the final report is in on how Cardinal McCarrick could diddle seminarians, appoint his friends, approve of pro abortion Catholic politicians, and (after retirement) arrange the sell out of the Chinese Catholics is finally out.
Summary here:
Unele Ted's Cabin: how it was all Vigano's fault.
There was universal rejoicing in the Catholic Church this week when the long-awaited McCarrick report was finally published. The investigators were charged with finding the answer to one simple question: Why don't people like Uncle Ted McCarrick, despite his record of devotion to young seminarians and influence over a generation of bishops, archbishops, and even cardinals? Was it something he said?,,,
No, it is clear where the blame lies - fair and square in the court of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, arch-enemy of Pope Francis, and even more so of Cardinals Cupich, Wuerl, Farrell, Tobin, old Uncle Wilt Gregory and all.
You see, Uncle Ted never had a chance. If Viganò had only kept quiet, like Sodano, Bertone, Parolin, and 250 other bishops, then there would never have been a scandal. Writing an 11-page letter full of salacious innendos about a saintly man who was by all accounts a model of hospitality? What good could that do?,
yes, it is a satire, from Eccles is saved Blog.
update: More on the story in this article by George Neumayr
The impression left by all the excuse-making for McCarrick (with some bishops pretending that his sleeping with seminarians was non-sexual) is that of a hopelessly decayed bureaucracy, utterly indifferent to holiness or orthodoxy...
McCarrick’s heterodoxy was as obvious as his depravity. But most of the old letters cited in the report (in which churchmen hesitantly debate his future) never even raise that issue. They all gush about his allegiance to the “magisterium.” There is one intriguing mention of somebody objecting to his support for Theodore Hesburgh’s Land O’ Lakes statement, the 1967 manifesto that called for the secularization of American Catholic colleges. But the complaint went nowhere. Too bad. McCarrick’s support for that document foreshadowed a great deal of mischief, culminating in his suppression of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s letter on pro-abortion Catholic pols.
this is the rot that was behind the Pope and Bishops cheering on Biden's election, implying he is a Catholic in good standing.
But his abortion stance puts his soul at risk. Do any of the bishops care? Nah.
the article Mentions Cardinal Wuerl. Well, in the 1990s when the Altoona abuse scandal was being swept under the rug, and every gay in western Pa knew that priests cruised the bars openly for sex, Wuerl seemed oblivious to the problem. And some of our neighbors were aghast at the permissive "sex education" program he was pushing in Catholic schools.
when they ask why there are so many ex catholics in the USA, this might be one reason: Half of those who leave stop going to any church and the other half migrate to Protestant or (as we saw in Western Pa) Orthodox churches
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ah, but conspiracy theories about pulling boxes of fake votes out of the back room to count (hello Garci, how's it going?) is now passes.
Why do all that work when computers will do it for you?
from GreatGameIndia:
Days after it was revealed how 2020 US Elections were rigged by Canadian Crown Agent Dominion Voting Systems through a so-called “glitch”, now GreatGameIndia has found involvement of another dubious foreign company in US Election meddling. The votes cast by Americans were counted by a bankrupted Spanish company Scytl in Spain. Like Dominion Voting Systems, Scytl has a long history of election fraud in various nations...
Don't ask me. we are busy cleaning up the debris from the typhoon to worry about such shennanigans.
update: From comment on Instapundit
I put it here mainly because I've scanned a lot of these stories but was too busy to get the details of what was going on.
by George Turner
As the fraud investigators pointed out, sometimes there's one or two red flags but no fraud, but it's rare to have three, and almost unheard of to have four and not be able to prosecute the case to a successful conviction.
This one has dozens of red flags. During the act, we have:
1) Trump was winning all the keys states by huge margins on election night. Even people here said 2020 was reminding them of exactly what they went though on 2016. And then, in the middle of the night, Biden surged ahead. That doesn't happen in multiple states.
2) All the key states mysterious stopped counting at about 1:00 AM, and only the key states stopped counting. Why would a state do that? Red flag.
3) Georgia claimed they stopped counting, saying the Atlanta arena was flooding from a burst pipe and the vote counters had to be evacuated. That was false. The arena never filed any paperwork for a contractor to come and fix anything. The only confirmation that there was even a leak said it was a minor drip that was quickly mopped up, and was nowhere near the counting. Red flag.
4) Republican observers were sent home because ballot counting had stopped, and that’s when the new fake ballots showed up. The delivery vehicles full of ballots were caught on video. Ballots aren’t normally driven across a state to be counted somewhere else. Red flag.
