Pp. Francis Approves Medjugorje Fraud

This comes as no surprise whatsoever.

In a direct breach of a 2013 CDF decree, Pope Francis has decided to authorize pilgrimages to Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, which can now be officially organized by dioceses and parishes without being restricted to a private capacity as before....

 

Well, compared to adultery-with-Communion.......umnnhhh........

 

But this is serious.

 

...The fruits of Medjugorie speak for themselves, which include a falling away from the sacraments, a departure from tradition, contempt for the priesthood, attendance at interfaith worship, entanglement in fake mysticism (sorcery), promiscuous behavior, and the illusion of unconditional mercy in spite of sin.

That is to say, Medjugorie is not Catholic but is a wing of the international New Age network that simply uses the name of Mary to bewitch the faithful with a new gospel. Medjugorie is all about advancing the Charismatic Movement, which is directly tied to the so-called renewal since Vatican Council II. It advocates one-world ecumenism and teaches that God works through other religions, which of course is heresy.

It was for reason that Bishop Andrea Gemma, the Vatican’s former top exorcist, described the Medjugorie visions as the "work of the devil."...

E. Michael Jones spilled several hundred barrels of ink on this "apparition" when it first came up, and concluded exactly what the local Bishops did:  it was a fake, but a big money-maker for the Franciscans.  There was no misunderstanding at CDF, and Bp. Gemma's words only make it far more serious than merely money-changing. 

 

As to Francis?  See Mark 9:29.

 

Then pray.  Harder.

 

SS, DD: Deep State vs. US Citizens

Gorka, a wonderful addition to the US, reminds us that the Deep State has been operating for several decades.

He re-tells the Nixon story, truthfully; a version not approved by Our Masters.

...The real story is that an incredibly vain self-appointed “elite” who fancied himself a Guardian of the Good and who became notorious as “Deep Throat,” spoon-fed information to the Post duo for over a year. (Remind you of anyone called Jim you know? Possibly a very tall former FBI director?) Woodward and Bernstein didn’t investigate anything. The deep state was in control the whole time. Who was the puppet master? None other than FBI Associate Director Mark Felt. 

As Marini writes, the media merely “served as a conduit by which the bureaucracy undermined the authority of the elected chief executive.” He adds, fascinatingly, that  “Geoff Shepard, a young member of Nixon’s defense team who has continued investigating Watergate using the Freedom of Information Act, has recently established as well that the prosecutors and judges involved in Watergate violated the procedural requirements that ensure impartiality, acting instead as partisans opposed to Nixon.” Can you say FISA Court? Can you say “Operation Crossfire Hurricane”?...

Ohhhh, Nooooooes!  Dirty judges and prosecutors?  

Would 100 hangings solve the problem?  Nope.  It would only be a start.

 

Mondelez Goes Drag for Moms

Why sure!  Every Mom is really a drag queen at heart.

Mondelez joins Procter & Gamble in sexual confusion stupidities, putting Chips Ahoy! cookies in bed with drag queens.  (P&G's Gillette brand insulted men a few months ago.)

Just in case you're interested, here's what Mondelez sells:

....The company, headquartered near Chicago, manufactures chocolate, cookies, biscuits, gum, confectionery, and powdered beverages. Mondelez International's portfolio includes several billion-dollar brands such as Belvita, Chips Ahoy!, Nabisco, Oreo, Ritz, TUC, Triscuit, LU, Club Social, Barny and Peek Freans (cookies and crackers); Milka, Côte d'Or, Toblerone, Cadbury, Freia, Marabou, Fry's, Lacta (chocolate), Trident, Dentyne, Chiclets, Halls, Stride (gum and cough drops), Tate's Bake Shop and Tang (powdered beverages)....

I found Shick razors to be perfectly satisfactory substitutes for the Gillette I used to own.

My Pastor Gets It

At least one Southeast Wisconsin pastor gets it.

His "Good Shepherd" homily distinguished clearly between "good" and "bad" shepherds, and it was very clear to me exactly which shepherd might be "bad."

The one who tells us not to worry about sin; the one who tells us that WE are the center of the universe.....

Get the drift?

Thanks, Father!!!

LaPierre: Another Story of D.C.

It's likely that Wayne LaPierre will soon depart the NRA.  

[NRA] Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre billed the group’s ad agency $39,000 for one day of shopping at a Beverly Hills clothing boutique, $18,300 for a car and driver in Europe and had the agency cover $13,800 in rent for a summer intern, according to newly revealed NRA internal documents.

The documents, posted anonymously on the internet, provide new details of the clothing, travel and other expenses totaling more than $542,000 that Ackerman McQueen Inc. alleges Mr. LaPierre billed to it.

The travel expenses allegedly include more than $200,000 in “Air Transportation” costs during a one-month period in late 2012 and early 2013, in part related to a two-week trip over Christmas to the Bahamas by Mr. LaPierre.

What you see in the story above is a pissing match.  Andy North is the Big Kahuna at Ackerman McQueen and was the (ceremonial) President of NRA for a year, ending last month.  For whatever reason, North decided it was time to shove LaPierre out of the NRA, and he will succeed, we think.

No matter how the NRA Board spins it--and they're trying--this sort of spending pattern will not be supported by the membership.

But there's a larger story here:  LaPierre has become a Member in Good Standing of the Establishment in D.C.   He has effected compromises with the gun-grab bunch and has been rewarded with acceptance--while screeching about the eeeeeeeeeevils of those very same gun-grabbers.  Can't do both, Wayne.  Sorry.

IOW, he is one of the vipers in that nest called "Washington, D.C."  He's a dues-paid member of Mordor on the Potomac's In-Club, just like about 450 of the 545 congress-critters.

Dumping Wayne is merely another chapter in the Trump revolution.

There's another possibility, of course.  The NRA Board may choose to keep LaPierre.  In that case, the NRA will become another Bull Moose Party.

The Germans Kick "Renewable" Out

It appears that the German populace--what remains of it in Germany--has figured out that "renewable energy" b.s. is exactly that: b.s.  They have warned their Gummint, and it took.

After spending $36 BILLION/year on windmills and sun-catchers, they're about to start mining coal again.

Meanwhile, the USA continues down the Stoopid Road.  That means that the grifters have purchased enough politicians--for the time being.

Things can change.

$800 Bucks/Year? TEOTWAWKI!!!!

Oxford Economics--whoever they are--proclaims that the China tariff will cost $800/year/US household.

$65.00/month or so. 

That's about TEN PERCENT of the cost of the Iraq War which--I remind you--was happily pushed by the GOPe/Chamber of Commerce wackadoos who are cluck-clucking themselves to death over bringing Red China into the civilized world.

Perspective helps, no?

Har!!

Stolen from PowerLine

Pp. Francis Partly Correct

So here's what the Pope said:

...If the Church had “hanged 100 abuser priests in St. Peter’s Square” at last February’s Vatican sex abuse summit, anti-abuse organizations “would have been happy” but it would not have solved the problem, Pope Francis told the International Union of Superiors General on Friday....

Correct, Your Holiness!!  It would NOT have 'solved the problem.'

100 hangings would only be a good start.

When Gummint Plays Banker

The newspaper and the Democrats want to make this story into "Bash Walker, Bash Pubbies!!" material. 

Meh.

What it actually does is tell everyone who reads with comprehension that the Gummint is not a bank.  Not to worry:  that won't sink in, and we'll have crap like this continuing until the end of time because elected officials really like to swing their "power" club, whether it's lending money or helping pals and relatives.

