Quote du Jour

Via Glenn and Twitter:

Oddly, I don't remember anything in Obama's 2009 Cairo speech about a joint Iran-Russia Shia crescent stretching from the Gulf to the Med.

Yeah, well, oops. I foresee a huge new national security debate within the Administration about Syria. But will it be "no-fly zones" versus "arm more rebels faster" versus "Western boots on the ground"? No, I think Team Obama will divide over whether to blame this mess on Bush or Cheney.

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[GMax]

OH Yeah First!

[X marks the spot, a cross to bear.]

Shia Sunni ugly. No, not her, the faithful.

[henry]

Blame Hillary, get more pelf from Biden / Deval

[glasater]

I remember a Time cover with a picture of a bear with its arms outstretched wrapped around the ME on a map. This was during Carter's time in office. History repeating or reinvigorated.

[MarkO]

DOOM™®

Obama’s just not that smart©

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

[Jack is Back!]

A Shia and a Sunni walk into a bar.......

Can Tom Friedman explain the joke and the punch line?

[Jack is Back!]

For TK and Iggy,

Need an Arc Welder but don't want to shell out a few thousand to your local Lincoln dealer? Here is a nifty junkyard way to make one out of two old microwaves.

Great weekend project depending on your level of need and interest.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Microwave-Transformer-Homemade-Welder/

[Buckeye]

So I am driving home from church and see a drivers ed car in front of me wandering all over the road (2 lanes each way) including bouncing off the curb a few times.

They stop at a red light, inside lane, and I pull up beside them. Sure enough a broad in a burqa. Muslim guy teaching her screaming at the top of his lungs.

I gave them "that" look.

Probably should have paid better attention to the sermon.

[rse]

When an ice storm shut down atlanta for a week when I was 12, my dad used his welding generator to make sure we and the neighbors had heat that week. It would have run all the power for our house or the heat for both.

I had never thought about it before that, except getting yelled at not to look any time he was welding something.

[sbw]

Can Tom Friedman explain the joke and the punch line?

Friedman: "I am both."

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--except getting yelled at not to look any time he was welding something--

I only overexposed my eyes to the ultraviolet light of welding one time.
That feeling of a large handful of sand in my eyes that woke me up at midnight was quite enough for one lifetime.

[DebinNC]

IL DMV acceptable driver's license headgear guide. I hope face-covering apparel on a driver is illegal in every state. But the turbaned fellow with full beard and glasses could make himself almost unrecognizable in seconds if he wanted to.

[Miss Marple 2]

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/608210/statins-age-you-faster-new-research-suggests-long-term-use-warning

[Buckeye]

MM

I have been thinking I wanted to see if my joint pain would go away if I quit taking the statins.

What good is living longer if you feel like crap?

One of my physician friends said he wouldn't take them unless cholesterol numbers were really bad.

Mine never worse than borderline.

Thks for the post.

[Jane]

Blood Moon' seen as sign of end times by some Mormons

Will someone tell me if I can stop packing!

[buccaneer]

The Crimean war actually arose along said circumstances the Aberdeen cabinet, ignored czar nicholas's moves, I think that's wherebthry for the opening to crimson tide.

[Jack is Back!]

How thick is Maria Schriver? This thick. Plus she's a Kennedy, so it figures.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/janetheactuary/2015/09/popemania-has-gone-too-far-when-with-bonus-pew-survey.html?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=janetheactuary_092715UTC050914_daily&utm_content=&spMailingID=49641407&spUserID=MTU4NjQ5MzU3MDEyS0&spJobID=763690693&spReportId=NzYzNjkwNjkzS0

[anonamom]

Statins poison every cell in your body.

Some people may need them; most don't. Their major beneficial effect is likely from their anti inflamatory effect. You can accomplish that with fish oil, aspirin, not eating processed carbs.

To take them to "treat a number" in the absence of other risk factors is insane.

[clarice]

It's the Pelosi-Kerry-Kennedy branch of the Catholic church.Incense, nice buildings,fancy clothes and do as you wish.

[Jeff Dobbs]

We don't get the game here so I'm just following via a web app and not watching - but do the Falcons not have a defense? Cowboys have three touchdowns midway through the 2nd quarter...2nd stringer Weedon is 9 for 9 passing, and the fearsome duo of Randle and McFadden have 125 yards on 14 carries.

[Marlene]

I want to stop taking my statin,but family history makes me wary. I'll talk to my provider when I see her next month.

