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“Blind faith” isn’t a Catholic thing. God not only gave us our ability to reason, but also respects our need for evidence by providing abundant miracles. Yesterday, I posted a brief video about one of my favorite Marian miracles. Today, I want to share one of the most recent of all the Eucharistic miracles, which occurred in Sokółka, Poland, in 2008.
N.b., After spending way too much time googling things like “how to pronounce” and “phonetic alphabet”, I am still not sure how to pronounce Sokółka. Best guess is suh KOW kuh.
On Sunday, October 12, 2008, during the 8:30 a.m. Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Sokółka, Poland, a consecrated host fell to the floor. The priest placed it in a small container of water and locked it up. Only two people had keys – the priest and the sacristan. (Photo above by Piotr Widerski)
The plan was to pour the water into the sacrarium once the host had completely dissolved. A sacrarium is a special sink that preserves the dignity of sacred things by emptying straight into the earth, not into the sewer. E.g., during Mass, the vessels used for Holy Eucharist are wiped clean with special linens, which are then washed after Mass in the sacrarium.
A week later, the host was still largely intact, but had acquired a curved, bright red stain on it. However, the water was untainted by the color. When the archbishop was notified, he ordered the stained host to be taken out of the water and placed on a corporal and locked in the tabernacle. By mid-January of 2009, the altered fragment of the host had dried out naturally, and remained like a blood stain or clot; since then, its appearance has not changed.
The archbishop created an ecclesial commission to study the phenomenon and requested histopathological studies be done. Two Medical Doctors at the Medical University of Bialystok independently analyzed pieces of the altered host. The results of both independent studies were in perfect agreement not only with each other, but also with scientific analyses of other Eucharistic miracles. That is, that the bread had somehow turned into a piece of myocardial (heart) tissue of a living person who is nearing death.
In its official report, the Metropolitan Curia of Bialystok stated: “The Sokolka event is not opposed to the faith of the Church; rather, it confirms it. The Church professes that, after the words of consecration, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the bread is transformed into the Body of Christ, and the wine into His Blood. Additionally, this is an invitation for all ministers of the Eucharist to distribute the Body of the Lord with faith and care, and for the faithful to receive Him with adoration.”
ARIZONA: On Friday, Republican Kari Lake filed a lawsuit to nullify the 2022 midterm election results for the governor’s race in the state of Arizona. According to the filing, hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots infected the election, far more than the 17,117 vote margin by which Hobbs allegedly won.
CHIEF TWIT: Also this, “When will we get the twitter files on covid? The info on the suspension of the many doctors and scientists? Who was involved? Suppression of what has turned out to be factual information.” – Aaron Murray
FAUXTUS: This is a good video. [6:36] – ‘The Big Sunday Show’ panel evaluate President Biden’s decision to trade away a Russian arms dealer for WNBA star Brittney Griner and whether NBC’s first version was actually the right one. Biden doesn’t just look weak; he is weak … and a hypocrite.
GRAMMY NOTES: After Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, Dearest was forced to close his city office and move his business into our basement. Part of this involved installing a second number for our land line. The day the second number went active, I was in the kitchen and asked my daughter to call Daddy for dinner. Instead of going to the head of the stairs and bellowing, as I expected, she picked up the phone, punched in the new business number, and quietly informed him that dinner was ready. ❤
CHIEF TWIT: When Elon Musk tweeted, “[Twitter] refused to take action on child exploitation for years!”, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted back, “This is false.” (N.b., in the past, Dorsey has claimed he knew nothing about the child porn problem when he was CEO. But now he claims he did? Sorry, Jack. You can’t have it both ways!)
Musk responded, “No, it is not. When Ella Irwin, who now runs Trust & Safety, joined Twitter earlier this year, almost no one was working on child safety. She raised this with Ned & Parag, but they rejected her staffing request. I made it top priority immediately.”
N.b., back in January 2021 a teen victim and his mother filed a federal lawsuit against Twitter for refusing to remove pornographic images of the boy that had been posted by sex traffickers. The suit alleged that Twitter had told them the images would not be removed, because they did not violate the company’s policies.
In other Twitter news, at least two prominent and influential Democrats had close relatives working at the corrupt, pre-Elon social media company. One of these was Dr. Anthony Fauci’s daughter while the other was John Podesta’s niece.
