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I’m Old Enough to Remember when Internet Giants Bragged About Free Speech

Posted: December 10, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Instead we get this:

Big Tech has sniffed and whined to Congress that they do not censor. Yet, here we are where Google’s YouTube is front and center in telling users that any, any discussion of voting fraud, irregularities or software glitches will be nuked from their site.

YouTube says it will no longer allow users to upload videos claiming that President Trump lost the 2020 presidential election due to fraud.

The video streaming giant made the announcement in a Wednesday blog post entitled “Supporting the 2020 US election.”

YouTube is a Google company. As such, we’ve seen over the years how Google has manipulated its search results and shown its political clout and dedication to Leftwing causes. YouTube regularly demonetizes, restricts or bans non-leftwing content even when it does not violate the Terms of Service.

The reason for this is very clear, the theft of this election remains a scandal that the avg person can easily understand and thus it must not be questioned.

I’ll believe this isn’t a conspiracy when the people saying it’s not a conspiracy stop acting like conspirators.

Update: Corrected Quote

This Week’s Podcast Tentatively Friday at 10 PM EST (Backup time Sat 10:30 AM) Update It’s Friday at 10 PM Update 2: Nope Sat 10:30 AM

Posted: December 8, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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Last week due to a bunch of family emergences we had to give the Podcast a miss.

This week I have a few complications in play as well which complicates things as well so here is the plan:

If I do NOT have a mandatory overtime shift Friday the Podcast will be at 10 PM EST, (might start as late a 10:30 depending on a commitment that could run late). Normally I’d do it at 11 AM but I have a commitment at that time.

If I DO have mandatory shift the Podcast will be Saturday at 10:30 AM EST as I have commitments in the early & afternoon and I don’t want to step on my radio show on WQPH 89.3 FM at Noon.

We’ll be talking :

  • Why it’s important not to give an inch on the election
  • The dangers of letting this go
  • What’s in it for some in the GOP who are playing along with the left.

As soon as I have a solid answer on Friday I’ll have a solid date and time but as last week’s podcast was cancelled suddenly without a lot of notice I thought I’d put this out there now.

See you Friday night or Saturday Morning.

Update: Friday is voluntary at work so I’ll see you at 10 PM.

Update 2: 24 hours later we’ve been told the overtime is now mandatory so the podcast will be Saturday at 10:30 AM

One Liners Under Other People’s Fedoras: Fisherville Mike, Pirates Cove, The Other McCain, Right Wing Granny, Ninety Miles from Tyranny

Posted: December 8, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

This wasn’t Jackie Robinson 2.0. It was Make A Wish.

Fisherville Mike quoting Jason Whitlock at outkick.com Ain’t That a Kick in the Head

I don’t see what anyone is celebrating proving what we already knew that a woman can’t kick a football anywhere near as good as a man.

This is really great. Multimillionaires who talk a big game but don’t actually do anything, well, other than drive fans away with their politics

William Teach on SI’s choice for Sportsman of the Year Sports Illustrated Names The Activist Athlete Sportsperson Of The Year

I’m old enough to remember when athletes and SI were interested in serving their customer base.

Anyone — even someone as profoundly stupid as Michael Moore — can find these facts with a quick Google search, so if the truth was easily available and yet Michael Moore is not telling the truth, is there a word for that?

Robert Stacy McCain on Michael Moore’s COVID claims Erstwhile #Resistance Spokesman Now Presumes to Lecture Republican Voters

Given the left’s willingness to uncritically accept whatever they are told I don’t think Moore is all that worried about being called out.

 If working people don’t begin to take back the freedom to work and to run businesses that the government has stolen, we will not survive as a country.

Right Wing Granny on California’s rules concerning what is safe to open Looking For The Science In This Decision

America’s willingness to tolerate this kind of tyranny has amazed me to no end.

Have you ever seen an Antifa thug get wrecked by an American pro-Trump flag?

Ninety Miles From Tyranny ‘We’re not gonna take this!’: Antifa goons find out quick they crashed the wrong anti-lockdown protest

If the election fraud stands expect a lot more of this and a lot more guns.

Report from Louisiana: Treading Water

Posted: December 7, 2020 by Pat Austin in Uncategorized
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By:  Pat Austin

SHREVEPORT – I know you are with me when I reiterate I will be so glad when this pandemic is over.

Everyone is dealing with this in their own way: the anti-maskers, the maskers, the “no-way-will-I-take-that-vaccine” people, to the ones who say bring it on. Has any disease ever so divided a people or become so politicized as this one?

And I know people are working from home, working on the front lines, and everything in between. I can only tell you about what I see in the schools.

I teach in a Title 1 high school with an enrollment of around 600, give or take. As with most places nationwide, our Covid numbers are surging once again. The only number I really pay attention to is the hospitalizations number.

In August, on the day school started, our hospitalization number was 536. I wrote it down. As of today, December 7, our hospitalization number is 1392.

Our district is 100% face to face every single day, although there is a virtual option offered for those who want to be 100% virtual. There are some who do that. I have about twenty kids in each of my English II classes. Friday, I have five kids present in fourth block. Five. Everyone else was absent or in quarantine. We had twelve teachers in quarantine Friday, and our faculty has about 60 teachers.

Because of the Family Medical Leave Act, teachers have ten excused Covid days but these expire in December, unlike the virus itself, and nobody seems to be talking about renewing that.

One of the things that worries me is that Pete hired me to make a contribution to this blog, and I often feel like I’m giving him (and you) short shrift, but damn, I’m trying to keep my head above water here, and I know you understand. I am simultaneously teaching kids online through Google classroom who are absent from class, teaching my in-person kids, covering classes for teachers that are out, pulling together makeup assignments, cleaning and sanitizing my classroom, Chromebooks, and high touch surfaces.

Our state is continuing on with high stakes End of Course testing in January (we are on block schedule so one semester ends in January and another will begin), and I have to get whatever kids are here ready for that and help the absent ones get caught up.

It’s madness.

So, bear with me if my posts right now are too Covid, too teacher focused. Today is Pearl Harbor Day and I really wanted to write something beautiful about that and call attention to this date. My mind isn’t working in the direction I want it to, so that post is just not coming together.

We’re all just doing the best we can right now, aren’t we?

Thanks for your patience with me!

Pat Austin blogs at And So it Goes in Shreveport and is the author of Cane River Bohemia: Cammie Henry and her Circle at Melrose Plantation. Follow her on Instagram @patbecker25 and Twitter @paustin110.

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