DISCOURAGING: Yet another sign that the world is becoming a different place

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ukrainian-basilians-confirm-permanent-closure-of-beloved-toronto-marian-shrine/?utm_source=digest-canadian-2023-08-17&utm_medium=email

Ukrainian Basilians confirm permanent closure of beloved Toronto Marian shrine

  • ‘In other words, the ‘Shrine’ is permanently closed,’ announced Fr. Gabriel Haber, the Provincial Superior of the Order of St. Basil the Great of St. Josaphat.

Clare Marie Merkowsky

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TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) — A religious order has decided to sell a Marian shrine beloved to Toronto Catholics and well-known as a source of many reported miracles. 

On August 15, Fr. Gabriel Haber, the Provincial Superior of the Order of St. Basil the Great of St. Josaphat, announced that the order is in the process of selling their Toronto-based monastery which includes the Marian Shrine of Gratitude, as faithful Catholics continue to pray the shrine will be preserved.   

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Again, the world is declining in entropy.  

“No Margin; No mission”.

Perhaps, if there had been an admission charge, then the place might have survived.

Sad to see the beautiful places being absorbed by crass materialism.

The people are robbed by the fiat currency system such that they have no wealth left to donate to the beautiful places.

Where and when does it all grind to a halt?

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DISCOURAGING: Have we lost the First Amendment and all rights associated with it

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/appeals-court-no-first-amendment-right-to-religious-exemption-from-vaccine-mandate/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=appeals-court-no-first-amendment-right-to-religious-exemption-from-vaccine-mandate

Appeals Court: No First Amendment Right to Religious Exemption From Vaccine Mandate

  • The appeals court also rejected the plaintiffs’ privacy and medical freedom, equal protection, and childrearing arguments.

Posted by Terrance Kible Friday, August 11, 2023 at 09:00am 10 Comments

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A federal appeals court ruled in Connecticut’s favor in a dispute over the state’s removal of the religious exemption to its vaccine mandate. Connecticut law mandates vaccinations for “schoolchildren, college and university students, and childcare participants.”

The plaintiffs objected on religious grounds “to us[ing] or benefit[ing] from the use of aborted fetal cells” from stem cell lines used to produce some vaccines.

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Addressing the childrearing argument, the appeals court acknowledged parents’ right to “the care, custody, and control of their children” but held the childrearing claim could not exist independent of the First Amendment claim, which the appeals court already rejected.

We The Patriots USA vowed “to file for en banc review at the Second Circuit, giving all 13 judges an opportunity to review this decision.” Festa pledged to “appeal to the United States Supreme Court” if unsuccessful before the Second Circuit again.

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CommoChief | August 11, 2023 at 9:17 am

Any Amish, Mennonites, Quakers in the 2nd Circuit? They about to be told to sign up for selective service among other things based on the logic of this opinion. If a compelling State interest applied in a neutral manner is all it takes to override religious belief/freedom of conscience exemptions there’s a whole lot of new room for the State to require all sorts of things.

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I find this stunning!

I can’t think of any more basic right then the rights recognized by the First Amendment.

While I disagree with “incorporation” that somehow makes the States subject to the Bill of Rights, if that is the “playing field” we are on, then surly the First Amendment covers the issue.  The plaintiffs are being enslaved right before our eyes by a tyrannical State Gooferment.

What comes next?

Clearly, Massachusetts residents need to move to New Hampshire.

And, the rest of us need to prepare to do battle on this issue in our own States.  Since tyranny doesn’t stop with one State.

Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: Is there anything more inhumane than a “Canned hunt”?

https://www.boredpanda.com/dumb-rich-people-hobbies/

 30 People Share “Really Dumb” Hobbies That Only Rich People Seem To Like
Miglė Miliūtė and Vėja Elkimavičiūtė

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#15 Canned hunts.

We can argue the ethics of hunting all day long. On the one hard, you have the cruel barbarism of fox hunting. On the other hand, you had paid permit hunting for big, exotic game (*where the permit only allows for specifically designated culls and profit goes directly to conservation).

But canned hunting? F**k. At least fox hunting and permit hunting require some measure of skill and afford some opportunity for the animal to escape.

Canned hunts are often marketed as “exotic game ranches;” places people go to get a guaranteed kill of a particular species. You know how you get that guaranteed kill? Because the game are fenced in and are often reliant on human care (so they have limited fear of humans compared to their wild roaming counterparts). There’s nothing sporting about it.

Imagine going to a dairy farm and bragging about how you bagged a big cow. That’s what canned hunting sounds like to others.

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I can applaud hunters, who like the Zulu youth when they go out to become man by hunting a lion with a short spear and small reed shield.  I don’t know what the win – loss ratio is but, at least, the lion has a fair shot. And it’s their tradition, not mine.

