So hey, the Irish like their whiskey and the Chinese sure do love their genocide. No biggie!

Say, didn’t the Nazis just have different cultural norms?

Man, China is really getting its money’s worth, huh?

Here’s the thing. If you don’t believe that our rights comes from God in a very real and definite way you must believe that human rights are simply a social construct and you can make it all up as you go along. Part of that thinking is that good and evil are simply social constructs as well.

2021 just got so much scarier.

This is the most confused I’ve been since the last time Sean Penn said anything about…well, anything.

So, in light of the fact that many evangelicals supported Trump, even through double impeachment attempts, actor Sean Penn was obviously displeased with Christians in general. But his comments lead me to believe that if his understanding of the religious world is similar to his understanding of politics, he should be completely ignored.

“Evangelical leaders should themselves be impeached by the Vatican if they themselves don’t follow Nikki Haley’s lead & clearly state they should not have followed Satin into the bowels of hell,” Penn tweetedFriday. “But, perhaps they are too busy at sex parties.”

What the what? Evangelical leaders should be impeached by the Vatican? Impeached? By the Vatican? Uh, Sean, there was this little thing called The Reformation a few centuries ago. I’m not a big fan of how it turned out but it’s in all the history books. Check one out. But the evangelicals and the Vatican don’t really talk all that much to one another.

And impeach? What?

And then, I’m sorry I have to bring this up. Satin? Really.

As for the Vatican sex parties, well, sadly, that’s probably true so you’ve got me there but to be fair you lost me on Satin.

Here’s the thing. Sometimes when conservatives tell actors or athletes not to opine on larger issues in public it might just be that they’re trying to protect you from looking like a fool. It’s too late for Sean Penn but maybe others will heed that good advice.

I agree completely but Biden won’t. Not just because it helps him politically to identify as Catholic but also because it hurts those who oppose him politically.

And as long as the media can promote Biden as a devout Catholic and portray faithful Catholics who stand against abortion or say there are only two genders as dangerous radical outliers. They can be set apart from a more inclusive Catholicism. Once faithful Catholics can be demonized, then they can be silenced with the help of their friends in Big Tech.

As Abp. Naumann correctly points out the bishops have a responsibility to publicly correct Biden. However, the vast majority of them don’t. Whether they like what he’s saying and doing or they refuse to act through plain cowardice, hardly matters. It has the same effect.

The argument brought into online media is progressives insisting that God loves everyone as if that were a point of contention. That’s where they want to play this game. They want their side to be the side of love and inclusivity while we will always be defined in the media as strident or traditional, both of which are bad words to modern elite.

They point and demonize. That’s what they do. Why? Because it’s worked for them. And they will continue doing so. They point, demonize, and then silence.

This is why blogging and podcasts and radio are so important right now. We must find avenues where we are not at their mercy. We will be discussing more about how to do this in the near future. Stay tuned…

“Mr. Sicknick, 42, an officer for the Capitol Police, died on Thursday from brain injuries he sustained after Trump loyalists who overtook the complex struck him in the dead with a fire extinguisher, according to two law enforcement officials.”

What they are saying now:

In a quiet but stunning correction, the New York Times backed away from its original report that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by a Trump supporter wielding a fire extinguisher during the January 6 melee at the Capitol building. Shortly after American Greatness published my column Friday that showed how the Times gradually was backpedaling on its January 8 bombshell, the paper posted this caveat:

UPDATE: New information has emerged regarding the death of the Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick that questions the initial cause of his death provided by officials close to the Capitol Police.

What they are saying now.

The paper continued to revise its story within the body of the original January 8 story: “Law enforcement officials initially said Mr. Sicknick was struck with a fire extinguisher, but weeks later, police sources and investigators were at odds over whether he was hit. Medical experts have said he did not die of blunt force trauma, according to one law enforcement official.”

American Greatness

Think about how they used this lie, and that is what it is, to further divided this country while they threaten us with mandatory unity. So much of the history of these times will be about the big lies, if there is anyone honest left to write it.

It’s  true. Sure it may leave some details out but I have no doubt that it’s true.

Some say the word “miracle” is overused. Not me. I don’t think it’s used enough. Not nearly.

To me, sunrises and gravity are hardly surprising but miraculous nonetheless. By naming things, we too often believe we own it. It is ours now. Not God’s anymore. We’ve labeled gravity a law. We’ve named radio waves. We too casually classify God’s handiwork as science. But there are miracles all around us. The choice  is ours as to whether we  see them or not.

