FROM EuroNews:

A court in The Hague ruled on Tuesday that the current curfew in the Netherlands to stop the spread of COVID-19 should be lifted as it violates freedom of movement and assembly. (more…)

Among other things the Annals of Saucerology can teach us is that some endeavors in life are engineered for men and others for women.  That is the way it is—not because anti-feminists like me say so, but because Nature makes it that way.

ALAN writes:

As a diversion from current goings-on that are bad, worse, or still worse, I offer the following reminiscence from ancient times:

Many boys who grew up in the 1950s-‘60s had the good fortune to become cub scouts and boy scouts.  I did not have that good fortune.  But in the late 1960s, I became involved in another masculine endeavor.

One day in 1968, eight men sat around a table in a private home in St. Louis County and agreed to establish an informal organization.  Among them were a chemist, a mail carrier, a newspaper worker, two aerospace engineers, and a high school student.  I was that student and the youngest one there.

What we had in common was a desire to explore the controversy about Extraordinary Flying Objects.  Some of us had spoken with airline pilots or police officers who had reported seeing such objects in the sky.  The purpose of the group was to investigate and study any such reports originating in or near St. Louis.

In looking back to those years, nothing stands out more clearly than that our project was a decidedly masculine undertaking.  Such a project appealed to many teenage boys, young men, and engineering types.  It involved elements of astronomy, optics, aviation, eyewitness testimony, and detective work, things of interest primarily to men.  It was also a good introduction to the work of evaluating ideas and conflicting truth claims.

Thousands of men across the nation—businessmen, writers, engineers, professors, outdoorsmen, amateur astronomers—volunteered their time and interest in pursuit of the truth behind reports of Extraordinary Flying Objects.  But very few women did likewise.  I can remember fewer than 20 women who took an interest in that subject. (more…)

THE famous tenor Mario Lanza, whose all too brief life and meteoric career ended when he died at the age of 38 in 1959, sings “Una Furtiva Lagrima,” an aria from Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “L’Elisir d’Amore” (“The Elixir of Love”).

In the opera, a poor peasant falls in love with a wealthy woman and, having no hope that she will return his love, he buys a love potion, which is actually cheap red wine sold by a trickster. In the aria, Nemorino, the peasant, sings of his belief that the potion has finally worked after seeing “a furtive tear” in the eyes of his beloved, Adina.

A translation: (more…)

THE effort to impeach Trump seemed like just another attempt to demoralize and defame his supporters until a friend yesterday offered another explanation.

Trump must be impeached in case any of the pending lawsuits challenging the election, and the massive, premeditated and systematic fraud, succeed in court.

Conviction in an impeachment trial does not automatically disqualify Mr. Trump from future public office. But if the Senate were to convict him, the Constitution allows a subsequent vote to bar an official from holding “any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.” That vote would require only a simple majority of senators. There is no precedent, however, for disqualifying a president from future office, and the issue could end up before the Supreme Court. (Source)

Is it as simple as that?
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  HERE'S another scene from the wonderful 1943 movie The Song of Bernadette with Jennifer Jones playing Bernadette Soubirous. The music is a bit over-the-top so you may want to watch it with the sound off.

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 HERE'S SOME VERY GOOD analysis of the Super Bowl halftime show. (Warning: 'Faith alone' heresy at the end of video.)  

   IN THIS  20-year-old interview, Charlotte Iserbyt, author of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, explains how American children have been denied a liberal arts education for many decades. Instead, they have gotten a lot of behavioral modification programs, deliberately intended by the schemes of social engineers, secular idealists and wealthy globalists to prepare them for socialist world government and lives as compliant workers with no knowledge of history and little ability to analyze the present. This is highly relevant!  

JEN PSAKI, press secretary in the Biden administration, is part of an historic first — all of the people on the White House press team this year are women. They include “6 Moms of young kids.”

Psaki, 42, has two children, ages 5 and 2 — or as she calls them on her Twitter account “humans.” (Is it “bigoted” to call children “children?” Hmm, I guess it does kind of imply they’re helpless.)

Most reporters from major news outlets are political activists and propagandists, not journalists in the traditional sense, so Psaki’s job should be less difficult than that of her predecessor, Kayleigh McEnany, who was smart, combative and looked like a contestant in a Trump beauty pageant. The fact that Psaki takes every opportunity to imply that the previous administration was filled with liars and idiots should make her much more popular among the activists and propagandists.

Despite their differences in politics and style, these two women strike me as similar. Highly intelligent, quick, clever, physically attractive, brusque, extremely competitive. Years of grueling workaholism and compulsive rule-following lie just below the surface. You can hear it in the choice of words, peppered with catchphrases, and you can see it in the eyes.

Psaki, shortly after she began her new job, said she wants to show she isn’t a “pushover.” A man would never say he wants to prove he is not a “pushover.” If he said that he would only prove he is a pushover. But a woman in power exaggerates her toughness.

Serving as the immediate mouthpiece of the president (or, in this case, non-president) is a position of importance and authority. That there are women doing this must mean women are much are more powerful than they were in the age when they never got beyond First Lady, right?

The truth is, figures like Psaki and McEnany show that women have become far less influential. Their power has been diluted and drained. (more…)

 [NOTE: Here is the video.] AFTER viewing this entertaining and perceptive video by American Sovereign (warning: fake blood and minor vulgarity), I am prepared to make a decision regarding the acting performances at the Capitol Hill shooting in January. I can't give these crisis actors anything more than a C minus --- and that's generous. Their performances were atrocious (but they were made under stressful circumstances.) A reader who sent the video writes: Just finished watching this video that breaks down the Babbitt "shooting" and presents a clear case that it was staged. It's well edited, comprehensive, and not too long. I thought you'd appreciate it and potentially want to share it with your audience. I was on the fence before about the authenticity of the shooting (I knew protestors were allowed inside but I thought everything that happened after that was authentic) but now I am more convinced that the shooting was a planned event from the start as well. It really reminds me of the Boston marathon bomb hoax in that all of the actors involved were only doing things for the camera; when you follow each individual you see how their actions don't make sense in reality. This website does an exceptional job analyzing the officially released Boston Marathon images to prove the entire event was staged. It's a super long series but worth it! Hope this was helpful and interesting! I've been reading your site…