Well, I prayed and prayed and finally came to the conclusion that I would do what everyone and their uncle has been telling, begging and pleading with me to do for years and monetize this website.  If God wants me to live in a train station, then the donation button will be lightly used.  If not, then, er, not.  If you think that I am doing the wrong thing, then please pray that it all explodes in my face as soon as possible.  If you think that I’m doing the right thing, then please pray for natural disaster victims, people with cancer, my enemies, your enemies, the conversion of the pagans, whatever moves you.

In all seriousness, I am hoping that this generates enough to compensate me for the time I spend on it and hopefully pay the rent.  Ideally, I would like to do janitorial and housekeeping work in the mornings, as it is always a much better day when one gets up early with a specific place to be and physical labor to be done, and then come back to the van in the afternoon and write and/or record a podcast.  Those of you who have done janitorial work know what I mean when I say how much I enjoy it, and don’t want to give it up.  Yep.  I write educational, instructive and entertaining essays and provide punditry in order to support my toilet-scrubbing hobby.  Absolutely.

The good news is that I feel that I need to step up content delivery, and have thus resolved to make more posts AND to start doing audio podcasts.  For some reason, and I have no clue what it is, people like listening to me talk.  With my voice.  I routinely deliver audiences ten times above normal when I do interview shows, and this has been going on ever since I went viral in April of ARSH 2011, so I guess I’ll go ahead and record myself ranting once per week and put it on YouTube.  I have a headset with a microphone, so this is very doable in the Van.  Do you have any questions or topics you would like for me to address on a podcast?  Please shoot me an email with PODCAST in the subject and I’ll glean topics from that.

Here is what is NOT going to happen.  I am NOT going to change my voice or tone.  I am NOT going to adjust what I say and write in order to maximize cash flows.  This is the problem that I see out in the world – people with soapboxes and bully pulpits who allow their rhetoric to be steered and calibrated – always toward the weak-tea side of the spectrum – by their revenue stream.  “Oh, I can’t say that!  I might lose a bunch of donors!”  Nope.  Not here.

I figure I’ve got the Ol’ Devil cornered, as a bunch of people are going to have the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for them as a result of this, so no matter what happens, there will always be that, and the Devil can never undo that.

And don’t forget, a donation here will send you straight to the top of some FEDGOV list, so you’ll have that going for you too, which is nice.

The button is to your right, and for all benefactors past, present and future, thank you.  I know what money is – I know that YOUR money is a proxy for your labor and your capacity to produce and create, in other words, your money is a little piece of your life.  When you give that to someone, you aren’t just giving them zeroes and ones on a bank server.  You are giving a piece of yourself, measured in time.  I get it.  For that please know how grateful and humbled I am.  Truly, thank you.

I don’t relish in this.  I put these posts up to make the point that there will be absolutely no room for any arguments about how “we had no idea that the Obama putsch regime was malevolent” or “we were taken totally by surprise”.  As I have been saying for years and years, PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR GOVERNMENT, and an iniquitous gutter republic, such as yours (I renounce any association or connection to the abortion of an overthrown nation-state formerly called the United States of America  – I am stateless) that has the temerity to STILL crow about being “the land of the free and the home of the brave” and further continues to wave a now-meaningless founding legal document that begins with the words, “WE THE PEOPLE…”, oh you have NO possible argument to make.  You own this, and there is nothing “surprising” about any of it.  This was all EASILY called YEARS ago.

Let’s start with the confirmation today of the Obamacare website being a non-functional false facade; a Potempkin Village.  Yep.  I called that here on October 19th.  Item 3.  Let’s see.  These people all lie, and Chao admitted today that 40% of the code has yet to be written, so that probably means that 80% of the code has yet to be written.  Hmmm.  That would mean that there was just enough code written to get people’s personal information…   And they launched a website knowing full well that it wouldn’t function BECAUSE THE UNDERLYING CODE DID. NOT. EXIST.  Chaos and crisis is the objective, people.  If you cannot comprehend this, then there is basically nothing that can be done.  Mark my words, the “fix” will be “Medicare For All”, aka Single Payer government controlled health care from top to bottom.  And they’ve set it up so that you people will be literally BEGGING them to do it.  So. Totally. Predictable.

