Burn of 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.
I’m ransacking my memory, trying to recall an instance when Robert Reich said something that wasn’t stupid. So far, no luck.
How that silly little man can get people to take his bloviations seriously is a testament to the power of marketing. Honestly, why isn’t he laughed at by passers-by when he appears in public?
Robert- There are actual demons, there is a real Hell.
If you don’t find this terrifying, you’re not paying attention!
Reader context is again one of Musk’s great improvements
I love that! “Readers added context ….” A nice way of saying, “Dear Richard, you are incredibly ignorant of well-known facts and a bottom-of-the-barrel commentator and researcher. No one should take you seriously ever.”
Fr J- I love that when you knock Reich that you use words that actually define his defects. Most of us settle for vague words of distain, like “jerk”
Precision in language is a good thing. I have been trying to purge “cool” from my conversations and substitute language that actually expresses my reaction – interesting, surprising, well done, clever. Language must be important: the Devil is called the father of lies, Our Lord is the Word of God. For good or ill, our speech defines us.
Even if you’ve never heard of the prayer, even if you’ve never heard of any prayer (hint: the Amen at the end), the picture of an angel in battle and the first four words should have been enough to figure out that he wasn’t talking about himself.
“There are people, very intelligent people, who call me Saint Donald the Archangel…are they right, are they wrong, I don’t know…but I’ve heard them saying it, and they say that I’m in battle, I’m in battle and I’m winning, I’m winning in battle against the wickedness and snares. And you’ve seen them, they’re wicked, they’re wicked and they have snares, and I’m winning against them. And God, who is very popular by the way, he and I rebuke the wicked….”