Geraldo, Shameless Goon

Who is Geraldo Rivera?

A Weinergate Loser?

A selfie?

Maybe just a stooge?

Or a millionaire socialist goon.

You, the reader, be the judge.

LSP

Advent Poetry, Innit

One of the Team took time off from cleaning his FNFAL to send this in; pay attention, heathen:

Coming with the shepherds to this mystical crèche, joining Mary and Joseph in holy meditation, and seeing this child in the straw – what do we see? St. Maximus the Confessor said that we see the holy child playing at the boundary of earth and heaven, of infinity and finitude. Standing at the crèche, seeing “this thing that has happened”, we see God’s victory, and our salvation, what the devil and the rulers of this world’s present darkness could never have expected – the infinite having become a finite fact – the foolishness and weakness of the eternal God, dwelling beyond the limit of grammar but having become intelligible; dwelling beyond the building blocks of logic, language, and math, but now having become a discreet reality, wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.

In his great poem Ash Wednesday, T.S. Eliot wrote:

"If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unspoken, unheard;
Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard,
The Word without a word, the Word within
the world and for the world;
And the light shone in darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the centre of the silent Word."

And the speaker in the poem asks “Where shall the word be found, where will the word Resound?” And he concludes: “Not here, there is not enough silence…” and adds, “No place of grace for those who avoid the face / No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny / the voice.”

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CS Lewis hated TSE. Whatever, I like everything about that.

God bless,

LSP

Putin Redux

Maybe you've seen this already. Hey, see it again and by the way, Aleppo's about done. 

Go hard,

LSP

Washington Fake News Post

All the world knows that the Washington Post has run a story claiming that Russia influenced the outcome of this year's election by providing WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked Democrat emails. 

This, apparently, is the finding of a "secret" CIA report and is presented to the public without a shred of evidence.

Leaving aside the risible Washington Post's journalistic credibility, which is on a par with CNN and the New York "got it wrong" Times, surely the story is this. What's in the emails?

The laughably Hillary boosting, fake news masquerading as as objective journalism, Post chooses not to cover the content and malfeasance contained in Hillary's inner circle emails. Instead, it attempts to derail Trump's historic landslide victory by throwing doubt on the validity of the election. 

More than that, the shamelessly shilling for Hillary Post does so at the risk of reigniting the Cold War, banging on the same war drum that was employed by the miserably losing Hillary campaign.

Really? You'll go so far as to risk a conflict with Russia in order to make the brazenly corrupt, self-serving, lying, criminal Hillary Clinton look good? As though that was even possible.

Sorry, Washington Fake News Post, the country voted against you and the multi-millionaire, globalist, bicoastal socialist elitocracy, and it said no to the bizarrely corrupt   Hillary Rodham Clinton. You lost and you lost hard.

Get used to it.

LSP

Putin And The Faith

There's a strange blindness in conservative Christian circles when it comes to Russian strongman and former KGB Colonel, Vladimir Putin. For example, I was talking with a political philosopher who I'd heard had given an excellent talk on exercising political power while remaining a Christian. No easy feat. "Who did you use as examples?" I asked, "The Emperor Constantine and Putin?" Shocked silence. "No, I didn't use either of them as examples. Is Putin a Christian?!?"

Well That's Not Christian

If being baptized, attending the Eucharist, asking for the intercession of the Saints, professing the Creeds and promoting the Church makes you a Christian, well, count Putin in. Seriously, the Church in Russia is active, strong and a part of society in a way not seen since before the Bolshevik revolution. 

How Very Unchristian

Something like 1000 churches have been built in Russia every year for the last decade and Orthodoxy is established across the spectrum of the state - in schools, the military, law enforcement and government itself. All this under the political aegis of Vladimir Putin. If he's not a Christian he certainly does a good job of hiding it. In America, by contrast, Christianity is banned from public schools and increasingly pushed out of the public square. Bake that cake, God Freaks, or we'll sue you and your business into the ground, with the not so tacit approval of the Supreme Court.

Look! Three Atheists!

But what about politics? Perhaps Putin's exercise of temporal power negates his apparent Orthodoxy? Like the way he's a nationalist who puts his country first, or legislates in favor of Christian values, like, how weird, heterosexual marriage. And, when a crew of Lena Dunham fans blaspheme in a Cathedral they get locked up. How very unchristian, except that it's not.

