ALAN writes:

One of the cultural trends that philosopher Richard Weaver wrote about in the 1940s-’50s was the increasing deference by the older generation to the younger. A consequence of that surrender of authority was the development of the Vital Child.

Laura Wood wrote in 2009 that the Vital Child “is not a creature of repose. He is a dynamic, rapidly evolving being, capable of ‘socialization’ even as an infant”. [“The Vital Child”, The Thinking Housewife, May 11, 2009 ]

I was part of the first generation born after World War II, the first in American history to be told we were Something Special: We had more choices, more opportunities, more possibilities, more things, more toys, more to do, see, and hear, more diversions, more amusements, and more Fun! available to us than any previous generation, we were told. In return for doing what? For doing nothing; just for existing! Some of our parents told us those things, but most of the time the message was pounded into us by the mass communications, entertainment, and advertising industries. Soft drink companies were part of that campaign. They played a significant role in promoting the youth subculture of the 1960s.

“Come alive!  Come alive! You’re in the Pepsi generation!” (more…)

HE'S filling the swamp with Israel Firsters, faster than you can say "matzoh balls." "Trump 2024 Administration Huckabee - AIPAC Neocon Ratcliffe - AIPAC Neocon Rubio - AIPAC Neocon Stefanik - AIPAC Neocon Waltz - AIPAC SUPER Neocon Zeldin - AIPAC Neocon Every single person above has expressed a desire to go to War on behalf of a Jewish state calling itself 'Israel.'" Source Add Kristi Noem and Brian Hook to that list.  

EXPECT more traumatizing staged shooting events or domestic terrorism attacks under the second Donald Trump  presidential term. "Gun control" is a major aim of the New World Order agenda -- and he's part of it. Under the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, the federal government was given permission to stage propaganda events and there have been dozens of them since then. These staged mass shootings are perfectly "legal" and have been wildly successful, creating a whole new sick, art form, with the help of centralized media empires -- one of the most successful forms of fraud in the history of the human race. The goal is not just to shred the Second Amendment and make tens of millions of dollars, but to increase division in society, make citizens weak, drained and fearful; and promote a state of government dependence. Fear is conducive to government control and so is mental enfeeblement. These events have a cumulative psychological effect and it's not healthy. This is not to say that there isn't a real gun problem in the U.S. -- and you can find it every Saturday night in cities such as New Orleans, Philadelphia and St. Louis. See my post "Signs of a Staged Mass Shooting" to understand fake events and steel yourself for more.  

THIS outstanding 1983 talk by Matthew J. Browning tells the story of the 19th-century Guernsey Experiment in monetary reform, pointing out its relevance to today.

How Guernsey Beat the Bankers is a 1958 pamphlet that tells how the Island of Guernsey “created its own money, without cost to the taxpayer, and established a prosperous community free of debt:” (Note: The “social credit mentioned in this pamphlet is not the Communist-style social credit.)

An excerpt:

Our story opens in the year 1815. It was a year of considerable difficulty for the people of Britain but the people of the little island of Guernsey were particularly hard hit. The effects of the Napoleonic wars had resulted in a state of despair on the part of the island community due to the acute economic distress then prevailing. The following extract from a document presented by the States (as the island Parliament is called) to the Privy Council speaks very eloquently on the state of affairs:

“In this island, eminently favoured by nature, nothing has been done by art or science towards the least improvement; nothing for the display or enjoyment of local beauties and advantages; not a road, not even an approach to the town, where a horse and cart could pass abreast; and the deep roads only four feet six inches wide, with a footway of two or three feet, from which nothing but the steep banks on each side can be seen, appeared solely calculated for drains to the waters which, running over them, rendered them ever yet deeper and narrower. Not a vehicle, hardly a horse kept for hire, no four-wheeled carriage existed of any kind, and the traveller landed in a town of lofty houses, confined and miserably-paved streets from which he could only penetrate into the country by worse roads, left the island in haste and under the most unfavourable impressions. (more…)

“THE perils of an all-digital currency range from the fairly obvious to the altogether inconspicuous. In order to adequately appreciate the crucial importance of establishing and upholding the right to cash, it is necessary to explore them in some detail.

“The clearest danger arising from the elimination of all physical money is the threat to privacy it entails. Purchases using digital money, be they via credit card, mobile phones or online banking, are never as anonymous as cash transactions: a record is invariably created and held by a third party – usually a bank or credit card company. While these entities may be obliged by law to keep such information confidential, such confidentiality can be breached by government pressure or broken by skilful hackers. In short, it is only cash that provides full anonymity – and the concomitant autonomy. Only with physical money may we say with Dostoevsky:

“‘Money is coined liberty.’

