Bwa ha ha ha ha.
Thanks to The Shooter Shop.
May 10
Ridiculing the Ridiculous.
Apr 21
Notre Dame: A collection of suck-ups and sell-outs.
The Neutered Irish strike again.
Straight from South Bend, that once august institution that has recently conferred an honorary degree on the most wicked occupant of the White House in history, arrested a bunch of prolifers for being on campus, and is fast becoming nothing more than a travel agency to hell, has banded together (well, sort of) to condemn one of their own who is actually faithfully proclaiming what the Church teaches.
As previously reported, Bishop Jenky of Peoria has compared our current regime with despots from years gone by: Mohammed, Stalin, Hitler, etc. There is no truth to the rumor that the estates of these eternally incinerated dictators are suing the Bishop for defamation of character for making that connection. But one of their fellow travelers, one Barry Lynn, who fashions himself a reverend and heads a group that wants to make sure that all people of faith sit in the back of the humanist bus has lodged a complaint with the IRS.
And right on cue, a group of professors from Notre Dame called Rodentia in Academia (because that’s what I call them), have drawn up a petition asking for the resignation of Bishop Jenky from the University’s Board of Fellows if he is unwilling to “renounce loudly and publicly this destructive analogy.”
These miscreants are obviously educated beyond their own level of incompetence. They cite their collective concern for their “beloved university’s highest authority,” they seem oblivious to, how do I say this, THE Highest Authority.
The petition is addressed to University President Father Jenkins who was solely responsible for the Obama commencement invite and the arrest of those who objected to the feting of the staunchest advocate that child-killers have ever had.
If this band of suck-ups and sell-outs is unwilling to renounce loudly and publicly their rebellion, they will face more than destructive analogies.
Apr 20
A man is known by the enemies he keeps.
Any enemy of Barry Lynn is a friend of mine.
The other day I expressed my deep appreciation for Bishop Jenky of Peoria. The good bishop was just earning his keep, not to mention his ordination, when he created a bit of a timeline of the persecution of Christians, starting with the Romans, moving to the Musloids, mentioning the Bolsheviks and Nazis, and ending with the current occupant of the White House.
Enter, stage left (from where else!), the Reverend Barry Lynn, President of the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Lynn is having a hissy because a “fiery homily delivered by Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky last Sunday effectively urged Catholics to vote against President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.”
Let’s just hope it was “effective.”
Lynn and his group have filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service. “To be sure, Jenky never utters the words ‘Do not vote for Obama,'” Lynn wrote. “But the Internal Revenue Code makes it clear that statements need not be this explicit to run afoul of the law.” On Wednesday, Lonnie Nasatir, the regional director of Chicago’s Anti-Defamation League, demanded an apology from Jenky, calling his remarks “outrageous, offensive and completely over the top.” Hey, Nasatir, if you think the Bishop was “outrageous, offensive, and completely over the top,” you should read my stuff more often.
You guys want some cheese with that whine? Damned pagan crybabies!
Ironically and hypocritically, Lynn’s group regularly solicits donations that are tax deductible. I wonder if Lynn is going to complain to the IRS about himself, since he is using his organization to engage in advocacy. To be sure, Lynn never utters the words “Vote for Obama,” but I hear that the Internal Revenue Code makes it clear that statements need not be this explicit to run afoul of the law.
Godless humanism is never – not ever – about tolerance or ecumenism or whatever is supposed to be the politically correct buzzword of the moment. There is no “coexist” between the Truth and lies, no matter how many different little symbols you use to spell the word. Like it or not, it’s winner takes all.
Memo to Barry: The Truth wins.
Apr 17
Playin’ it in Peoria, baby!
“A Call to Catholic Men of Faith”
If the Catholic Church – and I mean anyone from any diocese – ever calls me for advice on what needs to be “fixed” about the Catholic Church, I would tell them two things: 1) get a better sales and marketing department; and, 2) restore masculinity to the priesthood. Don’t worry, no one has and no one will.
But it seems to me, notwithstanding all the tripe about the Church being run by a bunch of disconnected old men who are insensitive blah, blah, blah, that there has been too much touchy-feely kind of governance. You know, using declarative sentences (gasp!), denying the Eucharist to openly rabid pro-abortion politicians (double gasp!), and generally performing the manly tasks of a true shepherd by telling their flock that behaving in intrinsically evil ways will get you a first class, one way ticket to the extra crispy section of hell (CPR anyone). And while I’m at it, the US Conference of Catholic Church Secretaries is running waaaaay too many shots!
Apparently Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria is psychic and doesn’t have to ask me. At Mass on April 14th, Bishop Jenky delivered a homily that simply nailed it. If I sound a little giddy, it’s only because I am. He mentioned all the crown jewels of secular humanism: Islam, Communism, Naziism, and Obama.
