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A Simple Guide to Identify What’s Biblical (or traditional) in the Chosen and What Isn’t

Posted: December 13, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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Saw episode 1 of the third season of the Chosen and was impressed, the sermon on the mount was really something in terms of delivery but for me the most memorable moment was the exchange between Nathanial and Simon Peter after Peter got home and was finally going to have some time alone with his wife.

On this feast of St Lucy (Our Lady of Guadalupe was yesterday my bad) it hit me that this is an excellent illustration of how to identify what is drama and what is scripture or in the tradition of the Church in the series using a simple web search

For example, if you do a search for “the sermon on the mount painting” in brave this is what you come up with under images:

…you will find pages of paintings of this moment from scripture all over, however if you do a search of “St. Peter wanting to bash in St. Nathanael’s head in with a rock painting”

Not a painting, let alone a renaissance master in sight.

I submit and suggest this is a pretty solid method to separate the Drama and the reality.

It still was pretty funny.

Update: Today is the feast of St. Lucy, Our Lady of Guadalupe was yesterday, my bad but the rule stands, if it’s a biblical or a church tradition odds are some Renaissance artist painted it.

Report from Louisiana: Shreveport finally gets a Republican mayor!

Posted: December 12, 2022 by Pat Austin in Uncategorized
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By: Pat Austin

SHREVEPORT – For the first time since 2006 Shreveport, Louisiana has elected a white Republican mayor. Attorney Tom Arceneaux was elected in a runoff election Saturday.

I am astounded yet also extremely cautious exactly HOW conservative this mayor-elect actually is given that he was endorsed by the much loathed, ineffective outgoing Democrat mayor and two other locally prominent Democrat politicians.

His opponent is longtime veteran state senator Greg Tarver who has a colorful political and personal history.

The abysmal voter turnout of 30% has a lot to do with the outcome of this election and local pundits point to the fact that in a primarily black city, those voters did not turn out for Greg Tarver.

Shreveport has been circling the drain economically for decades and we have been losing our young, producing citizens for decades. There is literally nothing to hold upwardly mobile young people here except family ties. There are no jobs, no industry. Even the casinos are stagnant. With Dallas, Texas three hours away why would these young people stay here when there is so much more on the table so close by?

Crime is, of course, at an all time high with shootings, murders, and other violent crime literally a daily occurrence.

This is, of course, not unique to Shreveport. Many cities, small and large, are suffering the same plight. Is a new Republican mayor a step in the right direction?

Meh. Who knows.

Is it too late?

Maybe.

Am I skeptical? Definitely!

Tom Arceneaux will take office December 31. I sincerely hope he has an impressive start and generates a lot of optimism and hope in this town. I would say that it can’t get much worse, but of course it always can.

Color me disillusioned.

For further reading: NOLA: Tom Arceneaux wins, is Shreveport’s first Republican mayor in more than twenty years.

This Explains a Lot about Pre-Musk Twitter

Posted: December 12, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Why might the good folks at Twitter in the days before Elon decided that silencing conservatives might be a bigger priority than stopping child trafficing?

Here is a clue:

Here are come clues:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1602185965534969856

I’m old enough to remember when this type of thing would have shocked me. I miss those innocent days.

I Must Admit I Feel Honored

Posted: December 11, 2022 by datechguy in media, tech, Uncategorized
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As the Twitter files were being released and we got details on how “shadow-banning” , which both the media and the official folks at Twitter INSISTED was not happening, worked I got a tweet from one of the first people who followed me when I started to write back in 2008:

You have to remember something I’m a very small fish in the pond, Despite early stories on Epstein that predated most of the national media’s coverage and in person coverage of congressional, senatorial and even presidential campaigns, including questioning Donald Trump twice at press conferences I never managed to even 3500 followers on twitter.

Yet like Youtube which banned me last month and denied my appeal based on unequal treatment Twitter apparently found me dangerous to their narratives to keep my tweets from getting out to followers

I must admit I’m flattered and honored.

Closing thought, It was in the last few years that I decided I wasn’t going to be bigger than I was and decided to not push harder in terms of trying to make this my primary living. I wonder how many hits on the web site and how many tip jar hits I missed thanks to the efforts of the not so good folk at twitter that made that decision necessary?

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