Oh no. A Secular Humanist.

Then again, maybe positioning yourself as an autocrat, like a King or a Tsar, is unchristian, which would put the Russian leader at something of a disadvantage when it comes to Christian governance. Right, classical liberal 18th century parliamentary democracy is mandated by Sacred Scripture and Apostolic tradition, said the Christian Monarchs of the Christian centuries never.

Well That's Not Christian

So why the animosity and shock when it comes to Putin? Because he's not a Westphalian product of the Enlightment so much as the son of Holy Mother Russia? Because he actually legislates in favor of the Church as though it was an objective good, as opposed to a subjective affair of the mind? Or maybe because he's Russian, and therefore an enemy communist threat, albeit subconciously, in the American conservative psyche. 

A Typical Scene of Putin Being Unchristian, at the Holy Sepulchre

But look, the Red menace is over. In fact, America's far more red than Russia at the present moment. So get over it, conservatives, unless in reality you've gone socsymp and see conservative, populist, Christian nationalism as a threat. In which case stop pretending to be something you're not.

I'd argue that Christian conservatives share more than a few basic values with Putin and should ally themselves with him and Russia against the common enemy. That would be Islam and its curious friend, aggressive, millionaire socialist, NWO globalism.

Mind how you go,

LSP

Vicarious Swine

"It was either a pig or a doe. I shot the pig, perhaps because it seemed like an enemy," said my philisophical ally, and I have to agree. Spare the doe, shoot the porcuswine!

I won't say I'm not jealous.

Good shot,

LSP 

Blinded!

My mental alarm got me up just before 0500 and then the physical alarm kicked in, not to be outdone by my not-so-smart-phone, buzzing with textual insistence above the din of the cheap made in China plastic clock. 

At this point you have two options. Turn the racket off and go back to sleep, in which case your position's likely to get overrun, or turn the din off, answer Putin's texts, get up, and advance to contact. I chose the latter option and one gassed up rig later I was on my way to a duck blind, somewhere in Texas.

I got there pretty much on time, after driving through the narrow, winding, pitch black rural roads of the Lone Star State, and walked across a field through fierce cold wind to the blind. Red light, camo, and a group of guys with guns in the enclosed metal space.

It brought me back to the army, the smell and the sight of it, along with the building adrenaline of putting those guns to work any time soon in the predawn. I liked that, I liked the strong black coffee that came with it, too.

Then, just before first light, calling began and several flocks of ducks flew over, fast overhead and out of range. Up! Front! A group of birds appeared like magic out of the half-light in front of the blind. A split second of action, the explosion and muzzle flash  of the guns, and it was over. 

I shot poorly but several birds were down and we waited for more. No joy. Perhaps the stiff chill wind and choppy water of the lake persuaded the ducks to look for a calmer place to land. Maybe an incoming cold front had altered their flight plan. Who knows.

What we do know is that it was worth getting up early and getting out in the field. Big fun. It might even make sense to bivvy up overnight and be in position to shoot the next day, which would save the drive but make for a cold evening. We'll see.

So, a good morning was had by all and then it was back to the Compound to regroup and the next evolution, visiting the sick. But that, readers, is another story.

Don't be a pathetic comsymp lib, LSP

Don't be a pathetic comsymp lib, get in the blind.

Gun rights,

LSP

No Creed in Brisbane!

"Jeremy" Greaves

It seems that the fun never sets in the zany world of the Worldwide Anglican Non Communion (WANC), and the Primate of Australia, Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, has added to the hilarity by appointing Archdeacon Jeremy Greaves Assistant Bishop of Brisbane.

A Tired Old Crook, Archbishop Asspinall

Jeremy's a big supporter of gay marriage, go figure, and isn't too keen on the Creed either. Here he is, as reported by David Ould, in an interview with ABC Radio National:

Rachael Kohn: Do you specifically then have difficulties with the Apostles’ Creed that you might like to rewrite it or ditch it?

Jeremy Greaves: I’d be happy to abandon the Creed.

Greaves went on to say that abandoning traditional Christian terms and doctrine was problematic because it might offend congregations and have an impact on his salary.

