Nepotes mei sunt, non erit Americana reliquis


Disney, which used to known for its great Family Movies so wholesome they were actually "hokey" . When I was growing the Sunday night TV ritual (the last night we were allowed to watch TV that was not just the news) We would all gather together after dinner and watch Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, The Wonderful World of Disney. Disney has capitalized on this reservoir of innocent  good will  nostalgia for a generation and half.  Now I look at The Disney Channel, ABC, Disney Movies, even Disney Land  etc. and think what happened. The Happiest place on earth Has become the dark castle housing Corporate Bullies. The carefree innocence of of the wholesome American values had become the enforcer of the New World Values. The place where you could park your kids with the a degree of assurance that they will be safe from malignant  or salacious influences - is not only filling the airwaves with filth, and is propagandizing values expressly counter to your own - but actually will threaten you and your with punitive sanctions if you dare stand up for your values. Since when did Standing up for Christ make you a racist, Since when did expecting your elected representatives to actually represent you make you a homophobe? Since when did simply standing up for the rights enshrined in the constitution make you a bigot? It is not simply Disney BTW it is The NFL,Intel, AMC,Dow, Salesforce, HRC, LiveNation, Starz, 20Century Fox, Sony, The Weinstein Company, Comedy Dynamics, not to mention the celebrity "change warriors" http://fusion.net/story/284140/disney-marvel-nfl-georgia-boycott-anti-gay-bill/

I am assuming that these companies are also threatening to boycott any state which basis a defense of common values I mean antigay bill. I wonder if anyone at these companies actually reads the bill - or maybe they just hate Christ.  They certainly seem to hate Christians. These folks are treating people who simply stand up for their religious beliefs like they treated South Africa under Apartheid.  Forget about Religious beliefs what about simply the right of folks to use gender appropriate bathrooms.! Forget that Religious Freedom is enshrined in the 1st Amendment of the Constitution and the freedom to go potty is not mentioned anywhere, although watch out there is a vacancy on the court.

Let me get this straight, if you have been have a business which has been serving the public for years regardless of the any personal life, lifestyle, race or religion then because of their  religious beliefs cannot provide this service for a specific event then you are a bigot. So if you go to a Kosher deli and ask them to cater a Baptism and they refuse - are they bigots. If you go to a Christian pizzeria, florists, wedding planner and ask to plan, cater, of supply your gay wedding - after they have served you and your partner for years but cannot condone the use of the word wedding - they are bigots and despite the 1st amendment - the full force of state regulatory authority is thrown at you  - without there ever having been a vote !!.

As we all know the US is not traditional nation united by ethnicity, inheritance, religion, race etc we are a people united by law supported by some traditions i.e. Thanksgiving, Forth of July, Jazz and Earth Wind and Fire on Summer afternoon cook outs (EWF is what America sounds like  in the Summer think about it ) The Constitution,  Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, all fruit of a vine whose roots are in Magna Carta but whose seed is Mosaic. This web creates lacework of shared values become spun into Federal, State and Local laws where the tensions between the  jurisdictions are balanced and reconciled by the court system. In the past two generations we have found this balance usurped by  overarching rapaciousness of the regulator. These apparatchiks are now at least (for the left)   buttressed of the media and corporate institutions. Institutions which in the past either were political neutral - which meant they supported both sides or at least sought the path of greater profit by reflecting  the "bourgeois" taste of the vast middle class. There seems to be a sea change  lately instead of supporting traditional Abrahamic  values   there seems to be a push to proselytize  and in the failure of conversion, "Jihadize"   the "silent majority" of Americans into shifting those  values and in some cases abandoning those values.    The cultural Crusade declared on some of the States (all Red States Strangely) by American corporations seems to run directly contrary to why the settlers colonized the US God, Gold,  and Glory seem to have faded into a misogynist, white past.

