ANOTHER staged drama for the gullible masses and the anti-gun, anti-white male agenda. This registers a ten on a B.S. meter. From Thuletide: Every racehoax follows the same script; Trayvon Martin, Michel Brown, Philando Castile, George Floyd: - Media spreads a fictional version of events - Whips up anti-White hatred - Libtards go into a frenzy - Burn Loot Murder riots - Unveiled months later that it was all a lie

ALAN writes:

In December 1919, Cleveland High School in St. Louis undertook an endeavor called “Better Speech Week.” The idea was to encourage good English and discourage careless use of words.

“A dunce cap, of the old-fashioned pattern, is placed upon the head of the boy or girl who uses slang or violates a rule of grammar.”

Imagine that in an American high school today.

Teachers were not exempt from that penalty.

When a boy in class raised his hand and said, “We ain’t made no mistakes,” he was awarded the dunce cap.

The news article reporting the event makes no mention of profanity, which I interpret to mean that its use was nonexistent or so rare as not even to merit mention. Imagine that in an American high school today.

In the school auditorium, students presented a playlet called “Doctor, Watch Your Speech,” which included a song called “Should Better English be Forgot,” sung to the melody of “Auld Lang Syne.”

Nowhere but in the most extreme science fiction-fantasy could Americans today imagine such a thing as “Better Speech Week” or understand why it was a good idea. If they applied to themselves the dunce cap penalty that Cleveland students and teachers applied to themselves in 1919, then 50 percent of Americans today would be wearing dunce caps. But that is a conservative estimate.

The way that Americans speak today makes actor Frank Gorshin’s beatnik character “Blake Barton” sound good by comparison. (In the 1960 motion picture musical Bells Are Ringing.) In fact, Americans today could take lessons from Frank Gorshin’s clear, crisp speech and diction outside of such character roles and that we heard in his many guest appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Sunday night television in the 1960s.

“Better Speech Week” in America today is of course unimaginable.

At View from the Right, Lawrence Auster often expressed his insistence on the proper use of words and grammar, and he was right.

What should we do about people who degrade one of the greatest things we possess — the English language? What to do about people who avoid plain English and prefer carelessness, bombast, slang, pretentiousness, or the “ready-made phrases” that George Orwell so rightly decried in his timeless 1946 essay “Politics and The English Language?” (more…)

AN Indiana couple who went into Chicago for some sightseeing last Saturday and found themselves caught up in a "teen takeover" is still shaking with fear and refusing to leave their home. They abandoned their minivan with broken windows on a street in Chicago. Illinois State Senator Robert Peter has reassured the public that the mass violence was not as it seemed. "I would look at the behavior of young people as a political act and statement. It’s a mass protest against poverty and segregation," he said. Phew, that's a relief! Here we thought it was just mob terrorism against .... against .... against the people in the downtown area. In the view of Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson, teens, such as those who surrounded and beat a woman on Wabash Avenue, need "safe spaces." Johnson is also on record as discouraging tests and homework for frustrated teens. When he himself was a teacher, To be quite frank with you, I didn’t issue a lot of homework for students. That was my own way of rebelling against the structure. I don’t think I ever gave a kid an ‘F.’ Chicago teens are also suffering from corporate racism. For instance, Walmart recently announced it will be closing four stores in high-crime Chicago neighborhoods. This may be another cause of the teens' "protests" last weekend. They need more stores to loot in their own neighborhoods.  

ALAN writes:

And when the Congress put their hands, not into their own pockets, but into the National Treasury, for the purpose of bestowing alms on a selected portion of our citizens, it may be well to pause and recall the description given by [Guglielmo] Ferrero, the noted modern historian of ancient Rome, of some of the causes which led to the fall of that proud and prosperous Empire:

‘Little by little, the State let itself be persuaded to do for each of its cities what it had done for Rome….  With a view to easing the misery of the urban proletariat, it took public works in hand in every direction, regardless of their utility.  It distributed victuals free or at half-price….

‘But all these schemes cost money…. The intensification of the evil was met by an increase in the dose of the very remedy which aggravated it….  Matters went from worse to worse, until the system reached the limit of its elasticity, and the whole social fabric collapsed in a colossal catastrophe.  This is precisely the mistake which modern civilization must learn to avoid….’

It is dangerous folly to teach people to regard Government as something which exists to pay their bills.  What we, each of us, need today is a good stiff dose of robust, local, self-reliance.  Self-help breeds self-respect….

