Archive for November, 2021

Backup site thoughts Under the Fedora NH caves, Brown pros and cons, Adams meets reality, Rittenhouse weirdness and the approaching storm

Posted: November 11, 2021 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Nothing says “Democracy” like NH revote on the vaccine money taking place without the public realizing it was being brought up.

I’m old enough to remember when people thought it was important for Government to be responsive to the people.

There is some talk that former senator Scott Brown might jump into the NH Senate Race.

This is interesting because Brown lost in NH the last time very much due to his conflicts with the base on Abortion and Guns even though the establishment loved him, BUT he was also an early supporter of Donald Trump which was contrary to the NH GOP Establishment which was NeverTrump before there was such a term as “Never Trump”

An optimists might say that he appeals to both the establishment and base, while a pessimist might say he’s offended both.

Of course in a primary for any Pro-Life Catholic there is no question of supporting Brown if General Bolduc is in the race but if he does win the primary there is also no question that he’s a better choice than any Democrat.

Eric Adams is discovering that you can’t appease the BLM left simply by being a Democrat. The threat of riots and violence are quite real.

But the real danger here is that the prosecutors in NY will not actually enforce the law if people do riot. As long as BLM knows there is no actual risk to violence, looting or murder there is no incentive for them to stop.

Eventually people get sick of living in fear of riots and will eventually decide to fight back, and when that happens they will not be very restrained in their targets. The question is, will Adams us his police force to enforce the law to keep the people from eventually reaching that point. It rather amazes me that said point has not been reached already.

Speaking of prosecutors I can’t think what is going through the mind of the team going after Rittenhouse. If they hadn’t blown their case before he took the stand they sure did afterwards.

Of course this case should never have reached trail but the same dynamics of threat that are in play in New York, Portland and Seattle are in play here and maybe with people already openly making threats concerning the jury they figure the fix is in.

That I am seeing this kind of thing disgusts me to no end.

Via HotAir this statement really sums up where we are as a country:

“The bloodlust you see for Kyle Rittenhouse is exactly what I see every day for January 6 defendants,” she wrote on Twitter. “Up against corrupt prosecutors, a vicious news media, and libelous social media influencers. If they could arrest and charge all of us, they would.” 

People don’t seem to have a concept of what this is going to lead to. A lot of people are restraining themselves but once they stop all bets are off. The left is counting on this never happening.

They’re wrong.

Situation not normal all ****** up again

Posted: November 10, 2021 by datechguy in Uncategorized

The last time I posted on the backup site was to note that the main site was down in a post titled:

Everything is Down & My Host has Seemingly disappeared

Well what happened before is happening again.

Technically the site is up and the old posts are there and visible but problems abound to wit:

First our SSL ran out but that should have been an easy fix but for some reason the buy of the new cert hasn’t caught up with the site 3 days later. As you can guess it’s tanked traffic pretty bad.

If that’s not enough apparently our host has not updated their PHP so now I’m getting the same type of blank screen when I try to write a post that I did with godaddy three years earlier. (I’m writing this post i the draft section of the dashboard to get around it as a temp measure)

The owner of the hosting service who bought it from my friend has proved just as invisible as before when it comes to getting ahold of him to resolve this

Frankly life has been too busy lately for this nonsense so I’ll be doing what I can to get around things but likely can’t get a full day of it in till Friday.

Last time this happened it was all resolved in a few days but I have a nasty feeling it’s not going to be that easy this time, we shall see.

What a wonderful setup for the blog’s 13th anniversary which is practically ancient in blog years.

So for now I’ll be posting here and I think I’ll start moving forward with contingency plan but I have an awful lot on my plate right now and I’m at the point so it might be slow going.

Pork, pork, and more pork

Posted: November 9, 2021 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper 

By my calculations, every man, woman, and child of the 331 million citizens of the United States should get a benefit of $3.021.14 of the $1 trillion in pork just agreed upon by Congress. 

I’m willing to get a little less than others, and I realize that some of the alleged benefits of the program may not become apparent to me. 

