Really, what more is there to say?  Anyone with a brain knew years ago that Timothy Dolan was a craven, politicking imbecile.  Presiding at the “gay” Mass at St. Francis Xavier parish in Manhattan and CHEERING the unrepentant sodomite club introduced at said Mass – yeah – that was a SUBTLE CLUE.  Inviting antichrist forerunner Obama to the Al Smith dinner and slapping his back while wearing a perpetual ****-eating grin the whole time was another SUBTLE CLUE.  But now, ol’ Tracksuit Timmy has officially jumped the shark, and let’s not sugarcoat this, Pope Francis Bergoglio is driving the tow boat.  From this morning’s pre-recorded appearance on Meet the Press:

Michael Sam, from your home state, the football player, revealed that he was gay, first in the NFL,” David Gregory said. “And you saw the celebration from the president, the first lady, and they were saying what a courageous step that was. How did you view it?”

“Good for him,” Dolan replied. “I would have no sense of judgment on him. God bless ya. I don’t think, look, the same Bible that tells us, that teaches us, well about the virtues of chastity and the virtue of fidelity and marriage also tells us not to judge people. So I would say, ‘Bravo.’”

“Bravo” to sodomy.  Bravo to one man jamming his erect penis into the feces-laden descending colon of another man, and then using the descending colon as the point of masturbatory friction.  “Bravo” to one of the four sins that cry out to heaven for God’s vengeance.  “Bravo” to self-loathing.  “Bravo” to using another human being as a mere masturbatory vector.  “Bravo” to a sin so heinous, so foul, so disgusting that Our Blessed Lord Himself told St. Catherine of Siena that it makes Him NAUSEOUS and that even the demons withdraw from it because it is so sick and twisted that their angelic natures – demonic as they are – cannot stand to look upon it or be near it.  “Bravo” to that.  “Bravo” to mortal sin, which if never repented of WILL CONDEMN A PERSON TO ETERNAL DAMNATION.  “Bravo” to that, says Dolan, who couldn’t give any less of a shit about this Michael Sam kid, and is perfectly willing to not only watch this poor kid go to hell, but will even relish in Michael Sam’s sin in order to leverage his (Dolan’s) own personal worldly popularity.  There simply aren’t words.  The craven connivance is beyond description.

And WHY does Dolan finally feel free to show the callous indifference to not just human souls but also to the Sacred Heart of Our Blessed Lord that it is crystal clear he has felt for a long time?  Why is does Dolan now feel fully liberated to ratify sodomy and increase his own worldly popularity by his complete indifference to sin, manifested in this sick permissiveness of objective evil?  Because Pope Francis has thrown open the barn door.  Dolan – like the Advocate magazine and every other tool and mouthpiece for satan on the planet – quotes Pope Francis Bergoglio specifically:  Who am I to judge?

Besides a priest and bishop charged with the spiritual well-being of his flock?  Besides a rational human being?

Does Dolan really believe that we are called by God to make absolutely NO moral judgements whatsoever about human behavior?  Really? So we can’t judge murder?  We can’t judge rape?  We can’t judge theft?  “Judge not lest ye be judged” is God Almighty abolishing the very notion of sin and demanding total anarchy?  REALLY?

The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue shall speak judgment. The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps shall not be supplanted. Psalm 36: 30-31

 But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined. But the spiritual man judgeth all things; and he himself is judged of no man. 1 Corinthians 2: 14-15

(Footnote: The sensual man: The sensual man is either he who is taken up with sensual pleasures, with carnal and worldly affections; or he who measureth divine mysteries by natural reason, sense, and human wisdom only. Now such a man has little or no notion of the things of God.)

But beyond that obvious imbecility, Dolan has now taken it a step further – he HAS in fact JUDGED the sin of sodomy, and has JUDGED it positively.  “Bravo” means “good”.  “Good for him” means GOOD. FOR. HIM.  But Dolan isn’t smart enough to recognize the internal contradiction in saying “Bravo”  – which is the Italian word for “good” in the sense of “well done” – and in literally the same breath saying “Who am I to judge?”  You just DID judge, you jackass.

For the sodomites, and ultimately their father satan, mere toleration was never, ever the goal.  The goal is full ratification and publicly-stated approval, followed by the outlawing of non-ratification and/or non-participation.  Dolan has now explicitly and undeniably ratified sodomy with the words “Bravo” and “Good for him.”  And why did he do it?  Because he saw the wild mainstream popularity of Pope Francis and he wants in on it too.  Let’s quit dancing around the reality of the situation.  Pope Francis is popular for one reason and one reason only: his moral laxity, permissiveness, moral relativism and compulsive downplaying of the gravity of sin.  Duh.

