Looks like the U.S. military is finally sticking up for gay rights

Why Our Commanders Look The Other Way During Child Rape

The gay rights movement has deep roots in pederasty.  

The mistake conservatives make about the Pope

I'll try to blog in detail on the Pope's visit and speech shortly. Short version: I love his address to Congress. One of the most beautiful speeches I've heard. He is right about everything in the speech. I ask my conservative friends to wait before they blow a gasket.

Just a brief note on a comment by my friend Ilion:

I'm sorry, Michael, but this pope is a fool, top to bottom, and he is a socialist (and he seems to be a Marxist, at least a "soft" one) ... just as almost all "intellectual" Catholics are. And while I do understand your very human impulse to put his deeds and words in the best light, you risk making yourself a fool if you go too far in doing this.
The sad fact is that there is in Catholicism a profound hatred, or at least fear, of general human freedom. This is why, for example, Catholics are always at the forefront of laying false charges against capitalism; for capitalism is just the natural result of human freedom with respect to one's labor and the fruit of one's labor.

I respectfully disagree. Pope Francis is certainly a fool--a fool for Christ, in the Pauline sense. The battle the Holy Father is engaging is a spiritual battle, not a political battle. Working for the common good, love and respect for the vulnerable, the weak, the poor, and sinners is basic Christian life. Living one's life in accordance with Matthew 25 is not socialism. Care for the poor is not Marxism, soft or otherwise.

Conservatives make a horrible mistake to create an idol of political ideology. That's what liberals do, and it is ultimately satanic, literally. Satan, as Rene Girard has pointed out, is an imitator. He imitates Christian charity to wage spiritual war on mankind--that is a particularly succinct definition of liberalism and its socialist and Marxist congeners.

Socialism is the (satanically inspired) imitation of Christian charity.

This is the conservative mistake: by denigrating Christian charity as so beautifully expressed by the Pope, we abandon all the best motives and works of man to the Left. I can't imagine a more unwise thing a conservative can say than: "all the stuff the Pope is saying about love and respect and human decency is socialist".

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Is human dignity socialist? Is care for the foreigner socialist? Is love for the poor socialist? Is respect for our neighbor socialist? Is mercy for sinners socialist? Is forgiveness socialist? Is sacrifice to help the less fortunate socialist?

Why not just hand the socialists the victory trophy right now and get it over with?

Goodness gracious, Satan pops a champagne bottle every time a conservative says such things. Hell's agenda is this: to portray evil as good, and good as evil. To equate the Pope's entirely Christian exhortations--exhortations that come right out of the Lord's words in the New Testament and right out of 2000 years of Catholic magisterium-- with evil is to do the devil's work for him.

Sometimes, I suspect, the devil loves conservatives.

Conservatives are the natural defenders of Christian culture. Conservatives should enthusiastically embrace the Pope's beautiful exposition of Christian morality. I believe that the Pope is (very shrewdly) proving to be the Left's worst enemy, because he's taking back Christian charity from Marxists and socialists and liberals who have expropriated it for ends that are plainly evil.

The task before conservatives is to show that socialism is fake Christian morality. Socialism is an impostor. Socialism is a lie--a clever stratagem from the father of lies. Conservatives lend powerful credibility to Satan's lie when they insist that Christian charity is socialism.

Conservative values--freedom (the freedom to work towards God's purposes for our lives), hard work, respect for the natural world, rule of law, centrality of the family, traditional marriage, chastity--are the means to achieve the ends of Christian charity, an end so eloquently evoked by the Holy Father in his breathtakingly beautiful speech. 

Planned Parenthood: the video

Abortion-lovers have claimed that Carly Fiorina wasn't telling the truth about that Planned Parenthood video showing the intact fetus baby alive on a platter about to have his organs removed for sale.

A PAC has released this. You can see the baby's heart beating, and he's moving his legs.

It's hard to watch.

"[Planned Parenthood] helps prevent more than 500,000 abortions a year"

Ed Brayton has a real howler:

Getting rid of Planned Parenthood would significantly increase the number of unwanted pregnancies (studies have found that PP helps prevent more than 500,000 abortions a year)...

Wow. Planned Parenthood dispenses contraceptives (especially to poor minority women), so it's really saving lives! There's fewer little (black) babies to abort!

New Planned Parenthood motto:

"Prevent 'em now or kill 'em later."

Too bad the Nazi doctors didn't think of this defense at the Nuremberg trials: "Hey we gave the Jews contraceptives and we sterilized a lot of them, so think of how many lives we saved!"

Nice way to tip-toe around a holocaust.  

About the Pope...

Pope Francis is currently in Cuba, bring Christ and the Catholic idea to that beleaguered isle. He has come under substantial attack from conservatives who believe that he should not visit Cuba, or that he should do more to denounce the Castro regime. Many of these conservatives also believe that the Pope is a leftist and that he has Communist sympathies.

I don't agree. First, I must note that I take second place to no one in my hatred of communism. Socialism in general, and communism in particular, are raw evil, and they are the scourge of modern man. Castro(s) is a totalitarian thug, and he should be tried for crimes against humanity. I'd love to give the Cuban community in Miami a few minutes alone with the guy. He's get the justice he deserves.

That said, I think that conservatives seriously misread this Pope. Francis is not a leftist. He is an orthodox Catholic, and his teaching on economics and government and the environment are mainstream Catholic teaching, straight out of the Catechism. The content of his teaching is little different from that of St. John Paul II or Pope Benedict, or from the teachings of any of the modern popes.

