A video posted online Monday shows two men taking several pagan statues from a church near the Vatican and throwing them into the Tiber River.

The statues, which were reportedly depictions of “Pachamama,” or “Mother Earth,” had been paraded around the Vatican as part part of the controversial Amazon synod. The video below shows Pope Francis (whom many now believe is an antipope) participating in a “tree planting ceremony” with indigenous people of the Amazon and a Pachamama statue.

The Amazon Summit is seen by conservative Catholics as an effort to legitimize “Liberation Theology,” a combination of Marxism and Catholicism that is practiced in Central and South America. Liberation Theology was condemned by Pope John Paul II but Pope Francis (aka Antipope Bergoglio) is helping it make a comeback using the Amazon Summit as a pretext.

Because most of the roughly 400 tribes of the Amazon engage in some form of pagan worship, the Vatican’s working document respectfully refers to the pagan symbol “Mother Earth” seven times, Church Militant reported:

For example, “The aggression towards this vital zone (Amazon) of Mother Earth and its inhabitants threatens their subsistence, their culture and their spirituality.”
Again, the Amazon people have the right to health and to “live healthily,” which means harmony “with what Mother Earth offers us.”
Further, “It is necessary to grasp what the Spirit of the Lord has taught these peoples throughout the centuries: faith in the God Father-Mother Creator; communion and harmony with the earth; … the wisdom of civilizations going back thousands of years … the living relationship with nature and “Mother Earth.”
Almost every time the term “Mother Earth” appears, it appears just like that, in quotation marks.

Pachamama (or Mother Earth) is an Andean fertility goddess who is considered an ever-present and independent deity in Inca mythology.  The involvement of this naked pagan symbol at a Catholic synod has caused much consternation and confusion among faithful Catholics clergy and laymen.

Cardinal Gerhard Müller, for instance, slammed the document in a recent interview, saying: “‘Mother Earth’: but this is a pagan expression. The earth comes from God and our mother in faith is the Church.”

Catholic priest, author, blogger Father John Longnecker explained why the Vatican’s use of the Pachamama statues is problematic.

An authentic Catholic image is the representation of a real person who, by God’s grace, has become remade into Christ’s likeness. The saint has become an image of the unseen God.

A pagan image is not a real person. A pagan image is an idol. It is either a representation of a demon or it is a symbol of some sort of spirit or demigod (which is a nice name for a demon).

Even if the Amazonian female statue is nothing more than a symbol, we don’t venerate symbols. We have symbols in church. The Chi-Rho is a symbol. The triangle in three circles is a symbol. The Lamb of God is a symbol, but we don’t venerate symbols. We don’t carry them around in processions. We don’t light candles in front of symbols. We don’t put symbols in the middle of prayer circles and bow down before them.

Perhaps in an effort to de-controversialize the pagan statues gracing the Vatican Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina, some initially characterized them as images of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but a Vatican spokesmen denied that, calling them merely symbols of “life.”

“It is not the Virgin Mary, who said it is the Virgin Mary?… It is an indigenous woman who represents life,” explained Fr Giacomo Costa, a synod spokesman, told a press conference.

Paolo Ruffini, the Vatican’s chief communications officer, said it was merely “a statue that represents life; that’s it”.

Some fed up individuals took matters into their own hands Monday morning, removing the Pachamama statues from the church before placing them on the edge of the Ponte Sant’Angelo and pushing them into the river below.

Inside the church, a man is seen entering a side chapel and then leaving with a figure. The two people then exit the church and the video shows them carrying five of the carved images of the woman toward Castel Sant’Angelo. The men throw the figures from the side of the Sant’Angelo bridge into the Tiber River.

No faces are shown and the video was uploaded to YouTube under an anonymous account.

As of this publication, the video had amassed nearly 56,000 views.

A dramatic version of the action was released with this statement from the heroic perpetrators.

This was done for only one reason:

Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, His blessed Mother, and everybody who follows Christ, are being attacked by members of our own Church.
We do not accept this! We do not longer stay silent! We start to act NOW!

Because we love humanity, we can not accept that people of a certain region should not get baptised and therefore are being denied entrance into heaven.

It is our duty to follow the words of God like our holy Mother did.

There is no second way of salvation.

Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat!

The following is another missive from my friend in Washington, Reeko:

There are copy editors already prepping headlines for November which will read something like this:
“RUSSIANS HACKED US ELECTION!”
“PUTIN ELECTS TRUMP!”
“DEM LAWYERS FILE LAWSUIT DEMANDING RECOUNT WITHOUT RUSSIAN VOTES!”
Etc. ad nauseam…

Why? Because the coming landslide of Trump will be of such epic size that no self-respecting Democrat would ever think that they were that many more legal and valid voters out-voting their built-in fraud and bias that have consistently elected progressive after progressive for decades.

But, for those and similar headlines, urging the massive public sentiment and anger they are designed to foment to work, some sleight-of-hand, voo-doo-govern-media groundwork has to be done first. And it is.

Since Trump is running up numbers in demographics like no other Republican has in over 40 years, those with the most to lose from a Trump presidency are scared to death. And that is only IF (big “if) Hillary even makes it through the debates and all the way to election day. I personally still don’t think she will make it. There are already DNC party apparatchiks scheming on a viable Plan B.

In the meantime, the progressive “machine” is prepping the electoral altercation that is about to be inflicted, ie: a Trump election day blowout of epic proportions.

Since the political wing of the FBI is fully cooperating, with too many instances to cite, suspicions are starting to appear even among career FBI folks, and – you can take this as it comes from sources – that these suspicions are likely valid in almost all of them. Coercion and subversion of our laws by those who were supposed to be enforcing them will not sit quite right for long. Yet, now comes this….

