1.  So back in March ARSH 2013 when the PERONIST FASCIST JESUIT WHO HATES THE MASS OF THE AGES AND DOES NOT GENUFLECT TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT was elected pope, I warned one and all IMMEDIATELY that disaster would ensue.  Because… OBVIOUS.  What people say and what people do MATTER, no matter how much we have been inculcated in this post-Christian cesspit of a culture into believing that PEOPLE’S WORDS AND DEEDS ARE NOT A RELIABLE MEANS OF ASSAYING THEIR CHARACTER.  Huh?  WHA???

Use the navigation on the right side of this page to go back and review what I was writing from mid-March of 2013 on.  I laid it all out.  I laid it all out and I was attacked from all sides, including “traditional Catholics”.  So… are y’all finally ready to grow the hell up, cut your infantile papolotry and face objective reality now?  Bergoglio is a force of spiritual destruction on a scale never before seen.  What he does almost every single day is called “scandal”.  Let’s look at the formal definition of scandal in the Catechism:

II. Respect for the Dignity of Persons

Respect for the souls of others: scandal

2284 Scandal is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil. the person who gives scandal becomes his neighbor’s tempter. He damages virtue and integrity; he may even draw his brother into spiritual death. Scandal is a grave offense if by deed or omission another is deliberately led into a grave offense.

2285 Scandal takes on a particular gravity by reason of the authority of those who cause it or the weakness of those who are scandalized. It prompted our Lord to utter this curse: “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”85 Scandal is grave when given by those who by nature or office are obliged to teach and educate others. Jesus reproaches the scribes and Pharisees on this account: he likens them to wolves in sheep’s clothing.86

2286 Scandal can be provoked by laws or institutions, by fashion or opinion.

Therefore, they are guilty of scandal who establish laws or social structures leading to the decline of morals and the corruption of religious practice, or to “social conditions that, intentionally or not, make Christian conduct and obedience to the Commandments difficult and practically impossible.” This is also true of business leaders who make rules encouraging fraud, teachers who provoke their children to anger,88 or manipulators of public opinion who turn it away from moral values.

2287 Anyone who uses the power at his disposal in such a way that it leads others to do wrong becomes guilty of scandal and responsible for the evil that he has directly or indirectly encouraged. “Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whom they come!”

Just consider this: how many Christian people are ISIS going to confirm and ratify in mortal sin?  How many people are going to throw up their hands and walk away from the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass never to return because of what Obama says or does?  Relatively few.  But Francis?  How many people listen to this slack-jawed psycho-brat and then AS A DIRECT RESULT either become even more entrenched in their sins, OR reject the Body and Bride of Christ altogether?  Millions.  Millions and millions, and we’re just getting started, because the “Francis Effect” will not only outlive Bergoglio, but last until Our Lord returns in Glory.

2.  The best takedown of the cat litterbox liner document “Laudato… Um, NO” was penned over at The Remnant.  I especially loved the part about how we all encounter God in a sacrament of communion with dust bunnies, or some unqualified bullshit like that.  So, yeah, I guess I’m gonna have to quit my job at the Place Where I Clean All the Things because now I should be falling down on my knees and worshiping the dust bunnies – and also the Poor – instead of sweeping them up into my dustpan and throwing them in the trash.  The dust bunnies, not the Poor.

3.  So, just reiterating, the entire man-caused climate change thing is 110% bullshit.  And as we have discussed so many times before, when one begins with a false premise and then tries to build a logical truth table atop that false premise, ALL output from that truth table is, oh, what’s the fancy mathematical term…? Oh yes, BULLSHIT.  There is nothing wrong with the planet on a macro scale.  Even the Chinese air pollution, which is a pure function of the incomparable Chinese greed, clears out when the factories are idled and a front blows through.  Um, that’s what they did when they had the Olympics.  And CARBON DIOXIDE IS NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT A POLLUTANT.  Anyone who tells you it is is either a liar or an imbecile.

4.  So, Bergoglio has absolutely no problem spewing lies if it serves his worldly agenda, AND WE HAVE KNOWN THIS FOR A LONG TIME.  In September of ARSH 2013 Pope Francis Bergoglio went to the Church of St. John Lateran in Rome and said:

“I dare to say that the church has never been so well as it is today,”

You know, after sloughing off something like 90% of Mass-goers in less than 50 years.  Oh, and having the ranks of priests and nuns totally overrun and decimated by sodomites.  Yeah.  Never better.

