Monday Pile of Prep-Meet The Gender Unicorn

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. 2016 is here and WELCOME to the All-New, Mike Church Show on the CRUSADE Channel, listen LIVE for Free (don’t cost nuthin’).

Sapientia et Veritas -“What if the Apocalypse is not an event, but a long, drawn-out process? What if rather than the drama of a rapture, we get the dread of a ceaselessly droning Ann Coulter or Rachel Maddow? What if the tyrants marked with the sign of the beast turn out to be elevator operators who love Muzak? What if the four riders of the apocalypse turn out to be Friends, MTV’s Real World, The O’Reilly Factor, and Game of Thrones? What if the Anti-Christ turns out to be the manager of Denny’s no. 3778, located in St. Paul, Minnesota? What if the seven seals turn out to be the best-selling paperbacks at the Detroit airport bookstore—that one right next to gate A37? What if the seven trumpets appear in some big band-polka revival group making its way through the charts of a Sheboygan, Wisconsin AM-station?“ – Brad Brizer, The Imaginative Conservative

No, You Can NOT Be “Pro-Life AND Pro Hillary – If you don’t study Philosophia Perennis but want a textbook case of illogic and pathetic Christian Ethics, then read this: “I’m pro-life. And I’m voting for Hillary. Here’s why.” If you’re voting for Hillary you are, by your informed consent, granting license to the taking of life that has already occurred (Mrs Clinton has supported NARAL publicly and legislatively since 1992) and the taking of life she has promised to continue to occur AND fund with your $$$ (the DNC Platform Hillary agreed to calls for a repeal of the Hyde Amendment). The teaching on this matter and the Reason it is imbued with are as clear as filtered water on what choices the “pro-life Christian” must make. Read my full article on this here.

Ireland To Hillary: The The Unborn DO Have Rights – In a ruling by the Irish high court, the rights of Irish citizens extend into their gestation in their mother’s wombs: “Mr Justice Humphreys said many of those rights were “actually effective” rather than merely prospective. He also said that Article 42a of the Constitution, inserted by a 2012 referendum, obliges the State to protect “all” children and that because an “unborn” is “clearly a child”, Article 42a applied to all children “both before and after birth”.

DeceptiCONNED: The “Conservative” Echo Chamber – There is no “conservative” media empire and no “majority conservatism” in ‘Muricah. The “Conservative” echo chamber cannot tell you that because you may leave them, their think tank, talk-radio and other media hacks for more intellectual pastures (if you can find them!).

Yes, Charlotte, There IS A Gender Unicorn – The HB2 non-controversy began in Charlotte NC with that city’s Council passing its “bathroom ordinance” mandating that all public facilities accommodate the “gender” of the user’s choice, meaning 43 year old pervert males were using bathrooms previously reserved for 12 year old girls, HB2 was the NC Legislature’s reaction. Now comes the Charlotte Mecklenburg School System’s new “Gender Unicorn” curriculum and policy. With the death of federalism and the rise of ‘Muricanism, this sinister policy will spread via lawsuit to every public-school district in the land; to the detriment of the very children it purports to “make comfortable”.

Yes, Charlotte, There IS A Gender Unicorn II – If you doubt the authenticity of the above, here is the CMS’s “Supporting Transgender Students”, official policy guide.

An Olympic Sized Vault For The Faith – Little Simone Biles is dazzling the world with her gymnastics skills but what is even more dazzling is Biles’ story which includes her membership in the Catholic Church and a secret you won’t see NBC’s Heather Cox or Bob Costas mention under penalty of career termination: she carries a Holy Rosary with her.

Art Imitates Life Death As In The Culture of Death – Serbian “performance artist” Marian Abramovic wants women to know that careers and artworks are the REAL work women are born to do and impediments to this work, including bearing children, must be cleared from the road to perdition. Ms. Abramovic has had THREE abortions and terms them as “helpful” to her career: “In my opinion [children are] the reason why women aren’t as successful as men in the art world. There’s plenty of talented women. Why do men take over the important positions? It’s simple. Love, family, children—a woman doesn’t want to sacrifice all of that.”

