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Sunday night I was watching superbowl with my wife before going to work. Each time Atlanta made a big play she was beside herself and we were seeing a lot of tweets like this:

Sh*t! Falcons are on fire 🔥

— Howie Carr (@HowieCarrShow) February 6, 2017

which required this response

That’s why they play two halfs @HowieCarrShow

— Peter Ingemi (@DaTechGuyblog) February 6, 2017

By the third quarter a lot of people, particularly on the left were crowing as if the game was over.

That time that John Lewis’s team smashed Trump’s team in the Super Bowl.

— Touré (@Toure) February 6, 2017

and I felt compelled to edit my scheduled post for Monday morning before I left for work to say the following:

When I started this post in the Am on Sunday the question was can the Atlanta Falcons and Roger Goodell will be able to take sanctuary from Tom Brady but more importantly for the NFL will be a sanctuary from the political conflicts for those who love the game. As I update this in the 3rd quarter with Atlanta leading by 25 so Roger Goodell is likely dancing in the streets but more importantly Lady Gaga decided her songs were liberal enough so she decided to shut up and sing meaning that the NFL was able to get sanctuary from the left meaning football fans won’t have to take sanctuary from the game.

Frankly if Brady & the pats were not playing I wouldn’t give a damn and if it wasn’t Brady on that field I’d consider this game over.

And to most fans watching the game WAS already over:

then Atlanta came back in the third quarter to score again on Matt Ryan’s pass to Tevin Coleman to make the Falcons’ lead 28–3 and, like everybody else watching the Super Bowl, I said, “Well, that’s the game— Atlanta wins.”
Nobody has ever come back to win the Super Bowl after trailing by 25 points…
This is how stereotypes work, you see. It is entirely natural to believe that the future will resemble the past, because that’s what usually happens.

And to be fair assuming that the Falcons would hold on given the facts in evidence at the time was just as rational an exception as was the expectation by most football people before the game that the Patriots would win in.

However there was more than a full quarter of time left on the Clock and the 2016 New England Patriots didn’t need a long memory to recall what happens when you think a game is not over until it is:

Bill Belichick is thinking the opposite. His team already has taken the lead and if Seattle wants it they’ll have to take it back. He isn’t using a time out in the hopes of preserving time for Tom Brady to take back the lead, he’s counting on his defense to hold it.

And when the snap is made Malcolm Butler, the same fellow who stopped Kearse from scoring two plays earlier recognizes the play and muscles his way forward to intercept the ball and give the Patriots the ball on their own 1 yard line with 20 seconds to go.

But even then, no matter what the highlight reels are showing, the game is NOT over and the Patriots understand this.

There is little or no space for Brady to take a knee and if he is brought down in the end zone not only is it a safety making the score 28-26 but the same Seattle team that drove down the field at the end of the 2nd quarter would just have to get within field goal range for a chance to win.

Meanwhile Seattle was in the same spot New England was in a mere 46 seconds earlier. They had been kicked in the chest by a stunning reversal. But unlike New England who put it behind them and got down to business Seattle did not.

The Patriots realized that there was plenty of time left on the clock but more importantly despite the lead the Atlanta defense which had to this point, been playing far beyond their normal level had been on the field a lot and was tired.

So rather than going through the motions as if the game was already over they played as if the game was on the line.

That the Atlanta defense was winded and were not able to hold on was not a surprise, but there are two sides to the ball and the Atlanta Offense took the wrong lesson from history.

Back in 1864 When William Tecumseh Sherman was marching toward Atlanta with the Union Army of the west Confederate General Joe Johnson knowing that Sherman’s forces were his superior in number, resource and supply took a conservative approach, parrying his thrusts and giving ground when flanked, bending but not breaking. The rebel leadership in Richmond thought this approach too timid and replaced him with John Bell Hood who instead proceeded to leave his entrenchments and recklessly attack the superior enemy army.

