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I keep an eye on where my essays are reposted and “syndicated” on the interwebs. I have always received a lot of positive feedback from atheists and agnostics (more on that this weekend), but I am seeing a marked uptick in the number of rough-and-ready men reposting my stuff, and making the explicit connection between the personal morality and integrity of this (or any) population and the viability of that population’s government and civilization. I see more and more guys realizing that at the end of the day, if there isn’t a deep-seated intrinsic morality and a fear of getting crossways with what many of them refer to as “the Natural Law”, then there is no amount of government (either too much or too little) or any economic theory (either interventionist or laissez-faire) that can keep that society from its own inevitable death spiral.

Building on that idea, I want to explain why exactly it is that the Marxist-homosexualist infiltrators of the Church have had as one of their top-tier objectives the emasculation and castration of Jesus Christ – specifically the minimizing and outright denial of Christ’s nature as the Judge of mankind.

Starting with the easiest target first, Superfun Rockband church™. To call a group of people who worship themselves and their capacity for self-reverential “entertainment” “Christian” is becoming increasingly difficult when the objective evidence points to these suburban blights as being neo-paganism in every regard. Where is the altar? There isn’t one. Where is there a Cross? There are no crosses. When is any reference made to Christ’s sacrifice in propitiation and perfect atonement for the sins of the world, including the sins of the latte-sipping dolts sitting in their reclining, triple-cushioned theater-style seats? Where are there any references to personal sin? Where are there any references to objective Truth? There are none – there is only “your truth and my truth”, “How I FEEEEL”, and then BRING ON THE ROCK BAND!

The notion of Christ as the Fearsome Judge of Man is as foreign to these people as the concepts of reverence, solemnity and humility before God. The Enemy notched Superfun Rockband church™ on his “victory” column years and years ago. Satan’s only objective now is to get Superfun Rockband church™ to grow and suck in as many poor sinners as possible – but the paradigmatic damage is already fully accomplished.

Next up is the infiltrated, and likely soon-to-schism Catholic Church. Soon-to-schism? Yep. Very much like the Anglican schism under Henry VIII in England 500 years ago, it appears likely that the Catholic Church in the United States will schism from the See of Peter in Rome and will become a client of the regime in Washington, complete with “gay marriage”, female priests, ratified contraception and abortion and every other form of evil imaginable celebrated under the banner of “tolerance” and “inclusiveness”. The Roman Catholic Church remaining in the U.S. will then be forced underground by means of property confiscation, civil rights litigation, and finally criminal litigation. Before this is over, Roman Catholics (as opposed to the new “American catholics”) will be openly killed ON THIS CONTINENT. There’s a name for that. It’s called GENOCIDE, and it is coming. Mark my words.

The Marxist-homosexualist infiltration of the Church has already set the stage for this schism, and the brain-dead Catholics are primed for it. Priests have all but abandoned the Sacrament of Confession, or Penance. In the last two months alone, I have had to personally correct TWO priests, one in person and one in writing, who expressly denied that the Sacrament of Confession was in any way necessary and thus could be totally dismissed. The scary part is that both of these priests would be considered “conservative” in the spectrum of the post-Vatican II Novus Ordo (Mass in English facing the people) wing of the Church. The point of this is, like Superfun Rockband church™, everything is being done to convince people that the only sin is “intolerance” and that Jesus is an effete, passive mascot who only wants to “slobber us with kisses.” You know, kind of like your pet dog who you had neutered last year. That’s how these demons want you to regard the Sovereign King of the Universe, Our Creator, Our Savior and Our Judge – as a stupid, ball-less dog who will “slobber you with kisses” if you just deign to pat Him on the head every now and then.

Now for the punchline in all of this. Why does this matter? Why are Marxsits and homosexualists so massively invested in obscuring and denying the role of Christ as the Fearsome Judge of Mankind?

Because the Marxists and homosexualists want you to fear NOT GOD, but fear ONLY THE STATE.

A man who fears God CANNOT BE COERCED BY THE STATE.

Thus, Fear of the Lord has GOT TO GO.

Let’s get pragmatic, folks. You know that this government is no longer in any way legitimate. You know that Obama is himself illegitimate and that the Constitution has been completely overthrown and discarded. You know that the regime in Washington is evil and is now MANDATING that you participate in, cooperate with, and SUBSIDIZE pure abject evil, not the least of which is the slaughter of unwanted children. You know this. And yet, I am probably the only person you know that has publically declared a tax strike. Why? Well, for you bloggers, look at your comment threads whenever you post anything I write. “That chick is nuts. The IRS is going to put her in prison, or the DHS is going to pay her a “visit” one of these days, and they’ll find her dead in her bathtub. I don’t think she knows what she is getting herself into.”

The fact of the matter is that I possess the far superior clarity of thought. Why? Because I FEAR GOD.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is prudence. Proverbs 9:10

I fear His Judgement. I fear the moment of having to look into His eyes as He hangs skinned and crucified before me, because of me, and experience the full force of the pain that I have caused Him by my BETRAYAL of Him. It just so happens that now, in this time, submission to the evil state, borne from a greater fear of the state than of God, is a BETRAYAL OF CHRIST.

If Christ has been reduced to a slobbering, castrated pet dog, and not the Just Judge of Sinners, then the ONLY thing that people will fear will be the state. There won’t even be a tension in the minds of the people. People will do anything that the state tells them to do not only because they fear the wrath of the IRS or other government arm, but also because they have been convinced that they can betray God without limit, and like a stupid, abused dog, Jesus will “slobber them with kisses” while they make the CONSCIOUS, CONSIDERED DECISION to beat the shit out of Him and nail Him to the Cross at the explicit command of the state. They will do this because they fear exclusively the wrath of the state and not the Pierced, Burning, Sacred Heart of Jesus. Ask any Christian you know today if they are willing to declare and enjoin a tax strike against the government, and you will see that the state is feared completely, and that Fear of the Lord has been utterly purged from the ranks of the Church Militant.

An army that completely fears its enemy, and has no fear or respect for its own supreme commander or his orders will be defeated. Swiftly.

The only thing that the people of the United States, from the "devout" Christian (including the vast, vast majority of priests and bishops) to the neo-pagan Superfun Rockband church™ denizen to the atheist, fear is the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security. If the state says, “pay for abortions, or else”, the people will do it, and to hell with the stupid, slobbering, impotent Jesus. If the state says, “Sodomy is normal and good, and you will celebrate it, or else”, the people will do it and to hell with the stupid, slobbering, impotent Jesus. I can beat the shit out of Jesus, and He will never do anything but "slobber me with kisses." I don’t even have to say “sorry.” Father said so in his homily last Sunday. He even put it in the bulletin.

Unless and until this highly disordered condition is corrected and Fear of the Lord reclaims supremacy in the hearts of men, there is NO HOPE for this nation. None.

† Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

I'm not much for people declaring their "gut feelings" and "women's intuition" and stuff like that, but I will now say that I have the very, very strong feeling that we are on the final countdown to the shit well and truly hitting the fan. Europe is imploding and is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Nigel Farage delivered an address on the floor of the EU today in which he predicted full-on hot war in Europe and the re-ascendency of totalitarian National Socialism very soon. He said that events are unfolding almost exactly like they did in 1932 with the collapse of the center, and thus the rise of the hard right and hard left, which are THE SAME THING, namely totalitarianism. The hard left is all about totalitarian oligarchy and total, lawless control by means of brute force. The hard right is the anarchist model with zero lawful government with power coming once again from brute force. Either way, you end up with exactly the same thing: a small cadre of oligarchs imposing their will and playing "god" on everyone else with millions and millions of dead bodies left in their wake and ZERO RULE OF LAW. Every evil path leads to the same place: hell, and the Father of Lies is the father of ALL lies, both the lies of the hard left and the hard right. Satan has humanity flanked. He always has.

Today, something happened in the "political" sphere that is truly unprecedented, although I hesitate to call it "political", because it is obvious to anyone who is not in a Level One coma that we are way, way beyond the mere domain of "politics" at this point.

Barack Obama, who is the face and frontman for the government now controlling the territory and assets formerly called the United States of America, said and did something that has never, ever been done. He did something so evil that it literally has no precedent, and in itself guarantees that God's wrath will be poured out on this nation and its people, and that wrath will probably be more intense than anything yet experienced by man. Yes, I fully appreciate the enormity of what I just said. Let me say it again: God's wrath will be poured out on this nation and its people, and that wrath will probably be more intense than anything yet experienced by man. The Noahic flood brought relatively swift death to the people killed in it. I anticipate that people will be begging for death before God's wrath is fully poured out and His Justice satisfied on the former United States of America.

What did Obama say?

Barack Obama directly correlated the Perfect Sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross to sodomy.

“This is something that, you know, [Michelle and I have] talked about over the years and she, you know, she feels the same way, she feels the same way that I do. And that is that, in the end the values that I care most deeply about and she cares most deeply about is how we treat other people and, you know, I, you know, we are both practicing Christians and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it’s also the Golden Rule, you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated…”

So, according to the antichrist Obama and his antichrist "wife", the perfect, infinite act of charity, namely God freely choosing to give Himself totally and without reserve on the Cross for humanity in order to make reparation for the sins of the world, is an ANALOGUE to one man jamming his erect penis up into the feces-laden descending colon of another man, and using that as a point of friction for masturbation. Both actions, according to the antichrist Obama, are manifestations of "love", and thus Christ Crucified points, through the prism of the Golden Rule, to the "do unto others" of sodomy in all its forms, including anal sex, oral sex, masturbation in all its forms and every perversion known to man. Thus, the act of sodomy, because, according to Obama, it is a subset of the perfect Charity of Christ Crucified, MUST be celebrated by calling it "marriage".

There ARE NOT WORDS to express the enormity of the blasphemy in this. There are four sins that cry out to God for vengeance. Yes, God's vengeance - that thing that all of these superfun rockband and Marxist-homosexualist clergy are trying so desperately to convince you does not exist - GOD'S VENGEANCE. In reverse order, here they are:

4. Depriving the laborer of his just wage. (This is the core objective of Marxism - human slavery.)

3. Injustice to widows and orphans. (Death panels, ponzi scheme government healthcare and retirement entitlements, and abortion, which is the slaughter of children not wanted by their parents, also known as "orphans", just to name a few manifestations.)

2. Murder.

and finally, in the number one position, the number one sin of mankind that CRIES OUT TO GOD FOR VENGENACE:

1. Sodomy.

Barack Obama just completed the quadfecta and used the Sacrifice on Calvary of Our Blessed Lord to promote, ratify and celebrate sodomy.

Folks, God will not be mocked. I don't know much, but I do know with every fiber of my being that this WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. This nation will pay for this blasphemy and sacrilege, the likes of which I don't think has ever happened before in human history. Hitler never said anything like this. Neither did Lenin, Stalin, Mao or any other despot for the last 2000 years. Even in pagan cultures where sodomy may have been promoted, never did the leader of pagan hordes specifically use the Holy and Perfect Sacrifice of Calvary to promote sodomy.

And you know the saddest part? Hardly anyone in this culture is going to do anything more than shrug their shoulders and shake their head at this. The offense that has been given to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is unfathomable by human minds, and yet I doubt EVEN ONE PRIEST will mention this on Sunday in his sermon, because, you know, the IRS might take away the 501(c) exemption, or something. Not only should every priest on earth be bringing the hellfire and brimstone on Sunday in his sermon, but every bishop and every priest should immediately start offering DAILY masses specially for reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for this blasphemy, and admonishing every God-fearing person to get their butts to Mass and pray for mercy like they have never prayed before.

Finally, I just want to point out that the antichrist Obama's motives in this were 100% demonic. Think about it. There was a referendum in North Carolina on same-sex marriage yesterday and it came out overwhelmingly AGAINST same-sex marriage. The left is already in Obama's pocket. He's not picking up any "votes" by doing this now. In fact, North Carolina proves that independents are firmly AGAINST same-sex marriage, so he's pissing off independents too. No, he said these things because he is, in his heart and in his soul, pure, sulfuric evil from the deepest pit of hell. Remember, to call this a "political mis-step" means that you are naively assuming that there are going to be fairly contested elections in November. People, I'm telling you, the last free elections in this country are BEHIND US. Obama is perfectly willing and happy to piss off the majority of the country because he knows that "elections" will be pure theatrical fiction, if they are held at all.

I suspect we are very close to the end of our lives and our civilization as we have known them, and deservedly so. This simply CAN NOT go on. Prepare yourselves and your families, both physically and spiritually.

Kyrie Eleison.
Christe Eleison.
Kyrie Eleison.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

1. I'd like to offer up a public apology to every so-called "crazy" person who talks to themselves, thin air, invertebrate animals, or blank walls. My friends, you, orators to the abyss, are the sane ones. Talking to people is what is insane. To wit, my email box of the last two days, flooded with "My brokerage firm clears through PNSN, but you weren't talking about me, right? I'm safe as a kitten, right? Nothing bad could ever, ever possibly happen to me, right?"

[Insert profanity-laden wise-acre response of your choosing here.]

You know why this civilization is done? Because people are so narcissistic, deluded and dim that they absolutely cannot process that anything bad could ever happen to them. That is why the Obama regime, an oligarchy of a few thousand people at the very most, is going to steamroll over this entire, godforsaken country. And the people will SIT AND WATCH, completely unable to engage reality in any adult manner.

2. In a similar vein, and in the spirit of beating dead horses into pink slime (eslima rosa especial, en espanol) let's talk about "stock certificates". Many people swear they are "safe" and have nothing to worry about because some broker told them to get paper stock certificates, or something similar. Okay, we're still not comprehending this on any level, are we? What is a stock certificate? It is a legal instrument, is it not? It is a piece of paper that says that you have the legal claim to x number of shares in a corporation, which is itself also a purely legal entity, yes? Corporations do not physically exist. You can not touch a corporation. You can touch a person who is a part of a corporation by means of a legal engagement, and you can touch the physical assets of a corporation, which belong to the corporation only within a legal matrix, but the corporation itself is an IDEA, not a tangible thing.

Note the qualifier that is omnipresent in the previous paragraph: "LEGAL". What is required in order for legal entities or instruments to have any existential actualization or meaning?

The correct question is: What is THE RULE OF LAW, Alex?

So when I am screaming, waving my arms, going all "crazy eyes" and telling people that there is no RULE OF LAW, do you understand why I'm just a tad impassioned?