I know how children are made but that doesn’t make them less miraculous. Acceptance of miracles is a willingness to look past the thing-ness of everything and see God.

One of God’s great gifts to us is reason. But sometimes we use our reason to block God’s grace. We refuse to see  God’s work.

The most important question, I believe, is whether we’re willing to acknowledge the miracles around us.

Today is the  Feast Day for Our Lady of Lourdes. Here are two wild reactions to the miracles at Lourdes by two famous people: Novelist Emile Zola, who was nominated  for the  Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901 and 1902, and Scientist Alexis Carrel, who won  the Nobel Prize for Science  in 1912.

Carrel was an avowed atheist whose work in vascular surgery landed him on the cover of Time Magazine. He  was the toast of the town.  But Carrel had a secret. He’d witnessed a miracle in Lourdes on May 28, 1902 when he met Marie Bailly, a young woman dying of tuberculosis on her way to Lourdes. Carrel diagnosed the woman himself. But upon having the waters from Lourdes poured on her abdomen Bailly was cured.

Bailly joined the Sisters of Charity and spent her life caring for the sick. But Carrel’s atheistic naturalistic  mindset refused to accept the possibility of a miracle. He was a eugenics theorist with no use for God. In 1935, Carrel even published a best-selling book advocating enforced eugenics that even complimented The Third Reich.

But Carrel couldn’t quite shake what he saw and returned to Lourdes again and again. On another trip to Lourdes Carrel saw an 18 month old child regain his sight.

Finally, after years of running from the miraculous, Carrel finally received the sacraments of the Church and died shortly after. He even wrote a book about his experience at Lourdes  which was published posthumously. The man  ran  from  grace his entire life but shortly before his death, he accepted it and became a  Catholic.

The French novelist Emile Zola, on the other hand, met a sickly woman at Lourdes who was cured. Zola, however, refused to believe what he’d seen. He chalked it up to psychosomatic illnesses. But it weighed  on his mind. He even wrote about a novel about his experience in Lourdes but in the book the character that the woman who was healed was based on died. Asked why he killed the character in his book even though he knew the woman yet lived, he said, “I don’t believe in miracles. Even if all the sick in Lourdes were cured in one moment I would not believe in them.”

We either see them or we don’t. Miracles are always there however. Miracles surround us. You don’t even have to look very hard. Reason  should not block faith but  exist along with it. God wants to be recognized by us. The rest is up to us.

Tolerance.

Actress Gina  Carano of the Mandalorian  warned about intolerance of others with a different  political point of view. She was immediately fired.

The Wrap: 

Gina Carano has been dropped from “The Mandalorian” after the actress posted comments Lucasfilm said it considers “abhorrent” on her social media.

The former MMA fighter played Cara Dune on the series for the first two seasons of the hit Disney+ show.

“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable,” said a Lucasfilm spokesperson in a statement to TheWrap.

Carano came under fire on Wednesday as the hashtag #FireGinaCarano trended over an Instagram post comparing being Republican today to being Jewish during Nazi Germany.

“Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views,” wrote Carano.

He called me in for a sit-down meeting to interrogate and berate me regarding a rosary tattoo I got to help me feel more spiritually grounded in an increasingly volatile work climate that affected me physically.

Joss intentionally refused multiple calls form my agents making it impossible to connect with him to tell him the news that I was pregnant. Finally, once Joss was apprised of the situation, he requested a meeting with me. In that closed-door meeting, he asked me if I was ‘going to keep it’ and manipulatively weaponized my womanhood and faith against me. He proceeded to attack my character, mock my religious beliefs, accuse me of sabotaging the show, and then unceremoniously fired me the following season once I gave birth.

Sounds like a nice guy. 

Whedon is an out and proud atheist. For years he was one of the biggest directors in Hollywood, being responsible for multiple hit shows and movies, including the first Avengers movie. His fall from grace has been precipitous as actors and actresses feel empowered to tell the truth.

It seems to me that most of what the attorney general of New York is accusing pro-lifers of doing is already illegal. Pushing people? Hitting people? Slamming doors on their  hands?  I think that’s all illegal,  amiright? 

Why not simply prosecute them  with breaking already existing laws rather than asking the court to create new laws to keep  pro-lifers away from abortion clinics?  Ah.

