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Politics, technology, history, current events, religion, soccer. Humanity is not evil. @cornell "Es lebe die Freiheit!"

[Carlos Abraham Rodriguez ن @car_umba]

@NCRonline The only selective treatment of the Church’s (capital C) teachings that are of concern are those of NCR and Winters.

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

Trump Bans the Fake News. So Obama Thunders Down from Olympus

The White House Press corps and the liberal media have gone ballistic over President Trump’s recent banning of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House press room.

Apparently Trump had finally had it with their decade-long trail of “fake news” (e.g., CNN on the Steele dossier: the intelligence community had “corroborated all the details.”; MS(NBC): “All the supporting details in Steele's reports are checking out, even the really outrageous ones.”; and Politico (“Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”).

Or maybe it was Trump’s weariness that CNN and MS never learned from their serial untruth.

The former for years put on their news shows the admitted liar (“least most untruthful”) James Clapper; The latter likewise hired the twice-admitted-liar John Brennan (on his demonstrable spying on Senate computers, Brennan thundered under oath: “Nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn't do that.”)

So after witnessing the fake news’s spreading lies about the “walls are closing in on Trump” Mueller Investigation, ginning up the “mostly peaceful” 2020 riots, running with the Jussie Smollett farce, demonizing the Covington Kids, iconizing the assailant Trayvon Martin, and promulgating the “Hands up, Don’t Shoot” Ferguson fable, and on and on—I suppose Trump finally had enough.

In reaction and as expected, a sanctimonious Barack Obama now has jetted out from one of his three mansions and into the expulsion controversy.

And also as his wont, Obama almost immediately on spec opened himself up to the usual charges of rank hypocrisy and empty, performance-art virtue-signaling.

So Obama thundered, “I’m trying to think what would have happened if I had said, ‘You know what, Fox News? You’re out of here.’ It’s unimaginable.”

Actually, it’s not “unimaginable”, if Obama would just look into the mirror.

So wait a minute.

In 2009 the Obama Treasury Department tried to ban a Fox reporter from a press pool interview.

Earlier during the 2008 campaign, Obama kicked out New York Post and Washington Times reporters from his campaign plane.

But Obama was most notorious not for just excluding politically incorrect reporters but for surveilling and spying on them.

Even liberal watchdog foundations blasted Obama in 2012-13 for grabbing the private records of some twenty phone lines used at home and on the job by Associated Press reporters.

Most notoriously, it was finally revealed in 2013 that Obama’s State Department secretly had bird-dogged Fox Reporter James Rosen relentlessly— tracking his movements, obtaining a search warrant to examined two days’ worth of his private emails, and getting access to his private phone records.

If Obama is still “trying to think what would have happened” when he surveilled and spied on a Fox reporter relentlessly, he can stop—since nothing as usual happened to the always exempt Obama.

And Obama did not just at times eject reporters and surveille them.

He also threatened to prosecute eight reporters and their sources (more than any administration before or since, including Richard Nixon’s). But he backed down when the AP and Rosen scandals surfaced and cooled down his Inspector Javert alter ego.

The hammer/stiletto difference between a loud Trump and a smooth Obama?

Trump blows up publicly, rails, and earns furor from “shocked”, sober and judicious journalists” who covet their White House billets—while he also earns the damnation of the liberal legacy media for his antics.

But far more egregiously Obama used the powers of the administrative state, secretly and quietly, to surveille, follow, and spy on reporters and their sources, while threatening to prosecute and jail others—and he disguised his vindictiveness by his lofty tone and polished demeanor.

As he anticipated, Obama’s victims and the media itself largely kept still, afraid to concede that their messianic “constitutional lawyer” possessed an Orwellian mean streak and was a far greater danger to the First Amendment.

Or as the Left taught us, the fundamental threat to our Constitution is when “democracy dies in darkness.”

Postscript:

Obama also could not resist his “clingers” like demonization of Trump supporters, in the fashion of Hillary’s “deplorables” and “irredeemables”, and Biden’s “garbage”, “chumps”, “semi-fascists”, and “dregs”.

So he also blasted not just Trump for the expulsions, but returned to his accustomed stereotype putdown of Neanderthal-like Trump supporters who are supposedly under-developed (e.g., “what that means is that we’ve have not developed the kind of understanding of what democracy requires”):

“If you have a certain cohort, let's call it 30 to 35 percent of the country right now, which thinks that's okay, well, what that means is we have not developed the kind of understanding of what democracy requires, and we've got to shore that back up.”

I wonder how Obama would do that shoring up of a third of America? Surveilling, tracking, and spying on them?

Note finally, that even Hillary’s deplorables were only half of Trump’s half of the nation, “You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”) whereas Obama writes off a third of the entire country!

[Carlos Abraham Rodriguez ن @car_umba]

@laralogan Gonzaga is not the Catholic Church

[Wiretap Media @WiretapMediaCa]

🚨ALLISON INQUIRY BOMBSHELL🚨

Former CBC producer Rodney Palmer just delivered a forensic presentation to the panel on how Canada’s public broadcaster morphed into a Chinese-style propaganda arm. Called out his former colleagues — and DESTROYED whatever credibility they had left.

[Carlos Abraham Rodriguez ن @car_umba]

@hans_zollner @americamag I appreciate the focus on this problem. However, no mention is made of blatant cases where little or no effective action is taken as in the case of Jesuit priest (still) Marko Rupnik. It seems some priests are persecuted but others are protected.

[Sacerdos in æternum ✪ @SacerdosMariae]

Hay una antigua costumbre católica que merece ser recuperada: que los padres bendigan a sus hijos.