Your stock certificates are worthless if there is no Rule of Law. Let's say the poop hits the fan. You have a bunch of stock certificates. Great. How are you going to turn those certificates into food or water? There won't be a functioning stock exchange. Dollars will probably be worthless, and banks will cease to exist. There will be no electronic movement of money. Given that, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO CASH THOSE CERTIFICATES IN WHEN YOU ARE STARVING TO DEATH? Furthermore, the corporation you think you own shares in will NO LONGER EXIST because there will be no lawful matrix which recognizes the existence of corporations. The people who ran the corporation will either be dead or in exactly the same desperate situation that you are in, namely scavenging for food. The assets of the corporation will likely be looted or taken over by the regime.

This all gets back to the historical illiteracy of this culture, thanks largely to the Marxist infiltration of the education system. You people honestly have NO FATHOM what happened in Nazi Germany, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union, do you? When Marxist oligarchs are your "government" there is NO RULE OF LAW. It doesn't MATTER what you, or the old just legal system say you own. When jackbooted thugs come to take you away, there is no "law" to turn to, because the jackbooted thugs ARE "the law", meaning that there is no law at all except brute force and the willingness to use it. When the Soviets came to round up the Ukrainian farmers in 1933, why didn't the Ukrainians just call the police? Why didn't they produce the deeds to their homes and order the Soviets off their property? Why didn't they SUE for violating their civil rights? And the same with the Jews in Poland? And the same with the Chinese peasants under Mao?

Oh, that's right. BECAUSE THERE WAS NO RECOURSE WHATSOEVER. THERE WAS NO MORE RULE OF LAW. THERE WAS NOTHING AND NO ONE IN THIS WORLD TO TURN TO. Just ask the MF Global rape victims. There is NO RECOURSE for those people under the law, because the government and the judiciary are 100% complicit participants in the fraud, theft and rape. The only recourse those people would have is literally to war against the perpetrators, which the victims are unwilling to engage in, because they are unorganized, outnumbered, despairing and fearful. They know it would be a suicide mission, and they are not willing to commit suicide. The oligarchs are watching this, have seen the reaction, and now know that they have this entire culture exactly where they want it. They have three of the four criterion outlined above: the people are unorganized, despairing and fearful. Those three factors in combination are more than enough to overcome the "numbers". We literally outnumber these oligarchs hundreds of thousands to one, but they have the power, because they are organized, confident and unafraid. And so, the Rule of Law is now dead. Divest of ANY paper asset while you can, because ALL paper assets are wholly contingent on the Rule of Law.

So stop talking to me about all of your "stock certificates." Before this is all over, people will be rolling cigarettes with stock certificates, or shredding them and using them as fire starter.

GROW UP.
WISE UP.
WAKE UP.

3. Once again, just making sure everyone understands the sickening farce that is the "unemployment figure." I said last year that the reported "unemployment number" would be UNDER EIGHT PERCENT no matter what in Q4 2012. Sure enough, it appears that I will be proven exactly right. Is this because unemployment is going down? HELLZ NO! Real unemployment is climbing consistently, and is probably north of 20%.

The entire Obama regime propaganda on unemployment is driven by the fact that they keep REDUCING THE SIZE OF THE WORKFORCE. People can only collect unemployment benefits for 99 weeks. As soon as a person goes beyond 99 weeks, the Obama regime declares that person as NO LONGER IN THE WORKFORCE. There are people who have been unemployed for over two years who would work if they could find anything, but the rat bastards in the Obama regime and their propaganda arm, the media, just evaporate these people from existence, and they additionally reduce the size of the labor force arbitrarily, just so they can hit whatever predetermined number Valerie Jarret, David Axelrod, Timmy Geithner and Ben Bernanke decide it is going to be. This is what they are doing on every single unemployment report. It is all as fake as a Thai Rolex. Eventually, the Obama regime will go full-Marxist stupid, drop the labor force to 52 million and declare that Great Leader Obama has delivered a FULL EMPLOYMENT ECONOMY. And anyone who dares disagree will be shot in the back of the head with one of those 450 million rounds of .40 cal that the Obama regime just ordered.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

If you are foolish enough to still be in the markets and you are doing business with anyone who clears through Penson Worldwide, you need to get out of there.

The stock symbol is PNSN. Just google that and look at the chart. $31.50 high, now trading at $0.49, making new lows daily.

In case you didn't know, I was clearing through Penson when I closed my firm last November. I was blessed in that all of my back office stuff was handled by a lovely little boutique office in Wisconsin that handled IBs like me, that had just been acquired by Penson before I came on board. I never spoke to Chicago or New York, just a merry band of Wisconsinites who were always wonderful to work with. I was truly blessed in that. (The cattle and feeder futures paper that I did in the pit, as opposed to the electronic, which was less and less over the years as the electronic markets grew and grew, was actually all done as give-ups by the FC Stone meat desk. Shout out to Larry and the Stooges, who still call to chat every so often, and have a photo of me with my pink AR-15 hanging in their desk. Good people.) But, the Penson ship is going down, it appears.

They were in trouble last year when MF Global happened and were looking to dump their European divisions, and they did bounce a bit after MF Global when they unloaded their Aussie holdings, but it looks like it is all but over for them. The stock is cratering, and there is chatter on the net that they are taking forever to get cash withdrawls out, posted and cleared. That's a very bad sign. MF global was the same way in the weeks before the end.

The extreme danger is that the CME is going to do with Penson what they did with MF Global and NOT backstop and keep customers liquid when the end comes. MF Global proved that the CME is no longer going to fulfill its fiduciary duty and will screw clients twelve ways from Sunday without hesitation. DO NOT get caught up in that crap. Just get out of the whole, stinking, festering, putrefied mess. Get out of the markets ENTIRELY.

Here is a six month chart on PNSN, which is basically the timeframe since MF Global. Once it broke back under $1.00 in March, it has been Katy-bar-the-door. Strong support at zero. Ugh.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Oh, how fortuitous. After our discussions about how Marxist-homosexualists have attempted to drain all of the masculinity out of the Church, and also out of Christ Himself, today I find the most wonderful thing via Fr. Z. at Fr. Ray Blake's blog.

The context of Fr. Blake's original piece is about heresy in the Church, but it applies not only to full-blown heretics, but really everyone, because every sin is, in a sense, a heresy.

Fr. Blake's piece here.

Long story short: When a shepherd would go out and search for a lost sheep that had wandered off, when he found the lost lamb, he would BREAK OR DISLOCATE ITS LEG, and then carry it back to the flock on his shoulders. This husbandry technique is called "hobbling." We have all seen that image. Yeah. He wasn't carrying it because it was fun. He was carrying the lamb because he had intentionally crippled it.

Why? Why break the animal's leg? First, to keep it from wandering off again. Second, in order to train it to stay with the flock. While the leg was mending, the lamb would NOT wander off and learned to stay with the fold. This was done not just to protect the straying lamb, but also to protect the rest of the flock. Sheep are very gregarious. If one is heady and heads off on some tangent, the rest of the flock might go after it instead of staying with the shepherd.

You know, KINDA LIKE PEOPLE.

In terms of the actual breaking of the leg, you might be thinking that a broken leg would kill an animal or be massively cruel. You would be wrong. The folks who taught me the cattle business used to herd and drive wild animals like elk and reindeer up on the tundras of Canada. One time they came across a large herd of elk and one of the animals had a totally fractured hind leg. The bone was totally severed and the leg was flopping completely free as the animal ran with the herd on three legs. When they came back to that herd a few weeks later, they spotted the animal, and its leg was almost fully healed. It had a slight deformity, but it was running on the broken leg. The point is that animals have a massive pain tolerance such that their perception of pain is fundamentally different than that of human pain. Additionally, they have a capacity for physical healing that humans likewise do not have. A untreated compound fracture in a human leg would kill the human. But animals are different, so the shepherding technique of breaking or dislocating the leg of a straying lamb would have been standard operating procedure.

I looked this up, and sure enough, up until just within the last century, people understood the symbolism of the Good Shepherd fairly widely, as many people were still involved in animal agriculture on roughly the same technological level as that of 2000 years ago. The Church, and thus the people understood that if God gently guides you back to the fold, but you keep persistently wandering off and being disobedient to God's perfect will, endangering not only yourself but the rest of the flock as well, JESUS WILL PROVERBIALLY BREAK YOUR LEG, hoist you on His shoulders and haul you back to the flock. The alternative would be to let you get eaten by the wolves, and entice the wolves to attack the rest of the flock.

When Jesus says, "I am the Good Shepherd," He MEANS IT. CRACK!

Finally, this also illuminates the prophecy in Numbers 9:12 that the Passover Lamb shall not have any of its bones broken:

They shall not leave any thing thereof until morning, a nor break a bone thereof, they shall observe all the ceremonies of the phase. --Numbers 9:12

This was specifically emphasized by John in his Gospel:

For these things were done, that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of Him. --John 19:36

Jesus is the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei), slain for the sins of the world (Qui tollis peccata mundi). He was slain without any of His bones being broken because He is the prefect Lamb, in perfect union with the Will of the Father, Who never, ever strayed, and thus His bones, in particular His legs, were not broken. If you remember the narrative from Calvary, when Jesus had died on the Cross, the Romans, spurred by an earthquake and the desire to get the three crucified Jews off of Golgotha before the beginning of the Passover (also prophesied in Numbers 9:12 - "They shall not leave any thing thereof until morning"), were ordered to break the legs of the three men in order to hasten death. If their legs were broken, they couldn't hold themselves up on their crosses to breathe, and would thus asphyxiate in a matter of minutes. The two thieves had their legs broken with a cudgel by the Romans. When the Roman came to Christ, he saw that Our Lord was already dead. In order to make sure that Jesus was dead, the Roman, Longinus, took a spear and stabbed Jesus in His side, through to His Heart. This pierced the pericardial sac of water that had formed around His Heart as He went into shock and asphyxiated. Out of Jesus' side poured first water (Baptism) followed by Blood (The Eucharist). So, while the good thief and the bad thief both had their legs broken, Jesus' legs were NOT broken at the last second because He is the perfectly submissive Lamb to the Will of the Father.

Again, this symbolism would have been obvious to previous generations. It is only today that it has been lost. Beware of any clergy today who try to paint Jesus as utterly benign, effette and passive. He is anything but. Jesus will BREAK OUR LEG if that is what is required to get us safely to heaven and save us from the wolves. Priests and bishops would do very, very well to heed this example. The fact that there have been no excommunications in the wake of the pro-abort culture in government, especially now among such "c"atholics as Kathleen Sebilius, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Joe Biden and every member of the Kennedy clan is a testimony to the utterly piss-poor job of shepherding that today's episcopacy is doing. UTTERLY. PISS. POOR.

For the love of God, and in the name of Christ the Good Shepherd, BREAK SOME LEGS! CRACK!

(Isn't this image incredibly moving now that we know the full story and context?)

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Here is a sample of a “convert” letter. I like this one especially because the person in question credits me AND Michael Voris and the RealCatholicTV.com crew. I’m flattered to be included in such lofty company. Voris and I together would cause certain bishops in North America to turn red, then green, and then lay down on the ground and throw a screaming, sputtering hissyfit. Heh. That might be cool. Roll tape on that, Chuckie. I’ll set up the tripod.

Ann,
You are one of the many persons that I owe a debt of gratitude to for my conversion to the one true faith. One year ago you posted a Michael Voris Vortex episode where he so eloquently spoke of Truth. That brief rendition resonated with my soul to such a depth, that I become a premium subscriber to RealCatholicTV.com and soon found myself immersed in the pursuit Truth.
Long story short, I was raised Nazarene and pursued the path of “preacher boy” by obtaining a BA in religion from Mid-America Nazarene College, (now “university”) and an M. Div. from Nazarene Theological Seminary and then pastored for 2 years. The journey then led back to the laity, eventually migrating from the Nazarenes to a local Congregational church with a Nazarene pastor. I then became the pastor of that church upon the retirement of the Nazarene pastor. One of the first actions was to sever relationship with the rank left wing liberal United Church of Christ to become a strictly independent congregation, with absolutely no repercussions.
For about 15 years I held forth, trying to be faithful and hopeful in the face of slowly dying (literally) and diminishing fellowship. During the last year as I read 20+ books, including the Catechism of the Catholic Church, started attending Mass on a regular basis, as well as enrolling in RCIA and participating in a Catholic brother Bible study, it became glaringly obvious to me that I was destined to become a Catholic. Once that revelation was accepted, all the pieces continued to fall into place and at Easter Vigil I became a member of the One True Holy Catholic Apostolic Church, the true Body and Bride of Christ.

That’s what I’m talking about. If you want to get some excellent information on Catholicism, RealCatholicTV.com is the best resource out there today. The content is in video form, and man, do they have a HUGE library built over there, with more coming all the time. Heck, RCIA programs would do well to just set up an internet feed and show the previous week’s five episodes of the Vortex and call it good. If you want to get into their huge library, the cost is a whopping $10 per month. They have some excellent documentaries and in-depth interviews.

I know there are a bunch of financial people who read me, and I know you guys will be interested in RCTV’s expose on the Rockefeller family, and how much damage they have done to Western Civilization. It is very well-done, relying largely on quotes from the Rockefellers themselves. This episode of their C.I.A. series (Catholic Investigative Agency) is actually in their free library.

As always, I’ll remind one and all that at the end of the day we are ALL responsible for the death of our nation and culture. WE are the ones who sat by and watched as people like the Rockefellers debased the culture. WE let them do it, because we were too lazy and too scared to speak up and say, “NO!” It is instructive to see who the instigators were, but never, ever fall into the trap that says that it is ALL the fault of these wannabe oligarchs. There are 310 million of us, and only a few thousand of these oligarchs, tops. The fact is that they absolutely needed the cooperation of the masses, be it active or passive, in order to accomplish what they wanted, and the same goes for the oligarchs today. If you want to see who killed this country, and continues to sit passively and watch the destruction unfold, go look in the mirror. I'll be doing exactly the same thing. Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

I get several emails per week, on average, from people telling me that I am either directly or partially responsible for their conversion or reversion to Catholicism. These emails are at once edifying and terrifying. Every one of those emails that I receive results in a prayer offered up that whatever parish the person or people end up in has a non-Marxist, non-homosexualist priest who actually believes in what the Church teaches and believes. One has to rely on prayer in this, because to rely on the odds is too terrible to think about.

The Church is probably at the lowest point it has ever been in because Communists set about infiltrating the Church in the early 20th century, and knew that the fastest, easiest way to destroy the Church was to destroy the priesthood and ranks of nuns. Destroy the shepherds and the flock will scatter. The methodology and tactics were simple: specifically recruit homosexuals into the priesthood and ranks of women religious. This was accomplished beginning in the late 1950’s, with massive inertia gained in the 1960’s and forward, coincident with the Communist-driven “sexual revolution.” The effects and damage have been massive and undeniable. Within a span of 25 years, the image of the Catholic priest went from Bing Crosby as Father O’Malley and Spencer Tracy as Father Flanagan to the blanket assumption that every Catholic priest was a homosexual. In the 1980’s, it is safe to say that fully half, if not more, of the seminarians ordained to the priesthood were in fact active homosexuals. Seminaries turned into de facto bath houses. For more on this outrage, I recommend the book “Goodbye, Good Men” by Michael S. Rose.

