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Why is this anybody’s business?

Posted: April 12, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Ben Runson: This ain’t Michigan, it’s Gold country. Why hell It’s the Golden country. [Shouting] Untouched and uncontaminated by human hands! .It’s where people can someday look civilization straight n the eye and spit! And you don’t have to please anybody! And you don’t have to love your neighbor, you leave the bastard alone!

Paint Your Wagon 1969

Yesterday I saw this story concerning a woman banning the crucifix from her house including the one her mother wears.

Now the ban itself doesn’t surprise me since when a person is embracing mortal sin the last thing they generally want is to be reminded of Christ and the risks thereof. Furthermore even though I think it’s a really bad idea people have the basic right to make bad decisions, Her house, her rules it’s her prerogative to make and enforce any rules in her own house.

But as I was at work today it struck me. WHY THE **** am I even hearing about this story?

This isn’t someone in the public eye, this is apparently just a regular person who has an issue with the religion they were brought up with and making a decision (albeit a poor one) based on it. Yeah she put it on the net but cripes how did it go viral?

The fact that it went viral is more interesting than the actual news.

Now being VERY catholic I suspect it’s a matter of grace because there will likely be a lot of folks like me who pray for the family but seriously this is not a news story, it’s not a national story and I don’t see how it’s anybody’s business.

I think society would be a whole lot better off if we didn’t put so much effort in telling everybody our personal business and didn’t spend so much time worrying about other people business. Particularly people we’re never going to meet, never going to see and never going to have to deal with.

A lot of people need to get a life but the first step in doing so is to worry more about having a life then butting in on everyone else’s.

The battle lines in Pennsylvania

Posted: April 11, 2023 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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Amanda Oakley never thought she’d find the love of her life at her local Wawa. Still, there she was three years after meeting Bobby on a late-night hoagie run in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, after slipping away from her wedding reception.

As he planted a kiss, the wedding photographer captured the moment in the fluorescent glow of the couple’s favorite convenience store: Wawa.

The Oakleys are among those who favor Wawa over Sheetz, which has as many devoted fans.

Simply put, the debate over Wawa vs. Sheetz is one of the most heated among Pennsylvania fans and detractors—a debate that has just gotten fiercer since Wawa plans to take on Sheetz head-to-head here in central Pennsylvania.  

Both Wawa and Sheetz have roots as dairy farms dating back to the late 19th century. Wawa started as a small dairy-processing operation (in Wawa, Pennsylvania, outside of Philly), and the first Sheetz sprung from a family-owned dairy store in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 20 miles away northeast of Johnstown and three and a half hours from Philadelphia.

Wawa operates over 950 convenience stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, and Washington, D.C.

Sheetz has dominated most Wawa-free areas of Pennsylvania over the past few decades. According to its website, the chain operates approximately 650 locations across the Keystone State, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland.

Wawa brought in approximately $14.9 billion in 2022; Sheetz followed with $11.7 billion.

Sheetz and Wawa share many similarities. While Wawa places a focus on coffee and hoagies to pair with a more limited menu, both establishments offer made-to-order sandwiches on top of other convenience store goods, like snack foods and fountain drinks. Sheetz once stood out for its more traditional fried foods, but Wawa has recently introduced chicken sandwiches, quesadillas, and burgers. Many of the outlets offer gasoline and propane tanks.

“Wawa and Sheetz represent the best of the best in the convenience store world, and they’re a notch above the rest of the pack. Several notches, really,”  Donald Longo, editorial director of Convenience Store News told director Thrilllist.com. “Everyone else is playing catch-up.”

Wawa recently said it plans to build more than a dozen locations on Sheetz’s turf in central Pennsylvania.

Supporters on both sides are lining up.

“Sheetz is really just disgusting food, and it’s like fried garbage. You know Wawa has some good, fresh hoagies and genuinely good food,” said Aaron Out, a Philadelphia-based rapper who recently found local fame with his hazy ode to Wawa and its hoagies.