 The raison d'être of America country now seems  tolerance, acceptance, and diversity not  truth , justice and Freedom  (of the left but not by the left) Diversity (for your protected  classes but not for those who truly dare to be different dare I say normal as for acceptance they accept only that which seems to be novelty even perverse. What was porn is now advertizing, what was was evil has become comedy, and comedy instead of simply being funny must not be made both relevant and banal. Even young people on college campus who one could count on to be counter cultural or at least question the establishment are the shock troops of the new orthodoxy not challenging their professors (the radical lefties) but acting as the thought police and Gestapo of new inquisition . "NO ONE expects the Oberlin Inquisition" all of the aided and abetted by major corporations, significant plutocrats (and Pluto the dog), if a college boy wants to get laid he must 1st admit he is a rapist  (in my day you had to be pronuclear freeze). If you want to participate in Student Government you have to admit the the white slave owning documents i.e. the US constitution is an instrument the patriarchy and must be overthrown then you can vote on the beer bash in the college hall. If your professor even floats the idea that western Civilization may have made a positive contribution to mankind (thats right I said it) he must be silenced F#k tenure. But I digress.

What I fail to understand is the why? Is the Transgender population so large the corporate America is fearfull of the demographic? Does the LGBTQ community command such a large percentage of the market that these corporation will go out of business if they stopped supporting Disney products. Are these cooporations so sure of the passivity of the silent majorty (if it still exsists) that they don't care if thye are offened or is the SM so tired of working two jobs, feed enough propganda that there really has been a cultural shift, or may too brroke to afford the fare offered by these componies, or pay theexorbatened prices for tickit to these venues? Maybe it is all three. DO  the professional corporate change agents  think that  they can thrive by appealing to the part of the market that progressive,  affluent, or at least aspirational and the Bubba's of this world will stay home and just  watch TV which they must get from "US" go to movies which they get from "US", read wait they don't read! Let's just say consume media that they get from "US".  Will they rise up and turn off their TV's?
 We don't think so since they are too stupid to read anything beyond the gossip magazines which are printed by "US". Will "they"  boycott our higher end products? Nope "they" can't afford pay products who can afford a trip to Disney or NFL tickets or Springsteen tick,  and their kids in college? well their income is disposible since the parents, Federal government etc are picking up the tab. Or is there something even more sinister. Do they  really believe what they say about "tolerance etc. and are willing to risk (but not really) alienating the SM in order to stand up for their beliefs?  Is Bob Igor the modern day Pope Clement VII? Well, I doubt that.  I suspect that these states have already been targeted for some other kind of bulling,  after all if today you pass this legislation we will do ....... today.
Tomorrow or perhaps in the fall (could be) if you vote for this candidate we will.............

Disney is opening up a Disney world in China that great bastion of diversity  and tolerance Starz has just lunched a service in Middle East!  StarZ Arabia serving  the Levant including but limited to Saudi Arabia,  that bastion of diversity
 http://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/03/28/report-saudi-authorities-seek-death-penalty-for-coming-out/
The NFL will be expanding to China wonder what the bathroom policy is there ?
http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2016/03/22/nfl-looking-to-play-in-china/
(BTW ESPN owned by Disney)
Im my bar this topic was a non topic it was under the radar of every person in bar. Upon thinking about it most men and all women were upset with the idea of women using men baths but really against men using women's due to the chance of abuse. However the overwhelming response was why is this an issue and why would any corporation much less NFL or Disney! There must be another agenda here one said one we cant figure out. Maybe they are trying to set a public corporate blackmail precedent (I mentioned that earlier). Maybe it's just about marketing the" LBGTQ market may be small but it is wealthy" Disney which for some reason seem to be the recipient of the most venom - (NFL people just went  duh?)  It is well know that Disney was a leader on the replacement  of the American worker by HB1 visas - since they cant export their jobs  Disney choose the replace American workers with foreign guest workers (indentured servants was a term which came to mind).
So what has prompted  these threats no one is really sure but we are sure the Disney is an expert on taking away jobs for Americans

One last thought it was whispered to me Sister Lucy of Fatima fame reported that she was told by The Virgin That the final battle for the souls of mankind will be the battle of the Family. Just something to think about"say your prayers and fast"

Nam duos pullos candidum sedentem loqu

Lena Dunhamization of the Republican campaign
Trump, White Woman Privilege, and the grab.


