6 March 2013. You Can’t Make Up Shit Like This… THIS is What the Rightwing Crazies Believe In… Mark It and Oppose Them

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Look at the above image. I found it whilst I was searching for images today. It’s disgusting and untruthful, isn’t it? However, not only do the rightwing kooks in general eat this shit up, but the Orthodox konvertsy are even worse… they’re some of the most unhinged righties that I’ve ever met, bar none. Many of them are on the Monomakhos site… others came out of the looney-tunes “Continuing Anglican” movement (as typified by a reactionary site called Stand Firm in the Faith)… they believe that Coolidge‘s nutty squirrel laissez-faire economic policies (which led directly to the Great Depression) are the ne plus ultra of economics and that they’re a beleaguered minority beset by a voracious “socialist” government (actually, the government doesn’t give a rat’s ass about them, but that’s attending to reality, and these sorts would NEVER do that).

Take a good look at the above… that’s the sort of shit that’s peddled by the likes of Potapov, Paffhausen, and Whiteford (the last-named is the least-culpable, as he’s the most ignorant). It’s nasty, isn’t it? However… if you march in a March for Life, that’s what you march for. Not quite what you thought, was it? I’d say, “Don’t march in a ‘March for Life’ until it disassociates itself explicitly and completely from Hard Righties such as Rick Perry, Darrell Issa, and Franklin Graham“. If it doesn’t, you’re responsible for their evil agenda. Sad to say, but there’s no “clean” option here. You can stand for social justice, but if you do, you have to stand with those who believe in legal abortion (that’s the way of it in the real world… you can’t choose your family and you can’t choose who stands for what).

If you stand for “Pro-Life“, you also stand for the promiscuous use of the death penalty, unending warmongering in foreign parts, the gutting of the American economy, generous tax cuts to the rich (and Scroogish cuts to social services), and the continuing rape of the working-class to enrich the corporate oligarchs (that’s the agenda of “Pro-Life” politicians such as Chris Smith and Willard Romney). Weigh both in the scales… neither are “clean”; both are “grey”… I have. I stand for social justice… the Left may stand for legal abortion, but it also stands against the Anti-Life agenda of the Hard Right. It’s NOT an easy or simple decision (unlike the cartoonish and mawkish arguments brought forward by the “Pro-Lifers”), but one HAS to go where the least evil’s being wrought. An anti-abortion plank doesn’t mean that an agenda is Pro-Life… NEVER forget that. It may be just the exact opposite… Satan laughs…

BMD

Greece to Probe the Rich

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Greece’s Financial Crime Unit will check the income sources of 1,700 Greeks who suddenly became super-rich in the crisis years of 2010-11. Among them are ex-ministers, MPs, political party leaders, football players, doctors, and lawyers. Greek tax authorities have a special Elenxis system, which allows them to compare income, and taxes paid as well as reveal shadow accounts. The Crime Units will also check the assets of 54,000 Greeks who have transferred some 22 billion Euros (878.4 billion Roubles. 28.5 billion USD. 17.8 billion UK Pounds) to foreign banks since 2009.

3 December 2012

Voice of Russia World Service

http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_12_03/Greece-to-probe-the-rich/

Editor’s Note:

Orthodox people… let’s keep this short… Paffhausen, Potapov, Dreher, Mattingly, Reardon, Whiteford, et al just go into orgasm over the Republican defence of the Affluent Effluent. Reflect on that… it’s in direct opposition to Our Lord Christ. The Greeks are starting to chase down the affluent rapists of the economy of their country… we should do likewise, starting with Willard Romney and Darrell Issa… I wonder what the above-named individuals would think of that?

Any road, 22 billion Euros is only 2,000 Euros per Greek (80,000 Roubles. 2,600 USD. 1,600 UK Pounds), and it works out to only 40,750 Euros (1.63 million Roubles. 52,700 USD. 32,850 UK Pounds) per capita for the cohort under investigation… I think that the really big boys are swimming away scot-free, and that the Affluent Effluent controllers of the rightwing New Democracy government are trying to assuage popular anger by allowing it to pursue second-tier tax cheats. However, if SYRIZA wins the next election (and it shall), watch for the flights to London to be packed to the gills… they’ve all bought flats in Belgravia next to Berezovsky and Abramovich just for that eventuality, y’ know (they’re greedy and corrupt, but they’re not stupid)…

BMD

21 November 2012. Is Terrence Mattingly Stating an Orthodox Viewpoint? Or, Is It Just Heterodox Vapouring in Pseudo-Orthodox Vesture?

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Terrence Mattingly got up on his soapbox and admiringly quoted a Far Right papist source, to wit:

One thing the Democrats really stand for, however, is abortion… abortion on demand, abortion without restraint, abortion paid for by all of us, abortion for the poor of the earth. I am not a one-issue voter, but they have become a one-issue party. … If traditional Democrats who are disillusioned with the selling out of the working poor and the unborn simply became registered Independent voters, would not more attention be paid?

