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Liberal Police Contradictions, BLM Contradictions, A shock to David French, Bill Clinton’s Victory and A solution Under the Fedora

Posted: July 18, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

As of the latest Uvalde revelation the left has decided on their talking point:

You can find this tweet or a variation of it repeated all over the blue check world as the talking point which is essentially: 400 police with guns didn’t act to protect teachers therefore only police should have guns.

Idiots

Of course one of the reasons why the police might not have gone in at Uvalde can be illustrated by the reaction over the shooting of Tekle Sunberg who was pumping rounds into an apartment with a single mother and little kids:

Anything that can be exploited by the left is to be celebrated and kids being in danger? Meh!

If Sundberg had killed her and/or her kids it wouldn’t have been news, just a statistic to the BLM grifter crowd.

David French is shocked SHOCKED that when you import a large group of people who are religious into the country they tend to vote with the only political party that views belief in God as a positive thing:

A party that’s culturally disconnected from (or perhaps even scornful of) traditional religious faith is going to alienate itself from tens of millions of voters it could otherwise reach.

You would think a so called “conservative” would be thrilled with conservatives gaining votes from Spanish Speakers but they aren’t paying his bills anymore.

If this keeps up the Biden Admin will have a wall up by lunchtime.

Bill Clinton, take a victory lap:

In the documentary, Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss, Sharlene Azam, a Canadian filmmaker, says, “If you talk to teens [about oral sex], they’ll tell you it’s not a big deal. In fact, they don’t consider it sex. They don’t consider a lot of things sex.” In the documentary, teenage girls talk casually about their sexual experiences and even their forays into prostitution. One girl sums up the new attitudes: “Five minutes and I got $100. If I’m going to sleep with them anyway because they’re good-looking, might as well get paid for it, right?”

This is how the phony feminist movement empowered women. More like enslaved women. Those men-hating parasites have ruined the glorious exaltation of women in 20th-century America.

My wife would disagree, with their definition of what is sex and what is not.

All I could think of was positive reaction to the Belle Knox story. I suspect that the day will come when college women are encouraged to service Booster and administrators to pay their way and nobody will blink at it.

Don’t tell me that men didn’t win the sexual revolution.

Finally Shot and chaser

Virtue Signaling and Victim Envy

Posted: July 17, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Real Old Lady Ground Controller: This is ground control, you don’t appear to have flight clearance.

Cat: [expecting young hot GC from the CGI] You’re the ground controller?

Real Old Lady Ground Controller: Please state your name and clearance code.

Cat: Reality Sucks!

Red Dwarf Back in the Red Part 3 1999

For quite a while we have seen the phenom of “virtue signaling” whereby a person rather than practicing virtues like temperance, generosity, charity which involve effort, will, time, inconvenience and occasionally expense simply exhibits a ribbon, or a tag on a twitter account or a list of “pronouns” thus signaling to the “right” people that one has “virtue” without all the messy effort of having to practice any such inconvenient things.

We have now seen an increasing amount of another phenom which I like to call “victim envy”.

One of the things about modern life is how, even during a time of hardship, EASY it is.

The dishwasher, clothes washing and the AC alone broke the bonds of heat and water that enslaved millions prior to the 1900, the computer, the ability to work remotely and the common delivery of food and almost any product that we might want in as little as two days means that all the comforts that people spent centuries sweating for and dreaming of are a button push away.

Furthermore higher education which was once the province of the elite (I don’t comment on the quality) is available as is quality medicine ( I don’t comment on the vaccine madness here) is common and regular.

Even more amazing a degree of protections for races creeds and various groups enforced by laws rigorously enforced removes many of the roadblocks that as recently as 50 years ago were in some places were only overcome by the most determined people out there.

Yet even in all of this prosperity and ease we see people, particularly people with every possible advantage considering themselves “oppressed” and “victimized” over things as slight as “pronouns” or “misgendering”, we even have people of color who fifty years ago were fighting for integration demanding “safe spaces” and “segregation” and suggesting that the lack of such conditions is a cause for at best distraction and at worst failure.

In short, we have a generation of people who are more determined to be victims then their forebears were to avoid such indignities.

But the question is why? Why would someone wish to be a “victim”? Why would anyone want to feel oppressed.

The answer is quite simple: Victimhood provides a perfect excuse for failure.

Given all the advantages I had outlined and all the successes that our forebears had managed in the face of real hardship there is little excuse for failure. But after a generation of trophies for showing up and informing people how special they are, the realities of the world where effort must be exerted to achieve goals proves to be too much for those so coddled their failures need to be justified, particularly in a world comparably as easy as ours.

But if one is a “victim” it all changes.