Atlanta could have decided to play a conservative ground game, running down the clock, minimizing the chances of penalties or sacks and forcing the Patriots to burn time out in the hope of keeping enough clock for a Brady comeback. Even late in the game when the Patriots had closed the gap to a mere 8 points Atlanta had the ball deep in Patriots territory and only needed to hand off the ball a few times to set up a field goal that would have required not just a Touchdown & a two point conversion by the pats but a successful onside kick and a second score to tie or win the game.

They did not, instead they gave the far superior Patriot defense the chance to make plays and they did driving the falcons out of field goal range and forcing a punt giving Brady the ball with under 3 minutes to go. As the Bleacher report put it:

This would prove to be a critical series because the Falcons chose not to run the ball inside field-goal range. Had they done so, they might have killed some clock and added three points to their lead. Instead, the Patriots got another chance with just over two minutes remaining.

The Patriots, it turned out, only needed one more chance. Brady was making clutch throw after clutch throw at this point, and it only took 2 minutes and 33 seconds to drive 91 yards, ending with a one-yard touchdown run from White.

A pass from Brady to Amendola made for a successful two-point play, and the game was now tied.

The rest is history and while a few Falcons fans are taking it well

Like other Falcon fans, I’m still trying to figure out how Russians hacked Atlanta’s defense . . .

But the bottom line is the same thing that it was in 2014 and to paraphrase myself just after that game:

After 40 minutes, after Tevin Coleman caught a six yard TD pass from Matt Ryan, The Atlanta Falcons played as if the outcome of the game was already decided.

After 40 minutes, both before and after Tevin Coleman caught a six yard TD pass from Matt Ryan, the New England Patriots played as if the outcome of the game was in doubt.

I’ll give Brady the last word

That’s really all it takes, playing the game until it’s done.

We’re going to start locally today. While I was sleeping off my overnight shift a protest took place in Fitchburg declaring we are “welcoming” to “immigrants” and are opposed to not only President Trump’s executive order on extreme vetting but against any enforcement of laws concerning illegal immigration. Our chief of police said this:

The Fitchburg Police Department shall not detain any individual on the basis of a civil immigration detainer on the request of ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement),” he said.

Six and a half hours later I was in a movie theatre in the city watching the picture Patriot’s day with my wife and with the rest of the crowd being reminded how much death, destruction and damage two improperly vetted immigrants were able to do just a few miles to the east of us.

Perhaps I should buy the chief and the protesters tickets to the movie as they’ve managed to unlearn the lessons of the Marathon bombing in only four years.

I would also like to ask the chief this, if I get a parking or speeding ticket being a citizen & legal resident I’m expected to show up & either pay or contest said fine in court, if such a ticket is given to an illegal alien & said person never shows up, will that default warrant be enforced & if not isn’t that a prima facia example of unequal treatment under the law where one violating federal law is favored over one in compliance with it?

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The very next day the front page of the Sentinel and Enterprise talked about two clubs that had violated state law:

Two local private social clubs have hearings scheduled with the state Alcohol Beverages Control Commission in Boston after being cited for violations that they allegedly permitted gambling on their premises.

On May 19, 2016, ABCC investigators found the Knights of Columbus and the South End National Club were allegedly paying patrons cash from their automatic amusement devices, according to an investigative report filed by ABCC officials.

“When these devices are used for gambling, they are illegal,” said Ralph Sacramone, executive director of the ABCC.

Given the previous story we can see that if people are illegally taking jobs from Massachusetts workers in violation of federal law, the state of Massachusetts and the City of Fitchburg considers it no big deal.

But if one illegally pays off on a gaming machine and takes away potential revenue that is necessary to make up that new pay raise for our state legislators, we’ll see you in court.

Perhaps the two clubs in question should declare themselves “Sanctuary Clubs” then not only could they claim immunity from the enforcement of these laws, but the very idea that such laws might be inforced would be considered so beyond the pale that it could not even be suggested.

Incidentally as a Knight of Columbus & a former member of counsel #99 this story illustrates one of the disadvantages of a building or bar based council vs a church based council such as the St Anthony of Padua council #15962 also in fitchburg of which I’m a charter member.

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Sticking with this theme I have an idea for Governor Charlie Baker in terms of how to respond to this

Massachusetts lawmakers steamrolled Gov. Charlie Baker’s veto of pay raise legislation Thursday, delivering big salary increases for themselves, six statewide constitutional officers, and scores of judges.