Next, let’s go WAY back and revisit some of my comments on the fake-fake-fakety-fake unemployment numbers, which were confirmed as such today.  Let’s also take this opportunity, while we are looking at obvious, repeating-like-clockwork tactics of Marxist tyrannies, to revisit the terrifying zenith that history tells us is very, very much a possibility here:

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7.8%?  I called it months ago.  So. Predictable.
Posted by Ann Barnhardt October 8, ARSH 2012

POSTED BY ANN BARNHARDT – MARCH 6, AD 2011 9:42 PM MST

…In my opinion, the “best-case scenario” would be continued inflation at roughly the pace we are experiencing now until Obama is removed from office. I am of the considered opinion that there is absolutely ZERO chance for any stabilization or recovery so long as the Obama regime holds power. ZERO. Why would there be? The Obama regime is actively and consciously trying to destroy the United States and its economy.

Do you think these people are going to wake up one morning, come to Jesus, and suddenly stop their war against this country? I wouldn’t count on it.

Further, don’t be fooled by ANY statistics coming out of Washington D.C. The unemployment numbers are as fake as a three dollar bill. So are the consumer confidence and consumer price index numbers. They are completely and totally fabricated, and will show “improvement” as we move closer to the 2012 elections. It has already started with last week’s completely phoney unemployment figures.

Analyzing these figures is as much of an absurd waste of time as analyzing Chinese economic data. THEY’RE MAKING IT ALL UP. IT HAS NO ANCHOR IN REALITY WHATSOEVER. Don’t be a patsy. Don’t be their stooge. WAKE UP. Look at the price of gold. Look at the price of crude. Look at the price of cotton. Look at the price of corn.

I look at these analysts trying to act like they’re above it all, dutifully studying and quoting these fraudulent datasets in a vain attempt to map “analogue years” and interpret all of this as if it were somehow normal. The only word that comes to my mind is: PATHETIC. It’s just pathetic to watch people living their lives in denial just because they want to maintain their position in their social circle or industry clique. PATHETIC. What’s worse is that they are willing to sacrifice the wealth and well-being of their clients and consultees in order to maintain their deluded little worldview. Don’t you be their patsy. Don’t you be pathetic. Don’t you fall for their deluded denial of obvious reality. Please.

And then . . . 

POSTED BY ANN BARNHARDT – MAY 4, AD 2012 8:55 PM MST

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

I’m not psychic. I’m not a prophet. I don’t hear voices. I simply am NOT STUPID, I have read history, and I have the stones to acknowledge obvious, objective reality. How anyone could NOT see all of this stuff coming is completely beyond me. You can see all of these things coming miles and miles away.

And by the way, this applies to my fears about Obama being assassinated. Seriously, how stupid and balless do you have to be in order to honestly argue and believe that COMMUNISTS are not capable of killing anyone? How stupid and balless do you have to be to convince yourself that COMMUNISTS, who murdered AT MINIMUM 250 million people in the 20th century alone, would be incapable of murdering a dim-witted, drug addicted homosexual puppet in order to completely overthrow and cement power over the largest economy and largest military force the world has ever seen?

IF Obama is false-flag assassinated, there won’t be any “chain of succession” issues. Joe Biden will never, ever be POTUS, no matter what. If Obama is false-flag assassinated the Constitution will be suspended, a “provisional government” will be announced and martial law declared.

I shouldn’t be surprised by the abject and complete ignorance of history – even recent 20th century history, the normalcy bias and tunnel vision anymore, but I still am.

I am worried that Obama will be taken out by his own people for exactly the same reason that I called this phoney-baloney unemployment crap months and months ago – because it is ALL SO INCREDIBLY PREDICTABLE, and the populace is too stupid and deluded to even see how predictable it all is.

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING fills up the old inbox with the hatey-hate quite like a mention of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  And I’m feeling a bit cantankerous, crotchety and like shaking my fist at the world, so watch me now bait the pagans and schismatic cultists.

Indulge me here for a moment.  Do you realize there there are millions upon millions of people all over the planet who call themselves Christians who honestly believe that when they face Our Lord at their Judgment, that they will somehow *win points* by explaining to Our Blessed Lord how much they hate His Blessed Mother, and how they did everything they could to befoul and besmirch her name and reputation, and how even the slightest mention of her – Our Lord’s Mother – sent them into a spittle-spraying rage?