If the Catholic Church had a catalog, Bishop Jenky would be featured in the Men’s Department.
You can read the text of his homily HERE or listen to it HERE. Some of the tastier morsels include:
For 2,000 years the enemies of Christ have certainly tried their best. But think about it. The Church survived and even flourished during centuries of terrible persecution, during the days of the Roman Empire.
The Church survived barbarian invasions. The Church survived wave after wave of Jihads. The Church survived the age of revolution. The Church survived Nazism and Communism.
And in the power of the resurrection, the Church will survive the hatred of Hollywood, the malice of the media, and the mendacious wickedness of the abortion industry.
The Church will survive the entrenched corruption and sheer incompetence of our Illinois state government, and even the calculated disdain of the President of the United States, his appointed bureaucrats in HHS, and of the current majority of the federal Senate.
May God have mercy on the souls of those politicians who pretend to be Catholic in church, but in their public lives, rather like Judas Iscariot, betray Jesus Christ by how they vote and how they willingly cooperate with intrinsic evil.
It’s what we call “Kickin’ butt and takin’ names for Jesus.” Now if I could just have a word with Bishop Jenky about that Director of Sales and Marketing job.
Mar 30
Creep-in-Chief
Peggy Noonan thinks the Prez is getting creepy. Ya think?
What is happening is that the president is coming across more and more as a trimmer, as an operator who’s not operating in good faith. This is hardening positions and leading to increased political bitterness. And it’s his fault, too. As an increase in polarization is a bad thing, it’s a big fault.
The shift started on Jan. 20, with the mandate that agencies of the Catholic Church would have to provide services the church finds morally repugnant. The public reaction? “You’re kidding me. That’s not just bad judgment and a lack of civic tact, it’s not even constitutional!” Faced with the blowback, the president offered a so-called accommodation that even its supporters recognized as devious. Not ill-advised, devious.
Then his operatives flooded the airwaves with dishonest—not wrongheaded, dishonest—charges that those who defend the church’s religious liberties are trying to take away your contraceptives.
What a sour taste this all left. How shocking it was, including for those in the church who’d been in touch with the administration and were murmuring about having been misled.
Events of just the past 10 days have contributed to the shift. There was the open-mic conversation with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in which Mr. Obama pleaded for “space” and said he will have “more flexibility” in his negotiations once the election is over and those pesky voters have done their thing. On tape it looked so bush-league, so faux-sophisticated. When he knew he’d been caught, the president tried to laugh it off by comically covering a mic in a following meeting. It was all so . . . creepy.
Read the rest of Noonan’s take here.
Noonan is right – as far as she goes. But given President’s penchant for child-killing (even if it’s his own grandchild) and encouraging the likes of Sandra Fluke (and in the same breath mentioning his daughters and hoping they can be all enlightened too), he ain’t just creepy. He’s a creep.
Dec 23
Airport Security as it should be.
Israeli style . . .
TEL AVIV, Israel — the Israelis are developing an airport security device that eliminates the privacy concerns that come with full-body scanners. It’s an armoured booth you step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on your person.
Israel sees this as a win-win situation for everyone, with none of this crap about racial profiling. It will also eliminate the costs of long and expensive trials.
You’re in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly thereafter, an announcement: “Attention to all standby passengers, El Al is proud to announce a seat available on flight 670 to London. Shalom!”
H/T D. Bachert
Dec 21
Some good news; some bad news.
The good news: I always wanted an armored truck with a rotating turret. The bad news: there’s one in my front yard right now.
Thousands of other local police departments nationwide have been amassing stockpiles of military-style equipment in the name of homeland security, aided by more than $34 billion in federal grants since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a Daily Beast investigation conducted by the Center for Investigative Reporting has found. The buying spree has transformed local police departments into small, army-like forces, and put intimidating equipment into the hands of civilian officers. And that is raising questions about whether the strategy has gone too far, creating a culture and capability that jeopardizes public safety and civil rights while creating an expensive false sense of security.
“The argument for up-armoring is always based on the least likely of terrorist scenarios,” says Mark Randol, a former terrorism expert at the Congressional Research Service, the nonpartisan research arm of Congress. “Anyone can get a gun and shoot up stuff. No amount of SWAT equipment can stop that.”
Read the rest of the Daily Beast article here.
Dec 21
A little Christmas cheer.
Abortionist sings “I’m in the jailhouse now.“
An Atlanta television station shares the nice news about someone who’s been very, very naughty.
A metro-area abortion doctor and his office manager are under arrest, accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent Medicaid payments.
