No Dough for You!

Posted: January 21, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

I spent the day with my family so I didn’t blog but one thing did happen worth mentioning.

On the way to taking my brother back to the mechanic I asked if he minded a small stop. There is a comic store near the house where I wanted to pick up the latest Usagi Yojimbo and Groo that I’ve been buying for 40 years.

On the door was a very big and prominent sign:

MASKS ARE REQUIRED EVEN IF YOU ARE FULLY VACCINATED

I immediately walked back into my car and drove away. I’ve been buying from this shop since mine closed in 1991. I’ve known the owner since I was a teen. If he wants to require masks that’s his prerogative and I would not dream of usurping it.

It is however my prerogative to decide if I’m spending money there so as long as that sign is on the door I’ll take my business elsewhere. It’s not as if I can’t buy these things online and have them delivered to my door at my leisure.

His business, his choice, my dollars my choice.

We owe Senators Sinema and Manchin an enormous debt of gratitude for saving our Constitutional Republic

Posted: January 20, 2022 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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When the Democrats successfully stole the presidential election from Donald Trump, along with, most likely, the Georgia Senate seats, I was exceedingly apprehensive that that would mean the end of our Constitutional Republic.  I knew that the Democrats planned to cram through an avalanche of hardcore progressive legislation that would transform the United States into a Socialist Democracy that none of us would recognize.

The Democrats were far from secretive when it came to their plans to dismantle the United States.  They’ve been crowing about them for decades.  All of their plans involve getting and maintaining complete control over all aspects of the lives of everyone in this nation.  The Democrats would have turned the United States into a living hell

Two very courageous moderate Democrat Senators have stood strong and stymied the plans of the remaining Senate Democrats, who are all rather radical, to dismantle the United States.  These two Democrat Senators, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, have shown a tremendous amount of courage, far more that a lot of Republicans have exhibited. 

Both Senators have withstood an onslaught of fury from the members of their own party that has been excessive even for Democrats.  They have stood strong.  They stood strong and prevented the Democrats from enacting their total destruction of the American economy through Build Back Better, which was just the Green New Deal in disguise.

Maintaining a permanent strangle hold on federal elections has been the plan since the Democrats successfully stole the 2020 election from President Trump.  They have the perfect legislation to accomplish this.  All that stands in the way of this is the Filibuster.  All that stands in the way of dismantling the Filibuster are Senators Manchin and Sinema.  Just the past week these two told the Democrats that they would not support dismantling the Filibuster, scuttling the Democrats plans, thus saving our Constitutional Republic.

The 49th Parallel and the horrible Parallels this movie has to today

Posted: January 20, 2022 by datechguy in covid, culture
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Via Wikipedia

The Oscar winning 1941 Movie 49th Parallel was available on Amazon Prime this month for free. Despite it being a famous movie and a WW 2 picture I had never seen it. The Basic plot is a German U-Boat is sunk in Hudson Bay but a landing party had been sent ashore to get supplies and so five sailors and an officer are stranded in Canada. It’s 1941 and the US hasn’t officially entered the war so if they can get across that 49th parallel they are safe. The story is about how they encounter Canadians on the way from a Trapper (Laurence Oliver) to a group of German immigrants of a religions sect including a young girl who lost family when a U-Boat sunk their ship ( Glynis Johns ), to a Professor studying the Blackfeet Indians (Leslie Howard) to a Canadian Soldier who has stayed behind his leave (Raymond Massy).

It’s a commentary on the character of Canada and free government vs the Nazi way.

As I watched this picture the portrayal of the Canadian national character that was portrayed was very familiar to me but I was surprised at how familiar the portrayal of the Nazi character was because it was what the Canadian, Australian and in many states run by Democrats, American character is becoming.

What’s horrible is that these nations that stopped Nazism have fallen so far and are so ignorant of what they were and are that they would not likely see what I saw.

What’s even worse is that I suspect a lot of people actually would see how far they have fallen but are too cowardly to acknowledge it because it would require them to act.

