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Five Slow Under the Fedora Thoughts, NFL, What Arson? Demographic Destiny, Fauci Farewell and Looking for Adorers in Fitchburg MA

Posted: August 22, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

The NFL has made a bit of a deal about their managing to get the suspension of Deshawn Watson up to 11 games from 6.

Of course their faux outrage is amusing given that they could have imposed a harsher penalty right at the start but they had no interest in it.

It’s all rather amusing, the reality is they want Watson to play games because there’s money in it and they don’t want a lot of debate or trouble with the players union, and given the owners records in this regard the idea that this is anything more than just a big theatrical production is a joke.

The continuing violence against churches and pregnancy centers and the continual apathy of leftists in authority concerning said violence keeps taking us closer to the advent of actual violence in return.

Of course once that happens the left and the media will have no problem at call condemning it.

That the public has been so willing to go along with all of this has been one of the biggest cultural changes in my lifetime.

Yesterday I noted that some feminists are figuring out they’ve been sold a bill of goods, In researching for that piece I spotted this from Stacy McCain’s site that expands on the subject:

What we are witnessing in the 21st century are the late-stage effects of cultural decadence, where children raised in chaotic environments — with divorced or never-married parents, no religious influence, surrounded by drug abuse and other social pathologies — grow up to become dysfunctional adults who exercise toxic influence in the lives of others. Institutional commitments to “inclusion” and “diversity” make it difficult to avoid these dysfunctional people, and we are forced to tolerate deviant behavior in our midst. Whether it’s riots on university campuses, drug addicts encamped on the streets or deranged lunatics threatening violence against us, citizens are expected to adapt to the increasing prevalence of antisocial behaviors, which become normalized.

Stacy wrote that four years ago and it’s only gotten worse. Of course as the left has now turned to spaying and neutering their own kids the gap between the birth rates of believing religious and ardent feminist leftist will continue to increase to the point where stealing election will be considered a necessity for them to retain any power outside the bluest of blue zones.

Unexpectedly of course.

The only thing sadder then the fact that Dr. Fauci will retire without any consequences for the havoc that he has wrought on this nation and perhaps the world is the fact that he may in fact believe that he has no done so.

If you had to find someone who could be the model of Sir Humphrey Appleby in the US Fauci is it.

I’d close this section with a vulgarity but as I noted a few days ago Fauci is only one good confession away from being right with God.

Finally speaking of getting right with God my church St. Bernard’s Parish at St. Camillus Church is looking for adorers who wish to spend an hour with the Blessed Sacrament.

We used to have a 24/7 Adoration chapel but COVID did away with that. For now we are looking at Mondays 8:30-7 and Tuesdays 8:30-4 in the main church but come Advent we hope to have the Chapel open one day a week from about 9 AM to 7 PM.

If you live in the Fitchburg/Leominster area and have an interest let me know via comments.

Louise Perry or My Very Catholic Mother (Born 1924)

Posted: August 21, 2022 by datechguy in culture, Uncategorized
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If she’s good enough to sleep with she’s good enough to marry.

Dominic James Ingemi (1921-1987)

I’ve been saying for many years that the Sexual Revolution is over and men won and the time has come when some young women are figuring it out too.

I’ve also been saying for years that the primary cause of this insanity has been the 60’s generation, unlike every generation before them never growing out of the idea that they were smarter than their parents and thus rejecting literally millennia of trial and error in how to raise kids and maintain a society.

Feminist Bari Weiss (born 1984) is a product of that generation and would have reflexively rejected the advice my very Catholic father (born 1921) and my even more Catholic mother (born 1924) would have given on how woman should carry themselves as being patriarchal tripe from a repressed society (ironically while at the same time referring to them as part of the “Greatest Generation” which is a device used to excuse all generations that follow from reaching their levels of success) however she was so impressed by 30 Year old Louise Perry arguments on the subject that she gave her space on her site to repeat them:

I’m not a religious conservative. I’m a feminist, and I’ve spent my entire professional life working on the issue of male violence against women—first in a rape crisis center, and later as a journalist and a media relations director for a legal campaign against sexual violence.

Ah reality, what lessons it teaches

It’s precisely because I’m a feminist that I’ve changed my mind on sexual liberalism. It’s an ideology premised on the false belief that the physical and psychological differences between men and women are trivial, and that any restrictions placed on sexual behavior must therefore have been motivated by malice, stupidity or ignorance. 

In the piece Ms Perry goes on to give advice to young women, advice which sounds rather familiar to my nearly 60 year old ears. Here is a smattering of it:

  • Distrust any person or ideology that pressures you to ignore your moral intuition.
  • Chivalry is actually a good thing. We all have to control our sexual desires, and men particularly so, given their greater physical strength and average higher sex drives.
  • Sometimes (though not always) you can readily spot sexually aggressive men. There are a handful of personality traits that are common to them: impulsivity, promiscuity, hyper-masculinity and disagreeableness. These traits in combination should put you on your guard.
  • A man who is aroused by violence is a man to steer well clear of, whether or not he uses the vocabulary of BDSM to excuse his behavior. If he can maintain an erection while beating a woman, he isn’t safe to be alone with.
  • The category of people most likely to become victims of these men are young women between the ages of 13 and 25. All girls and women, but particularly those in this age category, should avoid being alone with men they don’t know or men who give them the creeps. Gut instinct is not to be ignored: It’s usually triggered by a red flag that’s well worth noticing.
  • Monogamous marriage is by far the most stable and reliable foundation on which to build a family.

