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Off to Maine To Continue the Lockdown Birthday Tradition

Posted: March 17, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Three Years ago when they announced the two weeks to “Stop the spread” I bundled my wife into the car and took her for a birthday drive.

The roads were pretty empty so we went to the beach, which was deserted and she had a chance to watch the waves and quickly get her feet wet in the ocean. We drove up the NH coast into Maine and ended up at Mike’s Clam Shack in Wells Maine on what turned out to be the last day of customers walking in for a while. We got an order to go and headed home with DaWife pronouncing it an excellent birthday gift.

When the restrictions were lifted again on her birthday we headed up to Mike’s with her newly widowed (despite her husband’s vaccine) sister in tow retracing our steps from that day again hitting the beach and Mike’s Clam Shack up in Maine.

DaWife’s birthday is tomorrow but today after I hit mass and pick up her cake in West Boylston we’ll be continuing that tradition with a drive to main and taking along her newly retired sister.

It’s odd to think that with all the evil that came from Fauci & Brix a pleasant birthday tradition would have come from their actions but that’s the providence of God.

Joe Biden issued another gun grabbing Executive Order

Posted: March 16, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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On Tuesday March 14th, our illegitimate president issued another illegitimate executive order.  This one is intended to make it more difficult for Americans to purchase guns, by adding more odious hoops they must climb through, in order to exercise one of their most important God-given natural rights. 

The changes made by this executive order are more incremental than drastic.  Progressives are firm believers in the philosophy of incrementalism.   Fewer individuals notice if their rights are stripped away by a gradual eroding.  By the time most notice the full effects of the numerous little encroachments it is too late.

The stated purpose of the executive order is discussed in this article, which appeared in The Hill.

President Biden on Tuesday plans to announce an executive order that aims to increase the number of background checks conducted before gun sales, cracking down on firearms dealers who violate federal law.

The goal of the executive order, set to be unveiled during a Biden visit to Monterey Park, Calif., is to move the U.S. as close to a system of universal background checks for all gun sales as possible without requiring legislation from Congress. Biden has called for Congress to pass universal background checks, but such legislation is a non-starter in the GOP-controlled House. 

As always with the Biden Regime, the actual implementation of this executive order will go far beyond the stated purpose.  The effects will be far more onerous.  The end result of this executive order will in fact result in universal background checks.  

Like all federal gun control measures, background checks are unconstitutional.  They infringe on our right to bear arms.  There exists no provision in the Constitution granting the federal government the authority to conduct background checks on those wishing to purchase a gun. Progressives want to impose universal background checks because they will get to pick and choose who will be allowed to own guns. They get to dig real deep into the lives of everyone applying. They will discriminate against political enemies such as MAGA Republicans.

All executive orders that go beyond the members of the executive branch of the federal government are unconstitutional.  This one is no different.

Buried in the executive order is this deeply unconstitutional provision.

The order will also increase the use of “red flag laws,” which allow a judge to take away a firearm from someone based on the suspicion that they could use it to harm themselves or others. Biden will direct members of his Cabinet to partner with law enforcement, health care providers, educators and other community leaders to encourage the effective use of red flag laws in the states that have them.

Red flag laws violate the Due Process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

It is well past time for the Republican Party to grow a spine.  Far too often the Grand Old Party has stood on the sidelines while progressives strip away the right to bear arms from the American people.

The bailout hustle

Posted: March 14, 2023 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

Silicon Valley and New York City bankers got a good deal: a bailout worth billions of dollars in exchange for millions in campaign funds for Democrats.

But the cozy relationship between bankers and Democrats is a fairly recent development.

My father was a banker in the Midwest and a diehard Republican. He condemned FDR’s spending policies, loved Ronald Reagan, and wanted the government to balance the budget and stay away from his paycheck.

In fact, I thought for years that you had to join the Republican Party to become a banker. As a boomer, I thought my father was a bit off his rocker in his politics, and I wish I had told him just how right he was.

