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Under the Fedora A Hack? Say Something Nice, The Last Chance to Appear Competent, Revising the Economy Downwards, Underreported My Ass, Big Ears, Jacked, A Tale of Two Business Models, Solving Problems, Sweden, Pinball and my Goodbye

Posted: December 31, 2024 by datechguy in under the fedora
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Am I the only person who when I heard about the reported Chinese Hack of Treasury instantly thought this was to cover data already sold to the CCP willingly by this administration?

It’s a little too early to speak ill of the dead so rather than talk about Carter the president let me say this about Jimmy Carter the man. He really loved his wife and they apparently had an excellent marriage.

The one thing that the death of President Carter means, besides the issuing of his presidential dollar coin, is that the Biden Administration gets one final chance to do something right, handling the funeral as President Trump will have no responsibility for it.

Remember how that Cancer bill that the left blaming Musk for holding up was finally passed by the Senate when it was no longer useful for the narrative, well now that it’s no longer useful to lie about the job numbers they are being revised downwards in a spectacular fashion before Biden team is gone. As if any sane person believed them.

Oh now the press is also calling Biden’s mental decline the most underreported story of 2024. This is false, it was not underreported. It was specifically denied by the press and those speaking what was plain to any person with eyes or showing video examples of it were declared liars. These people are at best incompetent fools and at worst bought lying scum, or possibly both.

Side note. One of the advantages of having been a credentialed member of press while wearing a Doctor Who scarf is that the MSM assumes you are a leftist, I was able to hear what these people were saying in the press areas and let me say, there is nothing like hearing what the press has to say to each other off camera to make you realize they can’t be trusted.

If you really want to understand how Bad the Press is watch this fellow try to defend carjackers from being shot.

Speaking of Doctor Who the Christmas Special this year apparently did very poorly in the ratings. It was not a bad story and it had some real moments, particularly the ordinary year, and in most years it would have drawn respectable but not spectacular numbers and Gatwa wasn’t bad at all, but when you spend years chasing away your customer base bad things tend to happen to the numbers.

Of course quality Doctor Who stories are continuing to be produced regularly, only they are coming from Big Finish on audio rather than the BBC. It’s worth noting that Jodi Whitaker’s Doctor is getting a 12 episode series at Big Finish, while I won’t be buying them it will be interesting to see if with competent writers she can pull off the Doctor. The high quality of the writing at big finish did wonders for the reputations of Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy’s place in the Doctor Who pantheon.

It will be very interesting to see what a year or two of problems solvers being in charge does for America and the world. The amount of problems already solved just by them being about to take power has been considerable.

Speaking of competent Sweden whose novel approach of reality seemed to work with COVID has apparently decided to solve their problem of violent Islamic Immigration

On a local note a Fitchburg Bar & Grill is hosting a weekly pinball event. Alas Mill City Pub is holding it on Wednesdays and I have at least 2-3 Wednesday’s a month already taken for the next few years.

Finally this is my last post as a business. Starting tomorrow no more paid writers, no more covering stories, this blog ceases to be a business as of tomorrow. The writers who are here will still have posting rights if they want to use them and I’ll still post on occasion likely about our Dynasty Baseball leagues (Having a bad start in 73 so far)

or if something moves me to do so and of course the Indulgence Calendar will go up every month.

I regret that I didn’t score that final Donald Trump interview for you all and in addition to finding me here you will find me regularly on WQPH 89.3 FM’s Your Prayer Intentions and of course I’ll be at Pintastic NE every year scarf and fedora in hand although the camera will be optional from this point on.

I hope you found that last 15 plus years entertaining and informative. I’m very proud of that but most proud of the title I once held as “the hardest working person in the blogosphere”. And I thank all those who have had good things to say about the blog from Steve Bannon to Donald Trump, Pam Geller, Robert Spencer, the Granite Grok gang and of course Stacy McCain who I learned an awful lot from.

