Well, the two interesting Search Terms this week are "ugly modern catholic churches" and "Dallas people are ignorant rednecks". Odd, what i find has led people to find this obscure and inconsequential collection of rambling thoughts!
TRIUMPHALIST--YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?
Saturday, November 12, 2011
St. Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr
This is Feast that makes me sad. Perhaps my Theology is in error, but I cannot see how this is not an occasion for sadness and perhaps reflection on the violence we have done to the Church Christ founded. St. Josaphat was born in 1580, and was martyred in 1623. He was Martyred by other Christians.
I feel keenly the separation of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches. His Holiness, Benedict XVI has said that the Orthodox are in fact, true Churches, descended from the Apostles and holding the Deposit of the Faith. The Great Schism between us was occasioned, I believe, by the egotism, chauvinism and narrow cultural outlooks of two prelates--the Pope and the Patriarch of Byzantium. Looking at the history of the thing, and not considering the theology of it (and the theology of it was worked out after the fact by both sides to justify the schism) it seems clear. Those who were sent from Rome to negotiate didn't even speak Greek, and there was no one at the court in Byzantium who spoke Latin. Neither side would acknowledge the rights of the other, neither side respected the liturgical traditions of the other.
We--both the Orthodox and the Catholics--broke God's Church, we split it in two, while the core of both our theologies is compatible, and our two theological traditions illuminate the other. I have learned so much from Orthodox Mystagogy, about the Sacraments and Grace. I'm sure that for some Orthodox the same is true in reverse. This is the greatest guilt on both our houses--that even though Our Lord prayed that all might be one--we willingly and not without malice split the Body of Christ.
Josaphat was born in the Ukraine--his family was Orthodox--and "converted" to Catholicism, eventually becoming the Slavonic Rite Archbishop of Polock. He worked hard for Church unity, and reunification. I don't know much about his methodology, but the orthodox called him "the thief of souls". He was Martyred by other Christians, who prayed in the same language as he, using the same liturgies as he. I have no doubt that he was a genuine martyr, who died for the faith and for his fidelity. But I'm sure that were the roles reversed, and he had "converted" to Orthodoxy, he would still be a martyr! So perhaps my Theology is flawed or in error, but that's what I think.
St. Josaphat was a martyr for Christian Unity, a unity we should all crave and pray for. We are moving into the end times, and persecution is growing everywhere Christians--especially Catholic and Orthodox Christians--are found. We are targeted by the forces and servants of the Antichrist, and our divisions serve only to weaken us, and make the individual believer easier prey for evil, whether physical evil through brutality or moral evil through a loss of faith in the face of persecution and disunity that prevents Christian compassion and aid from flowing from one part of the Church to another. And everywhere a Christian dies, is martyred because of such blockage, we have in a real way another martyr of unity, and another victim of our own sins of disunity. It's sad.
I hope who ever reads this will take a moment to say a prayer for the Reunification of Christ's Church, so that together our common witness can convert our Protestant brethren and return them to the Sacraments and full organic unity so that they may have the Sanctifying Grace of the Sacraments in the face of the ever growing tide of secularity and indifferentism that threatens them as well.
I feel keenly the separation of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches. His Holiness, Benedict XVI has said that the Orthodox are in fact, true Churches, descended from the Apostles and holding the Deposit of the Faith. The Great Schism between us was occasioned, I believe, by the egotism, chauvinism and narrow cultural outlooks of two prelates--the Pope and the Patriarch of Byzantium. Looking at the history of the thing, and not considering the theology of it (and the theology of it was worked out after the fact by both sides to justify the schism) it seems clear. Those who were sent from Rome to negotiate didn't even speak Greek, and there was no one at the court in Byzantium who spoke Latin. Neither side would acknowledge the rights of the other, neither side respected the liturgical traditions of the other.
We--both the Orthodox and the Catholics--broke God's Church, we split it in two, while the core of both our theologies is compatible, and our two theological traditions illuminate the other. I have learned so much from Orthodox Mystagogy, about the Sacraments and Grace. I'm sure that for some Orthodox the same is true in reverse. This is the greatest guilt on both our houses--that even though Our Lord prayed that all might be one--we willingly and not without malice split the Body of Christ.
Josaphat was born in the Ukraine--his family was Orthodox--and "converted" to Catholicism, eventually becoming the Slavonic Rite Archbishop of Polock. He worked hard for Church unity, and reunification. I don't know much about his methodology, but the orthodox called him "the thief of souls". He was Martyred by other Christians, who prayed in the same language as he, using the same liturgies as he. I have no doubt that he was a genuine martyr, who died for the faith and for his fidelity. But I'm sure that were the roles reversed, and he had "converted" to Orthodoxy, he would still be a martyr! So perhaps my Theology is flawed or in error, but that's what I think.
St. Josaphat was a martyr for Christian Unity, a unity we should all crave and pray for. We are moving into the end times, and persecution is growing everywhere Christians--especially Catholic and Orthodox Christians--are found. We are targeted by the forces and servants of the Antichrist, and our divisions serve only to weaken us, and make the individual believer easier prey for evil, whether physical evil through brutality or moral evil through a loss of faith in the face of persecution and disunity that prevents Christian compassion and aid from flowing from one part of the Church to another. And everywhere a Christian dies, is martyred because of such blockage, we have in a real way another martyr of unity, and another victim of our own sins of disunity. It's sad.
I hope who ever reads this will take a moment to say a prayer for the Reunification of Christ's Church, so that together our common witness can convert our Protestant brethren and return them to the Sacraments and full organic unity so that they may have the Sanctifying Grace of the Sacraments in the face of the ever growing tide of secularity and indifferentism that threatens them as well.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
To read all my thought on the OWS movement...
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Armistice Day, Veteran's Day, Martinmas and Olde Skoole Thinking!
HANG ON! IT'S ONE HELLUVA MASHUP!