— American legal scholar Charles Warren, Congress as Santa Claus  [Charlottesville, Virginia, The Michie Company, 1932], pp. 144-46

Do those words not apply precisely to the gargantuan Welfare State that Americans who work for a living agree to support for the benefit of those who don’t work and don’t want to? (more…)

"BEETHOVEN wrote but one oratorio, "Christus am Oelberge" ("Christ on the Mount of Olives"). It was begun in 1800 and finished during the following year. The text is by Huber, and was written, with Beethoven's assistance, in fourteen days. The first performance of the work is entirely took place at Vienna, April 5, 1803, at the Theater an der Wien. "The closing number, a chorus of angels ("Hallelujah, God's almighty Son"), is introduced with a short but massive symphony leading to a jubilant burst of "Hallelujah," which finally resolves itself into a glorious fugue. In all sacred music it is difficult to find a choral number which can surpass it in majesty or power." Source  

"OUR Redeemer owed it to us, therefore, that our certainty with regard to His Resurrection should be perfect. In order to give this master-truth such evidence as would preclude all possibility of doubt, two things were needed: His Death was to be certified, and the proofs of His Resurrection were to be incontestable. Jesus fulfilled both these conditions, and with the most scrupulous completeness. Hence, His triumph over death is a fact so deeply impressed on our minds, that even now, nineteen hundred years since it happened, we cannot celebrate our Easter without feeling a thrill of enthusiastic admiration akin to that which the guards at His tomb experienced when they found their Captive gone." See this essay by Dom Prosper Guéranger on proofs of the Resurrection.  

IN THIS interesting debate from last September, Peter Dimond and Jeff Cassman take opposing positions on whether the Vatican II popes are true popes.

I recommend listening in full. Dimond makes the far stronger case here, but please note that neither man draws the logical conclusions. A reader elaborates below.

By the way, I found it odd that the moderator was drinking beer.

I guess that’s to make serious theological discussion seem cool, which it most definitely is not and never will be.

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IT is not the soul alone that lives forever. Our bodies will rise one day to immortal glory or banishment. Our bodies are sublime, even now. The martyrs and all the saints loved their bodies far more than does the most sensual voluptuary; they, by sacrificing it, saved it; he, by pampering it, exposes it to eternal suffering. Let us be on our guard: sensualism is akin to naturalism. Sensualism will have it that there is no happiness for the body but such as this present life can give; and with this principle its degradation causes no remorse.... If, therefore, the Christian can see what the Son of God has done for our bodies by the divine Resurrection we are now celebrating, and feel neither love nor hope, he may be sure that his faith is weak; and if he would not lose his soul, let him henceforth be guided by the word of God, which alone can teach him what he is now, and what he is called to be hereafter. -- Dom Prosper Guéranger, The Liturgical Year  

WYATT STAGG looks at the actor Brendan Fraser who once played confident heroes, but received his ultimate acclaim as the morbidly obese protagonist, Charlie, in the 2022 movie The Whale, thereby becoming an anti-hero who portrays the repellent and perverse as morally appealing and redemptive.

According to Stagg, who sees this film as nothing more than a propaganda piece, Fraser sold his soul to Hollywood and its ongoing ritual humiliation of the white man.

“The goal of this story is to coerce its intended audience, white Westerners, into believing we are terminally ill and can only find deliverance in death.” (more…)

 BLACK South African admits things were better under whites.  

GREAT comments at minute 4:44 by Neil Oliver on how middle class mothers are driven out of their homes to seek paid employment by stresses and incentives deliberately created by the government and financial system.  

THEY ARRIVED on the early morning of that world-changing day. They came with precious spices to dress the body of the deceased, as was the ancient custom. They were so motivated in this task they did not consider in advance how they would roll away the enormous stone placed at the mouth of the tomb. How like women to fail to think of this. Men cowered and hid behind closed doors. Others feared for their safety. They were not deterred by the risks. They were not afraid of being associated with a convicted political criminal, even one who had been executed. And what a turn of events! The stone was already removed. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed with a white robe: and they were astonished. "He is not here." This caused them fear at last. God could have revealed the Resurrection to men, in keeping with those times and that place, where women did not hold positions of public power or authority. He chose to reveal it to women first. How paradoxical. How meaningful. Their greatness consisted in their determination to proceed with a practical, private step to honor the dead, rather than in swashbuckling action. Their greatness was in their devotion. Their monumental place in history began in the invisible depth of their hearts. The beauty of their souls illuminates the darkness still.    

"IF somebody told me I only had one hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow. If I got tired I’d stop, have a glass of water, and choke him some more." --- Miles David, 1985  

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MANY magnificent works of art such as this 18th-century altarpiece depict the Passion of Our Lord dramatically and movingly.

Though these works are viewed as morbid by the world at large — especially in a society that engages in mass panic over the seasonal flu —  they rarely depict the full horrors of the Crucifixion. It was much more bloody, gruesome, brutal and humiliating than is typically shown, even by some of the greatest artworks.

In 1950, Pierre Barbet, chief surgeon at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paris, published A Doctor at Calvary: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ as Described by a Surgeon. Other physicians have since published similar books, and, though none have produced accounts as seemingly thorough or as moving as Barbet’s, they dispute some of his anatomical conclusions. Even if the French doctor was in error on some points, his book constitutes a compelling and realistic examination of the physical sufferings and humiliations Christ endured.

Here are conclusions Barbet defended: (more…)

Behold how the righteous dies and no one takes notice. The righteous are taken away and no one pays attention. From facing iniquity the righteous is removed. And his memory will be in peace. His resting place is in peace and his dwelling place in Zion. And his memory will be in peace.