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April 07, 2021

Do demons uses “rights talk”?

The Yale educated psychiatric exorcist’s consultant Dr. Richard Gallagher’s book, Demonic Foes, speaks of demons demanding their “rights.” Dr. Gallagher, who is a scientific adviser to the International Association of Exorcists, wrote:

“Some demons exhibit a strong strong sense of entitlement, maybe the chief personality feature held in common by demons…  demons have been known to claim outright “legal’ rights over the possessed” (Page 143)

Of world leaders, apparently the person who uses “rights talk” the most is Francis as he showed again yesterday. [https://aleteia.org/2021/04/06/popes-april-prayer-intention-basic-human-rights-for-all/]

Is “rights talk” incompatible with Christian doctrine?

Liberal democracy scholar Walter Berns states that “rights discovered by Hobbes and Locke… presuppose the state of nature, the state of nature is incompatible with Christian doctrine… ‘the first commandment and great commandment’ is love of God… In the state of nature, however, man is not obliged to love anyone, but merely to preserve himself.” (“Liberty: The God that Failed,” Page 66)

Is “rights talk” some “kind of deformed variety of Christian thought”?

Peter Toon said “rights talk” may be “deformed” Catholic thinking and Protestant “individualist[ic] reading and interpreting [of] the Bible”:

French scholar, Michel Villey, who studied the origins of “rights talk” in the late medieval period, held that while rights theories are derived from Christian morality, they are an aberration, a kind of deformed variety of Christian thought.

A careful student of modern Catholic “rights” language and claims is left wondering whether anything of lasting value has been achieved by the adoption and use of them. This is because it seems to be nearly impossible to use consistently a Christian “rights” language that has a totally different foundation from the “rights talk” in normal use in the political and social spheres. It is to be noted that the Catholic Church can and does already make the same points concerning the dignity and worth of man through and in Jesus Christ, the new Adam, without using “rights talk.” However, the “rights” language is now incorporated in The Catechism of the Catholic Church as official teaching and thus seems to be here to stay. Time will tell whether it is a huge mistake or a winning number.

Popes before this century refused to use “rights talk,” seeing it as an aberration of the Enlightenment. And of course those influenced by Leo Strauss (e.g., Walter Berns in his In Defense of Liberal Democracy, 1984) have maintained that the very idea of natural rights is incompatible with Christian doctrine.

Turning to conservative Protestants and biblically-minded Evangelicals, it seems that they have absorbed much from the “rights talk” of Western culture. This can be seen via a careful analysis of some of their modern biblical paraphrases where “rights talk” comes into the translation, of their claims concerning individualist reading and interpreting the Bible, of their ways of speaking of their “relationship” with God in “my quiet time,” of their developing teaching and practice of divorce and second marriages (serial monogamy).[https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=11-06-031-f]

Brian Tierney holds that there are three views of “rights talk” among academics on the subject:”Even among those who agree that the idea of natural rights is distinctively Western in origin, there is still no agreement about the relationship of rights theories to the whole tradition of Western culture. There seem to be three distinct schools of thought, at least. Some, like Maritain, would hold that the idea of natural rights was always implicit in Judeo-Christian teaching on the dignity and value of the human person. Another school of thought maintains that modern rights theories had a specifically seventeenth-century origin. C. B. MacPherson associated such doctrines with the nascent capitalism of the age. Leo Strauss emphasized the scientific materialist philosophy of Hobbes and concluded that the idea of natural rights was alien to the earlier classical and Christian tradition. Disciples of Strauss, like Walter Berns, will still write, “The very idea of natural rights is incompatible with Christian doctrine.” Yet a third school, represented by Michel Villey, who has written many books and articles on this theme, holds that the idea of subjective rights was indeed derived from Christianity but from a distorted and aberrant form of Christian thought, specifically from the fourteenth century nominalist and voluntarist philosophy of the Franciscan William of Ockham. Villey dislikes all the modern talk of rights. Like Mcintyre, he sees it as only a form of mindless subjectivism. According to Villey, the good old tradition was represented by Thomas Aquinas, and it emphasized natural law and the common good, not selfish egotistical individual rights. Then along came Ockham. His nominalist phi-losophy naturally inspired an individualistic political theory. Ockham, Villey wrote, was the father of subjective right.”[https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=fulton_lectures]Francis Notes:

– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:

“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.”
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]

– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html

 –  LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:

The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”

–  On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:

“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”

– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:

“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.

Election Notes:  

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1 – A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020: 
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1 What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”: 
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1] 
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it. 

