TIM writes: As I am sitting here at my desk this afternoon, I take a short break to watch the neighbor mother with her four small grade-school and pre-school, tow-headed children, work in her garden.  Today she is stringing lines for her tomato plants. The kids are engaged. The oldest two, both girls, are watching and helping.  The younger boy has a small butterfly net, and the toddler, another boy is watching with rapt attention.  It the midst of all this, mom changed the baby's diaper.  Mom is multi tasking, as usual, and all in stride. The memories this young mother is creating for her children will last their lifetimes. Good for her.  Good for them.  Good for all of us.

JOSEPH writes:

Thank you for your latest musings on the venerable herb ladies. I entirely agree with your estimation of them. They are grounded; they have roots; they are perennial; they know about proper timing, proper care, and the non-perfectibility of this world. See how radically reactionary gardening is! Why is this? Because gardeners inevitably come to realize that you cannot fool Mother Nature. You either learn, acknowledge, and respect the nature of living things — or they languish (and often perish). Of course, there is always a peddler trying to make a buck by selling you this latest Mastery of Nature invention to poison your garden. You may even get duped from time to time. Yet, you learn that nature must be respected and that technological shortcuts come with a hefty price to pay. Eventually, you accept that you can’t cheat and win. Follow the wisdom of the herb ladies — and your garden will prosper. (more…)

CATHOLICS decide to ignore "the pope."

ELLEN BROWN, author of Web of Debt, comments on Trump's recent statement that the government can just print the money to get out of debt: The right of government to issue its own money was one of the principles for which the American Revolution was fought. Americans are increasingly waking up to the fact that the vast majority of the money supply is no longer issued by the government but is created by private banks when they make loans; and that with that power goes enormous power over the economy itself. The issue that should be debated is one that dominated political discussion in the 19th century but that few candidates are even aware of today: should creation and control of the money supply be public or private? Donald Trump’s willingness to transgress the conservative taboo against public money creation is a welcome step in opening that debate.

MARIA writes:

I am a 35-year-old woman currently living a housewife life, without stating it loud and clear.  I live in Europe, in a Western country suffering from all the evils you have been describing in your posts.

In my heart and soul, I am thrilled to be living a housewife lifestyle, even if it is in secret. It took me many years of struggling before I managed to live the life of relative ease of mind that I have now. Only when I took to dating seriously and started praying for a husband, did I meet my current husband. Even then things were not easy. He wasn’t the “Christian man” I desired and he wasn’t much into the idea of marriage either. But he is a good man, a wonderful husband and a good provider. Needless to say that if I had not married him, I would have very likely been childless and single today.

I don’t personally know any woman my age in this city who is housewife or stay-at-home mum. Actually two of them I suspect, but just like me, they are hiding in shame. We all pretend to be busy, e.g. by starting our own businesses or taking some temporary (often low-paid, quasi-intellectual) jobs here and there, all for the sake of showing that we are of course capable just like any other woman. But the stress of work, even when it is freelance or part-time work, and even if done from your own home, is simply not worth it I believe.  I have heard that stay-at-home mums are quite common in the U.S., but we are an endangered species here in Europe. (Of course, Muslim women are an exception. Nobody finds it strange that they get to spend their days with their kids, and are often paid by the state to do so). (more…)

FROM The Washington Post: Months before Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said the Pentagon would take steps toward allowing transgender people to serve openly in the military, Army Staff Sgt. Patricia King last year became what she believes is the first openly transgender member of the infantry. While official Pentagon policy still forbids openly transgender personnel, her commanders have been supportive, she said. King even purchased a female dress Army service uniform, anticipating that she would be able to wear it soon. “I made a decision that owning that uniform was important to me, and I believe that our leadership is going to do the right thing,” she said. And what if a sergeant believes he is a general? ... Ach, it's all somethin' to do until the police state comes.

DR. THOMAS DROLESKEY writes:

Look, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro has a set of beliefs. Those beliefs are evil. Granted. However, he has a set of beliefs and he acts on them in a decisive manner. He brooks no opposition and is willing to bend, twist and actually break every law prohibiting his conduct to accomplish his goals. He is a bare-knuckled Chicago politician enhanced by the use of the sort of Communist-style thuggery he learned from Frank Marshall Davis and the disciples of the late Saul Alinsky. He is making the most of his last year in office, and he is complete unapologetic for anything that he has done.

The Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, on the [other] hand, Donald John Trump, believes in nothing other than “make America great again,” an empty slogan which I have refuted several times recently. Trump has said that “everything is negotiable,” and this means that he hath no understanding of the concept of truth even on a purely philosophical level.