Tomorrow, the 11th of November, marks the Armistice that brought the fighting in the Great War to a close. 11 AM, on the 11th Day, of the 11th Month. that date and time in fact is so important, to so many, that it now marks the beginning of Fasching in Germany. We have seen so much horror in the 20th Century that we might lose sight of how horrible The Great War--know more commonly known as World War I--was. In it's own way, it was more horrifying than World War Two, even though the latter was more destructive and killed more people. The Great war held all the components of the Second World War, except the terminal use of atomic weapons. Aircraft, Air Raids, Submarines, Massed Artillery, Tanks, Huge Armies, Global Conflict, Chemical Warfare, Flame Throwers--all these things were present for the very first time. The shock was immense, and unheard of. No one was ready for this first fully modern war, the the extent that no one had a clue how to fight it, until 1918, when the Germans worked out new tactics, and the American used them against them with better integration of armor and air forces. We still are haunted by it, even in our language. The phrase "in the trenches" was born there. The German Empire was broken, The Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed, the Ottoman Empire Collapsed, the seeds of the dissolution of the British Empire are traced to the Great War, the beginnings of the dissolution of the French Colonial Empire as well. The last traces of the Holy Roman Empire, in the ethno-linguistic identity of various regions were erased. Actually, most of the problems in the Mid-east, through to the Iraq-Iran border have their roots in the settlement of the Great War. And world War Two was a direct result of it, in Europe, and a consequence of the political settlement in the Far East.
Well that was a lot of Wars ago, and now in the US we call it Veterans Day. In Canada they call it Remembrance Day. And on this day we remember the fallen of our nation in it's many, many wars, from the beginning to now. And we use it to honor out surviving veterans.
I am a "Surviving Veteran" and this year, I'm gong to talk a little about Veteran's Day.
I have always used this day to be proud of the my Grandfather's generation, that fought in the Great War, and my Father's generation that fought in World War Two and the Korean War, and the Elder members of my own Generation that fought in Vietnam. Now I'm a middle aged guy, and when my Sons-in Law come up to me on Veteran's Day and thank me for my service, I am embarrassed. Compared to my elders--and perhaps my betters--I did very little, and compared to the young guys who've been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, the same holds true. I extend my respect and gratitude to each and every one of them. And my awe, that they can come back from that, buckle down and help to build a stronger, better, smarter America. perhaps for that last, most of all. These Men and Women are the achievers, the doers that embody the best of our American Tradition. May God Bless Each and Every One of Them.
As for myself, well, I regard my own service as something to give thanks for! I wish to thank Our Great Republic for the privilege of serving such a Country, for the privilege of being a part of something so exceptional as The American Experiment, the dream of liberty for all. I am grateful to everyone who reads this for the privilege of serving, and of knowing that in some small way, I helped keep my family, my friends, my countrymen safe and free. It's one of the three greatest privileges of my life: The first being the privilege of being baptized into the Body of Christ and receiving the Holy Eucharist, the Second being the Love of the Mother of my Children and my Children, the third being the privilege of serving my country. I did not deserve such a great privilege, but it was extended to me all the same. So thank you, for the opportunity to serve.
I spent part of my time in the service in the 2d ACR--the famed and historic 2d US Cavalry, which brings me to St. Martin of Tours, and his Feast Day on the 11th of November--because he is the Patron Saint of Cavalry. (I bet you were wondering how I was going to manage that transition, huh?) He is also the Patron Saint of my Parish--St. Martin of Tours in Louisville. But wait! It gets better--one of my old Army buddies is visiting me on the 11th--we served together, in the Cavalry! So hey, what a day!
The Feast of St. Martin was of greater importance in the Middle Ages an Renaissance than now. It was in fact, a major feast day. And it had significance for the Liturgical Year. Back then, (and until the 1970s!) Advent was a purely penitential season, liturgically, and was much longer--It started on Martinmas. Old sources refer to it as "that other lent, occurring before Christmas". St. Francis of Assisi referred to it so, in the Memoriale Propositi, the root document that became the original basis for the Third Order Rules of the Franciscans, the Dominicans and the Carmelites--the basis, in fact, for Third Orders. Advent, as a penitential season used to be longer than the four weeks now. It still is in the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Churches. (In fact that's one of the things that make Orthodox Christian look at us funny--why did we change this to make it less of a significant marker for our Liturgical life, and in the US I think they might be fueled by the influx of ex-Catholics who went Orthodox in response to the Modernist assault on Catholicism! I know they have respect for the Gregorian Liturgy, but look at the Pauline Liturgy as something of an abomination.) So the 11th of November marked the start of a great fast. Which brings me to my final point.
I am not doing well with following the will of the Lord, and part of it is my involvement, emotionally and intellectually with current politics and disputes within the Church. I need to fast, as it were. I'm not planning on a diet of bread and water, or taking up the discipline and the cilice. Instead, I will simply fast from blogging and following current events. I may write here, from time to time, but only on topics concerning the readings of this season, and Advent, or items that are cause for rejoicing, and the the small wonders of being a member of a family. I will not comment on current events, church policies of Liturgical practices, and instead devote that energy to repentance and trying to cultivate a couple of virtue which--actually it's all of them--I am deficient in. My hope of heaven is much more important to me than my politics an preferences.
So get ready, this blog is gonna go all Jesus Freak until the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.
Tomorrow, the 11th of November, marks the Armistice that brought the fighting in the Great War to a close. 11 AM, on the 11th Day, of the 11th Month. that date and time in fact is so important, to so many, that it now marks the beginning of Fasching in Germany. We have seen so much horror in the 20th Century that we might lose sight of how horrible The Great War--know more commonly known as World War I--was. In it's own way, it was more horrifying than World War Two, even though the latter was more destructive and killed more people. The Great war held all the components of the Second World War, except the terminal use of atomic weapons. Aircraft, Air Raids, Submarines, Massed Artillery, Tanks, Huge Armies, Global Conflict, Chemical Warfare, Flame Throwers--all these things were present for the very first time. The shock was immense, and unheard of. No one was ready for this first fully modern war, the the extent that no one had a clue how to fight it, until 1918, when the Germans worked out new tactics, and the American used them against them with better integration of armor and air forces. We still are haunted by it, even in our language. The phrase "in the trenches" was born there. The German Empire was broken, The Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed, the Ottoman Empire Collapsed, the seeds of the dissolution of the British Empire are traced to the Great War, the beginnings of the dissolution of the French Colonial Empire as well. The last traces of the Holy Roman Empire, in the ethno-linguistic identity of various regions were erased. Actually, most of the problems in the Mid-east, through to the Iraq-Iran border have their roots in the settlement of the Great War. And world War Two was a direct result of it, in Europe, and a consequence of the political settlement in the Far East.
Well that was a lot of Wars ago, and now in the US we call it Veterans Day. In Canada they call it Remembrance Day. And on this day we remember the fallen of our nation in it's many, many wars, from the beginning to now. And we use it to honor out surviving veterans.