Attention liberals: An easy to understand guide to corporate income taxes and the Biden lie By Dr. Robert HowardApril 6, 2021
When George Stephanopoulos (on ABC News) asked President Biden: “You’re going to be raising those taxes?”
President Biden’s response was: “ Yes. Anybody making more than $400,000 will see a small to a significant tax increase. If you make more than — less than $400,000, you won’t see a fed — one single penny in additional federal tax. I brought this with me ’cause I often get asked and I don’t wanna misquote it.” https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-abc-news-george-stephanopoulos-interviews-president-joe/story?id=76509669
Biden is proposing a US corporation tax hike from the current 21% rate to 28% and increasing the global minimum tax on corporations from 13% to 21%.
Here is the big question for liberals: Where does the money that corporations use to pay these taxes come from? If you are astute and answered “from the people who buy the goods and services of the company” you earn a star!
Think about that. Every dollar that a corporation earns comes from the goods and services that the company sells to their customers who desire those goods and services. Since every corporate dollar comes from customers, ultimately but not necessarily instantaneously, the company is left with a single choice when confronted with a tax increase; to pass the tax increase on to its customers (very few of which earn $400,000 or more per year).
When President Biden makes comments like “We’re asking corporate America to pay their fair share. It will not slow the economy at all.” he is being completely dishonest. 
Understand this: liberal methodology is to use corporations to pass on tax increases to every income bracket in the country and then to demonize those companies when they are forced to pass on these increases to the consumer public which doesn’t want them. Corporate tax increases will always slow the economy because the higher rates cause the prices of American goods to rise which makes our companies less competitive in the global environment.
To summarize. It doesn’t matter what income bracket you are in, you will experience a stealth tax increase as a result of Biden’s corporate income tax increase plan. In addition, there are many other aspects to his tax increase scheme that will also extend well into the middle and lower income brackets. These are also being done in a stealth manner with the hopes that you will not notice or misplace the blame.

