Come on, Gentle Reader! Haven’t you ever succumbed to the temptation to unwrap just one or two of those glittery packages a couple of days early? And then discovered that the boxes were empty – just put there to fill up the space under the tree?
What’s that? You haven’t? And I suppose you never masturbate, either.
1. Non-News That Matters.
This story is a week old, but it still matters:
A Politico article about Pete Hegseth sees him as too “aggressively Christian.” Author Jasper Craven called him “Joe Rogan of conservative military media.” The entire article reeks of anti-Christian bigotry, and this author is doing it openly. He’ll likely get rewarded for it.
The author doesn’t like a pastor Hegseth likes – he’s too Christian. The tattoos, one of the Jerusalem Cross and the other “Deus Vult” or “God wills it” somehow say he hates Muslims. Deus Vult is allegedly terrible because it dates back to the Crusades. In one of his books, he wrote about the militants fighting for God in the Middle East and said he understood them and their desire to fight for something more important than self. The author found that distasteful.
The Left hates Christianity of any and every denomination. Hates it. It will not abide it in any manifestation. Yet a strong majority of Americans regard themselves as Christian. How does a political movement that hates Christianity garner millions of supporters and billions of dollars in support?
You know the answer. And you know what to do about it.
2. A Laugher from “Scientists.”
This sort of claim makes me doubt the claimer’s rationality:
A groundbreaking study on axion dark matter by Dr. Nemanja Kaloper, a physicist from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Davis, and Dr. Alexander Westphal, a professor at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Germany, now proposes a method for testing the Anthropic Principle, potentially shaking the foundations of how we understand our place in the cosmos.
The Anthropic Principle, a concept at the intersection of science and philosophy, has long served as a fallback explanation for perplexing questions about the universe. Why is the cosmological constant so small yet positive? Why does dark matter exist in the precise abundance needed for galaxies and life to form?
First articulated in its modern form by physicist Brandon Carter in 1974, the Anthropic Principle attempts to explain why the universe’s physical constants fall within the narrow range required for life. It comes in two flavors: the “Weak Anthropic Principle,” which observes that the universe must allow for observers, and the “Strong Anthropic Principle,” which suggests the universe is fine-tuned for life.
This is the kind of horseshit you get from “scientists” desperate for media attention. Objective data cannot prove anyone’s intent. That’s absolute. Besides, there’s a prerequisite for talking about intent: you must identify a conscious actor. It’s not enough to say “Well, someone wanted this to happen.”
There’s enough idiocy in the world that we don’t need “scientists” to add to it.
3. “Help” of a Most Peculiar Kind.
Things aren’t quite this bad in America yet:
Two weeks ago, the British House of Commons voted in favor of a bill that, according to the BBC, “would allow terminally ill adults expected to die within six months to seek help to end their own life.” The final vote was 330 to 275.
This news immediately turned my mind to the P.D. James novel The Children of Men, published in 1993. In this dystopian vision set in the year 2021, James (who, in addition to being a best-selling novelist, also served as a member of the House of Lords) imagines a future in which the human race has lost the ability to reproduce; the species lurches toward extinction. At the novel’s start, the youngest person on the planet (born in 1995) has just died, a stunning reminder of humanity’s impending disappearance. In the real world of 2024, as fertility rates are dropping around the world and reaching historic lows in both the United States and England, James’s foresight is chilling. But the novel is also remarkable—and eerily prescient—for its depiction of government-sponsored suicide.
I suppose the United Kingdom envies Canada’s “Medical Assistance In Dying” program and is hurrying to “catch up.” Apparently, five percent of all deaths among Canadians are now “assisted.” Trudeau’s government is “helping” its subjects at an impressive rate… if you’re a fan of auto-genocide.
Time was, I would not have imagined that any government would want to have fewer subjects. It seems I was wrong. Well, that does happen now and then.
But it’s still appalling and disgraceful.
4. Naivety Or Sarcasm?
It Turns Out That Biden Never Considered the ‘Specifics’ of the 1500 Clemency Cases He Commuted
Read the article. Rick Moran isn’t stupid. ‘Nuff said.
5. Come On, Mr. President!
Here’s another where the headline alone suffices:
“It is CRAZY, and Must be Stopped” – Trump Slams Biden for Selling Border Wall Materials “For Pennies on the Dollar”
No, Mr. President, it isn’t crazy. It’s spiteful – hateful.
It’s revenge on the nation for rejecting the Democrats and their policies.
These are people so filled with pride and fury that they will not accept the lessons of defeat.
The lesson to us should be perfectly clear: They are our enemies.
Draw the moral.
That’s all for the nonce, Gentle Reader. Enjoy your Gaudete Sunday.
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Speaking of which,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INAdvWqPsIo
Normally I would not do this, but this is a rare and stellar example of the genre. God bless and enjoy your Sunday!