Visit New York? Hell, No!

New York City is doing its damnedest to displace California as the Nuthouse of the USA.

...New York is requiring people to actually say words that convey a message of approval of the view that gender is a matter of self-perception rather than anatomy, and that, as to “ze,” were deliberately created to convey that a message.

What’s more, according to the City, “refusal to use a transgender employee’s preferred name, pronoun, or title may constitute unlawful gender-based harassment.” The label “harassment” is important here because harassment law requires employers and businesses to prevent harassment by co-workers and patrons and not just by themselves or their own employees ...

And this isn’t just the government as employer, requiring its employees to say things that keep government patrons happy with government services. This is the government as sovereign, threatening “civil penalties up to $125,000 for violations, and up to $250,000 for violations that are the result of willful, wanton, or malicious conduct” if people don’t speak the way the government tells them to speak....Volokh, quoted at Grim's Place

Remind me again:  why do people go to NYC when there are public zoos all around the country?

Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin....Yoo Hoo, Cdl Dolan!!

Some of you are not acquainted with the writings of Fr. George W. Rutler.

You should be.  Go find, "He Spoke to Us"--a book filled with short essays--as a starter.

That's just prelude.  Now we have today's essay, in which Fr. Rutler is clear about voting for Hildebeeste AND what he thinks of the Al Smith Money-Grubbing Dinner.

...It is incorrect to say that the coming election poses a choice between two evils. For ethical and aesthetic reasons, there may be some bad in certain candidates, but badness consists in doing bad things. Evil is different: It is the deliberate destruction of truth, virtue, and holiness.

While one may pragmatically vote for a flawed candidate, one may not vote for anyone who advocates and enables evil acts — and that includes abortion. “In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to ‘take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it'” (Evangelium Vitae, 73)....

...It is also the duty of the clergy to make this clear and not to shrink, under the pretense of charity, from explaining the church’s censures. Wolves in sheep’s clothing are dangerous, but worse are wolves in shepherd’s clothing....The illusion of indifference cannot long be perpetuated by lame jokes and synthetic laughter at banquets — for there is handwriting on the wall.

It should not surprise you that when Cdl. Dolan arrived in NYC, Fr. Rutler was transferred to a parish in Hell's Kitchen. 

This column will probably get him transferred to New Jersey.

And Now, CDW (Liturgy)

It appears that the 'reform of the reform' movement is now toes-up at the Vatican.

In combination with Pp. Francis' (apparent) acceptance of SSPX, this would seem to mean that the Roman Catholic church will become even more 'bi-ritual'--and never the twain shall meet.

Here's the question:  will the new CDW regime squelch the wacko-liturgy gang, or let them run?  We have seen the inevitable progression from Wacky Mass to demi- or full-blown heresy too often to regard it as 'chance.' 

Hmmmm.

A Note on My Combox

Some 'anonymous' keeps sending comments with links to essays which are either off-topic or not interesting to me.

Those comments are rejected.

If you want to run a blog, get your own.  It's free, although we know the Thought Police will be coming at some point in the future.

Why Breitbart Loves Trump

Interesting little side-note here, which may portend a lot in a Trump Administration.

...Trump is not responding to attacks by ignoring them in favor of continuing a theatrical script other people, people on the professional production crew, hand him. He is fighting back, and against specifics. And contrary to the standard political approach, he is not pretending to fight for his supporters. Instead, and as his supporters understand, he is fighting with them -- because they have all been, and continue to be, targets....

You may recall one of Breitbart's famous dictums:  "Fuck You!!  WAR!!"

Birds, feathers, etc.

That's not all bad, ya'know.  If RoJo--or Paul Ryan--or even Sensenbrenner--had decided to fight rather than to roll over, an 'establishment' candidate might be the nominee.  But they did not.  They decided that comity was more important than their voters.  And here we are.  The castrati:  McConnell, Boehner, McCarthy, and all those neo-con scribbler-twits are sidelined. 

They deserve it.

It's particularly instructive to see where RoJo is:  he's likely to win, but he's had a helluva scare against a Complete Asshole who RoJo crushed last time around. 

