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Happy New Year – I Hope!

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Ok, now that we have officially went back to work (some of you LOL) after all the celebrating, and 2021 is over and done with, perhaps it is time for a look back provided by my good friend and fellow Marine Greg. What a year it was! Filled with so much BS from everyone it was almost unbearable.  Even some of our Rhinos came out of the closet and showed their true leanings. And one popular Dem has sent the liberals into a spiral. Tis time for a respite away from the demise of America as we knew it and surely the loss of our Corps unless things change rapidly. Meanwhile enjoy Greg’s pickings.

Countercultural moment: When the Fiji men’s rugby team won gold at the Olympics, they got on their knees prayed and then sang a hymn in thanksgiving to God.

Oxymoron: The Webb telescope launched on Christmas has NASA anticipating it to reveal a “quantum leap of understanding of who we are, how we got here, what we are, and how did it all evolve.” This is exactly what Christmas discloses to Christians.

 Snowflake hire: Harvard University’s chaplain is atheist Greg Epstein, author of the book “Good Without God.” That spinning sound is Pastor John Harvard working his way to China.

 Bamboozlement for the ages: It took four presidents trillions of dollars over 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.

Most telling poll: Ten out of every six folks bemoan voting for Biden.

 Quote: Thomas Sowell: “Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?”

 Biography of the year: Jason Riley’s, “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell.”  If you are not familiar with the esteemed 91-year-old Sowell, make it a New Year’s resolution.

 Best speculation movie script:  Biden’s evacuation from Afghanistan: “Dumbkirk.”

Florida’s top Realtor: Former New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, who oversaw thousands of New Yorkers fleeing for the Sunshine State.

 Facts and Stats: “Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America” by Charles Murray. “American Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians, as groups, have different means and distributions of cognitive abilities.” Murray tackles an ideological and emotional topic head-on that is data-driven. Murray underscores how Asians, Whites, Latinos, and Blacks have different rates of violent crime that parallel academic achievement.  The book is a must-read for those hypnotized by the Critical Race Theory crowd.

Most telling: During the fighting in Gaza, an Arab woman brought her wounded son to an Israeli hospital where Jewish doctors saved him.  When asked what kind of future she saw for him, she countered: “I hope he will be a martyr.”  Nice

 Next federal holiday: August 4. Provided you don’t know, well, you are racist.

 Rename: Despite a more than 100% spike in homicides, the city of Minneapolis is renaming a part of the city George Floyd Square. Why not rename the city: Floydopolis.

Best marketing: Krispy Kreme handed out a daily free donut for those who were COVID vaccinated in a country where more than half the people are obese.

Latest Superhero: Black Superman: Where any Kardashian rather than Kryptonite is his undoing.

 Leftism’s Man of the Year:  George Floyd spent his life cultivating a criminal rap sheet where he once held a loaded gun against the stomach of a pregnant woman. Nancy Pelosi eulogized Floyd saying, “Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice. Your name will always be synonymous with justice.”  Floyd’s name will be synonymous with justice like Benedict Arnold’s name is tantamount with patriotism.

 Telling headline: The New York Post: “American Idle.”  More than three million Americans remain unemployed collecting benefits despite nine million job openings. America is infected by the French variant.

 Heartless trophy: Lady Gaga’s dog walker was shot while walking her two bulldogs. Gaga offered a $500,000 reward for the dogs, but no reward for the gunman who shot her dog walker.

 Revealing Biden quote: “We choose truth over facts.”

 Tasteless joke award: New Scientist reports a woman in Pennsylvania can drink water and urinate alcohol due to yeast in her bladder. It is called “Bladder Fermentation Syndrome.” New Scientist could be sued for either revealing the formula for Coors Light or exposing the production process for Busch Beer.

Donkey retro: Democrats brought back the 1918 pandemic, the 1968 race riots and the 1973 gas lines within the same year.

 2022 Nobel forecast: Biden will collect the Nobel Peace Prize. When he takes the stage in Stockholm, he will thank the members of the Motion Picture Academy for his Oscar.