And as Joe Biden will NOT tell you, that includes him.

Clinton in the Cross-Hairs

Tom Fitton's Judicial Watch deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

They just got Hildebeeste's #2 aide to admit that yes, indeed, she (and he) were sending classified materials through an un-protected email system.

The aide will soon commit "suicide" and be found with 4 bullet-holes in the back of his neck, draped across a rock at Ft. Marcy Park, with carpet-fibers in his shoes.

By the way, did you see this story on CNN?  NBC?  CBS?  ABC?

Didn't think so.

Dump Wrong-Way Wray

See, there are things far more important than the truth, according to Christopher "wrong-way" Wray.  So we'll just redact the truth about the FBI.

That way we can pretend that the FBI is as pure as the wind-driven snow.

Dump this jerk and find an honest man, Donald.  (You will have to look FAR outside of DC to find one, of course.)

Prager Copies Benedict XVI's Writings

I think Dennis Prager owes B-16 a few beers or something.

In an interview, Prager decried the degeneration of the West and specifically charges that the West has become God-less.  Prager is correct, but his condemnation is not comprehensive.  More on that later.

Prager:

...“It is not possible to build a great society on a secular foundation,” declared Prager. “America was built [on the Bible]....Genesis’s story of Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge foreshadowed the modern era’s moral crises, assessed Prager.

Prager explained, “When the serpent tempts Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge — after all, God had only asked them to do one thing: not eat from this tree — [he] says, ‘You’ll eat from that, and you’ll be like God. You’ll determine good and evil.’ It says, ‘Know good and evil,’ and that is correct. That is what the Hebrew says, but it really means ‘determine good and evil.'”

Prager went on to say, “That is exactly what has happened in the post-Judeo-Christian — specifically, post-Christian — West, that people have become gods. That’s exactly what it is. The left has substituted itself for God. We determine what is right and wrong.”...

Hmmm.

Benedict XVI:

....“A society without God – a society that does not know Him and treats Him as non-existent – is a society that loses its measure. . . .Western society is a society in which God is absent in the public sphere and has nothing left to offer it. And that is why it is a society in which the measure of humanity is increasingly lost. At individual points it becomes suddenly apparent that what is evil and destroys man has become a matter of course.”...“The crisis of morality. . .was chiefly the hypothesis that morality was to be exclusively determined by the purposes of human action that prevailed. . . .Consequently, there could no longer be anything that constituted an absolute good, any more than anything fundamentally evil; (there could be) only relative value judgements.....

OK, then.  Pot's right?

Not completely.  Dennis Prager would like to blame it all on "the Left."  That's writing the symphony without using any stringed instruments.  The reality:  many elements of "the Right" have exactly the same problem; they worship money or status, and allow those 'gods' to determine their actions.

Finally:  Prager is totally wrong when he (in other videos) praises Western Liberalism.  In fact, Liberalism is the cause of the problem that Prager sees.  (The Federalist printed the long version of what you see on my blog-link) 

Prager may not want to put that into his next interview, but he should.  Of course, then he'd owe B-16 a couple of cases of really good beer, and he'd prolly have to become a mackerel-snapper, too.

OK, Honey. No Sex With You

Apparently a Florida woman* has a new message.

Ladies: STOP having sex w/conservative men
TOTAL COMPLETE SEX BOYCOTT.

Having read the article, it's clear that most men have far better choices than Keith.

*The offset to "Florida man"

Behind-the-Scenes Trump Goodies

Stuff you don't know about Trump's effect on health-care.

When health care workers feel they have been forced to do something they disagree with on moral or religious grounds, they can file complaints with the federal department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights. Some high profile cases have involved nurses who objected to providing abortion services. 

For a decade, the agency got an average of one of these complaints of conscience violations each year. The complaints can include doctors, nurses, or other health care workers who feel a hospital or clinic that receives federal funds has discriminated against them because of their moral position. Groups of health care providers can also file complaints. 

Last year, the number of complaints jumped to 343. ...

Was that just a coincidence?  Nope.  It was Trump's appointee.

...That increase was cited by the Office of Civil Rights as one reason for issuing a new rule designed to protect conscience rights, unveiled publicly last week....

It seems that a lot of health-care workers understood the game very well, indeed.

...Office director Roger Severino has made clear that protecting religious freedom is his priority and that his office is "open for business," as he said to reporters announcing the new rule.

In fact, he formed a new Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom in January 2018.

"For too long, governments big and small have treated conscience claims with hostility instead of protection," Severino said in announcing the new division. "But change is coming and it begins here and now." 

That signaling from Severino may have helped generate the increase in complaints, says Dr. David Stevens, CEO of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations. "Now that there's an actual office opened and it's well publicized that it's available, people are contacting them," he says....

The most pro-life President since Lincoln is also the most pro-religion President since.....probably G. Washington.

KEEP AMERICA GREAT in 2020!!

The Warmongers' Stupid Slogan

Yah, the war-drumbeat is getting louder again.  Rubio wants an invasion of Venezuela and Mark Levin is all set to send troops into Iran.

Levin--thinking his audience is dumb as Democrat congressmen--uses the old "Better there than here!!" war-cry while chastising genuine geo-political intellects such as PJBuchanan.  (If you know history, you'll know exactly why Levin is pounding Buchanan on (((this))) topic.)

Rubio would like us to forget that Venezuela VOTED for their current "leader" AND voted for his predecessor.  He'd also like us to forget that the next guy in line is merely a paler shade of the socialist already in office.  For THAT we should lose several thousand lives?

Sure.  Iranian troops are going to join Venezuelan troops and run a 'pincers' invasion of the US any day now.  I'm certain that Rubio and Levin will pick up their AR's and join the active military to defend us. 

Right??

Nikki Haley Begins '24 Campaign

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand she's off!!

Haley, known as a closet NeverTrumper and GOPe, departed the Trump administration a while back.  The usual path for presidential aspirants like her is to collect donations for speeches, "write" a book, and make a (very) few waves with comments designed to create support among the targeted audience(s.)

Immigrants — not the 280 million native-born Americans — make America great, says Nikki Haley, the former ambassador to the U.N.

“Immigrants are the fabric of America,” the former governor of South Carolina said on the May 5 Ben Shapiro podcast, effectively dismissing Americans and their children....--Shapiro show quoted at Breitbart

There's just enough good-think buried in there to cover her signal to Silicon Valley and countless other IT-dependent businesses, like Disney....

You read it here.

HAR!!

This was stolen directly from The American Catholic.

He had something else to say:

My Sainted Mother once opined that the reason why men fight in wars and women do not, is that women would not believe in taking prisoners.

If you're married, you're nodding.  I can see you.  I know.

"Where Do We Find Such Men?"

Ronald Reagan, Hickam AFB, 1984

You know, many years ago in one of the four wars in my lifetime, an admiral stood on the bridge of a carrier watching the planes take off and out into the darkness, bent on a night combat mission, and then found himself asking with no one there to answer, just himself, to hear his own voice, he said, "Where do we find such men?''

A decade or so ago, after spending an evening with the first returning POWs from Vietnam, Nancy and I found ourselves -- as the evening ended, having heard the stories of horror and brutality by men who had been confined as prisoners of war longer than any other fighting men in America's history -- found ourselves asking that same question, "Where do we find such men?''

We find them where we've always found them when we need them. We find them where we found you -- on the main streets and the farms of America. You are the product of the freest, the fairest, the most generous and humane society that has ever been created by man.