Rip McIntosh

The Signs of a HypocriteAtrox melior dulcissima veritas mendaciis. ‘The bitter truth is better than the sweetest lie.” By E.P. UnumApril 6, 2021(emphasis added)
There are three major signs of a hypocrite:
1.               Whenever he speaks, he lies2.               Whatever he promises, he breaks his promise3.               Whenever he is trusted, he betrays the trust. By these yardsticks, President Joseph Biden qualifies as a hypocrite. 
The great Greek philosopher, Democritus (470-370 B.C.) wrote that “cheats and hypocrites are those who do everything with words and nothing with actions”. That statement, written centuries ago, precisely describes President Biden who has spent his entire 50-year career working in government, first as a Congressman and then as a Senator. And, in that period of time, five decades, I challenge anyone to find one piece of legislation, one singular action that made a positive difference in the lives of Americans. He is often referred to as “the great healer” and “the great unifier”, a man whose reputation is built on “reaching across the aisle” to produce legislation that helps all Americans. In truth, Mr. Biden is none of these things. By now you know the story of his involvement with his son in Ukraine; as a “protected silent partner” in a Chinese Communist joint venture to acquire American businesses, some of them defense-related, and his demand that his son fork over 50% of his income “to the family”; and the millions in government contracts earned by his two brothers, Frank and James Biden. This essay is not about any of these sordid issues. They speak for themselves about the man’s character and lack of integrity. This essay is about far more important issues, ones that are dramatically and adversely impacting our daily lives andtransforming America into a socialist country on its way to a full-scale autocratic communist state.
Alarmist, you say? Hysterical, you say? Not really. And, I am concerned. The facts are irrefutable….unless we become less like sheep, more like wolves, and start fighting back. Consider the following: 1.      For the first time in our 245 year history, an American President, Joe Biden, has called for economic sanctions against one of the fifty states over dutifully and legally passed legislation regarding how elections are run in that state. Joe Biden flat out lied about the legislation which earned him “Four Pinnochio’s” from the very liberal Washington Post. But his lies spurred Major League Baseball to “move its scheduled Annual All-Star Game from Atlanta, GA to Denver, Colorado.” That effectively wiped out roughly $100 million in much-needed revenue for Fulton County, GA, not to mention the lost revenue for small vendors selling hot dogs, beer, popcorn, and soft drinks at the new Stadium….you know, all the little guys good ol’ Joe says he represents. But there are other more profound issues. 
President Biden fancies himself as a champion of Black Americans. If that is true, what about the fact that African Americans represent 55% of Atlanta, 54% of Savannah, and 55% of Augusta, all in Georgia. How does the MLB action, sanctified by Mr. Biden, and championed by the Great Deceiver himself, Barack Hussein Obama, help these African Americans? What happens to all the minority-owned businesses in Atlanta? Did they bother to ask MLB why they relocated the All-Star Game to Colorado where African Americans constitute only 9% of the population? Did anyone question MLB signing a multi-million dollar deal with China to stream live games to that communist state? Also, did any of these companies read the Georgia legislation? I know President Biden didn’t; he just parroted what his handlers told him to say. 
Is Mr. Manfred, the Commissioner of Major league Baseball going to surrender his membership in Georgia’s Augusta Golf Club where the Masters is being held as a symbol of his protest and solidarity with the Biden Folly? And finally, will President Biden call for the boycotting of the Beijing Olympics over their inhumane treatment of various ethnic groups including Christians? Can you spell hypocrisy? 2.      As is always the case, the woke faction of corporate America joined into this White House inspired fiasco and, caving in to the pressure from the left, chimed in supporting the decision of Major League Baseball, So we have Delta Airlines, Coca Cola, United Airlines and others supporting this ridiculous move. Well, here is my answer to these corporations: I will not buy Coca-Cola products and I will not watch MLB Games this season. I will pray that others follow this action because that is one way all of us can fight back. Let’s see how long these companies will support MLB when half the country stops buying their products. 3.      Fresh off ramming through a $1.9 Trillion “COVID” Relief Package called the “American Rescue Plan” by the slimmest majority, here comes good ol’Joe again, wanting to shell out an additional $2.3 Trillion in the Great Infrastructure Program. That is a $4.2 Trillion spending spree which essentially doubles the size of our government in a matter of months. On examination, we find that less than 10% of this proposed spending is targeted to roads, bridges, and tunnels. So, what’s the rush? Well, it is pretty clear: to fundamentally transform the nation in accordance with radical leftist visions before Democrats lose control in 2022 and before Joe steps down due to health reasons and turns the reigns over to Kamala “Heels Up” Harris. 4.      President Biden is ready to enact another executive action(government by fiat) dealing with the Second Amendment and our right to own weapons. Like all left-leaning people, they believe that banning guns for citizens will curtail and eliminate the killings associated with mass shootings. Mr. Biden and all the quiche-eating, limp wristed liberal doves ought to read the writings of one of Rome’s greatest leaders Marcus Aurelius, who said “When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults”. The Second Amendment was not approved to keep the government safe from the people; it was enacted to protect the people from government tyranny. History has taught us with unmistakable certainty, that those governments who take weapons away from their citizens, invariably institute tyranny. The list is long and ominous: China, Germany, Japan, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia
5.           I listened carefully to President Biden’s initial remarks at the opening of his first Cabinet Meeting. He looked around the room and said “This looks like America”. I am sure those on the left found this comment very wholesome and reflective of “the kind and gentle leadership Joe provides”, but he was actually saying that he was proud that the Cabinet he assembled consisted of Women, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Gay, Transgender, etc. But, I view it as utter hypocrisy. My questions deal not with the color of their skin, or whether they are gay or straight, but the competence they bring to the table. 
Long ago, as a young boy in a Catholic grammar school in New York City, I learned this about our history and democracy: “Democracy without meritocracy is just hypocrisy and as such is no different from autocracy” No clearer example of this exists than in reviewing the pride which Biden’s Secretary of Defense, General Lloyd Austin (Ret) talked about the “newly designed uniforms for pregnant soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen”. Do you think China, Russia, Iran and North Korea were listening to this? Time will tell how effective General Austin will be in leading the Pentagon (assuming Biden learns to remember his name) but I would much rather have heard him speak about how we will step up our preparedness for dealing with what soon will become a crisis for our allies in the South China Sea or Russia’s all too frequent incursions into our airspace near the Aleutians or Iran’s countdown to nuclear missile capability. 6.      I wonder how long it will be before interest rates rise? More importantly, when they rise, as they inevitably will, what does that portend for our national debt which will soon reach $30.0 Trillion? 
As of today, interest rates are artificially low and have been kept that way by the Federal Reserve. But what if they rise to say 2.0% or 3.0%? That would imply roughly $600 to $900 billion in interest before any principal reduction. That is 25% of the entire tax revenue the IRS collects today from all sources, corporate, small businesses, individuals, and the wealthy. What will be left to deal with services Americans have become accustomed to and our standard of living?
Joe Biden speaks about increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations. He talks of increasing taxes on capital gains and rearranging the tax basis of inheritances (estate taxes). Now all of this works in theory on paper. But, what happens when corporations balk at paying 28% income taxes, up from 21%, and decide to move offshore? What happens when wealthy individuals relocate offshore?
All of this is likely to happen, as it has in the past, and the impact is erosion to the tax base with the burden falling ultimately on the middle class…as it has in the past. With the flight of capital offshore, comes unemployment…massive unemployment. And with unemployment, comes a loss of productivity…a shortage of goods and services. So, the end game is fewer goods and services, higher debt, lots of money in circulation and you have a classic example of hyperinflation, the kind of inflation that crippled Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela, Russia, and other socialist/communist states. 
This is not rocket science folks; it is Macro-Economics 101. I guess Joe Biden missed that class in college…and so did his financial advisors. 7.      I wish more parents would rise up and demand schools open. If they do not, demand that those teachers who refuse to teach be fired immediately and their pensions forfeited. I realize that is harsh but we are living in harsh and unprecedented times. Seems to me that the Air Traffic Controllers went on strike during the Reagan Administration. President Reagan fired all of them. The nation went back to flying again very soon after. 
Don’t we owe it to our children to provide the very best education we can give them? Think of the hardships we are making them suffer. Enough is enough. Get the teachers back teaching full-time or tap into those of us from the Baby Boom Generation to step in and teach our children. I’m ready. I do it now and will gladly do it again. The CDC has endorsed the return to school full time and has stated there is little risk for teachers in the classroom from Covid. 
Parents, step up and make your voices heard. 8.      If President Biden cared about our children he would announce his displeasure with those state governments pushing to create a taxable marijuana industry nationwide. Their quest for more things to tax and more money to raise and spend has outpaced their desire to act responsibly on behalf of the people. 
Here is a medical fact, scientifically proven with years of documented evidence: Marijuana is addictive, especially in those who start using it in their teens and it can have permanent effects on the brain such as impaired attention, memory, and learning. Astonishingly, laws recently enacted in some states actually bar police from notifying parents if their child was caught using marijuana or alcohol, and, even if found using them again. Some laws make underage use of marijuana and alcohol penalty-freewhile deterring police from confirming such use. Some of these laws (NJ) actually hold law enforcers criminally liable if they question a minor stemming from the discovery of marijuana or alcohol. I am reasonably certain that these issues are not well known and even more certain that voters did not agree to decriminalize marijuana and alcohol for children. Ask yourself this: would you care if your son or daughter was using marijuana or alcohol, or both, while they were driving around town? What could possibly go wrong? If President Biden truly cared, he might use his office and the bully pulpit to speak out against this insanity. But, if truth be told, he is probably unaware of them. Not since the Civil War has our country been more divided. It seems like there is a giant schism driven down the middle of our country, separating democrats and republicans; the have’s and the have nots. Frankly, I am fed up with Democrats and Republicans. They are supposed to work for us but all they do is bicker among themselves, forgetting why we sent them to Washington…to represent us, we the people. We did not send them to represent a political party but to represent we the people! They are so preoccupied with changing things that they are incapable of focusing on what is working and has worked since the founding of our Republic. The democrats are in power now, and, so, they want to make their presence felt. But they are going about it the wrong way. There is an old adage that seems quite appropriate in this essay and so I include it here: “If you kick a dog long enough, he’s gonna bite” So, a word to the wise: Learn to work together because that is what a team does. And, there is no “I” in Team! We are facing some very difficult challenges from some formidable nations. If memory serves me correctly, neither democrats nor republicans won Word War I or World War II.  Americans did that.