Any of those things could have come right from the lips of either of my parents and she throws in a few more that Mom would have had mom nodding her head in agreement with a caveat or two.

  • Get drunk or high in private and with female friends, rather than in public or in mixed company. (mom would have suggested avoiding getting drunk or high period)
  • Holding off on having sex with a new boyfriend for at least a few months is a good way of discovering whether or not he’s serious about you or just looking for a hook-up. (They would agree but suggest holding off sex period)
  • Only have sex with a man if you think he would make a good father to your children—not because you necessarily intend to have children with him, but because this is a good rule of thumb in deciding whether he’s worthy of your trust. (that’s basically my dad’s advice to me with the sexes reversed Mom would have said wait till you’re married, but should would tolerate, with overt disapproval waiting till a wedding date was set.)

This next paragraph produced a wide grin from me:

None of this advice is groundbreaking. It’s all informed by peer-reviewed research, but it shouldn’t have to be, since this is what pretty much most mothers would tell their daughters, if only they were willing to listen.

The source of said grin is that all of this had already been known thanks to many centuries of experience and reality informed by trial and error, the best type of peer reviewed research there is which was handed to the 60’s generation on a silver platter and tossed away.

Nor did we have to go back to folks born in the 1920’s to hear said advice. Stacy McCain who has been writing and blogging on this subject for a decade is only a couple of years older than me but if Ms. Weiss had read these words from Stacy written in 2015

Pardon the deliberately provocative clickbait headline, but the campus “rape culture” discourse keeps avoiding this issue. There is an obvious connection between (a) claims that sexual assault is an “epidemic” among college and university students; (b) the phenomenon of binge drinking among students, most of whom are below the legal drinking age; and (c) the adamant insistence of feminists that it is “slut-shaming” and “victim blaming” to suggest how (a) and (b) are most likely related.

She would have immediately rejected him as a misogynist and cheered as Twitter banned him for daring to quote feminists in their own words online, yet when the 30 year old Ms. Perry suggests that a woman should not get drunk or high in public or in mixed company it’s a revelation worthy of her site. That of course is the cynic in me for in the 18th Century Ben Franklin wrote

Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other, 

Poor Richard’s Almanack 1743

and the belated relearning of these lessons proves his timeless wisdom once again. There is however more to life than cynicism. The Catholic Church teaches about redemption to understand the the joy and value in it

In the end the fact that Ms. Perry has managed to relearn the lessons her parents and grandparents rejected from history is a commendable thing and the fact that Ms. Weiss is able to see the wisdom of these lessons from her and pass them along to others who need them is even better, something to be celebrated because it’s by relearning these lessons and applying them that we can avoid the costs that three generations have and are paying for the insanity that is modern feminism.

Or as Jesus Christ himself said when the disciples told him that others outside their company where driving out demons in his name:

For whoever is not against us is for us.

Mark 9:40

The FBI Poll, Consequences, and Some Semantics

Posted: August 20, 2022 by datechguy in crime, politics
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Question: What do you get when the FBI starting acting like the Biden Administration’s personal Gestapo?

Answer: A majority of the people deciding that’s what you are:

There are several oddities here the first being that for the entire time of the Trump Administration Democrats called him a Nazi but at no time did he either use the FBI as a private Gestapo against his political enemies nor did the people think of the agency as Trump’s private gestapo. Yet one year into the Cleanest election in the history of historyTM you have the majority of the public considering them the president’s private Gestapo.

The second is that the people most responsible for these actions that have driven this opinion have little care what the reputation of the agency is as long as it serves their political purpose.

The third is that left liberal seem delighted. And I suspect it not because they don’t think the FBI is acting like their own personal Gestapo but because they ARE. Remember a solid quarter of the Iraqi population liked Saddam because they where the folks who benefited from the oppression of his people. I suspect when (not if) the GOP decides to do the same when they return to power they’ll regret it as much as they did Harry Reid’s filibuster moves.

The biggest losers here of course is the agency itself because once honorable and honest people decide that there is no place for them in the FBI then only dishonest and dishonorable people will apply, this will within a generation turn it into exactly what the people think it is right now. We’re already seeing signs of this in the armed forces and unlike the Army you can’t have a draft for the FBI.

All of this of course comes from the steal of the election and the more I see of this the more I’m wondering if Trump as president was either in the process of or on the verge of exposing something so bad for the left/deep state that it not only justified the steal but justified destroying the FBI as a law enforcement agency.

One final note: The one expectation I take with these polling results is this. Joe Biden has the decision making authority of an ice cream cone. The FBI is no more Joe Biden’s personal Gestapo then they are mine and people who think so are wrong.

However if you ask me the question “Is if the FBI has been acting like the person Gestapo of the Biden Administration?” that’s accurate and I’d have to say “yes”. The question I have is, “Who is actually making the call”?

Update: In fairness the FBI has not been right for some time:

A Very Important Thing for Every Faithful Practicing Catholic to Remember About Those on the Left Attacking us and Our Churches…

Posted: August 18, 2022 by datechguy in catholic, catholic devotions
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Every single person involved in these vile attacks both physical and verbal are a single good confession away from the mercy of Christ.

I suspect that’s why Christ tells us to love and pray for our enemies to help them toward that step so they can be hired to work that last hour in the vineyard.

Never forget some of the giants in the pro-life movement started out on the side killing kids.

None of this means that we shouldn’t fight the culture wars, we should and we must fight hard and strong, yet we must never forget that those we fight against whether or not they recognize it are children of the same God as us.

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