The Spirit Blows Where It Wills

Why am I featuring Popey the Jesuit?

Mother Theresa's charity caught trafficking children.

Trump and the Jesuit Pope

The President and the Jesuit Pope, Francis. Someone is not happy.

Perhaps the Jesuit was unhappy about Trump's war on child trafficking. The Vatican has a long history of abuse in that area alone. I would bet that if the Jesuit had satellites to use in his business, he would use them. 

The Insurrection Act - Know Your History

From the History Channel

The Insurrection Act gives U.S. presidents the authority to deploy active duty military to maintain or restore peace in times of crisis. The Insurrection Act was invoked numerous times in the 20th century, most famously when Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division to enforce the desegregation of public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.

But the origins of the Insurrection Act date back more than 200 years to a bizarre chapter in American history—when Aaron Burr plotted to raise an army and establish his own dynasty in either the Louisiana Territory or Mexico.

Burr, a decorated Revolutionary War officer and senator from New York, served as vice president during Thomas Jefferson’s first term. Burr had grand political aspirations, but they were dashed after he killed his rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804.

After Duel With Hamilton, Burr Sets Sights on Louisiana

Burr was never arrested or tried for Hamilton’s murder, but it effectively ended Burr’s political career. With no prospects in Washington, D.C. or New York, Burr set his sights on the West, namely the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and Mexican-owned lands in the Southwest....

In 1861, Abraham Lincoln expanded the law to form the legal basis for waging the Civil War. Without it, he wouldn’t have had the authority to send federal troops into a state without the governor’s permission...

The Insurrection Act was invoked numerous times in the 20th century, most famously when Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division to enforce the desegregation of public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.

That’s the same authority invoked during the civil rights era by Presidents Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy to deploy troops to the South to enforce desegregation in defiance of governors.

The Insurrection Act was last invoked in 1992 under President George H.W. Bush, after Peter Wilson, then-governor of California, requested help to quell widespread riots after four police officers charged in the beating of Rodney King were acquitted. 

The entire article is here.

Not Everything Is What It Seems at the Moment

Pence a Back-Stabber or a Good Actor?

JUST IN - Pelosi tried to call VP Mike Pence this morning to urge him to remove President Trump. She was kept on hold for 25 minutes before she was told Pence would not take her call (CNN).

I talked to a neighbor, who was ready to jump from a sinking ship.

As they say, "When everyone says SELL!, it may be time to buy." Selling short is a way to make money from a failing stock, but it burns the ones left holding a stock that suddenly jumps in price and keeps going higher.

I am completely confident in a good outcome and four more years. 

Too many people are saying the same things to believe it comes from the heart. The message comes from a script. 

The time will come soon when people realize they sold this era short instead of backing it.

Church Politics - A Microcosm - And Still the Pulpit Leads the World

Herman Melville, Moby Dick, "The Pulpit, Chapter 8"

Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea-taste that had achieved the ladder and the picture. Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship’s bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship’s fiddle-headed beak.

What could be more full of meaning?—for the pulpit is ever this earth’s foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God’s quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favourable winds. Yes, the world’s a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick, The Pulpit

I am not worried or fretful about the future. Before, our country had outward peace and inner turmoil. Now, we have outward turmoil and inner peace. Nothing is going to change the path which people chose some time back.

Secular politics remind me of church politics, but church politics are worse by far. In both cases, people swear an oath based on certain principles. The difference is that the ecclesiastical principles come from God and the legal principles come from man - the U.S. Constitution (read as often and as rarely as the KJV). One would never guess, after hearing from the great and wise in the Church - that Tyndale was killed for giving us the first direct translation of the Bible, directly influenced by the Lutheran Reformation.

The Church today rewards people for being unfaithful in every possible way. And they punish for indications of faith. This was predicted long ago. 

"He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord." Proverbs 17:15

The secular parallel is perfect. The corrupt become rich. The truly evil become billionaires. 

David Preus, another crooked smile, another abomination.

Some indications of corruption in the visible Church are listed below:

1. The LCA actually voted for a pro-life statement in 1978, and the people behind it lost their jobs while the synod became even more pro-abortion.
2. The LCA bishop published a set of letters between him (Crumley) and the pope (JP II) - in color. To match him, David Preus (ALC) worked to have joint Holy Communion services with a Calvinist seminary faculty, on their terms of course.
3. The LCMS and WELS abandoned the faithful KJV while promoting and selling the NIV and ESV, the latter two using a corrupted text and deceitful translating. Both synods were happy to be part of the ecumenical slate of apostate paraphrasers - and to enjoy the loot derived from replacing the KJV.
4. WELS went all out to feign superiority over other Lutheran groups, while working with ELCA - and practicing safe sects at Fuller Seminary, Willow Creek, Trinity Divinity, and other evangelical flotsam.
5. David Valleskey and Frosty Bivens bragged about their studies at Fuller while calling anyone who repeated their braggadocio - "liars!" Oh, how sweet, to be a red under the bed while denouncing those who expose the reds under the bed.
   

"I did not go to Fuller! Ask Bivens. The drive by Demon stripes? Oh, I just borrowed that robe."