Secondary subtitle for this post?  “What in the almighty @#$%^&*! is wrong with you people??

First, let’s review the Barnhardt Axiom:

The fact that a given person is holding or even seeking high-level public office is, in and of itself, proof that said person is morally and/or psychologically UNFIT to hold public office.

Thank you Chris Christie for ONCE AGAIN proving the point.

I am DESPONDENT at the endless line of people engaging in massive moral relativism, trying to argue that Chris Christie maliciously causing traffic jams in order to punish his political enemies is somehow okay because he isn’t Obama or Mao Tse Tung or satan.  So, you know, by comparison, causing massive traffic delays is totally small ball, so whatevs.

Will you people just stop for two seconds and THINK about what you’re saying?  This man freely chose to maliciously disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of people – people  whom he is charged with serving, in order to win some urinating contest with another politician.  Chris Christie, just like all politicians today (see the Barnhardt Axiom), views other human beings as objects that exist only to serve him.  Chris Christie doesn’t give a flying flip about his constituents.  They are a mildly annoying teeming mass of vermin who can be used and abused in order to consolidate, increase and entrench his own personal power and wealth.  He doesn’t care about the man who was trying to get home to his sick wife.  He doesn’t care about the woman trying to get home so she can make it to her kids’ school program.  He doesn’t care about the guy who just worked a 14 hour shift, is totally exhausted, and just wants to go home and go to bed, because he has to wake up tomorrow morning and do it all over again.  Chris Christie doesn’t care about wasting other people’s time.  He doesn’t worry about how his maliciously engineered traffic jam COULD make the two-minute difference between a heart attack victim or head injury victim surviving or dying.

Look, I’ll be the first to admit that I really don’t LIKE very many people.  And you know, we are not required to personally LIKE others.  But we are required to feel some level of empathy and consideration towards other people, and, you know, um, treat them the way we would like to be treated ourselves.  This is what “love of neighbor” is at its most primordial and universal level.  For the eighty-seven billionth time here, caritas, or CHARITY, is to NOT be indifferent towards others, because INDIFFERENCE is the opposite of charity, or love.  Chris Christie has proven that he is completely and totally INDIFFERENT to the very people he has been given authority to govern.  He doesn’t have to personally like everyone, but he is morally required as a human being, and especially as a leader, to not be utterly indifferent to other people, and thus not treat them like objects and pawns in his sick, larcenous quest for power and wealth.

Oh, but it’s okay as long as his indifference manifests itself (for now) in ways less severe than Obama or Stalin or Mao.

So as long as a person hoists a certain flag and declares himself a member of a certain mafia or gang, then you all will breathlessly defend behavior that is not only indefensible, but is a massive, massive red flag warning that said person is a sociopath at best or a psychopath at worst.

THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is why I despair and hold out NO HOPE for any sort of internal self-correction or resuscitation of the now-dead United States.  I truly believe that the Marxist infiltrators of the media and entertainment industry intentionally fomented the worship of sports teams in order to engender and normalize exactly what we are seeing here.  If Jock X plays for the Yankees, then he is a bum.  But if he becomes a free agent and goes to the Red Sox, then he can rape girls, deal drugs and torture animals and THAT’S FINE.  Just as long as he is wearing the correct BLOUSE.

Do you not see that “politics” is now the same?  Chris Christie can kiss Obama’s rump, sell out to sodomites, and now prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that he is malignantly indifferent to the lives of the very people he is supposed to serve and advocate for in the public realm, and you all will rush to defend him with the objective evil of MORAL RELATIVISM simply because he allegedly affiliates himself with the mafia organization called the “Republican Party”, as opposed to the other mafia called the “Democrat Party”, which are actually two explicitly allied “Families” that are just putting on a facade of “competition” because the faux-competition is itself the means by which both families loot trillions of dollars from YOU.  And you not only let them do it, you enjoy it as an entertaining diversion in exactly the same milieu as sports.