This is very sad as those who believe that a “President Trump” would do anything to thwart the advance of moral evil in this country is badly deceived. A Trump presidency would be different than that of the wretched, corrupt and contemptuous statist named Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton on some matters. Ultimately, though, the advance of moral evil would continue. The only difference in a Trump administration would be that many of the very voices who are rightly outraged by Obama/Soetoro’s constant constitutional overreach will be muted for fear of angering the naturalist in whom they pinned their hopes. Such is the diabolical trap in which we find ourselves. No country can be made “great again” by those who do the adversary’s bidding for him by advancing or remaining indifferent to evil.   (more…)

JOSH G. writes:

I wanted to pass along a link to a book that simply has to be seen to be believed, Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination by Sheila L. Cavanagh (University of Toronto Press, 2010).  As Wikipedia tells it:

Cavanagh’s most recent book, the groundbreaking Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination, was a 2011 Finalist for the GLBT Next Generation Indie Book Awards. In 2012, Queering Bathrooms received the CWSA/ACEF Outstanding Scholarship Prize Honourable Mention. Queering Bathrooms “brings to light one of the last remaining forms of discrimination and segregation that goes unquestioned”.[5] Fuse Magazine reviewer Syrus Ware writes that Queering Bathrooms “provides a strong argument for reconsidering the public toilet, making it a must-read for city and urban planners, policy makers, architects and designers. Queering Bathrooms offers important recommendations about the future of bathroom design, suggests areas for future research, and imagines a future in which public toilets are at once luxurious, accessible and welcoming to all human beings”.[6]

I spent an hour or so reading this last night; it’s the zeitgeist in 200 pages.  The agenda is as clearly stated as anything written by a “studies” professor can possibly be: make the world safe for sodomy.  If I had more time, I would excerpt some of the more absurd parts. (more…)

MAUREEN wrote a couple of weeks ago in response to this post:

I am so appalled at the latest from Beyoncé. Not to mention her horrific Super Bowl “performance.” It is, without a doubt, Satanic — as so much of popular culture has become.

Do you have any advice on keeping our children safe? We intend to homeschool our two little ones. We’re Roman Catholic, but live in the South. There are a lot of “Christians” but not many Catholics and definitely not many traditional Catholics. How do we protect our children from the filth? I’m so terrified. How did you do it? (more…)

  A Blessed Pentecost Sunday! "PENTECOST IS the seal and perfection of the mystery of Easter. If Easter is baptism, Pentecost is confirmation. Easter gives us a new birth; Pentecost brings us to maturity. At Pentecost we reach our full stature, we are brought to maturity. At Pentecost we reach our full stature, we are brought to man's estate, to perfection by the power of the Holy Ghost. The baptism of the Spirit prepares us for heroic deeds, sanctifies our thoughts, purifies our motives. It makes us perfect Christians." (Father Benedict Baur, O.S.B., The Light of the World, Volume 1, pp. 574-576.) [Quoted here.] For a Pentecost Q and A, go here. Pope St. Leo the Great wrote of the mystery of the Holy Ghost: The three Persons in the Trinity are perfectly equal in all things. But although, dearly-beloved, the actual form of the thing done was exceeding wonderful, and undoubtedly in that exultant chorus of all human languages the Majesty of the Holy Spirit was present, yet no one must think that His Divine substance appeared in what was seen with bodily eyes. For His Nature, which is invisible and shared in common with the Father and the Son, showed the character of His gift and work by the outward sign that pleased Him, but kept His essential property within His own Godhead: because human sight can no more perceive the Holy Ghost than it can the Father or the…

HIS latest act of executive overreach lends fuel to the theory that Obama has a history of homosexual activity. The man is a fag. For who but a pervert would order schools across the country to accommodate “transgenderism” by creating unisex bathrooms? It’s true that this is a recommendation from Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, but it comes with the implicit threat of federal denial of funding.

The bathroom war is deadly serious. It is an attempt to sow confusion and doubt in a place where anatomical differences make the natural order of male and female irrefutable. It is an attempt to corrupt children. It’s motivated by hatred. Sodomites are never satisfied. They must wage war against God.

