Cardinal joins protest over Boston College commencement honor for Irish leader
CWN – May 10, 2013

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Responding to protests by a lay Catholic activist group in Massachusetts, Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley has denounced plans by Boston College to award an honorary degree to Irish prime minister Enda Kenny.

Kenny is scheduled to be the principal speaker at Boston College commencement exercises on May 20. The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts had urged Catholics to oppose the invitation to Kenny, and to express their concerns to officials at the Jesuit- run school, to Jesuit superiors, and to Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley.

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It’s about time!

Now how about all the CINO politicians!

Revoke their right to proclaim that they are “Catholic” if they vote for abortion.

That’s for a start.

The Church should tell them how to vote, but should vigorously and publicly object to them labeling themselves as “Catholic”.

I’ve been to Funeral Masses where the Priest will take time to gently, politely, and lovingly explain to the Congregation about Communion and what it means. Should they do any less for the CINO politicians.

Argh!

Burns my butt. I’m a sinner; we all are. I just don’t proclaim that I’m a saint.

Argh!

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The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History
by Bill Bonner
Bill Bonner’s Diary

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All governments engage in larceny and fraud, using their authority to transfer wealth and power from the outsiders to the insiders. But the clever government does so by deception… while the clumsy one does so with no pretense or excuses.

In the US, for example, the feds deny savers any financial return from their economies under the pretense of “economic stimulus.” Wage earners get nothing, while bankers, speculators and zombie grifters are rewarded with ultra low-cost financing, capital gains, bailouts and giveaways.

The scale of this wealth transfer is the greatest in all history. Trillions of dollars are changing hands… But not one voter in 1,000 understands what is happening to him.

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By messing with the money, the Gooferment is robbing the Sheeple and Clovers blind.

The devaluation of the currency is a silent tax on the poor, those on fixed income (i.e., pensioners), and savers!

It’s fraud.

Money is supposed to be a store of value!

Argh!

How stupid are we?

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security theater, martial law, and a tale that trumps every cop-and-donut joke you’ve ever heard
Popehat

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First, just in case it’s not utterly obvious, I’m glad that the two murderous cowards who attacked civilians in Boston recently are off the streets. One dead

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But the Boston police didn’t shut down an entire city. They shut down an entire city except for the donut shops.

boston.com “Law enforcement asked Dunkin’ Donuts to keep restaurants open in locked-down communities to provide… food to police… including in Watertown, the focus of the search for the bombing suspect.”

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Now, I’m sorry, as a little L libertarian, I object to the “lockdown”, but I find irony and humor in Dunkin Donuts as a vital neighborhood service.

Surely this makes you laff and cry in the same instant?

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Don’t Fire Until You See The Whites of Their Cassocks
By Mark Steyn
April 7, 2013 9:38 A.M.

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This is one for the “too stupid to survive” files: US Army Labeled Evangelicals, Catholics as Examples of Religious Extremism.

When I first saw the headline, I assumed it must all be a little less obviously bone-crushingly stupid or at any rate more nuanced once you got into the story. But I invite you to look at the accompanying poster for the Equal Opportunity training brief issued by the Army Reserve in Pennsylvania. It lists “extremist” groups, starting with “Evangelical Christianity” at Number One, “Al Quaeda” (misspelled under any Roman rendering of Arabic) at Number Five, “Hamas” at Six, and “Catholicism” rounding out the Top Ten.

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[JR: Don't tell me that the Gooferment is "our friend"! They, the "Secular Progressives", have labeled and named the enemy. Their Socialism can permit no other God but the Gooferment! Be warned and be prepared. Like all the minorities of history, the camps await! Call me a tin foil hat, but don't be surprised when it's too late.]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Education
Catholic Gonzaga University won’t allow Catholic students to form Catholic group
2:20 AM 04/06/2013

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Roman Catholic, Jesuit-affiliated Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington has refused to recognize the Knights of Columbus as an official student group because — wait for it — the Knights of Columbus is a Catholic organization.

