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Irony meters across the universe cried out in agony as if they were overwhelmed by a great disturbance

Posted: March 28, 2024 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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I have to admit the title of my article is a tiny exaggeration.  The disturbance documented in this Breitbart article only pinged irony meters across the United States. 

The Biden White House criticized Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday for barring the leading opposition candidate from his country’s upcoming elections — after Democrats tried to do the same to Donald Trump.

Maria Corina Machado, 56, won the opposition primary in Venezuela last year and has been favored in the polls to beat Maduro in the July elections, possibly putting an end to the authoritarian rule of Hugo Chávez’s successor.

But the Maduro regime blocked the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) opposition coalition from registering its candidate by midnight early Tuesday. Machado’s chosen successor, Dr. Corina Yoris, was also blocked.

The Biden regime exhibited maximum chutzpah when they called out Maduro and his henchman for engaging in the exact same despicable behavior they have been engaging in. 

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, asked about the Maduro regime’s actions during a press briefing on Air Force One on Tuesday afternoon, said: “Obviously, we’re deeply concerned by the National Electoral Council’s decision to prevent the registration of … the democratic opposition party’s candidate, Dr. Corina Yoris,.

“We are woring with other members of the international community to ensure that Venezuelans can participate in inclusive and competitive elections and urge representatives of Maduro to allow all candidates to run. We support the will and right of Venezuelans and the Venezuelans’ political parties to select presidentical candidates. We are monitoring the situation closely. ”

She suggested that Venezuela could lose sanctions relief if the Maduro regime did not provide for free and fair elections.

It is painfully obvious to all of us who have not been brainwashed by the mainstream media and our abysmal education system that for the past four years the Biden Justice Department has been orchestrating a lawfare campaign against President Trump to keep him off the ballot in this year’s presidential election.  As you can see from this article, the lawfare campaign has not gone unnoticed.

A clear majority of 56 percent believe Joe Biden is looking to win the 2024 election by jailing his opponent, Donald Trump — you know, like Putin does.

The question asked by McLaughlin & Associates is as straightforward as it gets. First, it starts with the facts: “President Trump has been indicted on a total of 91 counts by supporters of Joe Biden and his Justice Department.” Then comes the question: “If convicted of these charges, do you think that Joe Biden wants to stop President Trump from winning the election by putting him in jail?”

A whopping 56 percent said “yes,” while only 30 percent said “no.”

Cabrini: a film about faith and persistence

Posted: March 26, 2024 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

Cabrini, a film about a Catholic nun who built orphanages and hospitals worldwide, is the best movie I have seen in years.

The storyline is outstanding. In 1850, a small and sickly girl, Francesca Cabrini, was born two months prematurely to a farm family in Italy. In her teens, she decided to give her life to Christ. The Daughters of the Sacred Heart rejected her, considering her too weak to endure convent life. She persisted and became a number in 1877, taking the name Frances Xavier Cabrini.

Years before, while visiting her uncle, Father Don Luigi Oldini, she placed violets into paper boats, dropped them into a stream, and imagined they carried her and other missionaries to China, where the great St. Francis Xavier had journeyed 300 years before.

When she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1880, she told Pope Leo XIII she wanted to travel to Asia with her small group of sisters. However, the pope had another idea and sent her to the United States, where Italian immigrants lived in the harsh streets of New York. 

Pope Leo expressed skepticism about that journey and its challenges, given her weakness–a worry compounded when people met her because she was barely five feet tall. But she told him, “We can serve our weakness, or we can serve our purpose. We can’t do both.”

The cinematography and acting are compelling. 

Director Alejandro Monteverde provides a jarring, tightly focused tour of the underside of New York, where the poor scavenged for a life. 

Mother Cabrini, superbly portrayed by Cristiana Dell’Anna, encountered slums, hunger, disease, and virulent anti-Italian sentiment—even among many Irish Catholics, not least among them Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan, played by David Morse. 

The dialogue alternates between Italian and English, but I didn’t find the subtitles as annoying as I often do. Sometimes, the translations were a bit off, but not disturbingly so. 

The movie is not a religious hagiography. Despite almost overwhelming odds, it demonstrates what one person can accomplish. 

Before she died in 1917, Mother Cabrini helped build 67 schools, orphanages, and hospitals worldwide, including in China. 

She was canonized in 1946 and became known in the United States as the patron saint of immigrants.