I am a "Surviving Veteran" and this year, I'm gong to talk a little about Veteran's Day.
I have always used this day to be proud of the my Grandfather's generation, that fought in the Great War, and my Father's generation that fought in World War Two and the Korean War, and the Elder members of my own Generation that fought in Vietnam. Now I'm a middle aged guy, and when my Sons-in Law come up to me on Veteran's Day and thank me for my service, I am embarrassed. Compared to my elders--and perhaps my betters--I did very little, and compared to the young guys who've been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, the same holds true. I extend my respect and gratitude to each and every one of them. And my awe, that they can come back from that, buckle down and help to build a stronger, better, smarter America. perhaps for that last, most of all. These Men and Women are the achievers, the doers that embody the best of our American Tradition. May God Bless Each and Every One of Them.
As for myself, well, I regard my own service as something to give thanks for! I wish to thank Our Great Republic for the privilege of serving such a Country, for the privilege of being a part of something so exceptional as The American Experiment, the dream of liberty for all. I am grateful to everyone who reads this for the privilege of serving, and of knowing that in some small way, I helped keep my family, my friends, my countrymen safe and free. It's one of the three greatest privileges of my life: The first being the privilege of being baptized into the Body of Christ and receiving the Holy Eucharist, the Second being the Love of the Mother of my Children and my Children, the third being the privilege of serving my country. I did not deserve such a great privilege, but it was extended to me all the same. So thank you, for the opportunity to serve.
I spent part of my time in the service in the 2d ACR--the famed and historic 2d US Cavalry, which brings me to St. Martin of Tours, and his Feast Day on the 11th of November--because he is the Patron Saint of Cavalry. (I bet you were wondering how I was going to manage that transition, huh?) He is also the Patron Saint of my Parish--St. Martin of Tours in Louisville. But wait! It gets better--one of my old Army buddies is visiting me on the 11th--we served together, in the Cavalry! So hey, what a day!
The Feast of St. Martin was of greater importance in the Middle Ages an Renaissance than now. It was in fact, a major feast day. And it had significance for the Liturgical Year. Back then, (and until the 1970s!) Advent was a purely penitential season, liturgically, and was much longer--It started on Martinmas. Old sources refer to it as "that other lent, occurring before Christmas". St. Francis of Assisi referred to it so, in the Memoriale Propositi, the root document that became the original basis for the Third Order Rules of the Franciscans, the Dominicans and the Carmelites--the basis, in fact, for Third Orders. Advent, as a penitential season used to be longer than the four weeks now. It still is in the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Churches. (In fact that's one of the things that make Orthodox Christian look at us funny--why did we change this to make it less of a significant marker for our Liturgical life, and in the US I think they might be fueled by the influx of ex-Catholics who went Orthodox in response to the Modernist assault on Catholicism! I know they have respect for the Gregorian Liturgy, but look at the Pauline Liturgy as something of an abomination.) So the 11th of November marked the start of a great fast. Which brings me to my final point.
I am not doing well with following the will of the Lord, and part of it is my involvement, emotionally and intellectually with current politics and disputes within the Church. I need to fast, as it were. I'm not planning on a diet of bread and water, or taking up the discipline and the cilice. Instead, I will simply fast from blogging and following current events. I may write here, from time to time, but only on topics concerning the readings of this season, and Advent, or items that are cause for rejoicing, and the the small wonders of being a member of a family. I will not comment on current events, church policies of Liturgical practices, and instead devote that energy to repentance and trying to cultivate a couple of virtue which--actually it's all of them--I am deficient in. My hope of heaven is much more important to me than my politics an preferences.
So get ready, this blog is gonna go all Jesus Freak until the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.
Tired of Politics? Let's Talk Rape and Murder!
There are signs that the pro-life movement is making some headway, from state level laws and constitutional amendments to changing attitudes expressed in polls. But making headway at this point is much like finally getting a grip on the rope that might pull you out of the well. It's progress, critical progress, but not much progress.
One of the things that I notice about the murder of children before they draw a breath--when people are being pushed, and those who want to keep murdering kids in clinics are on the spot, they trot out "instances of rape or incest". This is one of the things that they say that makes me angriest. Let me put this into a perspective--I have a family member who has a felony conviction, but they didn't put his daughter in jail! Murdering a child because it's father was a rapist or a sexual abuser of his own kin is punishing it for the crimes of it's parent. Hideous, just hideous that that could be construed as justice.
What makes this even worse, is how this plays out on the street. Abortion, the legal murder of children for the convenience of others, most often facilitates and conceals the crimes of rape and incest! There is almost always a current horror story about this. Right now, the biggie is from Quebec. There, a couple began having sex in front of their daughter. that progressed to having sex with their daughter, as a couple. As time moved on, it ended up with the daughter sleeping with the father in his bed, while the mother slept else where. This continued until the child told a teacher about it at the age of 13. The legal investigation turned up that the mother now perceived the child as a sexual rival, and "allowed" the abuse to continue as punishment (that's about the weirdest thing I've heard this year) and that the child became pregnant at the age of twelve. Mom took her over to the local abortuary and had the baby killed, and her daughter placed on birth control. The clinic didn't bat an eye. And they didn't report the fact that someone, somewhere got a 12 year old girl pregnant, which even in Quebec counts as statutory rape. By not reporting this, they facilitated this young girl being returned to an environment where she was raped by her father as a matter of day to day life. One Quebecois said that the general population of Quebec would have supported the abortion to prevent the child from giving birth to her brother, but even they were appalled that sexuality had become such a banal thing to the region that nobody stopped to wonder who had raped a child.
Well that's Quebec, but it's no better her in the US. Take a look at the Late George Tiller. His practice in Kansas performed 166 abortions on girls under 15 in 2002 and 2003. He reported one--one!--instance of underage sexual abuse in this time, and that one was already under investigation. His clinic was covering up for rape and incest as a matter of course. Operation Rescue has documented this same pattern all over the nation. Abortion is the best cover for rapists and incest pervs, ever. In Tiller's case, he specialized in late term abortions, which had to have another doctor sing off that they were necessary. He used Dr. Ann Kristen Neuhaus, who, at $300 a pop signed off on identical, pre-printed forms which all contained the same diagnosis with out examining the patients. This include 11 girls under the age of 18, ranging down to 10 years of age. She never reported a single case to law enforcement or child protective services.