We are clearly now in the extreme end-stages of this culture.  It is now “illegal” to not participate in the cult of child sacrifice, and it is likewise also almost completely illegal to not participate in or service the cult of sodomy – and jackasses like Dolan will be in position, squarely behind the people, continuing to place his foot firmly in the smalls of their backs and pushing them straight into hell, quoting Pope Francis Bergoglio all the way.  The staggering, unquantifiable damage that Pope Francis Bergoglio has done and continues to do is utterly unprecedented.  Pope Francis’ litany of active statements of permissiveness makes the mere silence of Paul VI seem like “the good old days”.  Heck, at least Paul VI had Humanae Vitae.  Er, or should that be “at most”?  Either way, the poop well and truly does roll downhill.

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Sweet Jesus, please do absolutely whatever it takes – WHATEVER IT TAKES – to make this stop.  We know we deserve not only this, but so much worse.  We know it will hurt – badly.  But we know that you have and will provide us with the tools and strength we need to weather the storm.  We have the Church, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and You Yourself in the Eucharist.  We have Your Mother as our mother and advocate, and her Most Holy Rosary to keep us focused and mindful of Your life, death and resurrection every day, as well as all of your Holy Saints and Angels.  But please, for the sake of your Sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us, and on the whole world.  Show us Your Mercy by showing us Your Justice.  PLEASE MAKE THIS STOP.

But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in Me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh. And if thy hand, or thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee to go into life maimed or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee. It is better for thee having one eye to enter into life, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. Matthew 18: 6-10

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.

Today is the First Sunday of Lent, and the following verse from Psalm 90 appears three separate times; first in the Tract, then as the Offertory verse, and finally as the Communion verse.

“The Lord will overshadow thee with His shoulders, and under His wings thou shalt trust: His truth shall compass thee with a shield.”  Psalm 90: 4-5

Read the medical description of death by crucifixion below, and then ponder the words, “The Lord will overshadow thee with His shoulders.”

[This is a paraphrase of a summary of an ARSH 1965 article on crucifixion by Dr. C. Truman Davis entitled, “The Anatomical And Physiological Details Of Death By Crucifixion”, originally published in Arizona Medicine.  Since it is widely reproduced on the internet, I have taken the liberty of cleaning up a few things, and correcting scripture citations.  Additions of my prose are in red brackets.]

Crucifixion is the most painful death ever invented by man and is where we get our term “excruciating.”  It was reserved primarily for the most vicious of male criminals.  Our Lord refused the anesthetic wine which was offered to Him by the Roman soldiers in keeping with His promise recorded in Matthew 26: 29, “And I say to you, I will not drink from henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I shall drink it with you new in the kingdom of My Father.”  Our Lord was stripped naked [This is very important. The depictions of Our Lord with His loincloth intact on the Cross are for the sake of modesty, particularly for women and children.  He was naked.  The humiliation of being hung naked with no way of covering one’s self was in integral part of the humiliation of crucifixion.  Our Blessed Lord spared Himself nothing – the agony of His Passion was maximal.] and His clothing divided by the Roman guards. This was in fulfillment of Psalm 21:19, “They parted My garments amongst them; and upon My vesture they cast lots.”  The Crucifixion of Jesus guaranteed a horrific, slow, painful death.

Having been nailed the Cross, Our Lord now had an impossible anatomical position to maintain.  Jesus’ knees were flexed at about 45 degrees, and He was forced to bear His weight with the muscles of His thigh, which is not an anatomical position which is possible to maintain for more than a few minutes without severe cramp in the muscles of the thigh and calf.  Our Lord’s weight was borne on His feet, with nails driven through them.  As the strength of the muscles of Our Blessed Lord’s lower limbs tired, the weight of His body had to be transferred to His wrists, His arms, and His shoulders.  Within a few minutes of being placed on the Cross, Our Lord’s shoulders were dislocated.  Minutes later His elbows and wrists became dislocated.  The result of these upper limb dislocations was that His arms were 9 inches longer than normal, as clearly shown on the Shroud of Turin.  In addition, prophecy was thus fulfilled in Psalm 21:15, “I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered.”

After Our Lord’s wrists, elbows, and shoulders were dislocated, the weight of His body on his upper limbs caused traction forces on the Pectoralis Major muscles of His chest wall.  These traction forces caused His rib cage to be pulled upwards and outwards, in a most unnatural state. His chest wall was permanently in a position of maximal respiratory inspiration. In order to exhale, Jesus had to push down on the nails in His feet to raise His body, and allow His rib cage to move downwards and inwards to expire air from His lungs.  His lungs were in a resting position of constant maximum inspiration. Crucifixion is a medical catastrophe.  The problem was that Our Blessed Lord could not easily push down on the nails in His feet because the muscles of His legs, bent at 45 degrees, were extremely fatigued, in severe cramp, and in an anatomically compromised position.

Despite what is shown in all Hollywood movies about the Crucifixion, the victim was extremely active.  A crucified victim was physiologically forced to move up and down the cross, a distance of about 12 inches, in order to breathe.  The process of respiration caused excruciating pain, mixed with the absolute terror of asphyxiation.  As the six hours of the Crucifixion wore on, Our Lord was less and less able to bear His weight on His legs, as His thigh and calf muscles became increasingly exhausted. [And bear in mind that He had already been scourged until most of His skin was gone, was thus in deep shock, and was then made to march approximately two kilometers while carrying His own Cross.  While fully human, Our Lord’s strength during His Passion was unfathomable.]  