Just stop and sit in stillness with that, and then ponder the level of prideful stupidity that is required to honestly hold that God Incarnate hates and is somehow jealous and resentful of His Own Mother.  That just pegs the needle, y’all.

Anywho, bunches of protestants, Catholics who have grown up in the Novus Ordo and thus were never taught the Rosary, or openly discouraged from praying it by the Commie-sodomite infiltrator priests and nuns, and even a couple of Jews who are taking “a second look” at Christianity, have asked me to explain what the Rosary is and how to go about praying it.  Sure.  No prob.

First, the history.  The Rosary was given by the Blessed Virgin herself to St. Dominic in ARSH 1214.  St. Dominic was having a terrible time combating heretics that were deeply embedded in the Church.  (D’oh!  Sound familiar??)  Long story short, she appeared to St. Dominic and told him what the Holy Trinity wanted done.  Her words were, “I want you to know that, in this kind of warfare, the battering ram has always been the Angelic Psalter which is the foundation stone of the New Testament. Therefore if you want to reach these hardened souls and win them over to God, preach my Psalter.”

The Angelic Salutation are the words of the angel Gabriel to Mary from Luke 1:28:  “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.”

The rest of the prayer then quotes the words of Mary’s cousin Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, upon Mary’s arrival at her home to be with her through her miraculous post-menopausal pregnancy in Luke 1:42:  “Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.”

The rest of the prayer asks Our Blessed Lord’s mother to pray for us to her Son now, and especially at the hour of our death.  I eagerly await all of the “Christians” in their rage at this to send me emails telling me how “dead people are DEAD and can’t pray.”  Uh-huh.  Riiiiight.  Because John 3:16 says, as we all know, For God so loved the world, as to give His only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in Him, would die, Die, DIE FOREVER!!!!  Yeah.  That makes PERFECT sense.  Yoooooubetcha.

So, the Hail Mary prayer, in its entirety is:

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.  Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Now back to what she told St. Dominic: the Holy Trinity wanted the Angelic Psalter.  The Psalter is, of course, all 150 Psalms.  So, each Angelic Salutation stands for one of the Psalms.  There are 150 Psalms in the Psalter, so we pray 150 Angelic Salutation prayers (Hail Mary…).

Now here is where it gets REALLY cool.  Each block of 10 Angelic Salutation prayers (Hail Marys) is matched up with a key event in the life, death and resurrection of Our Lord from the perspective of His Mother – so what you are doing is essentially praying the Gospel itself, in order.  These events are called “Mysteries”.  These 15 Mysteries are then divided into three groups: Joyful (Life), Sorrowful (Passion and Death), and Glorious (Resurrection).  So no, one is NOT mindlessly babbling prayers.  During each decade of Hail Marys, not only are you thinking about the Angelic Salutation itself AND of the need for God’s Mercy upon you, a miserable sinner, both now and especially at the hour of your death, but you are also thinking about the event in the Gospel that each decade represents AND how that mystery applies to you and your life.  Each mystery has attached to it a “fruit”, which comes through grace when one prays it well.

Again, as an aside, I await with bated breath the emails telling me how praying the same prayer ten times constitutes mindless babbling, but also how structured prayer that requires ACTUAL THOUGHT AND FOCUS is evil, too.  No, really.  I love it when people argue directly contradicting ideas in the same breath – the same way I love watching videos of cats running into sliding glass doors.

Here are the mysteries and their fruits:

First Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation (Gabriel tells Mary she will conceive the Savior by the Holy Spirit).  Fruit: Humility
Second Joyful Mystery: The Visitation (Mary goes to her cousin Elizabeth who is 6 months pregnant with John the Baptist). Fruit: Charity – Love of Neighbor
Third Joyful Mystery: The Birth of Jesus. Fruit: Poverty, Detachment from Earthly Things 
Fourth Joyful Mystery:  Presentation of Infant Jesus at the Temple. Fruit: Obedience
Fifth Joyful Mystery:  Finding the Boy Jesus teaching at the Temple  Fruit: Piety, Zeal for God