 2022 Prediction the good and the bad: The Supreme Court will rule there is no constitutional right to abortion sending Roe v. Wade to history’s dustbin. While a major stock market correction is coming to a brokerage account near you.

Originally posted 2022-01-06 13:01:34.

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Journeyman Joe

I am not a Catholic, but if I were I would take exception with him referring to himself as one

By: G. Maresca

A journeyman is defined as someone who is reliable, not outstanding, but more of a placeholder than anything else.

In today’s politically charged universe, who does that remind you of?

There is no greater representative of the entrenched, bureaucratic, political class better known as the “D.C. Swamp” than Joe Biden and his nearly half a century membership highlights it.  Biden will serve his most crucial role as the placeholder for Kamala Harris, if the presidential election goes as predicted for Democrats. Provided you are unfamiliar with what the 25th Amendment of the Constitution entails, it won’t be long until you are.

Robert Gates, who served as defense secretary when Biden was vice president would later write that Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

When asked what he plans to do about dementia, Biden pledged to increase their foreign aid and accept all their immigrants.

Biden presides over a Democrat party that coddles extremists and ignores riotous violence.  Biden’s campaign slogan of “Build Back Better” is more suited as “Build back Bitter.”

crats did not have double standards, they would have no standards at all. Turn off the rhetoric and study what they actually do.  For instance, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, over the preceding decade the Biden’s gave an average of $369 per year to charities.  Biden is all about using your money, not his.

Biden’s mantra about saving the “soul of America,” is bizarre coming from a man who responds to political incentives, quicker than Pontius Pilate.  Biden wears the Catholic badge as he does his mask when campaigning from his basement.  Biden should wear two masks – one for each face.

His “devout” Catholicism is derisive and a sham.

Biden is the most radically pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ, “Catholic” candidate ever to headline a national ticket.  Biden embraces sodomy as marriage, and has even presided over one.

Biden’s self-serving flip on the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal tax dollars from paying for abortions, speaks to his character that only distances himself from the truths of Catholicism, particularly that every life is sacred from conception to natural death.

He is certainly catholic with a small “c” when it comes to abortion as he and his pro-abort running mate Kamala Harris, who as California attorney general, played a key role in defending Planned Parenthood over its sale of aborted baby parts in violation of federal law.  A Biden administration would not only codify abortion into federal law, but make the taxpayer foot the bill.  They would also force the Little Sisters of the Poor to fund abortion and contraception.

In Catholic circles Biden is what you would call a “cafeteria Catholic” – someone who adheres to whatever Church dogma suits them.  Cafeteria Catholics are legion and heretics, too.

If Catholicism were a crime, would there be enough evidence to convict?

Testimony points to a Biden acquittal.

Ever since Judas betrayed Our Lord, you can trace all major crises to the silence of Christian clergy and by doing so they surrender their moral authority.  For Biden and any Catholic reading this, it was at the Council of Trent where St. Pope Pius V prophetically said, “All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics.”

Where are the Fulton Sheen archbishops of today?  If you need more convincing run an internet search for the homilies of Father Altman and Meeks.

Economist and scholar, Thomas Sowell summed the 2020 election concisely: “If the election goes to Biden, there’s a good chance that the Democrats will then control the two branches of Congress and the White House, and considering the kinds of things that they’re proposing, that could well be the point of no return for this country.”

As we head into the election’s home stretch, one must never underestimate the percolating sensation of the “shy voter.”  Given all the political animosity that is anti-Trump, the “shy voter” is one who considers it taboo to declare openly that they would vote for Trump.  They could very well be the 2020 version of the Silent Majority.

Much can occur during the last two weeks of any election, let alone the most conspicuous presidential election in more than a century.

Doubtful?

In 2016, Hillary Clinton was leading by nearly seven points at this juncture.

History can be a resounding echo.

Originally posted 2020-10-23 13:14:28.