The Signs of a HypocriteAtrox melior dulcissima veritas mendaciis. ‘The bitter truth is better than the sweetest lie.” By E.P. UnumApril 6, 2021(emphasis added)

RIP MCINTOSH

There are three major signs of a hypocrite:
1.               Whenever he speaks, he lies2.               Whatever he promises, he breaks his promise3.               Whenever he is trusted, he betrays the trust. By these yardsticks, President Joseph Biden qualifies as a hypocrite. 
The great Greek philosopher, Democritus (470-370 B.C.) wrote that “cheats and hypocrites are those who do everything with words and nothing with actions”. That statement, written centuries ago, precisely describes President Biden who has spent his entire 50-year career working in government, first as a Congressman and then as a Senator. And, in that period of time, five decades, I challenge anyone to find one piece of legislation, one singular action that made a positive difference in the lives of Americans. He is often referred to as “the great healer” and “the great unifier”, a man whose reputation is built on “reaching across the aisle” to produce legislation that helps all Americans. In truth, Mr. Biden is none of these things. By now you know the story of his involvement with his son in Ukraine; as a “protected silent partner” in a Chinese Communist joint venture to acquire American businesses, some of them defense-related, and his demand that his son fork over 50% of his income “to the family”; and the millions in government contracts earned by his two brothers, Frank and James Biden. This essay is not about any of these sordid issues. They speak for themselves about the man’s character and lack of integrity. This essay is about far more important issues, ones that are dramatically and adversely impacting our daily lives andtransforming America into a socialist country on its way to a full-scale autocratic communist state.
Alarmist, you say? Hysterical, you say? Not really. And, I am concerned. The facts are irrefutable….unless we become less like sheep, more like wolves, and start fighting back. Consider the following: 1.      For the first time in our 245 year history, an American President, Joe Biden, has called for economic sanctions against one of the fifty states over dutifully and legally passed legislation regarding how elections are run in that state. Joe Biden flat out lied about the legislation which earned him “Four Pinnochio’s” from the very liberal Washington Post. But his lies spurred Major League Baseball to “move its scheduled Annual All-Star Game from Atlanta, GA to Denver, Colorado.” That effectively wiped out roughly $100 million in much-needed revenue for Fulton County, GA, not to mention the lost revenue for small vendors selling hot dogs, beer, popcorn, and soft drinks at the new Stadium….you know, all the little guys good ol’ Joe says he represents. But there are other more profound issues. 
President Biden fancies himself as a champion of Black Americans. If that is true, what about the fact that African Americans represent 55% of Atlanta, 54% of Savannah, and 55% of Augusta, all in Georgia. How does the MLB action, sanctified by Mr. Biden, and championed by the Great Deceiver himself, Barack Hussein Obama, help these African Americans? What happens to all the minority-owned businesses in Atlanta? Did they bother to ask MLB why they relocated the All-Star Game to Colorado where African Americans constitute only 9% of the population? Did anyone question MLB signing a multi-million dollar deal with China to stream live games to that communist state? Also, did any of these companies read the Georgia legislation? I know President Biden didn’t; he just parroted what his handlers told him to say. 
Is Mr. Manfred, the Commissioner of Major league Baseball going to surrender his membership in Georgia’s Augusta Golf Club where the Masters is being held as a symbol of his protest and solidarity with the Biden Folly? And finally, will President Biden call for the boycotting of the Beijing Olympics over their inhumane treatment of various ethnic groups including Christians? Can you spell hypocrisy? 2.      As is always the case, the woke faction of corporate America joined into this White House inspired fiasco and, caving in to the pressure from the left, chimed in supporting the decision of Major League Baseball, So we have Delta Airlines, Coca Cola, United Airlines and others supporting this ridiculous move. Well, here is my answer to these corporations: I will not buy Coca-Cola products and I will not watch MLB Games this season. I will pray that others follow this action because that is one way all of us can fight back. Let’s see how long these companies will support MLB when half the country stops buying their products. 3.      Fresh off ramming through a $1.9 Trillion “COVID” Relief Package called the “American Rescue Plan” by the slimmest majority, here comes good ol’Joe again, wanting to shell out an additional $2.3 Trillion in the Great Infrastructure Program. That is a $4.2 Trillion spending spree which essentially doubles the size of our government in a matter of months. On examination, we find that less than 10% of this proposed spending is targeted to roads, bridges, and tunnels. So, what’s the rush? Well, it is pretty clear: to fundamentally transform the nation in accordance with radical leftist visions before Democrats lose control in 2022 and before Joe steps down due to health reasons and turns the reigns over to Kamala “Heels Up” Harris. 4.      President Biden is ready to enact another executive action(government by fiat) dealing with the Second Amendment and our right to own weapons. Like all left-leaning people, they believe that banning guns for citizens will curtail and eliminate the killings associated with mass shootings. Mr. Biden and all the quiche-eating, limp wristed liberal doves ought to read the writings of one of Rome’s greatest leaders Marcus Aurelius, who said “When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults”. The Second Amendment was not approved to keep the government safe from the people; it was enacted to protect the people from government tyranny. History has taught us with unmistakable certainty, that those governments who take weapons away from their citizens, invariably institute tyranny. The list is long and ominous: China, Germany, Japan, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia
5.           I listened carefully to President Biden’s initial remarks at the opening of his first Cabinet Meeting. He looked around the room and said “This looks like America”. I am sure those on the left found this comment very wholesome and reflective of “the kind and gentle leadership Joe provides”, but he was actually saying that he was proud that the Cabinet he assembled consisted of Women, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Gay, Transgender, etc. But, I view it as utter hypocrisy. My questions deal not with the color of their skin, or whether they are gay or straight, but the competence they bring to the table. 
