12/10/24 – Journalism has a nepo baby and elite university graduate problem. These people are liberal-biased, arrogant ignoramuses who are out of touch with the American people. The legacy media needs to rid itself of this problem.
12/10/24 – On an unrelated note, we’re fans of getting rid of daylight savings time. It’s unnatural and disruptive. Standard time is healthier, and we need to make things simpler. We hope that this is an easy place to start.
12/10/24 – The beautifully flawed Saint Peter, at the end of his life, basically said that he stayed true to the Lord until the end. He answered the Lord’s call. He did what the Lord asked, and he kept the faith. That’s really it. Nothing more. It’s a divine parsimony.
12/10/24 – Thank you to Paul Krugman for the education. His research, his books and his opinion pieces, his writing in general, were accessible. Parsimony is supposed to be an academic virtue, but it is not treated as such. Also, teaching can often feel like a thankless job, and one wonders what their students are going to do with what one teaches. Often it’s just to serve themselves, but it’s not always. There’s always hope that what one has taught will end up being used, with a purity of heart, for the greater good. Everybody makes mistakes, and Krugman is not an exception. Ultimately, for all of us, the motivations matter more than anything else, and there’s hope in that.
12/9/24 – Can someone rein in a certain person and his personal vendettas and delusions? This isn’t about him. It’s about the American people. Is the incoming administration going to serve the country or what? Liz Cheney or anyone else on the Jan 6 Committee didn’t do anything illegal. The evil one did because he incited an insurrection – the single most shameful moment in American presidential history. We will never forgive him for it. May he burn in hell for it. All of the Jan 6 criminals should serve their time for engaging in unpatriotic and despicable criminality. Serve the f—king American people, a—holes.
12/9/24 – Academia needs to be purged of its anti-Semitism and its religious bigotry. One shouldn’t have to be an intellectually ignorant, bloviating pseudo-intellectual quack and hack, a bigoted, racist, anti-Semite to succeed in an industry that should demand not just knowledge, but as its ultimate goal, wisdom. Academia has become about cultural power, money and prestige. It has stopped being about truth and about serving humanity. It has become a vanity project controlled by immoral, self-worshipping atheists with subpar intellects. This would be a good project for the incoming administration.
12/8/24 – We don’t want to provoke anyone or any more tensions. They are absolutely terrible as it is. However, we do need to state some facts. One assumes that everyone knows this, but many Muslims are intentionally misinformed about their religion and their history. Christianity was born in the Middle East out of the parent religion, Judaism. It basically started out as a Jewish sect. Christianity has existed in the Middle East for about 2,000 years, since the very beginning of the faith. During those two millennia, it did not have “religious wars” on the scale and with the brutality that Europe had.
Islam is the youngest of the Abrahamic religions. It is not fair to Jews or to Christians for it to dominate the Levant. Muslims, no matter their sect, need to learn to live side-by-side with other religions, as mentioned, Judaism and Christianity, but also other lesser-known religions with fewer adherents, in peace. One’s right to practice their religion freely, openly and peacefully should never be conditional on the religion being the country’s majority religion or the number of its adherents. It’s a fundamental God-given right that no person can take away.
So, our hope is that we can open a new chapter for the Middle East, one that establishes a true democracy in a Muslim-majority part of the world that genuinely respects religious freedom, not just in the transactional way that Assad practiced. George W. Bush, an evangelical Christian, said “Islam is peace.” May it be peace in more than just words, but in deeds.
12/8/24 – We’re glad the Assad regime has been toppled. The rebels say that they will extend a hand of peace, freedom and democracy to all Syrians. We hope that the rebels remain true to their word. They pulled off a remarkable victory. May they also pull off a remarkable governance. The Syrian people have suffered tremendously, and they, like all people who live under brutal dictatorships, deserve to have self-governance and to be free.
As always, we pray for the persecuted church, and today, particularly for the Christian minority in Syria. May they be allowed to practice their faith freely, openly and peacefully, and may they be agents of peace, reconciliation and religious harmony in a region that desperately needs all of God’s children to live in peace. Be true to the God of Abraham.
12/8/24 – You might still be able to livestream the Washington National Cathedral’s Handel’s Messiah. It seems that there will not be a recording. Happy Sunday!
Handel’s Messiah
12/7/24 – Damascus has basically fallen. Why does it feel like we don’t have a president? It has often felt like this for the past four years. Hey Biden, maybe less focused on saving your guilty son’s behind and more focused on the people’s business, you know, the people you’re supposed to be serving. What’s the plan here?