Also, the last link below contains the latest info dump, this time detailing the banning of President Trump.
COVID-19: There are two drugs that the FDA* has approved for treatment of the ‘rona, i.e., Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck’s Molnupiravi (aka Lagevrio).
Paxlovid was not tested on vaxxxed people. Go figure. In actual use, it causes something called “rebound”, which we who have paid attention have seen happen to both Joe Biden and Tony Fauci. Both of these men had gotten four mRNA jabs when they caught COVID-19. They both then took Paxlovid and appeared to recover quickly, only to rebound and get sick again, whereupon they took more Paxlovid, finally got over the bug, then credited the jabs and the drug with saving their lives.
Molnupiravir, which was originally developed to treat flu, is known to stimulate viruses to rapidly mutate. Because of this, the FDA only narrowly approved (vote: 13-10) emergency authorization for its use in ‘rona patients. The drug also appears to cause rebounding.
*Psst … the FDA gets more than half its funding from Big Pharma, which makes little or no profit off drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, which are not approved for the ‘rona despite the fact that they often work well and cause no rebounding.
RUSSIA: [2:45] – FAUXTUS just pulled off an historic prisoner exchange with Russia. We gave up Viktor Bout, an arms dealer who is known to provide terrorist with lethal weapons, for Brittney Griner, a black woman who shoots hoops for a living.
Griner is also apparently so dumb that she didn’t bother to read the “Things You Can’t Bring Into Russia” list before packing. I went to Russia in 1972. There is a list and you better believe we were drilled about what was on it before we left.
On CNN, James Carville opined that people who are criticizing the Griner exchange are racist Putin-lovers, ignoring the fact that, as soon as Bout got back home, he announced his support for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. In fact, he says he thought they should’ve done it much sooner. CLICK https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1601592128743669760 [:37].
MSNBC claimed Griner would’ve been trade-freed sooner if only she’d been a white man, ignoring the fact that the trade did not include Paul Whelan, the white male former U.S. Marine who was already rotting in a Russian prison before Griner even got arrested.
The Russian media marked the trade by laughing about how stupid Americans are.
TRANS: The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled to permanently block the Biden administration’s plan to force doctors and insurers to perform or pay for gender-transition procedures.
The suit was filed by the Religious Sisters of Mercy, Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center in Alma, MI, SMP Health System, University of Mary, Catholic Benefits Association, Diocese of Fargo, Catholic Charities of North Dakota, and Catholic Medical Association.
The Catholic position is that God doesn’t make mistakes. If you’re uncomfortable in the body He gave you, you need psychological and spiritual help, not medical mutilation.
ARIZONA: On Friday, Senator Kyrsten Sinema announced she has left the Democratic Party and has registered as an independent, saying she’s turning her back on the “broken partisan system in Washington” that prioritizes denying the opposition party a win rather than “delivering for all Americans.” A discussion I saw on Fox noted that she’s a savvy politician who will be running for re-election in a now deep purple state where the majority of registered voters are independents. This move also reduces Schumer’s lock on Senate votes for the next two years.
CHARTER SCHOOLS: Traditional public schools are government institutions. Charter schools are not. They are privately operated, usually by nonprofit entities, yet 44 states have laws prohibiting then from being operated by or affiliated with religious institutions. That should end soon, because the Supreme Court recently decided in Carson v. Makin that Maine’s exclusion of religious schools from a tuition-assistance program for students living in rural school districts violated the Constitution’s Free Exercise Clause.
CHIEF TWIT: A new investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees secretly built blacklists, prevented disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limited the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics. Among those blacklisted were conservatives Dan Bongino, Charlie Kirk, Libs of TikTok, and Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children (which they did).
DEA: Sam Brinton, FAUXTUS’ non-binary, cross-dressing, puppy play, bondage sex, and spanking expert has just been charged with stealing another woman’s suitcase, this time at the Las Vegas airport.
Earlier this week, Wayne Besen also exposed as “unlikely” Brinton’s claims of having been brutalized by so-called conversion therapy. Major national organizations have apparently made Brinton their poster boy, yet Brinton claims he can’t recall the therapist’s name, what state the therapy occurred in, or how long it went on.