It took a while for me to get on the Trump Train. As a NY I could not be violently anti-Trump but like many others thought he might be perceived outside of the Tri-state area as a Vulgarian. I recall the NY  "Pearl Clutchers" was appalled by what he did to the beautiful Bonwitt Tellers statues all those years ago. The public nature of the crumbling of his 1st marriage,  the  2nd wife lined up and ready to replace Ivanna as too Ann Boleyn "esque"  for most bourgeois sensibilities. From my perspective, yes they were nice statues but there were his to do with whatever he wants. His marriage was his business and my not be the way I would wish to conduct my business, but  I saw what he was doing for the City when the Federal Government was saying “Drop Dead”, When "the proud the privileged and the Protestant” were abandoning the City and moving to the burbs, when The City was so broke and mismanaged that it could not even get a skating rink opened - how Hard could that be?  

DT to the City’s rescue. His over the topness was in many ways what we all had to be to keep NYC from going the way Detroit or Newark, Rochester, etc just when you think Iy cannot happen to your home town, look at Bridgeport, or Hartford. It took the larger than life to respond to “drop dead"?!  With "You talking to me!  FK YOU “  Then proceed to re-build the City with FU attitude. This attitude may get lost in translation west of Philly.  Today Americans are so angry I think many do  “get it “  It  took someone from one the most PC Places in the world, suffering under the increasing yoke  of Federal overreach, State government intolerance, and Local Government Authoritarianism  increasingly morphing in totalitarianism (buy a lightbulb lately) to say we can’t take this crap anymore and someone should at least try to stop it! Maybe it's too late or maybe it's our last chance. The Country may be able to survive more of the same milquetoast,  government, as usual,  Bushys, Rubio’s, Canters, Grahams et all.  They have ruined the country or at least tried to.  The same old,  same old is how we got here - then they voted for the Obama Budget and No became "hell to the Muthafuckin” No"!  

 In Donald Trump, we seemed to have found an American who is as angry as we are, and powerful enough to not afraid to show it.  Trump would now play a part in restoring the Country like he helped restore the City  But this time as a leader of a movement not simply as a smart businessman who loved his home town.  More and more Americans seem to  be getting it,  until last week when the forces of the Conservative Chattering Classes (CCC) and the Party of Baby Killers, and  what Carly Fiorina called the Professional Political Class (TPPC) all seem to coalesce in the stop Trump movement 
Originally I was a Carly fan. Like most men who came of age in the 1980’s I look for Ronald Regan in every Male politician and Lady Thatcher  in every Female conservative politician (although my version of Lady Thatcher is pro-life) In Carly F.  I thought we had a profile American Lady T who could take on and politically “Bitch slap” Hillary Clinton - lets face it  what man doesn't  like a good catfight. Alas, that was not to be and as I watched the debates unfold I remembered DT can make American Great again because he was instrumental in making NYC Great Again both physically in buildings and mentally with attitude - and the USA  needs both. This country has lost more than its jobs, it's manufacturing base, etc it has lost its swagger We no longer think of ourselves as  the  Big Swinging Dicks of the world (odd with a Black President)  but as a people who need "safe spaces, Instead fighting evil we object to "micro-aggressions", seek safe spaces instead of challenges.  WTF does all of this have to do with Michelle Fields and Corey Lewandowski?   