We are the laughingstock of the world. With all our sophistication and advanced technology, we can’t handle the ABC’s of everyday hygiene. This country is sick, disgusting, lost. Remember that Obama’s perversion is widely supported by corporate America. The choice to be male or female is just one more private want, one more extension of capitalistic consumerism. This decision, this child abuse, has everything to do with profit. (more…)

KRISTOR writes at The Orthosphere: Immigration of millions of unskilled workers reduces the price of labor. So for that matter does the entry of women into the workforce. Men used to be able to earn a wage sufficient to support a wife and children. It stands to reason that if you double the supply of labor by adding to it almost all women, you will cut the prevailing wages for most jobs – not perhaps by half, but to such a degree that it will thenceforth take almost two workers to earn the income that had once taken only one. On the demand side, the regulatory and labor environment in the US is so completely whacked, irrational, cumbersome, and costly that it is better, easier, and cheaper, all things considered, for a manufacturer to produce in China than here. So the jobs are going to China. To the far side of the planet, where they speak a different and unrelated language, use a completely alien and wildly inefficient form of writing, and are culturally comfortable with fraud and corruption and cheating and adulteration – with harming their customers. This is nuts. All these massive distortions in the labor market that crush wages happened as a result of stupid government policies. The solution is not to add another layer of policy to correct them, but to delete the problematic policies, root and branch – and, where necessary (not very often) replace them…

COLIN McKAY writes: Even people who imagine they have no debt, do, because the cost of debt ("interest"/usury) is embedded in prices.  

AT the Basilica of Saint Mary of Minneapolis, Aztec dancers join in Evening Prayer. Not that it is any worse than this.

Here is the M.C., who wears the grin of a game show host:

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ALAN writes:

To glorify the Communist future, one must first blacken the American past and demonize the white men who built American civilization and defended it.  That is why American patriots and heroes are now routinely demonized by the Fascist Left and their well-trained agitators.

John Wayne was an American patriot, exemplified masculine authority, and upheld a code of chivalry in his portrayal of heroic men in many motion pictures.

Those are some of the reasons why he is being demonized by the Left:  Not for his faults, but for his virtues.

Public officials in California who were not yet born when John Wayne was earning the respect and admiration of millions of Americans were outraged that some people wanted to establish a day to honor John Wayne for his life’s work. Why were they upset? Simple:  Because Mr. Wayne had the temerity to imagine (a) that he was living in a free country, (b) that he had a right to express his views, and (c) that he had no obligation to get the approval of Communist-trained agitators before expressing those views. (more…)

THERE is a certain type of older woman. She is not very noticeable in a crowd and typically has not done anything much of worldly importance, but she is someone whom I’ve always admired. She usually has gray hair (rarely dyed hair) and something about her matronly face that is distinctive. There’s a visible peace about her — a peace and nobility that is rare in this frazzled world. She is an aristocrat of the earth. After many years of working in the garden, she has acquired a knowledgeable intimacy with plants and a confident dominion over them that together suggest an overall wisdom about life, as if she herself is rooted in place. But then who could be lost or alienated with so many friends — friends who disappear in the winter (except for the few brought inside) and then always, without fail, return in the spring. There is never a spring without them, never a May in which they cannot be counted on to assert their remarkable individuality and mute tenderness. Everything else may change. Other friends die and never return. Other friends move away. But these always return, often different plants, it’s true, but always the same nevertheless. Their loyalty is positively shocking. (more…)

THIS AD may be a perfect illustration of our fraudulent monetary system, which renders what is fertile infertile and what is infertile (money) fertile. Jamie Dimon, president of JP Morgan Chase, will be paid $27 million this year for, among other things, increasing debt peonage. And as if that isn’t enough, his company psychologically castrates American men by promoting “transgenderism.” (The commercial is ambiguous, but everyone knows the subtext. And don’t bother writing to Chase to complain. They don’t give a hoot what you think.)

It is often said that usurers — those who charge interest on loans — deserve payment for their loans because of the opportunities they lose by not using money in another way. But that assumes that they would make their money increase another way. It also assumes they have actual money to lend.

In fact, most bank loans are made with money created through the accounting deception known as double-entry book-keeping. As Colin McKay writes:

All of the ‘money’ that we believe ourselves to own, and that we circulate daily among ourselves in payment for goods, services, and investments, is neither ‘money’ in true substance, nor are we the owners of it.

The reality of the system is this. Bankers create IOUs out of nothing. These digital tokens represent our IOU to the bank. Then—by a clever accounting trick—they let us borrow their IOUs as ‘money’.

Usury is money magick, as McKay argues. It’s an inversion of values. It destroys the natural order. The inversion of male and female follows as night follows day. In the manufactured chaos of sexual confusion, the indebted may never realize they’ve been robbed. (more…)