So we knew for a metaphysical certitude back then that he was either an inveterate liar, teetering on the precipice of mental retardation, or utterly detached from reality.  Oh, would that the Vicar of Christ on earth were MERELY insane.  He is not insane.  He is a combination of stupidity and malignancy, and as time goes on I am becoming more convinced that the malignancy far, far outpaces the stupidity, and that’s saying something, because he is, in fact, dumber than a bag of hammers.

5.  To wit:

On Sunday while in Turin, Pope Francis within a matter of seconds apart declared that all arms manufacturers ARE NOT CHRISTIANS (apparently he is not able to judge teh butt sex, but is capable of judging people who produce tools that keep musloids from raping their children to death and sawing their heads off), and then ranted that the Allies should have bombed the railroads in WWII.  The guy is a complete moron.

With regards to The Poor, whom we are all supposed to fall down on our knees and REVERENCE according to Bergoglio, why in the world would we want to make the Poor be NOT poor?  If being Poor is an intrinsically superior state, worthy of reverence and acts of worship, why is poverty a problem?  Isn’t making the Poor not poor actually knocking them down a peg?  If God loves the Poor best, why would we ever think that being poor is a problem, much less an injustice that must be eradicated by any means necessary?  If the Gospel makes no sense without the Poor, won’t eliminating all material poverty render Christianity utterly meaningless? Why are you constantly complaining about a state of being which you are constantly telling us is intrinsically superior?

GEE, YOU THINK BERGOGLIO JUST MIGHT BE A MARXIST SOCIOPATH WHO DOESN’T ACTUALLY BELIEVE ANY OF THAT CHRISTIANITY BULLSHIT?

Do you think God might be angry with us for sitting by and aloofly watching the world go to hell in a hand basket?  Hmmmm?  You think St. John Eudes might have been on to something?? HMMMMMM??

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. Amen.

PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.

“The Virgin, the Baby Jesus and Saint John the Baptist”, ARSH 1875, W.A. Bouguereau

(AKA “Married by the Bible, Divorced by the Synod”)

What a strange world we live in, what a shame oh what a shame
Someone’s always quarrelin’ then marriage don’t remain
Divorces by the thousands, is this human race insane
I always thought that marriage should be a sacred thing

Married by the Bible divorced by the law
Everyday there’s more and more the worst I ever saw
Things have changed they’re not the same as the days of ma and pa
They were married by the Bible no divorces by the law

Steps are often taken without thinking twice
And oft times a there’s child or two who’s left to pay the price
Those little hearts so innocent they don’t know who’s to blame
No mom and dad to love them what a shame oh what a shame

Why is Ann’s brow furrowed and her lips pursed? Because the musloid political system STILL hasn’t been exterminated from the face of the earth, and my incandescent hatred of the satanic musloid political system makes my face scrunch up like that.  But the artist has captured the essence of my pompadour brilliantly, I think.

It’s a red-letter day when an operational arm of the Washington D.C. regime puts out a fatwa/hit on you.  The SPLC is hand-in-glove with both the DC regime’s so-called Department of Justice (snorf), and the musloid Caliphate (but I repeat myself), and what this is is a very, very thinly-veiled (pun intended) call for the jihadis already in place to hunt and kill me and the other eleven ladies on the list.  The DOJ and FBI will look the other way should the retards (not a mere slang pejorative – their family trees are straight lines) actually get lucky, and it will all disappear down the gaping maw of the 36 hour news cycle, so the green light is given.

So be it.  In fact, I was just thinking about how it has been too, too long since I have done a koran conflagration/bacon fry.  In fact, I think the next koran burning I do should be IN PUBLIC.  I hear Montgomery, Alabama is just lovely this time of year.

Here’s the link.  Enjoy.

Interestingly, every word of the text is true except for two errors.  The foreclosure sale of my office/condo was at the price of the balance on the mortgage, so the IRS got nothing, and my tax lien has not only NOT been satisfied, it has continued to grow.  Heh.  Second, I did not burn the koran with “a” bacon bookmark.  I burned the koran with FOURTEEN bacon bookmarks.  I sacrificed an entire package of perfectly good bacon, defiling it by touching the koran with it, in service to mankind.  I had to throw away all of that bacon.  No BLTs.  No hot bacon vinaigrette.  No pancakes fried in bacon grease, with crisp rashers drizzled in maple syrup.  DO NOT MINIMIZE THE BACON SACRIFICE.

