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the otherMcCain posts about feminists and documents over and over those whose paranoia, hatred and magical thinking are not normal.LINK

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uh, why doesn't she move out and get a job? Too easy to blame her father who sees her as a spoiled kid.

or maybe a manipulative sociopath, given all the scams she is trying to raise money for on the social media.
Laugh all you want at the feminist freak show, but there is a real human tragedy happening here. For the sake of one woman’s ambition — and the narrow partisan agenda of the Democrat leadership cabal — emotionally vulnerable young women have been cruelly misled into believing that feminist politics could solve their personal problems. Try to imagine the father of Rain/River/Danika Lawless, watching his teenage daughter waste her youth on her manic social-media obsession. 

Ah, but how much of it is delusional thinking and how much diabolic?

Most schizophrenics are just mentally ill... but a few I met have the psychological "countertransference" feeling of evil

The paranoia is cherry picking stuff and insisting it is the whole reality in order to let you feel good about yourself. The echo chamber lets you get away with ths without someone laughing at you for being absurd.

this is true of US politics now, and for most of the MSM.

The best way to figure out if they are nuts? The taxidriver rule: If the average taxi drive thinks their ideas are crazy, maybe they are.

as for Trump's "mental illness":  a lot of what he says is not lies but shorthand that his followers can translate: someone said his enemies take him literally but not seriously, but his followers take him seriously, but not literally... they translate his blather into what they know he means. And since his actions are sane, and he does not live in an echo chamber, one doubts he is mentally ill... just a blowhard.

It says a lot that I am putting this on my private blog not the public one.

Is it fear of being put on a list? is it because I see it looks a bit paranoid? Is it because when one reads the news from 10000 miles away, one gets a distorted picture? Who Knows?
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http://bobagard.blogspot.com/2017/02/you-want-to-talk-about-immigration.html

and it is a 90 day ban in order to vent the applications, not a permanent one.

and remember: President Obama deported 3 million illegal immigrants during his watch, and stopped the Cuban refugee program.
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NSA contractor stole 500 million documents (UKMail)

arrested in October... no I don't remember hearing about this, and it's unclear who he did it for or why he did it.

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Dilbert notes that 97% of defense scientists agree with global warming, but the problem is that they base their belief on what is published by a small number of people who report numbers
and this comment suggests even that 97% number was cooked up.

"“Cook et al. (2013) found that over 97 percent [of papers he surveyed] endorsed the view that the Earth is warming up and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause.”This is a fairly clear statement—97 percent of the papers surveyed endorsed the view that man-made greenhouse gases were the main cause—main in common usage meaning more than 50 percent.Even a quick scan of the paper reveals that this is not the case. Cook is able to demonstrate only that a relative handful endorse “the view that the Earth is warming up and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause.” Cook calls this “explicit endorsement with quantification” (quantification meaning 50 percent or more). The problem is, only a small percentage of the papers fall into this category; 

 My take? There is a problem with pollution and the degradation of the environment. But you have to balance this with the fact that poverty kills.  "religious" people of the left and right, along with the Pope, are all into this stuff, but the dirty little secret is that if you get rid of GMO food, chicken farms, lots of preservatives in the food, etc. you end up with people dying of starvation as they used to do in the good old days.

As for fast food and processed foods: Uh, the alternative is to keep women home to cook meals from scratch. We eat meals from scratch every day: but we have a full time cook, and a limited menu.
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We are told Russia "hacked the election", which implied they hacked the voting machines but merely was a way to say Wikileaks and true stories of Hillary's corruption were released to the public via the alternative media.

But Diplomad2.0 points out how Mexico's interference was real and open but was not reported. LINK2
 Mexican officials publicly called on Mexicans in the US to oppose Trump; Mexico's over fifty--yes, fifty--consulates in the US (here) are hot beds of political activity and activism. Millions of illegal and legal aliens largely from Mexico and Central America vote, yes vote. We need to have an in-depth investigation into Mexico's interference in our elections, an interference that goes well beyond revealing embarrassing DNC texts. 

he also points out the mistreatment by Mexico of Central American refugees, which I havo pointed out earlier in posts about priests killed for helping them and opposing the drug gangs who exploit them.

and the press who hyperventillates about Trump exporting illegals with criminal record ignores the 3 million illegals deported by Obama, and the thousands who were not deported more recently after he decided to tell immigration officials not to follow the law.

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and this is from something I actually did post there a few days ago:

Father Z fiskes two articles about the evil Bannon vs the good Pope.