Rape is a crime of power and dominance, it is often used to underscore or establish power over another. Pimps use it so, so do prison gangs, insurgents, Islamist Supremacists and it features hugely in ethnic conflict, from the Balkans, through Africa to the Middle East and Central Asia, and among the drug cartels of Latin America. Well, there is a link between coercion and abortion as well, with the majority of women reporting being coerced or pressured into having abortions. There are numerous cases of forced abortions of minors, girlfriends etc, to include one celebrated case of a parents kidnapping a daughter who had reached the age of majority and attempting to force her to undergo abortion. None of these are the sort of thing you could call "Isolated Events". In Ontario--I tell you, no disrespect for my Canadian friends meant--I am so glad I do not live in Canada, between the various government agencies, like human rightstribunals, etc and the attitudes of much of their law enforcement and legal system, I'd be in jail!--a prisoner who is pregnant is telling a story that makes me sick. It's corroborated by fellow inmates. She was sentenced to 8 months in jail. She's pregnant so she was transferred to the Vanier Center for Women--a women's prison--to accommodate her pregnancy. There a doctor tried to convince her to undergo an induced labor, which would in all probability result in the death of her child. She refused. She was placed in "segregation"--more or less solitary--on a restricted diet for her refusal. Another doctor saw her, and ordered her removed from segregation. The original doctor returned, and had her placed back into segregation for her "safety". In segregation she is fed a restricted--punitive-diet, which endangers her child. She is no longer receiving the diet that the law prescribes fro pregnant inmates. This endangers her child. This is coercion to have her pregnancy terminated. There's even another dimension, that figures into the abortion story in North America--Racism. The prisoner is from Kenya, and the doctor that has ordered her into segregation, twice, is a white European. A white doctor is trying to kill a child of color, for no reason other than she thinks that's the best thing. The doctor told the prisoner that it would make the rest of her stay in prison "easier"--a bad reason to kill anyone--but hasn't said the same thing to the other pregnant inmates. Racism, Coercion, Ethnic Conflict, all part and parcel of the Abortion tale, which are components held in common with rape. In a very, very odd twist, whoch explains why some pro-abortion people are complaining that pro lifers are stealing the word "choice", a young woman in Syracuse New York was denied access to a pregnancy test by the local Planned Parenthood affiliate unless she was planning to abort. Abortion is a major source of cash flow for Planned Parenthood.
The physicians who perform abortions are quite simply serial killers, who do it not from obscure inner drives but for money--they are the hit men of legend, with the perfect legal cover; it is no longer a crime to murder a child. They are also among the most dishonest and incompetent of physicians. Take Ann Kristen Neuhaus as an example. Aside from not reporting child rape, she has some other interesting items on her C. V. . By 2002 her practice consisted of laser hair removal and signing Tillers paperwork. In '99 her ability to write prescriptions was limited by the DEA. She was also required to under go random drug testing, and to take remedial classes in medicine. She was twice labeled by the state of Kansas as a "danger to the public". In Texas, the CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast has just retired. Suddenly.His retirement coincides with a state and federal investigation of PPGC for fraud under the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act and the Federal False Claims act. An Employee of PPGC blew the whistle. PPGC, of course, tried to block the discovery phase by citing "patient confidentiality"--the same dodge they use to hide their cover ups of rape, incest, human traffciing (yeah, they've been implicated in that too. [Their excuse is that it's the only way tohey can provide for the safety and welfare of the victims--when recuing them would do that better]). Dr. Walter T. Bowers, a Hoosier is currently under investigation because he has falsified documents concerning his eligibility to practice in Ohio--to include lying about his practice in Indiana. He has been disciplined In Kentucky and banned from practicing obstetrics for five years. Christ Hospital in Cincinnati has revoked his "in-house staff physician" privileges, and decided that he is no longer credentialed to do obstetrics. His job in Ohio was based upon the fact that none of the medical staff at a late term abortion facility had in house privileges as required by law. Now he hasn't got them either, and they are still practicing.
All of this is furthered by the culture of cover up that pervades abortion practices nationwide. It's apogee is of course in Kansas, where the 2003 investigation of George Tillers lucrative murder business was blocked by Governor Kathleen Sebelius, to the extent that it has now been dropped, because her administration systematically shredded all the paper work and files that were evidence in the case. She now, of course, is the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the most pro-abortion cabinet level official in American history, going so far as to try to re-write laws to keep her little murder and rape fetish going.
One of the things that I notice about the murder of children before they draw a breath--when people are being pushed, and those who want to keep murdering kids in clinics are on the spot, they trot out "instances of rape or incest". This is one of the things that they say that makes me angriest. Let me put this into a perspective--I have a family member who has a felony conviction, but they didn't put his daughter in jail! Murdering a child because it's father was a rapist or a sexual abuser of his own kin is punishing it for the crimes of it's parent. Hideous, just hideous that that could be construed as justice.
What makes this even worse, is how this plays out on the street. Abortion, the legal murder of children for the convenience of others, most often facilitates and conceals the crimes of rape and incest! There is almost always a current horror story about this. Right now, the biggie is from Quebec. There, a couple began having sex in front of their daughter. that progressed to having sex with their daughter, as a couple. As time moved on, it ended up with the daughter sleeping with the father in his bed, while the mother slept else where. This continued until the child told a teacher about it at the age of 13. The legal investigation turned up that the mother now perceived the child as a sexual rival, and "allowed" the abuse to continue as punishment (that's about the weirdest thing I've heard this year) and that the child became pregnant at the age of twelve. Mom took her over to the local abortuary and had the baby killed, and her daughter placed on birth control. The clinic didn't bat an eye. And they didn't report the fact that someone, somewhere got a 12 year old girl pregnant, which even in Quebec counts as statutory rape. By not reporting this, they facilitated this young girl being returned to an environment where she was raped by her father as a matter of day to day life. One Quebecois said that the general population of Quebec would have supported the abortion to prevent the child from giving birth to her brother, but even they were appalled that sexuality had become such a banal thing to the region that nobody stopped to wonder who had raped a child.
Well that's Quebec, but it's no better her in the US. Take a look at the Late George Tiller. His practice in Kansas performed 166 abortions on girls under 15 in 2002 and 2003. He reported one--one!--instance of underage sexual abuse in this time, and that one was already under investigation. His clinic was covering up for rape and incest as a matter of course. Operation Rescue has documented this same pattern all over the nation. Abortion is the best cover for rapists and incest pervs, ever. In Tiller's case, he specialized in late term abortions, which had to have another doctor sing off that they were necessary. He used Dr. Ann Kristen Neuhaus, who, at $300 a pop signed off on identical, pre-printed forms which all contained the same diagnosis with out examining the patients. This include 11 girls under the age of 18, ranging down to 10 years of age. She never reported a single case to law enforcement or child protective services.
