# 3 - ENEMIES OF THE PERMANENT THINGS

 # 3 - ENEMIES OF THE PERMANENT THINGS

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Russell Kirk, "Enemies of Permanent Things" Arlington House, New Rochelle, N.Y. 1969, N.Y. 1967, 32

 

PREFACE:

    I am listening to EWTN's repeat of yesterday's 48th March for Life in Washington, D.C. Elections have consequences. We did not have a saint running for office. Not enough pro-life voters turned up in each precinct for Pro-Life to win.  And among Catholics, not Evangelical or Baptists, a large minority actually believed that President Biden was in some ways pro-life. Of all religions, the Catholic voter is the most misinformed and duped. The Catholic-in-name-only-politician has been an evil not only on the American Catholic Church but on our country itself. Pro-Life is a permanent Catholic belief.

 

    "The principle of elaborate restraints upon political power, for instance, is conspicuous in the political theory and practice of Britain... 

    Yet the third article in this common patrimony is more enduring, perhaps, than even political usage. Great works of literature join us in an intellectual movement, Humane literature teaches us to be a man. Homer and Hesiod; Herodotus and Thucydides, Sophocles and Plato, Virgil and Horace; Livy and Tacitus: Cicero and Seneca; Epitetus,  Marcus Aurelius; Dante, Petrarch, Erasmus. Shakespeare, Cervantes, Goethe and all the rest have formed the mind and character of Americans as well as Europeans. [ But not within the last 50 years for a huge majority of Americans.]... Whether this heritage is to survive the twentieth century must depend, in no small part, upon the re-invigoration of a popular normative consciousness.

 

The Doors of Normative Perception

    The answer, which is not simple, will be touched upon repeatedly in the following chapters. But for the moment, we may indicate three doors of normative perception: revelation, custom or common sense, and the insights of the seer...

    In morals and taste, says Hume, we govern ourselves by custom that is, by the habits of the human race. The standards of morality are shown to us by the study of the story of mankind, and the arbiters of those standards are the men of strong sense and delicate sentiment, whose impressions force themselves upon the wills of their fellow men... The good citizen, Virgil remarks, is a law-abiding traditionalist, that is, a man governed himself by custom, deferring to the habits formed , among their people through their painful process of trial and error, their encounters with gods and men over a great many years..

 

    Custom is closely allied with common sense, "those convictions which we receive from nature, which all men posses in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and morality of action; ... Common sense and custom, then, are the practical expressions of what mankind has learnt in the school of hard knocks...

     Moses and Solon were such seers for the Jews and for the Athenians. Through the moral perception of these law-givers, these half-symbolic figures who burst the bounds of pragmatic reasoning, their people's experienced what Eric Voegelin calls "a leap in being," a new and stronger apprehension of truth. What before had been mere cloudy surmises becomes norm: the law for man.

 

    Such seers were the unknown author of the book of Job, and the prophet called Isaiah: such were Heraclitus and Democritus, and such Sophocles and Plato, Such, in the Orient, were Confucius and Lao-tse, and Gautama. Such was Virgil for the Romans, and in the same sense, LIvy. In the Christian community such seers were St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante and Pascal. Yet other seers will appear in our midst, no doubt, unless we make it impossible for them to exist, or unless we close our eyes and ears to the very possibility of the transcendent. These are the giants, upon whose shoulders we stand.

 

    We are governed by the normative insights of the giants because we are incapable of inventing better rules for ourselves...Karl Marx had some of the qualities of a seer, and he postulated a new normative order. His moral system, nevertheless, was a caricature of Christian doctrine, combined with ideas from Bentham and Hegel (both of whom Marx reviled); and, once tested, Marxism turned out to be hideous, and quite contrary to its inventor's expectations.... George H. Kubeck

# 2 - ENEMIES OF PERMANENT THINGS BY RUSSELL KIRK

 # 2 - ENEMIES OF PERMANENT THINGS BY RUSSELL KIRK

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Russell Kirk, "Enemy of Permanent Things" Arlington House, New Rochelle, N.Y. 1969, N.Y. 1967

 

        "Dante knew all the woes to which humanity is heir. Yet Dante was not an anxious man, though he lived in the time of violent disorder. He knew that the principles of order abide, and justice is more than human, and that art is the servant of enduring standards.... So the moral and cultural conservatism, the guardian of normality, declines to embrace dime-store pragmatism....

     What he respects is a sound conformity to abiding principles and a healthy convention which keeps the knife from our throats.Conformity to enduring moral truths is not servile. Obedience to the enduring moral truths is not servile. Obedience to the conventions of the just civil social order is not stupid...

 

 The twentieth century ideologue - who, as Hawthorne said of the abolitionists, brandishes his one idea like an iron flail - detests the champions of norms and conventions. To the Gnostic visionary, to the secularist worshiper of Progress and Uniformity, respect for Norms and conventions is the mark of the beast....  Lacking an apprehension of norms, there is no living in society or out of it. Lacking sound conventions, the civil social order dissolves...

