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Under the Fedora: From the Waitress’ mouth, No Interest, Tre Sorelle to Billy Bob’s, Forester, Cromwell and Graves Who and finally the Bright Side of a Split

Posted: August 29, 2024 by datechguy in culture, economy, under the fedora
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Now that I’m used to getting up at 5:14 AM for work I decided instead of dropping off the car last night for the oil change and general check before the inspection sticker to drop off my car at my mechanic’s early this morning and walk to a local diner where the waitress was surprised to see me alone as I’m normally there with my wife (off at work) or my priest (saying mass). As the election is close and she sees people daily I asked her what she was seeing.

She said things tended to vary depending on what people do but a lot of their regulars were doing OK (lots of contractors) and that in general for their base it wasn’t as bad as it’s been.

It wasn’t the answer I expected but that’s fine. I ask questions to get data point not confirm prejudices or advance agendas.

After breakfast I walked back down to the mechanics garage. He had since arrived and said my car would be ready around 9:30. When I returned after a sojourn at my sons house nearby the car was ready and would despite its age pass Massachusetts rigorous inspection on it’s first try.

But the real story came when we discussed the idea of him getting an apprentice as he had been doing this for 30 years. He told me that young folks simply weren’t interested in doing the work because that’s what the job was, long work and the few that did were snatched up by dealerships that could pay more.

It will be a sad day for me when he eventually retires, but I suspect by that time my driving days will be done.

After my inspection I ran some errands and headed out for lunch. On my way I spotted something interesting. A while back the daughters of Sabino the baker whose bread we used to buy as a kid and whose bakery burned down in a fire in my early teens, opened up a place in Leominster named Tre Sorelle which was an Italian food and items specialty shop. Sabino himself used to come in once or twice a week and I was able to buy the bread I had as a youth and give my sons a taste of it. The place closed a long time ago and has been empty, drove by today and saw it’s been transformed to a fast food place called Billy Bob’s.

Times, tastes and populations change.

Speaking of tastes changing I found myself in the mood to re-read Bernard Cromwell’s Sharpe’s Eagle or Robert Graves’ I Claudius or one of the later C. S. Forester’s Hornblower books during lunch. As I arrived at the restaurant 10 minutes before they opened and there was a Barnes and Noble’s 3 minutes away I ducked over to search for one of the three to pick up.

When I checked the fiction section the only one of the Sharpe’s books there was Sharpe’s Tiger the only Hornblower Book was Mr. Midshipman Hornblower which I had at home & wasn’t in the mood for and neither I Claudius or the sequel Claudius the God were in sight.

As little as 20 years ago it would have been unthinkable for a fiction section of a large bookstore to be deficient in any of those volumes but again, time and tastes have passed me by.

Finally you might remember the rather ugly split between Project Veritas and James O’Keefe who was the founder and face of the organization.

As you might have heard James being James he’s has continued on with his work even infiltrating the DNC this month and exposing some very iffy stuff from Act Blue concerning donations details of which you can find at OMG (O’Keefe Media Group).

but apparently Project Veritas is also still soldiering on and has an expose with a Lawyer who appeared for the FDA admitting on an undercover video that they abused their authority

I’m pleased Veritas is soldering on as it’s better to have more than one group doing that job that the media used to do.

Under the Fedora: Was it only 30 Days Ago?, Not at all insurrectiony, Well That’s Post Christianity For You, The Tom Hagen Math on Jews is now official, And a 1972 League no Hitter

Posted: July 26, 2024 by datechguy in baseball, catholic, dynasty baseball, fun, gaming, Israel, Israel vs Hamas, media, under the fedora
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Quick reminder: 30 Days ago Joe Biden was still the nominee of the Democrats and every MSM outlet out there INSISTED that if you suggested that he was in the slightest bit impaired you were a dishonest deep fake liar.

That it has been under a month since this moment is still a matter of wonderment for me.

The prime minister of Israel spoke to congress this Wednesday and as this happened a bunch of people who do not support Donald Trump for president stormed the capital and defaced a bunch of monuments in DC while burning American Flags and assaulted police

The press didn’t find any of this a problem and I predict the US government will not consider any of this stuff very insurrectiony. After all it’s not like they were Trump voters or doing anything REALLY dangerous like praying at an abortion clinic.

Well that’s what you get with stolen elections isn’t it?

This is how bad the gaslighting has become with the press.