[buccaneer]

probably not, they forgot to get it at the store,

the truth is we need some good ole fashioned jonathan edwards's 'fire and brimstone, people will not turn to jesus, until they recognize they are fallen,

[Jeff Dobbs]

(oh, weeden throws a pic)

[Jack is Back!]

Don't know if this has been posted before but Mark Steyn has some excellent advice on to handle the "palace guards" aka the MFM.

http://www.steynonline.com/section/13/steyn-on-america

[Miss Marple 2]

Re statins: I was first prescribed them for borderline chlosterol 7 years ago. At the time, I had no medical insurance and couldn't afford them, so I didn't take them. Then they came out with a couple of generics and so doc prescribed that. (He said everyone in his practice took them as a preventative. He, of course, is skinny as a rail and looks like a piece of leather from running in all sorts of weather.)

So, I took them for aout 2 weeks. The generic one made my skin feel like it had bugs crawling all over it, so I just quit.

This spring my siblings and I got together for a dinner, and all of them were complaining about memory loss except for me. I am the only one NOT taking them. My theory is that it diminishes some of the fats your brain needs to operate, which is not at all scientific but since we now operate in a non-scientific culture, so what.

Anyway, I won't take them.

[buccaneer]

it's entirely possible, but the study is too general for use,

[Rick Ballard]

World "leaders" are convening in NYC this week to discuss the necessity of imposing taxes upon air in order to combat the SkyDragon.

I find it very difficult to assess the credulity, gullibility and stupidity of particular individuals under such circumstances, especially given the fact Obama was elevated to the White House twice and probably has a collection of selfies where he wears nothing but the Nobel Peace Prize.

[buccaneer]

confidence is high, rick, that they along with the Medici's donors, can get taken in any average card game,

[buccaneer]

paging fox butterfield,

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2015/09/27/thousands-continue-to-enter-syria-to-join-isis-despite-global-efforts/

[Jane]

Well shit, I just got a 3 month supply of statins for a borderline cholesterol problem, so they will now go to waste.

What about the baby aspirin anonamom?

[Neo]

I will say that the perfect metaphor for the actions of the Catholic Church is a tent that was supposedly erected for the orchestra that completely obscured the view for virtually everybody of the altar for the Papal mass, here in Philadelphia.
First, it went up with nobody knowing why, the crowd screamed "Move This Tent," then they took down the canvas leaving the metal skeleton. Half measures.

[buccaneer]

so they treated stem cells, but apart from the people,

http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm293330.htm

[buccaneer]

except for that bit about carving the country, in too, and training the wehrmacht on soviet territory, how'd that work out btw,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/11894469/Poland-summons-Russian-ambassador-after-he-blames-Warsaw-for-Second-World-War.html

[Jack is Back!]

why did narciso change to buccaneer? DuDa is the buc's fan.

[rich@gmu]

>>>This was during Carter's time in office. History repeating or reinvigorated.

Posted by: glasater | September 27, 2015 at 11:32 AM<<<

too bad that reliving the Carter years was the best we could have hoped for. Figure that a lot of what is going on in the MENA is Russian doing ... the internal subversion; the whole of western media on board; the smuggling lines being turned into "migrant" drives. to what end? who knows ... turning the Saudi oil fields into a flaming torch as they descend into a French Revolution and the newly well armed Iranians can drop some firecrackers to cool it off.

and we have a political class that can't even defund PP and gets weepy that the temperature changes.

[Miss Marple 2]

Funny stuff going on with the upcoming 3rd debate:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/cnbc-republican-debate-214082#ixzz3mweEDCaH

[buccaneer morgan]

to what end, a variation on the spetznaz scenario, suggested by suvorov, the gru defector, infiltration of certain elements create instability, including possible toppling of current regimes, disruption of nato resistance,

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

As if the late night non gap toothed numb nuts wasn't unwatchable enough, adding the comedic genius of Mooch goes into syrup of ipecac territory.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Cooked a pork shoulder in the crock pot overnight (put it in after I got home from pool last night). Oh boy!

Today's menu calls for pork enchiladas. Decided to make my enchilada sauce myself, rather than from a can which is what mrs hit and run has always done.

I think it turned out pretty good. Found some dried new mexico chilis to put in it that are really standing out.

Arriba!

Now to shred the pork.

