ALAN writes:

With perhaps a few exceptions like the Amish and a small percentage of others, modern Americans have proven conclusively that they are not guilty of common sense.

Celebrities are NOT “sick people”.  They may be stupid and they may do evil things.  That does not make them “sick”.  It makes them stupid or evil.  Propositions like “celebrities are sick people” or “murderers are sick people” are moral judgments couched in the vocabulary of fake-medicine.

It is standard procedure nowadays to attempt to discredit people by calling them nasty-sounding names like “crazy”, “insane”, “mentally ill”, “mentally sick”, “psychopathic”, “psychotic”, and “sociopathic”.  I contend that such name-calling is both a measure and a consequence of moral cowardice.  It is as if breaking rules or laws were not itself sufficiently wrong or evil.  I submit that all of that pseudo-medical vocabulary is nonsense, evasion, and theater. (more…)

VOTING is a sham. Both sides work for Big Brother.

Is jury nullification the solution?

Legalman offers a primer on jury nullification. “People are scared to death of the government and even of speaking out. And ultimately it all goes back to jury nullification and the rights of the people. And that’s why you will never hear about it.”

It’s worth a listen.

I don’t endorse all of Legalman’s views and I wish he would clean up his language, but he has some interesting things to say. (more…)

"ALL the world's helpfulness was but a ray out of his helplessness. No man's work, be it for himself or for his fellows, has any true strength in it, no man's strength is any thing better than effort and gesticulation, except the weakness of Chris have touched it, nerved it, and made it manful with heavenly manfulness. What are half the literatures and philosophies in the world but gesticulation, men in attitudes which effect nothing, voices raised to screaming partly to save appearances and counterfeit strength by noise? The strong man is he who has gone deepest down into the weakness of Christ. The enduring work is that which Christ's humiliation has touched secretly, and made it almost omnipotent." --- Fr. Frederick Faber, Bethlehem (Tan Books, p. 75)  

NEIL writes:

Saw a story yesterday that Charlize Theron’s two sons (whom she considers girls) have become a handful.

Maybe it’s been scrubbed from the Internet, but when her two boys realize at the time they are at peak testosterone that they are the products of a sick psychological experiment, I won’t feel sorry for her. (more…)

MORE on the Brian Thompson psyop:

“The narrative allows them to harness and direct the anger the collective feels towards the criminal health system. Dangling a cash prize as a reward increases the participation. Simultaneously, they will push for AI recognition and tracking. They will also be pushing for gun control, digital ID’s and methods to recognize an individual that may be a threat to the “community”. The psyop also serves to glorify the police that strive to “protect” them, while they practice anticipated scenarios so they can effectively hunt someone down when instructed to do so.”

Don’t forget: They want you to approve of and participate in manhunts. (more…)

  

"ALL men were to contract the sin of Adam; the sentence was universal; but God's own mother is not included. God who is the author of that law, God who was free to make it as He willed, had power to exclude from it her whom He had predestined to be His own in so many ways; He could exempt her, and it was just that He should exempt her; therefore, He did it." --- Dom Prosper Guéranger, "The Immaculate Conception," The Liturgical Year  

 CHECK out the man sitting at the bar. He probably had never heard anything so beautiful.  

"OUR mouth overflows with joy and our lips with exultation. We give, and shall always give, the humblest and deepest thanks to Jesus Christ Our Lord because, through a singular grace, He has granted to us, unworthy though we be, to decree and offer this honor and glory and praise to His Blessed Mother. “We repose all our hope in the most Blessed Virgin - in the all beautiful and immaculate one who has crushed the poisonous head of the most cruel serpent and brought salvation to the world. In her who is the glory of the prophets and apostles, the honor of the martyrs, the crown and joy of all the saints; in her who is the safest refuge and the most trustworthy helper of all who are in danger; in her who, with her only-begotten Son, is the most powerful Mediatrix and Conciliatrix in the whole world; in her who is the most excellent glory, ornament and impregnable stronghold of the holy Church; in her who has destroyed all heresies and snatched the faithful people and nations from all kinds of direst calamities; in her do we hope who has delivered us from so many threatening dangers." --- Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX, December 8, 1854, the day he solemnly instituted the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin See more reflections on the Immaculate Conception here and Catholic devotion to Mary here. The Rose which I…

THOU art all fair, O Mary, and stain of original sin is not found in thee. Thy vestiture is white as snow; and thy face is as the sun. Thou art the glory of Jerusalem; thou art the joy of Israel; thou art the honor of our people. Blessed art thou, O Virgin Mary, by the Lord, the Most High God, above all women upon the earth. Draw us, O Immaculate Virgin: we will run after thee in the odor of thy ointments. (From the First Vespers of the Vigil for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, observed this year on Monday Dec.9)  

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"THIS one of the heavenly bodies, which we tenant, was created to be as it were the garden, the Eden, of His Incarnation; and He adorned it in His love, before Adam, the first copy of Him, lived among its Asiatic shades. Perhaps it lay for ages in the glad sunshine, solitary, silent, in beautiful desolation, and He took complacence in the adorning of it. He loved perchance to see its beauty ripen, rather than to rise up at once complete. Continents sank slowly at His will, and new oceans rolled above their mountain tops, or elevated steppes. New lands rose out of the bosom of the deep. Floras of marvellous foliage waved in the sun, and the wisdom and the joy of the Babe of Bethlehem was in them. Faunas, strange, gigantic, terrible, possessed the waters and the land, of His fashioning, and for the delight of His glory. The central fires wrought beautifully and delicately the metals and the gems, which were for the altars of the Babe of Bethlehem, for the tiara of His Vicar, or the chasubles of His priests. The rocks and marbles ripened on the planet, as the fruits ripen on a tree and the Babe, the Wisdom of the Father, disported Himself in the vast operation, the pacific uniformity, and the magnificent slowness of His own laws. The grandeur of those huge-leaved trees, the unwieldy life of those extinct monsters, the loveliness of…

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UNITED Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was reportedly assassinated by a gunman outside a New York City hotel in the early morning hours of Dec. 4, 2024. Once again, we have the lone white gunman, a number of odd things that don’t add up, a highly-publicized “manhunt” and a compelling setting, this time Manhattan in the pre-Christmas shopping season. The public, it seems, is being deliberately fed more manhunt stories. Hmm, I wonder why.

The most noticeable anomaly in the event as reported is that when Thompson is initially shot at close range in the back — on camera, of course — he is not knocked off his feet and does not crumple from the powerful impact, as would be the case, but does a little skip dance. Also, there is no sign of blood. And Thompson is not wearing a coat despite chilly winter weather. And there are messages on the shell casings — who’s writing this stuff? It’s impossible to know what went on here. Some other anomalies have been noticed: (more…)

SOME thoughts on math as the “last bastion of truth” from Fitzpatrick Informer:

They have already removed honest study of religion from the system. Now they must remove the teaching of logic-based math—a science that naturally leads sincere students to religious conclusions. Logic and critical thinking have long been removed from the world education system. This explains why not only literacy rates but also mathematics comprehension rates are plummeting, mostly in the West.

…. Get the kids while they’re young. Retard their minds from learning to think critically and you will have a completely plasticized brain with which to mold into whatever you wish: a slave…an automaton…a creature alienated from his creator. (more…)