Michael Shellenberger pro Gubernatore in Civitate Californiae

Michael Shellenberg

Amici, Americani et Compatriotae,

Michael Shellenberger is running as an Independent Candidate for Governor in the State of California on a primarily (almost exclusively) pro-nuclear power platform. There is an article at Atomic Insights on this:

Michael Shellenberger explains why he is running for governor of California – Part 3
That of course is laudable. But what is NOT mentioned is his position on the murder of pre-born babies in the womb and the sanctification of the sterile putrid filth of homosexual unions. No people who defy God's moral law by murdering pre-born babies and promoting sodomy and lesbianism can possibly have the virtue needed to obey man's regulations in the safe use of nuclear energy. Basically, if you cannot control what you do with your genitals - if you just have to titillate them and then abandon your responsibility for the consequences of said titillation - then you cannot by definition be trusted with the fires of creation which are nuclear energy.

Now Shellenberger's views on these more important issues - the intrinsic right to life from conception onward and the sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman - are not readily apparent in publicly available information to date. Indeed, his position on most other issues - illegal immigration, socialist health care, etc. - is unstated. However, he is associated with the usual liberal progressive feminist institutions such as Third Way, Breakthrough Institute and Generation Atomic, and liberal progressive feminism openly advocates and promotes evil. Therefore, for all of Michael Shellenberger's advocacy of safe, clean, economical nuclear energy, if he supports the murder of unborn babies and the sanctification of homosexual unions, then he is as wicked and as depraved as the current Governor, Jerry Brown, and he must be defeated, because moral issues always and everywhere trump prosperity issues. God Almighty is very clear about this:

2nd Chronicles 7:14 - And my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted, shall make supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for their most wicked ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.

Matthew 6:33 - Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Quomodo Trump Accidit?

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This one post being circulated in the public domain at Facebook explains how Trump "happened," and while it is anonymously addressed, its intended target is liberal progressive feminist eco-activists - Democrats by any other name. And for the record, I voted for Darrell Castle of the Constitution Party, NOT Donald Trump of the Republican Party.

Noli Initiare Violentiam

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Tucker Carlson of Fox News yesterday evening interviewed Jake Bittle, an English Major at the University of Chicago. This student advocated projectile vomit to protest against incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer who will be speaking at the University, and flipping cars over if President-elect Trump rejects the Paris Climate Change Accord. (ASIDE: One wonders if this student supports nuclear energy as a way to replace fossil fuel, or if he like most liberals is reflexively anti-fossil, anti-nuclear no matter what. END ASIDE) The video below speaks for itself.



Disillusioned young people like these fail to consider that ordinary American citizens in the heartland are listening to them throw their temper tantrums in public over the fact that their candidate did not win the Presidential election, and these citizens are often supporters of their Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Threatening their justly acquired property and by implication their families and their persons will one day be taken seriously. This is a dangerous and explosive combination.

Now for the record I believe in the principle of the non-initiation of force. I also believe in the principle that one has a right to defend his family, his justly acquired property and livelihood, and himself. Therefore, these young students need to beware lest the fires of hatred that they have stoked result in an explosion from the muzzle end of someone's firearm. God forbid that that should ever occur. But adult young people acting like spoiled rotten little brats will one reap what they have sown, and it won't be pretty.

Now also for the record - once again - I did NOT vote for Donald Trump whom I thought to be an unprincipled foul-mouthed playboy gambler bone-ignorant of the Constitution, NOR did I vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton who is a murderous pathological liar, and an unremitting advocate of the expansion of the infanticide of the unborn and the sanctification of the putrid filth of homosexual sodomy. Therefore, I voted for Darrell Castle of the Constitution Party because I thought that that party's platform was closest to Church teaching. However, Trump won and frankly I was relieved because no longer would the threat of Democrat incursion on religious liberty continue. And while Trump was NOT my choice, he WILL BE our President just as Barack Hussein Obama has been our President for the past eight years even though I vehemently opposed him for the same reasons that I opposed Hillary Clinton - abortion and homosexual marriage. Romans 13:1-7 is very clear, and St. Paul wrote this when Roman Emperors ruled the known world and were more evil than Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump combined together:

1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. 6 For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

So to all you millennial cry baby spoil brats out there, I say grow up. You lost. Too bad. We conservatives lost in 2008 and 2012, and we didn't overturn cars, nor burn buildings, nor threaten and beat on people with whom we disagreed. Move on and do something good for the Republic instead of pitching a childish fit that you didn't get your way. Help the poor. Care for the sick. Feed the hungry. Give drink to the thirsty. Do something good to take your mind off this failure. If you don't grow up and act like adults, then beware lest some foolhardy individual who takes the Second Amendment seriously shows you the discharge of the muzzle end of his rifle. I do NOT want that. I cannot imagine ANY Christian wants that. But God will let you reap what you are sowing. That's what St. Paul says - "Be not deceived, God is NOT mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap." So repent before it is too late. Give peace a chance as you liberals always say.

One last thing before I close. For those of us who are Christians, no matter who is President, Jesus Christ is King, Lord and Savior. Even if that witch Hillary Clinton had won to become our President (and yes, we would have had to respect her as such regardless of her personal evil), we still have the assurance that in the end God wins and justice will prevail. But for secular liberals, there is no God so they have to replace the God vacancy with Caesar - nanny government. And when Caesar turns out to be someone whom they don't want, then their whole world falls apart. Their god has failed them and thus their only recourse is a temper tantrum. Well, that's what happens when you have false gods. For Christians, whether Trump or Hillary is President, God is still on the Throne and His sovereign will cannot and will not be thwarted. He is love. He is Holy. He is Merciful. But the flip side of His mercy is His justice. Let us then beware lest His mercy for those whose persons and families and property are assaulted turns out to be His justice for those doing the assaulting. I have been on the receiving end of the Holy Spirit's baseball bat of "wake the heck up, get sober and act like an adult," and it doesn't feel good one bit.