EXCESS MORTALITY: Josh Stirling, a highly acclaimed insurance analyst, presented at U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s Dec. 7 round table discussion titled “COVID-19 Vaccines: What They Are, How They Work and Possible Causes of Injuries.” He said that, overall, the vaxxxed have a 26% higher mortality rate than the unvaxxxed.
For those under the age of 50, the mortality rate is 49% higher. Worst of all, people who only took one dose of the vaccine have an approximately 145% worse mortality rate. The disproportionately higher number for one-dosers suggests that this group likely suffered an injury following their first dose and thus deciding not to get the second dose.
Stirling noted that these are based on the very best statistics available at this time and that they suggest the U.S. population will suffer 600,000 excess deaths per year as a result of the ‘rona jab. Meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to push it on us and the FDA just approved it for tiny babies.
LIFE: CLICK https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1600594242040201217 [1:50] to hear Michael Knowles’ beeyoootifull take down of a smugger than smug liberal. This tweet has some excellent comments. “Identity is a personal choice not a community obligation.” “I also identify as a person who is right. It feels so good to finally find my tribe.” “How can Trans expect others to accept them when they never accepted themselves?” “I feel like we’re all living in a never-ending south park episode!”
RESPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT: As per usual, Dems have named a bill the exact opposite of what they intend it to do. The real effect of this abomination will be to expose people of faith to a host of potential lawsuits from left-wing activists seeking to silence their voices.
Brian Burch, president of Catholic Vote said, “The act purports to defend same-sex and interracial marriages, yet neither institution is under attack, and the act adds zero new protections for same-sex marriages that the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges didn’t already provide.” Shamefully, all 74 Catholic House Democrats, plus 15 of the 56 Catholic Republicans, voted to pass this misnamed abomination.
Hell-bound “Catholic” Nancy Pelosi cheered the bill’s passage and confirmed what we already knew, which is that it will be used to “combat bigoted extremism” and “right-wing extremists“, by which Democrats mean people who hold the biblical view of marriage that was the law of the land until about five minutes ago.
VANGUARD: On Wednesday, the world’s biggest mutual fund manager announced that, as a result of pressure from Republican politicians, the company will be withdrawing from woke investments. Vanguard’s big rival, BlackRock Inc, has taken the opposite stand.
VAXXX: A toxicology expert with over 30 years of scientific experience issued this stark warning Wednesday during Sen. Johnson’s round table on the mRNA COVID jabs. And here I thought sterilizing an entire generation was the whole point.
GRAMMY NOTES: I’m too old to remember this; for me, it was a film projector. However, when I was a recent college graduate, I worked at the regional library that supplied films and video tapes to the public schools. And across the hall, the repair guys worked on the projectors and t.v. sets the public schools managed to break.
CATHOLIC: Sometimes a demon can be forced to tell the truth during an exorcism. One such event occurred in 1823, during the exorcism of an illiterate 12-year-old boy. The two Dominican priests authorized to perform the exorcism forced the demon to admit that Mary had never been under his power, not even at the first instant of her life. IOW, the demon affirmed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which would not be solemnly promulgated until thirty years later.
CLIMATE: Who decided that today’s average global temperatures are some kind of ideal? Cuz they’re not. During the well-documented Medieval Warm Period, humanity flourished. Ancient DNA discovered in frozen permafrost recently revealed that 2 million years ago, Greenland hosted a warm and lush forest ecosystem, rich with trees, shrubs and herbs.
DNA: Genealogy data bases have been a boon to detectives who have biological samples, but no DNA matches in criminal data bases. By entering an unknown victim or suspect into places like Ancestry and 23AndMe, they have been able to get matches to relatives which then, with luck and good detective work, lead to identities.
For six decades, Philadelphia’s famous “Boy in the Box” has laid under a headstone that simply says, “Heavenly Father, Bless this unknown boy.” Thanks to DNA genealogy, police have finally identified the 1956 murder victim as Joseph Augustus Zarelli. He was 4 when he was murdered.
Police have suspicions about the culprit, but are not ready to release that information. I’m guessing the parents (if they’re still alive) have some ‘splaining to do, given that they never reported the boy missing or came forward to view the “Boy in the Box”, whose case was given a very high media profile.