In order to substantiate the charge that the coming election was “stolen” from Hillary and the American electorate, progressives and their enablers must lay the groundwork for a very real challenge to the few on-line voter rolls and verification systems. This is not conspiracy theory, this is actually happening. Now. Right now. And it looks something like this:

1. First, the political arm of the FBI accidentally leaks a seemingly alarming “flash” report of “possible” foreign hackers in a couple of state’s voter registration systems. They leak this “flash” directly to one of the largest online govern-media leftist news groups that there is: Yahoo News.

2. The true believers at Yahoo News do their best work by reporting on the FBI accidental leak, except that somehow, Yahoo News infers throughout their report that those evil Russians are behind such a hacking breach.

3. Right on cue, Harry Reid and other leading Democrats start calling for FBI investigations, with their Democrat accomplices at the New York Times bellowing this ACTUAL HEADLINE:

“Harry Reid Cites Evidence of Russian Tampering in U.S. Vote, and Seeks F.B.I. Inquiry”

4. Well obviously to those who never question the govern-media, Trump’s campaign staffers who had any connection to any Russian businesses at all – ever – are now all guilty as sin of “rigging” (using Trump’s word for it!) our voting system. Rigged elections! In America! Not that there was any of that in any Dem primary or anything… Superdelegate? What’s that?

5. And there it is… As of this writing, the evil deeds and evil seeds have been done and sown. As Rush Limbaugh has said for over 20 years, it ain’t the facts that matter… it is only the allegations that matter. Facts be damned – like “Russian” hackers (instead of North Koreans this time!) the facts will not matter to the masses. Only the headlines and the agit-prop aimed at the Molotov cocktail throwers, the damage will be intentional.

Meanwhile, there will be no stopping the coming Trump-Pence landslide. Unfortunately that means Dems are going to spin lies like a ceiling fan about the results. That will include an army of lawyers who are already typing up legal challenges alluding to Russian hacking of voter rolls.  What can anybody do? The masses don’t understand that even if voter rolls were hacked – by anybody – voter rolls do not equal votes!

reeko forsazh

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As always, the contents of this post do not necessarily reflect the thinking of your humble blogress. My own thinking, actually,  is that Trump is poised to lose big in November, unless something major comes out to derail Hillary’s campaign. Julian Assange has said that Wikileaks has more docs on Hillary that the public will find interesting — but not necessarily interesting enough to torpedo her election chances. Frankly, I’m not hopeful. Emailgate should have done her in, but the wildcard (FBI Director Comey) showed us which team he’s playing for back in July. All hope evaporated when the so-called “straight arrow Republican” declined to recommend indictment for Hillary when they had her dead to rights. The fix is in, folks. Republicans — even Trumpians — don’t do well when fixes are in.

Let us know what you think in the comments.

If this doesn’t get your foot to tappin’, there’s something wrong with your foot:

It’s official.

The family of Ahmed Mohamed (aka “Clock-Boy”) the high school freshman who made international headlines after being arrested for bringing a suspicious looking “homemade clock” to school, filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the Irving Independent School District and the City of Irving.

Irving ISD officials confirmed the lawsuit to WFAA News 8:

“Legal counsel for Irving ISD has confirmed that the school district was named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed today in Dallas federal court by attorneys for a former Irving ISD student. As with any legal matter of this nature, attorneys for the school district will review the filing and respond as appropriate. Irving ISD continues to deny violating the student’s rights and will respond to claims in accordance with court rules. Because this matter is now in litigation, Irving ISD officials will have no further comment at this time. Irving ISD employees are focused on welcoming 35,000 students for the 2016-2017 academic year and doing everything possible to ensure each student is achieving his or her maximum potential.”

The lawsuit claims the Ahmed”s civil rights were violated after school officials mistook his clock for a bomb and that his  “wrongful interrogation” was due to his race.

The family is seeking $15 million in damages and an apology from district officials.

The city of Irving said it welcomed the opportunity to let all the facts to be revealed in a statement Monday.

“The city of Irving is prepared to vigorously defend itself and the justifiable actions it took in this matter. The legal process will allow all facts to be revealed, and the city welcomes that opportunity. The city of Irving’s top priority is to ensure the safety and security of its children and the entire community. The city will continue to take its duty and responsibility to serve and protect the public seriously.”

There are reasons the city of Irving is looking forward to being able to tell their side of the story in court.

For one thing, it’s not true that school officials “mistook his clock for a bomb.”  They mistook it for a “hoax bomb.” There’s a difference.  The contraption — which took a minimal amount of effort and about half a minute to assemble– appeared to school officials and police to have been specifically designed to look like a briefcase bomb and cause alarm.

An electronics enthusiast on YouTube last year demonstrated how much effort went into Mohamed’s “invention.”

Last September during an interview with Glenn Beck, Irving Texas Mayor Beth Van Duyne revealed that the family of Ahmed Mohammed not only repeatedly refused to meet with city officials but refused to sign a school release form that would have explained the school and police’s side of the story.

Instead, the family held a press conference in their front yard flanked by CAIR lawyers, basking in the media attention. The president complimented the fourteen year old “wiz kid” on Twitter and invited him to the White House. The young hoaxter was feted by celebrities, given lavish gifts by big corporations,  and went on a world tour in October that included a chummy visit with the evil, genocidal, war criminal President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan. Clock-Boy was able to meet with Obama later that month at the White House Astronomy Night. While he was in Washington DC, Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, called for a new amendment to the US Constitution, presumably to end the kind of cruel ethic profiling his son had suffered.