First Sorrowful Mystery: Christ’s Agony in the Garden.  Fruit: Sorrow for Sin (both one’s own sin and the sins of the world), Conformity to the Will of God
Second Sorrowful Mystery: The Scourging at the Pillar. Fruit: Purity
Third Sorrowful Mystery:  The Crowning with Thorns. Fruit: Moral Courage
Fourth Sorrowful Mystery:  The Carrying of the Cross Fruit: Patience
Fifth Sorrowful Mystery:  The Crucifixion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Fruit: Perseverance, Self-Denial

First Glorious Mystery:  The Resurrection.  Fruit: Faith
Second Glorious Mystery:  The Ascension.  Fruit: Hope, Desire for Heaven
Third Glorious Mystery:  Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and Mary (Pentecost). Fruit: Wisom, Love of God
Fourth Glorious Mystery:  The Assumption of Mary into Heaven. Fruit: Grace of a Holy Death
Fifth Glorious Mystery:  The Crowning of Mary as Queen of Heaven. Fruit: Trust in Mary’s Intercession

Where’s the Assumption in the Bible?  Oh, it isn’t explicitly there, but that’s okay because as John clearly, clearly states in the last verse of his gospel, they didn’t write everything down because if they had, the world itself could not have contained all of the texts.  That’s why Our Lord gave us The Church, and sent the Holy Ghost to protect it and guide it, including the repository of non-written information and Holy Tradition at Pentecost.  And I would just ask one more simple question.  We have bits of everyone else’s bodies.  They are called relics, and they are really, really important.  Where are The Blessed Virgin’s relics?  Oh, that’s right.  There are none, and never have been any.  Why?  Because she was assumed body and soul into heaven.  John and the rest of the Apostles and Church Fathers did not MISPLACE the body of Our Lord’s mother.  If you think that they did, then I really can’t help you with that.  Only God can fix problems of that enormity.

But, but, where is this Queen of Heaven stuff in the Bible?  Revelation 12.  Right there.

Now, the actual procedure.  Below is a picture of a Rosary.  Start at the Crucifix.  Begin with,
“In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.”

On the Crucifix recite the Apostles Creed:

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth;
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son Our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into Hell; the third day He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into Heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and life everlasting.
Amen.

On the first bead up from the Crucifix, say one Our Father (Lord’s Prayer):

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.

There is a wider gap and then three beads – each of those is a Hail Mary.  The first should be for Faith, the second for Hope, and the third for Love – Charity.  Also internally specify any specific intention you have for this Rosary at this time.

There is a wider gap and then one more bead before the center medallion.  On this bead say one Gloria Patri:

Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son,
and to the Holy Ghost,
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen.

Now you’re on the center medallion thing.  Here, we pray the Fatima Prayer, given by the Blessed Virgin to the children at Fatima, Portugal in ARSH 1917:

Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell, and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy mercy. Amen.

Now you are one the circular part of the chain.  Start with the First Joyful Mystery.  Announce which mystery it is and its fruit:
“The First Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation.  Fruit of the Mystery: Humility.”

Begin each mystery with

One Our Father

The recite the

Ten Hail Marys

There are ten beads for each Hail Mary.  You will then reach a seperator bead with a bit more length of chain on each side of it.  On this bead conclude the Mystery with

One Gloria Patri and

One Fatima Prayer

Continue on to the Second Joyful Mystery, etc.

When you have finished the Fifth Mystery and are back at the center medallion thing, conclude the Rosary with

One Salve Regina:

Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, hail, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve: to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed Fruit of thy Womb, Jesus, O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary! Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we made be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Amen.

And finish with this concluding prayer:

O God, whose only begotten Son, by His life, death, and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal salvation, grant, we beseech Thee, that meditating upon these mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that we may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise, through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.  Amen.

Each set of five decades takes roughly 22 minutes to pray.  Praying all three sets of mysteries, the entire Angelic Psalter, requires a little over an hour.  If you just do one set of mysteries per day (Joyful, Sorrowful or Glorious), the Church’s  Tradition has been:

Monday: Joyful
Tuesday: Sorrowful
Wednesday: Glorious
Thursday: Joyful
Friday: Sorrowful
Saturday: Glorious
Sunday: Glorious

I have YouTubes of each of the Three sets of mysteries in LATIN linked up above on the Menu bar.  You can find oodles of English YouTube Rosaries with a simple search on YouTube.  You don’t NEED audio, but it is a great way to learn when getting started and I sometimes use audio when in a noisy environment or just to help focus.  My mind tends to race sometimes.

