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Make My Day Trump Cultists that I have Tried to Reason With


Friends of Padre Steve’s World,

Here’s the deal. I do my best to treat everyone who comes to my site and comment with respect and simple decency. That runs out when a person, be they a subscriber or not makes comes to the site and makes ad hominem attacks and treats me like shit I say the hell with them. I had to do that today to a subscriber of a couple of months who I had a number of interactions with but even though he disagreed with me I treated him with respect and kindness while not giving up my position.

Today he responded to my post about what Mitch McConnell and was President Trump are doing with the chance to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a Trump apparatchik before the election. I told the man that I had treated Him with the utmost of respect and kindness since his first opposing comment but that he was done. I have blocked him from posting ever again and frankly I don’t give a damn what he or anyone else thinks.

So, if you want to be like Ray or Raymundo Ruiz , a Trump Cultist from Orlando Florida, formerly of Winter Park Florida.  I am calling him out by name. I won’t publish his phone number, address or Florida Registered Voter number, but let this is a warning shot to anyone who comes after me here. If I can identify you I will call you out, I will shame you.

That might sound unchristian, but I don’t tolerate bullies and will do everything within the law to call them out and shame them. They are unworthy of respect and deserve nothing more.

So if they come to your blog, website, Facebook Page, Twitter feed or anything else, don’t even attempt to engage them with reason or logic, because they don’t respect you and probably wish we were dead. If you can identify them shame them, if not block them.

That being said, I am done for the night.

Peace,

Padre Steve+

 

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Sea Bees in Japan after the WWII

On V-J Day, thirteen Naval Construction Battalions (NCB), three Special Naval Construction Battalions (stevedores), and one Construction Battalion …

Sea Bees in Japan after the WWII

Another of Greg Cox’s great tail end of the Pacific stories.

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♫ So Far Away ♫

Carole King scored another hit with this single, where she bemoans the fact that she and the man she loves can’t be together, and mentions that …

♫ So Far Away ♫

Jill Dennison writing about Carole King’s great and thoughtful song “So Far Away” which happens to be one of my favorite songs from the 70s

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Historical Analogue: Why we are reliving the nightmare of 20th century fascism, plus news headlines

By Robert A. Vella “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist George Santayana …

Historical Analogue: Why we are reliving the nightmare of 20th century fascism, plus news headlines

A really thoughtful post by Robert Vella over at his Secular Jurist site.

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Purple Haze

Now I know why we drink so much boxed wine.

Purple Haze

I prefer my wine in bottles. lots of them.

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While The West Coast Burns …

The West Coast of the United States is on fire.  Property is being devoured by the hungry flames, lives are being lost, people are being uprooted …

While The West Coast Burns …

One you need to read from Jill Dennison. My brother Jeff posted his experience in our hometown at is not under any fire threat at the moment, but how toxic the air was.

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The Example of Adolf Eichmann: People that Embrace Racism are Just One Step from a “Final Solution”

Adolf Eichmann  Friends of Padre Steve’s World, Yesterday I wrote about the men in the dock at the Einsatzgruppen Trial and their actions. Tonight I …

The Example of Adolf Eichmann: People that Embrace Racism are Just One Step from a “Final Solution”

Reposting my own work because it really is important. There are too many like Eichmann walking our streets and in all levels of political office, as well as police and justice departments at the federal, state, and local levels in America today.

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Conscientious Objector and the Medal of Honor

The President of the United States, in the name of Congress, awarded more than 3,400 Medals of Honor to the Nation’s bravest Soldiers, Sailors, …

Conscientious Objector and the Medal of Honor

Yes, conscientious objectors can be heroes and earn the Medal of Honor.

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♫ Imagine ♫

Yes, I know I have played this one several times already, but please bear with me.  I tend to play this song when … well, when I need to … imagine.  …

♫ Imagine ♫

We all need to imagine sometimes, thanks to Jill Dennison for sharing this.

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America’s Wake-Up Call — Jeff & Jill Are Baaaaack!!!

The date for the re-start of mine and Jeff’s project, September 11th, came about quite by accident … to start with, that is.  We counted back eight …

America’s Wake-Up Call — Jeff & Jill Are Baaaaack!!!

Jill Dennison echoing some of my same thoughts and commentary about George W. Bush displaying empathy, care, and leadership in the initial weeks after 9-11-2001 and how the current occupant of the White House could never do it.

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