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If I was EWTN I’d market displays and inflatables of the Saints for lawn display so a Catholic like me can decorate his house at Halloween and when people ask I can remind them that All Hallows Eve is about it being the Eve of All Saints Day celebrating those in heaven & love of God.

Now THAT would be a radical display

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Today Halloween would have been my father’s 104th birthday. He didn’t live to see his 66th birthday nor my wedding (although he rather unexpectedly turned up at the rehearsal the night before which is a story I’ll tell another time). He had managed a single social security check before dying and had bought my mother a car that he didn’t live to drive in once. She kept that car running till her death 25 years later.

It’s very hard to be the son of a great man. My father was a great man who you likely never heard of. He was the living example of Christ’s charge to not let your right hand know what your left hand is doing when doing good.

I’ll likely outlive him in years but never in honor or goodness, although my sons are well on their way to being his equal and have easily surpassed me both in honor & goodness.

That’s a great comfort.

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I was listening to the Screwtape letters at work yesterday and noted Screwtape’s dream of the materialist magician who believes in “forces” and “demons” but not in God.

Looking at his words from 84 years ago and society today all I can say is: Boy did Lewis call it or what?

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The most amazing thing about the modern left is their total obsession with Donald Trump.

While I understand that there are a fair amount of people who make a living off of this the sheer number of folks who carry an obsessive hatred of a man who they will never meet and has at best a tangential effect on their lives is astounding. One would think that they would consider actually living their own lives.

Its hard to imagine a life that empty and devoid of purpose but then again I find it hard to imagine parents spaying their children to gain social status so what do I know.

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Finally watching the left unable to sell the media on the idea that they are not responsible for the government shutdown & media members calling them out of it brings me to mind on of my favorite movements from Matt Smith’s excellent run as Doctor who:

Young Kazran Sardic: Are you really a babysitter?
11th Doctor: I think you’ll find I’m universally recognized as a mature and responsible adult.
(He shows Kazran the psychic paper which makes people see what he wants)
Young Kazran Sardic: It’s just a lot of wavy lines.
11th Doctor: (looks at the paper) Yeah, it’s shorted out. Finally, a lie too big. 

Doctor Who: A Christmas Carrol 2010

There are a fair amount of Trump haters who still buy this line but nobody outside of the bubble does and the bubble has been getting smaller and smaller.

While the President is right about the state of the city of Boston (which is why I’m unlikely to go to any Redsox games next year) when he talks about the World Cup the reality is that the game would take place in Foxborough which is actually quite a ways away from the city.

It’s sort of the way people assume folks from Massachusetts are from “Boston” because they really don’t know any other city here. Although in fairness Trump’s move would likely hit Boston’s hotel industry.

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Speaking of Foxborough the New England Patriots after six weeks under a new coach and with a real #1 receiver on the field suddenly find themselves in first place thanks to a pair of losses by the Buffalo Bills, one delivered by Said Patriots.

I credit the new receiver because as he’s now drawing the coverage of the other teams best guy it means that the rest of the receiving crew are now facing easier coverage which is why Maye keeps finding them open.

I had been talking to people at work saying: Boy whoever bet on this must have really scored big but apparently a $10 bet that the Pats would be in 1st place by week six only paid $45 and one that they would win the division only paid $55.

That surprised me more than them being in first but it tells me those oddsmakers really know their jobs.

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We are nearing the 100th anniversary of the moment when Western Civilization started committing suicide, namely the anniversary of when the Lambeth Conference, which takes place every 10 years in the Anglican church, suddenly decided that birth control was no longer a grave sin.

The so called small exception they made became standard in all protestant denomination and the birth rates plummeted in the west. Within two generations the Brits lost their empire, within 4 generations brits and other western countries imported millions of Muslims and now 95 years later Brits are being arrested for displaying the Union Jack in their own country because it might offend Muslims.

You know God’s command to “be fruitful and multiply” like all of his rules and laws are not for HIS benefit, but is for ours.

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The saddest thing about this answer to a question by Sen John Fetterman is that it’s being cheered by us:

John Fetterman brings the Kennedy Center to complete silence as he delivers this emotional message on stage:

“I know and I love people who voted for President Trump. They are NOT fascists, they’re NOT Nazis, they’re NOT trying to destroy the Constitution.”

“I REFUSE to call… pic.twitter.com/f9U8tnYlJy

— Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) October 16, 2025

It’s sad because not calling people Hitler and trying to murder political foes is such a low bar that one should not need to be praised but that’s where we now are.

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I have absolutely no interest in a bunch of college kids saying something stupid in a chat when the left won’t critique college students for violently attacking feds or their fellow students.

That being said anyone who decided to demand GOP candidate Sears denounce them for their words at a time when the Democrats in VA won’t have their AG candidate step down for wishing murder on kids is really stupid.

Easy, they absolutely must step down.

Now it’s your turn, Abigail. https://t.co/Fatu6PoJym

— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) October 15, 2025

As Casey Stengel once said about his 1962 Mets: “Can’t anybody play this game?”

…is that he knows there are plenty of other texts out there from plenty of other Democrats nationwide some of which he likely holds, that are the same or worse than what he said and they know that if he pulls out those texts will find their way into the public’s hands or be sources of blackmail for democrats grifters who being Marxists are all ends type people.

How many such texts to do you think ANTIFA has received from Democrat office holders? I’d wager a ton.

I could be wrong but I suspect not.

I have one quick thought concerning Trump that just hit me.

If there is one thing that he has done better than any other president is ignore the kingdom of noise of the left.

The left and their media allies amplify stories and ignore others in order to push their agenda, to make it seem like there is national outrage over a subject that only they care about much in the same way that they INSISTED that Joe Biden was fine right up to the moment that it was no longer possible and INSISTED that Kamala Harris was winning the election right up to the point where it was not possible to sell it.

Donald Trump does two things to counter them.

1. Ignore them (when it comes to policy)
2. Call them out and overshadow them

While the 2nd gets the most press it’s the first that is most important because if you deal in reality rather than what the media says you can get all kinds of things done and when you realize that if you ignore what they say in the end they actually don’t have power.

The media’s only power is to convince others of their own relevance. Trump has figured this out and the world trembles.