Election 2023 Here Comes the Reaping

Posted: November 8, 2023 by datechguy in elections, elections, politics
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With the exception of the shocking election of a GOP Mayor in Manchester NH yesterday was a good day for the left in general and the culture of death and degeneracy in particular including in my own city that overwhelmingly supported a far left democrat over a conservative Democrat for mayor (we still have some of those here in the same way that deep red states have liberal republicans).

Rather than a long post I’m going to hit you with a few quotes and perhaps a line or two concerning them: First Glenn Reynolds on Virginia at Instapundit:

THIS IS A BIG LOSS, AND AS FAR AS I CAN TELL YOUNGKIN DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG: Democrats regain control of Virginia House of Delegates in rebuke to Youngkin.

It took just two years for the people of Virginia to go back to voting for the folks who brought you parents prosecuted for objecting to their daughters being assaulted by boys dressed as girls. This speaks volumes about Virginia and likely ends the whole “Draft Youngkin” business.

Quote two is from myself years ago when Planned Parenthood first moved into my city and the protests began:

Bottom line: If abortion does not end a unique human life then there is no reason to forbid, restrict or even consider it the least bit of controversial. The filming of it would not be an issue the sight of the “bodies” should be no more odd than a trip to the butcher shop and psychologically it should be no more traumatic than any other simple surgery. There would be no reason to want to reduce abortion, after all it’s just another same day operation, in fact we would want to encourage it for the monetary savings to the public.

When people talk about abortion as a “tragedy“, as something that should be “safe, legal and rare” as something we all “want to reduce” they reveal that they know the truth behind it, that we are talking about human life. We are ending a human life for the sake of convince, hardship or panic. We are willing to let it go, discarding it like any other piece of unwanted property, just so long as we don’t have to talk about it.

Like a town the day after a lynch mob strikes or a person at a party of a plantation owner who visits the slave quarters in the evening, we know something is wrong, but we don’t want to embarrass our neighbors and friends by saying a word.

Because once we say that word, we acknowledge reality

The vote in Ohio demonstrates that the paradigm has changed. The move to allow abortion up to birth shows that the left either no longer believes or no longer needs their faux paradigm of caring about life. It’s actually rather consistent with their reaction to the slaughter in Israel.

And that brings us to the 3rd quote this one from Don Surber:

The NYT poll is suspect because it came a month after Biden’s initial support of Israel after the Palestinian army attacked civilians and raped, tortured, killed and mutilated them. There were zero military targets in the October 7 attack. Palestinians broke a truce — again for the 15th time.

Biden’s reluctance to side with terrorists better explains the sudden hullabaloo about his electability. The pressure is not on him to quit the presidency but to quit the decency. Democrats support the terrorists and have for some time.

Democrat support of anti-Semitism and Muslim calls for a second Holocaust should cost the party the next 10 elections but I have learned something over the last two decades about the word should: it is a bet against the odds because man seldom does what he should.

That’s the thing. We say “Should” because Mr. Surber and I both come from the days when this was a strong and unapologetic Christian Nation whose recent defeat of Nazism is a hot war and the Soviets in a cold one seemingly “should” have been the signal for a new golden age for the world.

Alas even strong didn’t recognize that the grand period we were living through was not the norm but the exception to the rules of history. For we forget who the prince of this world is.

I’ll give the last word and quote to Christ himself:

Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many.

How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few.

Matthew 7:13-14

Yes You can Blame the US and the UK and Australia and Yes Even Israel in a Fram Oil Filter sort of way

Posted: November 7, 2023 by datechguy in culture, Israel, Israel vs Hamas, middle east
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King Richard (Disguised): Oh, now I remember. How does your loyalty to Richard set on a killer of knights, a poacher of the king’s deer and an outlaw?

Robin Hood: Those I’ve killed died from misusing the trust that Richard left them. And the worst rogue of these is the king’s own brother.

King Richard (Disguised): Oh, then you blame Prince John.

