One of the most pervasive hallmarks of the political left is their chronic distortion of language. George Orwell highlighted this in great detail when he wrote 1984. The term he created for this type of behavior is Newspeak.
Progressives and other leftists have been warping language for well more than a century. It is the only way they have any hope st winning arguments or convincing those that are uninformed or unknowledgeable.
One of the most common tactics used by leftists is to take a term that has a negative connotation and apply it to those who absolutely do not deserved to be tagged with that label. The most current example of this is the all too casual way leftists on social media throw around the accusations of someone being a conspiracy theorist.
All an individual has to do to be tagged on social media as a conspiracy theorist is to make a statement that conflicts with standard leftist orthodoxy. Liberals and other leftists live in a universe that is divorced from reality, a universe that is ruled by feeling and emotions rather than the truth, facts, science, or other forms of absolute truth.
Social media giants such as FaceBook and Twitter employ an army of so called fact checkers who all too often label factual posts as false or containing misinformation. If you share posts that are flagged by these phony fact checkers too often you risk being banned or having the audience your posts reach severely restricted. I have been banned from Twitter for spreading conspiracies and I am pretty sure FaceBook has severely throttled back my account.
To be labeled a conspiracy theorist by a leftist on social media all you have to do is tell the truth about the 2020 presidential election being stolen from President Trump, mask mandates being ineffectual, lockdowns doing tremendous harm and no good, the possibility of the Wuhan Virus escaping from a lab, global warming and man caused climate change being a bunch of bunk, and so much more.
It is amazing how frequently us so called conspiracy theorist are later proved to be purveyors of the truth when all of the facts and evidence are carefully examined and weighed.
The sudden fall of Dr. Fauci (or as my wife caller him Dr. Fakey) is a wonder to behold. Of course the media is doing all it can to prop him up now that his email’s are showing him to be the Sir Humphrey Appleby of government medicine but the sudden pulling of his book from pre-sales shows they understand the writing is on the wall.
“Tony Fauci is about to become the fall guy for the Covid Conspiracy, which wrecked the economy to elect Biden.
“And with a $400,000 per year salary sucking at the federal teat, the quack is totally cool with that.”
I take exception to the use of the word “elected” there.
Unlike St. Anthony the great apparently he wasn’t all that good at resisting temptation.
As you can see DaTechGuyblog.com is back up. It went down the day I was about to launch the indulgence Calendar part of a project that I’ve been putting off for almost a decade in the same way that Jonah went to see when asked to go to Nineveh.
Because my primary backup site was full I created a 2nd backup site datechguyblog.wordpress.com which had space for the Calendar and published the post and the file there and viola the very next day this site was up again.
I mentioned it to my pastor Tuesday he suspect it means we’re on the right track.
I understand that Vice president Harris is supposedly gong to be put in charge of a task force to restore the economy.
I’m sure there will be a good amount of government money spent on those involved to come up with a solution but the quickest way would be the return of Donald Trump to the White House.
We’ll have to wait 3 1/2 years for that, hopefully there will be an economy still there to get going.
The continued attacks on Joe Manchin & Kyrsten Sinema are rather amazing as it shows an amazing ability to forget the fruits of Harry Reid’s moves that backfired spectacularly on the Democrats and the left. It’s as the left believes it will hold power forever.
Of course when you gain power by illegitimate methods you tend to have that idea, as Glenn Reynolds said concerning the left’s responses to the various audits: “Not once in all the challenges have the Democrats responses indicated ‘we have nothing to hide.’”
Finally Romano’s Market is gone but a man named Lopez has moved in there with a variety store. It has some meats, not the variety that Mike had as he’s not a full blown butcher by trade but so far I like what I’ve tasted.
This is what happens in America, seven generation of Italians ran Romano’s for 117 years perhaps in the year 2138 the seventh generation of Lopez’s will decide they want to do something else and another family of immigrants will take it over and begin the cycle again.
Posted: June 2, 2021 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
By Christopher Harper
Dick Tuck was a political operative I met in the 1970s in Washington, D.C., and I later reconnected with him in the 1990s in New York City.
During his years as a campaign aide to the Democratic National Committee, Tuck became Richard Nixon’s nemesis.
In 1962, Tuck worked for Pat Brown in the gubernatorial campaign that Nixon tried to win after losing the presidential race to JFK two years earlier.
At a fundraiser in Chinatown in Los Angeles, Nixon was confused when the guests started to smile during his presentation. Tuck had snuck in fortune cookies that read: “Vote for Pat Brown.” During a whistle-stop campaign, Tuck ordered the train to start moving in the middle of Nixon’s speech. Nixon even complained about Tuck in the infamous Watergate tapes.
Whatever the case, Tuck brought humor to campaigns—a device sadly missing in today’s venomous political scene.
Rand Paul brought back memories of Dick Tuck when the Kentucky senator brought some humor to Washington during a speech about wasteful spending.
To make his points, Paul displayed several poster boards about specific research projects that he said taxpayers would be astounded to know their tax dollars were funding.
Among the projects he highlighted were: $357,000 to study “Cocaine and Risky Sex Habits of Quail” and $1.6 million for researching “Lizards on a Treadmill.”
One poster board featured legendary singer Dolly Parton to highlight that Uncle Sam is spending $250,000 to send “kids in Pakistan to Space Camp and Dollywood.” Another claimed the National Science Foundation spent $700,000 to figure out whether astronaut Neil Armstrong said: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” or “One small step for ‘a’ man.”
