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Under the Fedora: Competence Rules, Russia Mistakes, Islam vs Alphabet in Michigan, Racism Shortage…Except in AI

Posted: July 16, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Stacy McCain notes some excellent police work in identifying a serial killer:

According to cops, Heuermann kept the cell phones of two victims and used the phones to get numbers of their relatives, then used “burner” phones to taunt at least one victim’s family member. However, Heuermann apparently didn’t realize that having his own cell phone with him at the time he used the “burner” phones meant that he was “pinging” off the same phone tower. So cops pored over the phone information and, by a process of elimination, narrowed down the possibilities to a comparative handful of potential suspects, and then — because a witness had seen a green pickup truck near one crime scene — this brought Heuermann to the top of the stack, as he sometimes drove a green truck he borrowed from his brother. Once he became the focus of the investigation, Heuermann’s financial records and Internet activity added more evidence against him, and finally detectives got a DNA match from discarded garbage. 

Note that all of this was observation and deduction. Not a woke move in sight.

Newsweek is reporting that according to a Russian Lawmaker the whole movement of the Wagner Group to  Belarus to allegedly prepare for an attack against Poland.

While I think this would be very foolish as Poland is not only well armed but would be very motivated in a shooting war vs Russia for reasons still in living memory all of this talk concerning the Suwałki Gap is continuing fallout of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States and Poland from World War II to the end of the Cold War that is now in play thanks to Ukraine.

While aiding the Soviets bleed Germany making victory in the west easier I’m thinking in the long term enabling Stalin and thus communism’s survival in world war 2 remains one of the biggest strategic errors in the history of the United States.

The clash between Islam and the “Alphabet People” continues in Michigan as two members of Hamtramck Human Relations Commission after they flew the LGBTQ pride flag over a public sidewalk in the town run by American Muslims.

This is in Michigan where they are preparing a law to treat “misgendering” people as a felony with huge fines.

I can’t wait to see what happens when Muslim citizens begin to flout that law if it passes

I’m old enough to remember when a new artist covering a hit was considered a complement to the previous one:

Clearly the Demand for actual “racism” and “Oppression” far outpaces the supply.

Finally there was a bizarre story at Buzzfeed about using a chatbot to illustrate how Europeans saw Americans from every state

Interesting note except for Hawaii every person is white, apparently Europeans and AI don’t think there are any black or Spanish people in the US

A Sad Thought on a Good Story

Posted: July 15, 2023 by datechguy in middle east
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When I saw this headline at Don Surber’s site my first thought was: “Wow!”

Doctors RE-ATTACH ‘decapitated’ boy’s head after 12-year-old struck in horror accident.”

When I read the story and saw this part

Suleiman’s surgery was a success and he was sent home with a neck brace and is being monitored by doctors.

Dr Einav said it is impressive that he is “functionally normally” already and does not appear to have any lasting nerve damage.

The boy’s dad stayed with his son in the hospital and told medics: “I will thank you all my life for saving my dear only son. Bless you all. 

“Thanks to you he regained his life even when the odds were low and the danger was obvious.”

my second thought was: “Double Wow!”.

But then I remembered that the boy was a Palestinian and he was treated by Jewish Doctors in Israel and then remembered this story from twenty years ago:

Downstairs, before we left, the head of the hospital, an Israeli named Audrey, was showing me the children’s waiting room. I couldn’t help but notice, all around, an Arab woman with her son, an Arab family over there checking in, Arab children playing with the toys while waiting. The doctor saw the look on my face and laughed. “Oh, yes, we treat everyone.” I guess I was astonished. She just shrugged. “We’re Jews. This is how we live. It’s also for the future. They’re not going anywhere, and we’re not going anywhere. There will eventually be peace. There has to be.” When? A month? A year? A hundred years? More? She didn’t know. I had to say it. You’re incredible. You take everyone, you treat everyone, no one goes first, no one goes last, you just go in order of who needs help. That’s, like, Mother Teresa stuff. “We’re not saints, we’re just doing our jobs. It’s not easy, I admit. And it gets hard when they cheer when the bodies are brought in.” I looked at her. What did you say? She sighed. “Yes, it gets hard when they cheer.” This was one of the times during my trip when I held up my hands and said, “Stop. Wait.” I turned and walked away to breathe deeply for a minute. I wonder if they’ve restocked that mini-bar. Yeah, probably. It’s a good hotel.

And I recall that there have been no evidence presented to me that this has changed one bit and that’s when my thoughts turned sad.

As US Troops Are Called Up for Ukraine A Reminder to All Who Enabled The 2020 Steal

Posted: July 13, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

When you see this story:

and this:

Just remember this and everything listed here, was made possible by your fear of making waves.

Ending Celibacy in the Catholic Church A Solution that Causes Problems and Solves None

Posted: July 13, 2023 by datechguy in catholic, Church doctrine
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Today I noticed this tweet from Church Militant:

The fact is while the motives for those pushing this might not be all that pure I find this issue interesting because unlike Gay Marriage or communion for the divorced this isn’t an issue that involves making mortal sin licit.

Many people forget that the imposition of celibacy on the priesthood was itself a reform to stop inherited parishes being passed down to sons as a family business rather than being about the worship of God, so if this reform was rolled back while it would be a big change from what we’re used to it would not be an assault on the doctrine of the church.

But there is a difference between this change being “licit” and it being wise. Let me give you a few reasons why this would be a rather foolish idea.

  1. Time: If there is one thing that you will notice about your parish priest is that his time is at a premium. Between masses, hospital and nursing home visits, and various duties attending parishioners in need, a priest is very busy particularly give these duties are a 24/7 situation. Add to that the administrative duties and you leave very little time to take care of a wife and family.
  2. Cost: Right now the cost of medical care for retired priests is a significant expense. Consider what costs you would be adding to the church in general and to parishes in particular if you added the cost of insuring a priest, his wife and children.
  3. Housing: Once you are housing a priest his wife and his family you suddenly need bigger accommodations. While this might not be a disaster when you have a rectory that has a single priest when it was built to house several, if you have a parish with multiple priests suddenly housing one or more families becomes a real problem.
  4. Scandal: What do you think will be the situation when a priest and his wife quarrel? Or a priest and his son? What happens when a priest’s son or daughter gets in trouble or if you run into a situation where a wife wants to leave? All of these things not only consume time to try to repair but have the potential for scandal within the church.
  5. Jealousy: Anyone who has been in a parish for any amount of years will notice that there are a group of women who tend to pursue priests some more subtle than others. What do you think will happen when it is suddenly licit for a priest to get married? The pursuit of eligible priests in a parish will be a lot more brazen with results that will generate a lot of difficultly in for a man trying to fulfill his pastoral duties. And can you picture the type of trouble a woman whose advances are rejected by a priest can cause? Does the church really need that?

And of course none of this will solve the problem of predatory priests when you consider that four out of five cases involve homosexual behavior, in fact you might end up with the horrible situation where a priest uses a wife as a “beard” to cover such behavior. And these are just the problems that I’ve come up with today.

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