As a child, I was exposed to many “ex-nuns” who had “courageously” left the Sisters of Charity who were headquartered in the area, and lived as lesbians. These were the kind of women of whom my childish eyes could not immediately discern their gender, and the lesbian angle went over my head completely due to the innocence of youth. They were just strange, ugly, repulsive and somewhat frightening women to me. There is no better intuition than the intuition of a child.

Oh, but we aren’t allowed to talk about things like that. We aren’t allowed to acknowledge the fact that women who go out of their way to look and act like men, aka “butch”, are in any way unattractive or even repulsive. We have been taught to suppress our attraction to beauty, and to embrace things that are intrinsically disordered, ugly and fundamentally repellant. Remember the 45 goals of Communism that I posted a while back? Let’s look at numbers 23 and 26:

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy."

These two goals are tied together. The promotion of ugliness was not merely limited to the art galleries and new construction architecture. It also applied to the art of the human body, in the forms of clothing and hairstyles, specifically in the pushing of androgyny – making women look like men and men look like women. Now it is beyond mere looks. According to Marxists, women must now ACT like men, and men must ACT like women. Nowhere is this perversion more pronounced than among the priests and nuns in the Church today. As a result, the pews are empty, and those that are in the pews are grossly, grossly ignorant of the faith. What man would want to go to Mass if the priest is a flaming, effete homosexual? Who wants to go to Mass and CRINGE at the priest’s comportment, behavior and affectations? Who wants to be around nuns who wear their hair in six dollar crewcuts, wear men’s clothes, carry themselves like men, and are saturated with utter contempt for not just men, but the Church itself? How is any of that ATTRACTIVE or EDIFYING? It isn’t. It is viscerally repellant. And that is exactly why the Communists recruited homosexuals into the clergy.

The priests, whether they are homosexual or merely influenced by the Marxist-homosexualist milieu, are actively doing everything they can to drain every last bit of masculinity out of the Church. Behind them is a truly pathetic wall of lesbian nuns who hate both authentic masculinity and authentic femininity with every fiber of their beings. Considering that there are only two genders, and that these lesbian nuns hate both of them, this means that these nuns, deep down, hate humanity itself, as well as the Creator of humanity, hence their pro-abortion and Marxist totalitarian radicalism. They view themselves as a superior “third gender” destined to take over the Church, and eventually society itself, because no man who acts like a man, and no woman who acts like a woman, is capable or worthy of self-determination in their warped view. And no God Who contains in Himself both authentic masculinity and authentic femininity, or Who created humanity in that image, is worthy of worship. No, say these foul nuns. All shall love THEM, in all of their perverted hideousness, and despair.

These lesbian nuns have, for decades, held the keys to the seminaries. It is lesbian nuns who have populated the vocations boards, and who have targeted and recruited homosexual men into seminaries. So long as the men in question indicated themselves “open to the idea” of female ordination to the priesthood (which is impossible and will never, ever happen), and so long as these men showed no signs of any interest in genuine Catholicism, they were in without hesitation. Any man who projected genuine masculinity and orthodoxy was rejected. A few straight, orthodox men were able to slip by, hoping to merely “tough it out” to ordination. Sadly, thousands of good men were driven out of seminaries by the threat of homosexual assault by their classmates and even faculty. The thinly veiled threat was, “Are you gay? No? Well, you WILL BE.” Imagine, after hearing that, having to go to sleep every night to the sounds of a gay bathhouse all around you. It would require near-superhuman strength to withstand that. And so it has been for decades now.

Here is the point at which a person’s faith is tested by fire. Most Christians today do not worship God. They do not worship Christ – Christ is merely a mascot, if that. No, most Christians today worship THEMSELVES and THE GROUP. People go to superfun rockband church because they like the entertainment and the social experience. Many men only go to church because they are nagged by their wives into it. So, most people today absolutely cannot comprehend why an infiltrated clergy is NOT a reason to leave the Church. To them, the Church is the people and what the people do, and how much PERSONAL PLEASURE is derived from the people and what they do. It has little to do with God, and NOTHING to do with what GOD WANTS.

Since the “church experience” has been turned into a purely narcissistic activity, as soon as people become dissatisfied they leave, because their “church” and object of worship is really themselves. Therefore, “church” is whatever they say it is, and wherever they say it is.

The proof of this is in the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ PHYSICALLY PRESENT. It isn’t a symbol. It is PHYSICALLY Him. How many “Christians” have I said this to – to their face – and there was ZERO reaction. All of them. These people are completely disinterested in even the POSSIBILITY that Jesus is PHYSICALLY HERE. No follow-up questions, no requests for clarification. Nothing. Why are they disinterested? Because for them, it isn’t about Jesus in the first place. It is about THEM, and the GROUP. And what is the common psychological denominator across almost all homosexuals? Narcissism. It’s all about ME. And what is the core of Marxism? Narcissism. It’s all about ME, and what I’m ENTITLED to. The Eucharist is the antidote to narcissism in all its forms. No wonder denial and marginalization of the Eucharist is the objective of every heretic and infiltrator, most especially the Marxist-homosexualists. It’s really hard for anything to be “all about ME” when Christ Almighty is twenty feet away in plain sight, and everyone knows it.

Here is the text of the Second Secret of Fatima. This is an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal in 1917. It has been certified as authentic by the Church, which is very rare. The miracles simultaneously witnessed by 70,000 people, many of whom were anti-clerical atheists, on October 13, 1917 helped with that. Emphasis mine:

You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end: but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illuminated by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she shall be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world."

How did three children know the name of the next pope, who wouldn’t even be elected and thus given the name “Pius XI” five years before the fact?

How did three children foresee and date World War II?

On January 25, 1938 there was a solar storm resulting in one of the largest aurora borealis events ever recorded. The entire Northern Hemisphere was illuminated over the entire globe. Within weeks, Hitler invaded Austria, and eight months later invaded Czechoslovakia.

Immediately after World War II, the Soviets began in earnest their infiltration of the Western world, with the United States and the Catholic Church as the two primary targets of the spread of Marxist-Communism in the West. Today, the United States has been overthrown by a cabal of Marxist-Communists fronted by Barack Obama. The Catholic Church is under direct attack, has been deeply infiltrated by Marxist-Communists, and preparations are being made for open war on the now-severely weakened Church by the state.

Nuclear war in the Middle East, and spreading to the Pacific and North American theaters, is being facilitated by the Marxist-Communist hives in both Moscow and Washington D.C. Annihilation of entire nations seems not just plausible, but likely, both in terms of nuclear war and total economic collapse, made possible by Marxist nanny state policies and their attendant debt bubbles and currency debasement.

And Russia has NOT been consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

There is a tremendous amount of information here, but the point is to make as many people as possible understand that the fact that their local parish priest is a flaming homosexual is actually part of a much bigger picture. The fact that the average non-habited nun today is a pagan-lesbian-Communist is also part of a much bigger picture. The bottom line is this: If you love Jesus and worship Him, then it should never even occur to you to abandon Him. He is in control. Fatima shows us this. What do you do? Run to Him. Stay close. Never leave. Never abandon the Eucharist. If you can, find a parish where the Mass is said solemnly, reverently and without improvisation, preferably in Latin. If that means a two-hour drive, then so be it. There is a family down around Colorado Springs that commuted every weekend to Rapid City, South Dakota for over twenty years in the early 1970s through the early 1990’s because that was the closest Tridentine (Latin) Mass to them. They sacrificed ALL of their weekends. For two decades. If you absolutely cannot find a reverent Mass in your area, then kneel and pray during Mass in reparation for the sacrileges being committed. Console Our Lord for the offenses being committed against Him and His Sacred Heart by both the clergy and the laity. BUT DON’T ABANDON HIM.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

My essay for this evening has been published over at AmericanThinker.com . It is titled "Necrophilia is Not a Joke".

It is very powerful and very disturbing. Thanks to Dr. Lifson for not editing or altering a single word. Very brave.

CLICK HERE TO READ.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

1. Narcissistic? This culture? NAH!

Dear Ann,
I'm just wondering what the point of your blog is if we can't post comments.
Signed,
Reader

Uh, the point is the publishing and promulgation of information and ideas. Authors are NOT obligated to provide and publish a comment forum for their readers. Only a narcissist would expect or demand such. If you have something to say, I recommend getting your own website or YouTube channel. Say something of consequence and intelligence, and people may take notice. Or not. It's called the "Free Market of Ideas."

2. Some musloid in Saudi Arabia mailed me a musloid book about Jesus. (Yes, I open mail with Saudi postmarks. I fear no man. Seriously.) I flipped through it just to see the state of musloid scholarship. It was exactly as I had previously experienced it: unbelievably stupid to the point of just being sad, with much of the book being dedicated to quoting PROTESTANT heretics, and citing the disunity of Protestantism. Yup. But here's an excerpt from the musloid portion of the book:

The last meal Jesus is known to have eaten before his disappearance was the Passover meal. No Christian today celebrates this longstanding tradition to which Jesus so meticulously held."

Uh, I guess the authors are trusting that everyone on earth goes to Superfun Rockband church and therefore has never heard of THE MASS, which is, of course, the Pasch, fully perfected and consummated.

But really, the essence of the entire book is asking the same question over and over again:

Why would God take on human flesh and freely offer Himself to die the scandalous and tortuous death of crucifixion in atonement for the sins of mankind? This is beyond reason or comprehension!

The question is posed over and over again, with no answer given, only the declaration that it is "beyond reason", because the authors feel that the question itself has no answer and thus "answers itself" by negating the premise. The authors accomplish two things in this: they prove AGAIN that their scholarship is laughable to the point of either being non-existent or completely dishonest, AND they betray the satanic quality of the islamic culture itself. The answer to the question is ONE WORD, which is codified in the single most well-known, memorized and cited verse in the entire Bible. What is the one word answer to their question? WHY would God incarnate and then die on the Cross?

LOVE.

"For God so loved the world, as to give His only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in Him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting." John 3:16

Musloids have absolutely no concept or understanding of love. All there is in islam is legalism which is used to terrify and justify killing all those not loyal to the political cult, and is constantly being "wiggled around" by the oligarchs within islam, which is not surprising considering that it is indeed a totalitarian oligarchical political system. "Sharia for thee, but not for me."

Does this sound familiar? Yeah. It is exactly the same dynamic with Marxist totalitarian oligarchies, such as we have in the United States today. The Obama regime can't pass enough laws which are used to terrify and enslave and force "loyalty" from the masses, but the oligarchs themselves are totally dispensed from ANY rule of law.

3. Which segues into the Obama regime's move to outlaw children working on farms and ranches. There are several motives for this. First, they want to eliminate the next generation of farmers and ranchers so that nationalization of all food production can be hastened and facilitated. Second, they want to force farmers and ranchers to hire and employ unionized labor, who will then effectively dictate how and what farmers and ranchers produce, and eventually drive them into insolvency and government takeover (see General Motors, et al). Third, they want to break the spirit of the young toward any desire to work, be productive or be independent. They want every single person to view work as something to be avoided at all costs, and total government support as the only "fair" lifestyle, to which they are "entitled".

What is my response to all of this? It is very simple, and I am being as serious as pancreatic cancer when I say this:

THIS IS WHY WE HAVE GUNS.

Here is a video of an EPA thug explaining how the government views itself and its modus operandi:

"...kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean: they’d go into little Turkish towns somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they saw, and they’d crucify them."

If any government thugs show up on a farm or ranch and attempt to "make examples" of parents who are working side-by-side with their children, the parents should advise the government thug that they have ten seconds to vacate the premises. If that doesn't happen, the parents should exercise their God-given right to self-defense, as specifically codified in the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Aim small, miss small. All Americans should be carrying side arms and have long guns positioned for easy access on the home front. It has come to that. Further, if any parents are arrested or any children are removed from farms or ranches under this tyrannical edict, militias should form and muster and the parents should be liberated and the children restored to their home by said militias. It is that simple.

4. The "Mad Cow" issue. It is basically over. Nobody cares anymore. Clearly it is not a food safety problem. Every man, woman and child in the United States eats over 60 pounds of beef per year and there has not been one case of BSE in humans indigeneous to the United States. Bottom line: Guys, if BSE was in the food supply, there would have been hundreds, if not thousands of cases of vCJD in the U.S. by now. there hasn't been ONE. Only people who came here from Europe to die.

The cattle futures were limit-down, but that can largely be attributed to the fact that the markets are THIN and DEAD and nothing but computers trading with each other in millisecond daytrades. A few sell market orders can drive the algorithms limit-down lickety-split. There's no one there to absorb anything anymore. The cash market hardly noticed, and it will probably be forgotten old news tomorrow. It has been this way now for years. The problem in the U.S. has existed almost exclusively among the dairy herd, and is now easily caught. The instances of Mad Cow on a global level have decreased exponentially over the last decade. I think there were only 29 cases on the entire planet last year. I don't know if there will ever be total eradication, but we're getting awfully close.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

If I start excerpting this, I'll never quit. Just go over and read THIS PIECE at ZeroHedge.

Remember this name: J.C. Flowers.

One of the few to question the role of JC Flowers in the MF debacle, Martens continues:
But wearing the three incompatible hats was not the only fatal flaw in Corzine’s management model: he contractually did not owe his total loyalty to MF Global. The August 11, 2011 proxy issued to shareholders and filed with the SEC carried this caveat: “During the term of Mr. Corzine’s employment agreement with the Company, Mr. Corzine will spend substantially all of his business time and attention on Company matters, except that he may serve as an operating partner of J.C. Flowers. Pursuant to his contract with J.C. Flowers, Mr. Corzine will not receive any salary from J.C. Flowers as long as he is serving as Chief Executive Officer of the Company, but he will have a financial interest as a limited partner in certain of J.C. Flowers’s investment management entities. Mr. Corzine’s employment agreement with the Company contains a provision regarding corporate opportunities. In general, this provision provides that, if Mr. Corzine acquires knowledge from J.C. Flowers (and not the Company) of a potential transaction or other business opportunity that may be a business opportunity for the Company he will have no duty to communicate or present such opportunity to the Company…”

AND, be sure to read up on

More on the role of "the other JC," who, we note, was not only instrumental in securing Mr. Corzine's hire, but that of fellow ex-Goldmanite Laurie Ferber, who was MF Global's go-to reguatory fixer:
JC Flowers was the namesake of J. Christopher Flowers, a former colleague of Corzine’s at Goldman Sachs. Flowers had acquired a stake in MF Global to help shore it up in 2008 after a trader blew up $141 million of the firm’s money overnight in what the firm called an unauthorized trade. It was Flowers who invited Corzine to become CEO of MF Global. Corzine left MF Global on November 4, four days after its bankruptcy filing, at the request of the Board. Why Corzine, a man of great wealth and political stature, would join an obscure brokerage firm is a mystery worthy of pursuit by the FBI, which is investigating the missing customer funds according to Congressional sources. One avenue worthy of pursuit according to Wall Street veterans, is whether Jon Corzine turned MF Global into a giant parking lot for other Wall Street firms’ bad bets on sovereign debt. Fueling that speculation is the fact that JPMorgan, Citigroup and Bank of America were part of a syndicate of 22 banks that provided MF Global with an unsecured $1.2 billion revolving credit line that required no posting of collateral, despite the company’s string of losses and weak credit rating. The firm heavily tapped this line of credit in its last days.