FAUXTUS: Today is December 9, 2022, and Joe Biden is still the worst president this country has ever had. His latest slap in the face is enough to get every true American’s blood boiling. “They gave up a professional athlete. We gave up a prolific arms dealer who was convicted of trying to kill Americans, who is called the ‘Merchant of Death.‘” – Fox News reporter Peter Doocy
Viktor Bout, Russia’s ‘Merchant of Death,’ “provided the fuel for conflicts across the globe. He was a critical player in the global illicit arms trade not because he could obtain weapons but because he could deliver his destructive cargo anywhere in the world through his control of a private fleet of military aircraft. And he did just that.” – Former DEA agent Rob “Zach” Zachariasiewicz
HEAT: For the fifth year in a row, this guy and his twin sons (now 25 yo) are chopping and delivering firewood to veterans, the sick, and people who are down on their luck. Shane McDaniel, 51, owns a beer store in his hometown of Lake Stevens, Washington. Twins Henry and Harrison have six siblings, ages 9 through 26.
IVERMECTIN: At the FDA link below, it says, “Currently available data do not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19.”
But half of the studies to which the FDA page links actually support using ivermectin against COVID-19.
The FDA page also says, “The FDA has not authorized or approved ivermectin for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19 in people or animals. Ivermectin has not been shown to be safe or effective for these indications.”
But the exact same thing is true for puberty blocking hormones for the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors.
NIGERIA: A new report shows a new and very ugly facet of Islamic persecution – i.e., abortions forced on 10,000 or more unwilling girls and women, ages 12 and up, some of whom were as much as 8 months along. Many of the women were pregnant as a result of brutal sexual assaults by militants affiliated with the Islamic terror regime Boko Haram.
PFIZER: The FDA is so corrupt. On December 5, Pfizer asked the FDA to allow bivalent shots for babies six months and up. Today, on December 8, the application was approved. This despite the facts that ZERO trials were done on infants AND that a newborn may have been subjected to as many as three jabs while in utero!
STORY HOUR: Fifty taxpayer funded public libraries have turned down Christian actor Kirk Cameron’s request to come read his new book “As We Grow” to kids. At least some of the libraries that responded said their communities were too “diverse” to allow such a thing. And, yes, they do have Drag Queen Story Hours.
On the plus side, I have heard of some pastors who have initiated regular story hours at their local libraries, so maybe part of the problem is that Cameron is so high profile.
VAXXX: The stinkin’ vaxxx has nothing to do with public health and everything to do with reducing the world’s population and encroaching on the rights of individuals. Two examples from today’s news just make my blood boil. In the U.S., Duke Children’s Hospital is refusing to allow a 14-year-old dialysis patient a place on the transplant list because her parents don’t want her to get the jab. And in New Zealand, the parents of a sick baby want her to have unvaxxxed blood and had donors lined up. The government refused to approve of their plan and instead assumed custody of the child.
WEF: The WEF thinks you should be forced to upgrade your home or business to meet its 2021 “10 Green Building Principles” (doc linked below). Furthermore, if you can not afford to make these changes, the WEF thinks your property should be declared “stranded” (i.e., unusable+). Such a designation would reduce its value to zero and force you to vacate the premises.
REMINDER: This is a holy day of obligation, folks. Mass is required.
CATHOLIC: Although the Immaculate Conception of Mary is often confused with the Virgin Birth of Jesus, it actually celebrates our belief that Mary – who was conceived naturally through the union of her parents (St. Anne and St. Joachim) – was supernaturally preserved from the stain of Original Sin. Nine months from today on September 8, we will celebrate Mary’s birth on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
NARCISSIST: Not that any of us should give a toot, but CLICK https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1600549384189792256 [:47] to hear Jennifer Lawrence, a truly self-absorbed and deeply ignorant actress, piss on the very women she claims to represent. Tweeters thoroughly debunked her “Oh Look At Historic Glass Ceiling Breaking Me!” claim regarding her 2012ff Hunger Games movies. And, after way too much time googling this subject, I concluded that Katherine Hepburn was probably the earliest female action star, beginning with her 1933 role as an aviator in Christopher Strong, seventy-nine years before Lawrence picked up Katniss’ bow.