(Shred the Pork probably wouldn't make a good name for a band)

[buccaneer morgan]

what can you do,

http://therightscoop.com/ben-carson-explains-over-and-over-to-jake-tapper-how-sharia-is-against-the-constitution-doesnt-work/

[squaredance]

Well it is the Church's fault for the "Pelosi-Kerry-Kennedy" wing. If they were at least refused the sacraments, or even just public shamed from the pulpit of any church they walked into, they would at least have to make a choice: Oligarchical Collectivism or Catholicism.

Those who vote for abortion should face excommunication and be completely ostracized by Catholics, if you ask me. But liberal Catholics have turn this on its head with false doctrines of "forgiveness" and "tolerance". Forgiveness, at least so far as it means acceptance into a community, without the acknowledgement of guilt and repentance is merely surrender and submission on the part of those who would forgive.

Why do they get away with it? Moral cowardice on the side of the Church, and I cannot help but think that some in the Church like the donations of the liberal left and the connection to power. All the more reason for the Church to stay out of political given and take, or take sides in Democracies.

A lot of this has to do with Vatican Council II and the signals it gave the more left wing elements, most particularly in the Clergy.

The Church is getting what it deserves, and it will reap a whirlwind from the shenanigans of Francis--it may take a while, but it will come.

I really doubt that the hierarchy is so stupid as to not understand this, they just do not care. Ideology trumps faith.

As JP2 said
"You are priests and religious; you are not social or political leaders or officials of a temporal power. For this reason I repeat to you "Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel if we `dilute' our charism through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems." "

(The broader address is found here. It is well worth a read.)

[rich@gmu]

and catching up on my stack of stuff. I stopped reading this article once I got to this ...

>>>And I don’t blame him; I’d have run for the hills after the debt ceiling debacle. Or after Ted Cruz managed to deflect attention from Obamacare’s failures with his pointless shutdown stunt. Or gosh, name a day in the past four years, really.<<<

how is it that Mcardle has a byline? Cruz's point was that if it were funded then, it will never go away. If the GOP were serious about stopping it, then that was "the hill to die on". The Gas Chamber of Krony Kongress made sure the GOPe was disabused of that. And weirdly the GOPe managed to gain seats in the most recent of shutdowns.

[buccaneer morgan]

because she works for blanc mange bloomberg, she was sharp when she had her own site, then she joined the atlantic borg, and things started to go down hill,

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/09/25/the-strategy-that-dare-not-speak-its-name/

[buccaneer morgan]

the kings and princes of the gulf keep 'the caliphate' in coin, much like the ISI and General Intelligence, supported the Taliban, it serves their short term interests,

[rich@gmu]

great Pieces this morning Clarice.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Yes rich, I'm still waiting for one bit of tangible evidence from the GOPe stalwarts of how the "shutdown" (which is quite the misnomer when you think of how much stayed open; there's a greater shutdown over any weekend or holiday) hurt the overall party. Listening to complaints from lobbyists doesn't count even if it's of utmost importance to the trough mongers.

[clarice]

I wouldn't disregard the doctor's advice on statins, but I would take the lowest possible dose, and if you are having memory or muscle problems, talk to the doctor. I insisted on the lowest dose when I felt it was making me mentally slow and on a different brand when I started to have bad muscle cramps. No one knows the long term effects of statin use, of course, but the broadest studies still support their efficacy. Just saying.

OL--you aren't going to like this one bit:https://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2015/09/carr_how_about_nantucket_plenty_of_prime_real_estate_for

[Jack is Back!]

Squaredance,

Question for you: How do you know someone has not been excommunicated?

[Miss Marple 2]

Does anyone here know anything about the Tyco Corporation, which specializes in security for commercial sites?

My daughter has an interview with them tomorrow and she wants to know if they are a stable company. I couldn't find out much about them other than PR releases and their stock price.

[buccaneer morgan]

well there was the whole koslowski matter, but that was a a while ago,

[rse]

Wasn't that the one where the ceo got in trouble for all his expensive redecorating at company expense?

This is interesting. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/09/the-mystery-of-pope-francis-was-there-a-vatican-coup.php

[buccaneer morgan]

like the heseltine wing that deposed the iron lady,

the film showed the former, as the oily richard e grant, and his flunky geoffrey hurd,

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/fairfax_feels_the_charm/

[DebinNC]

Last debate was a circus, even beyond so many questions being Trump-centric. Three hrs. is ridiculously long, and the moderators' time-management was unfair and farcical. Using IA polls to set a "floor" for debate admittance is also ridiculous, as past IA "winners" include Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, and iirc Pat Robertson. Hard to imagine Dr. Carson won't win this time.