No, Hillary Is Not Reaganesque, Rod – Orators have a tough job and the best ones can read from a prepared text and no one will know that they were reading and not ad-libbing their words. Ronald Reagan was such an orator, Pat Buchanan is such an orator, Patrick Henry was the greatest of these orators, Hillary Clinton is not Henry, not Buchanan and most certainly not Reagan. Rod Dreher at the AmConMag site thinks that HRC appeared and spoke like Reagan. If that was true, then who is the shrill, crescendo of the siren, I have been hearing all morning in highlights? Reagan, no, 24 years in over staying her unwelcome 15 minutes of “fame”, yes. And no amount of bumper sticker lines for 9 year old motivation classes can undo that.

It Takes A Village of 6th Graders – I ran Mrs. Clinton’s coronation speech through the Flecsh Kincaid text analyzer to gauage what audience she was speaking to, measured by years of education it takes to understand the speech or work. Recall that Thomas Jefferson’s inaugural State of the Union address required 23 years of education to grasp while President Obama’s 2012 SOTU required only a 7th grade education. Here are Mrs Clinton’s scores:

Number of characters (without spaces) : 23,336.00
Number of words : 5,381.00
Number of sentences : 420.00
Average number of characters per word : 4.34
Average number of syllables per word : 1.45
Average number of words per sentence: 12.81
Indication of the number of years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading
Gunning Fog index : 8.53
Approximate representation of the U.S. grade level needed to comprehend the text :
Coleman Liau index : 7.40
Flesch Kincaid Grade level : 6.46
ARI (Automated Readability Index) : 5.40
SMOG : 9.26
Flesch Reading Ease : 71.58

While Trumpzilla Roared to 10th graders – Now, let’s run the same experiment with Donald Trump’s acceptance speech and learn that Trump spoke to a more educated, erudite audience than the doyenne of the elite did. Now, who is it that is speaking and speaking to knuckle dragging neanderthals?

Number of characters (without spaces) : 20,354.00
Number of words : 4,435.00
Number of sentences : 270.00
Average number of characters per word : 4.59
Average number of syllables per word : 1.57
Average number of words per sentence: 16.43
Indication of the number of years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading
Gunning Fog index : 11.77
Approximate representation of the U.S. grade level needed to comprehend the text :
Coleman Liau index : 9.41
Flesch Kincaid Grade level : 9.29
ARI (Automated Readability Index) : 8.40
SMOG : 11.71
Flesch Reading Ease : 57.68

The Ruling Elites, In Print, For You To See – If you want to see precisely what I mean when I speak of those occupying that enormous circle that surrounds the tiny one and how the outer circle serves and protects and actually feeds off the bounty provided by the inner circle (the elected political class), then read this editorial from the WaPo’s Dan Balz and all will be clear.

It’s August And The Immodesty Is About To Go Nuclear Because It WENT Nuclear – Venerable Bishop Sheen called out ‘Muricah back in the 1960’s while speaking to a group of young Catholics on “Youth and Sex”: “8:15 in the morning, the 6th of August, 1945, when we flew a military plane over this city, when we dropped that atomic bomb on it; that bomb on blotted out boundaries. There was no longer a boundary between the military and the civilian, between the helper and the helped, between the wounded and the nurse and the doctor, between the living and the dead. For even the living who escaped the bomb were already half dead. So we broke down boundaries and limits and from that time on the world has said we want no one limiting me. … You want no restraint, no boundaries, no limitsI have to do what I want to do. Now let’s analyze that for a moment, is that happiness?”

The Tragedy of Post Christian, Philosophia Perennis Devoid Thinking – Read this piece from AmConMag writer Noah Millman to get a closeup view of why Philosophia Perennis is so desperately needed to corral the erroneous thinking Men are sure to engage in when NOT grounded in the eternal quest for True Wisdom i.s. Sapientia. The issue Noah, is not whether “only the Saints” can live by the Magisterial code, it is that by God’s Grace the Saints DID live the Tradition WHILE receiving the Graces needed to do so. You cannot approach Grace as zero sum, mathematics, as in if I do ______ I will receive ______ “Grace credits” but if I do ______I will have deducted ______ Grace Credits. Grace is present in the world and we are given the supply needed at Baptism, the suffering of the Christian Faithful is simply to maintain the state you enter at Baptism, using the Gospels and the Traditional Teaching as MEANS to that END. As Padré Gaetano tells us in Humility of Heart: “And has not a saint abundant reasons, from the thought of his own weakness, to live always in a state of great humility, when he knows that from one hour to another he may lose the grace of God and the kingdom of heaven which he has merited by years of laboriously-acquired virtues? “Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.”

For an audio version of Jefferson’s [r]epublicanism via Project ’76 Webisode, click here