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If you are a conservative and make yourself dependent on the use of Google and/or Meta as a vital source for your income you’re a fool, but not as big a fool as if you are liberal who believes that they will not cause “mistakes” to happen to you if you ever put a single foot wrong.
BTW to those who think Google and Meta are invincible I have this to say:
AOL & Internet Explorer
I’ve already taped next week’s Your Prayer Intentions show which deals with the beginning of the Bread of Life Discourses. It’s one of the most ignored parts of scripture because our protestant friends tend to pass it over because it’s very hard to spin the Eucharistic away as a symbol rather than the actual body and blood of Christ when reading it and of course our non Christian friends ignore the lot.
It’s so blatant that Jonathan Roumie, the devout Catholic who plays Jesus in the show did a reading of the passage in his Jesus voice at the latest Eucharistic Conference because as he noted it’s unlikely that they will get to film that scene.
To give you a sneak preview of what I said note this part just of the scripture involved which will be part of this sunday’s Gospel at every Catholic church in the world:
When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus. And when they found him across the sea they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” Jesus answered them and said,
“Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled. Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal.”
So they said to him, “What can we do to accomplish the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them,
“This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.”
So they said to him, “What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What can you do?
The irony here is that he literally had just fed five thousands of them with 5 loaves and two fishes. They saw it happen. In fact as I noted in last week’s show if this story had been false it would have been the easiest to prove because the logistics of 1st century Judea would have meant that the supplies and wagons to carry food for 5000+ (that number didn’t count women and children) would have been very visible, yet they still asked for a sign.
I submit and suggest they asked for another sign because they didn’t want to acknowledge the sign they had just seen because once they did, then a choice would have to be made.
Basically it’s the same choice Israel had when God actually appeared to them on the mountain (Exodus chapter 19 & 20). People often forget this in scripture, God actually appearing to the people of Israel and the people of Israel asking through Moses for God not to do that again. I blame Cecil B DeMille because that bit was left out of his epic The 10 Commandments and thus people who never actually read Exodus chapters 19 & 20 don’t realize it. I suspect that it’s the primary reason why the people of Israel still exist as a people.
And that brings us to the opening of the Paris Olympics and God’s public response.
I’m not in the least surprised at the acts of the left in their mockery of the Last Supper, nor am I surprised by their disingenuous response claiming in English that this was not what they were doing when in French it clearly stated that this was the case:
What surprised me was the very public response by God. The blackout that followed can easily be explained away as a technical issue and under normal circumstances that would be the reasonable response to the blackout the next day.
What can’t be so easily explained away is the fact that there was one rather prominent structure in the city that was not affected by the blackout:
The real irony is that Church was built in reparation for sins against the church by France.
I’ve argued for many years that God has not stopped giving signs, but we have trained ourselves not to see them because to see them generates a choice that comes down to this.
If God in general and the Catholic Church in particular is real, what will I change about my life in response?
I’ve argued that said signs are usually personal and only rarely public and certainly not commonly visible to the entire world. Apparently there are exceptions.
Well God has given you a classic sign, a public sign, nobody hurt but a visible sign of his existence. The media will of course run away from it, my parish priest has already noted that while many protestants acknowledge the blackout as a sign they have ignored the church retaining the light. Now it’s up to you.
You have a choice, you can explain it away or you can acknowledge it and act accordingly.
Your move.
When people were telling you that AI is an excellent tool they didn’t mean to use “Tool” as an adjective.
AI Lying like Wikipedia only with more style but here is the chaser:
Just remember “Wikipedia” is only as accurate as the people who edit it, “The Cloud” is just a sweet name for a bunch of cooperate servers and Ai is simply a computer program written by someone designed to give you whatever info they choose to give you in whatever way they wish to present it.
By John Ruberry
Did demonization of cops lead to a police-involved murder? Just as demonization of the military may have contributed to the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War?
Earlier this month, Sonya Massey, a black woman from Woodside Township, Illinois, was shot to death, according to police bodycam video footage, by Sangamon County deputy sheriff Sean Grayson. Massey called the police because she believed there was a prowler at her home. The cop, who has since been fired and is now charged with murder and other charges, has a rocky employment history, being employed either part-time or full-time by six different central Illinois police departments in four years, although in one of those jobs, for a small-town police department, he was let go because wouldn’t reside within 10-miles of the village.
Grayson is white, and the racial angle has brought rare national media attention to downstate Illinois.
He is a military veteran who left the service under a general discharge. According to KSHB-TV in Kansas City, Grayson “was discharged from the U.S. Army for serious misconduct during his year-and-a-half service in Fort Riley.”
According to KSDK-TV in St. Louis, Grayson has two DUI convictions, one in 2015 to which he pleaded guilty to, and another the following year he weas found guilty in a bench trial.
In his last job, according to Capitol News Illinois, prior to being hired full time by the Sangamon County sheriff’s office–another deputy sheriff position with Logan County–Grayson’s performance was poor. In a report, a chief deputy wrote that Grayson need “extensive” training after failing to follow commands. The same officer wrote that Grayson needed “additional traffic stop training, report writing training, high-stress decision making process classes, and needs to read, discuss and understand issued Logan County Sheriff’s Department policies.”
Capitol News Illinois offered additional disturbing details. “Seven months on. How are you still employed by us?” the chief deputy asked Grayson in a meeting about his job performance. “I don’t know,” was his reply.
As for My Lai, the massacre, which occurred in 1968, saw at least 300 civilians killed, including elderly people, children and infants. Some women and children were brutally gang raped. The only soldier convicted for the massacre was 2nd Lieutenant William Calley. Originally given a life sentence of hard labor in a military court martial, President Richard M. Nixon commuted that sentence to three years of house arrest.
At the time, Americans wondered how Calley, a junior college dropout who failed most of his courses, became an officer. While he did score well in a military exam, Linda Greenhouse, writing for the New York Times in 1974, said of Calley that he was someone who “apparently failed at almost everything he had tried to do.” Between quitting junior college and enlisting in the US Army in 1966, Calley’s jobs included working as a bellhop and as a dishwasher.
Normally, such a background wouldn’t be considered the makings of officer material. While the anti-war movement hadn’t reached its peak in 1966, plenty of young college graduates were being told by their parents and peers to dodge the draft, in a stealth fashion, by enlisting in the National Guard instead.
In short, the talent pool for American military officers wasn’t deep during the Vietnam War. Hence, Calley.
As for Grayson, he was hired for his first part-time police job, in the small town of Pawnee, in August 2020. That was six years after the Michael Brown killing in Ferguson, Missouri and the Laquan McDonald murder in Chicago. Both were of course police-involved killings–ones that ramped up anti-cop sentiment.
And three months before Grayson started his law enforcement job in Pawnee, George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Not only was the anti-police rhetoric sent into hyperdrive by the media and agenda-driven leftist politicians, but it was also the beginning of the Defund the Police movement.
Four years after Floyd’s murder, because of retirements and struggles in hiring replacements, many police departments don’t have enough cops. For instance, three months ago, Chicago’s police superintendant, Larry Snelling, said of the CPD, “We’re down close to 2,000 officers.”
The ACAB–All Cops Are Bastards–sentiment so many Americans believe in, or have been indoctrinated in, may be offering a bitter harvest.
The Massey shooting death could be the beginning of a tragic trend.
UPDATE July 30:
Yesterday the Washington Post reported that Calley, 80, died in hospice care in April. Citing the Social Security Index, the New York Times confirmed his passing. The cause of Calley’s death is not known.
John Ruberry regularly blogs in Illinois at Marathon Pundit.
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