A Warning to Wisconsin Catholics

 We don't think that Catholic AWFLs and their spouses who are key to the elections of Wisconsin Supreme Court justices will heed this warning, but here goes.

... So how can someone who claims to be a Catholic, who attends Mass regularly and takes Communion, possibly support the demonic evil represented by today’s Democrat (they’re not democratic) party?  If he doesn’t want to vote for a Republican, should he vote for a third-party candidate, or simply abstain?

In Catholic moral theology, the question of how a faithful Catholic should vote — especially when major candidates endorse intrinsic evils — requires careful discernment of cooperation with evil and proportionate reasons.  Formal cooperation with evil is never permissible.  It occurs when one directly intends and wills the evil act itself, such as voting for a candidate precisely because of his support for grave moral wrongs like abortion or euthanasia.  This renders the voter guilty of the evil and unworthy to receive Holy Communion.  I would go so far as to say that such a position should result in excommunication.  Can a person holding such views be considered a Catholic, or a devout Christian?

Material cooperation, by contrast, is indirect and remote.  A Catholic who rejects a candidate’s immoral positions but votes for him for other reasons engages only in remote material cooperation.  This can be morally licit when “proportionate reasons” exist — grave moral considerations that outweigh the evil tolerated. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) clarified this in his 2004 memorandum: A vote for such a candidate would be formal cooperation “if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate’s permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia,” but it becomes permissible remote material cooperation “in the presence of proportionate reasons.”

Proportionate reasons must be exceptionally weighty, especially for high offices that shape laws affecting millions of lives.  They are not mere policy preferences or partisan loyalty, but genuine attempts to limit greater harm, such as choosing the candidate less likely to advance intrinsic evils like abortion on a massive scale.  The U.S. bishops’ “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” echoes this: Catholics may vote for a flawed candidate only for “truly grave moral reasons,” not narrow interests....

Let's make this clear:  voting for the pro-abortion SCOWI candidate--if you are Catholic--puts your soul in immediate grave danger of going to Hell.

We've seen two abortion-elections to SCOWI in the last three years, and there is no question that "Catholic" women--and perhaps their husbands--were critical to those abominations.

Sadly, you will not find Catholic priests and Bishops making this point.

They have no balls. 

Patel's Problem and Ours: S.702

 We are not particularly enamored with "Party-Boy" Patel, but Trump trusts him, so we got him.  What we post here is another very good reason to oppose S.702, which allowed this utter travesty to happen.  Remember:  this can (and probably WILL) happen to you, too.

Last Refuge provides a reality check on both the FBI and what seems to be Patel's slow-walk.  Here's the text and the image.  The concluding graf is posted first; the lead-up and CC of the subpoena follows.

 [Quoting Hans Manche:] 

“It didn’t just ask for Kash Patel’s phone records, it asked for everything he did from 2020 to 2023. Just to name a few, they requested all usernames and screen names, every address and email, complete billing and payment details including credit card and bank account numbers, every device ID, and a full log of every call, text, and voicemail showing who was contacted, when, and for how long. They also obtained all internet session data, including the exact IP addresses. So, this wasn’t just about who Kash called. It was basically a complete view of his entire life, mapping his daily routines, travel, relationships, finances, and even tracking the specific hardware he used. In short, they got a full digital shadow of his life.”

Yep, that’s how the FBI operates.

That’s how the FBI establishes leverage against anyone they view against their interests.

... Many people have wondered why FBI Director Kash Patel seems compromised since he took office.  Well, the FBI subpoena into then civilian Kash Patel, highlights the extent of the FBI operation as they gathered background intelligence that could be used for blackmail and leverage over the eventual FBI Director....

 

"More Equal" = Members of Congress

 Another demonstration of not-really-equal-treatment.

Due to the Democrat shutdown,...

 ...Delta said members of Congress will now be treated like every other passenger until the shutdown is over. Members of Congress were previously given escorts at airports and received specialized customer service....

...Congress members will still have access to the Capital Desk, which helps members book trips at government rates, make last-minute changes and reserve seats on multiple flights on the same day, according to the New York Times. ...

So members of Congress are only somewhat more equal than the hoi polloi.

Gotcha. 

Fairness and Balance

See the below post for the 'con' side of the war.

This is the 'pro' side, from Childers:

...Iran isn’t a Trump vanity project waged to satisfy Israeli politicians. Iran is the single pressure point making peace possible on every global front simultaneously.

Nobody is describing the chessboard, even though all the pieces are sitting right there.