Pro neque Donald Trump neque Hillaria Clinton Censui

Donald Trump
President-Elect of the United States

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As long time readers already know, I voted for neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton. Instead, I cast my vote for Ben Carson during the Republican Primary Election in my home state, and then for Darrell Castle of the Constitution Party in the General Election. I reviewed the platforms of the major parties: Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green and Constitution. I voted based on which platform I thought was closest to the teaching of Holy Mother Church. I did not vote based on which candidate was most popular or most likely to win. I also did not vote based on empty promises to serve either economic prosperity and national security, or social justice, the common good and planetary peace. The primary non-negotiable issues were these:

• No abortion
• No homosexual marriage
• No embryonic stem cell research
• No euthanasia
• No human cloning

Promises that politicians make to improve society so as to obviate the need of abortion or other such heinous crime meant nothing to me. Righteous and holiness, conversion and repentance come before, not after health and prosperity. Accusations of racism and homophobia and misogyny likewise meant nothing to me.

• My wife is Filipino and I Caucasian; we are both members of the human race. Differences in the melanin of our skin cells are accidents of birth, and differences in culture are accidents of where we were raised as children. 
• Some of my closest friends in the past and one roommate were homosexual. Several co-workers were likewise homosexual. My friendship with them has nothing to do with their sexual preference, nor does that change the fact that homosexual activity is as sinful as adultery and fornication.
• Feminism and being accused of misogyny likewise meant nothing to me; my favorite heroines include Judith of Biblical fame who decapitated evil Holofernes and St. Joan of Arc; the difference between femininity - true womanhood - and the androgyny of feminism is quite clear. I love women for I am married to one. 

Basically I tried to bear in mind what Pope Benedict XVI wrote in Sacramentum Caritatis:

Here it is important to consider what the Synod Fathers described as eucharistic consistency, a quality which our lives are objectively called to embody. Worship pleasing to God can never be a purely private matter, without consequences for our relationships with others: it demands a public witness to our faith. Evidently, this is true for all the baptized, yet it is especially incumbent upon those who, by virtue of their social or political position, must make decisions regarding fundamental values, such as respect for human life, its defence from conception to natural death, the family built upon marriage between a man and a woman, the freedom to educate one's children and the promotion of the common good in all its forms (230). These values are not negotiable. Consequently, Catholic politicians and legislators, conscious of their grave responsibility before society, must feel particularly bound, on the basis of a properly formed conscience, to introduce and support laws inspired by values grounded in human nature (231). There is an objective connection here with the Eucharist (cf. 1 Cor 11:27-29). Bishops are bound to reaffirm constantly these values as part of their responsibility to the flock entrusted to them (232)....

...As I have had occasion to say, it is not the proper task of the Church to engage in the political work of bringing about the most just society possible; nonetheless she cannot and must not remain on the sidelines in the struggle for justice. The Church "has to play her part through rational argument and she has to reawaken the spiritual energy without which justice, which always demands sacrifice, cannot prevail and prosper.

In a 2002 Doctrinal Note approved by Pope John Paul II called The Participation of Catholics in Political Life, Cardinal Ratzinger wrote “a well-formed Christian conscience does not permit one to vote for a political program or an individual law which contradicts the fundamental contents of faith and morals.” He explained:

When political activity comes up against moral principles that do not admit of exception, compromise or derogation, the Catholic commitment becomes more evident and laden with responsibility. In the face of fundamental and inalienable ethical demands, Christians must recognize that what is at stake is the essence of the moral law, which concerns the integral good of the human person. This is the case with laws concerning abortion and euthanasia (not to be confused with the decision to forgo extraordinary treatments, which is morally legitimate). Such laws must defend the basic right to life from conception to natural death. In the same way, it is necessary to recall the duty to respect and protect the rights of the human embryo. Analogously, the family needs to be safeguarded and promoted, based on monogamous marriage between a man and a woman, and protected in its unity and stability in the face of modern laws on divorce: in no way can other forms of cohabitation be placed on the same level as marriage, nor can they receive legal recognition as such. The same is true for the freedom of parents regarding the education of their children; it is an inalienable right recognized also by the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. In the same way, one must consider society’s protection of minors and freedom from modern forms of slavery (drug abuse and prostitution, for example). In addition, there is the right to religious freedom and the development of an economy that is at the service of the human person and of the common good, with respect for social justice, the principles of human solidarity and subsidiarity, according to which “the rights of all individuals, families, and organizations and their practical implementation must be acknowledged”. Finally, the question of peace must be mentioned. Certain pacifistic and ideological visions tend at times to secularize the value of peace, while, in other cases, there is the problem of summary ethical judgments which forget the complexity of the issues involved. Peace is always “the work of justice and the effect of charity”. It demands the absolute and radical rejection of violence and terrorism and requires a constant and vigilant commitment on the part of all political leaders.

Therefore, having read these and other things, it became clear that voting for the candidates of a political party which advocates the sanctification of homosexual relations as marriage and the legality of the infanticide of the unborn cannot be supported. That eliminated the Democratic, Libertarian and Green Party candidates. Hillary Clinton, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein all openly supported intrinsic moral evils. That left Donald Trump and Darrell Castle. Of the two, I did not trust Trump's newfound conservatism to be authentic, and I was distrustful of RINOs - Republicans in Name Only. So I vote for Darrell Castle (whom I knew would lose).

Now on election night my wife and I stayed awake until the wee hours of the morning watching the returns on Fox News. When it became apparent that Trump won, I did breathe a sigh of relief because while my chosen candidate did not win, I knew that at least we would not have a continuation of the past eight years where Christians are marginalized and sued in the public square, heinous sins like abortion and homosexuality are lauded and paraded about, and borders are opened for terrorists to enter the country in the stream of illegal aliens.

