HURRICANE BETSY writes:

The BBC recently reported:

Anti-vaccine residents in a village in rural Guatemala have attacked nurses who were trying to administer Covid-19 jabs, holding them for seven hours, officials say.

About 500 people blocked a road and vandalised the team’s cars in Maguilá, in the northern Alta Verapaz province.

Ha, ha, ha. Love these folks to bits! What is wrong with us?

I recall reading, years ago, when the vaccine truck arrived in a certain area of Africa for the second time, the mothers grabbed their babies and ran into the bushes to hide. Their children had been showing ominous symptoms after their initial shots. What is with all this anti-Negro stuff I hear, that they are not as smart as we purportedly are? (more…)

ALAN writes:

In later years, after my father died, I met a woman who grew up on the same street two blocks down from my father’s boyhood home in St. Louis. Pauline told me how she remembered the small shops, dime stores, movie houses, a saddle shop, and a tobacco store that had been there in the 1940s-‘50s.

Photographs taken there as late as the 1950s show perfectly ordinary street scenes of people walking past stores and men putting up Christmas decorations on lampposts.  One little store after another stood side by side, block after block.  Some sold groceries, some were dinettes, some sold Red Goose Shoes, some offered Eagle Stamps or Top Value stamps with purchases.  The scenes do not suggest a “blighted” neighborhood—which was the official excuse for tearing down the whole neighborhood just a few years later.

In 2012, I wrote about the people who lived there.  [“Vanishing Americans (St. Louis Chapter)“, The Thinking Housewife, May 25, 2012]

Shortly afterward, Pauline sent me a card and wrote:

     “Just finished reading your essay again.  It is wonderful.  It brought back so many memories for me.  How I wish things were like they were back then.”

I am confident she meant the moral fabric of that neighborhood, upheld in those years both by the neighborhood churches and by the city government.  Her family lived in that area for a hundred years.

I miss my father terribly and I miss Pauline and others of her generation whose memories were the gossamer threads of connection to that time and place. People who lived there were incubated in down-to-earth common sense. There is no evidence that women wore tattoos or green or purple hair, or that men wore ponytails or earrings. I often think that theirs was the last generation who had grit.  They never whined, complained, or expected handouts. Making excuses was alien to their character. A nationwide welfare-feeding trough would have been unthinkable to them. They could not have imagined a frame of mind that would create such a monstrosity or try to justify it. They accommodated themselves to hardness; they absorbed it into their character and frame of mind, and they became better by doing so.  Because life was hard, they appreciated its occasional joys and pleasures more deeply. (more…)

JOHANNA writes:

Lately, all I want to hear or read is good news and despite all the seeming evidence to the contrary there is plenty around as your essay demonstrates so well. I love birds (and butterflies) as well and have written many poems about them. I thought you might appreciate one of them.

And I don’t even like Grackles

I’ve turned over every leaf — two days
gone without a sighting. My first

glimpse was of a single puddle
on the leaf-littered lawn, a black

puff spread on a dew-jeweled
table. Each cock of its head drew

a new shade of satin. Half buried
beside one of the boulders that circle (more…)

FROM the introduction to Brainwashed into Slavery (1940, Freedom Builders of America) by Kenneth Goff: From May 2, 1936, to October 10, 1939, I was a dues-paying member of the Communist Party, operating under my own name Kenneth Goff, and also the alias John Keats. In 1939, I voluntarily appeared before the Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D. C., which was chairmaned at that time by Martin Dies, and my testimony can be found in Volume 9 of that year’s Congressional Report. During the period that I was a member of the Communist Party, I attended their school which was located at 113 E. Wells St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and operated under the name Eugene Debs Labor School. Here we were trained in all phases of warfare, both psychological and physical, for the destruction of the Capitalistic society and Christian civilization. In one portion of our studies we went thoroughly into the matter of psychopolitics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health — the subjecting of whole nations of people to the rule of the Kremlin by the capturing of their minds. We were taught that the degradation of the populace is less inhuman than their, destruction by bombs, for to an animal who lives only once any life is sweeter than death. The end of a war is the control of a conquered people. If a people can be conquered in the…

