New government climate-change report?

Don’t you believe it.

The world’s response to climate changing under natural and human influences is best founded upon a complete portrayal of the science.

The U.S. government’s Climate Science Special Report . . . released Friday does not provide that foundation. Instead, it reinforces alarm with incomplete information and highlights the need for more-rigorous review of climate assessments.

More more more here.

FBI believed that Martin Luther King Jr. had secret lovechild, orgies

So did David Garrow, whose 1986 biography of King, Bearing the Cross, is full of references to King’s sexual escapades.

Garrow wrote about a number of extramarital affairs, including one woman King saw almost daily. According to Garrow, “that relationship … increasingly became the emotional centerpiece of King’s life, but it did not eliminate the incidental couplings … of King’s travels.”

He alleged that King explained his extramarital affairs as “a form of anxiety reduction.” Garrow asserted that King’s supposed promiscuity caused him “painful and at times overwhelming guilt.” (Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. William Morrow & Co. 1986. pp. 375–6)

See also selections from Bearing the Cross here.

The FBI story here.

He remains an icon, of course. Even today I heard him quoted in a sermon. Nobody’s going to tear down any of his statues. Ever.

Father B. gives lesson on how to say mass the Novus Ordo way

Sunday sermons, weekday observations

By praying it, not announcing or declaiming and not scanning the audience as if giving a lecture or teaching a class. He really means it, and we know it. It’s how liturgy should be. It’s the sine qua non of liturgical practice. You gotta have heart, you can’t be looking around.

The “pray, brothers and sisters” — Orate, fratres in Latin-mass days and still now in the so-called extraordinary form — is another story, of course. Addressing the people, he looks at them. He does not spout the words as if magical incantations. “Behold the Lamb of God — Ecce Agnus Dei — and other parts, same thing.

Novus Ordo? It’s the Paul VI mass, presumably reflecting the wishes of the Vatican 2 council fathers (bishops from around the world) but arguably altered beyond anything most of them had in mind.

Most of us are accustomed to it by…

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FBI agents manhandled Manafort and his wife during pre-dawn raid in intimidation effort

Gestapo stuff:

Just how rough special counsel Robert Mueller is playing with Paul Manafort goes back before this week’s indictment — to the FBI’s no-knock raid in July.

They picked lock, barged in, pre-dawn, 12 of them with guns drawn, felt up the wife in bed for guns, with intent to traumatize, says source.

Typical of Mueller’s top prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann. ” A former mob prosecutor in New York, [who] specializes in turning witnesses against bigger prey and is not afraid to make things rough for spouses, too.”

In the United States of America. The FBI in peace and war.

From: Washington Times

Patrick J. Buchanan: That Other Plot–To Bring Down Trump

This is the Russian “intelligence” about Trump and the prostitutes in Moscow etc., also know as the Fusion GPS, British spy episode, he latest of which features never-Trump Republicans.

Thus we have Free Beacon neocons, never-Trump Republicans, the Hillary Clinton campaign, the DNC, a British spy and comrades in Russian intelligence, and perhaps the FBI, all working with secret money and seedy individuals to destroy a candidate they could not defeat in a free election.

Buchanan’s good, clear and to the point.

Ben Jonson’s “To Heaven”

 

This poem, unusual for him as to subject matter, is prayerful indeed, beginning:

Good and great God, can I not think of thee

But it must straight my melancholy be?

Like a lot of people, it’s not his happiest moment to think of the Christian God with His reputation for justice, the poet being “laden with [his] sins,” even as he “seeks for ease.”

He describes his situation:

 . . . I dare pretend
To ought but grace or aim at other end.
As thou art all, so be thou all to me,

So, he turned to God, calling him “my judge, my witness, and my advocate. ”

That’s God — judge, witness, defense lawyer. A healthy concept.

Read the rest at Poetry Foundation

The War Against Cardinal Sarah | Marco Tosatti | First Things

War? He’s being blindsided, downsized, stopped at every turn by the minions of the reigning pontiff. who is looking quite Machiavellian these days, ready to give lessons to a Cook County Democrat.

The progressive party in the Vatican has launched yet another attack on Cardinal Robert Sarah.

Even if you’re progressive, you have to wonder at the hardball being played. Is it worth it? one must ask.