The “allies rebuke Trump” story gets 100 headlines; whereas the 22-country reversal gets a brief wire plug. Macron says “never” on Tuesday; France, Germany, and the UK sign on Friday. The Palestinian Authority condemns Iran and embraces Saudi Arabia while keeping studiously silent about the American and Israeli strikes. Trump’s Board of Peace deals with Hamas and signs up the United Nations while the world watches Iranian bomb footage.

The Financial Times declares Ukraine peace talks fizzled on Monday; Witkoff posts updates from active negotiations on Saturday, while a frantic Zelensky rushes to Washington experiencing very bad feelings. European voters stare at $9 gas and wonder why they’re still funding someone else’s war. NATO allies who pledged their Patriot batteries to Kyiv now realize those batteries might be all that stands between their own capitals and a demonstrated Iranian IRBM.

And nobody asks what any of it means. The corporate media won’t tell you any of this because it might make Trump look good. Trump isn’t talking either, because (1) it would tip his hand, and (2) he wouldn’t get decent coverage anyway, so why bother? But it is becoming crystal clear that Iran is the linchpin in a global puzzle box that includes forcing NATO to the table; ending the Ukraine war; brokering permanent Middle East peace; yes, protecting Israel; giving Palestinians a real shot with real money behind it; and all the while making historically good deals for America....

The long version is at the link. 

We'll see how it plays out.  Childers doesn't mention the "Israel Wild-Card" possibilities, perhaps for a good reason. 

Who the Hell Is Driving This Car Into the Briar Patch?

 It appears that the car could go off the cliff and leave the US in a briar patch.

 President Donald Trump’s dispute with unnamed Israeli officials appeared to come to an end as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted his country “acted alone” in its attack on the Iranian South Pars gas field. Prior to Netanyahu’s statement, anonymous Israeli officials told the press that the American government actually had advance knowledge of the Israeli attack after Trump himself said the U.S. did not know about the operation.

Israel’s strike on the gas field prompted Iran to retaliate against Qatar. According to Trump, Qatar was also unaware that the Israeli attack would take place. While Netanyahu promised to “hold off on future attacks,” the dispute highlights growing concern about a lack of a unified chain of command in the Israel-U.S. war with Iran....

The US and Israel have different objectives.  To the extent that Israel can cause trouble--such as bombing Iranian territory, thus creating more trouble for the US and its allies, and the energy infrastructure on which a big chunk of the world's population depends........

You see?

We also know that Israel loves to knock off Iranian 'leaders.'

So who the Hell is going to turn off the Iranian armed forces?  Dead leaders?  No.  

Israel has a strategic objective there:  The more chaos Israel causes in Iran, the better it is for Israel, which will have unfettered ability to create its "Greater Zion".  And the US will be mired in the briar patch, helplessly helping.

Great. 

De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum??

 Yah, well, no one "spoke well" of Stalin when he died, except his comrades-in-killing.

Mueller?

He was a rat, a liar, and a conspirator against the US.

His meet-up with St Peter...........well..........it's possible that Mueller confessed his sins and repented.

That's as far as we can go. 

Secret Service Agent for Butler F***ks Up--Again!!

The Secret Service agent who drew up the security plans for Trump's Butler, PA, appearance makes the news again--and not in a good way.

She was suspended for a time after Butler, but came back to duty, then off again, then on again, then..... 

 ...The Secret Service agent who was in charge of developing and executing the failed security plan for the 2024 rally where President Trump was nearly killed has been suspended and is under internal agency investigation for allegedly improperly reporting her relationship with and eventual marriage to a foreign national, several sources told RealClearPolitics.

This suspension is the third one in a year and a half for the agent, Myosoty “Miyo” Perez,...

That "Brazilian national" is a deliberate camouflage tactic by Real Clear Politics.  Read on--closely:

 ...Perez quietly married a Brazilian foreign national last April without notifying the agency, according to a copy of her marriage certificate located on the Brevard County public records website and according to sources familiar with the timing of when she informed the agency of her marriage. Upon learning of the marriage, the agency suspended her and issued an internal “Do Not Admit” notice.

The internal Secret Service investigation is examining whether the woman Perez was dating and married last year had overstayed her visa and was facing a deportation order...

Now you know why the first quoted graf "sanitized" the marriage.

DEI, ya'know!! 

Reality Sucks, Eh?

Raises the question of "How do we get it back?"  

 

R.I.P, Chuck

The television series was ......... not subtly written.  But it was fun to watch!

And the memes!!  

This one is very good, but not easily posted here.  Click on the link for the memento mori.

 

 

The Polls vs. The War

Certain "news" outlets have trumpeted the absurd notion that '98% of MAGA voters support the war in Iran.'  Needless to say, that number was pushed out by the White House.

