She lies and lies and lies . . . boldly, without blinking, time and time again . . . about things that are easily found to be lies. Amazing.

In the debate Wednesday night, Kamala Harris stated, “The American people know that Joe Biden will not ban fracking. That is a fact.” But Biden and Harris have both repeatedly expressed support for getting rid of fracking. Biden has said that there would be “no” place in his administration for fossil fuels in his administration and he would make sure they are “eliminated” (Twitter). Biden also is on video saying, “I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuels” (Twitter). Harris, on the other hand, said during a CNN town hall that, “there’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking” (Twitter). From the Federalist: She also lied frequently, and perhaps in ways that were…

Dirty pool.

I’m shocked that the Debate Commission didn’t even consult with President Trump’s campaign before making this radical change. I mean, they consult with the campaigns when they talk about the height of the podiums, Hugh, and the size of the notepads that will be on the podiums.

I think it’s just another example of the Washington establishment, whether it’s Republican or Democrat, wrapping their arms around Joe Biden and trying to put him in a protective cocoon all the way to November 3rd.

So I think the President is right not to simply accept this unilateral decision by the Debate Commission. Look, we have another week to this debate. The President could have multiple negative tests for the virus by then. Additional precautions could be taken. They could move it back a day or two if necessary.

But to make this decision without any consulting with Donald Trump

St. John Newman by name . . . and his books.

Everybody has their favourite Newman book. I love the wickedly satirical Loss and Gain with its portrait of 1840s Oxford … and his Development of Christian Doctrine. His sermon about the Second Spring still gets the tears pricking behind my eyes. And his Grammar of Assent seems to me to anticipate the insights towards which some philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century so laboriously trudged.

And his analysis of the Syllabus Errorum meticulously, ‘surgically’, analyses the magisterial status of that document and of every paragraph within it. Rarely read now, it is a superb example of S John Henry’s fierce conviction of the necessity of obedience towards the Successor of S Peter, combined with a cold and almost rationalist approach to exercises of the papal magisterium.

And Newman was a pastor; witness the care he took…

The Catholic fleet won the day against all odds. Calling up the Chesterton poem about the battle.

Chesterton reminds his readers that the Turkish galleys at Lepanto had Christian slaves labouring deep within them, each witless in his quiet room in hell / Where a yellow face looks inward through the lattice of his cell, / And he finds his God forgotten, and he seeks no more a sign. But as we take up the joyful story …

… Don John of Austria has burst the battle line!
Don John pounding from the slaughter-painted poop,
Purpling all the ocean like a bloody pirate’s sloop,
Scarlet running over on the silvers and the golds,
Breaking of the hatches up and bursting of the holds,
Thronging of the thousands up that labour under sea
White for the bliss and blind for sun and stunned for liberty.
Vivat Hispania!
Domino Gloria!
Don…

This virus was very selective:

The virus appears to have targeted Republicans only and left Democrats unscathed. Democrats are trying to characterize this as a Rose Garden or debate super-spreader — even though plenty of Democrats and Biden-supporters were at the debate and likely interacted with Republicans after the Amy Coney Barrett ceremony. They argue that, as avid wearers of the mask, they are shielded from Republicans bearing COVID. But if masks were ironclad, we’d all be immune. People can still contract the disease in spite of masks, hand-washing, and social distancing — which are only preventive measures that minimize risk. It is odd that in a town as small as Washington, D.C., only Republicans took the hit.

Yes.

Behind closed doors,
In the silky watery feel of deep darkness,
Evil lurks.

Under every scrutiny,
In a light brighter than a thousand suns,
Good sleeps.

Evil steps out into the streets
Dressed in its cloak of secrecy,
On a mission to steal and destroy.

Good hearing the cries of those
Under the machinations of evil,
Awakens and sets out on a journey of liberation.

In between worlds, in between feelings
Good and evil meet
Like a thunderstorm.

The darkness tries to absorb the light.
The light tries to dispel the darkness;
Hence the struggle between heaven and hell.

Vigano is down on the Jesuits.

Seeking to find any coherence of the recent action of the Society of Jesus with the original intentions of Saint Ignatius of Loyola is an arduous if not impossible task, to the point that in hindsight one considers the reconstitution of the Order in 1814 after its suppression by Clement XIV in 1773 to have been ill-advised. [!]

It is not surprising that, in the process of dissolution and self-demolition to which the entire ecclesial body is subjected, the contribution of the Jesuits has been – and still remains – decisive. It is no coincidence that since 2013 even the highest throne has been occupied by a Jesuit, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, even though this is in violation of the Ignatian Rule that forbids members of the Society of Jesus to take up positions in the hierarchy.

An all-systems-go condemnation.

Italy “a testing ground”…

An economist suggests an appropriate, not inappropriate, response.

A Curveball Isn’t an Existential Threat

Donald J. Boudreaux

– October 5, 2020

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