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On the road again

Posted: June 27, 2023 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

In these deeply divided days of partisan politics, it isn’t easy to raise a chapeau when the other side does something right.

Nevertheless, I acknowledge that local, state, and national leaders—most of them Democrats—performed a significant service to Philadelphia and the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware by getting Interstate 95 up and moving in less than two weeks.

On Sunday, June 11, a tractor-trailer caught fire, killing the driver and burning through an overpass on I-95 just north of central Philadelphia. The accident forced the closure of a highway that sees more than 160,000 travelers daily, including many commuters into Philadelphia.

Most experts thought the highway would be closed through much of the summer. But a full-court press, including workers in shifts around the clock, bought a significant fix—albeit temporary—in only 12 days.

Indeed, other countries have shown it can be done. While every project is different, China replaced a section of a bridge overpass in 43 hours back in 2015. Last year, India built a 46-mile stretch of road in five days. Closer to home, a part of Interstate 85 in Atlanta collapsed because of a fire in 2017. Crews completed the repairs in 44 days.

Seeing city, state, and federal leaders working together after the collapse was a welcome sign. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro issued a disaster declaration for the ruined section of I-95, allowing the state to access federal funds for repairs.

“We’ve gotta get it fixed as soon as humanly possible,” said U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, who convinced federal officials to tour the site.

Travelers will have only six out of the usual eight lanes, but that’s a far cry better than snaking through neighborhoods in Northeast Philly. So far, the repair has cost $7 million.

The importance of the project captured the attention of many residents. In fact, a live stream of the work became a must-see event in bars, sports venues, and homes throughout the region.

The euphoria over the quick success, however, has prompted a serious assessment of what else needs to be accomplished in the city.

In an editorial, the Philadelphia Inquirer provided a list:

–The subway system, which provides transportation to about 170,000 people each weekday, faces many problems with aging vehicles and structures.

–The open-air drug market in the Kensington neighborhood just north of downtown—aka Center City—symbolizes the ineffectiveness of policies on addiction, homelessness, and policing.

–The School District of Philadelphia faces an estimated $9 billion needed for building repairs and updates.

“The fast reopening of I-95 is undoubtedly worth celebrating, but none of us should be satisfied to stop there,” the newspaper wrote. “We must demand more of our leaders. If the measure of a society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members —if a community’s actions reflect its values —then what we value shouldn’t just be measured in mile markers.”

Under the Fedora: I don’t under stand why people are surprised that…

Posted: June 25, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

…folks on the left have no issue with lying to our faces. Once you abandon the idea of Christianity and that false witness is a mortal sin to be worried about all that’s left is utilitarianism. So if a lie is useful it will be used.

…we have reached a point where the federal bureaucracy acts like the Chicago machine. We lionized a cheap Chicago pol and put him in charge and he and his crowd did their best to remake government in their own image to serve their agenda. The big difference is they didn’t advertise their “Make the US Chicago to the world.

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…pro athletes tend to ease off after the big contract. In the old days when being a pro athlete didn’t mean generational wealth the winners share of an all star game or a championship might be the difference between sending a kid to college or getting ahead of a mortgage or not and if you were dropped you have to go back to a regular job. Generational wealth ends all this. It’s that wealth that is the ends, championships are just gravy.

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…so many people feel entitled to their own reality along with everything else. What did you expect would happen to a generation that was constantly told they were special, were given participation trophies rather then being told to strive t win, and were brought up by parents who were more interested in being friends and thus never disciplined their kids? Why on earth did you expect them to turn out any other way?

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…that Disney et/al still don’t care about the bottom line. Once you have generational wealth the incentive to produce profit for your shareholders is less a priority than keeping in the good graces of the “right” people. The affirmation of the smart set, basically the modern version of being “presented at court” is all that matters when that’s what you base your self worth on.

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….that the “Never Trump” conservatives who once talked boldly about their values suddenly hate DeSantis as much as Trump seems to these day. When they became “nevertrump” the income stream from the right disappeared and the income stream from the left replaced it. Once they realized that the income stream from the right was not coming back suddenly “principled conservatism” became supporting the left, even against conservatives not named Trump.

Progressives are trying to replace Independence Day with Juneteenth

Posted: June 22, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Progressives, and other leftists here in the United States, demonstrate a very open and deep loathing for the founding principles of the United States.   They have been on a decades long mission to transform the United States from a Constitutional Republic, built upon individual rights and freedoms, into to socialist Democracy built upon collectivism.