Let's start with her original accusation or let's go to the videotape 
In her original Accusation, Ms. Fields accused CL of grabbing her so hard she "nearly fell to the ground and that he...... left her "wrists bruised". When one looks at the Videotape please show how he grabbed her so hard so as to cause bruising? Could the bruises have been caused by  Secret Service agents who grabbed her wrists prior to  CL's intervention? Yes yes CL did state he did not know her and he never touched her How many men when faced with an accusation from a woman first instinct is to say "Hey I nevah touched Huh" Plus even if he did know her or know of her what a better to show his contempt for her by stating he does not even know who she is?  Is this a possible source of the pearl-clutching on the part of the PriWWE's (Privileged White Woman Establishment) That a man who touched her doesn't remember her name?

Battery comes on,  what an insult to all of the real battered women in our society who cannot run to the soft embrace of the Chattering Classes. Off course now that Slate, Ben Shapiro, Beck, Michael Steles, Mitt Romney, Lesley Grahams,  National Review, AKA Anyone  but Trump  crowd have come out of their Hillary's may - not -  be  - so -  bad - closets, and try to either resuscitate Jeb or replace democracy or Replay the great white hope Romney perhaps even the Abs for President Ryan (getting him the job of a speaker for life was not enough) all who could not win their own home States are expected to bring it home for GOP. If you really think they ARE GOING TO SUPPORT CRUZ?  "I gotta bridge to sell ya"
but I digress

The DT campaign released the videotape why would have done that if it does not prove the veracity of the CL point of view? With the Tap, we can all see what Happened. And what did Happen, I saw a reporter hell-bent on getting her story  completely ignoring the security bubble which surrounds a presidential candidate who had had numerous public death treats coming, a man whose physical person  the SS has had to be protected from agent provocateurs, one who rushed a podium  Yet his fellow Republicans who can't stop calling in to question DT loyalty use this opportunity to attack him for WHTA loyalty to his employee who looks as though he was at the most being vigorous in protecting the physical safety of his Candidate!     BTW did it look as though she almost fell? 

The reaction of the entire political establishment of this country - which I expected to be dismissive of the event as a non event was to explode indignation  "How dare he, this is the end of Trump,  He needs to disavow, This is assault,"I expected that from the Lame Street Press, The White House, Hillary Clinton's campaign - with their "strong pro-woman positions, (as long as they are not pre-born) even the "fair and Balanced channel seems neither! It was as if DT had " Knocked the woman  to the ground,  boiled, stuffed and eaten her children" But the fact that fellow Republicans  if out of nothing but self-interest should  have used this as a unity building opportunity but instead they will try to leverage this as an attempt StOP Trump, like they can. 


But what did we get? The turning of a non-event into yet another battle in the so-called war on women with DT who employees women in very senior positions and pays them the same as men (Obama's White House call your service) The shadiness of Cruz and Kasich I understand politics is a blood sport but DAYUM. This was Real Housewives degree of shade Atlanta style (especially Cruz).  Kasich at least admitted he did not know exactly what happened but then preceded to serve up tea without any sugar. They would not even give Corey Lewandowski (CL) the benefit of the doubt, they threw out the constitutional presumption of innocence and had Corey Lewandowski fired, disgraced, and convicted without so much of an if, alleged, or hypothetical! Was it the ambition of their part I suspect it was more than ambition CL has been an excellent campaign manager for DT his loss would affect the campaign. More than ambition it was contempt. 

 Contempt for DT for daring to enter the race and beat them at their own game. Contempt for the American people voting for DT To think an economy of underemployment, low wages, overregulation, bad trade deals, corruption, incompetence, executive overreach, and managed decline are not resisted or opposed but explained away leveraged for talking points and in the end  passed, funded, and in some cases embraced by what is supposed to be the opposition. These guys sound more the opposing party than confreres, enemies than rivals, schoolgirls rather than statesmen.  When Cruz's campaign was accused of shenanigans in Iowa he blamed the Media yet when DT's man is accused of wrongdoing,  produces the Media! Yet gets called out for "doubling down". DT did what any man should do, what our fathers taught us to when your friend is accused of something and says he did not do it believe him support him, have his back until proven otherwise. Abandoning your friends when they need you if DT would be willing to cut CL lose on the accusation of a serial accuser such as Michelle Fields, with inconclusive evidence, charged by a sheriffs department that is known to be politically biased in one of the most politically corrupt States in the Union.  Do I want a President who abandons his friends then tries to positively spin said abandonment?  I thought about a President who allows our marines to be captured and humiliated when they out gun their adversary then spins the humiliation into a foreign policy victory, thanking the kidnappers!
From the way, Cruz and Kasich reacted I thought Carl Lewandowski might have been Black - I knew Michelle Fields could only be White.

