Outside The Asylum

Those bigoted against the disabled are at it again.  It's a good thing COVID-19 was so mild, otherwise this plan to deny healthcare to people with certain  disabilities might be forced to go into effect. QALY- Quality of Adjusted Life Years - is something that people like me need to watch out for.  We are targets not just for marginalization from society but for outright denial of care style euthanasia.  I would not be surprised to find that the still relatively new involuntary euthanasia by starvation law in Oregon is based on this horrific utilitarian measure of human life. This is how they are going to remove the right to life from everybody, eventually- and your life will only be worth your utility to big business and big government.

I disagree with the US Supreme Court that the Constitution makes no provision for the unborn. It's right there in the preamble: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our *POSTERITY*, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. In fact, I argue that Doe vs Bolton (1973) was such a bad decision that it invalidated the entire constitution and changed the United States from being a philosophically legitimate government to a philosophically illegitimate government. Without the right to life, with the divorce of the Declaration of Independence from the Constitution in Doe vs Bolton (1973), we lost the moral upper hand for the entire country and the entire basis of law.

Hello Brothers, Here is a followup email with pictures from the distribution of the food that was purchased by your donation.    Vivat Jesus, Duane Morris ----------------------- It is interesting to see how different countries have interpreted the rules differently.  In the states this would be a lack of physical distancing, even with the masks, but apparently in the Philippines as long as everybody is wearing a mask it is ok.  The amount our council gave is roughly equivalent to what we spend on our breakfasts at St. Clare's feeding 175 people.  I have no idea how many people this food was distributed to.

When you meet a woman who is contemplating abortion:  http://standupgirl.com When you meet a pregnant woman in financial distress:  http://letthemlive.org When you meet a post-abortive person, mother or relative, who regrets the abortion:   https://www.rachelsvineyard.org/ When you meet somebody who says "Why don't you adopt if you are so pro-life?": https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/ When somebody tells you that minorities need abortion because they are poor: https://youtu.be/I6XfU8KVkzI When somebody tells you Planned Parenthood is nonprofit: https://www.amazon.com/Unplanned-Ashley-Bratcher/dp/B07VGKNQLV/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Unplanned&qid=1587472415&sr=8-1

It occurs to me that part of my problem with moral relativism is indeed a tendency toward calvinistic scrupulosity. Despite my Catholicism and faith that my soul is never cleaner than on Divine Mercy Sunday- and my faith that we experience the height of justice and mercy together in the Sacrament of Mercy- I still want to see some effect of forgiveness in the real world. I was dreaming about this post all night- and had the nightmare of a misspelling that would better fit my autism. I have Kelvinistic scrupulosity, at least from the point of view of neurotypicals. My inability to see what others call shades of grey, means my discernment is certainly based on absolute zero and the temperature of sin. The cognitive dissonance that I'm feeling is because I recognize the danger of pandemics- and the danger of responding to pandemic inappropriately. We should have had a travel-free Christmas, then we could have at least had the Mass. Failing to do so (beca...

Four items crossed my desk in the last 36 hours, that brought into sharp relief some ideas about Catholic Social Teaching. The first, was my stimulus check- a form of UBI ( more on that in the second) in that it was granted free to everybody with no means testing.  If you haven't gotten yours yet, it is clear why:  You didn't have direct deposit set up with the IRS.  I'm sad for you if that is the case- 28% of American citizens are in that boat and it will take a while to print 84,000,000 paper checks. The second comes from a video series I watch daily, Anthony Stein's Return To Tradition on reports of Pope Francis supporting UBI.  I had truly never heard of the Stanford definition of UBI before, and I was utterly unaware how far back the idea goes in American history (BTW, as a distributist, I'm with Thomas Paine's idea of a grant given to 18 year olds to start them out in life, I just think that grant should be an acre of land managed by the Bureau of Land...

  I am no exceptions because I no longer believe that there is a medical necessity for abortion that cannot be better served with a c-section birth. In some cases, yes, the child is too young to survive, but if the intent is to give both the mother and child *every possible chance* at survival, and with the uncertainty doctors have about fetal age to begin with, it is far better to attempt to give the child a chance at life and it is easier on the mother's body than an abortion to begin with. As for rape and incest- I have met far too many (80% of women who get pregnant from rape choose life!) children and their mothers that came from these situations to EVER recommend the death penalty for the child. And the bigotry of aborting a child just because they might have some birth defect you are not able to deal with? Eugenics never was the right thing to do, and it is pure bigotry. So no, just no. There is never any reason to accept "exceptions" Not to mention the VAST ...

I know it seems crazy now, but the case is building for a gradual restart of the economy in Oregon. I suggest that six counties need to have the basic quarantine lifted NOW, and more based on Governor Kate Brown's idea of 10 days without deaths, but unlike her, I suggest a county-by-county assessment and keeping the tourism and non-essential travel bans in place. We are in the week of Maximum Deaths, but are now well past the Day of Judgement of 04/07/2020 Data for Oregon as of yesterday: Positive 1,321 Negative 24,306 Total persons tested 25,627 Total deaths 44 I suggest that these statistics indicate that there is ZERO need to keep any county that does not have a positive tested case closed. The following counties have ZERO positive cases or deaths: Baker, Coos, Gilliam, Jefferson, Lake, and Wheeler. The statewide travel ban on tourism needs to be kept in place, but I would suggest lifting the religious gathering, public school and restaurant bans in those last six coun...

Brothers, You may have already received an email from Former General Agent Gabe Kennedy like me.  Please look at the example email I received below. Gabe should not be sending these out to you and this issue has been addressed to the Supreme Office. Please forward any emails received by Gabe to the New General Agent Keith Whiteaker at  keith.whiteaker@kofc.org .  Please pass this on to all your council members. Thanks From: Gabe Kennedy < gabekennedy@financialguide. com > To:  rboyce4539@aol.com Date: April 2, 2020 at 12:01 PM Subject: Financial Insight - Relevant Issues    Hello Ron , Life goes by fast, and it’s important you have information relevant to helping you achieve your financial goals. The following is a “5-question quick check-up” on issues you may find important. If you'd like more details on a topic, I'll be happy to provide it. View the quick checklist. Sincerely, Gabe Kennedy (503) 644-1952 gabe...

Strategically, a bioweapon need to do a few basic items. It needs to hit your enemy hard and at random. It needs to do so quickly. It needs to prevent your enemy from hitting you back. 1. A bioweapon should have a large death rate- more than 75% of the people who get it should be dead. COVID-19 barely kills 5% even when it is not treated and nobody does anything. 2. A bioweapon should kill quickly, limiting chances of nuclear retaliation. COVID-19 takes 15 days to kill even when it does from first infection. 3. A bioweapon should be virulent. at an R0 of only 2.5, COVID-19 is logarithmic, but it could be MUCH worse if it had more than one attack vector. 4. A bioweapon should have a cure for when your enemy surrenders. COVID-19 didn't until recently. If it did leak from the Wuhan bioweapons factory into the wet meat market in Wuhan, then the researchers who created such an awfully useless weapon, in the dictatorship of China, deserve execution for being so useless. ...