5) How did Biden’s lead massively increase while ballot counting was stopped? If you’re not counting ballots, the number shouldn’t be changing. Yet it did, by hundreds of thousands, but only for one candidate. That one would cause any international election observer to throw a red flag.
6) Republican election observers weren’t present when the new ballots were arriving in the middle of the night, because they’d been sent home. Another red flag.
7) Republican election observers weren’t allowed to observe in many of the states. Trump is correct, as backed up by their affidavits. Many were barred, many were ejected, some by “security”. In Philly they weren’t allowed to observe, even with a court order. The sheriff blocked them. That went on for days. Huge red flag, and another that UN observers take as evidence of election fraud.
8) Long delays in counting the votes in key states. Under international standards, long delays in vote counting are taken as suspicious, and usually indicate election rigging. Counting just isn’t at all hard compared to making up fake ballots that can survive cursory scrutiny. A long delay likely means they’re making sure they have enough “recount survivable” fraudulent ballots, or enough to cover for a rigged vote tally that was made up on election night.
9) All the long counting delays concerned cities with a long history of machine politics and rampant election fraud.
10) Observed real-time vote tally’s in multiple states where Trump or Jorgensen’s total count decreased. Negative votes aren’t supposed to exist. That’s a sign that the election were being hacked.
11) Mail-in-ballots arriving in Pennsylvania before they were even shipped out. That can’t happen in this universe, and is definite sign of fraud.
12) Large numbers of dead people, who were born over a hundred years ago, being recorded as having voted. I’ve confirmed plenty of those myself.
13) Large number of women reporting that someone voted under their maiden name. This happened to some of the women I comment with.
14) Large numbers of people showing up on election day and being told they’d all ready voted.
15) Republicans checking to make sure their ballot was recorded and finding out that it wasn’t, and then having to harass election officials for days to get it recorded. This happened to a blogger I’ve read for years, who happens to be a member of the US diplomatic corps.
16) The use of different voting standards in Democrat counties compared to Republican counties. One of Trump’s lawsuits is based on that.
17) New ballots showing up days after the election. The number of ballots still to be counted kept increasing, for days in some counties. Nothing like this remotely happened in normal states.
18) Late changes to election laws (in many states) and last-minute changes to election procedures and standards. Changing the system virtually during the act is a sign of election rigging by people in power. Trump has already had some rulings in his favor on that issue, as state election officials only have the power to enforce election laws, not to modify them on the fly.
19) Turning off or turning down voter signature verification so fraudulent ballots aren’t caught. This occurred in most or all of the key states. One reporter in Arizona voted nine times under different names, and all but one of the votes passed their signature checks. Pennsylvania’s mail-in-ballot rejection rate plummeted from 0.95% to 0.03%. It should’ve gone up because of the vast influx of first-time mail-in-voters, who often have a 3% rejection rate in that state. Since only election officials (the people running the election) can do that, it is a sign of election rigging.
20) Observations of people outside election areas making fake ballots. Some of this is on video, with “activists” signing multiple ballots just outside the election locations, with boxes of ballots in their vehicles, and with attempts to keep people from photographing them.
21) That the media was making very unsupportable calls on election night, all favoring one candidate over the other. In other countries, this is taken as evidence of a thumb on the scales.
22) The press suppression all allegations of voter fraud. Again, that happens in banana Republicans and is often evidence of voter fraud. Note that the same media organizations doing this are the ones who spent four years hyping every last hint that the Russian’s may have flipped even one vote, or that big data may have been used, or that dozens of people trolling Facebook counts as election rigging.
23) A rush to be declared the winner and get a concession, so as to avoid any recounts or investigation into election irregularities. Shoplifters try to get out the door as quickly as possible, just as all criminals try to avoid being searched or questioned.
24) Attempts to intimidate opposition lawyers. Some of the law firms hired by Trump have quit because of attacks, doxing, threats to their firms, and death threats. This is common in corrupt countries where an election has been rigged, and is a clear indication that one party does not want any evidence presented because it will expose their criminal activities, or show that the rigged an election. In normal legal practice, law firms are rarely if ever threatened, even when they’re defending ISIS terrorists.
25) People coming forward saying they were paid money to rig the election. That’s was already happening even prior to the election.
26) Whistle blowers coming forward saying they were told to perform illegal acts to sway the election. We’ve already got those.
27) Attempts to suppress and intimidate whistle blowers, along with attempts to silence or discredit them. We’ve already had that.