If you don’t have an actual set of Rosary beads yet, no problem.  You have, I would assume, ten fingers.  You’re always equipped.

Bottom line: this works.  It is endlessly deep as there are endless insights to be had into the Gospel, and every day presents each of us with a new dataset that needs to be parsed and reconciled to the Gospel.  The Rosary accomplishes this, if prayed persistently and piously.  I can’t tell you how many flashes of comprehension, ways of explaining something and good essay ideas have come to me while praying the Rosary.  It’s even more productive “thinking time” than in the shower or when highway driving with the radio off.  Those were my two big thinking session venues BEFORE I started praying the Rosary years ago.

The Rosary is second only in efficacy and merit to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass itself.  It is God’s gift to us.  When God gives you something, use it.

I happened on this Vanity Fair piece wondering aloud how it can possibly be that their demigod could possibly be the uber-competent, super-genius organizer of people that he is (Right?  He is, right?  Right? *sniff* I’m skeerd.  Hold me!) while being, as it is now clear for all the world to see, held in near-total isolation.

There, there now.  Let me explain it for you.

Barack Obama remains in near-total isolation, never really engaging anyone outside of maybe half-a-dozen to a dozen people inside the West Wing, bluffing his way through pressers and being held safely away from congressional leadership and even his top-tier donors behind velvet ropes, because Barack Obama is dumber than a box of hair, a drug addict, and a sodomite, and CAN’T engage people without blowing his cover.

Barack Obama the man, or whatever his name is, spends much of his time locked in the study above the Oval Office.  In that study he watches ESPN, does drugs, and is sexually serviced by male concubines.  Barack Obama also does not “golf”, unless the word “golf” is the new jive-talk slang for being fellated by a male concubine while smoking crack in the backseat of the presedential limo in the parking lot of the East Course at Joint Base Andrews.  If that is what “golf” now means, then yes, Barack Obama sure as hell plays a lot of “golf”.

Let’s compare Obama to Bill Clinton.  Bill Clinton is a psychopath, a murderer and a rapist.  Bill Clinton is also probably a genius on the I.Q. scale.  Tales of Bill Clinton’s intellectual dexterity and thus his charm and ability to “work a room” are legendary, from both the male and female perspectives.  Both men and women have reported that Bill Clinton can make anyone he is talking to feel as though they are the only person on the planet, and that he understands and sympathizes completely with them and their position.  He has used this ability to manipulate men politically and women sexually to an extent that is perhaps unmatched.

Obama’s handlers keep him totally isolated and won’t even let him schmooze with his drooling mega-donors.  And Obama cooperates, because he knows he is a complete fraud, too.

Do you guys remember the stunningly bizarre incident a few years ago when Obama began a press conference at the White House, and then walked out claiming he had to attend some reception, and turned his own press conference over to Bill Clinton who proceeded to DAZZLE the press corps with a tour de force performace at the podium?  Everything Bill Clinton said was a lie, including the words “and” and “the”, but his rhetorical command and nimbleness was stunning, especially in direct contrast to Obama who can only barely regurgitate rehearsed and coached talking points when speaking ex tempore.  Let’s go to the videotape on that surreal episode:

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

Who is running the White House?  Who is executing the Cloward-Piven strategy from the West Wing?  Valerie Jarrett is clearly in charge, but even she is taking orders from above.  JPMorgan-Goldman Sachs.  Soros.  The Saudis.  Maybe the ChiComms.  Maybe Moscow.  I dunno.  We’ll all find out at the General Judgment.  Michelle Obama is also far more powerful and involved than is let on.  This is especially terrifying, because Michelle Obama is every bit as dumb as her fake husband, and perhaps even moreso.  Have you ever read Michelle’s Princeton thesis?  Here.  Let me link that badboy up for you.  I simply have to quote Christopher Hitchens, the now-former atheist (God have mercy on him), who said it best:

“I direct your attention to Mrs. Obama’s 1985 thesis at Princeton University. Its title (rather limited in scope, given the author and the campus) is “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.” To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be “read” at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language.”

