COMPASSION and Choices is the doublespeak name for the former Hemlock Society. The organization is a major player in spreading the cult of physician-assisted suicide in America and the mounting movement to devalue the lives of the sick. Things are proceeding quickly. The American Medical Association is considering next month revoking its disapproval of physician-assisted suicide. In response to all this, the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network has released a new short film "Compassion and Choice -- Denied:" Compassion and Choice DENIED explores the effects efforts to legalize physician assisted suicide have on those who are living with terminal illness but who do not want “aid in dying.” The film features Stephanie, a wife and mother living with a terminal diagnosis. She has experienced first-hand the dangerous effects of California’s recent legalization of physician assisted suicide. As she deals with insurance denials of treatment her doctor ordered and changes in the tone of conversations in various support groups, her story highlights the ways in which the difficulty of living with a terminal diagnosis is compounded by the growing cultural acceptance of the notion of assisted suicide. This negatively changes the ways in which people with terminal illnesses are thought of, and the ways in which they think about themselves. Source "'Compassion and Choices' -- they've challenged me a lot," Stephanie says. "They're trying to change definitions of words to make it sound sweet and pretty and tempting.... They're talking about how…

  FROM The Daily Mail: An anonymous Frenchman wearing a hidden camera recorded the aftermath of a raid on a migrant camp on Avenue de Flandre in the north of the French capital. After the migrants had been forced on to buses by police officers in full riot gear, all that was left was sidewalks blocked with trash, junk and mattresses. The video also captures the scene before the hundreds of young Africans, mainly Sudanese and Eritreans, were confronted by riot shields and tear gas. The men are shown forced to live and sleep on flat pieces of cardboard, with all their worldly belongings stuffed into plastic bags.

BISHOP Daniel Dolan writes today to his parishioners in his weekly bulletin at St. Gertrude the Great in West Chester, Ohio: The other day several of you asked whether you could vote in good conscience for Trump, given all the character accusations against him. He certainly is a character. The answer is yes. As a matter of fact, our leaders have always been deeply flawed characters. Only the media used to hide it. Now, selective revelation is used to get those selected for attack. But I feel sorry for those only exposed to the selective propaganda from deep state.... Trump is no worse than many a politician, president or national leader of the past, now "canonized" perhaps or with his own holiday. The curious thing is the more he is attacked, the more he blurts out bits of the truth. Bring it on! Were he elected he might actually appoint some good Supreme Court justices, and more. In any event, Trump seems uniquely qualified to destroy at least some of the now-entrenched one world, leftist deep state, with its open borders, unceasing propaganda and perpetual wars. This includes war against Catholicism, we now know, as well as against babies and so much more. How curious that perhaps a pagan could be the man of the hour. Finally, you must consider those unspeakable characters of proven immorality who are so bitterly waging war against this man. We know their agenda. They are worried.…

IT'S not surprising that "Pope" Francis is seeking close ties with Lutherans. He and Martin Luther have a great deal in common. “I really like good Lutherans, Lutherans who really practice their faith in Jesus Christ. What I don’t like are lukewarm Catholics and lukewarm Lutherans”.  --- Jorge Bergoglio, Oct. 13, 2016 “Certainly God is great and almighty, good and merciful and all that one can imagine in this sense, but He is stupid.”         --- Martin Luther

AT Christ of Chaos, Dr. Thomas Droleskey strongly condemns the indecent language of Donald Trump and those who dismiss it as mere “locker room talk:”

No matter Donald John Trump’s remarkable thrashing of the Republican political establishment, committed as it has long been to conserving the welfare state, plundering the national treasury, refusing to protect the innocent preborn or to secure our borders, and to engaging in one needless, immoral, unjust and unconstitutional war after another, none of this will matter to him at the moment of his Particular Judgment as he is accountable for the example that he sets for others. A presidential candidate whose throat is an open sepulcher in public helps to reinforce the acceptability of profanity and indecency that is so widespread today in every aspect of what is called “popular culture.” The innocence of children is thus further undermined and reinforced.

No one can “make America great again” by speaking profanely.

Sure, there is a lot of hypocrisy from those who adhere to the false opposite of the naturalist “left” about Donald John Trump’s vulgarity and indecency.

So what?

There is also a lot of hypocrisy from those who adhere to the false opposite of the naturalist “right” as thy seek to excuse Trump for saying things that they would never tolerate in a William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.

Also, see Dr. Droleskey, in the post “Jorge’s Kind of Catholics,” on the scandal of the “anti-Catholic” e-mails released by Wikileaks.

Update: While I also condemn Trump’s vulgarity, I do not share Dr. Droleskey’s view that we must not vote for him. (more…)

FATHER William Jenkins, of the Society of St. Pius V, argues that it is morally permissible -- and may even be obligatory -- for Catholics to vote for a candidate such as Donald Trump. Stick with this lecture; it is a compelling examination of the presidential election.

  SEE Mike King's chronology of the events leading us to global war: Donald's Trump's openly stated desire to get along with Russia and avoid World War 3 has earned him the contempt of the Globalist elite. One of the most intense propaganda campaigns in history has been aimed at Trump. During the final stretch of the campaign, the New York Times has been running as many as 10 attack items in a single day! Trump's peaceful foreign policy, and not his controversial statement, is the real reason he is under attack. Donald Trump, as flawed as he is, represents the last chance to avoid the coming war for Globalism and Zionism.

  ON "transgenderism," Joe Sobran wrote: I don’t pretend to speak for the entire transphobic community, but my own strong belief is that transphobia is not a matter of choice. I was born this way, and there is nothing “wrong” with it. "Diane Speaks His Piece," Joe Sobran And here's the deceased columnist on Hillary and Bill: Hillary and Bill are like members of a trapeze act who hate each other’s guts, but can’t let go: if one falls, the act is finished.

