These are the people who should never be tolerated in our society. By no co-incidence, they are all Democrat Party (or Stalinist/Checkha Party) members.
...Former Special Prosecutor Francis Schmitz, Former GAB employee Kevin
Kennedy, Former GAB employee Shane Falk, Former GAB employee Molly
Nagappala, Former GAB employee Jonathan Becker, Elections Commission
Counsel Nathan Judnic, Milwaukee ADA David Robles, Milwaukee
Administrator James Krueger, Milwaukee DA Investigator Robert Stelter...
John Chisholm is not named here, but is a co-conspirator.
Why is Kevin Kennedy drawing a fat pension from the State?
Connect the dots: Schmitz is a former US attorney. Think the Deep State stops at the borders of Mordor-on-the-Potomac? Think again.
Friday, December 08, 2017
The Extremists Sue Ariens
The Muslim extremists in NE Wisconsin are using lawyers instead of bombs. (It's up to you to figure out which is worse.)
...An Islamic advocacy group is suing a Wisconsin manufacturer, alleging it failed to accommodate 19 Muslim employees who wanted to take prayer breaks during work time.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations wants the Ariens Co. to rehire the former employees and give them back pay and damages. The group’s federal lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Green Bay, also asks the Brillion lawn mower manufacturer to reinstate a more lenient religious accommodation policy that would allow employees to take short breaks for prayers at different times, such as dawn and sunset....
Interesting, because:
1) ...the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigated the allegations several months ago and dismissed the complaint....
and
2) ...The company said many Muslim employees who continue to work at the plant comply with the two-break policy and are able to fulfill their religious practices during those times....
There's always some damn lawyer who's looking for revenue.
...An Islamic advocacy group is suing a Wisconsin manufacturer, alleging it failed to accommodate 19 Muslim employees who wanted to take prayer breaks during work time.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations wants the Ariens Co. to rehire the former employees and give them back pay and damages. The group’s federal lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Green Bay, also asks the Brillion lawn mower manufacturer to reinstate a more lenient religious accommodation policy that would allow employees to take short breaks for prayers at different times, such as dawn and sunset....
Interesting, because:
1) ...the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigated the allegations several months ago and dismissed the complaint....
and
2) ...The company said many Muslim employees who continue to work at the plant comply with the two-break policy and are able to fulfill their religious practices during those times....
There's always some damn lawyer who's looking for revenue.
Lyft Driver-Shooter Pulls Gun and Does Dumb Stunt
This guy will probably lose his CCW. And if he's charged with reckless some-damn-thiong, he'll lose the case in court, too.
...His passengers were trying to get out of the car while it was moving, but not until he put the car in park did the doors unlock and all four bailed out.
"I got out the same time they did. I turned around. I had my firearm concealed. I turned around. I already had a round chambered. I fired four shots down range. I could have hit them easily. I didn't shoot to hit anyone. I wanted to scare the s*** out of them because I didn't want to get shot myself."
When asked why he felt the need to open fire if they were running away, the driver was matter-of-fact.
"When you're in that position and you're outnumbered by four, you want to make sure they get the message to keep running."...
Uhmmnnnn, no. You use a firearm ONLY when your life--or that of another--is in grave danger. If Dindoo Nuffin and his bros are running away, your life is NOT in grave danger, stupid.
He should be forced to memorize Ayoob Massad's book "In the Gravest Extreme."
...His passengers were trying to get out of the car while it was moving, but not until he put the car in park did the doors unlock and all four bailed out.
"I got out the same time they did. I turned around. I had my firearm concealed. I turned around. I already had a round chambered. I fired four shots down range. I could have hit them easily. I didn't shoot to hit anyone. I wanted to scare the s*** out of them because I didn't want to get shot myself."
When asked why he felt the need to open fire if they were running away, the driver was matter-of-fact.
"When you're in that position and you're outnumbered by four, you want to make sure they get the message to keep running."...
Uhmmnnnn, no. You use a firearm ONLY when your life--or that of another--is in grave danger. If Dindoo Nuffin and his bros are running away, your life is NOT in grave danger, stupid.