28) Attempts by top officials to suppress evidence that there was a coordinated effort to rig the election. We’ve had that too, with threats by a state AG to prosecute a reporter for playing a tape of instructions being given to election workers, in which they were told to attack Republican observers and throw away Republican ballots.
29) Attempts by media or other large communications concerns to suppress any discussions of election rigging, or anything questioning the results of the election. We’ve got that happening at Communist Chinese levels of censorship. The conservative half of the country can’t say anything on Twitter or Facebook. This just screams organized election fraud.
30) Organized media and tech suppression, to extreme levels, of stories that would harm their candidate, especially stories about ongoing criminal behavior. It means access to public information is being restricted, and if they will do that, they will do anything else. In other countries that is taken as a glaring red flag that the media is as corrupt as the system itself.
Statistical red flags
31) Extremely large and unusual voter turnouts in key areas that overwhelmingly favor one candidate. This is very prevalent, and also appeared in Putin’s re-election.
32) Voter turnouts that are above 90%. The highest turnouts in 60 or70 years in some areas (breaking records set when election rigging was commonplace), while most areas have close-to-normal turnouts, is a red flag of of election rigging to all international observers.
33) Voter turnouts exceeding 100%. If you run out of people long before you run out of ballots to count, you’re obviously counting fake ballots. In this election, some precincts exceeded 200% turnout.
34) extremely high turnouts for one candidate among certain demographics, which didn’t occur in similar cities in nearby non-battleground states that have similar demographics. This sticks out with a sore thumb where ever you look in this election, with northern Indiana and northern Ohio looking nothing like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, or Atlanta compared to Birmingham, etc.
For example, in Miami-Date, Baltimore city, and New York City’s five counties, Joe Biden got less votes than Obama or Hillary (99%, 99% and 76%). He barely outperformed Hillary in Chicago (up 4%), Columbus (11%), San Francisco (8%), Boston (3%), Washington DC (8%), New Orleans (10%), Arlington VA (14%). But then he does 50% better in places like Phoenix and Colorado Springs, 40% better in Austin, and 32% better in Atlanta? And Biden does this after ditching the Democrats’ famous and effective voter-turnout ground game?
35) Unusual ratios of Biden votes in mail-in-ballots in only certain areas. In Pennsylvania, Biden’s gap over Trump in mail-in-ballots was 40% of Trump’s lead in same-day voting, across all counties, except in the problem areas around Philly, where the gap inexplicably skyrocketed.
36) Swings in the Biden/Trump ratio of mail-in-ballots over time. When you look at the time when mail-in-ballots were counted, they’ve been randomized by the individual voters’ daily routines, personal procrastination levels, pickup routes, post-office procedures, sign-in times, and where they got placed on the floor at the election sites. The ratio should be like an isotopic signature at the point, and be extremely constant, as it is in non-key states. In the problem areas were fraud is historically highly prevalent, this ratio goes nuts, with the later ballots becoming more and more skewed towards Biden. The only way that can happen is through fraud.
37) Biden getting more and more of the expected number of votes, as predicted by the ratio of straight-ticket voters, as a district or precinct becomes more heavily Republican, again judged by the ratio of straight-ticket voters. This can only happen via a computer algorithm, because real voters don’t know how everybody else is voting, much less defect to Biden the more Republican their district is. In fact, the opposite should happen due to social influences like seeing thousands of signs supporting their favored candidate. This is very clear evidence of intentional election rigging via computer, and appears on a very wide scale.
38) Straight lines showing up in scatter plots that should look random. This is related to red flag #37, and show up in data in Wisconsin. Real data is messy, and when a statistical analysis turns that mess into a perfect, straight line, you’re seeing the work of a computer rigging results, not the actions of human beings who are hard to predict, and who drink a lot and sometimes lick Tide Pods.
39) The polls, which were wildly wrong, apparently got the suspect states surprisingly more accurate than states that got their ballots counted quickly. Basically, it looks almost like the vote in the late-counting states is being rigged to match polls that were wildly off everywhere else. Obviously all the pollsters shouldn’t have been close only in a couple of states.
40) It’s pretty much impossible for the result to deviate so much from the bellwether counties. Even if we’d been holding elections since before the Big Bang happened, we still wouldn’t have had a result where even eleven of seventeen bellwethers were wrong. This time 14 of them missed. Statistically, that simply can’t happen. When you find a result that is statistically virtually impossible, it is. So Biden forgot to rig the bellwether counties when he was rigging the key states, because only statisticians care about bellwethers.
