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Fearless and Devout Catholic Christian First, Loving Husband and Father Second, Pissed-Off Patriot Third, Rocket Engineer Dork Last.

Happy Easter from PoliNation

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from the book of John
The Empty Tomb

20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+20&version=NIV

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Barack Even Sucks at Being a Manchurian President

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Check this out.  After his epic clusterfrack trip to Central and South America where he was mocked, worldwide, by EVERYONE for being ineffectual and unconcerned about the “Belgian 9-11” event in which at least two Americans were killed, Barry is PLAYING GOLF!

White House Dossier – Two days after returning from some kind of hiking expedition in Argentina and one day after spending a day doing nothing – at least publicly – at the White House, President Obama today is playing golf. He is at the Joint Base Andrews course playing with some of the usual junior White House aides.

WTFF???  At this point, I have to agree with CBC.  This moron can’t even pretend to be a decent Manchurian President:

Because no American leader, no matter how disinterested or callous, would allow the photos like the ones in this article to ever be taken unless the level of disinterest, callousness, incompetence or something else more sinister is at such a high level that it can’t be comprehended by people like me!

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Enjoy This Easter; The Apocalypse Clock Is Counting Down Faster Than the US Debt Counter After Yesterday

Gruntington Post, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Good Friday, 2016 – We keep making history here in the Good Ol’ USA, whether we want to or not.  Last Christmas, the Detroit Chapter of the Satanic Temple made history by conducting the first Satanic ceremony on the State Capitol steps in Lansing, Michigan under the black flag of the Satanic USA, apparently.  And this Good Friday, they made some more history by conducting a “Sanctions of the Cross” demonstration in front of a Planned Parenthood to protest legislative restrictions on baby sacrifice.

As Samantha Allen of The Daily Beast put it: “It was a showdown that can only be described as biblical: The Satanic Temple of Detroit versus the Pro-Life Action League outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic on Good Friday.”

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You can see other photos at the Daily Beast, depicting their leader, Jex Blackheart or Jinx Blackmore or whatever her/his name is, staring at the camera wearing a crown of thorns and carrying a cross.  I’d prefer not to reproduce them here, thank you.  Talk about “cultural appropriation,” huh?  You’d think all the social justice snowflakes in Ann Arbor would be all over this, wouldn’t you?

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Read more excellent snark about these historic events at The Other McCain.

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Some Things Do Matter

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Vox’s Pathetic Propaganda on Gun Violence Gets the Crowder Treatment

Proving once again that if there’s data out there that can be tortured and misused using cute graphics to prove the opposite of what it really shows, Vox is up to the challenge.

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I Think It’s Hilarious That Some Democrats Really Consider Joey to Be the Way Out At This Point

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Obama Takes Anti-Semitism to New Level: Asks Netanyahu to Visit Washington on Same Day Kim Jong Un Promises to Nuke It

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Just hours ago, on Monday, the US State Department announced that they are taking North Korean threats seriously in the latest escalation of tensions.  Their leader, Kim Jong Un, has actually ordered his country to prepare a pre-emptive nuclear strike “of justice” on Washington, DC.  That’s fun news by itself.

But it’s even more fun that US President Obama chose this time to ask Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Washington to meet with him.  According to Israeli News sources, that’s not going to happen.

Perhaps the Israeli PM figured that he could just as easily get hit by a rocket fired by some lunatic in his home country.  No need to go to Washington for that.  Besides, there’s the risk that Obama will forget about the meeting and be playing golf in Florida when he arrives, anyway.

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GOP Insiders Determined to Make Their Suicide a Messy One

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With the most popular Republican Presidential candidate (and possibly the top two) in open existential warfare with the GOP leadership, it’s clear that the party, as we know it, will not survive into 2017.  A leadership change is being forced by deeply unhappy conservative voters, but the old guard leaders, represented by Senators McConnell and Graham and House Speaker Ryan (and Boehner before him) are not going quietly into the night.

In fact, recent actions by the party indicate an unthinkable level of willingness to self-destruct, even to purposely lose the election rather than allow a popular outsider like Donald Trump to win the nomination and the general election.  According to Politico, GOP leadership is taking measures to set up a possible independent run at the last minute in order to split the vote and prevent their own candidate from winning the general.