Gonzaga administrators notified the students who had sought the school’s official seal of approval last month, reports The Cardinal Newman Society’s Catholic Education Daily.

“The Knights of Columbus, by their very nature, is a men’s organization in which only Catholics may participate via membership,” reads a letter written by Sue Weitz, vice president for student life. “These criteria are inconsistent with the policy and practice of student organization recognition at Gonzaga University.”

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It should be obvious that to level the effort needed to do Jottings, I pre-load stuff. Hey, you get what you pay for. 

When one covers “news” with a lag, one risks being made to look like an ass. (As a fat old white guy injineer, I’ve no shame.)

What in the Deity’s name are these people thinking?

Argh!

I find this incredulous!

Can some one explain it?

I’d send it to Vaccarino, Carmine (MC1957), but he’d probably stroke out.

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28 arrested for Mag Mile, CTA mob ‘disturbances’ and fighting
BY BRIAN SLODYSKO AND ALLISON HORTON Staff Reporters March 30, 2013 10:32PM

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… …  and a group of women were attacked on a CTA train.

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“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose

I note that this women were denied an “equalizer”; this being the Pepuls Republik of Chick-ago!

Do you think that even the POSSIBILITY of these women having effective tools to defend themselves might have stopped this?

The phrase in popular culture I believe that is operative is: “the witches be crazy”!

Imagine if just one of the women was armed with a modest handgun. Say a nice pink girlie 380!

What would have the headline read?

<the sound of crickets chirping>

Because these young gentlemen would have excused themselves as fast as possible and went how to change shorts.

Or, if they had watched too many Hollywood movies, they’d have been put down like the mad dogs they are.

If we can’t have peace, then let’s make sure that the battle of the sexes is a battle of equals.

Oh, and when I pass muster, I’ll be packing. Us fat old white guy injineers are not up to a physical fight anymore, so I’ll be carrying my tool.

As a little L libertarian pro-lifer, I’ll do all I can to avoid using it. Sticks ‘n’ stones will not be tolerated. 

Why do “Liberals” fail to trust women to NOT be crazy? I can understand fat old white guy injineers; we’re all nuts. But, the nonsense has to stop.

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It was only a matter of minutes, but Kerry Drake will forever be grateful for the precious sliver of time.

On Jan. 24, the San Francisco man booked the first possible flight to Lubbock, Texas, via a connection in Houston after his brother informed him that their mother Dolores was dying and might not make it another 24 hours. However, his United Airlines flight to Houston experienced a 30-minute delay coming out of San Francisco, leaving him distraught that he might not be able to be with his mother in her final hours.

As he sat on the plane trying to deal with his emotions, flight attendant Sofia Linares brought him napkins to dab his tears while fellow flight attendant Lan Chung relayed his flight number to the captain. When the plane landed in Houston, it appeared as if Drake would miss his connection, which was the last plane to Lubbock for the day. He needed to take an air train to another terminal just to reach the gate for his connection and figured it would be too late.

But when he arrived, he received an unexpected gift.

“What I felt was just an amazing relief when I turned the corner and the gate agent called my name out and said they had been expecting me,’’ Drake told TODAY.com. “It was the first time I realized that they had all conspired to make sure I was going to get there.’’

Drake found out that United employees had held the flight from Houston to Lubbock for him, “only 15 or 20 minutes, if that,’’ he said.

He made it to his mother’s bedside at a Lubbock hospital in time to be with her during her last hours, and was sitting with his father in the middle of the night when they witnessed her final moments of coherence before her death. Dolores Drake died at age 76 in the early morning hours of Jan. 25, after having suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for much of her life and being worn down by the drugs used to treat her condition.

“(United) went above and beyond,’’ Drake said. “It was a matter of minutes, but it made all the difference in the world. That really blew me away.’’

