Anyways, today we celebrate the 232nd anniversary of American independence.  Have a beer or a GnT, smoke a cig, and spend time with friends and near ones.  But don’t forget what made our nation possible, and what allows it to continue in being.  

I am attaching some prayers on this occasion.

2006 Renewal of Consecration of the United States of America to the Immaculate Conception by U.S. Episcopate

Most holy trinity: Our father in heaven, who chose Mary as the fairest of your daughters; Holy Spirit, who chose Mary as your spouse; God the son, who chose Mary as your mother; in union with Mary, we adore your majesty and acknowledge Your supreme, eternal dominion and authority.

Most holy trinity, we put the United States of America into the hands of Mary immaculate in order that she may present the country to you. Through her we wish to thank you for the great resources of this land and for the freedom, which has been its heritage. Through the intercession of Mary, have mercy on the Catholic Church in America. Grant us peace. Have mercy on our president and on all the officers of our government. Grant us a fruitful economy born of justice and charity. Have mercy on capital and industry and labor. Protect the family life of the nation. Guard the precious gift of many religious vocations. Through the intercession of our mother, have mercy on the sick, the poor, the tempted, sinners – on all who are in need.

Mary, immaculate virgin, our mother, patroness of our land, we praise you and honor you and give our country and ourselves to your sorrowful and immaculate heart. O’ sorrowful and immaculate heart of Mary pierced by the sword of sorrow prophesized by Simeon save us from degeneration, disaster and war. Protect us from all harm. O’ sorrowful and immaculate heart of Mary, you who bore the sufferings of your son in the depths of your heart be our advocate. Pray for us, that acting always according to your will and the will of your divine son, we may live and die pleasing to God. Amen.

Prayer in Honor of the Immaculate Conception

I leave you all with a little picture of Independence Day back home in New York City, which is where I was born and raised.  It brings back some pleasant childhood memories of summer.

God Bless America.

MR. JPM

If you are a citizen of the United States of America and consider yourself a “monarchist,” you may want to stop reading.  Or continue reading, I don’t care.  I am going to set the record straight.  If you’re somewhere in between either of our shining seas, getting fat off of that land, and you have the nerve to talk about “Commonwealth,” this, and “restoration,” that, and everything else in between, then you have no business being here.  Countless men and women have given their hopes, dreams, hearts, and very lives in the service and defense of this nation.  They are the reason we can own land, practice any religion (yep, even the fake ones!) without fear of persecution or certainty of taxation, move about freely, and otherwise not have to bow down to another human being who’s blood is no more special than yours or mine.  Absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, it makes no difference to me (although I realize that the former is essentially extinct).  It is ludicrous to think that one human being is somehow qualified, entitled, or intended to rule a nation simply because his or her mommy or daddy had some inherited wealth, so to speak, that some great-great-great-great-etc.-ancestor gobbled up years ago, and kept on handing it down so they didn’t have to do any actual work and leave government to the people.  Some even turn blind to reason, abandoning themselves to some antiquarian, romantic notion that somehow God, Himself, has selected them, by way of their family, to rule some  people.  Frankly, that’s nothing other than a seven-dollar six-pack of crap, and it reeks in such a way that new mulch on a humid, August day in Washington, DC could be mistaken for an orange grove.  This is the land of the free, not ruled, and it was made so by scores of the brave, nurtured by this, their home.  Get out of here and be ruled where we can’t hear you or be subjected to your blogs, unfortunately supported by supporters of the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.  I don’t quite know why that is, but I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who’d have some form of smarmy comeback.  Ooooh, FIB is scared.  My Glock17 is shaking in its holster.

God bless America!

This brings me to a less lengthy bit regarding the recent decision on the right to keep and bear firearms handed down yesterday by the Supreme Court.  When I was driving around midday I was listening to WAMU, the NPR station in Washington, DC, and was listening to a press event of some sort where DC mayor, Adrian Fenty, was responding to the Court’s decision.  He spouted off some crap to the effect of, we’re all saddened by this, or concerned, or something of that ilk, and blah blah blah we’re going to take measures to see that we “respect the Court’s authority,” but not really.  I don’t mind registering weapons — if you’re a good citizen, you shouldn’t have anything to worry about.  But nothing more than that.  A pistol ban is ridiculous in a place where the people who have them are acquiring them outside of the law to begin with.

Ultimately, as much as I dislike the liberals — all of them, cheese-eating pax-Christi pacifists, comrades of “hope” in 2008, all of them, at least they’re not a bunch of poncing twits who brazenly defy the country that has given them everything and look to a figurehead who can only give them what the blood of generosity, courage, and honor had been shed to preserve them from.

God bless America!

MR. JPM

Saint Sebastian at the Patron Saint Index

O Lord, grant us a spirit of strength. Taught by the glorious example of Your Martyr St. Sebastian, may we learn how to obey You rather than men. Amen.

MR. JPM

Hello and good morning, FIB America!  Bonjour!  Buenos dias!  Salve!  Qvid agis?  Dzien dobre!  Co slychac?

The Supreme Court has released its decision on DC’s firearm ban, thus making Washington, DC much, much more livable.  This benefits not only the residents of DC, but affirms the constitutional right of individual Americans to keep and bear arms.  Check out The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Also, here.

And, here.

Naysayers, the news media,”Justice” Stephen Breyer, and certain people FIB would like to refer to but has decided not to can all kiss my butt.  

