That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the feeling, really \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as Blondie and I walk the dogs of a morning, and discuss such weighty matters as who remembered to bring sufficient poopy bags, if it is safe enough to let the Weevil off leash long enough to have a brisk run up and down the long fence behind which lives another Boxer mix who carries on a sort of fence to fence tag run, how many tomatoes we are likely to get from our current planting of garden bounty, if there will be enough cucumbers to make a decent batch of pickle spears soon, what to have for dinner that evening \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and the morning gleanings of various internet news sites that we favor, upon rising from our slumbers first thing of a morning. <\/p>\n
I favor Instapundit myself \u00e2\u20ac\u201c out of long habit, even if he did drop this site from his blogroll a couple of years ago, but my daughter favors a combination of TMZ and the Daily Mail website, which (oddly enough) often puts up items of American news days before it appears in our own very dear mainstream media organs. Nope, tis true, tis true: sensationalist, twee, celebrity-addled, frequently misspelled\/ungrammatical\/confusing\/sentimental-enough-to-trigger-a-diabetic-reaction, the DM still unashamedly and without much bias that I can detect covers the news. What a concept, hey? (Leaving aside the DM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s editorial bias, whatever it might be. When it comes to Brit newspapers, I used to favor the London Times and the Spectator myself, until they put everything interesting behind a paywall, then the Telegraph, and even the Guardian \u00e2\u20ac\u201c until \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, that last just went beyond the pale for me. The lefty establishment bias just got to hard to take. God knows what the Grauniad thinks of the Tea Party; I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a stomach strong enough to check.)<\/em><\/p>\n Anyway \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to see ourselves as the DM sees us. My daughter notes the increasing numbers of American commenters, who ask why they hell do they have to go to a British newspaper site to see relatively unbiased American news. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d guess it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably because the DM doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to actually have a rep in among the White House Press Whores, or among the local establishment in whatever city the interesting story of the moment comes from. So, they can tell the story and access-to-the-elite-establishment be damned. Kind of refreshing, actually: what was the old press motto? To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable \u00e2\u20ac\u201c damned if it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem that principle has been reversed, in these degraded modern days.<\/p>\n Anyway \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we were talking about a wide-ranging number of topics, but actually, they weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t all that wide-ranging. Mostly it was the various aspects of the Federal Gummint\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heavy and strangling hand descending on a variety of concerns and businesses: the EPA going after coal-burning power plants (what \u00e2\u20ac\u201c do they want rolling blackouts?), the Department of Labor going all \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for the chiiiiiiiildren!\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in forbidding children, tweens and teens from working certain essential jobs on family farms, hammering the Catholic church for not handing out free birth control like it was Skittles, the EPA going after rabbit breeders, the Justice Department casually allowing weapons to walk from border states into Mexico, prosecuting Gibson guitar manufacturing enterprise for using certain kinds of imported wood, the TSA (who easily could be the most despised organization in the US today but for all the competition from the EPA)<\/em> feeling up four-year old girls and ripping off wheelchair bound veterans, the NOAA enthusiastically ruining the livelihoods of New England independent fishermen \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and the Trayvon Martin\/George Zimmerman imbroglio, with respect to flash-mob violence and the disinclination of our own very dear Department of Justice to become involved in prosecuting those who incite racial violence. Long list it was, too. So, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I want to get fitted for a tinfoil hat just yet \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but WTF do these various numbskulls think they are doing? Exactly how far do they think people can be pushed before an individual or a community entirely looses patience? I mean \u00e2\u20ac\u201c do they want large numbers of Americans to openly defy the Feds, nonviolently or otherwise? Is this deliberate incitement or just dumbassery on an epic scale? <\/p>\n I know, cheerful thinking for a morning walk. I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll go fire up the canning kettle, and put aside another dozen jars of home made pickles, relishes and sauerkraut. To the best of my knowledge, the EPA or the DOJ hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come out regulating against that \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 yet. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the feeling, really \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as Blondie and I walk the dogs of a morning, and discuss such weighty matters as who remembered to bring sufficient poopy bags, if it is safe enough to let the Weevil off leash long enough to have a brisk run up and down the long fence behind which lives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,20,28,84,31,5,17,13,21],"tags":[215,213,214,212,216,197,217],"class_list":["post-7641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aint-that-america","category-domestic","category-general-nonsense","category-good-god","category-health-and-wellness","category-local","category-media-matters-not","category-politics","category-rant","category-sarcasm","tag-epa","tag-george-zimmerman","tag-gunwalker","tag-home-canning","tag-noaa","tag-trayvon-martin","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7643,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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