His luggage also managed to make it on the connecting flight, and he said he heard no complaints of any kind from the passengers waiting on board. The airline did not receive any formal complaints from other passengers regarding the short delay, United spokesperson Megan McCarthy told TODAY.com.

“I’ve heard anecdotally of this happening before, but it’s rare,’’ McCarthy said of the flight being held for special circumstances. “Many of our employees, if they can help a customer, will go above and beyond if there’s a way that they can make it happen. It’s not always the case that we can do something like this because of other considerations, but it looks to me like all these employees worked together to make it happen.’’

Drake followed up his experience with a complimentary letter to United on Feb. 24, thanking the airline and staff, including pilot Edward Goldstein and first officer Dirk Chilian, for their kindness in a difficult situation. The letter appeared in the company’s employee newsletter with his name removed

“My only motivation was to recognize the people at United who were so kind,’’ he said. “It was a greatly unusual and appreciated thing.’’

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What a great gift the folks at United and the delayed passengers gave this man.

I wonder if the delayed flight got an explanation and they all walked in the man’s moccasins?

Next time, I’m tempted to be a horse’s ass about something, I hope I can remember this story. I can only imagine what it would be like to miss a last opportunity to be with loved one before passing. 

This story touched me. Maybe it should be a POSITRACTION, but I made it an ENDNOTE. 

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I guess we learned nothing from this lady’s suffering. And that of her fellow nurses. 

We proceed on the path of empire and put women in harm’s way.

What are we stupid?

Women aren’t expendable. There’s a natural reason why the species produced more men than women. Men are expendable to a certain extent; women ain’t.

Seems so obvious to this fat old white guy injineer!

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Last updated: March 15, 2013 6:48 pm

New data reveal scale of China abortions
By Simon Rabinovitch in Beijing

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Chinese doctors have performed more than 330m abortions since the government implemented a controversial family planning policy 40 years ago, according to official data from the health ministry.

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Holy <synonym for excrement>!

Sorry, but can anyone spell “genocide”?

argh!

It makes me want to cry.

Frau Reinke and I would have loved any of those 330 M babies.

I am going to cry.

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Sports Illustrated Names Obama One of the Most Powerful People in Sports
By Noel Sheppard | March 09, 2013 | 12:28

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The media’s adoration of Barack Obama knows no bounds.

This week, Sports Illustrated actually named the current White House resident one the most powerful people in sports.

In case you missed it, SI this week released its list of the 50 Most Powerful People in Sports.

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Seriously?

Is there anything that we don’t get BHO44 adoration shoved in front of us?

What’s next?

Country Music Awards?

Isn’t it “undignified” to see such slobbering?

It’s not just so robotic (i.e, D’s are saints and the R’s are the embodiment of evil)!

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NEWS ANALYSIS
The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum/Collection of Eugenia Hochberg Lanceter

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THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe.
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What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of the Holocaust.

The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during Hitler’s reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945.

The figure is so staggering that even fellow Holocaust scholars had to make sure they had heard it correctly when the lead researchers previewed their findings at an academic forum in late January at the German Historical Institute in Washington.

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Anyone who doesn’t studied history is doomed to repeat it.

Horrible!

If you wonder why the tin foil hats are crazed about the size and power of Gooferment, read this. Talk to those who have lost their entire families for being scapegoats!

I had that conversation when I was young. I was confused so I talked to my teacher, a Christian Brother, and he told me that not only was it true, but he’d seen it first hand. And, that was one of the reasons he became religious. He talked to the class about it and said that when we disrespect anyone’s beliefs were on the same path. Made an impression.

I don’t have to agree with you, like you, but I must always respect the Zero Aggression Principle. First do no harm! Because I want the same for myself and every human being.

Even if they believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster as the “Creator”.

Hey, they could be right or wrong, that’s no reason to disrespect the rights of others.

I remember that as on top of the report cards. (One of the few things I get a good grade in!) 

This story tells why it was!