Old friend Elizabeth Scalia is beside herself over the blatant in your face lies that the press is telling but I say the real issue here is lack of Christ:

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and you’d be surprised how a sermon on the dangers of hell heard when young might make a difference later in life.

While she skipped the speech of Netanyahu’ she had a private meeting with him away from the cameras and she came out of that meeting breathing fire:

This along with the ignoring of angry terrorist sympathizers in DC & NYC are the fulfillment of this statement that I made many years ago:

Right now the left has the Gays and the Transgenders and the Hollywood elites & media in which they are overrepresented and they figure that’s the best things to have, but in America Islam is a thing of the future.  In 20 years the children of Muslims now being raised on the tenets of Sharia law in America will be old enough to vote and Democrats going to make sure they get those votes when the time come, not now but 10-20 years from now.

DTG 2016

If you’re an American Jew and you don’t take measures to defend or protect yourself now you’re going to doom yourself to a future where the days of Moses in Egypt are your best case scenario.

Ok that’s an exaggeration, but not by a lot

And to lighten this heavy move our 1972 Baseball league had an interesting twist.

Last years World Series Winning LA dodgers have fallen on hard times with the worst record in the league and were facing the Cleveland Indians deep in a fight for a wild card spot. They started Wayne Twitchell who came in with a 1-10 record vs the 8-10 Bill Stoneman.

And this happened:

That the thing about baseball you never know when something like this is going to happen.

Lives and other things Saved and Lost Under the Fedora: The Media, Biden, RFK, Jose’s Vote , A good Death.

Posted: July 16, 2024 by datechguy in under the fedora
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Sir Guy of Gisbourne: Now that you’ve robbed us and had your fill of insulting us, we wish to leave. Come, Lady Marian.
Robin Hood: My own men will escort my Lady. But before you take leave of her, it might be as well if you thanked her for saving your life.
Sir Guy of Gisbourne: My life?
Robin Hood: Do you think you would’ve left this forest alive if it hadn’t been for her presence here

Adventures of Robin Hood 1938

A lot of media at the location and elsewhere are complaining about people blaming them for the attempt to kill Trump simply because they ‘ve been portraying him as Hitler and a threat to democracy who must be stopped at all costs to save us all.

The media in general and the press at the location in particular need to thank God almighty for their lives.

Because nothing would have turned the country in general and that crowd in particular into a mob seeking revenge like that shot hitting home.

I’ve been saying since after June 27th that if the press couldn’t force Joe Biden off the ticket it was likely the left would kill him.

But apparently when God saved Trump’s life he also saved Joe’s.

Not only has the subject been changed from his physical condition but the but the odds of the margin of a Trump victory going beyond the margin of fraud has become high enough that there is now little point in pushing Joe off the ballot, might as well let him take the fall.

Biden might not be the best of Catholics but all of those masses must have paid off.

Another life potentially saved by this is Robert F Kennedy.

Despite being an even more obvious target for assassination than Trump he has for months he has been denied secret service protection.

I presume this is because being a threat to pull vote from Biden voters who just can’t pull the lever for him, the Biden Administration and the folks giving orders wanted to make things easy for a potential killer so they’ve denied him protection right along.

Now a few days after Trump survives an attempt to kill him and a few hours after Trump publicly called on the Biden Administration to give him protection, the protection is given.

Like Biden there is no percentage in knocking off Kennedy anymore.

You might remember a few weeks ago I mentioned a Hispanic co-worker who had voted for Joe Biden last time who, sick of the economy and not willing to vote Trump told me in no uncertain terms that this time he is voting Robert F. Kennedy.

I took a Vacation day Sunday for my son’s birthday so I didn’t see him till yesterday. He came up to me again and said: “Now I vote Trump.”

That missed shot and raised fist changed everything, although in fairness I think the most critical voters to Joe Biden, those whose ballots magically appear after 1 AM on election day, are still as far as I know solidly in his camp. The question becomes will Trump margin be so beyond the margin of fraud that they won’t bother.

Finally let’s not forget the man who was murdered on Saturday. Corey Comperatore.

As a man who realizes everybody, no matter how rich or healthy eventually dies let me say this.

Corey Comperatore will be remembered in history as the man who responded in a moment of crises to successfully save his family and died doing so.

I’d wager that most men given their choice would choose to die peacefully in their bed, surrounded by loving family, children and grandchildren who he can say a final goodbye to before going. That in my opinion would be any man’s first choice and I’m sure his heartbroken family right now wishes that were the case.