Nevertheless, let me be clear:

• I believe in freedom of religion for Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, Shintoists or whatever in the public square. I also believe in leaving homosexuals to live their lives in peace. But nowhere in that is it right to force Christians to violate their consciences.
• I also believe in the sanctity of life. A baby's body is not a woman's body. If a woman and the man who wants to have conjugal relations with her do NOT want a baby, then they need to refrain from sexual intercourse. What are we? Wild baboons given to the lust of our passions, having to titillate our genitals and then abdicate our responsibility and evade our accountability for the resulting pregnancy? If we are so logical and scientific and rational, then why are we so incapable of using the brains that God gave us? 
• And lastly I believe in welcoming the alien. I took two Filipina immigrants into my apartment free of charge before I married and provided for their needs without government reimbursement. But they were LEGAL immigrants and therein lies the difference.

So now Donald Trump is President, and I did not chose him. In response young millennials in large cities like Seattle, Portland, LA, NYC, etc. did not just protest but destroyed property, threatened and harmed police, and attacked those on the right of the political spectrum. Then came the excuses about why the left lost the election:

• Jim Comey's re-opening of Hillary's email sever scandal ruined her chances
• Fake news from right wing sources cause Hillary's loss
• The Electoral College caused her loss
• The Russians hacking into DNC email servers did it

Excuse after excuse was offered up, and an end-run to intimidate the Electoral College was made. Now we have cries, "Trump - not my President." Imagine if the right had done that with Barack Obama. St. Paul however tells us what the truth of the matter is in Romans 13:1-7:

Let every person be subordinate to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been established by God. Therefore, whoever resists authority opposes what God has appointed, and those who oppose it will bring judgment upon themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear to good conduct, but to evil.b Do you wish to have no fear of authority? Then do what is good and you will receive approval from it, for it is a servant of God for your good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword without purpose; it is the servant of God to inflict wrath on the evildoer. Therefore, it is necessary to be subject not only because of the wrath but also because of conscience. This is why you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. Pay to all their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, toll to whom toll is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

That means that like it or not, the authority of Donald Trump as President is established by God. We know this to be true because of the precedence established by what the prophet Isaiah said regarding pagan King Cyrus of Persia in Isaiah 45:1-2:

Thus says the LORD to his anointed, Cyrus,
whose right hand I grasp,
Subduing nations before him,
stripping kings of their strength,
Opening doors before him,
leaving the gates unbarred:

I will go before you
and level the mountains;
Bronze doors I will shatter,
iron bars I will snap.

Even our first Pope, St. Peter, writes in 1st Peter 2:13-17 the following:

Be subject to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether it be to the king as supreme
or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the approval of those who do good.
For it is the will of God that by doing good you may silence the ignorance of foolish people.
Be free, yet without using freedom as a pretext for evil, but as slaves of God.
Give honor to all, love the community, fear God, honor the king.

And David before he became king acted in this way. King Saul had been chasing him throughout the countryside to kill him, and when David has a chance to retaliate, he said in 1st Samuel 24:7:

The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the LORD’s anointed, to lay a hand on him, for he is the LORD’s anointed.

Therefore, whether I like him or not, Donald Trump IS our President and as Catholic Christians we are required to respect him and pray for him. Speaking of which, at every Mass at Our Lady of Grace Father Kirby always includes a prayer for the President and the President-Elect. Furthermore, the 1928 Anglican Book of Common Prayer has an excellent prayer for those in authority. It would do well for us to remember this, especially considering that both St. Paul and St. Peter lived in a time when evil Roman Emperors persecuted Christians and yet required Christian obedience to Roman authority.

ALMIGHTY God, whose kingdom is everlasting and power infinite; Have mercy upon this whole land; and so rule the hearts of thy servants THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, The Governor of this State, and all others in authority, that they, knowing whose ministers they are, may above all things seek thy honour and glory; and that we and all the People, duly considering whose authority they bear, may faithfully and obediently honour them, according to thy blessed Word and ordinance; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with thee and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth ever, one God, world without end. Amen.

Avia Constitutionum Nuntiorum contra Donald Trump

Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,

The title of this post in Latin means, "The Prejudice of the News Organizations against Donald Trump." Avia denotes in Latin a deep-seated, deeply rooted prejudice. About this is what I wish to talk.

President-Elect Donald Trump

Normally after awakening in the morning I review the news on the usual set of purveyors, including Yahoo and those organizations feeding news into Yahoo such as AP, Reuters, ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, etc. Without fail what these organizations report about Donald Trump is uniformly biased against him, his family and his staff. Never did these organizations treat Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in this manner. While negative articles may have been published, they were rare and in a minority. But the articles on Trump and those associated with him are invariably vicious, mean-spirited and full of calumny. While Obama and Hillary are given the benefit of the doubt, imputed to Trump is the certainty of guilt of avarice and malice. And one excuse after another is being raised for the Democrats' loss of the election:

• James Comey caused the loss by re-opening the email investigation into Hillary Clinton because of Anthony Weiner and his wife, Hillary's adviser, Huma Abedin (never mind that Democrats praised him when he refused to charge Hillary with jeopardizing national security by using private email servers for classified information)
• The electoral college arrangement is unfair and anti-Democratic in that it allows a candidate to win via succeeding in a majority of sovereign States even while he loses the popular vote (never mind that the USA is NOT a Democracy but a Federated Constitutional Republic of separate sovereign States where each individual One has an equal say in the Federal Government regardless its size - winning in a few few major cities should not dictatorially determine the government for the rest of the nation)
• The Russians caused the loss by hacking into Clinton's email and doing some unspecified something that resulted in eventual defeat (never mind that Clinton herself and the Democrats in general never properly secured her email - besides, what are the Russians going to do with the hacking? Release to the American public what Hillary really said about the deplorables whom she so self-righteously despised?)