 

The Shoulders of Giants

    "We are dwarfs mounted upon the shoulders of giants... We see so far only because of the tremendous stature of those giants... If we ignore or disdain those ancestral giants who uphold us in our modern vainglory, we tumble down into the ditch of unreason... G.K. Chesterton coined the phrase "the democracy of the dead." In deciding any important moral or political question. Chesterton writes, we have the obligation to consult to considered opinions of the wise men who have proceeded us in time...

    A French philosopher of our time, Gabriel Marcel, writes that the only healthy society if the society which respects tradition... We moderns, Burke continued, tend to be puffed with a little petty private rationality, thinking ourselves wiser than the prophets and the law givers, and are disposed to trade upon the trifling bank and capital of our private intelligence...

 

    In Revolt of the Masses Ortega declared that American civilization could not long endure, were it severed from European culture.... the Roman and medieval heritage of ordered liberty, and the continuity of great "Western" literature. It is a legacy of belief, not of blood... The first article in this common patrimony, I have said, is the Christian faith, including its origins in Judah and Israel. All the important aspects of any civilization arise from its religion - even the economic system of that civilization....

 

    The prophets of Israel, the words of Christ and His disciples, the writings of the fathers of the Church, the treatises of the Schoolmen, the discourses of the great divines of Reformation and Counter Reformation --- these are the springs of American Metaphysics and American morality, as they are European metaphysics and morality...

 

    The second article in our common patrimony is our theory an practice of ordered liberty, and our system of laws and politics... The doctrines of natural law, the concept of polity, a just and balanced commonwealth; the principle of a government of laws, not of men; the understanding that justice means "means to each his own"; the idea of a healthful tension between the claims of order and the claims of freedom - these passed directly from Europe into American theory and institution...

 

    The founding of the American Republic, especially the lawyers and politicians among them, took for granted this English pattern of politics modifying it only slightly to conform to colonial usage and to suit the new nation - and even then modifying it not in favor of some newfangled abstract scheme, but rather on the model on the Roman Republic...

George H. Kubeck

# 1 - ENEMIES OF PERMANENT THINGS BY RUSSELL KIRK

# 1 - ENEMIES OF PERMANENT THINGS BY RUSSELL KIRK

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Russell Kirk, "Enemies of Permanent Things" - Arlington House, New Rochelle, N.Y. 1969 p. 16-24

Preface:

    One of the enemies of permanent things, for example, the ten Commandments, is the Catholic-in-name-only politician. The seventh commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill."

Normative Art and Modern Vices

   

     "I shall touch upon moral normality, although that subject is too intricate for any thorough discussion in these pages.For the most part, I am concerned here with the modern defiance of enduring standards in literature and politics...                                                                                                       The art of the statist, determine in large part whether we become normal human beings, or are perverted into abnormal creatures...

An abnormal generation is a generation of monsters, enslaved by will and appetite...

 

Standardization without Standards

    "A norm means an enduring standard. It is a law of nature, which we ignore at our peril...

There is law for man, and law for thing: the late Alfred Kinsey notwithstanding, the norm for the wasp and the snake is not the norm for man....

A man apprehends a norm, or fails to apprehend it; but he does not create or destroy important norms....

    We have discovered that were there no norms for man, it would be necessary for us to invent some.

 

    Men do not submit long to their own creations. Standard erected out expediency will be hurled down, soon enough, also out of expediency... All that we can do is to reawaken our consciousness to the existence of norms; to confess that there are enduring standards superior to our petty private stock of rationality...

    Liberals, he explained, know that there exists two sides to every question, and that we ought to sheer away from prejudices, that we have no right to come to any conclusion until all the facts are available and scientific tests are applied. Morals, besides, are the product of cultural circumstances...

 

    Persons influenced by what the late Gordon Chalmers called "disintegrated liberalism" recognize certain norms even at the moment they deny the existence of permanent standards... With a man who maintains that he can discover no real standards for moral judgment of any sort, it is impossible to argue.

     To awaken an apprehension of norms was the high endeavor of Socrates and Plato; it was the constant theme of the Christian divines; ...A norm, I have made, is an enduring standard for private and public conduct. It is a canon of human nature. Real decadence consist in the movement of mankind away from the understanding of norms, and away from obedience to norms....

 

    For the Christian, the norm is made flesh in the person of Christ. Normality is not what the average sensual man ordinarily possesses: it is what he ought to try to possess. A norm has value, but it has more than value. A norm endures in its own right, whether or not it gives pleasure to particular individuals. A norm is the standard against which any alleged value must be measured objectively.... I am embarked upon a labor thoroughly conservative and thoroughly unpopular. The unabashed defender of traditional norms, and the unregenerate champion of prescriptive institutions - though they may have gained some ground in recent years - members of the Remnant. To be conservative is to be a conservator - a guardian of old truths and old rights. This rarely has been a popular office - not with the leaders of the crowd.

 

    Bernard Shaw in "Back to Methusela" (1921) recognized that if religion is lacking, human society becomes intolerable: so if no norms are observed, men behave like beasts from which they are ascended. "Goodnatured unambitious men," Shaw wrote, "are cowards when they have no religion."...

