Posted: January 27, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized
Today is “Everybody blog about Mass Formation Psychosis day but when it comes down to it I think this is just giving a name to good old fashioned propaganda.
It’s the same type of thing that’s been in play in the various communist paradises for a century, it’s what was deployed in Germany under der Führer and it’s been the type of thing used to move populations all the way back to the war of Jenkins ear and before.
It’s just that today with mass media, the net, and all the other stuff whereby if someone farts in Uganda in the morning it’s on youtube by 11 am it’s been refined to an art. An evil and destructive art.
Many tyrants and leaders from history would recognize what’s being played today and marvel at it jealously but it’s to quote Aerosmith: The same old song and dance.
You can beat it with knowledge and reason but we’ve been sorely lacking of that lately so let me ask you one thing:
If you want to know why baseball, the most perfect sport there is continues to die a slow death consider this fact concerning Baseball’s Hall of Fame
Baseball’s all time leaders in
Games
Plate Appearances
At Bats
Hits
Home Runs
Walks
Intentional Walks
Are either by vote or by exclusion not in the Hall of Fame.
Furthermore one of the most successful pitchers in the game both in the regular season and the post season is excluded because he does not support the political party favored by baseball writers, even though he was the center of one of the most heroic moments in the history of the game.
My own HOF standard is simple there are two ways to judge it.
If someone says to you “Is ‘x’ good enough for the Hall of Fame and you have to think about it, then they are not.
If you are afraid if this player that you don’t want coming up against you to bat or pitch with the game on the line then he is a Hall of Famer.
All that being under rules 1 & 2 Ortiz belongs in the hall, but so does Clemens, Bonds and Schilling hands down,
As for the vets committee. Under rule 1 Minoso belongs in, Under rule 2 Oliva belongs in and I have no beef with O’Neil or Hodges who I never saw play or Kaat who while not a great pitcher was a very good pitcher for two decades so you might add a sustained quality exception in that he while never the best was quality long beyond the norm.
FYI concerning Rose. I think Pete Rose is one of the best players who ever played the game. In my 1969 league he was my #1 pick. He played harder and worked harder than anyone in the game. He’s exactly the type of guy you want in your clubhouse or to build a team around. It’s no coincidence that a loaded Phillies team didn’t win their 1st world series until he as a 38 year old 16+ year vet showed up. I loved watching him play and if you put me in room with him I could listen to him talk baseball for hours.
All that being said if this was Harold Baines or Mike Greenwell nobody would question his being banned from the game. For 30 year he walked into ballparks past signs that said in effect:
Bet on baseball and you’ll be banned
And he did it anyways. I don’t think for one moment that he ever threw a game or bet against himself but that doesn’t enter into it. He’s guilty as sin and didn’t take the outs that were offered to him because I frankly think he was too competitive to do so. He looked on it as a game to win rather than an offer of mercy. That’s one him
With sports gambling now legal if MLB wants to reverse this sometime before he dies I don’t have an issue with it but he bet on baseball and while I think the ban is sad and might even be counterproductive at this point. It is just.
My thought: last year was the 175th anniversary of the 1st professional baseball game. I think in honor of that and whatever settlement baseball reaches to avoid a lockout a general amnesty should be declared for all players at any level for offenses against the game.
That would allow us to celebrate the game we loved and enjoyed.
Posted: January 26, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized
One of the things that have really stymied the left concerning their attempts to continue to generate Panic over the various COVID variants and the Vaccines has been reality.
However that reality has not penetrated everywhere:
Patient refused heart transplant because he is unvaccinated
And you thought that the rewriting of the Hippocratic Oath would not affect how Doctors treated their patients.
Conservatives need to start their own medical schools because we are going to see people denied treatment over their views on a lot more than this soon.
Well yesterday didn’t see Dan’s high score fall so under my “blogging will be light” meme let me suggest you read what might in terms of our cultural history both the saddest and in fact the least surprising story I’ve seen (via Don Surber)
“I didn’t go into this thinking I was going to hear these really shocking things,” said Dean, who originally had no interest in launching an investigative dig through the erotica tycoon’s dirty laundry. “I figured it’d be fun, but kind of lightweight.”
Dean had just wrapped production on Paris Hilton’s gripping “This Is Paris” documentary in early 2020 when she was tapped to probe Hefner’s previously impenetrable kingdom at the dawn of the pandemic.
“But as I started to have these conversations [with the survivors of Hefner], the project transformed 180 degrees, from lightweight to super-critical,” she said, deeming the documentary the crown jewel of her career.
I’ve been saying for a long time that men won the sexual revolution hands down. We went from a culture where a man was expected to marry a girl if he wanted to sleep with them (As my dad taught me and as I taught my sons “If she’s good enough to sleep with she’s good enough to marry”) to one where women are taught to put out and now even in schools we are encouraging kids in this direction.
“The women were telling me what they’d been through, and why it was important for us to re-examine who Hef really was,” Dean continued. “Our ideas of emancipated womanhood, sexuality and sexual freedom are all wrapped up with Playboy. But is a man like Hugh Hefner fit to define that?”
We went from the vice squad and porn being something tough to find to something so prevalent that they were unable to do a study on its effect because they couldn’t find a control group that hadn’t been exposed to it. Hefner was the man their pried this door open and many who wanted the benefits of making perversion socially acceptable ran right though it.
Theodore clinched the coveted post as Hef’s main squeeze for five years during the late ’70s through the early ’80s. And his unending supply of cocaine and “leg spreader” Quaaludes helped her dull the pangs of being coaxed into orgies five nights a week, being ordered to have sex with a revolving door of men and women while Hef watched voyeuristically and she caught him engaging in sexual activities with her pet.
Multiply this by all the different women who went though that mansion over 4 decades and the “revolving door of men and woman” who they serviced and you might get the scope of what this was. This was Jeffrey Epstein on steroids.
I submit and suggest that that the war on Christianity was all about enabling this.
Closing thought:
Speaking of Epstein on steroids, does anyone really believe that there were not camera rolling while all those people were in those rooms?
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