The Topsy-Turvy World of Trump

First there was this:

Trump's EPA pick rejects climate science, 

fights for fossil fuels

It gets worse.

Trump's EPA pick has fought vehemently ... 

against the EPA

And then there's Betsy DeVos, Trump's pick to head Education:

I'm telling you, folks, God help us.

That Feb. 15 announcement from the Vatican and Pope

I had written here, earlier, that there was expected to be an announcement this past Friday, February 15 from the Vatican, regarding the Pope, after his resignation. The ITCCS, the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State, made the following announcement, after the Vatican's:

Exclusive Breaking News: Friday February 15, 2013
12 midnight GMT

An Urgent Update from the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) – Brussels

Rome:

In a statement to Reuters today, Vatican officials announced that Joseph Ratzinger will remain a permanent resident of Vatican City after his resignation. Doing so will offer him legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him in connection with sexual abuse cases around the world, Church sources said today "His continued presence in the Vatican is necessary, otherwise he might be defenseless".

This startling admission of guilt by the church is also a direct obstruction of justice, and lends more weight to the charge by the ITCCS and others that the Vatican has arranged with the Italian government to shield Ratzinger from criminal prosecution, in violation of international laws ratified by Italy.

Commentary:

The Vatican decided today to give permanent sanctuary to a proven war criminal by allowing Joseph Ratzinger to obstruct justice and evade prosecution for crimes against humanity. And the government of Italy is colluding in this abrogation of international law.
This decision validates our claims about the criminal conspiracy surrounding Ratzinger and his Vatican co-conspirators. It also makes it clear that the Vatican is a rogue power that is flaunting every law to conceal its own criminality.

In response, the ITCCS calls upon its affiliates and all people of conscience to use our upcoming Easter Reclamation Campaign to converge on Rome and the Vatican to force the extradition of Ratzinger from Vatican City, and place him and his accessories on trial for crimes against humanity.

Commencing Sunday, March 24, 2013, our activists and others will begin an escalating series of Catholic church occupations and seizures of church property to bring about Ratzinger's extradition and reclaim stolen wealth from the criminal corporation known as Vatican Inc. – in the name of the legion of their victims, both living and dead.

.. and from Kevin Annett – The Rat Scurries Back to Vat!

Those whom the gods destroy, they first drive insane. Especially, it seems, in Rome.

Why would the oldest and wealthiest institution on our planet deliberately prove what its critics say about it, by first tossing their leader, a proven crook, out of his office after he's threatened with arrest, and then giving him shelter to avoid prosecution? That's the kind of panic and illogic displayed by a junior document-shredder, not a credible or wise body of men.

And that gives all of us hope.

Rome's incredible admission that they can't have the Pope stand trial has strengthened our cause and legitimacy enormously,  proving that no matter how big is your guilty opponent, provoking him for long enough will cause him to destroy himself by his own fear and stupidity.

Protecting Ratzinger within the walls of the Vatican may halt justice for a moment, but it violates a basic rule of warfare, which is to never give your enemy a permanent focus for their attack.

Ratzinger, the evil Emperor, now a permanent fixture in the Vatican? The absurdity of offering such an ongoing focus to the civilized world's hatred of catholic criminality is also a sign that the church is adrift and improvising. But it also shows how genuinely worried is the Vtaican about the legal offensive mounted by our affiliates, lawyers for torture survivors, and the International Criminal Court.

The Vatican is pulling out all stops to keep Ratzinger out of court. Their loyal, one-man owned Italian media is assaulting the crap out of yours truly and our ITCCS these days, playing the "Deny, Distract and Discredit" strategy of any damage-controlling corporation.

Tottering Liz Windsor, aka Queen of England, is making a special and unprecedented trip to Rome on March 6 to kiss the ring, or other parts, of the new CEO of Vatican Inc. And Italian President Napolitano is meeting with President Obama today in Washington to undoubtedly line up more American backing for the Pontiff – not that Obama needs much encouraging, having stood loyally behind Ratzinger's claim of "diplomatic immunity".

But all to no avail, ultimately. When the Bloody Emperor stands naked, only our illusions keeps him protected and immune from the final accounting that is coming.

