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I listen to sports radio regularly and after a week of hearing little or nothing of it the story of Deshawn Watson being accused by over a dozen women of sexual misconduct finally broke through tonight.

Until today his accusers were as invisible to the press as Tara Reade. I wonder what changed? Did somebody claim he is a secret Donald Trump supporter or something?

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On Yes Prime Minister episode The Bishop’s Gambit they talked about bishops being “modernists” which was a code word for “unbeliever”.

That’s all I could think of when I saw James Martin lament what the Vatican’s statement on Gay Marriage does to young gay people and the reactions of Bishops like Johan Bonny and Blaze Cupish, who are more worried about people’s feelings than people’s eternal souls.

Modernists all.

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I wanted to say something about the sudden discovery of hate crimes against Asians but I can’t do better than this:

Plus: Dear White Liberals, We Asians Aren’t Your Pawns. “My brother replied that there were over 3,800 incidents of anti-Asian violence last year, yet you didn’t check on us. The friend said he didn’t know. My brother said, of course not—because no one besides us Asians cared. But now that you see a perp is a white male from the South, you start to care. You have to make this about YOU making a political statement rather than really caring about us, the Asian Americans. . . . My brother told his ‘friend,’ or his ‘ally,’ to snap out of trying to be the white savior.”

Want to prove to someone “White supremacy” is BS? Show them white liberals.

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We are starting to see the battle of the masks at restaurants where mask bans are lifted. Some restaurants insisting that one must still be masked and others not.

I don’t mind that myself. Let those who are still afraid go someplace with masks and let those who are not go without, that’s freedom.

But I must say one of the saddest sights I’ve ever seen was two kids of twelve or so walking outside in a wooded area both masked.

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South Dakota Gov Noem is now hedging on the bill to protect woman’s sports from the Transgender insanity suddenly deciding that it shouldn’t apply on the college level.

Powerline suspects she is bowing to threats from the NCAA but point out that said hedging is not winning her friends in the left.

Someone needs to tell her that once you pay the Danegeld you never get rid of the Dane.

Without God all things are permitted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Do not defile yourselves by any of these things by which the nations whom I am driving out of your way have defiled themselves. Because their land has become defiled, I am punishing it for its wickedness, by making it vomit out its inhabitants. You, however, whether natives or resident aliens, must keep my statutes and decrees forbidding all such abominations by which the previous inhabitants defiled the land;

Leviticus 18:24-27

Commenting on the arrest of a gay married Democrat Judge with adopted children and strong supporter of “drag queen story time” for child porn this week Don Surber asks a question:

Why don’t we oppose perversion anymore?

That answer is actually pretty easy. We are divided into two societies in the west. The Christian society that we always had and the secular society of the left where Christianity is rejected. The initial trigger was the removal of prayer in schools and began in earnest when the left embraced abortion which caused Christians who actually believed in, you know Christianity, to migrate to the GOP. Their embrace of Gay Marriage cemented the change and their demands for Transgenderism put the exclamation point.

While some might not think this is a big deal, the truth is that the rejection of religion in general and Christianity in particular (with its roots in Judaism) reduces man to what he is without God. Simply an animal that exploits their environment to satisfy one’s individual desires.

The problem being for the left of course that one still needs the votes of Christians to get elected (except for elections when one steals it of course) and thus a facade of respectability must be retained, as John put it

And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.

John 3:19-21

The farther we walk from God the more we become that revert from children of God with an eternal soul to the other half of our nature, the animal no different than any other simply with a higher capacity to use tools to satisfy our desires and impose our will.

All of what we are seeing is the animal in us undoing civilization and using the tools of the modern world to satisfy their desires for power, control, wealth, or sexual satisfaction, or to put it simply, to elevate their desires over all and for those ends any means is allowed.

It’s the sin of pride on steroids’.

So to answer Don Surber’s question: Why don’t we oppose perversion anymore, the answer is simply, because we’ve abandoned any believe in anything bigger than ourselves, namely God and thus are embracing the finite animal we are rather than our eternal soul.

It will have a high cost.

Saw this tweet via instapundit via Not the Bee

What was your woke breaking point?

— Seerut K. Chawla (@seerutkchawla) March 20, 2021

I replied on twitter but here is my answer all in one go:

It was 33 years ago when I owned a comic book store. I had left to do a Sunday comic show putting a young but responsible teenage employee was in charge. When I came back he was nervous. He pointed to a young black kid that I had befriended and said he saw him stealing but was unsure what to do because I had been very friendly with him.

I said: “What are my standing orders if someone is caught shoplifting?”

He answered: “Lock the door and call the police”

I said: “Do so”

He locked the door and called the police. The kid was very scared until the officer showed up and I head him say in relief: “It’s a black cop”. I took the officer aside and told him I didn’t want the kid arrested because he’s young and didn’t want to give him trouble but I didn’t want him stealing from me, if he could put the fear of God in him I’d really appreciated. The officer made a big show of telling him “If there’s one thing I can’t stand it’s a thief” and asking me if I wanted him arrested I said I’d let it go this time but if it happens again that wouldn’t be the case. He took the kid home.

The next day the kid’s mom showed up very angry that her son had been brought home in a police car. I explained that my employee had caught him shoplifting while I was gone and although I had not it myself the kid working for me was very responsible and I was obliged to believe him. She wanted to talk to him but as he was a teenager he didn’t work until next Saturday. I told her she was welcome to come back then and talk to him at that time. I’d let them speak in the back.

I spoke to him about it and he agreed. The word got around with the regulars at the store and a good sized crowd were at the store Saturday to see what would happen. She showed up around noon and she and the employee in question went into the back room.

She led with: “My son is not a thief”

My employee answered matter-of-factly, “Yes he is”

It went downhill from there.

After about 10 minutes she left in a huff pausing only long enough to say “Hello Monkey” to a tall black kid near the counter who was one of the regulars looking at baseball cards. She was followed by my teenaged employee came out with a smile having not backed down one bit from what he saw and not the least bit intimidated by the woman twice his age and talking about his encounter.

I had noticed that “monkey” seemed surprised at seeing her and from that presumed he had no idea what was going on he he had come in after she had showed up and was looking at baseball cards either completely indifferent to or completely unknowing of the day’s unfolding drama. I turned to him and asked:

“Do you know that lady?”

“Yes, she’s ‘xxx’s mom”, he paused for a moment, “She’s a racist.”

I did a double take, and everyone else in the store suddenly turned in amazement, a few already with silly grins already on some faces, particularly my employee who had just spoken to her.

Still surprised I asked him: “Why do you say she’s a racist?”

He answered calmly like a reporter stating a basic fact: “She hates my mother because she’s white.”

At this point the entire store erupted with laughter as the irony of what we had just heard combined with what had happened that day.

It was in that moment that the twenty something me considered what I had saw and realized most emphatically that whatever the merit of the struggles of the past might have been, the “white guilt” card, what is now called “wokeness” was simply a grift employed by some for advantage or profit.