1.  Situational update:  I’m still in the same “new” parking spot as I have still heard nothing beyond the last kerfuffle.  The internet went out for about a week as the landlords, I think, forgot to pay the bill, but it is back on now.  I finally gave up and roughly unpacked and stowed my clothes, as I literally started buying clothes (albeit extremely cheap clothes) because it was “easier” than digging through trash bags trying to find something wearable.  That’s no good.  Packing again could be accomplished in a few hours, or minutes, depending on the next destination.  But, for now, I can find my underpants in the mornings, so I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.

I have no idea what I am going to do.  St. Anthony has been enjoined.  Thank you all, once again, for your prayers, and especially for the Masses/Divine Liturgies.  Thank you all for the kind and concerned inquiries during my absence.

2.  People often ask what intention I would like them to pray for, and I can only ever reply that I would like the same as what I pray for with regards to you all – salvation.  I see the emails asking for prayers for a troubled child, infertility, cancer, etc. and I do pray for those things, but the main petition that is repeated every day is for the salvation of your souls, because that’s really all that matters, and what everything is driving towards anyway.  Yeah, I could rattle off things that I would sure like, but the real risk is the ruination of one’s soul.  The demons aren’t wasting much time on Bruce Jenner, for example, these days.  That train wreck doesn’t need any demonic provocation.  The demons focus on generating new derailments.

3.  I read an Ol’ Remus piece over at AmericanDigest.org which was originally posted at dear friend o’ the blog from way back, Fran Poretto’s place, Liberty’s Torch.   The piece is written as an open letter to blacks, and the Remus prose is incomparable, as usual, but I find myself in stern disagreement with the premise.  The premise is summed up here in the final paragraph:

So here’s the deal. If you want to know what we really think of you, the answer is we don’t, unless you’re making yourself unavoidable or we’re cleaning up your latest mess. We can safely rely on you to make astonishingly irresponsible choices and blame us for the consequences. And you’ll demand we make good on them for you. We won’t take a chance on your sincerity ever again. Take it somewhere else, you have no credibility left with us. You’re a net liability, predictable to the point of surety. So we attend to our own lives and our own problems. It’s as it should be. We recommend it. As for you, frankly my dear, we don’t give a damn.

Oh, it sounds so deliciously tempting, doesn’t it?  But the terrifying truth is summed up in one of the top-5 scariest things Our Lord said in the gospels: to whom much is given, much will be required.  You see, people of intelligence and morality are supposed to step up and provide leadership in society, a very large component of which is the application of justice and medicinal punishment.  Do you remember just a few decades ago when the local judge was considered to be a leader in the community, a man of intelligence and MORALITY?  And he was one of the highest-paid men in town, but he deserved it not only because he was highly educated in the law, but also because he held the lives of other men, and by extension the community as a whole, in his hands, and that heavy burden was worthy of a high wage.

One of the rotten, stinking fruits of this post-modern, post-Christian culture is the near-total suppression of the sense of duty. This is a result of two things, first the satanic inversion of Christianity into a pagan cult revolving around the antipode of charity: indifference.  Indifference utterly eliminates any sense of duty, much less the love of it, because duty, by definition, looks outside of the self.  The utterly self-absorbed man rejects all notions of duty to anyone and anything except his own worldly pleasure.  We see this on the macro level, as articulated by Ol’ Remus above, and on the micro level when black men, as an example, dispense themselves of any duty toward their women and children.  Why do black men abandon their own women and children?  Bluntly, because they do not love them, more specifically they are completely indifferent to them.  All they care about is their own sexual pleasure.

The man devoid of charity convinces himself that his indifference is itself virtuous, and thus not only is his dereliction of duty towards others, from the broad society all the way down to his friends and family, not only NOT sinful, it is a proof set of his moral superiority.  To wit, Remus above.

It can be summed up as, “My treatment of others is only sinful if I care.  So long as I don’t care about the other person or people, I cannot sin against them, nor do I have any duty toward them.”

The second reason that the sense of duty has been suppressed is another post-Christian, post-modern phenomenon, anti-intellectualism.  Those of us who are riding the Bell Curve multiple standard deviations forward have been shamed into not just silence, but a suicidal desire to cede our duties of leadership in society to the very people that require our leadership.  Did you just cringe when you read the first clause in the last sentence?  Did you just cringe when I said, using the first person plural, “Those of us who are riding the Bell Curve multiple standard deviations forward…”  I’ll bet most of you did.  Why?  Because it has been drilled into all of us that we must bow to the lie that we are all “equal”, most especially in terms of intellect, and thus one may NEVER, EVER acknowledge that one is of above-average intelligence, most especially if it is true.