To deny for the sake of denial is to live with a sour taste in one mouth. The sort of person whom Sidney Hook calls the "ritualistic liberal" is intolerant in the cause of toleration, conformist in the championship of nonconformity.... to be continued

George H. Kubeck,

# 12 - A SERIOUS REPORT ON BLESSED CASTELLO, O.P.

 # 12 - A SERIOUS REPORT ON BLESSED CASTELLO, O.P.

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THE LIFE OF BLESSED MARGARET CASTELLO, O.P.

Father William R. Bonneville o.p. Tan Books, Corolina 2016, Chapter 4, p. 19-20

Margaret's Suffering

 

    "In describing the blind girl's mind as "luminous,"the chaplain had used the right word. Margaret understanding of life and its problems was truly extraordinary. This was partly due to the instruction given her by the patient chaplain. But there can be no question that it was, in a far greater degree, due to divine grace. We are irresistibly of a like early development of intelligence in St. Catherine of Siena, St. Catherine de Ricci, and St. Rose of Lima, when they were of the same age. The course of instruction she received was so thorough, and so completely absorbed by Margaret, that years later she astonished the Dominican friars at Citta di Castello with the extent and depth of her theological knowledge.

    With Margaret, to know was to act. She possessed so generous a nature that she felt she had given nothing to God so long as anything remained to be given. With her, therefore, there could never be any question of compromise or of half measures. Since she had chosen to serve God, she would do so with her whole heart, her whole soul and her whole mind.

 

    "It isn't the body that is important, Margaret," cried the chaplain. "It makes little difference what sort of a body you have, because in a few short years it will crumble to the dust. The thing that counts is your soul; that lives forever. God created it to His own image and likeness. Just think, Margaret! God is your real Father. He tenderly loves you and He asks you to love Him in return.

 

    The teaching of the chaplain filled the child with joy and hope. It safeguarded her disposition against the cruel jibes of her parents concerning her physical appearance. It fired her with determination to do everything she could in order to make herself worthy of such divine love.

    The example of the Savior in undergoing voluntarily the greatest suffering for the salvation of the human race made a profound impression on Margaret. She often reflected on the subject, and she began to comprehend what the Savior was trying to teach pleasure-loving mankind. She understood more and more the immensity of God's love which impelled Him to go to such extremes in order to save His children from their folly. 

 

    There was nothing morbid in Margaret's character. She had a sunny, cheerful disposition, and she naturally shrank from pain and suffering. But she knew that to grow in virtue and thus approach closer and closer to God, the road she must travel along was the road pointed out by her Savior.  As she wanted God more than anything in the whole universe, she was resolved to accept the divine invitation and follow her Savior even to Calvary. Hence, although the action of her parents was an agonizing blow to her, Margaret realized that God had permitted this to happen for her own good, and she forced her reluctant human nature to accept the blow as a special gift from God.

   More than ever, she neglected nothing whatever which could help her gain her objective. She not only accepted the sufferings inflicted upon her, but she even sought suffering. Thus, she bound herself at the age of seven to a strict monastic fast - a fast extending from the middle of September (The feast of the Holy Cross) to the following Easter. But this was not penance enough for the young, ardent lover of God. She devised a fast to her own to cover the rest of the year, that is , from Easter until the middle of September; during this period she fasted four days a week. On all Fridays of the year, the only nourishment she would accept was a little bread and water.

     Still, she was not satisfied that she was doing enough. She somehow secretly obtained a hairshirt and began to wear the penitential garment before she was seven years old. Her medieval biographer mentions Margaret's fears that her mother, on her infrequent visits, might notice the bulkiness of the child's dress and grow suspicious. But Lady Emilia was too deeply preoccupied with her misfortune as the mother of a creature like Margaret to pay close attention to the child. So Margaret's secret remained undiscovered. Meanwhile, the years were slowly passing by, but the prisoner kept no track of them. What she did take notice of was the succession of the seasons... George H. Kubeck

 

    

AMOST EVERY MORNING, I READ SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THE FOLLOWING:

     ALMOST EVERY MORNING, I READ SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THE FOLLOWING:

JUSTICE IS TRUTH IN ACTION - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - MON. JAN. 18, 2021

The Glory of America - Foreward Bill Bright, Peter Marshal & David Manuel, 1999

 

JANUARY 18:

    On this day in 1782, the great orator and statesman, Daniel Webster, was born. In 1820, at the Bicentennial of the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth, Rock, gave his now - class assessment of their achievements:

"Our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor can any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits ... Whatever makes men good Christians makes men good citizens.

 

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  Right now I am listening to The Big Five. It is daily on Fox News Chanel from 2-3 P.M. - Today's program was excellent.  That program is in danger of being canceled by the cultural atheistic elite.

 

1. The Lefties, particularly the Marxists have no moral habits. They do not believe in the Constitution and will use it to destroy traditional America. How can anybody think in the Marxist/Communist beliefs? They are fundamental atheists and prepared to do violence in order to achieve power and create a new hate secular man religion in America. I believe the U.S.A. Communist Party is outlawed. Those laws need to be explained to the American people. We need morality and a religious revival.

