A Derailed Messenger

Speaking as a Catholic, I can't take Pope Francis seriously. His globalist-leaning behavior is far too politically motivated. I think he is dangerously off the rails as pontiff and is steering Catholicism down the wrong track.

He refuses to denounce Biden's support of abortion or to deny him Communion because of it. Yet any Catholic woman who undergoes an abortion is automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church, unable to receive Communion. Evidently it's Biden's choice that is acceptable to the pope, not the unfortunate pregnant woman's choice. That's secular hypocrisy worthy of America's legacy media machine.

Climate change is a hot topic for Francis, no pun intended. He's now preaching to young people to protect the environment. Excuse me, but how does this fit in with the Great Commission? Jesus Christ left a clear directive that his disciples were to teach his message--love God and neighbor--and to baptize them. That's it. He makes no discernable mention of the weather.

Furthermore, there's a story in both Matthew's and Mark's gospels that Jesus actually killed a tree. For the self-appointed environmental pope, how awkward is that?

Plan A, B, or C

I've become addicted to Victor Davis Hanson's podcasts. Today I listened to "Scandalous" on The Traditionalist. As always, he covers many topics. Towards the end, he addresses the chaotic shambles that is the Biden administration.

Hanson contends that, during Biden's first ten months in office, every appointed government department head's job has been to undermine that particular aspect of American life. The Energy department destroys the domestic gas, oil, and nuclear power industries while the secretary laughs out loud at high gas prices. Transportation's secretary promises continuing supply chain disruptions "as long as the pandemic continues," claiming that child care issues (of all things) are a "root problem." Homeland Security has erased the southern border and allowed untested, Covid-infected illegal aliens to stream into the country and has settled them in various states far and wide. Justice has neutralized the rule of law and turned the FBI loose on concerned school parents fighting for their children against mask mandates and the teaching of CRT. As for Defense, Americans don't need to be reminded of what they did (nothing) for Afghanistan and by indoctrinating our troops with CRT.

Hanson offers three theories that he believes Americans are pondering to make sense of this wanton destructiveness. First, it could be caused by sheer incompetence. Second, it is a carefully crafted plan to create so much chaos that the Federal government will have to step in and assumed control over all aspects of daily life. Lastly, it could be similar to an alternate universe scenario; the Biden administration truly believes this is all good. Higher gas prices, supply chain crisis, inflation, crime, open borders--yes, it's all good for the country.

Sign me up for the second option. I think this is a deliberate effort by the Federal government to provoke a societal collapse. Events are moving quickly, and worsening steadily, because Democrats know they will lose across the nation at every level of the mid-term elections next November. They need the crisis of collapse now. Considering the pain and suffering of hard-working American citizens resulting from their intentionally induced chaos, Democrats won't get another opportunity for quite a long time.

For Our Veterans

We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who would harm us ~ Author in dispute

For the Marines

Hauling a Heavy Load

If you want to understand the causes and effects of the ongoing supply chain crisis, read Ryan Johnson's article: I’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End. 

Johnson's article is well worth reading for information and education about the processes involved in and the current obstacles facing our transportation industries. The functionality of our supply chain is a complex succession of interlocking steps that, as we are noticing in stores across the country, cause quite a cave-in when one step is missing or lacking in efficiency.

The ruling elites who create our crises don't need to worry about their impact. These self-appointed superiors travel to climate change conferences in private jets and gas-powered SUV motorcades, and they don't stand in line at the grocery store. It is the working American citizen who is left to pay the tab for terrible policies. Ryan Johnson's article tells us that we're in the supply chain nightmare for the long haul.

Homage to Voters

Here's to the parents who voted en masse

To change what their children are learning in class.

Here's to the families who shouted "No more!"

To taxes and crime, and mandates galore.

Here's to the people, making their stands 

To reclaim our country--built with our hearts and hands.

Random Questions

I'm just catching up on the week's headlines, and it's hard to know where to start digging in to the wealth of absurdities being covered in the media. Below are just some random thoughts I have over crazy current events.

1. Can Mayor Bill de Blasio really be a "Trekkie" if he doesn't know which main character wore the blue shirt?
2. If Alec Baldwin had hired a NRA gun safety instructor for his movie, do you think he would be in the news right now?
3. If the spending bills in Congress cost "zero dollars," why are the Democrats frantic to pass new taxes?
4. If American citizens are being fired from their jobs for not being vaccinated, why are unvaccinated illegal immigrants overrunning the US southern border with impunity?
5. If the vaccinated are afraid of the unvaccinated, is there much of a "vaccine" worth fighting about? 
6. Don't you agree that Queen Elizabeth, aged 95 and still working, is entitled to a few days of rest without all the panicked pearl-clutching?
7. Why is Joe Biden always either whispering or yelling at us?
8. And finally, well--IS the pope Catholic?

