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Trump’s stand on life and Mother Angelica on Peanuts

Posted: September 19, 2023 by datechguy in abortion, catholic, elections, elections, politics, primaries
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Remember, vote for life. It may be your own.

Mother Angelica

Yesterday Donald Trump hit Ron DeSantis from the left for signing a heartbeat bill suggesting that such bills hurt the republican party and talking how he would sign a compromise national bill restricting abortion to 13 weeks.

I can’t speak for others but I’m catholic and abortion is a sine non qua for me. It’s they type of thing that you risk your soul over. I’ve got enough sins that I worry about without compromising myself over life for the sake of a primary or national election.

Mother Angelica, the founder of EWTN put it very well herself when it comes to compromising on sin in her famous story concerning Peanuts. Her nuns were selling peanuts as a fund raiser and were doing pretty well on it when suddenly a new concessions manager demanded an “advertising fee” or as mother put it a kickback. When he threatened to pull the concession from her her answer was classic:

Mother Angelica: Look, if I’m going to hell, it’s not going to be over a peanut.

Here is her telling the story

Now there is no question that Donald Trump’s record on life as president was a great one. Three Supreme Court Judges that got rid of Roe vs Wade, first president to attend the national march for life, there is no question that his record was excellent.

Furthermore I don’t have a problem with incremental change when that’s the best you can do. In a republic you can change laws without educating the public and persuading their representatives to vote with you.

  • If a state has laws allowing abortion to the date of birth then in such a state I’ll welcome a 26 week ban
  • If a state has laws allowing abortion to 26 weeks I’ll welcome & work toward a 13 week ban
  • If a state has laws allowing abortion to 13 weeks I’ll welcome & work for a six week / heartbeat ban
  • if a state has laws allowing abortion up to six weeks I’d welcome & work for an outright ban
  • and if a state has laws outlaw abortion except for rape and incest I’d welcome & work for those exceptions to be removed because a life isn’t defined by the sins of their father.

if your lifeboat isn’t big enough to fit everyone pull from the water who you can while you build a bigger one.

But to retreat and condemn the efforts to save life for the sake of a political campaign, to reject what can be done in the hopes of getting power, to make the life of the unborn child with it’s potential and God given soul and to abandon the soul of the mother and the father an all those involved who risk their souls in this action is to abrogate our duty and to abandon the spiritual work of mercy that is admonishing the sinner because it is these souls that are at risk. Or as Mother Angelica put it:

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

Mother Angelica

All for the sake of a few more votes? All in the hope that both sides will love you? I think not.

Again Trump is my 2nd choice and if he gets the nomination I’ll have no trouble voting for him vs any of the “abortion till birth” democrats from Biden on down.

But in a primary with a choice between a candidate who has advance the cause of life and one that says he will roll back that advance for the sake of compromise? Well that’s really no choice at all.

DaTechGuy’s Almost Daily Pintastic NE 2023 Posts Quick Clips and the Free Play Room

Posted: September 18, 2023 by datechguy in fun, pinball, special events
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Today let’s view a few quick clips from Pintastic NE 2023

Here are some quick clips from Pintastic NE 2023

and more clips

And some Jersey Jack

And a look at the free play room

And Elvira’s House of Horrors gamelpay

There is a lot to see at every Pintastic NE, make sure you don’t miss the next one.

Pintastic NE 2023 the story so far:

Tent Cities and COVID Vaccines Both Subsidized Profit Centers

Posted: September 18, 2023 by datechguy in culture
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Dr. Cartwright: [Referring to the South Derbyshire council] Virtually all the children can read and write, even though they’ve had a progressive education, oh yes and they have the smallest establishment of social workers in the U(nited)K(ingdom)

Minster James Hacker: And that’s supposed to be a good thing?

Dr. Cartwright: Oh yes, sign of efficiency, Parkenson’s Law of social work you see. It’s well known that social problems increase to occupy the total number of social workers available to deal with them

Yes Minister: The Skeleton in the Cupboard 1982

Today Don Surber noted something important about the various non-profits that service the homeless;

“The camps are managed by Urban Alchemy, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that has rapidly grown into a multimillion-dollar street services enterprise and embodies an elastic philosophy of shelter. Urban Alchemy calls them “safe sleep villages.”

So, the homeless get to live in bigger tents while Urban Alchemy gets another fat city grant. Taking care of the homeless is quite lucrative. Down in Paragraph 20, the LA Times story reported these tents cost $44,000.

44 grand per tent plus the city paying $3 mil for 24/7 food means that somebody is getting a whole lot of bucks which makes the homeless a profit center.

“But DaTechGuy,”, you ask, “Aren’t these are non-profits?”

A “Non-Profit” is a tax status, it doesn’t mean that the people working for them do not make a ton of bucks working for them.

Basically there is no profit for these non-profits which are getting giant grants to actually solve these problems because once these problems are solved there are no multi million dollar grants to pay the activists who are basically on the government dole on a grand scale with ego massaging virtue signaling titles.

It’s no different that the COVID vaccine racket.

You see the reason why Ivermectin had to be discredited publicly is that if you a treatment that can stop COVID for pennies a dose you can’t get an emergency rule with tens or hundreds of millions of dollars without liability through the government.

It’s not about solving a problem, it’s about getting well off or with luck even generational wealth.

That’s why thousands had to die from COVID vaccine side effects or from the disease and hundreds of thousands of mentally ill drug addicted homeless must continue to suffer, so that others might become rich.

They had better hope that they are right about the Christianity they have rejected, because I wouldn’t want to face St. Peter in this state without the mercy of Christ to fall back on.

DaTechGuy’s (Nearly) Daily Pintastic NE posts: Homebrews and Circuit Meltdown brought to you by North Metro Tech Wakefield MA

Posted: September 17, 2023 by datechguy in education, entertainment, fun, pinball, short films/interviews, special events
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Thanks to a nasty fall I’m home on Sunday night and off my right foot to post more homebrew videos.

Here is the homebrew room with machines in place:

Homebrew machines are cool but the coolest of them all is Circuit Meltdown not just because it’s a nice game but because it was built as a school project by the North Metro Tech highschool in Wakefield Mass.

Here is my interview with their teacher Brian Caven:

My battery ran out so I ran back to my room and grabbed my spare as he was showing someone the guts and we continued:

Again this machine was designed and built by the kids in his class and here they are:

I suspect none of these kids are going to be short of jobs in a few years.

Pintastic NE 2023 The Story So Far

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