Why?  Because RoJo did not fight, as he had promised.  He rolled over.

The Polls: Watch the TREND

We believe that "the trend" (or 'momentum') is a lot more important than a 1- or 5-day snapshot.

So watch the trend, friends.

Arkancide Looming

Taking bets....

WHO will suffer Arkancide?  Put your pick into the combox.

WHEN will they get it?  Again, the com-box, and you may use a range of time.

HOW will they get it?  Shot to the head?  Airplane accident?  Car "malfunction"?  Poison?  THE RUSSIANS????  A candlestick?

Won't go with "where."  As Vince Foster proved, bodies can be moved around.

Obozo: Thug Then, Thug Now, With Creamer as Instructor

There's a good reason that we Cheeseheads refer to them as F.I.B's.  (Yah, the last two initials stand for "Illinois Bozos.")

Violence is just part of the (D) machine's game, and Obozo has been soaked in it since 1985.

His teacher was Creamer, husband to Schakowsky, another (D).

Another Way to Raise the Finger

Letting Gummint(s) know what they can do with themselves takes a few different forms.

One of them was demonstrated in Oregon just yesterday.

The jury told the Feds to 'jam it'.  Yes, that's a euphemism.

HT:  Grim

Belling's Whining Again

For a "conservative," Belling spends a lot of time pushing his very favorite regulations.

Apparently he's blind.  Can't see 3,000 lb. objects in front of his car.

So he whines and wails.

So If It Be War.....

If it be war (political or shooting), then we must remember St Crispian's Day.

......band of brothers....

So much of Western Civilization is illuminated by Shakespeare--who was a closet Catholic.

Our Masters Want Another War

You've heard the drumbeat.  Hillary blames them for everything, Obozo blames them for everything, and the War Party Pubbies blame them for everything, too.   

The New (Again) Permanent Enemy is The Russians.  And Our Masters want war.

What considerations should the United States take in its approach to Syria?   ...if there's one thing that unites the Washington foreign policy establishment right now, it's that we need another regime change campaign: this time in Syria, an unnecessary, dangerous escalation. I used to worry we were sleepwalking towards war with Russia. Now we seem to be outright lunging.

Syria's Assad is backed by The Russians.  So do the math.

...As one anonymous senior foreign policy official told the Washington Post, "You can't pretend you can go to war against Assad and not go to war against the Russians." Joint Chiefs Chairman General Joseph Dunford said outright that attempts to control Syrian airspace "would require us to go to war against Syria and Russia."...

Kremlinologists understand that politically, Russian dictators needs the US as an enemy.  Those politics have been successful at least since the Cuban missile crisis for all the Russian leaders.  So the US is 'Oceania' to the 'Eurasia' of Putin & Co.  The major Russian proxies have been Eastern Europe, Palestine, and (to a lesser degree) Vietnam--and currently, Syria.

Since GWBush, US policy has been wavering.  We took on the Russian proxies in Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq, and then body-checked the Russians with NATO in Eastern Europe.  None of those actions resulted in a direct shooting match with the Bear.

But with the White House now occupied by SCOAMF (an idiot), and Hillary in desperate need of a Cause, and with the War Party Establishment Republicans sharing Hillary's need, things are deteriorating rapidly.  Putin needs a 'win' to offset the loss of Eastern Europe, so he's pushing buttons and is near to getting a response.

...Russia's interests in the Syrian conflict are weightier than ours are, from the Tartus naval facility to the possibility of a lucrative oil pipeline to Putin's need for an overseas conflict that will keep his people in line. The Tartus base is especially relevant: it's one of Russia's very few foreign military installations and its only naval refueling point in the Mediterranean....

Much as I despise Trump, he may actually 'get it' better than all the others.  If he is actually running against The Establishment, which hankers for war, he knows that the US electorate is not willing to drop 30,000 troops into Syria.

You can hope so, anyway.  Ingraham has more on the topic at this link.

On the Planet of Tammy Baldwin

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Madistan), in her best soft whine, tells a local reporter-ette that 'if we repeal Obamacare, think of how the costs will go up.'

That's on Planet Tammy.

