Who's worse?

Carnegie Mellon University Files Charges Against Half-Naked Pope Parody Student:

The bloviating language is suffocating.

The bishop buys the same crapola:

freedom of speech and freedom of expression do not constitute a freedom to dismiss or disrespect the beauty of anyone’s race, the sacredness of anyone’s religious belief or the uniqueness of anyone’s nationality. 

Dialogue, disagreements and even demonstrations must be conducted in an atmosphere of decency, self-respect, and esteem for the community in which we live and those who live in it.

I am choking in beauty, sacredness, uniqueness, decency, self-respect and esteem.

Air...supply........low.......

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More gayness

Asking the Boy Scout questions that matter the most:

If you know anything about the politics of gay rights, you know that there is absolutely nothing that the Boy Scouts of American can do right now that will not lead to major divisions in their organization. The key force that will cause a future split is, of course, the deep divide among mainstream religious groups on the moral status of homosexual behavior. 

There is no safe ground for the Boy Scouts, none whatsoever.

Having set about splitting and destroying several Protestant Churches, the LGBTs will now take on the Boy Scouts.

All, for, how many people?

Minority mania, one of the many symptoms of US and Western decline.


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One more reason

to deport their asses. Lower IQs that persist over generations. Making America stupider. To say nothing of accelerating our Third World status and cost tens of trillions of dollars.

IQ and Immigration Policy - Jason Richwine:





(Mr Richwine is now under attack from the Gang of Eight, who want to finalize the nail in America's coffin, a coffin largely constructed by Edward Kennedy and his 1964 Immigration Act. And helped along by Ronald Reagan's "one time only" amnesty. His own Heritage Foundation, it seems, is now running for cover. )

I have a poetic name for the deportation effort, Operation Ferdinand and Isabella, in honor of the Spanish monarchs who finally drove the Muslims out of Spain --after a 700 year war-- and then deported anyone who had supported them. (The "be baptized or be deported" idea, though, was a very bad idea for everyone concerned.)

Ex Cathedra not feeling very moderate about this today.

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On waking, thoughts

Had an unpleasant dream last night, sort of a long series of historical snapshots about genocide. The point was that it's as natural as sunrise. And if your people aren't feared, you'll be erased. That's the law.

Could it be that prosperity, combined with the absence of a commonly understood external enemy, is destructive to human societies? That peace is a problem?

Every human society exhibits corruption. (Some would use Ex Cathedra as an example.) But when a society allows vast wealth and huge public celebrity --without opprobrium-- to a Kanye West and his Kardashian baby mama, you have to wonder if the bottom has fallen out.

One virtue of Gnosticism, and of classical Christianity, is that it holds high ideals but does not expect the mass of men to live that way. Gnostics divided themselves into the adepts, who were wholly devoted to the religion by withdrawing from the world, and the learners, who adapted what they could in their workaday world. Buddhism and Hinduism have a similar strategy. Catholicism and Orthodoxy long divided reality into what was Caesar's and what was God's. Monasticism and the priesthood was held in high esteem as ways of perfection, but the life of ordinary people in the world was less stringent because ordinary life is a messy business. There was a recognition of the limits of real life.

With the liberal-democratic reduction of the sacred after Vatican II, we now have the universal call to holiness and the attempt to enact the Sermon on the Mount into law. What this has turned out to mean, for example, is that American nuns have become an arm of the Democratic party, Jesuits warnus not to be happy that Osama bin Laden is dead, and bishops lecture Paul Ryan on how to make a budget. Plus, every feminist harridan with baptismal certificate tells the Church of Rome What Jesus Would Do.

Time for coffee.
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Old factory pleasures

The aroma of the first puff on a cigarette*, vanilla in the bottle, and ...toasted sesame oil.

Now that's my idea of multiculturalism.

Sliced pork, with salt and pepper, slathered with the toasty elixir. Tastes great. (Great on shrimp, too.) And the smell...damn. It almost solidifies in your nose.

Yum.
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*Since I don't smoke cigarettes, someone else's. After that first puff, the smell changes. Like the smell of the first snowfall of the year.

Starting at the top

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. 

Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.                 

- Thomas de Quincey, in "Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" 

A grim conservative moralist quoted these words in perfect seriousness. What little I know of Mr. de Quincey leads me to suspect that his tongue and his cheek were close friends.