This is utter rubbish from stem to stern. The single-issue party isn’t the Democrats… it’s the Republicans. They signed on to all of the sectarian “Moral Majority” twaddle, including approving bans on abortion that even the Church balks at. Oh, I’m sorry, the Grand Olde Perverts are a Threefold Truth Party:

• The state must use its coercive power to smash down all those who aren’t “conventional” and “respectable”… the state must smash all the opponents to the oligarch backers of the GOP, with violence and force, if necessary
• The state shall place no restraints upon the Oligarch Crapitalists and their Affluent Effluent cronies… investment to be taxed at far lower rates than earned income… wages to be kept at the lowest-possible rates
• The state shall engage in permanent warfare in foreign parts to enrich the Military-Industrial Complex… Halliburton is more important than the people next door… healthcare and education don’t count as much as bombs and drones do

In short, Mattingly’s contention is crank, crackbrained, and completely out of line. However, such prelest-ridden bloviation is common amongst the konvertsy. Does it surprise you to find out that Mattingly is a close partner in crime to Freddie M-G and Rod Dreher? They support such godless imposters as Darrell Issa and Allen West (thank God, West went down to deserved defeat). In fact, what’s happening now is that the major Grand Olde Phony candidates for 2016 are lining up and shouting how they’re all in favour of so-called “Creationism” (click here)… that means that the GOP’s slipping further into irrelevance and toadying to knuckle-dragging “Evangelical” yahoos. One of the best things that came out of the OCA Holy Synod shitcanning Paffhausen was that it ended his effort to ally us with “Christian Atheists”… as a Russian bishop called “Evangelical” phonies.

This means that Mattingly lines up with such amoral troglodytes as Todd Akin and Franklin Graham. Click here for a story on a sad case in Ireland. I asked three Orthodox MDs about such cases… there was a consensus… “If there’s a miscarriage, the pregnancy is over; our only responsibility is to safeguard the woman’s health”. That seemed straightforward enough to me. Yet, what about the moral dimension of this dilemma? I asked a priest in Russia about this… it took several days for his response to reach me (he was thinking it over… that’s the sign of a trusty source). He wrote:

There are hard moral cases… the Church NEVER blesses abortion, but there are cases in a fallen world where the only choices are bad ones. In that case, you choose the “least bad” option… but the Church doesn’t bless it… it accepts the reality. However, this was a case where the pregnancy was over. In that case, the Church advises its children to heed the Apostle and follow their doctor’s advice. Nevertheless, pastoral oikonomia in particular cases never sets aside the general rule. Never forget, there are sins greater than abortion.

Terrence Mattingly’s hardline stance isn’t worthy of a decent human being, let alone that of an Orthodox Christian believer. His rightwing fanaticism is clear… this is what the konvertsy are, kids… they want to put this madness in as the driving ideology of Christ’s Church. God do spare us…

Barbara-Marie Drezhlo

Wednesday 21 November 2012

Albany NY

Fr Vsevolod Chaplin Slams Abortions and Homosexual Propaganda

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Prominent Church spokesman Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin sharply criticised abortions, comparing them to the Holocaust, and said that he hopes Russians will consider them unacceptable, saying, “Abortions are the most terrible Holocaust in humanity’s life”, as he led a rally and a prayer against abortions and homosexual propaganda in downtown Moscow’s Gogolevsky Boulevard on Sunday. He went on to say, “Abortions have killed more people than all world wars. So, I hope they’ll be morally unacceptable in Russia”. Demonstrators held placards that read, “Stop killing children”, and “Moscow isn’t Sodom”. They called for nationwide laws to ban abortions and propaganda of homosexual relations amongst minors. A few Russian regions have already adopted laws prohibiting such propaganda. A similar rally took place in the city of Kazan, the capital of the Volga Republic of Tatarstan.

2 July 2012

RIA-Novosti

http://en.rian.ru/society/20120702/174354000.html

Editor’s Note:

This does NOT mean that Fr Vsevolod endorses JP’s antics or his “Pro-Life Movement” follies. There’s a vast difference between Fr Vsevolod’s position and that of unhinged rightwing Orthodox konvertsy in the USA. Note well that Fr Vsevolod didn’t call for the illegalisation of abortion, members of the crowd did. The Church does NOT wish to illegalise abortion… it wishes to make it morally unacceptable and to place limits upon it. The Church also calls for broad and generous state social welfare provisions so that pregnant women don’t feel pressured to have abortions, again, unlike the childish loud Anglo-Saxon converts here in the USA.

In this alone, the real Church differs from loudmouthed convert rightwingers here in the USA, who are virtually all troglodyte rightwingers of the worst possible sort. JP spoke at the godless libertarian American Enterprise Institute and hobnobs with Hard Right trash like Darrell Issa (the saga about Issa’s military record and the car is quite interesting!)… Fr Vsevolod doesn’t do looney tunes stuff like that. The Church teaches that the state has a vital role to play in preventing abortion… by providing family benefits of the most generous sort. Ergo, if you hear loudmouthed konvertsy claiming that the greedster Republican platform is the teaching of the Church, they’re chock fulla shit… they’re so full of it that it’s pouring out of their ears at high velocity. HH believes that the current capitalist world economy is a fraud, and has said so in so many words.

By the way, the Church isn’t attacking homosexuals, as HH said, “We respect all human choices, including those of sexual orientation”. They’re focusing on the promotion of homosexuality amongst minors, which is saying that it’s against paedophilia and the presentation of laudatory school courses on the topic. That is, toleration of adult homosexuals is one thing, teaching it in the schools or tolerating paedophiles (a decided minority amongst homosexuals, by the way) is another, and they’re not related. My view is similar to HH’s… we should leave homosexuals alone and put no civil or criminal penalties on them. On the other hand, we shouldn’t teach in school that it’s “just another choice” or that NAMBLA’s just another organisation. Homosexuals are what they are… and we should leave them alone in peace if they’re law-abiding sorts. If you want to find out where the hypocrites and phonies are, look for the loud anti-gays… that’s where they are! The Real Church has dealt with the homosexuals in its midst compassionately for two millennia (as in the case of Bishop Nikon Mironov)… and it’ll continue to do so after the konvertsy leave us.

BMD