Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 1410

Thanking God is Unsportsmanlike Conduct

...at least, here in the Soviet of Washington.

An absolutely daft call by a ref gets succeeds in intimidating a kid into falling in line and not mentioning You Know Who, on pain of making his team suffer.

In the Soviet Union, the state had to murder people to crush popular piety. Here in the Land of the Free, all that's necessary is a little social pressure from a high handed little tinpot with delusions of godhood who thinks the American Way calls for the separation of Church and Everything.

Most people...

don't find a lot of connections between the Pope, Flannery O'Connor, and George Clooney, but Tony Rossi manages it.

A reader writes:

Hi, Mark, I've enjoyed reading your blog over the past year. Recently I've been reading a book called Jesus Rediscovered by Malcolm Muggeridge (who was a late-life convert to Catholicism) and there were two sections that immediately made me think of something you would write, so I thought you and your readers would enjoy them:

[On the myth of overpopulation]: "To me, this is a fantasy. You see, when I was young, people used to say the poor had too many children. Or, at the time of the famine in Ireland, they would say that the Irish had too many children. We were taking the food from Ireland, and the Irish were starving, and we said they were starving because they had too many children. Now, we who are sated, who have to adopt the most extravagant and ridiculous devices to consume what we produce, while watching whole, vast populations getting hungrier and hungrier, overcome our feelings of guilt by persuading ourselves that these others are too numerous, have too many children. They ask for bread and we give them contraceptives! In future history books it will be said, and it will be a very ignoble entry, that just at the moment in our history when we, through our scientific and technical ingenuity, could produce virtually as much food as we wanted to, just when we were opening up and exploring the universe, we set up a great whimpering and wailing, and said there were too many people in the world. It's pitiful."

[On materialism] "In a materialist society, pleasure alone is sacred, and its intruments (money, contraceptives, drugs, etc.) are invested with sanctity and regarded with veneration-- the modern equivalent of the bones of St. Peter or fragments of the True Cross."

Anyway, for what it's worth, keep up the good work!

St. Mugg pray for us. He's perfectly right, of course. "Overpopulation" has been a tool of Empire every since Malthus. It *always* means "Just enough of me, way too much of you." And while the Population Planners are busy determining the fate of the poor, they are also busy venerating and adoring Money, Sex, and Power at home. It's a Trinitarian faith of a sort. And it functions (as all real religious worship does) by means of sacrifice. In Christianity, the sacrifice is made by the God Man who offers himself as both Priest and Victim to the Father on our behalf. In the false religion of the secular West, the sacrifice is of the weakest and poorest to Mammon, Bacchus and the Self (and is received by Satan, the author of the whole disgusting parody). Not too surprising that the hidden narrative of the post-Christian West is implacable hatred of Christ and his Church.

From the indomitable Jeffrey Mark Ostrowski

There's a lot more over at Youtube!

TSA Brings New Meaning to "Lactose Intolerant"

Mother locked up in glass cage for an hour by the jackboots of the TSA. Her crime: wanting to feed her baby breastmilk.

ENOUGH!

Remember: You must be grateful for our freedom fondlers or you are unpatriotic.

Wow! I must really be hot

I got this email from her *four* times! So I must really be attractive!

Hello,

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ours take a step further. I hardly correspond with people on net but I am
certain that I did make a right choice in corresponding with you , thus i
decided to correspond with you asap and try to get to know you more. I will
be eagerly waiting for your quick response if you accept my
proposal for a relationship.
Take care of yourself and have a
nice day,
sincerely
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________________________________________
Viva Caligula

Under those last two evocative words was a link to a site in the UK called "Adult Swim". So there's nothing here to make me think this is not totally on the up and up or anything. Who would *not* trust an email like this?

Ha! In your *face*, girls who wouldn't go out with me in high school!

Apple Corp Cowardice

So the Apple Corp, bowing to pressure from the Usual Suspects, abruptly discontinued a harmless little app for the Manhattan Declaration, because it offends lefty pieties. Since then, there has been a petition to restore it from irritated people who enjoy free speech. If you like free speech and dislike corporate cowardice, go sign it.

It makes me think of something a reader observed the other day: namely, that technology is now able to put pressure on nation-states to which corporations are not as vulnerable. An Assange can use technology to humiliate a nation state. But the corporation that owns the technology can ignore you and even make it impossible for you to protest. It will be interesting to see how that goes.

Still no Millllllllion Dollars? Very well then...

Muuuuuwahahahahahaha!!!!

That Which Does not Kill Me Makes Me Stronger

A foolish minion has attempted to retaliate for the Bing Crosby/David Bowie Duet. I merely parry his thrust by posting his post! Thus! Ha!



There's more where that came from. Send me one million dollars in unmarked bills or I will continue to post one segment of the Star Wars Holiday Special each day.

Do you really want that on your conscience?

My Son Wonders How A Country

that does this could ever have been a major military threat.

Reasonable question.