Here, Clock-Boy recounts to the sympathetic media all the damages he’s suffered due to the school’s actions.

Last October Mayor Van Duyne said she was “shocked” when she saw the president’s tweet to Ahmed Mohammed, complimenting him on his “cool clock.”

She said “it seems to be an underlying habit that he is going to second guess police officers without any kind of information.”

She later noted that the president had tweeted about the case and invited Ahmed to the White House before the pictures of the clock were even publicly available. Obama made no attempt to contact her office before making public comments in support of the Muslim teen.

The mayor also said: “I now have our police chief who is a wonderful, wonderful man, a family man, a churchgoing man, and I now have our police officers as well as a number of teachers, school administrators, receiving death threats as a direct result of this. It is unfortunate, and it has got to stop.”

“As a juvenile, they can not release those records. The school district, a number of times, has asked the family, to release the records, so that you can have the balanced story out there. The family is ignoring the request from the ISD.”

Van Duyne told Beck that if the records were available it would “help to describe why it progressed as it did.”

Well, the records should now be available in court– and they’re going to tell an interesting backstory about this family. Sometimes “discovery” can be a bitch.

Via Reeko, who is pretty sure he knows who it’s going to be:

Mike Pence brings nothing to the Trump ticket. Virtually nobody outside of Indiana knows who he is. From all accounts he is a wonderful Governor and might’ve made in other circumstances, a wonderful dream ticket. but not 2016. Donald Trump already won the Indiana primary, so in business terms, Mike Pence doesn’t bring anything to the Art Of The Deal.

The rest of the field of VP candidates, that are being so-called “vetted” are not in my opinion, actually being vetted for VP. Maybe cabinet positions, but not VP. Trump knows what he has to do, and just like when he released his short-list of SCOTUS nominees, with some heavy-hitters on it, he received immediate cheers from conservatives and TEA Party types all over. Bravo! But remember how Trump did that. He is doing the same thing for building his future cabinet. AND most importantly, he already has told us who he wants…

Now as to Cruz’s hurt feelings and hesitance. that is natural, and again, IMO, Trump is trying to show Cruz that he is a very serious and conservative-oriented about his choices. (the term “conservative” may need to be refined in this new age of Trump – but that can be discussed later at more length)  here is the kicker though, and this is very, very important: Texas is in play this November. most people I tell that to are stunned and even ridicule me for it, but here are the facts…

Texas is currently listed even by RCP as only slightly pink, leaning Trump. but what the RCP averages don’t take into consideration is the real politics of the Texas electorate. although a slightly healthy divide between Dems and Republicans, those GOPers are divided into roughly three evenly distributed groups: 1 – pro-Cruz; 2 – middle road pro-Trump; and 3 – the Never-Trumpers. that last group is – again IMO – by far one of the most influential in the entire country. And they are extremely diehard anti-Trumpists. They will either not vote, vote Hillary, vote Gary Johnson, or even write in Obama (again!) and no, I’m not joking. without Cruz or even Perry as his VP, Trump can forget about taking Texas in November. yes, it is that serious.

And most importantly, Cruz knows it. right now, he is in what we call the Catbird’s Seat. In fact, he knows he marshals a very large contingent of not only supporters, but delegates for the convention. Cruz also knows that the GOPe Never-Trumpers will never, never, never allow him to finagle, schmooze, cajole, or outright steal the nomination away from Trump. and that is even if Cruz were so disposed to do so. I don’t think he is. I think he is an upright, honest, and forthright kind of guy. But his supporters and delegates are another story altogether….

And before anybody gets their knickers in a wad, yes, I did vote for Cruz in the primary. why? Because I called the primary results well over a year ago: Trump with a massive delegate count followed by ONLY one second place finishing strong – Ted Cruz. I voted for Cruz with that intent, to put him in a strong second place finish. Turns out that I was absolutely exact on that result.

The only guessing I can’t figure right now is, when is Trump going to announce? Actually, I think it already has been worked out between either Cruz or Perry and the Trump people. but the timing is everything, and I can’t figure out if it will be this week before the convention or immediately before or even during? Usually, I can also call the time of the VP announcement, but i can’t see it this time. It basically is up to Cruz to give the go ahead nod. And Cruz may be holding out hopes that there is some kind of delegate revolt or upset like the court case in Virginia that seems to be going ahead in favor of the Cruz delegate. It may be that Cruz is trying to eyeball what he thinks his delegates can scam or pull off. And yes, present company excepted of course *(would never accuse you of anything devious at all!) but Cruz operatives are some of the most extreme I’ve ever encountered. They literally will try anything to win. Of course, they think they are doing it for “the country” but i seriously doubt that.

A Trump-Cruz 2016 ticket would be a guaranteed blow-out in November of at least 45 states. (although i still say about 47)  and u know what else?

The Democrats know it.

The media know it.

Trump knows it.

Cruz knows it.

Even the Bernouts know it, and yes a good percentage of them will vote for a Trump-Cruz ticket.

The only people who are living in complete denial and an alternate reality are the Never-Trumpers. so they leave the GOP like George Will? good riddance. buh bye!

This election will be about the Mike Rowe’s of the country – not about the Mitt Romneys.

This election will be between the Robertsons of Duck Dynasty and Caitlyn Jenner and the Kardashians.

The choices this election will determine if we as a country go with VHS or Betamax – and we already know how that turned out.

I will leave you with a morsel for those Cruzers who are whining that they will go all Libertarian-retard and vote Gary Johnson. Here is a paraphrased quote from one of the Libertarian demi-gods, Ludwig Von Mises who said:

“If you offer a man a cup of milk or a cup of cyanide, you are not offering him a choice of beverages. You are offering him a choice between life and death.”  KA – BOOM!