Doesn't take more than 5 seconds' thought to realize that that number is ludicrous.  Perhaps 98% of Lindsey Graham supports it.....or 98% of Likud.  But that poll is grievously flawed.

What's the reality?

 Seventy-nine percent of Americans who voted for President Trump in 2024 would support him declaring victory in Iran and quickly ending this war, according to a new poll....

Oh.

 ...fewer than half of Trump voters surveyed said they strongly supported the U.S. decision to go to war with Iran (40%), 23% of Trump voters were somewhat or strongly opposed to it. And the emerging division among Trump voters over Iran is evident in the poll’s age crosstabs: while Trump voters overall support the Iran war by a +53 point margin, support is much more muted among young MAGA voters that are credited with helping deliver Trump the White House in 2024. Trump voters aged 18-29 support the war by a much narrower margin (+8), while Trump voters aged 30-49 support the war by +26 points....

There are those who think Trump is actually making huge moves on the chessboard which will result in the Europeans having to foot the bill for the free flow of oil and re-working alliances in the Middle East to isolate Persia/Iran.

Maybe.  But maybe religion plays a much more significant role in alliances than Trump (and the old NeoCons) think.  Maybe the Muslims will coalesce......against Israel.

Meantime, he's committed another 2500 Marines. 

"Meet Your New President!!"

 Stolen directly from Flopping Aces, here is the real 2021-2025 chief executive introducing his "successor"

 

The CIA vs. Motherhood

 No, we are not kidding with that title.  This is the party of Tony Evers and most of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

 ...Biden’s CIA connected traditional motherhood to violent extremism. The report red-flagged organizations that “lauded motherhood and homemaking as women’s most important responsibility” and noted this resulted in “an increased number of female recruits.” Sinister recruits in sundresses.

Motherhood and homemaking. As threat indicators. I am not making this up.

What ‘violent extremism’ related to motherhood, you ask? I’m glad you asked. The Assessment darkly explained the terrifying threat of violence posed by “some white REMVE-sympathetic women who have produced blogs, videos, or other online content under the guise of cooking tutorials, which feature discussions about the importance of organic food alongside subtle narratives about racial purity and the defense of white European heritage.”...

Think of it.  WE PAID a dozen or so shit-for-brains college graduates to write a CIA terrorism report on women who praise motherhood.  And we paid them well.  And they will get pensions and lifetime healthcare from our children.

"Did what they were told"?  Don't make me puke.  They took the money, didn't they? 

Lying Sack Crenshaw Loves Peeping On You!

Crenshaw--deservedly tossed out of office--plays word-games with Party-Boy Patel about Section 702 (We Spy On YOU!!) use by FBI. 

As usual, Last Refuge has the goods along with a video of Lying Sack Crenshaw's "grilling"....

  

...conveniently omitted in the questioning is the original surveillance of the 2016 GOP candidates from November 2015 through April 2016 that did involve exploitation of the database under the justification that FISA-702 creates....

 ...You are [....] correct that there is no “authority granted under 702” to conduct surveillance.  However, in 2016 conducting surveillance using 702 as a justification is what took place.

The collection of American citizen metadata does factually take place. At this point no-one denies it.

That data is then stored in a searchable database, a library of U.S. citizen data colloquially known as the “NSA database”.

Within the NSA database that metadata collection creates, there is a process to search it based on “identifiers.”

The collection of data, the database itself, as well as the search functioning therein, is part of the toolbox for FISA-702 surveillance....

 ...The historic problem is not that “authorities granted under FISA-702” were/are used to conduct surveillance; but rather the search of the NSA collection database was done, illegally and frequently, for non-authorized reasons. The capability to conduct those search queries is maintained by justifying the need for FISA-702.

The historic searches and domestic surveillance were done by exploiting the NSA database, for a reason and purpose that is not authorized and has nothing to do with FISA-702. THAT’S THE PROBLEM

"Peeping Toms" Party-Boy and Crenshaw love that S702.  Make sure your Congress-critter knows that you despise it, and anyone who votes to retain it.

BTW--in case you forgot--Peeping Tom Crenshaw also hates the Second Amendment. And he used Nancy's cookbook for self-enrichment.  So it's no surprise that he likes looking into your wife's underwear drawer, too....

 

The Schimel Judge-Pout Session

First, a short recap:

 Brad Schimel will remain leading the U.S. Attorney's Office in Milwaukee, but under a different title, his office said Wednesday afternoon, after federal judges declined to make him the permanent U.S. attorney.

Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed Schimel First Assistant United States Attorney, which grants him authority to continue to lead the office despite no U.S. Senate confirmation or approval from federal judges. Schimel said his role and responsibilities will largely remain unchanged....

