2015 Year in Review, Pile of Prep

Mandeville, LA – Today’s Pile of Prep: most of the stories and research used to put together the Mike Church Show on the Veritas Radio Network’s CRUSADE Channel. The week between New Years and Christmas is always a dullard when it comes to news stories but it is a great time to tune up on intellectual content and celebrate The Octave of Christmas (yes! it IS still Christmas) and today to tune in to my 2015 YEAR IN REVIEW & Look Ahead. ” I said that our mental ruin has been wrought by wild reason, not by wild imagination. A man does not go mad because he makes a statue a mile high, but he may go mad by thinking it out in square inches. Now, one school of thinkers has seen this and jumped at it as a way of renewing the pagan health of the world. They see that reason destroys; but Will, they say, creates. The ultimate authority, they say, is in will, not in reason. The supreme point is not why a man demands a thing, but the fact that he does demand it. I have no space to trace or expound this philosophy of Will. It came, I suppose, through Nietzsche, who preached something that is called egoism. That, indeed, was simpleminded enough; for Nietzsche denied egoism simply by preaching it. To preach anything is to give it away. First, the egoist calls life a war without mercy, and then he takes the greatest possible trouble to drill his enemies in war. To preach egoism is to practise altruism. But however it began, the view is common enough in current literature. The main defence of these thinkers is that they are not thinkers; they are makers. They say that choice is itself the divine thing.” – G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

DeceptiCONNED – This is what boilerplate “conservatism” looks like in print. It says all the right things, proposes all the right remedies and actually makes some common sense HOWEVER this piece is also pie-in-the-sky sentimentality that doesn’t acknowledge the staggering lack of intellectual and philosophical talent missing from the “conservative ranks” that would be charged with leading the political class toward “smaller government”. We might find this intellectual gravitas via Philosophia Perrennis and through its practitioners like….

… DECEPTICONNED NO MORE. IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATIVE GEORGE PANICHAS TO THE RESCUE – Panichas is back (we had him on the Mike Church Show in the old country i 2012) with another magnificent essay that is heavy on the condemnation of Big War “conservatism” that requires little brain and a lot of macho-man brawn. If you have watched the GOP debates, recoiling in the blood-lusting horror on display, here begins the remedy. Read Panichas as a prep for the intellectual and philosophical task ahead in 2016. “The word conservatism has been so much relativized that its meaning and import are now shorn of noetic and dialectical validity. Even those who are steadfastly loyal to conservative principles and ideas are uneasy and defensive when applying and defending them. It is becoming painfully obvious that conservatism, as a word, has lost its compelling power—its definition confined, exponentially, to prefixes, ellipses, brackets, and adjectival equivocations, even as its essential properties have been annexed and manipulated”

DARTH VADER TURNS HAN SOLO OVER TO GAL QUEDA – Harrison Ford was paid a lot more money than Daisy Ridley to appear in the new Star Wars movie and that has Gal Queda shrieking “foul!!!!”. But wait a minute, Ford actually HAS a career and starring in the first 3 Star Wars movies is on his resume. What does Ridley have on hers? Maybe Ford should respond by claiming he is “trans-aging”, a young actor trapped in a decaying geezer’s body, and demand not only the superior pay but some compulsory, verbal respect from angry, ugly women!?

RON PAUL: WILL 2016 BE THE YEAR PEACE REIGNS OVER ‘MURICAH? – This is the same question I have been asking every New Years Eve since 2008 and every year, the bellicosity of the ferocious American Empire and its armchair generalissimos in Congress has spiked save for one brief retreat after Romney’s crushing defeat in 2012-13. Perhaps the drive for peace must begin with each of our “peace missions” to be executed toward our friends and family and poisonous social media and the Judgement Pornosphere™ it creates.

DID YOU KNOW? – That there is ONE remaining Christian Prince that hails from the Arabian Middle East? This interview will help you get to know Prince Gasanîda and what his plans are to warn the West about Islam’s current rise.

THE WAR ON CHRISTIANITY IS REAL, DRIVEN BY THE MYTH OF A GOOD CHRISTENDOM – Daily Beast essayist Jay Michaelson claims that the “war on Christianity” is a result of the Myth that there ever was a “Christianity” that was a force for good in Europe and then in ‘Muricah. That the “myth” is what’s driving the “war” narrative and the scapegoating of gays and lesbians. “Even when the church controlled half the wealth in Europe, it styled itself as the flock of the poor and the marginalized. Whether true or not as a matter of fact, it is absolutely true as a matter of myth.”

WAR IS HECK, EVEN FOR ‘MURICANS – CNN poll reveals that ‘Muricans aren’t expressing buyer satisfaction with the prosecution of “The War on Terror”. This should come as no surprise seeing that the war was never officially declared, has no set goals, no terms under which a surrender could be negotiated thus no hope for what a victory would entail. The guts of the poll are here.