Long ago, as a young boy in a Catholic grammar school in New York City, I learned this about our history and democracy: “Democracy without meritocracy is just hypocrisy and as such is no different from autocracy” No clearer example of this exists than in reviewing the pride which Biden’s Secretary of Defense, General Lloyd Austin (Ret) talked about the “newly designed uniforms for pregnant soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen”. Do you think China, Russia, Iran and North Korea were listening to this? Time will tell how effective General Austin will be in leading the Pentagon (assuming Biden learns to remember his name) but I would much rather have heard him speak about how we will step up our preparedness for dealing with what soon will become a crisis for our allies in the South China Sea or Russia’s all too frequent incursions into our airspace near the Aleutians or Iran’s countdown to nuclear missile capability. 6.      I wonder how long it will be before interest rates rise? More importantly, when they rise, as they inevitably will, what does that portend for our national debt which will soon reach $30.0 Trillion? 
As of today, interest rates are artificially low and have been kept that way by the Federal Reserve. But what if they rise to say 2.0% or 3.0%? That would imply roughly $600 to $900 billion in interest before any principal reduction. That is 25% of the entire tax revenue the IRS collects today from all sources, corporate, small businesses, individuals, and the wealthy. What will be left to deal with services Americans have become accustomed to and our standard of living?
Joe Biden speaks about increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations. He talks of increasing taxes on capital gains and rearranging the tax basis of inheritances (estate taxes). Now all of this works in theory on paper. But, what happens when corporations balk at paying 28% income taxes, up from 21%, and decide to move offshore? What happens when wealthy individuals relocate offshore?
All of this is likely to happen, as it has in the past, and the impact is erosion to the tax base with the burden falling ultimately on the middle class…as it has in the past. With the flight of capital offshore, comes unemployment…massive unemployment. And with unemployment, comes a loss of productivity…a shortage of goods and services. So, the end game is fewer goods and services, higher debt, lots of money in circulation and you have a classic example of hyperinflation, the kind of inflation that crippled Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela, Russia, and other socialist/communist states. 
This is not rocket science folks; it is Macro-Economics 101. I guess Joe Biden missed that class in college…and so did his financial advisors. 7.      I wish more parents would rise up and demand schools open. If they do not, demand that those teachers who refuse to teach be fired immediately and their pensions forfeited. I realize that is harsh but we are living in harsh and unprecedented times. Seems to me that the Air Traffic Controllers went on strike during the Reagan Administration. President Reagan fired all of them. The nation went back to flying again very soon after. 
Don’t we owe it to our children to provide the very best education we can give them? Think of the hardships we are making them suffer. Enough is enough. Get the teachers back teaching full-time or tap into those of us from the Baby Boom Generation to step in and teach our children. I’m ready. I do it now and will gladly do it again. The CDC has endorsed the return to school full time and has stated there is little risk for teachers in the classroom from Covid. 
Parents, step up and make your voices heard. 8.      If President Biden cared about our children he would announce his displeasure with those state governments pushing to create a taxable marijuana industry nationwide. Their quest for more things to tax and more money to raise and spend has outpaced their desire to act responsibly on behalf of the people. 
Here is a medical fact, scientifically proven with years of documented evidence: Marijuana is addictive, especially in those who start using it in their teens and it can have permanent effects on the brain such as impaired attention, memory, and learning. Astonishingly, laws recently enacted in some states actually bar police from notifying parents if their child was caught using marijuana or alcohol, and, even if found using them again. Some laws make underage use of marijuana and alcohol penalty-freewhile deterring police from confirming such use. Some of these laws (NJ) actually hold law enforcers criminally liable if they question a minor stemming from the discovery of marijuana or alcohol. I am reasonably certain that these issues are not well known and even more certain that voters did not agree to decriminalize marijuana and alcohol for children. Ask yourself this: would you care if your son or daughter was using marijuana or alcohol, or both, while they were driving around town? What could possibly go wrong? If President Biden truly cared, he might use his office and the bully pulpit to speak out against this insanity. But, if truth be told, he is probably unaware of them. Not since the Civil War has our country been more divided. It seems like there is a giant schism driven down the middle of our country, separating democrats and republicans; the have’s and the have nots. Frankly, I am fed up with Democrats and Republicans. They are supposed to work for us but all they do is bicker among themselves, forgetting why we sent them to Washington…to represent us, we the people. We did not send them to represent a political party but to represent we the people! They are so preoccupied with changing things that they are incapable of focusing on what is working and has worked since the founding of our Republic. The democrats are in power now, and, so, they want to make their presence felt. But they are going about it the wrong way. There is an old adage that seems quite appropriate in this essay and so I include it here: “If you kick a dog long enough, he’s gonna bite” So, a word to the wise: Learn to work together because that is what a team does. And, there is no “I” in Team! We are facing some very difficult challenges from some formidable nations. If memory serves me correctly, neither democrats nor republicans won Word War I or World War II.  Americans did that.

