Is this why the Biden Regime tried to cancel William Penn?

Posted: January 11, 2024 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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The cancel culture has become bolder and more asinine since this historically illiterate mob first declared war on the history and founding principles of the United States.  This rabble of brainwashed Marxists is operating under the direction of the leadership of the Democratic party.  

Statue after statue featuring our founding fathers have been torn down by either mobs of leftists, or progressive politicians, all under the guise of stamping out racism.  This supposed racism is only a smoke screen for disguising the true motive behind their reign of terror waged against statues.  Like all leftists, the cancel culture mobs here in the United States despise individual liberty.

At first I was perplexed at the latest victim of the cancel culture, William Penn.

The National Park Service proposes to rehabilitate Welcome Park to provide a more welcoming, accurate, and inclusive experience for visitors. Welcome Park was designed by the internationally acclaimed design firm Venturi & Scott Brown Associates. The park is located on the site of William Penn’s home, the Slate Roof House, and is named for the ship, Welcome, which transported Penn to Philadelphia. The design and construction of Welcome Park was funded by the Independence Historical Trust and was completed in 1982.

The proposed rehabilitation of Welcome Park includes expanded interpretation of the Native American history of Philadelphia and was developed in consultation with representatives of the indigenous nations of the Haudenosaunee, the Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians, the Shawnee Tribe, and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. The reimagined Welcome Park maintains certain aspects of the original design such as the street grid, the rivers and the east wall while adding a new planted buffer on three sides, and a ceremonial gathering space with circular benches. The Penn statue and Slate Roof house model will be removed and not reinstalled. In a separate and future effort, new exhibit panels will be installed on the south site wall to replace the Penn timeline.

It is unconscionable that the National Park Service under Joe Biden was responsible for this outrage.  There is some good news though: Biden Admin Retracts ‘Inclusive’ Proposal to Remove Statue from Park After Major Backlash (westernjournal.com)

Independence National Historical Park has withdrawn the review of a draft proposal to rehabilitate Welcome Park and closed the public comment period,” the National Park Service said in a statement.

“The preliminary draft proposal, which was released prematurely and had not been subject to a complete internal agency review, is being retracted,” it said. “No changes to the William Penn statue are planned.

It became abundantly clear why The Statue of William Penn was targeted by the Biden regime when the following quote by William Penn appeared in my Facebook Newsfeed in the form of a meme:

If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants.

I was so impressed by this quote that I did a Google search for others.  Here is what I found on this website: Quotations from William Penn (ushistory.org)

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we do evil, that good may come of it…To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, … when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.”

No people can be truly happy, though under the greatest enjoyments of civil liberties, if abridged of the Freedom of their Conscience as to their Religious Profession and Worship.

Five Basic Questions Under the Fedora: Biden Admin, Schultz Disease, How Many Days Will Belichick Have Off?, Getting Drafty, Cue Yamamoto

Posted: January 11, 2024 by datechguy in Blame Biden Administration, culture, education, medicine, nfl, politics
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Can somebody answer this: 

For the sake this basic Question I’ll stipulate that Joe Biden won the last election cleanly and is not the figurehead of a foreign or domestic enemy whose was worried about the success of the US and set a goal to bring US down.

So my question: “If you were a foreign and/or domestic enemy of the United States whose goal was to bring down the country that was prospering under Trump and to that end stole election 2020 to put a puppet regime in place to enact that goal, how would your actions and agenda differ from the Biden Administrations over the last four years?”

Speaking of people trying to bring down the country apparently Dr. Anthony Fauci must not have taken his medication yesterday as he had quite a series of memory lapses.

Testifying under oath before congress he replied “I don’t recall” over 100 times. It’s a rather nasty case of Schultz disease:

So the question: How is it that being under oath tends to undermine the memory of people who are supposedly competent intelligent and in charge? 

Unexpectedly of courseTM

As I was tying this post a tweet from Rapoport & Pelissero tweeted and the NFL reported that Bill Belichick is out in New England. A news conference has been called for Noon.

I question the wisdom here as Mike Vrabel not withstanding it’s unlikely they will find a better coach but be that as it may.

While Bill might enjoy the first days off he had over the last quarter century the next question is obvious:

How many days off is he going to get before he is snatched up by a team?

If I owned a team I wouldn’t wait and let someone else get him. He’ll need time to evaluate prior to the April draft. 

Apparently the number of white recruits in the US army has practically been halved since 2018.

Think about it barely 25K recruits.

This is via gateway pundit and Military.com as is this tweet that says it all:

https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1745251068903039388

The question is obvious:

How much longer can the US avoid bringing back the draft?

I’m thinking even with a Trump or DeSantis admin not very long because unless you completely purge the woke you aren’t getting men.

Finally we now have learned that the story concerning Bill Ackman’s wife was shopped to multiple press outlets who rejected it out of hand before Business Insider decided to run with it and then have it blow up in their faces to the point where the owner of the company is rather worried:

Ackman seems to be on the warpath and the folks who green lighted this must be feeling like Admiral Yamamoto at the end of the movie Tora Tora Tora

All of this is interesting and amusing but nobody seems to have the answer to the obvious question:

Who were the people shopping this story?