In a turn of events that no one was predicting heading into the new year, the Democrat-controlled Legislature in just over three weeks surfaced the idea of pay raises for public officials and then rammed the bill through authorizing the increases, which are worth about $18 million per year, tacking on language ensuring that the larger paychecks occur right away.

On Thursday, lawmakers completed their work by overriding Gov. Baker’s veto of the bill by votes of 116-43 in the House and 31-9 in the Senate. No members of either branch changed their vote in the week between the bill’s passage and Thursday’s veto override.

I disagree with the idea in this article that this wasn’t predictable, if you have a one party state dominated by tax and spend liberals the idea that said liberals would vote themselves pay raises with impunity and do, not only in the middle of Super Bowl fever in NE but time it so the maximum possible amount of time can pass between the passage of such a law the next time they have to face the voters is in my opinion entirely predictable.

However I have an idea for Governor Baker that will really resonate with voters: Baker should declare the statehouse a “Sanctuary building for taxpayers” and instruct the state treasurer and comptroller not to enforce the pay raise law for any person who works within said building.

I suspect if he did so not only would he get a ton of publicity and keep this story alive for the midterms but he would likely win reelection by such a large margin that you might not be able to count the votes.

If I was Chairperson Christian Hugues rather than press releases like this:

“The silence from these statewide Democrats has been deafening: Taxpayers have been waiting for weeks to see whether AG Healey, Secretary Galvin, and Treasurer Goldberg will stand with them. But it seems they’d rather duck the tough questions and allow the Legislature to go forward with this underhanded scheme that benefits them, despite public outcry.” -MassGOP Chairman Kirsten Hughes

I’d be pushing my “Sanctuary building for taxpayers” idea , it’s the best opening they state has had to create dramatic change in the composition of the legislature in decades and she should jump at it.

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Speaking of sanctuaries it appears Berkley is a sanctuary if you want to riot, burn and loot in response to a conservative coming to speak http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2017/02/03/bb-news-daily-milo-berkeley-police/:

they started firing fireworks, throwing eggs and that’s when they started pulling apart the barriers and they tipped over that light stand that had a diesel generator in it, that’s what caused the fire and lit the tree on fire. And the police effectively did nothing, nothing while we were there.”

“I think the fact that there were no arrests,” said Marlow, “at the violent protests at UC Berkeley that shut down speech, that prevented your event from going forward and really broke the heart of a lot of fans as well, lets not underestimate that as well, people are entitled to have performers that they enjoy and go see them, it was a very unfortunate upsetting event and no on got arrested which to me sends a signal that this can go on over and over and it just is gonna embolden the left and Tej as a security expert what are your thoughts on that?”

“It just fuels the fire,” replied Tej, “the no arrest thing, hands off policy, every time they do this and they do it successfully with no arrest, no trouble, there’s no consequences and if there’s no consequences why stop? Each time they’re gonna get stronger and stronger.”

In fairness there were not NO arrests but you can count the number of people arrested on the thumb of one hand.

Speaking of sanctuary I think Marc Lamont Hill needed sanctuary from Ben Ferguson who asked him point blank: “Tell me the last time a bunch of conservatives went to a college campus and acted this way?”

The response to that question spoke volumes.

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It looks like those rioting leftist at Berkeley who wanted Sanctuary from Milo Yiannopoulos are going to be disappointed:

Milo Yiannopoulos made an announcement Saturday morning that may have members of the East Bay up in arms all over again.

He says he is planning on returning to Berkeley to give the speech he was unable to deliver earlier this week when chaos broke out over his appearance.

“I’m planning to return to Berkeley to give the speech I was prevented from delivering,” Yiannopoulos said in a Facebook post. “Hopefully within the next few months. I’ll keep you posted.”