He should be forced to memorize Ayoob Massad's book "In the Gravest Extreme."
Thursday, December 07, 2017
"Loser", Defined!!
You know you're a loser when you STILL come in second competing against real women.
Weinstein Splatters on Lasry
Mr. Lasry has a lot of Virtue.
...Following the 2016 U.S. election, Lasry and the Milwaukee Bucks became one of three NBA teams to openly state they would not be staying at Trump branded hotels when on the road...
That's his story, anyway.
There's an entirely different story being told in court.
The suit claims that ... Lasry knew of Weinstein’s “pattern and practice of predatory sexual conduct toward women” but covered it up for years because of their close relationship with the Hollywood producer, ESPN reported.
Lasry made his fortune buying and selling junk-bonds and BK distressed assets. Maybe that "junk" part got out of hand. *cough*
...Following the 2016 U.S. election, Lasry and the Milwaukee Bucks became one of three NBA teams to openly state they would not be staying at Trump branded hotels when on the road...
That's his story, anyway.
There's an entirely different story being told in court.
The suit claims that ... Lasry knew of Weinstein’s “pattern and practice of predatory sexual conduct toward women” but covered it up for years because of their close relationship with the Hollywood producer, ESPN reported.
Lasry made his fortune buying and selling junk-bonds and BK distressed assets. Maybe that "junk" part got out of hand. *cough*
Virtue? Or Sheer Smugness?
It looks as though Sasse doesn't get the difference between virtue and smugness.
If he were actually virtuous, he would NEVER blast forth his intentions-to-be-virtuous.
If he were actually virtuous, he would NEVER blast forth his intentions-to-be-virtuous.
Modernity and Lousy Church Music
Cadged this from a Fr. Schall essay over at Crisis (you should support them!!) Fr. Schall's essay has to do with the current crisis in the Church--and current politics. But the genius of Schall is such that the essay applies to church music, too.
...Eric Voegelin once remarked, in his 1968 book, Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, that modernity was largely the result of Christian men losing their faith in the transcendent order. They shifted their allegiance almost exclusively to the enterprises of this world. The separation of faith and works left works with an autonomy of their own, instead of, as in the Catholic tradition, seeing the transcendent end directing the things of this world to their own natural order....
We (properly) understand that the transcendent order includes beauty, goodness, and truth. The further from any of these qualities, the less the transcendence. That sentence should remind you of Pius X's statement on the ideal sacred music being Chant and polyphony modeled on Chant; that the further music strayed from the model, the less 'sacred' it will be.
Why "less sacred"? And what's this "Chant model"?
...The crux of the matter is the real presence and how it is maintained. The Mass presupposed the same Sacrifice that Christ endured. There is only one Mass in the history of the world. It is conceived on an altar. It requires priests authorized to make the Sacrifice present to the congregation. All, priests and people, face the same direction historically. The heart of the Church’s presence in the world is the Eucharist and the other sacraments.
If Christ is not really present in the Eucharist, the Mass soon becomes a meal, not a sacrifice. The altar is changed into a table. The priest is not an alter Christus but a leader of the congregation. The bread and wine are memorials that remind us of the Last Supper. The leader is gradually not a bishop or a priest...
The Real Presence, of course, remains a mystery, as does (e.g.) transubstantiation. Chant is mysterious, too; it does not "resolve" neatly with chords, nor does the music have a nice, neat, meter; instead, the music depends entirely on the Word--the text which IS the Word (cf. Ratzinger's lecture to church musicians, Vienna, 1985).
I have taught Chant to beginners. They do NOT understand this "Word/text" thing--and I've encountered active resistance to the concept from "church musicians." The beginners will grasp it much more quickly than 'the musicians,' because the beginners have no worldly-formed pre-existing (and deficient) concept of "Sacred" music. In fact, non-musicians--usually pastors--do not "get" the concept that music moves the soul. They just let "the musician" do whatever. Ugh.
The essay itself is about the self-destructive nature of the Protestant revolt, by the way. Worth reading!
