THE Epiphany, celebrated yesterday, in illuminated manuscripts. And reflections on the Epiphany can be found here.

ALAN writes:

Am I missing something or have the Amish people not joined in all the hoopla surrounding Donald Trump?  Could that be because they know better?

Pardon my skepticism, but I suggest that all of that hoopla is merely the latest sideshow produced by the well-known stock company Bread and Circuses, Unlimited.

The moral and cultural rot in American society today did not originate in Washington.  It is the other way around:  The kind of government and public policies Americans get are consequences of certain bad ideas, which in turn are deeply ingrained in American culture today—in all the decadent forms and trends we see in daily life.  Government and public policies are the last expression of that moral rot.

I have seen all of this hope and expectation before.  (more…)

AND, the Lord said to me: A conspiracy is found among the men of Juda, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They are returned to the former iniquities of their fathers, who refused to hear my words: so these likewise have gone after strange gods, to serve them: the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have made void my covenant, which I made with their fathers. -- Jeremiah, 11:9, 10

NOVUS ORDO WATCH provides some papal teachings condemning the sort of "interfaith" luv fest featured in the new video by Francis the Fake.

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WILLIAM B. Eigelsbach writes:

A London police woman, while visiting New York, was arrested and her child taken by Family Services for leaving the baby alone for a half hour in her hotel room as she sterilized the baby’s bottles. Family Services turned the child over to a homosexual activist for foster care. That person’s nick name is “Queen Hag.”

Interesting how decisions that used to fall within the exclusive judgement of parents are now considered child abuse and grounds for government action and how government is now indifferent to things that were considered immoral and disapproved by almost everyone not so long ago. (more…)

The more open debate about Sandy Hook is repressed, the more the whole thing stinks. James Tracy's book about Sandy Hook was banned by Amazon. Now he has been fired from his academic job.

  THE ARGENTINE BOMBER has a new video. It's about "inter-religious dialogue," a deceptive Vatican II phrase that boils down to practical atheism. "We are all children of God," Bergoglio says, above the emotional soundtrack. Exactly, we are all children of God. But interfaith dialogue, in the modernist sense, which means different religions actually praying together and refusing to resolve their real differences, makes a deceiver out of God. If all religions are true then no religions are true or God is a liar. For Bergoglio, no religions are true, especially the Catholic Faith, which has always had the integrity to make explicit the exclusiveness that is implicit in all faiths. Read more here by Fr. Anthony Cekada, who calls this a "sleek, feel-good video for apostasy lite."

A cutesy, mildly profane, Disney-esque cartoon on the manufactured war between the sexes.

KIDIST PAULOS ASRAT writes:

Isn’t Trump a big, confusing guy? There are days when I like what he says, but then I keep retracting my “yes” vote. I keep thinking if George Washington, or Jack Kennedy, or even Jimmy Carter, would talk like him. And the answer is, of course, no.

America does need a strong leader. But, a crass leader makes the people crass, and civilization depends on civilized people. The rest of the world watches, and as America is led by un-civilized, saber-rattling leaders, it will also set its premises likewise.

Isn’t Obama disgusting? He is a truly horrendous person. He is clever, astute, and knows how to get at people – those kind souls who may be on the fence when it comes to gun ownership, etc. (more…)

Mike King of The Anti-New York Times writes:

The 3-year old memory of the fake deaths of the fake children of the fake Sandy Hook ‘massacre’ so moved the heartless butcher of Libya and Syria that he had to dramatically pause and wipe away fake tears at the mere mention of the fake event. (more…)

SEVERAL HUNDRED African or Middle Eastern men formed a mob on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Germany and attacked at least 90 women near the central train station. One woman was reportedly raped and others were groped, pushed and robbed. Angela Merkel says the men must be found:

“Everything must be done to investigate as completely and quickly as possible those who are guilty and to punish them regardless of how they look, where they come from or what their background is,” she said.

And when will Ms. Merkel be punished? The traitors who engineered the inundation of Germany are far, far more dangerous than these lawless mobs.

By the way, here is an interesting comment from a New York Times reader:

To all of those that blame “medieval” gender attitudes of N. African, Middle Eastern, etc. men, here’s a thought for you: Is the GOP any better when they want to take away women’s right to choose, thinks that there’s such a thing as “legitimate rape,” cut funding for women’s reproductive health initiatives, etc. ?

Treating women as “property” is already alive and well in the US.

There are real women who actually think this way. (more…)

  OKAY, the man is terrific at times. See more here. Still I can't support him.

  APPROXIMATELY 30 percent of Down Syndrome children are now aborted. Christian LeVangle is not one of them. He now works at a hotel and his mother says any burdens he brought were blessings.

  FOR Communists, the ends justify the means.

YOU probably won’t see Obama weeping over the death of 20-year-old Sara Mutschlechner, a student at the University of North Texas who was gunned down while driving home from a New Year’s Eve party last week. It doesn’t fit the script of the angry white gunman, which is central to the “gun control” scenario:

Sara Mutschlechner was driving along North Elm Street around 2 a.m. Friday when a black Toyota or Lexus SUV pulled up next to her. Words were exchanged and someone in the SUV opened fire, police said. (more…)

  PRESIDENT Obama shed tears during yet another speech calling for "gun control" today. Ostensibly the tears were for the children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. We should be the ones who are crying. There is a great deal of disturbing evidence of fraud at Sandy Hook. (See the book, Nobody Died at Sandy Hook, but skip the introduction which creates confusion by going into unrelated events.) Sandy Hook was very likely a criminal act of treason, a federal psy-op intended exactly for the purpose Obama is using it: To take away the guns of Americans so that when the crisis comes, they will not rebel. The need to move on gun control is urgent. Every single day more Americans are waking up to the truth --- to the truth of our corrupt monetary system, to the truth of 9/11, to the truth of false flag shootings and to the truth that America has ceased to be a democracy in any meaningful sense. Obama and America's real rulers are getting desperate. The Internet is a serious threat to them. They cannot control the flow of information. The main purpose of today's speech appears to have been to let America know that the president is prepared to take executive action and to act without Congressional approval. "Congress still needs to act," Obama said. "The folks in this room will not rest until Congress does. Because once Congress gets on board with common-sense gun safety measures,…

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