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A Melancholy Fourth

Posted: July 4, 2024 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Today is the 4th of July and normally I would just post the Declaration of Independence and forget the blog.

But today’s 4th is a tad melancholy. My oldest has been sick for a week and it falls on my wife’s day to work this week and nurses, like firemen and police don’t get the day off.

But that’s not what makes this melancholy to me. What makes it melancholy is the idea that so many Americans are completely unfazed by the idea that whoever is running the country and making decisions, it’s not the person who was “elected” to do it.

I put quotes around “elected” and that’s slightly unfair, Joe Biden was elected president as sure as the Cincinnati Reds won the 1919 world series.

But whatever your opinion of that last statement it’s very clear now that not only isn’t he running the country but he hasn’t for some time, but the left doesn’t mind.

Run that through your head on this Fourth of July. A large group of Americans are unbothered that they have no actual idea who is running this land and is unbothered that said person or people are unaccountable for their actions, even to them.

I think Sarah Hoyt expressed it best:

We all want to go back to a place where we could believe the journalists, the teachers, the professors, the scientists. The difference is some of us know it hasn’t existed for our whole lifetimes and longer. It’s just now we can see the lies.

It’s very uncomfortable, this place where conspiracy theories become admitted truth two days later, and nothing stands between us and the howling abyss of finding all the truth ourselves. And of knowing how badly we were always lied to.

But it’s also the way to freedom. You know the whole “the truth will set you free?” It’s not that so much as the fact that lies bind you.

But in the end there are a lot of people who want to be bound, who don’t want to see what is right in front of them because the moment they do they have to make a choice. Ignorance removes responsibility and this is willful ignorance because seeing the situation in the light of truth is more painful to them then admitting they’ve been played.

It’s the very reason why so many people choose the torments of hell.

As I’ve said we always get the government we deserve, I had hoped we deserved better but as the 4th dawns I’m convinced that as of this moment, we don’t.

Hopefully that will shortly change.

The DC Bubble

Posted: July 2, 2024 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

I spent nearly two years in the Washington news bubble, which became so bad that I left to cover the civil war in Lebanon.

My experience in Washington happened more than 40 years ago, but not much has changed.

Back then, Washington journalists had become part of the city’s elites, bringing down presidents, earning big bucks from book deals, and failing to acknowledge their biases.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 2,000 journalists work in Washington, the highest concentration of reporters in the country. One out of every 30 people in the District of Columbia works in journalism.

A recent study from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications revealed a stark lack of political diversity among American journalists, with just 3.4% identifying as Republicans and a significant 36.4% as Democrats.

Simply put, many of those polled lied. Many journalists of my era chose their jobs because they wanted to see change. They spouted the required allegiance to objectivity, fairness, and nonpartisanship. But you also had to present a point of view to stay acceptable to those on the cocktail and dinner circuits.

I worked in Washington during Jimmy Carter’s presidency. The group grope was that Carter and his band of Georgians were country rabble and had no business running the country.

The press corps was hell-bent on ensuring he didn’t get a second term. I generally covered the second or third-string Carter f-up stories for Newsweek. It wasn’t hard to find these stories because Carter and his aides didn’t know much about running the federal government.

Back then, the bar talk revolved around how the country could survive a president who wore a sweater during an address to the nation about energy policy.

For the past eight years, the Washington media elite has attacked Trump as a dangerous rube who had no business running the country. Now, in yet another group grope, the journalistic elite, who covered up Biden’s intellectual decline, suddenly realized the current president isn’t up to snuff.

I hope the nation realizes President Biden was not the only loser in last week’s debate. The Washington media should also be blamed for allowing him to hide his weaknesses.

The cowardly Supreme Court took a giant proverbial dump on the First Amendment

Posted: June 27, 2024 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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The one great failure of our Constitution proved over time to be the structure and organization of the Supreme Court.  That branch is far too dependent on the supposed integrity of a small number of individuals, who have proved to be too flawed to yield that much responsibility and authority.

On Wednesday, June 26th the current Supreme Court proved itself to be one of the most flawed incarnations of this august body.  They accomplished this by upholding The Biden Regimes despicable censorship by proxy scheme, SCOTUS Allows Feds’ Censorship Plot Ahead Of 2024 Election (thefederalist.com)

In her majority opinion, Barrett claimed that “[a]t this stage” of litigation, plaintiffs have not “established standing to seek an injunction” against the named federal agencies and that as such, the Supreme Court “lack[s] jurisdiction to reach the merits of the dispute.”

