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Pope Francis: No 'Faggotry' In Priesthood

The main thing the world wants from the Christian churches is to change their teaching on sex and sexuality. And that’s the main thing that liberals within every church want. Philip Rieff, that atheist Jew, understood that back in the 1960s. He saw even then that the Sexual Revolution was going to be the death of Christianity as a strong social force in the West. Why? Because, the sociologist said, “the rejection of sexual individualism” in the Greco-Roman world was “very near the center of the symbolic that has not held.” In Rieff’s particular language, the “symbolic” was the system of meaning within a religion. He said that an attempt to maintain the outward appearance of a religion while abandoning the restraints imposed by its dogma was bound to fail. You cannot have a permissive Christianity, and still have Christianity, said Rieff (who, again, was not a believer, but a sociologist and cultural critic). It’s not that Christianity was against sex and sexuality, but rather that its understanding of what sex is, and what sex is for, is contrary to the way the Roman pagans saw it.

You don’t have to accept Christian sexual morality, of course — but as Rieff saw it, and as I see it, to accept Christianity without also accepting the way Christianity sees the body and sexuality — or to attempt to reform Christianity to make it affirm what it once denied … well, that cannot work. It’s like trying to radically rewrite the rules of football, and say that it’s still football. Traditions — any tradition, sacred or profane — are not infinitely elastic. Borders matter.

Anyway, I’m quite sure that gay and progressive Catholics are dismayed by Francis’s language here, and perhaps even his instruction to keep gays out of the priesthood. They should relax. Papa Bergoglio has done a great deal to advance their cause. The large number of pro-gay progressive bishops he has appointed, his coddling of sexual revolutionaries Father James Martin and Sister Jeannine Gramick, his meeting with transgenders and constant insulting of traditionalists, and more — all of these things are certainly worth an elderly Latino gent saying frociaggine.

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Rod Dreher.

Eesh. Seems about right to me, but a lot of it, frankly, I can't bear to think about.

Battle of Okinawa | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

The 77th Infantry Division begins a five-day offensive on Ie Shima on April 16 and American forces are successful by April 21. During this fight, Ernie Pyle is killed by a Japanese machinegun burst on Ie Shima. The 307th Infantry Regiment moved into the line on Okinawa on April 29, on the top of the Maeda Escarpment known as Hacksaw Ridge. Conscientious objector, Army Medic Desmond Doss, selflessly attends to wounded men while unarmed. For his actions, Doss becomes the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

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My Dad was in the 77th Infantry Division in the Battle of Okinawa. He was awarded the Bronze Star, along with thousands of others who fought in the battle, living and dead. He didn't talk about it much. We didn't even learn he had gotten the medal until we got his service record for his funeral. He was a stickler about Memorial Day however. He especially remembered his CO and some of his men who were gravely wounded or killed when his artillery battery was blown up. The 77th was paid the ultimate compliment by the Marines, who sometimes referred to them as the "77th Marines." A compliment you can only earn the hard way.

Rattlesnakes in San Diego County | cbs8.com

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Rattlesnake sightings are on the rise across San Diego County.

With summer around the corner, new county data is revealing which areas saw the most sightings within the last five years.

The top areas with snake sightings in San Diego County area are El Cajon, Spring Valley, Fallbrook, Escondido and San Diego.

Here's a breakdown of the numbers: 

1. El Cajon — 190
2. Spring Valley — 164
3. Fallbrook — 160
4. Escondido — 132
5. San Diego — 99
6. Lakeside — 96
7. Jamul — 73
8. Vista — 64
9. Ramona — 57
10. Rancho Santa Fe — 54

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There are more snakes now because the winter was so wet, which feeds the baby bunny rabbits, which get eaten by the rattlers. It's the circle of life. We came across a big rattler the other day walking the dog. It buzzed at us then crawled away, outraged.

No Deal: W.H.O. Fails to Secure Global Pandemic Treaty

AP reports Roland Driece, co-chair of W.H.O.’s negotiating board for the agreement, acknowledged countries were unable to deliver an agreed proposal. W.H.O. had hoped a final draft treaty could be agreed on at its yearly meeting of health ministers starting Monday in Geneva.

“We are not where we hoped we would be when we started this process,” he said, adding that finalizing an international agreement on how to respond to a pandemic was critical “for the sake of humanity” even as a host of countries disagreed with the basic principle that unelected, unaccountable, health bureaucrats could somehow decide major global decisions on government policies.

Earlier this month, U.S. Republican senators wrote to the Biden administration, arguing the draft treaty focused on issues like “shredding intellectual property rights” and “supercharging the WHO.” They urged Biden not to sign off.

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Good.