WOULDN'T it be nice to fly away? Maybe to a mountain in Mexico where you could spend the upcoming Corona winter? I envy the migrating species, the butterflies and the birds who travel hundreds of miles at this time of year. There they go -- without fear, without masks, without passports, without even a car or plane. Just wings. Two weeks ago, I heard a tapping on one of our car windows while I was working outside. A catbird had flown into the car. He was flinging himself against the rear window. He couldn't figure how to get out the one open window. I got the keys and opened all the windows. He was thrilled, in his own way. He had no use for this vehicle at all. He is probably gone now for the winter. Flying at night while we are asleep, using the stars and the earth's magnetic field for navigation, he will probably arrive any day now in Florida. Last week, we saw Monarch butterflies at a bird-and-butterfly rest stop near the Atlantic Ocean in Cape May, New Jersey. The butterflies, looking for nectar in the shore vegetation, were on their way to a mountain in Mexico for the season. They weigh about 1/400th of an ounce -- they are as light and flimsy as paper envelopes -- and yet they survive winds at 1,000 feet or so above the ground to get to their destination. Many of…

FROM an article by Russ Winter at Winter Watch (the comments section):

Many right-wingers would have you believe that such acts are orchestrated – or at the very least rather cynically exploited – as a pretext for passing further gun-control legislation. The government wants to scare the people into giving up their right to bear arms, or so the thinking goes. And there is reason to believe that this could well be a goal.

It is not, however, the only – or even the primary – goal, but rather a secondary one at best. (more…)

THE feminist mother loves her children always. The Christian mother loves her children too. But the feminist and Christian represent two different cultural institutions. Their approaches to motherhood, their forms of love, are very different. They cannot be reconciled.

The feminist mother always has good qualities, traits perhaps superior to individual Christians. But essential differences exist between her and her Christian counterpart.

Here is an incomplete list:

The feminist mother has children because they make her happy. The Christian mother has children to please God.

The feminist mother believes the happiness and success of her children are supreme. The Christian mother believes the happiness and success of her children are important, but not paramount.

The feminist mother seeks first for her children contentment in this world. The Christian mother seeks contentment in the next world first. (more…)

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THOUGH 21 states so far have banned "vaccine passports," the majority of states have not and everywhere the general public has been conditioned to the idea of passports for internal domestic travel. This idea is remarkably similar to the internal passports mandated by the Soviet Politburo in 1932. The purpose of the passports was to track "anti-social" elements and dissidents, ultimately aiding the processing of millions of executions and deportations to Siberia. Between March and July of 1933, roughly 86,000 people in Moscow alone were arrested for failure to have passports. An interesting video asks, "Is the Vaccine Passport Based on the Bolshevik Passport System?"  

"THE middle-class lifestyle from 50 years ago is now worth a million bucks, and two income earners can no longer achieve the lifestyle that one wage once provided." The departure of women from the home was due to the looting of the American economy -- and feminist propaganda made women think it was all good. Read more here.  

ALAN writes:

“More men should teach the young….  At present 76 per cent of the teachers are women and many boys go through school without coming in contact with a man. The result of too much woman is that the boy becomes ‘sissified’ and domesticated. Boys are petted too much. They should have rough house and boisterousness. That begets aggressiveness and not timidity, as the system now does.”

       — Stanley Hall, President of Clark University, quoted in “Too Much Woman in the Schools, Declares Hall”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 6, 1908, p. 10.

Imagine what Hall would say if he were here today. He also wrote:

“The degenerate textbooks of today will give away something strong and inspiring. The textbook has decayed alarmingly in 10 years.

 “Moral education should be the paramount object.  There is little of it now in the schools and as a result juvenile crime is increasing at a tremendous rate…..”

Imagine if he were here today and could see (a) the extent of juvenile crime, (b) the degenerate public schools, and (c) textbooks that are far more degenerate than those of 1908.  Today there is no moral education at all in public schools and very little elsewhere. (more…)

TWENTY-SEVEN years ago, Fr. Gordon J. MacRae was sentenced in New Hampshire to 67 years in prison for what he has always maintained is a completely false charge of sexual assault. He could have spent two years in jail under a plea bargain, which was offered him more than once, but he refused to plead guilty, firmly maintaining his innocence. At his website, Beyond These Stone Walls, Fr. MacRae reflects from his prison cell on this week's feast of St. Michael the Archangel: Our troubles and struggles in this world are not always simple anxieties over material discomforts, painful relationships, or the tragedies that occur in our lives. They are also manifestations of spiritual battle, and should be seen and resisted as such. People of deep faith recognize the spiritual battles within themselves and their environments, and rely on faith and spiritual allies to defend against them. Fr. MacRae is one of hundreds of Catholic priests, both dead and alive, who have been falsely accused or convicted of sexual crimes, turning their lives into a daily nightmare. According to the FBI agent supervisor who reviewed Fr. MacRae's case, “In my three years of investigation of this case, I have found no evidence that MacRae committed these crimes, or any crimes.” The Wall Street Journal concluded he was wrongfully convicted: “Those aware of the facts of this case find it hard to believe that any court today would ignore the perversion of…