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Wolf Democracy In Canada

Posted: February 22, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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There are a lot of depressing things coming out of Canada lately. The most depressing was the vote yesterday where the lower house of Parliament allowed Trudeau to extend their emergency powers.

This was particularly depressing because he has a minority government and he needed the help of other parties to get what he wanted and he got that help from the NDP party. But even that wasn’t the most depressing thing.

The most depressing thing was this speech in support of this measure by the NDP leader:

In his statement pledging support for the Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh stated that while he was happy for these extraordinary powers to be used against the truckers protesting in Ottawa, they must never be used against “Indigenous land defenders, climate change activists, workers fighting for fairness.”

You see he’s not against slavery or tyranny, as long as he’s gets to say who gets whipped.

This is the classic tale of two wolves and a sheep democratically voting on what they will have for dinner and its disgraceful.

That being said if Canadians want to vote themselves into tyranny they can do so, I suspect they will find it a lot harder to vote themselves out of it.

Joe vs. Vlad

Posted: February 22, 2022 by chrisharper in Uncomfortable Truths
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By Christopher Harper 

If you want someone to blame for the current crisis in Ukraine, look no further than the White House. 

In his continuing bid to rank among the worst presidents in history, Joe Biden waived any roadblocks for a Russian pipeline, Nord Stream 2 AG, to provide natural gas to Germany. Later, he battled GOP-sponsored legislation to halt the pipeline.

Under Donald Trump, the United States stopped the massive pipeline because of the stranglehold it would have on European energy supplies.

It’s hardly a giant leap to argue that Biden sent a message to Vladimir Putin that he could do almost whatever he wanted in Eastern Europe.

That’s what has led to the current crisis in Ukraine, which opposed the pipeline.

Ukraine is the largest county in Europe, occupying more than 200,000 square miles, or roughly the size of Texas. 

Even so, Ukraine’s fellow Europeans don’t seem that interested in supporting its eastern brother. 

For example, Germany, arguably the most important power in Europe, sent 5,000 helmets in military aid to Ukraine. That’s right! Five thousand helmets. That’s it! 

In an article published by German newspaper Bild, the mayor of Kyiv, Vitaly Klitschko, decried “the non-assistance and betrayal of friends in a dramatic situation.” 

There’s a lot at stake. Here’s Putin’s shopping list:

–The United States should agree to block further NATO expansion–a step that would keep Ukraine, Finland, and Sweden out of the alliance if they wanted to join. 

–NATO forces should pull out of countries that joined NATO after 1997—which includes all those once in the Soviet orbit.

–U.S. nuclear weapons must be withdrawn from Europe. 

“The United States and NATO have begun the shameless development of the territory of Ukraine as a theater of military operations,” Putin said yesterday in a speech. “Ukraine for us is not just a neighboring country; it is an integral part of our own history, culture, and spiritual space.” 

As Yogi Berra put it: It’s déjà vu all over again. 

Unfortunately, the Biden Bunch aren’t exactly the group I’d like to see going toe to toe with Vlad’s Crew.

Report from Louisiana: This and That

Posted: February 21, 2022 by Pat Austin in Uncategorized
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By: Pat Austin

SHREVEPORT – A bit of this and a bit of that this week.

Tech Issues: I am so sympathetic to the tech issues that your trusty blog host, DaTechGuy, was having not too long ago. We have been going through some computer upgrades at the office which on one hand is great; we have super fast lovely new computers, but for a solid week we couldn’t access email accounts. Not good. After extended conversations with GoDaddy and then with the tech company that did the upgrades, we finally got email access again.  But, there’s a catch: those of us in the office can only access our email at our work stations. Not on our mobiles and not remotely from home. And it gets better: we can’t change our password and we aren’t allowed to know what our password is!

So, you can’t log out of your email because you can’t log back into it without a password. And anyone who sits at my workstation, for example, can read my email, or even more strange, can send out emails under my name.

What the heck is this all about?!

I have no idea, and it’s already problematic as I received a time sensitive message before the weekend and was not able to access it for two days until I went back to my desk. Not good.

Really, tech upgrades are always a problem from where I sit. I’ve never been through a new phone, computer, tablet, router, whatever, without multiple hiccups.

Here’s hoping this gets resolved soon!

Local Elections: Speaking of hiccups, we have a mayoral election coming up this fall in Shreveport. Our current mayor, an inexperienced Democrat who has been nothing but a disaster, is running unopposed as of this writing, and … you guessed it…the Republicans are splitting the vote with multiple candidates. This is exactly how this clown won his first term. Beyond aggravating.

We can only hope the Republicans get together before the actual election and everyone not leading the polls needs to drop out. If our current mayor wins re-election you can get out your erasers and take Shreveport off the map. Done. Lights out.

Facebook Jail: With all this drama, we needed a little laugh around here which we handily found when my husband landed in Facebook jail a few days ago. It was his first offense (miraculously) and so it was only 24 hours, but he spent his time in the hoosgow singing prison songs (think Merle Haggard). I told him it is a badge of honor to be in Facebook jail these days and not to worry about it. He really doesn’t care, so I expect he will be a repeat offender.

Other than all this organized chaos, things are relatively quiet around here given that it is Mardi Gras season and we are all running about catching parades and hanging cheap plastic beads around our necks with stuffing our bellies with every variety of King Cake we come across. Bavarian, cream cheese, strawberry, traditional cinnamon, even boudin stuffed King Cakes are readily available. Lent will be here soon and hopefully things will settle down to more somber and dutiful ways.

Until then, take care and be kind.

The Mask is the left’s Golden Calf

Posted: February 21, 2022 by datechguy in culture, Uncategorized
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The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything: 

Emile Cammaerts, paraphrasing Chesterton

PJ Media wrote the post I’ve been meaning to write for weeks:

Seitz-Wald is correct. Urban Democrats especially have taken mask-wearing to a whole other level, making the kind of mask you wear sort of like gang colors. That’s not an easy identifier to lose under any circumstances.

Beyond that, masks always gave liberals a sense of superiority over the “rubes” in flyover country. They “followed the science” — until the science said something else and then they simply pretended it didn’t and continued to mask up.

Now they’re fighting a rearguard action to keep the emergency going. On one level, it’s truly pathetic. Finding meaning in life by wearing a mask proves Thoreau’s point of the “mass of men living lives of quiet desperation.”

But losing the mask also denotes losing control of the rest of us. For a left-wing authoritarian, that’s got to hurt.

You see the reason why they call it “virtue signaling” is that you’re just sending a signal, you don’t have to practice actual virtue and for the left the Mask has become the ultimate in virtue signaling. All it takes is to see that piece of cloth around one’s face and viola not only can you show you are of the right groupthink but you can identify others who are with you.

Much easier than those Christian virtues, of charity, faith, hope and the pesky business of loving your neighbor, particularly your enemies

Here is the MSNBC quote:

Masks are the left’s latest golden calf and it will be just as merciful a god as the first one was.

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