The Federal "judges" who bounced Schimel out of the USAttorney job did it for one reason, and one reason only:

They were avenging Trump's prosecution of ex-judge Hannah Dugan, a convicted felon. 

IOW, those "adult", "role-model" black-robed "justice-renderers" were having a 13-year-old girl Pout Session and they decided to get their revenge by blocking Schimel, Article Two be damned. 

This is a hint that even Lynn Adelman, the most-crazed Lefty on the Wisconsin federal bench, can not find a way to invalidate Dugan's conviction.

So there's that. 

Trash "Food"? Not With Food Stamps in WI!

You may have noticed that the price of snack and soda pop has been decreasing in Wisconsin.

They're going to go down more in the near future.

 ...The Senate also voted to send Evers a bill banning the use of state FoodShare benefits for the purchase of candy and soft drink products.

Evers' office indicated Tuesday the governor will sign the bill because of funding Republicans attached to the proposal....

This is interesting:

... The bill cleared the Senate by a 25-8 vote. Each of the "no" votes were from Democrats. Seven Democrats joined all 18 Republicans in backing the measure....

Didn't think we'd see that!  

Now the question is this:  which 8 Democrats voted to poison their future voters? 

Kent Quits. Trump Acts Like 2-Year-Old

 Joe Kent quits his job as counter-terrorism director.

Trump calls him 'stupid.'

This is the same Trump who told us that Iran's nuke program was "OBLITERATED," and then commenced bombing the daylights out of Iran because its nuke program was 'able to make and deliver nukes' in 60 days or so.

Maybe Trump--and his handlers--think everyone is "stupid"?

Venezuela and Cuba?  They are on 'our ranch.' 

Ukraine and Israel?  Not so much. 

Trump has been played, he knows it, and now he goes the 2-year-old route:  call names.

Makes all the good things he did fade into the distance. 

Bp. Seitz's False Analogies, Slanders, and Mendacity

This is what you'd expect from +Seitz.  The Pillar interviewed him about the immigration problem.

Your Excellency, many Catholics who support Trump’s mass deportation policies say those policies are a matter of justice: If people are in this country illegally, justice demands that they be removed.  But in your pastoral message, you say, ‘It is an injustice to make families, children, and the vulnerable pay the price of our inaction’ on immigration reform.  These are two very different understandings of justice. How should we think about that?

Well there has to be some proportionality to our response to a particular case in which a law has been in some way violated. We recognize that in our everyday life. If we’re driving and the police officer pulls us over because we were going over the speed limit, we’d say, “Oh, well, that’s unfortunate we were caught,” and we’ll pay the fine, I suppose.

But if the police officer were to say, “You were going five miles over the speed limit and I’m going to throw you into jail,” we would say, “That’s just not right.” We’d even recognize within that law about speeding that there are situations in which the violation of that law should not be considered an offense. If, for instance, we’re driving someone who is bleeding to the hospital, we would, within certain reason hopefully, go above the speed limit. Now, speed limits are a reasonable law and going too fast can be dangerous, but we recognize proportionality based upon the circumstances. ...

 Illegal presence here, which is almost always accompanied by drawing at least one form of welfare OR, in many instances, criminal activity (not to mention hijacking a job and housing from US citizens) is simply not the equivalent of a speeding ticket.

+Seitz drew that comparison specifically to minimize illegal immigration and to throw a halo around the perps.  It is not hard to be empathetic with those caught in a "speed violation."

Seitz's mendacity continues.

 ... it seems like sometimes there really is a bloodthirst today in general, and that’s certainly the case with people that have only done exactly what you or I or any of us would’ve done in similar circumstances. If we found ourselves in a situation where our family was threatened and perhaps a family member had been killed, we would do whatever we needed to do in order to protect our family, including crossing an international boundary, if that’s what was necessary....

We have yet to encounter anyone who opposes illegal immigration AND is "bloodthirsty."  Seitz's rhetoric here is a standard Leftist tactic right out of Alinsky's Rule 12:   Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy."

The US has an extremely generous "refugee" immigrant position.  Of course, that "refugee" cannot merely cross the border; he/she must show up at an INS-patrolled entry, fill out the forms, and be interviewed.  The INS determines whether that individual is telling the truth; if so, they are admitted BUT with a date-certain to 'refresh' their status.

Most often, the immigrant 1)  is NOT a refugee; 2) NOT entering through an INS checkpoint; and 3)  never bothers to 'check back in' on schedule.

Not content with throwing mud at people who oppose illegal immigration, +Seitz advises the interviewer that he and Christ are on the same page.