But the real people who will need sanctuary will be former DHS head & UCAL system head Janet Napolitano, and Berkley mayor Jessie Arreguin

Napolitano, along with the Mayor of Berkeley, Jesse Arreguin, failed to request adequate assistance to prevent the violence that had been signaled by Leftists who cannot survive an airing of contrary views. Evidently, officers were issued orders and/or lacked equipment that could have prevented the violence that caused cancellation of the lecture. Water cannons are made for the purpose of breaking up violent mobs before they can do their worst. If the Campus police or Berkeley PD lack the equipment, there must be other agencies that have water cannons. The masked, unformed, armed thugs who marched onto the Berkeley campus could have been thwarted much earlier. They were already violating the law, and should have been ordered to disperse. As the former head of the Department of Homeland Security, Napolitano ought to have been supremely qualified to understand and overcome the threat.

I’ll wager both will not be very happy with making the choice of protecting Milo and upholding the law vs ignoring the law and allowing people to see that those who cry Nazi at Milo do so with mendacity.

Speaking of Sanctuary, I have yet to see any major coverage of this story that we reported on here last week:

Did President Trump just solve the migrant crisis with a single phone call? pic.twitter.com/eIu2BlakLx

— Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux) January 30, 2017

You would think that a deal to protect Syrian Refugees by giving them Sanctuary in Syria financed by the Saudi’s would be an incredible breakthrough and not only national but international news, but it’s been a week and as far as the MSM is concerned it didn’t happen.

But apparently the press needed sanctuary from that story.

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Apparently while the rich may be largely in favor of sanctuary cities in the US but they seem to be taking sanctuary themselves:

uber-rich Americans who have recently bought homes there include the billionaire hedge-fund pioneer Julian Robertson and the Hollywood film director James Cameron.

Local estate agents say their U.S. clients rarely intend to live in New Zealand, but cite reasons for their purchases such as the toxic presidential election and the spate of mass shootings in America.

In the first ten months of last year, foreigners — mainly Australians and Americans — bought nearly 1,400 square miles of land there, more than four times what they bought in the same period the previous year.

And one of the biggest open border folks Mark Zukerberg of Facebook is making a sanctuary right here in the US

Mark Zuckerberg’s construction of a 6-foot wall around his oceanfront property in Hawaii has reportedly made him a lightning rod in the community.

The wall around the 32-year-old Facebook billionaire’s more than 700-acre Kilauea property is reportedly being built to block noise from nearby roads.

Walls for me and not for thee

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It’s looking like the Little Sisters of the Poor will finally get sanctuary from the heavy hand of the Federal government:

After a draft of a religious freedom executive order from President Donald Trump was leaked to the media, a group of Catholic nuns have once again found themselves in the spotlight.

“I am aware of the draft executive order that seems to be circulating as of the last couple of days,” Sister Constance Veit, director of communications for the Little Sisters of the Poor in the U.S., told The Daily Signal on Friday. “It’s just a very hopeful sign that things could be coming to an end.”

The Little Sisters of the Poor are a group of nuns who care for the elderly poor. Under Obamacare, they argued the government refused to accommodate their pro-life religious beliefs by forcing them to be involved in the coverage of contraceptives and abortifacients.

Some might have thought that going after a bunch of nuns who take care of poor old people might have been a bug of Obamacare but to the left that was a feature.

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We’ve heard the press say a lot about “fake news” but apparently in the under 3 weeks that Donald Trump has been president they have taken sanctuary from pesky things like facts:

Journalists can’t seem to get their stories straight in the opening weeks of the Trump administration, whether in tweets or in articles where falsehoods have been spread almost daily.

The mistakes have not just been from newer liberal news outlets such The Huffington Post or BuzzFeed, but from legacy media like Reuters, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.

and it’s getting embarrassing

@SCClemons @SecretService advising that your reporting continues to be false. Still waiting for you to contact us for official statement.

— U.S. Secret Service (@SecretService) February 3, 2017

Remember this is only 3 weeks in, can you imagine what this will happen over four years.

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When I started this post in the Am on Sunday the question was can the Atlanta Falcons and Roger Goodell will be able to take sanctuary from Tom Brady but more importantly for the NFL will be a sanctuary from the political conflicts for those who love the game. As I update this in the 3rd quarter with Atlanta leading by 25 so Roger Goodell is likely dancing in the streets but more importantly Lady Gaga decided her songs were liberal enough so she decided to shut up and sing meaning that the NFL was able to get sanctuary from the left meaning football fans won’t have to take sanctuary from the game.