Obama isn’t a brooding genius, plotting and hatching plans with his roundtable of consiglieres and caporegimes.  He didn’t win the office of the Presidency; he was installed as a puppet by a putch regime who counted the entirety of the mainstream media as a 110% compliant  operational arm.  Obama is a drug-addled imbecile moving through and marking the hours one SportsCenter and one bl**j*b at a time.  He is personally responsible, along with many others, for the giant crime against humanity that is this regime, and he should personally be held to full earthly account according to the rule of law and be subject to capital punishment with due process just like the rest of them in exctly the same way Kim Jong Un, another imbecile puppet, should also be held to full personal account.  But a brooding genius?  Cracker, please.

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.

We’re gonna go “encounter” some musloids and then we’re gonna “dialogue” using swords just like this one I’m holding right here in my right hand, because I’m the Vicar of Jesus Christ and I have made my judgment.

Meet Pope Urban II.  In the late 11th century, the musloids were exterminating all of the Christians in the Middle East.  (Sound familiar?)  Even though he was over in the West with the Western Rite, and the exterminated Christians were Eastern with their Eastern Rites, it mattered not, because there is only One Church, and when the sheep are being exterminated by a large pack of inbred, rabid, demonically possessed wolves, you suit up and boot up.  Quoth Pope Urban II to those assembled at the Council of Clermont on November 27, ARSH 1095:

I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ’s heralds to publish this everywhere and to pers­e all people of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights, poor and rich, to carry aid promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends. I say this to those who are present, it is meant also for those who are absent. Moreover, Christ commands it.

To which, all there present simultaneously cried, “Deus vult!  Deus vult!”  (God wills it!)

Now, 918 years later, the successor to Urban II can only spew incoherent platitudes while his sheep, his flock, entrusted to him by Jesus Christ, are exterminated without compunction in exactly the same lands and by exactly the same people (no, really, the family trees are completely straight lines).

How long, O Lord?

Ladies and gentlemen of the Iniquitous Gutter Republic, I give you an honest-to-goodness taxpayer-funded print advertisement now running for Obamacare.  This is not satire.  This is not a joke.  I dunno.  Maybe since the dead babies didn’t convince you that a tax strike is the very, very, very least that is called for at this point, perhaps this will:

Remember, quarterly tax payments for income generated in the September 1, 2013-December 31, 2013 window will be due on January 15, 2014!

We’re basically just doing one of these per month, now to catch up on current events.  We talk about the ObamaCare website intentional failure, the complicity of the Catholic bishops in the ObamaCare fraud, a few different topics.  It’s pretty good – for a chick.  I acquired a headset with a microphone so the audio quality is greatly improved.  I’m still a shrill, shrieking harridan, but I’m a shrill, shrieking harridan with much more low-end bass and less high-end tweet.  It helps.

BTW, someone reminded me of the Big Lebowski Dude and how White Russians were referred to as “Caucasians”, so pour yourself up a Caucasian (or four) and enjoy 44 minutes of browbeating.  Za Vas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE51E5_dXNI

1.  A White Russian is one shot of vodka, a half shot of coffee liqueur, and then top off with cream – all over ice in a lowball glass.  Do not stir.  Be careful with these delicious rascals.  They sneak up on you.  You don’t feel a thing … until you stand up.  And then it’s the Battle of Stalingrad right behind your eyeballs.

2.  Thank you once again for your extreme generosity in my estate liquidation project.  I am happy to report that yet another Tridentine Mass for my benefactors, supporters and those who pray for me has been locked-in for November 29th at approximately 12:30pm EST.  Since only one person can technically “win” each auction, I thought it only right to add “supporters and those who pray for me” to the intention.  Our Lord knows exactly who you are, and thus the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will indeed be offered for your special intention on the 29th.  Mark the date!

3. I came across this little poem on vice and thought it extremely apt.  The word MIEN (pronounced “meen”) means a person’s appearance or manner.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Do you remember when even the slightest sight of anything having to do with sodomites or lesbians was utterly repulsive to you, engendering even a visceral, physical feeling of repulsion?  We have – all of us, to varying degrees – been desentized to it.  The Communist infiltrators have done this through the media, and as I have said before, we not only let them do it, but we paid them, on average, $50-$200 PER MONTH to let them do it, and most continue to do so.  Endure, pity, then embrace.  Indeed.

