And on the Eighth Day the Pope Rose to Endorse Faulty Agenda-Ridden Science

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::):)

Officer, Draw Your Weapon

The Obama administration's recipe policy of coddling fellow street thugs and restraining local law enforcement officers via its big jackboot known, no longer honorably, as the Dept. of Justice is, predictably, a disgrace.  At another time in American history, goons currently basking at the top would be removed from the White House in handcuffs with a very real potential for some serious prison time.  I believe historical documentation will one day reflect that the crimes and outrages of this administration put the United States, and arguably the world, in immense jeopardy.  The thing is, in order for truth ever to endure the future, Americans need to speak up and speak out now, decrying the White House's apparent goal of furthering, or at least doing nothing to end, racial tensions; hammering police agencies; embracing the Muslim Brotherhood (certified as criminals in Egypt and much of the rational Middle East); walking on eggshells whenever the word,  Islam  comes up; and a host of other issues. associated with this bunch.

So "on top" of outside threats is the Obama bunch that they couldn't even keep crucial information regarding  every  federal employee from, it is suspected, Chinese hackers last week -- even after years of repeated hackings leading the way toward something big.  But who cares about devious Chinese communists, when the Obama folks know that the real segment to keep under observation is American people of legal status.  True citizens. And, of course, the cops.

For this president, the only time I want to use the word  race  is when I wish his own party would get together and "race" him out of town before he does more damage.  As if.

Methodically, case by case, local police agencies are being hobbled by this administration of radical theoreticians, well-dressed men and women whose pod-like minds ooze from brain-rotting universities of the highest caliber, breezing into city after town in official vehicles, armed with rules, regulations, menacing letters assuring compliance and fear-mongering tactics, the likes of which we have never observed in our communities.  Accompanying them is more than just a whiff of United Nations-style big brotherism.  It's like the mob all over again.

Supposedly, they come in the name of civil rights, civil rights being something that applies to one's race or ethnicity, surely not to any other ideal.  Strangely, in the majority of recent well-publicized racial (e.g., white on black) cases involving police, the alleged perpetrators were indeed disobeying police orders by fighting, running away, etc. to begin with.

Was it right to shoot and kill a 12-year-old black child in Cleveland, Ohio who carried what appeared a handgun, but was actually a pellet gun?  I don't know  --  particularly when early news reports indicated that guns which are not the real thing in the city were supposed to be displayed in bright colors so cops can tell the difference, but this one reportedly looked like a real gun in black.  In addition, and witness accounts differ, the boy was supposedly told to drop the weapon, but did not comply.  And now he is dead.  That's why cops' actions are sometimes called snap decisions.  Very little time exists to determine intent, and sometimes they get it wrong because options are few and available only at lightning speed.

In Texas, police officer Eric Casebolt quits his job after public (?) outrage (among extremist outsiders for the most part, we suspect) over his roughness in subduing a teenage black girl.  An uncooperative teenage girl.   No matter that he may have felt his life in danger as he was rushed by at least two more of several young people apparently trespassing on private property.  And wow -- how quickly his own police chief gave him up!  If you can't show some initial support and fairness for your people under what may have been dire circumstances for the officers, why bother acting as chief?  Looks like there may have been more than one "hothead" on the force.  Then, of course, the media absolutely had to go bonkers to obtain and report Officer Casebolt's name so the usual suspects among the unemployed, uneducated and born-stupid-and-proud-of-it could threaten him and his family's lives.

The way these incidents are going, what officer isn't in constant fear for his or her life now?  I suggest a revision of laws so that cops can withdraw and carry their weapons when confronting any situation whatsoever, and if pointing guns at unruly morons who refuse lawful orders or are poised to go postal on cops at a moment's notice is wrong, maybe it shouldn't be wrong to put police weaponry right up front anymore.  Otherwise, the thugs will keep on coming.

Disrespect for police personnel is on the rise, in no small part because the Dept. of Obama Justice, in coordination with the White House, has done everything BUT foster cooperation between cops and the public.  If you think  diversity training  is a thing of the past, watch out, because forced love and respect intended for one or more ethnicities over another is about to get much worse, unless those affected negatively stand up and say they aren't taking this bogus nonsense anymore,  The key words currently are "white privilege," and when you, your family or friends are intimidated by the blatant racism in that term by people dedicated to instilling guilt or fear, you need to stand up and set them straight.

Yet, even organizations professing "diversity" may not be hot for embracing the concept.   There's a woman out in Spokane, WA who heads up the NAACP, and she claims to be at least partially black, with black family members.  Her black family members, however, turned out to be white and tend to disagree with her pronounced heritage.  If the NAACP and the Al Sharpton race-baiting thuggery league allow her to remain, we'll be very surprised.  Diversity only goes so far, depends upon one's color.  In fact, Bruce  Caitlyn  Mr.  Bruce  Ms.  Caitlyn  Bruce Caitlyn  that Jenner person should go for the full shot, lose the organ and then get a brown skin coloration like when Michael Jackson decided to be white -- then diversity will be complete and who will argue?

