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Total Failure of Government

15 Thursday Nov 2018

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I find it amusing in a way that the US will immediately and without hesitation drop bombs in Syria for absolutely no reason at all. Yet, when it comes to defending our country from actual invasion, absolutely nothing is ever done.

Watch as the newest horde scrambles across the border.

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And, they’re not sending us the very best.

I suppose we really might be out of serviceable A-10’s after all…

Good news! Opposite that last link, we have at least one Christian Pastor left in America still ready to stand up for Christianity. And he’s not backing down.

Compare and contrast that hard stand with what’s happened of late in Ireland. They legalized just about every form of depravity on the Emerald Isle. Now, some feign shock and outrage when rape suspects get off based on “what she was wearing.” One thing leads to another…

There, and here. Welcome the world, become the world.

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Blocks and Words

13 Tuesday Nov 2018

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En route to this post I was thrilled to find … more changes a-comin’:

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Wheeeee. Might be a good thing. Better, at any rate, than the doings around our nation. I’ve been out and about with the people A LOT lately. No real report or judgment here. Just some words.

Fearful

Dumb

Gullible

Weak

Rotund

Make of these words what you will.

Poll: Mere Half of Americans Politically Blind, Illiterate

06 Tuesday Nov 2018

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The horrors! Only half of you have faith in DEMOCRACY!

Just 51% of Americans said they have faith in the country’s democracy, and 37% say they have lost faith in democracy, according to a new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll conducted in late October.

Why it matters: It suggests that recent political turmoil has caused people to doubt the very foundation of American society, particularly leading up to election day.

Democracy is to the foundation of American society what concrete is to a hummingbird’s menu. That’s why “hummingbird” “democracy” appears exactly zero times in the Constitution or other Founding Documents. The Men of 1776 understood that democracy was quite likely to lead to the turmoil witnessed today.

Join the 9%. Sometimes all you need is no faith in something.

John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018), American Hero

03 Saturday Nov 2018

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You may not know his name but he fought for you and your children. On the battlefield of America’s public schools. His only interest was in the promotion of learning. What a concept.

Gatto was the teacher we needed. He will be missed and hard to replace.

Over the course of his career, Gatto was recognized by other educators for the rapport he had built with his students. While other teachers were spending much of their day on behavioral management issues, Gatto’s students were actively engaged in his lectures and genuinely excited about learning. When faculty members would come to him seeking advice, his prescription was simple: treat your students the same way you treat anyone else.

Above all, Gatto understood that his students were not mere underlings, but individuals with unique skills and talents to share with the rest of the world. They didn’t want to be talked down to but longed to be treated with respect and dignity. He recognized that their worth was not determined by the neighborhoods where they lived, their parents’ annual salaries, or the scores they received on standardized tests. He concluded that “genius,” is “as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.”

After three decades in the classroom, Gatto realized that the public school system was squashing individualism more than it was educating students and preparing them for the real world. To make matters worse, his later research would reveal that this dumbing down was not just by accident, but by design.

Upon his realization, he resigned in protest and in order to further the truth and freedom. We, now, must take up the work.

It is Until It Isn’t – TPC Column ‘O the Week

03 Saturday Nov 2018

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Meanwhile, in Judeo-Christian America…

 

“Okay. So a Veep and a Rabbi walk into a firestorm…”

Complete that joke as you like – my head hurts. But a laugh helps a little. That’s what I got out of this brand new story from Yahoo! “News” and I thought I’d share.

Mike Pence, doing what Vice Presidents do, traveled to Michigan to headline a campaign rally for Lena Epstein. Mrs. Epstein is a proud Republican running for Congress. She’s also Jewish. Trump, when not available himself, channels his inner Warren Zevon and sends the envoy – Pence in this case.

I’ve been to rallies like this, once even having forgotten my boots and shovel. It gets deep quick but, as everyone’s typically in the same party, no one seems to mind. Words were said, probably about taxes, jobs, the military, Israel, and making some country between Mexico and Canada great again. Stock stuff.

Then! Then, as is typical with these events, a prayer was offered. Here, matters of political identity and decorum can occasionally raise their heads. Pence is a Christian, Epstein a Jew, and the Michigan voters are probably Lions fans. So, who leads the prayer??? Rabbi? Pastor? Priest? Matthew Stafford?

Pence, likely with Epstein’s approval, settled the matter by offering up one Loren Jacobs, a “Christian Rabbi” from the area. But, “wait!” you say. Christians don’t have Rabbis and Rabbis aren’t Christian. Confusing possibly, but it’s a big country. The “Jews for Jesus” are a sect of Christians – I once knew one – who use Judaic titles and seek to convert Jews.

The hubbub it seems regards Jacob’s purported representation of all local Jews and his words of prayer offered for the victims of this weekend’s mass murder at Tree of Life Synagogue of Pittsburgh, PA. For those poor souls, he prayed in Jesus’s name. One might say that a prayer is a prayer, although one could also sense a sleight in action.

