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Under the Fedora: I don’t under stand why people are surprised that…

Posted: June 25, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

…folks on the left have no issue with lying to our faces. Once you abandon the idea of Christianity and that false witness is a mortal sin to be worried about all that’s left is utilitarianism. So if a lie is useful it will be used.

…we have reached a point where the federal bureaucracy acts like the Chicago machine. We lionized a cheap Chicago pol and put him in charge and he and his crowd did their best to remake government in their own image to serve their agenda. The big difference is they didn’t advertise their “Make the US Chicago to the world.

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…pro athletes tend to ease off after the big contract. In the old days when being a pro athlete didn’t mean generational wealth the winners share of an all star game or a championship might be the difference between sending a kid to college or getting ahead of a mortgage or not and if you were dropped you have to go back to a regular job. Generational wealth ends all this. It’s that wealth that is the ends, championships are just gravy.

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…so many people feel entitled to their own reality along with everything else. What did you expect would happen to a generation that was constantly told they were special, were given participation trophies rather then being told to strive t win, and were brought up by parents who were more interested in being friends and thus never disciplined their kids? Why on earth did you expect them to turn out any other way?

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…that Disney et/al still don’t care about the bottom line. Once you have generational wealth the incentive to produce profit for your shareholders is less a priority than keeping in the good graces of the “right” people. The affirmation of the smart set, basically the modern version of being “presented at court” is all that matters when that’s what you base your self worth on.

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….that the “Never Trump” conservatives who once talked boldly about their values suddenly hate DeSantis as much as Trump seems to these day. When they became “nevertrump” the income stream from the right disappeared and the income stream from the left replaced it. Once they realized that the income stream from the right was not coming back suddenly “principled conservatism” became supporting the left, even against conservatives not named Trump.

Three Worst Case Russia Scenarios

Posted: June 24, 2023 by datechguy in war
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Under the 24 hour rule (and because I was distracted by burial of my Godfather) I paid little attention to the situation in Russia but it appears to be VERY serious to say the least. Revolution in a nuclear power is always inherently dangerous but Wretched the Cat on Twitter who always has excellent insights noted the most serious international aspect of what is going on which leads to what I think is the key question in this situation.

Or think of it this way, if you think the anarchy in Libya post Gaddafi is bad, picture it repeated in a nuclear armed Russia? How badly is something like that going to end?

And if Putin thinks the entire state is going down and taking him with it what makes anyone think he won’t decide to Nuke Ukraine or even the west to go out in a blaze of glory?

100 Word Fan Fiction: The Key Moment

Posted: June 23, 2023 by datechguy in fan fiction, fun
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Hogan barged in pointing: “Col Klink I must protest the delay in getting access to these prisoners.”

The Major glared: “What is this man doing here?”

Klink was nonplussed “Col Hogan these men are naval officers not under your jurisdiction.”

Hochstetter repeated: “WHAT IS THIS MAN DOING HERE?”

Hogan continued “They’re American prisoners covered by the Geneva convention!”

He had enough: “WHAT IS THIS MAN DOING HERE!”

Parker tapped his shoulder: “He’s arguing sir.”, Binghamton hit him with his hat Parker turned accidentally knocking his glasses onto the desk.

Only one man there realized the moment of truth was here.

Previously In Writing Next: A job well done

Five Fast Thoughts Under the Fedora: Pre-Sedgwick Syndrome, Watching a Republic Die, I’ll Never Tell, Still getting it, The Old Man’s Burden

Posted: June 23, 2023 by datechguy in catholic, culture, Israel, middle east, News/opinion, under the fedora
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 The death of the maker of the Titanic Sub and those who traveled with them is not unremarkable as those with wealth have been taking large risks for centuries but when I heard that in interviews he had stated he rejected hiring experienced submariners because he didn’t want a bunch of 50 year old white guys all I could think of was General John Sedgwick saying about rebel snipers with new rifles with telescopic sights: “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” just before being shot by one.

The primary difference being that Sedgwick lived long enough after he was hit to appreciate the irony of his word, reports now coming out state there was an implosion and all those aboard died instantly.

RIP

The more I see of what is happening on the national level the more I’m amazed at the country doing its level best to go along with national suicide.

Of course historically this is consistent with republics, but what a difference between reading about such things and living it.

Mind you in a generation with the left spaying their own kids that managed to survive the womb it might be moot as the future still belongs to those who show up.

There’s that Tom Hagen math again.

Yet another futile terrorist attack has taken place in Israel.

As always Israel will survive it and do their level best to go after those who helped out but in the end none of these things are going to bring down the state, nor frankly will Iran’s nuclear dreams as Israel, particularly with Biden in the White House is not going to allow itself to be destroyed to sate those who own him.

For Nearly 80 years the Arabs have dreamt of the destruction of Israel. As a supporter of Israel, I ironically see the obvious way for them to achieve those ends and have done so for a long while but it has never has and likely never will occur to them.

How you ask? That’s a secret I’ll take to my grave.

Attended my Godfather/Uncle’s wake yesterday taking a day off work for the final relative of the generation ahead of me to die. I was sitting praying my rosary as people reached the receiving line and I heard an interesting exchange as a couple greeted My uncle’s son who lead it. They had not seen them for years and marveled at their son and daughter now near 30 and asked:

“Any Grandchildren?”

“No they’re not married.” answered my cousin’s wife.

The friends noted that these days that’s not necessary and while my devout Catholic Uncle’s dead body naturally did not flinch at the exchange in my mind’s eye his soul was fist pumping that his son and daughter in law had brought up their children right.

Finally today I’ll be having lunch with some friends from work who no longer see since I’ve been transferred to another building down the road. It’s important to keep up in person contacts like this in a digital world when possible but I must confess it’s very weird in the sense that of the friends I make the vast majority are young enough to be my children and some young enough to be my grandchildren.

Sometimes this is very hard because I’m very aware of my faults and failings and grateful for the sacrament of confession to be absolved of them but when I’m with these young folks it’s incumbent on me to carry myself in such a was as to set an example rather than in the relaxed way friends can be.

That’s a sentence that is rejected by those who spent a lifetime treating their kids as friends and doing all they can to pretend they will now grow old and die, but I suspect if they worried more about setting a good example our society and republic might not be dying before our eyes.

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