Yet the abounding examples of the legacy of Obama and Hillary which led to Hillary's defeat are ignored. Both supported, advocated and worked for the murder of the unborn and the sanctification of sterile sexual perversion. And both those things the news media regards as sacraments under the specious pretexts of the right to choose and marriage equality. Both these persons have weakened the United States throughout the world, emasculated our local police and the military, increased the scope and power of big government, aided and abetted illegal immigration and the influx of unvetted Muslims who could be terrorist, ingratiated our nation with principalities of Islamic fanaticism, alienated our friends such as the UK and Israel, interfered with free elections in Israel (where thankfully Benjamin Netanayahu won regardless of Obama machinations to the contrary), fanned the flames of discontent and racial prejudice among black populations.....the list is seemingly without end.

Now what has Donald Trump done? He has said mean, sexist and sometimes idiotic things. But what has he done? He has run a successful business for decades and has raised a successful family whose children love and adore him. That is what he has done. Yes, he is thrice married, which (based on what Jesus said in Matthew chapter 19) technically makes him an adulterer and no better than William Jefferson Clinton (Hillary's husband) who himself had sexual encounters with Monica Lewinski in the Oval Office when he was President (the reporting of which his wife Hillary called a vast right wing conspiracy).

So what is Trump doing now regardless of his adultery? He is selecting people to his cabinet from the military and big business who have proven to be successful themselves. Are those from the military anti-Islamic? Thankfully yes; with some happy exceptions like righteous King Abdullah II and his wife Queen Rania of Jordan, Muslims have spread their hateful religion by the sword since the mid seventh century AD. North Africa and the Middle East were all once Christian, and Muslims changed that not by dialog and persuasion but by the sword, indiscriminately murdering Christians and Jews in their wake or placing them under the servitude of dhimmitude. Are those from big business whom Trump selected rich and well-known elsewhere in the world? Again, thankfully yes; we need successful people with real world experience across the globe to represent and defend our interests. Limp-wrist, lackadaisical politicians who never had a real job in their life (like current Secretary of State John Kerry) have failed and given economic ascendancy to enemies such as communist China which forces abortions for any second baby, and persecutes and maligns the Church, controlling who may be bishop and who may not. It is time therefore that adults are put in charge instead of starry-eyed idealists who never matured out of the "hippie-ism" of their teenage years.

Now all this said, I publicly declare that I never voted for Donald Trump. In the primaries I voted for Ben Carson and in the General Election I voted for Darrell Castle of the Constitution Party. I did so because of the positions those men held on the issues; their stance was the most Christian I could find. And their platforms were closest to the teaching of Holy Mother Church. And yes, while I regarded Hillary Clinton as a resurrected Livia Drusilla Augusta Caesar, I saw Donald Trump as a resurrected Marcus Licinius Crassus. The later may be an unprincipled, foul mouthed, wheeling-dealing, playboy gambler. But the former is surely a murderous pathological liar. Therefore, realizing my selected candidate could not win (I was under no illusions), I was relieved that Trump won the general election instead of Hillary. More babies would be saved from vivisection in the womb, their internal organs being sold on the open market by Planned Parenthood which is funded by tax dollars arranged by Barack Obama. Sodomites would be less able to shove their filth down the throats of others. The military and police would be restored to their rightful places of honor and respect. Islam would be confronted and stopped. The flames of racism would be doused with water. And the free market would be allowed to function as intended.

Donald Trump is no paragon of virtue and certainly cannot accomplish all that he has promised. But neither was Cyrus, King of Persia in the Bible, likewise himself paragon of virtue either. Yet in spite of the fact that Cyrus was a pagan, had many wives and concubines (the ultimate misogynist), and would execute without trial those opposed to his rule (sort of like Rodrigo Duterte on steroids), he set things up to allow the Jews to return from exile in Babylon to their homeland in Judea, rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem and the great Temple itself when Yahweh was worshiped. Thus the prophet Isaiah called him the Lord's Anointed. In the sense that (as St Paul says in one of his epistles) all authority comes from God, Trump is the Lord's Anointed even as Hillary is like Jezebel, wife of King Ahab, who arranged for the murder of righteous Naboth the Jezreelite so that she and her husband could take possession of his vineyard. To the extent therefore that Trump executes his duty as President consistent with that anointing will he be judged as leader. The same is true of Obama. To the extent that Obama has governed consistent with the principle that all authority comes from God will he be judged, first by history in this world and finally by God Himself in the next. Obama's track record is not so good. Let that be a warning to Trump or any would-be leader. But let us at least give Trump a chance to govern. Let us give him the benefit of the doubt. God gave pagan King Cyrus a chance. Are we any better than He?

Carae Liberales Amicae

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Nothing needs to be added to this video about the spoiled little brats who didn't get their way:

Dexter et Sinister

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In lingua Latin the word for "right" is "dexter" which becomes our English word dexterous, and the word for "left" is "sinister" which becomes our English word sinister. It is there no wonder that those on the political left would in Latin be called "sinister politicus." Consistent with that is a recent post at St. Corbinian's Bear entitled, "How Trump Exposed the Left," where a photograph of a Trump supporter having been beaten and hospitalized for his exercise of free speech is displayed.

