What has become of us?

“I couldn’t give a flying f%@# about the Iraqis. I loved killing bad guys. … I loved what I did. I still do … it was fun.” 


Thus spoke Mr Chris Kyle, as men, and women, and children found themselves the recipients of his patriotism.

I search the Catholic Church's Catechism in vain for a justification of this.

As I watch in disgust the amount of money being earned by such a movie as "American Sniper", and as I marvel that a director of only very limited talent such as Mr Eastwood is praised to the skies by even such as Barack "I'm very good at killing people" Obama, I ask myself: what has become of us?

We are in a very, very deep crisis of Faith in this land if people can sit in theatres much like the Romans of old and cheer on such blood-letting.

Gerald Celente examines the issue here:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/02/gerald-celente/venerating-a-government-killer/

"Operation Iraqi Freedom" in action

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-mass-murder-of-women-and-children-in-gaza-is-just-fine-and-dandy/

Toilet Clogger Thomas Friedman offers his wisdom

Employee of the Ministry of Truth, Thomas Friedman

Pungent pundit Thomas Friedman, the War Party's court jester, is at it again with his usual spot-on commentaries about international questions.  In the following article he unearths another dire threat and in this instance, as always, Friedman scoops the world.

http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/01/29/2913

One must stand back and admire this tireless searcher of hidden truths.  To read him is to let the warm sun dispel the darkness of our minds.  He was so right about Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine and other areas enjoying the Enlightenment.

Oh, about that toilet clogging:

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/06/thomas-friedman-clogged-my-toilet-1.html

Saving Ukraine

Maidan protesters being shot by American snipers in Kiev a year ago

Finally, an intelligent conversation by reasonable people on the ongoing civil war in Ukraine.  We can highly recommend this video:



http://rt.com/shows/crosstalk/229723-ukraine-moscow-us-war/


And this:





And just the other day a Ukranian woman responds to a Ukranian army recruiter asking Ukranian men to sign up to fight Ukranians (be sure to click on the subtitles):





[Re the photo at the top of this post: Last February in Kiev, when the US-backed coup was in progress, the corporate-owned mass media reported that Kiev police were firing on the protesters from nearby rooftops.  The whole world bought that story.  It turns out that in fact the snipers were American mercenaries employed by Monsanto-owned "Academi", formerly "Blackwater", engaged to incite violence and create yet another false-flag event.]

Look who is waiting in the wings, like a vulture:

http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/02/11/3337

The Cardinal will resist

Sometimes it is easy to forget that during the darkest times of the Church some Bishops will finally emerge and declare that enough is enough.  In recent decades we have heard very little from Bishops who could and should be publicly expressing their horror over the direction in which the Church has been heading.

But things could be, at long last, beginning to change.  In an interview on French television Raymond Cardinal Burke, has frankly stated that if the Synod continues in the directions indicated last October, he will resist.

http://cathcon.blogspot.com/2015/02/cardinal-burke-says-i-will-resist-when.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FZMRq+%28Catholic+Church+Conservation%29

[Thanks to the Catholic Conclave blog for this.]

With both the Church and the world going to hell in a hand basket, directed by the same hellish forces, God is raising up a few voices who will find their courage and say what so critically has to be said.

The importance of this moment cannot be over emphasized.  Burke's courage I am certain will inspire a few others.  How can it not, with a statement so precise and full of portent?  The Cardinal's resistance will undoubtedly entail him speaking out more and more even as the world's media showers him with invective.  He will be given the full media lynching treatment and it will be ugly. That he is willing to subject himself to such an ordeal speaks very well of him.

While I don't want to read too much into this, Burke's statementt has the potential to create a domino effect.  Burke's frank statement, said with his customary charitable demeanor, will embolden others,   priests, Bishops, Cardinals and layfolk alike.  This will be all over the internet soon, and that is good.

Please God the sleeping giant of Catholicism will awaken.

Horror Stories from the Saints

"When a sinner has filled up the measure of his sins, his evils become incurable; he gets outside the range of God's mercy and into His justice, from which he shall never escape."  St Basil the Great

"The number of the elect is so small - so small - that, were we to know how small it is, we would faint away with grief: one here and there, scattered up and down the world!"  St Louis Marie de Montfort

"The number of the saved is as few as the number of grapes left after the vineyard-pickers have passed"  St John Mary Vianney

"Bad confessions damn the majority of Christians."  St Teresa of Avila

"Taking into account the present development of humanity, only a limited number of the human race will be saved...many will be lost."  Lucy of Fatima

"Notwithstanding assurances that God did not create any man for Hell, and that He wishes all men to be saved, it remains equally true that only few will be saved; that only few will go to Heaven; and that the greater part of mankind will be lost forever."  St John Neumann

"I do not speak rashly, but as I feel and think.  I do not think that many priests are saved, but that those who perish are far more numerous."  St John Chrysostum

Kremlin-funded study says Obama is a space lizard

The new advances in medical science continue to amaze us.  With this latest news from Washington vis-a-vis Mr Putin's health surely a cure for the common cold should be coming soon.

The knowledgeable doctors at the Pentagon have discovered that President Putin has Asperger's Disease, or is it autism, or...?   Whatever.  They know; they were able to diagnose their patient from a mere 5,000 miles away!  The story has made headlines around the world.

But the Russians have applied the same careful medical analysis as well, and here is their report:

http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/02/06/3199

Perfidious Albion indeed

This is happening in a country I love and have visited many times, a country once Our Lady's Dowry.

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/matthew-archbold/uk-mother-of-six-could-be-sterilized

And this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/11380956/Hilary-Mantels-Thomas-Cromwell-is-all-wrong-but-does-it-matter.html

Read the mindless, near-imbecilic anti-Catholic comments made about the hilariously unhistorical movie the article is written about.

My poor England.

Mark Twain analyzes the current Washington war hoopla

"The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for the war. The pulpit will--warily and cautiously--object--at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.' Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers--as earlier--but do not dare say so. And now the whole nation--pulpit and all--will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”

(H/T to Riley Waggaman)   

The Learned Al Sharpton

In our efforts to bring to our readers the very best of contemporary thinking and analysis we offer this historical assessment by one of the vaunted leaders of our nation:

This cogent, well-argued statement from one of President Obama's closest advisors certainly deserves our careful study.