[rich@gmu]

what Wrechard say ...

>>>Boehner’s depature is yet one more sign that the narrative is breaking down. Both in Europe and in America, the same old nostrums are having increasingly less effect. The problem is growing without an answer in sight. The players are still going through the motions, but they are only making things up as they go along.<<<

fantastic.

[rich@gmu]

no need to worry about under inflated pigskin in Foxboro today ... the under inflated Jags are more than enough.

[Dave (in MA)]

Jane's old football team has scored against one of her new football teams on all 8 of their possessions so far. The ball doesn't appear to be particularly squishy on TV. Maybe they just pulled the lukewarm gatorade trick.

[Janet S.]

Clarice's Howie Carr link is fantastic.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: buccaneer morgan | September 27, 2015 at 02:55 PM

I'm still holding to my hypothesis that ISIS is an Iran-Russian joint venture and the go for that expeditionary force to sack the Kingdom is a. a high level assassination in the Kingdom and b. a major terrorist attack on the oil infrastructure (maybe the Red Sea terminals). The kingdom is weak, the top of the monarchy is enfeebled, low level princelings would quickly join the expeditionary force.

[rich@gmu]

Dave-

I looked away when it was 30 now it is 44. Maybe they used helium.

[buccaneer morgan]

I wouldn't it rule it out, entirely, but occam's razor points in the other direction, of course the pasdaran, wouldn't be averse to working with them,
as I said short term interests,

[Dave (in MA)]

In the Rams/Steelers game, the rapist got knocked out in the 3rd with a knee injury, so the dog strangler is in.

[Sure, small study, not replicated. Or was it just suppressed?]

The very earliest studies showed that lowering cholesterol lowered cardiovascular mortality, but not overall mortality. The difference was made up with suicide and violent deaths.

[Dave (in MA)]

9 scores in 9 possessions.
Garoppolo has put on his helmet.

[Jack is Back!]

Could the problem with statins be because they are so cheap? I pay like $10 for a 90 day supply. I gave them up for 3 months to see if there was any noticeable difference in memory, skin, eyesight, digestion etc. that people say are affects but nada.

Maybe I have a different liver?:)

[Headed for the stoning age.]

ISIS is radical and extreme Sunni; this urge has been pushed with Saudi money. Whether the organization is Saudi funded now, doubtful, or even so directed, even more doubtful, nonetheless the urge is Sunni extremism. Shia extremism seems slightly different, with a different goal.

[Janet S.]

watching Braveheart...

William Wallace to the squabbling noblemen -

"You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom."

[DebinNC]

From the mafioso cardinals link: "Besides Danneels and Martini, the group according to the book were part of the Dutch bishop Adriaan Van Luyn, the German cardinal Walter Kasper and Karl Lehman, the Italian Cardinal Achille Silvestrini and British Basil Hume, among others."

So these European cardinals conspired to get rid of Pope Benedict, and now their homelands are being overrun by unstoppable waves of Christian-hating Muslim invaders. Hmm....

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

In defense of Rapethisfurburger, after the incident in question, for which he was never charged, he has avoided any sketchy activity. Unlike a certain ex President.

[buccaneer morgan]

certainly, the path to the caliphate, seems to hinge on Baghdadi and Golani, beeing released in 2009, probably by the pressure of some of the sheikhs, and who encouraged them, there is a big deal by Warrick, made about the tactical differences that Zarquawi had with the Zawahiri,
but that's just water under the bridge, his successor, who was Egyptian, acted much the same way,

[You pays your money and you takes your pills.]

Just a reminder, the Greek word 'Pharmakos' means poison. Nearly all of our modern pharmaceuticals poison some human metabolic pathway, biochemically. A big exception is antibacterial antibiotics, which are relatively ineffective in eukaryotic metabolism. The bacteria are prokaryotic.

It's all a question of efficacy vs safety, something which is individually variable, and the response of any individual cannot be determined by the results of the big studies which are used to determine safety and efficacy.

I knew a doctor once who told his patients regularly that he was thankful that they had sense enough not to do what he told them.

[Root, hog, or die.]

I've long been amused by the thought that when the government can no longer afford to pay for the medication to treat high blood pressure, diabetes, atherosclerosis and obesity, it will tell us to 'Work for Food'.

[buccaneer morgan]

well yes, but if statins are materially causing other complications it's an issue,

[Til it's gone.]

The problem, n, is that the side effects are so protean that you don't know what you got.

