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Indulgence Calendars for Aug and a Reminder about the Special Aug 2nd Plenary Indulgence available

Posted: July 31, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Since the indulgence calendars for July were a day late going up I thought I’d make up for it by getting this month’s calendars up a day early.

It’s also a good time to remind everyone that there is a special Plenary indulgence available on Aug 2nd:

Anyone who visits a Catholic church with the intention of honoring Our Lady of the Angels and recites the Creed, the Our Father, and prays for the Pope’s intentions, may receive a plenary indulgence on Aug. 2

To get this indulgence like any other you will need to be free of mortal sin, have gone to confession within 20 days before or after the date and receive communion on the day.

Don’t miss out on this easy indulgence: As for the Calendar here is the August Calendar

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And the blank one:

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Ace Offers a Deal

Posted: July 30, 2023 by datechguy in blogs, election 2024, elections, politics
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Stacy McCain had a great piece noting that it’s generally a bad idea to piss off Ace of Spades.

Something I realized long ago, sort of Rule Number One for survival in the conservative blogosphere: Never piss off Ace of Spades.

Ace has very good instincts about who is or is not Down For The Agenda. If he ever starts taking shots at somebody, you can bet that sooner or later that person will prove himself to be an unprincipled quisling.

But why bring up Allahpundit at this late date, eh?

If you look at the RCP average, Trump is beating DeSantis 3-1 and, quite frankly, DeSantis is starting to look like This Year’s Scott Walker. It is therefore remarkable that Ace would take this stance just now, when Trump looks like a shoo-in for the 2024 GOP nomination.

But Ace being Ace is a person who tends to say what he thinks and de damned to what the numbers are:

Every one of Trump’s problems gets weaponized against DeSantis, and then people wonder — Gee, why aren’t DeSantis’ supporters more interested in talking about Trump’s problems?

Tell you what: If Trump issues a STRONG statement clearing him from the previous lies that DeSantis is a pedophile, gay, cheats on his wife, killed more people with Covid than Democrat governors Newsom or Cuomo, then I’ll join you in your calls for STRONG statements clearing Trump of crimes which, let’s face it, he probably did commit.

And while Ace notes the horrible double standards being applied he says the line that for some Trump supporters will be considered Crossing the Rubicon:

The argument is really about selective prosecution of crimes that The Regime has previously not charged prominent Democrats for, not for Trump’s actual innocence.
And as the DOJ was bringing more charges against Trump, it was also dropping all campaign corruption charges against the second-biggest donor to the Democrat Party in 2020.

All of this was actually avoidable by simply pushing the Trump record as president which is a pretty good one, but Stacy has one final suggestion to those who are all in on Trump:

Everything I’ve seen so far suggests to me that Trump is a lead-pipe cinch for the 2024 nomination, however much anyone may wish otherwise, or however much better DeSantis might be as a candidate in the general election.

Is there some way that could change? I don’t know, but maybe some of Trump’s more outspoken supporters should think about toning down their rhetoric just a wee bit, because they appear to be in danger of violating Rule Number One: Never piss off Ace of Spades.

All of this is good advice but while Ace’s deal is a good one and Stacy’s advice is even better none of it answers the question I have been asking for months:

If we believe that the last election was stolen and there have been no consequences for it, what steps will either a re-nominated Trump or a newly nominated DeSantis do to prevent this from happening again?

Because if neither Trump nor DeSantis have an actual workable plan to counter those tactics then neither of them have any business being nominated.

The #Unexpectedly Chronicles: You Never Hear This Discussed When Sportwriters Decry the Oakland A’s Pending Move

Posted: July 29, 2023 by datechguy in baseball, crime, Sports
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The subject of the Oakland A’s pending move to Las Vegas has been the subject of an awful lot of chest thumping by sportwriters all over the place who loudly denounce the very thought of the 29-76 A’s abandoning the City of Oakland, as they abandoned the city of Kansas City in 1968 and the City of Philadelphia in 1955.

The is all kind of talk about “loyalty” and the legacy of the great A’s teams of the 70’s and the Bash Brothers of the 80’s but there is a subject concerning the preference of Las Vegas over Oakland that has not come up in the context of the move by any sportswriter I’ve read nor any sportscaster I’ve seen or heard.

However it’s a subject that any resident of Oakland knows is one of the top concerns of the city, in fact it’s such a concern that the NAACP of Oakland has decided to state it publicly:

Some key quotes:

Oddly enough what the local chapter of the NAACP decry and the residents of the city know the national media which decries the inability of the A’s to draw fans doesn’t have a word to say, blaming the owner instead.

The subject of crime in the city, crime so bad that it’s expedient to pull a major league team, albeit one of the worst teams you will ever see, and move to a city so renowned for it’s criminal past that it hosts the mob museum is an odd omission, until you remember that there is a national election coming up and the issue of crime, particularly in cities run by the left (The last Republican mayor of Oakland was elected in 1961) and when it comes to media, no media is more consistently left than sports media, particularly on the national level.

So while the discussion of the move of the A’s continues over the next couple of years, you can bet your bottom dollar that the subject of crime in the city will continue to be ignored by those in media, at least until after the election.

Unexpectedly of course.

Every Time I think the Culture Can’t Get Worse It Does

Posted: July 28, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.”

C. S Lewis

I did a double take when I read this:

Yeah, call them sexually transmitted diseases, sexually transmitted infections, or sexually transmitted inconveniences; it’s still a good idea to avoid them. Failing to do so can result in things like overall health problems, blindness, disfigurement, and even death. But in America’s bizarre and Dali-esque last days you can do more than shout your abortion; you can also shout your STD. “Say it now and say it loud: I’m infected and I’m proud!”

According to a report in The Publica by Natasha Biase, the number of STD influencers erupting on social media is on the rise. There are people on various social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok (naturally) trying to convince their followers and viewers that it is fine to contract STDs, including HIV/AIDS.

You see the easiest way to avoid this type of thing is surprise, surprise the Christian life of sex saved for marriage and no sex outside of it but since we live in a post Christian society which can’t acknowledge this fact well I guess like the guy who decided to go to the psychologist vs the urologists over peeing his pants, people have decided to consider it a positive.

Because apparently it’s much better to pretend all is well than to deal with the reality of disease and its consequences.

If you want to know what the fruits were of parents not wanting to parent and wanting to be “friends” this is it.

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