WOULDN'T it be nice to fly away? Maybe to a mountain in Mexico where you could spend the upcoming Corona winter? I envy the migrating species, the butterflies and the birds who travel hundreds of miles at this time of year. There they go -- without fear, without masks, without passports, without even a car or plane. Just wings. Two weeks ago, I heard a tapping on one of our car windows while I was working outside. A catbird had flown into the car. He was flinging himself against the rear window. He couldn't figure how to get out the one open window. I got the keys and opened all the windows. He was thrilled, in his own way. He had no use for this vehicle at all. He is probably gone now for the winter. Flying at night while we are asleep, using the stars and the earth's magnetic field for navigation, he will probably arrive any day now in Florida. Last week, we saw Monarch butterflies at a bird-and-butterfly rest stop near the Atlantic Ocean in Cape May, New Jersey. The butterflies, looking for nectar in the shore vegetation, were on their way to a mountain in Mexico for the season. They weigh about 1/400th of an ounce -- they are as light and flimsy as paper envelopes -- and yet they survive winds at 1,000 feet or so above the ground to get to their destination. Many of…
Many right-wingers would have you believe that such acts are orchestrated – or at the very least rather cynically exploited – as a pretext for passing further gun-control legislation. The government wants to scare the people into giving up their right to bear arms, or so the thinking goes. And there is reason to believe that this could well be a goal.
It is not, however, the only – or even the primary – goal, but rather a secondary one at best. (more…)
THE feminist mother loves her children always. The Christian mother loves her children too. But the feminist and Christian represent two different cultural institutions. Their approaches to motherhood, their forms of love, are very different. They cannot be reconciled.
The feminist mother always has good qualities, traits perhaps superior to individual Christians. But essential differences exist between her and her Christian counterpart.
Here is an incomplete list:
The feminist mother has children because they make her happy. The Christian mother has children to please God.
The feminist mother believes the happiness and success of her children are supreme. The Christian mother believes the happiness and success of her children are important, but not paramount.
The feminist mother seeks first for her children contentment in this world. The Christian mother seeks contentment in the next world first. (more…)
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A HEALTHY one-year-old boy in Florida died two days later. A 16-year-old boy died while taking a math class on Zoom. A 16-year-old girl died of a heart attack nine days later. Brief descriptions of some of the children who have died soon after reading Covid shots can be found here. They are among the more than 16,310 people reported to have died of the "vaccines" on the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, as of October 1. Whatever happened to "First Do No Harm?"
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In Dr. Robert Mendelsohn’s book, Confessions of a Medical Heretic, he describes medicine as a practice of religion rather than a practice of science. Doctors practice what they believe, not what they can substantiate by valid science. According to Mendelsohn, in the religion of medicine, physicians are the high priests and their ecclesiastical robes are their white coats. Hospitals are the temples where many holy waters are dispensed in the form of drugs, antibiotics, and vaccines. People tithe to the church of medicine by dutifully paying their insurance premiums. The word “prescription” is very close to the term “prescriptural,” thus implying a scriptural basis for their use. The Holy Bible containing the scriptures of medicine is the Pharmaceutical PDR. For millions of people, their faith and confidence in the religion of medicine is far greater than their belief in the institutions of worship they may attend. In a crisis, they would sooner call 911 than call upon God in prayer. (more…)
THOUGH 21 states so far have banned "vaccine passports," the majority of states have not and everywhere the general public has been conditioned to the idea of passports for internal domestic travel. This idea is remarkably similar to the internal passports mandated by the Soviet Politburo in 1932. The purpose of the passports was to track "anti-social" elements and dissidents, ultimately aiding the processing of millions of executions and deportations to Siberia. Between March and July of 1933, roughly 86,000 people in Moscow alone were arrested for failure to have passports. An interesting video asks, "Is the Vaccine Passport Based on the Bolshevik Passport System?"
"THE middle-class lifestyle from 50 years ago is now worth a million bucks, and two income earners can no longer achieve the lifestyle that one wage once provided." The departure of women from the home was due to the looting of the American economy -- and feminist propaganda made women think it was all good. Read more here.
NOTHING is sadder than the sight of a young child in a face mask. You can see them in our area, standing waiting for the bus, their parents sometimes beside them without masks themselves. The children's faces are obliterated and they all look like sinister surgeons at the operating table, their identities erased, their breath restricted and their minds -- that's the worst part. Their minds are conditioned to fear. They are walking mannequins, a new species cut off from nature. We are living in a science fiction movie and can't get out. No words are adequate to describe this depressing phenomenon. Every time I see it, I am shocked and brought down. I have no patience for those who say, "Children can get used to anything" or "They'll be fine" or "It doesn't really bother him." The parents of these children will each and every one of them face God someday, possibly very soon. And they will have no mask to hide their own faces. It doesn't matter how much they feel for their children. He will most certainly exact justice for His little ones. Many of these parents will be "drowned in the depth of the sea." But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. (Matthew 18:6) Stealing…
“More men should teach the young…. At present 76 per cent of the teachers are women and many boys go through school without coming in contact with a man. The result of too much woman is that the boy becomes ‘sissified’ and domesticated. Boys are petted too much. They should have rough house and boisterousness. That begets aggressiveness and not timidity, as the system now does.”
