"KAREY Burke, president of Disney’s General Entertainment Content, said the company must do more to make its content more inclusive in a company-wide Zoom call Monday that was later posted to Twitter. "'I’m here as a mother of two queer children, actually,' Burke said on the call. “One transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader.” "Burke said she supports featuring “many, many” characters who are LGBTQIA, which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex, and asexual (or allies)." (New York Post)  

SORROW is a useless thing. You can't dig with it. You can't cook with it. You can't wear it. You can't impress friends with it. You can't play it like a guitar. You can't buy anything with it. You can't decorate your house with it. As heavy as it is, you can't use it for weight-lifting — your biceps will be the same. That's why fitness instructors are always perky. Sorrow won't make you popular. It won't make you professional. It won't make you pretty or rich. The only single thing sorrow is good for is repairing the entire world. These drops pour over the lives of the forsaken, the ruined, the almost-doomed. They are mixed with the balm of Calvary.  

 His sisters sent to Him saying: Lord, behold, he whom Thou lovest is sick.--John xi. 3.Three things here call for thought. "1. God's friends are from time to time afflicted in the body. It is not, therefore, in any way a proof that a man is not a friend of God that he is from time to time sick and ailing. Eliphaz argued falsely against Job when he said, Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed? (Job iv. 7). "The gospel corrects this when it says, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick, and the Book of Proverbs, too, where we read, For whom the Lord loveth, He chastiseth: and as a father in the son He pleaseth himself (Prov. iii. 12). "2. The sisters do not say, "Lord, come and heal him." They merely explain that Lazarus is ill, they say, he is sick. This is to remind us that, when we are dealing with a friend, it is enough to make known our necessity, we do not need to add a request. For a friend, since he wills the welfare of his friend as he wills his own, is as anxious to ward off evil from his friend as he is to ward it off from himself. This is true most of all in the case of Him who, of all friends, loves most truly. The Lord keepeth all them that…

[See comments below. This video is satire. I sincerely apologize for misleading readers. Sad to say, it’s close to the truth. Now if only this Disney executive’s statement was satire!]

A TEACHER in Fort Worth, Texas comments at school board meeting. This man (or is he a woman?) needs a strait jacket, not a podium.

We are surrounded. More and more people are flagrantly insane. It’s not surprising.

This reminds me of a bright boy who had a beautiful smile.

One day when he was in college, not long after he “transitioned” to a woman, he drove to a state park and hung himself from a tree.

Pray for these people. They have nothing left. (more…)

THIS post is dedicated to my dear friend, Lawrence Auster, who died of pancreatic cancer nine years ago today. As fate (or as Mr. Auster would say, "synchronicity,") would have it, I will be doing an interview later today that touches on some of his ideas. And so, sadly, I will have to postpone visiting his grave until tomorrow. But when I do, I take with me all the good intentions of those whom he touched in his years as a writer, laying some flowers (artificial so the deer won't eat them) on his grave and praying for his eternal rest. I choose these words on spring not just because Mr. Auster died on Good Friday in spring, but because he understood what this author is saying: we are not walking abstractions, souls with inconvenient bodies, but, like our magnificent Redeemer, we are incarnated in physical creation. And this creation, despite its imperfections, is good. The modern Manicheans would have us despise ourselves and become a disembodied, abstract "humanity." Is a daffodil guilty for being a daffodil? Should it be a representative of all flowers instead? Mr. Auster detested the homogenizing ugliness of modern egalitarianism. I also like this excerpt because it mentions gratitude for simple things. I feel grateful today for something so simple as a true friend. He who is a friend at death is a friend forever, his companionship an uplifting consolation through the years he will never…

ALAN writes:

Dear Bill,

I thought I should send you a letter in these waning days of Western Civilization. (Not that that would surprise you. More about this below.)

Nearly twenty years have gone by since you left us. You might not have left us then had it not been for outrageously incompetent hospital staff who hastened your departure.

Forty years have gone by since we last talked, in a brief telephone conversation. I did not realize it would be our last contact, and neither of us planned it that way. But modern life is full of diversions and detours.

It was 1969 when we met, owing partly to a mutual interest in the night sky. In the years afterward, we met and talked at many meetings, lectures, and skywatches involving other amateur astronomers.