Kendrick Castillo, RIP

Brendan Bialy

Joshua Jones

The student-men who attacked the shooters in Colorado.

Hitting Liberalism's Wall of Death

It is argued by some that US/Western Liberalism is the very best of all possible philosophic/political theories.   Well, it is, if you are not among the millions of dead victims of Liberalism.

This Liberalism is shared to one or another degree by Democrats, Libertarians, and establishment Republicans in marked contrast to Conservatives, who, while nominally "Republican" (due to voting choices) are the mysterious force behind Clinton's '16 loss and the victory of Hagedorn in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

...Children and family have always been a problem for liberal political theory, which is centered on autonomous adults. Children are not born free and rational, but dependent and irrational, and liberal political theory has long struggled to address human development and dependence.

In particular, the developing human person’s specific dependence on the mother is an insoluble problem for modern liberalism. Human life in the womb can only exist and develop by imposing upon the mother’s body, regardless of her consent. Modern liberalism will not accept this loss of bodily autonomy (even if it usually arises as a natural and predictable result of consensual sex) and has chosen to secure the mother’s rights under the liberal regime by negating the child’s right to life.
Liberalism cannot keep all of its promises. Thus, a political philosophy that began by claiming to defend rights and liberty for all ends, has started denying the rights of the most vulnerable, in an ironic twist. As a political theory for rational, autonomous adults, liberalism has no place for the dependent and disabled, against whom Western liberal nations are engaged in a quiet genocide....

Given that killing "problems"--born or not--is now the hallmark of Western Liberalism, and that killing "problems" is also the hallmark of totalitarian-fascist States such as Russia, Red China, Cambodia, Cuba, and in former times Hitler's Germany and Revolutionary France......Hmmm.  How shall we discern the difference?

...The populist backlash throughout the West is a symptom of this decadence, not its cause. Although populists often lack the theoretical acumen of a scholar like Deneen or the moral clarity of pro-life activists, they sense the decadence permeating the liberal order. They see it in the dissolution of national, as well as familial, bonds. It is evident in the casual acceptance, even celebration, of the destruction of local economies and communities in the service of globalization...

Yes.  It is more than a little irritating to listen to the RadioMouths who flapjaw incessantly about the Wonders of Wally-World Chinese junk while berating their neighbors for being unemployed (at least until Trump showed up and goosed jobs....)  Or hearing the Babbling Babes of Boob-osity/Feminazis chattering about the absolute requirement for women to "contribute" by showing up at an office instead of nurturing and raising children.

Yes, there's something wrong with them and the system they cheer.  What might that be?

...This civilizational exhaustion is exemplified by the liberal West facing demographic disaster. In a time of unprecedented peace and prosperity, many people refuse to have children. Decadence is evident throughout the cultural and political elites of Western liberal nations. Examples of ineptitude, arrogance, insularity, and self-indulgence abound, and they are increasingly illiberal in their efforts to defend a desiccated and exhausted liberalism....

That "illiberalism" is translated "gun control" and "de-platforming."  Not coincidence, friends.

This will be a bumpy ride, friends.  Best pray harder.

"Will of God" Error Spread by Vatican

Bp. Athanasius Schneider formally and publicly asked Pp. Francis to clarify/correct the Pope's misleading "will of God" statement which he apparently made to do kissy-face with the Muslims.

(Francis has a kissy-face problem.....look at what he did in Red China for another egregious example.)

Anyhow.

Here's an interesting addition to the original story:

...the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue sent a February 21, 2019 letter “to all the Church’s universities” with the explicit request that they help spread, on all levels, the principles contained in the Abu Dhabi document. That letter then also quotes the controversial passage on the diversity of religions....

Charming.  Why does one worry that the PC Interreligious Dialog missive does NOT contain a clarification/correction?  After all, Pope Francis' dicasteries couldn't really spread error, could they?

UW System Still $900,000,000+ Fat

Buried near the bottom of a story describing the UW-system problems....

...The UW System also ended the 2018 fiscal year with $906 million in unrestricted program revenue, up $55 million from the year before, but down more than 17%t from the $1.05 billion surplus that outraged Republican state lawmakers in 2013 and led to the tuition freeze and cuts in state funding....

The poor babies have ONLY $900+ million in the bank.  I know a few students who are still paying off UW college debts--if UW is looking for a place to give up their .....ahh........fat.

Oh, Shut Up, Jerry

Nadless tries to turn up the volume, "constitutional crisis."

New York.  Sky Falls.  End of World.

Shut up, Jerry.

The FBI, Still Just Lying Spies

There was a lot of noise made over how the 'New Broom', and 'Transparency', and 'We'll Be Good Boys', when Crooked Comey was fired for cause and a new FEEB honcho was installed.

Bull Shit.

It was discovered that a State Department (read: Hillary) employee interviewed Fabulist Steele about his "dossier."

And guess what?

...The FBI has retroactively classified Kavalec's notes on 4/25/2019, despite the fact that it was originally marked unclassified in 2016....

 Admit it, Wray.  Your organization, under Comey AND Mueller, sucked.  Time to let it go.

Francis: "Study Until You Get MY Solution"?

Given Pp. Francis' proclivities, we are not encouraged by what we read here.

The commission Pope Francis appointed to study the history and identity of women deacons did not reach a unanimous conclusion about whether deaconesses in the early church were “ordained” or formally “blessed,” the pope said....

Well, they couldn't!  At least one of the members of that commission is a die-hard feminazi female-ordination supporter.  So how come the results had to be unanimous, anyway? 

Moving on....

...After the six men and six women scholars on the commission finished their work, he said, there was “some agreement,” but not on the crucial question of whether women were ordained or solemnly blessed like abbesses are.

“Some say there are doubts,” the pope said. “Well, then, let’s study some more. I don’t have a problem with that.”...

If it were not Pp. Francis, I'd support that 'study some more' comment wholeheartedly, because we all know that women were NEVER ordained to any rank in Orders.  Period.

But this is Pp. Francis.  Fasten your seat-belts.

A "Heretic Pope"?

About 50 [update: 80] scholars and clergy released a letter begging the Bishops of the Catholic church to convene and declare Pp. Francis to be a heretic.

As you can imagine, that was a nuclear explosion.  The reaction was near-immediate, ranging from stupid-obtuse statements attacking the letter's authors through over-the-top demands to (metaphorically, I *think*) toss Francis off the top of St Peter's dome.

One of the authors was asked to defend the letter, and presents a calm, considered, and wholly reasonable case.  I'll excerpt a few salient parts.

...I would like to distinguish between the accusation of heresy, and the formal declaration of someone being a heretic by the competent authority: the accusation of being a heretic is one thing, the sentence that formally declares him such is another, and that it is not up to us to issue, but precisely to the bishops to whom we have addressed the open letter....

The Pope's statements and actions are heretical, but to declare Francis a heretic takes a canonical trial during which he must cling (pertinacity) to the heretical statements.  It's directly comparable to the difference between a criminal indictment (the letter from the scholars) and a declaration of guilt (from a judge or jury after a trial).

Most of Francis' problems come from Amoris Laetitia--his letter on marriage.

