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Voting Advice … Or Not

06 Thursday Oct 2016

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Everyone in America is hot and heavy about next month’s Great Quadrennial Black Mass, a.k.a. the election. I am not.

So it is that I was not impressed nor moved to action when the following presented itself on the WP command screen:

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There was an “X” on the right side so I judiciously clicked it. You’re all welcome.

I think everyone knows where I stand on this government, government in general, and elections. Big. Waste. Of. Time. Still, I don’t roundly tell everyone not to vote (DON’T VOTE!!!). So I’m not about to encourage the behavior. You’re adults; make up your own minds.

Some celebrities aren’t so confident in your mental abilities. They not only tell you to vote but practically advise you how to vote.

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Downey, Jr. and pals – Downey’s Downers. YouTube.

Rock the vote! Vote or die! If you can’t trust a pack of professional liars, drug addicts, drunks, and violent, raging, STD-ridden, serial divorcing idiots, who can you trust?

I do trust one celebrity on the matter: George Carlin:

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Carlin / YouTube – one of his best.

As George suggested, there really are no choices now, not even sure-to-fail third parties. News comes even the Libertarian Party is corrupted. More on that later – about the news and a funny story.

Turning Laziness Into Power

06 Thursday Oct 2016

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Maybe I’m not as lazy as I thought. Or, if I am, maybe it’s a good thing. I don’t know. Read on.

This morning I found a recent Forbes article about 10 Things Mentally Strong People Won’t Do. It’s worth a read. It starts with this story of determination:

Thomas Edison provides an interesting example. When his factory burned to the ground in 1914, destroying one-of-a-kind prototypes and causing $23 million in damage, Edison’s response was simple:

“Thank goodness all our mistakes were burned up. Now we can start fresh again.”

That’s beyond “never give up”. That’s where you can’t even be placed in a give up situation.

The 10 Things are:

1. They don’t dwell on mistakes.

2. They don’t hang around negative people.

3. They don’t stop believing in themselves.

4. They don’t wait for an apology to forgive.

5. They don’t feel sorry for themselves.

6. They don’t hold grudges.

7. They won’t let anyone limit their joy…

8. …and they don’t limit the joy of others.

9. They don’t get lazy.

10. They don’t get negative.

For right now, I’m looking at number 9, laziness. The example the article gives of laziness/counter-laziness is:

A study conducted at the Eastern Ontario Research Institute found that people who exercised twice a week for 10 weeks felt more socially, intellectually, and athletically competent. They also rated their body image and self-esteem higher. Best of all, rather than the physical changes in their bodies being responsible for the uptick in confidence, which is key to mental toughness, it was the immediate, endorphin-fueled positivity from exercise that made all the difference.

Exercise twice a week? A week? I sometimes feel down and out if I don’t exercise twice in a single day. Two days without physical activity and I start to develop neurosis. I have to start mentally justifying things to myself – even if the underlying reasons are real and obvious – “You strained you bicep. Slow down or you’ll tear it and be out for weeks. Strains and tears heal stronger. It’ll work out.” – and so on.

And the exercising I do is a little different than that of others. Many men seem content if they can bench press their body weight – which, generally speaking, is a good standard. However, I feel like a slug if I can’t (double arm) curl my own weight.

One of my gyms has sixteen 200-pound heavy bags. Well, 15 right now, I got a little carried away. 98% of the members pretend these things don’t exist. The few of the rest do as most – they pretend their in a fight with one of the bags. It’s a great workout. I pretend to mercilessly brutalize the whole gang.

In work, I usually write 2,000 – 5,000 words per day, everyday. Some you read here, some you can’t, and some are for other people. The days come by when I only do 1,000 words. I feel kind of lazy then. But most people don’t type 1,000, tweets and texts aside, in a year.

So, I’m thinking maybe I’m not that lazy. And maybe I am. And I like it. And I don’t.

People love to liken themselves to animals: sheep, sheepdogs and wolves are very popular choices. I like the tiger concept. Large, sleek, and solitary, cute like a kitten, but menacing. Tigers are extraordinarily lazy by design. Almost all of their time is spent lying around. They sleep, yawn, blog, and loaf the hours away. They can afford the lifestyle because, when needed and suddenly, they’re the most dangerous thing in the forest. And there’s nothing the sheep, dogs and wolves can do about it. And the tigers are beyond it all.

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Why yes, I’ze lazy. Say, you lookz appetizing.