[GMax]

Then you pave paradise to put up a parking lot, shoo wop de wop...

[Jack is Back!]

Mrs. JiB is downloading Danneels biography to read. She has grave doubts about all of this. Her college classmate, another priest, is the former spokesman for Danneels and she is writing him in re: Danneel's "mafia" remarks.

She says the new Cardinal, Leonard, is a real doofus and since the writers are part of his cabal there maybe some subterfuge even though Dannneels authorized the book. That said, I have always had strong doubts about the efficacy of the election just because of the Benedict sudden resignation. It wasn't health.

[Putsches.]

Yeah, and they probably didn't catch him in bed with a dead girl.

[buccaneer morgan]

well I do recall cathy f, had another explanation, about Benedict's fight with a clique of nonaccountable clergy, but it just so fits the
times, doesn't it,

[Jack is Back!]

Kapernick just suffered a deja vu interception. Both by the same DB on the same play. So far Kapernick is 2 for 2 to Mathieu of the Cardinals. Both INTs were TDs.

[buccaneer morgan]

he's only as crazy as his DGI handlers allow him to be:

[rich@gmu]

>>>Shia extremism seems slightly different, with a different goal.

Posted by: Headed for the stoning age. | September 27, 2015 at 03:48 PM<<<

yeah sure it is, which is why Iran sends weapons, money, and provides training to Hamas; was sheltering a non trivial number of AQ leadership; supported al-Zarqawi during his bloody rise to terror chieftain.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Dave (in MA) | September 27, 2015 at 03:47 PM

is it too early to start the 16-0 talk.

[Who else does?]

Oh, well, Rich; narciso has it straightened out.

[rich@gmu]

>>>So these European cardinals conspired to get rid of Pope Benedict, and now their homelands are being overrun by unstoppable waves of Christian-hating Muslim invaders. Hmm....

Posted by: DebinNC | September 27, 2015 at 03:51 PM<<<

suppose checkmate is in the offing before the end of the year.

a conservative (and competent) government sacked in Australia; a conservative sacked at the Vatican; the US paralyzed with Zero and Zero-lite in DC (wouldn't call Boehner conservative, but think it all is going to end in tears: what sort of Christmas is Boehner going to deliver to Zero and Congressional Dems).

feels like a global coup.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Who else does? | September 27, 2015 at 04:36 PM

???

my comment is a hypothesis ... not even fully formed into a coherent thought. good grief this is a blog comment section. However, I share a similar suspicion with good company: Michael Ledeen.

http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2015/06/06/who-is-is/?singlepage=true

[rse]

rich-you should read that UN data paper I linked to on Friday. It is a global coup.

When I got to the end of a different paper I linked to, the Kavli HUMAN Project, the MIT prof who is part of the UN global pulse, davos, and other troubling initiatives, was also the advisor to Kavli.

Now I happen to know mit is an advisor to the UN on the Belmont Challenge and Earth System Partnership, but really, this is ridiculous.

[buccaneer morgan]

ledeen sees an iranian hand, everywhere, as does timmerman, frankly he's not far wrong most of the time,

[squaredance]

Excommunication is publicly announced by the Church, naturally. Otherwise, there would be no point to it.

See here for a list.

Note those of the 21th century thus far are mostly connected to abortion--I see no American Democrat politicians on the list.

Interestingly, Jackie Kennedy made the list, but not for anything political or having to do with abortions; this is the only one connected to the Kennedy wing of Catholicism that I can see that is on the List.

Oh, and your buddy, the one you think you are an expert on, Peron, is on the list too--for one of his more forceful clashes with the Catholic Church.

[buccaneer morgan]

said the spider:

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2015/09/27/rouhani-signals-new-cooperation-possible-between-u-s-and-iran/

[Donald]

Go Falcons n

[Donald]

Falcon Fever.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Pelosi Galore was probably excluded because after she was on one of the gab shows yammering away about how Thomas Aquinas would be in favor of abortion it was felt that it would be cruel to excommunicate somebody suffering from terminal feeble mindedness.

[Donald]

Arthur Blank's slut girlfriend got more air time today than his three ex
Wives.

[Donald]

...ever got. Than his three ex wives ever got.

[Jane]

Dave,

There will be no new football team.

[DrJ]

rse,

Since you have checked in, I read the NAPE document you linked the other day. It was a challenge to get through it.