Humility – TRUE humility, not the false Pope Francis perversion of the concept – is honesty about one’s self, BOTH in terms of what we are, and what we are not.  Those of us who have been given much, as Our Lord said, have proportionally greater societal duty, and we are expected to discern this.  Now Pope Francis and his ilk, being Marxists, nincompoops, and moral cripples, take these words as purely material, twisting them to falsely justify progressive taxation schemes and forced wealth redistribution, but the material sense is at the bottom of the list.  Closer to the top of the list are the intellectual gifts that God has bestowed upon us very, very unequally.

The point of this is that unless and until the intelligent, wise, morally upright people on this earth stop cowering in shame before psychopaths, imbeciles and moral degenerates, and face up to the fact that they must reassert themselves and reclaim their place in society WHICH IS THEIR DUTY, there is no non-supernatural remedy to any of this, and it will continue to spiral into hell.

I’m not optimistic.

4.  A point about the Rule of Law, which is being systematically, aggressively attacked in every venue; secular, cultural, and of course, The Church.  The Constitution of the former United States is now a joke, but the US Code is inflating, with selective enforcement of irrational, immoral laws being the main vector of coercion and terrorism by the oligarchy.  And, of course, Pope Francis and his toadies are getting ready to schism The Church by thuggishly demanding that the Sixth Commandment be abrogated IN PRACTICE, an outright attack on the Rule of Law, and God Himself.

It occurred to me that the Rule of Law is a subset of Charity, or Love.  When God created the Universe, when space, time, matter and energy came into existence, what had to come into existence at the same time, if not somehow “before” (if there are any metaphysicians reading this, please go have kittens in the bathtub – it makes the cleanup so much easier) were all of the Cosmological Constants and the so-called “Laws of Physics”.  In order for the Universe to exist, there had to be a solid framework of LAWS upon which the fabric of spacetime could be draped.

Do you know about the Physical Constants?  “A physical constant is a physical quantity that is generally believed to be both universal in nature and constant in time.”  The speed of light, the Newtonian constant of Gravitation, Planck’s Constant, etc.  These values simply exist in the universe, and never change.  They are, in a sense, LAWS.  If these values were to change by even the slightest, infinitesimal amount, the entire universe would fly apart and then implode in chaos.  Galaxies would not hold together, nothing would orbit anything else, stars would not remain cohesive, electrons would not stay in their valence shells, protons and neutrons would not hold together in atomic nuclei, the universe would be a nothingness of chaos.  And there are dozens of them – that we know of.

God’s love for us is manifest in the very existence of spacetime.  Just stop and feel the passage of time, the realness of space, the cohesion of matter.  All of this is possible and utterly contingent upon these RULES, these LAWS, which are universal and constant.  Have you ever lain awake at night worrying about whether or not gravity will be in effect tomorrow? Or if the electrons in your body will fly out of their valences and off randomly into space?  No.  You haven’t.  And you need not start now.  God loves us, made this universe for us, and established these laws not only so that the universe could exist and persist, but so that we could act within it with existential stability.

The brilliant David Berlinski, philosopher, mathematician, biologist, leading critic of evolutionary theory and secular Jew, once asked the rhetorical question, “Why do the electrons stay in their shells?  We don’t know.”  Oh, yes we do.  The electrons stay in their shells because God loves us, and from the moment of creation (or “before”), God established THE RULE OF LAW on the most fundamental level purely out of love for us.

A total lack of Law, Laws contrary to reason and reality, and/or an arbitrary application of the Law is evil.  It is chaos.  It is from hell.  I am reminded of Pope Francis’ constant railing against “the law” and “these doctors of the law” and his unofficial slogan, “Hagan lio”, which translates literally to “make a mess”, but the better colloquial translation is “raise hell”.  These people have as their goal nothing less than the total abolition of the Rule of Law, because that is a cornerstone of Marxism, which teaches that all Law is an ideological weapon used to effect class oppression, and that in the “new world”, the “new man”, and now presumably “the new church”, or, perhaps better named the “new order”, will abolish all law.  Marxism, exactly like Modernism, also has as a core premise that humanity and society are in constant evolution and flux, and thus any notions of constancy or stability in the Law must be purged from the zeitgeist.