But if a man had to pick a 2nd choice for a way to die, dying while saving the lives of your wife and kids has to be right up there and being remembered for doing so by the whole world is a pretty good way to go.

It brings to mind an old poem about men dying well that finishes:

But once in a while we can finish with style, and I ‘ope it don’t ‘appen to me.

Under The Fedora Biden’s Dementia Publicly Known +7 days, Whose the Boss? The 2nd Big Lie, Four Minutes made to Order, Donors Knew but didn’t care, But Trump!

Posted: July 3, 2024 by datechguy in Blame Biden Administration, media, under the fedora
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Of all the aspects of the great reveal (at least to Americans) about the condition of Joe Biden the part that has bothered me the most has been that nobody at all seems to care to publicly ask the question: Who’s the actual Boss who is functioning as President of the United States?

You don’t see it asked on TV, you don’t hear it asked on Talk Radio and certainly nobody in the press is asking the question.

I suspect this is because a lot of us on the right don’t need to be told. We figured out that this was Obama’s 3rd term from day 1 and don’t need to be told who has been actively and purposely destroying this country over the last three years and contrarywise nobody on the left wants to acknowledge that they’re OK with having an unelected and unaccountable person (or persons) ruling over them. Well except for Bill Mahar. That’s the “Democracy” they’re looking to save.

In terms of the health of this republic on the anniversary of its birth that’s the saddest thing of all.

The first big lie concerning this has been telling us Joe Biden is fit for office, the 2nd Big lie that the media has been pushing is that they had no idea this was going on.

That is the primary reason why you suddenly see Jake Tapper asking tough questions, the MSM suddenly generating stories about Biden’s mental health etc.

The Obama team that’s running the show knows even they can’t salvage the credibility of this administration to the left, but it’s vital that they salvage the credibility of the press or their usefulness is at an end.

Over the weekend there were conflicting reports on if the decision was made to Drop Joe Biden or not was made, Bill O’Reilly tells us that the decision to drop Biden has in fact been made and I think the best proof of it was the decision to send Joe Biden out to make a four minute speech from a teleprompter and then door dash away.

One doesn’t make that kind of decision if you are trying to convince the American people that old Joe is just fine and dandy, but you DO if you want to erode support for keeping him on the ticket from a voter base that (God knows why) is actually fond of him while convincing the no longer useful idiots of the Biden family that they need to go without having to arrange his demise that’s the way to do it.

That in fact was, in my opinion, the reason for arranging the debate so early. When this happens the Obama team has the time to remove him and if he had somehow managed to muddle through that’s four more years of the US run by our enemies.

One of the most significant reports that I’ve heard so far has been that Biden has been using a teleprompter at big money donor events for a very long time now.

While one should not doubt the ability of humans to ignore painful truths that they don’t want to acknowledge to any donor that should have been a gigantic clue as to what is actually going on. Apparently all these big money Donors who have been opening up their checkbooks for this administration for the last three years didn’t care that Biden wasn’t in charge as long as they were getting their cuts and priorities from those who were.

But now that the general public knows suddenly they can’t see pouring money down the drain. That stoppage of the feed trough is the best chance they have of convincing the Biden family to step aside without the Obama team having to arrange an “accident”.

Or as Sarah Hoyt put it:

I’ll get ahead of the news, Biden didn’t kill himself

While all of this creates a lot of trouble for the left the biggest problem the big reveal has created is that it’s taken the focus of the election off of Donald Trump and puts it on Joe Biden.

The single biggest strength of the left is the irrational hatred so many Americans have of Donald Trump. During the Trump years we had a good economy, successes nationally and internationally and the most robust dissent allowed without penalty. Yet the media/left has managed to sell the belief to their useful idiots that Trump who will be a lame duck as soon as he is elected, will somehow become a dictator putting people in camps despite the fact all these folks lived through the Trump administration without finding themselves oppressed by Dictatorship.

But between the SCOTUS rulings short circuiting the various trials and sentencings and the Biden dementia scandal the focus of the election has been taken off of Donald Trump and placed on Joe Biden.

Given the Biden economy, the riots, the wars and the economy as bad as I’ve ever seen in my life (Bob’s stores are the latest victims of it) the last thing the left wants is for this election to be a referendum on the Biden Administration. As long as it remains so Trump has a chance to create a vote margin between him and his opponent “too big to rig”.

This is why I think the 137 days to election day are going to be the most dangerous days for the American Republic in my lifetime because we are going to see the left make moves consistent with a desperate cornered animal.

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