12/7/24 – We understand that the loony left’s Palestinian-supporting faction is high on their brain rot induced ignorance pretending to be actual knowledge and their anti-Semitism cloaked in compassion for a people and a culture and even more so a region they do not understand at all. However, they might want to briefly set aside their self-glorifying virtue-signaling whose sole purpose is to solicit admiration for themselves and their “enlightenment” to actually try to understand the situation in the Middle East in its labyrinthine geopolitical complexity. And no, this is not really about religion. It never is. It’s about power and money, as it almost always is.
Iran (autocracy, backing Hezbollah) and Lebanon (totally dysfunctional, Hezbollah) and Russia (autocracy that is trying to destroy a democracy, Ukraine) is allied with Assad, a despotic ruler who has used chemical weapons on his own people.
The Syrian rebels (terrorists) are supported by Turkey (quasi-autocracy) and indirectly aided by Israel (flawed but actual DEMOCRACY) because they are trying to defeat the Hezbollah terrorists.
Now, we would like to ask the loony left’s Palestinian-supporting simpletons: Who are the angels in this situation? You can say the Palestinian people, but aren’t the innocent people throughout the region, who are simply getting caught up in this insanity, just as deserving of compassion. Whose side are you on? If you have an actual working brain cell, you would be on the side of democracy and freedom. Let’s make this very simple for the simpletons: Hamas is a terrorist organization. It is not interested in democracy and freedom. That’s what would take over if Israel loses.
More generally, as the articles says, governments close to Iran, which is on the verge of building a nuclear bomb, end up being toppled because, hard to believe, but citizens actually want their government to serve them, not be a proxy for another country. “Nothing is as shockproof and reliable as a state army composed of citizens whose interests match your own.” This is our suggestion to the loony left’s Palestinian faction. You’re out of your league. Maybe it’s best to just shut up and sit down.
The Fall of Aleppo Was Oddly Familiar
12/7/24 – DeSantis is a better choice. Can we do this?
12/6/24 – There is an institution that specializes in this service. What is it called again? Oh, that’s right, the church. The idea is not to clear your conscience of shame or guilt or to purge yourself of these unpleasant feelings. The idea is to do the work to reconcile yourself to God and to your fellow human beings. In fact, it commonly goes by two names: confession or the Sacrament of Reconciliation. You have to own your sinfulness, confess your sins, do penance and – change your behavior. You actually have to put in the work. What a concept.
Unburden Yourself of Secret Shame and Feel Happier
12/6/24 – A while back, Ray Dalio, who’s probably not a household name, said that the pitchforks are coming for the greedy rich and that capitalism needs to be reformed. It does need to be reformed – desperately so. Also, in case people have missed it, not only is the world generally on fire, but there have been more assassinations or assassination attempts. Unlike what some paranoid people like Elon Musk think, this is not some Democratic or left-wing conspiracy. It simply reflects a growing anger within the world’s population. We have a question for the greedy rich: Do the pitchforks just come with you as innocent, passive bystanders, or are you inviting them with your avarice? Was Marie Antoinette innocent?
12/6/24 – If war comes to our shores, will we be ready, or will a certain person be preoccupied with undermining our military on some witch hunt for “wokeness”? Please tell us: how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? The Ottoman Empire would like to know.
12/6/24 – The Middle East is poised to blow up…even more so than it has. Democracies around the world are in distress, including ours, and we’re in the middle of a presidential transition. Just an average day in an average life, I guess.
12/5/24 – What can we do? We can perform a magic trick. One day, you’re over here on the left. You disappear. Abracadabra, you reappear over there on the right – on the other side. The name of this magic trick is middle finger to the elites.
12/5/24 – Americans: The propaganda gave Biden a pass, and, now, they are trying to gaslight us about it. It’s insult upon insult.
12/4/24 – He made a mess of Ukraine, Afghanistan, the Middle East, the border, the economy…. What didn’t he make a mess of? The Conservative Republicans wanted him to be more aggressive in arming Ukraine. Now, they’re f—ked. He listened likely to the progressive wing, you know, the pie-in-the-sky people who don’t know how to govern anything. He opened the border without thinking through the ramifications both in terms of the integrity of our nation and the economics. He bailed out the plutocrats – again. Oh, and he’s corrupt. In fact, much of the Democratic Party is corrupt. After all those years in Congress, Biden was still bad at governance, and he lacks integrity. That’s why the Democratic Party lost.
