PRAY FOR OUR ELECTION

 CONSECRATION OF THE ELECTION TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

 Mary Immaculate, living tabernacle of the Divinity, where the eternal Wisdom lies hidden to be adored and served by angels and men, Queen of heaven and of earth, beneath whose sway are subject all things that are lower than God, Patroness of the United States of America, sorrowful and mindful of our own sinfulness and the sins of our nation, we come to thee, our refuge and hope. 

Knowing that our country cannot be saved by our own works and mindful of how much our nation has departed from the ways of thy Son, we humbly ask that thou wouldst turn thine eyes upon our country to bring about its conversion. 

We consecrate to thee the integrity of the upcoming election and its outcome, so that what is spiritually and morally best for the citizens of our country may be accomplished, and that all of those who are elected would govern according to the spiritual and moral principles which will bring our nation into conformity with the teachings of thy Son. 

Give grace to the citizens of this land so that they will choose leaders according to the Sacred Heart of thy Son, that His glory may be made manifest, lest we be given the leaders we deserve. 

Trusting in the providential care of God the Father and thy maternal care, we have perfect confidence that thou wilst take care of us and will not leave us forsaken. 

O Mary Immaculate, pray for us. Amen

With the Swipe of My Pen.....

 Last night, ABC hosted a debate between President Trump and VP Harris.  This was a well and typically hyped-up event with the "make or break" mentality for both sides.  At stake here, is missed who are the real winners or losers:  We The People.

During this debate which was already preset to make sure one won and the other losing quite massively.  However, there were moments that rang with possibilities of good opportunity to say what needed to be said for all who were watching.

At one point, the ABC person asked President Trump whether he thinks Harris is black.  He, at first, said he didn't care what color she was.  Which was applaudable, since it had nothing to do with the country, his plan for us and what we wanted, needed, etc.  But unfortunately, he took the bait and went on about the details of this ridiculous subject.  What he NEEDED to say was this:

This question has nothing to do with the people of this great country, we need to talk about what we need to be doing for the people.  I would like to address the 40 plus executive orders that, on day 1 of the Biden administration were signed which completely unraveled all that my administration accomplished for the country.  With a SWIPE of his Pen, thousands of American workers had not job, families were left with no income and an unknown future, the wall construction ended, leaving thousands of illegals, strangers, and whoever else to enter into our country to cause all kinds of damage.  With a swipe of his pen, sanctions, treaties, and legislature was reversed, ended, or just stopped in order to make a point that they were now in charge.  All that I and my administration accomplished was destroyed as if I had done nothing right for the country.  I am a successful businessman with many contracts, business deals, companies, and I employ thousands of people.  Families are thriving under my companies, and I wanted that for the American family.

The American families deserve more than what is happening to them with this current administration.  The democrats have had the reigns for 12 of the past 16 years in this country and what have we to show for it.  President Trump wants for our country what we deserve:  prosperity, protection, and possibilities for a bright future without wars, high cost of living, and illegals stealing jobs, and the threat of foreign countries destroying our property and welfare.

Waking up this morning after enduring the debate, I feel depressed and helpless under a destructive administration run by people that are out to take down the greatest experiment the world has ever seen.  What an accomplishment that would be for these to take over such a place as America.  They would own it and us and we would be subjects not citizens. 

How dare they!!??

A Catholic Culture Article worth reading and passing along...... READ TO THE END!!!

 

Media malpractice

By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | Feb 15, 2024

     

Have you been reading the stories in the mainstream media (MM) about the mass protests by European farmers? Have you been seeing footage of the huge caravans—the hundreds of tractors lined up in demonstrations, in one capital city after another?

You haven’t? Neither have I. The truth is that mainstream media coverage of the farmers’ protests has been hard to find.

And that’s hard to understand, at first glance, because this is a very important story. (It is a photogenic story, too. Those caravans of agricultural equipment make for very dramatic television images; network producers should be anxious to show them.) The protests, and the popular resentments they embody, threaten to bring down governments in several different European countries. The issues raised by the farmers’ demonstrations are absolutely central to the most important political and moral discussion of our time.

European political leaders are determined to cut carbon emissions, and to that end have approved draconian new policies. Farmers warn that the stiff regulations will put them out of business—and if farmers go out of business, everyone goes hungry. So which is the greater threat: climate change or food shortages?

This is a vitally important question. But if you had been following the news in the mainstream media over the past few weeks, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was more important to know whether Taylor Swift would arrive on time for the Super Bowl.

The farmers’ arguments are fairly straightforward. If it becomes prohibitively expensive to raise crops, crops will not be raised. If crops are not raised, people will go hungry. So the aggressively “green” new government policies entail serious human costs.

The arguments for those new policies, on the other hand, are complex, resting on a series of unproven hypotheses: that human action is largely responsible for climate change; that a radical cutback in carbon emissions will curb the symptoms of climate change; that strict regulations will not lead to food shortages. The “green” policies are proposed on the basis of computer models and projections. The arguments against them can be reduced to a simple moral imperative: Feed the hungry.

Why, then, are the mainstream media reluctant to tell the story and to encourage the public debate? Could it be because the most influential forces in the world of journalism are fully committed to the drive to reduce climate change, and so the farmers’ arguments are inconvenient to their purposes? Yet the deliberate suppression of an uncongenial story would be a form of media malpractice.

Unfortunately such malpractice has become increasingly common in recent years—and not only for the mainstream media. We now know that the giant corporations of the social media, acting on the wishes of the White House, suppressed any reports skeptical of the Covid crisis or the efficacy of vaccines. In fact we are still waiting for any sign of media curiosity about the sudden spike in all-causes deaths—and particularly the rise of unexplained deaths of previously healthy young people—that has occurred since the epidemic receded.

Until recently (last week, actually) mainstream outlets paid no attention to the stumbles and hesitations and mental lapses that suggested a decline in President Biden’s mental fitness. Even now many reports view the matter as a purely partisan issue, and lean heavily toward the White House insistence that Biden is as sharp as ever. A recent CNN analysis of the Biden re-election campaign framed the story in sympathetic—yet revealing—terms:

Top aides have set the strategy that the president need not play the Washington news cycle game of constant appearances that risk embarrassing flubs…

The mention of a “Washington news-cycle game” might look like a self-deprecating reference to the voracious appetite of the media—including CNN. But the notion that a presidential candidate would “risk embarrassing flubs” whenever he faced a video camera is surely a novelty. Political candidates ordinarily crave media exposure. And a candidate who wants to inspire confidence in his ability to handle world crises should not lack the confidence necessary to handle impromptu questions from reporters. But that CNN analysis is implicitly setting the stage for a campaign strategy that shelters Biden from potentially damaging public appearances.

Because more and more frequently, that’s what the mainstream media do: Protect their preferred candidates and causes from inconvenient stories.  

Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org. See full bio.