BUCHANAN – The end is near for the European Union, both as a political entity and as a grouping of populations of people. “The enclaves of Asians in Britain, Africans and Arabs around Paris, and Turks in and around Berlin seem to be British, French, and German in name only. And some of their children are now heeding the call to jihad against the Crusaders invading Muslim lands.”

DUDE LOOKS LIKE A LADY AND MUST BE CALLED “MA’AM – NYC Human Rights Commission is issuing rules that provide for fines up to $250,000 for businesses that mis-state the gender of the in-process transgenders; denying facilities to men claiming to be women and mandatory dress code policies that apply equally to men and women meaning if Stella wears wigs and red lipstick to work then Stan must be allowed to wear red lipstick and wigs to work too.

THE COURAGEOUS, VIRTUOUS AND BOLD ALSO DIE – Mrs Solange Hertz, an author who dares to go where others will not without the fear of being denied by major publishing houses. I have read Solange Hertz for the last 2 years and will join her family in praying for her soul.

Our Christmas Gift To You: A Dramatic Reading of The Nativity of Christ According to St Matthew. Narrated by Mike Church, produced by Jimm Mosher and Mike Church for Veritas Radio Network

Our Second Christmas Gift To You: A Dramatic Reading of The conception of John the Baptist, and of Christ. The visitation and canticle of the Blessed Virgin. The birth of the Baptist and the canticle of Zachary.. Narrated by Mike Church, produced by Jimm Mosher and Mike Church for Veritas Radio Network

VIDEO OF REAL PRESIDENT CELEBRATING “JESUS” CHRISTMAS IN WHITEHOUSE – In 1981, President Reagan delivered the following televised address to the nation and that would be the first of 8 such addresses. Note that Reagan, possibly for the last term, actually uttered the name of Our Lord “Jesus” in his Christmas message. In 2009 I wrote a parody song set to Mrs Robinson that contained the following line:

Where have you gone Ron Wilson Reagan

Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo hoo hoo

What’s that you say Mr Madison

The Gipper has left and gone away

And we prayed, wish he stayed

Indeed, my friends, indeed.

The Advent carol we’ve been looking for here, all week, comes to us in the form of a book written on the origins of the prison. Yeah, I know, but Eve Tushnet actually makes a nice case for reconciliation this Christmas. “The life of each saint is the life of Jesus Christ.” De Caussade calls us to the “duty of the present moment” and even “the sacrament of the present moment.” Our dossier means nothing in the face of our present choice, each moment, to cling to self-image or to abandon ourselves to God’s will.”

DeceptiCONNED by his own unJust War deception – How Rick Santorum has boxed himself into an unelectable corner, since 2006, over his obsession with unJust war, never-ending and never effective

CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA OBAMA (over Yemen and war-crimes) – The Obama admin demolishes the “leading from behind” bumper sticker that war-lusting GOP hawks and Hillary have been peddling as the carnage wrought in Yemen by Obama’s war-machine, in cahoots with our Islamic pals in Saudi Arabia, becomes lethally clear.

TOP 10 RELIGIOUS LIBERTY COUNTDOWN – The problem here is the “liberty” described is either to be put on trial or has been put on trial and found wanting. If you’re looking for the top religious liberty event of the year look for those who have advanced the faith at their own expense of wealth and reputation…as The Truth commanded us to do.

BUCHANAN: ISLAM WILL CONQUER IF IT IS NOT THEOLOGICALLY OPPOSED. Patric J Buchanan asks why Mrs Clinton is so gung-ho to import hundreds of thousands of Islam practicing “refugees” when the historical record and the late-great historians agree, where Islam dominates, Sharia becomes the secular law, end of story. This would not matter to the agnostic or in Hillary’s case, apostasy practicers whose use of religion mocks the supernatural to achieve the natural.

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES – Witness the predicted results of “religion” becoming an intellectual exercise that is completely subjective and has rejected the known Truth as its basis.

THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS HAVE SECRET MEANINGS– And you’ll never guess what those meanings are from watching Bad Santa or listening to the Pogues alleged Christmas song “New York fairy Tale Christmas”

PAGAN DRUIDS AND SCROOGES BEGONE! YES, it can be proven using the historical record, that St john The Baptist was born at the end of June (24th) and that Christ was born 6 months later (December 24-25). This is not “an arbitrary date chosen by the Catholic Church to squash a pagan ritual”, the facts, stated in the Gospel of Luke and the known Jewish calendar at the time say that Dec. 25th is the correct date for the birth of Our Lord. Read the whole thing here.

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Host of the Mike Church Show on The Veritas Radio Network's CRUSADE Channel & Founder of the Veritas Radio Network. Formerly, of Sirius/XM's Patriot channel 125. The show began in March of 2003 exclusively on Sirius and remains "the longest running radio talk show in satellite radio history".

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