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Five One Liners Under Other People’s Fedoras: Stacy McCain, Lawrence Jarvik, Bookworm Room, Political Hat and Babalu Blog

Posted: September 24, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

If someone like Blake cannot be arrested — he was violating a restraining order and terrorizing the woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her — then who, exactly, are police allowed to arrest?

‘The New Zeroeth Amendment’ and the Predictable Death of Dijon Kizzee Robert Stacy McCain

Another person who would be alive today if he followed the Rittenhouse method of police encounters.

I emailed Scientific American‘s Rachel Scheer to ask Dr. Helmuth to explain her scientific methodology for the Biden endorsement. She didn’t reply.


Scientific American’s Scientifically Indefensible Biden Endorsement Laurence Jarvik

A lot of pretend “neutral objective” institutions have been unmasking themselves under Trump

How cosmically apropos is the timing of all this, though?  Ginsburg’s demise 57 days prior to the most contested election since 1860 is not simply one more piece of wood on the conflagration that is 2020; it is an entire load of creosote-soaked logs — both flamable and toxic — added to it.

We Need A Replacement For Justice Ginsburg Before The Election via Bookworm Room

Ginsberg was always all about “sentence first verdict afterward”

Antifa is not just some “spontaneous” uprising by revolutionaries on the street, but is fully funded and organized from the outside, complete with bail funds flush with over a million in cash for Portland rioters alone as well as a plethora of supplies for violent rioting.

Peaceful Protests? via the Political Hat

If you weren’t sure of this before Louisville you should be now.

And their dollars also intensify apartheid and racism on the island by creating two distinct classes, Cubans with dollars (mostly white folks) and Cubans without dollars (mostly black).

Apartheid in Cuba Induced by Exile Yo-Yos and Dollarization via Babalu Blog

Oddly enough I don’t think the BLM left will be having any protests about this.

Hey Leftists? How’s that Politics is my Religion Stuff Working Out?

Posted: September 23, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams

And You thought you’d seen peak leftist crazy, when they were pounding on the doors of the Supreme Court and Defending child pornography didn’t you?

In a Presidential term that has seen the left melt down over and over again since day one the meltdown among the left, particularly the professional and activist left’s over the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg only parallel is Ronald Lacy’s Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

I bring this up this classic movie because there is a 2nd parallel here, this meltdown is the meltdown of the Godless.

During the previous presidency there was a lot of cause for despair for the right, particularly for those of us of faith. Item after item was shoved down our throat from Obamacare to the forcing of Nuns to violate their faith and of course unleashing of the IRS on those who objected.

Through all of this there was one constant comfort for us, faith.

People turned to their religion for comfort. Christians of all denomination turned to God for help and comfort in a time of trial and were assured that God knew what he was doing even if he wasn’t telling us.

So as the political world turned oppressive we clung to our God and got on with our lives as best we could.

But what happens if you have no God and no faith? What happens when you have decided to make you’re political beliefs your religion? What happens when your article of political faith is what governs your lives and beliefs.

Well this happens

and this happens

And this happens

and you even reach the point where you are willing to reject your own father unless he converts to the true political faith?

In short when you reject God and replace your religion with Politics you have no source of comfort to allow you to carry on and function when your political fortunes wane. That’s why you turn to riots, arson and murder.

That is the real price of the Democrats becoming a secular party and rejecting people of faith unless they are willing to take off their faith like a coat when it become too hot to handle.

They have chosen to pay that price but let me point out that you have the rest of your life to make a different choice but not a second more.

So to finish with my Indiana Jones Theme: Choose wisely.

Shot Chaser Hangover Pournelle and Niven, McConnell and Trump

Posted: September 22, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Shot: circa 1976

“First we must cross the river,” Benito was saying.  “Do you believe me now when I tell you that you must not attempt to swim it, or even get wet from it, or must you try that too?”

“What happens if I just dive in?”

“Then you will be as you were in the bottle.  Aware and unable to move.  but it will be very cold, and very uncomfortable, and you will be there for all eternity knowing that you put yourself there.”

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle Inferno 1976

Chaser: circa 2013

Hangover: Sept 19th 2020

Report from Louisiana: Rescuing a Shrine

Posted: September 21, 2020 by Pat Austin in Uncategorized
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By:  Pat Austin

SHREVEPORT – We are now in the Greek alphabet for naming hurricanes, with Beta headed toward the Louisiana/Texas Gulf coast this evening. This is only the second time we have gone to the Greek alphabet for this, the last time in 2005.

Beta will be primarily a rainmaker for us, which isn’t so bad, except the Lake Charles area really doesn’t need any more rain.

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy worries that the nation has forgotten about Hurricane Laura and that relief efforts have stalled:

“The sentiment by many at home is that the nation has already forgotten about Hurricane Laura,” said Cassidy. “The fear is that the recovery efforts will be stall and we’ll be ignored while other news…takes over. I’m here to be the voice for the people of Louisiana and share our story with you so that you may know what we are facing.”

Many feel that if not for the Cajun Navy, progress in this area would be nowhere near where it is now. The Cajun Navy has been providing and organizing meals, relief drives, rescues, distributing water, among other things.

The Cajun Navy is not the only group providing relief and volunteering time, however.  In an uplifting story in The Advocate, we learn that a group of volunteers from Lafayette, primarily high school boys from St. Thomas More High School and their fathers, traveled to Cameron Parish “to work in eastern Cameron Parish, mostly at Catholic churches badly damaged by the Category 4 storm but also at private homes.”

While there, they rescued a treasured crucifix from Our Lady of the Star in Cameron, Louisiana. The crucifix reportedly weighs between 300 and 400 pounds and was made in Italy. The video of the rescue has gone viral around social media sites. They took the crucifix back to St. Thomas More for safekeeping.

The church also holds a seven-foot marble statue of Mary and child which was commissioned and made in Italy and dedicated in 1963.  Every year a mass is said at the shrine on June 1: The Mass to Avert Storms.

The boys from Lafayette were able to see this shrine which is still standing, when they rescued the cross.

It’s a nice reminder that as many feel forgotten in the wake of Hurricane Sally and now Beta, there are still people working to rebuild and restore the Cameron and Caldwell parish areas.

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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