The contention that Corzine was placed at MF in order to use MF (specifically MF's CLIENTS) as a garbage dump for bad European paper makes a hell of a lot of sense.

The whole piece and the embedded videos are worth your time.

Also, here is Warren Pollock's latest. Maybe you folks will benefit from hearing someone else tell you that MF Global puts ALL financial accounts in jeopardy, up to and including BANK ACCOUNTS and RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS. Segregated futures accounts WERE the MOST secure deposit account in the entire financial world, even above bank accounts, which are only FDIC insured to $250,000. Futures accounts WERE safer than that. No longer. If money can be swept and stolen from futures accounts, then it is just a matter of time before bank accounts and stock accounts are swept.

Snips & Snails & Puppy Dog Tails is actually Obama's favorite appetizer platter.

1. Not really. The buzz today on the old blogosphere is the fact that musloids despise dogs and most certainly do not eat them, so the whole bit in "Dreams From My Father" in which Obama (who is really Bill Ayers) claims that his musloid adoptive daddy Lolo Soetoro fed him dog is pure bee-ess. Billy Ayers got a little sloppy with his fictional anthropology whilst ghosting for Barry.

2. Continuing on the culinary theme: Brunch, yesterday. Pepperoni Omelet . . . covered with hollandaise sauce. That's right. Pepperoni and hollandaise. People, dreams DO come true.

3. Apparently, I have passed one million views on my YouTube channel. I now find myself in the odd position of offering thanks for something that I never wanted in the first place. Shrug. Forced smile. Wave. "Thanks!" Ugh. (May I be excused now? Please?)

4. In the spirit of stating the obvious, people who have cosmetic plastic surgery are mentally ill. We need to acknowledge this. These women who mutilate themselves to get breast implants: mentally ill. Lip injections: totally nuts. Face lifts: psychologically damaged. Botox: stupid and crazy. Liposuction: deranged. Hair plugs: psychotic. Human beings age. 60 year old women do not look like 25 year old women, nor should they. Our faces wrinkle as we age. Men lose their hair. And your boobs are whatever the boob fairy decided they were going to be when you were fourteen. When you see all of these politicians and "entertainment" people with obvious, pathetic face lifts, botox, fake boobs and hair plugs, PLEASE understand that these are all sure signs of serious, serious psychological problems rooted in self-loathing. Intelligent, normal, psychologically healthy people age gracefully, and are comfortable in their bodies, and would never, ever consider mutilating their bodies. Additionally, plastic surgery is almost always obvious, and repellant. Nancy Pelosi looks in the mirror and literally cannot perceive how repellant she looks - and it isn't because she is a naturally ugly woman. She was quite pretty when she was young, and if she had just aged gracefully, she would be a normal-looking woman of her age. But instead, she is a mutilated witch-like freak due to plastic surgery. The same goes for these bimbos who get lip injections. They all look absolutely horrific. They see how horrific other people look with these "procedures", and yet these women go mutilate their lips and faces - and then are so psychologically far-gone that they can't even look in a mirror and see how terrifying and repulsive they appear. When you are brushing your teeth tonight, look at yourself in the mirror. Then stop and realize that many of the political and cultural "leaders" in our civilization look at themselves in the mirror and literally want someone to CUT AND ALTER THEIR FACES. 100 years ago they had a name for that: insanity.

5. I just want to point something out that I'm not sure people are appreciating. All of these so-called "green energy" companies that Obama throws billions of dollars at and then file for BK - these companies are taking less than 18 months to go from signing the papers for the government loans to full-liquidation BK. The speed with which these companies collapse is, in and of itself, proof that these companies are set up PURELY as mechanisms to loot the United States Treasury. They were never intended to actually produce anything. They are shells that are set up to fail. "Success" was never even an objective with any of these outfits. Take Solyndra. They received a loan from the government for over $500 million in September of 2010, and filed for total liquidation bankruptcy in September of 2011. Guys, if that company was real, it would take longer than a year JUST TO GET WARMED UP. It takes time, far in excess of a year, to get a company set up, get infrastructure in place, begin production, establish a customer base, etc. Even if they had some pieces in place before the government money came, remember, we are still talking about HALF A BILLION DOLLARS. For a company to burn through half a billion dollars and have a padlock on the front door in 12 months without massive embezzling going on is not possible. And Solyndra was one of the smaller "loans" issued by the Obama regime. And he is pushing for MORE billion dollar "loans" to "green energy" scam companies. Well, of course. Obama is looting the Treasury ahead of the collapse, positioning himself and his oligarch cronies for the post-Republic regime.

6. As I tweeted yesterday (see Twitter feed on the left side of the page), ABC News has been caught fabricating the whole "Trayvon on the phone with his girlfriend" angle. Once again, if you are still subscribing to cable or satellite, you are an active supporter and participant in treason against your nation and civilization. Let me say that again so that we are perfectly clear: If you are paying for cable or satellite television, you are fully complicit in and guilty of treason against the United States and civilization in general. You are financially subsidizing Marxist agitprop and pornography which is pumped not just into your home, but subsidizing the pumping of that evil into the homes of your neighbors and your neighbors' children. If you are so weak, and so dumbed-down that you can't even pop the Marxist teat out of your mouth and live without TV, then YOU DESERVE WHATEVER HELL RAINS DOWN ON YOU. As Breitbart said, the MEDIA is enemy number one. You people piss and moan and talk a good game, but if you are still financially supporting the media, which is indeed enemy number one, then you are a pathetic, fake, weak, sorry excuse for an American. This nation could END the satanic-Marxist media tomorrow by canceling cable feeds en masse. But will it ever happen? Nope. Because the populace is too far gone to even turn off the bread and circuses. Pathetic. No, it's beyond pathetic. It is WRETCHED.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

First, watch this. (Hat Tip to IOwnTheWorld.com)

Got it? Music is POWERFUL in a way that people today simply do not comprehend. Music is like sex. Music has the power to lift our hearts to heaven where we can literally join with the angels in their hymns of praise. Conversely, just as with sex, music can plunge us into hell itself. And finally, like sex, specifically masturbation, music can turn us into empty, hollow shells, ever more numb, ever more turned in upon ourselves, ever more dead to the world around us. Examples:

GOOD MUSIC.

EVIL MUSIC. The so-called hip-hop culture has got to go. It is pure evil. MASSIVE, EXTREME LANGUAGE AND CONTENT WARNING. This sewage is pornography. Don't hit "play" on this unless you are sure that NO CHILDREN can possibly hear this. If you listen to this, understand that this is what most black Americans and many others listen to exclusively today. You wonder why the inner-city culture is the hellish disaster that it is? Wonder no more. These people have been drawn into hell itself through the medium of music. Listen to it. The tones themselves are hellish and evil even irrespective of the lyrics. No culture containing this crap can survive. Oh, and also remember that Barry has stated that he listens to this "Lil Wayne" demon on his iPod.

Okay, now a big problem. So-called "Christian" music that sounds like the pit of hell.

"Well, it's okay Mom and Dad, because the lyrics are Christian." Nope. I don't care what the lyrics are. The sounds are intrinsically evil and concupiscent. Turn that evil crap OFF.

Finally, the insipid narcissim of "Contemporary Christian / Praise and Worship" music. If this is what you pump into your spirit, I can see why this is a nation of braindead, self-absorbed cowards. "You are worthy of MY praise." I'm sure God Almighty is very relieved to know that He is WORTHY of YOUR praise. Considering that He is perfect Goodness, Beauty, Truth and Love, and you are a miserable tick of a sinner, I'm glad to know the He is WORTHY of YOUR praise. Puke. There are more first person pronouns in this pablum than in an Obama speech, and that's saying something. Hurl.

Why do I suddenly have the uncontrollable urge to watch a fake talent contest on TV and then spend four hours on Facebook talking about trivial, self-absorbed nonsense? Oh, yeah. Because that crappy song just sucked the intelligence and humility out of my soul.

And that is the Terrible and Divine Power of Music. As Henry showed us above, you must be very, very careful to only pump in the good stuff, because the effects of music on your spirit, for good or for ill, are MASSIVE.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

(Ripping off the Ace Flaming Skull thingy.)

Jon Corzine IS one of Obama's top bundlers. Present tense. IS. Not "was." IS. This has been known for the last six months. I've been saying this all along. HE NEVER STOPPED BUNDLING.

CITATION HERE.

The Obama "campaign", which is really just a money laundering racket, released its first quarter of 2012 data today and Jon Corzine is confirmed to have bundled IN EXCESS of $500,000 for Obama in Q1 2012.

Do you people understand why it is that I rant and rave and jump up and down, wave my arms and use potty-mouth language? Do you understand why I say that the Rule of Law is dead and that this Republic NO LONGER EXISTS? I'm just trying to tell you THAT YOUR CIVILIZATION IS GOING DOWN THE SHITTER RIGHT NOW, SO YOU MIGHT WANT TO WAKE UP, PAY ATTENTION, AND DO SOMETHING TO KEEP FROM GETTING DRAGGED INTO THE SEWER WITH IT.

Jon Corzine is technically under investigation by both the SEC and CFTC, and should be under investigation by the DOJ (but isn't - I wonder why????) and is raising money and contributing to the Chief Executive of the same "government" that has him "under investigation."

Welcome to the Soviet Union.

Someone needs to get the list of people who contributed to Obama through Corzine's bundling. I promise you that every single person on that list probably belongs in jail themselves, and are, at minimum, psychopaths like Corzine. (Ahem. Cough. JP Morgan upper management. Cough.) Think about it. Corzine stole $1.6 billion at minimum and everyone on Wall Street and in Chicago knows it. Imagine your phone rings one day and it is Jon Corzine himself. He asks you to contribute to Obama through him. You agree. That makes you a PSYCHOPATH. That would be like if Charlie Manson called and asked you to contribute to the New Helter Skelter Party.

Here is me saying all of this on November 30th on FinancialSense.com with Jim Puplava. This is their most-listened-to audio interview ever. I think this interview is what really introduced and flew open the doors of conversation with regards to the spiritual evil, sociopathy and psychopathy of many of these financial and government oligarchs and brought those words out into the open. You cannot shame people who have no conscience or any sense of morality to begin with. They LAUGH at concepts like guilt, shame, remorse and conscience. All that matters to them is that they get away with it. And Jon Corzine knew and knows that he will get away with it because he is an oligarch and crony of the Obama regime.

Here's the follow-up interview on FinancialSense.com from January 4, 2012.

Here is my first interview with Warren Pollock on December 12th.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

My old-school, pre-viral readership knows all about my first foray into "activism", which happened in 2010. I leased a billboard on a very busy stretch of I-70 in Kansas, just a mile west of Ft. Riley, home of the First Infantry Division. The text of the billboard was:

OBAMA IS A FRAUD.
DEMAND RESIGNATION NOW.
God Bless America!

I should mention and give a shout-out to the readers who sent in cash donations and helped pay for the initial cost of the lease. It was a fun little project and a bit of a team effort.

Well, the billboard right beneath mine was leased by a local community college, and they got their panties in a twist about being so close to my "extreme rhetoric", which in retrospect is hilarious. Dude, on the Barnhardt scale of rhetoric, "Obama is a fraud. Demand resignation now" is about a 0.5 on the old volume dial, packing the heat of a glass of warm milk.

So, they demanded that their billboard be moved to another one of the company's locations, and the company, being very sympathetic to my cause and sentiments, gave me the right of first refusal on the now-abandoned billboard just beneath mine. So I grabbed that one, too. By this time, it was clear what Obama was, and so I kicked up the volume and heat.

WANNABE MARXIST DICTATOR.

Ooh-rah.

Well, last week a huge line of storms blew through the area, and my original "Obama is a fraud. Demand resignation now" billboard actually tore off. This is not surprising, because that vinyl has been in place for over two years, and that is a typical lifespan.

That message about Obama being a fraud is now quite obvious, and it is also obvious that resignation is not going to happen. Communist tyrants don't resign and walk away. You have to fight wars to get rid of psychopathic totalitarian regimes. So, I'm content to let this billboard go. But, the billboard company has agreed to let me see if there is anyone out there who would like to be my new "billboard neighbor". The cost is $400 per month, and I believe the initial cost of the vinyl is $750 (don't take that as gospel). This particular location gets at minimum 25,000 vehicle passes per day, and let me assure you that people from all over the country see it. Folks driving cross-country from west to east either take I-70 or I-80, so there is a TON of traffic that is not just local to the area. I have the emails to prove it.

So, some ideas might be a Catholic group wanting to put up a pro-life billboard, or a Divine Mercy billboard. Or an "I WILL NOT COMPLY" billboard would be fantastic, too. Or a picture of Obama and Eric Holder with just the word TRAITORS. Something like that. There are so many directions to go in. My only advice is keep it VERY BRIEF. I have seen other billboards with tons and tons of tiny text. That doesn't work. You only have 1.5 seconds tops to get your message across on a billboard. The fewer words the better. And BIG BLOCK LETTERS. No script fonts. People can't read fancy fonts that fast.

If you are interested, shoot me an email with an idea of what you would want to do and I'll put you in contact with my account rep at the billboard company. Communists need not apply! It really is a fun and satisfying way to exercise your First Amendment freedom!

Here's the pic. You would be replacing the TOP billboard.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

There was a strike by Eurodollar floor traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (actually inside the Chicago Board of Trade building) on Friday. The Eurodollar pit traders walked out for over an hour and met (utterly fruitlessly) with CME honchos over "block trades" which are basically a money-laundering scheme, which the CME executives gleefully permit and encourage. These "block trades" are totally destroying what very little integrity is left in the markets on the execution level, and the Eurodollar locals walked out on Friday.

Chicago Sun-Times story here.

