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After five months of having my Youtube account back thought it was time to shoot a video so here is DaTechGuy’s 2025 year in review
here is part two as I’m still using the same old camera that stops at 20 min
For some reason the version of this edited together as one video lost the sound from part 1 so I don’t include it here.
I think 2026 will rock.
Bad Christmas Joke #1
A church group decides to go to the Holy Land over Christmas and they tour all the sites from the upper room to the site of the crucifixion until they get to the place where the shepherds were tending the flocks when the Christ child was born.
They find it’s been turned into a bit of an open zoo with all kinds of animals. In one pen a guide points to a Lion like the one that killed the Man of God when he was tricked into disobeying him (1 Kings Chapt 13) and the party is shocked that in the same pen there is a Lamb walking about freely.
They are incredibly moved remembering the biblical passage about the lion lying down with the lamb and all and consider it a sign. As they are leaving the area the last person in the party notes that none of this seems to move the zookeeper there one bit so as they’re leaving he asks him:
“I guess the whole lion and lamb thing is old hat to you seeing it every day.”
The keeper answers: “Yeah, particularly since we put a new lamb in there every day.”
The New joke:
It’s the Feast of Stephen Boxing Day and Scrooge’s nephew Fred walks into a tavern full of Joy after seeing the change in his uncle and being made his partner when he sees Bob Crachett at a table alone seemingly sad and apparently drunk. He goes over to him and wishes him a Merry Christmas.
Bob looks up with sad drunken eyes: “My wife kicked me out of the house.”
Fred is astonished? Bob what happened from what I understand my Uncle sent you a giant Christmas Turkey, doubled your salary and offered to help you with Tiny Tim and your family?”
“Yes” said Crachett his head bowed, “He even gave me the rest of the day off. I was so happy I left right away to go off and make Merry.”
Fred is confused: “Surely your good wife can’t hold that against you?”
“Oh Mr. Fred”, slurred Bob whose raised his head making his black eye visible, “You didn’t see the look on her face when she walked on us while I was making her.”
If I was EWTN I’d market displays and inflatables of the Saints for lawn display so a Catholic like me can decorate his house at Halloween and when people ask I can remind them that All Hallows Eve is about it being the Eve of All Saints Day celebrating those in heaven & love of God.
Now THAT would be a radical display
Today Halloween would have been my father’s 104th birthday. He didn’t live to see his 66th birthday nor my wedding (although he rather unexpectedly turned up at the rehearsal the night before which is a story I’ll tell another time). He had managed a single social security check before dying and had bought my mother a car that he didn’t live to drive in once. She kept that car running till her death 25 years later.
It’s very hard to be the son of a great man. My father was a great man who you likely never heard of. He was the living example of Christ’s charge to not let your right hand know what your left hand is doing when doing good.
I’ll likely outlive him in years but never in honor or goodness, although my sons are well on their way to being his equal and have easily surpassed me both in honor & goodness.
That’s a great comfort.
I was listening to the Screwtape letters at work yesterday and noted Screwtape’s dream of the materialist magician who believes in “forces” and “demons” but not in God.
Looking at his words from 84 years ago and society today all I can say is: Boy did Lewis call it or what?
The most amazing thing about the modern left is their total obsession with Donald Trump.
While I understand that there are a fair amount of people who make a living off of this the sheer number of folks who carry an obsessive hatred of a man who they will never meet and has at best a tangential effect on their lives is astounding. One would think that they would consider actually living their own lives.
Its hard to imagine a life that empty and devoid of purpose but then again I find it hard to imagine parents spaying their children to gain social status so what do I know.
Finally watching the left unable to sell the media on the idea that they are not responsible for the government shutdown & media members calling them out of it brings me to mind on of my favorite movements from Matt Smith’s excellent run as Doctor who:
Young Kazran Sardic: Are you really a babysitter?
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carrol 2010
11th Doctor: I think you’ll find I’m universally recognized as a mature and responsible adult.
(He shows Kazran the psychic paper which makes people see what he wants)
Young Kazran Sardic: It’s just a lot of wavy lines.
11th Doctor: (looks at the paper) Yeah, it’s shorted out. Finally, a lie too big.
There are a fair amount of Trump haters who still buy this line but nobody outside of the bubble does and the bubble has been getting smaller and smaller.
While the President is right about the state of the city of Boston (which is why I’m unlikely to go to any Redsox games next year) when he talks about the World Cup the reality is that the game would take place in Foxborough which is actually quite a ways away from the city.
It’s sort of the way people assume folks from Massachusetts are from “Boston” because they really don’t know any other city here. Although in fairness Trump’s move would likely hit Boston’s hotel industry.
Speaking of Foxborough the New England Patriots after six weeks under a new coach and with a real #1 receiver on the field suddenly find themselves in first place thanks to a pair of losses by the Buffalo Bills, one delivered by Said Patriots.
I credit the new receiver because as he’s now drawing the coverage of the other teams best guy it means that the rest of the receiving crew are now facing easier coverage which is why Maye keeps finding them open.
I had been talking to people at work saying: Boy whoever bet on this must have really scored big but apparently a $10 bet that the Pats would be in 1st place by week six only paid $45 and one that they would win the division only paid $55.
That surprised me more than them being in first but it tells me those oddsmakers really know their jobs.
We are nearing the 100th anniversary of the moment when Western Civilization started committing suicide, namely the anniversary of when the Lambeth Conference, which takes place every 10 years in the Anglican church, suddenly decided that birth control was no longer a grave sin.
The so called small exception they made became standard in all protestant denomination and the birth rates plummeted in the west. Within two generations the Brits lost their empire, within 4 generations brits and other western countries imported millions of Muslims and now 95 years later Brits are being arrested for displaying the Union Jack in their own country because it might offend Muslims.
You know God’s command to “be fruitful and multiply” like all of his rules and laws are not for HIS benefit, but is for ours.
The saddest thing about this answer to a question by Sen John Fetterman is that it’s being cheered by us:
It’s sad because not calling people Hitler and trying to murder political foes is such a low bar that one should not need to be praised but that’s where we now are.
I have absolutely no interest in a bunch of college kids saying something stupid in a chat when the left won’t critique college students for violently attacking feds or their fellow students.
That being said anyone who decided to demand GOP candidate Sears denounce them for their words at a time when the Democrats in VA won’t have their AG candidate step down for wishing murder on kids is really stupid.
As Casey Stengel once said about his 1962 Mets: “Can’t anybody play this game?”
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