3.  With regard to the counties in Colorado voting to move forward in the process of forming a 51st state, no I’m not impressed.  First, the FEDGOV will never, ever approve such a thing because it would dilute the Senate and the two new diluted Senate seats would both be conservative.  Not that the legislative branch has any actual power anymore.  What a joke.  The Legislative Branch is simply a lapdog to the Tyrant Executive, and of zero consequence to the Judiciary, which has usurped the role of authoring legislation for quite some time now.  But more importantly, why is forming a new state that still exists inside an Iniquitous Gutter Republic any sort of improvement?  This is the working definition of peeing into the wind.   Bottom line:  When someone starts a movement to SECEDE FROM THE UNION, then and only then will I pay attention.  Anything less than that is simply the rearranging of the deck chairs on the Titanic.  Anyone with a brain knows that you need to get your butts in a lifeboat and row away from the sinking monstrosity as hard and as fast as you possibly can.

4.  And finally, something pretty.  While I know that George and Tammy’s relationship was highly, highly disordered, I have always loved this song.  An interesting point about Tammy – she kept her beautician’s license current until the very end of her life.  She always entertained the possibility that she would need to go “back to work” at some point.  At the time it seemed odd, but I think that we can all better appreciate her wisdom and humility on this point now.  This is an old Hee-Haw clip.  Man, EVERYBODY went on Hee-Haw.  Saturday night – 6:00pm.  Scenes from a childhood in the last golden days of the United States.  Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwey1_O2-Eo

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.

Grrr! D’oh! Argh! Come here! Hey! Now I got ya! BAH! D’OH! ARGH!

Jacob rasslin’ with an angel in Genesis 32.  Here is the footnote on the episode from the Douay-Rheims Bible which, I think, clears up the misconceptions about this incident:

This was an angel in human shape, as we learn from Hosea 12: 4. He is called God, ver. 28 and 30, because he represented the person of the Son of God. This wrestling, in which Jacob, assisted by God, was a match for an angel, was so ordered (ver. 28,) that he might learn by this experiment of the divine assistance, that neither Esau, nor any other man, should have power to hurt him.– It was also spiritual, as appeareth by his earnest prayer, urging and at last obtaining the angel’s blessing.

So, two points.  The Divine Assistance is EXTREMELY powerful.  Rasslin’ an angel to a draw is an unfathomable feat.  Second, earnest persistence in prayer is both efficacious and desired by God.  Speaking for myself, coming out of a protestant culture of self-reliance to the point of abject pridefulness and being keen to avoid the traditional female stereotypical behavior of talking too much and, most especially, nagging, this episode reminds us that God wants us to both talk to Him and “nag” Him.  NOT persistently asking Him for help is bad, prideful business.

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.

Grumpy and stubbly. Team San Carlo. Yay!

Today is the Feast of Saint Charles Borromeo. He was grumpy, and apparently was rocking a five o’clock shadow well before noon.  He was a real manly-man.  Among countless other awesome achievements, St. Charles went after his confessor when it became clear that the guy was a pervert, and the confessor was, as a result, convicted of “unnatural offenses”.  He made many enemies – but the kind of enemies that it is good to have.

St. Charles was a toughguy who saw how incredibly messed up and wicked the world in his day was, and just rolled up his sleeves and FIXED IT.  He was a man who got tremendous horsepower to the pavement.  He didn’t shrug his shoulders.  He didn’t roll his eyes.  He just mashed the throttle and went right over the top of anyone who dared slow him down.  Sigh.  Yeah.  We’re a fan.

He also invented Sunday School.

Oh, and he wrote an entire book about the design and construction of churches: Instructiones Fabricae et Supellectilis Ecclesiasticae.  The people responsible for all of these hideously, hideously ugly churches today should be beaten mercilessly with a hardcover copy of Instructiones Fabricae et Supellectilis Ecclesiasticae until they repent of their wicked, evil designs and lying proclamation of ugliness as beauty.

And even though he was widely hated by the corruptocrats and perverts, and even though he was a grumpy-puss who consistently wore his frowny-face, the day he died the people took to the streets demanding that he be canonized a saint.  (I’m pretty sure there is a lesson in there somewhere….)

St. Carlo, pray for us!!