No Bias Here

Says the monkey with hand clasped tight over his eyes.

Years ago I used to love listening to NPR while on long trips. 

Friday mornings were my favorite, with regular guests like the cowboy poet Baxter Black and the venerable Red Barber reminiscing baseball past and describing his camellia bushes.

That was more than 25 years ago, Red has been gone for 28 years.

NPR holds itself in high esteem, but they rely on the achievement of people and principles long since departed.

The soft tones are still there, but the bias has made them blind to possibility of an alternative explanation.

Today there is significant evidence circulating, about New York Post articles that NPR has prejudged to be "not really stories". An ironic position considering their support articles casting the President in a bad light and now proven falsely accusations leading to impeachment.

I would accept an investigation and reasoned conclusions, but this is an irrational rejection of evidence that the FBI possesses. On this topic, which parallel support of anarchy, NPR deserves to have its Federal funding removed.

The self describing comment "waste our time", would be better replaced with the "waste your money", and by your, the taxes money spent on NPR.

Rumble Test

The Rumble video site is becoming more popular, certainly not yet a rival to YouTube, but I'll help in any way I can. Currently attempting to learn how to embed Rumble videos and not having much success  other than a simple hyperlink.

Here is today's podcast by Dan Bongino, who earlier this week learned that he has a serious health issue to surmount. Best wishes to a patriot.

Bye Bye Twitter

 Have not been what you would call an active Twitter user.

I have followed leads to the platform by way of links found on the web and embedded within  emails.

We joined Parler a couple of months ago. While the content at this point seems to be mostly conservative, a balance is evolving. Parler's main principle is the protection of freedom of speech.

You can find me at Parler with the handle @JohnOtis.

Facebook is another matter. The founder has been erratic in application of policies, Facebook is suppressing speech and an unfairly favoring liberal policies and candidates. Facebook has been acting as a publisher by restricting content and should loose its protection from libel suits. Frankly it pisses me off that these assholes make money off of my use of their platform.  Unfortunately I consider that platform to be a collection of my friends and  keeping that in mind, try to treat friends as I wish to be treated, kindly. Not everyone recognizes that, so I use the snooze control often.

YouTube is a component part to platform upon which this blog rests. They have been censoring expression, reporting, and speech. Have kept my account open, using YouTube for technical research and such.  Social video viewing has, for me, been replaced by Rumble. As soon as that platform contains the bulk of the information I want, I will quit usage.