I found the target of math, physics and engineering to be interesting. Women indeed are underrepresented in these communities. Left unmentioned is that 50% of chemists, and 60% of biologists are female. I wonder why that is?

I do not believe that there is a systemic graduate supply problem that the report claims. See the unending post docs for many in the life sciences. In some fields like CS it may be true, but it is far from uniform, as a focus on STEM would suggest.

While I am all in favor of encouraging all who have an aptitude to pursue science/engineering if they are capable, what the report suggests is pure pablum, as I'm sure you know. What a load of garbage.

[squaredance]

BTW, here Is an interesting take on Francis's "mind", if it can be called that.

The conflict between Perón and the Church opened deep wounds in Argentina. However, a stunning turnabout would take place in less than a decade after Perón’s fall, when a younger generation of Catholics — many of them, the children of staunch Anti-Peronist parents — flocked en masse to the Old Man’s side. The rational for their “conversion” was the fact that the poor continued to venerate Perón and Evita, and the belief that only Peronism, which despite its proscription remained the most popular political force, could lead the country to a better future — or, to phrase it in the language of the day, could lead the country to National Liberation.

In this turbulent environment, the core ideas of Perón’s National Doctrine and the National-Catholic creed would undertake one more, decisive transformation. This time, it would be a theological transformation, the peculiar blending of Peronism and the revolutionary ideologies of the 1960s with the renewed Catholicism brought forth by Vatican II, the ecumenical council summoned by Pope John XXIII for the aggiornamento of the Church.

Unfortunately, the author is a Leftist (at Columbia University and into all the NYC Hispanic "diversity" industry organizations) so he soft peddles (to the point of almost omitting it) the impact on Francis--indeed on his very election--of the Left Wing elements of the Curia and upper hierarchy, particularly the European members who have strong times to EU globalists/corporatism/socialist or whatever you want to call the emerging Oligarchical Collectivism that seek a new Acient Regime.

He will not or cannot see the connection between what Francis is saying and the Left wing collectivist movements that have swamped Latin America and that warm the hearts of EU globalist socialists.

It is a long read, and the conclusions are dubious, but it does give a fuller picture of Argentine political life since Peron, and give a good introduction to the 19th century and early 20th century roots of it all.

Again, he is a leftist, so take it with a grain of salt.

[buccaneer morgan]

a pattern I observed since last year:

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/crimea/intro.html

[Jack is Back!]

Squaredance,

No, it isn't, only when the Bishop's (that includes Cardinals and Popes, naturally) decide to make it public. There are a number of priests who hav no idea if someone is excommunicated and will provide sacrements. And since an exommunicated must still attend mass and participate in the church including any ministries the laity never knows. I have found out very discreetly that several members of a former parish were excommunicated by our Bishop for certain heresies on their part. They finally reonciled and were allowed back with full sacremental priviledge.

Note that that list is primarily clergy or those on the fringes of apostasy who are publically named due to their heresy that would/could/should have an effect on the following of laity. If Pelosi or Kerry or Biden were ever excommunicated I doubt that it would be made public by any Bishop.

I have a buddy who I think is an expert on Peron? Who is that? I only know about Peronism since I lived in Argentina for 2 years and saw its effect on the population especially the middle class (who have to keep their money in the States).

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

According to Newsmax, OrangeDrank on Deface the Nation accused conservatives of not understanding how the founding fathers intended the government to work. Doubtlessly he felt comfortable letting that steaming pile go over the airwaves because he was a friendly setting, but I hope a designated driver was supplied.

[rse]

DR. J-Remember when I coined the phrase Axemaker Mind after Reading Paul Ehrlich and Robert Ornstein's book New World New Mind I was just starting to encounter that deliberate rejection of the rational mind. Ultimately as my book laid out what symbol systems do to the human mind turns out to be in the way of what radicals want to do. Hence the real reason for the reading and math wars.

What I now know and will be covered in depth in the next book coming out AFTER the Diva graduates is just how determined everyone is to literally use school and online digital leaning to prescribe and modify the physiological neural net that perceives and interprets experience. What NAPE is attempting to do is bring civil rights and anto-discrimination laws into being the hand servant of this malevolent social engineering dream.

I am not speculating either. I have minutes from earlier this summer that are confessional at a program in Arlington and I have the book that came out of a 50s conference on creating a science of human values that could be locked in physically. Over and over again some famous profs laid out their rejection of the rational mind. Frequently it is couched in horror that intellectualization created nuclear weapons.

That is where NAPE fits. That was a document that was far more forthcoming than most.