Fox Sports loved him a month ago:

At the time of Mr. James‘ hiring, Fox Sports Southwest executive producer Mike Anastassiou called him a “talented broadcaster who I’ve admired throughout his career. His knowledge of college football and the experience he brings as an analyst will be a tremendous asset to our coverage.”
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Then they found out about what he said a year ago when running for office in Texas. Too bad. That was then. Now the fascistic stranglehold (word choice for shock effect: name your totaliarianism if you don’t like it) on not only what you say (bad enough) but also on what you said in another life.

And let it be perfectly clear: there shall be no discussion of causes and origins of same-sex attraction. It’s the thing that most annoys, irritates, maddens gay lobbyists and their adherents.

Here’s a starter for that discussion:

Experts agree there are many factors that cause homosexual attractions to develop. In fact, Same Sex Attractions are the result of a complex interaction of a person’s personality, biological inheritance, and developmental experiences. No one factor causes SSA and biology alone never determines orientation. However, same sex attractions usually develop because social and emotional needs were not met in the developmental years.

Understanding that things like personality, family dynamics, and childhood experiences co-contribute to the development of homosexual feelings should make two facts clear: First that no one is born gay, and second that no one chooses to have same-sex feelings. These two facts are vital for both an intellectual study and a charitable view of homosexuality.

No one born that way, no one chooses. Nice statement.

Oak Park Republicans on the move . . .

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Motorola’s made-in-U.S.A. approach: 2,500 new hires and among other things a faster turnaround:

Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside tells us that having the factory in the US was crucial for the MotoMaker customization program to even exist, but it also offers other benefits to the company from an engineering standpoint. Since Motorola’s devices are designed in the US, having the manufacturing close by lets engineers make quick changes and tweaks to the design and look of the device much faster than if it were located overseas.

In Texas, of course.

It’s where the jobs are.

Delighted, in fact. What a bailout!

The world will see through this spin. A British commentator in the Telegraph on Monday called this “the worst day for U.S. and wider Western diplomacy since records began,” and that’s only a mild exaggeration. A weak and inconstant U.S. President has been maneuvered by America’s enemies into claiming that a defeat for his Syria policy is really a triumph.

Now you see it, now you don’t. Democrat politics at its best.

Screed:

Jim Jarmusch’s “Dead Man” — a Homeric makeover — had the potential of a good, even great movie. But in it he fell to the siren point-making (heavily) and instead made an anti-white, anti-Western screed, even planting factoids such as shooting of buffalo from train windows.

For my Homeric makeovers, I’ll take “Brother, where art thou?” if you don’t mind.

As in travels-of framework, of course.

Putin’s problem with Obama:

A serious foreign-policy intellectual said recently that Putins problem is that hes a Russian leader in search of a Nixon, a U.S. president he can really negotiate with, a stone player who can talk grand strategy and the needs of his nation, someone with whom he can thrash it through and work it out. Instead he has Obama, a self-besotted charismatic who cant tell the difference between showbiz and strategy, and who enjoys unburdening himself of moral insights to his peers.

Woe is us that it’s come to this. Especially the morality bit, the last refuge of scoundrels. (Apologies to the shade of S. Johnson)

One of a series about how the RC mass is reconstituted by free-lancing priest-celebrants.

Item:

May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands
for the praise and glory of his name,
for our good
and the good of all his holy Church. . . .

. . . is commonly changed to “our hands” and “glory of God’s name,” which never in my hearing has been explained to the congregation, simply done, over and over until the people do it that way too. Sheeple?

The second is easily explained. It’s to reduce the number of MASCULINE pronouns, apparently to lessen the masculinity of the worship experience. The first is much more pernicious, in that it changes the meaning, which is to refer to the holy sacrifice which is revisited, re-enacted in a mass — Jesus’ on the cross of course. Why the heck downplay that? Pfuey!