That’s the real tragedy here.

Closing thought along that line Manchin and Simena saved the filibuster yesterday in the teeth of their party.

The Wonder isn’t the Manchin and Sinema were willing to save the Filibuster the wonder is that the democrats have fallen so far that two were publicly willing to stand up for it.

Update: OK maybe not such a shock:

Nearly Half of All Democrats — Who Claimed to #Resist Fascism — Support Actual Internment Camps for the Unvaccinated

One Great Point and One Subtle Mistake in Kurt Schlichter’s Trump vs DeSantis 2024 Piece

Posted: January 19, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

It is a given that anything Kurt Schlichter writes is worthy of your time and it’s also a given that a piece that brings up the possibility of the Trump vs DeSantis primary is going to draw eyeballs which is a good reason for me to write about it.

In contending that DeSantis has an advantage over Trump Kurt makes two points both ironically in throw away sentences in larger paragraghs, one of them is excellent and the other, not so much.

First the excellent point:

In contrast, as kingmaker, he will tower over the race – this would support him not running.

This is in my opinion the best argument for Trump not running.

I recall back in 2010, during the time of the last big red wave Sarah Palin had just resigned from office and the left decided she was finished:

on July 3rd 2009 Sarah Palin called a news conference and shocked the world by announcing she was resigning as Governor of Alaska. She maintained that the constant barrage of frivolous complaints was costing the state money and time. Pundits around the country added “quitter” to their less printable pejoratives and pronounced her power and influence at an end. Rush Limbaugh didn’t think so. He believed that this freed her from the constraints of office and allowed her to advance the conservative cause nationwide.

However instead of being finished she worked hard for Tea Party Candidates in 2010

Sarah Palin campaigned tirelessly for Republican candidates all over the country targeting 20 specific democrats for defeat and raising money to keep help support others. The effect was electric in states such as Massachusetts where uncontested seats were a fact of life suddenly every race was contested from the 10 congressional seats all the way down to auditor. Candidates like John Olver, Richard Neal and Barney Frank who had spent previous elections campaigning and donating to fellow democrats all over the country found themselves spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend seats that had never been at issue before. 

and this was the result:

CBS news pointed out Sarah Palin endorsed 43 house candidates of which 30 won while winning 7 of 12 Senate endorsed candidates. Senator Jim Demitt said “she’s done a lot of good for the Republican Party, and for our country.” And Rush Limbaugh, having none of the spin of the majority of the Mainstream media on the 4th said: “If anybody is an obvious winner here, aside, of course, from me, it would be Palin.”

So to conservatives who are basking in the joy of a historic question I say to you : “Never forget that it is to Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin that you really owe these victories.”

And this didn’t stop in 2010. Just eighteen months later Sarah Palin endorsed a down in the polls former state solicitor general for an open senate seat over a sitting Lt Governor. He would come from behind and win and since that day Senator Ted Cruz has been the scourge of liberals everywhere.

Donald Trump is in the same position that Sarah Palin was in 12 years ago. He is an unapologetic booster of conservatism, a tireless promoter of candidates who support that cause and a terror to RINO republicans who seek to gain and hold office.

If Donald Trump chooses not to run he will be in a position to exercise this power to an incredible degree and I suspect with even more success. This is an excellent point that is worth emphasizing.

But Schlichter also states something that is a mistake:

DeSantis would run on the fact that he has the same lib fighter vibe as the Bad Orange Man but that he actually governs, where Trump was (and would be again) tied up with all sorts of investigations, impeachments and, yes, mean tweets

While there is no doubt that the media and the left would do all they can to bog Trump down a 2nd time have we not learned that if DeSantis or Cruz or anyone else got the nomination that that the entire Democrat left establishment would go after him the same way that they have Trump? And unlike Trump they don’t have the advantage of being known to the county outside of the political bubble which meant he was already defined.

Every single person who is a threat to the power of the left becomes the greatest villain in the world since Hitler. Do not doubt that for one single moment.

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