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No More Pious Platitudes
by Tom McLaughlin
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Ignore the Noise, Mueller Still Has Nothing
{ spectator.org } ~ For all of the media’s oohing and ahhing over Robert Mueller’s legal victories on Tuesday... his impeachment case remains hopelessly threadbare. In terms of his Department of Justice mandate, he has made no progress whatsoever. He is presiding over a “collusion” probe that has absolutely nothing to do with collusion. Let him keep indicting and convicting ham sandwiches. Most Americans won’t care. It just underscores the superfluous and abusive character of his probe. He is not compiling an air-tight legal case for impeachment; he is simply using abusive prosecutorial tactics to foment an anti-Trump political firestorm. Rod Rosenstein is the Dr. Frankenstein in this political horror show. He birthed a monster in Mueller, who is now rampaging through the streets of Manhattan in search of pre-presidential dirt. Let’s, for the sake of argument, say that all of his claims about Trump-Cohen corruption are true. Is that impeachable material? No, it is not. The American people voted for Trump knowing full well that his pre-presidential record was checkered. Does anybody really think the American people are going to rise up and demand that not only the House but most of the Senate expel Trump from the presidency over an alleged campaign finance violation that doesn’t bear in the slightest upon the collusion question? Mueller is expert at finding flaky witnesses. Cohen is his latest. His memories of conversations and meetings with Trump are no more reliable than scumbag-Jim Comey’s. Cohen has given baldly contradictory accounts of his payments to Stormy Daniels. The notion that Trump could lose the presidency owing to the testimony of a sleazy casino lawyer strains all plausibility... https://spectator.org/ignore-the-noise-mueller-still-has-nothing/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=2da2189989-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_22_09_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-2da2189989-104608113 .
Mueller team interviews WH counsel for 30 hours,
gains nothing incriminating against Trump
{ conservativeinstitute.org } ~ A lawyer for White House counsel Donald McGahn assured Trump’s legal team that his client did not implicate the president in any criminal wrongdoing... during extensive interviews with Robert Mueller, the Washington Post reported. McGahn spoke to the special counsel for about 30 hours. The New York Times reported Saturday that McGahn was cooperating “extensively” with Mueller. That report claimed that Trump and his legal team did not know what McGahn said. McGahn sat down with Mueller for three lengthy interviews since November. Sources told ABC that he has been interviewed more extensively than any other White House witness. Burck said that McGahn never witnessed criminal conduct from Trump and that he would have resigned if he did. However, he added that he can’t make any guarantees about how his client’s testimony will fit into Mueller’s case, since McGahn is just one witness...
.dummycrats-DNC alerts FBI after detecting
sophisticated effort to hack voter database: Report
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The dummycrats-Democratic National Committee alerted the FBI on Tuesday... that it had detected an advanced effort to hack into its voter database, according to a new report. A cloud service provider and security research firm contacted the dummycrats-DNC early Tuesday that a fake login page had been created to try to collect usernames and passwords that would give access to the party’s database, a source told CNN. The page appeared to look like the access page dummycrats- Democratic Party officials and campaigns use to log into Votebuilder, which hosts the voter database, the CNN report said. It is not clear who may have been behind the attempted hack. The dummycrats-DNC does not believe its voter files were accessed or changed. The report comes a day after Microsoft said it had detected and shut down websites created in recent weeks by hackers linked to a Russian military intelligence unit that sought to influence the 2016 election... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dnc-alerts-fbi-after-detecting-sophisticated-effort-to-hack-voter-database-report?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_08/22/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News .