The Signs of a HypocriteAtrox melior dulcissima veritas mendaciis. ‘The bitter truth is better than the sweetest lie.” By E.P. UnumApril 6, 2021(emphasis added)
There are three major signs of a hypocrite:
1.               Whenever he speaks, he lies2.               Whatever he promises, he breaks his promise3.               Whenever he is trusted, he betrays the trust. By these yardsticks, President Joseph Biden qualifies as a hypocrite. 
The great Greek philosopher, Democritus (470-370 B.C.) wrote that “cheats and hypocrites are those who do everything with words and nothing with actions”. That statement, written centuries ago, precisely describes President Biden who has spent his entire 50-year career working in government, first as a Congressman and then as a Senator. And, in that period of time, five decades, I challenge anyone to find one piece of legislation, one singular action that made a positive difference in the lives of Americans. He is often referred to as “the great healer” and “the great unifier”, a man whose reputation is built on “reaching across the aisle” to produce legislation that helps all Americans. In truth, Mr. Biden is none of these things. By now you know the story of his involvement with his son in Ukraine; as a “protected silent partner” in a Chinese Communist joint venture to acquire American businesses, some of them defense-related, and his demand that his son fork over 50% of his income “to the family”; and the millions in government contracts earned by his two brothers, Frank and James Biden. This essay is not about any of these sordid issues. They speak for themselves about the man’s character and lack of integrity. This essay is about far more important issues, ones that are dramatically and adversely impacting our daily lives andtransforming America into a socialist country on its way to a full-scale autocratic communist state.
Alarmist, you say? Hysterical, you say? Not really. And, I am concerned. The facts are irrefutable….unless we become less like sheep, more like wolves, and start fighting back. Consider the following: 1.      For the first time in our 245 year history, an American President, Joe Biden, has called for economic sanctions against one of the fifty states over dutifully and legally passed legislation regarding how elections are run in that state. Joe Biden flat out lied about the legislation which earned him “Four Pinnochio’s” from the very liberal Washington Post. But his lies spurred Major League Baseball to “move its scheduled Annual All-Star Game from Atlanta, GA to Denver, Colorado.” That effectively wiped out roughly $100 million in much-needed revenue for Fulton County, GA, not to mention the lost revenue for small vendors selling hot dogs, beer, popcorn, and soft drinks at the new Stadium….you know, all the little guys good ol’ Joe says he represents. But there are other more profound issues. 
President Biden fancies himself as a champion of Black Americans. If that is true, what about the fact that African Americans represent 55% of Atlanta, 54% of Savannah, and 55% of Augusta, all in Georgia. How does the MLB action, sanctified by Mr. Biden, and championed by the Great Deceiver himself, Barack Hussein Obama, help these African Americans? What happens to all the minority-owned businesses in Atlanta? Did they bother to ask MLB why they relocated the All-Star Game to Colorado where African Americans constitute only 9% of the population? Did anyone question MLB signing a multi-million dollar deal with China to stream live games to that communist state? Also, did any of these companies read the Georgia legislation? I know President Biden didn’t; he just parroted what his handlers told him to say. 
Is Mr. Manfred, the Commissioner of Major league Baseball going to surrender his membership in Georgia’s Augusta Golf Club where the Masters is being held as a symbol of his protest and solidarity with the Biden Folly? And finally, will President Biden call for the boycotting of the Beijing Olympics over their inhumane treatment of various ethnic groups including Christians? Can you spell hypocrisy? 2.      As is always the case, the woke faction of corporate America joined into this White House inspired fiasco and, caving in to the pressure from the left, chimed in supporting the decision of Major League Baseball, So we have Delta Airlines, Coca Cola, United Airlines and others supporting this ridiculous move. Well, here is my answer to these corporations: I will not buy Coca-Cola products and I will not watch MLB Games this season. I will pray that others follow this action because that is one way all of us can fight back. Let’s see how long these companies will support MLB when half the country stops buying their products. 3.      Fresh off ramming through a $1.9 Trillion “COVID” Relief Package called the “American Rescue Plan” by the slimmest majority, here comes good ol’Joe again, wanting to shell out an additional $2.3 Trillion in the Great Infrastructure Program. That is a $4.2 Trillion spending spree which essentially doubles the size of our government in a matter of months. On examination, we find that less than 10% of this proposed spending is targeted to roads, bridges, and tunnels. So, what’s the rush? Well, it is pretty clear: to fundamentally transform the nation in accordance with radical leftist visions before Democrats lose control in 2022 and before Joe steps down due to health reasons and turns the reigns over to Kamala “Heels Up” Harris. 4.      President Biden is ready to enact another executive action(government by fiat) dealing with the Second Amendment and our right to own weapons. Like all left-leaning people, they believe that banning guns for citizens will curtail and eliminate the killings associated with mass shootings. Mr. Biden and all the quiche-eating, limp wristed liberal doves ought to read the writings of one of Rome’s greatest leaders Marcus Aurelius, who said “When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults”. The Second Amendment was not approved to keep the government safe from the people; it was enacted to protect the people from government tyranny. History has taught us with unmistakable certainty, that those governments who take weapons away from their citizens, invariably institute tyranny. The list is long and ominous: China, Germany, Japan, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia
5.           I listened carefully to President Biden’s initial remarks at the opening of his first Cabinet Meeting. He looked around the room and said “This looks like America”. I am sure those on the left found this comment very wholesome and reflective of “the kind and gentle leadership Joe provides”, but he was actually saying that he was proud that the Cabinet he assembled consisted of Women, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Gay, Transgender, etc. But, I view it as utter hypocrisy. My questions deal not with the color of their skin, or whether they are gay or straight, but the competence they bring to the table. 