Although shockingly deceitful and destructive, such a move actually makes sense.  The current party leadership might survive another loss to Democrats with whom they share more in common than they do with their increasingly alienated constituency.  But they might not survive a huge victory by a free candidate, like Trump, “loaded for bear” against them.

Another strategy reported by the New York Times is for the GOP leadership to force a brokered convention and nominate a candidate friendlier than Trump: Marco Rubio or John Kasich – but NOT Ted Cruz.  BlurBrain commented about this as follows (emphasis mine):

Why not just run Romney or McCain again?

Once again the Party elites are bound and determined to find some way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by dumping some lackluster nominee on the unwilling Republican voters in the mistaken belief that only some Johnny Milquetoast RINO can appeal to the wider segment of society.

Dude, we tried that, TWICE and it failed…

How about for a change they just let the people decide who they want, for better or worse and then get the hell out of the way?

This election isn’t going to be about ‘likes and wants’ as much as who you hate and fear the most. And right now it seems the GOPe is siding with the Democrats.

Cross-Posted at Political Clown Parade and Blog of Monte Cristo.

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Sometimes You Just Gotta Call the Theory Ugly

This morning, over at the Last Refuge, aka The Conservative Treehouse, the Proprietor-Lord Sundance was justly celebrating the demise of the Jeb! Campaign.  And so he should.  The backroom, stogie-chomping, establishment gurus (GOPe) who pushed a clearly unwilling and unenthusiastic Jeb Bush into running as their puppet deserved to be defeated.  They have corrupted conservatism and ruined the Republican Party for far too long.

But one thing that seems to have passed unnoticed is the additional demise of the glorious “Splitter Theory” that Sundance concocted while soaking in his hot tub in Florida, drinking a few too many Sam Adams, and letting the temperature get a little too high for human brain health.  This is the same theory that got Sundance recognized by Doug Ross just a few months ago in his “Fabulous 50” Awards, and coat-tailed an additional award for his mostly unknown 1st lieutenant and pitbull, YTZ2Mee, and her blog, “StopShouting,” for no particular reason other than that Sundance probably asked him to.

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I’m not going to post any links.  Sorry.  I wouldn’t even go over there, frankly.  You’d eventually get banned, anyway, like all the rest of us.

But it’s worth remembering the “Splitter Theory,” not so much for the core idea that the GOPe would attempt to split and manipulate the delegates in order to get Jeb! nominated.  That much is true and obvious to anyone with a brain.

No, the cool thing about Sundance’s Splitter Theory is that he presented it as a complex calculation that only he could devise, consisting of a series of dozens of key events that only he could foresee and that were miraculously verified as being triggered only by him.  Revealed as they were by the Mind of Sundance, these triggered events proved that there was literally nothing that anybody could do to prevent the inevitable: the crowning of Jeb! as the GOP nominee, no matter what.  Basically, all you could do, dear reader, was to sit back and continue to read another thrilling episode of the Sundance Show.  Because, that was kinda the whole point, after all.

Well, it didn’t really happen like that, did it?  But somebody should pause for a few minutes today to mock this particular buffoon and his idiotic theory, because he’s already moved on to his next hard-sell, which is the demonization of Ted Cruz and the coronation of his preferred candidate, Donald Trump.

Is there anything wrong with that?  Mostly, no.  Trump’s not a horrible candidate.  But Cruz is a far better one, and so far, Sundance’s demonization campaign against the worthy Senator Cruz has been mostly fabricated from whole cloth.  That’s usually the way that Mr. Treehouse operates, and that, dear readers, is a very, very bad thing.

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Unreasonable Facsimile Chrissy-Substitute Fermentation Post

0% genuine Chrissy added, but almost 10% as good as the original!

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Here at the Grunt Ranch, we occasionally do some culinary research for the purposes of healthier eating and drinking.  So, with Chrissy out of commission for a while, we decided to experiment with some pro-biotic food!  We found out some pretty strange things.  For example, did you know that you can ferment cash?  It’s true.  The money in your piggy bank has so many microbes on it, that you can put it in salt water, set it on the shelf, and turn it into a potentially tasty broth.  Then, you can rinse it off and spend the money!  We’re still waiting for someone to taste it first so we can write a review.  Stand by for that.  It may be a while…

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In the mean time, here are some other ideas and funnies.  I shamelessly ripped the first one off of Bob’s site!  Thanks, Bluebird!

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'Have you been eating fermented birdseed again?'

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