Diversity works in prison, though.   We're told that one-third of inmates in American prisons are illegal aliens.  Somebody is paying the bill for these folks to hotel with us, guess who?  You.

And national diversity couldn't be better,   especially when author Ann Coulter discloses in her new book that 25 percent of Mexico's native-born currently reside in the United States, both legal and illegal folks -- with maybe a little more emphasis on the latter, I should think.

But don't despair, diversity will be new and improved soon  because Obama's bunch wants to build low-income housing in wealthier areas all over the country.  Forget the American dream, the part where you can live anywhere you want and  away  from anybody you want,  Yep, keep on voting for Democrats, whom you'll continue to serve and pay for and pay for and pay for, as people who aren't you and never will be you receive all the benefits of your hard work.  This extreme leftist bunch won't quit until everybody except their elite family members and friends ends up in equal misery.

Another military chaplain was reportedly kicked out of the service for actually using and showing his Bible, causing others (?) or more likely one other person with a last name which may not quite stack up as adherent to Christianity to complain.  No details at the moment, but we hope the mother of all lawsuits is directed at the military officer wimp division -- Obama supporters one and all, most likely -- for pushing this outrage.  Is this what the intended innocence of allowing gays in the military has progressed to?  Communist agendas?

Good going, President Obama.  For starters at least 450 more U.S. troops are off to Iraq, thanks to this president and Hillary Clintons's profound incompetence the first time around.  American moms and dads are pretty sick of their children being caught up in the spider webs spun by these intellectual American bunglers.  How can this Middle East trauma not expand, now that Obama's professed "JV team" called ISIS has been allowed to grow and prosper through care, feeding and fertilization by the most vile portions of the Koran?  Never forget that if this president had been wise enough to listen to his advisors and left enough troops in Iraq, the coming nightmare would probably never have been on the horizon.

And thanks, Mr. Prez, for releasing hundreds of Cuban criminals from prison directly onto U.S. streets because Cuba won't take them back.   That's okay, 'cause the criminals I'd most like to see in prison right now are the ones currently infesting a residence on Pennsylvania Ave.

"Dracula Has Risen From the Grave" was one of his motion picture titles, but British actor Christopher Lee is now forever down for the "count"  at age 93 in London.  As a kid during the early sixties, I still remember going to a movie theater to see a double-feature (theaters generally presented two movies at a time, can you believe it?) of Alfred Hitchcock's, "The Birds" and a Hammer Films movie entitled, "The Horror of Dracula."  I thought Hitchcock's movie was great, but Chris Lee as Dracula scared the hell out of me, and I don't believe sleep came easily later that night.  Despite his many roles as horror movie monsters, clever villains, and later as an actor in the evolving world of high-tech movie magic & wizardry, Lee, a World War II pilot and true hero, was always described by interviewers as a kind and charming man.  I think I mentioned before that Alexander Soma, reportedly a very ill young man when he died, put out at least a couple issues of his personal labor-of-love zine,  Horrors of the Screen  and Lee kindly contributed something for him, and this was around 1959 or so. 

The great old actors disappear faster and faster, and assuming their place under the lights are a preponderance of folk whose solitary talent is either looking pretty or having the questionable talent of moving in sequence with digitally enhanced effects.  It's little wonder why studios seem so determined to turn out animated movies whose digital characters exceed what lurks before the camera lens as flesh and blood.

Hillary Clinton finally announces  and free-range cattle fart after midnight, it's all about the same to me, 'cept free-range cattle don't want more government and the gilded opportunity to create more taxes while redefining individual rights.

Jeb Bush finally announces  and. . .oh, this becomes so-o-o-o-o boring.

Jailhouse Rock, 2015

According to reporter Fred Dicker, the "Albany Insider" who writes a column for the New York Post,  sources close to NY megalomaniac governor Andrew Cuomo tell him that the governor is hovering somewhere near what I would designate as bonkers and paranoia land these days.  While Cuomo, understandably, has been engulfed by grief following both the recent death of his father and the double mastectomy experienced by his live-in significant other, the major force alleged to be affecting him these days is a U.S. attorney currently investigating and arresting members of Albany's legislative body -- arguably the most corrupt senate and assembly in the United States.

According to Dicker's contacts, Cuomo  --  full of himself  and  presidential aspirations, many have long assumed -- may well also be somewhere on the feds' list of persons of interest in this regard, and because of the distinct possibility that some of Cuomo's actions are about to be seriously microscoped, both his psyche and so-called leadership as governor have taken a dive into near-paralysis.