How can you possibly continue to fall for this?  How can you possibly think to yourself that these people care about you in any way, and that they are somehow defensible so long as they wave a specific flag AND there is some other psychopath out there who was or is worse, thus making them “okay by comparison”?

“Chris Christie for Office!
He’s a psychopath… but he’s OUR psychopath!”

1.  My mixed drink repertoire is not exactly huge, so I think I have run out of titles for miscellaneous posts based upon alcoholic beverages.  So, let’s move on to snacks.  I have been eating peanut butter on green apple slices, and my, what an excellent little meal substitution.   It is incredibly filling.  Hey – that’s the fat in the peanut butter.  Fat is filling.  When you eat it, your appetite is satisfied.  Not so with carbs.  Popping carbs just makes you hungrier.  If you want to have a snack, you are far better off going for a small serving of something fatty and satisfying.  Save the carbs, in moderation, for actual mealtime.

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3.  I received quite a lot of feedback regarding prayer for those we have not yet met, and was reminded that praying for one’s future spouse beginning in childhood was a widespread practice in the Church before the Marxist-sodomiticalists infiltrated and began their unrelenting campaign of destruction in the mid-1960s.  Maybe if people learned again to pray for their spouse before they met them, they would realize that their future spouse is a precious human being, and their future marriage a sacrament.  Instead, we have clergy today saying that with regards to marriage, “everyone deserves a second chance”.  Thankfully Our Blessed Lord does not agree.

Our Lord entered into a covenant marriage.
The relationship … went south through no fault of His.

This is what a Covenant Marriage in which one spouse turns out to be less-than-perfect looks like. Oddly, no annulment has ever been sought in this case.

Instead of annulling the covenant, seeking a divorce, abandoning the relationship, or killing the spouse (which was and is His right as the Divine Judge – just ask Noah), He instead persevered unto torture and death at the hands of His beloved spouse, and then doubled-down on the marriage, instituting the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Eucharist so that He could renew the Marriage Sacrament and the Divine Embrace EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. FOREVER.

Just remember, if everyone deserves a “second chance” with regards to marriage, then Our Blessed Lord goes to the front of that line, the Gates of Heaven slam shut, and we all go to hell exactly as we deserve.

“Ay-ay-ay. ¿Cuánto tiempo más?”
Our thoughts exactly, Sweetie.

Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  Amen.

Pope St. Hyginus.

Today is the feast of Pope St. Hyginus who was murdered by the Roman Emperor in ARSH 142.  We have no idea who he was or what he looked like, but he was and is a real dude, and he loves you, and wants you to get to heaven.  Seeing how he is looking upon the Beatific Vision right now, and is contemplating God face-to-face, it would be a fine idea to ask him to put in a good word for you and yours.  Remember, the vast, vast majority of people who have ever lived are utterly forgotten by those alive today.  Someday you too will pass out of all living memory.  Only a very few people are remembered by name long after they are dead.  But all of those people, all of those lives with all of their ups and downs, loves and losses, were and are every bit as real as you and me.  It is the antithesis of humility to think that the world began with your achieving sentience, or that it began in say, oh, I dunno, ARSH 1968 or thereabouts – just to pick a random date.  Ahem.  Cough-cough.

Pope St. Hyginus, whoever you are, please pray for us to the Lord Our God.

1.  And … I’m back!  My hard drive failed and it took a while to replace, but now I’m back in business, and since the machine was still under warranty, there was no charge for the repairs.  Whew!  But, replacing the hard drive meant that I was basically given back a brand new computer.  Even though I didn’t have much stuff saved on it, one forgets how time consuming it is to reinstall software and get the system settings back to where they should be.  That took forever.  The next project, which is far worse, is attacking my email inbox and getting that cleaned up.  Gulp.  I should be back to near-daily posts and will try to record a podcast on Saturday.

2.  I used to favor Captain Morgan spiced rum in my Coke, but have lately converted to classic Bacardi.  A Bacardi and Coke on ice with a lime is one of the most outstanding thirst-quenchers  and refreshers on the planet.  Not to mention a delicious treat.

