I saw this on FB:
If you put rapists in prison with murderers in Scotland, you’d have only murderers left in the morning. Rapists go to protection with the beasts and nonces.
Any nationality that hates child molesters, snitches, rat finks, and rapists has a lot going for it. Now… where’s my jigger? There’s good whisky to drink down…
BMD
St Felix martyred by his students, torturing him with stylus and inkpot
Golden Legend, Bruges, c1450; @MorganLibrary MS M.672-5 I
I wrote a friend:
Looks like a bunch of konvertsy pestering a bishop…
Their reply was:
I thought the same thing!
I believe that the bishops give in to konvertsy toddlers because they keep pestering the poor guys, and the bishops give in to get some peace. I’d remind the bishops that one of their duties is to protect people against lynch mobs of fanatics and that our tradition is one of sensible oikonomia, not legalistic akrivia. That is, Orthodoxy favours accommodation rather than confrontation. Note well that the konvertsy don’t like the basic orientation of the Church. That tells you much about them and their noxious agenda and fancies.
The bishops should tell the loudmouth konvertsy to buzz off, grow up, and attend to their own souls and gardens. I’d applaud any bishop who’d do that…
BMD
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński is dead at the age of 89. The former US National Security Advisor put the feuds of his homeland above the interests of his adopted USA. Richard Nixon had more foreign policy achievements that just about any modern American President. However, Nixon’s scandal-plagued White House generally overshadowed these achievements. Amongst his most important achievements was engaging in détente with the USSR. Nixon’s de-escalation of tensions with Moscow ultimately led to the signing of the Helsinki Accords in 1975, wherein America and its allies and non-aligned states of Europe agreed to respect the borders and sovereignty of existing states, including that of the USSR and her allies. The Helsinki Accords affirmed renouncing violence as a means of settling disputes and forced signatories to respect the right of self-determination among peoples. This was a rare moment; the USA admitted that it couldn’t win the Cold War and that engagement and peaceful dialogue were preferable to threats against the Soviet superpower.
In 1976, Jimmy Carter became the President of the United States after Nixon’s former Vice-President Gerald Ford failed to win over an America hungry for change on the domestic front. While many remember Jimmy Carter as a man of peace, his Presidency was anything but peaceful. The reason for this was the power behind the throne, Carter’s National Security Advisor, Brzeziński. The Polish-born Brzeziński put the historic blood-feud of his mother country ahead of American interests. He openly opposed Nixon and Ford’s policy of détente and orchestrated the use of American power to arm and fund all those who sought to undermine the USSR.
This became most apparent when he decided to use the USA’s resources to fund, arm, and train the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Among the fighters Brzeziński’s policy helped to arm was Osama bin Laden, the founder of the Salafist terrorist group al-Qaeda. The USA later blamed that group for orchestrating and executing the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the USA. Brzeziński was happy to ally with blood-soaked jihadists to topple the secular modern government of Afghanistan, for the simple reason that it was a Soviet ally. Brzeziński’s jihadists took over the country in the 1990s; they famously executed and then mutilated the corpse of Afghanistan’s pro-Soviet President Dr Mohammad Najibullah in 1996. Many blame the Brzeziński-authored policies in Afghanistan for unleashing the plague of jihadist terrorism throughout the wider world.
Brzeziński’s formal time in the White House was only for Jimmy Carter’s single term, but many of his policies lived on long after his formal period in power. Throughout the rest of his life, Brzeziński continued to vocally advocate policies designed to cripple Russia, including NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe. He was a strong supporter of the 2014 coup against the legitimate Ukrainian government and more recently said that the Russian Federation would break up. Furthermore, he said that the USA must help those wanting to break it up, irrespective of who they are. He continued to advocate sanctions against Russia until his dying day, in spite of the fact that the sanctions ended up hurting his native Poland more than the Russian Federation he sought to destroy.
Brzeziński was a deeply violent and hateful man. He was also dishonest; he told the last Shah of Iran that the USA would give him full backing, knowing well that there was division in the White House on the issue. He was a man who brought ancient hatreds, hatreds which long pre-dated the USA’s existence, into the heart of American policy making. At the age of 89, Brzeziński is dead. Even if he lived another hundred years, he’d never see his dream, the death of Russia. Russia remains alive and well, and in this sense, perhaps, he died knowing that his entire reason for being was a failure.
26 May 2017
The Duran
http://theduran.com/zbigniew-brzezinski-death-anti-russian-terrorists/
Voices from Russia 
No Summer Holiday for ISIS as Syrian Army Launches Largest Offensive Since Start of the War
Tags: American aggression, American terrorism, civil unrest, ISIS, Middle East, Middle Eastern, peace in the middle east, political commentary, politics, Syria, Syrian armed forces, Syrian Civil War, terror, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, United States, USA, war and conflict
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The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and allied forces officially launched a military operation (“Great Dawn”) to retake the Syrian Desert and secure the Syrian-Iraqi border. With the support of the Russian Air Force, the SAA already secured an area of approximately 13,000 square kilometres in central Syria and isolated the remaining pockets in Eastern Damascus that might cause disturbances in the capital; these pockets are now under complete siege and cut off from arms and funds previous supplied via the Jordanian border. The SAA also secured al-Seen airbase in East Damascus to safeguard against any possible threats posed by these terrorist groups. Simultaneously, the SAA and allied forces launched an operation east of Aleppo after successfully blocking Turkish activity in the area. This isn’t to mention Russian deployments in the Kurdish cities of Manbij and Afrin.
At the same time, Syrian troops secured the hilltops overseeing the roads toward Palmyra and are eliminating any attempted push or flanking manoeuvre by ISIS; the control of these hills proved to be very effective in helping the Russian Air Force destroy an ISIS convoy heading towards Palmyra. Despite every foreign effort to hold them back, the Syrian and allied forces initiated their operations in the Syrian desert from multiple axes and simultaneously; and for the first time, the breaching units weren’t transported between axes but engaged in one integrated battle. All the participating units are at the same level of experience, training, and readiness in what could be the largest operation the SAA has launched since the beginning of the war.
The Syrian and Russian Air Forces also conducted a number of visual identifications of the so-called “US-Led Coalition” when they approached areas where Syrian forces are currently operating; keep in mind that this offensive is going to make many foreign countries “uncomfortable”. Arguably, ISIS has never had it this bad. Moreover, if the offensive continues without any serious setbacks, it’s possible that this would be the last Syrian summer for ISIS. Of course, making predictions is risky business… there are simply too many variables to make anything in this war certain. Nevertheless, we have a very high level of confidence in the Syrian command and the Syrian and allied units on the ground.
28 May 2017
Wael al-Hussaini
Russian Insider
http://russia-insider.com/en/military/no-summer-holiday-isis-syrian-army-launches-largest-offensive-start-war/ri19974?ct=t(Russia_Insider_Daily_Headlines11_21_2014)&mc_cid=993cab45d3&mc_eid=1b7e3c9f9a