I did not agree with Donald Trump, nor, having voted for Darrell Castle from the Constitution Party as President, did I vote for him. However, I was never a part of that ridiculous "Never Trump" movement, nor would I have ever preferred that murderous pathological liar Hillary Rodham Clinton over Donald Trump. Yes, Trump is an unprincipled, foul-mouthed playboy gambler, but his soon to be predecessor, Barack Hussein Obama, is a baby murderer and a sodomy sanctifier, and so was his opponent Hillary. Now having lost the election, the millennial spoil brat delicate snow flake flower children of indolence and imbecility expose for all to see their hatred of any position, opinion, speech or thought diverse from their own even while they proclaim diversity from the house tops. As the Bear states:

The infantile and hysterical reaction of the Left, however, bears comment. They have been using the word "hate" for so long they are starting to believe that anyone who votes for a different presidential candidate than their choice can only be motivated by mustache-twirling evil. Trump, as the focus of evil in the world, is a non-person to them. Dangerously, they are creating an environment where people feel justified in doing him harm....
...The irony is, it is the Left that is defined by Hate. If there was no Right, against which they could use the word "Hate," the Left could not exist. They would be unable to publicly preen their motley feathers of civic virtue as "the virtuous ones who are not those haters."

The Left are the haters. They have become a unfunny political vaudeville act all over the world. Leaders - secular and religious - who align themselves with the Left and its propositions will be pilloried by history. The biggest irony of the day is that the Left is standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Westboro Baptists, the Klan, and every other group who might be fairly associated with Hate.

Haters of a feather flock together.

This can be seen at one's place of work. Here is a possible example. A young, very intelligence and well educated woman is unable to withstand to hear any point of view other than the liberal progressive feminist one which she had been taught in today's Academia. She walks away from a conversation about Trump which she had started, and the next day when it comes to a strictly work-related topic having no relevancy to anything political, she puts her feet into the mud and will not budge to compromise on something that has nothing to do with the previous day's topic. She becomes insulting and condescending, and there is nothing to be done because being a woman in today's environment, all she has to do is cry: "Woman abuse; he's hurting my feelings." These feminists say that they want to be treated like men, and when they are, the offense is too great to bear. Hate is their only response.

Octo Anni Longi

Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,

We have endured eight long years of liberal progressive feminist Democracy shoving down our throats "women's rights" (baby-murdering), "equal marriage rights" (sodomy sanctification), global warming (goddess Gaia worship), and all manner of other vile and rancid idolatry and wickedness. While I vote for Darrell Castle for the Presidency and not Donald Trump, I for one am relieved that Hillary Rodham Clinton lost the election. Trump may be an unprincipled, foul-mouthed playboy gambler, but Hillary is a murderous pathological liar and had to be prevented from ascending the highest office of the land. Therefore, I am relieved that the persecution of the Church and individual Christians will stop. Christian bakers will be free to refuse to bake wedding cakes for sodomite marriages, and Catholic nuns will be free to refuse to purchase insurance for coverage of contraceptives and school children will be free to recite the pledge of allegiance and pray the Lord's Prayer.

Nevertheless, as I always suspected, many liberal progressive feminists are rioting in the streets. Having cried for Democracy for the past 15 months of the election campaign, they now receive the results of a free voting system and are horrified to learn that a majority (however slim) of this Republic disagrees with them. Instead of accepting that as we who are conservative had to accept the victory of their candidate of immorality and iniquity in 2008 and 2012, they riot, burning the American flag and threatening violence because their demands have not been satisfied. Indeed,here is an example.

Let us suppose that at a place of work there is a conversation started by a delicate flower child who is so offended that misogynist, racist Trump won the election over the First Most Wonderfulest Womyn President ever. With calm reason a man senior to to the rest explains what the facts were in Trump’s history – yes, he’s an unprincipled, foul mouthed, playboy gambler. But look at examples like JFK and Marilyn Monroe or Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski from the other side of the aisle, or butt twerking Beyonce with her filthy mouth invited to the White House by Michelle Obama who was brought low and utterly shocked by Trump demeaning and marginalizing womyn. None of these men who got into the Oval Office are perfect, and some less so than others. Having had that explained to her, this delicate snow flake then interrupts the conversation (which she had started by complaining about Trump) and walks away, saying, “I have to get a drink of water.” Subsequently an hour later the inevitable email from Human Resources would come: “No political conversations at work lest someone is offended.” Did any HR at any company ever say that when that godless man of sin and depravity - Barack Hussein Obama - was shoving his womyn rights (read abortion) and marriage rights (read sodomy) and liberal progressive feminist ideology down our throats? Democrats were all over the place bragging how a new day was dawning, and companies actually permitted it, even encouraged it.

You know, folks, I am really sick and tired of these precious little hurt feelings from 20 something spoiled brats who need about six years in the nuclear submarine force cleaning the bilges beneath the main feedwater pumps for the nuclear steam generators while on patrol in the North Atlantic in January. If this is the future of the country, then we are truly doomed. Such a character can certainly be among the smartest and best engineers one would know, but when it comes to her anti-life heroine Hillary (who covered up her husband Bill Clinton's adulteries and rapes) not being elected, oh my Lord, the world is ending and all is lost! As far as I am concerned, these brats all need to move out of the United States. I have a nation for them: the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

One last thing: half the population and most of the land area of these United States are conservative Christians who believe in the Second Amendment.

So these rotten little kids who need their behinds paddled red had better beware when they cry for violence, because half the country has the guns with which to give them what they so richly deserve. I do NOT advocate that. In fact, I advise calm and reason and dialogue and diversity and tolerance - all the things these liberals say they support. But we all know that's a lie. So in the words of King Leonidas of Sparta to the evil Persian brute Xerxes:

μολὼν λαβέ

Memora in Aeternum - Hillaria Est Mala

Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,

This video was posted at The American Catholic blog this morning. It is correct and true.

Megyn Kelly versus Newt Gingrich

Amici, Americani et Compatriotae,

The American Catholic blog has an excellent post entitled, "October 25, 2016: Newt Gingrich v. Megyn Kelly." Here is the video of the dust-up between a liberal progressive feminist and a former Speaker of the House of Representatives:



I shall be honest. I do not like Megyn Helly. She epitomizes everything that's wrong with the feminist movement. She cries against the objectification of women, yet she has had photos like those depicted below taken of her.

