1. I made some zucchini bread the other day in the Easy-Bake Oven here in the Van Down By the River. The secret ingredient is yogurt. Yogurt makes baked goods soft and moist. Just make sure you get the plain, unsweetened kind. Sweet vanilla yogurt would be cloying and yucky.
2. I am pleased to announce that the next Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for all of my benefactors and supporters will be on March 18th. Mark the date!
3. I have two Masses per month locked-in, and for the non-benefactor Mass I have been cycling through family, friends and people who have done grievous personal harm to me specifically. Today, however, I decided to finally bite the bullet and dedicate this month’s Mass to Jon Corzine. Yes, as in MFGlobal Jon Corzine. As in the Jon Corzine who I still firmly believe should be arrested and tried for his theft, and upon conviction be executed. Remember, to deprive a man of the justice due him is a sin equal in gravity to his crime. Thus, my position has not changed in that regard, just so we are clear. But, as with any criminal, the hope and prayer is that of conversion, sincere repentance, salvation and that the criminal enjoy the Beatific Vision for all eternity. Jon Corzine is no exception. My hope is that the death of Corzine’s son (which is being reported as a suicide) might jar Corzine, psychopath though he may be, into some sort of conversion experience. I know it is a long shot, especially when we are talking about sociopathy/psychopathy, which is by definition the pathological absence of regret, shame or guilt, but I also know that Our Lord said, “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” So, I am going to ask Our Crucified Lord to affect the conversion and save the soul of Jon Corzine, a man whom, it is completely accurate to say, I have hated.
The Corzine Mass will be on March 19th, and sure enough, I just looked up the propers of the Mass of the Wednesday of the Second Week in Lent and the First Reading is the prayer of Mardochai from the book of Esther, chapter 13, and it couldn’t possibly be any more apropos:
But Mardochai besought the Lord, remembering all His works, And said: O Lord, Lord, Almighty King, for all things are in Thy power, and there is none that can resist Thy will, if Thou determine to save Israel. Thou hast made heaven and earth, and all things that are under the cope of heaven. Thou art Lord of all, and there is none that can resist Thy majesty.
Esther 13: 8-11
There is a sporting chance that Corzine has been baptized as he was brought up (like me) in the uber-liberal United Church of Christ. I doubt, however, that he has ever had the Holy Sacrifice offered specifically for his soul. I guess we will all find out the result at the General Judgment.
4. On the missing plane. I don’t know what to make of it. The question I keep coming back to is, why would someone who wanted to detonate an EMP nuke steal a super-sophisticated passenger jet, filled with people, that can only be landed on a runway with two-foot-deep concrete lest it sink into the ground and be massively damaged if not destroyed? 777s are massive. Only 747s and A380s are bigger, if I’m not mistaken. Why not just use some old mid-sized cargo junker? Why take the massive risk? I suspect this is just another case of insane musloids with suicide bloodlust, but the entire business of “losing” a 777 is deeply troubling indeed.
5. Attention: people who send me the “Michelle Obama is a man” video get permanently blocked, period. There is only so much stupid I can take before I start despairing and consider giving up and shutting everything down, so I am just blocking the stupid. It mystifies me how it is that people can be so utterly, totally, completely gullible. Do you guys not realize that stuff like that is made by either the profoundly mentally ill OR by people who are seeking to discredit any serious criticism of the Obama regime? This is precisely why the Obama eligibility issue never got traction – because infiltrators were sent in to discredit any intelligent discussion of the objective fact of Obama’s ineligibility and the fake birth certificate so that people like me and Karl Denninger (who did yeoman’s work on the birth certificate photoshopping) were lumped in with the people who blame everything on “shape-shifting lizard-Joooz” and believe that jet contrails are poison, or that there is an entire underground “Middle Earth” civilization, or that there is a giant invisible Death Star planet hiding behind the sun. I had an idea once to “seed” a conspiracy theory with the 9/11 truther crowd that 9/11 was actually done by time travelers. Or maybe time-traveling Joooz, because playing the Joooo card will get you a fixed number of nuts no matter what you say. But I wanted to do the time-traveler meme, because I realized long ago that ALL 9/11 conspiracy theories are all plot devices from Star Trek: the Next Generation. Holograms. Shape-shifters. Tractor beams. Massive energy sources. Mind control beams. The only Star Trek plot device that hasn’t been used is time travelers. Sadly, there are a massive number of people walking around who literally cannot tell the difference between reality and the fantasies they have in their heads. It all just blends together. So if they see something on Star Trek, or on the internet in general, it crosses over into their perception of reality. What a world. Obviously, I quickly discerned that to seed a nutso conspiracy theory just to prove a point would be wicked and that would make me just as bad as the people who actually do stuff like that. So I just bang my head on my desk.
6. Okay. I need bluegrass now. I lurv bluegrass. Always have, always will. “Daniel Prayed” – a bluegrass song about the Divine Office and civil disobedience. How ’bout them apples?
I heard about a man one day
He wasted not his time away
He prayed to God
Every morning noon and night
He cared not for the things of man
But trusted One who never fails
Oh, Daniel prayed
Every morning, noon and night
Oh Daniel served the Living God
While upon this earth he trod
He prayed to God every morning, noon and night
He cared not for the king’s decrees
But trusted God to set him free
Oh Daniel prayed every morning, noon and night
They locked him in the lions’ den
Because he would not honor men
But he prayed to God
Every morning, noon and night
The jaws were locked, it made him shout
And God soon brought him safely out
Oh Daniel prayed
Every morning, noon and night
Oh Daniel served the Living God
While upon this earth he trod
He prayed to God every morning, noon and night
He cared not for the king’s decrees
But trusted God to set him free
Oh Daniel prayed every morning, noon and night
Now brother let us watch and pray
Like Daniel did from day to day
He prayed to God
Every morning, noon and night
We too can gladly dare and do
And pray to God He’ll see us through
Oh, Daniel prayed
Every morning, noon and night
Oh Daniel served the Living God
While upon this earth he trod
He prayed to God every morning, noon and night
He cared not for the king’s decrees
But trusted God to set him free
Oh Daniel prayed every morning, noon and night.