3.  Thanks to one and all for inquiries as to my temperature status.  Yes, The Van is nice and toasty.  Although, I had bought an electric hot water bottle to keep the ol’ toes warm, but it burst into flames last week.  It was very exciting.  I hadn’t had that much fun since that time the raccoon got stuck in the copier.

4.  It occurred to me at Mass earlier this week that since God is in no way constrained by space or TIME, we can and should pray for people we have not yet met.  Unless you are a very elderly person, or you are very close to dying, it is almost a certainty that there are people out in the world somewhere that you will meet in the future and are going to be your friends.  Also, you may have children someday, or people you are related to will have children, who you have obviously not met yet.  Pray for them now.  God knows who they are.  One byproduct of war and dislocation is the bringing together of people and the formation of relationships.  Men who have seen combat never forget their “buddies”.  Many marriages and families have been the result of wars or diasporas.  This dynamic has already happened to me as I have met all manner of people in the Riverdweller community since I hit the road last year.  I often used to wonder about people I had yet to meet; who they were, where they were, what they were doing.  I can’t say that it explicitly occurred to me to pray for them, but I did think about them.  I wish I had explicitly prayed for them, because I could have, as God has always known exactly who they are.  So, I have now started to pray for my friends whom I have yet to meet, and recommend that you do the same.  Love transcends all dimensions, including the 4th dimension – time.

5.  There is an entire genre on YouTube of songs being played on a record turntable, and it is addictive.  This one is “I Only Have Eyes For You” by the Flamingos being played on a super high-end Bang & Olufson turntable with a killer amp and speakers.  The song is great, but the clickety-clack of the turntable is sublime.  Sigh.  Put me, now and forever, on TEAM VINYL.

Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  Amen.

King and God and Sacrifice. Remember, He was born to die.

1.  Well, there are no drones circling, at least that I can see, so I figure it is safe to come to periscope depth and make another comm check before I get my computer back.  Good grief, there is so much to say that I almost have anti-writer’s block.  Paralyzed by TOO MUCH prose sloshing about in the ol’ strawberry jam bucket.

2.  I’ll start with fondest wishes for a very happy new year, and sincerest, deepest thanks for all donors, supporters and prayer warriors.  About the kindest thing I can think to say is I hope you all go broke, get the IRS on your tail, and end up in your very own “Van Down By The River”.  May you all be blessed one one-hundredth as much as I am.  I wake up in the mornings and STILL can’t believe teh awesomeness.

3.  I get STILL get several emails per day asking what ARSH stands for on the date stamp.  The explanation is item #2 on the FAQ page, but for simplicity’s sake I will restate:
Anno
Reparatae
Salutis
Humanae

“In the Year of the Reparation of Human Salvation.”

Why?  Because A.D. just isn’t hardcore enough for me.

4.  I read an account of a death recently in which a priest told the dying person, “Our Lord loves you.  Our Lady loves you.  All of the angels love you.  And all of the saints love you.”

I admit to being struck by the last two sentences.  I know Our Lord loves me.  I know Our Lady loves me.  But, I had never really considered the fact that ALL of the angels love me, and that ALL of the saints, that is to say EVERY person that is in heaven, love me.  It is a strange thing to consider.  I mostly think only of my poor guardian angel, who I am sure loves me, but mostly in the exasperated, I-wanna-give-you-a-good-spankin, double-face-palm, oh-God-why-me sense.  I think I shall endeavor to think about this more.  You should do the same, because the same goes for you, too.

5.  The 29th of December was the feast of St. Thomas a Becket.  His friend King Henry II had him killed after the King made him Archbishop of Canterbury thinking that Becket would be his pawn, and instead Becket stood up to the King when he tried to impinge upon the authority of the Church.  The King’s goons killed Becket on the altar as he was celebrating Vespers.  They ran him through, but he wasn’t killed immediately so they then struck a sword blow that cut off the top of Becket’s skull, and then picked his brains out with the tips of their swords.

I repeat this only because I want you to understand how weak today’s bishops are.  King Henry II did not attempt to make anyone pay for abortions or ratify the cult of sodomy.  Not even close.

