Sick Social Fabric At Santa Time . . . When Abortion Poison Is Injected, It Spreads Through U.S. Bloodstream
By DEXTER DUGGAN
As the joy of Christmas approached in 2021, it looked as if the Feast of the Holy Innocents was bleeding through the social fabric wherever you looked, in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Only three days after the birth of the Christ Child, the Church calendar remembers on December 28 that the Roman-client evil King Herod ordered that the young male children around Bethlehem be slain, in order to dispose of his supposed rival, “King of the Jews” Baby Jesus.
The Church balances out our grasp of earthly existence in quick succession, from the Nativity to the execution of other babies, from the death of Good Friday to the victory over death on Easter Sunday.
On December 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin as free from original sin, an Associated Press article from Sacramento recounted plans in the works under bad Catholic Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom to make California an abortion “haven” if the U.S. Supreme Court next year allows substantial abortion restrictions around the nation.
Politicians in the No-Longer Golden State reportedly contemplate using public funds for out-of-state pregnant mothers’ transportation, lodging, and — believe it or not — child care so they can be induced into the state for induced abortion. Could Newsom maybe personally give each of them an empty manger if they have an abortion on Christmas Eve?
The planning ponders broad possibilities, the AP story said, including asking “lawmakers to help clinics increase their workforce to prepare for more patients by giving scholarships to medical students who pledge to offer abortion services in rural areas, help them pay off their student loans and assist with their monthly liability-insurance premiums.”
Once poison is injected into the body, it spreads through the bloodstream.
However, the AP story added, California pro-life pregnancy-resource centers also are planning to deal with a possible increase in the number of abortion-contemplating women, to try to persuade them to change their minds.
The destruction of California’s social fabric in many ways over the last few decades, mainly thanks to leftist political maneuvering, has made it the creepy place of today. I say that as someone who lived and worked in the Golden State, then went back to San Francisco from Arizona for seven years in a row in the second decade of this century to cover the annual Walk for Life West Coast.
In the 2010s in San Francisco I saw open drug use, defecation, living on the street, and hopeless-looking people all becoming more evident. But the situation hadn’t yet reached the point of the last few years, when political lefties blessed blatant large-scale stealing from stores’ shelves and even smash-and-grab mobs looting at Union Square.
The Golden Age of the Golden State withered and died, unless maybe you’re a Silicon Valley titan who floats above the misery below, like a pagan god at play in the clouds.
One of the most prominent political figures during the decades of decline was none other than bad Catholic Jerry Brown, whose posts included California secretary of state, attorney general and governor, as well as mayor of Oakland.
How different California was from when Brown embarked on his ambitions, and by the time he had sucked the state dry of its promise. Of course, he didn’t do it all by himself. Then he was succeeded as governor by bad Catholic Newsom, who previously was mayor of San Francisco and the state’s lieutenant governor.
If you hadn’t believed in eternal life, California Democratic politics proved to be the next best way to attain the everlasting. That includes never-ending 81-year-old bad Catholic Democrat, pro-abortion fanatic, and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who entered the House of Representatives in 1987.
That was back when another Californian, although a Republican, Ronald Reagan, still was president, nearing the end of his second White House term after earlier serving two stints as Golden State governor. So not all the multi-term West Coasters are Dems.
Pelosi’s website brags, “For 33 years, Speaker Pelosi has represented San Francisco, California’s 12th District, in Congress.” That began the year after the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded above Florida following liftoff, in 1986.
But Pelosi’s length in major office is exceeded by yet another bad Catholic pro-abortion fanatic and Democrat, one who is just as radical in his politics but comes from a state about as opposite in image as could be, the Atlantic Coast’s Delaware, 79-year-old Joe Biden, who entered the U.S. Senate in 1973.
He served there for 36 years, then for eight years as Barack Obama’s gofer vice president before becoming absolutely the oldest president. From the very first day he took up residence at the White House in January 2021, Biden was older than any other U.S. chief executive.
It’s not ageism to observe that Biden clearly was stretched beyond his feeble abilities from his first day as president. Some people age better than others. And some age worse. And the last thing the still-most-powerful nation on Earth needs to guide it is a president in plain mental and physical decline.
Columnist Kevin Williamson posted at the New York Post on December 3 about the time his own elderly mother was awakened from a nap and started complaining vividly about the strict Catholic schools she attended as a girl, and how afraid she was of the mean nuns.