...Eric Voegelin once remarked, in his 1968 book, Science, Politics, and Gnosticism, that modernity was largely the result of Christian men losing their faith in the transcendent order. They shifted their allegiance almost exclusively to the enterprises of this world. The separation of faith and works left works with an autonomy of their own, instead of, as in the Catholic tradition, seeing the transcendent end directing the things of this world to their own natural order....
We (properly) understand that the transcendent order includes beauty, goodness, and truth. The further from any of these qualities, the less the transcendence. That sentence should remind you of Pius X's statement on the ideal sacred music being Chant and polyphony modeled on Chant; that the further music strayed from the model, the less 'sacred' it will be.
Why "less sacred"? And what's this "Chant model"?
...The crux of the matter is the real presence and how it is maintained. The Mass presupposed the same Sacrifice that Christ endured. There is only one Mass in the history of the world. It is conceived on an altar. It requires priests authorized to make the Sacrifice present to the congregation. All, priests and people, face the same direction historically. The heart of the Church’s presence in the world is the Eucharist and the other sacraments.
If Christ is not really present in the Eucharist, the Mass soon becomes a meal, not a sacrifice. The altar is changed into a table. The priest is not an alter Christus but a leader of the congregation. The bread and wine are memorials that remind us of the Last Supper. The leader is gradually not a bishop or a priest...
The Real Presence, of course, remains a mystery, as does (e.g.) transubstantiation. Chant is mysterious, too; it does not "resolve" neatly with chords, nor does the music have a nice, neat, meter; instead, the music depends entirely on the Word--the text which IS the Word (cf. Ratzinger's lecture to church musicians, Vienna, 1985).
I have taught Chant to beginners. They do NOT understand this "Word/text" thing--and I've encountered active resistance to the concept from "church musicians." The beginners will grasp it much more quickly than 'the musicians,' because the beginners have no worldly-formed pre-existing (and deficient) concept of "Sacred" music. In fact, non-musicians--usually pastors--do not "get" the concept that music moves the soul. They just let "the musician" do whatever. Ugh.
The essay itself is about the self-destructive nature of the Protestant revolt, by the way. Worth reading!
Wednesday, December 06, 2017
The Stench of Lawyers and Their Deep State
Well, well, well. Owen placed a link on his blog--a link to Brad Schimel's report on the (mostly illegal) activities of the John Doe/G.A.B./Special Prosecutors who made up a law and then subpoenaed every damn thing they could think of.
They also ran the M-16A1 equipped pre-dawn raids on homes of Republicans. Not Democrats--just Republicans--some in their pajamas, some not home at the time so their kids could be scared half to death--and NONE allowed to call an attorney or anyone else.
(Those guys open-carrying in Milwaukee? They were thinking of John Chisholm's typical approach to any conservative.)
Anyhow.
Did you know that there was a THIRD John Doe? And that there was no "authorization" for it? And that John Doe captured millions of pages of emails from- and to-various Republicans, elected and non?
Oh, yes. There was. And the Deep State is right here in Wisconsin.
I'd love to think that John Chisholm will be leaving Milwaukee in tar and feathers (over his pajamas) after a pre-dawn armed raid including flash-bangs, while his wife is held at gunpoint as the mob clears out their possessions; and at the same time, the two slime-dog "assistants" of his are dragged out of town behind speeding cars and their goods are burned on the street.
But that won't happen.
They also ran the M-16A1 equipped pre-dawn raids on homes of Republicans. Not Democrats--just Republicans--some in their pajamas, some not home at the time so their kids could be scared half to death--and NONE allowed to call an attorney or anyone else.
(Those guys open-carrying in Milwaukee? They were thinking of John Chisholm's typical approach to any conservative.)
Anyhow.
Did you know that there was a THIRD John Doe? And that there was no "authorization" for it? And that John Doe captured millions of pages of emails from- and to-various Republicans, elected and non?
Oh, yes. There was. And the Deep State is right here in Wisconsin.
I'd love to think that John Chisholm will be leaving Milwaukee in tar and feathers (over his pajamas) after a pre-dawn armed raid including flash-bangs, while his wife is held at gunpoint as the mob clears out their possessions; and at the same time, the two slime-dog "assistants" of his are dragged out of town behind speeding cars and their goods are burned on the street.