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*No Cruz operatives here, (not that he isn’t vastly more qualified than the presumptive nominee.) It’s just hard to fathom how Trump could possibly justify to the electorate a choice for VP, a guy he spent six months slurring as “Lyin’ Ted.” Not to mention the absurd conspiracy theory about his dad being involved with the Kennedy assassination. I don’t know how Trump pulls that off. I don’t know how Cruz swallows his pride and goes along with it. 

That said, following a meeting with Trump, Cruz did tell reporters he has agreed to speak at the RNC in a show of “unity.”

Meanwhile….Never Trump Movement Gears Up For Final Play To Stop Trump At Convention:

CLEVELAND, Ohio—Republican National Committee delegates determined to stop Donald Trump at the GOP Convention next week are in the final planning stages of their mission.

Several groups are fine-tuning various convention floor strategies that would allow delegates to vote their conscience on the first round of balloting, rather than being required to vote for the candidate who won their state contest.

Composed of various alliances who talk to one another on conference calls, email lists and text messages virtually every day, groups like Save Our Party, Delegates Unbound and Free the Delegates find themselves in the final home stretch this week as key RNC delegate committee meetings (platform, rules, credentials) convene before the GOP picks its nominee at the convention.

I’m not saying I’m for it or agin it. Trump did win fair and square and has a large and enthusiastic following. On the other hand — he’s a terrible candidate and a nincompoop who is not getting better at campaigning as time goes on. 

I honestly don’t think he’s going to pick up many Bernie supporters. The good news is, millennials are appalled by Hillary. The bad news is, (most) millennials are even more appalled by Trump.  

A solid conservative Republican candidate would be roundly beating damaged-goods Hillary in the polls right now — not trailing like Trump is. 

I predicted a year ago that Hillary wouldn’t make it to the finish line. EmailGate was THAT serious and the MSM wasn’t in the mood to give her a pass. By all rights she should be toast, right now. Her corruption has been exposed for all to see, and yet she hobbles on. The only reason she still viable is because the GOP’s candidate is profoundly awful, too.

What a fine mess we’re in.

Via Reeko, my friend in DC:

Orlando: it is not a Second Amendment problem. It is a First Amendment problem. Specifically, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment has correctly prohibited our government from deciding which religion is acceptable and which is not. Until now.

Unfortunately, our constitutional guardians have failed us. The politicians sworn to support, preserve, or protect our constitution have now allowed the following to be our current state of affairs: that Islamic Jihad is not recognized as either a tenet or doctrine of Islam. All of a sudden, our politicians are now certified theological experts in the matter. Either that or somebody made Islam our officially sanctioned religion, a religion which nobody is allowed to debate. Officially, the terms “Islamic Jihad” are not allowed to appear in any official document.

My question is, just when was the establishment clause overturned to allow this? Did I miss it?

A government that declares any tenet, belief, or practice of a religion to be the “true” version of that religion, is therefore choosing a side in that religion and that is undeniably prohibited by our constitution. Even if a government denounces any other tenet, belief, or practice of that same religion and declares those adherents to be practicing the “high-jacked” or corrupted version of that religion, then such a government has indeed inserted itself and sanctioned an established official religion.

Consider that our government is supposed to be prohibited from declaring that all Baptists are true Christians because they baptize by immersion in water, while all Presbyterians are untrue Christians because they do not. Or that all Protestants are true Christians and all Catholics are unholy idolaters. Wars have been fought and many people have died throughout history over such ecumenical differences. The beauty of our enlightened Constitution is that it forbids the official taking of sides in these internecine battles. The prohibition against establishing an official religion – or even an official doctrine within a religion – has always been cemented firmly between unduly preferring any tenet or belief of say, Catholic over Protestant, Atheist over Nativist, Jew over Gentile, or whatever. Until now apparently.

For example: when Obama and his enablers and apologists in both political parties state that the Islamic State (ISIS) isn’t Islam, or that Al Qaeda or any other Jihadic terrorist groups are those who have “perverted Islam” then that official statement would be a distinct and undeniable theological assessment. It also means that Islamic Jihad as a tenet of Islam would no longer be recognized as Islamic. All of the Imams in Islam can go to hell. Obama will by golly tell them what is or is not their true religion.

Think about the implications.

Are we, as a country, going to allow our government to promote and approve a tenet of any religion as the only officially sanctioned version of that religion? The Establishment Clause of the Constitution says no. When was that changed?

Some of the most spectacular failures in the Leftist-Progressive playbook of dirty tricks of how to win sympathetic media support – and ultimately elections, are now being exposed as nothing more than exaggerated lies.

Worse yet, they no longer work on the masses. Largely due to the internet, truth bombs have exploded all over the Left’s coveted wedge issues. The War On Women has been thoroughly debunked.

Global Warming has been outed as the hoax it always was.

Wall Street versus Main Street has now been co-opted by Occupy Wall Street, Bernie Sanders groupies, and of course their clueless accomplices in the Libertarian Party.

The whole Hands Up Don’t Shoot/Black Lives Matter/White Privilege meme is continuously squandered each and every Saturday night just in Chicago alone.

Speaking of racist wedge issues, that whole Anti-Immigrant-Refugee-So-You-Must-Be-Racist meme has also been blown sky high by a porous border aided and abetted by our own willful accomplices in DHS, ICE, Border Patrol, and various Courts, allowing an influx of illegal colonists, crime, disease, drugs, and umm, what was that other one? Oh yea, Islamic Jihad.