41) The New York times election night live feed of raw data – for Virginia. Virginia is odd in that it apparently allows fractional voting, so a batch will come in that looks like this:
Batch stamp (GMT) Biden #, Trump #, Biden %, Trump %
2020-11-04T13:02:17Z 252.39 210.09 54.573171% 45.426829%
That one had 252.39 votes for Biden, and 210.09 votes for Trump, which were added to the running totals.
42) But the fractional voting gets weirder, because some of the batches have huge negative votes, like 2020-11-04T05:12:38Z, which had -37,510.39 votes for Trump. Kind of odd, eh?
43) But it gets weirder. In that dump, the first seven batches each gave Trump 45.4278% of the batch total, even when the number of votes was 11.28 to 9.39 or 1544.41 to 1285.57. The standard deviation of the Trump % of those 7 batches was 0.001653%, or a thousandth of a percent. The next 11 batches shifted slightly, giving Trump 45.22% of the vote, with a standard deviation of 0.02587%. The second group differed from the first group by 7 standard deviation of the second group, and 125 standard deviations of the first group. Only a machine creating fake ballots could do this, and by the way, there’s no such thing as a floating point vote. My assumption is that some coder didn’t realize he’d declared the wrong data type for his fake vote generator – which fed the New York Times election feed.
44) Hundreds of thousands of votes came in for Biden, out of nowhere, late in the night, while hundreds of thousands of Trump votes disappeared from the totals. The vote ratio on the later batches didn’t look remotely like what it had been in the first 125 batches of votes, in which Trump was taking a commanding lead. It’s like someone saw Trump was easily winning Virginia and hit the election-rigging panic button.
I’m sure I’ve forgotten many, many other red flags, but the point is that three or four red flags usually indicate a strong case for conducting an investigation
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Someone said Chomsky used to complain theCIA and big business used to manipulate elections.
I am so old I remember it was the left who worried about these things.
and here we have big tech manipulating the news, the press which is run by a few mega corporations pushing propaganda and covering up stories that make Trump look good (mideast peace plan, the vaccine, his prison reform proposals) while ignoring the implications of bribing Biden via his son....and one wonders if there is dirt on harris that has been covered up
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Update.
Independent reporter Micael Yon covered a lot of wars, and I am most familiar of his coverage of the Hong Kong demonstrations.
He was stopped from going back there so has started covering the US riots that the MSM calls peaceful protests.
He just covered the MAGA march and his conclusions are disturbing....
He senses a civil war is coming.
Read the whole thing.
Link via American digest
http://americandigest.org/long-read-of-the-week-michael-yon-writes-his-dispatch-veterans-day-2020-in-front-of-the-white-house-washington-d-c/
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rather than start a new blog post, I am just adding stuff here to read later on my tablet. This is from a commenter on Instapundit who presumably is not trying to make money off of his posts like a lot of the fake news. The interesing thing he claims is that the suspicious numbers were in white areas, which correlates with press reports that I've seen about Trumpieboy losing white men. But that doesn't make sense to me: not just policy, but the lack of testosterone suggests Biden didn't impress most white men outside of university elite centers, and of course these types voted for Hillary four years ago.
in other words, did Trump lose the blue collar "Regan Democrats"? unlikely.
but his figures are for Georgia and I know nothing about the state. \(In contrast, I am well aware of the corruption in Philly, and as guiliani noted, they've been stealing votes and voting the dead for 60 years. I also wonder if they fixed the machines in New Mexico that made it hard for me to vote for Bush (it took 4 times, because it kept changing my vote right before I posted it).in 2000 but that's another story.
. George Turner.
Here's some Georgia county data I'd been working with.
The big Biden games have a moderate negative correlation to the county's black population percentage, and the correlation has a high significance (very low p value). Biden's big gains did not come from the heavily black counties. The big gains came from the very white, Republican counties.
Hopefully this will cut and paste.