...There are seven statements contained in the letter: the first six are distilled from passages of AL and the famous dispute over Communion for divorced persons who are living together in a new union more uxorio. Two roads can be taken to affirm that it is licit to give Communion to this category of people. The first would be to deny the indissolubility of marriage. This road was tried in several studies that preceded and accompanied the two synods on the Family (2014-2015), but it was effectively refuted and this strategy was abandoned. The other road is to state that, while marriage remains indissoluble, there are cases in which sexual relations outside a legitimate marriage would still be lawful. To sum up, therefore, I would say that the main heresy resides precisely in the doctrine — today called “situation ethics” — which denies that there are acts that by their very nature are intrinsically evil, and therefore cannot in any case be considered lawful. Once this doctrine is accepted, not only is the doctrine of the indissolubility of marriage at risk but the whole of Christian ethics — and not only it, but the whole of natural ethics....

"Situation ethics" was all the rage with my Jesuit teachers back in the mid-'60's--about when Francis was in the Jesuit seminary.  "Situation ethics" is closely related to (but distinct from) "relativism," against which B-16 relentlessly preached; situation ethics was also condemned in no uncertain terms by JP2.  As the philosopher-interviewee points out, it is a head-shot at natural morality.  It cannot be tolerated.

Responding to the criticism of "Who do you think you ARE?":

...We do not claim any particular authority, except the theological competence necessary to carry out this study to highlight a factual situation which undermines a fundamental right of all Catholic faithful. The Code of Canon Law attributes to all the faithful, in proportion to their competence, the right to speak in so far as they deem it necessary to do so in order to point out a difficulty or problem in the Church....

He proceeds to knock down the straw-horses of Canons 1372 and 1373.  They do not apply.

Here's the most grave accusation against Francis--that which establishes grounds for "pertinacious" heretical belief:

...we are presenting these accusations after a great number of warnings have already been presented privately to the Pope, many more than would have been sufficient and fair. 

In fact, this was already done in the theological censures presented to him by a number of us in 2016 (first privately); then with the dubia (also previously presented in private), then with the Correctio filialis (2017), which was also put directly into his hands a full month before it was published.

But this is only a part of the story. Pope Francis was already warned of these errors by many bishops and cardinals and even lay scholars during the Synods on the family; then, after the drafting of AL, by the many corrections that came from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which were all rejected. Then by a series of articles, books and open letters by important authors. 

Faced with all these warnings, questions, books, articles, letters and corrections, the Pope had all the time and material to reflect and eventually to respond. But instead, he clearly and consciously chose the path of ignoring them altogether. In an answer given during a meeting with the Jesuits last year here in Chile, he stated verbatim regarding these critics that he “does not read them” because he does not find in them “spiritual goodness,” and limits himself to “praying for them” (quoted here). It remains to be explained how he knows that the critics do not have spiritual goodness, since he does not read them. ...

In a way, it's fortunate that most Catholics have no idea that all this is going on.  They are occupied with 'real life,' not with the flap-spoutings of the guy with the white beanie.  That was true with JPII, B-16, and Paul VI (except for his condemnation of artificial birth control, which most Catholics know about and flagrantly ignore.)

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis!!

Illegal Wants Sympathy for Driving Without License

The Usual Suspects (newspaper reporters and editors, along with the Alinsky crowd) tell of an illegal who will be deported for driving without a license.  See, he's a grandfather, so that means he's entitled.  OK, then.

The important text is here:

...Last May, Martinez-Moreno was driving to work about 3 a.m. when a Brown County Sheriff's Office deputy stopped him. The deputy had run the car's registration plate, according to a Sheriff's Office report. The deputy found that Martinez-Moreno didn't have a driver's license and an arrest warrant had been issued because he didn't appear in a 2017 court hearing about a previous charge of driving without a license.

Martinez-Moreno says he didn't know that he had to appear in court for his 2017 case. In the citation, a deputy wrote Martinez-Moreno was warned he needed to attend the hearing. But Martinez-Moreno, who doesn't speak much English, said he doesn't remember being told that. He said his daughter asked a court clerk if he needed to appear in court and she was told that he didn't. ...

"...doesn't speak much English."

This is a guy who's been here, illegally, for EIGHTEEN YEARS.

Sound like he really wants to be a citizen of the US?  

By the way, I don't believe the daugher-excuse, either.   

Evers: "Free Money" Comes From FedGov

Only a product of public schools could push this line.

Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed budget would increase spending on health programs by an estimated $836.7 million over two years — at no additional cost to the state....

Well, yah, except:

...Taxpayers still would pay for the additional $836.7 million in spending. But the money would come from the federal government, not the state...

So Evers is telling you that 'no taxpayers will be harmed, except FEDERAL taxpayers who live in Wisconsin.'

It's far too late for remedial math for Tony.  Best just put him into the special-students room, close the door, and ignore him.

Ugly Wisconsin Reality

So an acquaintance of mine was in an auto accident on I-94 in Racine County.  Her car is smacked up, the other one is upside-down.

Ambulance arrives.  She's not seriously hurt, but gets a ride to the hospital.  As you might imagine, she was not thinking very clearly........

ON THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL, she gets notification on her phone that someone is using her credit card--which was left in her car at the accident scene.

I hope the perp is found and spends a few years in the graybar hotel.  I know that won't happen, but....

Trade Bureaucrats: Who Needs Them?

Tonelson has a few vignettes of 'trade negotiations' in the Bad Old Days of Bush, Carter, Clinton, Bush, and Obama.  They are clear:  the old-world negotiators employed by those Administrations were twerps and twits, albeit with lots of fancy college degrees.  And they gave away US jobs and dollars like they were spreading candy at a Christmas parade.

In short, they were idiots, if not trade-traitors.

In contrast, there is Trump.

...Take Elena Bryan. According to this 17-year veteran of trade negotiations with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), “it’s very hard to enforce anything under the Chinese because their system is both complicated and relatively opaque, and there aren’t that many Mandarin speakers around that have the requisite technical trade and legal skills.”

But with its new tariff hike threat (which has the Chinese scurrying back to Washington to try to restart talks), the Trump administration has just suggested how easily this allegedly formidable challenge can be overcome: Tell the Chinese to get serious – and work with standard English – or they get higher tariffs imposed on their goods heading for the U.S. market that their economy desperately needs to produce adequate growth and employment....

So.  When can we dump those USTR idiots and hire plain-spoken Trump Country hammer-throwers instead?

Church-Going LGBTQ?

Actually, this is not very surprising.

...Research conducted jointly at Columbia University and the University of California at Los Angeles by scholars who are not shy about supporting gay politics found that gay- and lesbian-identified people are 2.5 times more likely to attend churches that took a more conservative view on Christianity (including homosexuality) than the so-called “welcoming and affirming” congregations that celebrate it....

The researchers intimated that these gay/lesbian 'conservative' church-goers were confused.

No, they are not.  They understand WHY someone goes to church, and it is NOT for a Moralistic-Therapeutic-Deism experience.  Ask Milo!

HT:  ColdFury

Milwaukee's "Head-Chopper" Muslim Society

Well, well.  The Muslim American Society--the one which had the kids singing the "Head-Chopping Song" in Philly--has a branch in Tommy Trolley's Milwaukee!!

Shocking footage uncovered by the Investigative Project last week shows a skit produced by the Muslim American Society (MAS) in Philadelphia showing children calling for martyrdom as soldiers in the “army of Allah” and threatening to behead their enemies and subject them to “eternal torture” to wrest Jerusalem from Jewish control....

These are not "nice Muslims."

...MAS has 42 chapters across the United States. A 1997 FBI file obtained by Judicial Watch identifies MAS as the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States controlled by Hamas sympathizers “known to conduct firearms and other military type training.” A Justice Department filing (p. 58, fn. 13) in a terrorism-related case states that “MAS was founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.” A September 2004 Chicago Tribune investigative report revealed that MAS had been founded by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, adopted the group’s strict code for secrecy, and promoted Islamic supremacy....