“Sadly, the convenience of using credit cards, the rise of online shopping and propaganda campaigns portraying cash as unhygienic or maligning it as an instrument of criminality have generally sufficed to overpower privacy concerns. In order to strengthen the case for establishing a right to cash, it is therefore necessary to study some of the less evident negative consequences of an all-digital currency.”

— Arindam Basu, “The Right to Cash” (more…)

SOME interesting thoughts on the Trump victory — written the day before the election:

The Trump psyop is so multi-layered and undeniably genius.

The establishment has successfully conditioned both parties to focus on Trump for all the wrong reasons.

He’s not Hitler, like Democrats think. And he’s not a savior, like Republicans think.

He is a very convincing, consuming, and charismatic actor, who will absolutely be selected this election, so he can continue to distract supporters of both parties. (more…)

"THIS will cause acute pain, greater pain than we have ever known; it will be like a sword going right through the heart. Were death still possible we would die for sorrow, but death is over and we have to bear it, till God relieves us. When Christ was in agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, He sweated blood and the drops of His blood fell on the ground. There was then no bodily pain, but only mental sorrow: 'My soul is sorrowful unto death,' He had said on entering the garden. He writhed in agony, and, prostrate on the ground, He pleaded: 'Father, all things are possible unto Thee; let this chalice pass away; yet not My will but Thine be done.' A picture ' indeed of our sorrows in purgatory, when our souls, shall be sorrowful unto death, when mere bodily death would be a welcome respite, when we would be willing to die a thousand times if thereby we could reach God one instant sooner." --- J.P. Arendzen,. Purgatory and Heaven (Sheed and Ward, 1960)  

“APART from the happiness of the saints in heaven, I think there is no joy comparable to that of the souls in purgatory. An incessant communication with God renders their happiness daily more intense, and this union with God grows more and more intimate, according as the impediments to that union, which exist in the soul, are consumed. These obstacles are the rust and the remains, as it were, of sin; and the fire continues to consume them, and thus the soul gradually expands under the divine influence. Thus, according as the rust diminishes and the soul is laid bare to the divine rays, happiness is augmented. The one grows and the other wanes until the time of trial is elapsed. Yet the pain is not lessened, it is only the time of suffering which decreases. With regard to the will of these souls, they can never say that these pains are pains, so great is their contentment with the ordinance of God, with which their wills are united in perfect charity.” --- St. Catherine of Genoa, Treatise on Purgatory Prayers for the Faithful Departed  

ALAN writes: Enough already!  Could we please talk about something weightier than pollytix and elections? A friend of mine put up a sign in her back yard instructing the squirrels -- in plain English, yet -- that they should not eat from the feeder intended for the birds.  Alas, Mama Squirrel has disregarded the sign and helps herself to the daily offerings.  Not that we blame her.  We suspect that she is a distant cousin of Peanut and is in mourning.  

AN AFRICAN gang reportedly beats an Irishman.

This is the kind of thing you find in this country too, but not in Harris/Walz neighborhoods.

What is the answer to this phenomenon? I will tell you what is not the answer — and that is race war or violent retaliation.

The answer is peaceful separation. Africans belong in Africa and Europeans belong in Europe. Racial harmony is possible, but not by throwing people together into an amorphous mass of workers and consumers. In the meantime, this type of crime should never disturb our good will toward the people we meet in this multicultural society. (more…)

"THE REAL takeaway from this 'election' is just how FAKE the ‘81 million Biden 2020 votes' were. Trump got about 2 million FEWER votes this time than he did in 2020 & yet he 'won big' this time? Kamala got about 14 mil FEWER votes than Biden did in 2020? Are we expected to believe that Biden was THAT popular? Or is it now more than obvious that the fraud during 2020 was SO massive that it truly boggles the mind. Clearly when the Dems were being watched more carefully in 2024 they simply couldn't pull off a fraud at that 2020 level. And when NOBODY goes to prison for what we now KNOW happened in 2020, it will be clear that both parties are in on the whole scam together. Tacking back and forth between red and blue as they sail us all to prison island under the guise of 'voting.'" Legalman  

WHEN European settlers came to this continent in the 15th and 16th century, they found a vast and magnificent wilderness populated by barbarous people given to tribal warfare and demon gods.

Europeans conquered America and, despite the conflict among colonial powers, it was a righteous conquest.

