Just a little reminder of how fake he is.

Yes, I combatted Sharknado. Pictures don’t lie. Reporting live from CNN.

Maybe one should remind the pope what God did to Sodom and Gomorrah. Guess He was the first Megalomania.

Pope Francis “always said that it is not advisable to defend himself from people who seek the limelight, because it would give them what they seek and feed their megalomania,” Fernandez said. “I guess that criterion applies in this case.” MORE

A newly released undercover video shows a State Department employee bragging about how they use their time at the agency to organize for the D.C. chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). MORE

A husband, father, combat veteran, and businessman, John James is a conservative Republican. The former Army Captain and West Point graduate is President of James Group International, a supply-chain logistics company in Detroit.

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The US Air Force set out to return to Cold War numbers by growing nearly 25% and taking on hundreds more planes to form an additional 74 squadrons, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson announced on Monday. MORE

In a potential threat to future U.S. innovation, new international enrollment at U.S. colleges is down for the first time in more than a decade, according to a new report. It is the first hard sign that the Trump administration’s rhetoric may be frightening away some of the world’s best and brightest who traditionally have been drawn to settle and work in the U.S. MORE

This should help trade deficits.

The energy information administration and the International Energy Agency, a global group of oil-consuming nations, had predicted that the U.S. would eventually pass Russia and Saudi Arabia but possibly not until 2019. MORE

My wife, RIP, was from Lawrence. A Moriarty a royal Irish name. Might be some still there.

LAWRENCE, MASS. 
A series of gas explosions an official described as “Armageddon” killed a teenager, injured at least 10 other people and ignited fires in at least 39 homes in three communities north of Boston on Thursday, forcing entire neighborhoods to evacuate as crews scrambled to fight the flames and shut off the gas. MORE

My company, tears for the Beetle.

This was my company folks. Volkswagen of America, Western division. The new Beetle was designed in Our designed center in Simi Valley, California. It brought people back to our show rooms at the time when we came out with the Jetta, Golf, and the Passat.

It was the best place I ever worked.  Started in 1974 as a shipping clerk, lead man, shop steward and even did some truck driving for them. 18 wheeler, no less.  Once I got my 25 years in I decided to take an early retirement in May 1999 to get more active in the Traditional Catholic Movement. This worked out for me as I was able to give my first public lecture in Burbank, California on November 6, 1999. My subject was on “The Great Apostasy.” One well known noted speaker was Father Gregorius Hesse, from Austria. RIP.  

News media low keyed on this one.