The weekend before His Passion, Jesus went and stayed with His friend Lazarus (whom He had raised from the dead) and Lazarus’ sisters Martha and Mary. Mary brought out a very expensive flask of ointment for the dead and applied it to Jesus’ feet with her hair. The whole house was filled with the sweet smell of that ointment. And guess who gets all mouthy about this? Yep. Judas Iscariot – who already was planning to sell out Jesus, and had been planning on cashing in on Him since the miracle of the loaves and fishes a few days earlier. Specifically, when Our Lord told the people that they must eat His Flesh and drink His Blood, and kept repeating it over and over and over again to be sure that everyone understood that He meant it literally, Judas (with urging from satan) decided that Our Lord was nuts and started planning to betray Him and profit from it. That whole episode is in John chapter 6. Read it.

Back to Lazarus’ house in John 12. Judas gets all holier-than-thou and complains that the flask of ointment could have been sold for 300 pence and “given to the poor”. Does this not sound like the godless Marxist liberals of today who are so quick to tell everyone else what they should be doing with their money and assets, all in the name of the poor, of course?

(Cough)

Then, an absolutely delightful verse – verse 6:

“Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things therein.”

Um, hello? The Holy Ghost is talking to us. Are we listening? That verse should make the hair on your arms stand up. Is this not a PERFECT mapping to our contemporary situation?

You have a “disciple” who doesn’t really believe in Jesus or what He says – he just pretends to because he thinks he can gain power and wealth by associating with Jesus for now. He’s just working the “Jesus angle”. But everything he is doing behind the scenes is working in direct opposition to Our Lord. Now, this “disciple” starts trying to appear pious and devout by pontificating that all wealth and resources should, by definition, be redistributed to “the poor”. But in truth, he is just a thief.

(Cough cough)

Now here is the key passage from Jesus Himself:

“Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of My burial. For the poor you have always with you; but Me you have not always.”

First of all, Our Lord says, “Let her alone.” (Sinite illam.)

Judas has appointed himself the arbiter of wealth and asset distribution and has decided that Mary’s flask of ointment (or the cash value thereof) should have gone to “the poor”. And Our Lord says, “Let her alone.”

It is hers to do with as she (and her family) sees fit, and they have seen fit to use it to anoint their beloved Jesus.

Judas, sit down and shut your proto-Marxist piehole. THWAP!

(Cough cough cough)

In the next phrase, Our Lord explains economics in eight words (FIVE in Latin):
“For the poor you have always with you.”
(Pauperes enim semper habetis vobiscum.)

What does He mean? Does He mean, “Bah, forget the poor! Live it up!”

Absolutely not. What He is explaining is that in all morally sane societies, wealth will always exist within a SPECTRUM.

Let’s compare a “poor” person in the U.S. to a “poor” person in Bangladesh. A poor person in Bangladesh lives in the gutter without so much as a cardboard shelter to sleep under. They are sick from malnutrition and starvation. They probably dress in rags, and certainly do not own a pair of shoes. Bathing only occurs when they can immerse themselves in a river, which is opaque with sewage. They own nothing except the rags that they wear. Every day is a struggle to get a bit of clean water and enough food to merely survive. That’s a poor person in Bangladesh.

What constitutes a “poor” person in the former U.S.? A poor person in the former U.S. does not have cable. A poor person in the U.S. might not have a laptop, ONLY a smartphone. A poor person in the U.S. receives food stamps, medicaid and a welfare check. A poor person in the U.S. is probably significantly OVERweight, and smokes cigarettes. A poor person in the U.S. drives a car that is so old that it came with a factory in dash CD player. A poor person in the U.S. lives either in a trailer or a HUD apartment complex. A poor person in the U.S. almost certainly DOES have a smart phone with high speed internet connectivity.

Understand that on a percentage level, these two descriptions are equivalent. A “poor” person in the U.S. has a standard of living that would be considered luxurious in Bangladesh and other impoverished countries. The notions of “wealth” and “poverty”, by logical and mathematical definition, exist within a SPECTRUM. And no matter what we do, that spectrum will always, always exist. That is what Our Lord is saying. There will always be a top-end, and there will always be a bottom-end.

In some nations (like Bangladesh), that spectrum is very broad and reaches very far down into poverty, indeed. There are billionaires in Bangladesh, and there are people starving in the gutters in rags. In the former U.S., we certainly have a wealth spectrum, but the low end is much higher and the spectrum is much narrower. We have many billionaires, but our lower-end is nowhere NEAR as low as Bangladesh’s.