Francis does provide a different emphasis, which is his privilege. Each Pope stresses the things he believes need to be stressed. And what Pope Francis is stressing-- mercy, care for the poor, care for sinners, the very real problem of gluttony (in the sense of compulsive consumption), lust for wealth and possessions, and all of the enormous dangers and evils of capitalism-- are things that really need to be stressed. Goodness, look at the filth and greed and lust for possessions that is poured on us each day by advertisers and media. It makes Sodom and Gomorrah look like a convent. We are so embedded in our culture that we often fail to see our own depravity.

Francis is right about most things--Laudato Si is a beautiful encyclical. His emphasis is nearly perfect, and he really nails the evils of opulent Western society. It is the responsibility of Catholics and all people of good will to listen to him carefully. He has much to teach humanity, and nearly all of it is good.

A couple of provisos are in order. I believe that Pope is wrong about global warming-- AGW is an obvious scientific hoax, and I'm disappointed that he doesn't see it. And I believe that Francis has not sufficiently condemned socialism, which is pure evil, as opposed to capitalism, which is concupiscence, but not evil in itself. And there is no question that capitalism has been a tremendous engine of prosperity for billions of people--it is the most successful anti-poverty program mankind has ever known, without parallel.

But capitalism has dangers just like sex and food have dangers. All are inherently good, but all can be misused in very sinful ways.I think the Pope's political heritage, which seems to be not communist nor capitalist but Peronist, influences his thinking on economics and leads him to wrongly deemphasize some of the evil of socialism.

And I do caution readers to pay attention only to what Pope Francis says and does--his actual words and actions, not to what the media says about him. The media coverage is utterly mendacious, and should be ignored.

The Pope's visit to Cuba and America is a pastoral visit, not a political visit. He is coming to care for his sheep, and the Catholics in the prison that is Cuba desperately need his guidance and inspiration, which presupposes diplomacy and tact. I hope his pastoral visit to America is similarly one of inspiration and love of Christ and our neighbor, and that the politics--particularly the distortions of the politics by the liberal media and to a lesser extent by conservatives--doesn't get in the way. 

A plug for a great book: "SJW's Always Lie; taking down the thought police"

I just read Vox Day's new book SJW's Always Lie. It's an ebook on Kindle. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Day (aka Theodore Beale) has had his share of run-ins with the libtard thought police (Beale has been a major player in GamerGate), and he's a very smart and ballsy guy who really understands SJW's (Social Justice Warriors).

I'll try to post more on the book, but I should briefly mention his three Laws of SJW's:

1) SJW's always lie. They lie because their entire plan is to advance the Narrative, and the Narrative is their religion. The Narrative has no necessary connection to the truth; it is only a means of advancing their power and satisfying their egos. If there is a transient conjunction with an aspect of the Narrative and the truth (which is rare), it is accidental and still basically a lie.

SJW's always lie.

2) SJW's always double-down. Because SJW's always lie, and because the Narrative is never about any aspect of the truth, when SJW's are caught lying, they merely intensify the lies. They always double-down, even when caught red-handed lying. The Narrative must be protected at all times, and the SJW response to refutation of the Narrative is always more intense Narrative--more intense lying.

3) SJW's always project. This is a very important observation, and one that I have noticed for a while. It's quite remarkable: when an SJW is accusing an opponent of something--racism or lying or incompetence or whatever-- it is almost invariable that the accusation is precisely what the SJW himself is doing. There are no more flagrant racists in America than progressive Democrats, yet to be a progressive Democrat necessarily entails calling everyone else a racist. There is no one more responsible for gun crime in the U.S. than progressive Democrats--they govern and populate every crime-infested city and they create gun-free zones in which spree shooters can kill so easily and successfully--yet progressive Democrats accuse everyone but themselves of being responsible for gun violence. The list of SJW projections is endless. I have my own rule: if you want to know what a SJW is up to, just note what he's accusing you of. It's a remarkably reliable indicator of his motives.

Please buy Beale's book. It's a superb insight into SJW tactics and worldview, and it contains excellent strategies for dealing with SJW attacks. I'll try to post more on it.

Global Warming fascist provides a succinct description of climate science

As you're probably aware, a coterie of 20 global warming fascists wrote a letter to the Attorney General demanding criminal prosecution under RICO statutes of organizations who are skeptical of global warming "science". Here's a great link at Red State with the email addresses of the Stazi scientists. Give'em a piece of your mind.

One of the bastards--Barry A. Klinger-- provided an explanation for his effort to criminalize scientific dissent.

He quoted a RICO judgement against tobacco companies to define the five elements of fraud:

Generally, a plaintiff must prove five elements by "clear and convincing evidence" to prevail on a fraud claim. See e.g., Armstrong v Accrediting Council Continuing Educ. & Training, Inc., 961 F. Supp. 305, 309 (D.D.C. 1997). They are: (1) a false representation, (2) in reference to a material fact, (3) made with the knowledge of its falsity, (4) with the intent to deceive, and (5) on which action is taken in reliance upon the representation. ( p. 1564)

Hmmm... 'deliberate deception by false representation of facts on which action is taken' is a stunningly precise description of climate science.

R.I.C.O. prosecution is a great idea. The entire climate science community should be investigated. Let's start with their emails.