 

2. I concur with the lady who does the Justice program on Fox weekend news. I' m also deeply disappointed with the FBI. Something is wrong with the FBI is repeating itself over and over again in my mind. They failed with 9/11. They failed in reporting to the American people the true nature of the ANTIFA movement. They failed in securing the protection of the Capitol Police on Wednesday, Jan. 6th. It's the middle management and the guy on top, FBI Director Wray. 

 

3.  How important is a presidential election outcome? Very important!  I will giver one example. I was rooting for Nixon against Kennedy in 1960. There was real fraud in that election. Nixon went contrary to President Eisenhower's advice to take it to the courts. Had Nixon been the President, we would not have a ruthless and tyrannical communist Cuba and this Marxist cancer in the Western Hemisphere off our coast. We would not have been involved in a Vietnam War. etc.

  

4. What is wrong with my wanting to find out, on behalf of the 18 of 19 bell weather counties in the U.S.A. that predicted a Trump victory over Biden.

 

5. I listened to the Bubonski Report on the Hunter Biden Scandal at least twice on Tucker Carlson, Fox TV. We want a successful Biden Presidency on reasonable national policies. You can't erase  of  what has occurred to the Hunter Bidens.

 

6. Today's news media, particularly the New York Times is a fraud. They are not reporting the news honestly and fairly. They censor and slant deliberately any Conservative news. They are like a PRAVDA newspaper, a mouthpiece supporting the Leftist influenced Democratic Party. This is a living tragedy for the country and hurts all Americans. 

 

7. Communist China is the most serious threat to freedom of the press and religion in America and the world. The Leftists do not have the guts and mindset to win for America. Therefor we loose!

 

George H. Kubeck

 

# 11 - A SERIOUS REPORT ON BLESSED CASTELLO, O.P.

 # 11 - A SERIOUS REPORT ON BLESSED CASTELLO, O.P.

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THE LIFE OF BLESSED MARGARET CASTELLO, O.P.

Father William R. Bonneville O.P. Tan Books, Carolina 2016, Chapter 3, p. 16-18

 

    "I know I should not say it," cried  Lady Gemma, bursting into tears, "but it would be better that the unhappy child die and be released from her misery." A silence ensued. The chaplain waited a while until he was sure that the emotion of Leonardo and his lady had expended itself. Then he began to speak in his timid, apologetic voice, "Isn't it strange how few of us Christians really put into practice what our faith teaches us?"

      "Why, what do you mean - put into practice -?" "Well" replied the priest, our Faith teaches us that God created us to love Him, and in that love to find eternal and perfect happiness. My greatest aim then, in a life filled with all kinds of obstacles and distractions, should be to develop to the highest degree of my love of God. To do this I do not need eyesight, or a normal body, or the love and affection of my fellow man - agreeable and pleasant as all things are."

 

    The priest was staring at the burning logs of the hearth and seemed to be speaking to himself, rather than to his friends. "Now, little Margaret understands this very clearly. And she also knows that one of the most efficacious ways in which love can be deepened, strengthened, purified, is by suffering. Our Savior taught us that the royal road to perfect love is the Cross. Everyone has noticed how contented and cheerful Margaret has always been; the reason is that she regards her handicaps and deformities as being merely the means she can more surely reach her God."

 

    The priest turned to the knight's wife. "Lady Gemma, a moment ago you said that it would be better for the child to die. You are wrong. It is better, a thousand times better, both for herself and for countless others, that she should live. "But, Father," protested Gemma, "think of all the pleasures she will miss in life, and all of the suffering she will have to undergo!"

 

    "My child, God is well worth any price that we can pay. I grant you that a heavy burden has been paid on young shoulders; bu Margaret has been given a keen mind - a luminous mind- with she clearly apprehends the issue at stake. Furthermore, she has received the graces necessary to carry her cross. If she does not falter, a glorious victory will one day be hers; yes, the time will come when she will bless the day she was born blind and deformed. Let us, her friends, pray as we have never prayed before, that her faith and courage fail her not!"

 

    The soldier made an impatient move. "Father, you are expecting a mere child to act like St. Francis or a St. Anthony! Be reasonable!" "Messer Leonardo," replied the priest, "this afternoon when I returned from my trip, I had hardly reached my rooms when I had a number of visitors: they came to inform me of what Parisio had done. They all remarked how brave Margaret had been, that she did not shed a tear. After my interview with Parisio, I went down to see little Margaret. She was sobbing as if her heart was broken." "Naturally cried the Knight. "That is just what I am contending. You are expecting too much from a child." "But do you know why she was crying? persisted the priest.

 

    Surely the answer is obvious , isn't it? It is a frightful blow to a child so deeply affectionate as Margaret to be imprisoned by her own parents!" "Yes, agreed the chaplain. "For her it was pure agony. And I thought that is why she was weeping. But she soon disillusioned me." The priest's voice had suddenly become unsteady. To conceal his emotions he rose from his seat, and placing a hand on the shoulder  of the knight, he continued.