The point is, no matter how much you bring up the bottom-end, there will ALWAYS, by mathematical definition, BE a bottom-end. If the bottom-end were a $100,000 per year household income and a $300,000 home in today’s dollars, then a household with a $100,000 income and a $300,000 home would be considered “poor”, called “poor”, and Marxists would tell those “poor” that they were being “oppressed” and “deserved” and were “entitled to” a $500,000 annual household income and an $800,000 home. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

(Cough cough cough cough)

Someone is always going to have more money and assets than somebody else. It is impossible to have a free society wherein every person has exactly the same level of wealth. Someone has to be the business OWNER, and someone has to be the EMPLOYEE. Someone has to be the wage PAYER and someone has to be the wage EARNER. If everyone in a culture were economically equal at all times, there would be zero employment because no one would work for anyone except themselves. You can’t have a company with 1000 CEOs. Conversely, you can’t have a company that is nothing but entry-level laborers. Someone has to be responsible. Someone has to sign the paychecks. Someone has to determine the course of the business. Someone has to risk their assets and wealth to start-up the company in the first place. And, at the other end, someone has to scrub the toilets.

The only way to get true, complete equality of wealth would be to KILL EVERYBODY.

Stupid Rabbits. Stop obsessing about the baby killing. My friend and consultant Prof. John Schellnhuber says there are 6.5 BILLION too many of you…. Go get your booster!

Since we know from Our Lord that there will always be a wealth spectrum, it is obviously disordered to eliminate said spectrum and collapse it down to a single point of “economic equality”. To do that would collapse the society itself and result is chaos and poverty for ALL. (Ahem, MARXISM, TYRANNICAL OLIGARCHY, VENEZUELA, cough, cough.)

The ideal is a healthy wealth spectrum that is always moving higher through growth and moral technological advancements and innovations, is open-ended on the top side, but has an intrinsic morality such that the top-end of the wealth spectrum always makes certain that the bottom end advances apace and that the spectrum maintains its proportional width – or even narrows a bit. This is achieved through personal charity AND through a moral, lawful, CHRISTIAN society that allows for movement both up AND down the spectrum. Yes, up AND DOWN.

The top-end cooperates with the bottom end to enable upward mobility for those who work hard, and are innovative. Conversely, if someone on the top-end does not work hard or is dishonest in his dealings, he can and will fail and slide back down the spectrum.

This freedom of movement within the spectrum – both up AND down – is essential. Trapping people on the low-end (ahem, cough, WELFARE STATE, CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY, FREEMASONIC-BERGOGLIAN ANTIPAPACY, cough) is equally as immoral as the disgusting oligarchical upper-classes who think themselves immune from morality, the rule of law or personal responsibility (ahem, cough, SOROS, PALO ALTO, AND ENTIRE POLITICAL CLASS, cough, cough).

So, there you go. Economics as explained by our Blessed Lord in five little words while He was hanging out at His friends’ house having supper the weekend before He suffered and died to redeem mankind. And proof that Judas Iscariot was the intellectual father of Marxism and of scumbag thieving politicians in general.

I hope this helps.

Have a blessed Holy Week!

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My earthly estate is translocated, and the move went swimmingly. The “check engine” light came on in the truck about halfway along the way, but no issues were detected and the rig got us up into the high country with no problem. Thanks to one and all for your patience and extreme munificence. Truly. Paying movers these days ain’t cheap, but man, the guys I used were the absolute salt of the earth, and worth every cent. Prompt, quick, friendly, and they even crossed themselves when I prayed the Traveler’s Prayer as we departed:

St. Gabriel with Mary, St. Raphael with Tobias, St. Michael with all the heavenly host, be our safeguard and protection on this journey.

May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Here’s a little musical interlude as we prepare for Palm Sunday and Holy Week. Someone should re-lyric this song apropos to St. Paul and his travels.

Apparently Antipope Bergoglio was hauled to the hospital in an ambulance yesterday with lung and heart issues. If it weren’t serious they would have either driven him in a car, or had doctors come to the Vatican.

Yes, he’s absolutely revolting, but NO sin or life of sin is too much for God’s Infinite Mercy.