Block trades are large-volume trades that are "executed" completely outside of the market, with zero competition, but still clear and are printed just like any other trade. The Eurodollar futures traders were enraged by a huge block trade in the Eurodollar options on Thursday.

Here's the problem. Let's say a given instrument is trading at a price of 100. The bid is 99 and the ask is 101. These block trades can go through at, say, 97. So all of a sudden, there is a reported trade at 97. Other market participants may have had buy orders in at 99 and 98 . . . but they aren't filled. That's a huge problem. If the market trades THROUGH your price, you should get a fill, right? Not anymore. The CME is now saying that people can do these "block trades" and cheat everyone else in the market out of fills that they deserve.

Why do I call this money laundering? Well, the BUYER in the block trade now has this instrument at a price of 97, and the rest of the market is trading at 100 (99bid at 101ask). He can start selling his "block traded" 97 position immediately.

And what of the guy who SOLD at 97 on the block trade? Why would he intentionally sell BELOW the market when there are open, legit bids at 99? Well, he is essentially GIFTING those two ticks to the buyer. Kids, that's money laundering. Stone cold. And the CME knows it, is complicit in it, and vigorously defends the practice. Their excuse is that "if we don't do it, some other exchange will." In other words, honesty and integrity be damned. We just want our exchange fees.

As a broker, how do you explain to your client, who had buy orders in at 99 and 98 why they didn't get a fill, even though there was a huge volume trade well through their price? You can't, because there is no rational explanation for criminal unfairness and fraud.

Gentlemen, you know that this is never, ever going to get better. It is only ever going to get worse. The markets are dead. You can't trade in a marketplace where there is zero integrity. You need to walk out - permanently - now. If you don't act preemptively and hang around in an environment that is now utterly and completely criminal, YOU WILL EVENTUALLY LOSE EVERYTHING. They will eventually drain you dry. Gather your chips, cash them out now, and go home. Leave the dead to bury the dead.

**The Eurodollar is, by far, one of the most heavily traded contracts at the CME, with the E-mini S&P being the only contract that has higher volume, so this walkout is very serious. The Eurodollar is not to be confused with the Euro Currency. The Eurodollar is an interest rate instrument. It is defined as any time deposit in U.S. dollars held in a bank outside of the U.S. Years ago, Eurodollars referred to US dollars held in European banks, but over the years the term expanded to mean US dollars in ANY non-US bank. So, US dollars held on time deposit in a Tokyo bank are "Eurodollars." Now, the prefix "Euro" refers to any deposit held outside its home country. So, for example, Japanese Yen held in a bank in South Africa are "Euroyen". Euro Currency held in a bank in Australia are "Euroeuros."

Fr. Z over at WDTPRS.com (What Does the Prayer Really Say) posted this on Sunday in honor of Divine Mercy Sunday.

In a nutshell, Rudolf Heoss, the Nazi butcher, was raised Catholic but formally renounced the Church as a young man and eventually became a Nazi and then the Commandant of Auschwitz.

After the war, Hoess was captured and tried in Poland. He was hanged immediately adjacent to the Auschwitz crematory on April 16, 1947.

While in his cell in Krakow, shortly before his execution, Hoess could hear the bells of the nearby convent and he remembered the faith of his youth. He asked to see a priest. He partook of the Sacrament of Confession, was reconciled to Christ and His Church, and received the Eucharist.

Let's assume that Hoess' penitence was sincere. Debating his sincerity really isn't a worthwhile activity because we simply cannot know. Only Christ knows Hoess' heart. You can't bee-ess Our Lord.

So, here's the point. Would Hoess have been contrite and sought the Divine Mercy of Our Lord had he NOT been within days of being executed? Was it the fact and full knowledge of his forthcoming death that moved him to repent? Had he been still on the loose, had he "gotten away" would he have had the same conversion of heart? If he had lived to old age, would the passage of time have dulled his recollection of what he had done, and thus even if facing a quiet, natural death as an old man, would he have been moved to repent?

Obviously, the answer to these questions is "no". It was the fact of Hoess' execution itself that acted as the earthly conduit of God's grace. The full, swift application of justice is essential to any civilized society. Execution can be the most profound act of mercy and charity in a society, and has the power to literally save SOULS. And yes, a man can be forgiven, but still justly executed. Execution is not mathematically opposed to the Lord's Prayer.

But, of course, you'll never hear any sort of discussion like this in today's superfun rockband church, or even in the infiltrated and desperately stupid Catholic parishes - which are trying to be superfun rockband church. And the key word there is STUPID. The Marxist infiltration of Christianity has as its prime tactic the "stupidification" of the liturgy and theology. Superfun rockband church is STUPID. It is INSIPID. It is DIM-WITTED. It is OBTUSE. It is MORONIC.

Think. Think about Hoess and the possibility of the Infinite Mercy of Christ being applied even to him. Think about true justice, and how it must be present in order for there to be true charity.

Posted without comment. NONE IS NEEDED.

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On Jan. 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr. of Florida read a list of 45 Communist goals into the Congressional Record. The list was derived from researcher Cleon Skousen’s book “The Naked Communist.”

1. U.S. should accept coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. should be willing to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament by the U.S. would be a demonstration of "moral strength."

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extend long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China and admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the U.S. has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations that are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24.Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state"

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat.

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should rise up and make a "united force" to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally Reservation so the U.S. cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.

1. These Ron Paul people just make me laugh now. Like clockwork, every time I say or write anything about Ron Paul and his islam-appeasing nonsense (like Iran should totally have nukes, because that's just "fair", and that if he had been president during WWII and knew of the Nazi "final solution" that was being carried out, he wouldn't have interfered and entered the US into the war) the emails flood in. And they are all the same. They all say "Ron Paul is not an anti-semite, and if you weren't such a Jew-loving Zionist stooge, you would know that." And then the cultic, crazy starts with the claims that Ron Paul is the one and only hope and salvation for the human race, and that I'll be eating crow here in a few weeks when Mitt Romney voluntarily steps aside and crowns "Dr. Paul" as the Republican candidate. In other words, many of these Paul people are completely delusional. Finally, I had one guy tell me that I should support Paul because "all of the college-aged kids support him." Uh, yeah. You know why? Because the mindless, degenerate little brats all want weed legalized. None of them could spell "fiat money" if you put a gun to their head.

2. Which leads to a question: If Ron Paul is so great and virtuous, why hasn't he said anything about Obama's ineligibility? Hmmmmm? Additionally, Ron Paul, by continuing to serve as a member of the United States Congress, the same Congress that has not passed a budget in something like 1100 days, is himself in violation Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution by continuing to participate in a Congress which REFUSES to produce a budget. A person of true integrity and principle would have resigned in protest long ago. This applies not only to Paul, but to EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE. It's called treason.

3. Here's a great quote posted by commenter "combat_boots" at FreeRepublic. The quote is from M. Scott Peck, a psychologist. I'm loathe to post a quote from a psychologist, but this sheds an interesting, and largely accurate light on good and evil in the world. I have said before that the opposite of love is not hate, but INDIFFERENCE or APATHY, which is the point Peck makes here:

“There really are people and institutions made up of people, who respond with hatred in the presence of goodness and would destroy the good insofar as it is in their power to do so. They do this not with conscious malice but blindly, lacking awareness of their own evil — indeed, seeking to avoid any such awareness. As has been described of the devil in religious literature, they hate the light and instinctively will do anything to avoid it, including attempting to extinguish it. They will destroy the light in their own children and in all other beings subject to their power.
Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. They hate goodness because it reveals their badness; they hate love because it reveals their laziness. They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of such self-awareness. My second conclusion, then, is that evil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme. As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people may not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are compelled to do so. Their being is a manifestation of nonlove; still, they are not evil.
Truly evil people, on the other hand, actively rather than passively avoid extending themselves. They will take any action in their power to protect their own laziness, to preserve the integrity of their sick self. Rather than nurturing others, they will actually destroy others in this cause. If necessary, they will even kill to escape the pain of their own spiritual growth. As the integrity of their sick self is threatened by the spiritual health of those around them, they will seek by all manner of means to crush and demolish the spiritual health that may exist near them.
I define evil, then, as the exercise of political power — that is, the imposition of one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion — in order to avoid extending one’s self for the purpose of nurturing spiritual growth. Ordinary laziness is nonlove; evil is antilove.”
From “The People of the Lie”
M. Scott Peck

4. Another fabulous quote, this time from Daniel Greenfield, AKA "Sultan Knish". HERE'S THE FULL PIECE.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is indeed that good men do nothing, but as a corollary to it, those are exactly the sort of men that evil will go after. It does no good to read Burke quotations to a Kardashian society which makes its determinations not on truth or justice, but on its omnipresent need for entertainment. Trying to reason with it only makes it angrier. Talking about virtues and decency to people who have none either confuses them or infuriates those few who understand the concept in some distant way.
Daniel Greenfield

5. I guess we now know why the Secret Service hasn't done anything about the usurper non-American Obama. They're all a bunch of moral degenerates without any honor or integrity. This culture has been duped by the Marxist cultural and media infiltration into believing that a person's sexual conduct doesn't matter. Well, it does. It is reported today that the unofficial motto among married Secret Service agents is "Wheels up, rings off." If a man will stab his own wife in the back and just can't wait to screw hookers, why would you expect any level of integrity in any other facet of his life? Would you honestly expect such a man or men to lay down their careers in service to the Constitution? SEX MATTERS. In fact, it is one of the single most telling aspects of a person's soul. Good people are chaste. That means that people who are not married don't have sex. People who are married only have sex with their spouse. EVER. That is chastity. Wail and moan all you want, but you know I'm right. Deal with it. If you find yourself making any excuses or arguments for anything less than the definition of chastity that I just laid out, then you are, yourself, in the depths of your very soul, under the demonic grip of the Marxist infiltration of our society. In other words, you're a good little Commie stooge.

6. By the way, speaking of Communist stoogery, have you canceled your cable or satellite feed yet? Or are you STILL paying for and subsidizing the pumping of Marxist agitprop and pornography into not just your home, but the homes of your neighbors and their children? Hmmmm??

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Here is me speaking last week at "Liberty First" down in Colorado Springs. It is a relatively poor-quality video taken in the back of the room, but it is watchable. It has also been edited for time. There are a few jumps.

Language warning. Seriously. You have been disclaimed.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

It's all about the business travel of late, hence the thin posts.

I posted this piece the day after Obama was elected. Prescient. Very, very prescient. Not that it wasn't obvious. Here is the text of what I posted on the morning of November 5, AD 2008:

I feel a bit like I did on 9/11, except we have done this to ourselves ‐ there is no outside enemy to blame. If one looks back at history ‐ heck, just RECENT history, like the 20th century, one will see that the bulk of the carnage was not the result of aggression between nations (although we did have that ‐ no question). No, the bulk of the carnage was perpetrated by leftist governments against their own people. Please reference the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Communist China, Cambodia, North Vietnam, North Korea and large swaths of Africa. You're looking at a quarter of a billion souls that were either slaughtered, aborted or intentionally starved to death, easily.
If you're thinking, "Oh, that could NEVER happen here", please remember that we're already 1/5th of the way there. We have slaughtered 50 million souls since 1973 in this country, and now, it appears there is no end in sight. It wouldn't be much of a step to go from murdering inconvenient pre‐born babies to inconvenient birthed children and adults. Really, the only difference is whether or not you need to plug your ears to block out the sound of the screams.
So, there is only one thing to do. Pray. Pray for President‐elect Obama. Pray for his conversion. Pray for ALL of our leaders. Pray for the conversion of this entire nation. Pray, pray, pray.
To get us started, I have loaded the Jukebox with the penitential prayer par excellence ‐ the Kyrie Eleison. For those of you who aren't Catholic, Kyrie Eleison is Greek for "Lord, Have Mercy". This is from Mozart's "Great Mass" in C Minor. The only words being sung are:
Kyrie Eleison (Lord, Have Mercy)
Christe Eleison (Christ, Have Mercy)
Kyrie Eleison (Lord, Have Mercy)
That pretty much sums it up.

I think that was the last time I ever referred to him as "President." I can't bring myself to say it anymore. It's all a lie.

In honor of Divine Mercy Sunday (tomorrow), here is the Kyrie from Mozart's "Great Mass" in C minor, K. 427.

God, have mercy on this filthy, degenerate nation of fools, cowards and criminals.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (died November 1, AD 2011), has announced with great fanfare their new "Family Farmer & Rancher Protection Fund." Hurl. Puke. Vomit. Where to start with this pathetic crap? Let's start with the CME's (Dead Man. Got a Dead Man walkin' here. Dead Man . . . ) press release itself:

To Our Valued Customers,
We are pleased to announce that registration resources are now available for the CME Group Family Farmer and Rancher Protection Fund. This $100 million program has been established to provide further protection of customer segregated funds for U.S. family farmers and ranchers who hedge their business in CME Group futures markets. For registration forms and further information, please consult www.cmegroup.com/familyfarmerfund.
Under the terms of the Family Farmer and Rancher Protection Fund, farmers and ranchers using CME Group products will be eligible for up to $25,000 per participant in the case of losses resulting from the future insolvency of a clearing member or other market participant. Farming and ranching cooperatives also will be eligible for up to $100,000 per cooperative.
Since the failure of MF Global, in which a clearing firm violated CFTC regulations and misused customer funds that should have been kept segregated, CME Group has taken aggressive action to get our customers back to business and to speed the return of customer property. Going forward, we are working with the National Futures Association, the Futures Industry Association, and the entire industry to focus on holistic solutions to further strengthen protection of customer funds at the firm level. The Family Farmer and Rancher Protection Fund therefore is a first step - an extra security measure to protect the country's food producers - in what we expect to be a series of enhancements.
We continue to actively work with the industry to further strengthen customer fund protections, and we will continue to keep you updated on these efforts through our website, www.cmegroup.com/mfglobal.
Sincerely,
Bryan

Let's start at the beginning. If their customers were "valued", the CME wouldn't have participated in their repeated GANG RAPE and thus destroyed the U.S. financial markets and custodial system.

Next, the entire "Farmers and Ranchers" thing. Wait just a minute. Why is this protection limited to "Farmers & Ranchers"?? What is that crap? What about the service station owner hedging his gas and diesel buy? What about the small regional airline hedging their fuel needs? What about the fabric mill hedging their cotton needs? What about the small, rural bank hedging their interest rate exposure? What about the small business in upstate New York hedging their Canadian Dollar risk exposure? Heck, what about the metals speculator? What about anyone? Why are Farmers & Ranchers ONLY provided "protection"?

Oh, I know why. Because this is all pure theatrical, politicking bee-ess. Throw out some bee-ess "program" that makes for good publicity so you can bee-ess the public and the gullible customer base into thinking that you all aren't a bunch of godless psychopaths. But we all know that you are. Jackals.

