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Five Quick Celtics Game Seven Thoughts Under the Fedora

Posted: May 28, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Yesterday’s game was a Microcosm of the entire Celtics 2023 season, a Meh start, a long run when they were ahead. Slowly losing the lead and just about blowing it in the end and then when all seems lost a miraculous save.

When I watched the interviews at the end the Heat’s coach was spot on that their defensive team did exactly what they should have. Kept the ball out of Tatum’s hands and guarding him under the rim. They were making sure that Butler didn’t beat him and he didn’t. It was a bad break for them.

The big play of course was Derick White’s put back with .1 of a second on the clock. Take a look at the video again and you’ll note that White immediately sprints for the corner and the rim and puts himself in a position to make the play. That’s what a professional does.

The parallels to the 2004 RedSox are incredible. Losing the first three games, the third in an embarrassing blowout coming back with a heroic play to even things up, not quite a bloody sock but pretty dramatic.

If I’m the Celtics management I have David Ortiz and Curt Schilling at the Garden for game 7.

Of course even if Boston wins tomorrow night they still have one more series to win for a title. The Red Sox came off their game seven win to sweep a very good St. Louis team. I suspect Denver is going to be a tougher nut to crack then the cards, but we’ll see.

Picking real beer, real razors and real clothing stores

Posted: May 27, 2023 by navygrade36bureaucrat in culture
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State Farm Decides California is a Bad Risk

Posted: May 27, 2023 by datechguy in business
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Over the last several years hundreds of thousands of residents of California have decided to leave the state deciding that that there was no future for them there.

Now State Farm insurance has decided they’re a bad risk too.

America’s biggest home insurance company has announced it will no longer insure houses in California, saying that the risk from wildfires was too great and the cost of rebuilding too high. 

State Farm, the nation’s biggest car and home insurer by premium volume, said existing customers would not be affected.

But from Saturday, no new home insurance policies will be issued. The company will continue offering auto insurance.

The shock to me is that they still consider it safe to offer auto insurance, but it is a pretty big state and there are likely more than a few places outside of Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco and LA where you can insure a car without losing your shirt.

Of course if the state had sane forestry policies as they once did before the left made it their fiefdom this would not be an issue but the voters are bound to get the government they deserve.

Good and hard.

Stacy Reminds me Why I admire him so

Posted: May 26, 2023 by datechguy in crime
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At the top of Stacy McCain’s blog is a quote that I think best describes what he does as a reporter:

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

Arthur Koestler

He has a post up titled The Deadly Menace of Feral Youth where he talks about the story from five years ago of a young man named Dawnta Harris about who as the judge in the case where he ran over and killed officer Officer vAmy Caprio said:

In the last six months, no offense, but your client is a one-man crime wave. I’m not certain any juvenile facility is secure enough to hold him.

Harris ended up being sentenced to life in prison and Stacy noted that not punishing youth for small crimes means they will eventually get nailed for large ones.

Leniency is not to be confused with mercy. If the juvenile justice system had kept Dawnta Harris behind bars — and they had multiple opportunities to do so — not only would Officer Caprio still be alive, but Harris’ codefendants wouldn’t have been convicted of felony murder for their role in Officer Caprio’s death. So, yeah, go ahead liberals, and congratulate yourselves for doing your part to advance the cause of “social justice.” All it cost was a dead cop and four boys going to prison.

It’s worth noting that Stacy noted the same thing with Travon Martin:

The February 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martion might never have happened if school officials in Miami-Dade County had not instituted an unofficial policy of treating crimes as school disciplinary infractions. Revelations that emerged from an internal affairs investigation explain why Martin was not arrested when caught at school with stolen jewerly in October 2011 or with marijuana in February 2012. Instead, the teenager was suspended from school, the last time just days before he was shot dead by George Zimmerman.

Remember the words of Scripture in the letter to the Hebrews on the subject

You have also forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons: “My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by him; for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges.”

Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are without discipline, in which all have shared, you are not sons but bastards. Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not (then) submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live?

They disciplined us for a short time as seemed right to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we may share his holiness. At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.

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