It is prudent to stay away from Muslim children carrying scimitars in Milwaukee, I guess.

Marxism, Intersectional and Multicultural

No matter how you cut it, Marxist analysis produced "intersectionalism" and "multiculturalism."  That's why they are both Enemies of the Republic.

Here's a short excerpt from a long essay on "multi-culti" within which you'll immediately recognize the sister-heresy of "intersectionalism."

...In short, multiculturalism is a worldview—a regime­, in the classical sense; a political and cultural way of life all wrapped up in one. As an ideology, it stands for nearly the opposite of America’s national motto. It seeks to divide and conquer Americans, making many groups out of one citizenry. The modern Left, accustomed to running the campuses according to the new social justice diktats of multiculturalism, now wants to run the world that way.

The threat multiculturalism presents to the American regime and our way of life is now urgent....

OK, then....

....Unlike Americanism, properly understood, multiculturalism defines and defends the rights of groups rather than individuals and denies the possibility of any natural standard from which to assess the goodness of political or moral arrangements. By rejecting this natural standard by which the virtue of America (or any country) must be measured, multiculturalism denies equality of each under the law of all. But so too does multiculturalism therefore abandon any principled adjudication of willful or rival claims to prestige, honor, and resources advanced by groups as a matter of right. Will and force replace reason and deliberation....

And in case you haven't noticed, "will and force" are in use by the "antifa" crowd.  The alternative to direct force, of course, is the predictably friendly Ninth Circuit, which is why it is the forum of choice for ANY multi-culti/intersectionalist legal action.  Until reversal--usually a minimun of a year--the force of the Government is applied.

Claremont has suggestions on how to defeat multi-/intersectional Marxism, recalling Lincoln AND endorsing "Trumpism."

HT:  Grim (who advises that the essay may be pulled any day.)

PJB Gets It, As Usual

Pat Buchanan says more than a mouthful.

...Whatever may be said about the “deplorables,” they are not obtuse. They do not believe that people who call them racists, sexists, nativists, and bigots are friends and merely colleagues of another party or persuasion....

The single-finger salute is all that's owed to the Democrats and their carbuncle-hangers-on.

Georgia Enshrines Human Rights. ACLU to Sue

The State of Georgia has enshrined human rights in law, banning abortions when a baby's heartbeat can be detected.

The ACLU, on behalf of its principal client Planned Parenthood Satan, will sue.

For Barrett, Trolley Trumps Potholes

Tommy Trolley, the Milk-Carton Mayor, was not available for Channel 4 interviews on the topic of Milwaukee's horrible pothole problem.

Instead, he was doing his Pimp-the-Trolley dance.

Well, there's only so much money, ya'know, and the priorities, ya'know.

How long before Trolley Tommy moves out of Milwaukee after he retires??

Related:  how many fools does it take to elect Tommy Trolley?

How About Voluntary Gun Registration?

The Democrat Party is fixated on removing guns from United States citizens' hands and homes.

In order to do that, they are pushing some form of gun registration because that way they know where to go to take the guns.  Simple, eh?

Well, then, let's make it easy for them!  Those who choose to register their guns can meet a Democrat candidate for President!!

Democrats should create a voluntary registration procedure including a face-to-face interview with Cory Booker or Crazy Uncle Joe, or Kamala, or Mayor Buttplug.  (Yes, I know:  the interview with Crazy Uncle Joe could turn out to be a "hands-on" interview if you're a female under 25 years of age....)  Do you prefer The Bern?  How about Fauxcahontas?  Swallowswell will be available, and maybe even John Kasich, who will bring an antique mailbag!!! (Yes, he IS a Democrat.)

What a deal!  Assuage your conscience, offer your guns for confiscation, AND meet a future paving-stone in Trump's highway to his second term. 

Red China's "Competitive" Car Pricing

There are some who call themselves "Free Market" advocates.  They tell us that cheaper goods are good for the economy because that means buyers can spend their (savings) on other things.

Well, maybe.  Under the rubric that 'you get what you pay for,' it's also the case that cheaper goods have to be replaced more frequently.  So that purchase is really a time bomb.

Anyhow.

A Red Chinese car company wants to enter the US market.  How will they compete?

...Zotye is inching closer with plans to bring its first vehicle — the T600 compact crossover — to the U.S. by the end of 2020 or first quarter of 2021, Zotye USA announced last week....T600 pricing has not been announced, but Hale indicated the sticker price could be 20 percent lower than the target competition, which he described as similar vehicles from brands such as Volkswagen, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Kia, Hyundai and Nissan....

Twenty percent, eh?

Somewhere in there I hear "...keep your health plan and doctor...."  They may sell the damn thing for 20% off; all that means is that the Red Chinese government is stuffing a LOT of subsidy into the car.

Can You Grok "WARNING!!" Signs?

A California EMT has spent some time keeping up with the news of Ebola.

It's not good news.

...We have no wild idea where or from what species Ebola sprung, resides, or spreads, other than people once there's an outbreak.

We suspect bats, but there's zero empirical evidence of this.

Humans are a target species, not so much the host species.

We do have the capacity to spread the disease once it's acquired, and thus far, every "survivor" of the disease tests positive for the disease as far out as we've re-checked, AFAIK.

IOW, it never goes away, and re-infection and subsequent outbreaks may be spawned by "survivors" from prior outbreaks....

Well, yah, but does it kill?  Why, yes!!  With great efficiency and efficacy!!

...Roughly, 8 out of 10 people who get it will die outright, and the 2 out of 10 who don't will almost always be lifelong victims of Ebola Virus Syndrome, with blindness and other problems being a virtual certainty over time. And they'll be contagious carriers pretty much for life (blood, semen, breast milk, vaginal secretions, etc.)....

It's in Africa.  What's the big deal?

...To find a representative population here like that, you'd have to sample the homeless. Now, imagine Ebola gets here, and gets to the homeless population...

By the way, a NYC doctor and 2 Dallas RN's have survived.  And are permanent contagious carriers.

Still like "open borders"?

Minnesota Nice? Nope. MInnesota NUTS

Aside from sending a PLO/Hamas representative to Congress, Minnesota has another big problem.

At the center of the CSE curriculum debate is a book called, “It’s Perfectly Normal” which is endorsed by Planned Parenthood and boasts of “more than one million copies in print”. The book contains explicit drawings of the male and female anatomy and covers such topics as vaginal, oral and anal sex, homosexuality and abortion which will be taught to elementary students as part of CSE. “It’s Perfectly Normal” was written in 1995 by Robie Harris, who was a member of Planned Parenthood’s National Board of Advocates. A new edition of the book states it is “updated for the 21st century” on the cover.  ---quoted at Vox

If nothing else, this will drive the Muslim kids out of the public schools.

"Your" Lawyer May Be a Threat--To YOU

If you watch the TeeVee lawyers, you hear a lot about 'lawyer-client confidentiality.'

That's TeeeeeeeVeeeeeeeee.  Reality is different, and dangerous to you, my friend.

...Adam Kilgore, general counsel for the Mississippi Bar, offered the following hypothetical to a group of experienced civil and criminal lawyers.