Remember guys, "Farmers & Ranchers" are my peeps. That's my bread and butter customer base, and I'm the first one to tell you that to afford any special "protection" to one group of people or industrial sector is just plain WRONG, and at the end of the day is proof that this is all bee-ess. The CME will never pay out on any claims, because if they do THEY WILL INSTANTLY BE SUED FOR DISCRIMINATION BY ALL OF THE NON-AG CUSTOMERS, AS THEY SHOULD BE.

Next, $100 million? Really? You know, that's funny, because the CME has had all along an EIGHT BILLION DOLLAR emergency fund sitting idle. Yep. They could have not just made the MF Global customers whole (assuming we're talking about $1.6 billion), oh they could have easily covered the ENTIRE COMPANY, which was just under $7 billion on October 31, 2011.

So . . . is this trifling, paltry $100 million just money already in the CME's untouched emergency fund, or is this new money in addition to the EIGHT BILLION already sitting in reserve?? Eyeroll.

Why exactly, again, was the EIGHT BILLION DOLLAR CME emergency reserve fund NOT tapped in the MF Global collapse? Why are the MF customers STILL not whole, and never will be? Why did this entire situation happen in the first place??? What EXACTLY would need to happen from here forward for the CME to actually fulfill its fiduciary duty and actually tap the EIGHT BILLION DOLLAR emergency fund?

Wow. $25,000 max payout, huh? You all do realize that a $25,000 account balance would constitute a VERY SMALL ag hedge account, right? VERY SMALL. So "XYZ Brothers Family Feedlot" with an easy $500k account balance between their cattle, feeder cattle and corn positions would have a maximum payout of . . . $25k? WOW. That makes it ALL WORTHWHILE, knowing that FIVE PERCENT COVERAGE is there. Or ABC Family grain elevator with its $2.5 MILLION account balance will have a whopping ONE PERCENT coverage! Or EFG Small Family Farms with their hedge on this year's corn, wheat and soybean crops and their $75,000 account balance. I'm sure that losing TWO-THIRDS of their equity won't be a problem at all!

I'm a HUGE fan of math. Slaughter-ready cattle are trading for roughly $1.24 per pound today. The average slaughter weight is 1300 pounds. That means that ONE - JUST ONE fat steer is worth right at $1600. $25,000 divided by $1600 is . . . FIFTEEN HEAD. That's right cattle feeders! The CME in all of its benevolence will guarantee that if they participate in prison raping you again, that they will cut you a check, after you fill out several hundred pages of claim forms and wait three years - for FIFTEEN HEAD. In today's dollars. If I didn't know better, I would think that this was some sort of Sharia law bee-ess out of Iran or something.

allah says, "If you anally rape a man, give him fifteen cattle as compensation." To which mohamed replied, "I'm gonna need more cattle!"

Finally the letter wraps up by saying that the CME has taken aggressive action. What aggressive action? The only aggressive action was to push through a totally fraudulent Chapter 11 BK filing on the MF estate to guarantee that the customers were displaced from the front of the line to the rear - all in favor of Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan. The only "aggressive" advocacy on the part of the CME was for JP Morgan. Give me a break.

And I love the first name-only signature - like Bryan (Durkin) is your buddy who's "got your back." Well, yeah, in the "Cellblock D gang showers" sense of "got your back."

Bottom line: Anyone who falls for this, or any broker who peddles or cites this "Protection Fund" as evidence of "market integrity" deserves what they get. At some point, people just have to wise up and take intellectual responsibility for the stewardship of their wealth.

Oh, and anyone who uses the word "holistic" needs to be taken out back behind the woodshed and soundly beaten just on general principle. Cut the metrosexual Berkeley crap, "Bryan." Good grief, next he'll be wanting to "cleanse auras" with crystals or some crap like that.

Here's the citation if you want to see it on CME's website.

Via The Anchoress comes this little Pixar short film (all of five minutes forty-eight seconds!) that will knock your socks off, make your eyes sweat, and pierce your heart.

I am now calling for a media strike everywhere I go and every time I speak. Cancel your cable or satellite feed NOW. As Breitbart said, the main [earthly] enemy in all of this is the media. You can banish the media from your home, and equally as importantly, STOP SUBSIDIZING the Marxist agitprop and pornography that the media is pumping to your neighbor and your neighbor's children.

Having said that, in fairness, I must also call out one group of people in today's entertainment media that are, to date, admirable and outstanding, and that is the folks at Pixar. Their animations are beautiful - truly, classically beautiful, and there is SO MUCH Christian allegory that consistently pops up in their movies that it is hard to think that there isn't some liveliness of faith among the Pixar higher-ups.

To wit, this short called "Partly Cloudy." Remember, allegory need not be a perfect correlation, just enough to make the reader or viewer say, "A-ha! I get it!" An example might be Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings as an allegory for both the resurrected Christ and St. Michael the Archangel.

Bottom line: I want to be the stork when I grow up. Some people get the white, fluffy, puppy cloud. Some of us get the "when animals attack" raincloud. Ecce ancilla Domini. Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum.

Therefore take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and to stand in all things perfect. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of justice, and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace: In all things taking the shield of faith, wherewith you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one. And take unto you the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God).
Ephesians 6:13-17

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

I had the chance to see this painting, Buoneri's Resurrection of Christ, in the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. It was actually hanging in the same room as the painting of Christ Crucified, below, which is by Zurbaran. Both painting are HUGE, and deeply moving in person. The Resurrection is doubly intimidating. First, Christ is massive and almost popping out of the image, reaching out and over the viewer, 20 feet up, giving a sense of overshadowing and protecting, while still being intimidating. They have a word for that. "Awesome."

Also intimidating is the face of the angel, who is looking straight out and making direct eye contact with the viewer. The gaze of that angel is so penetrating you feel like you're standing there naked, and have to look down from time to time. It is disconcerting. But while the angel sees you, and what you are, he is also smiling. And why wouldn't he be? Jesus is risen.

O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? Christ is risen and you are abolished. Christ is risen and the demons are cast down. Christ is risen and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen and life is freed. Christ is risen and the tomb is emptied of the dead: for Christ, being risen from the dead, has become the Leader and Reviver of those who had fallen asleep. To Him be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.
- St. John Chrysostom

He was completely naked. All artwork has, as an understood convention, depicted Him as having a loincloth, but that is all purely for the sake of modesty relative to women and children. The point of Roman crucifixion was to kill someone in the most cruel, drawn out, and HUMILIATING way possible. Do you honestly think that the Romans, after whipping Him until He was almost skinned, and then forcing Him to carry His Cross while being mercilessly whipped, would spare Him the humiliation of being stripped naked? Of course not. The nakedness was one of the "points" of crucifixion - the total exposure with no way to cover the genitals.

If you didn't know that - which I'm guessing that most of you probably did not, now you do. He was spared NOTHING. Infinite Mercy Himself was shown NO MERCY whatsoever. And it was all for you. Don't ever forget that.

How could God claim to love us with an infinite love, and have it within His power to be present physically among us, Body Blood Soul and Divinity, and then choose NOT to be present?
The Lover, the Divine Lover, deliberately and willfully choosing to NOT be with His beloved when He has it in His power to easily do so would be a God who did not love completely.
Mankind could stand at the Last Judgment and accuse its God of not loving to the absolute full measure and last inexhaustible ounce He could muster. And mankind would be right.
The Catholic Church’s teaching on the Real Presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist is not a proposition to be debated, yea or nay, for to reject it is to reject the idea that God loves completely - which is to make a liar out of God.
-Michael Voris

1. On "Pink Slime". The so-called "Pink Slime" is a product made by putting beef bones through a high-pressure device that removes every tiny little bit of meat off of the bone. It is very efficient. Pink Slime also contains some connective tissue. Everything gets whizzed up and is made into a meat filler product, which apparently is used in some low-end burger chain burgers. I have no problem with "pink slime". It reduces waste and thus lowers the price of beef to the consumer. It doesn't contain eyeballs or lungs or anything like that, so I'm fine with it. But even then, let me just ask a question of you: Do you eat hot dogs? I do. I LOVE 'em. Chicago style. Or even better, cooked on a stick over a campfire. Yum. The stuff hotdogs are made of makes pink slime look like hand-ground prime tenderloin by comparison. Yes, hot dogs contain things that I would never eat otherwise, but I also know that it's all protein, and if you whizz it up enough, and put enough spices and flavorings in it, it doesn't really matter. I'm the same way about eggs. When I look at a fried egg, all I see is a chicken abortion. I can't eat fried eggs. But scramble those puppies up, and I am THERE. Bottom line: If you eat hot dogs and then get all indignant about "pink slime", you are pretty hypocritical. Pork hot dogs are just "beige slime" and turkey/chicken hot dogs are "ecru slime." This is making me hungry . . . .

The pink slime company has filed for bankruptcy. Don't be surprised if the McDonald's "dollar menu" and 99 cent cheeseburgers go away forever as a result.

2. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK. I am NOT ON FACEBOOK.

That is someone impersonating me. You just "friended" heaven-only-knows-who. CREEPY. Why are you even doing that Facebook crap? It cracks me up that people email me all of these stories about government surveillance and then are on Facebook all day every day, posting verbal and visual records of their entire lives. Uh, hello? Facebook is a giant self-service surveillance net.

3. With regards to Obama's statement that the Supreme Court overturning a law would be "unprecedented" and "judicial activism", let's all remember Ockham's Razor, shall we? The simplest explanation is almost always the correct explanation. Yes, Barry really is that stupid. His Harvard Law degree was BOUGHT AND PAID FOR the day he started classes. No performance was necessary. It was a combination of affirmative action and payola. Barack Obama (or whatever his name is) is a slack-jawed, mouth-breathing, crack-addled idiot. He is also evil and an outright antichrist. He's not THE Antichrist, but he is AN antichrist.

4. Which reminds me, have I ever shown you Michelle LaVaughn Robinson (later Obama)'s Princeton senior thesis?

HERE IT IS. DON'T WORRY, STUPID ISN'T CONTAGIOUS.

You need to read this thing so you can get an appreciation of how low the affirmative action people will stoop. Read this and then understand that some poor kid who was brilliant and worked his butt off in high school DIDN'T get to go to Princeton because Michelle was given his spot. Read this and then sit in stillness for a moment and understand that this borderline-illiteracy got this woman not only a bachelor's from Princeton, but even more amazingly got her into HARVARD LAW. The Harvard Law entry committee absolutely had this thesis pass before their eyes, guaranteed. It is written, and written POORLY, at no higher than a SEVENTH GRADE LEVEL. Nevermind the complete inanity of the topic itself: White People are Mean and Black People Will Always Be Put-upon. Especially the ones who are handed an Ivy League education that they don't deserve. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blah, blah, blah. Let's just give her a pass on that. LOOK AT THE QUALITY OF THE PROSE. It is STAGGERINGLY bad. I have to go to the late Christopher Hitchens and his summation of Michelle's thesis, because it cannot be said any better:

“To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be ‘read’ at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language.”

One of the reasons the Obamas are such incredibly dangerous people, aside from their psychopathy, is the fact that they are enormously stupid people and they know this deep-down. They are desperate to maintain the con and thus are blackmailable by their handlers. Barry is, of course, doubly blackmailable because he isn't an American citizen. Hold on. He's triply blackmailable because he is an active homosexual. The psychological stress of all of this is why Michelle is such a miserable witch, drugging herself with designer clothes and plastic surgery, and why Barry is almost certainly dependent on drugs. Bottom line: THIS AIN'T GONNA END WELL, Y'ALL.

4. Now we know why Allen West has been such a disappointment. He's been positioning to be Romney's VP all along. And we all know that if you want to play ball with Mittens, integrity and principles will not be tolerated. Integrity and principles are "extremist" qualities, after all. #SellOut #Heartbreak #AllHatNoCattle #EveryManHasHisPrice

5. I am adopting a new policy. If I receive an email that says "Urgent", "Must Read", "Watch This Video Now", or anything else of that nature, and it turns out be a dog playing a piano or a baby laughing at its own farts, I'm just going to block you. And I'll probably also send you a nasty email telling you that I'm blocking you. Don't do that.

Another thing that will get you blocked with me is if you send conversations to your entire email list by hitting "reply to all". I don't want to read (and be SPAMMED by) your conversation with so-and-so, and frankly, it is the height of narcissism to think that I or anyone else would want to read your private conversations. I don't send emails on a listserv because I would never dream of invading anyone's email box with my rantings. If you want to come here and read me, that's fine, but I won't presume to think that anyone is actually interested in what I write to the point that I would spam their email box.

Finally, DO NOT send me any "chain emails". Any email that has a "guilt trip" attached to it at the bottom demanding that it be forwarded is instantly deleted, and I will block the sender. USE YOUR BRAINS. Those "guilt trip" forwarding statements are what hackers use to get people to forward emails that have malware and viruses attached to them. If your faith is so shallow that you honestly think Jesus won't love you anymore if you DON'T forward some stupid chain email, then you need to ditch the superfun rockband church pronto. Yeah, and the same thing goes for patriotism. You can love our troops and bleed red, white and blue and NOT forward a chain email. Come on. If people would just stop falling for that nonsense it would go a long way toward cleansing the internet of viruses and malware.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Via ZeroHedge, this comes from someone named Brandon Smith over at a site called Alt-Market.com .

Never heard of him or the site before, but this essay is spot on. Read every word.

HERE'S THE LINK.

I want to excerpt the whole thing, but I'll just pick a couple:

In the initial stages of nearly every recorded tyranny, the saucer eyed dumbstruck masses exhibit astonishing and masterful skill when denying reality. The facts behind their dire circumstances and of their antagonistic government become a source of cynical psychological gameplay rather than a source of legitimate concern. Their desperate need to maintain their normalcy bias creates a memory and observation vacuum in which all that runs counter to their false assumptions and preconceptions disappears forever. It is as if they truly cannot see the color of the sky, or the boot on their face. The concrete world of truth becomes a dream, an illusion that can be heeded or completely ignored depending on one’s mood. For them, life is a constant struggle of dissociation, where the tangible is NOT welcome…

It gets so much better. He goes on to list seven signs and symptoms of slave mentality. Uh, this culture fits EVERY SINGLE CRITERION. Here's just ONE:

The Facts Lose Value: The worst flaw of the slave is not necessarily his ability to overlook the truth, but his ability to see it, comprehend it, and then shrug it off anyway because it is contrary to his mission to fulfill his private delusions. For the slave, the truth exists, but is no longer useful. Lies make his universe turn, and facts are a tool to be used or cast aside at his leisure.