 ....but it’s a time in which people would do well to read the Gospel more and reflect upon it, and then listen to the teaching of the Church, which has developed over 2,000 years in fidelity to the Gospel to help us see how our particular actions relate to the Gospel or do not.

The Church is here to teach, and the magisterium is here to teach, and it’s not always going to reflect the view of society in general. Jesus’ teaching was rejected by the majority, perhaps, of the people in his time....

Yes, well....that's because those people were looking for a CIVIL leader, not a Head of a Church.  Here, +Seitz reverses the field, implying that Church teaching should be mimicked by CIVIL law.  We can all agree that civil law should follow natural law, but Seitz papers over the critical distinction between 'natural law' and Church teachings.

More to the point, +Seitz "forgot" to mention that St. John Paul II was emphatic:  countries are allowed to set and enforce laws about immigration.  Period.  Full Stop.  And he cannot point to that verse from Scripture in which Jesus says "Let them all in!!"  That's because there IS no such verse.

There's more of his prattling at the link, if you care to read it.

We don't. 

Trump Speaks for Bibi!!

One wonders if Netanyahu is the actual occupant of the White House.

 President Donald Trump claimed in a social media post Friday night that Iran planned to take over the Middle East and eliminate Israel, which is now futile after the United States and Israel attacked the country. ...

Based on "Greater Zion" yappings, Trump got it precisely reversed. 

Catholic Teaching on Israel/Zion

 This is a succinct and comprehensive summary of Catholic teaching on the Zion/Israel controversy.  It is the same position that Carrie Prejean Boller.

 

Catholics are being positioned as the enemy, and our teachings are being strategically and publicly misrepresented as “antisemitism”. 

1. Jesus Christ fulfilled the Old Testament temple (John 2:19-21: "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up" referring to His body). 

2. With the fulfillment of the covenant, the Church is “God’s Israel” (Galatians 6) 

 3. A physical Third Temple, if ever built, would not restore valid sacrifices (Christ's sacrifice on the Cross was once-for-all, Hebrews 9-10). 

4. Attempts to rebuild it are seen as misguided and even antichristic in spirit (rejecting Christ's fulfillment and end of sacrifices), with some historical precedents like Emperor Julian the Apostate's failed effort viewed as a type of Antichrist activity. Prominent voices (such as Fr. Chad Ripperger) argue the temple will never be rebuilt, as Christ ended the old sacrificial system. 

5. The temple is the place where they made the animal sacrifices. Those are no longer necessary. 

6. Only God knows the day of Revelation. (Matthew 24:36) 

7. Followers of Christ are the new chosen people, grafted into the line of Abraham. (Roman’s 11:17) 

 8. No bloodline is ranked above another anymore. (Romans 3:22)

 9. All are welcome in the church, with repentance, baptism, and a belief that Jesus is Lord. Jews and Gentiles alike. (Roman’s 3:22) 

10. Vatican documents that interpret and expand upon the Catechism's teachings clarify that the existence of the State of Israel should be viewed strictly through the lens of international law, and not a religious or theological perspective as Jesus Christ fulfilled the covenants. Terms met. 

A number of politicians disagree.  That is their right, of course.

But it is NOT their right to screech "ANTI-SEMITE" at those who hold to this teaching.

But they do it, because their paymasters demand it.  And because they really don't have the intellectual firepower to work their way through the arguments--and if they did, they would lose their Scofield-Protty supporters, too.

Then they would have to find real jobs...... 

+ Dolan, + Barron: Gutless Wonders ??

Over the last week or so, more and more has been published regarding the "firing" of Carrie Prejean Boller from the "Religious Freedom" Council established by Trump.

Ms. Boller states that her removal was due solely to her objections to Zionist/Israeli actions in Gaza--that is, causing 67,000 people to die there during IDF bombardments. 

After screeching from the Usual Suspects, including a woman preacher and a has-been named Dan Patrick, Trump fired her.  That's bad enough, and adds some fuel to the growing fire that perhaps Trump is owned by the Zionists.  (See the post below this, e.g.)

Two other members of the Commission have--so far--failed to raise public objections.  They are Cardinal Dolan of NYC and Bishop Barron of Winona-Rochester Diocese.  We all know that +Dolan is merely a politician.  +Barron, on the other hand, has earned some respect for hewing to the Roman Catholic faith.

However, +Barron did equivocate on camera once:  when in conversation with Ben Shapiro regarding the path to salvation (which is the Church.)

Hmmmmm. 

Another 5K Marines to Middle East

Reported about 30 minutes ago, 5,000 Marines sent to Middle East.  Relocating them from off Venezuela shores.

Hmmm.