Meandering on through the internets I found Vox’s recommendation for a new book: The Nine Laws by Ivan Throne, published by Vox’s Castalia House. It looks like the Forbes article, in manual form and on steroids. Sayeth the Amazon:

Do you dare to discover what you’re truly capable of?

THE NINE LAWS is your living manual of power, distilled for you by the man who was forced to build it to survive. The author forged this system over decades of cruel experience. It began with profound trauma in early childhood, shaped itself during long training in the eastern warrior arts, and was polished amidst financial industry competition and family crisis. Master this content, and deliver yourself to a place that few men ever reach: joyous mastery of your own fate.

This book is not for the uncertain or the timid. THE NINE LAWS is designed for men who are acutely aware that one lifetime is all they have to pursue and achieve their sacred purpose. Far more than a mere self-help book, or a simple collection of advice and ideas, The Nine Laws is a gravely serious operating system for success in a dark world.

Read it. Train it. Live it. Survive the dark world with momentous ferocity, and triumph.

Ivan Throne is a business manager, author and seasoned veteran of the financial industry with over thirty years of study in the classical Japanese military fighting arts. His vivid lessons and ruthless mentoring for the hard and often cruel demands of our pitiless high performance world have helped millions of people across social media deeply connect with radical, authentic success to the joys of partners, lovers, colleagues and clients.

I picked it up on Kindle. All the preview looked fantastic and I can’t wait to start reading… Actually, I can wait. That lazy indifference of the differing perception thing…

Take a look at those 10 things. Maybe it’s your lazy day. Or your day of joy. Or no negativity day. Or… So be a tiger, or a sheepdog, or a goldfish or whatever.

Et Tu Refugees?

05 Wednesday Oct 2016

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Probably. Why not. ISIS has called on its many and evil operatives across the West to start stabbing non-muslims. Stab them in parks, offices, malls, alleys, trails, sporting events, etc. Stab wherever and whenever the circumstances are right.

The call has already been heeded. “Hicham D.”, probably a newly arrived guest seeking relief from war and a better life in Europe and all, stabbed two police officers in Brussels. He was shot and arrested by another officer. If there is one thing to learn from this and the recent bombings and other attacks, it is that the Netherlands and Europe need more non-Christian, non-European refugees. Wonderful people. Productive. Vibrant.

Brussels also saw a potential bombing, excuse me – another bombing, at a train station. That turned out to be a hoax. Who doesn’t enjoy a good hoax? And all the refugee-related fun activity gives rise to fun, banana republic-looking scenes like this:

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Mirror, UK.

Soldiers and attack dogs in the streets lend a carnival-esque atmosphere, no?

In possibly related news, police at the University of Colorado shot and killed a man wielding a machete at the school’s stadium complex. He is (initially) described as a white man “looking for sinners” and uttering religious ramblings.

This could well be a case of that domestic terrorism Hussein Obama is always worried about. Time to ban guns. Then again, the media frequently misapplies labels like “white” or “hispanic” to obscure the true nature of attackers. Maybe this was a “white” muslim recently admitted from Somalia or Pakistan. Such refugees often visit public places, armed and violent, and looking for sinners. Allah hates sinners, you know.

If this was an actual white American on some personal crusade, then that would raise some interesting questions. Is a machete a book? Should whites loot and burn Boulder tonight? Despite this being a white man, bothering other white people, in a white city, shot by a white police officer, should his “brother” go on TV and proclaim all Indians “f*cking devils”? Will Hussein talk about the fears white men feel while wieldin..er..reading books? It’s a strange world. We need strange questions.

With our societies gone utterly mad and our “leaders” gone over to Satan, the people must begin to look out for themselves. Watch your six. If you witness anyone – white, black, muslim, tall, or anything else descriptive term – who is swinging a weapon while shouting anything, just shoot them. Don’t worry, the globalist will go out and recruit some more.

The $47 Trillion Migraine

05 Wednesday Oct 2016

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NFL viewership is in free-fall collapse and with good reason. If people are waking up, some of them may know that one of Europe’s largest banks is also collapsing. Deutsche bank is going under. This could have a dramatic effect on the EU and America also.

The 2015 annual report for Deutsche Bank runs to some 448 pages, so one rather doubts if even its CEO, John Cryan, has read it all, or has a complete grasp of, for example, its €42 trillion in total notional derivatives exposure.