You and your wife “Dot” were most kind to that foolish young man. (more…)

"THE Communists try to exploit these national, racial and religious differences in order to weaken, undermine and subjugate America to Moscow. Like a serpent, they use guile to seduce each group. At no time have the Communists even hinted or suggested to any group, other than the Negro, that their clannishness or tendency to colonize a given area creates a "Ghetto" or "Quarters." Were they to do so, they would be jeered out of each section as crackpots. "Evidently the reds had international propaganda in mind when they described Negro sections as "Ghettos" because the definition of the word Ghetto in no way applies to a Negro section any more than it does to a German, Irish, Jewish, Chinese or any other section in America. "The Encyclopedia Britannica states: Ghetto, formerly the street or quarter of a city in which Jews were compelled to live, enclosed by walls and gates which were locked each night. The term is now used loosely of any locality in a city or country where Jews congregate. During the Middle Ages the Jews were forbidden to leave the ghetto after sunset when the gates were locked, and they were also imprisoned on Sundays and all Christian holy days. "Negroes band together in sections like other races and national groups much for the same reasons. Like other racial and national groups, they can buy land, build communities, settle in any section of the country. Like other racial…

“PROBABLY never in the history of the United States have we seen such a strangle-hold by the national press and other mass media of communication in suppressing the viewpoint of a great section of the country. The extent to which certain of the more authoritative and influential newspapers and magazines, such as the New York Times and the Time-Life group, are using their columns for sheer propaganda has become laughable. In a moral sense we are confronted with what might almost be called a trilogy of conspiracy, fraud and intimidation: conspiracy to gain control of important citadels of learning and news dissemination, fraud in the teaching of false racial doctrines, and intimidation in suppressing those who would preach the truth. To speak of academic freedom in the United States today is to make a mockery of the term.”

— Carleton Putnam, Race and Reason: A Yankee View, 1961 (more…)

INTERVIEWER: Your honor, can you provide a definition of the word “woman”?

Judge No, I can’t. I am not a biologist.

Int.: Can you provide a definition of the word “cat?”

Judge: No, I cannot. I am not a zoologist.

Int: Can you provide a definition of the words …. “cotton candy?” (more…)

 FOLLOW the mysteries of the Rosary with French composer André Caplet's Le Miroir de Jésus. The entire cycle recorded by the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie with mezzo-soprano Brigitte Desnoues can be found here. Caplet devoted most of his compositional energy to religious music, and Le miroir de Jésus emerges as his spiritual masterpiece. Cast in three sections, it is fashioned after the Rosary, its tripartite structure divided into sequences devoted to the birth of Jesus, his Passion and crucifixion, and the Resurrection. Each section is announced by the chorus, leading to an instrumental prelude, after which the mezzo-soprano sings five sonnets to texts by Henri Ghéon. Though the piece is economically orchestrated for just strings and harp, Caplet manages to pull off an incredibly broad range of emotions and sounds. (Source) Thanks to a reader for the suggestion.  

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THIS 2021 video by Johnny Gat is absolutely must-viewing for anyone seeking to understand the Kremlin's role in controlling dissident nationalists in this country. Don't be fooled by the demonization of Putin by the media and politicians. The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.  

WHEN something I do understand, When one of my actions goes right, I find myself hoarding the credit, Consid’ring myself very bright. But when something escapes my grasp, When I stumble or make a mistake, I excuse myself as imperfect, And none of the blame do I take. -- Andrew West  

"THE indignities and sufferings anyone suffers are measured according to the dignity of the person concerned. If a king is struck in the face he suffers a greater indignity than does a private person. But the dignity of Christ is infinite, for He is a divine person. Therefore, any suffering undergone by Him, even the least conceivable suffering, is infinite. Any suffering at all, then, undergone by Him, without His death, would have sufficed to redeem the human race. "St. Bernard says that the least drop of the blood of Christ would have sufficed for the redemption of us all. And Christ could have shed that one drop without dying. Therefore, even without dying he could, by some kind of suffering, have redeemed, that is, bought back, all mankind." --- St. Thomas Aquinas, Meditations for Each Day of Lent  

ACCORDING TO Forbes: On paper, Russian President Vladimir Putin seems like a humble statesman with a modest income. The Kremlin claims that Putin earns an annual salary of $140,000. His publicly disclosed assets include an 800-square foot apartment, a trailer, and three cars. But according to some experts, he may be the wealthiest man in the world with assets totaling up to $200 billion. While that is a ridiculous amount of money for anyone to have, this figure may not be so far-fetched for Putin. Here’s why ... [cont.]  

SOVIET defector Igor Shepherd writes:  ... Infiltrated cronies who have been secretly pushing toward a one world government for many decades have waited patiently for their cue to bolt onto the world stage and show arm muscle. The phony pandemic was act one with which the global elites were able to openly introduce their global goals. Act two, the Russian-Ukrainian drama, will soon reveal the true strength behind those bulging biceps. You may ask, how advanced is globalization? Dear readers, it is done! Out of 195 countries in the world, 193 of them are members of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and participators under Agenda 2030. This is the final great reset of all nations under one global authority, and all previous governments of the world will be dismantled and no longer exist by the year 2030. Do I have your attention? Sustainable development, if it was listed in an honest dictionary, would be defined as “infiltrated communism.” It was introduced by communist sympathizers as a means to “save the environment,” but that was just a front, along with climate change, to fast-track the global agenda and persuade the nations to hop on board. Behind SDGs are the tools with which to effectively infiltrate new communism into the heart of every nation. Under this new reign of dictatorship, old communism will pale in comparison. [cont.]