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There is an article at the Washington Examiner about Catholics calling the 1st 100 days of the Biden Administration: “100 days of Disappointment”.

I can’t see how this can be the case for any informed person. To be disappointed requires expectation and anyone Catholic who has followed Joe Biden for the 50 years he has been on the public teat would not expect him to make any decision that was governed by the faith, even if he was actually in charge in DC.

If you actually had expectation of it being otherwise then I’m disappointed in you.

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There is a lot of talk that the wokeness and sloppiness of the MSM has bled into the sport media but I actually think it’s the other way around and the best example of this has been the NFL draft.

For the last several months we have seen disinformation, speculation treated as credible evidence up for discussion and wholesale nonsense pushed on the public. Why here in New England today on a radio station that has spent the last three months insisting that Bill Belichick MUST trade up and pay any price to get one of the five elite QB’s available in this draft when he managed to get one of them (Mack Jones) with his 15th pick without you actually had a host complaining that Jones wasn’t a good pick because he he HAD been one they would have traded up for him.

Remember unless you are watching or listening to an actual play by play it’s just about winding you up to keep you there or if you have an “insider” advancing a particular front office’s narrative in exchange for access.

Yup just like regular media.

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I found the whole “Cruz asleep during the Biden speech” story ironic because it remined me of the time Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal show approached me at CPAC to bring up solitaire on my new laptop so they could have an image to claim people weren’t listening to his speech and I called them out on it publicly that day.

It shows the double standard, if I had done what they asked they would have painted it as Trump’s fault for being boring rather than my fault for not paying attention in the press pool. With Ted Cruz the narrative is it’s his fault for closing his eyes rather than the fault of the Biden administration to make a boring presentation that means nothing.

Saw the same thing during campaign 2012 when I was covering the Santorum campaign, young reporters weren’t interested in reporting what was said but were dying to get a sound bite they could spin.

I bet the lot of them never got over being unpopular in highschool.

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I keep reading about student government members anxious to hit police from their temporary pulpits.

The fact that employment managers will be googling them seems to be completely lost on them and that for all the woke positioning of major companies public most of these folks given the choice of someone who stirs controversy vs someone who will help sell their product or service will take the later every time.

I also have an odd feeling that these folks will find it odd that the moment they go over the speed limit, or fail to signal or violate various ordinances they will find themselves pulled over and or caught and somehow not escape with a warning.

Unexpectedly of course

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I’m old enough to remember when the Giuliani story would have shocked me in terms of the abuse of power by the government/deep state.

These days the revelation that they’ve been going after him secretly since 2019 while President Trump was still in office elicits a yawn as I don’t expect better.

Michael Corleone had these guys pegged the year Biden got into office

Trump’s superpower was making these vermin come out into the open.

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A month ago, the University of Aberdeen in Scotland committed to repatriating to Nigeria its lone Benin Bronze, becoming the first Western institution to return any of the thousands of bronze sculptures looted from the Kingdom of Benin (part of present-day Nigeria) in 1897. This week, the government of Germany became the second, promising to return to Nigeria in 2022 all Benin Bronzes held by state-run museums. The Ethnological Museum in Berlin alone holds over 500 Bronzes.

The 1897 Benin Punitive Expedition stands as a monument to the greed and destruction of colonialism. At the behest of corporate interests looking to get ahold of new resources, James Phillips, the new Acting Consul General for the Royal Niger Company set out to overthrow the Oba, or King, of Benin. The Oba didn’t want to trade with the Brits, and forbade his people from doing so on punishment of death. Warned of Phillips and his party approaching, the Oba set an ambush. Only two of Phillips’s party escaped with their lives. Phillips wasn’t one of them.

To avenge their deaths, the British army sent a punitive expedition that razed Benin City and stole thousands of bronze sculptures from the kingdom. The sculptures have since been scattered throughout the world. Until now.