Perhaps you saw the NYT’s piece (aka Hell’s Bible) which managed (through fake news) to make an absurd connection between Card. Burke (whom libs hate with the intensity of a type O star), and chief advisor to Pres. Trump (whom libs hate with the intensity of a type O star), former Breitbart editor Steve Bannon (whom libs hate with the intensity of a type O star).  It was a tour de force of smear.   The objective: link Burke and Bannon and Trump with the liberal Alt-Right bugbear.  The upshot is that Burke, etc. are white supremacists...

Then there is the surreal piece at WaPo worthy of the Red Guard of China’s Cultural Revolution entitled, “How Pope Francis can cleanse the far-right rot from the Catholic Church”...

The stakes could hardly be higher, especially as the pope seems on a collision course with a Trump-Bannon White House that has imposed a form of a Muslim ban and disparaged him during the election campaign for daring to suggest that building a wall on the United States’ southern border was un-Christian. If the pope doesn’t put the reactionary elements such as Burke and his cronies back in their place, [Straight out of China’s cultural revolution jargon.] they could force a real schism during his papacy and leave the church open to justifiable accusations it failed to stand up to enablers of extremism and neo-fascism within its ranks.

then Father Z adds his own two cents into the mix:

“Reactionaries” must be purged!

 Send them to the country-side to learn from the wisdom of the worker peasants!

DOWN WITH BURKE!

DOWN WITH THE FOUR OLDS!

CLEANSE THE REACTIONARIES!

BAN THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES! 

the funniest part of this is the hint that the oppostion to the Pope are white guys. Guess they never heard of Cardinal Sarah.

from the Amazon blurb:

"The idea of putting Magisterial teaching in a beautiful display case while separating it from pastoral practice, which then could evolve along with circumstances, fashions, and passions, is a sort of heresy, a dangerous schizophrenic pathology.  I therefore solemnly state that the Church in Africa is staunchly opposed to any rebellion against the teaching of Jesus and of the Magisterium. . . .  The Church of Africa is committed in the name of the Lord Jesus to keeping unchanged the teaching of God and of the Church."

Robert Cardinal Sarah 
The Philippine bishops for years have been stopping the legalization of divorce, knowing that it will adversely affect women and children... moms turn to prostitution or working overseas to support the kids, or get a new boyfriend who doesn't want her kids, who end up on the street. And often the street kids end up sexually abused and/or abusing alcohol/glue/shabu...

A lot of the sexual freedom education agenda and the"gay agenda" that Obama pushed on poor countries in Africa and Asia was opposed because it was seen as a way for the rich and powerful (and the sex tourists) to abuse these kids, or their students, or their  employees, without worrying they will be taken court.

and of course, anyone familiar with the culture wars in the Anglican church knows how those nasty old fashioned Africans and Asians are messing around with Webly's PC gay agenda.

By the way, when I said "the Democrats vs Catholics", I am referring to this:

Wikileaks one: from John Podesta:

We created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good to organize for a moment like this. But I think it lacks the leadership to do so now. Likewise Catholics United. Like most Spring movements, I think this one will have to be bottom up. I'll discuss with Tara. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is the other person to consult. 

On 2/10/12, Sandy Newman wrote: > Hi, John, > > 

This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage even though 98% of Catholic women (and their conjugal partners) have used contraception has me thinking . . .

There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.

Is contraceptive coverage an issue around which that could happen. The Bishops will undoubtedly continue the fight. Does the Catholic Hospital Association support of the Administration's new policy, together with "the 98%" create an opportunity?

Of course, this idea may just reveal my total lack of understanding of the  Catholic church, the economic power it can bring to bear against nuns and priests who count on it for their maintenance, etc.

Even if the idea isn't crazy, I don't qualify to be involved and I have not thought at all about how one would "plant the seeds of the revolution," or who would plant them.

Just wondering . . .

in other words, Democratic politicians interfering with religion by using government's economic power.

More here Wikileaks 2

WaPo spin here. they were joking. But at least way down in the article they quote  two Catholics, including Raymond Arroyo (of EWTN):

Kurtz, president of the Catholic bishops’ conference, noted reports “that some may have sought to interfere with the life of the Church for short-term political gain. If true, this is troubling both for the well-being of faith communities and the good of our country.”

Raymond Arroyo, lead anchor and managing editor of EWTN, the global Catholic network, said the emails have the potential to tip the balance for people who were still undecided. “If you have people on the fences, it is irritating,” Arroyo said.

Arroyo said that the emails describing the “Catholic Spring” will especially rub Catholics the wrong way. “It makes it seem like you’re creating organizations to change the core beliefs of the church,” he said. “For someone to come and say, ‘I have a political organization to change your church to complete my political agenda....

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