​Show us what you know, DNC.​

Last night we asked a very simple question about why the DNC has failed to cooperate with Russia investigators by handing over their infamous email server to either the FBI or Robert Mueller’s team (see: DNC Server: Most Critical Evidence To Proving “Russian Hacking” Is Being Withheld From Mueller, Why?). After​ ​
all, if Russia did “hack the election”, as we’ve been told 24/7 by CNN going on 8 months now, then the evidence could very well be on that server. Which prompted us to ask this very simple question:

​Just think. Bliss is an evidence providing away.​

All of which brings us back to our original question: If the DNC is in possession of actual tangible evidence that could prove once and for all that Russians hacked their servers and attempted to undermine the campaign of Hillary Clinton, why not share that evidence with investigators and enjoy the blissful vindication that its public release would provide?

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Huh? Why not?

​”Near insolvent,” would be “first U.S. state” with toilet-level bond ratings.​

One week ago, Illinois passed its three year-overdue budget in hopes of avoiding a downgrade to junk status, however in an unexpected twist, Moody’s said that it may still downgrade the near-insolvent state, regardless of the so-called budget “deal.” In fact, a downgrade of Illinois may come at any moment, making it the first U.S. state whose bond ratings tip into junk, although as of yesterday, credit rating agencies said they were still reviewing the state’s newly enacted budget and tax package.

​”Political dysfunction . . . continued unaddressed long-term liabilities . . . unaddressed long-term liabilities . . . [weak] revenue performance. . . ”
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The most likely outcome is, unfortunately for Illinois, adverse: “I think Moody’s has been pretty clear that they view the state’s political dysfunction combined with continued unaddressed long-term liabilities, and unfavorable baseline revenue performance as casting some degree of skepticism on the state’s ability to manage out of the very fragile financial situation they are in,” said John Humphrey, co-head of credit research at Gurtin Municipal Bond Management​.

​All points to serious kicking of can down the road.​

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​Love, wedding, death. Listen to the dirge that is linked. No Irish lullaby this.

From the Choir Loft:

The natural effect of “limiting” the traditional [liturgical] repertory seems so obvious that one wonders if widespread ignorance of Latin and chant has not been achieved by design​,”

concludes this piece about Pope St. John Paul II on Latin in the liturgy, referring to the church-wide (attempted) abolition of same.

The writer has asked,

What should the role of the Latin language be in the 21st-century Church?

JP2 spoke of Latin liturgy as:

an expression of the unity of the Church and through its dignified character elicited a profound sense of the Eucharistic Mystery.

and added that

It is therefore necessary to show not only understanding but also full respect towards these sentiments and desires. As far as possible, these sentiments and desires [of those who miss it] are to be accommodated, as is moreover provided for in the new dispositions .

It’s in a 1980 letter, “Dominicae cenae,” in which JP2 recognizes the value of the vernacular in helping “everyone to participate with fuller understanding.”

It’s a nice pacific approach, pleading or making an argument in the cause of church unity. In other words, it’s with neither rigidity nor hostility about or towards Latin, but with openness for all.

From that Polish pope with cruel personal experience of rigidity and hostility on the part of authority.

As for “ignorance of Latin and chant achieved by design,” as above, that design would be by that old fix-it gang which like the poor we have with us always.

POTUS (not pro tem either, as resisters cling to bitterly) defends son, reasonably:

President Donald Trump defended his eldest son, saying on Thursday that “most people” would have taken the June 2016 meeting with the Russian lawyer that has enveloped Donald Trump Jr. in controversy this week.

“I think from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. It’s called opposition research or even research into your opponent,” Trump said during a press conference in Paris. His son said he took the meeting because he was told the lawyer, who has been alleged to have ties to the Kremlin, had information that could be detrimental to Trump’s 2016 rival Hillary Clinton.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/13/trump-most-people-would-have-taken-russian-lawyer-meeting-240509

Meanwhile, it passes belief that resisters hop on this while clinging (bitterly) to supposed results of oppo research by Dems on POTUS.

Tsk, tsk.

Registered ghosts.

Five qq, five wrong answers, you’re outa here.

It’s how they do it in Argentina.

Lie down with dog, come up with fleas.

Years with messy NBC, what else to expect?

He had a way with words.

St. Pius X

“…the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. […] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.”

​Brexit:​

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the real elephant in the room at the G20. The Europeans are smarting from the British decision — made by the people and ratified by the Mother of Parliaments — to secede. Europeans seem determined to take out their humiliation on America. The best strategy for Mr. Trump and our own Congress would be to get on with our tax reform so that American profits trapped overseas can be brought home to ignite the jobs boom for which Americans voted in 2016.

​Yes, yes.​
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