Yeah, I thought Carl Lewandowski might be Black or a member of the Duke Lacrosse team, maybe a frat member at UV I was so sure without ever seeing a picture of her that Michelle Fields had to be white. Why do I say that the vehemence with which most the women of the press reacted to her story? How many of them reached for the no man should physically touch any woman troupe, how despite the evidence of their own eyes that this woman was not assaulted. Carl dared state he doesn't remember her, or that he did not do it - now states that he does not remember the incident The professionally outrages are willing dismiss not only the evidence of their eyes but the memory of their own experience. If any of them were ever in the "press middle to upper-middle-class White Woman is the receipt from wombs (if their mothers let them live) to the tomb of the greatest amount of privilege this society can bestow.   Middle to Upper-middle-class white women are the greatest beneficiary of Affirmative Action, Title 9 (which has hallowed out whole sections of college sports in a quest for parity between the sports people watch and the sports we don't. How many male sports reporters are allowed into female locker rooms? You insist on being treated like men but when you are, you cry out for preferment. A seat at the table, perpetuate a  myth of unequal pay, accuse us of being the gender of rapist and misogynist, but when we actually treat you like we treat each other than its time to scream manhandled. If Michelle's name was Micheal, would he be this week's cause celebre?  Would this even be news?  I listened to various chat shows several of which are either all or mostly women as hosts and guests and with rare exception (usually from only the woman of color on the panel) would come to the thought the scrum is a really tough place to be,  a physical place, we can expect some degree of jostling and grabbing as we compete to question the candidate. Seriously if Miss Thang is such a delicate flower what is she doing in the rough and tumble world of political reporting maybe she should be a fashion reporter?  Perhaps she should work for Rolling Stone, or just carry a mattress with her to every venue as a trigger warning.   BTW notice how all of this talk has ended after the Wisconsin Primary, Maybe the Establishment should try to get  Michelle to wear higher heels and try to grab DT' s wrist before the NY Primary. 

What Are we going to do with Uncle Arthur ?

I have been watching (reading) this post with great interest but with the resolve not to say anything - since THF's liberal pronouncements are like the Presidents, or some Holywood airheads so banal that I am passed shock, and outrage to simply bored due to their predictability. One can almost with the certainty of figuring who the murderer is in an episode of Law and Order predict their pronouncements, opinions etc on any issue of the day! I suppose that rings true for me too, since if I can't understand something I will simply be opposed to it! Ask my son - "I don't what you are asking me boy so the answer in No"