We need to know their names because if the DEI state falls ironically we will have them to thank for it

Anti Semitism Hasn’t Increased PUBLIC Antisemitism Has

Posted: January 10, 2024 by datechguy in culture
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One of the things that amazes me is how many folks are shocked SHOCKED at the “sudden increase” in antisemitism.

This surprise betrays one of the more basic facts of life.

To wit, consider the world in the 1930’s. There were plenty of people who thought what the Nazi were doing was a great idea. They held how they were running their country in general and how they treated the Jews in particular as a template others should follow.

In fact the supposedly anti-fascist left which took pride in fighting on the communist side during the Spanish Civil war suddenly did an about face as soon as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed in 1939 and the Germans took Half of Poland and the Soviets took the other half along with the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) they were all in on defending Germany and keeping the US out of the war in Europe, right up until the Nazi’s invaded the Soviet Union and voilà, suddenly the Nazi menace had to be stopped by war.

Of course once the war began the people who had supported the Nazi’s didn’t suddenly change their minds, they either shut up and supported the war or found themselves interned just like the Japanese, only without the sympathy that history has granted them.

It’s no different than the 70’s and 80’s. All during those years when I was at school, high school and college there were very public intellectuals who were all in with the Soviet Union, with the system of communism and predicted that capitalism was flawed and would fall, right up to the day that the Soviet Union collapsed. It was amazing how many people who didn’t consider the Soviets an “Evil Empire” suddenly decided it was once it was gone. Suddenly it was passé and everybody KNEW that the Soviets were bad.

This is pretty much what is happening now.

The Jew haters out there have always been out there, it’s just post World War 2 and Post death camps it wasn’t considered socially, morally or legally acceptable to be a Jew hater in public. Suddenly there was a social and legal cost to discriminate against and publicly hate on Jews.

However the world war 2 generation is now if not completely dead in their late 90’s and 100’s and are no longer a factor. Furthermore the generations who followed them has embraced birth control sterilization, abortion and even the castration of their own kids while the Arab world whose hatred of the Jews goes far back and far beyond the creation of the state of Israel and been fruitful and multiplied.

Combine that with those who never stopped hating the Jews who suddenly sense that those who might object no longer have either the will or the moral courage to act and POOF here comes open antisemitism on a grand scale.

Bottom line, the west abandoned it’s moral compass and thus there is no longer a moral or social cost for hating Jews in general and the west in particular.  Combine that with a loss of the will to enforce the laws that might bring legal costs to illegal acts done in the name of Hating Jews and those who have waited three quarters of a century to publicly vent their hatred of the Jews and the west where they have succeeded can let their freak flags fly.

And those flags will fly until the cost of flying them is higher than the freaks are willing to pay and every day that we delay in enforcing those costs it will become geometrically harder to do so.

Five Jonathan and Jesus Thoughts Under the Fedora: Realty and Success, Previews of Coming attractions, Never Heard of Them, The Great Convention, and the Gilded Cage were celebs die

Posted: January 9, 2024 by datechguy in catholic, entertainment
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Yesterday I talked about the mini-series Jonathan and Jesus today I watched it. Several takeaways from Part 1.

I mentioned in yesterday’s piece that Roumie has credits dating back with 2003. He commented that Harold Ramis told him it takes 20 years to be an overnight sensation and at the time he said that wasn’t going to be him. Reality just is.

I was not familiar with Dallas Jenkins previous short from 2013 Once we were slaves (retitled the two thieves) about St. Dismas on the Cross. Jonathan played Jesus in that short and Jenkins thought it be best film portrayal of Christ in film.

And this was five years before the Chosen.

That’s mysterious ways all over.

One of the things that happens in the 1st episode is that Roumie gets to meet the head of one of his favorite bands: “The Killers’ who are apparently one of the biggest rock bands of the 21st century and have been around for 20 years.

I had never heard of them until that moment.

Boy I’m old.

While in Italy they walk along actual Roman Roads dating back to the time of Christ and before.

Those Roman Roads were the internet of their times. They connected people throughout the empire in a way that was not possible previously because it made travel, trade and communication easier.

Those Roman Roads are one of the greatest single inventions in the history of mankind and it was across those roads that Christianity marched through the empire, at a time of general peace which made it possible.

Just a coincidence I’m sure.

If I had to choose the best moment of part one it was the visit with Alice Cooper who while I heard had converted to Christianity didn’t know that his family had been very Christian and that he came back to the faith late in life. He also talked about how he was told that putting his Christianity into his work would end his career, but of course it did not.

His description of what the price of incredible fame is the single best I’ve ever heard:

Fame is really dangerous, I mean, look what it did to Elvis. Here is a good example. If you take anybody and put him in the biggest mansion on the planet and say: ”You can have anything you want, you can have all the woman, you can have all the drugs, you can have food, you can have anything you want, but you can’t leave the mansion.” that person will find a way to kill themselves because they’ve lost the basic freedom be just to live.  Elvis couldn’t go to the movies. Elvis couldn’t play pool, Elvis couldn’t go out for a drive. He was a prisoner of his own fame. He was that big. Michael Jackson. Everybody that achieved that type of fame died early, because it’s so unnatural.

Of course the most important and true thing he said was: ”It’s your relationship with Christ that is the most important thing no matter what situation you’re in.”

He gets it.

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