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Quick Under the Fedora: Interesting Anger, Bleeding Credibility, Ah for the days of DDT, the IRS to the Rescue and Zuck at it again

Posted: July 10, 2023 by datechguy in under the fedora
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The Outsized reaction of the professional left to the performance of the movie the “Sound of Freedom” last week and Disney’s decision to sit on it for a week seems rather odd, particularly when you note how consistent and united this reaction is.

Why you would think the left and their allies had a big hand in that pie. And if they didn’t before they might now.

The medical profession gave up a lot of credibility during the COVID business when they decided that a funeral for your father was murder but large scale marches for the causes of the left were just fine and dandy but nothing destroys the reputation of your family doctor then watching her ask your eight year old son if he identifies as a boy or girl or something else.

It’s stories like this that make my lack of grandchildren at the moment a lot more bearable.

There’s news that a new Malaria vaccine in Africa has not been that successful but is being pushed anyways.

Oddly enough there was a time when Malaria was on the run, but then came the ban on DDT.

A lot of folks ended up dead because of that, but a lot of leftists were able to feel good about themselves which is all that apparently matters.

President Biden remarked that Ukraine is having trouble with ammo.

I understand the IRS has been stockpiling for years, perhaps they can spare a bit.

I wasn’t paying much attention to Facebook/Meta new Threads app and have no intention or desire to get on it, but apparently a lot of people did hoping to do an ah HA on Elon Musk.

Alas they are discovering the truth of the old saying, when a company is offering a product to you for free, you’re the product to wit:

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There are times when I thank my lucky stars to have been born and grown up before all these things were considered essential to life.

Elly De La Cruz and Playing Baseball Right

Posted: July 9, 2023 by datechguy in baseball
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One of the great young stars of Baseball is Elly De La Cruz. Not only has he already hit for the cycle in his rookie year he has helped raise a team that lost 100 games last season to first place.

Yesterday he did something that screamed Jackie Robinson, stealing 2nd, 3rd and home but most amazingly he did it on only two pitches.

I’ve watched that video a few times and while I noticed that he seems to have long legs and an athletic gait, what really struck me was the baseball sense. Let’s look at the video:

now the steal of 2nd wasn’t anything special other than the good jump but take a look at the 47 second mark of the video and check out where the 3rd baseman is when the catcher is getting up to throw.

There is nobody covering third. de La Cruz noticed this and immediately took off. Yeah the 3rd baseman right have broken for the bag if he had been ready and saw de la Cruz break. With a shorter distance he might have gotten there first and perhaps could have set himself to get a throw, but he wasn’t ready and de la Cruz saw this and took the base.

Remember this is a one run game at the time, you would think a team would be careful about these things but the Milwaukee infield was not and de la Cruz was ready to strike.

Now look at what he does once he’s there. The 3rd baseman is still nowhere near the bag and he starts down the line. at the 2:14 mark the catcher throws the ball back to the pitcher who turns his back and heads back to the mound casually. The moment de la Cruz notices the pitcher isn’t watching he breaks for the plate. The pitcher turns at the 2:19 mark and rushes a throw that doesn’t have a chance.

That’s some of the most intelligent baseball I’ve seen in years. Elly de la Cruz is only 21 years old but he’s clearly one of the smartest players on that field and more importantly he’s paying attention to the game and making wise decisions.

This is exactly how this game should be played and the fans of Cincy are lucky to have that kind of player on the field. Will he develop into a Larkin or a Rose, it’s way too early to tell but for now let’s just take joy in it all.

It’s Important to Remember this about the Coke in the White House Story…

Posted: July 8, 2023 by datechguy in Blame Biden Administration, culture
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…the only reason you know about it is because it was first thought that this “white powder” was some sort of anthrax like attack threatening the White House that might be blamed on conservatives. This is why you had the whole hasmat treatment.

It was the result of that scare that this white power was determined to be coke and the troubles for the White House and the impossibility of actually answering a simple question became the issue.

Let’s be blunt the cocaine in the Whitehouse isn’t a crisis to this administration, I suspect this administration has had plenty of drugs in this place over the last two plus years and that those folks have known about this just like they knew about Weinstein and Epstein and like Weinstein and Epstein only became a crisis when it was publicly known and could not be credibly denied.

A Smile For The Pro-Life Crowd

Posted: July 7, 2023 by datechguy in abortion, catholic

Live Action delivers a winner.

Ah think of all the poor liberals having to deal with reality.

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