I can tolerate those who hunt for food if they eat what they kill. Also, those who do permit hunting to conserve a species.  Even those who hun bears before they become dangerous to people and donate the captures to food pantries and soup kitchens.

I can not shame those “hunters”, who are cruel or use “canned” victims, enough.

Nothing can be more demeaning than to claim a great achievement when “shooting fish in a barrel”.

Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: Elections are fraud!

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/what_is_election_certification.html

americanthinker.com
What is Election Certification?
By Marly Hornik and Harry Robert Haury

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Our findings are extensive and disturbing:

1. Massive vote-to-voter discrepancies.

2. Millions of legally deficient voter registrations.

3. Gross failure to determine if all votes were from unique individuals qualified to vote.

4. Peer-reviewed evidence of an algorithm creating fake and unlawful voter registrations embedded in the New York State voter rolls.

5. Pervasive failures of identity resolution prior to registration.

6. Failures of procedural process requirements.

7. Massive numbers of tallied votes that have no valid state identity information.

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JFK versus Nixon was the first obvious fraudulent election and it’s just gotten worse since them.

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DISCOURAGING: TikTok seems to be a font of bad ideas that stupid people try action. Dumb and Deadly!

Boatjumping TikTok trends claim 4 lives in 6 months in Alabama

https://nypost.com/2023/07/08/boatjumping-tiktok-trends-claim-4-lives-in-6-months-in-alabama/

Dangerous TikTok trends claim 4 lives in 6 months in Alabama: officials

By Katherine Donlevy July 8, 2023 11:44pm Updated

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At least four people — including a father — have died in recent months for giving in to a new and deadly TikTok trend, Alabama authorities said.

The thrill-seekers jumped or flipped off the backs of speeding boats, only to break their necks on the wake and drown, according to Cpt. Jim Dennis of the Childersburg Rescue Squad.

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The high rate of speed of the boat combined with the still water make for a dangerous landing pad that feels similar to concrete.

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# – # – # – # – # 

​Seems like an important topic to discuss with all the young adults in your care. TikTok seems to be a font of bad ideas. Argh! Makes me sad to think of all the potential Darwin award winners. Argh! Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: A near Darwin award winner?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12248743/Woman-left-SCREAMING-dips-hand-boiling-hot-spring-Yellowstone-National-Park.html?ito=chromelessDM_0

Woman is left SCREAMING in pain after she dips her hand in boiling hot spring at Yellowstone National Park: ‘It’s hot! It’s very hot!’

  •     An unidentified woman dipped her hand into the 175-degree Silex Spring in Yellowstone National Park, leaving her in searing pain 
  •     After she dips her hand briefly into the blue water, she quickly leaned backward and scrambled to her feet, running away, screaming: ‘It’s hot! It’s very hot!’ 
  •     Gary Mackenzie, who filmed the incident, said he warned them not to leave the boardwalk, but they forewent his warning 

By Alyssa Guzman For Dailymail.Com
Published: 18:08 EDT, 29 June 2023 | Updated: 18:22 EDT, 29 June 2023 

# – # – # – # – # 

What did she expect?

What’s next for her?  Put some McDonald’s coffee in her lap!

Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: Gooferment “welfare” is the new form of slavery

https://palexander.substack.com/p/the-great-society-potus-lyndon-johnson?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=579356&post_id=129401807&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

The Great Society: POTUS Lyndon Johnson & Democrats destroyed minority & African-American, he broke their backs with his fraud dependency program in 1964 (the largest social reform plan in history)

  • these democrats that wanted to do good by blacks, well, with welfare, housing etc. they reversed 100 years of strong progress where blacks post slavery were outpacing whites on most socio-indicators

Dr. Paul Alexander  —  Jun 19, 2023

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Key was welfare that emerged as the ‘husband’ of the minority American woman; Democrats took the father out of the home, destroyed his role, his place, turned potent strong independent hard working blacks into dependents, destroyed the will and mind. No government program has done more damage to the American people than The Great Society. Broke the backs of blacks when truth be told, blacks were digging out of the slavery hole post 1865, outpacing whites.

From 1965 (100 years post abolition of slavery), when you look at the socio-economic indicator curves, you see it plunge downwards for blacks while whites stayed up. What blacks were doing on their own was reversed in 1965 and one key is the devastation of the nuclear family where today over 3 out of 4 African American homes are lead by a single person often not mother who is a crack whore while father is a dead beat drug addict thug just screwing each woman he could and getting her pregnant. Not taking responsibility and leaving the kids fatherless who then use the judge as their mother, the streets as their homes, and the jail as their father. 

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It is the Democrat party that is the modern day slave plantation and it is imperative that blacks leave that plantation. Complete, for it worked to destroy them. 

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Malcolm X said: “The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man.”

