HUSBAND: "You are ABCDEFGHIJK."
WIFE: "Huh ???!!!"
HUSBAND: "You are adorable, beautiful, caring, delightful, elegant, fashionable, giving and hot!"
WIFE: "Thanks ! What about 'IJK'?"
HUSBAND: "I'm just kidding !"
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
CONSPIRACY THEORY: Where They Should Have Looked for Debris from Flight 370
In the Summer of 2014, our post-Communist Russian brothers could not stop their Viking blood from boiling, took Sevastopol (but not Chernobyl ! -- too bad !), tried to seize a corridor to Sevastopol down Eastern Ukraine, and accidentally shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in the process with a surface-to-air missile, killing 298. Where the plane went down was very obvious.
In December, 2014, cows in India, and cars in China, the U.S., Europe and Russia continued to so badly accelerate global warming that the world's giant weather cyclones continued to spin wider and wider, and grabbed Air Asia Flight 8501 and thew it into the sea, killing 162. Where the plane went down in the water was obvious.
Which makes us think of Maylasia Airlines Flight 370, again. Whatever happened to the debris? Where are the bodies? Nothing really ever showed up anywhere.
And, there was no news that something bad happened to explain why it went down. The Bermuda Triangle could not have done a better job in making the plane disappear.
But, espionage could have.
There are two ways espionage could have brought down the plane -- (1) murder by poison gas or decompression of all on board except two people wearing oxygen masks, one hiding in the electronics bay and one taking-over the cockpit -- a man in each place really would have been required -- just inside the Ho Chi Minh Flight Information Region on Air Route 765, over the South China Sea, followed by an intentionally-transparent fake diversion by another aircraft to the south and west, to generate confusion by disinformation; or (2) shooting-down the plane just inside the Ho Chi Minh Flight Information Region on Air Route 765, over the South China Sea, followed by an intentionally-transparent fake diversion by another aircraft to the south and west, to generate confusion by disinformation.
Only the US, Russia and China, or possibly the Israelis with US assistance, are advanced enough to pull-off either.
In Scenario (1), the plane would have been taken-over by two operatives, and then landed in a remote place in China (if it was the Chinese) or Australia (if it was us or the Israelis) or some other place (if it was the Russians) to recover something of immense tactical or strategic value in the cargo bay, while a drone or manned aircraft "replaced" Flight 370 in the sky and made sure that it was visible to Malaysian radar, and then faked satellite log-ons-and-transmissions, to employ misdirection to distract attention from the real operation.
In Scenario (2), to assassinate a tactically- or strategically-important passenger, the plane would have been shot-down over the South China Sea just inside the Ho Chi Minh Flight Information Region on Air Route 765, while a drone or manned aircraft "replaced" Flight 370 in the sky and made sure that it was visible to Malaysian radar, and then faked satellite log-ons-and-transmissions, to employ misdirection to distract attention from the real operation.
If it was Scenario (1) and if the operation was "successful" (including the "successful" murder of over 230 passengers and crew), no one will ever find any evidence unless a spy satellite or landsat-type satellite accidentally picks-up the landing place or an operative feels guilty about taking God's law so much into the hands of men, and so 'fesses-up.
If it was Scenario (2), the verification of the information is somewhere on the bottom of the South China Sea.
Interestingly, a New Zealander named Michael McKay working on the Songa-Mercur oil rig off the coast of Viet Nam claims that he actually saw the aircraft crossing the sky at a low altitude to the west of the rig, burning.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-ground-witnesses/
While what would have been intelligence agency disinformation had us looking in the wrong place, completely, the two things put together -- McKay's sighting and what would have been fake airplane satellite transponder log-ons -- actually confirm that a very high-power intelligence agency is responsible for the destruction of Flight 370.
Shrapnel from an air-to-air missile explosion from a drone or fighter equipped for extremely long range flying would have punched a hole in a wing fuel tank, similar to the hole generated by debris at the airport which brought down the Concorde in the year 2000 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MIhd4hVOeE
The fact that what would have been fake airplane satellite transponder log-ons going south toward Diego Garcia suggests, very, very gently, that it wasn't us here in the US who did it -- why generate a diversion that points at the correct suspect? But it's not an acquittal. We're still suspects.
