A “Christian” writer divorces her husband of 14 years and falls in love with an androgynous soccer star. Other “Christian” inspirational writers fall like dominoes in the rush to legitimize what I can only call the latest rage! Not to restrict this to Christian writers, however, the 24-year old granddaughter of my sort-of conservative neighbor across the driveway gets married to her girlfriend who, coincidentally, has the same androgynous first name of Jordan. Isn’t that cute? Two attractive girls, no less. (more…)
FROM ANarticleat the Townsend Newsletter by Allison Siebecker on the importance of broth, which is both medicine and food:
Broth, made from the bones of animals, has been consumed as a source of nourishment for humankind throughout the ages. It is a traditional remedy across cultures for the sick and weak. A classic folk treatment for colds and flu, it has also been used historically for ailments that affect connective tissues such as the gastrointestinal tract, the joints, the skin, the lungs, the muscles and the blood. Broth has fallen out of favor in most households today, probably due to the increased pace of life that has reduced home cooking in general. Far from being old-fashioned, broth (or stock) continues to be a staple in professional and gourmet cuisine, due to its unsurpassed flavor and body. It serves as the base for many recipes including soup, sauces and gravy. Broth is a valuable food and a valuable medicine, much too valuable to be forgotten or discounted in our modern times with our busy ways and jaded attitudes. (more…)
Defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is not about to «go quietly into that good night». On the morning after her surprising and unanticipated defeat at the hands of Republican Party upstart Donald Trump, Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, entered the ball room of the art-deco New Yorker hotel in midtown Manhattan and were both adorned in purple attire. The press immediately noticed the color and asked what it represented. (more…)
The world is still suffering today from the New World Order which was constructed upon the corpses of the many millions who died in those closely-related genocides that were the two wars. (more…)
LET’S think a little more about this issue, which is adding fuel to anti-Trump street protests. From Minutemen News yesterday:
Looking at this morning’s numbers – the vote between Clinton and Trump is 395,595. But, that’s not the end of the story. The current reality is – if you factor in the votes for the other candidates on the ballot – more people voted against Hillary Clinton than voted for her. The votes are still being counted, so who knows what the finally tally will be. But, according to the numbers, as of this morning, 65,919,611 people voted NOT to elect Hillary Clinton as president. That number exceeds the votes collected for her by almost 5.5 million people.
And, of course, since voter identification is not required we can never be confident in the vote tallies. (more…)
MAY God protect and guide our veterans today, and all days. We are grateful for their sacrifices and want to do what is right to help them. And may God help us end the age of foreign intervention. We pray that fewer men and women have to give as they have given and we vow to understand the causes of war better so that peace can rule. (more…)
Tremendous, then, is the mother’s power to determine the tenor of the home. Tremendous, too, is the dignity and nobility that has its enhancement in this power. For, the high mystical character of motherhood is inextricably interwoven with the mother’s ability to sublimate the domestic peace and tranquility which she, more than anyone else, has the gift to fabricate. Her tender, maternal love-instinct, upon which the supernatural is built, is the all-pervading transforming power. It strengthens and fortifies, refines and elevates the natural blessedness of the family circle. This truth is strikingly pointed out by Pius XII. “When,” he says, “to the bride the Lord in His bounty will have granted the dignity of motherhood to the side of the cradle, the crying of the infant will neither lessen nor destroy the felicity of the home; but rather it will increase and elevate it into that divine circle, where the heavenly angels shine and whence descends a ray of life that conquers nature and regenerates the sons of men into sons of God” (Ibid.). (more…)
Trump wasn’t exactly Francis’ favored candidate. We remember especially the brilliant comment Francis made in February of this year about Trump’s expressed intent to build a wall at the border to stop the flow of illegal immigration into the United States from Mexico: Francis: Building Walls is “Not Christian” The great irony here was, of course, that Francis himself, dwelling in Vatican City, lives behind what are perhaps the entire world’s biggest walls surrounding any country. So, how will the “build the wall” president-elect and the hypocritical “tear down all walls” Pope-pretender get along? -- Read more at Novus Ordo Watch
THE SMALL Amish community of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania possibly played a significant role in the election of Donald Trump.