And, my sainted Uncles heard this and agree that he had hit the nail on the head.

“I recall when Mrs. Viola Meekins, when I was a student at Stoddart-Fleisher Junior High School in the late 1940s, had our class go page by page through a textbook and correct each instance in which Negro was printed with a lowercase “n.” In Malcolm X’s day, and mine, Negro was a proud name and not used derisively by blacks as it is today.”  — Walter Williams 

“The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.”  — Thomas Sowell 

Instead of “Black Live Matter” stealing from that charity and phone hearings on “reparations”, we should demand the Gooferment get out of the “welfare” business that is the new form of slavery for poor white AND black women.

Sigh!

Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: This is some “state of the union” summary

 

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The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying.

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  • Special counsel John Durham just issued his final report on wrongdoing within the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Justice.
  • IRS just conceded whistleblowers were correct
  • California is facing a crushing $32 billion deficit.
  • The NAACP just issued a “travel alert” advising blacks not to visit Florida.
  • Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and Indianapolis—all outside Florida—have the highest black murder rates in the nation.
  • Black Lives Matter has just announced it lost millions of dollars in investments and ran up huge deficits
  • In New York, a threatening subway career criminal with 42 prior arrests was subdued by a bystander and died
  • In almost every American city and town, biological males, with enormous advantages in size and musculoskeletal mass, routinely win women’s sporting competitions.
  • Corporate America has joined this cultural revolution hysteria.
  • Los Angeles Dodgers reinvited the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” to celebrate Pride night at Dodger Stadium.
  • Catholics and Christians had objected to the invitation  —  never dare extend its street-theater blasphemy to other religious groups such as Muslims or Hindus.
  • Anheuser-Busch has nearly destroyed its best-selling Bud Light brand
  • Disney has rebranded it films, amusement parks, and television offerings to reflect radical transgender, gay, and race advocacies.
  • A woke CNN has all but destroyed its once-global audience

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All these implosions are not just shocking but surreal. Why are our government, corporations, and popular culture colluding in mass suicide—to the delight of our enemies like communist China?

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How does the USA stop this “cultural revolution”?

Refuse to buy from “woke” companies.  Challenge the Left on their perversions.  AND, not be silent about the change.

Ultimately, the USA must dissolve like the USSR,

Culture can be change in small battles.

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DISCOURAGING: The roads would be a disgrace in Mogadishu.

FROM FACEBOOK

Bill Whittle

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Crime levels are soaring. The roads would be a disgrace in Mogadishu. Drug overdoses are killing thousands. The tax base is fleeing the state in record numbers. But thank God, California has managed to address the one really critical issue plaguing the state; namely, can you own your own gas heater in Berkeley? Scott Ott goes where no man had gone before. 

Help keep speech free while you still can by becoming a Citizen Producer right here: billwhittle.com/register/

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Yes, the roads are a mess and the taxes keep going up.  I saw that Arnold was filling potholes.  What happened to Dominos fixing roads?

Sigh!

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DISCOURAGING: And still we have Holocaust deniers and Nazi worshipers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11989107/Unseen-photos-published-mark-Warsaw-Ghetto-Uprisings-80th-anniversary-Nazis-brutality.html

Hitler’s revenge: Unseen photos published to mark Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s 80th anniversary show the Nazis’ brutality as they crushed Jewish resistance fighters’ bid to stop families being taken to death camps

  •     The unseen images were taken by Polish engineer Rudolf Damec
  •     The Ghetto Uprising took place from April 19 until May 16, 1943 

By Ed Wight and Harry Howard, History Correspondent
Published: 04:40 EDT, 19 April 2023 | Updated: 04:44 EDT, 19 April 2023

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As plumes of smoke spew from behind the ghetto wall, well-dressed Germans watch on, willingly indifferent to the atrocities being carried out on the other side.

Another photo shows a group standing beside a playground in Nazi-occupied Warsaw as burning buildings from the Jewish ghetto are engulfed in flames and billowing smoke.

A third shows women and children being rounded up as soldiers stand by with rifles, ensuring they do not cause any trouble. 

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I don’t understand.  Even the flat-earthers have at least an understandable belief system  — close up the horizon looks flat.  I don’t understand how the these befuddled fools can have any principle to stand on.  One can only hope that they get worse ridicule that the flat-earthers who are harmlessly just wrong; these other people are sick dangerous.

imho

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DISCOURAGING: Huh, “obstruction of governmental administration”, how abput attempted murder?

https://nypost.com/2023/04/18/new-video-shows-man-hit-nypd-cop-with-bottle-in-broad-daylight-attack/

New video shows suspect with 11 prior arrests hit NYPD cop with bottle in broad daylight attack
By Amanda Woods  — April 18, 2023 10:06am 

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He then charges at her and swings at another cop standing next to her before he is taken to the ground by that officer and at least one other person, the footage shows. 