None of these wedge issues are working for the Leftists, even when ramped up to the max. Not to worry. When the Left gets hammered on issues and truths, they get desperate. Then they invent another issue. Only this time, “Look! Squirrel!” has nuts…

The Obama administration has long been planning a much anticipated full-frontal assault on any of the last remnants of any decency left in his fundamentally transformed abomination that was our nation under the rubric of diversity and inclusion. That may sound like hyperbole, but sadly it isn’t.

Obama’s transgender bathroom decree was just a hint of what is yet to come. June is scheduled to be LGBT/Gay Pride Month, which normally passes by as just a mild irritant to our collective moralities, but this year, something very different is about to happen in June.

Far and wide within our government the official memos and schedules relating to the various planned Pride events are slowly but steadily being released throughout federal agencies. It appears that the onslaught of decadence will mostly focus on military bases, but even if local and national media only depict these events even delicately, rest assured that the breadth, scope, and volume of the all-encompassing events will be thoroughly disgusting to the vast majority of Americans.

Any resistance to this onslaught of deviancy will be met with charges of homophobe, bigotry, fascist, etc… ad nauseam. Thus, a new wedge issue soon will be thrust in our collective faces by the Left – just in time for Election 2016 “The Summer of Love” edition.

While this issue may come just in time to supposedly help a flagging Democratic nominee gain sympathy with the electorate, some people might instead think it is too late to feign moral outrage. Most folks realize that as far as the LGBT issue is concerned, that camel’s nose is not just under the tent, but the entire camel herd is inside the tent, and We The People are outside in the desert with our heads firmly buried in the sand. The citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah would approve.

Besides parades, picnics, luncheons, conferences, Harvey Milk Days, homo soft porn posters, and mandatory classes and speeches, there is a whole slew of wanton promiscuous “pride” events that are about to be shocked into our collective consciousness. All this will be done under the cover of diversity and inclusion – excluding Judeo-Christian morals, whether you like it or not.

If you thought San Francisco’s past Gay Pride Parades weren’t that bad, then you probably haven’t been paying attention, nor have any clue, for example, what is public fisting, or what a bear scruff and his twink are all about.

CAUTION: Do not Google those images or words without a filter. I will not post a link here, so just be advised they are definitely Not Safe For Work!
All this will be coming to a military base this month. Even worse, you will see lots of LGBT military in (and out) of uniform participating in various events around the country, publicly doing things that used to make people barf and were actually illegal once upon a time.

For example, here is a typical memo sent to all recipients at a typical military base just last week: (Redaction of agency specifics were made for anonymity. Emphasis added.)

“Please distribute to all XXXXX Personnel
“XXXXXX-Advisory 16-XXXXX Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month

“Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month is observed every June.  The observance is a recognition of the impact lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history – locally, nationally, and internationally.

“XXXXX installations have planned and organized events to observe LGBT Pride Month.  Event information can be found here: https://XXXXX  Maximum participation and cooperation in special observance events is highly encouraged; workload permitting and with supervisor’s approval.  Contact your servicing Civilian Personnel Office for additional details.”

Normally, the whole Pride month just passes as a mild irritant, but not this year. It will be, by design, a complete in-your-face movement. The LGBT mafia now controls the military at all levels. Officially, Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell is now Shout-It-And-Get-Promoted/Disapprove-It-And-Get-Fired.

I personally have witnessed what used to be called “PDA”s (public display of affection – a no-no in the military) while in uniform of gay men and women, witnessed by ranking officers who dutifully looked away for fear of grimacing or otherwise becoming uncomfortable.

I once watched a Major waiting in a barber shop, as a young enlisted man was getting his haircut when his obvious husband (same last nametag) came up to him – while also in uniform – and giggled and held hands and then gave a passionate, tongue swallowing deep kiss before going to do the couple’s shopping errands. The poor Major simply turned his face away, trying to hide his disgust. When he saw that I was indeed watching him with a huge frown of disappointment, he meekly offered: “You have no idea how bad it is. Pretty soon they’ll demand we stand up and cheer if we want to keep our rank.” As disgusted as I was at the PDA, I felt so sorry for that Major and the others in the barbershop.

The fact is, in the military you don’t have to be LGBT in order to fully, openly and enthusiastically push their agenda. Any useful idiot can do that, and yes, those types will be fast-tracked all the way to the top.

This proven method of fish rotting from the head is now a concrete practice and was long ago made official in the guise of “affirmative action” – which itself has morphed into code words and terms such as “diversity” “inclusion” “historical significance” or “historical contributions” and are all the latest weasel words used by smart administrators.

My guess is, this June the LGBT mafia running the Department of Defense will release new uniform guidelines for cross-dressing General Officers. Tri-sexual bathrooms are already a foregone conclusion. Get ready to be disgusted.
-Reeko Forsazh

Lawmakers on the committee summoned Koskinen to answer accusations from the House Oversight panel that he failed to preserve documents Congress requested, and didn’t tell the full truth about Lois Lerner’s erased backup tapes, but the IRS chief will not be appearing at the hearing.

The IRS issued the following statement:

“When the committee announced this hearing, he was returning from China after meeting with tax administrators of 43 nations,” the statement reads. “The committee’s quick timetable left him without the time to fully prepare for Tuesday’s hearing. In addition, he also has been preparing for a previous commitment to appear before a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Wednesday.”

As most polls predicted, and I agreed, that Trump would get the GOP nomination, my further prediction was that he will pick either Cruz or Perry as VP, but that would eventually come around only after a brief pause to lick one’s wounds. At the very least, my guess is that Trump’s VP will be a Texan or somebody from another large electoral state to give him the lock on at least 45 states in the electoral. What that means is: no Gingrich, no Ryan, nor even Kasich, no Walker, or certainly not JEB! would be on the Trump short list. Although I did think for a while that it could be Rubio, now, not so much. Trump pretty much has Florida in the bag. So for what its worth, I still think it will be a Texan.