So, there you have it -- as close as anyone is ever going to get to solving the mystery, and the solution isn't very pretty.
In December, 2014, cows in India, and cars in China, the U.S., Europe and Russia continued to so badly accelerate global warming that the world's giant weather cyclones continued to spin wider and wider, and grabbed Air Asia Flight 8501 and thew it into the sea, killing 162. Where the plane went down in the water was obvious.
Which makes us think of Maylasia Airlines Flight 370, again. Whatever happened to the debris? Where are the bodies? Nothing really ever showed up anywhere.
And, there was no news that something bad happened to explain why it went down. The Bermuda Triangle could not have done a better job in making the plane disappear.
But, espionage could have.
There are two ways espionage could have brought down the plane -- (1) murder by poison gas or decompression of all on board except two people wearing oxygen masks, one hiding in the electronics bay and one taking-over the cockpit -- a man in each place really would have been required -- just inside the Ho Chi Minh Flight Information Region on Air Route 765, over the South China Sea, followed by an intentionally-transparent fake diversion by another aircraft to the south and west, to generate confusion by disinformation; or (2) shooting-down the plane just inside the Ho Chi Minh Flight Information Region on Air Route 765, over the South China Sea, followed by an intentionally-transparent fake diversion by another aircraft to the south and west, to generate confusion by disinformation.
Only the US, Russia and China, or possibly the Israelis with US assistance, are advanced enough to pull-off either.
In Scenario (1), the plane would have been taken-over by two operatives, and then landed in a remote place in China (if it was the Chinese) or Australia (if it was us or the Israelis) or some other place (if it was the Russians) to recover something of immense tactical or strategic value in the cargo bay, while a drone or manned aircraft "replaced" Flight 370 in the sky and made sure that it was visible to Malaysian radar, and then faked satellite log-ons-and-transmissions, to employ misdirection to distract attention from the real operation.
In Scenario (2), to assassinate a tactically- or strategically-important passenger, the plane would have been shot-down over the South China Sea just inside the Ho Chi Minh Flight Information Region on Air Route 765, while a drone or manned aircraft "replaced" Flight 370 in the sky and made sure that it was visible to Malaysian radar, and then faked satellite log-ons-and-transmissions, to employ misdirection to distract attention from the real operation.
If it was Scenario (1) and if the operation was "successful" (including the "successful" murder of over 230 passengers and crew), no one will ever find any evidence unless a spy satellite or landsat-type satellite accidentally picks-up the landing place or an operative feels guilty about taking God's law so much into the hands of men, and so 'fesses-up.
If it was Scenario (2), the verification of the information is somewhere on the bottom of the South China Sea.
Interestingly, a New Zealander named Michael McKay working on the Songa-Mercur oil rig off the coast of Viet Nam claims that he actually saw the aircraft crossing the sky at a low altitude to the west of the rig, burning.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane-ground-witnesses/
While what would have been intelligence agency disinformation had us looking in the wrong place, completely, the two things put together -- McKay's sighting and what would have been fake airplane satellite transponder log-ons -- actually confirm that a very high-power intelligence agency is responsible for the destruction of Flight 370.
Shrapnel from an air-to-air missile explosion from a drone or fighter equipped for extremely long range flying would have punched a hole in a wing fuel tank, similar to the hole generated by debris at the airport which brought down the Concorde in the year 2000 ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MIhd4hVOeE
The fact that what would have been fake airplane satellite transponder log-ons going south toward Diego Garcia suggests, very, very gently, that it wasn't us here in the US who did it -- why generate a diversion that points at the correct suspect? But it's not an acquittal. We're still suspects.
So, there you have it -- as close as anyone is ever going to get to solving the mystery, and the solution isn't very pretty.
Friday, December 26, 2014
SIN IN THE CHURCH: Anti-semitism at Christmas Midnight Mass
In the brief blurb on myself for this website, I say, "I try to be positive."