But that won't happen.
Is Bob Lutz Nuts?
Bob Lutz is, like Lee Iacocca, a legend in the auto biz. Lutz worked with Iacocca at Chrysler, then moved to GM just before it became Government Motors. He's written a couple of books on the car biz; both are probably interesting, to say the least.
Recently, Lutz has been making noises about 'self-driving' cars and 'the end of the automotive era.' Some of those noises are.......uhhhmmmnnn.....nuts.
...Lutz’s article begins with the assertion that the end of the automotive era is upon us. “We’re now getting to the point where the automobile can’t fulfill its primary purpose anymore,” he said, “which is to move people from place to place on the surface of the Earth, easily and efficiently.” He pointed out that human-driven cars lead to a loss productivity, which provides an incentive to shift to autonomous cars. “We have so much traffic congestion that enormous amounts of time is being lost in all the major cities and urban conglomerations around the world in traffic.”...
Ol' Bob's point of view is fine, if you happen to live in a very large city. Detroit, NYC, LA, SFO, Chicago, Atlanta--yah, well, OK. But for the other 70% of the country's inhabitants, Bob Lutz is nuts. Here's more proof:
...“Is this a huge change? Yes! Is it hard for people to get used to? Yes! We had the same thing when we still had horses,” he said. But in high traffic areas, the autonomous cars, which he predicts won’t be owned by anyone but will be shared among people as a paid service, will help make transportation more efficient. “In a way it restricts some of the freedoms we’ve had up to now,” he said, “but on the other hand it opens up incredible new possibilities and mainly it’s gonna give everybody time back.”...
There is simply no comparison whatsoever between horse-based transportation and car-based transportation. None. And Bob, take a hard look at "community-owned" goods. You might remember the term "maintenance," Bob. Who's going to do that? You want to "share" a car last occupied by a vomitous drunk, Bob? Be my guest!
Ol' Bob has been drinking the socialist-dictator juice too heavily. Smart guy, but nutso-batso prophet.
Recently, Lutz has been making noises about 'self-driving' cars and 'the end of the automotive era.' Some of those noises are.......uhhhmmmnnn.....nuts.
...Lutz’s article begins with the assertion that the end of the automotive era is upon us. “We’re now getting to the point where the automobile can’t fulfill its primary purpose anymore,” he said, “which is to move people from place to place on the surface of the Earth, easily and efficiently.” He pointed out that human-driven cars lead to a loss productivity, which provides an incentive to shift to autonomous cars. “We have so much traffic congestion that enormous amounts of time is being lost in all the major cities and urban conglomerations around the world in traffic.”...
Ol' Bob's point of view is fine, if you happen to live in a very large city. Detroit, NYC, LA, SFO, Chicago, Atlanta--yah, well, OK. But for the other 70% of the country's inhabitants, Bob Lutz is nuts. Here's more proof:
...“Is this a huge change? Yes! Is it hard for people to get used to? Yes! We had the same thing when we still had horses,” he said. But in high traffic areas, the autonomous cars, which he predicts won’t be owned by anyone but will be shared among people as a paid service, will help make transportation more efficient. “In a way it restricts some of the freedoms we’ve had up to now,” he said, “but on the other hand it opens up incredible new possibilities and mainly it’s gonna give everybody time back.”...
There is simply no comparison whatsoever between horse-based transportation and car-based transportation. None. And Bob, take a hard look at "community-owned" goods. You might remember the term "maintenance," Bob. Who's going to do that? You want to "share" a car last occupied by a vomitous drunk, Bob? Be my guest!
Ol' Bob has been drinking the socialist-dictator juice too heavily. Smart guy, but nutso-batso prophet.
Importing Deflation: Wage Edition
Some people--like, for example, the Chamber of Commerce--don't want you to see this stuff.
...the rise in productivity comes at the expense of the wages of the American worker who saw unit labor costs (wages) decline 0.2% (against expectations of a 0.2% gain) - down for 2 straight quarters for the first time since 2014.
