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Who is more likely to invent a false narrative and spend weeks selling it to the public: A group of people who won an election fair and square who are not afraid of scrutiny of their honest election victory OR a group of people who stole an election from the voters of a nation who are desperate to keep scrutiny away from what has been done and discredit those who call them out?

or as I’ve been saying for a while

I’ll believe those who say that claim that election 2020 was stolen are simply a conspiracy theory when those who loudly claim that such claims are a conspiracy theory stop acting like conspirators with something to hide.

I still can’t get over people on the right being surprised over “Joe Biden flip flops” or “Joe Biden doing ‘x'”, “Joe Biden saying ‘Y'” or “Joe Biden claiming ‘z'”. Please stop pretending that what he “says” matters because:

1. All these things “he” has “done” all pale before stealing the election.
2. Joe Biden is no more in charge of this government than I am.

This needs to be mentioned in every piece, in every write up and in every statement concerning the Biden administration. Don’t conceede their fantisy.

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I have to laugh at all the talk about women in the draft heading to SCOTUS for two reasons.

1. If you have a volunteer army and you create a disincentive for people to join then naturally you need to find them elsewhere so of course you need women in the draft and an active draft to boot.
2. I suspect none of the people involved in the discussion are willing to define “woman” in public.

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Speaking of laughing outloud today as I was heading back from lunch I saw a woman wearing a branded Victoria’s Secret mask as I passed and literally could not contain myself and broke out in laugher.

As she was in a large group nobody knew why I was cackling seriously Victoria Secret masks? Is she really going to wear it in an intimate moment and if you’re at work and your attire is not shall we say, in the style of Victoria’s Secret (as it would not be at work) what’s the point?

P. T. Barnum would be proud.

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I see the NBA viewing number are setting a new “not watching” record to beat last year’s “not watching” record set in a year when people were stuck at home with nothing better to do.

It’s a variant on Field of Dreams instead of: “If you build it they will come” we’ve gotten “If you insult them they will leave.”

The same thing is happening with baseball except they didn’t have anything near the NBA to start with.

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Finally while as I said I’ve not watched an inning of baseball last year and thanks to the Atlanta BS I’ve not done the same this year because I went out to eat this Saturday I did notice the Red Sox playing.

Of course I wasn’t sure it was them as they were wearing a God Awful looking uniform that resembled the 74 A’s.

I understand it was supposed to be some kind of commemoration of the Marathon Bombing but I don’t think wearing something that looks like someone throwing up is quite what fits the bill.

Yet another reason to be glad I’m not watching or listening or reading updates online.

It is in the best traditions of the American Experiment that two sides holding opposing views that can’t be easily reconciled find a compromise that will accommodate them both. I believe I have found one on the whole: “Defund the police” thing.

An apparently large amount of the activist left community continues to demand that the police be defund while a large amount of the population seem to think that doing so leaves them vunerable to violent crime so in an age where cell phones are ubiquitous and data is easily gathered those who wish to defund the police be allowed to one they sign the following pledge:

I, the undersigned no longer wish the police to be funded nor wish my tax dollars to be spent in said funding. In return for this I on behalf of me and my family formally renounce police protection and any call for assistance to protect me, my family or my property shall be ignored by police in this or any other jurisdiction and said police and/or jurisdiction that they represent shall not be held liable for any inaction on their part in any emergency involving myself, my family or property. This pledge does not preclude police from responding to any call where they have cause to believe me or mine are suspected of criminal behavior.

In most ages this would be impractical but in an age where people have cell phones that track them and police have access to data bases of data it would take seconds to determine if a call for help comes from a person who has signed such a pledge it can be safely ignored. This will allow a shrinkage of the police force which will please those who sign and submit their information and I suspect will please both those who oppose this position who don’t want their resources spent on them and the police who would be loath to protect such people.

In fact as part of the deal their houses and cars should have signs and stickers upon them advertising:

This property is a police free zone

It’ would be the ultimate in virtue signaling and I’m sure there will be many people who will see such a sign with approval, particuarly those who don’t like the police to begin with.

It will be especially fun to see woke corporations agonize over signing on or not.

“When pressed, none of the bishops I queried could report a single diocesan seminarian inspired to pursue priestly life by the current Pope. None took any pleasure in acknowledging this.”

Francis X. Maier in a research study done on

The 2nd quote from Fr. Peter M.J. Stravinskas who links Maier commenting on this quote isn’t much happier.

Again, this parallels my own experience from lectures and retreats I have given to numerous seminarians. In fact, in my spiritual direction of seminarians, I have also had the unenviable task of trying to convince them (and young priests as well) not to give up on the priesthood, so dispirited are many by Francis.

As Usual Fr. Z puts this is perspective:

Popes come and go.  There have been good Popes and bad Popes, important Popes and forgettable Popes.  Men pick them, not the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit’s role in their election is to make sure that the Pope isn’t a total disaster for the Church.  Some disaster, maybe.  Total disaster, never.  Moreover, generations of faithful Catholics lived and died without even knowing the Pope’s name.   In a lot of ways, in daily life, they just aren’t that important.

Pray for him.