Long ago, as a young boy in a Catholic grammar school in New York City, I learned this about our history and democracy: “Democracy without meritocracy is just hypocrisy and as such is no different from autocracy” No clearer example of this exists than in reviewing the pride which Biden’s Secretary of Defense, General Lloyd Austin (Ret) talked about the “newly designed uniforms for pregnant soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen”. Do you think China, Russia, Iran and North Korea were listening to this? Time will tell how effective General Austin will be in leading the Pentagon (assuming Biden learns to remember his name) but I would much rather have heard him speak about how we will step up our preparedness for dealing with what soon will become a crisis for our allies in the South China Sea or Russia’s all too frequent incursions into our airspace near the Aleutians or Iran’s countdown to nuclear missile capability. 6.      I wonder how long it will be before interest rates rise? More importantly, when they rise, as they inevitably will, what does that portend for our national debt which will soon reach $30.0 Trillion? 
As of today, interest rates are artificially low and have been kept that way by the Federal Reserve. But what if they rise to say 2.0% or 3.0%? That would imply roughly $600 to $900 billion in interest before any principal reduction. That is 25% of the entire tax revenue the IRS collects today from all sources, corporate, small businesses, individuals, and the wealthy. What will be left to deal with services Americans have become accustomed to and our standard of living?
Joe Biden speaks about increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations. He talks of increasing taxes on capital gains and rearranging the tax basis of inheritances (estate taxes). Now all of this works in theory on paper. But, what happens when corporations balk at paying 28% income taxes, up from 21%, and decide to move offshore? What happens when wealthy individuals relocate offshore?
All of this is likely to happen, as it has in the past, and the impact is erosion to the tax base with the burden falling ultimately on the middle class…as it has in the past. With the flight of capital offshore, comes unemployment…massive unemployment. And with unemployment, comes a loss of productivity…a shortage of goods and services. So, the end game is fewer goods and services, higher debt, lots of money in circulation and you have a classic example of hyperinflation, the kind of inflation that crippled Cuba, Argentina, Venezuela, Russia, and other socialist/communist states. 
This is not rocket science folks; it is Macro-Economics 101. I guess Joe Biden missed that class in college…and so did his financial advisors. 7.      I wish more parents would rise up and demand schools open. If they do not, demand that those teachers who refuse to teach be fired immediately and their pensions forfeited. I realize that is harsh but we are living in harsh and unprecedented times. Seems to me that the Air Traffic Controllers went on strike during the Reagan Administration. President Reagan fired all of them. The nation went back to flying again very soon after. 
Don’t we owe it to our children to provide the very best education we can give them? Think of the hardships we are making them suffer. Enough is enough. Get the teachers back teaching full-time or tap into those of us from the Baby Boom Generation to step in and teach our children. I’m ready. I do it now and will gladly do it again. The CDC has endorsed the return to school full time and has stated there is little risk for teachers in the classroom from Covid. 
Parents, step up and make your voices heard. 8.      If President Biden cared about our children he would announce his displeasure with those state governments pushing to create a taxable marijuana industry nationwide. Their quest for more things to tax and more money to raise and spend has outpaced their desire to act responsibly on behalf of the people. 
Here is a medical fact, scientifically proven with years of documented evidence: Marijuana is addictive, especially in those who start using it in their teens and it can have permanent effects on the brain such as impaired attention, memory, and learning.Astonishingly, laws recently enacted in some states actually bar police from notifying parents if their child was caught using marijuana or alcohol, and, even if found using them again. Some laws make underage use of marijuana and alcohol penalty-free while deterring police from confirming such use. Some of these laws (NJ) actually hold law enforcers criminally liable if they question a minor stemming from the discovery of marijuana or alcohol. I am reasonably certain that these issues are not well known and even more certain that voters did not agree to decriminalize marijuana and alcohol for children. Ask yourself this: would you care if your son or daughter was using marijuana or alcohol, or both, while they were driving around town? What could possibly go wrong? If President Biden truly cared, he might use his office and the bully pulpit to speak out against this insanity. But, if truth be told, he is probably unaware of them. Not since the Civil War has our country been more divided. It seems like there is a giant schism driven down the middle of our country, separating democrats and republicans; the have’s and the have nots. Frankly, I am fed up with Democrats and Republicans. They are supposed to work for us but all they do is bicker among themselves, forgetting why we sent them to Washington…to represent us, we the people. We did not send them to represent a political party but to represent we the people! They are so preoccupied with changing things that they are incapable of focusing on what is working and has worked since the founding of our Republic. The democrats are in power now, and, so, they want to make their presence felt. But they are going about it the wrong way. There is an old adage that seems quite appropriate in this essay and so I include it here: “If you kick a dog long enough, he’s gonna bite” So, a word to the wise: Learn to work together because that is what a team does. And, there is no “I” in Team! We are facing some very difficult challenges from some formidable nations. If memory serves me correctly, neither democrats nor republicans won Word War I or World War II.  Americans did that.

