of the tremendous good that America has done and stands for is ignored. 

Young children who watch cartoons, Disney movies, and Nickelodeon are subjected to gay and transgender brainwashing.  I believe this is something that should be left out of children’s programming.  Most parents are probably unaware that this going on.

The liberal brainwashing on college campuses has gone unchecked by those of us on the political right for decades.  It has now spread through high schools and grade schools.  A recent poll declared that more than half of all young people have been brainwashed into viewing socialism as positive and capitalism negative.  No wonder so many young people voted for Biden and no wonder so many blindly follow all of the liberty destroying mandates and lockdowns.  If American founding principles and civics were still taught these mandates and lockdown would have ended soon after they were attempted.

Conservatives and others on the right allowed leftists to gain almost complete control of the news industry and social media.  Without the suppression of the truth about the theft of the 2020 presidential election Donald Trump would still be in office.  Without the suppression of real scientific facts about the effectiveness of masks and lockdown those liberty destroying ineffective mandates would not have remained in effect for more than a week or two.

We need to take up the culture war on all fronts immediately and fight to win.

Afghanistan & the Border: Reality takes Center Stage over the Left’s Spin

Posted: August 18, 2021 by datechguy in politics
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Via the Babylon Bee

One of the few things about a an event such as the disaster of a withdrawal in Afghanistan is that it cuts through spin and falsehoods and shows things as they actually are.

For example we have been assured by the academics of the left from almost the moment that the planes hit the twin towers twenty years ago that Islam is a religion of peace and that anyone who suggests otherwise is a bigot. The reports of people being slaughtered by the Islamists of the Taliban, their daughters given as wives to fighters gives the lie to that contention.

We have also been told by the Critical Race Theory Crowd that the United States is an irredeemably racist place and horrible place yet we see tens of thousands of people rushing to our southern border to try to get into this horrible place.

Last month we had Joe Biden assure us that the Taliban would not roll over the Afghan army while his spokespeople as late as Friday told us the country would not fall over the weekend while seeing the sight and have been exposed to the sight of people falling from airplanes to their death in a vain attempt to escape in an eerie reminder of 9/11/

And now we have the image of Twitter who has made it a point to Ban people like Robert Stacy McCain, Milo Yiannopoulos  and President Donald Trump from its platform but has no problem keeping the Taliban and their spokesman on the platform as long as don’t: “glorify violence” moreover as one GOP congressman in a letter to Twitter on this subject noted:

In my review of these accounts, I did not find a single fact check on any of their tweets, nor any warnings for false or misleading content,”

All of this comes down to one thing: The only thing that matters to the people who installed this administation is that the “right” people continue to hold power allowing the “right” people to be paid and making sure the “right” people continue to be invited to the “right” parties.

That is what the media/left is actually worried about and that is also the reason why Donald Trump is banned from twitter and the Taliban is not, Trump is an impediment to them retaining power. The Taliban is not.

They don’t care about the equipment being lost, or people being executed or women being made into slaves, the only reason they care about the results of this debacle in Afghanistan is they are afraid that the optics of what is happening might be an impediment to them retaining that power and getting paid.

There are plenty of people on the left who don’t have a problem with this goal set and will continue to believe in this ends and means business right up until the moment that it’s decided that they or theirs are such an impediment.

Unexpectedly of course

-30-

Posted: August 17, 2021 by chrisharper in Uncomfortable Truths
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By Christopher Harper

When I joined the Associated Press in Chicago, “-30-“ signaled the end of a story. Depending on the source, the designation apparently began in the Civil War as a typesetter’s code. In recent years, it has been the name of a movie starring Jack Webb and even the title of the final episode of The Wire.

After 50 years as a reporter and a journalism educator, I have decided to place a -30- on my career and hang up my green eyeshade, pica pole, and glue pot. I’ll retire on July 1, 2022.

I joined the academy after more than years in journalism at the AP; Newsweek in Chicago, Washington, and Beirut; and ABC News in Cairo, Rome, and New York.

A couple of years after I started in journalism at the Idaho Statesman in Boise, Watergate was reaching its crescendo, and I had an opportunity to do some reporting on the events that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon. After that, I covered the deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, the Iran hostage crisis, three wars, numerous terrorist attacks, and several investigations into major corporations, such as Federal Express.

When I started in the academy in 1994 at New York University, the internet played virtually no role in journalism. The internet had virtually no penetration until AOL marketed its service. People reached the internet via what was called a “handshake,” a ka-chunk-chunk sound that screeched through telephone lines.

A few years later, I wrote a book that looked at the future of online journalism. Few journalism educators and working editors paid much attention to the implications of the internet, although I was able to teach some of the first classes in multimedia design and journalism at New York University, Ithaca College, and Temple University. At the latter, I helped start a journalism website in 2007, www.philadelphianeighborhoods.com, which reported on low-income and minority locales that got little positive attention in the mainstream media.

Today, however, the state of journalism and journalism education are far less rosy than in my days as a reporter and my days as a teacher.

First, most people don’t trust journalists anymore. Reporters have always been nosy sorts and not well-loved. But many people saw a role for journalists to keep tabs on government actions.

The reappearance of the partisan press, particularly during the Trump years, has left many with a negative view of what the media do.

I don’t see much journalism can do about the lack of trust. I think the only possibility is to emphasize accuracy above all else—as well as to incorporate as many voices as possible into the debate about the country’s future. Even so, the media are so badly broken that I’m not sure that any new bridges can be built between journalism and its public.

Second, the media failed to respond to the massive intrusion of the tech companies—Google, Facebook, and others—into the news business. Again, it may be too late to force these companies to pay for the news and information that should be a violation of copyright. But the media companies have failed to press their case in the courts.

Third, although some of my students have gone on to excellent careers in places like ESPN, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and various local news organizations, the number of people interested in journalism has plummeted.

When I started at Temple in 2005, more than 800 students majored in journalism. Today, that number is roughly half. I can’t say I blame students who face limited job prospects and mediocre salaries. But no one ever went into journalism to become wealthy.

Moreover, the number of educators who practiced journalism for more than a few years has been declining dramatically over the past decade or so. As a result, students learn more about social issues than storytelling.

I’m thankful of all the opportunities I’ve had to travel the world on the bank accounts of news organizations and universities and the ability to witness important events throughout the world. But as I mosey off into the sunset, I wish I could be more optimistic about the craft I plied for more than 50 years. Alas, I cannot.

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