Cum Jubilo

For those folks out there who aren't familiar with the traditional Latin Catholic Mass, the parts of the mass that are typically sung (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus and Benidictus, Angus Dei) have different music for different events.

For those who don't feel like looking up the translations of those parts, they are:

Lord Have Mercy (typically spoken, not sung, even in Novus Ordo masses)
Glory to God
Holy, Holy, Holy
Lamb of God

Keep in mind that church songs are simply prayers put to music.  The parts of the Traditional Mass have been sung and re-sung for centuries; it only makes sense that at some point, some priest or monk would say "Hey, why don't we change it up a little bit?"  The Missa de Angelis is the typical mass that most people learn, and I've been able to find it just about everywhere.  The Orbis Factor mass is supposed to be sung during normal times in the liturgical calendar, when there isn't a specific season that we're celebrating.  It's one of the oldest masses the Church as sung, and it sounds like it - very Byzantine.  And Cum Jubilo is used for masses honoring the Blessed Virgin.  This is what I'm practicing right now

It's a bear to learn, and I've got to have it down pat by February 2nd.  Yay me.  Here's just the Kyrie:



I suppose if I'd been able to focus on this, it wouldn't be such a big deal, but this week has been a kick in the balls.  Grrrrrr.....

Ah well, off to learn some more music.

Yesterday was a bad, bad day

Bad enough that the Ragin' Mrs put a chilled glass of scotch into my hand the moment I stepped in the door, and didn't let it run dry until I poured myself into bed.

That woman is a keeper, I tell ya.  Thank God I've already married her, otherwise I'd have to kill all the men around me to ensure they didn't steal her away.

Davy wants

Oh yes, we wants it, the preciousssssssss!

I'm going to have to buy this mug and take it to my office.

Oh yes.  We wants it so very much....

!!!!!

Dear Cunt-Face Cuomo

Fuck you, fuck your whore of a mother, and fuck the father you never knew because he didn't pay for the first time.

Fuck the horse you rode in on, fuck the goat that spawned it, and fuck the mountain they grazed on.

From this day forth, the State of New York shall ever be known as the state that only allow people who think that killing babies for the sexual convenience of the mother is sacrosanct.

From this day forth, the State of New York shall ever be known as the state who only allows people who hate the Constitution of the US, and the 2nd Amendment contained therein, to reside inside it's borders.

From this day forth, the State of New York shall be known as hostile to all Christians who actually know and understand their faith.

I will never do business in New York.  I will not purchase anything from a company in New York, and I'm not ever going to visit that festering cesspool of a city for as long as I live.

In conclusion, die screaming, and go to hell.

Yours,

Ragin' Dave.

Earworm

Got a case plus of mead bottled tonight.  Came out damn good, albeit a bit light in the alcohol (10%).  Great flavor.  The Ragin' Mrs. approves whole-heartedly.  Now I have to try to find that variety of honey again.  Maybe in the summer, when it's in season.

I've had this song in my head for the past two days.  You're welcome!



It's got enough of a Celtic lilt to it that I keep humming it around the house.

All those people wetting their diapers about Richard Sherman and his ten-second rant after he made the decisive play in the NFC Championship?

Get over it.

The guy was so hopped up on adrenaline that I doubt he could have given a calm interview if you paid him a million bucks.  On top of that, he'd just made a mad play against a player who had been yapping at him all night, and had gotten in his face at a charity event previously. If I had been in his shoes, you would have had to bleep out about half of the words coming out of my mouth. 

As for his claim to be the best cornerback in the NFL?  Well, let's see here....  exactly how many times did the Niners throw at his side that game?  Kapernick knows just how damn good Richard Sherman is, which is why he never challenged him until that last throw, and how did that work out?  Mmmm-KAY then!

I'm not going to be arrogant enough to claim that the Seahawks are going to win the Superbowl; Denver and Payton Manning are damn good, and they've got a lot of weapons.  Still, it's the #1 offense going against the #1 defense.  This is going to be a hell of a game.  And I don't know if Denver can shut down Seattle's run game.  The Niners had a much better run defense than Denver has, and Lynch eventually wore them down and got some big runs against them.

And don't be fooled by Russel Wilson's low passing yards - if Wilson had the kind of weapons that Payton Manning has, he'd be putting up 500 yards a game.  As it is, he's got decent receivers, and he's finding ways to get the ball in their hands.  That TD catch by Kearse, when he had a defender draped on him like a cheap suit?  Golden Tate's catches and kick returns?  They might not be All-Pro, but they don't need to be.  They just have to win games.  And the last time I checked, that's what they've been doing. 

So much data

And so much of it has been proven to be skewed in order to advance the Leftist religion of Global Warming.

