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“No, Joe, you are not a nice guy by any stretch of the imagination. Please stop trying to convince us. Niceness is akin to money and sex. If you have it, there is no need to brag.”

Posted on May 3, 2021 by abyssum

No, Joe — You are Not a Nice Guy By Alison Nichols American Thinker April 30, 2021 Hat Tip: Rip McIntosh No, Joe, you are not a nice guy. Despite your need to keep telling us, we know the ugly truth. You … Continue reading →

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A DOUBTFUL POPE IS NO POPE !!!!!!

Posted on May 3, 2021 by abyssum

THE CATHOLIC MONITOR Fred Martinez Doctor of the Church St. Bellarmine & Bp. Gracida: “A Doubtful Pope is no Pope”  May 02, 2021 Bishop Rene Gracida summed the situation we are in with the doubtfulness of the Pope Benedict XVI resignation:  … Continue reading →

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“So I drove into town again yesterday and did the following: bought gas at $3.97 a gallon; went to Home Depot: there I was stunned to see 4×8 one-inch plywood at over $100 a sheet and 1/2 inch over $60 (a year ago they were a quarter that or less). I wanted to buy a cheap ratchet set: all sold out, as many things in the tool departments were. All the lumber was either picked over or so expensive to be left alone (e.g., redwood 2/4s) or sold out, as paradoxical as that seemed. A family member is looking at a new house. The price from a year ago has gone up by a third. Propane has soared to”

Posted on May 1, 2021 by abyssum

Eeyore’s Cabinet: Thoughts on the Economy By: Victor Davis Hanson Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers May 1, 2021  Hat Tip: Rip McIntosh As I wrote not long ago, I think we can expect a big boom of pent-up demand coming that … Continue reading →

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BRAVO ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE J. CORDILEONE ON THE PUBLICATION OF YOUR PASTORAL LETTER ON ABORTION

Posted on May 1, 2021 by abyssum

Archbishop publishes pastoral letter on abortion 0 San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone announced the release of his first pastoral letter on abortion at the Mass for Life at St. Mary’s Cathedral, May 1. (Photo by Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco) … Continue reading →

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MIRABILE VISU: A REBUTTAL SPEECH THAT WAS BETTER THAN THE MAIN SPEECH OF THE EVENING

Posted on April 30, 2021 by abyssum

Sen. Tim Scott’s Rebuttal to Biden is a MUST Read (As Liberals Call Him Uncle Tom) If you missed S.C. Senator Tim Scott’s rebuttal to Joe Biden’s mess of a speech, you really must take the time to read it … Continue reading →

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THIS BISHOP WOULD VOTE “NO” IF HE STILL HAD A VOTE IN THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS BUT AS A RETIRED BISHOP HE NO LONGER HAS A VOTE, ONLY A VOICE AND HENCE ABYSSUM.ORG

Posted on April 30, 2021 by abyssum

Should Biden Be Given Communion?April 30, 2021Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the controversy over President Biden receiving Communion:Should President Joe Biden be given Communion? That’s not for the Catholic League to say.Our job is to defend the right of … Continue reading →

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FACT OF LIFE (ACCORDING TO HESIOD): WITH MATERIAL PROGRESS THERE OFTEN COMES MORAL DECAY

Posted on April 30, 2021 by abyssum

Fragments of MemoryBy:  Victor Davis Hanson Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers April 30, 2021 Hat Tip: Rip McIntosh Two days ago, I drove in a 5-square-mile radius and noticed that the 100 or so farms I grew up with are all … Continue reading →

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As long as universities produced highly educated and open-minded graduates at a reasonable cost and kept politics out of the lecture hall, Americans didn’t care much about peculiarities such as tenure, legacy admissions, untaxed endowments, rebellious students, and quirky faculty. But once they began to charge exorbitantly, educate poorly, politick continuously, indebt millions of people and act hypocritically, universities turned off Americans. Just as a sermonizing Hollywood grates when it no longer can make good movies, a once-hallowed but now self-righteous university seems hollow when it charges so much for so little.

Posted on April 29, 2021 by abyssum

American Universities Have Lost Their PrestigeToday’s universities and colleges bear little if any resemblance to postwar higher education. By: VICTOR DAVIS HANSON  April 29, 2021 Hat Tip: Rip McIntosh Nothing is stranger than the contemporary American university.Not long ago, Americans used to idolize … Continue reading →

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I hope and pray that Republicans en masse stand up and announce to all the world that we do not buy into Critical Race Theory or the 1619 project and that America is not a racist nation.

Posted on April 29, 2021 by abyssum

On the Question of SystemicRacism in the United States By: E.P. Unum April 29, 2021  Hat Tip: Rip McIntosh   The substance of this essay originated in an article by Ian Duncan of the Baltimore Sun Newspaper entitled The Black Dilemma. I took the time … Continue reading →

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100 DAYS OF ABORTION EXTREMISM

Posted on April 29, 2021 by abyssum

OPINION One hundred days of abortion extremism by Marjorie Dannenfelser April 29, 2021 12:00 AM The first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration have brought an unprecedented tsunami of anti-life extremism. Almost daily, there are fresh assaults not only on the unborn … Continue reading →

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