There was increasing dislocation of His wrists, elbows and shoulders, and further elevation of His chest wall, making His breathing more and more difficult.  Within minutes of crucifixion Our Lord became severely dyspnoeic (short of breath).  His movements up and down the Cross to breathe caused excruciating pain in His wrists, His feet, and His dislocated elbows and shoulders.  The movements became less frequent as Our Blessed Lord became increasingly exhausted, but the terror of imminent death by asphyxiation forced Him to continue in His efforts to breathe [because His suffering had to be maximal – He had to give us absolutely all of His love].

Our Sweet Lord’s lower limb muscles developed excruciating cramping from the effort of pushing down on His legs, to raise His body, so that He could exhale, in their anatomically compromised position.  The pain from His two shattered median nerves in His wrists exploded with every movement.  Our Lord was covered in His Precious Blood and sweat.  The blood was a result of the Scourging that nearly killed Him, and the sweat as a result of His violent efforts to expire air from His lungs.

Throughout all this He was completely naked, and the leaders of the Jews, the Romans, the crowds, and the bad thief crucified beside Him were jeering, swearing and laughing at Him.  In addition, Our Lord’s own Blessed Mother was watching this, united to His suffering.

Physiologically, Our Lord’s body was undergoing a series of catastrophic and terminal events.  Because Jesus could not maintain adequate ventilation of His lungs, He was now in a state of hypoventilation (inadequate ventilation).  His blood oxygen level began to fall, and He developed Hypoxia (low blood oxygen).  In addition, because of His restricted respiratory movements, His blood carbon dioxide (CO2) level began to rise, a condition known as Hypercapnia.  This rising CO2 level stimulated His heart to beat faster in order to increase the delivery of oxygen, and the removal of CO2.  The Respiratory Center in Our Lord’s brain sent urgent messages to his lungs to breathe faster, and Our Lord began to pant.  Jesus’ physiological reflexes demanded that He take deeper breaths, and He involuntarily moved up and down the Cross much faster, despite the excruciating pain.

The agonizing movements spontaneously started several times a minute, to the delight of the crowd who jeered Him, the Roman soldiers, and the Sanhedrin.  However, due to the nailing of Our Precious Lord to the Cross and His increasing exhaustion, He was unable to provide more oxygen to His oxygen-starved body.  The twin forces of Hypoxia (too little oxygen) and Hypercapnia (too much CO2) caused His heart to beat faster and faster, and Our Lord developed Tachycardia.  His Sacred Heart beat faster and faster, and His pulse rate was probably about 220 beats/ minute, the maximum normally sustainable.  Jesus had drunk nothing for 15 hours, since 6 pm the previous evening.

Our Lord had endured a scourging which nearly killed Him.  He was bleeding from all over His body following the Scourging, the crown of thorns, the nails in His wrists and feet, and the lacerations following His beatings and falls.  Jesus was already extremely dehydrated, and His blood pressure fell alarmingly.  His blood pressure was probably about 80/50.  He was in First Degree Shock, with Hypovolaemia (low blood volume), Tachycardia (excessively fast Heart Rate), Tachypnoea (excessively fast Respiratory Rate), and Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating).  Sometime after noon Our Lord’s Sacred Heart probably began to physically fail.  Jesus’ lungs probably began to fill up with Pulmonary Oedema.  This only served to exacerbate His breathing, which was already severely compromised.  Jesus was in Heart Failure and Respiratory Failure.  Jesus said, “I thirst” [partly] because His body was crying out for fluids [but also because He was thirsting for souls – both to love them and to be loved by them].  Our Lord was in desperate need of an intravenous infusion of blood and plasma.  He could not breathe properly and was slowly suffocating to death.  At this stage Our Lord probably developed a Haemopericardium: plasma and blood gathered in the space around His Sacred Heart, called the Pericardium.  This fluid around His Sacred Heart caused Cardiac Tamponade (fluid around His Sacred Heart, which prevented it from beating properly).  Because of the increasing physiological demands on Jesus’ Sacred Heart, and the advanced state of Haemopericardium, He may have eventually sustained Cardiac Rupture. His Sacred Heart may have literally burst [before being pierced by the lance of Longinus]. Heart failure was probably the [ultimate physical] cause of His death, [while our sins are the true cause of His suffering and death].

When the Romans wanted to expedite death they would simply break the legs of the victim, causing the victim to suffocate in a matter of minutes. This was called Crucifragrum.  At three o’clock in the afternoon Our Lord said, “It is consummated.”  At that moment, He gave up His Spirit, and He died.  When the soldiers came to Our Lord to break His legs, He was already dead. Not a bone of His Body was broken, in fulfilment of the prophecy in Exodus 12: 46.  Our Precious Lord thus died on the Cross after six hours of the most excruciating and terrifying torture ever invented, after enduring torture in the twelve hours prior to His crucifixion which, by itself, would have been sufficient to kill any other man.