NEWS: It sucked, so I’m not going there except to say the cheaters put Hobbs and Warnock into office, American Girl is now promoting gender identity to kids as young as 3, and the new Transformers movie features a robot with gender issues.
PROJECT VERITAS: [2:20] – The worst part of this is that nobody has complained!
BIG PHARMA: In their continued commitment to pimp for Big Pharma, The CDC and the press are pushing the idea that we have flu emergency … so run right out and get your flu jab! If that sounds familiar, it should. Before they lost control of the ‘rona narrative, everything was diagnosed as COVID-19, including traumatic vehicular deaths of people whose corpses tested positive. Now that word had managed to leak out that the ‘rona jab (a) doesn’t work and (b) might kill you, everything is being diagnosed as influenza.
CHIEF TWIT: Jonathan Turley reports, “As thousands of Twitter documents are released on the company’s infamous censorship program, much has been confirmed about the use of back channels by Biden and Democratic officials to silence critics on the social media platform. However, one familiar name immediately popped out. … [James] Baker has been featured repeatedly in the Russian investigations launched by the Justice Department.”
Jack Posobiec illuminates, “James Baker was the FBI’s asset at Twitter and scrubbed the Twitter Files before Matt Taibbi received them.”
More files about Twitter’s Democrat collusion are coming, so imagine my surprise in learning that the Musk’s company, Neuralink, is suddenly facing a federal probe and the Dems are still trying to get a look at Trump’s tax returns. Gosh and golly … what a coincidence!
Meanwhile, WH Spox KJP says we shouldn’t care about any of this, because it’s old news, a distraction and just part of the “rising volume of anger, hate, and antisemitism” at Musk’s new Twitter.
INVESTIGATIONS: I hope we all remember to put our trust in the Lord, not in the spineless GOP.
“Democrat electoral cheating is not a Trump fantasy. The Dems have been cheating since they first emerged from the roiling chaos of Andrew Jackson’s id. Tammany, the Locofocos, the Jim Crow South, Frank Hague, Tom Pendergast, Harry Hopkins, the Cook County machine, Joe Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson… It’s one long saga of corruption from beginning to end.
“The suggestion that the Dems are totally corrupt in their approach to elections is not a novelty, nor is it a slander. It is a simple statement of fact. Claims to the contrary are nonsense, as are the media assist-me-to-my-fainting-couch fits every time the topic comes up.
“The Dems have taken a system of fraud developed over a century’s time and steadily weaponized it over the past three decades. It is a science at this point. Its most glaring weakness is that, like any con, it requires near-open cooperation from its victims to work.
“Which the GOPe has been happy to supply. Republicans have made next to no effort at any point to put a stop to it. Not even Rudy, the GOP’s attack dog, made an effort to shine a spotlight on Dinkins and his little games. And if the man who took down the New York mob wouldn’t touch it, what can we expect from the flock of capons currently running the Republican Party?” – J.R. Dunn
1st AMENDMENT: Eighteen Democrat attorneys general have filed an amicus brief against a Catholic high school that fired a substitute teacher in a homosexual “marriage.” They argue that the Catholic high school does not have a right to not hire individuals that live a lifestyle incongruent with Catholicism. A federal court ruled in September 2021 against the high school and this case is now on appeal.
AVENATTI: On Monday, disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison. This sentence will begin after Avenatti completes a five-year prison term he’s currently serving after being convicted in two separate trials in New York.
BABYLON BEE: They made this 8 months ago! [3:35] – This Firefly fan just lurves the “Stay Shiny” t-shirt. 🙂
COVID-19: [14:54] – Dr. John Campbell talks in depth about the study German pathologists published about 25 previously healthy people who suddenly died within 28 days of getting a ‘rona jab. Five of them died of myocarditis that caused lethal V-fib. Myocarditis is a known complication of the so-called “vaccine.” When he talks about “regulations” requiring him to discuss only “recognized and rare complications,” he is referring to YouTube’s restrictions on speech regarding COVID-19.
DEMOCRATS: Instead of replacing Pelosi with a moderate, they’ve chosen radical leftist Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY) as the Minority House Leader for the next session of Congress.