Have u seen Trump’s SCOTUS nominee list? I’m sure you have. IMO, for no other reason that list alone should
make all true conservatives vote for the Trump ticket. Remember, #neverHillary means Never Hillary Matters!

Now for a little fun. Here are my latest predictions:

1. Trump will win at least 45 states in November. Actually thought it would be 47 or 48, but a lot of very big hitters
from as long ago as the Reagan administration’s Art Laffer and Pat Buchanan are now saying at least 45, so I will go with that number also.

2. Hill/Bill will have a medical “problem” soon.

3. Another shocker, re: above number 2, … but so will Bernie.

4. Trump will also win in November with the most votes of any candidate in US history. It will be that historic.

5. Three major world events are happening this summer: first, the GOP convention followed almost immediately by the DNC convention, then a few weeks later the Rio Olympics. The GOP convention will be orchestrated and run by the premiere folks who Trump has used in the past to run major events like beauty pageants, sporting events, etc. only this time, the ratings will be through the roof – for all the good reasons. We are talking about the one major media/celebrity event of the century, and it will be so spectacular and over-the-top that from coast-to-coast and in flyover mid-America, from North to South from East to West and all over the world even, there will be a Trump media-bomb like no other in history. To say that it will be a big production isn’t strong enough… it will be yuuuge. Do not doubt that.

6. The second major event will be the disaster at the DNC convention in Philadelphia immediately after the GOP convention concludes. It will be Occupy Wall Street plus 1968 Chicago, times ten. The Clintonistas will want their revenge by then, and so will the Bernouts. Nobody has a clue who the DNC will actually put forward as the nominee to take on the mega-Trumpasaurus, but he/she will do so very reluctantly… knowing full well that they will fade into history as just another trivia factoid that nobody will remember. Yes, the DNC will come undone and the Democratic Party will implode on its own bloated ideological obesity, just as I predicted in my previous opinion piece.

7. The news legacy media will be reeling from the DNC disaster, and will be desperate to switch focus to anything
 – literally anything – other than the US presidential race. Ergo, no matter how bad the weather, infectious pandemics, crime, corruption, etc, at the Rio Olympics, it will be THE only story we will be seeing or hearing about for three weeks. Maybe longer if they can get the body count up. And no, that’s not a mis-type. Rio 2016 won’t be about the medal count. It will be about the body count. And I ain’t talking about the lurid media cronies in their exclusive reporting beachside, counting all the scantily clad Girls From Ipanema. No, unfortunately I’m talking about dead bodies.

8. And the worst prediction is the only thing that isn’t part of my political preview, yet remains the one thing that hovers over all humanity like a modern day bubonic plague: nuclear/bio/chemical/jihadic terrorism. It will happen. Soon. I don’t think it will be in the US, but could be. More likely it will be in a foreign port with US and allied-flagged vessels nearby. Rio 2016? No thanks. I ain’t buying that ticket.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee led by Rep. Jason Chaffetz is holding a hearing this morning titled, “White House narratives on the Iran Nuclear Deal” to examine the process by which the Obama administration negotiated the Nuke deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Obama’s Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was invited to appear before the committee, but late last night, the White House declined, citing Executive Privilege. (Which of course, WH spox Josh Earnest told reporters last week, would not be an issue.)

BACKGROUND:

• On July 14, 2015, Iran and the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, and Germany finalized the JCPOA, also known as the “Iran Nuclear Deal.”
  • The JCPOA is intended to ensure Iran’s nuclear program is used for purely peaceful purposes, in exchange for a broad lifting of sanctions.
  • President Obama asserts the JCPOA represented the most effective means to ensure Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon.
• Critics of the agreement expressed concerns that the extensive sanctions relief would give Iran additional resources to extend its influence in the region. Critics also assert the lifting of a U.N. prohibition on arms sales to Iran or arms exports by Iran, and on Iran’s development of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, will set the stage for Iran to emerge as a key regional actor.
• In an interview with David Samuels of the New York Times on May 5, Ben Rhodes discussed the process by which the White House presented the JCPOA to the public

 

WITNESSES AND TESTIMONIES

Name	Title	Organization	Panel	Document
Mr. Michael Rubin	Resident Scholar	The American Enterprise Institute	Document
Mr. Michael Doran	Senior Fellow	Hudson Institute	Document
Mr. John Hannah	Senior Counselor	Foundation for Defense of Democracies	Docume

SEE ALSO:

PJ Media: As Iran Scandal Deception Scandal Grows, GOP Senators Call for Obama Adviser’s Resignation

Rep. Randy Forbes (R., Va.) told the Washington Free Beacon that the classified details are currently being withheld by the Obama administration and it could be awhile before the American public gets a full accounting of the incident.

“I’ve had a full classified briefing” from military officials, Forbes told the Free Beacon. “It could be as long as a year before we actually get that released.”

Details of the abduction are likely to start an uproar in the nation and call into question the Obama administration’s handling of the incident, which many experts say violated international and maritime law.

“I think that when the details actually come out, most Americans are going to be kind of taken aback by the entire incident, both how Iran handled it and how we handled it,” Forbes disclosed. “I think that’s going to be huge cause for concern for most Americans. That’s why I’ve encouraged members of Congress to get that briefing so they do know exactly what did take place.”

 

Capt. Gary Leigh, the commanding officer of the riverine squadron at the time of the incident, was relieved of his duties last Thursday. He was the first officer to be publicly disciplined in the wake of the debacle which according to the Navy Times, “nearly scuttled the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal at the 11th hour.”

But it was worse than that for the Obama White House. It nearly scuttled the the president’s SOTU theme of America “leading the world toward shared peace and prosperity.”

According to New York Times reporter David Samuels, the president’s Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, was furious when his media toadies refused to suppress the story which had inconveniently happened on the day of the president’s State of the Union address.

“They can’t keep it a secret for two hours?” Rhodes told Samuels, exasperated at “the break in message discipline.”

Obama at least was disciplined. He went on to deliver his SOTU speech without mentioning the unwelcome distraction from his message.

The Obama administration went on to frame the entire situation as an example of their deftness at international diplomacy.

Essentially, the White House said, two American boats simultaneously broke down and floated into Iranian waters, at which point the IRG generously towed them to Farsi Island, provided the crew shelter, and then returned them. “Ten US Navy Sailors safely returned to US custody today, after departing Iran,” reported the US Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs Office. “There are no indications that the Sailors were harmed during their brief detention…The Navy will investigate the circumstances that led to the Sailors’ presence in Iran.”

Secretary of State John Kerry then added his praise for the Iranians:

I’m very pleased that our Sailors have been safely returned to US hands. As a former Sailor myself, I know the importance of naval presence around the world and the critical work being done by our Navy in the Gulf region. I’m proud of our young men and women in uniform and know how seriously they take their responsibilities to one another and to other mariners in distress.

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter then added his voice to the chorus of love for Iran:

I am pleased that ten US Navy sailors have departed Iran and are now back in US hands. I want to personally thank Secretary of State John Kerry for his diplomatic engagement with Iran to secure our sailors’ swift return. Around the world, the US Navy routinely provides assistance to foreign sailors in distress, and we appreciate the timely way in which this situation was resolved.

Vice President Joe Biden was even more glowing:

No, there was no apology, there was [nothing] to apologize for. When you have a problem with a boat, do you apologize the boat had a problem? No, and there was no looking for any apology. This was just standard nautical practice…The Iranians picked up both boats, as we have picked up Iranian boats that needed to be rescued [and then] released them like, you know, ordinary nations would do. That’s the way nations should deal with one another. That’s why it’s important to have channels open.

Now, of course, news is leaking out that these scoundrels were lying their asses off as usual. Rep. Forbes suggests that Iran’s treatment of the U.S. sailors “may have been much worse than what has been publicly reported.”

“I think clearly there were violations of international and maritime law that took place here,” Forbes said. “We [the United States] did almost nothing in response, in fact, to have Secretary [of State John] Kerry actually thank them for releasing our sailors after they way they captured them, I think was a slap in the sailors’ face.”

It’s like the Bergdahl debacle all over again, which as you remember began with a triumphant Rose Garden announcement of Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl’s glorious release from an Taliban prison (in exchange for five Taliban commanders) and ended with an order that he face a court-martial for his disgraceful  desertion.

There is just no end to the weak, craven, and dishonest behavior of this God-forsaken administration.

Joe was bitter because he has always worked hard and played by the rules, while illegal immigrants and welfare cheats make their living off of the American taxpayer.

He said that the first thing a head of the household with two kids making minimum wage does, is head over to the Social Security Administration.

“You get $400 a month in food-stamps,” he began. “That comes from me. He doesn’t earn it. It’s free. Then he goes and he gets a Section 8 house. Instead of paying $1,100 a month like I have to pay, he gets $900 paid by the government, tax free. Then he gets temporary cash assistance. He has 2 kids in school – that’s $300 a month as long as they’re in school. Then he gets another $1,000 a month in free Medicare (Medicaid) because he, his wife, his family get free insurance that I get to pay for, but he gets it for free. I guarantee his kids have ADHD so his kids get free Adderall that he and his wife can go out and sell.”

Joe said he knows construction workers who go to the doctor claiming to have a backache (when they’re not hurt) so they can get the Oxycodin which he says is worth $1 per milligram on the street. He added “that’s worth another $700 to $1,000 a month in cash.”

“That’s why we have a heroin epidemic,” Joe explained. “Because doctors are hooked on the Medicare just like the people are.”

He continued, “then at the end of the year they get an unearned income tax credit worth $2,500 per family member.”

He said it is impossible to get workers to come in and work for a decent wage when it’s more profitable to stay home and do nothing.

“These people don’t want to earn over a certain amount because they’ll lose subsidies,” Levin summed up.

Joe said he joined the military at age 16, served his country, broke his back twice and still managed to work his way up without ever taking a dime from the government. But it wasn’t easy. At one point he had to hitchhike to work. “Nobody helped me,” Joe seethed. Not that he would have accepted assistance from the government because that’s not how he says he was raised.

“I hate my government,” he added. “I’m angry.”

Joe said that it’s nearly impossible for businesses to make a profit today with all of the taxes and regulations they have to pay. “I’m out now,” he concluded. “I said to hell with it.”

Most conservatives support a “safety net” for people who temporarily fall on hard times or for whatever reason can’t (not won’t) help themselves. But cradle to grave dependency on government is not only unsustainable, it’s deeply immoral. It’s so very very wrong — not just because it adds to the debt and hurts the economy. It also hurts the people it is intended to help, turning them  into adult children with no shame, no work ethic and no sense of responsibility. The worst become violent street predators who wreak havoc on the peace and tranquility of peaceful communities.

What kind of person is proud of living his/her life totally dependent on government?

Meet “Lucy,” the 32 year old Welfare queen who called into a radio talk show in Austin Texas, a few years ago. Remember Lucy?