 

I wrote in the John Maynard Keynes post about the hollowness and “fakeness” of Western civilization today.  In case you didn’t see it, KD had a post up a few days ago about so-called “peer reviewed” scientific journals and how they are nothing of the sort.  Utterly fake articles made by automatic word generators that literally string random polysyllabic words together into sentence structures – in other words, NONSENSE – are being regularly published in these journals.  An investigative study found over 120 such articles over the past few years.

“Peer reviewed” science and academia is a LIE.  Papers are published and certified as “peer reviewed” that have literally never been read by ANYONE, including the editors of the scientific journals.  And yes, this echoes the fact that the so-called “laws” being passed and used to destroy civilization are likewise never actually read by anyone, most particularly the psychopath whore politicians who vote on them.

This has been a recurring theme of this website since its inception over ten years ago.  Guys, I’m telling you, stupid people and/or frauds are running the planet.  In fact, civilization is so far gone that the higher-ranking a person is, be it in academia, business, politics or the Church, the less likely it is that they have any degree of competence or genuine skill.  This is a lesson that I have learned over and over and over again.  The very people in positions of authority that we all desperately want to believe are not just competent but truly knowledgable and wise, are, almost without exception, bluffing or openly incompetent.  The truly competent are marginalized at best, and destroyed at worst.

If you still believe in any way that higher-ups in the government, military, business world, universities or the Church are in any way competent to solve the unprecedented problems that humanity faces today (assuming that they want the problems solved at all), you are operating on a false premise that is so utterly contrary to reality that it defies quantification or even description.

Recognizing and acknowledging this sad and terrifying reality is utterly, utterly critical.  You MUST have an accurate observation and picture of the battlespace in order to have any hope of formulating, much less executing effective tactics.  You all think that you are battling veritable giants and geniuses, when in fact you are battling a cadre of puny imbeciles and obvious frauds.  The main quality these puny imbeciles and frauds have that is allowing them to roll over Western Civilization essentially uncontested is BOLDNESS.  They act.  They play offense.  But more importantly, YOU DON’T.  Yes, they play dirty and we can’t.  But the root problem isn’t that they are beating us by playing dirty.  The root problem is that we aren’t playing at all.  We are fielding no team whatsoever – not even a clean offense.  We aren’t even on the field.  We are all over on the sidelines curled into the fetal position, eyes shut tight, trying desperately to rock ourselves to sleep – while a team of five slobbering fools marches uncontested down the field over and over again in a game of 11 man football.  So yes, a cadre of frauds and imbeciles can absolutely roll over an entire civilization IF and ONLY IF the civilization is so weak and whipped, so steeped in an effeminate desire to deny reality and avoid confrontation (aka, “be nice”), that the said civilization will surrender itself to said frauds and imbeciles to avoid any sort of masculine confrontation of reality, much less the execution of bold corrective action.  In short, we didn’t “lose” our nation and our civilization – we forfeited it.

It is indeed ironic that truly great men spring from cultures who don’t particularly NEED them, and those cultures that desperately need good men to lead them are all but incapable of producing them.

And this is why we pray, unceasingly, for the Divine Assistance and intervention in these especially dark days.

1.  Hopefully you have read the “Spectral Doughnut” piece and understand that far-left and far-right are, in praxis, the same, and that the savvy players on each side FULLY understand this.  To wit, Putin.  I have to tell you, it is absolutely chilling – as in making the hair on the back of my neck stand up – to see in my email box how many of you people are falling hook, line and sinker for Putin.  The man is a murderous psychopath.  LOOK at him.  Look at the dead eyes – what you can still see of them after he has literally mutilated his face with plastic surgery.  Oh, and nevermind all of the people who have been “disappeared” under the Putin regime.  Nevermind that Putin is stone-cold KGB to the core.  No, nevermind all of that.  Hey, the guy has made some gestures against the sodomites, and went into a church (a Russian orthodox church, which has been, since its inception, trying to find new and ever-more creative ways of capitulating and kowtowing to whatever rotten government is currently in power) and crossed himself.  Well, hells bells! It’s the second coming of Constantine, here to save the world!

Vladimir Putin is an evil, megalomaniacal, godless psychopath tyrant.  And you people are hitching your wagon to him?  The so-called “conservative right” in the former United States is EMBRACING A SOVIET TYRANT.  It is stunning to behold the blindness.  A neo-Stalinist tyrant is the honest-to-goodness posterboy and hero of the American right.  Beam me up, Scotty.