In the secular political context, they want an abolition of the Rule of Law because in that environment, the biggest thug wins, and gets very, very rich.  And thus, you can read the bill after we pass it.

Love.

1.  Update on the “Van Parking Spot”.  First and foremost, thank you for all of the prayers and kind words.  I wish I was providing a better example and practicing what I preach.  I told Andrea Shea King a few weeks ago via email when things started getting chippy that “if it is God’s will that I stay nothing will be able to dislodge me, and if it is God’s will that I go, then nothing can prevent that.”  I reckon that it isn’t the prospect of departing Riverville that is so horrible – I have always known that that day would come.  It is the terms.  I had hoped that I would have been able to leave on sad and yet happy terms, not as a plague being driven out.  But, it is what it is.  I guess St. Paul went through this several dozen times.

So the update on the actual parking spot is that I am still in the new parking spot, but haven’t heard anything in about a week.  No news is good news and all that.  But, I’m certainly not going to unpack any more clothes, put it that way.  So, for now, it’s just “One Day at a Time”.  Because I have to, here’s the song.  I always hated this show as a kid.  It was such miserable, overacted  Commie agitprop, as were all of Norman Lear’s shows.  The lead character, the feminist single mom divorcee played by Bonnie Franklin, was such a revolting, miserable, mean-spirited, self-absorbed harpy, I can’t for the life of me figure out how this show ever ran for as long as it did.  Oh… wait.  I know.  Valerie Bertinelli.  Ten million teenaged boys and Eddie Van Halen can’t be wrong.  Duh.

… So up on yo’ feet!  Somewhere there’s music playin’.  Don’t you worry none, just take it like it comes… one day at a time.

2.  Speaking of Andrea Shea King, on the last ASK broadcast we did I talked about how people on the so-called “center-right” will start blaming the messengers, and that these sort of attacks should be expected.  Well, sure enough, just yesterday a very traddy priest told me that Pope Francis wouldn’t be doing nearly as much damage if people like me didn’t report or write or blog about him.  So me and my low six-figure audience is the problem, and the multi-trillion dollar global satanic-Freemasonic media juggernaut is no bigs.

I am reminded of Solzhenitsyn:

“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”   

3.  Yes, I saw the SCOTUS Tibble vs. Edison decision regarding pension and retirement funds, which allows for government seizure of said funds if the fund or plan “underperforms”.  Here’s the problem with this, and it is very simple.  Interest rates on anything other than 9th level derivatives are zero to negative.  Good grief, Swiss 10-year bonds have a negative yield.  TEN YEAR!  So the oligarchy drives interest rates to zero or lower, which means the only way to have even a chance of generating a return is to invest in super-risky products and derivatives, and then when either the funds fail to perform due to a lack of yield on “safe products”, or due to losses incurred on a high-risk portfolio, the State rushes in to save the people.  Um, yeah.  This is exactly what we have been warning about for years.  I personally have been saying for years both in terms of retirement funds AND Obamacare, that the regime would willfully and with full malice aforethought destroy both the financial markets AND the health insurance system such that the people themselves would be begging for government takeovers of both sectors.  Speaking of which, did you see that most health insurance premiums are set to double again next year?  Yep.  All according to plan, and also according to SIMPLE MATHEMATICS AND COMMON SENSE.

I am reminded by the whole government-imposed zero-to-negative interest rate paradigm of the engineered starvation in the Ukraine in ARSH 1932-33.  I’ve told this story before, but it bears repeating.  So in ARSH 1932, Stalin had decided to exterminate the Ukrainian peasant class.  Ukraine was/is the breadbasket of eastern Europe, and wheat farming was huge.  The Soviet agents running Ukraine refused to give the Ukrainian farmers any seed to plant that year’s wheat crop.  The farmers, growing progressively more panicked with each passing day as the planting window closed, would go to the Soviet offices and BEG the bureaucrats for seed.  They were given none.  Fast-forward to harvest time.  The Soviet bureaucrats showed up at the Ukrainian farms and demanded delivery of that year’s wheat crop.  The farmers, stunned by the sheer audacity of the Soviets’ demands for a crop that they categorically refused to give the farmers seed to plant, were then accused of hoarding the non-existent wheat harvest, were lined up and summarily executed as enemies of the people.  The women, elderly and young children were left to starve to death.  Before it was over, many women, driven insane by starvation, had killed, cooked and eaten their own children.  It is conservatively estimated that 4 million people starved to death in the Holodomor, which means “hunger extermination”.  The similarity is striking.  Synthetically eliminate the time value of money, and then demand the generation of a return.  Just sayin’.