Is Deutsche Bank technically insolvent? We’d suggest that it probably is, but we have no dog in the fight, having never either owned banks or shorted them. And like everybody else we assume that some kind of fix will soon be in – probably one that will further vindicate exposure to gold, both as money substitute and currency substitute. Professor Kevin Dowd, asking whether Deutsche Bank ist kaputt, suggests that the bank’s derivatives exposure is difficult to assess rationally; the value of its derivatives book

“is unreliable because many of its derivatives are valued using unreliable methods. Like many banks, Deutsche uses a three-level hierarchy to report the fair values of its assets. The most reliable, Level 1, applies to traded assets and fair-values them at their market prices. Level 2 assets (such as mortgage-backed securities) are not traded on open markets and are fair-valued using models calibrated to observable inputs such as other market prices. The murkiest, Level 3, applies to the most esoteric instruments (such as the more complex/illiquid Credit Default Swaps and Collateralized Debt Obligations) that are fair-valued using models not calibrated to market data – in practice, mark-to- myth. The scope for error and abuse is too obvious to need spelling out.”

42 Trillion Euros equals 47 Trillion Dollars. If that number is unreliable it still suggests a huge problem. And it’s one that your taxes will likely be called on to fix.

Speaking of theft … taxes, Apple is the biggest U.S. tax dodger (not Donald Trump). The software/SJW giant avoided paying $65 Billion in taxes for either the current year or last year. What a shame. That’s money that could have gone into the pockets of German speculators. We’ll just have to print money to cover for them.

In totally unrelated but much happier news Stephan Pastis will have a new compilation book out in November, Stephan’s Web:

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Pastis / McMeel Publishing.

It’s like Charlotte’s Web but sarcastically and self-deprecatingly humorous. Unlike Deutsch and Apple, it has real value.

US AG Sec. Says ‘Eat Less’: Truth From A Bureaucrat. Amazing.

05 Wednesday Oct 2016

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I can be a little brutal with the government sometimes. Honest but brutal nonetheless. Still whenever I find a pol or an agency head making sense I try to praise him for it.

Monday, in Washington, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack had two incredibly good points: Americans waste too much food and Americans need to cut their food portions. I agree 100%.

“But the first step, and the one way the USDA can provide help and assistance to meet this need, is to expand on the — on the issue of food waste,” Vilsack said. “A third of the food that we grow, raise and produce in this country is never consumed the way it was intended. It’s wasted.”

“It ends up oftentimes in our landfills as solid waste. In fact, in our landfills today, food waste is the single largest component of solid waste in landfills.”

Vilsack declared that “first and foremost, America can stop wasting food.”

“We can reduce portion sizes, we can have a more informed consuming public,” he said. …

Now, the Secretary and I may have a slight disagreement about the need for these changes. Actually, I bet we each see the others perspective to some degree. Anyway, my primary concern is that 70% of Americans are either overweight, obese, morbidly obese, or so obese that they died while I was typing this sentence.

The amount of food people waste and throw away is staggering – maybe half of what’s produced goes in the garbage. And that’s after Americans gorge on already gluttonous portions. If people ate responsibly we might only need 40-50% of the current national food stock and production.

He’s right about informed choices too. The smaller portions should be of greater nutrient value that the fast food crap people consume today. Consider this picture of Sec. Vilsack himself, preparing to eat on a Navy ship:

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Gregory Bull / AP photo.

What’s on that plate? It looks tasty and actually isn’t all that bad. But it could be better: A cheeseburger on an enriched white flour bun, beans, and what appears to be a giant potato wedge (maybe????). The beef paddy and the beans and perhaps that slice of processed (fake) cheese provide protein. Good. The beans add fiber (and music). The beans also add starchy carbs as does the potato(?) thing and the bun. Not good. You’ll note the absence of anything green.

Carbs, carbs, and more carbs. I estimate that plate carries 800-1000 calories which isn’t too bad. But it’s mostly the wrong kind of calories. If the consumer was going to climb a mountain or do heavy labor those carbs would help. However, a radar operator on a destroyer who just sits in a chair all day will convert those carbs (part of them) into stored fat.

There’s the obesity problem – the bigger the portions of fattening foods, the bigger the obese themselves and the more of them.

Vilsack’s main concern was the growing world population which he insinuates we must feed. I don’t see that as our responsibility. However, if it was, freeing up half of our foodstuff for export would help.

At any rate, follow the good Secretary’s advice and you can become healthier. You might even help the greater world.

Recuperative Exercise: What To Do When When You’re Black And Blue

04 Tuesday Oct 2016

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Nothing. The safe answer is “nothing.”

