Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 1379

Joe Biden

who people mysteriously believe to be way smarter than Sarah Palin, informs us that Mubarek is not a dictator, because he's our dictator.

Egyptians seem to not be listening to the Man with the High IQ.

Of course, as I noted yesterday, simply because this is a popular revolt against oppression does not mean that liberty and justice for all are in the offing. The fact that Iran is hailing all this should warn us that the revolutionary forces intend to turn Egypt into yet another Bronze Age Islamic despotism.

And should the Revolution succeed, the new regime will be sure to repeat the words of the Man With the High IQ whenever they remember Mubarek and his dear, dear friends.

Danish Study Celebrates Hardness of Heart

Some technicians in the service of the culture of death have crafted a study to prove that it's having kids, not killing them, that harms mental health.

Turns out that a culture which celebrates grave evil eventually produces people who don't feel bad about celebrating grave evil (but who do resent those who remind them of the fact they commit grave evil). The Culture of Death hails this as a psychological triumph, much as Himmler hailed the steely resolve and "courage" of men like this

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This man too felt no guilt or anguish about his personal choices. He was free from the burden of shame. Our Danish enablers of evil celebrate people like him. Sane people lament such people for what they are: people who have seared their consciences.

More Scenes from the March for Life in DC

God bless the Internet, which lets through all the reality that our Media Controllers don't want you to see:



What's so great here is how *young* this crowd is. They are the future.

Of course, us geezer can also still make our voice heard. For instance, here's the story of Frank Weathers' Excellent Adventure (Parts 1 and 2).

Michael Kinsley...

wants to eat his young and resents that the Catholic Church disapproves this modest proposal.

The difference between Embryonic stem cell research and the Jeffrey Dahmer Oral Method of Tissue Harvesting is purely aesthetic. Morally, they are indistinguishable.

Reason to Homeschool #9823948727292923948733

You will never have to endure some idiot bureaucrat explaining "It's an incident of kids expressing their natural curiosity" when your second grader comes home to say that his classmates stripped off their clothes and engaged in oral sex while the teacher was off somewhere doing something or other.

"Natural curiosity" my eye. When I was in second grade such an idea was simply inconceivable. What planted curiosity in their heads was their exposure to "culture" that strains to sexualize children as early as possible. These second graders are unnaturally curious because they live in an unnaturally sex-obsessed culture. Sure, the teacher screwed up. But it wasn't the teacher that exposed them to that culture. It was their families.

Have I mentioned we homeschool? We teach our kids modesty and love, not idiot sexual adventurism modeled on a moron from Jersey Shore or Skins and the capitalist exploiters behind the show who know that a kid with an obsession is a kid with no sales resistance and who regard your child as food.

Every time Barbara Ehrenreich Opens Her Mouth

she seems to be advocating some sort of crazy leftist evil. I remember her a few years back talking about the glories of destroying the family.

Now she's busying herself with trying to get people to riot.

Oddly, nobody is talking about the whole "climate of violence" thing when it's Lefties demanding molotov cocktails be thrown.

Chris Chan,....

...reviews Disorientation.

Confession: A Roman Catholic App

Very cool. It's a new app to walk you through making a good confession.

Plus, the app received an imprimatur from Bishop Kevin C. Rhodes of the Diocese of Fort Wayne – South Bend, making it the first known imprimatur to be given for an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch application.

It's fitting that an American bishop be the first one to take official notice of this new technology.

Climate Change

is there anything it can't do?

I write from cool, dank Seattle, where we sit in frustration while everybody in the Northern Hemisphere gets a great snowstorm but us. Phooey!

The Confusion of the American Faith in the Salvific Power of Democratic Revolution

is seen in this note from a reader:

What a pickle the US finds itself on this.

We support the uprising against a dictator in Tunisia, which is supposedly fueled by democratic voices, but when that movement prompts this uprising against a dictator we have to hedge since this is lead by the Muslim Brotherhood. Could be interesting.

BTW, please pray for my brother who lives in Cairo. He told me last weekend that this was coming and he'd gone out and bought supplies.

As children of a Revolution against a tyrant (sort of: Fat George wasn't really much a tyrant) Americans have always felt a sympathy for those who want to toss off their own tyrannical shackles. We have this Romantic faith that Revolution must sure be born of a yearning for Freedom.

Problem is, history since our own Revolution has abundantly demonstrated that lots of Revolutions are simply popular movements that get hijacked by somebody who wants to be the New Tyrant. From France to Russia to the New Order in 1933 Germany to lot of little hell holes in post-colonial Africa, the mere fact that somebody is throwing off chains does not guarantee Liberty and Justice for all. As Iran demonstrated, some popular movements of revolt are undertaken because people seek the freedom to be harsher with themselves and others than Western Culture allows. A despot like the Shah is booted and a despot like the Ayatollah takes his place--and everybody in the new regime remembers that the Shah was a puppet of the US.

If the glorious triumph of Democracy carries the day in Egypt and the Egyptians vote themselves into the adamantine chains of yet another radical Islamic despotism, I hope Americans will at least learn the valuable lesson that political freedom with no consideration of the soil in which it is planted is often just prelude to a more efficient and inescapable prison.

He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest; and finding none he says, "I will return to my house from which I came." And when he comes he finds it swept and put in order. Then he goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. (Luke 11:23-26)

That's a warning not only to pre-revolutionary Egypt, but to post-Christian America.

Father, hear our prayer for our reader's brother, that you will shelter him and his family (and the Church in Egypt) in the hollow of your hand and protect them and all innocent people from the evil the devil wishes to do in this upheaval. Grant that, at long last, the Muslim world would begin to turn away from despotism and violence and seek to break the endless cycle through the power of the Holy Spirit who enlightens all people of good will. Our Lady of Zeitoun, pray for the people of Egypt and through the Islamosphere. We ask this through Christ our Lord.