The Bronzes themselves became symbols of the argument, within the world of antiques and cultural heritage, about the ill-gotten gains of colonialism, and how best to protect the works of art involved, so that people can enjoy and learn from them. Some today argue Western museums can better protect the Bronzes, and that the Nigerian climate might damage the works. The harmattan is real, people.

And while the West might once have been able to claim that it better protected cultural works than less-developed countries, and might once have been able to claim it could better display cultural works, unfortunately, those claims are increasingly dubious.

Of course, Western museums are preeminent in the technology necessary to best protect works. And though there’s little danger of a disaster like the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas occurring anytime soon — our rioters prefer to loot sneaker stores rather than museums — the West has its own problems with cultural destruction.

“Song of the South” is an Academy Award-winning live action/animated hybrid musical produced by Walt Disney, based on the Uncle Remus stories and released in 1946. But because its racial imagery is controversial, with a too-sunny depiction of blacks in the American South during the Reconstruction era, the studio has withheld release of its film on home video and has not made it available for streaming on Disney+.

Disney actually found one of its films it refuses to convert into merchandise.

In the U.S., corporations withhold our cultural heritage for political reasons. That’s its own kind of cultural destruction.

The problem is, political winds change. Who’s to say only the wrong racial politics will be forbidden? Why stop there? Mao didn’t.

I might rather take my chances with the harmattan.

Apparently I wasn’t the only person who decided that Biden’s speech wasn’t worth their time

https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1387833829021392898

Actually had to turn down an offer to be on a radio panel the next day because I didn’t see it.

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Glenn Reynolds in a NY Post article noted the difference in opinion on riots between white elites far away from the rioting and black residents of the areas where rioting took place. He ends his piece with this:

The people who have to deal with consequences will have to go somewhere else politically. And they will.

Until they do I’m not going to put a lot of credence in their critique of rioting in their neighborhoods. In a republic you get what you vote for (expect last time around nationally)

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There was apparently more outrage in the media/left about NY losing a congressional seat to Texas by less than 100 people than Cuomo’s COVID policies that killed off thousands.

You would think that given NY is going to lose a congressional seat to Texas and thus an electoral vote liberals might finally get upset about Cuomo granny killing COVID policies but it must be remembered that NY will gerrymander their new district map to minimize the chances of the state’s Democrat caucus shrinking just as Texas will be sure to arrange things to make sure the new seat goes to the GOP so as far as the left is concerned while they hate the optics it’s pretty much a wash till election 2024.

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I’ve religiously kept both the NBA and the NFL off my radio since they’ve been woke however lately I’ve been providing a ride home to a couple of co-workers who are sports fans an in deference to them I’ve allowed games on the radio while they’re in the car.

Because of this I had part of last night Redsox game vs the Texas Rangers on and was astounded to hear the broadcasters go on about how odd is was to see the Rangers stadium full and what a bad idea it was.

I was never so happy to turn off the radio once Sam got out of the car, because apparently the woke nonsense isn’t confined to the commissioner. On the plus side it made me feel happier about not listening to the games anymore.

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DaWife was just showing me two boxes of oatmeal and noted that one has nine more carbs per serving than the other so she will now buy the one with less carbs

I opined that she should of course buy the other one because it’s a better deal as you get all those extra carbs for the same price.

The look she gave me suggested how miraculous it is that I survived long enough to be married 33 years.

Doctor McCoy:: Let me take this, Jim. [to the assembled Capellans] What Maab has said is true. Our customs are different. What the Klingon has said is unimportant, and we do not hear his words. [whispered aside to Kirk & Spock] I just called the Klingon a liar.

Star Trek Friday’s Child 1967

It was a quiet day at work last night so we were let out early so there was plenty of time to watch the Biden Administration presentation to congress if I so choose.

I choose not.

The reason is plain. There is no point. If I want to watch a marionette dance on the string I’ll go to the local puppet theatre. There isn’t a word that would have come out of Joe Biden mouth that he put there himself nor any word that a person can put any faith into.

Others are perfectly free to disagree and play this game.

I decline