2.  And so to Ukraine.  I have been warning people (specifically Canadian Ukrainians, of whom I have met many through the cattle business and otherwise) that it is a massive mistake for Ukraine to frame the choice as between Putin’s Moscow and Europe.  Their reply is that they aren’t referring to contemporary Europe, but rather the historical relative freedom – and note I said RELATIVE freedom – of Europe as well as the HISTORICAL European cultural paradigm, as opposed to the Russian political, economic and cultural paradigm, which is really just the latter-day manifestation of the Mongol Empire.  Have you ever noticed how Russians have a certain… look?  Yeah.  That’s the mixture of the Mongols with the Rus.  And it ain’t just the DNA.  It’s the CULTURE.  Brutal.  Tyrannical.  Lusting power and territory.  Kill or be killed.

I guess the most accurate way to state the macro dynamic is thus: the Ukraininans are choosing between the Mongol paradigm and the Christian paradigm.  Sadly, they have no idea how far gone contemporary Europe is.  They don’t realize that the Mongol paradigm has fully infiltrated and overthrown Europe – and the former United States – in a stealth coup spearheaded by Communists.  So yes, unless Ukraine attempts to stand alone, it will be out of the frying pan and into the fire.

I reckon that most of you have watched at least some of my Economics Presentation.  For those of you who have, you realize how utterly dire the financial situation is.  But how many people truly understand it?  How many people have any idea of the enormity of what has been done by the bankster oligarchs in the former U.S. and Europe?  The Ukrainian peasants and workers who are taking to the streets demanding that the rape of their country by Putin’s toadie oligarchs stop – do you think THOSE people have any clue as to the debt situation in the west?  Hell, the people IN THE WEST have no idea whatsoever what is going on.  Why would you think the Ukrainian underclass would understand it?  All they know is that a handful of people have stolen nearly all of the wealth in their country, and they want it to stop.  No more gold toilets.  Sadly, they haven’t realized yet that the “Europe” and the “west” that once was, no longer exist, and are simply the same thing as the Russian oligarchy, except with a different cast of characters, many of whom are servile to Putin already.  It is so terribly sad to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYGsadcBiFA

3.  I have to mention Lyndon LaRouche because I get a lot of emails from so-called American conservatives who are falling for and actively spreading LaRouche propaganda, specifically in regards to Ukraine.  LaRouche’s strategy is the same as Putin’s.  LaRouche is a super-hard left nutcase.  LaRouche, by all accounts, is a certifiable megalomaniac, but is very smart.  He realized long ago that the super-hard left could literally reach out and touch the super-hard right.  LaRouche hates Obama and has been sending his people to Tea Party events since 2008, attracting attention with his anti-Obama literature.  LaRouche, like Putin, makes token propaganda statements against sodomites and banksters – and Obama – and has the Tea Partiers eating out of his hand.  But do you know the reason WHY LaRouche hates Obama?  Because Obama isn’t far enough to the LEFT.  LaRouche wanted the Obama regime to immediately impose a single-payer healthcare monstrosity by executive diktat in early 2009.  We all know that single-payer tyrannical control of all healthcare delivery is where this ObamaCare plan is going, and it was designed as such all along.  But LaRouche wanted single-payer IMMEDIATELY, and when that didn’t happen, he went to war against Obama, sucking people on the right into his gaping, fanged, commie maw.  I figured that most people were savvy to LaRouche by now and knew what he was, but apparently not.  But, in these dark days, tyrants like Putin and hacks like LaRouche thrive.  I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

4.  I admit to having a false hope that the Ukrainians would be able to get rid of Yanukovich and the oligarch tyranny they had been living under without Putin moving in on them.  Then Obama got down on his knees and utterly capitulated to Putin (how can anyone be surprised by this – especially me?) and now it is clear that global dynamics have turned a truly ominous corner.  Putin, and China for that matter, now know with utter and complete certainty that they can do ANYTHING and there will be zero response by the U.S.  Ladies and gents, you may tell yourselves that the U.S. still has the strongest military in the world, but you are kidding yourselves.  A military that will never, ever, under any circumstances deploy against anything other than mentally retarded goathumpers merely as a means of generating cash flow and revenue for oligarchs and other assorted looters of the Treasury, and even then will intentionally allow said mentally retarded goathumpers to BEAT THEM in order to perpetuate the looting – a military that everyone knows will never, ever deploy against a legitimate power like Russia or China, is NO MILITARY AT ALL.  If you refuse to fight, if you refuse to win, then your EFFECTIVE arsenal is ZERO, regardless of how many trillions upon trillions it “costs”.  And make no mistake, everyone now knows that the U.S. is basically a non-entity militarily vis-a-vis a Sino-Russian axis.  Given this, why WOULDN’T a nut like Putin invade Ukraine and recapture it for his neo-Mongol empire?  Capital outflows?  Oh, it will be back.  The markets, especially in these dark days, will ruthlessly gravitate toward a “winner”.  There may be short-term chop, but the attraction to strength and power will attract capital in the medium-term.

