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Hey Leftists? How’s that Politics is my Religion Stuff Working Out?

Posted: September 23, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams

And You thought you’d seen peak leftist crazy, when they were pounding on the doors of the Supreme Court and Defending child pornography didn’t you?

In a Presidential term that has seen the left melt down over and over again since day one the meltdown among the left, particularly the professional and activist left’s over the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg only parallel is Ronald Lacy’s Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

I bring this up this classic movie because there is a 2nd parallel here, this meltdown is the meltdown of the Godless.

During the previous presidency there was a lot of cause for despair for the right, particularly for those of us of faith. Item after item was shoved down our throat from Obamacare to the forcing of Nuns to violate their faith and of course unleashing of the IRS on those who objected.

Through all of this there was one constant comfort for us, faith.

People turned to their religion for comfort. Christians of all denomination turned to God for help and comfort in a time of trial and were assured that God knew what he was doing even if he wasn’t telling us.

So as the political world turned oppressive we clung to our God and got on with our lives as best we could.

But what happens if you have no God and no faith? What happens when you have decided to make you’re political beliefs your religion? What happens when your article of political faith is what governs your lives and beliefs.

Well this happens

and this happens

And this happens

and you even reach the point where you are willing to reject your own father unless he converts to the true political faith?

In short when you reject God and replace your religion with Politics you have no source of comfort to allow you to carry on and function when your political fortunes wane. That’s why you turn to riots, arson and murder.

That is the real price of the Democrats becoming a secular party and rejecting people of faith unless they are willing to take off their faith like a coat when it become too hot to handle.

They have chosen to pay that price but let me point out that you have the rest of your life to make a different choice but not a second more.

So to finish with my Indiana Jones Theme: Choose wisely.

Shot Chaser Hangover Pournelle and Niven, McConnell and Trump

Posted: September 22, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Shot: circa 1976

“First we must cross the river,” Benito was saying.  “Do you believe me now when I tell you that you must not attempt to swim it, or even get wet from it, or must you try that too?”

“What happens if I just dive in?”

“Then you will be as you were in the bottle.  Aware and unable to move.  but it will be very cold, and very uncomfortable, and you will be there for all eternity knowing that you put yourself there.”

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle Inferno 1976

Chaser: circa 2013

Hangover: Sept 19th 2020

Ginsberg’s Replacement The Was The Big Chance for #NeverTrump “True Conservatives” to Prove Their “Conservative” Credentials

Posted: September 21, 2020 by datechguy in Uncategorized

For four + years those of us who have supported Donald Trump have been told by our Never Trump “true conservative” betters that whatever the advantages to various legislation and even SOCTUS judges picked by Trump. Donald Trump is so vile that to vote for his is to sell your conservative soul.

These folks should have been very happy now because their moment had come!

With the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the guarantee that President Trump will nominate a replacement quickly and McConnell scheduling a vote before the election one of the supposedly primary drivers for us poor deluded souls who have supported Trump is about to disappear.

Consider: if Donald Trump gets a nominee though before the election the Supreme Court will sit at six conservatives and three liberals and the primary driver for anti-abortion religious voters to hold their nose and vote Trump is gone!

Suddenly NEVERTRUMP could make the case they don’t NEED Donald Trump to be president to have an anti abortion supreme court. Even with Chief Justice John “old yellowstain” Roberts occasionally voting with the left the conservative majority will still hold.

And even if a President Biden or Harris gets elected they would need not one but TWO vacancies among Alito, Thomas and Roberts to swing the court back their way. Replacing one of the three solid liberals won’t count toward giving them a majority.

So if you are a Charlie Sykes or a Rick Wilson or an Amanda Carpenter or Joe Scarborough or any writer for National Review or the Lincoln project all you had to do is put all your weight behind the President’s nominee and all you’ve desired will be possible.

You’ll not only be proving that you meant it when you said you were pro-life conservatives who care about issues like abortion but can’t vote for Trump, but you’ll be able to strip the re-election of Donald Trump of their argument that without him there is no conservative majority. After all the battle for the courts will be already won! They’ll never be a better chance to pry those who don’t say they don’t like President Trump but want a conservative court away from him.

What will it be?

Here’s their answer:

Or put simply they’re not NeverTrump or “true conservatives” or “prolife” they’re just on the other side as long as that side is the one that pays.

Unexpectedly of course.

Fatama MovieReview

Posted: September 20, 2020 by datechguy in catholic, entertainment
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If you’re looking for the movie that is the “Anti-Cutie” Fatima is it.

Fatima tells of the Apparitions of Our Lady in Fatima Portugal during mid 1917 to three children. The disbelief of both the church and local officials of this story and the final conclusion of the “Miracle of the Sun” witnessed by the thousands who came to see the promised miracle.

The story of three children Lucia (Stephanie Gill) Jacinta (Alejanda Howard and her brother Francisco (Francisco) is told through a series of flashbacks as an author and skeptic Professor Nichols (Harvey Keitel) visits the adult Sr. Lucia (Sonia Braga) at her cloistered convent as part of a book he is writing.

There are solid performances here. All the child actors are excellent. Joaquim de Almeida (Father Ferreira) is excellent as the parish priest, Lucia Moniz as Lucia’s mother the faithful catholic who doubts her daughter is particularly good and the interplay between the Mayor(a staunch atheist trying to defend his position and his wife the faithful catholic is extremely interesting and well done.

For myself it’s the little dramatic things that resonated with me. Lucia recognizing the temptation and presence of the Devil when she is feeling pride the crowds wanting “the seers”. The anger of a mother who had lost a son (the movie takes place during World War 1) demanding answers as to why HER faithful prayers are not answered. The realization of what happens to your fields of crops when hundreds tramp on them to get to a site and the child and man hawking Rosaries at the site of the apparition illustrate human nature in action.

The story is pretty faithful to historical events from the appearance of the Angel of Peace and Portugal (Ivone Fernandes-Jesus) to the pushback and persecution that the children get to the point where they are held by the civil government to prevent visiting “the lady of the Rosary” (Joana Ribeiro) as they are considered a threat to the atheistic government of Portugal at the time. The irony is what is left out, [Minor Spoiler] particularly in the finale where my wife and I both noted that the single tangible physical miracle of that final day is completely skipped [/spoiler] as is at least one of the visits and parts of the message of our lady.

That is the only nitpik for the faithful and the only reason for the secular woke left to cheer. That a movie like this which promotes the promises of our Lady and the hope they can bring is coming out at a time of an international pandemic, civil unrest in the US is huge.

That a movie that promote three pious children and how they suffer for their obedience and piety it comes out at the same time as Netflix and critics are pushing “Cuties” a movie that exploits young girls sexuality to the delight of the critics and the establishment left as legitimate entertainment is, in my opinion, the hand of God.

4 1/2 out of five

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