  "As well as I know Margaret, her reply left me shaken. She said, "Father, when you brought me here this morning, I did not understand - because of my sins - why God let this happen to me. But now he had made it clear. Jesus was rejected even by his own people, and God is letting  me be treated the same so I can follow Our dear Lord more closely. And oh! Father, I am not good enough to be so near to God!" "And she was so overcome buy the thought of God's love for her that she could not continue ... Well - good night, dear friends. May God bless you and keep you!"...   George H. Kubeck

A DIARY OF A CONCERNED AMERICAN CITIZEN!

 A DIARY OF A CONCERNED AMERICAN CITIZEN

JUSTICE IS TRUTH IN ACTION! - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM -FRI. JAN. 15, 2021

 

PREFACE:

    What do you remember for the last four years? The enemy of the Culture of Death was not only President Trump but also us the American people of all persuasion.The News Media, specifically the New York Times had contempt for us and censored anything that was positive in the economy because they hate the President. They also hate each American unless you follow their truth and their political correctness. 

 

    They hate Conservatives no matter what your political persuasion. They have a double standard. Recall how they promoted whistle blowers. But when it had to do about one person's loss of vote in the presidential election. Well, you must shut up. The news media has selective news reportage.

 

MY DIARY: ( 1:06 A.M. - 1:46 A.M. - Friday, Jan. 15, 2021)

 

    Let's begin with prayer, the Rosary.  We end the "Our Father" with "Deliver us from the evil of abortion, assisted-suicide and the corona virus. We end the "Hail Mary" once each decade with "Pray for the conversion of sinners and the conversion of Russia, China and America," and end "Thy Will Be Done," on earth as it is in Heaven.

1. "Justice is Truth in Action." will be the Motto of all Americans, particularly conservative traditional America. Indirectly, could this not have been the motto of  Our Founding Father Fathers?  Particularly, Alexander Hamilton, the immigrant from the West Indies and me a proud U.S. Citizen [April 2, 1961] from Montreal, Canada. We are not going to put up with this hogwash from the leftist Marxists.[for example: Don Lemon called Republican voters neo-Nazis.]

 

2. Since that date of April 2, 1962, I have seen shocking and destructive changes in America. The integrity of journalism has been destroyed. Likewise the integrity of the public school teacher [Once a proud member for 23 years] has been prostituted by the signature of Catholic-in-name only politician Gov. Jerry Brown with the Rodda Act in 1973, a destruction unionization law.

 

3. The once great Democratic Party has been taken over by radicals, leftist and Marxists. They differ from the regular registered Democratic voter. At least 20% of Democrat voters are pro-life. Recall, the term "Culture of Death" was coined by St. John Paul in his encyclical "Gospel of Life."

 

MY DIARY: (4:20 A.M. - 4:34 A.M. SUNDAY, JAN. 3, 2021)

 

1. The snapshot of Antifa on New Year's Eve in Portland, Oregon  drove me up the wall. It was in the Wall Street Journal, Sat.-Sun. Jan. 2-3, 2021, opposite page to the editorial page.

2, About 50 to 100 members of the community's ANTiFA had a violent and destructive riot at the New Year's Eve party in Portland. In normal America, these hoodlums would be arrested and jailed. For Democrat Congress Nadler, Antifa is a myth. I feel that FBI director Wray has betrayed his duty to inform all Americans about these anarchists & terrorists. Remember 100 nights in the summer, these hoodlums attacked Fed. Buildings in Portland. The mainstream media deliberately did not inform us. 

 

MY DIARY: (1:01 A.M. - 1:14 A.M. Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021)

 

1. Justice is truth in action. We must assert loud and clearly in the public arena. Let it become a rallying cry. Speak it out with signs and songs. It has been hidden from our young who have been drenched with lies and half-truths by Marxist teachers and professors.

2. We want justice and truth not only about the election but also on the life issues, marriage and religious freedoms based on honest science. Also the truths arrived at with reason, common sense and logic. Down with political correctness, outright lies and selected half-truths. Shame on the Elite for cowardice to Our Founding Father principles.

 

George H. Kubeck

WHAT AMERICA WILL LOOSE IN THE ELECTION OF CATHOLIC-IN-NAME-ONLY BIDEN?

 WHAT AMERICA WILL LOOSE IN THE ELECTION OF CATHOLIC-IN-NAME-ONLY BIDEN?

JUSTICE IS TRUTH IN ACTION - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - TUES. JAN. 12, 2021

https://www..thecatholicthing.org/2021/01/12/thoughts-on a late- administration/print  by Hadley Arkes 

Excerpts:

    "ONLY A FEW DAYS LATER THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES(HHS) WOULD COME FORTH WITH A FINAL VERSION OF ITS NEW REGULATION OF FEDERAL GRANTS, BROUGHT FORTH AFTER MONTHS AND YEARS OF WORK. THE PURPOSE WAS TO PROTECT, ON MANY FRONTS, THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM THAT WAS SWEPT ASIDE BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AS A MATTER OF NO IMPORT...

    CONGRESS HAD NEVER PASSED ANY STATUTE TO FORBID DISCRIMINATION BASED ON "SEXUAL ORIENTATION," AND YET THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS PUT IN PLACE THE REGULATIONS THAT WOULD BAR FEDERAL GRANTS TO ANY INSTITUTIONAL THAT BORE MORAL RESERVATION ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, TRANSGENDERISM, AND ABORTION.