Frankly if Brady & the pats were not playing I wouldn’t give a damn and if it wasn’t Brady on that field I’d consider this game over.

UPDATE: Unfortunately for Atlanta that was in fact Brady on the field and I suspect those extra four weeks of rest came in handy in those final 18 minutes. You have to go back to William Tecumseh Sherman to find a bunch of Georgia boys more manhandled by an invader from the North.

Update 2: Instalanche, thanks Sarah.

Starting tomorrow the rubber hits the road we will now see if he can cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with a Herring govern.

If he can win the war on terror and turn the economy around he’ll be a winner in my book.

DaTechGuy Jan 20th 2009

8 Years ago I wrote a post titled President Bush rank:  Obama where I ranked the Bush presidency vs others presidents.  After ranking Bush I said this about the incoming Obama administration:

President Elect Obama has the potential to end up anywhere on his list. The trick is not to under rate him due to unreal expectations or overrate him due to his unique place in history. Lets hope he earns high ratings due to high performance. As of today it will come down to the economy and the war on terror but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

Well it’s eight years later and now we know so let’s again look at my grouping from the past.

I grouped them into 5 sections the top teir one being

TR, Cleveland, Lincoln, Polk, Washington 

As I said at the time both Cleveland and Polk are great presidents who don’t get enough credit these days.

The 2nd group was

Reagan, Truman, FDR, McKinley, Monroe, Madison

As the years go by Reagan continues to knock at the door of that top level but in my mind still doesn’t get in, and while many of my fellow conservatives would disagree I say victory in WW 2 when the world was at Stake trumps FDR’s socialist New Deal

The 3rd Group was

Kennedy, Ike, Coolidge, Hayes, Jackson, Tyler, Jefferson, John Adams and now George W Bush

The Obama years particularly the comparison concerning the war on give the temptation to move Bush 2 into the higher level but I’m not quite there yet, plus his foolish response to the financial crisis at the end of his term enabled a lot of the trouble that Obama made during his years.

Put simply Barack Obama has no business being mentioned in the same league with with any of those first three tiers

The 4th group was

Clinton,GHW Bush, Ford, LB Johnson, Taft, Andrew Johnson, Pierce, Fillmore, Taylor.

And Obama doesn’t rank with any of the.   Ford did yeoman’s work restoring the country, Clinton while a walking scandal was able to work with a GOP congress, Johnson for all the disaster of the great society has the civil rights act and was actually winning in Vietnam before the left undercut him, Taft while no TR continued man of his policies and while Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore and Zach Taylor either failed to stop a coming civil war or failed to unite a nation after one, all respected the rule of law or the Constitution.  And the First Bush not only won the 1st Iraq war but managed to build a international group to support it.

The bottom tier of US presidents is

Carter, Nixon, Hoover, Harding, Wilson,  B. Harrison, Garfield, Grant, Buchanan, WH. Harrison, Van Buren, JQ Adams.

Barack Obama owns this bottom tier and the question really is where within it does he lie?  It’s a measure of how bad the Obama years were that it forces us to make levels in the bottom tier of presidents in order to find his true ranking.

The best of that bottom tier are:  Wilson, Nixon and WH Harrison and Ben Harrison his grandson and Obama can’t compete with any of them

He easily ranks below Wilson because Wilson’s win in the 1st World War Trumps Obama’s failures, He also ranks below Nixon because not only did Tricky Dick have many actual accomplishments he only talked about weaponizing the IRS to use against his foes the Obama administration actually did it.  In many ways the Obama years where an image of what the Nixon might have been if the press was solidly republican and saw their duty as defending him.  Ben Harrison managed to blow the country’s surplus by giving it out to civil war vets and creating a giant deficit that still haunts us today and his tariff policies were awful which is the reason why his successful foreign policy agenda doesn’t get him out of this level  He ranks below WH Harrison because Harrison died within a month of being sworn in and doing nothing would have been better than the Obama years.