Rape is a crime of power and dominance, it is often used to underscore or establish power over another. Pimps use it so, so do prison gangs, insurgents, Islamist Supremacists and it features hugely in ethnic conflict, from the Balkans, through Africa to the Middle East and Central Asia, and among the drug cartels of Latin America. Well, there is a link between coercion and abortion as well, with the majority of women reporting being coerced or pressured into having abortions. There are numerous cases of forced abortions of minors, girlfriends etc, to include one celebrated case of a parents kidnapping a daughter who had reached the age of majority and attempting to force her to undergo abortion. None of these are the sort of thing you could call "Isolated Events". In Ontario--I tell you, no disrespect for my Canadian friends meant--I am so glad I do not live in Canada, between the various government agencies, like human rightstribunals, etc and the attitudes of much of their law enforcement and legal system, I'd be in jail!--a prisoner who is pregnant is telling a story that makes me sick. It's corroborated by fellow inmates. She was sentenced to 8 months in jail. She's pregnant so she was transferred to the Vanier Center for Women--a women's prison--to accommodate her pregnancy. There a doctor tried to convince her to undergo an induced labor, which would in all probability result in the death of her child. She refused. She was placed in "segregation"--more or less solitary--on a restricted diet for her refusal. Another doctor saw her, and ordered her removed from segregation. The original doctor returned, and had her placed back into segregation for her "safety". In segregation she is fed a restricted--punitive-diet, which endangers her child. She is no longer receiving the diet that the law prescribes fro pregnant inmates. This endangers her child. This is coercion to have her pregnancy terminated. There's even another dimension, that figures into the abortion story in North America--Racism. The prisoner is from Kenya, and the doctor that has ordered her into segregation, twice, is a white European. A white doctor is trying to kill a child of color, for no reason other than she thinks that's the best thing. The doctor told the prisoner that it would make the rest of her stay in prison "easier"--a bad reason to kill anyone--but hasn't said the same thing to the other pregnant inmates. Racism, Coercion, Ethnic Conflict, all part and parcel of the Abortion tale, which are components held in common with rape. In a very, very odd twist, whoch explains why some pro-abortion people are complaining that pro lifers are stealing the word "choice", a young woman in Syracuse New York was denied access to a pregnancy test by the local Planned Parenthood affiliate unless she was planning to abort. Abortion is a major source of cash flow for Planned Parenthood.
The physicians who perform abortions are quite simply serial killers, who do it not from obscure inner drives but for money--they are the hit men of legend, with the perfect legal cover; it is no longer a crime to murder a child. They are also among the most dishonest and incompetent of physicians. Take Ann Kristen Neuhaus as an example. Aside from not reporting child rape, she has some other interesting items on her C. V. . By 2002 her practice consisted of laser hair removal and signing Tillers paperwork. In '99 her ability to write prescriptions was limited by the DEA. She was also required to under go random drug testing, and to take remedial classes in medicine. She was twice labeled by the state of Kansas as a "danger to the public". In Texas, the CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast has just retired. Suddenly.His retirement coincides with a state and federal investigation of PPGC for fraud under the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act and the Federal False Claims act. An Employee of PPGC blew the whistle. PPGC, of course, tried to block the discovery phase by citing "patient confidentiality"--the same dodge they use to hide their cover ups of rape, incest, human traffciing (yeah, they've been implicated in that too. [Their excuse is that it's the only way tohey can provide for the safety and welfare of the victims--when recuing them would do that better]). Dr. Walter T. Bowers, a Hoosier is currently under investigation because he has falsified documents concerning his eligibility to practice in Ohio--to include lying about his practice in Indiana. He has been disciplined In Kentucky and banned from practicing obstetrics for five years. Christ Hospital in Cincinnati has revoked his "in-house staff physician" privileges, and decided that he is no longer credentialed to do obstetrics. His job in Ohio was based upon the fact that none of the medical staff at a late term abortion facility had in house privileges as required by law. Now he hasn't got them either, and they are still practicing.
All of this is furthered by the culture of cover up that pervades abortion practices nationwide. It's apogee is of course in Kansas, where the 2003 investigation of George Tillers lucrative murder business was blocked by Governor Kathleen Sebelius, to the extent that it has now been dropped, because her administration systematically shredded all the paper work and files that were evidence in the case. She now, of course, is the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the most pro-abortion cabinet level official in American history, going so far as to try to re-write laws to keep her little murder and rape fetish going.
My Last Ever "Occupy" Post.
This is it for blogging about the occupy movement. My opinions are formed, and well known to anybody who knows me, reads my blog or looks at my Face Book page. I pretty sure that your opinions are also formed.
One thing that I want to say right up front is this--the "occupiers" are protesting real injustice in our political-economic system. In fact, our system is at variance with the Teachings of our Church. Corporations have in fact become a form of collectivization, in which personal, private ownership is perverted. The change in the distribution of wealth is also indicative of structural inequities. The working class is in fact being squeezed in to penury. The problem with the "occupiers" is that they are ignorant (I had to choose between the words "ignorant" and "naive") of the actual political situation and structure, and of basic economics. They are protesting in favor of the policies and system that have rendered the majority of us worse off than we were forty years ago.
Another aspect of the "Occupy Movement" is free speech. Free speech doesn't just apply to those I agree with, or even to those I find pleasant to listen too. It applies to those who are in opposition to my opinions, or the policies and opinions, even the consensus of, the government in power. It applies to those who I find objectionable, unpleasant and even dangerous. The problem with the "Occupy Movement" is that it points up the very real trend for free speech to be a dead letter in the US. It's interesting to compare the TEA Party protests to the Occupiers (I'm tired of typing quotation marks) . In many cities and some states the powers that be used every tool at their disposal to keep the TEA Party movement from speaking out. In Richmond VA, Winston-Salem NC, and Nashville TN, local bureaucrats tired very hard to block TEA Party protests, using every regulation and power they had to do so. But these same jurisdictions gave a free pass to the Occupy Movement. In Nashville once it became public knowledge how different the requirements were for these two exercises in free speech were, the local authorities backtracked, and required the occupiers to get a permit to camp on a venue that the TEA Party had been threatened with arrest for requesting the use of. In Louisville KY, the occupiers had to pay $25 for a permit to camp until December 31st in a park that the TEA Partiers had to pay $75 for a one day use permit, plus purchase an insurance policy, a requirement that the Occupiers didn't have to fulfill. This is very important to note--not just the bias of Democratic Party affiliated public officials, but for a subtext: If you are "courageously opposing the status quo and speaking truth to power" and those who have imposed the status quo and actually hold the power are facilitating and cooperating with your action, the odds are excellent you are not a revolutionary, a protestor against the machine, but a dupe, a tool of the regime and an easily manipulated "useful idiot" (to use Lenin's term).