County,2016 Hillary,2016 Trump,2016 total,2020 Biden,2020 Trump,2020 Total,County,2019 pop,%black
Appling,1434,5494,7005,1779,6526,8341,Appling,"18,386",19.60%
Atkinson,697,1878,2610,825,2300,3155,Atkinson,"8,165",19.60%
Bacon,608,3364,4019,625,4018,4668,Bacon,"11,164",15.70%
Baker,650,775,1440,652,897,1555,Baker,"3,038",50.40%
Baldwin,7970,7697,16086,9140,8903,18251,Baldwin,"44,890",43.00%
Banks,684,6134,6950,932,7795,8801,Banks,"19,234",3.20%
Barrow,6580,21108,28831,10453,26804,37921,Barrow,"83,240",11.00%
Bartow,8212,29911,39306,12092,37674,50467,Bartow,"107,738",10.20%
Ben Hill,2101,3739,5931,2392,4110,6560,Ben Hill,"16,700",34.60
Berrien,1047,5422,6584,1269,6419,7743,Berrien,"19,397",10.70%
Bibb,36787,24043,62277,43468,26585,70802,Bibb,"153,159",47.30%Bleckley,1101,3719,4943,1311,4328,5706,Bleckley,"12,873",27.30%Brantley,619,5567,6292,699,6991,7746,Brantley,"19,109",2.90%Brooks,2528,3701,6318,2790,4260,7100,Brooks,"15,457",39.34%Bryan,4014,10529,15085,6739,14244,21340,Bryan,"39,627",14.20%Bulloch,9261,15097,25248,11243,18386,30084,Bulloch,"79,608",27.60%Bruke,4731,4491,9351,5209,5400,10684,Burke,"22,383",49.50%Butts,2566,6717,9477,3274,8406,11771,Butts,"24,936",27.30%Calhoun,1179,830,2025,1260,932,2203,Calhoun,"6,189",61.30%Camden,5930,12310,18869,7967,15251,23688,Camden,"54,666",19.40%Candler,1026,2664,3763,1269,3134,4432,Candler,"10,803",24.40%Carroll,12464,30029,43839,16238,37476,54474,Carroll,"119,992",18.20%Catoosa,4771,20876,26528,6932,25167,32593,Catoosa,"67,580",2.20%Charlton,1004,2951,4009,1103,3419,4566,Charlton,"13,392",29.26%Chatham,62290,45688,111481,78254,53237,133420,Chatham,"289,430",40.10%Chattahoochee,594,751,1390,667,880,1582,Chattahoochee,"10,907",18.80%Chattooga,1613,6462,8252,1854,8064,10050,Chattooga,"24,789",11.14%Cherokee,25231,80649,110895,42794,99587,144830,Cherokee,"258,783",5.65%Clarke,29603,12717,44339,36048,14446,51333,Clarke,"128,331",26.60%Clay,697,566,1271,790,637,1434,Clay,"2,834",38.43%Clayton,78220,12646,92513,95476,15813,112344,Clayton,"292,256",66.10%Clinch,686,1727,2447,747,2105,2864,Clinch,"6,618",27.70%Cobb,160121,152912,327499,221846,165459,393746,Cobb,"760,141",25.00%Coffee,4094,9588,13915,4511,10578,15214,Coffee,"43,273",26.60%Colquitt,3463,9898,13601,4187,11777,16083,Colquitt,"45,600",22.40%Columbia,18887,43085,64242,29236,50013,80579,Columbia,"156,714",11.21%Cook,1753,4176,6041,2059,4900,7035,Cook,"17,210",27.30%Coweta,16583,42533,61351,24210,51501,76799,Coweta,"148,509",18.40%Crawford,1421,3635,5162,1615,4428,6102,Crawford,"12,630",22.30%Crisp,2837,4549,7512,2986,4987,8039,Crisp,"22,372",43.00%Another interesting thing was that the standard deviation in the increase in turnout was 7%, meaning the counties varied a bit in turnout increase. The standard deviation in Trump's vote increase over 2016 was also 7%. But Biden's increase over Hillary had a standard deviation of 18%. It was all over the place, as if they were rigging as much as they could wherever they could.
The table lists total votes from 2016 and 2020, along with the 2019 population estimate and the black percentage. Everything else can be calculated from there. So dividing Biden 2020 by Hillary 2016 gives the percent increase for Biden, and the same can be done for Trump.
Probably fake votes and stolen votes. The Dominion algorithms MIT found didn't touch heavily Democratic areas. They focused on stealing votes from Republican areas.
The left's narrative for Georgia is that Biden saw a massive increase in black turnout, but the data doesn't support that. For example, Baker counter is 50.4% black, but Biden only got 2 more votes than Hillary did, an increase of 0.3%
In contrast, Cherokee County is only 5.6% black, and against Hillary Trump carried it by better than a 3:1 margin, and yet this time Biden went up by 69.6%. That sounds like election rigging.
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on the other hand, Dilbert says despite lots of evidence the court case probably won't help: which is why the Supreme court justices overseeing the cases are the most conservative types, chosen because they will follow the law and be non partisan, so if they rule against Trump the Trumpettes won't riot.