A man has been fired from his job. He is upset. He hires you as his attorney. You are of the opinion he has an excellent case and file a complaint on his behalf. You later discover he possesses a permit to carry a firearm. He also has a so-called enhanced carry license. While his case is wending through the courts, your client goes to a public area outside his former workplace. He displays signs that say he has been wrongfully fired. The man has no history of criminal activity, violence, or threatening anyone.

The instructor asked the class what actions, if any, a lawyer should take. It seemed obvious to me there was no reason to do anything except proceed with the client’s case. I (Jude) would also advise my client to avoid confrontations with anyone who worked for his former employer and what he might consider saying if approached by the media.

While I was forming an answer, many lawyers immediately said they would terminate the attorney-client relationship and contact law enforcement to report their client was potentially dangerous. The only reason offered was his firearm permits....quoted at Captain's place

There's a reason for all those lawyer jokes.  They're based in truth.

WI. DOT: Spend, Spend, Spend!!

There had been problems at the intersection of SH 33 and County P.  So a solution was implemented.

“We had a lot of crashes there before they put the four-way stop up,” he said. “They put the four-way stop up as a temporary measure knowing they were going to eventually put the roundabout in. The four-way stop definitely worked and I think that will continue once the roundabout is done.”

Notice that the 4-way stop signs cleared up the problem.

And further note that WI DOT continues to spend megabucks--now "solving" a problem which does not exist.

So, of course, they need MORE money, to continue solving problems that don't exist.

The Biden Family Ugliness

Frankly, I don't expect that Joe Biden will be the (D) nominee.  He's already a three-time loser, a nasty guy, and he's no longer capable of delivering a short speech without major screwups. 

So what I find interesting here is the Swamp-Tale, Part 145,894

...An investment fund backed by Hunter Biden, son of 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden, invested in a surveillance system used to spy on Muslims in China, a new report claims.

The former vice president has been facing scrutiny over his son’s business dealings in Ukraine and other countries, with reports focusing on Hunter Biden’s role in the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.

The company employed the younger Biden as a board member as the U.S. and the Obama administration were mulling a course of action amid Russia’s invasion in Eastern Ukraine....FoxNews quoted at WeaselZippers

Biden was VP, so Biden's kid "finds" $1 BILLION from Red China, then "invests" in a sure-bet which just happens to be a Government-SPYING tool.  Familiar?

Biden was VP, so Biden's kid gets appointed to the Board of a Ukrainian oil company.  Ukraine politicians helped Hillary Clinton's campaign.  Familiar?

Here's a campaign plank for Trump 2020:  move all Federal offices OUT of D.C..  Move them to North Dakota.  Or maybe the Alaskan tundra.

Humor

From PowerLine

Althouse's Legal Advice

The retired Prof. Althouse makes a pithy observation.

Noting that a person named "Josh Marshall" says that Barr's refusal to appear constitutes "obstruction," Althouse has a response.

Note to erstwhile liberals: Any attempt to assert your rights against demands from the government will be regarded as a crime in itself. 

Oh.

Nevermind.

For the "Gummint Dummies"

The Captain reviews recent history in light of stupid remarks made by Gumminters about how citizens can't defeat an army....

...The MultiNational Force reported years ago at the very height of the insurgency in Iraq that the total number of foreign fighters (the main ones doing the nefarious work) never exceeded approximately 20,000.  Ponder: 20,000 poorly trained and poorly equipped and supplied insurgents fought the entire U.S. military to a virtual standstill in Iraq. Ultimately, areas of Iraq were pacified, but it came at a tremendous cost, with saturation of Marines in Fallujah in 2007, and other tactics employed that aren’t long term...

Afghanistan, anyone?

Oh, yes, there's this, too:

...An insurgency isn’t about great armies lining up in fields of battle and walking towards each other while shooting.  Insurgent and government live in the same neighborhoods, beside each other, wear the same uniforms, go to the same schools, work the same jobs, and walk the same streets.  In such conditions, it’s impossible to tell insurgent from government. ...

Talking heads and pundits still don’t understand what 4GW would involve, nor how difficult it would be to stop.  The U.S. armed forces now focuses on 5GW (F35, Milstar uplinks to do everything, etc.) because they never figured out how to win 4GW and believe they’ll never be in one again....

And just like Fight Club, the first rule is.............Uh-huh.

Hellfire To Descend on Gomorrah/D.C.

This brings a smile.

...Do not underestimate how many powerful people in Washington have something to lose from Mr. Barr’s probe. Among them: Former and current leaders of the law-enforcement and intelligence communities. The Democratic Party pooh-bahs who paid a foreign national (Mr. Steele) to collect information from Russians and deliver it to the FBI. The government officials who misused their positions to target a presidential campaign. The leakers. The media. More than reputations are at risk. Revelations could lead to lawsuits, formal disciplinary actions, lost jobs, even criminal prosecution.  --Strassel, WSJ, quoted at PowerLine

It's hard to imagine an outcome that could be better--except for "skip the lawsuits and disciplines and Go Directly To Jail"

I want to live long enough to see Hildebeeste frog-marched!!!

Catholics vs. USA? Deneen's Essay

Interesting nuggets from a 2014 Deneen essay.  Here Deneen sets up apposites between "liberalism" and "Catholicism."  (Earlier in the essay, he disposed of "liberal Catholicism" accurately, as we see today.)  But I think that Deneen misses an important chunk of Americans:  conservative Protestants such as Missouri Lutherans and most Baptists. 

Does Deneen set up a false dichotomy for starters?

...liberalism cannot be understood to be merely neutral and ultimately tolerant toward (and even potentially benefitting from) Catholicism. Rather, liberalism is premised on a contrary view of human nature (and even a competing theology) to Catholicism. Liberalism holds that human beings are essentially separate, sovereign selves who will cooperate based upon grounds of utility. According to this view, liberalism is not a “shell” philosophy that allows a thousand flowers to bloom....

Well, that's at least Libertarian, but the 'separate, sovereign, ....utility' language allows for atheist-Marxists, too.  It's arguably what Xi has brought to Red China, since Xi now "disappears" doctrinaire Marxists in favor of his own brand of Communism. 

Hmmmm.

...Rather, liberalism is constituted by a substantive set of philosophical commitments that are deeply contrary to the basic beliefs of Catholicism, among which (Catholics hold) are the belief that we are by nature relational, social and political creatures; that social units like the family, community and Church are “natural,” not merely the result of individuals contracting temporary arrangements; that liberty is not a condition in which we experience the absence of constraint, but the exercise of self-limitation; and that both the “social” realm and the economic realm must be governed by a thick set of moral norms, above all, self-limitation and virtue....

The red-highlighted text is not by any means exclusively "Catholic" belief; I know quite a few Protestants who would subscribe to those principles with no hesitation--while rejecting, happily, the Papacy and most of the seven sacraments out-of-hand.  Those same Prots are very comfortable with the law of subsidiarity, which is expressed in the 'family, community, church' language Deneen uses.

Deneen moves on to the economics implications.

...the “radical” [Catholic] position—while similarly committed to the pro-life, pro-marriage teachings of the Church—is deeply critical of contemporary arrangements of market capitalism, is deeply suspicious of America’s imperial ambitions, and wary of the basic premises of liberal government. It is comfortable with neither party, and holds that the basic political division in America merely represents two iterations of liberalism—the pursuit of individual autonomy in either the social/personal sphere (liberalism) or the economic realm (“conservatism”—better designated as market liberalism)....