There's something else that I want to mention about these Occupiers--their lawlessness. Like attempting to provoke confrontations in New York City--where they swore to resist the police if they went through with a plan to remove them from the private property they are occupying, and when that failed to occur throwing bottles and objects at the police to attempt to provoke a response they could bill as a "police riot". Then there are the rapes. In Baltimore one woman who was raped was given no assistance during or after the rape by the occupiers--after all, that might make them look bad, if the acknowledged a rape. We are all aware of the Occupiers bringing work to a stand still at the port, but how many of us have realized that by blocking a major port that they were endangering the employment of people who have jobs--and who really want to keep them--across the nation,and in fact into Europe (it's often cheaper to ship things from Asia to the US, put them on trains to the East Coast and then send them by ship to Europe) by blocking what they need to do their jobs, from part to raw materials? That seems like an attempt by one faction (and the occupiers are full of factions) to create more unemployed to bolster their ranks. (Don't laugh, it;'s been done before, study the various 'resistance" and "independence" movements of the 20th century.) And how many of us noticed that the MSM--which is about as unbiased as the Republican National Committee--didn't mention the window breaking, graffiti spraying and other acts of vandalism on the way to the harbor until the blogger pointed it out and they had to? Or the fact that a driver involved in an accident with two marchers--who were marching without a permit, in an in controlled traffic pattern--had to be rescued by police as his car was surrounded by a mob who were screaming and threatening violence? Mob action seems to be attractive to these people.
In Seattle, the president of Chase-Manhatten was addressing a gathering of financiers in a hotel, when the occupiers--again without permits or control for any kind of safety--marched on the venue and tried their damnedest to disrupt the proceedings. They have marched on peoples homes! If the spectacle of a mob marching on someones home doesn't scare you, you are a dangerous and evil person. Some of their antics and vandalism are so puerile as to be laughable, except for their responses when challenged. Lots of us have seen the photo of the OWS person in NYC who has defecating on a police car. But in Eureka, CA, they crapped on a bank, as well as using it for a urinal. When a reporter attempted to find out who did it, by the simple expedient asking the Occupiers, she was met with a stonewall, where people just told her that "the banks poop on us, so why shouldn't we poop on them". When she persisted, they grabbed her camera, and threatened to assault her, claiming that she was practicing "bunk journalism" and "harassment". They drove her and her cameraman off of public property. This sort of thing isn't an isolated event--they are occurring everywhere there is a presence from the Occupy movement.
In Dallas, a homeless family that was staying in the occupation camp had their child seized by the Child Protective services because of the unsanitary conditions and poor standards of living. They could have their child back, they were told, as soon as they found a place indoors. They didn't have to find an apartment, they could use a homeless shelter. The complaints came from people in the camp. In Occupy Atlanta, the Occupiers vowed to return to a public park they had been occupying. They were expelled from the park because it closes at 11 PM every night, and they were staying overnight. They had been occupying the 4th floor of a homeless shelter. About 100 of them. I wonder where the homeless went. This is something else--the occupiers, while complaining of poverty, have been making it rough on the homeless, either co-opting the places they have found for themselves, or crowding them out of their venues, or complaining about them eating the food and using supplies that were meant for the protestors. They say they want justice, but really,really don't like the poorest of the poor. In Sacramento, the Occupiers have crowded the homeless out of Cesar Chavez Park. The homeless have even started a petition to get rid of them, saying that although the occupiers can go more or less anywhere to have their little 60s style protest, they have nowhere else to go. In Manhatten, it's interesting that these people, who are calling for a re-distribution of wealth, were stunned and appalled to find out that the homeless and hardcore poor were doing just that--by stealing their high value items--$5k computers, expensive sound systems, kindles, etc! Somehow, it's not redistribution of wealth when someone steals from them! A certain sign of the essential ignorance and hypocrisy of the people involved in the Occupy Movement.
Rudy Guiliani has said that Obama owns OWS--and it's true. I've pointed out in other posts that the original movement was coordinated and funded by the Working Family Party, and that Patrick Gaspard, Obama's answer to Carl Rove, is actually a member of the WFP, and not a Democrat. But look at ACORN--specifically, at a group called New York Communities for Change. This group is staffed and led by former ACORNers, and was founded with money from ACORN just before it declared bankruptcy. It was tied to the OWS movement--the first thing it did was to circle the wagons, when the word got out, begin to shred documents--when an organization starts shredding documents, you know that they are hiding something--dismiss staff they thought might talk, grumble about "disgruntled" ex-staffers and pass out papers with photos of the journalists investigating this to all it's staff with instructing to avoid them. They are hiding their involvement, just as the White House now plays down it's ties to ACORN.
Yeah, the occupiers belong to the Regime--they have all the marks. Trying to control the press and access to information, lawlessness, sneakiness and a severe disconnect with reality. I feel kind of sorry for them, but not sorry enough to lift a finger were they, say, to find themselves in the path of a heard of rampaging buffalo, or even hungry when the gourmet meals they are supplied with run out. You know, Vladimir Jaffe had some things to say about this. He fled the Soviet Union, to avoid religious persecution as a Jew (think of all the recurrences of anti-Semitic screeds from OWS! They sound like Mel Gibson, with out the excuse of mental illness), and is appalled at their ignorance of what a socialist system is like to live under. They should listen to him, but hey down shouted him. Well, I don't know what to do about them, but then, there's always hypothermia.
One last thing--the camping gear. I love to camp. I have camping gear. I cannot afford the kinds of gear they have, I keep seeing top-line stuff, Columbia and similar brands. And the electronics. And the drugs--yeah, the MSM isn't showing the drugs, but independents, "people in pajamas" have filmed the drugs, and the drug deals--If these clods are so oppressed and poor, where did they get the cash for the excellent castramentage and the dope? Hmmmm---with that kind of equipment, I guess hypothermia is off the list. We can always hope for high winds and pissed off hard hats.
