As a predecessor said in a moment of national crisis decades ago, nothing to fear but fear itself.
Category: Blithe Spirit
The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
White House Reporters Name Mark Meadows as Anonymous Source Who Contradicted Doctor’s Rosy Report on Trump (Update: AP Quotes Meadows)
Trouble is, at this point should we believe this? Has an enemy done this to POTUS. Just sayin’.
Trump turnaround: Biden lead cut to 49%-47%, COVID, debate don’t hurt president
In the first post poll since President Trump announced he had COVID-19, his chances of reelection surged, a sign that his infection and raucous debate performance didn’t hurt his chances for reelection.
The new John Zogby Strategies/EMI Research Solutions survey shared with Secrets showed Biden up 49% to 47%, his smallest lead yet in their polls. In a four way race, Biden leads 47%-45%, with 2% each for Dr. Jo Jorgensen of the Libertarian Party and Green nominee Howie Hawkins.
The survey not only challenged the media’s narrative about Biden building his lead over Trump and even surprised pollster John Zogby.
Zogby said, “Contrary to my own observations, it looks like the president has not been hurt by his debate performance nor his hospitalization. His 47% performance is actually one point higher than his vote percentage in 2016.”
There’s life in the old boy…
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Common sense scientific rebuttal of the message we get from most media outlets
Today’s headlines announced Donald and Melania Trump “tested positive” for covid-19. Another claims nineteen thousand Amazon workers “got” covid-19 on the job. Both of these pseudostories are sure to ignite another absurd media frenzy.
As always, the story keeps changing: Remember ventilators, flatten the curve, the next two weeks are crucial, etc.? Remember Nancy Pelosi in Chinatown back in February, urging everyone to visit? Remember Fauci dismissing masks as useless? Why should we believe anything the political/media complex tells us now?
So what do these headlines really mean? What exactly is a covid “case”?
It’s what we’ve been hearing, yes. Got this newspaper reader to cancel his Sun-Times subscription: Constant bad news touching on absurdity, with NO contrary viewpoints. Ditto Chi Trib. You know there’s something wrong. I got tired of it — sneakily keeping on-line access, you know, for now-and-then catching up on the latest.
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Straight talk about sin . . .
Sunday sermons, weekday observations
. . . from Fr. Dennis Kolinski S.J.C. , a member of the Clerks of St. John Cantius in Chicago, found in his Manual for Conquering Deadly Sin, published by TAN Books:
Today’s world is permeated, probably more so than at any other time in history, with temptations and the attractions of sin. It could be said that in the past you had to go out of your way to be bad, whereas now it seems you must go out of your way to be good. Therefore, in order to cultivate the life of virtue that will enable us to resist the inclination to sin, we must order our lives in such a manner that we live in the presence of God, directing our actions accordingly and trying to always see everything through the eyes of God.
Without a life of prayer and sacrifice, this is almost impossible. We…
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George Soros’ quiet overhaul of the U.S. justice system – POLITICO
In the news here, among many other outlets:
While America’s political kingmakers inject their millions into high-profile presidential and congressional contests, Democratic mega-donor George Soros has directed his wealth into an under-the-radar 2016 campaign to advance one of the progressive movement’s core goals — reshaping the American justice system.
The billionaire financier has channeled more than $3 million into seven local district-attorney campaigns in six states over the past year — a sum that exceeds the total spent on the 2016 presidential campaign by all but a handful of rival super-donors.
His money has supported African-American and Hispanic candidates for these powerful local roles, all of whom ran on platforms sharing major goals of Soros’, like reducing racial disparities in sentencing and directing some drug offenders to diversion programs instead of to trial. It is by far the most tangible action in a progressive push to find, prepare and finance…
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Is Chris Wallace a White Supremacist?
Major media has their narrative, do they not?
After four months of looting, arson, window breaking, vandalism, intimidation, physical assaults, stabbings and shootings by Black Lives Matter and antifa, the first thing on the media’s mind is … getting Trump to condemn “white supremacists”!
It would be as if, on the morning after Pearl Harbor, the League of Nations demanded that FDR condemn American aggression in the Pacific.
As to the Chris Wallace matter:
Why on earth was Trump being badgered by both debate moderator Chris Wallace and Democratic nominee Joe Biden to denounce “white supremacy”? And why wasn’t Biden ever asked to condemn the nonstop violence by antifa that actually has been consuming the country for more than 100 nights now?
Why? Because Chris W. is more comfortable with the one, not with the other. There are party invitations, you know. (I’ve heard about them anyhow.)
Wallace to Trump: “Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups?”
Trump (perfectly accurately): “Sure. I’m willing to do that. But I would say almost everything I’m seeing is coming from the left wing, not the right wing.”
At least equal time anyhow. No wonder Trump wrangled with him and interrupted.
I Was Hit Hard By COVID-19 — And I’m Still Not Afraid| National Catholic Register
Sunday sermons, weekday observations
A prayer for time of pandemic:
Lord, help us to know the way. We are summoned to find that delicate balance between cowering fear and reckless foolishness. Help us also to find the proper balance between necessary protections and heavier measures that may deprive people of their livelihoods and the precious human interactions that make for life.
We are seized by many fears today. Some of them are appropriate; others are excessive. Help us to distinguish and to find our way to that balanced place we call prudence. Help us also to be patient with one another. Some have more reason to remain secluded. Others have an urgency to get back to work, to provide for their families, to interact with others.
Each of us has decisions to make, and all of us need your grace to decide well and to trust you. Help us, Lord. Save us, have…
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Chris Wallace Faces Intense Backlash, Including From Colleagues, Over Bias During Debate
If you have time — it’s a long list — look at these comments in which Chris Wallace’s friends, including Fox News colleagues, marvel at his display of partisanship, bad preparation, and violation of his referee role.
I Was Hit Hard By COVID-19 — And I’m Still Not Afraid
I cannot deny that it was an ordeal, and it did not help that the Washington Post published a piece about me that was filled with distortions and lies. Despite the claims they printed, I have never told people not to wear masks or not to socially distance, nor have I suggested that anyone violate civil laws or norms. In addition, I certainly never said that those who have not returned to Mass by now are lukewarm Catholics. There are many people who should not be attending Mass just yet due to vulnerabilities.
Fake news, he might have said, but continued in his uplifting account.
With near-devastating results:
Thanks be to God for my staff, who protected me from the hate mail that arrived, electronically and via “snail mail.” They told me that the mail was more awful than they could ever have imagined. Thanks be to God, too, for all of God’s faithful who did not believe the things written about me in the article and repeated on local television news stations. I am sincerely grateful to prominent journalists Claire Chretien and Chris Bedford, each of whom wrote an article to set the record straight.
His stunning observation:
Lying flat on my back in the ICU I sighed to the Lord. But he reminded me, “I’ve got you close to me right now at the cross. Remember, Carlito, they distorted my words, too. They gave false and conflicting testimony, and I too suffered respiratory failure on the Cross.” An old gospel song says, “God says, ‘I got this, so you let go.’” Okay, Lord, it’s yours.
Not an idle comparison, in that crucifixion is suffocation when your arms and legs give out and you have to let it go.
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