She gets $550.00 for rent $425.00 for food stamps, $150.00 for electric, free cell phone, $100.00 for water, and even Christmas presents for her three kids. “Why should I work?” she asked.  She’s married, but her husband rarely works. “He doesn’t really see the need for it”, she said.

“…To all you workers out there preaching morality about those of us who live on welfare… can you really blame us? I get to sit around all day, visit my friends, smoke weed.. and we are still gonna get paid, on time every month…”

She said “taxpayers are the fools.”

For the past seven plus years everything bad about the welfare system has skyrocketed.  (Of course, everything bad skyrockets under Obama.)

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“O Deus, ego amo te, O God I love Thee for Thyself…”

More about this outstanding group of nuns via CBS Sunday Morning:

The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, a secluded group of nuns living in the farmlands north of Kansas City, have become the unlikely rock stars of traditional classical music. Tracy Smith takes us on a first-ever look inside the place where it all happens.

I found this report somewhat moving:

James Rosen: Obama Administration ‘Unquestionably’ Engaged In Deception To Sell Iran Nuclear Deal:

SEE ALSO:

The Daily Mail: White House BRAGS about how it tricked reporters into cheerleading for Obama’s Iran nuclear deal by creating a media ‘echo chamber’

Belmont Club: The Men Who Would Be King

Washington Post: Why the Ben Rhodes profile in the New York Times Magazine is just gross

NY Post: White House admits it played us for fools to sell Iran deal

The Lid: Obama Adviser Ben Rhodes Explains: He’s The “Ventriloquist” To Mainstream Media’s Dummies

PJ Media: Meet the Flimflam Man Behind Obama’s Foreign Policy ‘Narrative’

WFB: Ben Rhodes, Liar

Ben Shapiro: Hillary Clinton Lies… A Lot:

Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight:

Bill Kristol: Romney ‘Thinking Seriously’ About A Third-Party Run:

Romanian hacker ‘Guccifer’ claims he is talking to FBI:

White House BRAGS about how it tricked reporters into cheerleading for Obama’s Iran nuclear deal by creating a media ‘echo chamber’

New York Mayor Bill De Blasio Calls For Chick-Fil-A Boycott:

Louder With Crowder: UMASS AND TRIGGLYPUFF! Austin Petersen, Dean Cain, and Andrew Klavan:

Colin Flaherty: Two White Sisters Victims of Black Violence and Murder Again:

Colin Flaherty: Cleveland Black Mob Targets Rich White People for Assault and Robbery:

Council News:

This week we were sad indeed to say goodbye to long time Council member Brent Parrish at The Right Planet.

Brent is taking a hiatus from blogging to concentrate on family and business concerns, and all of us wish him the best. And of course, as a plugged in member of the WoW community, we’ll look forward to hearing from from him in the future in our Forum,our inter-Council threads and perhaps, even an article as a non-council submission if he gets the bug to write again, which we certainly hope he will.

This means we currently have a vacancy on the Watcher’s Council, the oldest and most established blogging group in the ‘sphere. Any talented, interested parties should contact me directly by leaving a comment on any story on JoshuaPundit including your name, site name and e-mail info as well as anything else you wish to include. Needless to say,it won’t be published but I will respond promptly to your inquiry and tell you what’s involved.

So, let’s see what we have for you this week….

Council Submissions

• The Noisy Room – Trump’s Incoherent, Inconsistent, Russian-Loving Foreign Policy
• Puma By Design – Black Trump Supporter Calls Out Racist Protesters As Propaganda Victims
• Bookworm Room – The broken windows theory of public bathrooms and gender identity
• Fausta’s Blog – Cuba: The dotty old Brit and the NBC apologist
• Stately McDaniel Manor – The Freddie Gray Case, Update 33.7: The Ferguson Effect–Baltimore Version
• Joshuapundit–Indiana,The End Of The Beginning
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – North Korea’s EMP Threat
• The Glittering Eye –The American Experience 2016
• The Daley Gator – Your Self-Defense Story of the Day
• VA Right! – Cruz Moving to Suspend His Campaign With Indiana Loss Today? Here’s Why
• The Razor – Paypal’s Gay Rights Hypocrisy
• Nice Deb – Saturday Movie Matinee: The Triggering

Non-Council Submissions

• Victor Davis Hanson/NRO –Donald Trump, Postmodern Nihilist submitted by The Noisy Room
• Victor Davis Hanson – The Nihilism of Sanctuary Cities submitted by Puma By Design
• Terra Incognita–Endemic Hatred of Jews submitted by Bookworm Room
• Richard Fernandez/PJ Media – The Death Of A Nation submitted by Fausta’s Blog
• National Review –Something New Under The Political Sun submitted by Stately McDaniel Manor
• Roger L. Simon/PJ Media – The Presidency Is Trump’s to Lose—The Sequel submitted by JoshuaPundit
• War On The Rocks – The Catastrophic Success Of The U.S. Air force submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Aaron M. Renn/City Journal – Black Residents Matter submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Jihad Watch – Bangladesh: Muslims hurl bombs at home of Christian family submitted by VA Right!
• James E. Miller/Taki’s Magazine –America’s Thinning Cohesion submitted by The Razor
• Ilya Somin/WAPO –Victims of Communism Day submitted by Nice Deb
• Thomas Lifeson/American Thinker – It’s Trump. Get over it submitted by The Watcher
• The Algeimeiner – 13-Year-Old Israeli Girl Develops Satellite System for Producing Oxygen in Space submitted by The Watcher
• YNET – Trump: Israel should ‘keep going’ with settlements expansions submitted by The Watcher
• James Taranto/WSJ – The Upset in Indiana: A timely reminder of Mrs. Clinton’s weaknesssubmitted by The Watcher

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