In 2019, he said during a congressional hearing that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and “artificially” made Trump president.
In 2020, after SCOTUS handed down a judgment he approved, he tweeted, “The Supreme Court has ruled.”
In 2022, after SCOTUS handed down a judgment he disapproved, he tweeted, “The Supreme Court majority has zero legitimacy. Ghosts of the confederacy are alive and well.”
In 2021, he tweeted, “Lock up Kyle Rittenhouse and throw away the key.”
Now his big concern is that the new Republican House majority has been “hijacked” by “extremists.” (Project much?)
DETRANS: In 2013, a Navy SEAL famously came out as trans. He underwent transition, appeared on CNN, and wrote a book. Now he regrets it all and is trying to save others from the aggressive trans “love bombing” recruitment he says influenced him to destroy his life. CLICK https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1598316779633262595 [1:11].
Biden’s Secretary of Health & Human Services (HHS) agrees with the administration’s position that taxpayers should foot the bill for “gender-transition” procedures on minors.
FAUCI: Missouri Attoney General Eric Schmitt has released the transcript from St. Tony’s deposition. One interesting nugget was the news that, until about a year ago, Dr. Fauci’s daughter worked at Twitter.
HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP: Following Elon Musk’s exposure of Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story shortly before the 2020 election, the Slime Streamers are simultaneously yawning over the “nothing burger” story while demonizing the reporter who pushed it out.
LIFE: The Canadian government pushes its Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) program, because it saves their “free for all” health care system millions and millions of dollars. Disabled Canadians report that, when they’ve asked for equipment that would help them live, they were turned down and told to apply for MAID.
LIFE AFTER LIFE: Joseph G. died of heart failure in a hospital ER. A week or so later, he woke up in a hospital bed and not only recognized and thanked the doctor who had come on the scene and revived him after he was dead, but also accurately described what was done to get his heart started again.
POLITICS: Ahead of the 2020 election, officials from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security were actively involved in skewing social media content to favor Democrats.
S&G: The executive director of Planned Parenthood’s Center for Sex Education in New Jersey believes that humans are sexual from birth and should be exposed to porn as young as possible.
MEDIA: In March 18, 2021, Rachel Maddow claimed on her show that Devin Nunes accepted a package from U.S. government-sanctioned Russian agent Andriy Derkach and “refused to hand it over” to the FBI. In fact, Nunes never got the package. His staff intercepted it and turned it over to the FBI promptly and unopened. Nunes sued NBCUniversal for defamation and, this week, a judge who tossed the rest of his lawsuit, permitted the part dealing with Maddow’s statement about the package to proceed to trial.
SAN FRANCISCO: A 10-month-old baby overdosed on Fentanyl while playing at an outdoor SF playground. Thank God, paramedics diagnosed him quickly and administered Narcan in time. The baby has recovered. I’m guessing his parents … not so much.
SATIRE: Today’s post is really short, so I’m going to include this in total. We all need to laugh more!
“Elon Musk: worse than Hitler” By Titania McGrath. Published in Critic Magazine and reprinted here without any permission whatsoever.
It is no exaggeration to say that Elon Musk’s annexation of Twitter is the most terrifying development in recent history. Only a fascist would seek to impose free speech on humanity.
This is why there has been such a chorus of execration from left-wing commentators, celebrities and influencers. On the day that Musk seized control of Twitter, Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz noted that it was “like the gates of hell opened on this site tonight”. Charlie Warzel in The Atlantic wrote that there was “an apocalyptic feel to the ordeal”.
But it was the Independent that really grasped the full gravity of this moment. Its headline read — “RIP Twitter, 2006-2022: Dead at the Hands of Elon Musk”. It is a testament to the cool-headed stoicism of left-wing journalists that they have managed not to overreact.
I also am trying my best to keep matters in perspective, but Musk’s takeover of Twitter is far worse than anything Hitler ever did. I do not approve of mass genocide, but it pales in comparison to providing a social media platform where Eddie Izzard might be misgendered.
