The Cafeteria Catholic

Picking and choosing what to believe and practice is what the majority of Christians do. We're limited by our flesh and cannot perfectly conform to God's standard, the Law of the Ten Commandments. Thankfully, He sent His Son to pay for this and promises to heal the world one day. Meanwhile, sincere Christians work through a process of conviction through our sins. I'm pleased that I'm not the person I was five or ten years ago because the Lord has grown me spiritually though the working of the Holy Spirit in conjunction with the trials of life. And for the record, I'm not a Catholic, but a Baptist who reads her KJV straight up with the kids everyday, well, almost everyday. But the Catholics have got their catechism down, and Jack Hunter couldn't help but notice that Mr. Santorum had not taken notice of what the Pope and centuries of Catholic teaching regarding war.

Jolly Good SOPA Video - What you can do..

This fine fellow has done some Level 3 research on SOPA, the online Piracy Act, which will be a pretext for controlling the entire internet. Bet you didn't know that the developers of all the piracy software were Big Media/Tech companies? Yes, the same companies complaining of piracy paid for and distributed the piracy software, like Kazaa, BitTorrent, etc.

Why? To gain complete control of the internet. They made their millions, now it is time for our friends in the Elite to go do new fun things, like having complete control of our flow of information. This is the ol' Problem-Reaction-Solution dynamic at work. I



Check out Viacon and this dude's blog One Candle in the Dark for all your Level 3 information.

Please share this information far and wide.

Santorum Surge Explained

This is important information no matter who you support. In this video, which really needs to go viral, GOP Insider Dee Dee Benkie tells us all how it really is.

Iowa GOP officials say "cut the crap" and take out the GOP upstarts. Remember the machine in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington? I think of that big boss telling that weenie butterball governor how to vote and see that going on here. Ms. Benkie goes on to mock the average age of the typical caucus goer as 80, and then the host of this show mocks the average age as "dead". She then marginalizes Ron Paul's supporters as all being college kids "being down with the man". Ironically, she works for the "man" and the "man" don't like Ron Paul. She then says that the Iowa GOP were really, really worried about Ron Paul actually winning first and were coming up with pressuring plans to make sure that didn't happen. Of course how could Ron Paul win first if all his support was just a bunch of college kids? Don't point out their contradictions, republicanmother, just accept what the talking head says as fact.

I won't get into the secret location where the ballots were counted, but anything that happens at the last minute and is a deviation from tradition is suspicious to me.

So, cutting one trillion dollars out of the budget will make you some enemies. The Powers That Be have their people everywhere to ensure that the sheep are all within their defined corrals and nothing disrupts their fleecing process. Problem is, they ran out of candidates, and Santorum shall too fall. Especially when all this weirdness about him gets out. He's a hypocrite on just about every single issue you can imagine. Of course, it doesn't really matter for me, he's not on the ballot in my state anyway.

The way you win elections in this country is getting the independent vote. TPTB have always spun this as moderates, needing a moderate (read ever more liberal) approach. Independents broke for Ron Paul by a substantial margin. Ron Paul is not a moderate. You think in a contest between Mitt and Obama anyone is going to see a difference? You think independents would even give Santorum the time of day much less vote for him? This is far, far from over - there is a new top tier, and it's pretty much Mitt and Ron. There is no more fitting diametrically opposed line-up. Let's hope that will be an educational tool to wake more people up to the corporate control of our government.

Rick Santorum is Everything Wrong with the Republican Party

Once again Jack Hunter brings it on with that annoying historical record that spanks the behinds of collectivisits everywhere. You'll have to drill the memory holes deeper.

Let's Time Travel!

One liberty lover has devoted a whole lot of time and energy into compiling a "way back" video experience for the GOP candidates:

Ron Paul
http://yttm.tv/search/ron%20Paul

Here's Rick Santorum from 1997 to 2011
http://yttm.tv/search/Rick%20Santorum

And let's not forget Gingrinch
http://yttm.tv/search/Newt%20Gingrich

Romney
http://yttm.tv/search/Mitt%20Romney

Hey and there's more to the You Tube Time Machine. You can click on any year and see what interesting video nuggets from that year made it onto Youtube.

That's a fun toy for those who need a break from this political talk!

Santorum Surge Bogus

We all know that the MSM plays games with hype, but the google trends tool is an interesting way to track public interest on a topic. Now I've googled Santorum in the last few days, but it doesn't mean I'm a fan, so a high metric doesn't necessarily equal support you understand. But there is one GOP Candidate that is at least a couple of orders of magnitude above the others.Observe:

You will notice that this is for the last 30 days. The orange is Ron Paul, Mitt Romney is the blue and Santorum is the red. You will notice that the only place Mitt is out-searching Ron is Salt Lake City, which is understandable. You can see a slight bump for this past holiday weekend where the MSM (I now include Rush, Hannity and club in that) was hyping the "Santorum Surge".  Now let's go to where it really counts, Iowa:

It seems like if you plan to go to a caucus, which is a lot more of an ordeal than going to a primary like I do and pushing a button, you'd be reading up on your candidate a little more. Mitt Romney and Rick didn't have enough search volume for ranking on the big graph. Looks like a few people in Des Moines are checking Rick out. hmmm, yeah..

Notice the news reference volume graph. This is the one that tracks how many mentions the search term got in Google News stories. You can see at the beginning of the month, how the MSM was pushing Mitt, now that he's not got in in their dirty little bankster bag, they've been slinging the mud on RP here lately.

Then you've got this cryptic tweet from PPP, for those who think "they" don't mess with the polls

Selzer had Santorum at 9% Tu-W. We had him at `10% M-Tu. Surge quite possibly generated by CNN poll that was quite possibly wrong.

ruh roh.

Then you've got this bit of (bad) press on a local TV station:

ouch. Don't mess with people's apoltical football time, dude. That's so not cool. As one DPer astutely commented

Maybe it was how I was raised, but I usually look to the small things a man does to get a good measure of him.When he sees trash floating down the street does he stop to pick it up and dispose of it?Does he hold the door open for a lady?Does he say please and thank you?What kind of handshake does he have?Those types of things are what I look at. The first thought that came to my mind when I saw him "bypass" the people waiting was "who the "f" do you think you are Rick"?I know I'm not the only one out there with my personality type (although it often seems like I am the only one) and I guarantee this video will resonate with folks like me.We don't need to be pandered to or fawned after to gain our vote. Live like a decent human through your actions and we will be your most loyal supporter. Treat people as underlings and think your celebrity status means something? We will be your most fervent enemy.Respect is a two way road, and none of these men put their pants on differently than any of us. Rick Santorum should be ashamed of his actions. They speak louder than words right?So when Rick had a chance to show some decency and compassion for average Americans what did he do?There was a great article about Ron eating his breakfast all by his lonesome at an Embassy Suites a few days back. Like I said, how you act when the cameras are off and how you act in the little things in life tells more about what kind of person you are than anything else.

The thing about this MSM strategy of "surging" one of their own, Santorum is that it is rather ineffective for a caucus state. It might have more impact on a "press the button" primary, but at the caucus state, there's a lot more organization to pull it off. These prideful Elites were too busy taking everything for granted, that they didn't work on that these past four years, even forgetting to put themselves on the VA ballot.
gee whiz...

Update: VA AG backs off.

The Constitution is NOT Dangerous

unless you're a collectivist bankster of course. In this clip Doug Wead schools a talking head on what is really absurd: borrowing from China to pay the military to be stationed in Austrailia to protect us from China. Oceania has always been at war with East Asia you know...

This post would be remiss without a little commentary from everyone's favorite "Rockefeller man", Henry Kissinger: The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. ---New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973