Real compensation declined 1.1% YoY - falling for the fourth straight quarter......
Just in time for Christmas!!
Graphs at the link.
...the rise in productivity comes at the expense of the wages of the American worker who saw unit labor costs (wages) decline 0.2% (against expectations of a 0.2% gain) - down for 2 straight quarters for the first time since 2014.
Real compensation declined 1.1% YoY - falling for the fourth straight quarter......
Just in time for Christmas!!
Graphs at the link.
Canada Pretty Much Off the Rails
Fleeing the Establishment State here in the USA by going to Canada?
That's crazy. Canada is several steps further into NutHouseLand than even California. For the time being.
That's crazy. Canada is several steps further into NutHouseLand than even California. For the time being.
"No Guns" Milwaukee??
A few folks open-carried on a project in north-central Milwaukee. I won't defend the guy who was brandishing (idiot!!), and open-carry is NOT concealed-carry; but there is an interesting followup here.
...City policy prohibits workers from taking dangerous weapons to the workplace, and some aldermen have voiced concerns about subcontractors bringing guns to work -- something that's against city policy....
The City supplies armed guards for its Mayor, of course.
Anyhow. The "policy" that you see on this news-report appears to encompass ONLY City employees, not contractors, nor sub-contractors.
For the time being, the City of Milwaukee is solvent; thus, people who really need work will have to bring the Vaseline and bend over to the City's demands, Constitutional or not. Solvency, however, is only a matter of time.
...City policy prohibits workers from taking dangerous weapons to the workplace, and some aldermen have voiced concerns about subcontractors bringing guns to work -- something that's against city policy....
The City supplies armed guards for its Mayor, of course.
Anyhow. The "policy" that you see on this news-report appears to encompass ONLY City employees, not contractors, nor sub-contractors.
For the time being, the City of Milwaukee is solvent; thus, people who really need work will have to bring the Vaseline and bend over to the City's demands, Constitutional or not. Solvency, however, is only a matter of time.
Milwaukee Juvie-Judge: 'We Can't Lock Them Up'
There are reasons that people carry guns in the City of Milwaukee.
This judge is one of them.
...Judge Joe Donald is the Presiding Judge for Milwaukee County Children's Court. He's in charge of deciding the fates of hundreds of kids every year.
"It is very difficult to say with certainty whether any particular penalty is going to stop a kid from re-offending," he says. "It's a matter of putting the right kids, in the right situation, for the right length of time."
Judge Donald says sending juveniles to places like Lincoln Hills remains a final resort.
"If we do that, as a system, we have failed," he says. "Simply locking them up, in my opinion, is not a solution." ...
He is of the opinion that Lincoln Hills is too far away from the Little Darlings' homies. Hard for the rest of the crew to visit them, ya'know, without car-jacking some old lady at Bayshore.
This judge is one of them.
...Judge Joe Donald is the Presiding Judge for Milwaukee County Children's Court. He's in charge of deciding the fates of hundreds of kids every year.
"It is very difficult to say with certainty whether any particular penalty is going to stop a kid from re-offending," he says. "It's a matter of putting the right kids, in the right situation, for the right length of time."
Judge Donald says sending juveniles to places like Lincoln Hills remains a final resort.
"If we do that, as a system, we have failed," he says. "Simply locking them up, in my opinion, is not a solution." ...
He is of the opinion that Lincoln Hills is too far away from the Little Darlings' homies. Hard for the rest of the crew to visit them, ya'know, without car-jacking some old lady at Bayshore.
Vatican: Global Warming Will Bring On Last Judgment
Apparently some denizens of the Vatican have learned 'the day and the hour.' It'll be about 10 years from now.
In its newly released “Final Declaration: Our Planet, Our Health, Our Responsibility” from a November workshop on climate change, air pollution and health, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences warns that “there is less than a decade” to put in place a series of sweeping measures to counteract the effects of human-induced climate change. “The time to act is now,” it reads.
Hmmm.
Well, you've been warned.
In its newly released “Final Declaration: Our Planet, Our Health, Our Responsibility” from a November workshop on climate change, air pollution and health, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences warns that “there is less than a decade” to put in place a series of sweeping measures to counteract the effects of human-induced climate change. “The time to act is now,” it reads.