Nowhere were Cuomo's bad choices more apparent this week than when he quickly made his way to Dannemora’s Clinton Correctional Facility, a state prison, not far from Canada, scene of a masterfully executed double-prisoner escape.  Conducting himself before the national TV News cameras as if he were a museum curator guiding people through the route of departure and method of excavation used by the two escaped convicts -- each a murderer -- Cuomo appeared more like somebody playing C.Y.A. than a governor. 

But this isn't the first time the arrogant Cuomo has shot from the hip -- immediately after that loony and/or violently autistic young man in Connecticut blew away a whole classroom of kids after first taking out his mom (and we don't mean to dinner), NY's Democrat governor and his purring legislative sheep herd went to work quickly like vultures to rip apart what remained of the Second Amendment in NY, coming up with the absurd  SAFE Act.  This legislation, obviously waiting for just the right moment to jump out at law-abiding citizens like a jack-in-the-box (and these boxes are pretty much always operated by Democrats), severely curtails gun rights and effectively pronounces the innocent guilty.

So while many viewers across the nation, unfamiliar with Cuomo's ruthless brand of managing a state and determining its people's choices and destiny via his own and his willing legislative accomplices' whims, probably saw on TV only a governor taking charge of a horrible situation, I spent my TV news time measuring him up as he stood outside the prison, imagining just how fantastic he would look in prison garb himself -- though, sad to relate, should the feds grab him for something major, he would set up residence in a federal pen, not anything with state accommodations.

While everybody awaits, we hope, a safe apprehension of the two murderous prisoners whose  breakout may ultimately result in a takeout,  it's worth mentioning that the governor, among others, noted that this drama might make a good movie.  We agree -- but the governor should understand that this prison break stands firmly upon his shoulders, and whether this event evolves into either a movie or just history, Andrew Cuomo isn't going to come out of this mess looking like the hero.  Far from it.  Buffoon and Co.  is a nice motion picture title, don't you think?

Word has it that moron Republicans will attempt to "fix"  the Affordable Care Act, should the Supreme Court decide it a corpse this month.   We think the better road to travel -- without delay -- would be to re-engage in original discussions whereas insurance companies would be allowed and would have to compete, compete, compete for customers across state lines.  Not only should good ol' stiff American competition  -- capitalism is the dirty word involved here -- take hold, it would almost definitely decrease insurance rates, co-pays and such dramatically.  As things currently stand, insurance, pharmaceutical corporations, etc., have a pretty cozy relationship with both Congress and "Obamacare," and it's high time to give the American people a real choice, instead of the health insurance tyranny currently in force.

A brief return to the Dennis Hastert news:   Yep, not two days after I blogged a tad tongue-in-cheek about swim team members probably being gay -- and I could just as well have said wrestlers -- we discover that Hastert allegedly had an affair with a high school wrestler (among others?) whom he coached.  Again, I say there is nothing new here, and these things have gone on since ancient times.  However, I would emphasize that, for all his faults, Hastert (1) did not "turn" now deceased student and wrestler Steve Reinboldt gay, because he was already gay, and (2) he obviously did not give Reinboldt AIDS.  Maybe somebody should inquire, age aside, how gay people seem to find one another and, for either short or long periods of time, engage in activities apparently mutually satisfactory.  Yes, at this point in the discussion people start twitching uncomfortably in their seats, choosing instead to bring in antiquated laws and antiquated legal representatives to solve the unsolvable.

Female "Viagra," the new drone in town:   If you ladies believe you need this stuff, Flibanserin, just because men have theirs and you want yours, my only job here is to say, oh great, one more drug to be excreted into the public drinking water system.  Enjoy.

Beau Biden deserved the grand funeral procession awarded him.  We just wish the president could have found it in his heart to attend services or  do something  regarding American hero Chris Kyle after his murder on a rifle range.  To paraphrase all too conveniently from the book,  Animal Farm,  are all soldiers equal, but some soldiers are more equal than others?

A cop descends upon a 14-year-old girl at a pool party of loud morons in Texas:   The cops were called to intervene, and from what seemed clear on the cell phone video is that both she and surrounding moronic youth were not about to cooperate with the officer's instructions.  What are these cops supposed to do?  The growing number of instances where police are taunted, set up and their lives and careers threatened will eventually result in no cops and/or really bad cops.  The only cure for this despicable situation will be a change of leadership in the White House and Justice Dept., where, dare we hope, fairness and unbiased truth will prevail.  We currently have no such critter in the mix, regrettably.

President Obama should perform at Carnegie Hall  because I really do think he believes himself the real-life equivalent of Klaatu from  The Day the Earth Stood Still.  Every time he makes a speech where he talks down to us and tells us how it's gonna be with climate change, health care, immigration and other dangerous or insane Democrat policy declarations he seems other-worldly.  And that's not a compliment.