IN 1927, G.K. Chesterton wrote:

There is of course a great deal more to be said. I have dealt with only one feature of Birth Control – its exceedingly unpleasant origin. I said it was purely capitalist and reactionary; I venture to say I have proved it was entirely capitalist and reactionary. But there are many other aspects of this evil thing. It is unclean in the light of the instincts; it is unnatural in relation to the affections; it is part of a general attempt to run the populace on a routine of quack medicine and smelly science; it is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands; it is ignorant of the very existence of real households where prudence comes by free-will and agreement. It has all those aspects, and many of them would be extraordinarily interesting to discuss. But in order not to occupy too much space, I will take as a text nothing more than the title.

A Piece of Humbug

The very name of ‘Birth Control’ is a piece of pure humbug. It is one of those blatant euphemisms used in the headlines of the Trust Press. It is like ‘Tariff Reform.’ It is like ‘Free Labour.’ It is meant to mean nothing, that it may mean anything, and especially some thing totally different from what it says.

Everybody believes in birth control, and nearly everybody has exercised some control over the conditions of birth. People do not get married as somnambulists or have children in their sleep. But throughout numberless ages and nations, the normal and real birth control is called self control. (more…)

NBA star Kyrie Irving has refused to take the Covid "vaccine," causing his suspension and supposedly threatening his lucrative career. Interestingly, Irving has not stated publicly any real reasons for declining the shot, making it seem like nothing more than an irrational personal decision. He doesn't ever mention the many thousands of people who have died from the shots. He has also stated that he will not give up basketball because of a "vaccine" mandate. Is he a controlled opposition figure? Is this all political theater? The fact that Irving is so prominent in the news suggests it is. Will he actually push the narrative by later changing his mind or coming down with a serious "illness?" Time will tell. Mag Truth on the Run has some skeptical analysis. (Language warning.) Irving's "just playing with the dumb people, " says Mag. From the video comments: [T]hey'll have him claim to have it and give a speech about how he should have gotten the vacc when he had the chance, then he'll die shortly after or else he'll get it and claim he took that same [Remsdivir] garbage that Trump claimed to take and he's feeling so much better now. [Thanks to September Clues.]  

A STUDY by a Harvard researcher demolishes the contention that the "unvaccinated" are causing respiratory illnesses. To the contrary, the more people "vaccinated" for Covid in any country or U.S. county, the more people who reportedly are sick with Covid. [This post is not an endorsement of all of the content at Vaccine Impact.]  

A BLACK man in Philadelphia is accused of raping a black woman on a public transit train one evening last week. Even worse, bystanders reportedly saw the incident and did nothing as her clothes were violently ripped off and she was openly attacked.

Most or all of the people on the train — and reportedly there were “a lot” of passengers — were probably black and most or all of the passengers apparently had cell phones that would have enabled them to call 911. None of them made that call. In fact, it has been reported that some of the passengers filmed the attack on their phones.

Where are racial agitators when you need them? Where’s the looting? The kicking in of store windows? The stealing of sneakers? Where was this kind of thing after three black women were recently shot as they sat in a car?

Violence is worse than ever in Philadelphia, as it is in other American cities — and that’s no surprise given the total disruption of ordinary life in 2020 and the calculated moral valorization of the violent criminal George Floyd. Last year had the highest homicide rate in Philadelphia since 1960, a 54 percent increase over 2019, and this year is even worse. While billionaires have consolidated their wealth with pandemic fraud and other forms of white-collar criminality that ultimately lead to more untimely deaths than those on the crime-ridden streets of Philadelphia, life is cheaper than ever in black neighborhoods, where armed thugs have such notoriously poor aim that they often hit people — including young children — who are not even their intended targets. The vast majority of the hundreds of people killed in Philadelphia this year and last have been black and the vast majority of the suspected perpetrators are black.

Given the ongoing, extreme glorification by corporations, educational institutions, government and white, virtue-signaling soccer moms of the well-funded, Communist-agitprop organization Black Lives Matter, we can come up with an inescapable rule:

The more Black Lives Matter, the less black lives matter.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say, this rape in Philadelphia might not have even occurred, and hundreds of black people might still be alive, if George Floyd had never become a villainous hero and Confederate statues had never been toppled on the streets of Richmond. (more…)

HURRICANE BETSY writes:

The BBC recently reported:

Anti-vaccine residents in a village in rural Guatemala have attacked nurses who were trying to administer Covid-19 jabs, holding them for seven hours, officials say.

