Pope May Let Chinese Atheists Select Bishops

Allowing the Chinese authoritarian government, or any government for that matter, to nominate bishops for the Catholic Church is fairly crazy. It's a giant step backward on the road to human freedom that would subvert whatever moral authority the Catholic Church has in the United States after the child molestation record of the past few decades. Reportedly the Catholic Church leader Pope Francis is considering the matter, yet one hopes that he will soon say that it isn't so.

Churches are supposed to be of the city of God rather than of the city of man. Letting the evolutionist, liberal, secularian theological viewpoint promote itself further with Communist-approved loyalist bishops would be another substantial blot on the papal, record; the other being moral anemia in a leadership position on the homosexual marriage issue when it was a live grenade.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliviaenos/2018/09/14/religious-freedom-for-chinas-catholics-imperiled-if-vatican-deal-is-inked/#4e470bfa63cd

Catholic bishops become cardinals that elect popes. China has a large population and could potentially have a lot of communist bishops and cardinals becoming electors. One day the Catholic Church could have an atheist Chicom Pope if the Catholic church chooses to go after quantity instead of quality.

The Church should not conform itself to the world. If it loses truth in believing it can define it, what value has it then except to the secularian unprincipled? Peter said the saved do not sin and he was right. That is they are justified and have no legal accountability for sin even while their sanctification to be more Christ-like is a project continuing for the balance of their lives. To accept secularian doctrines like homosexuality and abortion enables the Church to deceive the masses and exacerbates the problem of sin. Bringing people into the Church with deceit is to effectually lie; and that is a sin in many cases too. 

Inforwars Still Exists; Just Not on Big Social Media

The social media giants are something like the Dar al Islam vs the Dar al Harb having pacified FB, Apple and Twitter by removing Infowars platforms making the environment a safe zone for the globalist left who refuse to transition to nationalist environmentalist with full-employment ecological economic policy.

  Alex Jones' Inforwars site is https://www.infowars.com/

Answering the Question; Is Google Biased to the Left?

Laura Ingraham's video provides some fairly explicit evidence.

The Last Times According to Jesus (12 videos)

The Rev R.C. Sproul of Ligonier Ministries presented a good 12 video course- free to watch on-line- on the last times according to Jesus. The last times concerning when Jesus will return, is called eschatology. Rev. Sproul is a discursive educator providing informative material.

https://www.ligonier.org/learn/series/last_days_according_to_jesus/crisis-in-eschatology/?

Blitz Chess (3M) vs Scandinavian Defense

Board analysis shows that the player with fewer blunders won. More than a dozen blunders combined. I played white.

Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Conner McGregor Fight

The October 6 M.M.A. lightweight title fight is interesting tactically. Each fighter is well conditioned and with different training. The 154 pounders each are title holders.

In McGregor's recent fight for a title,  McGregor's counterpunching clobbered Alvarez 3 or 4 times, and he fell down each time. The Mayweather fight prep and loss might have helped McGregor better his counterpunching skills. 

Khabib is a two time combat sambo world champion and that art is pretty good for sweeping legs I guess. He has a black belt in Judo, maybe with some Brazilian Judo skill thrown in- who knows- it's good for the ground game. It's hard to imagine that Khabib can't get break through McGregor's long jab that is employed like the jab of post-Joe Louis boxers. Like good fighters from Ray Robinson to Ali  and Holmes... If one watches a highlight of Khabib's fights, one sees that his opponents were very hard to put down, and wouldn't stay down.

House Bans Dog and Cat Eats; Hates Cattle

The Congress hates cattle enough to allow them to be slaughtered and made for barbeque yet has taken care of dogs and cats providing special protected status for them. The House has outlawed dogs and cats from being made into dog burgers and cat crackers, snacks and fries.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-bans-eating-of-cats-dogs/

The Hindu wing of the Republican Party venerates dogs and cats as sacred, and disregarding the Petrine genius (all non human things are freely edible-Acts 10:11), thinks they aren't fit for restaurant menus. 

There are some down sides to the measure. For one thing I know of a few bike chasing, Achilles tendon biting pit bulls in Georgia that would be tasty on toast with hot sauce and fixins. They deserve the hors d'oeuvres penalty. Cats make good eagle snacks yet are really for the poor if starvation overtakes them, or if some kind of clothing for a global winter were required all of a sudden.

Excessive government regulation in the Republican-controlled House means that Democrats won't be able to put low-fat dog and cat treats on public school lunch programs.

It really was crass for the Congress to disregard seals and other mammals in the national waters from protection from being eaten when they mostly are smarter than dogs and cats. Seals deserve consideration since they really are smart and are suffering so much from humans eating their food. Whale eating should be prevented with a life sentence listening to REM for those that violate their peace and tranquility in the bays and American ocean waters, and maybe a little electro-shock conditioning to avoid eating whales.