The monthly Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for all of my Benefactors/Supporters will be on Saturday May 30th.  The day before, on Friday May 29th, the Holy and August Sacrifice of Calvary will be offered for the salvation of the soul of [email protected] .  (Note: honestsportstalk shut down his email account about 48 hours after my post went up, so don’t bother sending anything.)  If you don’t remember, scroll down to the recent ‘Pollyanna” post and the unredacted email that [email protected] sent me.

Remember, God has known and loved [email protected] for all eternity, since before the creation of the universe.  In the fullness of time, God effected the conception of and endowed with a soul honestsportstalk in his mother’s womb.  God then knit together, atom by atom, molecule by molecule, honestsportstalk’s body.  And then honestsportstalk was born, and he (I’m going with the high odds that this is a male) was his mother’s precious little baby.  And he had cute little fingers, and cute little toes, and was very warm and snuggly as sleeping little babies are.  And then he grew up, and clearly something along the way went wrong.  But God still loved him relentlessly, so much so that God has, does, and always will hold sacred honestsportstalk’s free will.

But, God being God, and His thoughts being far above ours, can take our horrible, horrible decisions and actions, and cause incredible good to come out of them.  To wit, honestsportstalk made the horrible free choice a couple of weeks ago to compose and send that email to me.  It was a horrific, horrific sin.  BUT, because he sent it to me, the Holy Sacrifice will be offered for him.  And many, many people are going to set an alarm for roughly 1:00pm Eastern Daylight Time on Friday (ahem, cough, cough, hint, hint), and will stop for a moment, and uniting themselves to the Mass being offered for honestsportstalk, will themselves offer up a prayer for the salvation of the soul of honestsportstalk, along with all of the angels and all of the saints.  We won’t know the result until the General Judgment, and honestsportstalk, having free will held sacred by God, may choose not to avail himself of the grace that will be available to him, but I do know that all things are possible through Christ, and that honestsportstalk’s odds will be better after than they were before.

This is what “love your enemies” and “pray for your enemies” means.  This is what “love your neighbor” means.  I have no desire to meet honestsportstalk IN THIS WORLD.  But, I am desirous of the salvation of his soul, and hopefully meeting him in heaven, and gazing upon the Beatific Vision together with him, simply because God made Him, God loves Him, and God Incarnated and died for Him.

The mantra among men in post-Christian culture is , “He/she/they aren’t my problem.”  Well, it seems to me that the definition of charity is to voluntarily choose to make someone outside of yourself “your problem”.  In the broadest sense is agape love, the love of humankind, which is the sort of love one feels for someone like honestsportstalk.  Because God loves honestsportstalk, and because honestsportstalk’s path crossed mine, the choice is then put before me: do I make honestsporistalk’s salvation my problem?  I choose “yes” because God chose “yes”, both with regards to honestsportstalk AND with regards to me.  Do you know what the ultimate expression of choosing to make someone else “my problem” looks like?  Here.  Let me show you.

Things Jesus Never Said: “You’re not My problem.”

Filial love, or brotherly love, is to say to another on a more intimate and direct level that you freely choose to make them “your problem”. Hence:

A faithful friend is a strong defence: and he that hath found him, hath found a treasure. Nothing can be compared to a faithful friend, and no weight of gold and silver is able to countervail the goodness of his fidelity. A faithful friend is the medicine of life and immortality: and they that fear the Lord, shall find him. He that feareth God, shall likewise have good friendship: because according to him shall his friend be.  Ecclesiasticus 6: 14-17

Erotic love chooses to make another person “your problem” by marrying them and becoming one unit in the eyes of God.  Their estates are combined, and, God willing, their DNA is combined, thus making each spouse the other’s “problem” to the extent of literally creating new human beings for which they are together responsible.  For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health… in other words, “all of your problems I now make my problems too.”

So, if you love someone, you should go right now and tell them, “You are my problem, and I’m so glad that you are,” because that’s just another way to say “I love you.”