JOHN HALPIN of American Progress wrote in 2011 to John Podesta, Hillary's current campaign chairman, expressing his view of Catholics. These comments are idiotic; they are hard to take seriously. But here's one: It's an amazing bastardization of the faith. They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy. [bold added] You decide who has backwards gender relations:  

HERE IS TRUMP yesterday -- strong, forceful and clear -- on the latest Wikileaks revelations from Hillary's emails: 'We're protecting the borders of foreign countries,' he said, forecasting a new Clinton administration. 'But not our borders.' 'These Wikileaks emails confirm what those of us here today have known all along: Hillary Clinton is the vessel of a corrupt globalist establishment that's raiding our country and surrendering the sovereignty of our nation,' he said. 'This criminal government cartel doesn't recognize borders but believes in global governance, unlimited immigration and rule by corporations.' Emails by her campaign chairman John Podesta talk of Soros-funded subversion of the Catholic Church. There's no surprise here (see report from FoxNews, if you can stand a few minutes of Me-GYN Kelly) but probably many are not aware of it. This sort of thing has been going on since Vatican II. (Actually, it's been going on for 2,000 years.) George Soros is a major influence at the Vatican. See more by Elizabeth Yore at The Remnant. I expect this will make no serious difference in the "Catholic" support for Hillary.  

THE SPIRIT OF INNOVATION — creative, determined, inspired — flourishes unabated in small towns and big cities across the land. Here is but one example: (more…)

SUSAN-ANNE WHITE writes from Northern Ireland:

I cannot understand why you are recommending that your American readers vote for Donald Trump. To say that this is hypocritical on your part is an understatement. You have written at length about his immorality and his support for the LGBT lobby etc. He is an adulterer and as pro-LGBT as he could possibly be and he also seems to waver on the Muslim and immigration issues. He and Hillary Clinton are evil and mirror images of each other. I fail to see how anyone could vote for either of them. The “lesser evil” argument still involves voting for evil yet, incredibly, some in America are claiming this about Trump. (more…)

HAVE you ever wondered why there are not more female inventors? Why not more women like the remarkable Hedy Lamarr, the Hollywood actress who co-invented (with a man) a secret communications system based on work done by her husband (whom she divorced)?

The reason is less obvious than you may think. It has little to do with the copiously documented superiority of men in mechanical skills and their competitiveness. It also has little to do with the fact that women have been busy taking care of inventors and giving birth to and raising inventors.

The real reason is that for far too long people have been comparing the ideas of inventors to “light bulbs.” This persistent metaphor has discouraged women, whose ideas are more like seeds — not light bulbs. There’s a huge difference, as you know, between a “light bulb” and “a seed.” One takes genius; the other involves lots of care. Male inventors were simply switching on bulbs — and that was pretty easy. Words kill. The wrong words kill the ideas and initiative of invisible inventors.

The New York Times reports:

Researchers found that we find an idea more or less exceptional depending on the metaphors used to describe it. And not just that: Those metaphors had different effects depending on the gender of the idea’s creator. (more…)

HERE'S a plan in five steps. These solutions are not promoted by the political establishment of either the U.S. or Europe.

ANTI-GLOBALIST EXPATRIATE writes:

James Palmer describes life in China:

My time in China has taught me the pleasure and value of craftsmanship, simply because it’s so rare. To see somebody doing a job well, not just for its own reward, but for the satisfaction of good work, thrills my heart; it doesn’t matter whether it’s cooking or candle-making or fixing a bike. When I moved house some years ago, I watched with genuine delight as three wiry men stripped my old apartment to the bone in 10 minutes, casually balancing sofas and desks on their backs and packing the van as tightly as a master Tetris player.

But such scenes are an unusual treat. … Instead, the prevailing attitude is chabuduo, or ‘close enough’. (more…)

  STEPHEN BASKERVILLE writes at The Daily Caller: This election will be remembered as a metaphor for our civilization.  Though many people dislike both candidates for diverse reasons, one underlying subtext has now emerged into the open that shows there is still a very clear difference: the power of sexual indulgence to determine our politics. The consequences of uninhibited sexual freedom are now as explicit as a pornographic movie. Both candidates are not only products but pioneers of the Sexual Revolution, and together they personify its political dynamic. On the one hand, Trump epitomizes the personal hedonism of the Sexual Revolution – the side dominated by men.  (He is not the first, but his case is the most politically critical – more than, say, Ted Kennedy or Bill Clinton.)  This side of the Revolution came first chronologically.  Playboy magazine and its imitators came on the scene in the 1950s.  This represents sexual freedom for its own sake, with no pretense at any larger principles. Shortly after, we began to see the political side of the Revolution.  This began with the “free love” of the beat and hippy generations, which transformed unlimited sexual freedom into a political statement: an act of rebellion against all authority.  This soon transformed itself into the more aggressive and authoritarian feminism. Read the rest of Baskerville's article "The Sexual Revolution Triumphant" here. He ends with this: Trump has one chance, and so do the rest of us.  The only way…

HILLARY Clinton’s accusation once again in yesterday’s debate that Russia has interfered in the presidential election — a claim based on evidence that has not been publicly vetted — was wildly irresponsible.

But then what struck me most in the second round of the presidential boxing tournament (1-1), which is looking more and more like reality TV, was that both candidates seem determined to make enemies abroad. [Read the full transcript here.] With Hillary, it’s Russia. With Trump, it’s Iran.  Trump is hellbent on wrecking the Iran agreement, the chance for lasting peace with that country. And Hillary was even more belligerent toward Russia. (more…)