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She’s a Nun All Right

Posted: February 13, 2022 by datechguy in catholic, fun
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Despite having never used drugs in my life I have a penchant for breaking into incontrollable laughter if I find something funny. It’s happened a few times at inconvenient movements in my life and last Friday I just ducked the situation at the daily mass at the convent.

On Friday’s I take a former co-worker Claire to morning mass at St. Leo’s in Leominster. During the wintertime the mass is moved to the convent so the elderly sisters don’t have to go out in the cold., I had been running late and we got there just as the sermon was starting.

I have a pet peeve about nuns who don’t wear the habit and none of the nuns there do (which is why I suspect it is populated only by elderly nuns with no new vocations mixed in but I digress.) I never forgot when I was a 9 year old kid and my mother came to pick me up at St. Anthony’s just as the the whole “not dressing like a nun” movement got started there was a young pretty sister who was leaving the school and a guy in a coverable saw her and tried to pick her up. She shot him down in a hurry and then made the mistake in the heat of the moment saying something to my mother about it who had pulled up behind the guy who hit on her.

My mother wasn’t one to volunteer her thoughts but when the sister expressed her outrage she replied in the most blunt terms I had ever heard; “If you want to be treated with the respect of a nun then maybe you had better dress like one!” I had never seen anyone tell off a nun before and the shock was still on the sisters face as we drove off but I never forgot it.

So when Claire, and her sister who had the day off & I entered the convent chapel we had to split up due to seating and I found myself with a group of old women, in theory all of them might have been nuns but as not one of them were dressed as one, not even a wimple, to mind mind I had no idea who was a nun and who was not.

That was until communion.

At communion one of the older ladies went to the alter to get the consecrated hosts out of the tabernacle for the priest. After giving her communion the priest was about to leave the alter when suddenly the lady abruptly stopped him pointing to his shoes and noting that his shoelaces were untied not moving out of his way until he tied his shoes and then proceeding to the back of the chapel where she would give communion.

It was the only time I’ve been glad that I was wearing a mask because all I could think of was this scene from the Classic Three Stooges Short Three Little Pirates:

The stooges are shipwrecked off deadman’s Island a place that has not changed since the 1600’s they are brought before the governor [Vernon Dent] who looks at their sailor’s outfits and says:

Governor: I never saw sea faring men dressed like that, I don’t believe they’re sailors!

[His betrothed [Christine Mcintyre] walks in and the stooges all immediately turn and wolf whistle at her together.]

Governor: They’re sailors all right!

That lady wasn’t in a habit so I didn’t believe she was a nun, but once she stopped the priest and made him tie his shoes I thought: That’s a nun all right.

Struggling to keep from laughing out loud is likely not the best disposition to be in when receiving the Body of Christ but it was the best I could do and I was very happy to get out of there quickly before my inappropriately timed mirth became too apparent.

I still can’t vouch for the other ladies there but from this point on I’ll know that at least one of them is a nun.

Five Things the Left Would Have Gained in they didn’t steal the last election from Donald Trump

Posted: February 12, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Everything in life costs something and I suspect a lot of folks on the left didn’t realize how much better things might have been for them if they had declined to steal election 2020 from him. Here are Five:

5. The vaccines and all the side effects would be on Trump:

President Trump did all he could to have the flushots vaccines ready before the election but thanks to the efforts of the press the announcements didn’t take place until after and the Biden Administration had pretty much taken ownership of the shots and the boosters.

That means that all the people who are refusing the shots would have been in conflict with Trump and the media, rather than surprising the information about side effects and deaths could have pined each one of those on him.

4. All the COVID Deaths in the last year and beyond could have been pinned on Trump.

As you might have noticed even before the death counts on COVID during the Biden years exceeded the deaths during Trump’s term the media stopped reporting the counts.

If however Trump was still in office, every single one of those death would be pointing at him. The media could be highlighting them and the various families every single night. It would have been a narrative they would have been able to humanize and sell.

3. All the atrocities of the Taliban in Afghanistan could have been pinned on Trump

It is a given that Donald Trump would not have pulled out of Afghanistan in the haphazard way that Joe Biden’s Administration did leaving millions of Dollars of equipment and tens of thousands of Americans and allies stranded. That occurrence would have looked a lot better than the debacle that is completely on the Democrats but even if Trump pulled out everything and kept every American safe the end result would still have been the Taliban in power which would mean women repressed, Islamic law enforced and freedoms curtailed.

