It’s Christmas Eve and with one son sick the schedule we had for today was disrupted but there is one thing that’s going to happen no matter what.
I’m getting to Mass, in fact I’m getting to Mass twice, I’m going with my wife at 10 PM and then I’m going to drop her off at home, pick up my other son and we’re going to hit a midnight Mass in Leominster.
Now Midnight Mass is a great thing but the Morning Mass on Christmas day is just as wonderful.
There are many people who go to Church only on Christmas and Easter. This annoys some people but in the end a person has to walk before they run.
If you haven’t been to Mass this year, what better day to begin than a Christmas Mass.
Let’s start with Christmas and see what we can do from there.
In March, I took action to make our subways safer for the millions of people who take the trains each day. Since deploying the @NationalGuardNY to support @NYPDnews and @MTA safety efforts and adding cameras to all subway cars, crime is going down, and ridership is going up.
What actually happened on the subway today tweeted at exactly the same time:
A woman was burned alive on an F train in NYC. The suspect then sat to watch. The third world has relocated here. pic.twitter.com/J53ngXiV1J
A woman was burned alive on an F train in NYC. The suspect then sat to watch. The third world has relocated here.
Ironically my oldest was in NYC this weekend with a group of friends and was actually on the subway for at least some time during his visit. This was a source of great anxiety for me.
I’m glad he’s out and for the record I can’t understand why any person, why would any person willingly be on the subway in NYC under these people, particularly a tourist.
Update: NYPD Police have arrested a man suspected of lighting the female passenger on fire. The man is described as a ‘Guatemalan migrant.’ it is unknown if the man is in the country legally or illegally.
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” Fyodor Dostoevsky.
“‘Many are the strange chances of the world,” said Mithrandir, “and help shall oft come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.'” The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien.
A blockbuster story by the Wall Street Journal last week laid bare what most readers of Da Tech Guy have known since 2019. That Joe Biden was senile and in not in any way able to serve as president.
The mainstream media, which claims to be the protector of the public and the teller of the truth, either ignored, minimized, or on occasion, even verbally attacked people who claimed otherwise.
We were right, they were wrong.
The optics and stakes are different in Chicago, and in one way, the stakes are higher, as opposed to the Biden so-called presidency. Because Brandon Johnson, who was a defund the police radical in 2020, is mayor of Chicago and he’s ultimately in charge of public safety 2.7 million Chicagoans.
And Johnson minimizes criminality. But he maximizes racial discord, frequently turning criticism of him as a bigoted attack.
After a mini-riot last year, which apologists call “street takeovers,” Branjo dismissed the lawlessness. “They’re young, sometimes they make silly decisions,” he said. Johnson also stressed that it was wrong to “demonize” these real-life droogs.
The Wall Street Journal says Johnson is America’s worst mayor.
Prior to his election as mayor, Johnson was Cook County board commissioner, which is a part-time job. The board is a rubber-stamp body for Cook County Board president, Boss Toni Preckwinkle, the chair of the Cook County Regular Democratic Organization, aka, the Chicago Machine.
Johnson was also a longtime paid organizer–and that means radical activist–for the far-left Chicago Teachers Union. It was their money–and their door-knockers–who put Branjo into the mayor’s office.
Yesterday, I saw this X post from former Chicago Tribune columnist, Eric Zorn, a liberal.
What an embarrassing failure @ChicagosMayor has turned out to be. This is shamefully hamhanded and uncollaborative.
Two days ago, in a classic Friday news dump stunt–and five days before Christmas–the Board of Education, all of whom were recently named by Johnson to replace the other members Johnson named, fired Chicago Public Schools CPO Pedro Martinez. That old board refused to fire Martinez, a Lori Lightfoot holdeover, because he stood his ground by refusing to take out a “payday” loan to pay for big raises for Chicago Teachers Union members.
Next month, per a new state law, a new board replaces the not-so-old board.
If Zorn warned about Johnson shilling for the Chicago Teachers Union over the needs of Chicagoans, I somehow missed it. I don’t recall a single mainstream, meaning liberal, Chicago journalist sounding the alarm that a leftist fox would soon be guarding the henhouse.
However, many Chicagoans, most of whom likely voted for Johnson’s moderate opponent, Paul Vallas, saw this disaster coming. There just were not enough of them to prevent this fiasco.
Martinez was fired Friday night, but he may stick around for six more months.
The national media didn’t do its job vetting a sick old man running for president. And it mostly ignored Senile Joe’s many senior moments.
The Chicago media looked the other way as Branjo successfully campaigned for mayor.
But the warning signs were obvious.
A Chicago alderwoman, Silvana Tabares, summed up Johnson and his Board of Education debacle perfectly.
“You’re not just firing a CEO. You are intentionally clearing a way to saddle taxpayers with billions in costs, and the district and yourselves personally with costly litigation,” the alderwoman said. “You are being used. The mayor is a walking conflict of interest.”