However, sometimes the administrators of our Church fail so gigantically that we absolutely, positively have to go after them, "hammer and tongs," just for the sake of God's Church.
In the past, I have publicly blasted the bishops and priests on the Church for running a 50-year-long operation in which bishops, with written recommendations, would send priests known to the bishops to be highly promiscuous boy-grabbing gay wolves to unwary parishes where, again and again and again, they would grab and seduce new young male victims and engage in anal and oral copulation with them.
Well, it's time to go after them for something else.
By focusing-in on the sins of Peter, the New Testament prepares us for the fact that the leaders of God's Church would be the same kind of evil morons who end up running everything else.
But sometimes these guys just make you want to scream.
I am Roman Catholic, of course, but my wife is Jewish.
Years ago, before the Church dissolved St. Gregory's Parish in Magnolia, New Jersey, the pastor Msgr. Edward Korda, knowing that I have a Jewish wife, put his hand on my shoulder one Sunday as we prepared for Sunday Mass in the sacristy (where I was his lector) and came close to me and in a furtive manner and with a quiet voice he said something like, "Do you think that the Church can survive with so many damn Jews running so many of our social institutions?"
I was astonished. I thought, "This guy left his brains back in Nazi Germany!"
When the Church is even a little bit anti-semitic, it connects itself to this achievement of the European Christians who went along with the Nazi program ...
I answered, "Monsignor, do you really think that I am going to conspire with you against my Jewish wife, her Jewish family, and the Jewish community? Nope. After Mass, I'm going home and tell her what you just said to me!"
Well, it just happened again.
At midnight Mass on Christmas, 2014, Fr. Mark Cavagnaro, pastor of Our Lady of Hope Church in Blackwood, New Jersey, gave a homily on how the coming of Jesus in the humble context of a manger in the rural outskirts of Bethlehem is analogous to the marvelous Eucharist in the humble appearances of a little wafer of bread and wine.
He introduced that subject with what I call "a two-gift skit." In his little one-man "skit," he had two wrapped "gifts." One was a beautifully wrapped box, that contained only a pencil. The other was a cloth bag, that contained a marvelous gold watch.
Here is how his "skit" began, as best as I can describe it ...
"Look!" he said, "Here are two gifts just given to me, in this box and in this bag! Let me open them, right here, at Mass! First, I have this beautifully-wrapped box. The wrapping paper is wonderful. In fact, I think that the colors of the wrapping paper on the box look like the colors of Hannukah!"
And then he opened the box and what was inside? "A pencil," he said with a disappointed tone of voice as he held up the pencil.
In other words, Jews are cheap, and he got the pencil from a cheap Jew. I and my wife and our children all heard it and apprehended his meaning. I thought, "What???!!! WHAT???!!! Has he flipped???!!! What is he doing, inserting anti-semitism into a Christmas homily???!!!"
Here is the kicker: As Fr. Cavagnaro publicly implicitly reviled Jews to a church packed with about 1,000 Catholics attending Mass, apparently for no good reason except the pleasure it gave him to cultivate hatred for Jews, about 20 yards to his left my Jewish wife was sitting in the church choir, where she had been working as one of Fr. Cavagnaro's singers at Mass for a year.
She has been doing this because she loves God, she loves me, and she loves people.
In addition to singing at Mass once a week, my wife attends choir practice on Monday nights, and practices virtually every other night of the week.
My Jewish wife's Catholic family and a Catholic daughter-in-law were all sitting in the pews, watching proudly as she sang her heart out for Fr. Cavagnaro.
And then they heard Fr. Cavagnaro, like some Nazi supporter, sneeringly implicitly revile her and her Judaism out of the blue!
I felt like saying, "What? Priests aren't emptying the churches out fast enough for you with homosexual assaults on boys? You want to speed up the exodus even faster with anti-semitism?"
God save us and the Church from these morons leading it!
However, sometimes the administrators of our Church fail so gigantically that we absolutely, positively have to go after them, "hammer and tongs," just for the sake of God's Church.
