https://twitter.com/i/status/1427389269170180109
The whole Puppetmasters’ administration has the air of a Monty Python skit written by HP Lovecraft.
Thought For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
It’s times like these its good to thank our God who is a Just and righteous God. There will be no earthly justice for the architects of this mess. None in the foreseeable future anyway. But we are trusting Christians and we have the comfort knowing that God sees all, knows all and will judge all. And bring justice to all.
Amen Ezabelle.
Trusting in God. Our Hope is secure in His Sacred Heart.
In the meantime I pray enough liberals are regretting their poor choices. Building Back Better is biting them in the arse.
Busting Breaking Buffoonery fits better for Joe Biden’s branding.
Remember Marie Harf, the State Department rush chairman? Miss Harf (properly addressed as Mrs. Lucas, but she does not use her married name) has a menu of assets as a person. They’re generally underdeveloped (e.g nine years of marriage, no children). In her case, you see general intelligence which thrives in classroom settings. She’s bereft of a breadth of experience, bereft of technical skills, and bereft of common sense (but has a handsome degree from William and Mary). So, you get out of her mouth inanities on the order of her remark that what’s wrong with Iraq is a deficit of job training programs. Yes, she started her career in government on the staff of the CIA. A lapsed Russian naval officer who occasionally comments in fora I frequent says they have a term in Russia for people like Marie Harf. It translates into English as ‘office plankton’. At least Mrs. Lucas has some background in the classroom; take it down one ratchet in sophistication and you get Ben Rhodes. This is our political class at this hour.
Or, to put it succinctly, she lacks the sense God gave a stunned goose.
We are witnessing the gross incompetence of the deep state/elites/oligarchs on a global scale.
Some [too effing stupid to do anything else] American soldiers [I knew] have a phrase for it, “Dumb as dirt.”
That applies to 99% of everybody in the CIA, NSA, Pentagon, White House.
They were smart enough to steal the 2020 elections, though.
To sum up Art & Don’s point even more:
“They have intelligence, but lack wisdom.”
This would be pathetic in the best of times, but it is even more pathetic after Biden’s speech where he tried to spin the withdrawal as fine because the US shouldn’t care about what happens in Afghanistan.
who said “real life mirrors art?” More and more our government seems like a TV situation comedy-drama. Except that it’s a tragedy, not a drama…take that back. Tragedy is when someone noble falls, and there’s been no one noble at the top levels these past 20 years.
Baghdad Biden!
You are 100% correct Dr. Kurland!
Classical Greek Tragedy involves a bad ending (comedy has happy endings) for a great man (arête) brought low by his overwhelming pride (hubris).
This (dumbest thing I ever saw) situation involves dishonest imbeciles, e.g., Chinese Joe, bringing bad ends to uncounted thousands of lives.
The message will soon change: “The State Department calls on Communist China to form an ‘inclusive and representative government’ in Taiwan.” Mark my words, The communist Chinese are observing this.
BTW, we got the bramble. Judges chapter 9:
7 When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Geri′zim, and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you. 8 The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’ 9 But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my fatness, by which gods and men are honored, and go to sway over the trees?’ 10 And the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come you, and reign over us.’ 11 But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to sway over the trees?’ 12 And the trees said to the vine, ‘Come you, and reign over us.’ 13 But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my wine which cheers gods and men, and go to sway over the trees?’ 14 Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come you, and reign over us.’ 15 And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’
By the end of chapter 9, the bramble that was Abimelech, son of Gideon and a concubine, the murderer of 70 of his half-brothers, was dead, skull crush in by a millstone that a woman had pushed over the wall and onto his head. Biden will be defeated – he and all the godless Democrats, and the Lord will use the weakest, the most powerless, the most helpless among us to do that because we men have lost the stones we need for such testicular fortitude.
And I note with interest in this story that all the men of Shechem who voted that the bramble – Abimelech – to lead them eventually turned against him. How fickle democracy is!
The first will be last and the last first. That was the ending of today’s Gospel reading for Daily Mass.
https://news.yahoo.com/man-held-more-2-years-181957545.html
Your police force at work. Your public defender at work. Your judge at work. Your state hospital staff at work. The poor sot would still be in the asylum poisoned by anti-psychotics if it hadn’t occurred to a psychiatrist on the state payroll to verify his identity. Of all the asylum staff who spoke to him over a 30 month period, she was the only one who thought to do this.
We have to quit holding public employees harmless for this sort of horror.
I wonder if someone is out there taking good notes. That person could probably make a nice amount of money writing a sequel to Barbara Tuchman’s book The March of Folly. Lots of material to work with right now.
Art-
I wouldn’t be too quick to believe the news story.
Note that it only quotes the lawyer– who it identifies as working for the Innocence Project ‘on behalf’ of the according-to-his-family schizophrenic man– and the petition she filed, with a few quotes from a sister who abandoned her mentally ill brother over a decade ago, after he moved to Hawaii to stay with her.
The news report also says that he was given antipsychotics… which is the most common treatment for schizophrenia.
Given the involvement of the Innocence Project? I’d keep an eye open for it to turn out that he’d previously used the identify of Castleberry.