Garcia, of Kingsbridge Heights, was arrested and charged with assault, obstruction of governmental administration, resisting arrest, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, and harassment, police said. 

He has 11 previous arrests, law enforcement sources said.

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Sorry, but NYC is officially out of control. 

I can somewhat see a low bail or ORO for a minor charge; second and subsequent arrests are REMAND!

Absurd to allow this lawlessness to go unpunished.

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DISCOURAGING: How can we contaminate women’s athletics with men “transitionoing”?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11846123/Trans-womens-advantage-sports-analyzed-photos.html

The photos that will stop you in your tracks: As more states seek ban on trans women competing in women’s sports, experts insist the ‘undeniable’ physical advantage CAN’T be undone by gender-affirming care

  •     The hugely divisive issue of trans participation in sport returned to the spotlight after a school girls’ team won a state title with help from a trans girl
  •     It’s the latest flashpoint in the debate that was thrust into the mainstream when trans swimmer Lia Thomas became an NCAA champion in March 2022
  •     Researchers and elite athletes say the science speaks for itself: Trans women have a physical advantage that can’t be undone

By Lewis Pennock For Dailymail.Com
Published: 13:06 EDT, 18 March 2023 | Updated: 13:06 EDT, 18 March 2023

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The incendiary issue of transgender participation in sports returned to the fore this week after a high school girls’ team won a state championship with help from a biological male. Olympic medalists were among critics who joined the backlash to Chloe Barnes’ role in Brookline High School’s victory in Massachusetts . Barnes is a junior who competed under rules that allow students to ‘participate in a manner consistent with their gender identity’. This is just the latest flashpoint in the debate that was thrust into the mainstream when trans swimmer Lia Thomas became an NCAA champion in March 2022. Supporters of inclusion claim fairness can be maintained when biological males compete against women, while opponents that argue women’s sports must be protected face accusations of transphobia. But cut through the often toxic political mudslinging that dominates the debate and, according to researchers and elite athletes, the science speaks for itself: trans women have a physical advantage over biological females – and no treatment exists which can unravel that. 

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It’s just not fair!

And, it’s a contra-survival of the species to allow it to continue.

It’s not like we have to permit these individuals to turn society’s norms on their head.

Time to get our “definitions” correct!

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DISCOURAGING: What’s messed up and what’s not

 
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Pretty sure everyone with even a couple of functional brain cells can see that everything is falling apart. Whether by design or coincidence can be debated, personally I believe it is a mix of by design and unintended consequences thrown in for good measure. Inflation, Crime, Random acts of violence, a failed public education system, supply chain malfunctions, work force participation, illegal immigration, food shortages, sheer Government incompetence, Polarization and Deep Divisions, A general mix of fear and hostility out in society. The list just keeps going to the point that the list of things NOT wrong and messed up is a lot shorter than the list of things that ARE wrong and messed up.
 
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I’d point out the SVB depositors bailout as a “national disaster”.
 
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DISCOURAGING: The USA is and has been in a “Fall of Rome” death spiral

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/03/when_strength_is_needed_america_shows_weakness.html

When Strength Is Needed, America Shows Weakness
By John Green  — March 6, 2023

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In the past, America was feared by its adversaries because of its sheer industrial might. During WWII, we built over 300,000 airplanes and 99 aircraft carriers. Now we can’t keep store shelves stocked with basics like baby formula. Unloading ships in a timely fashion seems to be a skill beyond our ability.

We’ve sacrificed the reliability of our electric grid in a quixotic attempt to control the weather. In pursuit of renewable power sources, we have allowed far more reliable sources to become vulnerable to sabotage and poorly maintained.

The Biden administration has depleted our strategic petroleum reserve in a failing attempt to control prices at the pump — something the reserve was never intended for. The reserve is now at its lowest level since 1984. At the same time, the administration has restricted domestic energy production. We are now energy dependent on some of the most unstable regions in the world.

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When we need “leadership”, we don’t get it.  Say what they want about DJT45 and RWR40, it was handy for the world to think they were strong and a little crazy.  

Argh!

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DISCOURAGING: Seems that almost ⅓ of the population has left the workforce

Adding a new category: DISCOURAGING!  Because a lot of the news is just that.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/02/tia_this_is_africa_no_this_is_america.html

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There is a monthly government statistic called U-6 and another metric called Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate. These two stats, added to the official Unemployment rate, reveal another estimated 12 million unemployed or underemployed individuals over and above the official stats. Another important metric is people who could work but choose not to do so. Yes, the government keeps that number as well.

When you combine all these numbers, you approach 100 million people who don’t work for a variety of reasons. That number has risen by about 35 million in the last ten years.

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How can the USA survive if there are no willing workers?

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