Martin, SJ Goes There

We all knew that this was only a matter of time.

Jesuit Father James Martin, an LGBT advocate, affirmed Saturday his belief that two men can enter into a real marriage that must be recognized as such.

Responding to Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, who proposed that Pete Buttigieg’s same-sex marriage to his partner Chasten is not a true marriage but rather a “legal fiction,” Father Martin countered that “Pete Buttigieg is married.”...

Sure.

In exactly the same way that Fr. Martin is a Roman Catholic.

SEAL Down. Who Sent Him?

Vox writes out the first thing that occurred to me on reading this story.

The US Navy confirmed on Friday that a member of the elite SEAL force was killed in eastern Ukraine, but said that Naval Special Warfare Operator Daniel Swift was in “active deserter status.” Swift died on January 18 from injuries sustained in combat with Russian forces, an unnamed US Navy official told reporters in a background briefing....--quoted at Vox

Apparently this dude 'has been AWOL' for a couple of years, which is about how long the US has been ramping up its (our) involvement.

Vox:

Do they seriously think no one has ever seen Mission Impossible or SEAL Team? We all know that the posthumous disavowing of a special forces operative or an intelligence agent doesn’t mean that the individual wasn’t on a government-sanctioned mission....

Putin knows full well that US troops are involved, whether in- or out-of-uniform.  Gotta hand it to him for discretion and prudence.

Maybe all those Ukie-flag-flyers here will become honest, suit up, and grab an M-4 on their way to Ukraine to help?

Nah.  They have your children to send instead.

100 Million Acres of Sun-Catchers?

If you haven't viewed the spectacular scenery in the Southwest, do it soon.  Otherwise, you'll see nothing except sun-catchers.

...In December 2022, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced that her department would expedite plans to build solar energy farms on up to 100 million acres of untouched public land in five Western states, in a bid to "tackle climate change." The announcement has garnered little to no national attention, save for the occasional report that the Biden administration is expanding renewable energy production....

Didn't hear about that, didja?  Huh?  DIDJA???

But when Trump wanted to expand energy production.....hooboy, that's TEOTWAWKI!!

 ...National outlets took a far more critical approach to Trump-era land use proposals. "Where Will Trump’s War on Public Lands End?" the New Yorker wondered in 2017. The following year, a New York Times headline lamented that a "Trump Drilling Plan Threatens 9 Million Acres of Sage Grouse Habitat." The coverage gap indicates a media bias, not just against Trump, but also for green energy....

Sun-catchers aren't good for sage grouse, are they?

And they're not much good for anything else, except the Red Chinese oligarchs who manufacture them, laughing all the way to the bank as they burn coal to power their factories.

That civil war, she's a-brewin'...........

Beatitudes vs. Progressives

Directly related to 'natural rights' discussion.  PowerLine had it.