I seem to remember they tried to make a splash with this a year and a half ago, when he was released, but fizzled when the “sane man locked in an insane asylum” turned out to be…well, a known, genuinely schizophrenic individual who only got treatment for that, rather than shuffled around homeless shelters, during that time.
Art that story is horrific. Poor man and no justice for him. Proof of ones Identity should be mandatory for so many reason.
@LCQ – OT but I’ve always felt like there was something more to that Judges story. After all the bramble was eventually the crown of Christ. I’m not sure just yet what it all means. Still meditating on it…
A homeless schizoprhenic was held in a psych ward for two years. The downside of that is…?
President Trump said the Biden/Harris/Milley Afghanistan Catastrophe is the “dumbest thing I’ve ever see.”
We ain’t seen nothing yet.
We are watching unfold the gotterammerung of the expert class – whose capacity to eff-up everything [also see the border, China virus hysterics, energy dependence, inflation, crime/murder waves, . . . ] appears approximately limitless.
Some people erroneously view all these catastrophes as the “suicide of the expert class.” Wrong! They ain’t nearly that smart.
Gosh guys really? So are they going to backtrack and spin it and say he was locked up because he was Schizophrenic? How convenient for them. Being Schizophrenic doesn’t make you a criminal. Nor does it warrant you being locked up for a crime you didn’t commit. Even if he had identified as the other person Castleberry for whatever reason he should have been charged with identity fraud. Not for the crimes of the true Castleberry. Schizophrenia doesn’t make you a second class citizen with no rights. And if you learn about homelessness most of it stems from mental disorders and alcohol/drug addiction. Many have families. People are not always homeless because they “can’t afford rent”. I feel truly sorry for him regardless of what Lefty group tried to take advantage of his situation. And the incompetency by those involved should be accounted for. Politics aside.
A homeless schizoprhenic was held in a psych ward for two years. The downside of that is…?
The downside is (1) he had no civil commitment proceeding and (2) the excuse for forcibly confining him was that he kept insisting that he was not the person they’d been seeking (which was true) and (3) schizophrenics can usually be supervised on an outpatient basis (Fuller Torrey, the most vigorous advocate of inpatient care, estimates about 1/3 of the client population are properly confined). and (4) do you really think that people who could not be bothered to check his fingerprints for 2 years + can be trusted to be meticulous in prescribing and monitoring drug regimens? Psychiatrists who are not public employees f**k this stuff up routinely. Anti-psychotic regimens have l/t side-effects which can be gruesome.
Ezabelle –
his family, which abandoned him on the street in 2010, is the source of the statemen that he’s schizophrenic. One of the few quoted information sources that isn’t direct quotes from the accusations of an openly activist lawyer, even though as I pointed out this story came out over a year ago.
There’s no statements from law enforcement in the story, and all the other stories I could find are variations on the same wire feed.
He wasn’t charged with Castleberry’s crimes. He was arrested, according to the petition from the lawyer, in the belief he was Castleberry; he was moved from jail to the mental ward not long after.
A reporter should be able to find more information– unless it just didn’t fit the story they wanted to tell, as is generally the case with something bombastic. (See those stories that took the news feed story, edited it down, and ran it as “sane man locked in mental ward.” Which would require removing information in the original story, but is a much more impressive tale.)
I didn’t bring up drug abuse because it is entirely conjecture based on pattern recognition, but going off of other cases I’ve seen it’s likely he “fell asleep” because he was what is delicately called “self-medicating” with illegal drugs, and they were trying to get him help before he died, as is the most common fate of those mental patients dumped in the street. At least in Hawaii it’s less likely to be death by exposure, but….
Additionally, given the history of the Innocence Project when it comes up to flat-out lying because it gets them in the news? Or at the very least ignoring all evidence and pretending it doesn’t exist, with plausible deniability (such as avoiding all original documents)? Very hesitant to trust a claim that is built up on trusting them.
His family abandoned him? You don’t know the details of this to claim that’s what happened. He was held against us will. He wasn’t being a menace he was arrested going to a shelter. Feel nothing but empathy for him in the way he was treated even though he repeatedly told them he wasn’t who they claimed he was. I believe you that Innocence Project is shady. Doesn’t make it right though.
Elizabeth-
All the details I offered are from the news story, outside of what I every clearly pointed out as pattern recognition. It is concerning… if the things that are stated as accusations from the activist lawyer are not knowing, flat-out falsehoods.
An additional example of pattern recognition would be that they realized he was not the criminal, but was very mentally ill, and that is when they transferred him to the mental facility and tried to get information to verify his identity. When they managed to verify his identity (by getting a copy of his birth certificate) they got the contact information for his family and released him, which is why he then called his sister.
This would be consistent with the statements of fact, and with why the reporter and activist lawyer did not provide any additional sources of information, and why it was a year and a half after the story first came out that they tried to make hay from it.
Foxfier you know more on the details of the matter than me. I’ll take your word for it.
The psalm in the Office of Readings today (19 Aug) is Psalm 44, “In Time of Defeat.” How appropriate!