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Five Quick Sports Thoughts Under the Fedora, Bruins Cup winning Rejects, Denver’s Easy Path, RedSox treading Water, Pats heading for the Basement new OC or no and Saudi Outrage but China Silence from Sportscasters

Posted: June 14, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Last Season the Bruins got rid of their coach because he was supposedly too tough on them. They went on the dominate the regular season and got bounced in the first round by Florida who made it all the way to the Stanley Cup.

In the Stanley Cup Finals Florida lost to the Las Vegas Golden Knights who won their first Stanley Cup. Their first year coach. Bruce Cassady who was the man the Bruins fired.

This week the Denver Nuggets won their first NBA title. In one respect they had one of the easiest routes to the finals of any #1 seed. They had some help, beating a #8 seed in the first round a #4 seed in the 2nd round, a number #7 seed in the 3rd round and the #8 seed in the finals in five games.

That would be the same #8 seed that the Boston Celtics lost three in a row to and lost the seventh game in on their home court to.

It would save a whole lot of trouble for a lot of people if the folks in the City of Boston just admitted that the Redsox are at best a .500 team who can hit a bit and can’t field the ball.

No amount of runs is enough to save them from their defense and pitching. The sooner the team figures this out the better.

Bill Belichick took a lot of heat for his decision to try Matt Patricia and Joe Judge as offensive coaches last season. I didn’t have a problem with it. He didn’t have a team that had a prayer to win a championship and was iffy in terms of the playoffs so he took a shot and it didn’t work out.

Now he has a real Offensive Coordinator, his quarterback is a lot happier and he’s still likely going to finish at the bottom of his division because every other team in the division is either better than his or has improved more than the Patriots have.

Of course it’s football and all the teams ahead of him are one injury away from falling behind him.

Finally I have to laugh at all the sportscasters beating their breasts over the PGA merger with the Saudi LIV tour.

I don’t recall a single one of them saying Boo over the NBA’s bended knee to china. Do you?

The forest vs. the trees

Posted: June 13, 2023 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

It didn’t take long for the “experts” to proclaim that climate change had caused the Canadian forest fires that rained down smoke on the United States.

It took me only a few hours of reporting to get some truth about the Canadian fires. A combination of too few firefighters, lousy forest management, and Mother Nature had much more to do with the fires than climate change.

As philosopher Marshall McLuhan put it: “A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”

In a 2020 journal article in Progress in Disaster Science, the authors found that various problems existed in managing Canadian forests.

“Wildfire management agencies in Canada are at a tipping point. Presuppression and suppression costs are increasing, but program budgets are not,” the analysis stated. “To co-exist with wildfire, agencies in Canada must also strengthen and adjust their wildfire management capacity and capability. This necessitates stronger horizontal collaboration, enhanced resource sharing, investments to develop innovative decision support tools, and an increased focus on prevention and mitigation.”

Most firefighting is handled on the provincial level, so no national strategy for battling the blazes exists. Moreover, most provinces have had to cut budgets to prevent fires before they start. Also, the budget cuts have meant that few areas have enough full-time fighters and hire untrained people when fire season comes around.

While there is no shortage of young people ready to take up a hose, shovel, and hard hat for the summer, there have been countrywide problems hanging on to senior-level firefighters with the training and experience needed to fight against the flames.

The government owns most Canadian forest land, which it leases only a tiny percentage to forestry companies. These companies must use practices to prevent fires by keeping the ground clean and seeding and planting saplings after a harvest. Such an approach works far better and is less costly than fighting a blaze.

Seth Kursman, an executive for the Montreal-based Resolute Forest Products, told the Toronto Star: “As public policy has gotten more restrictive and more land has been set aside for preservation, there is less harvesting of mature trees and less cleaning of the forest floor. Trees in unmanaged boreal forests usually die of disease, insect infestations, or fire. When lightning strikes where there is a lot of dry tinder, the fire is worse.”

Greater use of Canadian woodlands by forestry companies could reduce the risk of catastrophe. “About two-tenths of 1% of the boreal forest is harvested annually, while more than 25 times that amount of forest is impacted by fire, insects, and disease,” Kursman said.

It’s essential to remember that lightning has caused more than three-quarters of the damage in Canada, with no indication of manmade causes, such as arson or carelessness. That means that manmade climate change has had little to do with igniting forest fires.

Chalk up the latest barrage of climate change “experts” to a misinterpretation of the facts on the ground!

Can You Say: “Game Set and Match”

Posted: June 11, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

From the ruling in : Judicial Watch v. National Archives and Records Administration 2012:

“the President enjoys unconstrained authority to make decisions regarding the disposal of documents: ‘[a]lthough the President must notify the Archivist before disposing of records . . . neither the Archivist nor Congress has the authority to veto the President’s disposal decision.’” 

Amy Berman Jackson in her ruling

  this was the Clinton “Sock Drawer case” that a lot of you likely don’t remember, but Chris Farrell, Director of Investigations at Judicial Watch does remarking:

“And that has been the standing law unchallenged for the United States for something like 10 or 11 years,” said Farrell. “No one challenged it – unreviewable absolute authority to take whatever [the president] wants and no one can second guess it.”

I suspect when Judge  Aileen M. Cannon takes a look at this I suspect she will not only toss out this case, but do so with prejudice.

Why is Anyone Surprised?

Posted: June 9, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Jesus Christ: A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit.

Luke 6:43

All kinds of things are being written about both the Trump indictment and the revelations about the Biden’s that it was meant to hide.

All I have to say is this: You mean to say that people who would steal a national election are willing to use the power that they stole in dishonest and dishonorable ways?

I’m shocked SHOCKED.

Oh and for those who insist the election wasn’t stolen because of the court rulings let me remind you that by that Standard:

  1. Al Capone was not a gangster
  2. OJ Was not a killer
  3. Blacks were not oppressed in the deep south during Jim Crow
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