Go forth, and read the whole thing.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Come on, islam. It's been a whole YEAR as of tonight and not a single one of you has made even the slightest attempt to kill me. I gave you my home address. I burned your satanic political/pedophilic manifesto and verbally tinkled all over mohamed, the fake pagan moon deity and everyone stupid and/or evil enough to fall for the biggest con in human history. Did I mention that I gave you my HOME ADDRESS? Yeah, I'm still here. Still waiting for you boys to take this "next level", as the young folks say.

And . . . nothing. Just a couple of death threats from a couple of musloids with family trees that look like the yellow line on I-70 in Western Kansas. Long and straight, that is.

Am I surprised? Not really. Islam is all a con, has only ever been a con, and only ever will be a con. When faced with ONE LITTLE GIRL who marches under the War Standard of Jesus Christ, an entire political cult of 1.2 billion people crumples and folds like a cheap suit. But I'm not done yet. In fact, I'm just getting warmed up. My goal is total and complete victory, as in the complete extermination of the political cult of islam from the face of the earth. This world isn't big enough for both of us. 1400 years is 1400 years too long. Satan and some child-raping, goat-humping mental defective started it, and BY GOD I'm gonna fight to finish it, one way or another, in this life or the next.

After a year, the only thing I would change is my mis-crediting of the "piss Christ" photograph to Robert Mapplethorpe when it was in fact an Andres Serrano image. Yeah, I wasn't rock-solid on my late 20th century homoerotic photographers. What's the matter with me? I know, I know.

Besides that, I have to say that this is aging quite well.

Oh, and Lindsey Graham STILL hasn't come out of the men's room. Heh.

UPDATE:

Aw, a celebratory graphic from Mr. Rides a Pale Horse. *Sniff*

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

I'm doing a somewhat "back-to-back" pair of Cornerstone Cattle Marketing Schools down in the Texas Panhandle in June. I'll do the Level 1 curriculum first, of course, on June 5-6 in Canyon, Texas which is just a few minutes south of Amarillo.

I'll then do a Level 2 with Dr. Tom Noffsinger, also in Canyon on June 15-16. This will be a great opportunity to get both curricula LIVE and in quick succession. I especially recommend this for anyone in the cattle business who is concerned about how to be self-hedged in the cash market. I have always taught these concepts, but now more than ever the need to understand cash-market hedging is essential since the futures markets in Chicago are no longer safe, and are essentially a government-sanctioned confiscatory scheme.

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Enroll for one or both schools today! Remember, in order to attend a Level 2 school, you MUST have completed the Level 1 school with me previously, either live or on DVD.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

I'm sitting here waiting for today's MF Global hearings before the House Financial Services Committee to begin. I don't know why, exactly. Why do I feel the need to watch a group of godless slack-jawed sociopathic arch-criminals (that would be the Congresscritters) lob meaningless grapefruit questions at . . . some other godless slack-jawed sociopathic arch-criminals (that would be the MF Global hacks)?

DRINKING GAME!

Everyone drink a shot of chocolate milk every time someone says, "I had no knowledge . . . "

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This first video is the brilliant and charming Lord Monckton, who is known for his systematic deconstruction of the entire global warming scam. Al Gore has nightmares about Lord Monckton. Can I confess a waking dream? What if we were somehow able to totally reboot this country, expel all of the Marxists and looters, and have an open-door policy to great men like Lord Monckton. We could assemble the best men alive today onto the most structurally and resource-blessed landmass on earth and then just go apenuts. Sigh.

But get this: this video is Lord Monckton talking about . . . THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE. Gasp and swoon. Clutch the pearls. Quick, bring my fainting couch. This is good - like Sonic bacon cheeseburger and sweet potato tater tots good.

This excellent, excellent video is more info and even stronger rebuttal to Rick Warren and his apostasy. Just outstanding. My contempt for "superfun rockband church" isn't merely a matter of my personal taste in music. Nothing could be farther from the truth. My scathing contempt for these outfits (I won't even call them "churches" anymore) is rooted in their evil, lying, money-grubbing "theology." The objective of these groups is to tear people away from Christ and to get them to worship themselves. This is paganism - stone cold. Once that is accomplished, ANYTHING GOES, including forming explicit alliances with satanic political cults - first among them islam and Marxism, and finally the explicit denial of Christ Himself, which Warren and all of these other carney hacks who signed the document exposed in the video below have done. THEY HAVE DENIED CHRIST.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Breitbart.com published Obama's University of Chicago "Constitutional Law" course syllabus a couple of weeks ago.

HERE IT IS.

Guys, Obama didn't even write his own syllabus. The prose is sophisticated, the grammar is flawless, and the punctuation is good - heck, there are several semicolons used, and used correctly. In other words, the syllabus is everything that every other sample of genuine Obama-written prose is not. It isn't the same voice. It isn't the same author. Period.

Every sample of genuine Obama-written prose in existence is HORRIFIC in terms of prose, grammar and punctuation. Agonizingly horrific. Please see Jack Cashill's body of work, including several new pieces at AmericanThinker.com .

Look at the course structure itself. Obama only had to bluff his way through four actual class periods, with most of those class periods consisting of student discussion. Students were explicitly graded on their participation in these four class sessions. The other six sessions were "small group project" presentations by the students. Obama wouldn't have to say or do anything in those class periods except play the part of the "wise professor." Total scammage.

I think Obama was (and is) so stupid, and such a fraud that he had to have someone else prepare his course for him, including what little bit of lecture he delivered in those four class sessions.

Who might have prepared a course syllabus and light lecture notes on constitutional race issues with an emphasis toward education and race?

Bernardine Dohrn. As in Bill Ayers' wife.

Bernardine Dohrn was a paralegal at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin from 1984-1988, and, as an aside, was very likely acquainted with Michelle Robinson (later Obama) when Michelle summer interned at Sidley Austin while she was in law school and was later hired right out of Harvard Law in 1988. The dates match exactly. Barry was hired as a summer associate by Sidley Austin in 1989 while he was still in law school. That is allegedly how he and Michelle met. Since both Barry and Michelle are affirmative action frauds and put together don't have the brains God gave a goldfish, neither one lasted long in an actual performance environment, and have only ever held non-performing meaningless crony positions.

The reason Dohrn was a paralegal and not an attorney is only because she was a convicted felon per her terrorism activities with the Weather Underground back in the 1960s and 1970s. Dohrn was fully capable of passing the bar, and was working as a de facto attorney at Sidley Austin, just under the necessary title "paralegal" due to her criminal past.

So, here we have yet another possible connection between Bill Ayers-Bernardine Dohrn and both of the Obamas. But back to the syllabus.

We now know that Bill Ayers' parents put Obama through Harvard, thanks to Allen Hulton's testimony. The Ayers also knew that Obama was a lightweight intellectually who needed as much help with his academic tasks as he needed with his finances. Now Obama had been hired at the prestigious University of Chicago law school as an adjunct and had to actually teach a class - and appear credible. So, roll in the Ayers-Dohrn machine to the rescue. Just like the way that Ayers came to the rescue and wrote "Dreams From My Father" for Barry.

Lawyer-in-all-but-name Bernardine Dohrn puts together a curriculum including lecture notes, and even writes the syllabus for Obama (as evidenced by the excellent prose, grammar and punctuation). All she needs to do is give Obama a few rhetorical platforms per class session (of which there were only FOUR) upon which he can then launch "class discussion." Dohrn could have put this together in just a few hours. In class, Barry kicks back, fakes the role of all-wise "professor", and cruises while the students in the class basically teach themselves.

It should be mentioned that Dohrn has been a law professor since 1991, and focuses on race and juvenile/education issues. Which is pretty much exactly the focus of Obama's course syllabus.

Oh, and Bill Ayers has a Ed.D. in "Curriculum and Instruction." As in, putting together curricula.

Just sayin'.

Wuv. Twue wuv . . . .

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

One hour nine minutes.

See second-to-last sentence in post below.

Yes, yes, I've seen everything published over the last few days regarding Corzine and MF Global and the fact that Edith O'Brien wrote emails directly stating that customer segregated funds were wired to London to meet a JP Morgan margin call at Corzine's direct instruction. There's nothing new here. We also knew right off the bat that JP Morgan knew exactly what the situation was, because they drafted a letter for ol' Edith to sign affirming that the wire she sent was NOT customer money. Uh, hello? Can you say DEAD GIVEAWAY? I laid most of this out last year. But since I don't have archives, we'll recap.

1. Jon Corzine is a psychopath who knew EXACTLY what he was doing, what was going on, and what his trading position was at MF Global. The guy would sit in meetings and place trades on his Blackberry. Talk about "compensating for inadequate/ingrown gender-specific anatomical abnormalities", or something. If this guy had any more of an inferiority complex, he would be forming an army to mount a land invasion of Russia in winter. Seriously.

2. Of course Corzine instructed that the customer segregated accounts be raided. In a functioning society with a rule of law, stealing in excess of a billion dollars of your customers' money would land you in prison, probably for the rest of your life. No Treasury officer would do this unless under direct orders to do so.

3. Of course Corzine lied to congress. DUH! What do you expect? This guy is evil, immoral, conscienceless, and lying is part of his daily modus operandi as much as breathing and tinkling.

4. Because Corzine is a psychopath, he will attempt to deflect blame onto Edith O'Brien and/or some other MFG back office staff. I wrote a piece months ago warning that they may try to frame the actual wire transfer keypunch clerk who physically entered the transfers into the Fed wire system. This person is likely to be a woman making a meager salary who knows nothing about the wire instructions she is given, and just sits at a computer terminal in a cubicle and enters wires all day. I renew the warning. This is what psychopath oligarchs do. They treat the lives of other people as object playthings.

5. Edith is no innocent little lamb in all of this. She knew all along that she was working for scum and she knew what Corzine was doing to the company - namely prison raping both the customers and the stockholders. If she had any integrity she would have quit long ago, or at least publicly spilled her guts right away on October 31st or November 1st.

6. However, in fairness, Edith did NOT sign the letter from JP Morgan certifying that the wires to London were not customer funds. She also notified the CME that the "missing" customer money wasn't an accounting error, but a very real shortfall on October 31st. We've known all of this since darn near the very beginning of this mess.

7. The notion that it has taken five months to trace bank wires is abject nonsense. There is nothing easier in the world to track, and there is nothing more heavily documented than bank wires. All of this bee-ess about endless "forensic accounting" and "we may never know what happened" is pure smoke-and-mirrors. Everyone has known since the very beginning that the money went to London, specifically to JP Morgan . . .

8. . . . which is why the bankruptcy was fraudulently set up as a Chapter 11 securities firm BK, and not a subchapter 4 Chapter 7 bankruptcy of a commodity brokerage. Let me clear up all ambiguity on this matter. There is NO POSSIBLE WAY that EVERY PARTY INVOLVED in the filing of the BK wasn't aware of exactly what they were doing, the inherent fraud in filing the BK as they did, and the consequences to the customers AND the huge illegal advantage the Chapter 11 filing gave to JP Morgan. The following groups are 110% complicit in the theft of the customers' funds by virtue of their participation in the scheme of the BK filing itself: CME Group, the SEC, the CFTC, the DOJ, the bankruptcy court, the bankruptcy trustees, and of course, JP Morgan, who has been running the table on this since literally day one. Everyone listed is criminally complicit in stealing the customers' money because had the BK been filed in the only possible legal way, as a Subchapter 4 Chapter 7 commodity brokerage BK, the customers would have gone to the front of the line and been made immediately whole. The BK was fraudulently filed the way it was for one reason and one reason only: to benefit JP Morgan.

9. Corzine will never be touched. What part of "lawless totalitarian oligarchy" are you STILL struggling to understand? The reason Corzine did what he did was because he knew that he would never be touched - specifically by Eric Holder and the Obama DOJ. If conditions in the United States change and Corzine feels threatened, he will be on a chartered jet to a non-extradition treaty country to live out his days in luxury. I would guess that the vast majority of Corzine's wealth has long-since been transferred offshore. If I had to bet on where he would end up, I would guess the United Arab Emirates. The city of Dubai is in the UAE and they have been trying to establish Dubai as the next global financial center. It is all built on a massive debt bubble, and muslim culture embraces and encourages dishonesty in business dealings, so Corzine will feel right at home, and will be treated like a rockstar. And, like I said, there's no extradition treaty between the US and the UAE.

10. If Corzine appears before Congress again, it will be more of the same "I had no knowledge . . . " lies. And his buddies in Washington (on BOTH sides of the aisle, because they're all in exactly the same criminal class) will shrug their shoulders, maybe feign a little outrage, and then it will all be forgotten in 36 hours. Just like everything else of meaning, importance or consequence in this godforsaken cesspit of a society.

11. If you still have money sitting in a brokerage account of any kind, you're just stupid. Sorry. But that is the only way to put it. DO NOT email me asking if by "ANY BROKERAGE ACCOUNT" I was referring to the brokerage firm that you use. Uh, is it a BROKERAGE? Does it BROKER TRANSACTIONS in the futures, futures options, stock, stock options, bond, money market, ETF or any other form of securities or currency in the United States of America? Here, let me just answer the next 1000 emails in one fell swoop:

YES, YOUR ACCOUNTS ARE FUNDAMENTALLY UNSAFE AND YOU ARE AT RISK OF HAVING YOUR MONEY CONFISCATED AT ANY TIME. YES, I'M TALKING TO YOU. YEAH, YOU. YEAH, YOUR MONEY ISN'T SAFE. YES, YOU SHOULD GET YOUR MONEY OUT NOW. YES, I'M TALKING DIRECTLY TO YOU. YES, I AM REFERRING TO WHATEVER BROKERAGE FIRM YOU ARE USING FOR WHATEVER PRODUCTS YOU ARE INVESTED IN. RETIREMENT, PENSION, ANNUITY, MONEY MARKET, 401(k), IRA, STOCKS, BONDS, ETFs, FUTURES, OPTIONS, AND ANYTHING ELSE. WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO HIRE A SKYWRITER? HOW ABOUT ONE OF THOSE BLIMPS WITH THE LIGHTS ON THE SIDE? HOW ABOUT A HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND? YES, I'M TALKING TO YOU.

I'm noting the time of this post and will let you know when the first email arrives saying, "You didn't mean my money market with Fidelity, did you?"

Too bad we can't do some sort of over/under on that.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

So my phone rings at a few minutes past eight this morning, and it is a local pro-life leader asking if I would be willing to speak for five minutes at the Denver Rally for Religious Liberty on the steps of the state capitol downtown at noon. Sure. Why not?

Here's the transcript of the speech. There were cameras there, but I have yet to see the video - if it is posted at all. If anyone happens across it, do let me know and I'll post it here. Until then, just imagine the crazy eyes, and fire coming out of my ears.

