The newly named pro-migrant archbishop of New York called himself an “unworthy servant” during his first Mass in the city after Pope Leo XIV named his fellow Chicago native to replace a conservative cardinal Thursday.

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The white smoke poured out of the Vatican chimney signifying they had chosen a new pope. Forgive me for not capitalizing the title. Having read some of his writings, one can’t help wonder if they chose him to blunt the effectiveness of you know who. Some of the stuff he’s put out makes you wonder whose side he’s on.  Not ours.  

I suspect the persuasions of these little goofballs. I know, it’s the “great“ Catholic church, but I don’t think it’s rooting for us.

Looking on the bright side, Trump says it’s a great honor to have an American pope. When asked if he would visit, he said they’ve already called. But the pope wrote that we should show deference to the illegal invaders, so I guess it’s a sin to deport them. “Where is your compassion?” liberals always want to know. It’s not about compassion, it’s about loyalty and wanting our children and grandchildren to enjoy the blessings we’ve had and more.

You look at these polls, and what do you think? Either half or more of the people hate everything the Trump administration is doing, and if they could engineer an economic crisis, they would. In fact if you read the mainstream news you’d think Trump has already failed. The mainstream reports that over half of the respondents think Trump has got it all wrong. I don’t put much stock in the polls. Or the mainstream media. They’re all freaking out as if on cue. We’ll see how this battle shakes out but it doesn’t look good for the mainstream. 

India and Pakistan are acknowledged members of the nuclear club and both seem destined to get into a scuffle. A Nuclear Scuffle.  

Everybody’s holding their breath. While we may be looking forward to a marvelous new age where Americans don’t have to solve every problem, India and Pakistan are threatening each other, and that’s all we need, both being nuclear powers. Don’t make us send the President over there! Nobody’s going to like the solution, but they better straighten up and fly right so we don’t have to get involved. Otherwise…

Have you noticed, you can never take the President’s first reaction to a problem. Years ago he wrote “The Art of the Deal”. I actually had a copy. His first reaction is not his last.  Just simmer down, he’ll probably adjust things till they make sense.

Who knows what’s going on in Gaza. In hindsight, the attack on Israel was a big mistake, and one they can’t take back.  But look what it has done!  Not only did it secure our vision of these animals, but they had to flee. Not many places want them, and most of the Arab world was happy letting them confront the Israelis. That’s all over now. They’ve lost Gaza and had to move to tents on the Egyptian border. That’s not what they had in mind. We don’t understand, because the western mind cannot understand thousands of years of indoctrination and insanity. These people are crazy! They think their passion can win the day. But it doesn’t work that way, somebody should tell them from a safe distance.

Last we heard the Houthis were menacing ships in the Red Sea. We’re not going to put up with that nonsense anymore.And they’ve quit, not wanting to see Nirvana just yet.

That’s not everything, but things are moving so fast, who can include everything? The world better realize that we’ve got someone who wants America to survive, rather than tweak things to their liking. Our Constitution, our history are things we rather like, and don’t need some interloper coming along and putting some spin on it.     

Mark

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