In the past, I have publicly blasted the bishops and priests on the Church for running a 50-year-long operation in which bishops, with written recommendations, would send priests known to the bishops to be highly promiscuous boy-grabbing gay wolves to unwary parishes where, again and again and again, they would grab and seduce new young male victims and engage in anal and oral copulation with them.
Well, it's time to go after them for something else.
By focusing-in on the sins of Peter, the New Testament prepares us for the fact that the leaders of God's Church would be the same kind of evil morons who end up running everything else.
But sometimes these guys just make you want to scream.
I am Roman Catholic, of course, but my wife is Jewish.
Years ago, before the Church dissolved St. Gregory's Parish in Magnolia, New Jersey, the pastor Msgr. Edward Korda, knowing that I have a Jewish wife, put his hand on my shoulder one Sunday as we prepared for Sunday Mass in the sacristy (where I was his lector) and came close to me and in a furtive manner and with a quiet voice he said something like, "Do you think that the Church can survive with so many damn Jews running so many of our social institutions?"
I was astonished. I thought, "This guy left his brains back in Nazi Germany!"
When the Church is even a little bit anti-semitic, it connects itself to this achievement of the European Christians who went along with the Nazi program ...
I answered, "Monsignor, do you really think that I am going to conspire with you against my Jewish wife, her Jewish family, and the Jewish community? Nope. After Mass, I'm going home and tell her what you just said to me!"
Well, it just happened again.
At midnight Mass on Christmas, 2014, Fr. Mark Cavagnaro, pastor of Our Lady of Hope Church in Blackwood, New Jersey, gave a homily on how the coming of Jesus in the humble context of a manger in the rural outskirts of Bethlehem is analogous to the marvelous Eucharist in the humble appearances of a little wafer of bread and wine.
He introduced that subject with what I call "a two-gift skit." In his little one-man "skit," he had two wrapped "gifts." One was a beautifully wrapped box, that contained only a pencil. The other was a cloth bag, that contained a marvelous gold watch.
Here is how his "skit" began, as best as I can describe it ...
"Look!" he said, "Here are two gifts just given to me, in this box and in this bag! Let me open them, right here, at Mass! First, I have this beautifully-wrapped box. The wrapping paper is wonderful. In fact, I think that the colors of the wrapping paper on the box look like the colors of Hannukah!"
And then he opened the box and what was inside? "A pencil," he said with a disappointed tone of voice as he held up the pencil.
In other words, Jews are cheap, and he got the pencil from a cheap Jew. I and my wife and our children all heard it and apprehended his meaning. I thought, "What???!!! WHAT???!!! Has he flipped???!!! What is he doing, inserting anti-semitism into a Christmas homily???!!!"
Here is the kicker: As Fr. Cavagnaro publicly implicitly reviled Jews to a church packed with about 1,000 Catholics attending Mass, apparently for no good reason except the pleasure it gave him to cultivate hatred for Jews, about 20 yards to his left my Jewish wife was sitting in the church choir, where she had been working as one of Fr. Cavagnaro's singers at Mass for a year.
She has been doing this because she loves God, she loves me, and she loves people.
In addition to singing at Mass once a week, my wife attends choir practice on Monday nights, and practices virtually every other night of the week.
My Jewish wife's Catholic family and a Catholic daughter-in-law were all sitting in the pews, watching proudly as she sang her heart out for Fr. Cavagnaro.
And then they heard Fr. Cavagnaro, like some Nazi supporter, sneeringly implicitly revile her and her Judaism out of the blue!
I felt like saying, "What? Priests aren't emptying the churches out fast enough for you with homosexual assaults on boys? You want to speed up the exodus even faster with anti-semitism?"
God save us and the Church from these morons leading it!
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
HUMOR: Comments Between a Literature/Philosophy Major and a Music/Philosophy Major
An actual conversation ...
Music/Philosphy Major: What do you think we'll be doing after graduation?
Literature/Philosophy Major: We'll be flipping burgers at McDonald's, and we'll be saying to customers things like, "Are these really french fries, or just a thought in the mind of God?"
Music/Philosphy Major: What do you think we'll be doing after graduation?
