DESPITE immense changes in American life since the 17th century, the early Puritans, honored (well, kind of) every Thanksgiving Day, live on.

The material success of this country speaks of their industry. The Puritans were not lazy people. The Northern colonies rapidly became scenes of busy commercial manufactures and trade under their enterprising efforts. (As an aside, the honesty that still characterizes all kinds of commercial and personal transactions is reminiscent of the strong ethical sense they upheld in business.)

But the Puritans elevated work to a religious calling; if one was not successful at this calling, one was not one of the spiritually predestined. Many families today arrive at the Thanksgiving table exhausted from the pace of life. Everyone must be ambitious and prove himself by work outside the home. Workaholism even afflicts high school students. The decline of private home life and the family is the inevitable by-product of their intense commercial spirit.

The uniform style of dress popular today, though much more scruffy, casual and immodest than that of the Puritans, shows evidence of their disdain for material finery. The rejection of color and patterns is Puritanical.

Radical politics will be in evidence at Thanksgiving dinners throughout the land and, yes, the Puritans did not believe in gender equity or mandatory “diversity.” Nevertheless, they brought a zealousness to their work, along with a disdain for intellectual activity, contemplation and the passive virtues, that would lead to a hyper-active do-goodism. The have-nots of society are utterly condemned under the Calvinist work ethic (the Puritans did not see poverty as potentially virtuous) and so one of the unintended consequences of Puritanism is a compensatory effort to elevate the losers who have no inherent value because they do not have successful careers. Behind the strident calls for equity in the corporate workplace is the belief that if any group or individual does not possess material success through work they are nothing.

The food at many American tables will, let’s face it, be bland and dull. The Puritans would not have envisioned or necessarily desired packaged meals, but could they really condemn their necessity? There is no time to produce meals, let alone elaborate meals, today and for the Puritans, time was money — and money was a means of salvation. The cookbooks of the Pilgrims may be treasured for their antiquity, but hardly for their great recipes.

Finally, the fact that a surprising number of people will spend Thanksgiving either alone or with few, though certainly not a common phenomenon in the colonial settlements, is the inevitable result of the intense individualism of the Calvinist theology embraced by the Pilgrims. (more…)

“AFTER creating man, God created woman and determined her mission, namely, that of being man’s companion, helpmeet and consolation…It is a mistake, therefore, to maintain that woman’s rights are the same as man’s. Women in war or parliament are outside their proper sphere and their position. There would be the desperation and ruin of society. Woman, created as man’s companion, must so remain under the power of love and affection, but always under his power. How mistaken, therefore, is that misguided feminism which seeks to correct God’s work. It is like a mechanic trying to correct the signs and movements of the universe. Scripture, and especially the three epistles of St. Paul, emphasizes woman’s dependence on man, her love and assistance, but not her slavery to him.”

— Pope St. Pius X, in address to a delegation of the Union of Italian Catholic Women in 1909 (more…)

 THESE are stirring words from Congressman Clay Higgins, the Republican from Louisiana. (However, it is important to point out that it was the Republican Party under Donald Trump that kickstarted the vaccine mandates with Operation Warp Speed and that initiated the entire Covid scam.)  

"WHILE praying much and at all times, therefore, for our deceased parents, friends, and benefactors, we ought also to have care for the immense multitude of the forgotten. There are moments during life when we find ourselves in a state of depression, of frustration, of pain, of sickness, without consoler or friend. To remember prayerfully the Holy Souls at such moments is the best means of obtaining help and consolation from Him Who is the common Father of all human souls. "We may believe that it is also a means for preparing oneself for immediate entry into Heaven: for, if a constant devotion to the Holy Souls in general can merit this favour for us, how much more powerful must be the charity which inspires us to pray for the deserted and forgotten souls, with Him Who told the parable of the man who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho." -- Martin Jugie, Purgatory and the Means to Avoid It  

ALAN writes:

In the years 1966-’70, I made the remarkable discovery (remarkable to one 16 years old) that some doctors were liars, as were some pharmacologists, some hospitals, and some departments of government. In some of those years I was in high school. But I did not learn those things in high school. I learned them in spite of high school.

I also discovered that whereas “nice” people did not themselves originate such lies, they agreed nonetheless to accept them and repeat them and almost never bothered to challenge them or oppose them.

