TRIUMPHALIST--YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?

TRIUMPHALIST--YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT? I believe that the Catholic Church was founded by Christ, on his Apostles, especially Peter, the first Pope. I believe in the teachings of the Ecumenical councils, I revere the Fathers of the Church, and I am an unapologetic Ultramontane Catholic. If you don't like it, too bad.


"I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF EXHORTATIONS TO SILENT! CRY OUR WITH A HUNDRED THOUSAND TONGUES. I SEE THE WORLD IS ROTTEN BECAUSE OF SILENCE."--St. Catherine of Sienna

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

LTC (Ret) Tom Kratman reccomends this link--I've read it, and I reccomend this link as well. It's sobering.

So click on the sentence above, and read away.  It goes with the post below about the decline of civilization.

Hot, Tired and Sweaty...

...and in no mode to intellectualize or engage in subtlety.  So here's today's post, take it or leave it.

Our Fascist Regime:  Catchy header, eh?  But in very many ways it's true.  In the 30s the Third Reich managed to enforce the laws in such a way that their likely supporters got away with crimes, even murder, without a problem.  Well, it's the accepted wisdom that immigrants vote Democrat, and the Regime panders to them in some very unfortunate ways.  One of the ways is to simply not deport them when they are arrested.  This includes illegal immigrants.  The Regime "declined" to deport  159,286 immigrants, legal and illegal, who were arrested on non-immigration charges.  60,000 of them were subsequently charged with other crimes, and these included  142 sex crimes, 3 attempted murders and 19 murders (apparently, these immigrants don't mess around when they decide to kill someone.)

Not only that, but a Federal Court in Washington DC ruled that Obama appointees in fact did interfere in the prosecution of the New Black PantherParty Members for voter intimidation.  You might remember this case--in 2008 NBPP members, in paramilitary uniform were filmed using clubs to intimidate voters who they thought might vote Republican and drove them away from the polls.  They were convicted of intimidation, and appealed.  in 2009, when Eric Holder became attorney General, the charges were dropped.  After all this time, through Freedom of Information Act requests that had to be backed by lawsuits, it comes to light that despite the assertions to he contrary--the lies--of DOJ and the Regime, the decision was not made by the professional elements in the Attorney General's Office, but by political appointees.

OK--you have a uniformed paramilitary intimidating through threat of violence voters who might oppose their chosen one.  Anyone besides me remember the Sturm Abteilung?  And even though I am tired of people screaming "Raaaaciiiissst" with every breath, I am also aware that this political party is based on race, was working in support of a candidate of their preferred race, and the AGO is headed up by a man of the same race.  I don't think the racism is on the part of white Republicans.

Sodomites:    Straight up, I don't really care who you sleep with, or hook up with, or even diddle in back of a bar.  It's not my concern, it's yours, and if you want to commit sodomy and endanger your immortal soul--not to mention your health--you can do that.  But I'm damned tired of being told it's OK, and I have to accept it.  I don't have to accept anything, anymore than sodomites have to accept my moral standards.  Unfortunately, mere tolerance doesn't seem to be on the books.  in 1987, Guide--a magazine for sodomites--published an article that laid out a stagey for getting Americans to accept homosexuality as normal, and this was expanded into a book called After the Ball: How America willConquor it's Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 1990s.  you can read a reprint of the the article at www.americansfortruth.com dated July 7th.  It was sound blueprint, and they've followed it well.  Unfortunately, they don't extend the same to us.  For instance, Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist who occasionally works with Fox News as a medical expert to be consulted on various stories.  He has said that when he speaks about homosexuality he is afraid.  he hesitates to say or write anything that sodomites might find objectionable due to the threats of death and violence he receives.  All you have to do is remember the aftermath of Proposition 8 in California, with mob actions, extortion, vandalism and threats being widespread and well documented (although under reported).  Any one besides me remember the restaurant manager who donated $50 to the campaign to oppose Prop 8 whose place of employment was besieged by outraged sodomites, and which had to give $5000 dollars to "Gay Activism" to get them to call off their mob action so the restaurant wouldn't go broke?  The sodomites rant at great length about hate, yet they are the ones who are haters.  Far from being victims, they are now bullies.  Recent instances of anti-gay violence have beenwell reported, gay violence is not.  We are being bullied by perverts who cannot control their own genitalia, yet who want to control our culture.

The Chik-Fil-A bra-ha-ha is a case in point.  When it was simply people calling for a boycott, I was fine with that.  The CEO of the company had the right to say what ever he wanted, and to donate where ever he wanted, and people who didn't like it had the right to not patronize the business.  But now that the Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia city governments have gotten involved, it's gone from activism to fascist coercion.  Face it, when a group as liberal as the ACLU pipes up to defend conservative thought, the sodomites have gone to far.   In the words of the National Association of Evangelicals: "If Chik-Fil-A is not welcome for embracing traditional marriage, then are Chicago Mayor Emanuel and others saying that evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons aren't welcome either?"  BTW--Mike Huckabee is calling on people to support Chik-Fil-A by eating there tomorrow, August First.  I know what I"m having for lunch!