Today’s bankers remind me of the commodities traders I reported on in the 1970s. They’ll bet on almost anything.

Silicon Valley Bank bet on almost every tech idea that came through the doors.

But Andy Kessler of The Wall Street Journal goes beyond the gambling. “Management screwed up interest rates, underestimated customer withdrawals, hired the wrong people, and failed to sell equity. You’re really only allowed one mistake; more proved fatal. Was management hubristic, delusional, or incompetent? Sometimes there’s no difference,” he wrote.

Signature Bank of New York added political wokeness to the combination. The bank refused to do business with Donald Trump, scolding him for the events of January 6, 2021.

Despite all this nonsense, Biden & Co. will bail out the banks even though the White House says it’s not a bailout, providing funds to depositors who recklessly kept more than $250,000 in the banks. Federal bank insurance would not have covered that money until Biden waived the limit.

But the math doesn’t work. Silicon Valley Bank had $173 billion in total deposits, including $152 billion not covered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Also, the FDIC did not cover $79 billion of the $88 billion in deposits at Signature Bank.

That’s nearly double the amount at the FDIC to cover all the depositors over $250,000.

Treasury officials said any losses to the DIF would be repaid in full by raising fees on the system’s banks. If the FDIC charges banks higher fees to cover the extra money, those costs will probably be passed onto the consumer through higher costs, such as increased ATM charges and overdraft fees.

So we will end up paying much of the bill for the bailout!

At least there’s a silver lining to all these shenanigans: no one will ever take Jim Cramer seriously, who told people to buy Silicon Valley Bank stock.

I Declare March 18th “Hurray We’re Not Dead Day” Since Greta doesn’t want to celebrate our Unexpected Survival

Posted: March 14, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Eula Goodnight: Marshal Cogburn, we’re ready to go. Shooting cornbread in a meadow is not taking us anywhere. And my father’s murderers ride free.

Rooster Cogburn: Well, Sister, I was just celebratin’ a little.

Eula Goodnight: Celebrating what?

Rooster Cogburn: Bein’ alive, Sister. Bein’ alive.

Rooster Cogburn 1975

I’m slightly confused.

Five years ago Greta Thunburg thought the world was going to end in five years.

It didn’t.

So she deleted the tweet that said it would happen and that’s all.

But WHY is that all?

Shouldn’t she be happy that the world didn’t end? Isn’t the idea that we all didn’t die from climate change a reason for people all over the world to celebrate?

Yet none of the people who agreed with this dire prediction seem pleased, they just seem to want to quietly walk away.

Hey if my Doctor had told me I had five years to live and five years later I was still going strong I’d throw a party.

But in fairness to Greta this happened before. In January of 2006 Al Gore said we had ten years to save the planet and the great Rush Limbaugh decided to run with it:

Now, the last time I heard some liberal talk about “ten years” it was 1988, Ted Danson. We had ten years to save the oceans; we were all going to pay the consequences, which would result in our death. Now Al Gore says we’ve got ten years. Ten years left to save the planet from a scorching. Okay, we’re going to start counting. This is January 27th, 2006. We will begin the count, ladies and gentlemen. This is just… You have to love these people — from afar, and from a purely observational point of view.

Ten years later the clock ran out and for some reason Al Gore didn’t celebrate the fact that mankind had survived either.

You’d think they all wanted us to burn, or starve or something.

Well personally even with all the problems the world still has I think this calls for a party so I declare March 18th 2023 A Day of Celebration of us all being alive so let’s party using a slight variation of my own Happy Birthday Song

♫ Hurray we're not dead! ♪
Hurray we're not dead!

We haven't died yet
We haven't died yet

Five years have passed and we're still here
The Climate death did not appear

So let  have a laugh and give a cheer
Hurry we're not dead!

♪ We're not dead. ♫

Climate change didn’t kill us, HUZZAH!

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