The Democrats are dismantling America’s ballot box and jury box

Posted: June 15, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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In a speech delivered on 15 November 1867, Fredrick Douglass most famously  said:

 “A man’s rights rest in three boxes: The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex”.

I would add the soap box to this most essential list of boxes where man’s rights rest.  All four of these have been under direct and relentless assault by the Democrats, who are the political left here in the United States, for the past several decades.  This assault has intensified over the past several of years to the point that these four most essential boxes have been almost entirely stripped away from those of us on the political right. 

The assault on the ballot box seemed complete with the theft of the Presidential election from Trump in 2020.  Just this week the Democrats ratcheted this up to a level I never dreamed possible with the federal indictment of President Trump on extremely phony classified document charges,  This is a tremendously transparent effort to keep President Trump off of the 2024 Republican ballot.

Phony charges issued by the Deep State is a direct assault on the Jury Box.  This box also has been under assault by the political left for a couple of decades,  George Soros led a successful campaign to make sure State Attorneys General were populated almost exclusively by hardcore leftists   The same holds true of district attorneys,

Thanks to political correctness and the war on disinformation, the soap box has been a favorite target of the political left for decades.  The soap box has not been completely destroyed.  This is thanks to the tireless work of free speech warriors.

The cartridge box is another box that has been under constant assault by the left.  Thanks to the Second Amendment and the constant work of patriots, control of this box still remains firmly in hands of those of us on the Right, This is the most important of all three boxes because it protects the other three.

With the near total victory of the left when it comes to the ballot box, jury box, and soap box, I am increasingly worried that those of on the political right will one day soon be left with only the cartridge box.  This week’s indictment of President Trump is a dangerous step along that path.

100 Word Fan Fiction: Part 1 A Desperate Plea

Posted: June 15, 2023 by datechguy in fan fiction, fun
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“You can’t do it” pleaded the Lt. Commander, “My exec deserves at least a chance!”

“As does the Captain!” added the smartly dressed Lieutenant next to him.

The Admiral looked gruffly at the pair.

“This plan has been on the board for over a year, we’re in the final stages of pulling off one of the greatest deceptions in the history of warfare, or did you think it’s was normal to transfer a PT command 10,000 miles in the middle of a war? Binghamton & Parker are naval officers and this is war, they have to take their chances.”

Next: An appropriate Incarceration

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!

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