But I, Ex Cathedra, have proceeded directly to the final degrading vice, my worst, procrastination, without ever having once taken anyone's life. (If we discount Jesus' doctrine of wishing it makes it so.) If you discount the occasional unreturned book, no robber I. As for drinking and Sabbath-breaking, I must plead guilty. But incivility? Never.

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Another good excerpt from Mr de Q's letter to a friend:

I was also to tell you that (Papa) agreed with you too in your detestation of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ but I told him you had not said you detested it, but that it was painful to read, upon which he withdrew his message but cherishes a hope that, if ever you do read it, you will detest it…

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The eternal verities

are comforting in times of stress.

Free advice

Jewish group warns of strengthening neo-Nazi parties in Europe, especially in Greece, Hungary | Fox News:

An international Jewish group goes to a European country and, while telling the native governments which of their native people they should ban, remains silent about the biggest sources of Jew-hatred in Europe: Islam, and the EuroLeft's vilification of Israel.

Since everyone loves being lectured by foreigners, this should not provoke any resentment at all.

I thought these guys were supposed to be smart.


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Long term propaganda

Catching an episode of a 1996 sci-fi series, we have a mixed male-female Marine Corps, where the boys and girls are equally tuff and go through boot camp together...even way back then.

To further add to the fiction, a platoon of young Marines, properly race and gender mixed, is sent on a war mission without a superior officer. Guess who assumes the role by force of character? One of the women. (And the moody, pouty, pretty, lovesick puppy-boy character needs to be shot.)

1997's Starship Troopers had a similar ultra PC Phallic-Female fantasy, but at least it had Casper Van Dien

and some savvy non-egalitarian politics.*


*The writer and director may be mushy Hollywood lefties, but the fact that so many people "missed" the satire on war suggests that a good story outran their intentions.
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Ex Cathedra, moderate at heart

Ex Cathedra loves San Francisco's moderate average temperatures

That little Niall Ferguson dust-up reminded me that most of the reasons I left liberalism behind for conservatism a dozen years ago and then have felt driven into rank reaction is that I am essentially a moderate.

Huh?

Take the two extremes I mentioned. The pre-Stonewall attitude toward homosexuality and the current one. We go from The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name to Anyone Who Does Not Love Us Had Better Not Dare Speak. I think they are both nuts and worse, lacking in a sense of reality and balance (a rare and temporary condition at the best of times.)

[Combine this with Catholicism and it ain't pretty. On the one hand we have the tiny and cramped world of orthodox Catholic gay martyrs trying to restrain their disordered inclinations and still salvage their shredded self-respect (good luck with that) and on the other, the delusional gay Catholic liberals who expect Rome to ok gay marriage...and every other item on the leftwing sex and society menu.]

Or take the race question. Although watching the disasters that accompany Black ascendancy (anywhere in the world) has made me sympathetic to attitudes of an earlier and benighted time, I certainly didn't start out that way. On the contrary. Again, I would have preferred --and actually imagined for many years-- that the legal strictures be removed from these people so they could get on with their lives, that individuals be judged by the content of their character rather than just skin color. And that's that. Instead we have the reversal and replacement narrative of Liberalism, where, despite their empirical behavior, Blacks are owed unlimited license and deference* and Whites, eternally guilty, are required to like it.

I guess I see the Liberal Ascendancy in all its forms as a kind of cancer, a set of natural cells which only became evil and life-threatening by losing all sense of proportion and limit.  Every element in the Liberal agenda is either a half-truth ramped up into an absolutist ideology or a benign idea gone rogue and metastacized into madness. It cannot say, OK we've achieved our goal, let's have lunch.

Its language is full of slogans, not about improving or managing but "ending" a problem. Its search for new "problems", though, is endless. Zero Tolerance is its paradigm of a "solution" and its eventual approach to everything. What starts out as a plea for tolerance of difference becomes the intolerant imposition of acceptance.  It's like the bus in the 1994 flick Speed: if it stops, it self-destructs.

What's pushed me farther to the Right is the relentlessness of the Left.

Cancer is suicidal. It seals its own death warrant by eventually killing the organism by which it lives. Once you see that happening, it's hard to stay moderate. Or even conservative.
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*One example: if a White Republican president, in a time of national economic crash and crisis, were to spend as much time and money on playing basketball and golf, going on foreign vacations and hosting lavish parties --or going around bowing down to foreign rulers like some Negro house servant--as Obama and Wife, can you imagine that the media would not be on a 24/7 moral meltdown?