The folks in DC are not going to charge the two juveniles responsible for the carjacking (and apparently other carjacking as well) and Murder the carjacking and murder of Mohammad Anwar because as youths they are not fully responsible for their actions or decisions.
BUT if those same juveniles decided that they were men rather than girls and wanted to have their breasts permanently removed OR were pregnant and wanted to abort their unborn children then not only would anyone, including their parents who even suggested that they should not be treated as if they were competent adults capable of making such a decision is not only a bigot or racist but if they were their parent or guardian the state might act to take away their custody of said juveniles.
While vintage cars continue to arrive in the neighborhood waiting on Ben Affleck and George Clooney filming a few houses down today & tomorrow I’ll be visiting Fault lines Radio at 9:15 AM to talk about Hunter Biden and the left whole Georgia BS.
And with Lent now over keep an eye out for this space because DaTechGuy’s spontaneous livestream Podcast should return sometime before noon today, Topics, Divine Mercy Sunday MLB and more.
Be there for both, and if you come to the neighborhood to watch them shoot the movie, stay off my grass.
Update: For unknown reasons fault lines bumped me to tomorrow but once I have breakfast the podcast will take place.
“Reverend” Raphael Warnock, one of the two Democrat Senators elected under the old “let me steal elections” laws in Georgia in January tweeted out an interesting take on Easter Sunday, for a Christian reverend that is, stating that we are able to save ourselves without Christ. It caused enough of a backlash that he deleted said tweet.
Of course the only part of that story that makes me Shocked SHOCKED is that there are still people out there who are still surprised that a Democrat leader doesn’t actually believe just because he’s a “reverend”
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Speaking of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (you know the guy who recorded his call from President Trump during the lawsuits over the GA results and then lied about their content to the media which ran with his false claims) the election was COMPLETELY on the up and up and anyone who thinks otherwise is some kind of conspiracy theorist, is in the news once again. You see there is an audit of ballots that the courts (now that it can’t change who is President anymore) are allowing and old Brad is trying to have it limited:
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sent a request to the courts yesterday requesting that ballot images taken from the voting machines in Georgia be the only source of evidence to be used in an upcoming audit in Fulton County Georgia. Raffensperger doesn’t want the paper ballots reviewed.
Personally I’m shocked SHOCKED that Raffensperger is apparently not delighted at the chance to prove to all the world, especially to those like me who say the election was stolen, that we are all wrong and is instead doing all he can to inhibit this count. Why you’d think he had something to hide.
I am shocked SHOCKED to see that DaTechGuy’s 3rd law of media outrage, which determines if a story is nationally newsworthy is still in full force in regard to the attack at the Capital that resulted in the death of a Capital police officer has completely disappeared from coverage and that officer William ‘Billy’ Evans is apparently not worthy of the honor of lying in state at the capital as there is no political advantage to highlighting his death.
The MSM’s elevation and continued classification of any story as Nationally Newsworthy rather than only of local interest is in direct correlation to said story’s current ability to affirm any current Democrat/Liberal/Media meme/talking point, particularly on the subject of race or sexuality.
is certainly in play according to this piece at Althouse”
There isn’t even an attacker in the headline. The only human beings in the headline are the “authorities” and the “Asian American woman.” The evildoer disappears. There’s no attacker, only an “attack.” But if there are hate crime charges, then the human mind is all important. “Attack” stresses the outward action. “Hate” requires a hater. There is a shadow of a person in the word “hate,” the gesture at a mind.
But this person is depersonalized — depersonalized because he is black. If a white man had stomped on an old Asian-American lady, he’d get full recognition in the headline. Is that racist?
I am of course Shocked SHOCKED by this development, but still insist that it is more that sufficient and proper to prosecute a person for the actual attack rather than prosecuting someone over “hate” which is an emotion.
Remember if you can criminalize one emotion you can criminalize any.
Finally I am shocked SHOCKED to discover that neither reality nor Kurt Schlichter are the least bit concerned about the results of cause and effect of leftist talking points when they are put into action by leftist pols voted in by leftist voters in leftist cities
Apparently he like many of us on the right believe it’s axiomatic that in a republic the voters in a city get the government and thus the laws & the environment they deserve, but as this is Easter week I think the quote I used from St. Leonard of Port Maurice is even more apt: “Thy Damnation Comes from Thee.“
Personally I wonder if the voters in these cities keep choosing the people who do this to them or if the people who count the votes in these cities do so.