How Biden Made a Mess of Ukraine
12/4/24 – Was it an opinion with a red line underneath it when the propaganda refused to accurately and objectively report on Biden? This is a widely shared opinion by the American people of the propaganda. Was the propaganda’s clear double-standard in coverage also an opinion? Was it an opinion to act like an arm of the Democratic Party? There is a reason the American people have a low opinion of the propaganda. It’s because they deserve it. It’s not because we’re delusional. You can’t play favorites. Do your job!
12/4/24 – Just like that, center-right. Barely had to move at all. You can do that in this country. Do you know why? Because we’re a free country and a free people, and we’re going to remain a free country and a free people. Not the right, not the left is going to bully us, coerce us, force us, or oppress us in any way. See Bangladesh and South Korea; well, the American people are a little crazy, and we are a tough group of people. Know it now.
12/3/24 – Hey elites, suck it, you bloviating, pseudo-intellectual quacks and hacks. We’re liberating ourselves from you…forever.
12/3/24 – Biden didn’t just lie about the pardon. Another very important thing he lied about was running again. He is one of the worst presidents in American history.
This Is Who Joe Biden Has Always Been
12/3/24 – Conservatives, figure out the economics, and we’re onboard. The labor secretary pick is a great start.
12/3/24 – The way Democrats win is by turning off all the centrists/moderates and frankly normal people in the country. The country gave you the middle finger, and it’s going to keep giving it to you. Hey, special interest groups, you’re winning the legacy media, but understand this, you’re still losing over and over and over again. So, the country gets to give you and the legacy media the bird. It’s two for one.
12/3/24 – Speaking of said elites, they can’t read books…but we already knew that didn’t we. Liberal excess is a surefire way to a shallow brain. One can’t train a brain to read lengthy, complex texts, when the brain has already been trained by social media, extrinsic motivation and other factors to simply build a façade of erudition. They are an illusion of intellectualism. Walk behind it, and there’s nothing there.
The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
12/2/24 – For those who are counting, this is in addition to The New Yorker, which was removed a while ago because it is too much a slave to the loony left and seems to have no interest in or connection with the vast majority of the country. We’re not interested in being indoctrinated. We’re looking to be informed, and there is a big difference between those two things.
By the way, Notes from Underground is a reference to a novella by Dostoevsky, who was nearly executed for reading banned books and became a devout Christian. It is not a reference to a now dead Hamas terrorist who orchestrated the massacre of innocent Jewish people. There is a big difference between those two people and things as well. If you’re supposedly an erudite member of said elite class, you might want to know a thing or two about literature and about life. It was practically sacrilegious to use his title in that way.
12/2/24 – There is too much to read as it is. The Washington Post is out. It is a puppet of the Democratic Party and its advocacy groups and too close to the Washington elite and its institutions, almost all of which need reform. It does not meet the journalistic standards we expect.
12/2/24 – We would like to ask the Jewish people, who do you think would treat you better: MAGA with their tiki torches and “Jews will not replace us,” the racist liberals with their “Zio b—h,” or the actual conservatives? George W. Bush, for all of his flaws as a president and bad policies, was the same person who said, “Islam is peace” in the aftermath of 9/11. These people are also protectors of religious freedom in general, meaning no matter the religion.
We would like to ask all of the immigrant communities, of these three groups, who do you think will respect your God-given and Constitutional freedom and rights? Who will let you maintain and even respect your traditions and simply allow you to be instead of trying to control your words, even your thoughts? In other words, who will actually let you be free instead of forcing you to be like them with their cultural imperialism and cultural hegemony?
The answer is clear – conservatives. We don’t like their economic policies (too much trickle down, too much tax cuts for the rich, too much faith in the markets (they can fail, people) and too little safety net), and they need to be more judicious in their foreign involvements, but they have principles, and they do the best job of respecting our humanity in its diversity and its complexity. They treat us like children of God because they usually believe in God. These are important qualities to have.
12/2/24 – This might come as a surprise, but the people who genuinely seem the least racist are the practically nonexistent conservatives. They are also the people who have lost the most.
12/2/24 – This is what the American people have for governance. It’s hard to process how bad this is.
12/2/24 – The Republican Party is also corrupt, and a certain person is the worst of them all.
12/2/24 – The Democratic Party, the party of racist white liberals, is corrupt, and the media has been propping up this party and these people.
12/1/24 – We’re so blessed to have such a great community. Community is everything.
12/1/24 – Happy First Sunday of Advent!
“O come, O King of nations, bind
in one the hearts of all mankind.
Bid all our sad divisions cease
and be yourself our King of Peace.”
O Come, O Come Emmanuel