MR. JPM

A few weeks ago my Predesign class took a break from class for a field trip down to GW’s campus in Foggy Bottom (not far from f*@#ing Georgetown, btw) to sit in the audience of a Charlie Rose taping.  The reason we went is because Rose was welcoming several Pritzker Laureates: Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and this year’s laureate, Jean Nouvel.  The event was really something.  Here they are, giants who are always spoken of, mentioned in journals and magazines, booed and spat upon, too, and yet for most of their careers they didn’t reinvent the wheel, they just…designed.  The only one of the group I wasn’t too impressed with was Zaha Hadid, and it’s not because I’m “against women in the field,” or “anti-Muslim,” but because she seemed to grumble her way through the discussion, a modified version of her work persona, which is apparently quite difficult.

The distinguished panel simply shared their thoughts and feelings on Architecture — what drives them, what moves them, what keeps them working, as much as you could fit into about an hour or so, after years of practice.  After the discussion proper, the floor was opened for questions.

I’d like to say more, but I know that Architecture is a very contentious subject with many people, who in their subjectivity make their opinions objective — scary, isn’t it?

Nevertheless, for your viewing pleasure, here’s a little somethin’ somethin’.  It’s very much worth watching.

Well, FIB America, there we have it.  George Carlin, a comedian loved by pagans everywhere, has passed on.  FIB marks Carlin’s death with this post, although we are not inclined to sadness that he will no longer be performing.

NYTimes Article

MR. JPM

Like many of his co-religionists, Bishop Richard Williamson, leader* of the English-speaking section of the Society of St. Pius X, is a certifiable nut-case in addition to being a total fraud. Here is a man, an excommunicate who pretends at being a Catholic bishop, who has told us, among other things, that women generally shouldn’t get college educations and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a rich treasury of historical fact. Now, in the embedded video he preaches that 9/11 was an inside job, and as proof cites a conspiracy theorist website.

h/t: Mark Shea.

I hope this man and his followers remain outside of the Church for as long as they continue to darken authentic Catholicism with the black lights of perverted history and theology.

WAC

*Anyone who wants to dispute this as being factually incorrect can take their comments somewhere else. Yes, Williamson is not the superior of the SSPX, but he is most certainly its de facto leader in the English speaking world.

So this isn’t exactly news, but while scoping out my favorite new website, Hulu, I stumbled upon this clip from The Colbert Report.  It’s pretty damn funny.  I feel bad for Cookie Monster.  Cookie Monster was one of my favorite Sesame Street muppets when I was a wee’ child — he was so wacky, so full of vim and vigor, all sbout cookies.  Now, certain Americains a la rive gauche have thought it appropriate to further Sesame Street’s Red Elmo Propaganda, by turning Cookie Monster into a pansy.  I mean, COME ON!  What would have happened to Zeppelin and the Stones think if Robert Plant quit the groupies, and if Keith Richards did one less narcotic?  Their music would suck, and no one would seek them out on iTunes.  In any case, I bring you Stephen Colbert’s coverage of how our nation’s youth are being led astray to the EUSR.  

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight…here.

MR. JPM

Unbelievable:

From the AP:

Authorities are investigating whether a Catholic charity violated state and federal law by helping a 16-year-old illegal immigrant who was in the organization’s care get an abortion.

Workers with Commonwealth Catholic Charities helped the girl travel to and from the procedure in January and signed a consent form for the abortion, Joanne Nattrass, the charity’s executive director, said in a statement Thursday. She declined further comment.

Four of the Richmond-based charity’s workers were fired, according to a letter by David Siegel, head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ refugee resettlement program.

The federal department is looking into the charity’s actions and the role played by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The conference receives $7.6 million a year in federal funds to place unaccompanied illegal immigrant children in foster care until they’re reunited with relatives, sponsored, or returned to their homeland. The girl is from Guatemala but was living in Virginia when the abortion took place.

Federal law bans the use of federal money to pay for abortions with exceptions for rape, incest or threats to the life of the mother. Virginia law requires parental consent for an abortion for a girl under 18.

Commonwealth Catholic Charities serves children in the Richmond area as a subcontractor of the bishop’s conference. The conference “appears to have been aware of Commonwealth Catholic Charities’ actions,” Siegel wrote in his April 23 letter to HHS’ deputy inspector general, Timothy Menke.

In a letter nearly a week later, the conference acknowledged some responsibility for the incident and said it has revised agreements with the more than 1,700 Catholic Charities offices nationwide to explicitly bar services that contradict Catholic teachings. Catholics are strongly opposed to abortion, and it isn’t clear why the organization assisted the teen.

“There were significant supervisory errors that resulted in a failure to do everything possible to avoid the abortion,” said the letter, signed by Bishops Francis X. DiLorenzo of the Richmond diocese; John C. Wester of the Salt Lake City diocese; and Michael P. Driscoll of the Boise, Idaho diocese. All have some link to the youth resettlement program.

Federal officials were surprised and disappointed that the Catholic charity used funding to help a minor get an abortion, said Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesman for the Administration for Children and Families in HHS.

“That is at odds with federal policy and is a possible violation of Virginia state law, so we have referred this case to HHS’ inspector general,” Wolfe said in a statement. “Our agency is one that supports human life and we take that responsibility seriously.”

wac

Two reasons why Denver, CO sucks:

1) Their Godless newspaper Rocky Mountain News is attempting to put a positive spin on meter maids, also known as parking Nazis, or as I like to call them, any cuss word of choice.

2) The City of Denver is making it incredibly hard for pro-Life groups to assemble during the 2008 Democrat Extravaganza.  Even more disgusting are the comments readers have attached to the articles.  This pagan propaganda also brought to you by the Rocky Mountain News.

So, yeah, Denver — don’t go there, ever; it’s Kunming, USA. 

Can you hear me, Denver, or shall I turn it up for you?

MR. JPM