Rozwell Kid, a band from West Virginia where “the hills are peppered with Sheetz locations,” according to frontman Jordan Hudkins, wrote their own jingle for Sheetz, “I Pledge Allegiance to Sheetz.” A cheery, cheeky single, many adopted it as a battle cry for late-night Sheetz runs and served as a remembrance of the band’s own late-night stops.

Although I spent more than a decade in Philadelphia’s Wawaland, I admit that Sheetz serves up some tantalizing treats here in Muncy. Whatever the case, direct competition should also be good for operations and their customers.

Deconstructionism is the Rosetta Stone for understanding the Political Left

Posted: April 6, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Progressives here in the United States have been working tirelessly since the mid 1960s to tear down all of the institutions and philosophies that served as the bedrock of this nation.  They employed a philosophical wrecking ball that was based on the writings of Karl Marx, who firmly believed in tearing down and destroying all that was traditional, all that led to prosperity, or all that led to freedom for individuals.

That philosophical wrecking ball is known as deconstructionism.  It is the dismantling of all political philosophies that are built upon individualism, which is the polar opposite of the collectivism espoused by Karl Marx.

Deconstructionists first endeavored to destroy the fundamental truths that give reality its structure.  Marxists do not believe in objective truth.  They believe that all reality is malleable.   If reality is malleable then people are extremely malleable.

Next they worked at destroying language.  Words no longer have fixed meanings.  Only the meanings assigned by the reader, not the author have any value.  All words that progressives deemed offensive were erased under the banner of political correctness.

United States history drew the full wrath of  deconstructionists because this nation, which was the freest and most prosperous that ever existed for over 150 years, was built on a foundation of individual liberty.  Slavery, which was an evil practiced by every nation and culture at the time of America’s founding, became our Original Sin, a sin that erased all good that we ever accomplished.  A sin that only we bore any blame for.

Next up on the chopping block was science. All fundamental scientific truths were dismantled.   Climate change started as a pseudo science.  Now it is the de facto religion of the left.  Biological sex has been replaced by gender fluidity.

The political left has run amok with this deconstructionism unchecked for too many decades.  It is most likely too late to repair the damage. We surrendered the culture war to them and now we are paying a very hefty price.

RFK’s Hat in the Ring

Posted: April 6, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Ok I must confess I didn’t see this coming:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Democratic nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president on Wednesday via filings with the Federal Election Commission.

The 69-year-old’s bid is considered a long shot in an effort to replace President Joe Biden in 2024. Kennedy Jr. is the second Democratic candidate to announce a bid for the White House. Author Marianne Williamson is also running in the Democratic race. Biden has not yet declared that he is seeking reelection.

Well the Dollar is collapsing as an international currency and Biden is as popular as a wart even among democrats and while Yahoo is loudly calling RFK and “anti-vaxxer” you will find there is a sizable amount of democrats not so keen on the whole “shots today, shots tomorrow shots forever” business. As Hotair notes:

No one, other than Fauci and the CDC, was a bigger vaccine nag than Joe Biden. It has only been recently that Biden has let up on talking about the vaccines every time he speaks. Even after evidence began emerging that the vaccines were not as effective as once thought, and sometimes downright dangerous to the health of some people, Biden and his administration continued to insist that everyone get the COVID-19 vaccine. People lost their jobs for not getting jabbed, including members of the military, and everyday Americans lost their ability to attend events if they couldn’t produce proof of receiving the vaccine. Our lives have never been the same. There is a lot of resentment in public opinion now over how the pandemic was handled so Kennedy will have some level of support built in.

I suspect there are plenty of dems in blue states who lost jobs over this who would be delighted to turn out for this along with some republicans who haven’t forgotten Trumps support of the vaccine.

There’s not enough old folks who still think “Camelot” for the Kennedy name to mean much but I suspect while the MSM laughs this off there will be a little bit of oomph there.

Anyways it will be fun to see how it works out.

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