About 500 people blocked a road and vandalised the team’s cars in Maguilá, in the northern Alta Verapaz province.

Ha, ha, ha. Love these folks to bits! What is wrong with us?

I recall reading, years ago, when the vaccine truck arrived in a certain area of Africa for the second time, the mothers grabbed their babies and ran into the bushes to hide. Their children had been showing ominous symptoms after their initial shots. What is with all this anti-Negro stuff I hear, that they are not as smart as we purportedly are? (more…)

ALAN writes:

In later years, after my father died, I met a woman who grew up on the same street two blocks down from my father’s boyhood home in St. Louis. Pauline told me how she remembered the small shops, dime stores, movie houses, a saddle shop, and a tobacco store that had been there in the 1940s-‘50s.

Photographs taken there as late as the 1950s show perfectly ordinary street scenes of people walking past stores and men putting up Christmas decorations on lampposts.  One little store after another stood side by side, block after block.  Some sold groceries, some were dinettes, some sold Red Goose Shoes, some offered Eagle Stamps or Top Value stamps with purchases.  The scenes do not suggest a “blighted” neighborhood—which was the official excuse for tearing down the whole neighborhood just a few years later.

In 2012, I wrote about the people who lived there.  [“Vanishing Americans (St. Louis Chapter)“, The Thinking Housewife, May 25, 2012]

Shortly afterward, Pauline sent me a card and wrote:

     “Just finished reading your essay again.  It is wonderful.  It brought back so many memories for me.  How I wish things were like they were back then.”

I am confident she meant the moral fabric of that neighborhood, upheld in those years both by the neighborhood churches and by the city government.  Her family lived in that area for a hundred years.

I miss my father terribly and I miss Pauline and others of her generation whose memories were the gossamer threads of connection to that time and place. People who lived there were incubated in down-to-earth common sense. There is no evidence that women wore tattoos or green or purple hair, or that men wore ponytails or earrings. I often think that theirs was the last generation who had grit.  They never whined, complained, or expected handouts. Making excuses was alien to their character. A nationwide welfare-feeding trough would have been unthinkable to them. They could not have imagined a frame of mind that would create such a monstrosity or try to justify it. They accommodated themselves to hardness; they absorbed it into their character and frame of mind, and they became better by doing so.  Because life was hard, they appreciated its occasional joys and pleasures more deeply. (more…)

JOHANNA writes:

Lately, all I want to hear or read is good news and despite all the seeming evidence to the contrary there is plenty around as your essay demonstrates so well. I love birds (and butterflies) as well and have written many poems about them. I thought you might appreciate one of them.

And I don’t even like Grackles

I’ve turned over every leaf — two days
gone without a sighting. My first

glimpse was of a single puddle
on the leaf-littered lawn, a black

puff spread on a dew-jeweled
table. Each cock of its head drew

a new shade of satin. Half buried
beside one of the boulders that circle (more…)

FROM the introduction to Brainwashed into Slavery (1940, Freedom Builders of America) by Kenneth Goff: From May 2, 1936, to October 10, 1939, I was a dues-paying member of the Communist Party, operating under my own name Kenneth Goff, and also the alias John Keats. In 1939, I voluntarily appeared before the Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D. C., which was chairmaned at that time by Martin Dies, and my testimony can be found in Volume 9 of that year’s Congressional Report. During the period that I was a member of the Communist Party, I attended their school which was located at 113 E. Wells St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and operated under the name Eugene Debs Labor School. Here we were trained in all phases of warfare, both psychological and physical, for the destruction of the Capitalistic society and Christian civilization. In one portion of our studies we went thoroughly into the matter of psychopolitics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health — the subjecting of whole nations of people to the rule of the Kremlin by the capturing of their minds. We were taught that the degradation of the populace is less inhuman than their, destruction by bombs, for to an animal who lives only once any life is sweeter than death. The end of a war is the control of a conquered people. If a people can be conquered in the…

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…

FROM an article by Russ Winter at Winter Watch (the comments section):

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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