These collectivists have been using the fictional 1619 Project to erase Independence Day as the founding date of our nation.  They are trying to erase the fact that the United Sates was built on freedom and liberty.  They want to concentrate all attention on slavery and away from all of the positives this great nation has achieved.

Juneteenth is another effort similar to the the 1619 project.  Most Americans are still unaware of what Juneteenth is all about.  This article provides a great explanation: Juneteenth becomes federal holiday after Biden signs bill (cnbc.com)

Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans. On that day in 1865, Union soldiers led by Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in the coastal city of Galveston, Texas, to deliver General Order No. 3, officially ending slavery in the state.

The final act of liberation came months after the Confederate army’s surrender ended the Civil War, and more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

On the surface Juneteenth seems rather innocuous and actually maybe positive.  This article, however, documents the sinister motivation behind the holiday: Juneteenth Threatens America’s Civic Traditions (thefederalist.com)

The very name of the legislation is incredibly revealing. Referring to it as a “National Independence Day” — as opposed to the Fourth of July, America’s original Independence Day, that doesn’t enjoy the “national” language — is semantic manipulation intended to convey that this is the real independence day. This bestowal of honor on Juneteenth is an exercise in refounding the country in accordance with the priorities of the intersectional identitarian left (e.g., direct democracy, expansive legal privileges for preferential political groups, and the weaponization of government against “bitter clingers”) in the pursuit of casting aside the few remaining constitutional and republican norms of the American founding such as a societal reverence for natural law and federalism.

Those of us on the political right need to stand tall and prevent the left from replacing our true Independence Day with Juneteenth.  We need to stand strong for our nation and our founding principles. 

I’m Old Enough to Remember When Leftists Used to Quote Orwell’s 1984 as a Warning

Posted: June 20, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Col: The reason we’re pinned down General is we can’t get any air support!

General Patton: The hell with that Nobody’s getting any air support! If you can’t put some fire in this battalion Col I’ll get someone who can! [Turns to another officer] Major, you the executive officer here?

Maj Walker: Yes Sir:

General Patton: What’s you’re name?

Maj Walker: Walker Sir

General Patton: Well you’re now the commanding officer. You’ve got four hours to break through to that beachhead down there if you don’t make it by then I’ll fire YOU

Patton 1970

One of the reasons why I’m constantly recommending people like Don Surber is that he constantly puts things exactly the right way.

He achieved that today in his post SJW’s on the run with these two paragraphs:

A few people began praying. The anniversary of the decision became a focal point of the prayers. Republicans began mouthing the words of the pro-life movement. For more than 40 years, Republicans strung the electorate along. Then Donald Trump — the flawed vessel of conservatism — came along and appointed three actually pro-life justices.

Last June, Roe v. Wade was swept abortion rights into the dustbin of history, right alongside Dred Scott (black men have no rights) and separate but equal. The reversal of Roe may have cost Republicans the midterm election but so what? What good is power if it is not used for good? It’s not as if Charlie McCarthy and Go Along With Mitch are doing anything. Dude, where’s my J6 footage?

emphasis mine

When the GOP says we should not fight the culture war, when even Donald Trump, who delivered on Roe when nobody else did suggests the abortion issue might be a loser my mind goes back to the 4-3 ruling that legalized gay marriage in Massachusetts that put us where we are today.

Under Massachusetts law it only took 25% of the legislature to get something like this on the ballot for the people to vote and it was something we were well on our way to getting.

But Mitt Romney was our governor and Mitt Romney wanted to be President and Mitt Romney, for all his Mormon faith didn’t want to upset the alphabet people to do anything that might hinder those national ambitions so he did nothing and the measure never made it to the ballot at a time when it would have been soundly defeated. Massachusetts was a stepping stone to him and he didn’t want any waves when he was crossing.

Mitt had the power but the end of his power was more power, and whenever I see all the evil and destruction LGBTQ+ has done to our society in one generation I never forget that it was Mitt Romney who made these things possible.

If you make the goal of electing republicans seeing a person with an (R) next to their name in office and make it clear to candidates that this is your goal that’s the only goal you will achieve.

But if you make the purpose of electing republicans achieving conservative ends and advance the conservative agenda and make it clear to candidates that if they don’t achieve that goal you’ll fire them, they’ll work to achieve those ends, even if they hate your guts. As Orwell put it

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

George Orwell 1984

If you make the squishes know you’re their only path to power, they’ll kiss your hand every time.

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