It’s a bizarre fact: a religious sect that strictly adheres to the natural law in family, favors beards and plain clothing, and so eschews modern life that it typically uses horses and buggies instead of cars, helps elect a thrice-married casino magnate who lives in an ostentatious and gilded penthouse with pagan gods on the ceilings, has sponsored beauty pageants, prefers Mercedes’ and Rolls Royces, and has bragged about his adulterous affairs. Can you even imagine Trump and an Amish farmer conversing over coffee? How about an Amish farmer in the marble lobby of Trump Tower? Or Trump in a buggy? Mrs. Trump III visiting Mrs. Stolzfus? The culture clash doesn’t just strain the imagination; it positively incapacitates it. Politics creates strange bedfellows.
Such was the 2016 election. The Amish voted for Trump, possibly without a single exception in the entire voting demographic. They are the alt-alt-right, I guess. They’re not really “deplorables” because they don’t attempt to convert others and are far too strict to attract followers from Manhattan or San Francisco. (The height of hedonism in Amish culture is a good piece of pie.) But they could become “deplorables” and even “Nazis” if this political thing keeps up.
There are about 30,000 Amish in the Pennsylvania quasi-rural county and another 5,000 to 10,000 in related Protestant sects. The Amish vary in their rules from church to church. Some are more accepting of modern technology than others. The county as a whole has a population of about 500,000. There are an estimated 64,000 Amish in Pennsylvania altogether. Trump won 137,000 votes in the county, and only won the state of Pennsylvania by an estimated 68,000 votes. If he had not won Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes, he possibly would not have won the election — or the election would remain unresolved, creating a national meltdown. (His total currently stands at 285. He needed 270 to win.)
A group of Republican, non-Amish voters — calling themselves the Amish PAC — organized to drive the Amish, some of whom were attending weekday weddings or funerals on election day, to the polls. It was such a success, with suburbanites in their minivans driving the plain people to vote, that the group has vowed to do it again in the future.
An Amish family in Lancaster County
It makes sense. Despite their counter-cultural way of life, often romanticized by outsiders, the Amish have no choice but to be part of the modern world. It surrounds them on all sides. Suburban housing developments and even corporate campuses have sprung up near their farms. They use the local roads and hospitals, where they usually pay in cash. (They are exempt from Obamacare for religious reasons.) (more…)
Down the election home stretch, voters saw insurers pulling out of healthcare markets all over the county, skyrocketing out-of-pocket costs (deductibles and co-insurance), and steep insurance premium price rises. Premiums for enrollment starting November 1 of this year, just days before the election, increased 25% on average. Some states have huge increases: North Carolina 40%, Pennsylvania 53%, Minnesota 59%, and Arizona 116%. (more…)
A "dark combination of racists, white supremacists and anti-Semites" has won the day, says The New York Times. (They call you hateful because they hate you.) The editors graciously concede the election: After a year and a half of erratic tweets and rambling speeches, we can’t be certain. We don’t know how Mr. Trump would carry out basic functions of the executive. We don’t know what financial conflicts he might have, since he never released his tax returns, breaking with 40 years of tradition in both parties. We don’t know if he has the capacity to focus on any issue and arrive at a rational conclusion. We don’t know if he has any idea what it means to control the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Here is what we do know: We know Mr. Trump is the most unprepared president-elect in modern history. We know that by words and actions, he has shown himself to be temperamentally unfit to lead a diverse nation of 320 million people. We know he has threatened to prosecute and jail his political opponents, and he has said he would curtail the freedom of the press. We know he lies without compunction. Here is the dark, unstable, non-functioning, erratic person himself:
