Primary Prediction: Conservatives and Republicans Will Never Meet Again

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Yesterday I was standing in the yard when the recycling truck came by.  I was surprised because it looks like a garbage truck but there’s only one guy manning it.  Instead of two super athletes running behind dumping cans in the back there’s just one man who steps off his square behind the wheel, bends down and heaves the box of bottles into the side.  Then he putters down to the next house.  The really sad thing is, the poor guy has to wear a dust mask over his mouth, a ‘particulate respirator.’

Do you know how hot, uncomfortable, disorienting, and unhealthy it is to breathe through plastic your entire life?  It might be different if there were a point to it, but there’s no point to this germ-ism except to demonstrate power. It’s not like the man’s a surgeon.  Maybe they’re concerned he may breathe in some microscopic shards of glass in which case they’d have to lower him into a medically-induced coma until they could meet with their team of lawyers.

I feel so bad for people these days.  You order a couple donuts from the girl at the register and she has to pull on a pair of those awful gloves, get the plastic tongs, and pick out your donuts.

In more curbside news, I have a new dog and no fence so now I go on walks.  I’ve never been an admirer of dog walkers.  I can’t tell who’s walking whom.  But what’s worse, I really don’t appreciate the baggies.  Few are in my camp here.  Can’t we have enough respect for each other not to make people walk around with dog poop?  It’s not as if the dogs are messing up your whole yard.  It’s just the edge near the sidewalk.

I know.  My dog’s not your problem, but when did this all start?  People are going to get worms this way.

I knew our way of life was over when they passed the seat belt law to try and stem the mayhem from their explosive air bags.  I was confirmed in my opinion when they forced people to wear silly bike helmets.  That was some years ago.  Today what you might wish to do with your own self is irrelevant.  I will not be surprised to find that in ten years I will have to wear a particulate respirator to walk my dog, if they even have dogs by then.  Pets don’t keep pets.

Where is this election headed?  Trump himself said something interesting the other day.  Trump isn’t interesting because he lies.  He’s interesting because he actually tells the truth sometimes.  He said, ‘Cruz is a tool of the Bush family and the party will abandon him in Cleveland.’  There.  Perhaps one of our rulers broke the code again and fed us poor minions a bit of the truth.

Will it happen?  I would think it’s likely.  Paul Ryan was mugging like a faithful ‘catholic’ yesterday in the appropriate socialist way.  His four points of being a Catholic leader are, “subsidiarity, solidarity, the preferential option for the poor, and people are the solution.”  There’s only actual Catholic point there.  The rest are just hooks.

An able story-maker, Trump is laying low at the moment.  What will he do when the GOP moves?  I think he very well may go third party.  Everyone’s always suspected it.  The only difference is Trump’s party would be to the right of the Republicans.

Trump wants a wall.  Cruz just decided to.  Trump wants to punish mothers who abort their kids.  Both parties think that’s horrendous.  Trump wants tax cuts, free market healthcare, and a business climate that’s not so anti-American, though you’d never know this from his press.  Cruz talks like that, but has years of practice playing ‘good cop’ to the Senate’s bad.  He may be sincere or not.  If Trump’s statement about Cleveland materializes, then Cruz would have been even more aware of the situation in advance.

A popular third party candidate to the right of the Republicans will be different.  Would Trump become president that way.  Not likely.  But if they broker the convention, whoever the GOP lands upon won’t win anyway.  These people don’t need the presidency.

This seems entirely unconventional and it is, for the U.S.  It’s not unconventional however in Europe.  In Europe they actually have three parties:  the Socialists, the ‘Center-Right,’ and the ‘Far Right.’  The Socialists and the Center-Right are really both socialists.  The normal, decent, and Christian people are the ones they call extremists, violent ‘xenophobes,’ racists, and Nazis.  But they’re nothing like Nazi’s.  Nigel Farage, Geert Wilders, Marion Maréchal Le Pen, and Frauke Petry are all nice.

In Europe, this Far-Right always looks like it’s gaining because it’s popular, but it never takes any meaningful power.  That’s simply because the Left and the Center are one.  They set the rules and collaborate in opposition to the public.  The people are their chattel.  That sounds really familiar.

Is the Republican Primary Headed to Court?

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Today we were treated to the spectacle of the Pope who quit, stepping out into the press to say that there is a Hell and you have to be in a state of grace to avoid it.  You must believe and follow the Catholic faith to get to Heaven.  I’m not sure Pope Benedict has ever made so succinct an expression and denunciation of the morbid post-VII mind.

I would imagine that this poor pope must suffer a great deal of angst and regret, and his few words are born of pain.  Even if he believes for some profoundly inconsistent reason that every thing is going well, how can his conscience not weigh heavy?  He must at least be concerned.

I suppose I am a suspicious person.  Maybe it’s because I get surprised when people are devious and desperate.  But it’s simple.  If you have the Faith then your goals are not worldly, but if you don’t share the Faith, your focus slants deeply toward money, power, prestige.  You live on a slide.  That may be why I suspected Benedict’s abdication was a putsch.  As soon as he read his sad announcement I guessed we’d get some Francis next.

The majority of cardinals in the conclave which followed were either dissident or compromising and, like Benedict, also under some particularly intense pressure.  Hence money, power elected Francis.  Francis is the pope the elites of ObamaWorld wanted when they unseated Benedict.  The Holy Spirit declined to miraculously make good a group of generally faithless and frightened men, or mysteriously change the writing on their ballots.

Today we have two popes and the one supposed to be doing the job isn’t Catholic.  We have a man who doesn’t hold the Faith and cannot achieve a state of grace making saints, granting annulments, making bishops, and teaching the world his deadly and politicized heresies.  Why?  Politics.  Money.  Power.

Pepin and Charlemagne may not have been saintly, but they were wise enough to see the Church needed its own Papal States.  A few acres just isn’t enough against an ever-tightening global regime.

I was equally suspicious when Justice Scalia died.  My first thoughts upon reading the details were,  They’ve killed him and they’re going to throw the election to the Court.  He was old and fat.  He had a heart attack, right?  He didn’t have anyone who would want him dead?  There aren’t any professional murderers out there near the Mexican border and in the middle of no where, right?  The family, the doctors, the officials, the pundits all say there was no foul play, so all these stories about the shady and unprofessional handling of the situation are just hysteria.  Yes?

Who knows, and it doesn’t matter now because Obama is nailing the lid on the coffin as we speak, and adding a new monster to his line-up.

We have already had an election hit the Court.  Remember those hanging chads in 2000?  The Democrats were only able to steal so many votes in Palm Beach County that year.  The Bush family went to the Supremes with that, Reagan’s court.  Well, we don’t have Reagan’s court any more, but there are still a bunch of Bushes out there and an election to win, so to speak.

Where is this GOP primary headed?  We have to wait and see.  My guess is if party leaders want to rob the election from the voters, they’d rather hand off the decision.  Then when the new Supreme Court ruled against the will of the people the media would find it satisfactory, and we could get back to our shrunken lives.

Please God, I’m wrong and things go well.  That is my expectation because I’m sort of an optimist.  Still I continue to be suspicious.  I don’t know why we assume people don’t do ruthless things behind the scenes to make pieces fall into place.