King Richard (Disguised): No, I blame Richard. His task was defending his people instead of deserting them to fight in foreign lands.

The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938

Since the beginning of the Israel Hamas War I have seen a concerted effort to blame Israel and the west:

  • For the Hamas Attacks
  • For the Reactions on Western Campus
  • For the Response to Mass Protests
  • For the open antisemitism in the west

Now of course Hamas did the attack and the slaughter than brought this all on but when it comes to blaming the west let’s to the chase. They have a point.

  • I blame the west for ignoring the problem of Radical Islam in General and Hamas in particular.
  • I blame the west for allowing illegal migration bringing supporters of Jew slaughter to their lands
  • I blame the west for not enforcing their own laws against those who came illegally or even legally.
  • I blame the west for punishing those who objected to these double standards.
  • I blame the west for silencing any who warned about what was happening (see Spencer & Geller et/al)
  • I blame the west for attacking their own civilization for trifles (see microaggressions) but ignoring actual crimes of others.
  • I blame the west for letting their educational systems be taken over by those who hate us.
  • I blame the west for letting themselves be paid off
  • I blame the west for playing the “moral equivalence” game
  • I blame the west for funding the Palestinians in general and Gaza in particular without control or audit of the funds or materials.
  • I blame the west for not supporting those opposing the Mullahs in Iran
  • I blame the west for not taking out the Mullahs when they had armies both to the east and the west of them
  • I blame the west in general and the Biden Administration in particular for funding Iran
  • I blame the west for pressuring Israel to stop fighting back for the sake of peace and quiet.

And most important of all

  • I blame the west for doing all these things while there was still a chance of stopping this at a low cost.

And I don’t leave out Israel from the blame game

  • I blame Israel for deluding themselves that you could contain Hamas
  • I blame Israel and Israelis for pretending that the Palestinians want peace
  • I blame Israel for giving back Gaza, legitimately won in war with Egypt, to the Palestinians.

But most of all

  • I blame Israel for not finishing the job nine years ago when Hamas hit them or frankly any of the other dozen times that Hamas attacks and they let it go.

I actually had “giving Egypt back the Sinai” on this list but you can argue that an active peace with Egypt was worth it of course actually given Israel’s nuclear deterrence and active peace with Egypt was going to be the norm anyways, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt here.

So if you want to blame the US or blame the UK or blame Australia or even blame Israel, you do have a point in the sense that all of these that have happened were preventable so you are basically making the Fram oil filter argument from the 1970’s ads.

Israel and the west decided they wanted to pay the price later and are now doing so.

A hero in Hong Kong

Posted: November 7, 2023 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

In a world seemingly bereft of heroes, it’s worth remembering that some heroes do exist and need our support.

Lai Chee-ying, better known in the West as Jimmy Lai, is a Hong Kong businessman and politician fighting for democracy for several decades.

Now, he sits in a Chinese prison accused of violating outrageous laws intended solely to suppress the democratic movement and freedom of speech in Hong Kong.

Born in Guangzhou in south China in 1947, Lai escaped at the age of 12 from the mainland to Hong Kong as a stowaway aboard a small ship. There, he spent his early years in a garment factory and rose to the position of factory manager. In 1975, Lai used his year-end bonus on Hong Kong stocks to raise cash and bought a bankrupt garment factory, where he began producing sweaters. He built Giordano into a company with more than 8,000 employees in 2,400 shops in 30 countries. 

After the Tiananmen massacre in 1989, Lai turned his attention to politics, building a publishing empire to combat and criticize the Communist Party and its rulers. Lai created Next Digital, a Hong Kong media company, and the popular newspaper Apple Daily.

In 2006, Next Magazine ranked second in circulation in Hong Kong’s magazine market. Apple Daily became the No. 2 newspaper in Hong Kong. He expanded to Taiwan, and 

in 2020, Lai launched an English version of Apple Daily. All of the publications were banned in mainland China. 

