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Car Shopping today UPDATE: Right into the 495-I95 “Rise of the Moors” Mess.

Posted: July 3, 2021 by datechguy in Uncategorized

So blogging will have to wait

Update: On 495 on my way to check out a 2005 Buick LeSabre (Yes I know they haven’t made them since 2005 but I LIKE Buick LeSabres and will buy them when available) when I noted the traffic was much heavier on 495 then I expected on the way down and the northbound lanes were even worse on the why home. Here’s why (via Citizen Free Press)

I’ve never heard of their group, here is what Citizen Free Press had:

A group identifying as Rise of the Moors posted multiple videos since the initial police interaction.

Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey is identified on the group’s website as the Moorish American Consular for the organization. His biography on the group’s website lists him as having served in the United States Marine Corps.

“We’re not anti-government, we’re not anti-police, we’re not sovereign citizens, we’re not Black-identity extremists,” he said during a livestreamed video posted to YouTube Saturday morning.

“Police seen us on the side of the road with our guns secured. We were afraid so we got out with our arms.”

Afraid and armed is usually a volatile combination, here is an ABC piece on the subject:

The incident unfolded around 1:30 a.m. when a state trooper came across a group of 8 to 10 people refueling on the side of the I-95 highway in Wakefield, a suburb of Boston. The group was dressed in military-style uniforms, carried tactical gear like body cameras and helmets and had long guns slung over their shoulders.

They told officials they were on their way to Maine from Rhode Island for “training,” Col. Christopher Mason said.

Officials said they made two initial arrests and the rest of the group, which calls itself “Moorish American Arms,” fled into a wooded area. As a result, a stretch of I-95 was closed and shelter-in-place orders were set for people who live nearby.

Police negotiators talked to those hiding in the woods throughout the early morning.

“We’re trying to successfully and peacefully resolve this,” Mason said early Saturday.

To my understanding no shots were fired, nobody was hurt and everyone involved had been pretty much minding their own business but that being said it’s the job of police to investigate the unusual and this certainly qualifies.

I have no idea what the arrests were for ( I presume violation of Massachusetts firearms laws which are rather tough) or how this will play out but it will be interesting to see how the national media play this.

Five Thoughts about The Chosen Under the Fedora

Posted: July 2, 2021 by datechguy in catholic, culture, entertainment

I’ve been watching the TV series “The Chosen” which incidentally is the only TV series I watch these days and have a few thoughts.

The latest episode is Episode seven, of season two and next to episode 2 of season 1 is likely the least biblical (that is the most dramatized) episode of the series. As we Catholics are not sola scripture this doesn’t offend me as much as it bothers some others but I found everything in the episode extremely plausible, particularly the idea that the local Roman authorities would have an interest in Christ when he’s drawing large crowds. The meeting between Jesus and Quintus is one of my favorite scenes in the entire series.

While some might disagree I as a daily Mass Catholic particularly like how Mary has been portrayed. She is very much humanized, which is important as is in fact human and did in fact live the life of a 1st century AD Jewish woman. What many likely do not catch is the idea that she would travel with the disciples makes a lot of sense as being a widow with no other children her son would be her only support and don’t think I didn’t notice that when Mary Magdalene fell and was afraid to face Jesus it was Mary the Mother of God who brought her in the tent and stood with her.

You don’t get more Catholic then that.

A lot of people apparently took issue with the fall and return of Mary Magdalene and it’s the one thing that the creator Dallas Jenkins really took issue with. He gives Jesus this classic line: “You thought you were never going to sin again?” As Father Z put it when talking about how to deal with a couple not married licitly:

Or course there may be times when they fail in their determination to live in continence and they have sexual relations.

What then?

Simple.  They go to confession and start over with a firm purpose of amendment.

That’s what we all do when we sin in any way.  We go to confession with a firm purpose of amendment and start over with God’s help.

Again this is very Catholic and is almost a dramatization of the first sacramental confession as there she was before Christ and receiving absolution

There is no release date for the season finale yet (at least not to my knowledge) but the thing I’m most waiting for is the introduction of Judas.

How they decide to play Judas is going to be I suspect the toughest thing they do because while John in his Gospel notes him as a thief he was still not just a disciple but an apostle in good standing right up until the last supper.

How he is portrayed and what kind of backstory they give him will be interesting. All the disciples have been humanized and in some ways sympathized but it will be very hard to do so with Judas when everyone knows what’s coming in the end. Furthermore in every scene that he’s in people will be looking for and seeing the signs of the betrayal.

Will we see Judas as the Betrayer from day one or Judas as the disciple who in the end doesn’t seek the forgiveness that Mary did in season two or that Simon Peter will have to in the final season?

That the big question mark for the remaining seasons to me.

The crowd funding for season three seems to be stuck at episode five, which is about a half million away from what they need to finish the season (They’re looking for 1.875 mill to cover all eight episodes). I suspect that it’s because this season we’re seeing more conflict both within and without and this might be turning off a few people. Still with an avg contribution of about $30 bucks a head the 1.3 mil they’ve raised isn’t chicken feed but it also means they need about 20K people to kick in to finish things off. While I recommend this show to others I’m holding off the cash spigot for two reasons:

  1. Money has been rather tight with DaWife’s illness this year
  2. I want to see what they do with John 6

It will be very interesting to see the conflict between a very devout Catholic actor who plays Jesus and a very Protestant team that’s writing and producing the series handles the bread of life discourses. Most biblical movies duck it. I don’t see how that’s done given the episodic nature of the series.

But what I think really hurts the fund raising are all the “chosen commentary” things on Youtube that are drawing potential “pay it forward” people away from the site and app that offers it free anyways.

Liberal Democrats Can’t Be Trusted to run elections…says Mayor de Blasio

Posted: July 1, 2021 by datechguy in Uncategorized

There is a lot of irony in this tweet:

There is of course the irony that for the last month the media and left have gone all in on the idea that auditing elections is un-American and a GOP plot.

There is the irony that de Blasio is doing something that has got many conservatives banned from twitter, that is questioning an election , you might recall that until mid December Twitter repeatedly banned me falsely claiming that I had tweeted out “intimate images without consent” when I was tweeting out Benford’s law charts.

But the real irony is this.

New York City is a Democrat city, populatied by democrats, controlled by democrats where every single elected board is dominated by Democrat and where every single department is run by Democrats.

Yet this uberliberal Democrat is publicly stating that these uber liberal democrats can not be trusted with running elections.

This must be quite a shock to those few liberals left who haven’t yet made politics their religion.

For the rest of us in the real world it’s business as usual.

Unexpectedly of course

Milo Says it

Posted: June 30, 2021 by datechguy in Uncategorized

One of the biggest things about speaking the truth publicly is that it takes courage.

In an interview with Church Militant Milo Yiannopoulos, says something out loud that in my lifetime would not have been controversial but would send the woke into spasms. Here’s the key bit:

The selling of this lie is the work of the father of lies who has become the father of the left.

Until we acknowledge where this is coming from, it will not be beaten. Milo is acknowledging it publicly and because of that he will be targeted and cancelled and attacked like he never was before.

Unfortunately for those doing the attacking he has St. Joseph as his patron so I wouldn’t bet against him.

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