One thing that I want to say right up front is this--the "occupiers" are protesting real injustice in our political-economic system. In fact, our system is at variance with the Teachings of our Church. Corporations have in fact become a form of collectivization, in which personal, private ownership is perverted. The change in the distribution of wealth is also indicative of structural inequities. The working class is in fact being squeezed in to penury. The problem with the "occupiers" is that they are ignorant (I had to choose between the words "ignorant" and "naive") of the actual political situation and structure, and of basic economics. They are protesting in favor of the policies and system that have rendered the majority of us worse off than we were forty years ago.
Another aspect of the "Occupy Movement" is free speech. Free speech doesn't just apply to those I agree with, or even to those I find pleasant to listen too. It applies to those who are in opposition to my opinions, or the policies and opinions, even the consensus of, the government in power. It applies to those who I find objectionable, unpleasant and even dangerous. The problem with the "Occupy Movement" is that it points up the very real trend for free speech to be a dead letter in the US. It's interesting to compare the TEA Party protests to the Occupiers (I'm tired of typing quotation marks) . In many cities and some states the powers that be used every tool at their disposal to keep the TEA Party movement from speaking out. In Richmond VA, Winston-Salem NC, and Nashville TN, local bureaucrats tired very hard to block TEA Party protests, using every regulation and power they had to do so. But these same jurisdictions gave a free pass to the Occupy Movement. In Nashville once it became public knowledge how different the requirements were for these two exercises in free speech were, the local authorities backtracked, and required the occupiers to get a permit to camp on a venue that the TEA Party had been threatened with arrest for requesting the use of. In Louisville KY, the occupiers had to pay $25 for a permit to camp until December 31st in a park that the TEA Partiers had to pay $75 for a one day use permit, plus purchase an insurance policy, a requirement that the Occupiers didn't have to fulfill. This is very important to note--not just the bias of Democratic Party affiliated public officials, but for a subtext: If you are "courageously opposing the status quo and speaking truth to power" and those who have imposed the status quo and actually hold the power are facilitating and cooperating with your action, the odds are excellent you are not a revolutionary, a protestor against the machine, but a dupe, a tool of the regime and an easily manipulated "useful idiot" (to use Lenin's term).
There's something else that I want to mention about these Occupiers--their lawlessness. Like attempting to provoke confrontations in New York City--where they swore to resist the police if they went through with a plan to remove them from the private property they are occupying, and when that failed to occur throwing bottles and objects at the police to attempt to provoke a response they could bill as a "police riot". Then there are the rapes. In Baltimore one woman who was raped was given no assistance during or after the rape by the occupiers--after all, that might make them look bad, if the acknowledged a rape. We are all aware of the Occupiers bringing work to a stand still at the port, but how many of us have realized that by blocking a major port that they were endangering the employment of people who have jobs--and who really want to keep them--across the nation,and in fact into Europe (it's often cheaper to ship things from Asia to the US, put them on trains to the East Coast and then send them by ship to Europe) by blocking what they need to do their jobs, from part to raw materials? That seems like an attempt by one faction (and the occupiers are full of factions) to create more unemployed to bolster their ranks. (Don't laugh, it;'s been done before, study the various 'resistance" and "independence" movements of the 20th century.) And how many of us noticed that the MSM--which is about as unbiased as the Republican National Committee--didn't mention the window breaking, graffiti spraying and other acts of vandalism on the way to the harbor until the blogger pointed it out and they had to? Or the fact that a driver involved in an accident with two marchers--who were marching without a permit, in an in controlled traffic pattern--had to be rescued by police as his car was surrounded by a mob who were screaming and threatening violence? Mob action seems to be attractive to these people.
In Seattle, the president of Chase-Manhatten was addressing a gathering of financiers in a hotel, when the occupiers--again without permits or control for any kind of safety--marched on the venue and tried their damnedest to disrupt the proceedings. They have marched on peoples homes! If the spectacle of a mob marching on someones home doesn't scare you, you are a dangerous and evil person. Some of their antics and vandalism are so puerile as to be laughable, except for their responses when challenged. Lots of us have seen the photo of the OWS person in NYC who has defecating on a police car. But in Eureka, CA, they crapped on a bank, as well as using it for a urinal. When a reporter attempted to find out who did it, by the simple expedient asking the Occupiers, she was met with a stonewall, where people just told her that "the banks poop on us, so why shouldn't we poop on them". When she persisted, they grabbed her camera, and threatened to assault her, claiming that she was practicing "bunk journalism" and "harassment". They drove her and her cameraman off of public property. This sort of thing isn't an isolated event--they are occurring everywhere there is a presence from the Occupy movement.
In Dallas, a homeless family that was staying in the occupation camp had their child seized by the Child Protective services because of the unsanitary conditions and poor standards of living. They could have their child back, they were told, as soon as they found a place indoors. They didn't have to find an apartment, they could use a homeless shelter. The complaints came from people in the camp. In Occupy Atlanta, the Occupiers vowed to return to a public park they had been occupying. They were expelled from the park because it closes at 11 PM every night, and they were staying overnight. They had been occupying the 4th floor of a homeless shelter. About 100 of them. I wonder where the homeless went. This is something else--the occupiers, while complaining of poverty, have been making it rough on the homeless, either co-opting the places they have found for themselves, or crowding them out of their venues, or complaining about them eating the food and using supplies that were meant for the protestors. They say they want justice, but really,really don't like the poorest of the poor. In Sacramento, the Occupiers have crowded the homeless out of Cesar Chavez Park. The homeless have even started a petition to get rid of them, saying that although the occupiers can go more or less anywhere to have their little 60s style protest, they have nowhere else to go. In Manhatten, it's interesting that these people, who are calling for a re-distribution of wealth, were stunned and appalled to find out that the homeless and hardcore poor were doing just that--by stealing their high value items--$5k computers, expensive sound systems, kindles, etc! Somehow, it's not redistribution of wealth when someone steals from them! A certain sign of the essential ignorance and hypocrisy of the people involved in the Occupy Movement.