They’re all Infidels anyways Roma McDaniel Edition

Posted: March 24, 2024 by datechguy in Uncategorized

I remember quite a while back an Islamic terror attack that missed their primary target and ended up sinking a French Vessel. When questioned about this failure and the killing of people who were not the primary targets Islamic cleric pooh poohed it noting “They’re all infidels anyways.”

That seems to be the case with Roma McDaniel at NBC.

There is a long history of republicans playing useful idiots for Democrats on air so when I heard that McDaniel who was tenure as RNC chair was one of the least successful in party history (to put it in perspective Michael Steele was FAR more effective in winning races for the party than she was) was hired by NBC I presumed that she would become part of a long line of ineffective RINOS whose primary job was to attack the GOP in general and Donald Trump in particular as would be befitting a niece of Mitt Romney.

But the Democrats have reached a point where they have pandered to the niche market of leftists to such a degree that even a Republican almost universally disliked by voters of the right is just too conservative a voice to be allowed a platform on the sacred landscape of MSNBC.

She’s no Douglas Murray but the slightest possibility that she might threaten the bubble of silence surrounding MSNBC viewers was simply too much for leftists to bear. In fact even being restricted to the primary NBC channel is making huge waves. As twitchy put it:

We’ll have to see how this all plays out for McDaniel, but we know one thing: It’s fun watching the Left wig out because a media outlet that features Jen Psaki hired an unpopular Republican to provide Republican commentary.

You see what McDaniel and folks like Mike Gallagher fail to realize is that no matter what favors they do for the left, in their eyes they’re still just “infidels” to be rejected when they quit being “useful idiots” for them and revert to just “idiot”.

Unexpectedly of course.

“Squatters rights” will result in vigilant justice

Posted: March 23, 2024 by navygrade36bureaucrat in Uncategorized
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There has been a sharp increase in squatter claims making the news. If you aren’t familiar with “squatter’s rights,” its an area legally called adverse possession, where someone can lay claim to a space after occupying it for so many years. The average person would think this is trespassing, but there is a legal distinction in that trespassers don’t claim to own the property, but squatters do. This allows someone to break into an abandoned home, act like they own it and thus become impossible to evict.

If you think this sounds crazy…that’s because it is. But we live in the world of crazy, such that someone can break into a 4.6 million dollar home near Lebron James and simply occupy it, even throwing parties and renting out spaces. Or one that allows a squatter to put a Temporary Restriction Order on the owner of a home and kick him out in Washington.

We do, seriously, live in a clown world.

Not surprisingly, because the police either can’t or won’t stop this insanity, it is spreading wildly, especially in deep blue states like New York. In every part of the world where I’ve seen private property rights degrade, the sequence goes like this:

  • Criminals go from individuals to gangs that are well organized
  • Private citizens begin offering services to counter the crime
  • Criminals begin to get violent
  • Private citizens begin to “disappear” individuals

We’re already seeing organized squatters, including a lot of illegal immigrants, targeting wealthy homes in groups. We’re also seeing other citizens develop businesses around evicting squatters, including a self-proclaimed “squatter hunter” who charges $5,000 or more to kick out squatting parties. Sadly, we’re seeing a death toll too, as two squatters beat a woman to death for simply trying to reclaim her home.

The next step is squatters will start disappearing. Contrary to popular belief, police exist to protect the guilty, especially people accused or guilty of serious crimes.

Think about it, if you thought your neighbor sexually molested your child, what would stop you from beating them to death? I mean, if your kid was abused and scarred for life, you can’t tell me you wouldn’t at least contemplate burying the culprit 6 feet underground. The police and your belief that justice is best served in a courtroom are what stops you from pursuing this.

As we remove cops and courts, mark my words, we’re going to see squatting stop, because people are just going to disappear. Squatters are going to get beaten to death by angry mobs of property owners and their bodies dumped in the street. Nobody will say anything, just like people in Italy were silent on mobster killings. Vigilante justice will fill the void, and with it will come the settling of petty disputes and rivalries at the end of a stick and a gun.

Some people are cheering this on. They are thinking “Yes, finally, I can settle my score with so and so.” To that I shake my head. We all think we’ll be the ones on top when the world shatters, but in reality, in a world of might makes right, the most despicable people rise to the top. Look to the French Revolution if you need an example.

Some states are getting ahead of this, namely Florida, which passed legislation to allow police to kick off squatters. Even New York is beginning to modify its laws, likely too late to prevent the mass exodus of businesses.

More so than politics, we need to get a handle on squatting before it turns decent people into crazed vigilantes.

This post represents the views of the author and not those of the Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, or any other government agency.

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