A spokesperson for Georgia’s Attorney General says Dr. Tyrone Malloy and office manager CathyAnn Warner took more than $380,000 in payments for ultrasounds that were never done, and elective abortions that were prohibited from use of Medicaid funds. The Attorney General’s spokesman says that is only allowed when the mother’s life is in danger, or in cases of rape or incest.
Malloy owns and operates the Old National Gynecology office in College Park, but received the Medicaid payments at his DeKalb County office on Rainbow Drive. A tip from Georgia’s Department of Community Health, which oversees the Medicaid program, launched the investigation.
Channel 2 investigative reporter Jodie Fleischer knocked on the abortion clinic’s locked doors on Monday. No one answered, but the camera captured people peering through the office blinds several times. About an hour later, a string of cars, presumed to be driven by employees, abruptly left, stopping briefly to lock the gate behind them.
A DeKalb County grand jury indicted Malloy and Warner for two counts each of Medicaid Fraud. The charges carry up to ten years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Malloy was arrested and bonded out of jail last week. Deputies picked up Warner late Monday afternoon.
Dec 15
Is it too early to forward my mail to Guantanamo?
No sense waiting until the last minute.
US lawmakers vote on indefinite detention
You know it’s bad when the musloids are reporting on the loss of American liberty. Al Jazeera reports:
The House of Representatives passed the 2012 National Defence Authorisation Act (or NDAA) on Wednesday with a vote of 283 for and 136 against the bill. The Senate is expected to vote on the bill as early as Thursday and had already passed one version of the bill on December 1, with 93 votes in favour of and seven against – a remarkable margin.
The NDAA, which includes the 2012 $662bn military budget and more. But civil liberties advocates are concerned over a section in the legislation that deals with the detention of civilians by the military. Provisions in the bill codify an approach that allows for endless detention of US citizens and non-citizens picked up anywhere in the world. They also gives the US military the option to detain US citizens suspected of participating or aiding in terrorist activities without a trial, indefinitely.
A person can be detained “under the law of war without trial until the end of the hostilities”, the bill states. The hostility in question here is the “war on terror”, and at the moment, it seems to have no end.
Dec 15
“Indefinite Detention” is no day at the beach.
“Indefinite Detention” is no day at the beach. Well, at least it didn’t used to be. Seems like one of the many “changes we can believe in” no includes life in prison – subject to the unfettered discretion and good graces of the executive branch – at the United States military prison in Cuba.
Of late the U.S. base at Guantanamo has been used to detain hold house mostly musloid terrorists and others who have sworn a blood oath against all things American. Well if Mohammed (may pig excrement be upon him) can’t come to the mountain, doggone it, the United States government is going to bring a mountain of Americans to him.
Surprising as it is, Barack Hussein Obama – the beloved Commander-in-Chief of the United States military – has broken his word. Shocking, I know. Specifically, Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.
Let me give it to you in English: The United States Government – by an exercise of it executive powers and without the constitutional safeguards of judicial review, warrants, or even a trial – did you get that: NO TRIAL – indefinitely. That means as long as they want. This applies to all U.S. citizens, whether you are in another country or right here. All that must happen is that same government decides that you – yeah, you – are an enemy of the state.
While I’ve warned of this time and time again, this governmental action has forged some surprising political coalitions. Former conservative Lindsey Graham hails the action as necessary because terrorism suspects are not like regular criminals. Conversely, Congressman Rand Paul has observed:
“detaining citizens without a court trial is not American” and that if the law passes “the terrorists have won”. “We’re talking about American citizens who can be taken from the United States and sent to a camp at Guantánamo Bay and held indefinitely. It puts every single citizen American at risk,” he said. “Really, what security does this indefinite detention of Americans give us? The first and flawed premise, both here and in the badly named Patriot Act, is that our pre-9/11 police powers were insufficient to stop terrorism. This is simply not borne out by the facts.”
These concerns are coming not just from some perceived nutjobs on the right. Consider a nutjob on the left (but then I repeat myself) Dianne Feinstein:
“Congress is essentially authorising the indefinite imprisonment of American citizens, without charge,” she said. “We are not a nation that locks up its citizens without charge.”
And if that’s not enough for you, consider the nutjobs from the mainstream media, like The Guardian, CBS News, their overseas counterpart, Al Jazeera. Even the New York Times:
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Military given go-ahead to detain US terrorist suspects without trial – Civil rights groups dismayed as Barack Obama abandons commitment to veto new security law contained in defence bill.
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WH OKs military detention of terrorism suspects
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Detaining US citizens: How did we get here?
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The Sound of One President Caving
If you want to find out more, you can take a look at about 1500 articles on the National Defense Authorization Act. Or you could just do the old ostrich routine and put your head in the sand, but that leaves a certain anatomical region in the air.
In any event, you might want to stock up on some sunscreen.