Yes, it's a religion.  Yes, it's based on total and complete bullshit.

There's nothing I can really excerpt.  You have to go look for yourself to see just how badly the actual true data has been jimmied in order to make the Church of Global Warming seem plausible. 

!!!!!

Chivalry

My wife still giggles at me some times for being old fashioned.  I carry the groceries from the car.  I open the car door for her.  I open the house door.  I try to be chivalrous.  It's the way I was brought up, and the way I think all men should be brought up.  But I don't think I've ever seen a concept such as Chivalry put into words quite like this:

I said that chivalry — unlike the anti-chivalry movement — had a point. This is it. Chivalry calls for the strongest to serve and honor the weakest, realizing that the other option is for the strongest to dominate and abuse the weakest. Chivalry is one of the things that separates us from gorillas and wolves and rats. We, as chivalrous men, are called to use our strength in service to women, children, the infirm, and the elderly. 

(.....)

In the mean time, as a routine matter, chivalry is still essential. Men should carry bags, and hold doors, and pull out chairs, and offer seats to women, not because women are incapable of standing or opening their own doors, but because of what these acts represent — what they say. And what they say is simple: “I am bigger and stronger than you, but I will use my strength to honor you and protect you. I will not hurt you. I will not take advantage of you. I will humble myself before you and serve you.”

  (Emphasis in the original)

This guy gets it.  There comes a point in a man's life where he has the power and the ability to abuse just about anyone and everyone around him if he so chose to do so.  The whole point of Chivalry is to raise a man up from being just another animal, and make him a real Man.  Take away that code, take away that way of thinking, and you're just an ape hitting another ape with a stick, no matter what form that stick takes.

BOOM!!!!!

Seahawks win!  HELL YES!

I've been rooting for this team since 1984.  Success has been few and far between until lately.  I'm going to enjoy the hell out of this.

And the fact that we beat the Niners?  Oh, that's just the icing on the cake.  There are a lot of good teams we could lose to, and while I would be disappointed, I wouldn't be upset.  Losing to the Niners makes me upset.  Beating the Niners makes my smile.  I'm happy as hell to send those bastards home.  Buh bye, boys!

Sometimes you just need to be reminded

I've heard often enough that if the media were actually doing it's job, Rush Limbaugh wouldn't have one.

Well, let's use that phrase again, shall we?  If the Republican Party were doing it's job, the Tea Party wouldn't exist.

One more face of evil

That smirking, botoxed mug with the fake smile plastered on it....

That's a face meant to scare little children, not sell anything.

Busy day today

Let me make it up to you.

What the hell?

Obama ships the children of illegal aliens to their parents living in the USA?

Seriously?

In a letter obtained by FoxNews.com, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., asked newly confirmed Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson a string of questions about the apparent policy. The practice came to light last month after a federal judge in Texas claimed immigration agents were intercepting human smugglers transporting children at the U.S.-Mexico border -- and then delivering those children to illegal immigrant parents in the U.S.

So let me get this straight - Obama is aiding and abetting the smuggling of children across the US border?

How is this not an impeachable offense?

What is the Presidential oath again?  Something about executing the laws of the country and protecting the constitution......

There is no excuse for that rat bastard to pollute the Oval Office.

Anyone seen anything to offset this news?

I doubt any of my readers need it stated to them

But Chris Christie is not electable as a Republican.  DrewM lays out why at AoSHQ, but the bottom line is this:  The things that make the GOP establishment flog their dolphins over Christie are the very things that would drive away the voting base of the GOP faster than McCain or Romney.

Christie's making of the kissy-face and hugging of Obama during the election last year?  That should have been the nail in his political coffin.  Bridgegate?  Bah, that's chicken-feed.  Christie giving a figurative blow-job to Obama just weeks before the election?

Screw you, Christie.  Let me quote Drew just once here:

You can talk about a “big tent” all you want but if it’s big enough to include people who endorse a significant part of ObamaCare, you don’t have a tent, you have an open-air bazaar where everything is negotiable, including core principles.

The GOP leadership sold their core principals a long time ago.  That's why they're shitting all over their voting base, aka the Tea Party.  And that's why they'll continue to lose, as long as the people running the GOP care more about getting invited to the right cocktail parties inside the Beltway rather than turning this country around from the disaster we're rushing toward at top speed.

We all know Obama is a liar

But the depth and breadth of which he lies, and the sheer amount of bullshit shoveled by the Democrat Propaganda Machine, AKA the media, still makes me want to puke.

Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation's top civilian and uniformed defense officials -- headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama -- were informed that the event was a "terrorist attack," declassified documents show. The new evidence raises the question of why the top military men, one of whom was a member of the president's Cabinet, allowed him and other senior Obama administration officials to press a false narrative of the Benghazi attacks for two weeks afterward.