Literature/Philosophy Major: We'll be flipping burgers at McDonald's, and we'll be saying to customers things like, "Are these really french fries, or just a thought in the mind of God?"
Friday, December 19, 2014
HUMOR: For Adults Only, But Funny
I was just over at the supermarket getting some groceries. One of things I was supposed to get was personal lubricant. I searched and searched and searched, but I just couldn't find it. So, I went to the pharmacy section of the supermarket. Behind the counter was a cute Asian girl who looked like she was 18.
"Hi," she cheerfully volunteered. "This is my first time here! Can I help you?"
"I'm looking for personal lubricant," I responded.
"What's that for?" she asked with a puzzled look.
"It's for fixing squeaky doorknobs," I answered.
"Cute," the lady pharmacist in the rear called out. She whispered in the ear of the Asian girl, who turned beet red. "I'm sorry," she apologized to me, smiling nervously.
The pharmacist directed me to one of the aisles. I finally found it. I went back to the pharmacy and said, "If anyone else is looking for it, it's over by the shoe polish."
"Hi," she cheerfully volunteered. "This is my first time here! Can I help you?"
"I'm looking for personal lubricant," I responded.
"What's that for?" she asked with a puzzled look.
"It's for fixing squeaky doorknobs," I answered.
"Cute," the lady pharmacist in the rear called out. She whispered in the ear of the Asian girl, who turned beet red. "I'm sorry," she apologized to me, smiling nervously.
The pharmacist directed me to one of the aisles. I finally found it. I went back to the pharmacy and said, "If anyone else is looking for it, it's over by the shoe polish."
HUMOR: Math That Makes You Hungry
To discover the volume of a round, flat pie having a diameter of 2(Z) inches and a thickness of A inches, multiply pi times the square of the radius times the heighth, or
(pi)(z)(z)(a)
(pi)(z)(z)(a)
Thursday, December 18, 2014
MORALITY: One More Note on the World's Most Interesting Subject ...
No, not sex, but rather "Who is going to Hell?" ...
Last night, at the gym, I saw one of the judges in our county. He was on a stationary bike, reading a paper, so I figured he could talk.
"Your Honor," I smiled warmly as I shook his hand, "How are you doing?"
We talked for a few minutes. We got around to the subject of the article you see below, entitled "A Sacred Enterprise, and a Glimpse of Evil."
He asked, "How do you feel about the brother who denied the sister the grave site she wanted next to her beloved mother, and who kept her gravestone blank?"
I answered, "I cited Proverbs 1:26. In effect it portrays God as laughing at some of the damned as they entered Hell. Perfect justice."
The judge responded with a classic answer: Proverbs is Old Testament. The Old Testament thinking was defective. The New Testament love of Christ perfected the Old Testament mistakes. "What do you think?"
I said, "This is what I think: If you do this to the New Testament salvation paid for by Christ's torture and death" -- and I turned and spat derisively to the floor -- "then you have to face the brutal justice of the Old Testament God."
The judge looked upset, and said, "Listen, I have to get back to my paper." And we parted.
Last night, at the gym, I saw one of the judges in our county. He was on a stationary bike, reading a paper, so I figured he could talk.
"Your Honor," I smiled warmly as I shook his hand, "How are you doing?"
We talked for a few minutes. We got around to the subject of the article you see below, entitled "A Sacred Enterprise, and a Glimpse of Evil."
He asked, "How do you feel about the brother who denied the sister the grave site she wanted next to her beloved mother, and who kept her gravestone blank?"
I answered, "I cited Proverbs 1:26. In effect it portrays God as laughing at some of the damned as they entered Hell. Perfect justice."
The judge responded with a classic answer: Proverbs is Old Testament. The Old Testament thinking was defective. The New Testament love of Christ perfected the Old Testament mistakes. "What do you think?"
I said, "This is what I think: If you do this to the New Testament salvation paid for by Christ's torture and death" -- and I turned and spat derisively to the floor -- "then you have to face the brutal justice of the Old Testament God."
The judge looked upset, and said, "Listen, I have to get back to my paper." And we parted.
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