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WQPH Shrove Tuesday Brunch Videos, Michael Petrosh Speech & Interview

Posted: February 18, 2024 by datechguy in catholic, catholic devotions, special events
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As you might be aware WQPH 89.3 FM had our first annual Shrove Tuesday Brunch on February 13th 2024.

Despite threats of an impending northeaster and 11″ of snow we went ahead praying for moderate weather and said prayers were very much answered.

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The first of the two relics shows is a fragment of the Crown of Thorns, the 2nd is a Holy Face Relic whose origin is explained by our speaker in his talk.

Michael Petroch of the Confederacy of the Holy Face of Jesus was our primary speaker who talked about the origins and benefits of the Confederacy. His presentation is in two parts

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You might notice that the video is a little shaky, that’s because for the life of me I couldn’t find my monopod that morning and thus had to hold my little Cannon Camera by hand for the 28 minutes of his talk.

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There was a brief commentary on his speech.

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and Finally when things were all over a sitdown interview with Mr. Petrosh:

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Our 2nd Annual Shrove Tuesday Brunch is scheduled for March 4th 2025 Our tentative speaker is Monsignor Moroney of St. Cecilia’s Parish Leominster.

Hope to see you there.

Five Random Thoughts Under the Fedora: A Side Effect of Texas Success, An inconsistent COVID stat, Good Advice delivered the right way, The Three Second Solution and Groktoberfest Oct 28th

Posted: October 7, 2023 by datechguy in catholic, culture, medicine, opinion/news, personal, special events, Uncategorized
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There is a story about how the special rare style of eclipse that will be viewed from Texas is going to produce issues with Texas’ power grid renewable side because said eclipse will be so long.

This highlights one of the things that sane Red States need to address. As people flee to them the demand on basic services from Electricity to water are going to increase which means you have to build the infrastructure to handle said increases. This means power stations, dams etc which will mean some expense for state budgets.

Of course they might decide not doing this will keep the liberals out.

There was a story out of New Zealand that I referenced briefly yesterday that based on their specialties Doctors were given Covid Vaccine exemptions but only if they did not reveal said exemptions is yet another “post Christian” horror story where the general population was kept in the dark for fun and profit but there was a stat in the story that I must confess throws me off. To wit:

The most highly Covid vaccinated nations in the OECD are in order Portugal, Chile, Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, Spain and Australia. Their average percentage of the population vaccinated is 91 per cent. Their average rate of excess deaths so far in 2023 is 12 per cent above the five-year historical average.

The least Covid vaccinated nations in the OECD are Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Estonia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Switzerland. Their average percentage of the population vaccinated is just 63 per cent. Their average rate of excess deaths so far in 2023 is 0 per cent compared to the five-year historical average. In other words, they have averaged a normal death rate.

The great difference between excess deaths is not a surprise but the 0% figure from countries that have a 63% of the population vaxxed is. 63% is a solid majority of the population. I’m no doctor but the math seems inconsistent that there would be no statistical excess deaths given that more than 3 in 5 of the population took the jab if the jab is the cause.

I’d be interested in seeing the historical rates of some of the known COVID jab side effects pre-covid in those countries vs the others and I wonder what the booster rates were in those countries. That might be the difference.

Stacy McCain took on the Trevor Bauer story on great Major League pitcher who insisted on his innocence and had the courage and wisdom to hold out till said innocence could be proven.

While I suspect the lawsuit against MLB will be epic as his suspension cost him tens of millions of dollars the bottom line is that by not embracing the Church’s teaching on marriage and sex Bauer put himself in that situation. However as many young rich men won’t listen to that point Stacy pointed out some basic facts both about there statistical odds of a genital herpes but more importantly a basic fact of life that might make a more effective argument:

If a woman is very attractive, why is she still single at age 27? Why is she still in the dating market? What’s wrong with her?

Now if you’re date her for a while with the thought of Christian marriage you might be able to find out the answer to that question but if you’re out for a quick lay these are the risks you take.

God’s laws aren’t just the right thing they’re the smart thing.

Thursday I was at a stop light in Fitchburg with a large truck on my left next to me. The light turned green and because I was running early I paused before going because our two lanes were going to merge into one not wanting to bottle neck.

It’s a good thing I did because the very next moment a car from the lane whose light just turned red passed just in front of me at high speed, jumped the curb and crashed into a parked car at the bank parking lot where I had been five minutes earlier.

If I had been a second or two faster in moving forward that car would have hit my drivers door square and you would be reading something else this morning.

I seem to have run into a lot of things over my lifetime where the difference between life and death was a split second away. I guess all those Rosaries make a difference.

Finally if you are in the New England area on Saturday October 28th consider Groktoberfest put on by the good folks at Granite Grok .

It will be an excellent chance to meet up with other conservatives. There will be music, comedy, Local Groups and Vendors, food, beverages, Speakers and even a gun raffle. (Ruger 10-22)!

Tickets are on sale now here. I’ll be buying mine before the end of the week.

DaTechGuy’s (almost) Daily Dose of Pintastic NE 2023 The final Round up Stephanie Lesser, The EMP Team and Christopher Franci

Posted: September 24, 2023 by datechguy in fun, pinball, short films/interviews, special events
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Well it’s Sunday and time to post my final three Pintastic NE 2023 videos from my final three interviews at the end of the final day.

The first is with author Stephanie Lesser author of 1001 Pinball Puzzles

2nd we have the EMP Team packing up after a VERY successful Pintastic NE 2023

I don’t know if the EMP crowed takes the “Hardest working people at Pintastic” crown but they’re at the very least a close 2nd.

For the first time since I’ve been going to Pinstastic I wasn’t able to get Gabe D’Annunzio for the final interview simply because I couldn’t find him and had a bit of a time constraint, however I DID manage to grab pinball artist Christopher Franci one of the guests at Pinstastic NE 2023 to close things out and that’s a pretty good get:

Well that’s all the Pintastic NE I have for 2023. I’ll see you in April in the same place for Pintastic NE 2024

Pintastic 2023 The rest of the story:

DaTechGuy’s Almost Daily Dose of Pintastic NE 2023: Joe From Glenside Machine Shop

Posted: September 21, 2023 by datechguy in fun, pinball, short films/interviews, special events
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One of the things that keeps Pintastic NE going are the vendors. I spoke to one of the . Joe from the Glenside Machine Shop:

The other question is, while the layout worked for selling machines did it work for selling accessories? That will be answered by the attendance at next years show.

Pintastic NE 2023 The story so far:

We’ll finish up with my final interviews tomorrow.

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