Those would have all been great stories for the left and media and each one of those acts of oppression could have been placed directly at Donald Trump door. Alas for the left/media they are owned by the Biden Administration now.

2. Term Limits would mean Trump would be mostly gone by 2024

Term limits would have meant that as of today the Era of Donald Trump would be nearing its end. They would not have to worry about running against Trump nor him pushing candidates past 2024.

Because of this Trump remains and treat in being and a player in 2022, 2024 and 2026, possibly beyond.

More importantly it would mean the GOP front runner in 2024 would have been Mike Pence who is both establishment and weak. Just the type of GOP leader the left loves.

1, They would not have been publicly exposed for who they were and what they were doing

The single biggest disaster for the left of this administration has been how much of the left’s / establishment’s has been exposed.

From what teachers are teaching to crack pipes in bills to the various double standards that have red pilled parents and workers alike.

For decades these things have been progressing quietly though America’s institutions unseen and unnoticed. Another decade of this slow march and it might have been impossible to stop.

This particularly applies to the tactics used to steal election which has been quietly used in state and local elections. This type of thing has likely been going on for a long time without any significant pushback. Now you have open hearings and companies and lawmakers going so far as to claim that voting machines are so fragile that auditing them will force them to be thrown out.

Not only is the story is out on all these things and more but all these institutions that the left have been painstakingly moving to take over for decade now no longer have the trust of the public and thus no longer the power that make them worth taking over.

Like cockroaches smoked out of the walls now all of these things can be crushed and destroyed.

All of this and more is the price the left/media is paying for stealing election 2020. Ironically it may prove to be have been a blessing in disguise, albeit a really good one.

Five “Are We the Baddies” Indicators for the opponents of the Canadian Trucker Convoy

Posted: February 11, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

When you’re the PM of a supposedly free nation and have pieces by liberal journalists comparing you to Ceauşescu, that’s a pretty strong “Are we the baddies?” indicator.

When you confiscate gas from Truckers, are ordered to return it by a judge and it comes back contaminated. that a good time to ask: “Are we the baddies?“

There are few “Are we the baddies?” tells in a supposedly a free Democracy like a police officer showing up at your house because you put up facebook post on the Trucker Convoy.

When you try to shut down a Christian Charity’s support for the Truck Convoy and said Charity’s response is open defiance, odds are it’s time to ask: “Are we the Baddies?”

When you are reporting from your studio that the Truck Convoy is full of a bunch of Nazi’s and white supremacists‘ and average people go outside and see exactly the opposite, the moment has come to wonder: “Are we the baddies?”

1969 League Report: The Impossible 9th Inning Yanks at Twins game 2 with an Ironic Twist

Posted: February 10, 2022 by datechguy in baseball, Dynasty, dynasty baseball, gaming, online gaming
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One of the things about the Dynasty Baseball game is that just about anything can happen which you consider that hundreds of game may be taking place at any single moment in time 24/7.

This was proved yesterday in the first series back of a player who had previously left the league but returned to take over his team when the player who had replaced him expressed an interest in drafting his own team next season, which is the fun of a draft league, rather than playing out the current one with a team someone else built even though it’s currently in first place and a very well built team.

The game started pretty normal with Yankee Ace Fritz Peterson (9-6) vs the Twins Gene Barbender (7-6) The Yanks struck first as rookie catcher Thurman Munson tripled to lead off the game and scored on a Jim Fregosi Sacrifice Fly that was just a few feet shy from going out making it 1-0.

The Twins stuck back in the bottom of the 2nd Tony Perez Led off with a single, Willie Mays drew a walk and Rich Reichhardt doubled into the gap scoring them both making it 2-1 Twins

The Yanks took the lead back in the 6th. Nate Colbert lead off with a homer to left to tie the game. Ron Fairly singled and Greg Nettles walked. Julian Javier hit into a force putting runners at 1st & 3rd with one out. Richie Hebner pinch hitting for the slumping Bill Sudakis, grounded into a force play beating out the throw to first allowing Fairly to score and it was 3-2 NY.

It stayed that way until the 9th when the most improbabile inning I’ve ever seen took place.

The trouble began for Lindy McDaniel, who came in for Barbender in the 8th, when 2nd baseman Joe Morgan booted Munson’s grounder. He moved to 2nd on a ground out by Fregosi at which point Jose Acria came in to run for him. Nate Colbert drove him in with a single for his 2nd RBI of the game and Ron Fairly followed with a double that scored Colbert all the way from first and now the Yanks had a 5-2 lead, but they weren’t done yet.