I told a friend in the late summer of ARSH 2008, just as it was becoming clear that the Obama usurpation and overthrow would be accomplished, that we wouldn’t escape an Obama regime without World War 3 breaking out and ultimately Chinese boots on the ground in North America.  I remember clearly the sight of his face falling as he thought to himself that I was a loon.  And now here we are.  Everyone with a brain in their head now realizes that both items are well within the realm of possibility.  The European landmass is at risk.  Japan and South Korea are at risk.  Australia and New Zealand couldn’t defend themselves against China.  And there is no longer a United States of America to act as a bulwark of defense against any Sino-Russian aggression anywhere.  Add onto that the de facto mercenary army of the New Caliphate that will happily ally itself with the strength and potency of Moscow-Beijing, and there you have it.

5.  Finally, on a personal note, after I shut down my brokerage in November of ARSH 2011, I had multiple invitations from RT to do full sit-down interviews on MF Global and the markets in general.  It was even theorized that I might be given a show of my own if I played my cards right.  RT tends towards girls who can “talk good” whilst wearing 4 1/2 inch heels.  I… fit the mold.  I declined, knowing as I did at the time that RT was the English language propaganda arm of the Putin regime.  I was widely criticized for turning down the “opportunity”.  Well, apparently some of the RT on-air talent is now coming around to my position, spurred by the sickening agitprop RT has been pushing with regards to Ukraine and Crimea.  CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO OF LIZ WAHL QUITTING ON-AIR.

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 King and People of Nineveh Repenting”.
Love means saying that you are sorry – and meaning it – over and over and over again.

Dear post-Christian Iniquitous Gutter Republic:
You aren’t repenting, and thus God cannot extend His mercy to you.  To not be sorry, and to not do penance – real penance, not just giving up chocolate – and thus to do nothing to stop the sins and offenses against God, indicates that you A.) don’t believe that that your sins are sins, and/or B.) if you do actually realize they are sins, you just don’t care that you are offending God.  Either way, you, by your ongoing failure to repent and do anything to stop the unprecedented offenses against God, are telling Him in no uncertain terms that His Mercy is neither required or desired.  And so shall it be.

You tolerate this. You pay for this every month when the Comcast bill comes.

You not only put up with this, you are paying for this to be inculcated into innocent children by your government.

And then, of course, there is this. Times sixty million and counting.

Now therefore saith the Lord: Be converted to Me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning. And rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for He is gracious and merciful, patient and rich in mercy, and ready to repent of the evil. Who knoweth but He will return, and forgive, and leave a blessing behind Him, sacrifice and libation to the Lord your God? Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly,

Gather together the people, sanctify the church, assemble the ancients, gather together the little ones, and them that suck at the breasts: let the Bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the bride out of her bride chamber. Between the porch and the altar the priests the Lord’ s ministers shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?
Joel 2: 12-17

Sopranos?  Meh.  Nothing better than a true female alto.  Singing in harmony with a baritone?  Perfect.

Forget about Andy Griffith going lefty at the end of his life.  Just stop and appreciate this for what it is:  true beauty.  Pulchra vera.

1.  Peanut butter and Nutella.
Um, yes please.
ENOUGH. SAID.

2.  First, let me apologize for my infrequent posts.  I have taken on a daily commitment and, for the past week, have also been under attack by an insidious bug camped in my sinuses, which has zonked me out.  I tried to burn it out a few days ago with Indian curry, but I think I just provoked it.  The only thing that really works in burning bugs out of one’s sinuses is wasabi, the veritable “ninja assassin” of condiments.  Perhaps a California Roll is in order tomorrow.  Because, you know, sushi is SOOOO penitential.  Hmmm.  Maybe not.  Anyway, I’m feeling spunkier today.

3.  The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass said for all of my benefactors and supporters on Sunday morning was lovely.  It was Sexagesima Sunday, of course, and I was especially moved by the Introit taken from Psalm 43 – for all of us:

Arise, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? arise, and and cast us not off to the end.  Why turnest Thou Thy face away, and forgettest our trouble? our belly hath cleaved to the earth: arise, O Lord, help us and deliver us….

I remember, in years past, SCREAMING this Introit at Our Lord in my head at Mass on Sexagesima Sunday.  Now I glory in it, because I know that He doesn’t forget us – ever – and He will deliver us.

4.  Thanks to the family that left me the voicemail a few weeks back of their youngsters saying their evening prayers and praying for their future spouses.  Very moving.

5.  An interesting tidbit – two, actually, from the same person, 16 months apart – from the mailbag:

NOVEMBER 10, ARSH 2012:

I just watched the first 5 minutes or so of your presentation to the Colorado Patriots, and I would like to know, before I devote an hour of my time to watching the rest of your footage, if you think that free speech includes the right to yell FIRE in a crowded theatre?

My husband deployed to Afghanistan just yesterday.  This is his fourth tour in the Middle East.  If someone here insults Islam by burning Qurans or drawing insulting political cartoons, and those actions lead to so much as one hair being harmed on any of the heads of my husband and his brothers and sisters in arms, jail time won’t matter. That individual will need protective custody from the blowback here at home.  When that Pastor in Florida burned those Qurans, our entire military went into a heightened state of alert.  The installation where we live was practically on lockdown because of the security increases.