“And for so many of us in ministry, we’re locked into a model where the people who sit in the pews pay our salaries, pay our way. I have a wife and three small children to support and so the challenge of being too prophetic and changing too many things too quickly is that there won’t be enough people left in the short term to help me survive financially, and that’s a brutal and very difficult challenge.”

Jeremy doesn't like the Creed, that's why he's a WANC bishop

Perhaps now that Greaves is a bishop, he won’t have to worry about that kind of financial shortfall, or the Creed. Whether any people remain in the pews of Brisbane remains to be seen.

Lambeth Palace declined to comment.

Your Old Pal,

LSP

Don't Forget Pearl Harbor

Don't forget, whatever White House press secretaries may or may not say and, by the way, Japan's never apologized for their murderous surprise attack.

If you're in the mood to play Thank Christ for the Bomb,well, go right ahead.

LSP

#DUMPKELLOGGS

Have you followed the curious story of Big Business meets Big Gay, in which corporate titans like Apple, IBM, the NFL, Kellogg's and Walmart not only promote LGBTQIism but put big money pressure on states that don't go gay? 

You know, like what happened in Arkansas, Indiana, Arizona and on; states that had the sheer temerity to attempt to pass laws protecting businesses that wouldn't bake gay cakes and climb on the pink steamroller.

The Big Gay Corporates have had a pretty good run of success so far, but maybe that's beginning to change after Kellogg's decided to pull its advertising from Breitbart because it and its 45 million readers, "aren't aligned" with Special K's "values as a company." Because, in other words, Breitbart refuses to ride the rainbow.

Since then, Breitbart's launched a campaign to boycott the bigoted cereal behemoth and Americans everywhere are dumping the hated Kellogg's breakfast brand.

You too can be a part of this popular movement to fight back against Big Gay Corporate tyranny by signing the petition to #DUMPKELLOGGS here.

Your Old Friend,

LSP

Hey, Check Out These Clowns

Vicious rumors that Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury and top decision maker in the Worldwide Anglican Non Communion (WANC), has been spotted in Detroit hustling for spare change are presently unconfirmed. But we do know this. The Episcopal Church's Diocese of Central New York has a new bishop figure!

Some Clowns, Goofing Off in Church

That's right, De De Duncan-Probe, Ph.D, was made Bishop of Central New York on December 3. No kidding. De De Duncan-Probe, Ph.D, is the first ever womyn bishop figure of the 13,000 member, and shrinking fast, diocese.

Hey, Good Lookin'!

Here's what De De Duncan-Probe, Ph.D, had to say about the state of the nation:

“I am overwhelmed with joy and gratitude today as I join the people of Central New York in ministry. Especially because I believe we have a crucial role to play right now. The Episcopal Church’s radical welcome, and our commitment to reconciling dialogue, make our communities a beacon of hope in an increasingly divided society.”

Or, roughly translated, "I'm a pathetic whining lib on the wrong side of history."

Just Clownin' Around

Sorry, De De Duncan-Probe, Ph.D, your crew lost and lost hard, but maybe your famous radical welcome will fill all those empty pews. 

Hustlin'.

Good luck, Diocese of Central New York.

Your Old Pal,

LSP

Melania Mondays!

Some people don't like Mondays, they feel it brings the whole week down. But we don't feel that way at the Compound. And that's because Monday means Melania Mondays! and a chance for one and all to get an uplifting glimpse of the stylish, attractive and clever First Lady in waiting.

Imperial Melania

So what's the attractive and popular Melania been up to since last Monday? Only forcing the aggressively overweight sapphist, Rosie O'Donnell to apologize for bullying Barron. Well done, Melania, standing up for children everywhere! But there's a cloud on the horizon.

Elegant Melania

Michelle Obama's clothes designers won't make dresses for Melania. Disaster! Or not. Team consensus is that our kind and lighthearted Presidential Consort isn't too threatened by this. Don't ask us why, it's just a feeling, call it "instinct" if you like.

Oh my...

Just think, soon we'll have Melania in the White House, once she's sorted out Barron's schooling. Will that make a difference from what we've been forced to look at for the last eight long years?

You, the readers, be the judge.

LSP