How sad is it that a literal “Do nothing” president is far superior to Obama

The next level of that bottom tier are  Garfield and JQ Adams Obama is not as good as either

Adams is the best of this batch, he came in under a cloud and accomplished little despite his incredible skills, but he also didn’t have any big failures, Garfield didn’t get much of a chance getting shot very early in his terms but his fight over patronage in NY puts him over obama.

That leaves Carter, Hoover, Harding,  Grant, Buchanan, Van Buren and  can Obama beat any of them?

There are two distinct groups here, Buchanan, Van Buren and  Hoover served at a time of Crisis and failed

Grant, Carter and Harding all came in after a crisis and either didn’t succeed or made things worse.

of the six Harding is the easiest to rank above the others simply because of the economic state of the country.  His scandals were unable to make things worse.

Hoover and Van Buren both served in times of crisis and despite good records proved unequal to the task but both of them rank above Obama as neither was able to make a bad situation worse and made honest efforts to solve problems.

That leaves Grant, Carter and Buchanan  vs Obama This is tough.

Grant likely has to make the top of the list here, His presidency was scandal ridden but had at least four years of prosperity and his foreign policy was mixed rather than a failure.

Carter has to come in next, his policies harmed the economy tremendously, his foreign policy was for the most part disastrous from giving away the panama canal to the Iran Hostage crisis and only his hijack of the talks between Israel and Egypt save him from dead bottom.  The line that Jimmy Carter was a best case scenario for Obama which started to be said around 2012 turned out to be very true.

So that puts it down to Obama vs Buchanan as to who is the worst president of all time.

The Failures of the Obama years from the massive corruption, the use of government as a weapon against political enemies, the enabling of our foes and the subjugation of our friends combined with a dismal economy and the war on Christianity both overseas and at home makes Barack Obama unique among president in that you have to go back to Jefferson Davis to find an American president more dedicated to harming the United States of America than him.

However while Obama’s failures might have lead to civil war Buchanan’s actually did.  While one could argue that the crisis was building for years so you can’t blame Buchanan one might also argue that he saw it coming and did not act to prevent it.

In both cases Obama’s actions and Buchanan’s inaction were consistent with their worldviews.  Buchanan’s sympathy to both Slavery and the south and Obama’s dislike of America and embrace of our enemies made any other result unlikely.  Obama suffers because in comparison because of the high expectations the people had of him but Buchanan suffers because unlike Obama he actually had years of experience in both the House and Senate as well as being Secretary of state to an ambassador to both Russia and England.

Frankly in my mind you could choose either as the worst of the lot and not have a bad pick but if I’m pressed to choose I’d have to put Obama above old Buck simply because Obama was an inexperienced and incompetent Chicago machine pol who had no business being president thus his failures, while deliberate, are not entirely unexpected.  Buchanan was an experienced and seasoned pol and diplomat so in my mind his culpability for the failures which led to incredible bloodshed are considerably worse.

So as of right now I rank Barack Obama as 43rd out of 44 presidents of the United States edging out James Buchanan.  I’m sure others can make a case to reverse this order but that’s how I see it.

Meanwhile we have Donald Trump coming in.  He has two intrinsic advantages:

The media and those who write history absolutely hate him so not failing will be seen as a success.

He follows the worst administration in 156 years so he can’t help but do better.

I think for Trump success or failure will come down to three things:

1. The Economy.  If growth returns then that is what people will remember
2. War on Terror.  Trump has a tough call here, he wants to both fight the war while keeping the US out of nation building.  That’s a tough combo to pull off but if he can stop ISIS while securing the US he’ll be a success
3. The Southern border.  Normally this would not be as important but because he made it an intrinsic part of his campaign if a wall is not up or at least substantially built that will hurt him

Again like Obama he could end up anywhere on this list but if he manages these three things he will likely make at least tier 2.  If he manages at least 2 of them tier 3.

Eight Years ago I said it would be fun to find out where Barack Obama would end up on my list.  I was wrong, so rather than say the same about Trump let me just say it won’t be boring.

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