That’s because the attorney general isn’t about enforcing the law even thought that’s literally her job. She’s advancing an agenda.  This is a ploy to silence pro-lifers.  Clearly,  BIG  ABORTION isn’t happy about the work all the amazing  and dedicated pro-life sidewalk counselors  are  doing and they’ve demanded it be stopped. So the Democrat Party goes  to work.

NBC New York:

New York state Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against two anti-abortion protesters, accusing them of repeated “obstructive, threatening, harassing, and violent activity” at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Manhattan.

In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, James said that Bevelyn Beatty and Edmee Chavannes repeatedly blocked patients’ entrance to the clinic in violation of access laws, and threatened violence against patients and staff.

James’ suit accuses Chavannes of making threats, and Beatty of physical acts including shoving and slapping patient escorts as well as slamming the hand of a staff worker in a door.

The women’s continued their behavior during the pandemic, without wearing masks, according to the lawsuit.

An email was sent to the women’s web site seeking comment.

The lawsuit asks for the women to be barred from protesting within a certain distance from the clinic entrance, as well as requiring them to stop using threats or physical intimidation.

This is not an actual depiction of NY AG Letitia James but I think there’s  something in the  spirit of  it that resembles her.

Virginia Heffernan of the Washington Post is confused and outraged because her Trump supporting neighbors shoveled her driveway. So, of course, she compares them to terrorists in a national publication. I mean, duh, what else would you do?

Oh, heck no. The Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway, who seem as devoted to the ex-president as you can get without being Q fans, just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job. 

How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?

Of course, on some level, I realize I owe them thanks — and, man, it really looks like the guy back-dragged the driveway like a pro — but how much thanks?

These neighbors are staunch partisans of blue lives, and there aren’t a lot of anything other than white lives in the neighborhood.

Oh, heck no. The Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway, who seem as devoted to the ex-president as you can get without being Q fans, just plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job. 

How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?

Of course, on some level, I realize I owe them thanks — and, man, it really looks like the guy back-dragged the driveway like a pro — but how much thanks?

These neighbors are staunch partisans of blue lives, and there aren’t a lot of anything other than white lives in the neighborhood.

Because every interaction between people must be viewed through the prism of politics. I mean, what else is there, right? It’s not like God loves everyone and instructed us to love one another. 

Then she compares them to terrorists. Seriously.

Hezbollah, the Shiite Islamist political party in Lebanon, also gives things away for free. The favors Hezbollah does for people in the cities Tyre and Sidon probably don’t involve snowplows, but, like other mafias, Hezbollah tends to its own — the Shiite sick, elderly and hungry. They offer protection and hospitality and win loyalty that way. And they also demand devotion to their brutal, us-versus-them anti-Sunni cause. Some of us are family, the favors say; the rest are infidels.

The same is true with Louis Farrakhan, who currently helms the Nation of Islam. While the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies him as a dangerous anti-Semite, much of his flock says he’s just a little screwy and unfailingly magnanimous. To them.

She’s not ready to forgive them.

I also can’t give my neighbors absolution; it’s not mine to give. Free driveway work, as nice as it is, is just not the same currency as justice and truth. To pretend it is would be to lie, and they probably aren’t looking for absolution anyway.

But I can offer a standing invitation to make amends. Not with a snowplow but by recognizing the truth about the Trump administration and, more important, by working for justice for all those whom the administration harmed. Only when we work shoulder to shoulder to repair the damage of the last four years will we even begin to dig out of this storm. 

So, if you’re willing  to think exactly like she does, she might just be willing to forgive you. My advice to this woman is get off Twitter. Don’t watch CNN.  

This brand of insanity is tearing our country apart. The politicization of every interaction is destroying us. God help us all.

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Then he admitted he lied to us for our own good and said that masks should essentially be mandatory.

Last week, Fauxi said double-masking was “common sense.” That’s right. Putting on two masks offers you double the protection. Yay! What about three Dr. Fauxi??!!!

They tell us to follow the science but the science seems all over the place and maybe its enjoying the limelight a little too much.

This guy lied to us, admitted he lied to us, and then made up science. And we’re supposed to keep listening to him?

Here’s the thing. People are. I ran to the store the other day to prepare for the snowpocalypse and saw a great number of people already double masking it, presumably at the behest of Fauxi. Me? I don’t trust anything the government has to say. If anyone in power says it or the media parrots it, that’s the start of a process for me. I’m checking the facts, I’m verifying. I believe NOTHING the media and the government tells me.