I saw it coming and so did many others: Johnson is indeed a walking conflict of interest.
The Chicago media is an embarrassing failure.
Which brings me to this point: Is the local media in other towns and cities as bad as it is in Chicago?
Are these “guardians,” like Brandon Johnson, in fact foxes guarding the hen houses?
“You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'”
2 Samuel 12:12
One of the arguments I’ve been making over the past few years is that nobody should be surprised at the level of deceit, double dealing and corruption in the Biden Administration for the simple reason that people who steal an election don’t steal it for the sake of altruism. If a group of people are willing to steal a national election to gain power, obviously lying about the health of the president, not helping citizens devastated by natural disasters (remember the train derailment in Palestine preceded North Carolina by years) and using a foreign war and/or the power of the pardon as a personal slush fund is not going to be beyond them.
The thing is eventually stuff like this gets exposed and those who played along for personal or professional reasons are suddenly shocked SHOCKED that such things have been going on.
That is what happened yesterday when the 3rd stopgap measure passed overwhelmingly minus over 900 pages of fluff and graft that had been inserted in to gain democrat favor, but I want to point to a particular piece of this story that has broken out loud and long.
One of the talking points we have heard from the left is how cancer research was being funded in that bill and how the people looking for that research were hoping to get the funding they desperately needed and then Elon Musk tweeted and the kids with cancer were denied. Here is Sam Stein in the Bulwark:
By December 19, the provision had been axed from the bill, after Musk went on an X rampage, tweeting that the bill was a Christmas tree that was antithetical to conservative, small-government ambitions and threatening the primary lawmakers who supported it.
Nancy Goodman, the founder and executive director of Kids v. Cancer, called it “a completely heart-wrenching outcome.” Like Ellyn Miller, her child died of cancer (succumbing at the age of 10 to medulloblastoma). And like Ellyn Miller, Goodman had turned her grief into advocacy. She spent four years working on the Give Kids a Chance Act, which would have allowed FDA authorization of combination cancer treatments.
“We spent a lot of time putting together policies with broad bipartisan support to help kids seriously ill,” she said in an interview with The Bulwark. “How can it be that our society is not thinking about the most vulnerable children and doing everything they can to help them? How can we cut this out in the name of efficiency? How does that make sense?”
Goodman said she began to fear for the worst on Wednesday when she got calls from several staffers relaying that House Republican leadership was worried about the fate of the compromise bill and was trying to whip support for it. Those staffers suggested that she and others put together a letter from doctors and advocates and anyone in the pediatric cancer leadership community urging that it remain in the bill. They got more than 740 people to sign on.
Mr. Stein’s article was long and detailed but it did manage to leave out one rather significant fact.
It was that a stand alone bill for this funding had in fact ALREADY passed the House of Representatives in MARCH of this year and was sitting in the senate.
Why are you leaving out the fact that it passed as a stand alone bill last March but was never brought up for a vote in nine months in Chuck Schumer’s Senate?
Maybe it’s just me but I think that might be a significant part of the story.
And why didn’t these “cancer research advocates” know that their bill had passed the House ages ago and was now languishing in the Democratic Senate so that it could be used as a hostage against Republicans?
And why didn’t journalist Sam Stein know that, or choose to share it with his readers?
Reynolds suggested the answer was that he is an MSNBC contributor and writes for the Bulwark
Stein having been caught with a huge lie of omission then pivoted, blaming Rand Paul for this bill not being passed as he refused to allow unanimous consent to pass without making sure that the funding was not duplicating itself, that is, was not already funded by a different department, which is something that makes sense when you have a gigantic deficit.
But this as well has problems three to be percise:
The bill does not have to come up by unanimous consent, it can be brought to a vote under regular order.
Chuck Schumer and the Democrat Senate never made this bill a priority nor complained to the press about the Paul hold in 9 months
The Biden administration never once pushed for the passage of that bill.
Maybe it’s just me but given that the GOP was poised to take the senate in an election year and Donald Trump was on the ballot, an issue like “Senior GOP senator blocks bill for child cancer funding” might have been a strong issue. Kamala could have mentioned it in speeches, Trump and Vance could have been asked about it during debates and it could have been used in Senate races saying: “This is what happens when the GOP has power.”
Now you might think that any one of these things, particularly the 3rd would have been a no-brainer but apparently an issue that could be used to push hundreds of pages of graft and corruption was more important than using the power well you’d think wrong.
So alas for the left, this entire narrative fell on its face, except of course with those who remain in the bubble and refuse to leave it, but with ordinary Americans, the face of the press and the left was once again exposed for the people they were.
Didn’t surprise me of course, but this is the type of thing that people who usually don’t pay attention will notice.
Closing thought: With the exposing of the duplicity of the Biden Administration, the Democrat Senate and the Press on this issue the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act was no longer a useful tool to push forward 1300+ pages of the left’s graft. In fact every day that it remained unpassed by the Senate made it a visible liability for the Democrat left, the Biden Administration and the Media Narrative.
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