Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 56
January 4, 2017
Is job loss to automation inevitable?
We aren’t losing jobs to automation. We’re losing jobs to an impenetrable regulatory morass and artificial costs added by establishment politicians. Punishing companies for having businesses in the United States only makes companies not start up in the United States.
December 30, 2016
Bay Leaf Books in Newaygo is closing
Due to health issues, Bay Leaf Books in Newaygo will close in early 2017.
December 28, 2016
Why is the country so divided?
Because you keep trying to tell everyone else what to do.
December 27, 2016
The Art of Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking
If you’re on a diet, you want to avoid this book. But, as the saying goes, “Neither a fat wife nor a full barn ever did any man harm!”
December 21, 2016
Election lessons: be careful what you wish for
Republicans should learn from the Democrats’ mistake of the primary season: be careful what you wish for, you might just get… half of it. They wanted Donald Trump as Hillary Clinton’s opponent.
December 16, 2016
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December 14, 2016
How the left transformed vulgarity into courage and elected Donald Trump
When you lose to Donald Trump, look inward, because it isn’t Donald Trump’s fault. The establishment left, especially the media, attacked Donald Trump just like he was Joe the Plumber. But Donald Trump has the platform to attack back. Doing so took courage, and the Plumbers of America recognized that.
December 13, 2016
Retro Review: Small Soldiers
What if Steve Jobs made toys?
December 7, 2016
Clinton supporters, can we make a deal?
The left is refusing to look inward about why they lost the election, and instead continues to try to blame Trump supporters for just not being introspective enough to see how horrible their candidate is.
December 2, 2016
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This script takes a height and a width in whatever units you wish, an existing set of pixel dimensions for an image file, and calculates which pixel dimension should be cropped to match the poster size.
