AN INTERESTING article by Ray Peat examines what he maintains are the damaging health effects of vegetable oils labeled “unsaturated” or “polyunsaturated.”

Are they the leading cause of obesity in America? Read More »

TENS OF thousands of people gathered in Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park in London yesterday to show their resistance to Corona lies.

“THE judgment of the world differs greatly from this. The world knows no greater evil than sickness; for the children of the world think of nothing but the enjoyment of every pleasure and the gratification of every desire; and because they know that it will be of no benefit and satisfaction to them to possess the whole world and to be sick at the same time, and therefore prevented from making use of and enjoying it, they look upon sickness as the greatest evil in the world. But if we form a right judgment of it, we will find that it is frequently the best thing that can befall man, for it opens his eyes and discovers to him the danger to which his salvation is exposed. In many cases sickness is more beneficial than health.”

— “The Sickness of the Body is a Blessing to the Soul” Read More »

“SEE how the study of medicine now so often leads astray into the paths of materialism and fatalism, to the great detriment of science and humanity. It is false to assert that simple nature is the explanation of suffering and death; and unfortunate are those whose physicians regard them as mere flesh and blood. Even the pagan school took a loftier view than that; and it was surely a higher ideal that inspired you to exercise your art with such religious reverence. By the virtue of your glorious death, O witnesses to the Lord, obtain for our sickly society a return to the faith, to the remembrance of God, and to that piety which is profitable to all things and all men, having the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.”

—- From The Liturgical Year, by Dom Prosper Guéranger (1841-1875)

Only in Sleep
— Sara Teasdale

Only in sleep I see their faces,
Children I played with when I was a child,
Louise comes back with her brown hair braided,
Annie with ringlets warm and wild.

Only in sleep Time is forgotten—
What may have come to them, who can know?
Yet we played last night as long ago,
And the doll-house stood at the turn of the stair.

The years had not sharpened their smooth round faces,
I met their eyes and found them mild—
Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder,
And for them am I too a child?

[Reposted]

FROM The Four Temperaments by the Rev. Conrad Hocks, published in 1934:

Socrates, one of the most renowned of the Greek sages, used and taught as an axiom to his hearers: “Know yourself.”

One of the most reliable means of learning to know oneself is the study of the temperaments. For if a man is fully cognizant of his temperament, he can learn easily to direct and control himself. If he is able to discern the temperament of others, he can better understand and help them. Read More »

MORE THAN one million small businesses have permanently closed since March while Amazon and other big retailers have seen big surges in sales.

Here’s the story of one small restaurant that closed after 75 years in business.

The owner has choice words for the health commissars.

Barcelona Cathedral Interior – St. Thecla – 1486

FROM the life of St. Thecla, (Feast day, Sept. 23) Butler’s Lives of the Saints:

“SHE was exposed naked in the amphitheatre, but clothed with her innocence; and this ignominy enhanced her glory and her crown. Her heart was undaunted, her holy soul exulted and triumphed with joy in the midst of lions, pards, and tigers: and she waited with a holy impatience the onset of those furious beasts, whose roarings filled even the spectators with terror. But the lions on a sudden forgetting their natural ferocity, and the rage of their hunger, walked gently up to the holy virgin, and laying themselves down at her feet, licked them as if it had been respectfully to kiss them: and, at length, notwithstanding all the keepers could do to excite and provoke them, they meekly retired like lambs, without hurting the servant of Christ.”

“We must live in the habitual practice of frequently denying our inclinations, and mortifying the senses. If we give our appetites full liberty in things that are not forbidden, they will quickly master us, and crave gratifications that are unlawful, with too great violence to be restrained by us. We shall not lose courage at the name of penance and mortification, as many are apt to do, if we look up at our eternal reward, and if we have before our eyes the austerities which the most tender virgins joyfully embraced for the sake of virtue.”

THOMAS DROLESKEY at Christ or Chaos reviews the long career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was not qualified to be a Supreme Court justice, he points out, not because she was lacking in intelligence or because she made no just decisions or because she had no personal strengths but because she did not accept the moral law — something which cannot be changed by any human being.

Dr. Droleskey writes:

The greatest tragedy involving Ruth Bader Ginsburg is that she died outside the bosom of Holy Mother Church after a six decade long career in behalf of one false principle after another, including using the courts as instruments to advance what are grave moral evils in the objective order of things. Truth does not depend upon human acceptance for its binding force or validity and it matters not that large majorities of people may reject its validity or that only a handful of people accept it. Truth is. Truth exists. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a modern woman, a veritable Eve in judicial robes who long ago succumbed to the allure of the adversary through her false religion, Talmudism, to believe in one subjectivist, relativist, positivist fable after another.  Truth to her was whatever she believed it to be. Read More »

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FROM The Hill:

During a press conference Monday at the White House, the president pledged that a vaccine for the coronavirus would be available in “record time,” and swiped at [Kamala] Harris in particular over the remarks, calling her “the most liberal person in Congress.” Read More »

CLOSE to 400 doctors and over a thousand other health professionals signed an open letter to the government and media challenging the official narrative of Covid-19.

The letter is reproduced at The American Institute for Economic Research and Tradition in Action.

Note: I do not agree with the doctors that the original lockdown was warranted. Warning and informing the public? Yes. Quarantining healthy people? No, that is unprecedented overreach.

THE absurdities are getting absurder.

JAKE Gardner was attacked on May 30 by rioters who were smashing his bar in Omaha, according to news accounts and video evidence. He was knocked to the ground, got in a scuffle with one looter, 22-year-old James Scurlock, as he was trying to get up, and the shot Scurlock. He was cleared of charges by the Omaha prosecutor, who was then pressured to turn the case over to a special federal attorney. Gardner, an Iraq War veteran, reportedly ended his life while awaiting arrest on manslaughter charges. (It is possible it was not suicide.) Thousands of people had labeled him a “white supremacist.”

Preventing people from defending themselves is a form of murder.

Update:

According to Gateway Pundit, Gardner had been harassed for years, apparently simply for supporting Trump and speaking out against transgender bathrooms after a woman was assaulted by a man (or “trans woman”) in one of his bar’s restrooms. Few apparently stood up to defend him: Read More »