This was surprising, Williamson said, because she came from a Methodist family in the Texas Panhandle and never set foot in a Catholic school in her life. “When we get old, we break down, and strange things sometimes happen,” he said. Except, he added, his mother didn’t have control of a single nuclear weapon. Unlike Biden.
Williamson went on to recall some of Biden’s long history of lies and improbabilities, including having driven an 18-wheeler truck and falsely claiming that it was a drunken driver who killed his first wife and daughter.
Then there was Biden’s amazing claim that during the Mideast Six-Day War in 1967, he was “Mr. Ambassador” and acted as liaison between Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and the Egyptian government.
Even CNN, no foe of Biden, said he was just a U.S. law student in 1967 (and a poor one at that) and Meir wasn’t yet prime minister.
But even if Biden was confused and meant to refer to the Yom Kippur War of 1973, CNN said, “there is zero indication that Meir wanted to use a 30-year-old American who had never previously been to Israel and who had been a senator for only nine months as an intermediary in a complicated and critical conflict.”
Moreover, CNN said, “an Israeli government official’s written summary of the meeting said Biden had seemed inexperienced and that Meir had vehemently rejected his proposal for Israel to unilaterally withdraw from certain territory as a step toward peace.”
Then there’s the entirely fanciful claim he had been arrested in South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison.
Heroic Daydreams
In his Post article on Biden, columnist Williamson was reminded of Walter Mitty, a fictional character created in the 1930s by humorist and writer James Thurber. Mitty was a meek man with a vivid imagination of fantastic exploits.
Wikipedia says that although there are humorous elements, “there is a darker and more significant message underlying the text, leading to a more tragic interpretation of the Mitty character. Even in his heroic daydreams, Mitty does not triumph, several fantasies being interrupted before the final one sees Mitty dying bravely in front of a firing squad.”
However, the firing squad that the real Biden has placed himself in front of is the fusillade of strong and justified criticisms of the left-wing extremism he has chosen to pursue.
Posting at National Review on December 8, senior writer Charles C.W. Cooke, meditating on Biden’s throwing away his political capital, noted his failure to have the Senate confirm the socialism-loving Saule Omarova as his comptroller of the currency.
Cooke wrote: “One must assume that, at some point, President Biden is going to recognize that nothing good has come from his having handed his administration over to the lunatics and fabulists in his party, and alter course. But for now, he seems happy to take whatever body blows come his way if, by doing so, he can purchase a temporary reprieve from the opprobrium of left-wing Twitter.”
It seems clear that neither Biden, Pelosi, Newsom nor others of their bad-Catholic bunch have a similar fear of the nation’s Catholic bishops, because these pols have no limits to their baby-killing extremism.
Because Biden seems pathetically insecure, perhaps the bishops would have better luck at stopping him from dragging the Church through the mud by simply standing up to him instead of fearing to offend speaking his name in forthright rebuke.
So far, Biden seems to think he can throw his scrawny weight around in the Communion line, strewing mortally sinful bad example all around, and he seems to be correct.
If so, that means fearful prelates down here on Earth may have more to fear when they’re called upon to explain their stewardship up above, in a more awesome chamber than the Oval Office.
Meanwhile, another of Biden’s intentionally disastrous schemes, throwing open the Southwest border, continues to bring in all those illegal immigrants that he intends to replace American citizens, and to overwhelm their votes at the polls.
A Flood
From southwest Arizona, Yuma County Republican Sheriff Leon Wilmot said the border invasion remains a flood, with more than 1,000 unauthorized entrants per day crossing northward recently just in that area. The 911 phone lines were kept buzzing with their demands for assistance.
On Phoenix-based KFYI Radio (550 AM) on December 7, conservative talk host James T. Harris said Wilmot is “exhausted and frustrated because he is overwhelmed. . . .
“They’re going to have to steal to eat, steal for shelter” because they have nothing and don’t speak English, Harris said. “This is a crisis that is going to continue to get worse.”
Joining Harris on the air, Wilmot said Arizona’s Democratic U.S. Senators Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema “are senators in hiding” on the border crisis. The sheriff said the Biden administration had released 1.7 million unauthorized crossers this year into the interior of the U.S. without checking for who is carrying the COVID disease.