No es una devoción inventada ni una especie de imitación del sacerdote. La Iglesia reconoce expresamente esta bendición y hasta ofrece un rito para realizarla.

1️⃣ El Bendicional de la Iglesia contiene expresamente una «Bendición de los hijos».

Y recuerda algo muy significativo: siempre ha sido muy estimada entre los cristianos «la bendición impartida a los hijos por los mismos padres».

2️⃣ Por tanto, sí: un padre y una madre pueden bendecir verdaderamente a sus hijos.

El propio Bendicional señala que este rito puede ser utilizado por «los padres, el sacerdote o el diácono».

3️⃣ Esto no significa que los padres bendigan desde el mismo ministerio que un sacerdote.

El sacerdote y el diácono lo hacen desde el sacramento del Orden. Los padres lo hacen como bautizados y desde la misión que Dios les ha confiado respecto de sus propios hijos.

4️⃣ Y es una práctica profundamente bíblica.

Jacob bendice a Efraín y Manasés imponiendo las manos sobre ellos:

«Que el Ángel que me ha librado de todo mal bendiga a estos muchachos» (Gn 48,16).

5️⃣ También el libro del Eclesiástico afirma:

«La bendición del padre asegura la casa de sus hijos» (Si 3,9).

La bendición paterna aparece así como una expresión concreta de la autoridad recibida de Dios para amar, educar y conducir a los hijos hacia Él.

6️⃣ El gesto que propone el Bendicional es especialmente hermoso.

Los padres hacen la señal de la cruz sobre la frente de sus hijos y pronuncian sobre ellos la oración de bendición.

Una cruz trazada por quien les dio la vida y pide ahora a Dios que los acompañe durante toda ella.

7️⃣ El mismo Bendicional ofrece esta fórmula:

«El Señor te guarde
y te haga crecer en su amor,
para que andes como pide la vocación
a la que has sido convocado».

El hijo responde: «Amén».

8️⃣ Puede hacerse al acostarse, al salir de casa, antes de un viaje, en una enfermedad, en un momento importante o sencillamente como costumbre cotidiana.

No hacen falta grandes ceremonias. Una señal de la cruz en la frente y unas palabras dichas con fe bastan.

Quizá sea una de esas tradiciones sencillas que nunca deberíamos haber dejado perder.

Un niño que recibe habitualmente la bendición de sus padres aprende algo esencial: que sus padres lo aman, pero también que saben que su vida pertenece finalmente a Dios.

Y pocas herencias pueden ser mejores que esa.

#Familia #FeCatólica #IglesiaCatólica #Bendición #TradiciónCatólica

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

💉💉A time capsule from the pandemic. Every clip is a public official, on the record, describing their fellow citizens. No commentary needed. Just watch how it sounded.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Socialism's bust-and-boom cycle is repeating itself. Nothing succeeds like failure. As these policies fuel decline in these areas, demand grows for expanding the policies and government controls. Government is the only industry that grows with failure. https://t.co/kWYFJXaCOp

[Cern Basher @CernBasher]

https://t.co/2EWJ6U4czp

[Roy K. Altman @RoyKAltman]

If someone had asked me before October 7th what I wanted to be remembered for, I would have said that I wanted people to know that I was a good father, husband, and friend; a fair judge; and a model American citizen.

But October 7th was a watershed moment in the history of Western civilization—not because of what happened thousands of miles away, but because of what happened here in our supposedly sacred institutions.

Hamas killed 1,200 innocent people. They butchered them in their bedrooms. They beheaded them at their dance parties. They blew them up clutching their families in their bomb shelters.

And yet, at my alma maters, in our universities, we Jews became the oppressors. Hamas raped dozens and dozens of Jewish women and girls, mothers together with their daughters. That's now clear beyond peradventure. You can go home tonight and watch the videotaped confessions of Hamas terrorists admitting to these unspeakable acts. They committed the crime of kinocide.

This was just announced in a recent report by an international NGO on May 12th of this year. It is the first documented use of kinocide as a weapon of war anywhere on the planet since Rwanda in the 1990s.

And yet, in our Western media outlets, we Jews became the aggressors.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Contact your legislators today to oppose this bill: https://t.co/90CM5dPipm

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @SanaELedene]

No one is forcing the nun to become a nun or to wear her habit, but I was forced to wear the hijab at age 7, otherwise, they wouldn’t let me into elementary school.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
So yeah… screw your savage religion.

[Carlos Abraham Rodriguez ن @car_umba]

@BishopBarron Sorry to say, I did not see Rep. Suozzi directly renegue on the gains by extremists within the Democrat Party. He does criticize authoritarians but points to the other party, without seeing four fingers pointing back at his.

[Carlos Abraham Rodriguez ن @car_umba]

@wholemars @waitwhat If it turns out this was intentional and he wanted to clock out, he made the worst decision by choosing a car that would maximize his probability of survival.

[Mish @Mish_K_]

Make this viral. Not that she hasn't already been exposed, but @UNSRVAW needs the world to see her for what she truely is. Evil.

[Carlos Abraham Rodriguez ن @car_umba]

@EdineiMach88357 So they did a work, and that got them to heaven? 🧐

[Carlos Abraham Rodriguez ن @car_umba]

@ArthurMacwaters It works very well… if you don’t care that over 30% of your arrests are innocent people, if you don’t have an independent judiciary, and if you can keep people locked up indefinitely without presenting any evidence whatsoever against them. @elonmusk

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

If we permit a great forgetting, we enable and functionally endorse the same behavior in the future. Senator Ron Johnson is one of the only people in federal leadership willing to reject that forgetting. Here is what he has documented, and what the legacy media will not touch. 🧵