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New Year New Indulgence Calendar
Posted: January 1, 2024 by datechguy in catholic, catholic devotionsTags: indulgence calendar
Now that we’re in a new year it’s a great time to pick up a new devotion to help your soul and the soul of those in purgatory along, the Indulgence Calendar.
Here is the Download for January
And if you’d rather fill in your own names, here is the blank version:
It never hurts to start the year on the right side of God. Happy New Year and a merry 8th day of Christmas and feast of Mary Mother of God.
I think we have been cursed to live in interesting times, but if that’s the case it’s been a curse we’ve brought onto ourselves as a society.
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As the blog just had its anniversary let’s end the year going back to an old tradition of the posts you liked and the posts you didn’t care for
#5th most popular: A good time to explain Conditional Absolution
The priest can give conditional absolution to everyone on the plane on his own, it would apply to any person on the plane who would have if conscious of mortal sin sought absolution.
I wouldn’t suggest betting my soul on that situation.
Really good advice there
4th most popular from the navygrade36bureaucrat: The Navy’s Health of the Force survey says we are…
Spoiler alert, it’s not good.
In the course of five years, we went from over 60% of young men intending to stay to retirement to just under 40%. This is really bad considering that men make up about 80% of the Navy
It’s like our armed forces are run by a cabal of our enemies.
3rd most popular: again from the navygrade36bureaucrat: If you’re rusting at the pier when nobody is shooting at you…
The Navy would like you to think that its all about lazy Commanding Officers and deck plate Sailors, and if they’d just try they could find time between their mandated diversity training and extremism training to scrub the decks a bit more and eliminate this problem. Am I exaggerating? Nope. Go read it off the official “Get Real, Get Better” page.
I’m shocked SHOCKED that people aren’t rushing to join.
2nd most popular: Rubicon Crossed: DaTechGuy Endorses Ron DeSantis For President in 2024
And when I say “Popular” I mean in terms of hits, this post is likely why my Days of Christmas fundraiser has managed only two tipjar hits
And thus I return to the bottom line for 2024.
The goal is to win, without the votes of people like this in states that aren’t already deep red we don’t win.
Yeah it’s unfair how Trump has been treated, yes it’s unfair that the last election was stolen from us, yes he did a great job as president and his list of accomplishments are something to sing about, it’s unfair that we have to operate under these circumstances, and it’s unfair that we have to take irrational hatred into consideration when making a choice, but you know what, we’re conservatives and we know Life Isn’t Fair.
We don’t need to like or be liked by these irrational people, we don’t need these people to agree with us, but if we want to win we DO need these people to vote with us come election day 2024.
If they don’t we don’t win
It’s going to even worse if Trump is right and Biden ends up not the Democrat candidate. (I suspect he is right btw)
And finally the #1 post of 2023 the winner is…
I’m Old Enough to Remember When the Left Insisted “All Lives Matter” is a Racist Dog Whistle!
It’s amazing how fast the rules change depending on who is breaking them.
Why I’m shocked SHOCKED that Congresswoman Talib would DARE to suggest that “all lives matter” after all the best and the brightest of the elites have told us for almost half a decade now that any person who dares utter this phrase must be a horrible racist who should be shunned and disreguarded.
Now of course I don’t believe that myself but these aren’t my rules, these are the rules that the left in media, academia and Politics have insisted on so how can it be that Talib can say this without being denounced.
Why anyone might suspect that they don’t actually believe in these new rules that they’ve prorogated and only apply them when there is a political advantage and toss them aside as soon as any ally, like say Mass murderers who slaughter helpless women and children and behead babies allies, might be held responsible for their actions.
Of course in an era when “microaggressions” can get you punished or expelled but calling for the extermination of Jews is protected speech on campus why would we expect anything else.
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End of the Year Thoughts Under the Fedora: I’m Old Enough to Remember… Election Shenanigans, What If’s, Days gone by, I SWAT you SWAT they SWAT and two Ghosts of Basketball past
Posted: December 30, 2023 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, Blame Trump, election 2020, election 2024, elections, nba, politics, Sports, Uncomfortable TruthsTags: celtics, colorado, donald trump, Georgia, maine, nba, stacy mccain, swatting
I’m old enough to remember when, just a few years ago, our friends in the left absolutely and positively insisted that anyone like me who claims the last election was stolen was some kind of conspiracy theorist? And yet now we have not only the story of Colorado by legal decision and Maine by practically a Royal Fiat banning Trump from the ballot.
At the same time and with none of the fanfare of those events we have the republican AG of Georgia who was vital in the cases against Trump suddenly appealing a ruling that he has to testify under oath about the Dominion voting systems that he apparently is going to have an updated security patch install for AFTER the next presidential election.
If things are clean wouldn’t you want to make it a point to note under oath just how clean they are?
I still can’t get over the idea of how much would have been different if the left/democrats simply treated Donald Trump as a normal Presidential candidate and as a normal president and had not bothered all that was done in 2020.
He would be in the final year of his second term and riding off into the sunset. Russia would not be in Ukraine, Hamas would have been kept in check, the US economy would have been booming, the border secure and our strategic petroleum reserve still full
I strongly suspect those who did all they could to steal the last election consider those things as bugs rather than features, less opportunity for graft you see.
Older and wiser heads alas didn’t prevail
Speaking of being old enough to remember I was going through an old backup hard drive I found which had all sorts of goodies from 2015 from me guest hosing Conservatively speaking on WCRN to old podcasts and coverage of all kinds of stuff from all over the country.
One thing I noticed was from a GOP event in NH that included Donald Trump before he had announced. He was leaving the hotel where the potential candidates were and I filmed his departure in passing thinking nothing of it.
Not a single person had a clue what was coming at the time.
I’m also old enough to remember when Swatting was confined to folks like Stacy McCain and the like.
You might forget that during the Kimberlin years Stacy and others involved in exposing that crowd were swatted. At the time I even went to my local police to warn them of that tactic since I was writing on the subject at the time. People didn’t seem to take it all that seriously.
But now we have members of congress and prominent folks like Johnathan Turley now targets
Finally yesterday my wife was working and my sons were engaged elsewhere so I went to my local Longhorn restaurant, sat at the bar, order the Spicy Bites (the single best appetizer value/taste combo that exists at any national chain) opened up Volume 3 of Shelby Foote’s epic Civil War trilogy to Hood defeat at Nashville by Thomas and watched the Boston Celtics play the Toronto Raptors at home.
It was the 2nd day of a back to back and stars Jason Tatum and Kristas Porzingis were not dressed and vet Al Horford were all unavailable so we saw a lot of reserves getting serious playing time. It was an exciting game with an odd finish where the Celtics blew a 20 point lead and had to eek out a win that wasn’t decided till the final second of the game, but two things jumped out at me that I hadn’t seen much of if at all in years
At one point in the 2nd quarter when the Celtics lead was seemingly comfortable I looked up at the screen and was shocked to see an NBA team with practically an all white team on the floor, technically you could call it an all “white” five because the only player of color on the floor was ironically Derrick White (who has really come into his own this season) who frankly is light enough to as they used to say in the old days “pass”.
I suspect it’s been more than half a century since that has been the case but there was something that was even more shocking to me that NBA fans haven’t seen much of these days and that was the play of Center Luke Kornet who instead of launching 3 point shots from the outside was actually hustling to be under the basket to retrieve rebounds and be in a position to be fed for easy layups by a charging White or Brown.
Just a decade or two ago a center playing, well like a Center would not be much of a story but in today’s game it’s practically headline news. I’d like to see more of it because in the end, that tends to pay off.
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