IF Bergoglio is the False Prophet Forerunner of the Antichrist, the Anti John the Baptist, even he could repent and go down in history as an inverse of Judas Iscariot. Jorge Mario Bergoglio doesn’t HAVE to go to hell, even after everything he has done. No one ever HAS to go to hell. Hell is a choice. Antipope Bergoglio could still choose God before he dies. Let’s pray that he does.

Q:  What do the sodomites-transvestites want?  What is their endgame?  They already have their “faux-marriage”, they are clearly a de facto protected “victim class”.  They carry on openly with not only no pushback or protest, but are actively praised for their psychoses and depravity.  What is their endgame?

A:  They want nothing less than the entire world to declare that GOD IS WRONG, AND THEY ARE RIGHT.  And if God is “wrong” then God is not God, and the sodomites-transvestites are actually superior to God, and have been victims of an inferior being all this time.

I would point out a fascinating bit of exegesis regarding the events of Genesis Chapter 19 – Sodom and Gomorrah.

When the two angels had entered into Lot’s house, and “the men of the city beset the house both young and old, all the people together” (verse 4), the point of the gathering wasn’t primarily gang rape.  Think about it.  Sodom was a city of non-trivial size.  That mob didn’t show up with the expectation of every man in the city being able to rape the two men lodging in Lot’s house.  They were probably hoping for the two lodgers to be brought out, and perhaps instigating an orgy among them.

To see what their primary motive was, look at verse 9:

But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them.

The mob of Sodom arrived at Lot’s house in order to demand that both Lot and his two guests RATIFY THE SODOMITES’ SEXUAL PERVERSION. They were there to demand ideological conformity, preferably by PARTICIPATION in perverse genital acts.  Remember the 4-step progression of what evil demands: Toleration, Acceptance, Ratification, Participation.

Look at the words they use… WAS IT TO BE A JUDGE?

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

So, the objective of all sodomites, and especially of the vile wretches that have infiltrated The Church, and are now swiftly erecting their Antichurch with the objective of replacing the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church is, as I have said for years now, rooted in a hatred of God Himself.

They seek nothing less than demanding that all Catholics, and eventually all people, under the fraudulent obedience they so desperately want to convince the Church is due to the criminal Antipope Bergoglio, to cry out, “God is wrong and has been wrong all along, and you (the sodomites-transvestites) are right, and have been right all along!” 

In doing this, they think that they will be dethroning God, and enthroning “enlightened man”, and then eventually “the great illuminator” himself, satan.

Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.
2 Thessalonians 2: 3-4

The person on the far right, with a mustache, is a woman who has mutilated her body with surgeries and hormones in order to masquerade as a male. The woman on the far left masquerades as the woman’s “wife”.

This is one of my favorite pieces of secular music, an instrumental bluegrass cover of Jimmy Buffett’s “A Pirate Looks at 40”. The problem is that the narcissist Boomer poster child Jimmy Buffett’s original lyrics are insufferable morally decrepit drivel about smuggling drugs and other pathetic Boomer debauchery. But the melody is absolutely gorgeous. The song needs wholesome new lyrics written for it. I’ve never even attempted poetry, but someday I should take a crack at it. Who knows? I might be a poet… and not even know it!

So, for today, inspired by my packing, I merely rechristen this song, “Bubblewrap Blues”. Enjoy.

Over the transom, this. Do you remember my recent post on the video of the woman walking down the street, simply being reasonably well-dressed and getting stared-at?

Well, THIS… female… doesn’t like it one bit.

I grew up thinking wearing a short skirt, or going braless or showing cleavage means I’m asking for attention, people won’t take me seriously, or men will take it as an invitation or make assumptions about me. It has taken me years to unpack this and realise that underwire shouldn’t be the reason someone respects me or thinks I’m hot.

Speaking of the naked truth, posted because context here is essential: the angry author:

This poor, poor gal.

I’m not so cruel so as to leave you without an offset, so here is the final installation of Ann’s Dresses:

Funny story about the white dress. I wore it to Mass one Sunday last summer with my big green hat, and a young male friend was in town visiting. As we stopped into a spot for a post-Mass refreshment, a man sitting outside offered us his warmest congratulations on having just been married. On a Sunday at 12:30pm, with me in a big green hat. I guess these days ANY solid white dress seems like a wedding dress to most people.

I took an obligatory picture of my “wedding ensemble”. 🤣 And yes, I use beautiful costume jewelry pins to raise and secure the neckline of dresses just a bit.