  • Suddenly it’s not YOUR fault if you didn’t become a movie, or music or artistic star
  • Suddenly it’s not YOUR fault if you have tens of thousands of college debt and no job prospects
  • Suddenly it’s not YOUR fault that you’re still living with your parents and unable to make it on your own
  • Suddenly its not YOUR fault if you don’t have the aptitude for work that an employer needs.

None of your problems are YOUR fault, you’re a victim so every failure in your life can be the province of someone or something else.

There are few things more dangerous than an excuse, and the excuse for failure that victimhood provides is the most dangerous of all, both for society and for those who claim its mantle and cling to it for dear life.

Interviews and Audio from last week’s WQPH One Day Retreat at St. Benedict’s Abbey in Still River MA

Posted: July 16, 2022 by datechguy in catholic, catholic devotions, Church doctrine, special events
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Last Saturday I attended the one day retreat at Still River sponsored by WQPH. As you might guess I shot quite a few videos

An introduction

The sermon from the event

Shared Prayers from the event

A quick talk concerning Our Lady of Americas

A great speech from Deacon Bob Connor, Part 1

And Part 2

Two Audio only files, an interview with Maureen Capistran

And her opening remarks before the Q & A

and a closing interview with Fr. Augustine

It was quite a day and I hope you can join us on the next one.

DaTechGuy on Ed Morrissey Podcast today at 2 PM EST (Plus Pregnancy centers and DaTechGuy’s Laws of Media Outrage) Update (it’s not going out live)

Posted: July 15, 2022 by datechguy in abortion, catholic, DaTechGuy on DaRadio, podcast
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Lots of stuff going on in the house as we will have a friend staying over today so just a few minutes to let you know that I will be on Ed Morrissey’s podcast.

We will be talking about yesterday’s post and Elizabeth Warren’s attacks on pregnancy’s centers

As I was tying this it hit me that all these pregnancy centers are great examples of DaTechGuy’s law of media outrage to wit:

DaTechGuy’s 1st law of media outrage:

The level of Outrage or interest of the media and their allies on the left concerning any insult or prevarication concerning a person or thing will routinely be equal to the inverse of the degree of the political distance between said media / leftists and the target of said insult or prevarication at the time it is made

Attacks by Warren on centers that help woman do not generate outrage because the target, Pregnancy Centers, are diametrically opposite from the left in practice if not in theory

DaTechGuy’s 2nd Law of Media Outrage:

The level of acceptance of the positions and/or actions of any group or organization by the left and media is directly proportional to their current or potential value in electing liberal Democrats.

Actions against pregnancy centers fires up the Democrat base so the left and leftist pols are accepting of them (if that changes this might change but for now that’s where it is.

DaTechGuy’s 3rd Law of media outrage:

The MSM’s elevation and continued classification of any story as Nationally Newsworthy rather than only of local interest is in direct correlation to said story’s current ability to affirm any current Democrat/Liberal/Media meme/talking point, particularly on the subject of race or sexuality.

The fact that these pregnancy centers have been doing incredible work to help woman, particularly poor women has been ignored as a story for decades because such help does not affirm and in fact contradicts democrat talking points on everything from sexuality to religion and of course abortion.

DaTechGuy’s 4th Law of Media Outrage:

The degree of media exposure of the corruption or illegality committed by any individual or organization under investigation is directly proportional to its distance from the media’s ideology.

While a lot of churches and pregnancy centers are under attack lately the truth is they have been regularly under physical attack for decades but because the radical groups who have been doing these attacks have no distance from the media none of these stories made national news and frankly barely make local news.

DaTechGuy’s 5th Law of Media Outrage:

Any positive actions, even one that supposedly advances a goal or, or done by a group allied or identified with the radical left, will not be considered newsworthy nationally, if said action has the potential to highlight a failure and/or inaction by a Democrat administration that is in power at the time of said positive action

Supposedly helping pregnant women, particularly poor women of color is a positive action that would normally be lionized by media but because said help are provided by religious non profits that get no federal money and tend to be service that are not provided by Democrat allies such stories are not newsworthy as they would highlight the failure of the left and Democrat administrations to provide such needed services

DaTechGuy’s 6th Law of Media Outrage:

The degree of protection by or attack of the media on any person is governed by the degree of danger and/or usefulness to the Democrat party’s electoral goals said protection or attack represents

Because pregnancy centers are not centralized so they don’t have a national face this law is the hardest to apply but we can apply it to Senator Warren in this case. Her attacks on centers that help poor women, if done by a Republican, would normally cause scorn by the media, but Warren is protected from such attacks as they are considered vital as part of the Democrat’s electoral goal of using the Dobbs decision to energize the left base which has very little reason to feel energetic lately.

Update: Didn’t realize it wasn’t live so I don’t know when it will be on I’ll update the post when I know.

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