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Gun Control and Japan

by Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers

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When it comes to gun control in the USA the logic of the progressives works in a very curious way. They often like to cherry pick nations from around the world to compare with the USA. One of their favorite nations to use as a comparison is Japan.

The argument goes like this; “Gun crimes are out of control in the United States! In America, over eleven thousand people are killed with guns every year! Japan has strict gun control laws and only a handful of people are killed with guns annually. Therefore Japan proves that gun control works. The United States should have gun control laws like Japan!”

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I think it must be pretty obvious to anyone who thinks about it when talking about gun control and crimes (or even universal health care) comparing the United States to Japan is like comparing a steak barbeque to a slice of fish.

Men may be from Mars, and women are from Venus, but never forget that the Japanese are most definitely from Japan… Americans are from who-knows-where and that’s why they are hard to compare.

And that’s just the way it is.

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As the current Administration prepares to attempt de facto gun confiscation, Patriots, the sheepdogs mixed in with the Sheeple, have to remember the progression — restrictions, registration, confiscation, genocide!

Sorry, but it happens!

The best think that can happen is that the New Yorkers, like the Canadians did, is just to refuse to cooperate.

That’s how we got rid of Prohibition. 

So, “no victim; no crime”, nullification by non-cooperation.

“Yes. In the end, you will walk out. Because 100,000 Englishmen simply cannot control 350 million Indians, if those Indians refuse to cooperate.” — movie Gandhi (1983)

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DNA evidence clears Texas man convicted in ’81 stabbing death | Fox News

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Any question why we should ALL be against the death penalty?

No eraser. 

No way to “un-execute” someone!

Seems so obvious to the fat old white guy injineer.

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Revolving Zombies »

Bill Bonner discusses the corruption in the US government, referencing Elizabeth Fowler, a lobbyist for Wellpoint Insurance, and the shaping of US health care policy.

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and the Clovers are surprised when it doesn’t work out?

Sorry, but it’s “crony capitalism” at its worst.

Argh!

If the Congress didn’t assume unConstutional powers to: (1) reward their friends; (2) punish their enemies; and (3) feather their own nests! 

Argh!

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Khürt Williams
Jan 31, 2013
What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading.

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Yeah, the “War on Women” continues!

This is about allow human the freedom to “be all they can be”. 

True “capitalism”, not the “crony” <synonym for excrement> we have today, is about making everyone “free” to pursue their dreams. 

What we fail to realize is that “the rich” being as greedy as they can be ENABLE the human race to benefit.

SOOoo instead of figuring out how to make the world a better place, they are turned into folks trying to figure out how to keep what they got.

Argh!

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What the Babies Would Say
By Bill O’Reilly 
Thursday, January 31, 2013

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It is one of life’s great mysteries that so many liberal people are so callous when it comes to aborting fetuses. I mean, the Democratic Convention last summer was almost a pro-abortion pep rally, as a variety of pro-choice speakers, including the self-proclaimed “Catholic woman” Caroline Kennedy, knelt at the altar of “reproductive rights.”

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[JR: This article makes me so sad!  ]

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Now mass shootings are the news media’s fault? »

This video is making the rounds on Facebook and Twitter and purports to be a four-minute solution to gun violence. Simple, right? It’s the media’s fault: News organizations spend too much time coveri…

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“The fantasy ends real quick when bullets start coming in his direction.”

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No, but you can’t stop madmen with diktats. I like the like “put these bastards down”.

And the sad reality of life, only you can protect yourself.

“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose

Or little children dead in a “gun free zone”.

By the end of March, I should have my concealed carry permit. I’m backing up words with actions. What about you?

I especially thought it was funny when there was an attempt to get the journalists who outed the NY gun owners to put sings in front of their houses that these were “Gun free zones”. Probably every gun owner should put one in front of their house. Nah, I guess that would be “entrapment”. But a measure worth considering! Clean up the gene pool.

And, yes, I’m pro-life and anti-aggression, but I’m a porcupine! Not a patsy.