Hmmm.
Well, you've been warned.
Grassley Has This One Right
Sen. Corn-a-Hole Grassley floated "immigration reform" vis-a-vis the DACA bunch. There's a lot of good stuff here.
...The GOP plan, dubbed the Security, Enforcement, and Compassion United in Reform Efforts, or SECURE Act, would offer three-year work permits to 690,000 DACA illegal-immigrants in exchange for ending chain migration, requiring mandatory screening to exclude illegals from jobs, closing asylum loopholes used by migrants to get into the United States, and penalizing so-called “sanctuary cities” which refuse to cooperate with federal immigration-enforcement agencies....
AFAIC, we can keep the DACA kiddies and deport their parents, who are illegals. But that ain't gonna happen, so the next-best thing is keep the DACA kiddies and cut off all their cousins, uncles, crazy aunties, and 4th-cousins-twice-removed from showing up tomorrow.
Some GOP Senators--generally, the ones owned by landscapers, roofers, and meatpackers--disagree.
Screw them.
...The GOP plan, dubbed the Security, Enforcement, and Compassion United in Reform Efforts, or SECURE Act, would offer three-year work permits to 690,000 DACA illegal-immigrants in exchange for ending chain migration, requiring mandatory screening to exclude illegals from jobs, closing asylum loopholes used by migrants to get into the United States, and penalizing so-called “sanctuary cities” which refuse to cooperate with federal immigration-enforcement agencies....
AFAIC, we can keep the DACA kiddies and deport their parents, who are illegals. But that ain't gonna happen, so the next-best thing is keep the DACA kiddies and cut off all their cousins, uncles, crazy aunties, and 4th-cousins-twice-removed from showing up tomorrow.
Some GOP Senators--generally, the ones owned by landscapers, roofers, and meatpackers--disagree.
Screw them.
Tuesday, December 05, 2017
Wisdom!
Great quote!!!
Ronald Knox once said, “He who travels in the barque of St. Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.”
Found at Crisis Magazine. Thanks.
Ronald Knox once said, “He who travels in the barque of St. Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.”
Found at Crisis Magazine. Thanks.
The Abomination of Desolation: Church Music
James Macmillan is a first-rate musical artist/composer. He's also a Catholic, and therefore has some comments which are relevant to the "music in the church" question.
...This has been especially dire in the Catholic Church, where deliberately misapplied readings of “the spirit of Vatican II” has turned much of the musical practice in liturgy into a pitiful laughing stock. Anglicans will know what the problem is too — those aisle-dancing and numbskull jogging for Jesus choruses, maudlin sentimental dirges, faux American folk music and cod-Celticness. The American musicologist Thomas Day described this kind of liturgy as “a diet of romantic marshmallows indigestibly combined with stuff that grabs you by the scruff of the neck and shakes you into submission with its social message”.
In the 1970s many well-intentioned types thought that such “folk” music and pop culture derivatives would appeal to teenagers and young people and get them more involved in the Church, when the exact opposite has happened. It is now thought that these trendy experiments in music and liturgy have contributed to the increasing risible irrelevance of liberal Christianity, and that liturgy as social engineering has repulsed many. Like most ideas shaped by 1960s Marxist ideology it has proved an utter failure. Its greatest tragedy is the wilful, disingenuous de-poeticisation of Catholic worship. The Church has simply aped the secular West’s obsession with “accessibility”, “inclusiveness”, “democracy” and anti-elitism, resulting in the triumph of bad taste, banality and a deflation of the sense of the sacred in the life of the church.
The liturgical “progressives” who have created this have been at loggerheads for decades with the musicians of the Church, whom they accuse unfairly of being reactionary and Tridentinist...
Yup. Although there are bright spots--mostly in the Old Rite parishes--the Marxist push of certain US Bishops in the 1960's has been very effective. Macmillan's descriptions are accurate, and the de-population of the churches is a very good measure.