Ernie Banks then dropped the throw on a Craig Nettles grounder that should have been out 2 (or 3 if you consider the Morgan error. It was only his 2nd error of the entire season and the Yankees took advantage of that rare Banks miscue when Fairly was able to score on a Javier grounder making it 6-2.

They say trouble comes in threes and this was certainly the case for McDaniel as he dropped Banks throw to first that would have ended the inning on a slow roller by Richie Hebner for the 3rd Twins error of the inning.

Like Banks’ error it was his 2nd of the season and like Banks’ error it immediately paid dividends for the Yankees as Ken Henderson uncharacteristically deposited his next pitch deep into the right field stands for a 3 run shot which gave the Yankees a seven run lead going into the bottom of the 9th. A seemingly unassailable lead as noted by this chart on the odds of a Minnesota win going into the bottom of the 9th

Alas for the fans of the Bronx Bombers this is not football or Basketball or Hockey or even Soccer where there is a clock to run out. This is baseball which means that no matter how many runs you are ahead by going into the last of the 9th, you still have to record those final three outs to win.

Here’s what happened.

Ernie Banks started things with a single. The hot hitting Alex Johnson followed with a high chopper to 3rd which Acria now playing the hot corner made an excellent play on to get Johnson at first. Tony Perez Singled to left Banks stopping at 3rd and the Say Hay Kid came up with another single off Peterson to driving in Banks cutting the lead to six.

Reichhart hit the next ball right to 3rd and Acria forced Perez there.

The scene was now Mays on 2nd and Reichhardt at first with two men out and the score Yankees 9 and Minnesota 3. Fritz Peterson needed only one more out for a complete game victory when light hitting Joe Azcue came to bat for Lindy McDaniel

It was not to be

Azcue singled to right scoring Mays and sending Reichhardt to 3rd. New York Yankees 9 Minnesota Twins 4. Catcher Frank Fernandez followed with a single of his own scoring Reichhardt and sending Azcue to 2nd. Yankees 9 Twins 5. At this point Dick Radatz starting throwing in the pen as it improbably began approaching a save situation.

While he was getting loose John Kennedy added to the hit parade singling to center to load the bases and Joe Morgan whose initial 9th inning error had seemingly put the game on a path to defeat waited out an exhausted Peterson for a bases loaded walk making the game 9-6 and ending Peterson’s night.

Dick Radatz came in and despite the bases loaded situation only needed one out to give Peterson the win and him the save. Steve Howley came in to bat in place of the right handed Ernie Banks who had lead of the inning. He was hitting over .400 vs RHP but that didn’t intimidate Radatz who coaxed a slow grounder toward Acria who had already made one great play in the inning and had produced the 2nd out unassisted. it seemed the game was over…until Acria hurried the throw which got past Colbert. Azcue and Frenandez both scored and now the score was 9-8 on what should have been the final out of the game.

Radatz was still not worried even with the tying run at 2nd and the winning run at 1st. He still needed only one out and was determined to keep pinch hitter Lou Brock who came in to hit for Alex Johnson from driving in that tying run.

In that respect he would be successful as Brock would pop out to Colbert on a 2-2 fastball, however with the count 2-1 Joe Morgan broke for 3rd and Hovley Broke for 2nd. Catcher Jim Paglairtoni who came in to catch at the top of the inning rushed the throw trying to end the game. It sailed into the outfield for his 1st error of the season. Morgan dashed home with the tying run and Hovley made it to 3rd where he would be stranded to end the inning.

After 9 Yankees 9 Twins 9.

After that 9th inning the 10th was almost anticlimactic Twins Reliever Cecil Upshaw (W 3-1) would retire the Yanks in order in the top of the inning while Radatz (BS L 3-5) led off the 10th with a first pitch fastball and Tony Perez took that ball drove it 399 feet into the left field stands and the game was over.

Twins 10 Yankees 9.

This was quite a cap to an exciting finish. You won’t see a game like that often or at all but the real irony is this.

I mentioned at the start of this post that this was the first game back for the former manager/GM of the Twins who had left the league because he was frustrated at the computer game. He said the results were too improbable and would end up putting his team on auto in frustration. And here is his 2nd game back and what does he get, the most improbable game of the year.

That’s irony.

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