I was, as I expected, the most . . . er, forthright speaker. I hope I did some good.

Good afternoon. My name is Ann Barnhardt and I am the person who says the things that everyone else is too terrified, and too attached to earthly riches and power, to say.
Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and render unto the Lord that which is the Lord’s.
There seems to be some confusion as to what Caesar, in the form today of Caesar Tyrannus Obama, is owed, so please permit me to clear up any confusion on the matter once and for all.
Caesar Tyrannus Obama is NOT OWED the broken bodies, decapitated heads and spilled blood of our pre-born children, even though he now demands that he be worshiped with such slaughter, and that we pay for it in a tribute attached to our now-mandatory health insurance policies and enforced by his tax collectors, or lose our earthly liberty.
Caesar Tyrannus Obama is NOT OWED our fertility and ability to transmit and propagate human life itself, even though he demands that WE PAY for foolish young women to offer up their bodies to him, both in the forms of temporary chemical sterilization OR permanent surgical sterilization.
Caesar Tyrannus Obama is NOT OWED our humanity, as he demands that we allow ourselves to be reduced to nothing more than economic units, upon which cost-benefit analyses will be calculated so that Caesar Tyrannus Obama may decide who lives and who dies, that he may rape the still-productive living and intoxicate himself on the blood of the unfit and economically burdensome dead.
Caesar Tyrannus Obama is NOT OWED our souls, as he demands that we publically renounce our Crucified Savior and enter into mortal sin by cooperating with his satanic regime. Caesar Tyrannus Obama demands that either we join him, with his master, in hell for all eternity, or we will lose our earthly possessions, our liberty, and eventually perhaps even our lives.
With all of the Christian Charity I can muster, I say this to Caesar Tyrannus Obama:
Go to hell.
Antichrists like you are owed nothing but the scathing contempt of decent human beings.
I will never comply.
I will never submit.
I will never renounce Christ.
I will never betray my Savior.
Confiscate my estate. Throw me in prison. Hang me at noon on the town square. I am not afraid, and frankly, I’d consider it an honor.
I cannot be intimidated and I cannot be coerced to violate my conscience, because I fight under the Banner of Christ.
And because I fight under the Banner of Jesus Christ, I FEAR NO MAN.
I will render unto God that which is God’s, which is everything I have and everything I am.
I can think of no greater honor than to climb up on the Cross and be crucified with Jesus at the hands of Caesar.
For what little my wretched life is worth, may the Lord accept my sacrifice at Caesar’s hands, for the praise and glory of His Name and the good of all His Church.
HAIL Christ the King!
Viva Cristo Rey!

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Remember James Koutoulas? He's the Roy Orbison-looking guy who ran a hedge fund and got raped by MF Global. Mr. Koutoulas was also a lawyer, so he decided to dust off his J.D. and fight in court, and became a "voice of the customers." When I shut Barnhardt Capital Management down in November of 2011, he criticized me for not sticking around and fighting it out - which is a very faulty argument because I and all brokers are basically HELPLESS to defend client funds with FCMs, and because I would be risking not just my own money, but orders of magnitude more at risk would be MY CLIENTS' funds. My client book value ranged from twenty to sixty times my personal posted capital, which is very standard. The capital I had to post personally was basically to protect my clearing firm against two things: a big trading error on my part, OR a client skipping out on a deficit balance. It's one thing to lay down your own chips. It is quite another to cavalierly lay down someone else's chips. Big, big moral difference there.

Well, Mr. Koutoulas, after staring down the beast from inside the pit for these last five months, has reached the same conclusion that I reached two weeks after the MF Global collapse. The U.S. financial system is irretrievably broken. All hands abandon ship.

I don't know who the interviewer is, but his "sympathy for Corzine" schtick is total bee-ess. You can't "temporarily steal" someone else's funds to finance your suicidally stupid house accounts. There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING that justifies monkeying around with customer money. This moral equivocation crap has got to stop.

Interviewer: If he [Corzine} gets off doing this scott free without any investigation [uh, how about a criminal conviction??], what does that say to the future?
Koutoulas: It says that you should get your money out of the U.S. financial system, because people can go in and take money out of not just a bank account, but something that is supposed to be much safer than a bank account, and have no repercussions, and this cannot stand. And if it does, America's financial system is not safe for anybody.

Hat tip: Warren Pollock

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

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Andrea wants to talk about all of the pundits on the so-called "right" who *seem* to be apologists for the Obama regime, and refuse to acknowledge or cover so much of what is going on.

**The recorded stream is available at the same link above.**

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

In the Breitbartian spirit of VETTING . . .

Watch this. It is an excerpt from another documentary on the Weather Underground. It is simultaneously fascinating and terrifying.

Remember that everything goes back to the KGB, and their agents, moles and spies in the U.S., particularly the U.S. government and academia. Joe McCarthy was right. More right than he could have ever imagined.

"Days of Rage 2.0" is coming this summer - mere weeks away.

Stay with it to the very end. The last few seconds are chilling.

Informant: We know that the Weathermen Underground organization went to Cuba and utilized the same kinds of techniques that we utilized. These people [the Weathermen] did engage in direct bombing and killing in the United States, so I fear it.
Interviewer: And yet, most of them haven't been heard from for a long, long time
Informant: That's right (smiling), but they're still out there . . . they're underground. And the question is, over a long period of time, what does it take to activate them?

Just a wild guess - how about usurping and overthrowing the government of the United States? Do you think that might "activate" them?

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

I'm getting really, really sick of these pundits and talking heads on the so-called "right" clucking their tongues at the unwashed masses and telling us that we're crazy and paranoid to be the least bit concerned each and every time the Obama regime takes another stride toward totalitarianism. And it is EACH AND EVERY TIME.

Let me break it down for Ed Morrissey, and all of the other pundits in that social circle so that you can get your heads around this. We are concerned and even, dare I say it, panicked, because we can see the big picture of the Obama regime for what it is. We can take the totality of the dataset and draw not just a logical, reasoned conclusion, but a conclusion that is supported by centuries - nay millenia - of past precedent. We are, as Patrick Henry put it, "willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."

Why is the 3/16/2012 Executive Order worthy of grave concern? Simply put, because of the man and the regime who issued it. This is a man, and a regime that has done the following:

-Sent the Secretary of Defense (Leon Panetta) to Congress to put them on notice that despite the explicitness of the Constitution, the consent of the Congress to wage war will neither be solicited nor required by the Commander in Chief or his regime. The CiC and SECDEF may, if they feel like it and can find the time, MAY inform the Congress of "kinetic military actions" henceforth.

-Declared the First Amendment null and void by mandating that every American must, as a condition of legal residency in the United States, pay for abortions. Mr. Morrissey, being a Catholic, you should understand that what the Obama regime has done is demand your very soul. In order to remain corporeally "free" in the United States of America, you must enter into mortal sin, reject Jesus Christ in totality, turn your back on your Crucified Savior, excommunicate yourself from the Church, and consign your immortal soul to eternal hell. If that isn't the prohibiting of the free exercise of religion, then nothing is or ever could be.

-Committed acts of war upon the sovereign nation of Mexico and her people, willfully arming narco-terrorists with the intent of using the optics of hundreds if not thousands of brutally murdered Mexicans in order to stir up and justify the overthrow of the Second Amendment to the Constitution. This is textbook sedition.

-Has coordinated with regime cronies in the Legislative Branch to enable the Obama regime to operate for an entire term WITH NO BUDGET WHATSOEVER. In this time, the Obama regime has looted the United States Treasury and debased the currency of the United States to the tune of SEVEN TRILLION DOLLARS, or roughly one-half the gross domestic product.

This is just a very, very, very short list. Additionally, with each passing day it is being further revealed that EVERY SINGLE PERSON Barack Obama has ever associated with has been not merely a Marxist, not merely a Socialist, not merely a Communist, but a TOTALITARIAN hellbent on the destruction of the United States of America.

I'll concede the point that if this Executive Order was issued by - get this - Jimmy Carter or even Bill Clinton, I could buy the idea that it was merely an emergency protocol housekeeping item of some sort geared toward the reaction of the Federal Government after a nuclear attack. I'd be skeptical, but I would be open to the argument.

Not so now. These people are totalitarian tyrants who are no longer even trying to hide their intentions. See the bulleted items above. There comes a point where you have to pull your head out of the sand, synthesize a massive dataset into its obvious, coherent output, and be willing to know the worst, and to provide for it.

Denying the obvious, even when the obvious is horrific, is not some sort of virtue. Keeping people numb to reality and drunk on a sugary treacle of distraction and reassurance that "everything's okay" even when every iota of data and experience tells us that everything is NOT OKAY is not a virtuous public service. It is a massive failure in charity, both towards those who are misled and falsely-consoled by your assurances, and toward those whose intellects and intentions you backhandedly insult.

Remember, people exactly like Ed Morrissey and his ilk were calling everyone warning of Hitler's danger to mankind "alarmist", "conspiracy theorists" and "paranoid" up until 4:40 am on September 1, 1939 when the Luftwaffe attacked Weilun. And before that mess was over, 70 million human beings were dead. The hell that the Obama regime is determined to unleash on the world will make World War II look like a mere bar fight.

Yeah, I'm sorry I can't tell you the day, hour and minute that open war is going to break out, both overseas and here in the homeland, or the exact date, time and high-tick in the markets before the entire system implodes. There is a name for people who claim to know exact dates of future events - they're called CHARLATANS. If that failure makes me non-credible and paranoid, then I wear that sash with pride, and am consoled and flattered by the caliber of the company of Jeremiahs and Cassandras throughout history that I join. But I do know that it is coming, and that the NDRP Executive Order of 3/16/2012 is, WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE DAY AND THE REGIME THAT ISSUED IT, entirely ominous and certainly tactical.

I'll leave you with the video of Larry Grathwohl, which can never, ever be posted, spread and publicized too much. Recorded in 1980, when Barack Obama was nothing more than a drug-addled foreign student at Occidental College and not yet even a glimmer in the eye of the Totalitarians who would later adopt him as their public persona, Grathwohl recounts conversations led by Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the founders and leaders of the Weather Underground, the Marxist-Communist-Totalitarian terrorist group that Grathwohl was tasked to infiltrate, and the eventual intimates, ghostwriter and political handlers of Barack and Michelle Obama. The Totalitarian cabal that runs the Obama regime has intended, for decades, to collapse the United States, overthrow it, establish a Totalitarian oligarchy, and as a necessary corollary to that, murder at least ten percent of the population as "die-hard, unreformable capitalists." In 1980, that 10% worked out to 25 million human beings. Today, it would be 31 million - but heck, what's another Holocaust (6 million) give or take?

Today, you are either Churchill or you are Chamberlain.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

This executive order, published on the White House website yesterday, gives the Obama regime power to take over . . . pretty much EVERYTHING, including agriculture, labor, energy, transportation (both interstate and intrastate) and commerce IN PEACETIME and NON-EMERGENCY conditions.

Read it. Just commit a half hour and read the damn thing.

CLICK HERE.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

As received via email:

A picture began circulating in November. It should be 'The Picture of the Year,' or perhaps, 'Picture of the Decade.' It won't be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the US paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it.
The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner.
The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother's womb. Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta. She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkable surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt Univ Med Ctr in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.
During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. ***As Dr Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon's finger. Dr Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile.*** (See correction below)
The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, 'Hand of Hope.' The text explaining the picture begins, 'The tiny hand of 21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother's uterus to grasp the finger of Dr Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life.'
Little Samuel's mother said they 'wept for days' when they saw the picture. She said, 'The photo reminds us pregnancy isn't about disability or an illness, it's about a little person. Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful.

ObamaCare will not only prohibit and forbid such a surgery from ever taking place, it will demand the execution of babies like Samuel as "unfit" and "burdensome on the state".

I will not comply. I will NEVER submit.

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UPDATE: A keen reader emailed to say that while the photo above and the people involved are 100% real, the bit about the doctor saying that having his finger grasped was the most emotional moment of his life was dramatic flourish added by someone. So there you go. Just FYI.

BUT, this photo brought out a great point. I have received a couple of emails from horrible people - calling themselves conservatives - arguing that spending money on surgeries like the one on Baby Samuel is "economically unfeasible", and that children with defects are a drain on society that should be culled like livestock (someone actually said that in an email), and since healthcare is not a right, the surgery above should never be performed.

Okay, can you rebut this? You have to be able to, because there are plenty of atheist conservatives out there who see everything in terms of dollars and are utterly divorced from charity. You have to be able to rebut them with as much force as you would rebut an atheist liberal.

Here is the rebuttal:

While healthcare is not a right, it is a service commodity that can be purchased or *donated* freely. Doctors can choose to donate their skill and expertise to any extent they choose. Additionally, every sovereign person has the RIGHT to donate their money, which is the fungible proxy for their work and creativity, to the Church, or to a secular charity that would then either cover the cost of such procedures entirely or in part. Ever hear of St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis?? Ever hear of the Catholic Church? THESE ENTITIES, and others, are the entities that are called to provide CHARITABLE HEALTHCARE, supported by the FREELY-GIVEN donations and tithes of the broad populace. These are the institutions to which people who find themselves in need should turn to - NOT THE GOVERNMENT.

Further, human beings are not animals. Human beings are created by God in His image, and are endowed by Him from the moment of their creation with inalienable dignity. Human beings are not livestock to be culled or economic units upon which cost-benefit analyses are performed. If you divorce economic theory from Christian Charity, you will descend into totalitarianism, even if your starting point is on the so-called "right" of the spectrum.

This, dear reader, is the nuance that the imbecilic Catholic bishops are missing. Some of them are outright Marxists and know what they are doing. Many of them are just breathtakingly stupid men who can't combine an understanding of economics with an understanding of Christlike Charity. If the government exists within a matrix of subsidiarity (power diminishing the higher up you go), and the economy is allowed to operate freely, AND the Church preaches the Gospel unflinchingly, the voluntary giving of the populace will always provide for babies like Samuel, and for the indigent.

If a totalitarian government is permitted to take over healthcare, babies like Samuel will be slaughtered in the name of "the good of the state", and the opportunity to engage in acts of charity will be eliminated by definition, because there will be no outlet for charitable healthcare, or care of the poor, or anything else - because the government has co-opted and coerced those activities AT THE POINT OF A GUN. And that is exactly what satan wants. An entire civilization legally incapable, and eventually spiritually unwilling to love their neighbor.

The only authentic love is love that is freely given. Marxism seeks to eliminate the ability to voluntarily love your fellow man, and to pit the masses against each other, jealous of the "consumption of resources" of their neighbor. In pitting the masses against each other, the sins of the oligarchs are hidden from the people by distraction.