6.  Speaking of which, late breaking news is that the $1.00 per month abortion surcharge, which was, according to the text of the ObamaRape law, supposed to appear as a separate line-item on all insurance plans has been modified by the totalitarian regime to be charged, yet hidden.  That citation is here.  There is still absolutely an explicit “abortion fund” that will be fed by these $1.00 per month surcharges, but the regime as decided that it would probably be better for them if you just didn’t know about it, and it merely be added to a more benign-sounding “service fee” line item.  Why are you people still participating in any of this?  Who are these people who are actually “signing up” for ObamaCare, knowing full well that it is a scam and that the websites are merely phishing interfaces?  If you all would simply cancel all insurance and create demand for cash-on-the-barrel-head medical services, aka “concierge medicine”, AND declare a tax strike, all of this could be non-violently resolved.  BUT NOOOOO.  You cower in fear, and thus guarantee the most horrific, violent path.  They have power over you because you fear the loss of earthly possessions and do not fear God.

7.  Speaking of which, a certain Peronist-Fascist cleric from the economic, moral and liturgical hellhole known as “Argentina” said recently that we need not fear God and the Judgment.  Um, when I get my computer back I’ll be writing a piece on Fear of the Lord.  Remind me.

8.  Reiterating briefly my position on the Novus Ordo Mass, yes, it is valid, so long as the right form and matter are used.  Which reminds me: do you know what the difference between invalid and illicit is?  If a Mass is invalid, Our Lord does not substantially come down upon the altar.  If the Mass is illicit, He comes … but He is VERY angry.

There are two points here.  The first is that the fact that the Novus Ordo is valid is precisely the problem.  The Anglicans can have a Vegas-style can-can line of sodomite bishops wearing sequined bikinis with their lesbian bishops bedecked in flannel playing softball ON TOP OF THE ALTAR  with their “communion” bread and wine being tampled underfoot and spilled on the floor for all I care, because … and pay close attention now … Anglican “altars” are JUST TABLES, and the bread and wine IS JUST BREAD AND JUST WINE because there is no validity and thus no consecration.  Same thing goes for all other protesting sects.  The engineers of the Novus Ordo, with satanic “help”, while wreaking havoc on the Mass DID NOT invalidate it, thus, Our Sweet Jesus has to retread the streets of Jerusalem, being mocked, roughly manhandled, physically abused and ignored all over again.

Now ANOTHER point, which is actually quite edifying.  The validity of the Novus Ordo Mass is, quite possibly, the most persuasive proof set of the INDEFECTIBILITY OF THE CHURCH.

“By this term is signified, not merely that the Church will persist to the end of time, but further, that it will be preserved unimpaired in its essential characteristics. The Church can never undergo any constitutional change, which will make it, as a social organism, something different from what it was originally. It can never become corrupt in faith or in morals; nor can it ever lose the Apostolic hierarchy, or the Sacraments through which Christ communicates grace to men.” 

Yup.  To deny the validity of the Novus Ordo is to deny the Indefectible Nature of the Church, which is non-negotiable dogma.  This doesn’t mean the Novus Ordo qua Novus Ordo is GOOD because it is NOT – it is illicit.  What it means that GOD is good, faithful and EXTREMELY MERCIFUL.  The Novus Ordo must be exterminated before the world has any hope of recovery.  Period.  It cannot be “fixed” because it was conceived in malice by a cadre of infiltrators who hated God, His Holy Church, His angels and His saints.  And then, after that lofty and excellent goal is accomplished, many, many millions of words can and will be penned on the infinite and unfathomable faithfulness and mercy of Our Blessed Lord for never, ever abandoning His Bride even when He was being abused, mocked and ignored by the vast, vast, vast majority of priests AND laity at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

THAT is how God turns temporary horrors like the Novus Ordo and post-Vatican II milieu into vectors for His Glory.

9.  Und now iz da time on Schprockets wenn we danz.

http://youtu.be/ttMt9SHRwsM