Calling Tucker Carlson, eh?  It would be interesting to know why Deneen equates "radical" Catholicism (exclusively, it seems) with criticism of market capitalism--especially since both Trump and Carlson are implicit (Trump) and explicit (Carlson) critics of same, and neither of them is remotely Catholic.  In fact, those who hold tightly to "market capitalism" are represented by Ben Shapiro and the Chamber of Commerce, and it's fair to say that their concordance begins and ends there.

...It is already evident for anyone with eyes to see that elites in America are returning to their customary hostility toward Catholicism, albeit now eschewing crude prejudice in favor of Mandates and legal filings...

...and that was before Feinstein (D-China) and Harris (D-Bed-Hoppers) started ripping Trump's SCOTUS nominees for being Catholic-without-a-license-from-Planned Parenthood.  But note well:  the very same Planned Parenthood/Homosex/Tranny lobby threw a lot of dollars and slanders at a Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate and got their collective asses handed to them.   And that loss was not due only to "radical" Catholic votes--not by a long shot.  (Further, the candidate was not a Catholic.)

Deneen goes on:

...The relationship of Catholicism to America, and America to Catholicism, began with rancor and hostility, but became a comfortable partnership forged in the cauldron of World War II and the Cold War. Was that period one of “ordinary time,” or an aberration which is now passing, returning us to the inescapably hostile relationship? A growing body of evidence suggests that the latter possibility can’t simply be dismissed out of hand: liberalism appears to be daily more hostile to Catholicism, not merely disagreeing with its stances, but demanding that they be changed in conformity to liberal views on self-sovereignty (especially relating to human sexuality and marriage) or, failing that, that the Church be defined out of the bounds of decent liberal society, an institution no more respectable than the Ku Klux Klan....

That's true.  But I think the good professor (and I really, really, like what this guy says) should take a hard look at 'conservative' Protestants along the way--and factor them into the dichotomy he is presenting.

FAR Too Much School Aid in Wisconsin

Ignore the "ree-ree-ree" from the usual babies in the (D) clown-car (including the current Governor.)   The State of Wisconsin provides waaaaaayyyyy too much tax revenue to schools.

Funny thing:  you never hear the "ree-ree-ree" crowd talking about enrollment, do you?

Gun Control FAIL

This guy didn't bother with the background check folderol.

A 15-year-old boy was charged as an adult, accused of breaking into a Racine sporting goods store in July 2018 and stealing nearly a dozen firearms worth thousands of dollars....

If only there were more gun-control laws, eh?

Yup. Mueller Is Slime

Remember this:  Mueller ran the FBI for a dozen years, promoting every one of the sleazebuckets along the way, such as Comey and McCabe--plus all the others who suddenly "resigned" when they realized the jig was up.

So when Mueller plays Snow White, he's lying.  Again.

...The Mueller report claimed, “The evidence we obtained about the President’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”

As Emmet Flood, the president’s special counsel, explains, Mueller is not in a position to “conclusively [determine] that no criminal conduct occurred” because he is operating as a prosecutor....

IOW, "innocent until proven guilty."  Even Hildebeeste deserves that, (although a trial with a competent prosecutor should take about 10 minutes before the "GUILTY" hammer drops.)

James T Harris Strikes in AZ!!

Some of you remember James T. Harris, who had a show on WTMJ-Radio.  He made a specialty of mocking the Lefty Wackazoids here and did a very good job.

Then he went to Phoenix.

Well, he did it again; he was one of two RadioMouths who helped pour a lot of cold water on "RedforEd" which is a bunch of teachers all riled up by the Usual Suspect Communists and Socialists.

Good work, James T!!!

Little Barry Has the Sadz

Aw, gee.  We should all feel for Little Barry.  He has The Sadz.

...Obama compared himself to Michael Corleone, the titular character of "The Godfather." Obama thought he “almost got out” of office untouched, like a mob boss avoiding a hit job. 
 

Obama found himself shocked by the election results, thinking before Nov. 8 there was “no way Americans would turn on him” and “[h]is legacy, he felt, was in safe hands.”...

Well, Barry, you miserable Commie, it's possible that you did NOT yet 'get out untouched.'  The Attorney General has some questions for you.  And Loretta.  And Susan.  And that vampire Valerie who lives with you and Michelle.  And James.  And James.  And The Perjurer.

Not to mention Hildebeeste--who will NEVER be President.

Catholic Bishops Fail in Abortion Polling

The Kaiser Family Foundation ran a poll about Federal funding for abortions, birth control, and STD prevention. 

The Catholic Bishops failed this test miserably.  It was no contest.

The poll continues to find strong support for federal government funding for reproductive health services for lower-income women, known as Title X funding. Majorities of Democrats and independents think it is important that the federal government provides this funding for lower-income women to access reproductive health services, as do a majority of Republican women (62 percent)....

...Most Americans – including three-fourths of women ages 18-44 – say they are concerned (either “very” or “somewhat”) that access to women’s reproductive health and preventive care services may be limited by the new rules that don’t allow clinics that provide abortions or refer for abortions to receive federal funding....

 ...At least half of Democrats, independents, and Republicans say they oppose federal funding going to organizations that do not provide a full array of contraceptive services. Majorities – across party identification – also oppose allowing federal funding to go to organizations that promote abstinence as the only option and do not teach young people about contraception and STD prevention.

...there have also been state-level activities – including passing laws banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected (normally six weeks into a pregnancy). Opinions towards this type of legislation are largely partisan with Democrats (65 percent) opposing their state passing a similar ban and Republicans supporting it (70 percent) – including three-fourths of Republican women....

Meantime, the Bishops are begging Congress for open borders and money to help the invading forces. 

Belling's Tiresome (and Un-Informed) Car-Rants

Our sympathy to Mark Belling on his stroke.  Even though he's walking and talking, it was more than a shot-across-the-bows warning; one can actually hear the difference.

However, much as Mark would like to use it as an excuse for his silliness, it ain't an excuse.  After all, we published this info on Monday--and Belling should have read it.  So when he rattles on and on about battery-cars being THE thing over the next 5 years.........well........

[Batteries] start to degrade chemically on the day they're made, and do so more-or-less linearly.  There's nothing you can do about that -- this happens even under ideal storage conditions.  In addition there's a "per-cycle" penalty too, because batteries operate through ion exchange across the electrolyte -- that is, the physical movement of ions between cathode and anode

And by the way, John the Traffic Guy is right:  the electrical grid can NOT support 20 electric cars re-charging overnight in one subdivision, much less one apartment building garage.

And shut up with your 'lights on' crusade, Mark.  If YOU can't see a 5-foot X 6-foot object in front of you on the freeway, use Layton Avenue.  The rest of us know how to drive.

Tokin'Tony Makes a Fool of Self

It should be clear that Tokin'Tony needs far more management by his handlers.

Gov. Tony Evers met with Foxconn CEO Terry Gou for the first time Thursday and hours later backpedaled on his claim the company likely wouldn't meet its promise to create 13,000 jobs in Wisconsin.

"The fact that I said that they may not have 13,000 (jobs), it could be less, it could be more, to me it doesn’t matter,” Evers told the editorial boards of the Kenosha News and Racine Journal Times. “I’m not doubting their word, I’m just saying that we want as much clarity as we can going forward and we talked about what they’re doing right now as far as building."

Oh.

That statement comes two weeks after Evers told reporters the idea that Foxconn would create 13,000 jobs was "difficult to imagine" and an "unrealistic expectation."

I see.

Get back to us when you know what the Hell you're talking about, Tony.

America, an Idea?