HT: PertPapist
...This has been especially dire in the Catholic Church, where deliberately misapplied readings of “the spirit of Vatican II” has turned much of the musical practice in liturgy into a pitiful laughing stock. Anglicans will know what the problem is too — those aisle-dancing and numbskull jogging for Jesus choruses, maudlin sentimental dirges, faux American folk music and cod-Celticness. The American musicologist Thomas Day described this kind of liturgy as “a diet of romantic marshmallows indigestibly combined with stuff that grabs you by the scruff of the neck and shakes you into submission with its social message”.
In the 1970s many well-intentioned types thought that such “folk” music and pop culture derivatives would appeal to teenagers and young people and get them more involved in the Church, when the exact opposite has happened. It is now thought that these trendy experiments in music and liturgy have contributed to the increasing risible irrelevance of liberal Christianity, and that liturgy as social engineering has repulsed many. Like most ideas shaped by 1960s Marxist ideology it has proved an utter failure. Its greatest tragedy is the wilful, disingenuous de-poeticisation of Catholic worship. The Church has simply aped the secular West’s obsession with “accessibility”, “inclusiveness”, “democracy” and anti-elitism, resulting in the triumph of bad taste, banality and a deflation of the sense of the sacred in the life of the church.
The liturgical “progressives” who have created this have been at loggerheads for decades with the musicians of the Church, whom they accuse unfairly of being reactionary and Tridentinist...
Yup. Although there are bright spots--mostly in the Old Rite parishes--the Marxist push of certain US Bishops in the 1960's has been very effective. Macmillan's descriptions are accurate, and the de-population of the churches is a very good measure.
HT: PertPapist
Yes, Virginia: Some People Are More Equal
Not only the loser-lump-in-pantsuits, but her lawyer and....ahhh.... "aide."
...The FBI agent who was fired from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation team for sending anti-Donald Trump text messages conducted the interviews with two Hillary Clinton aides accused of giving false statements about what they knew of the former secretary of state’s private email server.
Neither of the Clinton associates, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, faced legal consequences for their misleading statements, which they made in interviews last year with former FBI section chief Peter Strzok...
It's reported that the FBI is (FINALLY!!!!!) under investigation. At the rate this is going, we can simply convert the Hoover building to a prison to save a lot of time and money.
...The FBI agent who was fired from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation team for sending anti-Donald Trump text messages conducted the interviews with two Hillary Clinton aides accused of giving false statements about what they knew of the former secretary of state’s private email server.
Neither of the Clinton associates, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, faced legal consequences for their misleading statements, which they made in interviews last year with former FBI section chief Peter Strzok...
It's reported that the FBI is (FINALLY!!!!!) under investigation. At the rate this is going, we can simply convert the Hoover building to a prison to save a lot of time and money.
Monday, December 04, 2017
FusionGPS and the Wall Street Journal
A long, long, long time ago, high-school debate teams could quote from the Wall Street Journal's news pages without fear of criticism from debate judges. (In contrast, a quote from Time magazine was death.)
Things have changed. Now the WSJ's "news" operation is complicit in disinformation efforts by Fusion GPS, a Russian propaganda outlet. It is NOT a co-incidence that the term "disinformation" originated with Stalin's propaganda corps.
And Fusion GPS' butt-buddy relationships with WSJ reporters is also present with CNN (surprise, surprise, surprise!!!) But it doesn't end there; the Clinton machine and the slimebucket lawyer Elias are also part of the act.
You remember the Bible story wherein Abraham begged God to save Sodom if there were only 10 good people therein?
Well, I don't think God would save Washington, DC.
Things have changed. Now the WSJ's "news" operation is complicit in disinformation efforts by Fusion GPS, a Russian propaganda outlet. It is NOT a co-incidence that the term "disinformation" originated with Stalin's propaganda corps.
And Fusion GPS' butt-buddy relationships with WSJ reporters is also present with CNN (surprise, surprise, surprise!!!) But it doesn't end there; the Clinton machine and the slimebucket lawyer Elias are also part of the act.
You remember the Bible story wherein Abraham begged God to save Sodom if there were only 10 good people therein?
Well, I don't think God would save Washington, DC.
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