Robert Mueller Awarded FBI Contracts
to scumbag-James Comey's Firm and Made Him Rich
by STEVEN AHLE
{ steadfastandloyal.com } ~ Seamus Bruner, Government Accountability Institute (GAI) researcher and author of Compromised: How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption... explained how former FBI Directors scumbag-James Comey and Robert Mueller leveraged their government contacts to enrich themselves. Bruner noted the growth of scumbag-Comey’s net worth between 2003 and 2009, after scumbag-Comey left the Department of Justice to join Lockheed Martin as senior vice president and lead counsel. “It doesn’t really make much sense why Lockheed Martin would pay scumbag-James Comey upwards of six million dollars in a single year,” assessed Bruner. “But one reason — aside from his security clearance — is that his buddy Robert Mueller is running the FBI. They begin passing 100-million-dollar-plus contracts to Lockheed Martin.” Bruner continued, “One of these contracts was actually worth a billion dollars, and it was protested formally by the other bidder: IBM. … The contracts flowed from Robert Mueller’s FBI to scumbag-James Comey’s private sector employer, Lockheed Martin, and scumbag-James Comey made many millions over a short period of time.”Not So Fast: Michael Cohen’s Plea Agreement
Did Not Necessarily Implicate The President
{ dailycaller.com } ~ On Tuesday, Michael Cohen recently entered a guilty plea and admitted to violating campaign finance laws... by arranging hush money payments under the direction of an “unnamed candidate.” While Mr. Cohen did not directly name President Trump, many people automatically assumed that he was referring to then-candidate Trump and that his admission possibly implicated the president. While many in the news media are celebrating this news, they might be celebrating prematurely and without good reason. Michael Cohen’s admission must be taken in the proper context. First, his admission was part of a plea deal. What this means is that the prosecutor offered Mr. Cohen a “deal” of some sort for his testimony. Oftentimes, plea deals include a lesser charge or a reduced sentence. And just because a defendant is offered a plea deal does not necessarily mean that his testimony is truthful, honest, and/or corroborated. Moreover, a plea deal is not an adjudication of guilt and does not create legal precedent. In other words, Mr. Cohen’s plea agreement cannot be used or presented to a court as legal authority...
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No More Pious Platitudes
by Tom McLaughlin
Pittsburgh bishop's mansion |
Several of their advisors, however, disagreed. According to a 2011 article in the Linacre Quarterly: “Dr. Paul McHugh, a member of the first USCCB National Review Board and former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, stated in an interview about the crisis: “I’m amazed that this fundamental bombshell [of the homosexual predation of American adolescent males] has not been the subject of greater interest and discussion. . . . I’m astonished that people throughout America are not . . . wondering about what the mechanisms were that set this alight.”
A more recent article in US News and World Report cites research concluding that a majority of Catholic priests are homosexual. The Catholic Church has long taught that homosexuality is “intrinsically disordered,” but it’s obvious now that many American and European priests, bishops, cardinals, and maybe Pope Francis, don’t believe it. Many, maybe most people in the pews don’t believe it either. How many Catholic readers here have heard homilies about homosexual sex at mass? I’ve heard only one in the past thirty years.
The Church also teaches that abortion is wrong, but how many homilies have you heard about that? Again, I’ve heard only two in thirty years. As many as half the people in the pews don’t believe homosexual sex or abortion arewrong and live accordingly. The late Bishop Fulton Sheen put it best: “If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”
Such are the consequences of the last century’s sexual revolution. If the Catholic Church is to be saved, bishops and priests who don’t believe its teachings must leave. Those remaining must return to preaching that the only proper place for sexual behavior is in a marriage between one man and one woman that welcomes children. They must preach that abortion is always wrong except to save the life of the mother, which is hardly ever necessary. Most people calling themselves Catholics today think it okay to live lives in violation of Catholic teachings, and it’s increasingly clear that many in the clergy, too, think it’s okay to wink at the rules. This cannot continue.
To preach on church teachings, one must believe them and those homilies will very likely drive down both attendance at mass and revenue from the collection box. Many parishioners and clergy will join Episcopal, Unitarian, and other churches where rules are easier, or you can make your own.
We used to see the Catholic Church as holding fast to basic Christian principles against enormous world pressure to relax them. It’s harder to see it that way now.
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