The Muslims my husband interacts with are not like the a lot of the “westernized” mainstream Muslims we encounter here in the States.  Culturally, the Muslims over there, and specifically the men, are a prideful, arrogant people with the emotional intelligence and maturity of a bunch of middle school girls.  They WILL as soon shoot someone as look at them over even the slightest offense.  I wish you could see the curriculum of the cultural sensitivity training that my husband has received over the past ten years.  This training isn’t a matter of appeasement of the enemy, it is a matter of life and death.

I am not suggesting for one second that we pander to the antics of these simple-minded, ignorant fools.  I am simply saying that no one should yell FIRE in a crowded theatre, and if someone does do so, and people are injured or killed as a result of being trampled in the stampede created by panicking individuals, then the one who yelled FIRE should be held accountable and punished.
Respectfully-
T

My reply:
It is a moral obligation to scream fire in a crowded theater when the theater is in fact ON FIRE.  The theater is on fire.  Therefore I will scream like a banshee.
Use your brain.  Think.
Ann

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 First Mourning” by W.A. Bouguereau (one of my very favorite artists), depicting the discovery by Adam and Eve of the dead body of their son, Abel – the first human death.

This month’s Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for all of my benefactors and supporters will be tomorrow, Sunday, February 23rd.

Deepest thanks, once again, for your continued kindness and munificence, and for your continued prayers.  They have been, and continue to be, deeply efficacious.  But, the race is not run yet, and we must – all of us – continue to strive.  I can only hope that my prayers for all of you are fractionally as effectual in your lives as your prayers have been for me.

For you, tomorrow.

A few of years ago I stumbled across a movie on Netflix (when I still had it) that I *thought* would be very interesting.  It was called “Carrington” and starred Emma Thompson, whom I have liked as an actress ever since she dramatized and starred in what will forever be the definitive film version of Jane Austen’s “Sense & Sensibility”.

The movie “Carrington” was about the so-called “Bloomsbury Group” in England in the early 20th century.  This group of people is widely regarded in retrospect as being massively influential, and as one of the purest early sources of Modernism – the heresy which has infected and all-but-destroyed the Church, and Western Civilization as a corollary.

These people were all massively disturbed, with almost all of them being bisexual and embracing sodomy and rejecting monogamy as one of the purest forms of protest and rejection of (locally) Victorian, traditional, bourgeois, Christian society.  To put it simply, they were all – male and female – screwing each other, egged on largely by the wicked sodomite ringleader Lytton Strachey.

You can watch “Carrington” if you want, I suppose, but be forewarned: it is pornographic.  And no, not titillating or grasping at beauty in any way – it is the kind of thing that once you see you just want to go inflict a severe head trauma upon yourself so that maybe – just maybe – those incredibly sad, ugly and evil images will be purged from your memory.  And in the hopes of thoroughly ruining it for you, the way it all ended was that Lytton Strachey died of cancer or some such, whereupon the “heroine”, Dora Carrington, promptly blew her head off with a shotgun.

Oh, wait.  Did I also mention that they were all EUGENICISTS?  Yeah.  Funny how these little “idiosyncrasies” always seem to crop up cheek-by-jowel, no?

So, you may be sitting there asking yourself why in the WOLRD would I have any interest in a movie about these people in the first place.  The answer is because one of the core members of this wicked group of Modernist sodomite eugenicists was none other than…

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES.

Yes, THAT John Maynard Keynes.  The father and “god” of all modern economics – the most influential economist, without question, of the 20th century.  Keynes’ economic theories (and it is extremely charitable to even dignify them as “theories”) basically revolved around the premise that aggregate demand was the sole determiner of overall economic activity, and thus if the State (read: “The Central Banks’ respective puppet fronts and operational arms”) intervened in the economy by printing money and providing “stimulus” to aggregate demand, this was the means by which full employment could be achieved and permanently maintained.

DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR????

As people with functioning brains in their heads now know and understand, if even only from a purely experiential, real-life basis, this is all abject, steaming hog diarrhea.  Government intervention does NOT stimulate aggregate demand, but in fact hinders it.  Printing money and debasing the currency is not only ineffective, but is a capital crime because it is THEFT on a scale so massive that it is literally obscured from the view of the people by virtue of its enormity.  The only purpose applied Keynesian theory serves is to rapidly enrich and fraudulently empower a micro-oligarchy dwelling within the Central Bank-cum-Government matrix.

Did I mention Keynes was a super-promiscuous sodomite?  And a eugenicist?

Back to the movie.  So I sit through this hideous film, and guess what?  Guess who has been utterly purged from the script?  Guess who is never seen or mentioned?

John. Maynard. Keynes.

Wow.  Ya think?  Ya think these Modernist wretch tyrants and their media toadies would want to hide the fact that the “father” of this economic paradigm that is taught as unquestionable dogma in every university in Western Civilization today was a nasty pervert and despicable human being?