Rudy Guiliani has said that Obama owns OWS--and it's true. I've pointed out in other posts that the original movement was coordinated and funded by the Working Family Party, and that Patrick Gaspard, Obama's answer to Carl Rove, is actually a member of the WFP, and not a Democrat. But look at ACORN--specifically, at a group called New York Communities for Change. This group is staffed and led by former ACORNers, and was founded with money from ACORN just before it declared bankruptcy. It was tied to the OWS movement--the first thing it did was to circle the wagons, when the word got out, begin to shred documents--when an organization starts shredding documents, you know that they are hiding something--dismiss staff they thought might talk, grumble about "disgruntled" ex-staffers and pass out papers with photos of the journalists investigating this to all it's staff with instructing to avoid them. They are hiding their involvement, just as the White House now plays down it's ties to ACORN.
Yeah, the occupiers belong to the Regime--they have all the marks. Trying to control the press and access to information, lawlessness, sneakiness and a severe disconnect with reality. I feel kind of sorry for them, but not sorry enough to lift a finger were they, say, to find themselves in the path of a heard of rampaging buffalo, or even hungry when the gourmet meals they are supplied with run out. You know, Vladimir Jaffe had some things to say about this. He fled the Soviet Union, to avoid religious persecution as a Jew (think of all the recurrences of anti-Semitic screeds from OWS! They sound like Mel Gibson, with out the excuse of mental illness), and is appalled at their ignorance of what a socialist system is like to live under. They should listen to him, but hey down shouted him. Well, I don't know what to do about them, but then, there's always hypothermia.
One last thing--the camping gear. I love to camp. I have camping gear. I cannot afford the kinds of gear they have, I keep seeing top-line stuff, Columbia and similar brands. And the electronics. And the drugs--yeah, the MSM isn't showing the drugs, but independents, "people in pajamas" have filmed the drugs, and the drug deals--If these clods are so oppressed and poor, where did they get the cash for the excellent castramentage and the dope? Hmmmm---with that kind of equipment, I guess hypothermia is off the list. We can always hope for high winds and pissed off hard hats.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
I love This Time of Year
It's been beautiful the last week and a half. It's been frustrating, because I've wanted to be in the woods so bad...if not hunting or fishing, at least camping and being outside day and night!
The Gingko tree across the street is so glorious and golden yellow! The Dogwood in the front yard yesterday was covered in beautiful red leaves, and today is nearly bare. The huge old Oak Tree in the back yard has dropped it's leaves as well, so it's time to rake, and to prune back the roses and mulch them. The Fig tree I planted this spring had all it's leaves two days ago, and is bare today. It will need mulched for winter too.
Today has alternated between rain, sunny and bright, and gray with wind--so lovely it can break your heart with the flirtation of bright sun and the cold shoulder of November. This part of the world gets 60% of it's rain between late November and early May, and we will see sunshine only rarely. So when the sun shines in November it's like the last smiles before a breakup. More precious, somehow, because of the circumstance.
Perhaps I can camp this weekend, and just listen to the wind in the rapidly shedding trees, and notice how most of the birds have suddenly gone. I can sit by the fire, listening to the hunters guns, judging from the report what they are hunting for. Spam and beans, with twist bread would go so well in that.
I have no idea how I ended up in a major metropolitan area, but somehow, it's not a good fit. But even in town, this is the best time of the year.
The Gingko tree across the street is so glorious and golden yellow! The Dogwood in the front yard yesterday was covered in beautiful red leaves, and today is nearly bare. The huge old Oak Tree in the back yard has dropped it's leaves as well, so it's time to rake, and to prune back the roses and mulch them. The Fig tree I planted this spring had all it's leaves two days ago, and is bare today. It will need mulched for winter too.
Today has alternated between rain, sunny and bright, and gray with wind--so lovely it can break your heart with the flirtation of bright sun and the cold shoulder of November. This part of the world gets 60% of it's rain between late November and early May, and we will see sunshine only rarely. So when the sun shines in November it's like the last smiles before a breakup. More precious, somehow, because of the circumstance.
Perhaps I can camp this weekend, and just listen to the wind in the rapidly shedding trees, and notice how most of the birds have suddenly gone. I can sit by the fire, listening to the hunters guns, judging from the report what they are hunting for. Spam and beans, with twist bread would go so well in that.
I have no idea how I ended up in a major metropolitan area, but somehow, it's not a good fit. But even in town, this is the best time of the year.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Poll Results: I'm a Trifle Surprised.
Well, the latest poll is in, and here's the breakdown:
Fully 50% or rspondents believe that Dyspepsia will play a role in the end of civilization. This makes me think that in an attempt to preserve our Way of Life we should stress Home Ec classes in school.
38% think Zombies will be involved--presumably having died of indigestion. Perhaps we need to rethink our embalming practices.
30% are concerned that it will be the Yellowstone Super Volcano. It's hard to argue with this, because of the the geophysical data that indicated it's getting a bit "pressurized". I suggest moving from the region and building houses with strong, fireproof roofs.
23% think we're going to have problems with either Asteroids or Aliens. I suggest taking up Amateur Astronomy, so one can plan ahead.
23% also think that I'm deranged for even asking these questions. Ostrich syndrome. obviously.
19% also think that it will be monsters. They might be right.
But 34% think it will be for "other" reasons. I think they're right.
As for all this adding up to exactly 100%--well, too bad, it;s not that easy to face then end of civilization!
Fully 50% or rspondents believe that Dyspepsia will play a role in the end of civilization. This makes me think that in an attempt to preserve our Way of Life we should stress Home Ec classes in school.
38% think Zombies will be involved--presumably having died of indigestion. Perhaps we need to rethink our embalming practices.
30% are concerned that it will be the Yellowstone Super Volcano. It's hard to argue with this, because of the the geophysical data that indicated it's getting a bit "pressurized". I suggest moving from the region and building houses with strong, fireproof roofs.
23% think we're going to have problems with either Asteroids or Aliens. I suggest taking up Amateur Astronomy, so one can plan ahead.
23% also think that I'm deranged for even asking these questions. Ostrich syndrome. obviously.
19% also think that it will be monsters. They might be right.
But 34% think it will be for "other" reasons. I think they're right.
As for all this adding up to exactly 100%--well, too bad, it;s not that easy to face then end of civilization!
Knuckledraggin my life away: Modesto ain't New York, motherfucker. We don't go for that shit around here.
This has lot's of harsh--even bad--language, but it's important, and shows a perspective the press doesn't.This also gets a big H/T to Subvet, over at blowing san--he's on the side bar, check him out.
Knuckledraggin my life away: Modesto ain't New York, motherfucker. We don't go for that shit around here.
Knuckledraggin my life away: Modesto ain't New York, motherfucker. We don't go for that shit around here.
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