1.  I think the “big ugly” phase has begun for me.  While I was optimistic about the “Parking Spot for the Van” situation, it all went to pieces yesterday.  I knew this was coming, but had hoped to hold on for a while longer.  I think we should expect to suffer the same things that Our Lord suffered.  This probably falls under the category of Matthew 8:20.  This in combination with the interpersonal unpleasantness referenced below, which is far worse (see Genesis 2:18), is admittedly taxing, and I also admit that I am not handling it very well.  If you find yourself with all of the chores done, the cat fed, your hair washed and set, and every other possible prayer said, a very quick, “Help Ann man up” prayer would be most appreciated.  If you know the St. Michael prayer, you might send him my way.  The demons are definitely afoot, seeking the ruin of souls, including mine.  They don’t want me, or any of us, to ever see God.

2.  I think I have made this point before, but just because it is a real-time occurrence for me, let me restate that an economy in which it is illegal for individuals to transact business with cash or payment-in-kind physical commodities is a deeply immoral economy that will not survive.  When the commodity being purchased is something utterly necessary as a corollary to waking up breathing, as in this case, shelter, the gravity of the disorder is even more pronounced.

3.  Back in the day, the Papal States, the “country” that occupied central Italy of which the Pope was the earthly ruler from the 700s until ARSH1870, generated all revenues by holding a monopoly on all olive and wine production.  All olive groves and vineyards were owned by the Papal States and sharecropped, but there were NO TAXES otherwise.  I gotta tell you, I just keep coming back to this in my mind as I think about what the post-war paradigm plans need to be for you all.  The risk in this, I think, is having a state monopoly like this over something truly coercive, such as energy.  Olives and wine are food, and they are certainly staples, but are not utterly necessary to human life.  What would be a possible commodity that a post-War state could hold to generate revenue, but not use to coerce or murder its people?  It is something to think about.  Internet?  Sugar?  Alcohol?  Maybe just beer?  But just think, no taxes otherwise.  No income tax (obviously), no property tax (obviously), no estate tax (obviously), no welfare taxes, no sales tax.  Nothing.  People completely free to transact business as they see fit, with whatever currency or barter commodity they see fit.  Sigh.

4.  Did you know that there are more Catholics in China than DOUBLE the ENTIRE population of Canada?  63 million Catholics in China vs. a total population of 30 million Canucks.  For reference, there are technically 78 million Catholics in the former United States, but only 719 of them actually believe what the Church teaches.  The rest complain to their sodomite hairdressers about how the Pill makes them carry extra water weight and thus they can’t wear the super-hawt white yoga pants outfit when serving as an Extraordinary Monster of Holy Communion at Mass that makes their boyfriend’s ex-wife super-jealous every time they see each other when handing off the kids for visitation, but our lord and savior Pope Francis the Merciful is totes teh AWESOME, and totes lurves teh gays, er mah gaaaah.

5.  If I make another video presentation, it will be an expose/explanation of the physical reality and horror of sodomy and the sodomite lifestyle.  I know someone who did this years and years ago and has a research dossier.  Like the “Islamic Sexuality: Survey of Evil” video I made, I think simply exposing these realities to daylight and getting the truth out there would do a lot of good.  Sodomite fornication is NOT just another “technique”.  It is a vile, satanic, body-and-soul killing abomination.  Man, do I ever hate sodomy.  I HATE it.  #IHateSodomy .  Someone needs to make bumper stickers to that effect.  Also in Latin, because everything sounds better in Latin.  #SodomiticumOdi (??)

6.  To end on something positive, here is a really good recipe.  It is a salad of green beans (string beans, fresh are best but frozen work too) quickly boiled (blanched), diced new potatoes boiled to the still-firm salad stage, diced cooked chicken (cheap thigh meat works great) and CASHEWS.  Boil and chill the beans and taters, add the cold chicken meat and cashews, and dress with a simple lemon vinaigrette (lemon juice, olive oil, salt, pepper, dried thyme if you have it).  This makes a great first course, or a stand-alone summer lunch.  The only expensive bit is the cashews, but they really make the dish.

This was a particularly good conversation, I thought.  We start out discussing the dynamic of center-right “allies” turning on and blaming the messengers for provoking the oligarch class as they are no longer able to deny the reality and gravity of the situation.  Think Pamela Geller being attacked by O’Reilly and Laura Ingraham for “provoking” the musloids, or the example I give of the Jews in the concentration camps admonishing each other to “just cooperate and eveything will be fine”, as they were literally being marched into the showers.

Here is today’s Andrea Shea King Show.

I was at the place where I Clean All The Things bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning, but… no more Margaritas for a few DECADES.  Ole’.

Yay naproxen sodium!