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Never Forget that the Same People Who Insist that Election 2020 Was on the Up and UP…

Posted: May 22, 2024 by datechguy in Uncategorized

…are the same people who insisted that this wasn’t true:

Last month AstraZeneca admitted for the first time in court documents that its covid vaccine can cause a rare side effect in an apparent about-turn that could have paved the way for a multi-million-pound legal payout. This could theoretically become a landmark legal case, although there have already been obstacles for those seeking justice. 

The story of Alex who lost a leg due to the Vaccine has several interesting twists and turns but the most telling are this:

I don’t blame the public; most are just going with what they have been told. And if the public see papers like Rolling Stone [Alex was on the front cover in January 2023] labelling me as an antivaxxer and a conspiracy theorist, that gives them open free game to give us all the abuse that you can imagine. You wouldn’t believe some of the things that have been said to me: ‘You should have died’; ‘You should have lost both legs’; ‘Could you not have lost your tongue?’ I have been called a grifter. I am still trying to get my head around that one. A crisis actor – I was also called that once. That was quite impressive.  

and this:

I was interviewed on Indian TV and I found out that they have used 1.7billion does of AstraZeneca over there. Half the population. I was told privately that they are having a massive problem because their government won’t even talk about it. So this is global, it is not just one place.  

Never forget two things:

Conventional Wisdom is always correct right up until the day it’s not.

If the steal had been unsuccessful and Donald Trump had been sworn in the same media people who insisted that the vaccines were safe and excoriated those who pointed out basic facts that suggested otherwise would have been all over this story from the start because they would have blamed Donald Trump for every single injury they caused.

Reality is, it doesn’t care how you vote.

Update: The making of the green

Words of wisdom from George Washington by Chris Harper

Posted: May 21, 2024 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

In my successful efforts this week to avoid the nattering nabobs of negatism, I

turned to American historian Joseph Ellis, the author of a wonderful 2001 book

about the revolution.

In eloquent and thoughtful chapters, he explores important episodes about

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton,

James Madison, Ben Franklin, and John and Abigail Adams.

An exploration of Washington’s Farewell Address swept me away from the

bickering of talking heads and ignorant “experts.”

In 1796, Washington had decided to retire after two terms as president. But he

wanted to leave the country and the government with some wisdom before his

departure to Mount Vernon.

As Ellis notes, Washington makes three important points:

–Political parties may do more damage than good to the country.

“They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force;

to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a

small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to

the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration

the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than

the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels

and modified by mutual interests.”

Washington’s concerns were on the mark. Within months after Washington’s

retirement, the government became divided between the Federalists and the

Republicans.

A quick trip to the Tycoon Arcade

Posted: May 20, 2024 by datechguy in fun, pinball
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On Saturday my sons and I stopped by the Tycoon Arcade that I mentioned a few days ago.

Here is a quick video review of the place:

One thing I failed to mention in the video is that when you buy a batch of tokens they donate a game to toys for Tots, one game for a $19 purchase and an extra game for every $20 worth more up to five games if you drop $99 on 130 tokens.

You can find more information about them here. You can also order board games form them at the same site.

What about the current laws? The next time someone says we need more gun control laws, tell them about Cook County, Illinois

Posted: May 19, 2024 by John Ruberry in crime, News/opinion, opinion/news, politics
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By John Ruberry

Cook County, Illinois, America’s second-most populous county, has suffered under seven-and-a-half years of a pro-criminal so-called prosecutor, state’s attorney Kim Foxx. 

Jussie Smollet’s pal–who is a George Soros-funded Democrat–apparently doesn’t want to leave office quietly. Foxx, who thankfully decided not to run for a third term.

Foxx is considering adopting a policy of not prosecuting motorists who are pulled over for moving violations, thinks like speeding and driving with expired license plates, if they are found with narcotics or illegally possessing guns.

I’ve repeatedly criticized Foxx on this blog. Among her most egregious examples of prosecutorial malfeasance is her policy of ignoring the Illinois threshold for felony theft of $300. She raised it to $1,000. A second standout of idiocy was her decision, since reversed, not to charge participants in a wild west style Chicago gunfight because they were engaged in “mutual combat.”

For decades, liberals and leftists in Illinois have said that most deadly violence in the Prairie State is caused by guns. After every mass shooting–the latest one happened last night on Chicago’s West Side–libs will decry the latest instance of “gun violence.” Of course, these guns don’t fire themselves. It’s people violence. And playing along with the progressives’ word games, the next logical step of course is more gun laws, or better yet, they believe, a ban on public ownership of firearms. 

The reaction to Foxx’s no-charges suggestion regarding guns and drugs found during traffic stops has been mostly, but not exclusively, negative. 

The media-shy Foxx–I prefer to call her a coward–directed her office issue a statement defending her foolish idea.

“Decades of data demonstrate that these stops do not enhance public safety,” it reads. “Instead, they perpetuate a cycle of mistrust and fear, especially in under-resourced communities. This draft policy is a crucial step towards rebuilding that trust.” 

What data? Where? When?

And “rebuilding that trust” means not enforcing gun laws? 

A Chicago alderperson, Sylvana Tabares, issued a commonsense retort against Foxx’s proposal. “It strips officers of an essential tool to get illegal guns off our streets,” Tabares said. “Residents are demanding we do more to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and make their neighborhoods safe. This does the opposite.”

The Republican nominee for Cook County’s state’s attorney, Robert Fioretti, says if Foxx’s no-charges- on-guns-and-drugs-found-in-traffic-stops policy is enacted, he’ll reverse it. The Democratic candidate, Eileen O’Neill Burke, hasn’t commented on Foxx’s proposal. However, O’Neill Burke–who I voted for in the Democratic Primary over a Foxx-wannabe–campaigned on reversing returning Cook County to the $300 threshold for prosecuting felony theft. I suspect EOB is against Foxx’s proposal.

Meanwhile, last week Cook County’s sheriff, the weaselly Tom Dart, also a Democrat, in statement suggested that there could be over 80,000 Illinoisans who have had their Firearm Owners Identification Cards revoked who still possess guns. Dart, at least in regard to Cook County, says he needs more money to track down these criminals. Cook County Jail, which Dart is in charge of, has seen a dramatic drop in inmates because of Illinois’ pro-criminal no-cash bail SAFE-T Act, but has not laid off any guards. I know, that’s because of union contracts.

When are the next round of negotiations for those jail guards’ contracts?

Now back to guns. I’m going to state the obvious. Before suggesting new firearm laws, let’s first enforce the existing ones.

John Ruberry regularly blogs from Cook County at Marathon Pundit.

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