 

    BUT THE NEW REGULATION WAS PART OF A CORPUS OF OTHER MEASURES, EMANATING FROM HHS IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, TO SHORE UP PROTECTION OF "CONSCIENCE" FOR DOCTORS AND NURSES WHO DID NOT WISH TO BE COMMANDEERED TO PERFORM OR SUPPORT ABORTIONS. THIS NEW REGULATION WAS THE WORK OF YOUNG LAWYERS AND ADMINISTRATORS, STRONGLY PRO-LIFE, WHO WORKED WITH DEDICATION. THIS TOO MAY NOW BE SWEPT ASIDE BY A NEW ADMINISTRATION TO WIPE AWAY ANY TRACES OF THE WORKS OF DONALD TRUMP.

    WE HAD HERE AN ADMINISTRATION DOING MANY GOOD THINGS, AT MANY LEVELS, BY PEOPLE WHO HAD FORMED WITH DEDICATIONS AND CULTIVATED THEIR COMPETENCIES LONG BEFORE THE ADVENT OF TRUMP. AND THE IRONY WAS THAT AT THE TOP OF ALL OF THIS WAS A  MAN WHO COULD NOT SPEAK IN SENTENCE, OR EXPLAIN THE RATIONALS BEHIND SO MANY OF HIS POLICIES THAT HIS ADMINISTRATION WAS PUTTING IN PLACE. [MAYBE]

 

    STILL THOSE THINGS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE IF HE HAD NOT TOUCHED SOMETHING IN A LARGE PORTION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, A SENSE THAT THE GOVERNING POLITICAL CLASS WAS INSENSITIVE TO THE PEOPLE THEY WERE PLEASED TO RULE...

    THERE WAS THE WAVE OF DEREGULATION THAT SPURRED THE ECONOMY, PRODUCING THE LOWEST LEVEL OF UNEMPLOYMENT RECORDED FOR BLACK PEOPLE; SCALING BACK OF TAXES; THE SUPPORT FOR FRACKING, THE APPROVAL OF DRILLING IN THE ARCTIC; THE WITHDRAWAL FROM THE DISASTROUS PARIS ACCORDS AND THE AGREEMENT WITH IRAN; THE RECOGNITION OF JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL, BUT THEN EVEN MORE, RECOGNIZING THAT THE KEY TO PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST WOULD NOT LAY IN TREATING THE PALESTINIANS AS THE CENTER OF THE PROBLEM. TRUMP COULD INSTEAD FOSTER TIES BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE GULF STATES, , AND BEGIN TO FORM NEW STRUCTURE TO SUSTAIN NEW TIES OF INVESTMENT.

 

    TRUMP ON HIS OWN, COULD NOT HAVE CHOSEN THE FINE JUDGES SELECTED SO CAREFULLY BY THE YOUNG LAWYERS IN THE OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL AND THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. NOR COULD HE SUPPLY THE SCHEME FOR ROLLING BACK REGULATIONS AND TAXES. BUT THE DECISIONS ON IRAN AND ISRAEL AND THE PARIS ACCORDS CAME FROM HIS OWN GUT.

     IT WAS REMARKABLE AS TO HOW MANY EDUCATED PEOPLE HAD TROUBLE THAT WHEN SOME OF US WERE WILLING TO VOTE FOR TRUMP EVEN AS WE RECOILED FROM HIS SENSIBILITIES, IT WAS BECAUSE WE WERE MAKING A CHOICE OF ADMINISTRATIONS: WE WANTED TO PUT IN PLACE A MORAL PERSPECTIVES AND POLICIES THAT HAD BEEN SHAPED OVER THE YEARS IN THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY.

 

    I COULD UNDERSTAND THE AVERSION TO TRUMP, BUT I COULDN'T SEE HOW ONE COULD VOTE FOR THE PARTY OF THE LEFT NOW WITHOUT ABSORBING THE SENSE THAT THE KILLING OF 860,000 SMALL HUMANS IN ABORTION EVERY YEAR WAS SOMETHING NOT EVEN WORTH THINKING ABOUT ANY LONGER. 

    TRUMP HAD RISEN IN THE WORLD WITH A SENSE OF WHAT ORDINARY PEOPLE, IN QUEENS OR PEORIA, WOULD FIND DAZZLING. IT WAS NOT SURPRISING THAT HE HAD A SENSE OF WHAT PEOPLE IN THE BROAD PUBLIC CARED ABOUT WITH A PASSION PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN..."

George H. Kubeck

Tentatively, the next HHS leader will be Catholic-in-name-only politician Xavier Becerra.

Do you know who the Pro-Life Party in the U.S.A. is? Yes, the Conservative Republican Party.

FOUNDER'S GUIDE TO 'KNOCK DOWN, DRAG OUT' FIGHTING

 FOUNDER'S GUIDE TO 'KNOCK DOWN, DRAG OUT' FIGHTING

JUSTICE IS TRUTH IN ACTION - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONE.BLOGSPOT.COM - SUN. 1/10/2021

 

THE ABOVE FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, SAT./SUN. JAN. 9-10, 2021

By Aaron Alexander Zubia, He is a postdoctoral fellow at Furman University's Tocqueville Program.

 

    "Immanuel Kant once remarked that nothing great has ever been done without passion. But passion, when improperly managed, can do great harm. During the debate over the ratification of the Constitution in 1787- 88, the Federalist sought to manage public enthusiasm by enlisting the passion on the side of reason. They did so to unify the nation. And we can learn from them.

 

The Ratification debates of 1787 were colored by 'patriotic enthusiasms' verging on violent chaos.

    Americans like to think that the writing and ratification of the Constitution consisted of calm reflection and choice. But the ratification debates were, as the scholar Michael Faber recently put it, a "knock-down, drag-out fight. Elbridge Gerry, a delegate at the Federal Convention, was burned in effigy in Massachusetts. George Mason of Virginia, who had withheld his signature, was encouraged by the mayor of Alexandria to leave town shortly after his arrival, given the great threat to his personal safety.

 

    Mobs forced anti-Federalist in Pennsylvania to return to the state assembly and hurriedly set the date for the state's ratifying convention. The anti-federalist Richard Henry Lee wrote to Samuel Adams expressing disappointments that "the agitators of this new system"were resorting to mob violence to rush the ratification of the Constitution, "as the subject of Government were a business of passion, instead of cool, sober, and intense consideration. 

 

    Leading Federalists denounced the violence of the raging mob. One, writing in the New York Daily Advertiser under the pseudonym "Curtius" maintained that " an honest indignation of patriotism is often commendable : but when it flames a devouring enthusiasm ... philanthropy must sigh at the frailties of humanity." Public passions threaten public tranquility. The Federalist thereby had to decide how to manage the passions during the ratification debates. They opted not to suppress passions but to channel them toward common leaders (like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin) [ Maybe we can do that today by invoking our existing former Presidents of the U.S.A.] and a common cause (ratification) 

 

    Ideally, Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 1, the people would approach the question of ratification without bias, prejudice or distortion of passion, but "this is a thing more ardently to be wished than expected." ... Madison, Hamilton and John Jay, who wrote as "Publius" in the Federalist Papers, sought both to inform their readers about the details of the Constitution and to cultivate those passions conducive to liberty and order ... minimize the destructive - and divisive - passions that flow from faction. [the leftist Marxist control of the Democratic Party.] ..

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THOUGHTS ON THE INSURRECTION  AT CAPITOL

 

1. By Peggy Noonan, "Bring the Insurrectionist to Justice",   --- I agree with most.

 

2. By Catholic writer Dave Carlin: "Let's face facts: millions of hardcore Trump supporters are potential fascists. They have anti-democrat hearts and minds."

 

Response: "I differ. Possibly at least 5 % are. The ones at the CAPITOL must be brought to Justice and will be. The rest of Trump supporters must not be smeared and attacked. The Culture of Death will be after them. Why? Most of them are for the Culture of Life. Because of the virus, the March For LIfe in January, should be postponed for a similar date in the months ahead.

 

3. I propose on behalf of the 18 of 19 Bell Weather Counties in U.S.A.;  they predicted since the Nixon presidency who will President on Nov. 3rd, 2020, they predicted Trump as President. In fairness to them, they need to find out what happened in this election. Their thoughts will not go away.

George H. Kubeck

    

# 10 - A SERIOUS REPORT ON BLESSED CASTELLO, O.P.

# 10 - A SERIOUS REPORT ON BLESSED CASTELLO O.P.

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT,COM - THURS. JAN. 7, 2020

 

THE LIFE OF BLESSED MARGARET CASTELLO, O.P. (1287-1320)

    Father William R. Bonneville O.P. Tan Books, Carolina 2016, Chapter 3, p.14-15

 

    "Gemma was bewildered, "I simply cannot believe it! The Padre has always been such timorous little man." 

    "But wait! The worst is yet to come. Parisio bellowed that Margaret would remain where she was, and he added, "If you don't mind your own business. I'll rip the tongue out of your head!" I thought that thread would silence the Padre. Instead he invoked the wrath of God upon Parisio and his wife!"

 

    Gemma grew white and hastily made the Sign of the Cross. It seemed to her that some terrible malignant presence had taken possession of the castle, and for a while her lips moved in silent prayer. Then in a low voice she said: "Leonardo, I am worried about Margaret. To be cast out like that- to know that her parents despise her -And she is not strong; if she has to stay in that wretched damp cell, I am afraid her health will give way."

    "I am more concerned about her mind than about her health. It would have been better for her to have been subnormal mentally as well as physically." "Leonardo! remonstrated his wife. How can you say a thing like that!" "If her mind were not developed, Gemma, she would not be too sensitive to pain. About as you know, she has an extraordinary intelligence; that means she will suffer all the more from physical pain - not to mention how her heart must ache for her parent's love ... It means that, as she gets older she will suffer intensely from the knowledge of what she is being deprived of in life!"

