I've always marveled at the
Catholic Church's ability to do good things, and how it finds a way to make
somebody else pay for its good deeds.
For instance, shipping "refugees" and questionables in by the
ton, people of whose mindsets and eventual intentions we have nary a clue --
and U.S. taxpayers get to pay for the whole fetid national gate-crashing, which
repeats itself over and over again, thanks primarily (though not exclusively)
to the Catholic Church. In this respect,
the late Sen. Ted Kennedy was a good Catholic, having pushed, as we now know all
too well, legislation to fill the USA with people who wouldn't be here at all,
had clearer minds prevailed. But it was
the charitable thing to do, particularly if your religion tells you that good
deeds are great additions to one's individual pre-Heaven resume. But we all pay for somebody else's good
deed-doing, even though we never drove drunk over a bridge and drowned a car
passenger in our lives, unlike some lucky folks who both legislate AND avoid
serious criminal charges because of their protected station in life.
It seems a fair
number, a growing number, of Catholics have become alarmed that their current
pope reflects more than a modicum of Marxism in his philosophy, especially now
that everything has been tidily wrapped up in his new Encyclical. As if Americans haven't already experienced a
belly full of perpetually negative crap
about America's history and status from
our dangerously agenda-ridden president, now we have the pope's interference as
he pretty much condemns the USA and capitalism, taking great care not to forget
about the evils of fossil fuels. For
good measure, one gets the creepy impression that the U.S. should just let
anybody in who wishes to come. Aren't we
already far ahead with that one?
When the pope
visits the USA this fall, he'll be welcomed by all variety of leftists and
societal outcasts, but the most unfortunate hug of all will come from the White
House, which apparently has much in common with this politician pope whose
religious messages appear certain to conflict with a crazy political agenda --
which cannot be justified when one looks at the latest data regarding the
pitfalls of "man-made" global warming / climate change. Yes, the science is in -- for now -- but it's
not the science the left wants.
The only thing
rational minds can do is wait, then endure the pope's visit as one endures a
circus show replete with clowns, dogs and ponies, and then pray for this self-politicized hack
disguised as a pope to leave the country as soon as possible.
The right to
exercise one's religion is sacred with me, true enough, until your faith makes
me pay for your good deeds or requires me to interact with entities
undesirable, or requires the execution of humans or animals to placate demonic
gods. A foreign or religious leader
currently pushing and shoving his way into America's political system, however,
is likewise not cool.
The 15 dollar
minimum wage is such a great idea for entry-level workers that we shudder in anticipation to watch
small businesses and franchises fold into oblivion after prices rise dramatically,
leading to an unsustainable profit margin, even in moderate terms, because the
customers won't abide by increases. It's
a shame that the (primarily) Democrat legislators who embrace this idea won't
tell the truth -- that the reason people can't survive on current wages has
everything to do with radical government spending and growth, which hampers
businesses and individuals in their quest for a secure future.
We hope Donald
Trump doesn't become the new Ross Perot because once you start
messing around with a third political party, which all but assures a
presidential victory for the sleazy and undeserving Hillary, you're finished.
Teenage surfers
lose body parts to hungry (or bored) sharks and the enthusiasm of young
people causes them to forget that every wave they ride belongs to critters who
call the sea their home. While some
humans put up "Home, sweet home" signs or display floor mats which
read, Welcome, subsurface ocean
residents would endorse Guests will be Attacked signage.
A wispy little
blond white thing called Dylann Roof allegedly murders nine people at a
church in South Carolina, and as racist as the 21-year-old's crime appears to
be, how peculiar that his Facebook page indicates that he has or had
black friends. By now, we're almost
expecting the facial expression we see on a young shooter -- a blank stare,
apparent detachment, yet hiding the mental faculties to plot and plan the
extermination of others. And, of course, it appears he was medicated with typical maybe-I'll-kill-everybody drugs. Pharmaceuticals can be such fun for those who don't take them.
True to form, it
didn't take the president long to go before the TV cameras and blame a
lack of gun control on this and all the gun crimes of the universe. What?
President Obama, the very "leader" who consistently allows
virtually any and every illegal alien to cross the Southern border, carrying
who-knows-what armaments into the U.S. blames current gun laws for the
country's firearm ills? The president
whose release of illegal criminals from our prisons who go on to rape and
murder American citizens, adults and children, again bitches about domestic gun
"control?" Yes, we wait
impatiently for this White House fraud's term to expire, as one waits for rats
to abandon a sinking ship of state.
The Trade Bill
and its components: This latest evidence of spineless Republicans
willing to sell out to lobbyists, the Chamber of Commerce and foreign interests
requires that John Boehner must step down as Speaker, and come election time
Republican turncoats must be sacrificed at the ballot box for true
conservatives, independents or libertarians.
The U.S. makes
plans to include a famous woman on the $10 bill: Hmm.
Well, looking far into the future, this gives us a perfect reason not
to elect Hillary Clinton as president, because one way or another she or Bill
will find a way to get her mug on paper money -- and if that happens, I say go
ahead, that's an emergency reason worth ridding ourselves of paper money::):)