I’ve been all over the country and met amazing people everywhere because America is an amazing place full of amazing people. I shown and told you things as they were and have given my honest opinion unspun by cash or power. In return you have given me your time and support.

I will take the joy of those things to my grave, you’ve all made my life better. I won’t forget it.

Volunteering as tribute

Posted: May 11, 2024 by navygrade36bureaucrat in blogger for hire
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Sadly dear readers, this will be my last post here for DaTechGuy. Unfortunately, it’s been a struggle to keep revenue coming in, and when Peter said he would have to start cutting writers, rather than let others deliberate over the decision, I made the choice to step down.

It’s not all a loss though. I recently retired from the military (hence the lack of “This post doesn’t represent the DoD…), so I’m starting a fresh new phase of life as a self-employed person. I started working for Peter when my daughter was in Yale’s Children Hospital. It was a good distraction from an otherwise depressing situation. She passed away right as we were house hunting, and that experience prompted me to write “To Build A House.” Had I not been regularly blogging on DaTechGuy, I don’t think I would have had the writing skills needed to finish the book, let alone the audiobook.

My last years in the military were busy, so although I have two books I want to write, I haven’t had the time to do so. Any writer out there knows that if you don’t keep writing, your skills diminish, so sometimes my weekend blogging for DaTechGuy was the only real writing exercise I could get. Peter gave me the freedom to write about whatever I wanted to, and often it was my escape from an increasingly oppressive military culture hell bent on DEI initiatives, white supremacist witch hunts, and anything else that would distract from its lack of warfighting ability.

As I leave DaTechGuy, I don’t get any less busy. I’m now working with a team of folks at Walk The Talk Foundation to try and bring some accountability to the military, particularly the flag and general officers that have run our services into the dirt. The media has missed the big story on the decline in military recruiting. It’s less about DEI and a lot more about the poor treatment of service members. Every person I know getting out has said they won’t recommend the service to their family members. Given that a large percentage of military members serve because mom/dad/grandpa did, that by far has been the biggest depressor of military recruiting. Since the GOFOs can’t bring themselves to apologize for losing Afghanistan, poorly managing our shipyards and not fixing military pay, people like me have responded in “Atlas Shrugged” fashion by shrugging off the expectation that we keep supplying the military with our sons and daughters. At some point it’ll break, and hopefully like in Atlas Shrugged, something better will rise from the ashes.

So between helping Walk the Talk, writing two more books, teaching travel classes and helping churches and non-profit organizations with their computer networks, plus raising 5 kids….yeah, I’ll be busy.

If you’ve made it this far, I’d like to ask that you consider either donating to DaTechGuy or buying one of his books on Amazon. Leftist extremists’ pour money into their fake news organizations and make it hard for those of us willing to write and publish to make a living. Buying what we write and engaging with us online helps build that support community that we need. It’s not enough to not watch CNN or stop buying coffee from Starbucks…you have to take that money and put it to good use elsewhere. Think of it as you’re helping to prop up the folks punching back against the mainstream narrative…you may not be able to do the punching yourself, but you can support those that do, and it’ll make a difference. Even better, more money for the smaller groups of individuals forces Republican lawmakers to take them more seriously. It’s a slow and imperfect process, but its far better than donating to the Republican general fund and praying for results.

My only other ask is you get out and vote this year, and seriously consider volunteering as a poll watcher. I assisted on Governor Youngkin’s campaign in a small way, and it was because many of us went door-to-door and supervised voting booths that he swept in and kept Virginia from going overboard on blue policies. Yes, it requires you to get off your couch, stop commenting on social media and start doing something useful. Your opponents are doing this in droves, and our institutions will crumble unless good people stand up to take them back.

And if you think “I’m in a red state, it can’t happen to me,” remember that your opponents aren’t content to leave you alone…they will come after you until you bend the knee…just look at the Jewish students being hunted on college campuses if you need an example.

Take care, fight the good fight, and always punch back twice as hard!