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Yale Educated Psychiatric Exorcist’s Consultant showed the Connection of Satanism to Abortion 

April 05, 2021

The Yale educated Dr. Richard Gallagher is a board-certified psychiatrist from New York who is on the faculty at Columbia University and New York Medical College and is also a scientific adviser to the International Association of Exorcists. 

Dr. Gallagher’s book, Demonic Foes, gives an overview of his 30-year experience as an exorcist’s consultant which is summarized in a Daily Mail article:

“Gallagher says that exorcisms are not an instant ‘magic formula’ for all spiritual problems. Instead he insists that an exorcism is only part of the process. ‘You have to work at it. You have to renounce your evil ways or your involvement with something nefarious like the occult and you have to want to reform your life,’ explained the doctor. ‘You have to want to turn to God basically.'” [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8890473/Richard-Gallagher-Board-certified-psychiatrist-diagnoses-demonic-possession-Catholic-church-exorcist.html]

In the article, Gallagher told the Daily Mail of his “first fully possessed patient” who showed the connection of abortion to Satanism: 

“‘Julia’ was a Satanic high priestess and appointed ‘breeder’ of a sex cult  who was in her early forties and wore dark flowing clothes with heavy black eye shadow. She told Gallagher that she could ‘get pregnant easily,’ which gave her special status in the cult that used aborted fetuses for ceremonies. She also acknowledged that she worshiped Satan as his ‘queen’ which engendered her to a certain set of supernatural powers.”

It appears that for Satanists religious freedom means having access to their “sacrament” of abortion.

Last year, Governor Andrew Cuomo and his attorney general of New York Michel Martin apparently believed in religious freedom for Satanists to have access to their “sacrament” of abortion nationwide.
On April 4, 2020, Cuomo’s attorney general Martin “called for nationwide abortion access during the coronavirus” in an interview with National Public Radio (NRP).(NRP, “New York AG calls for Nationwide Abortion during the Coronavirus,” April 4, 2020)
Why are Cuomo and his attorney general banning religious services for Christians in New York, but now demanding that the Satanic “sacrament” of abortion in their churches called “abortion clinics” not be banned nationwide?
On October 6, 2015, the LifeSiteNews headline was “Satanists to Missouri governor: Abortion is a ‘sacrament.’ LifeSiteNews reported:
“The ‘Satanic Temple’ is suing both Missouri and the United States, claiming that laws restricting abortion violate its members ‘free exercise’ of religion.”
Why was then Vice President Mike Pence and his White House Coronavirus Task Force lead by pro-abortion Anthony Fauci not calling on abortuaries called “abortion clinics” which are Satanic places of worship to be banned? 
It was understandable why Fauci and Cuomo who are both pro-abortion might want the Satanic “sacrament” places of worship which are abortuaries to not be banned, but wasn’t Pence supposed to be a Christian?  Francis Notes:

– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:

“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.”
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]

– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html

 –  LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:

The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”

–  On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:

“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”

– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:

“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.

Election Notes:  

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1 – A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020: 
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1 What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”: 
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1] 
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.