Here, in the real world, we HAVE Obamacare, and the costs went up.  Waaaaayyyy up. 

David Schippers Is Going to Wake Up Dead....Soon

David Schippers, as you may recall, was the House's hired prosecutor in the Clinton impeachment proceedings.

He's said a few things about that case, and will probably wake up dead whether or not Hildebeeste gets elected.  And no matter how it's described, it will NOT be a 'natural death.'

60,000 documents that YOU can NOT see, folks.

It's Not "Coming;" It's Here: the Persecution

Anthony Esolen is a calm, cool, and collected one.  So this little offering of his should make you think.  If it does not, well, at least you were warned.

I know there are plenty of Catholics who are, in one way or another, looking forward to the relentless institutional persecution that is coming our way unless we surrender the One Thing Needful to the secular left, and that is the family-destroying and state-feeding beast called the Sexual Revolution, with its seven heads and ten horns and the harlot squatting atop it. As I see it, these Catholics belong to four groups.

First are the Persecutors. These people hate the Church, and that is why they remain ostensible members of it....In all conflicts between the State and the Church, the Persecutor will not only side with the State; he will be glad to lead the charge....But why do I use the generic masculine pronoun here? She—she will want to compel Catholic interns to assist in abortions, or even to perform one; she will want to compel Catholic parishes to allow their grounds and their halls to be used for the celebration of pseudogamy. Religious freedom? The Persecutor respects neither God nor the conscience of man....

Second, the Quislings. The Quisling does not hate the Church, but he does not love her, either. He is a worldling and craves the approval of the world. He believes in “the future,” and that means he is easy prey for the peddlers of ideological fads...

...Then comes the Avenger. He has tried to live in accord with the Church, and has received mainly contempt from her, or neglect, or persecution. That has curdled him within, and he now hates the Church such as she is more than he loves her as the bride of Christ....The Avenger enjoys rejection, enjoys loss, because that gives him a fine opportunity to meditate upon his courage. Sometimes the Avenger is a traditionalist. Sometimes he is a hater of the traditionalist. Whether he is one or the other, he does not aim his rifle at the terrible enemies of the Church from without: he does not fight the materialist, the sexual revolutionary, the radical secularist, the globalist, the corrupter of children, or the hawker of filth. He aims his rifle at Catholics...

Yes, thank God, there is a 'good guy' in the mix:

...Last we have the Soldier. The Soldier complains about his superiors not because they give him bad orders, but because they give him no orders at all. ...The Soldier does not say, “I will fight, but my generals must be perfectly wise.” Generals are never perfectly wise or perfectly anything else. The Soldier does not say, “I will fight, but only if I do not have to share the field with these others,” which others may be traditionalists, the ecumenically minded, Protestants friendly to the Catholic Church, or Catholics who disagree with him on some political point. The Soldier is grateful for his brothers in arms, and if their uniforms are a little different from his, he figures that the Lord of Hosts will sort the matter out in the end.

The Soldier does not make light of the desperate situation. His name is not Pollyanna. But he remembers the words of Jesus: “In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world.”...

Oremus.  Flectamus genua.

"The Russians, The Russians!!" So What? (UPDATED)

Some radio-pundits seem to think that when "the Russians!!!" penetrate email accounts and release the information to the US public, that's a......terrible....awful....horrible.........NASTY.....thing.  The fact that the information helps Trump (at this time) seems to be more important than the actual content of the materials.  Hmmmm.

Let's get a little further into this thing.

First off, it seems that US Government sources---all controlled by Obama, we remind you--are the 'reliable' sources which pin the tail on the Russkis.  That includes the FBI's "reliable" Mr. Comey.  (Nuff said).  The revelations (at present) point to an utterly corrupt, totally self-serving (D) candidate, who happens to be Obama's favored successor.  In fact, they underline and support the contentions that Hillary is exactly that.

One radio pundit makes the irrelevant point that 'Trump invited the Russians to do this.'  As though the Russians would NEVER have thought of it before that.  Right-o!  (The Chinese Communists are laughing uncontrollably.  There's a reason:  with a Hillary presidency, the ChiComs win, the Russkis lose.  And if you're fool enough to think that the ChiComs don't have this--and all sorts of other goodies--you need a long rest in a padded room.)