Paul said Americans might be alarmed by such frivolous studies, but it happens routinely “because we never vote for less money. It’s always more. Somebody’s got to point out that the waste and abuse of money goes on.”
Paul’s hilarious and poignant rant reminded me of U.S. Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin and his Golden Fleece Award, which he gave to public officials squandering public money in the 1970s and 1980s.
I hope that Paul continues the tradition of humor in politics, which seems far more effective than the vitriol we’ve seen in recent years.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7
This is the post I had planned to go up at datechguyblog.com on Monday before everything crashed and burned. I put it up on the backup site “datechguyblog.wordpress.com” but now that I’m back up it’s here
Today I’m launching a Catholic Devotional aid that I mentioned a few days ago on the site called The Indulgence Calendar.
Many people going to Mass weekly and even many who go daily are aware that these indulgences are available and quite a few might already be doing prayers and devotions that carry an indulgences but because they are not declaring their desire and/or intention to earn these indulgences they are not obtained.
The idea is that if you are a daily mass person you can make it a point to earn an indulgence each day for a different departed soul (or multiple souls if you earn multiple indulgences). A weekly mass person can earn indulgences for at least one person a week or if a family unit goes they can cover some of the daily folk that they might miss.
On a local level my goal is to earn an indulgence for every person who has ever died in my parish, particularly those who have been dead for a while and have been forgotten. If you decide to adopt this idea as your own for your own community you can do the same.
Each day on the calendar looks like this:
I will be making such calendars available each month. The one for June which is being used by WQPH 89.3 FM is here and below. For those unsure of the rules on earning an indulgence the 2nd page of the Calendar has the complete norms on indulgences I am repeating it here for those who which to have them handy online:
Indulgence Norms and notes
Communion on the day of an indulgence. This can be applied to any amount of indulgences that day.
Confession within 20 days of the day of an indulgence. Applies to all indulgences during that period
Prayers for the intentions of the Holy Father (an Our Father, Hail Mary or any appropriate prayer) once per day of indulgence.
To earn an indulgence you must be in a state of grace (no unconfessed mortal sin) at the time of the indulgenced act.
Indulgences can only be applied to the dead or to the person earning the indulgence. They can not be applied to any other living person.
For a PLENARY indulgence you must have NO attachment to sin. If such an attachment exists the indulgence earned is only partial.
A plenary indulgence can only be earned one a day (expect if death is imminent), there is no limits to partial indulgences daily.
An indulgence attached to a feast day is still valid if the feast day is transferred lawfully.
A specific day’s indulgence requiring a visit to a particular church or oratory can be made from noon the previous day to midnight on the actual day.
No unbaptized person nor any Christian who is currently under the penalty of excommunication may earn an indulgence.
You must ACTIVELY seek and or state your intention to obtain an indulgence for the act or prayer that carries it to be valid.
Prayers & Acts that carry an indulgence (Partial list) All indulgences partial unless BOLD UNDERLINED
Prayers
The Actiones Nostras, Act of faith hope and Love, Any Devout Mental Prayer, Adsumus, Adoro te Devote, Prayer to St. Joseph, Prayer of Thanksgiving, The Angelus, Domine Deus Omnipotens, Spiritual Communion, The Apostles Creed, Angels Dei, The Niceane Creed, The office for the dead, Any approved Litanies, Psalm 130, Iesu Dulcissime Redemptor, Ave Maria Stella, Maria Mater Gratiae, Exaudi Nos, O Sacrum Convivium, Prayer for the Pope, Prayer for the Dead, Psalm 51, Sub tuum praesidium, Prayer for Benefactors, Angel of God Prayer, Te Deum, Public Novenas for Pentecost Christmas or the Feast or the Immaculate Conception, Tantum Ergo, Prayer for Vocations, The Sign of the Cross, Sancta Maria Succurre Miseris, The Magnificat, Vista Quaesumus Domine, Act of Contrition (expect during Sacramental Confession), Prayer to St Michael, Chaplet of St Michael, Come Holy Spirit, Prayer before a CrucifixPlenary if done after communion Friday in Lent, Five decades of the Rosary Plenary if done in a family, religious community or Pious association, The Stations of the Cross Moving from Station to Station (unless physically unable to do so)
Actionsthat carry an indulgence
Making a Pious invocation raising your mind to god while performing the duties of life
Devoting yourself or your goods in compassionate service to your brothers in need
Voluntarily abstaining from something that is licit & pleasing in the spirit of penitence
Adoration of the blessed Sacrament Plenary if done for a half hour or more
Reading the scriptures Plenary if done for a half hour or more
Teaching Christian Doctrine
Visiting a church on All Souls day (Nov 2)
Going on a religious retreat for 3 or more days
Use a blessed religious object Plenary if blessed by a Pope & used on the Feast of Sts Peter & Paul
Visiting a Parish Church on the Feast day of its Saint(s) or on Aug 2nd (say Our Father & Creed)
Attending the 1st Mass of a newly ordained priest or his jubilee mass (25th 50th or 60th anniversary)
Visiting a cemetery and praying for the dead (Plenary if done from Nov 1st through Nov 8th)
Praying for the dead is not only a spiritual work of mercy but spiritual exercise of this type tend to fortify one’s own soul so I would encourage you to disseminate this far and wide,
Perhaps that’s why everything crashed and burned on my primary site the day this was supposed to go up.
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