Australians Abandon Physical Cash and the Freedom It Protects

The end of cash has been heralded for years—mostly by government officials eager to end the expense of minting coins and printing banknotes while pushing transactions to digital forms that can be tracked and taxed. The transformation has met varying degrees of acceptance or resistance from people around the globe. But Australians appear to be eagerly advancing down the road towards a cash-free world.

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Australia and Canada are leading the way into the prison camp.

This Memorial Day, Remember The Fallen, Like This Farm Boy

Please join me on Memorial Day in remembering Garney Burleson, and all the other members of our armed forces who perished in the service of our nation, whose sacrifice we remember and honor this Memorial Day.

This is the note the platoon leader left for Garney.

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John Lucas

Namas-don’t: Yoga instructors meeting with San Diego mayor’s office canceled – NBC 7 San Diego

The city said the yoga classes are commercial activities because, although they’re free, donations are accepted and their services advertised. That's why it's now requiring yoga instructors to get permits to operate.

According to the city, permits are only granted for Mission Bay or Balboa Park, not for beachfront parks. In  a statement provided to NBC 7 last week, the city said the changes are “in place to ensure the public spaces remain safe and accessible to all the users at all times.”

Ben Hukill has participated in the Sunset Cliffs yoga classes.

“I understand why they did it," Hukill said. "It’s a public space. It is. I guess I’m going to miss it a little bit, but I get it. I understand you have to lay the law down at some point."

Yoga instructors said they're asking the city to grant them permits.

NBC 7 spoke with several yoga instructors who said, as of right now, many of them are not planning on teaching yoga along beachfront locations. The instructors said they have a peaceful protest and beach clean-up scheduled for next weekend.

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The city is correct. Activities can be commercial even though they're free. And, are these yoga people getting a permit for their beach clean-up? Shut. them. down! Stand up to Big Yoga!

How San Diego's vendor crackdown led to beach yoga crackdown - The San Diego Union-Tribune

City officials say they became aware during that analysis that a large number of businesses and organizations were using city parks and beaches for commercial activities, limiting public access and making it harder for lifeguards to keep the beaches safe.

“You saw a massive surge during the pandemic,” said Kohta Zaiser, Gloria’s City Council affairs adviser. “When you shine a closer light on things and realize these are much bigger organizations and companies and groups, where it’s becoming a problem that is actually impeding access, that’s when the city needs to step in.”

The City Council approved amendments to the vendor law in February that seemed to solve the free speech controversy — but those amendments only generated a new controversy over the status of yoga and other organized activities on public property.

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Yoga is a big diabolical plot you know.

Stand up to Big Yoga!

Out: Florida Man. In: Florida ... Priest? – HotAir

This smells like a set-up by political activists. It's very clear that the woman has very little understanding of the Eucharist. For one thing, Catholics do not refer to it as a "cookie," as this woman does in the video. It is a wafer which has been transubstantiated into the literal Body of Christ during the Mass. More importantly, Catholics do not take the wafers out of the ciborium (the bowl) during communion. The priest (or lay eucharistic ministers) place the wafer either on the tongue or in the hand of those receiving the Eucharist. Those receiving the Eucharist respond with "Amen," and must consume it immediately before walking back to the pew. 

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Catechesis among Catholics may be poor of late, but every Catholic who has gone through First Communion has been instructed on that much. If they attend Mass at all, they can certainly observe these norms. Priests have a holy obligation to preserve and protect the Eucharist and ensure it is handled and consumed in a reverent manner, because it is the body of our Lord and Savior. So when a strange woman comes up and tries to grab the ciborium, the priest will fight to protect it. That is why the diocese is defending the priest in this instance, as Fox notes, because he had a duty to prevent the desecration of the Eucharist -- which is clearly what the woman intended.

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‘Biden didn't come to the Bronx’: Trump makes a foray into Democratic turf - POLITICO

BRONX, New York — Donald Trump made a direct appeal to Black and Hispanic voters in one of the bluest parts of the country on Thursday, boasting he could expand the electoral map into traditionally Democratic strongholds.

Speaking to a raucous crowd in the South Bronx, the former president claimed he would win his home state of New York, a state that hasn’t gone for a Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan 44 years ago.

“Who said we’re not going to win New York?” Trump said. “We’re going to win New York.”

For Trump, it was the latest foray into Democratic turf, including in states he’s unlikely to win like New Jersey, where he held a rally earlier in May. His top campaign advisers and pollster told donors recently they believe they have the potential to expand the electoral map to Virginia and Minnesota in November. Trump came within 2 points of winning Minnesota in 2016 but lost the state by 7 points four years later.

The inroads Trump is seeking to make with young voters and people of color could help him tremendously in swing states. And the former president on Thursday claimed that illegal immigration is specifically harming minorities — an apparent attempt to drive a wedge between communities in a city that has absorbed thousands of recent migrants.

via www.politico.com