Finally:  I don't give a damn where the information came from, IF the information is valid.  Just as in the case of Project Veritas, we note that there are no flat-out, documented DENIALS of the case presented.

So.  What's the harm, other than to HRC?

And why is THAT worthy of denunciation?

Some radio-pundits used to say that 'the answer to flawed speech is MORE speech.'  Have things changed?

UPDATE:  Denninger absolutely destroys the "Russians" bullshit.  While it could have been the Russkis, it could also have been a bored high-school kid.

"The Money" or "The Citizens"? The Results in France

History matters, quite a bit, while discussing "free trade" and its effects.

...France and Britain were longtime rivals and both countries were committed to Mercantilism, yet they struck one of the first “free trade “deals or at least the first deal premised on philosophy of free trade. Even today, many free market types will argue that trade can overcome even the bitterest of rivalries. People like making money more than they like making trouble, so the theory goes. This trade deal is proof of that.

The most notable part of the deal is that it was a disaster for France. Soon after the deal was signed, there was a flood of British manufactured goods into France. Importation of British goods doubled. This put enormous pressure on the already distressed French industries, setting off riots and revolts. Naturally, this put pressure on the already strained relations between the provinces and the crown. Most historians count the Eden Treaty as one of the contributing factors leading up to the French Revolution.

What the French government did not understand when negotiating the treaty is that trade is not a static thing. Even if the French could vastly increase their sale of wine and linens to Britain, in order to offset the import of British manufactured goods, there would still be significant economic dislocation in the French economy. The wine merchants would be happy, but the French cotton mills in Normandy would be devastated, which is why riots broke out there soon after the deal was implemented.

Trade between nations can be a very good thing for both nations. It can be a terrible thing too. It’s not always easy to know in advance....

(You really should read all of the linked essay, which has lots of other useful information!)

Umnnnhhhh, yah.  When one of the effects is a revolution, well,....

Last week, another pundit (regrets--I forget which one) noted that 'economics' must be governed by 'politics,'--not the other way around.  IOW, while Gummints can make all sorts of trade deals on behalf of their moneyed-interest friends, demolishing the livelihoods of vast numbers of citizens is NOT in the country's best interests.  Or, as the Froggy King found out, not in the best interests of the regnant rulers.

We would not, of course, suggest that the guillotine is a remedy.

Yet.

Indy Star "Newspaper" Not Up on the News

The Indiana Secretary of State--and the Indiana State Police--have found multiple instances of the setups for vote-fraud in that State.

The "newspaper" report on the story leaves out actual news, of course.

In Veritas' second video, released BEFORE the dateline on the Indy Star story, one of the (D) criminal conspirators tells the Veritas spy that 'Indiana is a target' for vote-fraud activities because--like Michigan--it has very loose registration laws.  (No kidding!!  Read the story;  a second-grader could game Indiana's system.)

The reporter for the Indy Star is well on his way to a career at CNN where anchorettes have proclaimed that the US already has term-limits on Congresscritters.

O tempora!!  O mores!!!

Milwaukee In the Headlines!!

Always nice to see Milwaukee highlighted in a news video, right??

Yup.  Part Two of Project Veritas' documentary on Democrat Crooks (I repeat myself) was filmed right in Milwaukee.  Mostly.  There were side trips to Chicago to visit with a genuine FIB and then to NYC.

But yah.  Tom Barrrett's Milwaukee.  John Chisholm's Milwaukee.

David Clarke will not be amused.

HRC's Governing Style

Don't say you weren't warned about a Hillary presidency.

A Clinton campaign “Forward Together” bus has been caught dumping foul-smelling human waste into the street and down a storm drain in Lawrenceville, Georgia, according to several reports.

“Police say when they arrived on the scene, toilet paper was scattered everywhere and there was a foul smell,” reported Atlanta’s WGCL-TV 46.

Local businessman Mike Robins snapped several photos of the bus dumping the stinky waste into the street.

Dump crap all over, wherever, whenever.  That's our Hillary!!