Religious Sisters and Bogus Journalism:  In regards to the unfaithful and heretical nuns the press loves so much, I would like to quote, then rip The New York Times.  They said The sisters have been caught in the riptide.  Most of them have spent their lives serving the sick, the poor, children and immigrants--and not engaged in battles over theology.  I cannot speak to universal experience, so I won't.  I'll just say that in my life as a Catholic, since 1975, I haven't met many religious sisters who were engaged in direct service to any of these groups, and the ones I have were not affiliated with the LCWR. Those actually in service to these groups have been, in my experience, affiliated with the CMSWR.  The others were engaged in community organizing, "advocacy" and other such amorphous substitutes for a real Christian apostolate.  I also haven't met very many sisters from groups affiliated with the LCWR who weren't intensely and vocally involved with theological battles, invariably on the side of modernist, morally relative, sodomy and fornication friendly collectivist politics and the ordination of women.  The Gospel was way down on the list.  Worst of all, the press ignores completely that the problems between the LCWR and the Vatican are not directed at religious sisters in general, or the communities of sisters affiliated with the LCWR, but with that organization alone.  The idea of a war between Religious Sisters and Bishops over "rights" is more appealing to them than the idea of a politically motivated umbrella group being brought to heel. 

By By, Troutman:  My second least favorite Bishop in the US is going by-by.  Good.  And, high time.  Monsignor Lawrence Persico has been chosen to succeed Donald Troutman as the Bishop of Erie PA.  I hope, that Bishop Elect Persico, as a canon lawyer, sees fit to slam the Erie Benedictines, and to straighten out the modernist, lavender mess that is the Diocese of Erie.  I don't know anything about this guy, but he can hardly be worse, unless he's the secret twin of Gumbleton.



Sunday, July 29, 2012

A Cultural Observation

Tom Kratman, the prolific author of didactic novels masquerading as Military Science Fiction, is of the opinion that civilization is on the decline globally.  He has data that leads him to think this way, from the failure of various charitable organizations and foreign aid to do anything of substance in Africa, to the economic difficulties that seem to be world wide, to the decline of international high seas shipping.

I tend to agree with him, but for different reasons.  Perhaps it's better to say because of different indicators.

The Cult of Celebrity is one of my major ones.  Not so much for it's existence, but because of the window it shows up to the contemporary masses, and their dysfunctional group think.  I"m thinking of Kristen Stewart and her "romance" with Robert Pattinson.

(I put the word 'romance' into quotes, because I have no idea how much of whatever is between them is real, and how much manufactured to sell tickets to crappy movies made from even worse books.)

Apparently, from what I see in the headlines that appear in the news browsers and news aggregators, Ms Stewart cheated with the director of her latest move, Rupert Sanders.  Also, it appears that Twilight fans are devastated by the damage done to their little vicarious romantic fixation between Stewart and Pattinson.  This is, in four words "A Load of Crap.

Idolizing an immoral relationship between two strangers is just stupid, and shows how little hold Matrimony and morality have over the mass mind of 21st Century America, when compared to the vicarious thrills of voyeuristic fixation on the fornication of others.  It would be honest just to watch porn, really.

But it's worse than that really.  Rupert Sanders is married.  He has kids.  If Ms. Stewart's immature indulgence in her hunger for attention and erotic longings was bad,  Sanders is worse by far.  Ms. Stewart isn't married, she isn't engaged.  Essentially, her actions were immoral (fornication) and probably a bit slutty--Yeah, I'll use that word, because it fits, and because we need to get over our fear of shaming those who indulge in shameful acts:  we were a better nation when we did things like that.--but his were much worse.

First he betrayed his wedding vows by committing adultery.  Second, he betrayed his kids by destabilizing their home life and inflicting emotional pain on his wife.  Third, he was the Director--the boss.  It's wrong to cheat on your wife--more wrong than simple fornication, because although the fornication is a Mortal Sin, adultery is as well.  Every time he indulged in any impure act or thought with Ms. Stewart, it was a twofer.  More than that, as a father, his first priority should be raising his children well, and destabilizing the home is not raising your children well.   Every time he engaged in a though or an act that tended to work against the stability of his home, he sinned against God and his children. 

Finally, he was the boss.  Quit simply, one does not diddle the help!  In fact, having sex with an employee or a subordinate is a one way ticket to getting fired in any business of industry except entertainment.  let's get this straight--Having sex with an employee or a subordinate is, under any circumstance, immoral, unethical and phreakin' stupid.  If you do it, you get fired.  If I do it, I get fired.  The company can get sued eleven ways from Sunday by everybody.  Unless it's the entertainment industry, then it's pretty normal.

The Twilight fans who are posting tearful denunciations, and videos of huge emotional distress, and what have you condemning Ms. Stewart are not in the least concerned about Mr. Pattinson, or the "relationship", but with the loss of their lovely little voyeuristic fantasy world.   That, is one of the indicators that civilization is in decline, that so many could be so enamored of a fiction, that they would condemn someone for not living the fiction they wish to live.

The other is this--that a man would cheat on his wife, destabilize his children's home life and bang the help, yet he is not in line for so much opprobrium.  The standards to which we hold men seem low--unless they're Republicans, in which case they'd better be saints (and if they are saints, they will be denounced "self-righteous bigots" or worse).  No one seems to even see the real problem with this--not that some weak willed, confused and slutty little actress slept cheated on her boyfriend, but that a married man cheated on his wife, messed u his kid's lives, and presumably predated on an emotionally unstable* young woman in his employ for some bragable nookie. That he's getting a pass on this is a major indicator of the decline of civilization. 

*I consider the vast majority of actors and actresses to be unstable emotionally.  Otherwise they wouldn't have the insatiable drive for attention that they display, nor do the foolish things they so often do.