Fighting for Freedom

 

I wonder if King Biden has ever read the US Constitution or the Bill of Rights? Biden and his subservient minions are very busy dismantling whatever vestiges were left of our democratic republic. It would be nice if he had some knowledge of what is being destroyed, but I know that's a reach.

The First Amendment has already been trampled into dust. There is no freedom of speech tolerated in the kingdom of Biden. Any public speaker brave enough to diverge from approved Leftist talking points will be canceled and/or fired, the clear message being: Sit down and shut up; we know best. When the government closes churches and arrests congregants, free exercise of religion has become a quaint piece of history. A free press? Stop, you're being silly. And as for freedom to peacably assemble? Ask parents attending school board meetings to protest vaccine and mask mandates or curriculum about that one. Don't even mention petitioning the government for a redress of grievances; that's fast becoming a one-way street with Left turns only.

The bloated spending bills that Democrats want to force down our throats will include IRS surveillance of our personal bank accounts, with no warrant or probable cause necessary. So much for the Fourth Amendment. Welcome to the new American police state.

Yet in the Tenth Amendment, we learn that the Federal government has no right to issue sweeping nationwide mandates on vaccines or employment requirements. Decisions about masks, jobs, and most other issues in a citizen's life belong to each individual state--or "to the people." That's us. According to the Constitution, we get to decide how our daily lives will go. Not the government, not its agencies, not its self-appointed emperor.

I see a growing amount of pushback now from everyday people in many states against the government's tyrannical overreaches. That's a good thing, a green shoot of hope for our country's survival as the land of liberty. It seems that somewhere in our national DNA, the vast majority of Americans understand the need to be free. It's sad but not surprising that Biden doesn't get it.

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Getting Schooled

When a country falls to tyranny, it happens quickly.

That is what my late mother-in-law always said when she recalled her flight from Stalin's takeover of her homeland with only the clothes on her back. Over the decades, I had heard all her stories of the fear, despair and horror of experiencing the iron grip of Communism so suddenly squeezing the breath out of a nation. Helen spoke also of the wreckage of human life that followed a Communist takeover--longterm confinement in refugee camps, enduring hunger, total poverty, and ubiquitous death. It all seemed so foreign, so remote from life in the United States.

Not anymore.

Think about the authoritarian changes to our country in the past year and a half: sweeping, liberty-killing mandates imposed nationwide on citizens--but not on illegal immigrants; a wide-open southern border; organized destruction of law enforcement; employment termination due to a differing opinion; arbitrary Big Tech censorship in all of social media, to name but a few.

There was a green shoot of hope in parental resistance to the left-wing agenda in our schools. People were speaking out, objecting to the filth and lies being force-fed to their children. It was a bright spot in the chaos, a truly American moment.

We can't have that now, can we.

With absolutely no Constitutional authority to support him, so-called Attorney General Merrick Garland is unleashing the FBI on parents who "threaten" school boards and educators. Merely objecting to curriculum could be considered a "threat." This is a brazen violation of every parent and taxpayers' First Amendment rights to free speech. It is a blatant totalitarian move to squelch all dissent by parents and frighten them into silence so that the radical Left can continue to poison and indoctrinate America's children. It is a chilling step towards transforming the US in to a police state.

You thought it couldn't happen here? It is happening here. And, as I was warned by my mother-in-law, it's happening fast. What happens next, if America allows this tyranny to stand?

Let's think about the track record of Communist dictators throughout the last century. Start with the violence of the Russian Revolution, continue to the establishment of the Soviet Union and its ongoing rape of Eastern Europe throughout the 20th century. Think of Mao Zedong's Chinese Revolution and ensuing control. Remember the many decades of suffering in North Korea and Castro's Cuba. One hundred million people were slaughtered under Communist dictators within a 100-year period--an average of one million people killed per year. Quite an achievement, wouldn't you agree?

Aside from all who were murdered, millions more were imprisoned; misery and poverty abounded for those unfortunate people remaining behind. All these survivors ever wanted to do was escape their oppressive government.

I leave you with one question for homework. If the Left--the Communists, the Marxists, call them what you will but realize they are tyrants--have such a better idea for managing government, why does history prove that they always need to impose it by brutal force?