Lai was arrested in 2020 on charges of violating the territory’s new national security law, an action which prompted widespread criticism. However, no trial has been set for these actions, which could end up in a life sentence. In three separate cases, he was sentenced to more than five years for various political offenses, including participation in political protests. 

Lai is a devout Christian and a British citizen who met with top U.S. officials during the Trump administration. Yet the Vatican and the British and American governments have done little to get Lai out of jail. 

A recent documentary, The Hong Konger, is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRkuv-fOV7k

In an interview, Lai says: “The younger generation and the older generation have never been so united…. If we just surrender, we will lose everything.” The documentary is also critical of the relationship between corporate investment and the lure to Western companies of Chinese markets.

Like Martin Luther King Jr., Lai decries violence and has disavowed some of his followers who engage in attacks on police. 

It is both heartening and saddening that people like Jimmy Lai exist. It’s crucial that ordinary people and governments use whatever pressure possible to free him from his Chinese prison. 

I Fully Endorse Shooting Someone Who Pulls a Knife on You

Posted: November 6, 2023 by datechguy in News/opinion
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On my way home from Mass this morning I was listening to lament after another Patriots loss when the sports network switched to a quick news update noting that there was a man who shot someone is an Ocean State Job Lot Department store and was on the lam.

There is however a twist to the story as noted here:

The shooting occurred around noon inside the store, located at 105 Campanelli Industrial Drive (the site of the former Toys R Us), after the victim who was shot allegedly pulled a knife on an employee during an argument, Duarte said.

I object to the use of the word “victim” here as it implies he was some innocent instead of a person who drew a knife on someone.

I think it is very appropriate to shoot someone who pulls a knife on you, Once a person produces a weapon the game changes, it’s no longer an argument it’s life or death and nobody should consent to let themselves be killed or threated with death to appease someone else vision of propriety. Something like this happened to my father in the early 60’s when he and his brother were involved in a fight outnumbered 6-2 with some young punks when one of the six they were routing pulled a knife. Dad warned him to put the knife away promising him that he did he would escape the fight with nothing worse than bruises but if he didn’t it was life and death and he would get badly hurt.

The punk didn’t put away the knife, and while dad didn’t shoot him or use the knife after he disarmed him he did hurt him, badly. There were no legal consequences.

Of course this was the early 60’s when even in Massachusetts a man’s right to self defense was still considered a given. In this case the employee fled the scene perhaps figuring that in 2023 his right to self defense wasn’t a given or given this update.

An employee wanted in connection with a shooting inside an Ocean State Job Lot in Brockton that left a shopper injured over the weekend has surrendered to police, officials announced Monday morning.

The suspect, whose name hasn’t been released, allegedly shot the customer around 12 p.m. Sunday at the store at 105 Campanelli Industrial Drive, according to the Brockton Police Department.

Police said the alleged gunman was taken into custody without incident...

…A Boston 25 source said the employee in question is 18-years-old.

…it’s very possible that being an 18 year old kid he just panicked. Of course it’s also possible that he fled because it might have been an illegal weapon or that he was not legally able to carry a gun. That’s rather likely given his age.

Furthermore as a rule it’s a bad idea to argue with a customer in this way. If a customer becomes belligerent you call for the manager to handle it, that’s what he was there for. You don’t escalate the issue.

But even if he was wrong to argue, and even if the gun was not legal, once the knife came out as far as I’m concerned the 18 year old was quite right to shoot the man. You aren’t obliged to let yourself be killed so that some leftist in Boston can feel better about himself and it’s better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six.

Either way I find the best way to avoid being shot in self defense is not to produce a weapon and threaten someone life. I suspect this is a lesson the customer in question has learned very well and I suspect it will be a long time before another angry customer decides to produce a weapon in that store.

Closing thought: I suspect that in many US states this story wouldn’t raise an eyebrow and the idea of fleeing would never have occurred to the employee.

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