Yesterday I was at a cross-roads. My gym schedule was disrupted to the point of a reset. I had a choice to make. Was it a legs day, a chest day, arms, or something else? I narrowed it down to legs or back/shoulders. My problem then was that I wasn’t digging any of it. My cardio (dirty boxing and violence) has been going swimmingly. But between that and the lifting of generous quantities of iron, I had kicked my own butt.

So, I skipped the gym entirely, smoked a cigar and went for a walk. Best routine in weeks, that was. I slept better for it.

Lately I’ve been sluggish. I think I’ve even mentioned it here. Weak, irritable and unproductive even beyond my usual laziness. Why?

I spent most of the year getting rid of excess flab – shedding 24 pounds in the process. My intent, once trimmed, was to beef up a little. “Cut” and “bulk” they call it. The bulking is followed as needed by another cutting.

Anyway, I was starting on a half hearted power program. No results yet to speak of. I gained 3 pounds but that could be water or a little fall cushioning (gotta watch that). Where was I…

Yes. A summer I spent cutting and conditioning and suddenly I ramped up the weights, rather carelessly. I’m a small time believer in “no pain, no gain” but I seemed to have reached the point where the pains aren’t so small time. I have a couple of nagging injuries that keep getting aggravated. And it’s aggravating me.

Today I did – or started – what I thought would be a light workout. It was going to be a general upper-body tune up. Three sets of bench-presses and I had a sharp pain. One sharp one in addition to the naggers. For once I actually listened to my body and backed off. Another cigar and another stroll in the woods. I also made use of one of my several compression cast things. It seems to be working.

For the short interim I’m going to monitor the diet, ease off the heavy stuff and recover. Sometimes that’s the best course of action.

And that’s the point of this admittedly rambling post – take it easy:

  • Don’t shift programs until you’re sure you know what you’re doing;
  • Don’t beat yourself into oblivion;
  • When in doubt, take a break;
  • In the scheme of health and weight control, diet is maybe 2% more important than exercise – use that 2% when you need to;
  • Wear an air compression cast thingy in public – the ladies love it..;
  • Eat your greens, get sleep, drink water and just say “no” – all that good stuff;
  • Skip VP debates on TV;
  • Mostly importantly, listen to your body. It will tell you what to do if you listen.

I hope this resonates with at least one of you. I’m always here (physically at least) to help.

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Dr. Perrin says, “Take two breaks, skip the debates, and don’t ever call me again.”

By the way, you can help me too! If you happen to be an extraordinarily attractive woman with stronger hands, questionable morals, and a massage license (or not), I could use your (free) help. The cast thingy needs help… I’d like a free, deep tissue massage…for free… If you fit these exacting requirements and operate anywhere between Columbia, SC and Tampa, FL, please let me know. The world will thank you.

And, thank you, good people, for enduring this one…

Night!

Get With It, Julian

04 Tuesday Oct 2016

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Today was going to be the big day. I suppose it was in a way. Julian Assange stated Wikileaks will release about a million documents concerning rampant U.S. corruption between now and November’s Black Mass election show. Still, I was hoping for concrete information this morning. The waiting game…

But first, I made an error a few days ago. I posted a meme about the possible assassination of Assange:

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This was wrong and I apologize. Based on what we know, about the previous assassination of Assange as proposed by Hillary Clinton, a more accurate meme would be:

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Drones, yes. Sorry about that.

Anyway, the information is coming. It looks to be a multi-faceted expose:

  • Systemic corruption in U.S. electoral process;
  • Spying on America citizens, to include efforts by Google and other companies;
  • Wars, wars, and more wars – for profit;
  • Collusion between three countries (the U.S., the U.K., and guess who) to create terror, war, turmoil, and resulting profits;
  • As part of the collusion, arms dealing with ISIS (specifically by a current presidential candidate); and
  • Destroying nations in order to enrich banksters – the evidence of this concerning Libya has been public for a few years now.

All of this will come out eventually. Some think it will sway the election. I thought so but now I’m not so sure. I’m not sure any of it will really matter to the people. There’s probably going to be reason to indict and arrest certain persons but is that what people want. Is anyone interested in justice any more?

Consider what Wikileaks has told us already. Look at the timeline of Wiki releases over the past 10 years (pages 7 – 8). Look at the U.S. concerned releases this year alone. The fact that Hillary Clinton is running for president and that Americans still want to support their corrupt government at all is evidence that they really don’t care about the truth or justice.

The good news, today, is that Julian did avoid a Predator strike. The rest will wait.