Un-fucking-real.  And as to why the top military brass allowed Obama to continually lie on National TV about it being due to a YouTube video?  Obama has been firing flag officers left and right, so make up your own mind there.  Either they weren't there to testify, as in "General Smith has retired, gentlemen!" or they care more about their careers than they do about removing that god-damned Constitution-shredding communist from the Oval Office. 

Everything Obama says is a lie.  Every promise he makes is a lie.  Every explanation he gives is a lie.  And every motive he claims is a lie.  If people can't see that by now, then it's because they're refusing to see it.  Willful ignorance.  Which makes them our enemies.

Voter Fraud in New York City

Really?  Huh, you mean that a major Democrat power center isn't an untainted well of innocence?

Who woulda thunk it?

Note that when investigators brought all of this to the attention of the Board of Elections, the BOE attacked the investigators.  They know about the fraud.  The know how it's perpetrated.  And they want it to continue, because that's how they hold onto their power, and any threat to their power will be dealt with.

Busy night

Cooked up steak and artichokes.  The Ragin' Mrs. and I had been sorely disappointed at lunch, which seems to happen quite often here in LA.  It seems that the restaurants around here are either too damn expensive, way too crappy, or both.  Yesterday we paid over $20 for lunch at a Mexican joint, and both of us thought the food was "meh", the service had issues, cleanliness of the place was off, and on and on and on.....

Like I said, it was a disappointment.

So steak and artichokes for dinner, and I spent the majority of my time before and after dinner bottling and brewing.  Got 21 bottles of Cherry Melomel bottled up and ready for a six month nap.  Started a three gallon batch of Pyment (grape juice and honey).  Did a few other things that needed to happen.  All in all, it was a productive night.

Now if I can just move that productivity to some other aspects of my life that need it.

Your dose of sphincter-clenching economic news

In one webpage.  Bottom Line Up Front - 91.8 million people are out of the workforce and no longer searching for work.

THAT is why the "unemployment" numbers are so low.  People have given up.  They've stopped looking for work.  And it's only going to get worse.

But the point now is to realize that when you have nearly 92 million people deserting the labor force in a country of 317 million (many of who are children too young to work), you have a catastrophic problem on your hands.

If anything, I think Roger L. Simon isn't being dire enough in his prediction.   I'm with Veeshir on this one...

Take off our bourbon approved 2% and you have somewhere  35% of Americans supporting everybody else.

That doesn’t make it any less fucking endy.

I just don’t see how that can last very long while our moral, political, economical and social betters are spending $1 trillion more a year than they’re taking in.

 The problem that the Left created is what we like to call the "Free Shit Army", or FSA for short.  The FSA is what the Democrats use to farm votes, and it's all paid for with government money to keep the slaves on the plantation.  But what happens when the money stops?  What happens when the EBT cards all flash zeroes?  We got a little taste of that last year, didn't we?

Just wait until the FSA doesn't get their monthly allotment of Free Shit, and see how long the cities go without being burned to the ground.

Stock up on ammo, folks.

Rage Spiral?

So, Lena Dunham, the woman who equated voting for her God, King and Messiah, Barack Obama, to having sex for the first time, now has her knickers in a twist about someone asking why she's naked on her show all the time.

Hey Lena - maybe you're naked all the time because you're a no-talent hack, and if you didn't have a steady parade of pussy and tits on your show you wouldn't HAVE a show?  Let's be honest here; when you're showing a a girl getting a pearl necklace, you're nothing more than soft-core porn on late-night TV.  The story-line DOES NOT MATTER.  And I'm pretty sure you know that.

And let's face it - by your own admission, you wet your panties at the thought of voting for your Marxist Messiah, so we already know you don't exactly have a great intellectual base to start with, don't we?  So you use what God gave you:  Two tits and a pussy, and you flash them for all they are worth.  Which is quite a bit, admittedly, but it would be nice if you were honest about it.

Eternal Rest grant unto him O Lord

And let Perpetual Light shine upon him.

I found out yesterday that the gentleman from my church who passed away was in the Navy during World War II, on board the USS Chicago.  That would be the 2nd USS Chicago of WWII, not the USS Chicago that was sunk in 1943.  She spent quite a few months steaming around Japan, both before and after the Japanese Surrender.

You never know who you know, you know?

"We Unite These Intentions...."

Going to a funeral home tonight to pray the Most Holy Rosary with my church - one of our members has left this life, and so we're going to pray for him.

He doesn't have any family out here, and from what I understand none of his family share his faith.  I don't think any of his family will actually be there.  So his church family is going to show up and pray for him.

He'll be buried in Arlington National Cemetery next week.  I believe that says all that needs to be said about him as a man.