Megyn Kelly In GQ: Fox News Anchor’s Revealing Spread (PHOTO)

Here is the problem with the feminism of women (and emasculated men) like Megyn Kelly. It says women and men are equal in function instead of dignity, and suggests that women may have sex just like a man without worrying about having a baby (just use contraception or abort the baby if contraception fails). It is the opposite of the nobility and virtue of true femininity because it degrades and debases all that is august and honorable in authentic womanhood. Look at those photos. Look at the kind of woman Megyn Kelly has portrayed herself as. Even the finest whores of ancient Rome and Athens would be green with envy to be regarded as such. The old saying that people who live in glass houses should not cast stones comes to mind. Let Megyn Kelly know that by her own willful photos she fully merits Donald Trump's and Bill Clinton's objectification of woman. And she claims to be a life-long devout Catholic. I wonder what the great women saints of the Church - Faustina, Mother Therese, Catherine of Siene, Joan of Arc, etc. - would say.

Factio Americana Solidarietatis

Michael Maturen
ASP Pesidential Candidate

Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,

During the Presidential Debate on the evening of October 19^th, I was made aware of the existence of a new political party on the national landscape: The American Solidarity Party (ASP). Its platform is reprinted below. Its candidates for office include the following:

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE - Michael Maturen (Presidential Candidate Acceptance Speech)

VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE - Juan Muñoz (VP Candidate Acceptance Speech)

That liberal progressive Democrat so-called Catholic Apologist Mark the bombastic hypocrite Shea who defames, vilifies and condemns anything conservative has endorsed Michael Maturen is sufficient for me to disregard this political party and its candidates. Nevertheless, without further ado, here is the ASP platform.

Juan Munoz
ASP VP Candidate

Religion in the Public Square

We acknowledge that the Judeo-Christian worldview has played a positive role in the history and culture of the United States of America. We advocate for laws that allow people of all faiths to practice their religion without intimidation and deplore aggressive secularism that seeks to remove religion from the public sphere.

Economy & Finance

The ASP believes that political economy (economics) is a branch of political ethics. We reject models of economic behavior based on greed and naked self-interest.

To build an economy that is fair, transparent, and democratic, we support models of production and distribution that are local, responsible, and sustainable.

We support the creation of family-owned businesses and worker cooperatives. We oppose regulations designed to inhibit competition from smaller firms.

We call for the repeal of subsidies which encourage urban sprawl and discourage local farming and production.

We advocate a tax shift from earned income (wages and interest) to unearned income (economic rent). We propose to shift the burden of property taxes from buildings and improvements to ground rents.

We call for the direct payment of surplus revenue to the public as a Citizens’ Dividend.

We support the creation of sovereign wealth funds in financial markets.

We call for increased regulation of private pension plans, with greater transparency regarding fees collected by fund managers.

We oppose the privatization of Social Security, and advocate a return to the use of the funds generated from the program to be solely used for the payments out to recipients, rather than the current use of the funds for many purposes.

The ASP regards money and credit as public utilities. We support increased oversight of the banking industry and personal accountability for fraudulent behavior.

We call for amendment of the Federal Reserve Act to enable direct investment in public works.

We support the creation of public investment banks and private credit unions at the state and local levels.

We advocate deflation of the student-debt bubble through partial forgiveness of student loans and restoration of bankruptcy-protection for debtors.

We support stricter controls on consumer credit, including limits on interest and regulation of credit-card companies and payday-loan and title-loan stores.

Health & Welfare

The ASP advocates the replacement of privately-funded health insurance with a decentralized ‘single-payer’ system.

We oppose the privatization of Social Security and other public pension systems.

We oppose the sudden elimination or reduction of income supports such as welfare, food stamps, and unemployment insurance, when no other safety net is in place.

We call for the gradual replacement of needs-based welfare and assistance payments with a Citizens’ Dividend, funded by the collection of unearned income.

The Dignity of Work

The ASP recognizes the right of workers to form associations in pursuit of their economic interests. We oppose union-busting laws that interfere with the relationship between employers and labor organizations.

In the enforcement of anti-trust and consumer-protection laws, we will work to maintain a level playing field between labor, management, and consumers. 

We insist on legal protection for occupational safety and compensation, equal access to employment, good faith in hiring and retention, and paid leave for illness and child-rearing.

Crime

The ASP believes that preventing and punishing crime is an essential public service. We oppose the privatization of law-enforcement and penal institutions.

As public servants, officers of the peace should be held to the highest standards of professionalism. We support the creation of civilian review boards at all levels of law-enforcement. 

We oppose legal requirements in sentencing, such as three-strikes laws, which result in the arbitrary, long-term imprisonment of non-violent criminals.

We support the decriminalization (not the legalization) of recreational drugs. Funds currently expended on the “war on drugs” should be directed toward prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation.

We oppose the participation of public agencies in legal vices, such as gambling and the sale of recreational drugs and alcohol. Where gambling is permitted, windfalls should be taxed as a form of unearned income.

We call for more vigorous enforcement of laws against human trafficking.

We support the implementation of the so-called "Nordic model" for dealing with prostitution by imposing stricter and more uniform penalties for the purchase of sex, decriminalizing the selling of sex, and providing viable employment alternatives to those who are exploited as prostitutes.

The ASP regards pornography as a harm to society and opposes the exploitation of human persons that pornography entails.

We call for greater legal responsibility on the part of creditors and vendors for vigilance against fraudulent activity, such as identity theft.

Defense

We call for an end to unilateral military intervention in foreign countries and the closing of US military bases abroad, where these are not required to protect diplomatic missions or to meet explicit treaty obligations. 