Dogs that chase deer might be considered for exclusion from the special protection. Deer have rights too; or could.

Why Northerners Opted to End Slavery

The United States was about democracy and social equality from inception. In the late 18th century it was nearly alone in that regard. Slavery is the antinomy of freedom and implicitly inimical to democracy. It is a danger to free men.
The world governments of that era were royal with kings and queens, except for the United States. Forming the nation wasn’t easy. It required revolution, National independence came first, perfecting the union of free states need be achieved later.

At the time of the revolution all British colonial entities allowed slavery. During the revolution some states began the practice of ending slavery. After ratification of the U.S. constitution in 1788, many New England States were free states while southern states that regarded African slaves as capital assets were known as slave states

Some historians have the opinion that northerners regarded slavery as a reinforcement to the paradigm of oligarchic and aristocratic political forms. It was viewed as a threat to democracy. Britain continued to be a primary threat to the existence of the United States. After burning the U.S. capital in prosecuting the War of 1812 wasn’t successful in reestablishing British dominion in America outside of Canada England, continued to find the south a weak underbelly to work mischief upon. Northern states had a protectionist trade policy concerning Britain for much of the period. Though most Brits that weren’t members of elites opposed slavery, Britain sold trade goods vital to the south during the war. Liverpool was the main port of export to the slave states. 

http://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/liverpools-abercromby-square/britain-and-us-civil-war

The free state-slave state duality continued while the nation grew in the first half of the 19th century. Laws passed by the federal government had priority over state laws. Some federal laws inflamed states citizens over a half century concerning slavery issues. The wikipedia relates this time line on select slavery issues, as well as one from England…

“The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, a law passed by the United States Congress. The Slave Trade Act of 1794, a law passed by the United States Congress. The Slave Trade Act 1807, an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, a United States federal law from 1807.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Trade_Act_of_1794

As these laws were implemented the effects were substantial. The fugitive slave act in particular was onerous and offensive to northerners because it seemed to directly contradict their liberty and opinion; it required that escaped southern slaves that were in free states be returned to the southern slavers. An upgraded Slave Act in 1850 is regarded as a proximal cause for the civil war. It was an issue that was critical for liberty concerning not only slavery, but the power of elites and aristocrats over democracy.

Southern states couldn’t tolerate states that harbored escaped slaves, and northerners could not tolerate giving up people to slave states. There was still much Christian opinion in the nation in those days concerning the equality of mankind. Northern Christians regarded Africans as human rather than as capital, while some southern Christian leaders such as General Gordon, used wrong Biblical hermeneutics to support their opinions justifying slave ownership. The south sought secession rather than to have their rights to own and control slaves reduced, and war ensued. The war was fought not simply to end slavery. It was also fought to keep the United States and democracy from falling apart and sinking back into the vast human historical establishment of subjects ruled by rich, powerful elites.

Russians (600 Accounts) Violated US Proprietary Twits

Special issues such as Obamacare cannot be mentioned on Twitter or Facebook without consensus or stakehold of Democrat Party boss and Vigilante Media Watchdog. Twitter and Facebook are for Americans only; foreigners have no right to read American twits, much less twit for-themselves or post articles on American topics on Facebook. These corporations have been secure U.S. traditional venues since before Will Rogers crashed in Alaska.

In the days of WC Fields, Americans respected twits and mugbook without worry about foreign interference and comment sabotage. Now spooks tossed out of San Francisco under Boris and Natasha have taken to clandestine posts and tweets to subvert American way of life and pollute precious bodily fluids.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nearly-600-russia-linked-accounts-tweeted-about-the-health-law-1536744638

https://www.cnet.com/news/at-facebook-and-twitter-hearings-congress-needs-to-bring-its-a-game/

Pres Trump's Florence Reaction May Sway Mid-Term Election

If President Trump has a blitzkrieg ready for relief from the mass disaster of Hurricane Florence Republicans may narrowly hold on to both houses of Congress. If the response is mundane, though defensible, the pathos and propaganda will kick Republicans in the gut.  FEMA should be ready for a global warming era mega-disaster even if it is only a normal one.

http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/406207-five-reasons-not-to-underestimate-hurricane-florence

The Federal response to take the high ground on positive p.r. with a quality rapid reaction force to beat down suffering and loss, quick rebuild and etc should be overwhelming. The first lady should visit within ten days of the eyewall reaching the shore to provide a morale boost. Rope a dope just won't work before election day. A Marciano knock out uppercut and left hook need impact the malaise across the region putting down for the count lack of coordinated response. Just waiting several rounds to let the opponent tire itself would let disaster stories multiply.