But wait, it gets better.  Last night I stumbled across this video posted over at Ace of Spades of Friedrich Hayek being interviewed in which he speaks about Keynes.  And what does Hayek (a genuinely good and contributive economist) say of Keynes?  Basically, that Keynes the economist was a total fraud.  He praises Keynes intrinsic intelligence, but says that he was lazy and that his economic theories were pure fluff – a paper facade.  Keynes gave no deep, serious thought to any of it, and couldn’t defend it when confronted by great minds.

As even armchair economists can now see, such simple questions as:

1.  What is money?
2.  Where will the so-called intervening government stimulus money come from?
3.  Does printing money ad infinitum have any negative moral or economic consequences?
4.  If government “stimulus” does not achieve full employment, is more stimulus the answer?  Is there any limit to the amount of stimulus that could be required?
5.  Could an economy become addicted to this government “stimulus” and thus turn into a massive, sucking maw which then inevitably implodes upon itself killing a non-trivial percentage of the surface population?
6.  Are you okay with point 5 as long as the majority of those killed are brown people and/or those who “judge” your enthusiasm for violently abusing your posterior fundament, and the posterior fundaments of others?

Guys, I have said this before, but I’ll say it again.  This flagging civilization, which you are right in the heart of, is a giant, hollow scam.  There’s no “there” there.  The people running the world and being hailed as geniuses are almost all utter frauds.  Universities churn out people who are all-but-illiterate.  If you define “literacy” as being able to read street signs, then yes, most of them (but not all) are literate.  If you define literacy properly, meaning a man who is well-read and truly educated and thus able to THINK, and REASON and CREATE, and thus contribute to and grow the culture, then… no.  Sorry.  Intellects are hollow.  Souls are hollow.  Culture is hollow.  Government is hollow.  Economies are hollow.  MEN ARE HOLLOW.

It’s all going to pop. Maybe not tomorrow. Maybe not next week or next month, but it WILL pop because it MUST.

Keynes was a fraud.

The totality of the political class are all slack-jawed frauds.  They couldn’t solve ANY of these problems even if they wanted to because they lack the intelligence and the character to actually do it.

The universities are FILLED with frauds, especially in the soft sciences.

The Church is filled with frauds (Marxist-sodomite infiltrators) and with those who are so woefully ignorant that their non-invincible ignorance constitutes a form of fraud.

Everything you see around you is tissue-paper thin, and if you scratch it, you realize that there is no solidity to anything in Western Civilization any longer.  Instead of being anchored to Truth in a well-built and competently-helmed barque, the ropes have been cut, the ballast jettisoned, and our papier mache ship of lies is riding the gulf stream of evil straight into Hurricane Reality.

The Good News (TM) is that scripture is filled with the imagery and language of the empty being filled.  Over and over again Our Lord makes clear that this condition of “hollowness” is not only fixable in every man, but what Our Lord desires for every man.  But only He can fill the hollowness in men.  There is no substitute.  Everything else is fraud, and not only will the hollowness remain, but will increase with each attempt at filling oneself with these frauds.  Dora Carrington tried to fill her hollowness with perverted sex and philosophical lies until finally her facade gave way – to a shell-full of double-aught buck.  And her “friend”, John Maynard Keynes, “helped” her the same way he is “helping” the global economies today: straight into hell.

Psalm 106

Give glory to the Lord, for He is good: for His mercy endureth for ever. Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries.  From the rising and the setting of the sun, from the north and from the sea. They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation. They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them.

And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and He delivered them out of their distresses.  And He led them into the right way: that they might go to a city of habitation. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to Him: and His wonderful works to the children of men.  For He hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry soul with good things. Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in want and in iron.

Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the counsel of the most High: And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened, and their was none to help them.  Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and He delivered them out of their distresses. And He brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death; and broke their bonds in sunder. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to Him, and His wonderful works to the children of men.

Because He hath broken gates of brass, and burst the iron bars. He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices. Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even to the gates of death. And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and He delivered them out of their distresses. He sent His Word, and healed them: and delivered them from their destructions.

Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to Him: and His wonderful works to the children of men.  And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare His works with joy. They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the great waters:  These have seen the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. He said the Word, and there arose a storm of wind: and the waves thereof were lifted up.

They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: their soul pined away with evils.  They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.  And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and He brought them out of their distresses.  And He turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still. And they rejoiced because they were still: and He brought them to the haven which they wished for.

Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to Him, and his wonderful works to the children of men. And let them exalt Him in the church of the people: and praise Him in the chair of the ancients. He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of water into dry ground:  A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. He hath turned a wilderness into pools of water, and a dry land into water springs.

And hath placed there the hungry; and they made a city for their habitation.  And they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: and they yielded fruit of birth.  And He blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their cattle he suffered not to decrease.  Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow. Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.

And He helped the poor out of poverty: and made Him families like a flock of sheep. The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop their mouth. Who is wise, and will keep these things: and will understand the mercies of the Lord?