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Pintastic is just over a week away!

Posted: November 8, 2021 by datechguy in Uncategorized

One of the causalities of the COVID business was Pintastic NE the annual NE Pinball festival which I have attended and covered each year that it took place.

With the return of something resembling normally (despite the best efforts of the federal and some state bureaucracies) Pintastic NE has returned.

Because of the uncertainty of what the COVID situation would be Pintastic choose to remain it their previous location at the Sturbridge Host Hotel additionally to insure enough lead time instead of scheduling the show for the week before the 4th of July the show was moved to the week before Thanksgiving.

But delayed or not the show is on which means from November 18 through the 21st those who live within or book a hotel room within driving distance of Sturbridge MA will get a chance to enjoy days of pinball on 100;s of machines at a very good price.

Almost as good is the chance to get away from the political and cultural insanity and simply have fun.

Oh and if you’re a Catholic the Shrine of St. Anne in Fiskdale is literally five minutes from the hotel just down the road so you can catch Mass and confession if you’re interested in getting the daily November Indulgences

Pintastic’s web site is here. You can get more info, buy passes and see the list of games, oh and one note. There will likely be more than the games listed as this would not include games brought by various vendors..

Here’s the video

Hope to see you there

Report from Louisiana: a trip to Fredericksburg, TX

Posted: November 7, 2021 by Pat Austin in Uncategorized
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By:  Pat Austin

SHREVEPORT – I was on the road last week and so missed posting here. We travelled to Fredericksburg, Texas, the Hill Country, which has been a bucket list trip for my husband for several years. It’s only about a seven-hour drive from where we live, so we took the opportunity last week to go.

It was a wonderful trip, but we are exhausted! We had three days to cram in as much as we possibly could; Monday and Friday were driving days. We had to be back home Saturday for other obligations.

Tuesday was a highlight for me: we went to Luckenbach, Texas (if you know, you know.). My husband calls Luckenbach “the Grand Old Opry of Outlaw Country Music,” and I guess it is. The song made it famous, but the musicians made history and if you’ve never read about Hondo Crouch, do yourself a favor and “meet” this man.  If only we all move through this life with the grace, love, and humor of Hondo, we would all be so much better off.

Hondo’s daughter, Becky, has written one book about her father and now has another called Luckenbach, The Center of the Universe, which I bought on my trip there and it’s one of those laugh out loud books that you want to read aloud to someone. Hysterical.

Anyway, the trip to Luckenbach was a sort of pilgrimage for me and was a highlight.

The other super cool thing we did was visit the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg. I have read a lot of books and memoirs of the Pacific War and so I was excited about this outing; however, that being said, I can not express how exhausted I was at the end of our visit! I’m one of those people who wants to see it all, read it all, touch all the interactive stuff, watch all the videos, at a museum. You just can’t do it, here. I really needed two days to see this museum the way it should be done. We started in the Nimitz Gallery and learned so much about Chester Nimitz – what a fascinating man! Then we moved on into the timeline of the War, then the various exhibits for each stage. We got to 1943 and had to stop for lunch.

After lunch, my brain was like a sponge that had soaked up all it could hold. Nothing was sinking in. We finished, and man, the finish was fabulous! There is a video display of a submerged airplane while a video takes you through the treaties of surrender and the celebrations. You never forget the price of war.

The exhibits in this museum are awesome and it is so well done. There are exhibits outside as well and most impressive is the Japanese Garden of Peace which was a gift from the people of Japan. It is beautiful and impressive.  There is a specially trained gardener to maintain the space.

We did several other things like tour the Texas Ranger Heritage Center in Fredericksburg (not to be confused with the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco), which was cool, and we visited Fort Martin Scott, an Army frontier post.

The landscape in the Hill Country is beautiful and has proven itself perfect for vineyards and so now there are at least forty wineries in the immediate area. Not being a wine-girl myself, we stuck to the German restaurants and breweries, but groups of people go there just to get on trollies and visit the wineries.

It was a fun trip and now I’m trying to get back into my routines, pack up the Halloween decorations, and think about the holiday season ahead.

Pat Austin blogs at And So it Goes in Shreveport and at Medium; she is the author of Cane River Bohemia: Cammie Henry and her Circle at Melrose Plantation. Follow her on Instagram @patbecker25 and Twitter @paustin110.

Biden’s workdays vs Trump’s, Kendi the conservative capitalist, Reynolds at USA today, Twitter sets up a suit, and a point in Charlie Baker’s favor under the Fedora

Posted: November 5, 2021 by datechguy in Uncategorized

via Don Surber:

Surber notes that Trump put in 12-hour days and held rallies at night. but in fairness Donald Trump was actually in charge of the Trump administration. We don’t’ know who is in charge of the Biden Administration but we sure in hell know it’s not Joe Biden.

