Five One Liners Under Other People’s Fedoras: Stacy McCain, Lawrence Jarvik, Bookworm Room, Political Hat and Babalu Blog

Posted: September 24, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

If someone like Blake cannot be arrested — he was violating a restraining order and terrorizing the woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her — then who, exactly, are police allowed to arrest?

‘The New Zeroeth Amendment’ and the Predictable Death of Dijon Kizzee Robert Stacy McCain

Another person who would be alive today if he followed the Rittenhouse method of police encounters.

I emailed Scientific American‘s Rachel Scheer to ask Dr. Helmuth to explain her scientific methodology for the Biden endorsement. She didn’t reply.


Scientific American’s Scientifically Indefensible Biden Endorsement Laurence Jarvik

A lot of pretend “neutral objective” institutions have been unmasking themselves under Trump

How cosmically apropos is the timing of all this, though?  Ginsburg’s demise 57 days prior to the most contested election since 1860 is not simply one more piece of wood on the conflagration that is 2020; it is an entire load of creosote-soaked logs — both flamable and toxic — added to it.

We Need A Replacement For Justice Ginsburg Before The Election via Bookworm Room

Ginsberg was always all about “sentence first verdict afterward”

Antifa is not just some “spontaneous” uprising by revolutionaries on the street, but is fully funded and organized from the outside, complete with bail funds flush with over a million in cash for Portland rioters alone as well as a plethora of supplies for violent rioting.

Peaceful Protests? via the Political Hat

If you weren’t sure of this before Louisville you should be now.

And their dollars also intensify apartheid and racism on the island by creating two distinct classes, Cubans with dollars (mostly white folks) and Cubans without dollars (mostly black).

Apartheid in Cuba Induced by Exile Yo-Yos and Dollarization via Babalu Blog

Oddly enough I don’t think the BLM left will be having any protests about this.

Hey Leftists? How’s that Politics is my Religion Stuff Working Out?

Posted: September 23, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams

And You thought you’d seen peak leftist crazy, when they were pounding on the doors of the Supreme Court and Defending child pornography didn’t you?

In a Presidential term that has seen the left melt down over and over again since day one the meltdown among the left, particularly the professional and activist left’s over the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg only parallel is Ronald Lacy’s Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

I bring this up this classic movie because there is a 2nd parallel here, this meltdown is the meltdown of the Godless.

During the previous presidency there was a lot of cause for despair for the right, particularly for those of us of faith. Item after item was shoved down our throat from Obamacare to the forcing of Nuns to violate their faith and of course unleashing of the IRS on those who objected.

Through all of this there was one constant comfort for us, faith.

People turned to their religion for comfort. Christians of all denomination turned to God for help and comfort in a time of trial and were assured that God knew what he was doing even if he wasn’t telling us.

So as the political world turned oppressive we clung to our God and got on with our lives as best we could.

But what happens if you have no God and no faith? What happens when you have decided to make you’re political beliefs your religion? What happens when your article of political faith is what governs your lives and beliefs.

Well this happens

and this happens

And this happens

and you even reach the point where you are willing to reject your own father unless he converts to the true political faith?

In short when you reject God and replace your religion with Politics you have no source of comfort to allow you to carry on and function when your political fortunes wane. That’s why you turn to riots, arson and murder.

That is the real price of the Democrats becoming a secular party and rejecting people of faith unless they are willing to take off their faith like a coat when it become too hot to handle.

They have chosen to pay that price but let me point out that you have the rest of your life to make a different choice but not a second more.

So to finish with my Indiana Jones Theme: Choose wisely.

Stupidity and the economy

Posted: September 22, 2020 by chrisharper in economy

By Christopher Harper

As the Ragin’ Cajun James Carville put it: It’s the economy, stupid!

Despite the whack-a-mole strategies put forward by Biden and his team, voters in crucial swing states say the economy is their top issue for this election.

Keep in mind, 2019 was a record-breaking year for the U.S. economy. Median income hit its highest level ever, and the poverty rate dropped to a 60-year low. The pre-coronavirus economy under President Trump was the strongest in decades. Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, and women all saw their incomes rise faster than the national average.

As a result, it’s also clear that Trump is the best choice to lead the post-pandemic comeback for the economy.

On the other hand, Biden has promised higher taxes and a massive amount in federal spending—a combination that’s likely to turn the economy into an absolute mess.

DaPost’s Henry Olsen is one of the few media types to call attention to the bad medicine for the economy that Biden has proposed. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/16/joe-bidens-agenda-is-frighteningly-expensive/

As Olsen noted, the Manhattan Institute estimated that Biden’s plans would cost more than $8 trillion over the next 10 years. Analysts from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School put the increase in federal spending a bit lower at $5.4 trillion over the next decade.  

Either figure means the federal government’s share of the economy would expand dangerously. Penn’s model implies that Biden’s plans would make federal spending roughly a quarter of gross domestic product by 2030, the highest figure outside of the post-recession budgets in 2009 and 2020 in more than 50 years. With local and state governments adding 15 percent to that slice of GDP, the public sector would account for 40 percent of the U.S. economy.

That’s as close to socialism as the nation has ever been.

Biden’s plan also doesn’t pay for itself even though it would significantly increase taxes. The competing analyses agree that Biden’s tax proposals would raise about $3.5 trillion in new revenue.

That’s a shortfall of somewhere between $2 to $4.5 trillion. Federal budget deficits are dangerously high and unsustainable, particularly after the outlays for the pandemic, and Biden would make the situation much worse. 

As Olsen notes, Biden’s proposals would be among the largest in decades—more than former Democratic nominees John F. Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton combined.

Not surprisingly, few Democrats and media types have pointed out the obvious: Biden’s plans would be an economic disaster.

Maybe it’s time to roll out Carville to preach to the choir.

Shot Chaser Hangover Pournelle and Niven, McConnell and Trump

Posted: September 22, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Shot: circa 1976

“First we must cross the river,” Benito was saying.  “Do you believe me now when I tell you that you must not attempt to swim it, or even get wet from it, or must you try that too?”

“What happens if I just dive in?”

“Then you will be as you were in the bottle.  Aware and unable to move.  but it will be very cold, and very uncomfortable, and you will be there for all eternity knowing that you put yourself there.”

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle Inferno 1976

Chaser: circa 2013

Hangover: Sept 19th 2020

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