Five Fall Getaways

03 Monday Oct 2016

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Autumn is finally here once again! I’ve been meaning to get to these since last week. The Syrian situation and the Quadrennial Black Mass got in the way. I’ll keep this short – like day trip or weekend short. In fact, I’ll keep it pictorial short.

These are rather East-coast-centric but, then again, so am I.

Helen, Georgia

Georgia’s little alpine mountain village. Avoid the commercialized outlet mess outside the center of the old town.

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Sussman / Pinterest.

The Biltmore / Asheville, N.C.

Thing big. Huge, rather. Try the night lights before Christmas.

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Biltmore.

Saint George Island, F.L.

Life’s a beach, especially when it’s deserted. I’ve found the water just fine on Christmas Day and literally had the while place to myself.

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Destination 360.

Newburyport, Mass.

Better than Gloster or Salem in my book. Lunch at Michael’s then happy time at the Thirsty Whale (while the women folk shop).

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Stone Ridge Properties.

Boone / Blowing Rock, N.C.

Good Gawd! I love this place.

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Sara Kendall.

There you go. Five great places to slow down, chill out, and smoke a good cigar this fall!

You’re welcome.

The Football Verdict Is In

03 Monday Oct 2016

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After years of questioning my allegiance to this increasingly alien cultural spectacle and after six weeks of methodical evaluation I am cutting my fan participation with the NFL and the NCAA.

Among my reasons, I find that organized football has become, among other things:

Anti-American;

Anti-Western;

Anti-Christian;

Anti-free speech (unless it’s subversive speech);

Anti-masculine; and even

Anti-fun.

The slow, boring, ruled-plagued, and ultra-politically correct games do several terrible cultural things. They allow for constant display of debasement even to the openly Satanic. They promote the literally worship of false idols, of the worst sort conceivable. And they promote abject laziness, idiocy and apathy. They have become beyond useless.

A few of you might recall my abandonment of baseball in the summer of 1994. This move is similar though for more profound reasons. However, as with baseball and like a good hypocrite, I reserve the right to occasionally partake in special circumstances (i.e. the Patriots next Superbowl run).

Millions of Americans are rejecting the NFL and with good reason. I’m not asking anyone to join the flight. I’m just saying it is a dead sport fit only for a dead society. I prefer a more viable pastime.

If you agree, then rid yourselves of this toxic sub-culture. I explored hockey as a possible replacement sport. That, I think, is not going to happen. My decision, here, has an added benefit – with the exception of a rare golf tournament I now have no reason whatsoever to look at anything on television. Freedom and peace.

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And this. I no longer wish to associate with this.

I would suggest former fans use their time for personal betterment. Go to the gym. Run. Box. Hunt. Anything so long as it is physical and personal. 70% of Americans have the physical appearance of bloated zombie jellyfish. Watching sports on TV, and water-down sports at that, doesn’t cut it. Rather than watching dim-witted heathens and rapists prance around wearing pink while giving you the finger, do something for yourselves.

Or not. Your call.

The game used to be fun and noble. It is no longer. Goodbye and good riddance.

Turning The Other Cheek And A Blind Eye: Travails Of The Church

03 Monday Oct 2016

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Two months ago I had articles about the rise of the demonic and about the decline of the church when confronted by the demonic. The slide continues.

Today Christopher Manion has a story about the silence of American (and Mexican) Catholic bishops faced with rampant and spreading corruption. Their silence amounts to tacit approval of what are crimes against humanity. Much of this is done (or not done or said) in an attempt to curry political favor from the Empire and the financial procurement which accompanies. They have become modern Pharisees of the first century order.

As Europeans have recently learned to their profound regret, when an immigrant enters a country, he brings his culture with him. That goes for the victims of corruption as well as its perpetrators. When I translate as a volunteer for law enforcement here in the Shenandoah Valley, the uneasy deputy tells me, “get their hands out of their pockets!” I have to explain that they are not reaching for a gun – they’re reaching for bribe money because all of their lives they have had to pay off every man in uniform that they’ve ever had the misfortune to encounter. When they send money to their family back home in Mexico, their family must pay off the police chief, the mayor, and the gang leader in order to survive. That is their culture, whether they are here or there.

Meanwhile, by the time they reach the border coming north, the victims and their victimizers are indistinguishable to the layman’s eye.

Nonetheless, our Catholic bishops want us to welcome them, harbor them, get paid by the federal government to house and to feed them and to give the criminals among them “sanctuary” from our lawful immigration authorities if necessary.

And God forbid that they tell them, “Thou shalt not steal!”

