What people believe (or don't believe) about the Eucharist has been in the news lately. The trigger was a Pew survey indicating that only about a third of Americans who identify as Catholic believe in the Real Presence. Which in turn has triggered much angst and wringing of hands over the state of catechesis.
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Friday, August 16, 2019
A shooting. A killing. Justice?
A teen is dead. Murder charges have been filed. I'm not certain it's just.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Monday, August 12, 2019
Are they racists? Or difference-ists?
In The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf puts a new spin on the Left's insistence that racism infuses the Right.
Sunday, August 11, 2019
Is that smell burning flesh?
A clown tweeted an out-of-thin-air suggestion that Bill and Hillary Clinton were behind the death of Jeffrey Epstein. The President of the Unites States retweeted it here and also here.
In short, the President of he United States has accused leading members of the opposition party of murder. From The New York Times:
He is talking the way Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela was talking about his rival, Juan Guaido, when Vice President Pence, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo and the whole State Department went stark, raving bananas and threatened war. Historically, talk like this leads to action, and action leads to loss of life and liberty. It isn't enough to say Kim Jung Trump is "like that." He has never been this much "like that," and others who are like that have caused pain and suffering to their own people and others.
Trump just dodged a bullet himself, since if Epstein had gone to trial he would have been asked every day if a presidential pardon was on offer. (My gosh! The neighbors we have down here!) And he, unlike Clinton, used to give Epstein rave character reviews.
The proverbial frog never noticed the heat being turned up under the pot, and that is why he became frog legs.
In short, the President of he United States has accused leading members of the opposition party of murder. From The New York Times:
This is not funny. This is also beyond traditional Trump. I know: He told the Boy Scouts "man to man" to get rich so they could get laid, and hardly anyone got excited. So far, this retweet seems to be getting the" ho-hum, there he goes again" reaction all the rest of it does. But this is different.Hours after Mr. Epstein was found to have hanged himself in his Manhattan jail cell, Mr. Trump retweeted a post from the comedian Terrence Williams linking the Clintons to the death. Mr. Epstein “had information on Bill Clinton & now he’s dead,” wrote Mr. Williams, a Trump supporter. In an accompanying two-minute video, Mr. Williams noted that “for some odd reason, people that have information on the Clintons end up dead.”There is no evidence to substantiate the claim, which derives from groundless speculation on the far right, dating to Mr. Clinton’s early days as president, that multiple deaths can be traced to the Clintons and explained by their supposed efforts to cover up wrongdoing.
He is talking the way Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela was talking about his rival, Juan Guaido, when Vice President Pence, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo and the whole State Department went stark, raving bananas and threatened war. Historically, talk like this leads to action, and action leads to loss of life and liberty. It isn't enough to say Kim Jung Trump is "like that." He has never been this much "like that," and others who are like that have caused pain and suffering to their own people and others.
Trump just dodged a bullet himself, since if Epstein had gone to trial he would have been asked every day if a presidential pardon was on offer. (My gosh! The neighbors we have down here!) And he, unlike Clinton, used to give Epstein rave character reviews.
The proverbial frog never noticed the heat being turned up under the pot, and that is why he became frog legs.
Friday, August 9, 2019
More Orphans with Living Parents UPDATE
"Based on these procedures, it is believed that all children were with at least one of their parents as of last night."
"These procedures" are letting 300 (out of 680) people SUSPECTED of being in the country illegally go home from detention to look for their children. Our Homeland Security play-soldiers, in the passive voice, "believe" maybe children (many of whom would be American citizens) were reunited with their parents in less than 24 hours. But many were not.
We are talking about the big roundup in Mississippi. Much is still not known. Like whether the employers will pay a cost-of-doing-business fine for running with an illegal workforce. They hardly ever have suffered more than that in the past.
"It is believed." Yes, like the thousand or so children detained at the border whose parents the Border Patrol lost. (Maybe a different agency lost them; accountability is a slippery thing in Homeland Security) .
Mississippi social service agencies weren't warned of the round-up in advance. When you are playing soldiers, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement does, you don't tip your hand to the enemy. After the fact, schools (which seem to be in session) were contacted. Again, tell nobody nothing; to tell would reduce the swagger content of your human round-up. Yee-haw!
How's that flag pin in your lapel doing these days?
UPDATE: "We are a law enforcement agency, not a social services agency," an ICE official told NBS News.
That is supposed to "explain" why social service agencies and schools didn't get a heads-up and why ICE doesn't really know for sure that every kid wound up with a parent eventually. Are Catholics allowed to work for outfits like that?
"These procedures" are letting 300 (out of 680) people SUSPECTED of being in the country illegally go home from detention to look for their children. Our Homeland Security play-soldiers, in the passive voice, "believe" maybe children (many of whom would be American citizens) were reunited with their parents in less than 24 hours. But many were not.
We are talking about the big roundup in Mississippi. Much is still not known. Like whether the employers will pay a cost-of-doing-business fine for running with an illegal workforce. They hardly ever have suffered more than that in the past.
"It is believed." Yes, like the thousand or so children detained at the border whose parents the Border Patrol lost. (Maybe a different agency lost them; accountability is a slippery thing in Homeland Security) .
Mississippi social service agencies weren't warned of the round-up in advance. When you are playing soldiers, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement does, you don't tip your hand to the enemy. After the fact, schools (which seem to be in session) were contacted. Again, tell nobody nothing; to tell would reduce the swagger content of your human round-up. Yee-haw!
How's that flag pin in your lapel doing these days?
UPDATE: "We are a law enforcement agency, not a social services agency," an ICE official told NBS News.
That is supposed to "explain" why social service agencies and schools didn't get a heads-up and why ICE doesn't really know for sure that every kid wound up with a parent eventually. Are Catholics allowed to work for outfits like that?
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