Nevertheless, I suggest everyone do some calculations about how this megaton barrel of pork will affect you. Here’s an overview of the plan: https://www.investopedia.com/here-s-what-s-in-the-usd1-trillion-infrastructure-bill-passed-by-the-senate-5196817 

Pork Barrel No. 1: $110 billion for construction and repair of roads, transportation research at universities, funding for Puerto Rico’s highways, and “congestion relief” in American cities. 

I moved from the congested city of Philadelphia and rarely use major highways. To wit, the major highway near my current home in Muncy, Pennsylvania, Interstate 180, is moving along just fine without any new federal funding. Moreover, the state roads near my house, including the street at my front door, have just been redone. Benefit to me: Nada.

Pork Barrel No. 2: $66 billion for railroads include upgrades and maintenance of America’s passenger rail system and freight rail safety, but nothing for high-speed rail. Thirty-nine billion dollars for public transit would provide for upgrades to public transit systems nationwide. The allocation also includes money to create new bus routes and help make public transit more accessible to seniors and disabled Americans. 

I love railroads and have traveled throughout the world on trains in China, France, Poland, Russia, and the United Kingdom. But the money here will be spent mainly on the Northeast Corridor, which means that Democrat-held cities will get nearly all of the dough. The same goes for public transit systems, which are almost entirely under Democrat control. Benefit to me: Zero.  

Pork barrel No. 3: $65 billion for the power grid to fund updates to power lines and cables and to provide money to prevent power grid hacking. 

Can’t the power companies charge their customers for the upgrades? Since PG&E, California’s main utility, is an absolute mess, I suspect a big chunk of the goodies will head to the Left Coast. Benefit to me: Nothing. 

Pork barrel No. 4: $65 billion to expand broadband in rural areas and low-income communities. Approximately $14 billion of the total would help reduce Internet bills for low-income citizens. 

I live in a rural area and get broadband just fine. Money in my pocket: Zero.  

I’ve gone through the rest of the appropriation, including dough for electric buses, electric charging stations, lead-pipe removal, and various other plans. I don’t find anything that will save me money or make my life better.  

What Brandon and Congress did accomplish, however, is to add a massive government bureaucracy to oversee all of these projects that won’t get going until 2023 at the earliest.  

It’s also important to keep in mind how unwieldy and corruption-prone massive projects become. Take, for example, the Big Dig highway project in Boston. Starting in 1991, the project was supposed to be completed in 1998 for $2.8 billion. Instead, it wasn’t finished until 2007 at the cost of $23 billion—a project tarnished by corruption, design flaws, and waste. 

Just think what the Democrats can do with budgets nearly 500 times the original estimate of the Big Dig!  

All told, I don’t see any appreciable difference in my life except that I am likely to pay increased taxes to cover the plunder and pork from the almost blank check Brandon and Congress have signed. 

Dumb Energy Policy? That Depends on their Goal

Posted: November 9, 2021 by datechguy in Uncategorized

I was perusing the next this morning and spotted this at Powerline on the Biden Administration’s energy policy

So at the same time the administration is trying to block oil and gas leases on federal lands, it contemplates leasing federal waters for wind turbines. Wind turbines are environmentally awful and produce electricity less than half the time, so along with wind farms watch for many billions of dollars to be spent on natural gas plants that will operate the majority of the time when the wind turbines produce no electricity.

I didn’t think it would be possible to produce an energy policy this mind-numbingly foolish, but the Biden administration has exceeded my expectations.

As usual this piece is worth reading but it is making a simple error when it classifies the Biden Administration policy as “dumb” and the origin of said error is based on a faulty assumption.

The author assume that the goal of the Biden Administration is the same as the goal the Trump administration had, namely to make America energy independent and to lower fuel prices to help the economy and the working class.

Now if this was the goal of the Biden Administration then, yes this would be a really dumb energy policy.

BUT if your goal is to use government power, funds and taxes to enrich allies who will in turn enrich you and your relatives and your hangers on and to support those who are advancing your goals of remaining in an exclusive powerful rich elite, then not only are these policies not dumb, they are VITAL to reach said goal.

Once you realize that this is the goal of the Biden Administration then you realize that it is far from dumb.

Now if you want to argue that’s it immoral , or bad for the interest of America and Americans then fine, but don’t call it dumb, because its primary result, satisfying the powers that support them, is being achieved.

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