Some people are making fun of the cowardice of Ibram X. Kendi for ducking Larry Elder but in fairness it’s a very rational decision.

There is no chance that he will win over conservatives as they are too informed and there is every chance that Elder will show that Kendi’s insanity will not hold up under scrutiny and if that happens he risks some very high paying gigs.

Everyone is conservative about stuff that concerns their bottom line.

I was surprised to see Glenn Reynolds back at USA today to talk about the defeat of the left in Tuesday’s elections.

Apparently they had nobody else who didn’t exist out of their leftist bubble who could explain such a thing.

Drew Holden has yet another one of his threads exposing the left but there is one tweet of the batch that needs to be emphasized.

It would seem to me that Twitter selectively enforcing their rules is something they can be sued for. If I was the VA GOP I’d launch a suit against twitter for this.

Finally I want to address something I read concerning the race in NJ that said even in the GOP won at best we’d have a Romney style squish in NJ.

That may be so but I want to point out something.

During the rise of the George Floyd riots across the nation there was a big protest scheduled for Fitchburg. I was worried and so were a lot of business and homeowners. Some of us were making quiet preparations to defend our homes business & neighborhoods in case things went south.

When the day came things went off totally peacefully, police were deployed strategically and I have reason to believe that the Baker administration took preventative steps to keep it that way. (I’m short a 2nd source or I’d say more).

This was not the case in Illinois, or Minnesota, or Washington or Oregon all with Dem governors anxious not to upset their base.

I’ll wager that business owners and home owners would have been happy to have Charlie Baker in place of the leftists when the trouble started there.

The Democrats lost big in Virginia because they let their Marxist masks slip off

Posted: November 4, 2021 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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The margin for victory was so great for the Republican gubernatorial candidate, Glenn Youngkin, that it was impossible for the Democrats to steal the election.  I am absolutely sure that if the margin of victory for Youngkin would have been narrower, the Democrats would have executed one of their all too familiar election steals, and the Republicans would have done nothing about it

The statewide elections in Virginia proved to be a clean sweep for the Republicans.  Check out this Breitbart article for more details.

Youngkin was running alongside former Del. Winsome Sears, a Jamaican immigrant and military veteran running for lieutenant governor, and Del. Jason Miyares, a Cuban American angling to unseat incumbent Attorney General Mark Herring (D). Both of the Virginia Republicans had also been declared winners by Decision Desk HQ as of the time of this writing.

Despite the victories of Winsome Sears and Jason Miyares in Virginia, the mainstream media is, of course, blaming the Republican wins in that state on racism.  Check out this Newsbusters article: (emphasis is from the original article)

Minutes after polls closed in Virginia on Tuesday, MSNBC’s election night co-hosts made it clear that they were pessimistic about their chances as they instead continued to lie about gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, his voters, and Republicans writ large by calling them “dangerous” human beings “to our national security” and racists “in fleece” peddling “lies” about critical race theory (CRT).

ReidOut host Joy Reid was, not surprisingly, the worst. Five minutes after polls closed, Reid peddled the lie that Youngkin ran a racist campaign to ban Toni Morrison from schools and held out hope for Democrat Terry McAuliffe on the basis of Black voters who were scared that Youngkin “would purge” books about W.E.B. DuBois and Martin Luther King Jr. from schools.

The Democrat candidate for governor, Terry McAuliffe, has no one to blame for his crushing defeat other than himself.  He made a statement that was completely at odds with everything the United States stands for,  It was a statement that only holds true in Marxist, and other totalitarian, nations.  Here is a video of that so infamous statement:

McAuliffe doesn’t want parents to have a say in their child’s education – YouTube

Ever since the Democrats successfully stole the 2020 presidential election from President Donald Trump, they have become so emboldened that they are now saying the silent parts out loud.  Up until the steal the Democrats were careful to not give too loud a voice to their Marxist beliefs.  That sentiments expressed by McAuliffe is deeply rooted in Marxist and other totalitarian philosophies, where children are viewed as property of the state.  That is completely the polar opposite of the way things have always been here in the United States, where parents have always been the ultimate decisions makers for their children.    MaAuliffe lost the election primarily because his statement, most understandably, provoked a stupendous wave of outrage amongst the parents of Virginia.  The parents of Virginia, along with the parents of most other states, were already outraged by so many other things Democrats have been doing to school children for the past several years.  This tweet by Tom Cotton perfectly captures the parental outrage that led to Youngkin’s victory.

Parental rights and outrage over progressive indoctrination is very much a winning issue for the Republicans because they are on the right side of these most fundamental issues.  If they run with them during the midterm elections and the 2024 presidential election, they should have a much easier path to victory. 

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