St. Leonard of Port Maurice quoting the Prophet Osee (Hosea)
Today is Easter Sunday the Holiest day of the year where we celebrate the resurrection of Christ and our own that will follow. It started at the Easter Vigil mass where the great “Alleluia” returns to the mass and converts to the faith are baptized (if they have not been before) and confirmed (in the faith) and receive their 1st Holy Communion (if they were Catholics in their youth but never confirmed then they return to the Sacrament). This makes a lot of sense as what better day to welcome someone to salvation then the day it was completed.
Good Friday is the day our debt was paid and Easter Sunday is the day that we were told that we were free to go.
But while we are free to go, it’s worth noting that while we are promised life we are not promised an easy time of it. As Jesus told the disciples just before he went into the garden:
“If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.
Remember the word I spoke to you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin.
Whoever hates me also hates my Father. If I had not done works among them that no one else ever did, they would not have sin; but as it is, they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But in order that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’
“When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me. And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
“I have told you this so that you may not fall away.
They will expel you from the synagogues; in fact, the hour 1 is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God. They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me.
John 15:18-16:3
Those words are particularly relevant today. While the United States has been a Christian Country for most of its existence historically it was not all that friendly to Catholics, (quite understandable our nation came from English colonies who had very little use for Catholics and where constantly at war with Catholic France who used the Indians as pawns in that fight for a century.) It wasn’t until the wave of Irish that the Catholic faith gained a modicum of power in the country and while the church is much more powerful then it was in 1776 or 1850 or even 1920 we are in an era where believing Christians of all stripes are in disfavor by our media, by our leadership and by our culture.
That’s why I respect those who joined the Church at the Easter vigil. Such people are doing so in the face of our Catholic “President” and the leadership that has a greater hatred for actual practicing and believing Catholics who follow the faith as it is then most prior administrations.
This is not a surprise nothing is a bigger indictment for one who is false then one who is true and those who are coming to the faith at a time when it is a target are the truest of the true. If they came a century or even a half century earlier that act would have been still been celebrated by civil authorities and by to some degree by the culture. In fact I’m sure there were many during that time when one without faith was less likely to advance who repeated those vows in the spirit of Michael Corleone’s saying the words because it suited him even as he tossed them away:
In fact I am sure that there is more than a few “conservatives” in deep red states that are Michael Corleone who give lip service to the faith for their own purposes. I find such people even more despicable than those who in a blue state like mine when given the choice between faith and power and prestige drop the faith for put on the false fig leaf of “personally opposed” to things. They like Pilate are merciful until it becomes inconvenient or dangerous.
But those who came in yesterday are doing so in the face of all of this knowing all these things and also knowing that with the exception of St. John the Evangelist every single one of those disciples who the risen Lord would greet in that locked room would die a violent death at the hands of authorities all over the world.
Yet they still come because they understand that two thousand years later those dead are still alive today, members of the Communion of Saints that they have just entered and that they are venerated and remembered on earth Millenia later and will be till the world takes its final turn, while those who sought to kill them (and did not repent of this crime) are largely forgotten, and if remembered on earth remembered as villain’s while more importantly find themselves today in a position that I would not want my worst enemy to be in.
Those busy running from or attacking Christianity in general and the Catholic faith in particular for fun, power and profit should keep that in mind.
Those who came in yesterday show the 1st and most vital of the virtues courage, the courage that Don Surber wrote of a few days ago when he noted this story:
The Guardian ran a story on October 2, 2015, which began, “Details have begun to emerge of the terrifying experience of students and staff at the Umpqua community college, where 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer shot and killed nine people and injured at least seven others. “Harper Mercer died in a shootout with police who responded to calls about an active shooter at 10.38 am on Thursday.” The headline read, “Oregon college shooting: ‘He asked are you Christian? Then he shot and killed them.’ “ I ask myself sometimes if I were the second person he asked would I be brave enough to say yes? Sometimes I answer correctly, and other times I am ashamed of myself.
I am very lucky. I had very devout parents who brought me up in the faith and when to a Catholic grade school for seven years when such schools were actually Catholic, even with that advantage it was a hard slog to get to where I am. They managed to get here without the advantages I had. I’m in awe of them.
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