The whole point of Twitter is to ensure that the masses aren’t exposed to wild conspiracy theories. If tweets aren’t censored, people might start to think that Covid-19 could have originated from a lab in Wuhan, or that there was something dodgy on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Musk has argued that Twitter ought to be a place where all political viewpoints can be aired. But keeping people informed can have dire consequences. Democracy has no chance of working properly if people keep insisting on voting for the wrong candidates.
Like many on the left, I have decided to delete my Twitter account in protest. Musk won’t know what hit him. Without my wisdom on the platform, the company will soon collapse into oblivion. There will be an outcry, share prices will plummet, and Musk will come begging for me to return. But I shall stand firm.
Come to think of it, maybe I should wait until next week to delete my account. I’ve got a book to sell.
ARIZONA: Y’all will remember that Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs refused to recuse herself from overseeing the election, despite the fact that she was a gubernatorial candidate running in a close race. Now it seems her office actually threatened Mohave County Supervisors with arrest and prosecution if they failed to certify that Hobbs won! Never mind that these people have serious concerns about election irregularities and want answers about what actually happened before handing the governor’s office to someone who may be a cheating cheater.
BAPTISM OF JESUS: Through our Baptism, we were cleansed of Original Sin, but Jesus had no sin, so what was the meaning of His baptism?
First, by entering into the baptismal waters, Jesus sanctified the water, thus creating the Sacrament of Baptism.
Second, he was baptized so that He might be revealed to Israel. “Behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and alighting on him; and lo, a voice from heaven, saying, “This is my beloved son, with whom I am well pleased.” – Matthew 3;16-17
And third, His baptism was “an acceptance ofdeath for the sins of humanity … an anticipatory reference to the Resurrection.” – Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth.
CATHOLIC CATECHISM: [2:40] – Fr. Mike Schmitz has launched his Catechism in a Year podcast. I don’t know of any religion other than Catholicism that has all of its teachings and practices explained in one free, easily downloadable source. I’ve found it at half a dozen sites, including the Vatican and the USCCB (U.S. Catholic Bishops) websites. The one I’ve linked here is my favorite, because it is searchable.
CHIEF TWIT: On Friday, Elon Musk released the so-called “Twitter files,” internal records revealing the platform’s censorship practices and the backstory behind the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story just ahead of the 2020 presidential election. You can access the whole thread at the second link; it is apparently just the beginning. Here are the high points.
On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN SECRET EMAILS, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop.
Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.”
They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.
The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey.
COVID-19: Unvaccinated patients who require transfusions can now access “pure blood” thanks to a new service called “SafeBlood Donation,” which was launched by a Swiss naturopath named George Della Pietra. The organization currently has members in 16 countries.
VAXXX: Jake Flint (37), a country-western singer who bragged about being fully vaxxxed suddenly passed away in his sleep just hours after exchanging vows with his bride.
Pathologists at the University of Heidelberg just published the first study of victims of sudden post-vaccine deaths. They autopsied the bodies of 25 previously healthy people who suddenly died within a week after receiving a ‘rona jab. Twenty percent of the deaths proved to be myocarditis-related. The pathologists noted that they had seen nothing comparable in 20 years of doing autopsies.
GRAMMY NOTES: At the very end of the video above, Father Ripperger talks about one benefit of daily prayer and meditation that shouted out loud to me. I have been home-bound for about 30 years and have a difficult time with the fact that the vast majority of my friends and relatives never bother to make time for me. For years, I would ask friends and relatives to come visit me and they’d say they would, but then not do it. When I realized the disappointment was worse than the isolation, I stopped asking people to visit.
So, back to Father Ripperger. He says, “God is not that different from us. The natural inclination that He placed in us to be around the people that we love is really a reflection of Him. … He wants us to be with Him. … If we really love someone, but they refuse to spend any time with us, eventually our love grows cold for that person. God’s love doesn’t grow cold for us, but the effects of His love begin to wane in our lives. And when you stand before Him, He has to ask, ‘Do you really want to be with Me? You never spent any time with Me in your life. …
“If somebody keeps coming to us day after day after day and knocking on our door and saying, ‘Hey, you wanna hang out?’ and they really like us, then eventually we want them to be with us too. We’re not going to just cut them off. It’s the same thing with God. If you’re constantly hanging around Him and pestering Him almost, then when it comes time for your Final Judgment, He’s gonna want to be with You as well.”
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