“Messianic ‘Judaism’ is a branch of Christianity and offensive to the Jewish community. Lena Epstein knew this and so did Pence and his team. This wasn’t ecumenical; it was an insulting political stunt,” said “real” Detroit Rabbi Jason Miller. There’s also the hot on the heels of the Synagogue shooting angle. Outrage. Firestorm.

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THE WHOLE ARTICLE AT TPC

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If Only

28 Sunday Oct 2018

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The fake news, as presented by Yahoo!, laments the passing of civil discourse in America. For the record, these folks just parrot the many lies of the other lying liars. As such, they can’t even report the fake news’ fake news without more fake news.

She flipped through television channels and radio stations, scanning from conservative to liberal media, searching for any sign that the polarized nation had finally reached its tipping point.

For days, Elisa Karem Parker had been seeing updates in the news: A pipe bomb sent to liberal political donor George Soros. One delivered to CNN. More to former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other prominent political figures villainized by those on the right — a bizarre plot unfolding just ahead of the midterm election that will decide which party controls Congress.

“It’s like our country is becoming ‘The Hunger Games,'” Parker, who considers herself squarely in the middle of the political divide, told her husband and teenage son over dinner.

“It’s like our country is becoming…” Proper tense, here, is “became.” Maybe if more people had turned off the teevee and paid attention BEFORE we reached the tipping point, something could have been done.

Too little, too late I fear.

About That Coming Election

26 Friday Oct 2018

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It’s pointless. If you vote, then know that no matter how you vote, nothing will change. It. Is. Over.

Here’s a Halloween story to have you screaming like Jamie Lee Curtis. We’ve reached the terminal tipping point. It’s one we’ve been waiting for a while now and finally, it’s here. More Americans now collect “benefits” than pay taxes. Over. Done.

I double checked the numbers and it’s true – 167 million taking, with over 121 million paying. The only question is how this affects voters. One can safely assume that now the majority of those who cast ballots will continue to do so to keep the gravy coming.

So ends the Grand Experiment.

Kind of the subject of today’s TPC bit:

Perrin’s Big Ole Big, Bad, Lean, Mean, Patriotic, Red, White, and Blue Election 2018 ‘Voting’ Recommendations Extravaganza and Illustrated Picture Show!!!

Read that and then get busy making better use of your time.

Follow-Up on the Falling-Down

09 Tuesday Oct 2018

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Two things:

First, a while back I mentioned a journalist in Malta, murdered by corrupt elements in the government (one of them). She was back in the news following yet another politically-motivated hit job.

A popular Bulgarian journalist who had reported on an investigation into alleged corruption involving European Union funds was raped and beaten to death, authorities said.

The semi-nude body of 30-year-old Victoria Marinova was found in a park in the Danube town of Ruse on Saturday. She’d been beaten with such force that she was unrecognizable, according to the Federation of European Journalists.

Marinova is the fourth high-profile journalist to be killed in Europe since the beginning of 2017. Her death follows the alleged slaying of a Washington Post journalist in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Second, recently I mentioned Robert Redford and the end of an era, an American era. Now, Redford says he doesn’t recognize his own country. Our reasons, I suspect, differ, but we can agree on that. Actually, there’s probably little in common except for acknowledging the era passing.

And, so it did. Terrible shame out of the EU (and upon it).

Two-Thirds of Americans May Not Actually Be So

08 Monday Oct 2018

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Based on a study of “citizen” results on the citizenship test: only a third pass.

Just a third of Americans can pass a multiple choice “U.S. Citizenship Test,” fumbling over such simple questions as the cause of the Cold War or naming just one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for.

And of Americans 45 and younger, the passing rate is a tiny 19 percent, according to a survey done for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Worse: The actual test only requires that 60 percent of the answers be correct. In the survey, just 36 percent passed.

Magic dirt, LOL.

Telling, with the poorer than the already horrendous norm scores from the young people, given the late demographic shift. And, as to the norm, given a Constitutional Posterity definition of “citizens, the third statistic may actually be about right.

For reasons all my own, I have devised a beta-version test of what I call “basic” American civic knowledge. It needs work; initial norming indicates that most US law school professors could not pass it. We’ll see how the Posterity performs sooner or later.

2033, anyone?

Paging Saint Michael and Saint George

02 Tuesday Oct 2018

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Needed badly.

I’ve been aggregating material together on two different topics. Not sure where any of it will go, if goes they does…

Anyway, the following article/video is part of one would be subject-thread. It’s about Priest abuse. Not the garden variety that garners decades of coverup and celebrity excuses. This one involves a Priest being run into hiding by death and torture threats – all for actually doing his job.

Please CLICK HERE and Watch

The whole thing is sickening. Pay attention around 2:23 in, where Fr. Kalchik says his experience is, “par for many in the near future.” Listen to that again. Please share this story.

Many now speak of an inquisition against the dark forces of modernity in the Church. Yet, as this experience demonstrates, the first salvo may come against the Faithful.

The time has come to turn the tables.

UPDATE: On the other (limp-wristed) hand, we could listen to cucks like THIS GUY and just roll over. That seems to have worked well in Detroit and Zimbabwe. Proof some Irish Catholics still haven’t assimilated 150 – 200 years in.