Europe gained a new and much-needed territory to support its families and defend what still remained of Christian civilization from Islam and Asian apathy, from the darkness of Africa, from the rationalism and atheism afflicting the European continent.

We take it so for granted. But America could have been conquered by a much worse people. Left to itself, it would have been.

Beginning in the 16th century, Muslims, over the course of three centuries, would drag into slavery more than 1.25 million Europeans, snatching them from ships and off the coasts of the Mediterranean and even the North Atlantic. Major portions of the Italian coastline were abandoned, so fearful were people of Muslim raiders. Thousands of European boys were taken to surgery centers by Jewish slave dealers and castrated. They would serve as eunuchs for Muslim harems and Ottoman courts and, unless they were ransomed, would never see their families again. (See ‘Recommended Reading’ below for sources.) That’s how powerful Islam was — and the Europeans who first came to America were highly conscious of the threat. (more…)

I PREDICT that a candidate who violated the U.S. Constitution, committed treason, took part in devastating fraud and established the conditions for wild inflation -- all in a first term in the White House -- will be our next president. I don't know whether it will be Trump or Kamala yet.  

I HAVE no campaign staff or advertising budget. You won’t see my name on lawn signs or my annoying face in your mailbox. I have no big donors — or even small donors. I am bought and paid for by no one.

I have made you no promises and given you no plans. I haven’t offered you cheap prescription drugs like a petty salesman or flashed false smiles from any screen or stage. I’m a woman who doesn’t even believe in women presidents — that’s how bad my sales pitch is.

Still I am confident, despite these obvious handicaps, that this complete and utter nobody will win the presidential election on November 5th. I will wake up the next morning with the heady feeling of victory and new energy to get to work.

What will I gain? What will I win? My soul, that’s what I will win — and there’s nothing better than that. Yes, victory will be mine!

By voting for neither of these selected-and-bought candidates who have zero accountability and are both moral degenerates in a system that is now fundamentally unlawful and evil, I will survive this election season with my integrity intact. Victory will be mine in a world of disappointed losers who have taken the bait and bought into the scam. It is only a matter of time before they realize all they have lost.

This country’s biggest problems are moral. Every person who refuses to sell his soul to the scam of mass democracy is a stone in the foundation of a better building. I want to be one of those stones. I want our descendants to live in that building, imperfect though it will be.

I haven’t traveled through the stormy waters of Scylla and Charybdis this election season, tempted by the false songs of the “lesser of two evils.” (more…)

SHE apparently has no problem with the people whose lives and communities have been upended by mass immigration, but would probably like to see the person who sent her a teasing postcard in jail. (more…)

 EVEN if democracy does not seem to have lived up to its promises, election day is still a national tradition worth celebrating. Here's a recipe suggestion: "Election Cake seems to be derived from 'Muster Cake.' In the late 1600s and throughout the 1700s, some men were expected to attend military musters for training and were supplied with cake and cider as a reward. In the late 1700s, Election Day was new and a day of celebration. Eligible men who made the trek out to vote were given cake, cider, and alcohol outside of the polls and at parties. "This recipe is from American Cookery by Amelia Simmons, the second edition published in 1796. This book is known for being the first known American cookbook. The full recipe makes a lot of cake. It contains 30 cups of flour and 36 eggs! I cut the recipe by about 1/7! The recipe also assumes you're cooking in the 1700s and that it will take 24 hours for your sponge to rise. It took me about 45 minutes in my 21st century oven. Likewise, if your house is heated in November, you won't have to cream the butter for 30 minutes. When I make this again (even the family liked it) I'll probably add a cup of crushed walnuts. " Source: World Turned Upside Down  

"NO ONE ... can be said to be without peace, who is perfectly content with his lot and extremely thankful for it, but the holy sufferers in Purgatory know that their present condition is the very one condition which suits them best, and is most for their good. They know that God has used towards them infinite mercy in not exacting from them a far greater amount of suffering, that they have deserved far more, and even Hell itself, and on this account they are overflowing with gratitude that their case is not harder than it is. "Besides these elements of peace in the Holy Souls there are others which consist in or result from their condition in itself. We all know what are the dangers to peace in this life dangers so many and so great that it seems almost impossible to be at perfect peace as long as we are what we are. What a blessing we should account it to be free from all external temptation, from all molestation of the evil one, from all provocations to sin from objects external to ourselves, whether they attack us on the side of the irascible part of our nature, or whether their seductions are addressed to our concupiscence! But in the case of the Holy Souls there are no disturbances to their peace from the things which cause us pain or pleasure, which appeal to ambition, or pride, or anger,…