    

    "Perhaps she already knows that," hinted his wife. "No, dear, she does not. I once knew a blind woman who told me that when she was little she thought all children were blind like herself. She was twelve years old before she learned the truth."

    "I was not going to tell you this, Leonardo, but Margaret already knows she is abnormal," Gemma interposed resolutely. "But that is not possible. What makes you think so?" "One day I kissed her and told her how much I loved her. She asked me, wondering. "But how can you? My babbo and mamma told me no one could love me because I am a freak!" "Gemma! That is incredible!"

 

    "I am willing you just what the child said. Margaret then asked what was a freak, and they told her that other children were not blind, or midgets, or lame, or hunchbacked, that she was all these things, and, she was all these things, and, to top it all, she was ugly as sin!" The soldier grew white with rage. In a loud, angry voice: Gemma, terrified, clapped her hand over his mouth.

 

    "Hush, dear! Hush! Suppose someone should hear you!" As if in response to her warning, there came an insistent rapping at the door. The knight arose and strode across the room. he unbarred and opened the door. "Oh!" he exclaimed in relief. "It is you, Padre, Come in." 

    As the priest entered, he remarked with a faint smile, "I heard loud talking, so I knew you had not yet gone to bed." As Leonardo rebarred the door, the priest placed his lantern on a bench and crossed the room to a seat near the hearth. The knight sat beside him and said in a low voice:

       "We are speaking about little Margaret." The priest nodded. "Tell me, Father," continued the soldier, "did you know that her parents have revealed to her how much she differs from a normal child. "Yes, I have known it for some time," was the quiet reply. "They would have shown more mercy," muttered the knight, "if they had cut the child's throat."

    "Father, what is going to become of the poor creature?" asked Lady Gemma. "Her afflictions cut her off from the rest of her fellow beings even more than her prison walls do. She knows that she can never live the normal life of a woman. She will not be able to marry and have a home of her own. She  knows that she is not wanted. What a horrible future lies before her! Mark my words, Father one day that unhappy girl will go insane."

 

    "That is very likely," agreed her husband. "Either she will lose her mind, or, if she lives, she will become a bitterly unhappy creature, hating herself and every human being." George H. Kubeck

 

# 1 - JUSTICE IS TRUTH IN ACTION!

 # 1 - JUSTICE IS TRUTH IN ACTION

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPT.COM -  TUES. JAN. 5, 2021

 

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

 

    Let it be a rallying cry for both our religious and political rights. Let the signs speak loud and clear. We want justice; and the truth IN ACTION  is our most powerful weapon. Nothing but truths. We don't want to live with lies and deceit. We want honest science not false science. We want the truth only, not political correct truth. We must fight for the truth not only about the election but also the life, marriage and religious freedom issues.

   

     For example, on the life issue, we have some very good news and some bad news. 1.) Ohio governor signs bill requires requiring women to cremate or bury their aborted children.,LifeSite, Mon. Jan. 4, 2021. This is like a breadth of fresh air. 2.) United States is one of just 4 countries in the world that permit abortion up to the point of birth, joining Canada, Communist China, and Communist North Korea. Eliminate this shame from the mind and heart of every American.

 

PREFACE:

    On this day in 1746, Benjamin Rush, the Father of American medicine was born. A surgeon, medical professor, and founder of the Pennsylvania hospital, he wrote in his Defense of the Use of the Bible in Public Schools: 

"The only foundation for ...  a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican government. 

Barton, Wallbuilder Report, Summer, 1993, 3.

 

THE SECULAR RELIGION HAS FAILED US. THE COUNTRY NEEDS TO RESTORE PRAYER IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND RETURN TO OUR FOUNDATION.

 

1. The American Motto is "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." The French Motto is: "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity." The truth is that the spirit of America originates from the American Motto. American Leftists and Marxist want to change the truth to political correctness. They fight the truth. Their interpretation of equality has no foundation in our Founding Fathers.

 

HOW CAN ANY AMERICAN CITIZEN LIVE IN PORTLAND OREGON?

 

    IT ALLOWS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF AN ANTIFA GROUP OF PEOPLE LIVING AS YOUR NEIGHBORS IN THE STATE. ANY NORMAL, REASONABLE AMERICAN WOULD CALL FOR THE OUTLAW OF "ANTIFA" AS AN ANARCHIST AND TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.

 

    How do I start? The following drove me up to the wall. Check the Wall Street Journal, Jan. 1, 2021. On the page following the editorial page, on the top, there is a snapshot of protestors in Portland causing a riot on New Year's Eve. It was Antifa practicing their skills of destruction, hatred and intimidation of police whom we pay to protect normal citizens in America. A few of the 50 to 100 participants were arrested. They broke the law and should pay for the property damages and clean-up.

 

    It is an insult to our intelligence and common sense that the New York Times in another example of censorship has not called out and informed Americans about the true nature of the Antifa Movement.

Again as a reminder, if you see an article in your newspaper that is from the New York Times. Protest and telephone them, and if it reoccurs, please cancel your newspaper for a month.

 

    In closing, shame on the residence in Portland, Oregon.

 

George H. Kubeck