Instead, Catholic bishops and their Mexican counterparts tell the immigrants that they are victims of nativism, xenophobia, bigotry, and other sinful prejudices which, they allege, motivate Americans who oppose granting amnesty to illegal aliens.

While the Sheppards ignore the Gospel, the Traditions, the Canon Law, and even the secular law (what does that leave?), many of the sheep have abdicated. Manion notes that, over the past few decades, 30 million American Catholics have silently slipped away from the Church.

And no-one asks them to return. The decline isn’t even mentioned officially. Rather, the Ecclesiastics and their NGOs merely summon more tax dollars to continue works which will drive away remaining faithful.

Alarmingly, Church Leaders chose their political battles with apparent leftist political determination:

Catholic bishops have indeed been outspoken regarding the objective evil of abortion. However, while they blithely accuse most whites of racism, they are much more reserved when it comes to supporters of “abortion rights.”

In the current political climate, two prominent Catholics, Vice-President Joe Biden, and vice-presidential candidate Tim Kaine, share the radical pro-abortion views of President Barack Obama and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Yet the bishops are remarkably reluctant to offend Biden, Kaine, and Clinton by mentioning their names alongside their forceful condemnation of the murder of children in the womb.

Alas, the facts seem to go the other way. In May, Rev. John Jenkins, C.S.C., President of the University of Notre Dame, conferred on Mr. Biden what was once Notre Dame’s highest honor; and in August Mr. Kaine’s Catholic pastor in Richmond, Virginia, Rev. James Arsenault, called for a standing ovation – during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass – to honor Kaine’s selection by Mrs. Clinton. (Father Arsenault did not respond to a request for comment).

The law of the Church, referred to as “Canon Law,” requires that such public scandal as participation in murder or abortion requires a public response on the part of the Church (viz. Canon 915). Apparently, that law is ignored by Catholic bishops as much as the law of the land, once known as the Constitution, is defiantly flouted by the folks in Washington.

So here’s the bottom line: supporting amnesty for illegal aliens is a prime mandate for Catholics: oppose it and your Bishop might well attack you publicly and personally. But support universal, taxpayer-funded abortion on demand, and you need have no fear: as far as our bishops are concerned, you’re anonymous.

They seem to co-opted the government’s own approach to law: adhere to that which serves the agenda, ignore that which inconveniences. These are profound problems for the West, not merely in America alone.

Protestant denominations have it as bad as Catholic, if not worse. A mainline Canadian church parish is currently led by an avowed atheist minister. This is akin to having a Catholic Priest leading an atheist fellowship or a mental defect running a Mensa meeting. The ridiculousness has finally raised enough eyebrows even within the liberal ranks of the United Church; formal removal proceedings are to commence.

The headline asks: “Can an Atheist Lead a Protestant Church?” The answer is a resounding “no” and the fact that such a predicament arose (and is so questioned) testifies to the depth of the problem.

OTTAWA — The Rev. Gretta Vosper is a dynamic, activist minister with a loyal following at her Protestant congregation in suburban Toronto. She is also an outspoken atheist.

“We don’t talk about God,” Vosper said in an interview, describing services at her West Hill United Church, adding that it’s time the church gave up on “the idolatry of a theistic god.”

Vosper’s decision to reject God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and to turn her church into a haven for nonbelievers “looking for a community that will help them create meaningful lives without God” has become too much even for the liberal-minded United Church of Canada.

The United Church, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, has begun an extraordinary process that could end up stripping Vosper of her rights to continue as a minister.

If they don’t talk about God … in a church … then what, pray tell, do they talk about? Securing more tax money for abortions? For non-Western invasion? Do they talk about the terminating the last Christian resistance to the new global order?

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Satan himself couldn’t run a better “church”. This isn’t Protestant. It’s not Christian. It’s not even Churchian. It is an exercise in social suicide and defeatism. Worse (if more honest) than the cotton-candy theology of many modern failed congregations, this woman “Reverend” offers rat poison. Rather a far fall from the Sacramental Offerings of Christ.

Pat Buchanan once penned back-to-back chapters on the simultaneous collapse of the modern Protestant and Catholic Churches. Given the magnitude of the cataclysm it is difficult to discern whether this failing is a cause or a product of the decline of society. Evidence would seem to point to both.

Alas, such betrayals have happened before. We are eternally assured the Gates of Hell shall never prevail against the Church. Still, history makes very clear our own gates shall be tested again and again.

And, what are we to do in such times? Turn the other cheek? Turn a blind eye? Thrice deny?

Or, stand?