Old-and-Slow Joe Biden is taking a lot of flak for proclaiming that "America is an idea."

I don't think Joe could define that more clearly; based on clips of his speeches in the last couple of days, he's not even doing as well as Drunken Hillary in the elocution department and would definitely lose a contest in political philosophy to a 5th-grader.

Oh, well.  He'll be around to bully the kids working in the hamburger stand again, I suppose, so you can tell him what you think, if his Praetorian Guard lets you get near him.

Meantime, I'll leave you with what G K Chesterton said about America.

“America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature. It enunciates that all men are equal in their claim to justice, that governments exist to give them that justice, and that their authority is for that reason just. It certainly does condemn anarchism, and it does also by inference condemn atheism, since it clearly names the Creator as the ultimate authority from whom these equal rights are derived. Nobody expects a modern political system to proceed logically in the application of such dogmas, and in the matter of God and Government it is naturally God whose claim is taken more lightly. The point is that there is a creed, if not about divine, at least about human things.”

The Church and the US Government

Did the Catholic Church prefigure the United States?

Imagine a society enfeebled by constant, top-down, progressivist experimentation offering universal, programmatic solutions to problems that are either inherently localist or transcendent. Imagine an intellectual elite who are arrogantly uninterested in—and perhaps conscientiously deaf to—the concerns of ordinary, working-class people. Imagine a media that serves as a microphone for this elite, actively avoiding stories that don’t harmonize with their enlightened narrative.

This probably sounds a bit like the milieu that resulted the cultural distemper of the 2016 presidential election and that still largely defines American politics today. It is also, interestingly, a description of the liturgical changes imposed upon the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, as painfully described in A Bitter Trial, a series of correspondences between English Catholic writer Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan....

So.........the US electorate, disgusted with the Prissy Twit Republicans and the Dictatorial Democrats, elected a whole 'nother kind of President and a small but noteworthy and fanatical supporting cast in the Congress.

The Church, on the other hand, doesn't have elections......so the Church got a Pope who is pushing various heresies which are just about as popular with the remaining Catholic faithful as the 'civilian' versions pushed by the GloboHomo perverts and GloboEye-Slam terrorists here.

Go long on popcorn and prie-dieux.

Notre Dame's Socialists and Communists

It could have been the late '50's or early '60's--I forget which--but my family spent a bit of time at Notre Dame University on a foggy day.  I remember seeing the Dome and wandering around the campus.  It was probably at that time that my Dad decided that wasn't the place for me.

In the interim years, Notre Dame hired a Communist to teach English and a Socialist--the Socialist to be "an affiliated scholar at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study."  Whatever.

The Socialist is someone named Hart, who brags about his English lineage and claims to be a 'religious scholar.'  We can all offer pity to the poor fellow who is bearing the cross of an English heritage; but we should clearly see that the fellow is deluded when he claims 'scholar' status. 

Paul Kengor explains.

...what really got me about Hart’s piece, particularly given his affiliation with Notre Dame, was this passage:

Democratic socialism is, briefly put, a noble tradition of civic conscientiousness that was historically—to a far greater degree than either its champions or detractors today often care to acknowledge—grounded in deep Christian convictions. I, for instance, am a proud son of the European Christian socialist tradition, especially in its rich British variant … but also in its continental expressions (see, for example, Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, with its prescient warnings against the dangers of unfettered capitalism)....

One needs not be a "conservative" Catholic to recognize Hart's ridiculously egregious error:

...Section 120 of Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno states bluntly: “Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.”...

Kengor is a well-read scholar, unlike the poor Brit/American at Notre Dame.  So Kengor quotes extensively from Quadragesimo Anno, and there's a lot someone ought to know.

Particularly at Notre Dame; especially if one poses as "a scholar."

Walls, Locks, Immigrants, Oh My!!

Wisconsin native Bp. Mark Seitz of El Paso appeared at a House hearing on immigration.

...Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) referenced the Vatican wall when asking Bp. Mark J. Seitz if the churches in his diocese lock the doors after hours.

“Regarding the sovereignty of the Church and as it relates and compares with the sovereignty of our nation, the Church has been a light for the world for 2,000 years — a place of refuge, a place where a child of God could seek spiritual prosperity,” said Higgins, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation and Operations.

I would ask you, Bishop, in the area that you serve, do your churches lock their doors after hours?...

To which the Bishop replied:

 "Many of them do."

Gee.  Why is that, Excellency??  Are you telling us that there are some things which have so much value that it is necessary to protect them?

Hmmmm.

Cong. Higgins (R-LA) also referred to the wall surrounding the Vatican.

 “One of the most famous walls in history is the wall around the Vatican....."

The Bishop tried an end-around:

“I would point out that that wall you refer to at the Vatican also has arms embracing and opening to the world.”

And was check-mated:

“As we do,” interrupted Higgins. “We have 328 ports of entry — legal entry — into our country, into the United States of America.”

OK, Excellency.  Maybe you should answer the question about which things of value require locked doors.  We'll wait.

More-Drunker Democrats?

Just what we need in SE Wisconsin.....

...The city is preparing for 2020 DNC festivities with a proposal to extend bar time to 4 a.m. during the convention....

There's a reason that State law mandates 2AM closing.

But "reason" and "Democrat"......they don't mix well, do they?

Tokin'Tony the Dumb--Our Governor!

This guy was at the top of Wisconsin's "educators" food-chain.  Still have your kids in public schools??

Tokin'Tony wants illegals to have driver's licenses.  So he opened his mouth about it.

...Ahead of the rally, Evers and Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway said Tuesday they believed the provision for driver’s licenses in the state budget was a common-sense reform.

“They want to make sure they have a chance to get to work, they want to make sure they’re not ending up being deported because they’re driving illegally,” Evers said of undocumented immigrants at a Milwaukee Press Club event Tuesday. ...

".....DRIVING illegally?"

Hell, you dumbass:  they are LIVING HERE illegally.

Evers Loses "Appointments" Case

No surprise here.  Evers--who may be as stupid as he appears--lost.

The divided Wisconsin Supreme Court has restored 82 appointees of former Gov. Scott Walker who were confirmed during an extraordinary legislative session....Those affected by the ruling include a Public Service Commission member and two University of Wisconsin System regents.

Tokin'Tony also uses language that he doesn't understand.  It's the English language....

Someday he could look up the word "blasphemy" in an online dictionary.  Yah, I know.  He'd have to know how to use IE to do it.

Being Governor is SO HARD.

And SCOWI, including Screechin'Shirley, hammered the Dane County circuit judge who first heard the case.  Absolutely hammered the jackwad.

The Voters Wanted Maduro

Yah, the guy is a despicable jackwad, not unlike Hillary.  And yah, the economy in Venezuela is dropping dead.

But the guy actually won elections.  You remember those, right?  That's where the voters get the government they deserve.

So should the US have another war?

Stephen Moore Says a Mouthful

On-target observation.

“The biggest problem I see in the economy over the last 25 years is what has happened to male earnings, for black males and white males as well. They’ve been declining, and that is, I think, a big problem,” Moore advised. “Look, I want everybody’s wages to rise, of course, but people are talking about women’s earnings — they have risen. The problem has actually been the steady decline in male earnings, and I think we should pay attention to that because I think that has very negative consequences for the economy and for society...--CNBC quoted at Breitbart

The point is esoteric and will not be understood by the usual gaggle of harpies.  In fact, they will deliberately mis-understand it for propaganda purposes.

Meantime, anyone who knows and embraces right order will know that Moore is correct.