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Pham To looked great for 78 years old (at least, that’s about how old he thought he was). His hair was thin, gray, and receding at the temples, but his eyes were lively and his physique robust – all the more remarkable given what he had lived through. I listened intently, as I had so many times before to so many similar stories, but it was still beyond my ability to comprehend. It’s probably beyond yours, too.

Pham To told me that the planes began their bombing runs in 1965 and that periodic artillery shelling started about the same time. Nobody will ever know just how many civilians were killed in the years after that. “The number is uncountable,” he said one spring day a few years ago in a village in the mountains of rural central Vietnam. “So many people died.”

And it only got worse. Chemical defoliants came next, ravaging the land. Helicopter machine gunners began firing on locals. By 1969, bombing and shelling were day-and-night occurrences. Many villagers fled. Some headed further into the mountains, trading the terror of imminent death for a daily struggle of hardscrabble privation; others were forced into squalid refugee resettlement areas. Those who remained in the village suffered more when the troops came through. Homes were burned as a matter of course. People were kicked and beaten. Men were shot when they ran in fear. Women were raped. One morning, a massacre by American soldiers wiped out 21 fellow villagers. This was the Vietnam War for Pham To, as for so many rural Vietnamese.

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There were a lot of casualties in this war. 

It divided my Classmates into the joiners, the draftees, and the evaders. The joiners and draftees were lucky if they came back, I guess. They certainly were changed. Even the evaders didn’t escape either; they changed too and some died cut off from friends and family. << DuBois, John [MC1968 RIP]>>

I’ve often thought about this since the “end”. Even the Gulf of Tolkin story, McNamara admission, and all the anecdotal stories, just made me more sure that this was a “disaster” in so many dimensions.

The sad part is that we learned NOTHING!

The 70′s anti-war movement, minus the Quakers, was all astroturf for the D’s. 

Drone warfare, with its “collateral damage”, is … immoral.

The way “we” treat the retuning vets is also immoral.

Not paying the tab for all this and palming it off on future generations is immoral.

I just don’t know how we fix it?

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Coulter: Why Can’t We Get A List Of Women Who Have Had Abortions?

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Why, as that man just said, why aren’t we getting names of recently paroled criminals? People with gun permits, by definition, do not criminal records. Why can’t we get the criminal records? No, you can’t get that. Why can’t we get a record of women who have had abortions? They get money from Planned Parenthood, they get money from Medicare, from Medicaid. They’re tax subsidies. I think, you know, mothers might want to know what other women on their street might be willing to murder a child.

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It’s an interesting question.

Privacy?

Why are somethings “private” and out-of-bounds?

Liberals want to embarrass and target gun owners. They take a different view of abortion!

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December 30, 2012
American Statolatry
Posted by Charles Burris on December 30, 2012 05:52 PM

A new type of superstition has got hold of peoples minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols! — Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government, p. 11

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Statolatry has become the principal form of worship in contemporary America. People erroneously talk about “separation of Church and State” when “the State” has replaced “the Church” as the idolatrous venue for worship. As the Church had its calendar of Holy Days of Obligation and sacraments, so too the State has its own sacred holidays, icons, protocols and rituals.

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Each day in rote, millions of captive children in government schools recite the Pledge of Allegiance, their solemn oath to this sacred creed, without giving it cursory reflection or thought.

Thus is born a new generation of blind worshipers at the Golden Calf of Statism.

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Interesting that no one sees the problem.

The Gooferment Skrules have done an excellent job of brainwashing the future Sheeple. Inserting the worship of Mother Earth and dependence upon Father State. From whom all good things flow. (Stolen from someone else!)

And, the Catholic Schools cooperated. And, the Catholic Church cooperated. And, Catholics cooperated.

The Church was always a counterbalance to the tyranny of the “King”. Somehow, someway, sometime — we lost that.

We need to recapture the disgust for this pagan way of life?

Or is it too late!

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