We oppose the use of lethal drones against civilian populations in neutral countries.

We condemn the use of torture – by whatever method, for whatever purpose, and by whatever euphemism it may be called – by any representative of the United States or in its interests. Those who participate in or authorize torture should be stripped of position, prosecuted, and punished to the fullest extent of the law.

We call for the prohibition of private arms sales from the United States to foreign countries.

The ASP believes that a less aggressive foreign policy will reduce the threat of terrorism within our borders. In the short term, we call for a review of the effectiveness of centralized and specialized anti-terrorist agencies, such as the TSA.

We call for the repeal of the Patriot Act and the re-instatement of basic civil rights, including the right of citizens to a speedy trial in civilian courts. Secret tribunals (such as the FISA court) must be abolished and military courts returned to their proper role. Foreign non-combatants must not be detained in American facilities or remanded by agents of the U.S. government to foreign prisons.

We oppose government censorship of the media and the internet.

We condemn the indiscriminate and unauthorized collection of data from the phones and computers of American citizens and foreign nationals.

We oppose laws and trade agreements that allow the monitoring of personal internet usage for non-criminal offenses, such as copyright infringement. We call for the periodic destruction of internet histories and other user data collected by internet providers, unless these are specifically required by a court order.

My View

My view is simple:

·        The twin principles of the individual right to life and the non-initiation of force are sacrosanct. When the nation’s laws place those principles first, then both outright physical violence and the covert economic violence of theft in the market place and stock market are proscribed.

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     Each person is individually responsible and accountable for the consequences of his actions; government does NOT exist to bail him out of his own folly.

o   “Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” Galatians 6:7

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     Abortion, sodomy, lesbianism, adultery, fornication, and contraception are proscribed along with murder and theft

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            A man is entitled to the fruit of his labor; while taxation to support necessary government function in defense of the common good is necessary and Biblical, appropriation by government without consent for pet causes in the social justice arena is theft from those who earn their wealth to give to those who refuse to work is morally reprehensible.

o   “For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.” Romans 13:6-7

o   “For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If anyone will not work, let him not eat.” 1^st Thessalonians 3:10

            A government exists only for the common defense; individual freedom is sovereign and the government is the servant of the people

           The Church NOT government should be doing social justice programs; we cannot abdicate our responsibility and evade our accountability to care for the sick, clothe the naked, feed the hungry and give drink to the thirsty onto Caesar. Furthermore, no matter how many good works we do on this Earth, we cannot create a Heavenly paradise and the poor we shall always have.

o   “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see thee hungry and feed thee, or thirsty and give thee drink? And when did we see thee a stranger and welcome thee, or naked and clothe thee? And when did we see thee sick or in prison and visit thee?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.’” Matthew 25:37-40

o   “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” Matthew 22:21

o   “The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.” John 12:8

            The regulatory playing field must be leveled – only those regulations necessary to protect public health and safety should exist. Regulations for medicine, agriculture, transportation, energy, etc. are necessary only insofar as they protect the public from poison, disease, or accident.

            No government handouts should ever be provided for any business or social justice program. Let each man compete fairly in the free market, and let the Church do Her duty in being the sheep who help the helpless instead of the goats who eschew giving such aid.

“Whenever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America’s heart, her benedictions and her prayers. But she does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence for all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She well knows that by once enlisting other banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extradition, in all wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom….She might become the dictress of the world but would no longer be ruler of her own spirit….Americans should not go abroad to slay dragons they do not understand in the name of spreading democracy.”

__John Quincy Adams__ As Secretary of State 

Hillaria Mala

Amici, Americani et Compatriotae,

I cannot withstand watching neither hearing this godless vile idolatrous woman of wickedness and depravity advocate baby murdering and sodomy sanctification. God had the dogs eat the corpse of Jezebel whose eunuchs threw her out of a 2nd floor window because she had righteous Naboth the Jezreelite murdered for his vineyard. What the heck does this witch of bloody murder and sexual perversion think is in store for her?

Livia started out immediately by advocating baby murdering and sodomy sanctification. I despise, loathe, abhor and detest her to the very bottom of the fabric of my being. I had to go into the other room as my Filipina wife continues to watch, fascinated at the low depths to which American politics have sunk. If Livia Drusilla Augusta Caesar is elected, then be prepared to do what the Maccabean brothers did to defend the Jews against the evil Seleucids. Mark my word - persecution will come with her victory. She would be the dictator that that proud feminist Rod Adams at Atomic Insights says is Donald Trump. (As a side note, do male feminists have testicles? Where has their manhood gone?)

I must now stop because I am too agitated. I cannot stop this insanity. I have no control over it. We see being repeated now what happened in ancient Judah and Israel as they rejected the Lord their God, and His response will be the same: attack and subjugation by our enemies. God is NOT a disinterested spectator in the events of human affairs. He will show mercy on unborn babies. Indeed, we always ask that God will have mercy, and His mercy for the innocent will be His justice on the heads of liberal progressive feminists.

Evan McMullin pro Praesidentia

Evan McMullin

Amici, Americani et Compatriotae,

As I am learning more about Evan McMullin, I am beginning to think that he is the best out of all the candidates. I am going to discuss the topics which interest me. You may discuss in the comment box those of interest to you.

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton is an abortionist and a sodomy sanctifier, and she is ambivalent (agnostic were her words) with respect to nuclear energy.

Republican Donald Trump now states is he pro-life after having been an abortion supporter for years, and he is now silent about sodomite marriage but was once in favor of it. He is a fossil energy enthusiast and like most politicians has zero knowledge of nuclear energy.

Libertarian Gary Johnson is an abortionist and a sodomy sanctifier, and favors leaving the nuclear energy to the fate of the free market.