“The plaintiffs, without any concrete link between their injuries and the defendants’ conduct, ask us to conduct a review of the years-long communications between dozens of federal officials, across different agencies, with different social-media platforms, about different topics,” Barrett wrote. “This Court’s standing doctrine prevents us from ‘exercis[ing such] general legal oversight’ of the other branches of Government. … We therefore reverse the judgment of the Fifth Circuit and remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”

I’m sorry but Justice Barrett demonstrated extreme cowardice when she issued her opinion, along with a callous disregard for the letter and spirit of the First Amendment.  Most unfortunately for the people of the United States, the other two faux conservatives on the high court, Roberts and Kavanaugh, sided with her.

Justice Alito wrote an epic and blistering dissent.

In his dissent, Alito noted that “[w]hat the officials did in this case was more subtle than the ham-handed censorship found to be unconstitutional” in a prior case before the court but that the feds’ censorship shenanigans documented in Murthy v. Missouri is “no less coercive.” In fact, the associate justice highlighted how the Biden administration’s efforts were “even more dangerous” due to the high-level government officials involved.

“It was blatantly unconstitutional, and the country may come to regret the Court’s failure to say so,” Alito wrote. “Officials who read today’s decision together with Vullo will get the message. If a coercive campaign is carried out with enough sophistication, it may get by. That is not a message this Court should send.”

I predict that the Biden Regime and social media will strengthen their unholy alliance and accelerate their schemes to suppress speech that would make another stolen election more difficult.

The high court’s Wednesday ruling has major implications for the upcoming 2024 election.

Leading up to the 2020 election, for example, CISA upped its censorship efforts by flagging posts for Big Tech companies it claimed were worthy of being censored, some of which called into question the security of voting practices such as mass, unsupervised mail-in voting. This was done despite CISA privately acknowledging the risks associated with such practices.

The FBI also took on a censorship role during the 2020 election, in what has been characterized as a clear attempt to help Joe Biden’s election prospects. In the months leading up to the November contest, the agency — which had authenticated Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop as early as November 2019 — was issuing warnings to then-Twitter and Facebook to be on the lookout for so-called “Russian propaganda” and “hack-and-leak operations” by “state actors.”

Jonathan Turley of the Media Research Center provided an excellent summation of the betrayal of the First Amendment by the three cowardly faux conservative justices.

Making farming better

Posted: June 25, 2024 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

Living in flyover country can expose you to issues that go unnoticed in the big city.

Just up the road near my home in central Pennsylvania is a prime example of what’s become known as “regenerative farming.”

Owner Josh Leidecker says the farm practices regenerative farming, or, more simply put, growing as nature intended. This method refers to growing practices that restore soil health and increase biodiversity through crop rotation and other means.

“It just takes a little while to get there,” Leidecker said of the vision for regenerative agriculture at Today Farm. “You know, we’ve got a big plan for this.”

Leidecker brings agriculture experience from his other business venture, Susquehanna Mills, an area manufacturer of organic cooking oils. The farm plans to grow oilseed crops and potatoes, some small stands of vegetables, and at least one of the fields will be grazing grounds for animals—a regenerative agriculture method.

What was once known as “organic farming” has become a national trend. Some regenerative farm techniques may include planting interceding crops to benefit the soil and feed livestock and using so-called”chicken tractors” as a form of crop tilling. The chickens move about the ground in a controlled manner and fertilize the ground with their feces, providing nutrients for crop rotation.

Here is a documentary about the farming methods: Roots So Deep (You Can See The Devil Down There) https://rootssodeep.org from Carbon Natio.

Teddy Gentry, the bass player of the band Alabama, is a leading proponent of regenerative farming. He speaks about transforming his fields by listening to quail sing. See https://www.instagram.com/p/C8Upm_muwjI/

Since 1989, Gentry has been a pioneer in the cattle industry, creating the South Poll breed to combine the best traits of four breeds, resulting in heat-tolerant and efficient cattle.

The Farming Systems Trial from the Pennsylvania-based Rodale Institute argues that organic agriculture performs as well as, if not better than, conventional agriculture. The study demonstrated how nutrient-dense organic food helped to prevent and reverse diseases.

The institute tries to create economic vitality in rural communities by training tomorrow’s organic farmers.

Jon Lundgren, a former entomologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, left the government when he realized the pesticides meant to control pest bugs were wiping out scores of beneficial insects critical for the local ecosystem. See: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7RRciMNAN-/

Hat tip to Elizabeth Harper

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