— Stanley Hall, President of Clark University, quoted in “Too Much Woman in the Schools, Declares Hall”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 6, 1908, p. 10.
Imagine what Hall would say if he were here today. He also wrote:
“The degenerate textbooks of today will give away something strong and inspiring. The textbook has decayed alarmingly in 10 years.
“Moral education should be the paramount object. There is little of it now in the schools and as a result juvenile crime is increasing at a tremendous rate…..”
Imagine if he were here today and could see (a) the extent of juvenile crime, (b) the degenerate public schools, and (c) textbooks that are far more degenerate than those of 1908. Today there is no moral education at all in public schools and very little elsewhere. (more…)
TWENTY-SEVEN years ago, Fr. Gordon J. MacRae was sentenced in New Hampshire to 67 years in prison for what he has always maintained is a completely false charge of sexual assault. He could have spent two years in jail under a plea bargain, which was offered him more than once, but he refused to plead guilty, firmly maintaining his innocence. At his website, Beyond These Stone Walls, Fr. MacRae reflects from his prison cell on this week's feast of St. Michael the Archangel: Our troubles and struggles in this world are not always simple anxieties over material discomforts, painful relationships, or the tragedies that occur in our lives. They are also manifestations of spiritual battle, and should be seen and resisted as such. People of deep faith recognize the spiritual battles within themselves and their environments, and rely on faith and spiritual allies to defend against them. Fr. MacRae is one of hundreds of Catholic priests, both dead and alive, who have been falsely accused or convicted of sexual crimes, turning their lives into a daily nightmare. According to the FBI agent supervisor who reviewed Fr. MacRae's case, “In my three years of investigation of this case, I have found no evidence that MacRae committed these crimes, or any crimes.” The Wall Street Journal concluded he was wrongfully convicted: “Those aware of the facts of this case find it hard to believe that any court today would ignore the perversion of…
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I remember listening on peaceful Sunday afternoons to baseball announcer Jack Buck on KMOX Radio broadcasts of Cardinals’ doubleheaders…..and standing at our kitchen sink early one evening while listening to Jack Buck interview retired Cardinals’ pitcher Lindy McDaniel, another of my boyhood baseball heroes whose baseball cards my classmates and I carried in our pockets in those golden summers of 1958-’59.
Two blocks from where we lived was a building that Bohemians built in 1903 as a gymnastic and cultural club. They were there until 1956, at which time it became a VFW Post.
I remember walking countless times to and across a pedestrian walkway above Highway 55 to a bus stop on Broadway in the years when I worked downtown. Behind me as I stood there waiting for my bus were two houses that dated from the 1850s and overlooked the Mississippi River. In the early 1900s, passenger trains stopped behind one of those houses. The trains and the houses are long gone.
As I walked up the steps leading to the walkway, I walked past an ordinary house that was always occupied and in good condition.
In some years I would get home from my job at or around midnight. Then I would read the two daily newspapers, and perhaps a book or magazine, and fall asleep around 3 a.m. to the wonderful voice of John McCormick on KMOX Radio. I remember reading Arthur Koestler’s book The Ghost in the Machine in that setting in 1968.
I remember walking along the streets around our house many times late at night with no need whatever for concern about safety. That began to change in the late 1980s and reached bottom when the liars and frauds who call themselves “The Law” did nothing to stop thugs and parasites from converting that neighborhood and others around it into combat zones.
I remember Elisabeth’s thoughtfulness in visiting my mother in the last years of her life, and in exchanging cards and notes with me for years afterward. Her mother lived the last years in her long life in a nursing home overlooking the river, the same location where my grandfather died in 1969.
When we were in grade school, my classmate Tony and his family lived two blocks from Pennsylvania Avenue. (They were from Germany, too.) But in the middle of those years, their house was demolished when the highway was built through that area.
St. Hedwig’s Catholic Church was built for Polish Catholics. Baseball’s Hall of Fame sportswriter Bob Broeg was born in the kitchen of a house just down the street from the church and school. The school closed in 1970, the church closed in 2005, and the parish was dissolved after 101 years. Here is a picture of the St. Hedwig class of 1962:
