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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

We Want Satan, and We Ain't Waitin'! Ohio and Kentucky's vote

Friends,

Vox populum: We want Satan and we ain't waitin'!

The notion of collective punishment revisited. 

Regarding the November 7 election: If I still resided in Ohio, I'd leave. 

God was not exactly mocked in this latest election – more like utterly ignored. And note this wasn't the case of some idiot judge somewhere who had absolutely no idea of embryology, genetics, or even metaphysics and natural law. This involved instead a majority vote of the Ohio demos for the devotees of Moloch, a.k.a. Satan, to damn all and sundry in the entire state.

That's mob rule, a.k.a. "democracy". Kinda like Original Sin. Everyone gets to be damned, you see? Unless God is particularly merciful on Judgment Day. And unless we bend over backwards to earn that mercy through prayer, fasting, and good works. No "cheap grace" this round. No Lutheran snow on a dunghill or Calvin's pre-predestination warm glow inside. The Ohio vote bore a collective out-and-proud affirmation that "We want Satan and we ain't waitin'!"

The forces of evil won in Ohio on November 7 via popular vote. They even voted in "recreational marijuana use". 24th state to do so. Great. Get stoned so you cannot notice Hell opening for you.
  1. In the American context, the old way of putting this was vox populum, vox Dei. The voice of the people is the voice of God. I.e. final authority, the ultimate judge. Public opinion, solely, is God.
  2. To which Ohioan General Sherman wryly commented, "Vox populum, vox humbug." ("Humbug" being a 19th century version of something much sharper today.) 
  3. They want to damn us with collective guilt, much like Israel is applying to the Gazans. Most Gazans probably strongly support Hamas, but whether they do or not, the Israelis are applying collective punishment. Truly, the wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23
  4. Democracy implies as we benefit collectively from the actions of the majority, so the actions of the majority can damn us collectively.
Lot and Sodom
Let me solemnly assure you that Lot was saved from Sodom SOLELY because Abraham was his uncle. That's it. But a damnation resulted anyway, because Lot had chosen to live in Sodom. He had a free choice. Could have separated from Abraham and then lived most anywhere. But nope, the dope chose Sodom, which archaeology has clearly identified in Jordan northeast of the Dead Sea: a site called Tell el-Hamman. (See the videos of Dr. Steven Collins.) Collective punishment followed Lot. So, Lot's wife looked back and died and later in a cave his daughters committed unspeakable (and unthinkable) sin with him to found two bastardized "nations" of imbeciles. One daughter turned out to be the mother of what would become Moab, a hopeless pagan enemy of Israel (yet God saw to it that the nation of Moab eventually produced after many generations one Ruth, who became an ancestress of Our Lord.) What happened to Lot after that, though? Vanished from history. In inexpressible shame.

Kentucky meanwhile voted to keep its Democrat governor, who will take the first opportunity to lock the people down and force them to wear masks in the next fraudulent "plandemic". Democrats have never left off being slave masters. He'll support the national Democrats in stopping next year's election (don't think for a moment that that isn't coming!) I thought Kentuckians were smarter than that. Was I ever wrong. 

What about the Church?
I've read where the bishops of Ohio didn't campaign too diligently against the referendum. When have American bishops ever? 
  1. The bishops are Siamese Twins with the Democrat Party, and today live off the largess of the Federal government paying them to manage all the illegal hordes (er, excuse me: "refugees") flooding the nation. 
  2. They could have stopped abortion in its tracks back in 1973 by excommunicating any politician, starting with Ted Kennedy, who promoted abortion. 
  3. Don't bishops know they have supernatural power? 
  4. Don't they know exorcists can make demons scream and howl just by showing the devils a photo of the local bishop? 
  5. Regarding Soros and all those financing this pro-Abort vote, the bishops could at least recite at Holy Mass the "cursing" psalms of 68:20-29 (Psalm 69 in the Jewish Masoretic/Protestant numbering) and 108/109, and others. 
  6. So, they did little or nothing? Whether true or not, we needed a Fr. Altman in every parish and seated on every bishop's cathedra. Instead, they cancel him.
  7. The FBI and Deep State will shut the Church down anyway; might as well go down fighting.
And please believe me when I say that Fr James Altman was and is quite right that a Catholic cannot vote for a Democrat. Democrats have not only gone full abortionist, they've gone full communist. (Someone recently wrote that if you don't believe that, look up the Democrat's national website and then look up the Communist Party USA's website and try to find any differences.)
  • Being part of a "democratic" governance makes each of us responsible for what happens, and certainly a Catholic who votes for a Democrat (or a pro-Abortion "RINO") has put a millstone around their neck, one they don't usually feel, though deep down I think they know what they've done.
  • God knows exactly what they've done and will confront them with it when it is too late for them to "change their mind" because in Eternity, one experiences the "Boundless Now" as Boethius described it, and it is too late to change one's damnation.
The Secular Explanation
In terms of secular politics, the general consensus is that "Big Money" from outside of the state bought the vote for abortion in Ohio. No doubt. Many George Soros types exist, and as Elon Musk says, Soros clearly hates humanity. Butchering babies is as inhuman as it gets. (He definitely needs a psalm read against him.) But Ohioans have to be so utterly heartless as to not care, for surely they now ALL know what abortion is and what it does. Therefore they tar all Ohioans as pro-Aborts by association: Ohio, the place where abortion RULES. And now where parents cannot stop their children from mutilating themselves.

As I say, because we can vote, when the vote is for evil, we all get tarred with that sticky sulfur-stinking offal. Myself, as well. Of course, I had requested an absentee ballot and my county Board of Elections sent it to me and I marked it to turn down the proposal, but as noted, the vote was widely in favor of adopting the amendment. Naturally, the sacraments will wash off the carrion, but we have to be ever more scrupulous in our spiritual lives because now all Hell (literally) has us in its armpit until the Tribulation – which I think has begun – runs its course.

Truly, in the words of St. Paul, we need to work out our salvation in fear and trembling. Philippians 2:12-13

I think I shall listen to Tallis. Lamentations of Jeremiah.

  An Préachán


Monday, September 25, 2023

Coup d'état in the U.S.A.?

Friends,

Former CIA Sam Faddis makes a very credible argument that the bad guys in the U.S. government/Deep State are planning a coup d'état in the U.S. before the 2024 election. 

Everything in the country really seems to be heading in this direction. There's just simply unnerving lawlessness in the streets, the morality of the people is in the dumpster, which is itself on fire (abortions since Dobbs have actually increased in number!), and our economic situation is simply horrific. Thirty-three trillion in debt, heading for the stars, and a government, a Congress and executive, that can't even remotely agree on a budget. Besides all that, the utterly ridiculous Global Warming idiocy is about to force a massive famine on all of the world in order to crash the population so the new Fascists at the WEF can rule us all. (All who remain, that is.)

Communism came to America in the latter 19th century, mostly with immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe. A lot of murder and mayhem was going on by the time of Theodore Roosevelt's administration that you don't hear much about (William McKinley, anyone?), but WWI and then the Roaring Twenties tamped down the "Reds" for a while. They surged back into their own with the Great Depression, itself brought on by the Federal Reserve national bank (they turned it from a typical sharp but short-lived economic downturn into a first-class social and cultural disaster). Then the Franklin Roosevelt administrations (including the Truman administration) – endless Big Government giving birth to Deep State government – ensconced the Commies into our government. Joe McCarthy and Nixon tried a push back on all that, but the coup d'état that overthrew the most popularly elected president in history from office (Nixon in 1972), and replaced him with a RINO not elected president at all, showed how powerful they had become.

Newt Gringrich (actually a professional historian), lays much of this out hereHe writes:
When you dig into the larger facts behind the stories, it becomes clear we are not faced with a disease that can be eliminated by going after a handful of people. America today is threatened by a culture and system of left-wing hostility to the Constitution, the rule of law, American history, and to the core concept of America.

There are tens of thousands of left-wing radicals in universities, newsrooms, bureaucracies, major law firms, big corporations, and elected offices. They mutually reinforce the fight to destroy the Constitution and replace the rule of law with the rule of power. All the while, they weaponize the government and culture to coerce the American people into their values.


So, we are in a fix. The 2020 election was brazenly stolen, and the 2022 election was as well, in such a way that the Republicans didn't sweep back into power as they did in previous "off-year" elections, such as 1994 or 2010. And most elected Republicans are bought and paid for "RINOs" anyway. The triple elections of Nixon, then Reagan, then Trump (all three re-elected twice) shows that the country at large doesn't want the Left's weltanschauung. They're going to make us take it, though, if they can, even if they have to go Red October on us. Alas for us, Pope Francis/Bergoglio, also a Leftist, is doing the exact same thing to the Catholic Church, stamping down hard on what remains of the pre-Vatican II Church, slapping down the actual, but helpless and unlamented, Vatican II Church, and replacing it with a Socialist-Homosexual carcass already rotting and full of rainbow maggots.

All this has bee a long time coming. The good news, however, is that ever more average Americans see it. The bad news is the bad guys know that and are more desperate than ever to force it on us. For the Communist Democrats, it is pointless to run that imbecile Joe Biden (an imbecile before he went into dementia) or trade him for Gavin Newsom (another feckless, entitled idiot) or Michelle Obama (a she-he who is to lazy too be president) or Hillary Clinton or whoever. Trump is going to win. They're going to try to steal but EVERYONE is watching for that now. Another brazen steal would also lead into true insurrection territory. (They tried to tell us what they'd do to us with that via the "January Sixers", but you can only push people so far before unhinged violence erupts. And I suspect the Covid flimflam has shorted a lot of fuses.) So since things are that bad for the Left and the Deep State, then why not "jump the shark" now, before the election, and "go for broke" and pull their coup d'état now?

Read Faddis if interested, and form your own conclusions. Prepare accordingly.

AnP

Monday, August 28, 2023

Abortion, the Jewel in Satan's Crown, and the Novus Ordo Mass

Friends,


Abortion is the jewel in Satan's Crown. It's a "twofer". It damns the people involved in it and it kills a human being in the womb. Why, why do we allow it at all? In the U.S.A., that murder rate since 1973, comes to about 65 million dead babies now. 

Think of that. It's nearly unbelievable. But it is true.

If nothing else, abortion conveniently saves the demons from having to temp yet another human to go to Hell. (In the U.S. as noted, 65 million fewer temptations.) But it also spreads, metastasizes cancer-like, a thick, nearly impenetrable damnation through the human societies that tolerate it. It damns from the people immediately involved all the way through to legislators and judges who give it their (dare I say it) "blessings". 

Background
The human condition in the Western World was going from bad to worse previous to the Roe v Wade decision in 1973. U. S. Supreme Court decisions going back the 1950s, such as the 1957 Roth v the United States, began to give pornography a leg up in the culture wars, and the following year's, One, Inc. v. Olesen, is considered "landmark" in the ascent of homosexuality's rule over us. One ignorant Supreme Court justice's idiot comment about pornography, "I know it when I see it" (in 1964's Jacobellis v. Ohio) conclusively demonstrated that America's highest lawyers were moral numbskulls. 
Note: It was Justice Potter Stewart who wrote, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it...". Dead Justice Stewart, porn, like propaganda, is easily defined. They have no ambiguity. "Art" ambiguous, with more than one possible meaning, thus causing one to think, to ponder, to wonder. Propaganda exists to indoctrinate. Porn exists solely to titillate, however, to arouse the carnal appetites, and for no other reason. 

Today we see many of the nation's lawyers are amoral mountebanks, or simply Communist apparatchiks. The Roe v Wade decision conclusively proved they were utterly, wholly, metaphysically ignorant, as well. And I remember seeing a talk show, Peter Robinson's Uncommon Knowledge, in fact, wherein the late Justice Antonin Scalia said that natural law had absolutely no place in Supreme Court decisions!

Explains a lot, doesn't it?

All the flooding Sexual Revolution guano of the later '50s and all of the '60s culminated in abortion being given carte blanc in the U.S. Satan's jewel in the crown had been a long time being excavated and then polished, but with its enthronement, "everything went to Hell". The Church, the modern Church, the Vatican II Church was then fully born. The new, awful liturgy was enacted at the beginning of Advent in 1970. Can it be a coincidence that abortion followed exactly three years later, in January 1973?

As Fr. James Mawdsley so aptly put it, the Holy Mass suffered a horrible "transgender mutilation". That's what the Novus Ordo Mass is, a transgender mutilation of the ancient, God-grown Traditional Latin Mass, a liturgy God began founding before He created the world, and which was foreshadowed and planned and shaped for throughout the Old Testament. Now we are so far down the well that we have an anti-pope charlatan promoting (ceaselessly, desperately), what Fulton Sheen called, "The Ape of the Church", our Vatican II anti-Church. Its a "Church" where the Holy Spirit speaks, but only through committees staffed by Communist cronies of the "pope".

As for myself, I cannot help but think the Novus Ordo Mass paved they way and steam-rolled the pavement once it was embraced, of abortion. Just one example: In the old Mass, the TLM, the priest makes the Sign of the Cross 70 times, many of those at the altar over the unconsecrated and then the consecrated Host, and using the Consecrated Host. That has to carve a profound mark on the priest's soul. Wouldn't such a priest be more likely to be willing to embrace the Cross for the sake of the unborn, then, as opposed to a Novus Ordo priest, whose talky, relatively signless Mass exists to "reaffirm" and "soothe" and "accompany" his congregation? 

Every time one sins, one gives Satan a bit of authority over the sinner. Grievous, mortal sin gives Satan pretty much absolute authority. Notice how Confession is required to break it but notice how Confession isn't stressed any more? (A lot of Confessions in the Vatican II Church are held like psychological counseling sessions, face to face with the priest, etc.) How sin itself isn't stressed from the pulpit? A priest giving hell-fire and brimstone sermons will be "cancelled" if he persists.
 
Is it any wonder Satan's Jewel in the Crown shines so brightly?

 An Préachán



Wednesday, August 9, 2023

The Ohio Referendum Vote: the Smog of Satan

Amici,

No one, NO ONE, should "pretend" about abortion.

Abortion is so egregiously wrong-headed, so manifestly evil, so utterly selfish and callous as to be beyond belief. Literally. I can't believe people are not instantly horrified and disgusted by the very thought of it. It is not only murder and death to the babies slaughtered, but simply the greatest spiritual wound possible to women. It is the greatest spiritual calamity to women's central role, motherhood. It is the vomit of Hell on fatherhood. 

Obviously, though, a large portion of people are OK with it or OK with "it being a private matter." That "OK" is incomprehensible to me. Yet clearly they do NOT understand there are no "private" matters. What we do in the dark affects us profoundly, for good or ill, and it has instant ramifications to all those around us, as much as what we do in the light. It impacts the overall environment of all things human. Including our spiritual dimension – our souls, our angels (good and bad: hurting the one and helping the other) and ultimately God (who notices and records everything, and is the Judge of All). That's because we are spiritual beings, not merely animals.

The whole ethos, the struts and architectural support structure of the modern world, is founded on the ridiculous, illogical Theory of Evolution, that posits we ARE just animals. We are not. So the spiritual reverberations, our spiritual "echoes", abound. When we sin, we can be said to "shed" evil like those polluted by the Covid vaccines are supposed to "shed" spike proteins. (Everything to do with Covid is a fraud.)

There's been 65 million or so abortions in the U.S. since Roe. That's a lot of evil "shed". 

The Kingship of Christ, the 'Lawfare' of Satan

Now, when our bishops and priests don't fight tooth and nail for God's sovereignty, for the Kingship of Christ on Earth, they themselves radiate or shed or echo evil. And they have to fight because the Prince of this World does not want to lose one atom of his control. Our Lord Christ conquered Hell and death, but by their inactions (and all too often their actions), the heirs of His Victory cede to Satan fractions of Christ's triumph, fractions of the grace they were bestowed by baptism. Abortion, and all the lesser moral and carnal dementia we soak ourselves in, is like a series of parliamentary resolutions ceding authority to Satan. (When you play with a Ouija Board, you cede to the devils some authority over you, even on that scale.) And every devil, down to the very Lowest, are legalistic "lawfare" warriors. They claw and bite to keep every bit of authority they're given. They're quick to complain to God for their "rights" over us, rights we gave them through sin.

Our Churchmens' actions or inaction infect all of us, therefore. Our own clergy and bishops "smog" the spiritual air. It's the "smoke of Satan" Paul VI mentioned. (Being an "environmental polluter in this spiritual sense, he ought to know!) Especially, this is true of bishops, who are responsible for not only the laity and clergy in their dioceses, but for all the non-believers (of whatever sort) in their dioceses. So many Catholics don't seem to know that. So many Catholic bishops don't seem to know that! 

For myself, regarding this referendum vote in Ohio, I particularly want to know where the new bishop of Columbus, Bishop Fernandes, was on this? Apparently, none of Ohio's bishops actively campaigned. Blessed Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, came and helped campaign, so you know The Ogre (Bergoglio) will send his imps, pixies, and pucks gunning for Bishop Strickland again.

BB Before Bergoglio vs PB Post Bergoglio
The Church stood four-square against abortion since Our Lord Christ founded it, though after 1973, the American Church being so hand-in-glove with the Democrat Party meant a great many of the American Church leaders "slow-walked" or tip-toed their opposition to it. Just as the reason the Church embraces all the illegal immigration that is destroying America (and Europe) is because the Church gets government monies to help the "refugees". They're still politically "joined to the hip" with the Democrats, even now that the latter should be properly labeled "the Communists".
PB Post Bergoglio: It's now a different story. Since his imposition on us by the sexual deviants and Freemasons in the Church, Jorge Bergoglio has dismantled all of John Paul II's efforts to align the Vat II Church against the increasingly strident Globalist forces for abortion (and homosexuality, etc.). What else would one expect from a homosexual, or "homosexualist" unbeliever like "Bergi"? I would guess that in November, when the Ohio vote comes up on this insanely evil referendum, the deceptively titled “The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety,” to change Ohio's constitution to allow unrestricted abortion, the Democrats and RINO Republicans will, by hook or crook, get it to pass.  Some judge or other has already permanently suspended Ohio's new "heart-beat" law. A law passed through regular electoral order is canceled by unelected trolls. The U.S. judiciary is largely filled to the brim with mountebanks, imbeciles, and outright fiends, all of course paid for from the taxpayers' squeezed-out turnip blood.

Now, of course, in John Locke's political theory, the one upon which the U.S. independence and 1787 Constitution is founded, the people are supposed to be sovereign, not God. God was left out of the U.S. Constitution, and left out of the French Revolution entirely, and so on since, totally transforming Western society. So, we're handing ourselves the tickets to Hell. Legally, by our own governmental theories. We don't even need the Fallen Lightbringer and his infernal law firm for it. What a hellish "lawfare" that turns out to be, what a dodgy, depressing irony, what a smoky, rancid smog to breathe in.

          AnP 




Thursday, November 10, 2022

Sovereignty. The election was stolen. What was stolen is our Sovereignty.

Beannachtaí Dé, everyone, (and we need God's blessings, now and ever!)

Bad news, the past few days. As John Zmirak so appropriately says, America is a kidnap victim. We are Patty Hearst. We are being beaten, robbed, and raped. And we're being robbed of our sovereignty, our right to rule ourselves.

I hate being right, but the election was stolen, brazenly. Of course, a great many commentators and people blogging have warned that it would be stolen. Biden admitted as much in his smug confidence in recent days. Before the 2020 election, he also smugly boasted they'd win easily. He knew.

So, we were right. We should have expected it because in Pennsylvania and Arizona, nothing was done to correct the voting irregularities of 2020. Because, according to the Powers-That-Be, there was nothing wrong with that election.

For details of the steal, myriads of proofs exist, and Emerald Robinson has a compendium of events here. Check out Robinson's article for its many charts and grafts showing sudden Democrat ballot dumps in various places. It is preposterous. Brazen. In-your-face, but they did it anyway.
  • RINOs
  • And they could not have done it without the help of the RINOs, the right-wing of the UniParty, who did the best they could to sink MAGA Republican candidates and are now howling for Trump's blood.
  • The RINOs want DeSantis for president, of course, because they control him in terms of their big-money donations. Trump, they cannot control. DeSantis (or anyone else), however, will not get elected nationally without the help of the MAGA Republicans.
  • As the RINOs loathe the MAGA, and vice-versa, we cannot expect anything but disaster going forward.
And anyway, in general, you know the voting has been rigged when just about every poll, Leftist, Middle, or Right, show tremendous public dissatisfaction with government yet these unhappy legions of voters unaccountably vote the people responsible for their misery back into power. You also know something is up when in states like Florida and Ohio, states possessing sensible, same-day voting systems, Republicans win big, very big, actually, in both those states; yet Democrat states having "election seasons" rather than "election days" take days to count and candidates whom all polling shows enjoy large leads (again, general Left-leaning pollsters to pollsters with platinum track records, like Trafalgar) see their leads evaporate. Even professional gamblers predicted a "Red Wave". So, what happened?

Bottom Line: Ballots, not Votes
This is no longer about voting. It is no longer about candidates being likable, intelligent, or arguing for smart policy proposals. Biden doesn't even know who he is half the time, and now this literal idiot elected senator in Pennsylvania is quasi brain-dead (his wife will replace him). That state elected a Democrat state legislator who died back in October. What a hell-hole. (Sam Faddis describes what happened in Pennsylvania here, and it involves RINOs.)

No. It isn't about all that stuff, which is so passé. It is about ballots. Ballots, ballots, who has the ballots? Sundance at the Conservative Treehouse has an excellent column on this here. This is a highly important article for one to read if one wishes to grasp what's going on here.

My long-held thesis
My long-held thesis is that an individual or group (like a political party) that intentionally accepts or "believes" or embraces such obvious contradictions like abortion or Covid or climate change, go crazy. They become demented. They are cursed, as the Belbury bigshots were cursed in C.S. Lewis' novel, That Hideous Strength. They were turned into vicious subhumans by the Curse of Babel.

This is like with abortion, and Covid, and Climate Change. Advocates for these abominations do not want you to look at facts, either of biology, embryology, the unscience that is virology (and it is a joke), and climatology. They lie to you, right into your face. Abortion is the best example. "That's just a clump of cells, not a baby." Utter Stercus tauri. Where is Sterculius when you need him? (BTW, Every pro-life republican governor who signed an abortion ban won re-election.

My thesis is that in trying to act as though you believe something so obviously not true, your moral and intellectual underpinnings begin to fray. Sooner or later you become a moral homunculus. Over the years, I've known individuals who seemed to lose their identity because they became abortion supporters. One guy wanted to advance in the Democrat Party and over time went from a regular guy to a nasty piece of work. "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?" (St. Mark 8:3)

Sovereignty, who has the Sovereignty?

Another elemental, fundamental truth that needs to be intellectually apprehended is that the Authoritarians, whether Communists or Nazis or "Watermelon" Fascists, is that they do not care for your sovereignty. If you don't get this, you will NOT know what's going on.

Sovereignty is the ideal about where the right to govern lies. In Ancient Egypt, it lay with Pharaoh, who was a god. In China, for millennia, it lay with "Heaven", which bestowed it on a ruler who was ruthless enough to seize it and keep it. The same was true in Islam, from its inception. In Ancient Greece, it lay solely with the citizens of a city-state. Most of the people who made up Classical Athens' population were slaves; only the citizens had the power to vote and partake of rule. In the Roman Republic, it lay both with the Senate and the popular house, the plebs, who over time had gained rights, so the Roman Republic resembled the American one (because the Americans modeled theirs after Rome).

Then Christianity came along. In Ancient Judaism, sovereignty lay solely with God, yet they wanted a king, so God gave them one, but told them they wouldn't like this transfer of sovereignty from God to the state. When Rome converted to Christianity, the already sovereign Roman state became sovereign directly because God made it so. The "divine" pagan emperor became a divinely appointed ruler. But in the West, with no empire surviving, sovereignty still rested with God, and it was administered by the Church. The Church made and unmade kings. The Church also recognized guilds of tradesmen and manufacturers. These "lower classes" always had more political clout in the West than in the East. Parliaments had their nobles, yes, but also their "Commons", not individuals but communities.

Then post the Reformation, wherein kings decided what religion would be allowed, sovereignty shifted more to the kings, and finally the Divine Right of Kings became the rule. It was first promoted by the Protestant James I of England, but more fully embodied in the Catholic Louis XIV. Yet the Bourbons made such a mess of Europe that this theory was overthrown and replaced with two very different, and eternally contending views. 
  1. One, sovereignty was seen to lie with the people, in general. Englishman John Locke did the most to promote this, and the U.S.A. is in essence his child, his creation. 
  2. The other, sovereignty lay with those who had the guts and willpower to seize it, whether the French Revolutionary Directory, or Napoleon, or whoever.
N.B. Over time, the Left came to control this idea of sovereignty. Basically, their ideology became sovereign. We live to bring their utopias to birth. We live to labor for the state in order to fulfill the ideology. We live to keep those who rule the state in luxury. We have no rights except what the state decrees. But of course, no one of the ruling class really believes the ideology (workers' paradise or National Socialist breeding farm or stone-age "green" utopia).
2020 & 2022
Today, in the U.S., the issue really is who has the sovereignty. If it is the people, then votes count. The people employ the state and can dismiss it. But we are not seeing that, are we? Not at all, not in the slightest. These elections of 2022 and 2020 show that the people cannot dismiss the state. The state, the Deep State, impersonates God. It manufactures fraudulent ballots, and then counts them. Voting is meaningless. Those who have seized power are the ones who count.

Please, everyone, understand this. It is our reality.

Can we defeat it? Maybe. I'll be highly interested to see if Kari Lake wins Arizona. She'll be a major weapon against our enemies. But as of this writing, that election is in Limbo.

 An Préachán
Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:
Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.




 


Sunday, October 16, 2022

A bizarre conversation with a quasi-Leftist – and the natures of all Leftist evil

Friends,
As operation Steadfast Noon roars on across Europe, ending on October 30, with nuclear war staggering along the rim of Hell, and as I see the Dutch government trying to feed Dutch children worms and insects, this abomination in perhaps the richest agricultural nation in Europe, I happened to find myself in a conversation about Hershel Walker's senatorial campaign with a middle-age Leftist who insists she's not all that Left.

No disconnect exists here...
Maybe, pounded our insane reality, I am losing my own mind, to speak to such people. Or maybe it is quite apropos. She loathes Trump, Republicans, all that, but on other issues, especially about many aspects of European and Hungarian life, she's not too bad. It is as though she was some sort of bipolar answering machine.

But I have tired of her harping on Hershel Walker. Nothing that man says or does serves. He's a right bastard to her mainly because she insists he is a hypocrite. (Plainly, she also thinks he is a stupid "field hand" and not a "house Negro," as Warnock seems to be to her) It's not that Walker has arranged abortions or did whatever mayhem. It's that precisely because he's changed his mind on all that – he's just a hypocrite and a hypocrite stands infinitely worse than a guy actually currently promoting abortions of children of his own race, as Warnock does.

She'd rather vote for Warnock, the evil Moloch preacher than Walker, the reformed non-politician. And she accuses me of hypocrisy because I support Walker for senator. So, finally I wrote:

Two candidates for senator: both Black, both have records of promoting abortion, etc., but one has changed and the other stays on the all-things-Left side, including supporting the slaughter of Black unborns.

You are OK with murder...of infants? Black ones?

Meanwhile the social progressives/Democrats/even-mild-middle Leftists that Warnock belongs to are OK with money-hungry doctors cutting off teenage girls' breasts and gentiles off of teenage boys, and you say the Repubs are bad?!?!?

Bottom Line: the Nature of Leftism considered
My friends, being a Leftist isn't about clear thinking, reason, rationality, OR morality.

It IS about seeing the world, human life, our place in existence in a very different way than the rest of us do, which stands based on 1000's of years recorded human experience.

A naturalist or traditional natural "conservative" accepts life as it is: men are men, women are women, we all have but a few years, if blessed, to do and achieve what we want to, so long as our goals fit into the eternal verities.

Eternal verities. The Left rejects eternal verities as it teaches we are the product of evolution. One of verities is we must work in life, for work defines us. A man builds his own life and not boss about others on how they live their lives, and to achieve this, we create laws that remain necessarily based on the wisdom of the ages and specifically the ancient Jewish, then more profound traditional Christian, understanding of morality. Long, long before the UFO query, "Are we alone", man knew he was most definitely NOT alone.

The Left says we ARE alone, and thus there's no one to hear you scream when they come for you.

A Leftist truly lives in a "Twilight Zone". His thought devolves down from that hedonist Rousseau, on through the Satanist (and he was) Marx's fevered economics (Chesterton said "Economic Determinism is like saying, because we have feet, we only walk around on them to find shoes for them."). Then, it got bifurcated into political systems of repression, parties-that-rule-all, especially your life. It takes over countries and kills 100s of millions. Whether Black Communism, the racist sort of the Nazi or the modern Black Lives Matter kind, or the Red Communism of the Soviet and Chinese Communist Party kind, or the "Watermelon" kind, that uses ecological concerns (green) to cover their real goals (red all through).

And bizarrely through all this menage of madness: one MUST obey authority. One MUST obey the Party. One has no will of one's own, and can never disagree or change one's mind. (This woman I refer to is, in a small way, an excellent example of this.) As Tulsi Gabbard found when she went against the Democrats' warmongering. And that very thing lay behind Trump's betrayal by the RINOs, as well. This coming war is coming now for a reason.

What is it all for?
And why all this blood? Why all this soul control? For aping the Christian doctrine of charity. See Matthew 5:42 and 25:35-40; Communism, Marxism, Socialism, whatever you call it, takes Christian charity and turns it into murder and civilizational destruction. It is, definitely, a Christian heresy, and when the Church was religious, it dealt with it like that, up to St. Pius X and Pius XI; afterward, increasingly, it treated Leftism as a political or social movement as Pius XII treated Nazism, and has today almost succumbed to it.

Many things distinguish Leftism, but perhaps unreality is the most profoundly horrifying. And the most ridiculous. It's all so ridiculously stupid, and yet it has killed over 100 million people in the 20th century and is ruining the lives of 100s more.
  • 70 years ago, this was the urgent world-saving scenario for which people needed to die:
  • "What! You are taking my cows for the 'greater good' and "From each according to his abilities to each according to his needs? Go to Hell! Leave them alone!" The Left's answer back then was:
  • Bang-bang, you're dead.
  • Today, the urgent world-saving scenario stands on the non-existent "climate change": 
  • "What! You're taking my fertilizer and starving us to stop global warming? And instead, you're making my kids eat bugs! Go to Hell!"
  • What do you think the Left's "solution" will be?
None of this is rational. It is no more "scientific" than the Voodoo about Covid.

For example; as I note to the Leftist lady above: doctors, physicians, prestigious medical schools, are crazily, diabolically mutilating children for life. The psychology behind it is vomitingly awful, the worse kind of pseudo-"science" – but definitely the metaphysics is non-existent. You cannot change a man into a woman biologically or psychologically any more than you can change the shape of the soul, for it is the soul that what gives the body form, and when the soul departs, the physical body thus returns to its chemical parts.

Very, very few, vanishingly few, doctors – almost no lawyers or politicians – even know what metaphysics is. The Supreme Court in general and certainly in the latter half of the 20th century, constituted the least informed or curious group of attorney's in history. Medicine has become the same. The Roe v. Wade decision was a howler of nonsense, it constituted an ersatz group compilation, and the history of it, and the sources, have to be read to be believed

When you read this shocking history that reveals Roe's farrago of idiocy, you'll be tempted to despair. Justice Harry Blackmun was clueless. He asked his modern and expensively, elite school trained daughters what they thought of abortion. (Guess what their answer was.) He "wrote" the opinion with hacks and abortion partisans; he consulted no embryologists, no geneticists. He could have polled a dozen each, but "consulted" these deadbeats who happened to be in his orbit.
  • For this? 45-50 million babies murdered? The Demon Moloch again worshiped throughout the world. The moral fiber of the nation turned into mud and the Democratic Party impaled on the hellish contradiction. Insanity. We suffered through half a century of hell because this group of mental imbeciles mashed together the Roe opinion?

Aye, here's the rub...
Ah, but you see, however the Left connives to get a stooge like Blackmun to give them straw, they bake nearly imperishable bricks of evil out of it with which to wage their "Long March Through the Institutions", their "war of position" through Western Culture, in order to gut it for their eventual triumph. Saul Alinsky wrote about the method, and Cloward-Piven explained it in detail. It is the same method the Ogre Bergoglio uses to destroy the Church, as Cardinal Mueller explains. In fact, it is what the Frankfurter Schule Communist intellectuals back in the 1920s ginned up.

And it has so profoundly infected people like the one above with whom I sometimes correspond, an "iron curtain" of the human mind as impenetrable as walls of Barad-dûr.

   An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:
Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Friday, October 7, 2022

Our rulers want a nuclear war – now it's up to God whether we're nuked.

Amici,

With great sadness I must admit defeat. I've been trying to be positive about the world avoiding a "nuclear exchange", but every indicator points to Whoever Is in charge of the Biden Regime (WICeBeR) to be primed for such a war. Whether Russia technically "starts" it with a nuke demonstration somewhere in Ukraine or not, it is coming, unless the Lord God doesn't want it at this time. Indeed, it would take a miracle to avoid such a war, now.

For some time, I have been accumulating reasons for and against a war happening, but basically, since the idiot, loathsome WICeBeR (Biden Regime) bombed the Nord Stream pipelines, the launch sequence has been started. And right now, what with places as disparate as Poland and New Jersey gearing up for radiation sickness, there can be no doubt.

See Sam Faddis here for the widespread sale and positioning of anti-radiation drugs like Nplate and potassium iodide tablets in such diverse places in Europe and America. They're serious about this, in other words.

See the monkey (hat tip to a friend) about how the U.S. "did" the pipeline. Lots of detail and indications that the U.K. didn't participate.

In closing, I'll make a few observations, FWIW, and while I still can.
  • Had Hillary Clinton been elected in 2016 instead of Donald Trump, we would have had this war five or six years ago. It's been planned for some time now by whoever is running the world. All this Globalism, all this Big Pharma turning the entire human race into drug addicts, and the lies setting ourselves at each others throats: it is all of a pattern. One does no have to be paranoid to see how we always amazingly get what we absolutely do not want.
  • Getting involved in a war is a traditional way politicians "get out the vote" and "wave the flag" to stir up patriotism and get voters to "rally around" the incumbent. Now is the time to do it, if they are going to try this gambit. A true "October Surprise."
  • Historically, we, the collective American people, should have disbanded and forbidden the Democrat Party when we defeated them in 1865 after four years and insanely high casualty rates. As the joke goes, we've never seen Democrats so angry since we freed their slaves. They re-enslaved the Blacks via Jim Crow and the Blacks have been voting Democrat ever since because the Dems "feed them". "Lincoln freed us but Roosevelt (FDR) feeds us," was a Black political slogan. Lyndon Johnson said after the passage of his "Great Society" social hand-out legislation in the '60s "Them n-word will be voting for us forever." (Or close enough. Not surprisingly, it is difficult to find this famous quote.)
  • As now today with the evil (yes, pure evil, Moloch worshiping baby-murdering evil) Biden Regime, the Democrats have always gotten us into every major war we ever fought. Jefferson and Madison, "proto-Democrats" got us into the War of 1812, James K. Polk lead us in the Mexican War – General Ulysses S. Grant always thought and said the Civil War was divine punishment for the Mexican War – the Democrats made the Civil War an absolute necessity and then, like today, tried to destroy the nation; then they got us into both World War I and II, and the Cold War, then Korea and Vietnam. The two Bushes, RINOs in full, got us into the Mideastern Wars. The ONLY war actual Republican-Republicans got us into was the Spanish-American war, which lasted merely a few months (from April to August, 1898; and then it was William Jennings Bryan, a Democrat, who insured Congress voted to annex the Philippines and Puerto Rico).
  • The biggest political mistake of the 20th century – for the entire world – occurred when Calvin Coolidge, a very successful Republican president (who BTW only assumed the office because the RINO died suddenly), decided not to run again for president in 1928. That decision gave us Herbert Hoover as president during the Great Depression. Mind you, Hoover happened to be a good man and a great humanitarian who TWICE saved the German people from starving! But as president, it turned out to be a role for which he was unsuited; he didn't know how to handle the 1929 Stock Market crash; Coolidge would have known, and he had the absolute, unfettered love and confidence of the American people. Anyway, Hoover made possible the election of "that strange feline man" Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who would open the U.S. government to the Communists. "The die was cast" for the fate of the nation with FDR's election. Today's stark existential crisis follows as the direct result of that election.
  • Richard Nixon should roast in Hell because he didn't contest the 1960 election, which might have well be stolen. (The chances are high, but not certain, as we are with the 2020 stolen election.)
  • Richard Nixon was a RINO of RINOs. In the 1960s – the 1960s, mind you – we had real men who could have been president: Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, but the rulers of the Republican Party, then called "The Country Club Republicans" and not "RINOs", gave us Nixon instead.
  • It was the same crowd who insisted Reagan appoint the first George Bush to be his vice-president. That wast the biggest mistake Ronald Reagan ever made.  
  • Republicans who subsequently ran for President, until Trump came along, were all RINOs. The two Bushes of course (the first one lost he re-election bid), then Bob Dole and John McCain and Mitt Romney, the latter simply putrid. Putrid, as he has shown himself to be as a senator. McCain might have won in 2008, but refused to politically attack that wretch Obama, and thus Obama coasted to victory. It is often said the Biden Administration is Obama's third term.
So, my friends, it is no wonder the RINOs hate the MAGA Republicans. The two really are separate parties. The MAGA are like Meloni's party in Italy; the RINOs are like the English Tories. And the Democrats are now the full Communist Party (there exists a long-standing Communist Party USA or whatever factions it now has). And the Democrats are poised to face a historic defeat in this November 8th election. A titanic, party-crushing loss, in fact. Were it to happen. We're it to happen, it will be a true bellwether. If. The Democrats will do whatever they have to, including nuke the world, to keep power. (If a nuclear war doesn't occur in the next couple of months, in fact, the next few weeks, they'll arrest Trump and charge him with the Devil knows what. They're truly mad.

Think I'm over-reacting? After watching FBI agents commando-style arrest Mark Houck, that Catholic father of seven, pointing their automatics at him and his wife and doing all the heavy-breathing drama of a SWAT team taking down a Cartel lord – on a middle-aged father of seven of whom the state and local authorities would not bring charges – after seeing that (and only ONE Catholic bishop protesting it!), I'm convinced there's enough SA Camp Guards and Waffen SS-spirited men – enough KGB/Stasi types lurking in our Federal police and bureaucrats – that they would not hesitate to blow the American nation to pieces rather than see Donald J. Trump inaugurated again as president.

And they'd do the same to De Santis or anyone else unless they KNEW such would bend to their will. And anyway, should war be miraculously averted, the RINOs will run De Santis against Trump and split the vote. That's how the RINOs are, like that scorpion in the fable who stabbed frog to death after promising not to, and thus drowning himself as well. With his dying breath, the frog asked why he would do such a horrible thing, and scorpion said, "I'm a scorpion; it's what I do".

I've often enjoined everyone I know to pray till I sound like a broken record. But we can avert this coming catastrophe should we pray hard enough. But that's the only way.

   An Préachán
Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:
Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

 



 

Monday, July 4, 2022

Elegy to a Republic on the Fourth of July, 2022

Everyone,

Happy Fourth, my American friends, and friends of America.

Something to celebrate: the Dobbs Decision
This July 4th, for the first time in almost 50 years, we're free of the national abortion tyranny we've lived under for so long. "Free at last" as Martin Luther King said. Most of the 65 million babies murdered were girl babies, and Black. Over the pass half century, the Democrats, formerly the 'Catholic Party' and the "blue-collar working man's party" became the party of death, America's own version of Mexico's Santa Muerte. The Republicans have quite a few pro-abortion adherents even now, but those were mostly the "country-club Republican" types like the Bush family. The strong majority of Republicans, especially the MAGA Republicans, are Pro-Life.

Meanwhile, this victory for Life has enraged the Democrats and their Leftist hangers-on. They are vowing full oaths to Satan to overturn Dobbs, one way or the other. I wouldn't be surprised if they pulled a jinn (genie) out of Hell to get something like that done, but that would in turn inflame all Pro-Lifers. Really, the Left's reaction to Dobbs had clearly shown their diabolical nature, and that's all to the good. But it is not so good this took nearly fifty years! Or that so many people are so soulless as to insist on murdering babies.

This is our world, alas.

It's a sad day for the Republic that we have so many such fiends, but then a republic without God, as the USA is officially, and was since the establishment of the 1787 Constitution, is bound to, well, go to Hell – sooner or later.

There was a group of Protestant intellectuals back in the latter 19th century called the National Reform Association, and they wanted to rewrite the Constitution in order to put God into it, and in a big way.
  1. They saw the Civil War as divine punishment for America's "original sin", as the coming Biden War with Russia might be punishment for abortion.
  2. They predicted the moral and spiritual decline of the country.
  3. They predicted godless secularists would rely on the Constitution to impose godlessness. (Wow, were they prophets, or what?)
  4. They proposed a Christian Amendment that Congress quickly rejected (never got out of committee).
  5. They recognized the First Amendment as a barrier between Church and State, which it is: it exists to prevent organized religion from interfering the American government, especially chattel slavery as the Catholic Church had regulated it in, say, Brazil. (The first thing Jefferson did when he bought Louisiana was remove what rights the slaves had had under the French and Spanish!) 
  6. They showed the Founders were not orthodox Protestant Christians, and more besides. This "NRA" were a Quixotic group, and after their Congressional failure, they faded quickly away.
Here's how the National Reform Association would have rewritten the Constitution's Preamble:
We the People of the United States, [humbly acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among the nations, his (sic) revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government,] and in order to form a more perfect union...".

I like it. For myself, I might have had it a bit more general: "We the People of the United States, recognizing the will and order of the Lord God in all life and all human endeavor, and founding our government on the will of the free people of these states in conformity with moral commandments God has revealed to the nations over the millennia, and in order to form a more perfect union...".

Law, morality, cannot be decided on public opinion, which is changeable and excitable. But of course any such addition would have limited the powers of the ambitious bandits who ran the country during the famous "Gilded Age" of Robber Barons! A first-class ticket on the Titanic in 1912 would cost $50,000 in today's money. Only Robber Barons and their progeny could have afforded that! Had such a wording been proposed back in 1787, it would also have certainly limited the ambitions of the Southern slave owners, too, and anyone wanting to move West and displace the Indians, as we today are being displaced by unchecked immigration.
  • Curiously enough, a Confederate named James Henley Thornwell had earlier proposed something similar to the Confederate Constitution. Yet true Democrat that he was, he also defended slavery as the bulwark of Christendom! (Those Democrats. Once they get an idea, they keep with it! They just change the nomenclature a bit; i.e. "slaves" to "sharecroppers" to "asphalt plantations".) 
The animating idea behind the National Reform Association is what the Catholic Church calls the 'social kingship' of Christ, i.e., as one author put it, "...The great Christian corollary of Greek wisdom concerning the State as a moral totality oriented to the eternal destiny of man as an ensouled being." That notion served as a foundation for medieval governments and for the quite different "Divine Right of Kings" of the 17th and 18th centuries. A bastardized atheistic form of it exists in Communism. The basic idea is that government (city state, medieval republic, modern parliamentary) has a moral duty to encourage and instill morality in the demos, the people. If the morality is traditional Christian morality, peachy. If it is Marxist atheistic man-as-economic-animal morality, then that's the Gulag Archipelago. But government by definition itself must be moral and encourage morality. After all, ethics, morality, the human free-will ability to chose right or wrong is central to humanity and one of things that separate us from the animals. We can't just chuck it. The U.S. Constitution chucked it. (Or more precisely, it assumed it as a given, but provided NOTHING in the way toward defending or reinforcing it, or even recognizing its existence.)

By that I mean, the political theory contra to a God-centered state was the "Enlightenment Liberalism" of John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, etc. It denied all that state-and-morality stuff that went back to Hammurabi and postulated a governing system ignoring – via totally privatizing – both religion and morality. That's what the U.S. was built on, but it had not been what the Colonies had been built on. The colonies would not have been planted and survived had they been built on that. It's an empty suit of an idea. General Sherman (of whom someday I'm composing an alternative history when he uses his Army he led through Georgia to seize Washington and make himself an American Caesar) famously summed up "popular government" when he said, "Vox populi, vox humbug" (i.e., the modern 'B.S.')

Chesterton had wisely observed about the modern world that it was living off its Catholic capital laid up over a millennium. The early U.S. was living off its Anglican Church/Calvinist public morality capital. But that bank is empty. Hence, Founder John Adams, without a touch of irony, famously said that "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." (John Adams to the Massachusetts's Militia 11 October 1798) Yeah, Johnny boy, but what about when American leaders were no longer moral or religious people?

Well, today, we are governed (and controlled by media and entertainment and academic industries) of utterly immoral – and I mean utterly – reprobate, depraved, technically insane – total perverted slime bastards. What could go wrong?
  • Covid, for one thing. Two years of national lockdowns. Forced vaccinations of an experimental therapy and/or not properly tested drug protocols. Democrat governors (like New York's Cuomo) sending sick individuals to convalesce within Old Folks homes, which killed off the elderly like DDT killed off song birds.
  • Crazy carnal madness, for another. It is as though some deranged psychotic and puerile sex-on-the-brain teenager is living out his darkest fantasies across the nation. Because sex is addictive, like drugs, one just can't stay at a low level, (in drugs, like using pot upon occasion), but one has to get ever worse and worse, go ever further for a "fix". Honestly, who can live in such a nation? You can't raise kids in it. An example: how can anyone bear to live in much of San Francisco? I myself once saw a sea of bums in Bolivar Square, urinated and defecating en masse around the proud equestrian statue of hero. And that was years ago! Sex without restraint leads to carnal congress on the sidewalks and in the gutters, and fecal matter covering the streets.
So, as a result of the above, the lawless, illegal "installed" Biden Regime moves to get us in a war with Russia though the Europeans are scared to death of this and are trying to backtrack as is Germany's chancellor. A war with Russia is simply jaw-dropping insane. And then there's the manufactured famine that is coming. Hundreds of millions might die, and why? Because of Global Warming! Something that's a fraud and proven to be a fraud over and over and over.

Look, the majority of Congress and all of the Biden Regime need to be immediately arrested and locked up for even thinking of instigating a war with Russia. They should be locked up for sending billions to Ukraine in a war we have no national interest in. They should be locked up for stealing the 2020 election, in any case, and for ceaselessly breaking the law since. But of course the modern U.S. government is made up of greedy corruptokrats who want total control of the Ukraine in order to rape its natural and human resources (and develop weapons labs far from Congressional oversight), and they're aiming for "regime change" in Russia to do the same to that nation. Our elites grow as wealthy as Midas on such tax-payer largess. The Biden Family is worth today hundreds of millions, with Joe himself officially worth about $10 million (that's officially). The Chinese have been paying them top dollars to be traitors for decades. (The Clintons garnered Chinese money, as well.)

Had I known I could have gotten into Congress, snoozed through 40 years of Congressional hearings, and ended up a multi-multimillionaire....! The Obamas have a fortune of some $70 million, with potentially over $200-300 million considering various contracts and offers. And Barack Obama never had a real job – or even a real education! As for the absolute Kleptocat Clintons, I'll leave it to your imaginations how wealthy those dirtbags are. And the same could be said of all these political hacks, mental cretins, and Hell fodder of the formally corrupt politicians who "run" the American government by "running the nation itself into the ground".

On top of all that, the U.S. is trying to impose its sexual "dismorality" on the world. It's as though Sodom had a foreign policy. We've been offering foreign aid tied to homosexual, tranny, and sex-change education and Satan himself only knows what else, trying to impose this cretinous, imbecilic adolescent carnal dementia on the U.S. military. Gee, this has NOT gone over well in Latin America and other more traditional-minded nations. (We all need to learn to say, "I'm not part of your sexual dementia cult! Leave me alone!")

And let's not forget the Biden Regime's open borders. Partly it is pure population replacement, an insidious evil. But really it is about re-establishing slavery. See Sam Faddis' detailed report from April on what is really going on. Like I wrote above: Democrats! They've never abandoned either racism or slavery. On social media, they even get away with using the "N-word" about Clarence Thomas. 

So, friends, this Fourth of July, we should be thankful for the Dobb's decision, yes, yet here we are on the verge of world war raged by Kleptocrats for WEF NeoNazi eugenicists and BigPharma/BigBusiness Global would-be dictators, while "Sodomizing" our own people as we get ready to replace them completely. I thought I held citizenship in the U.S., not Sodom or Guatemala. More fool I.

             An Préachán