There it was, in plain sight:  Professional mendacity in the former; widespread credulity or mindlessness or evasion in the latter. The first was bad enough, I thought. But the second was even worse.

Over the intervening fifty years, the lies have increased, along with a population who are delighted to be entertained and deceived by such lies. (more…)

AT the 23rd meeting of the New Right in London on September 26, 2009, Jonathan Bowden gave a speech on George Orwell's novel 1984. He makes many interesting observations, but his most important one is that Orwell's book depicts totalitarian rule by intellectuals. An excerpt: Another interesting insight is the relationship that people have with their children. Orwell prefigures the world of bourgeois chaos where parents are frightened to discipline their own children, and which we increasingly see in liberal humanist societies. The parents are preyed upon by the young. One of the first, and great, scenes is with the Parsons family who live just up the corridor in the block, cause the Parsons boy is a terror. He accuses everyone of being, “You’re a thought criminal!” he says, “You’re a nasty little vanguard against the Proletariat elite!” He screams that at everyone he meets. And he’s got a pop-gun, he says “You’re gonna burn, you’re gonna burn, you’re going to the camps! You’re going down [unintelligible]” And his mother’s terrified of him because to discipline him is to engage in the possibility of a counter-revolutionary act. So he knows that he’s got his parents where he wants them by this endless sort of Young Pioneers brigading sort of behavior. And it’s a way of corralling the older generation into conformity. Orwell’s instinct for particularly Left totalitarian forms of power is very acute here considering that, except for a small period…

"DEVOTION to the souls in Purgatory detaches us from the vain and passing things of the earth. It establishes a contact between us and our dear ones, which does not allow their memory to sleep with their dust. Not knowing whether they may not need our prayers to release them from their prison of sorrow, we multiply for them our prayers, our sacrifices, our good works. And, of all that, nothing is lost, for if they for whom we supplicate are happily in no need of such attention, God will mercifully apply to other souls the satisfactions we offer. There are multitudes of forgotten souls whose names are never uttered in prayer to God." -- Martin Jugie, Purgatory and the Means to Avoid It   

SHAUNA LINK, the mother of 28-year-old Haley Link Brinkmeyer who died in January two days after receiving the Moderna injection, recently testified in Indiana. "I can't describe the nagging pain I have with the lknowledge that her death, I feel, was in vain. I wake up every day with the same gut pain I had when we were told Haley passed, and the cycle starts all over again. And I'm only one person; there are so many similar stories."  

FROM Simon Shack at September Clues: [I]t should now be obvious to everyone that the invisible virus saga and the invisible global warming saga are, so to speak, intimately intertwined - as well as being the two current MASTER HOAXES used by the Nutwork (i.e. the "Powers-that-should-not-be") in order to fool, hypnotize and control this world's population.  

"CRITICAL RACE THEORY" is an offshoot of "critical theory" developed by the Frankfurt School of Jewish intellectuals such as Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm, to name two of many, who set about the task of deconstructing piece-by-piece Western society in the 20th century from their headquarters in California and New York City. Please avoid the term "critical race theory." It should be called, critical white race theory or simply anti-white theory. It is critical of only one race. This intellectual fad with its mind-bending jargon would be hilariously funny if people didn't actually believe in it and if it weren't actually being taught in schools and spread by major corporations in mandatory brain-washing sessions for employees. As it is, it's not funny at all. There's no question that it is laying the foundation for violence.  

CHARLOTTE ISERBYT expresses regrets for endorsing the new GOP governor of Virginia:

Who is the REAL Glenn Youngkin?

Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s new Governor, is a globalist (internationalist), not at all who Youngkin himself, the parents who are supporting him, and the controlled media have lead Virginians and Americans to believe. (more…)

A FAN begged the performer to stop the concert. From the audio, it sounds as if rap star Travis Scott paused for a moment, asked who wanted him to stop and then continued to perform. (Language warning.) According to another witness, the rapper paused several times, asked concertgoers to help the injured — and then continued to perform.

At least eight people were crushed to death at a Houston concert by Scott last night. The crowd there to enjoy the star’s obscene “music” totaled about 50,000 and when it surged forward toward the stage “scores” were injured. (more…)