Green Jill Stein is an abortionist, a sodomy sanctifier, and an anti-nuke.

Constitutionalist Darrell Castle is pro-life and pro-sanctity of marriage, and is silent with respect to nuclear energy but would, based on his principles, leave it to the free market.

Independent Evan McMullin is pro-life. His position on sodomite marriage is not readily available, but based on his Mormon upbringing, he should likewise oppose it. He is silent on nuclear energy, but would likely favor leaving it to the free market.

Darrell Castle

Of all these, only two candidates are remotely acceptable: Darrell Castle and Evan McMullin. Of the political parties that these two represent, Darrell Castle's Constitution Party is the best for its platform which I would encourage the reader to review. And Darrel Castle has a respectable curriculum vitae.

Evan McMullin likewise has espoused reasonable principles which I would encourage the reader to review, and in the same manner has a respectable curriculum vitae, having served in the CIA for 10 years and having been in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs as a senior adviser and later the chief policy director of the House Republican Conference. Of the two, Mr. McMullin appears to be superior, but let the reader decide.

Let the reader beware, however. Clinton, Johnson and Stein all openly support and advocate what the Church has declared are intrinsic evils: abortion and sodomite marriage. While an authentic Christian (Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant) may rationalize in good conscience a vote for Trump based on his promise to appoint conservative Justices to SCOTUS who will support sanctity of life and sanctity of marriage, NO Christian may vote for any of the other three and still claim the title Christian. And because of my Christian conscience, my choice is narrowed to two, Castle and McMullin, of whom I prefer the later.

Quinquagesimi Numeri

Amici, Americani et Compatriotae,

Rod Adams has launched in his post American’s Nuclear (Power) Program Is Way Behind Russia’s another lengthy attack against Donald Trump without once mentioning the downright evil that is Hillary Rodham Clinton. Perhaps that liberal progressive feminist should consider the following post at the American Catholic blog: Fifty Points. Hillary Clinton covered up the sexcapades of her husband, former President Bill Clinton - his adulteries, his rapes, his abuses. Hillary Clinton let Americans get murdered by Islamic Jihadists in Benghazi, Libya. Hillary Clinton deliberately mishandled national security information and then deleted tens of thousands of email evidences.  Hillary Clinton has lied to the American public, and worst of all, Hillary Clinton advocates the murder of unborn babies right up until the moment of birth, and the sanctification of the filth of sterile sexual perversion. Yet Rod Adams cannot once mention a single negative about Hillary Clinton (though he claims he will vote for dope head Gary Johnson), yet finds all kinds of time to rail against Donald Trump as a new Adolf Hitler. Hey Rod, it's Hillary Clinton who said Christians must change their point of view. It's Hillary Clinton and her ilk who compel Catholic nuns to provide insurance for contraception against their beliefs and Catholic hospitals to provide abortions against the constant teaching of the Church. It's this kind of people who are Nazi dictators. Indeed, Adolf Hitler would blush green with envy to see the organ harvesting from unborn babies that Democrats in Planned Parenthood do. Nazism? Look at your own political movement - liberal progressive feminism. 50 points ahead indeed! What a wicked and adulterous generation that liberal progressive feminism has produced!

Donald Trump Dicit Quod Bill Clinton Facit, sed Donald Quaesit Remissionem et Bill Mentitur de Eo

Amici, Americani et Compatriotae,

Donald Trump says what Bill Clinton does, but Donald apologies and Bill lies about it. Nevertheless, we must remember the lesson of 1st Samuel chapter 8, except with this difference. The two candidates whom we have for President simply reflect each side of our faces as a people whereas King Saul's face fully reflected his people.

Electio Praesidentialis

Amici,

I am thoroughly disgusted with this Presidential election season. The Democratic candidates are utterly evil, one being a murderous pathological liar and the other being a communist radical. Both advocate the infanticide of the pre-born with the sale of their internal organs on the open market and the sanctification of the filth of homosexual sodomy. The Republican candidates are foolish clowns arguing over wives, bodily features, and all manner of nonsensical topics, trading insult and disparagement for insult and disparagement while ignoring the weightier matters of Constitutional compliance and the defense of the Republic. Truthfully I can support no current candidate. I think we have reached the point at which Rome transitioned from Republic to Empire with the assassination of Iulius Caesar. The question is this: will our nation disintegrate into a civil war of battling factions, or will an Augustus rise up to continue unity in an Empire. Both are bad alternatives, but in different ways, and in both scenarios authentic orthodox Christians, whether Catholic, Eastern Orthodox or Protestant, will be persecuted as our spiritual forefathers were under the ancient pagan Roman Emperors. But as St Paul reminds us in Romans 11:16-24, God will prune His tree (the Church) and that pruning has yet to begin.

Quod si primitiae sanctae sunt, et massa; et si radix sancta, et rami. Quod si aliqui ex ramis fracti sunt, tu autem, cum oleaster esses, insertus es in illis et consocius radicis pinguedinis olivae factus es, noli gloriari adversus ramos; quod si gloriaris, non tu radicem portas, sed radix te. Dices ergo: “ Fracti sunt rami, ut ego inserar ”. Bene; incredulitate fracti sunt, tu autem fide stas. Noli altum sapere, sed time: si enim Deus naturalibus ramis non pepercit, ne forte nec tibi parcat. Vide ergo bonitatem et severitatem Dei: in eos quidem, qui ceciderunt, severitatem; in te autem bonitatem Dei, si permanseris in bonitate, alioquin et tu excideris. Sed et illi, si non permanserint in incredulitate, inserentur; potens est enim Deus iterum inserere illos! Nam si tu ex naturali excisus es oleastro et contra naturam insertus es in bonam olivam, quanto magis hi, qui secundum naturam sunt, inserentur suae olivae.