The tornado that followed my first exorcism outside the Vatican in 2009, and the lightning that struck it on the day of Benedict's resignation, were not accidental. Joe Ratzinger should know from the history of his own former SS buddies that criminal institutions can run, but they can't hide – even behind all the wealth and pomp in the world.

Link:  http://itccs.org/

If this guy were a Catholic Priest, he'd be "free and clear"

Let that be a lesson to him. From the Star today, it seems, well, let them tell it: Dane pleads guilty in child porn case linked to Missouri girl, 11 KANSAS CITY--A Danish man who induced an 11-year-old Missouri girl to send him nude pictures pleaded guilty to child pornography charges this morning in federal court. Kai Lundstroem Pedersen, 61, also pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Kansas City to a charge of extortion for threatening to disseminate the images if the girl did not continue to communicate with him over the Internet. Pedersen is expected to face a sentence of 15 to 30 years in prison as part of the plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Heck, if he were a Catholic Priest, he'd merely be "reassigned." Link: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/09/06/3123958/dane-pleads-guilty-in-child-porn.html

10 years ago, he probably would have gotten away with it

There is an article in The Star today about a Catholic Seminary student in St. Louis who was charged "with attempting to receive child pornography. Nickolas E. Pinkston, 40, had been attending Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis and leading confirmation classes for seventh- and eighth-graders at a Catholic elementary school in St. Louis. He allegedly attempted to receive the porn through the mail between mid-May and mid-October in 2010." Sad thing is, if it were even only about 5 or more years ago? He probably would never have been even caught, let alone charged with any crime. Link: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/07/14/3014029/st-louis-seminary-student-charged.html

The stupid coming out of Jeff City, part II

Sometimes it's just difficult to believe what people come up with.

Case in point:

Proposal: Missouri parents to get public money for religious schools 


JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A state House member wants to amend the Missouri Constitution to let parents receive public funding to send children to religious schools.


The proposal by Republican Jay Barnes, of Jefferson City, would repeal a prohibition on public money going to religious schools. If approved by the full House and Senate, it would go on a statewide ballot.


Barnes's measure would allow parents to get a state stipend to help pay for their child's education at a religious school or any other accredited school outside of their assigned district. The stipend would be equal to the amount of state and local funding a public school would have received for their child.


The proposed amendment would also let the government donate money or items to religious schools, but not real estate.


Well, isn't that comforting?  It would "let the government donate money or items to religious schools but not real estate."  What a relief that is.  At least we're not giving them real estate, too.


Let's realize religion for what it is in America, too, by the way.  It's a business with very little overhead since most of the workers or staff are volunteers, the money comes in at least every week and, finally, it's all tax-deductible.


And now we're going to give them money, too?


I have to get in that racket, I have to tell you.


Then, this is to "amend the State Constitution"?


What about the much older, national Constitution the country is based on?  Don't you think we should amend that, first?


What part of "separation of church and state" do these people not get?


You want to know what the biggest problem with this is, folks?


Sure, you start by putting this in the constitution and you begin giving "money or items to religious schools" because right now, what you're thinking is those nice Christian, Protestant and Catholic. right?  Right?


But down the road, when a Muslim or Buddhist or Zen or Wiccan school wants y'all to pony up some money, watch all the hypocrites down there in Jeff City--and all over the state, really--go blood-red-in-the-face-crazy because they don't want their money going THERE.


Besides the fact that in case no one was noticing, we have a budget crisis already.  Why would we start giving "money or other items" to one more group in a time of budget deficits?


And these people, these Republicans, are fiscal conservatives?  


I don't think so.


Link to original post:  http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Proposal-Missouri-parents-to-get-public-money-for-religious-schools-116298019.html

Donations on the Country Club Plaza---really?

It seems a huge juxtaposition to see a clearly wealthy and beautifully appointed and coiffed woman with several beautiful and beautifully, rather expensively-clothed children on a street corner on the Plaza asking for financial donations. It happens repeatedly. They're obviously from a family--or some families--of some means but they ask for donations for their school. Wth? Seriously? And why would I do this? You choose to have your children go to a private, again, not-inexpensive school and you request assistance for the school? Uh, no. I don't think so. This would be another in a long line of definitions of the word "chutzpah". Have a great weekend, y'all.