During Lent, we Catholics are instructed not to say the “A-word”, i.e. “alleluia”. It’s use is suspended until Easter. In the worlds of politics, economics, and finance, agents this season are leery of using the “I-word” namely “inflation” unless it is a referent to a phenomenon immediately dismissed as unworthy of concern. After all, the…
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The report on Bitcoin for which you have been waiting… 32+ minutes of pure, hard money, economic bliss.
It has been a while since I saw the movie The Good Son (1993) so please do pardon my fuzzy yet necessary and ultimately beneficial recollection of the plot. Essentially, a boy played by Macaulay Culkin has everyone tricked into believing him to be a good boy. He has all the airs of a good…
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What an embarrassment. Blase Cupich is a priest who was CONSTANTLY at the bottom of his seminary classes–and in the era he attended–that Is quite the feat. One had to almost try to be dense in that collection of low wits. Blase Cupich is a bishop who when in Spokane, urged seminarians in his diocese…
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Friends, Romans, Countrymen and Countrywomen of course, do cover your ears (after this brief public service message): It is not by compulsion or coercion, and certainly not by force or violence, but by the dulcet tones and unassailable logos of my rhetoric that I implore you–for your health and sanity–to don ear plugs for the…
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Leave it to American people storming their own legislative building to get Lindsay Graham, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell to clutch their pearls and scurry into underground tunnels for safety. Why–this is the greatest affront to American democracy… ever! They may have a point, especially when you consider how Mitch and company define…
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They have no shame where shame is certainly needed. No, I’m not talking about actor Jussie Smollett and NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace. It’s altogether obvious that they have no shame nor integrity as they celebrate and–in Wallace’s case–profit directly from self-manufactured racial hoaxes. I am addressing the companies that are on-board with it all. Here’s…
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Superstition abounds. You see it all around you in this hysterical age of fear. The person, alone in their car, wearing a soiled, supposed-to-be-disposable mask. Another, feverishly wiping down furniture. So many others believing in every media narrative designed to provoke sheepish, irrational fear. __________ It emerges from a denial of death, or more precisely,…
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So the state (New York in this case but it could have been and has indeed been, anywhere) tried to repeatedly ruin Danny Presti’s livelihood, and as a result, he put an undercover sheriff on his car hood. I hope his car was not damaged. In a just world, this Mr. Presti would get medals,…
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Saint Ephrem the Syrian $23.50
Saint Paul $24.50
Blessed Franz Jägerstätter $24.50
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