But off course I could not stay silent on this one. Quelle Suprise! But I find I am in complete agreement with Patrick - So-Called Catholic  Fundamentalists  are dangerous. They (CF's) are in the same theological league as Evangelical Prots, High Church Anglicans and fundamentalist of all ilk. They think that the revealed truth of God manifests through their ill-formed intellect corrupted by vanity,  combined poorly formed conscience leads to theological revelation which is superior to the deposit of Faith left to mankind by Our Lord and the Apostles "whilst they lived and walked amongst us" and in the fashion of Henry the Tyrant and Elizabeth the Bastard have usurped the brick and mortar church in order to institutionalize Error, Heresy, Schism not to mention Lust, Vanity, and Megalomania. The Bugninist (love that term we should all use it) have established like a parasite in the Body of Christ new liturgy, theology, sacraments, and are now attempting to doctrine all in the name of a "living church" (or "living constitution" for that matter) but actually biblical simplicity but really they are fundamentalists fanatics as crazed and power driven as a Chick comic, IVY League admission, lutheran parson, Rospeierre revolutionary, BLM/ ISIS terrorist - and if you think these things are not the same each one seeks to either re-right the truth of history, i.e. BCE/CE vs. BC/AD right down to pulling down flags monuments, and/or historical churches etc. They harness Fundamentalism/Bugniniism onto the coaches of the Prices of this world as effectively as a Bolshevik, Euro-Parliamentarian/eurocrat, or member of the Present occupant of the WhiteHouse, (or holder of the Speakers Gavel , of Senate Majority chair for that matter) Each of these are so convinced in their the fundamental righteousness of the cause that they are willing to jeopardize nation security (army purges through open borders) impoverish their nation (five year plans Obama Care, the last federal budget, Eurozone) even change the demographics of the nation (Angela Merkel, BHO call your service Stalin's colonial policy in Central Asia have a Blueprint for yah)All in the name of Fundamental transformation based on their "Catholic Fundamentalism" or Bugninism. At the risk of sounding like a broken record name one modern problem in the Western world (or at least the English-speaking world) that cannot be traced back  to either The Lambeth Conference (kindling) and V2? (OK OK V2ers the spirit of V2 which I think is Kaspar the friendly ghost cause it ain't da Holy Ghost try it I dare you?

Cut  Joe Fedulska some slack will ya - he is so right the other thing I am trying to refrain myself from doing is shooting from the hip regarding THF and his wacky press statements. One because like I said before I am so bored by their wackiness I'm never really sure if they're true. Francis is not JP2 - nor- Benedict XVI yes, yes he is smart, but he does not seem to be gifted with the ability to clearly and distinctly convey intricate thoughts to a mass audience over the heads of the meddlesome press. He does not have their gift of language, nor does he seem to have their raw gray matter. I'm not saying he is stupid He is not but he had different gifts and not being blessed with their gifts he should  refrain from speaking to the press always. We know they lie, parse words, rearrange stories, (edit Is what they call I suppose) all to achieve their ends - king James anyone? By the time the Vatican has gotten its act together to clarify, denounce retract, the damage is done the Bugninist have their quote, their soundbite, mistranslation, affirmation. This is not to say THF does not share some  culpability - he is not stupid - he know what they are about but is either playing "with them" of with them either way I think he is out of his league since he is playing their game. 

Let me end by saying I am not a good man I have never been will probably never be I am bad and "shall be bad again, but the worse I get the more I need God" so pray for me I claim to Love God, Our Lady, The Church and the Saints etc but I live like a pagan and the things I crave are generally the things which are neither Godly nor goodly. but there is Grace the thing I desire the most when I am alone in the dark is Salvation not simply (this occurred to me last night) to avoid Hell but o be in Heaven that is progress? No or is it vanity _ thank the Boys in the Trad Men's group for pushing me (we push each other) to say our Rosary every day even if you cheat (like I did today and did not say three decades but just the one  to fulfill my Living Rosary obligations) Why am I sharing my private self  with you strangers really. How many of us are anxious about  saying the Rosary because of the Prayers for The Pope at the end? I really don't want to Pray for Him, but I know that I must as a son must pray for his father and a subject for his Prince. Even if the Prince is a tyrant.

Beyond the brick and mortar, this is the Church The Church I am sure Patrick is talking about, The Church I know  THF  cannot change as much as he may want to not the Fundamentalist Bugninist, the true Living Body of Christ of which each of us is a member and well you know the rest. So if it comes down to it let them have the buildings, the infrastructure, the G&P songbook, the NO, Let them keep the New Coke as the business collapses around them and they go into receivership. Let Us Keep the Faith with all that it implies Let us remain the leaven in our societies even as they dry to retard our growth, let us take this new year to shout out "UNAM SANCTUM CATHOLICUM" then let them dare to do their worse. 

BTW I am not nearly as brave as I write