"TWELVE monks, benighted on the road, observed that their guide was going astray. This, for fear of breaking their rule of silence, they forbore to notice, thinking within themselves that at daybreak he would see his mistake and put them in the right road. Accordingly, the guide discovering his error, with much confusion, was making many apologies; when the monks being now at liberty to speak, only said, with the greatest good humour: ‘Friend, we saw very well that you went out of your road; but we were then bound to silence.’ The man was struck with astonishment, and very much edified at this answer expressive of such patience and strictness of observance.” --- From the Life of St. Sisoes, Anchoret of Egypt  

  ALL OVER America, people have been shamed, ridiculed, defamed, shunned, bullied, fired, deliberately misrepresented and even arrested for resisting Covid tyranny and the real systemic racism. This man says he was fired from his job as a school teacher for politely pointing out the inconsistencies in the government's virus rules. He has discovered something important: The truth is worth dying for. Join him. Speak up. You have everything to lose. Except your soul. I know I had to go... my river overflowed I had to lose them blues comin' from the cold side of the moon I had to see the deep dark sea come crashing over me But nothing's taking me down Nothing's taking me down Something Good is Always around Something Good is coming around I'm gonna find that Gold that keeps a man from growing old I'm gonna give it away just as long as I got days So I'll try not to cry when it comes my time to die Soon I'll be on the moon and the rock will roll away from the tomb Today I get to stay... I'm so happy I can say: That nothing's taking me down Nothing's taking me down Something Good is Always around Something Good is coming around  

  SEEK not to be like evil men, neither desire to be with them: Because their mind studieth robberies, and their lips speak deceits. By wisdom the house shall be built, and by prudence it shall be strengthened. By instruction the storerooms shall be filled with all precious and most beautiful wealth. A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant. --- Proverbs 24, 1-5  

  THE Covid operation is a form of systematic mass torture, Amazing Polly argues --- and I entirely agree. We are not locked up in a prison or concentration camp, but we have been manipulated, confined and made to suffer physically, mentally and economically by our torturers. Our humanity is under attack in an effort to bring about blind submission. The New Normal is the New Subnormal.  

  CATHOLICS scrub graffiti from the statue of St. Louis, in St. Louis, Missouri.  

MANY readers have written to me over the years to say how much they enjoy the posts of “Alan,” my correspondent from St. Louis who has never lost his love for his home city or his indignation over the decline of the little, wholesome pleasures. 

I wrote to Alan a few weeks after the Covid shutdown began because I hadn’t heard from him and was concerned about his welfare. He wrote back and told me he had no access to the Internet because of the closure of the local library. He referred to the general situation as a “nightmare.”

I hope to hear from him again soon. In the meantime, here is a post by him from March of 2012.

ALAN writes:

The descent of modern culture into decadence can be traced through much of American popular music.

It was common fifty and sixty years ago to hear new songs that reflected virtues like honor, hope, optimism, romance, loyalty, good-natured humor, and the joy to be found in simple pleasures. All of that music incorporated a set of virtues that added up to what Ayn Rand called “a benevolent sense of life.”

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  "HE WHO has read the lives of the ancient fathers of the desert without being touched, without feeling profound admiration, and being filled with grave and lofty thoughts; he who, treading under his feet with indifference the ruins of an ancient abbey, has not called up in fancy the shades of the cenobites who lived and died there; he who passes coldly through the corridors and cells of convents half-demolished, and feels no recollections, and not even the curiosity to examine — he may close the annals of history, and may cease to study the beautiful and the sublime. There exist for him no historical phenomena, no beauty, no sublimity; his mind is in darkness, his heart is in the dust." --- Jaime Luciano Balmes (1810-1848), Protestantism and Catholicity: Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization of Europe. Library of Alexandria. (Kindle Edition.)  

“A LOYAL READER” writes:

I have enjoyed Peggy Hall’s videos on mask confusion.  She shares the latest Pacific NW wackiness which has unfortunately spread through this country faster than Covid.  Her local health departments “exempting” “LGBTQ, homeless, and people of color” from wearing masks because these groups are “marginalized” is the government’s way of admitting to those who care to listen the true reason for its requiring masks in the first place.  It has NEVER been about anyone’s health.  It is a way of segregating and MARGINALIZING those who are compliant from those who are not.  Evil will always tell you what it is doing.  The fact that the government admitted this is yet another dead canary in the coal mine.

I read a comment on another blog recently with a commenter’s four words in response to all of these unlawful mandates.  I WILL NOT COMPLY.  He also quoted 2 Tim. 1:7, “For God hath not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”  This has been on his heart from day one of the “crisis.”  My sentiments exactly! (more…)

FOUND on Twitter: "From the Masonic French Revolution to the present day, the revolutionary Left, both Liberal and Marxist, has always been used to empower the kabbalistic globalist oligarchy that is headed by international finance. "From a purely materialist perspective, "Woke Left" is simply the next logical step in this evolution. the oligarchy no longer needs revolutionaries to depose any national state leader, but to relentlessly disrupt its conquered serfs to prevent counter-revolution. "This is one of the main reasons they're currently destroying every foundation upon which a strong nation is built - family, religion, national spirit, culture, hierarchy, health, etc. "You can't overthrow an oppressive oligarchy with a nation of these:"    

AT Winter Watch, a writer who claims to be a black man does a nice job of revealing the divide-and-conquer agenda: As an African-American male, I am deeply appalled at the divide-and-conquer agenda we’re seeing in film and television. They are putting out films that portray black history as “unfair” and “vengeful” against whites. They are trying to incite blacks like me into aggression vs whites. Propaganda 100%. If you don’t know by now, the MSM and TPTB (The Powers to Be) are in the final stages of their New World Order. In this phase, they are orchestrating a massive “collapse” of society, in which a “new order” will be offered to the masses as a way to usher in stability and order again. This collapse has a few main elements to it. [cont.]  

"CASES" are climbing. That's because more people are being tested as they go back to work. But there is no significant increase in deaths. Heather Mac Donald reports at The Spectator: Since April 24, the daily case count started declining, then began rising again after around June 9. What virtually every fear-mongering story on America’s allegedly precarious situation leaves out, however, is the steadily dropping daily death numbers — from a high of 2,693 on April 21 to 808 on June 24. That April high was driven by New York City and its environs; those New York death numbers have declined, but they have not been replaced by deaths in the rest of the country. This should be good news. Instead, it is no news. [...] There are no crises in hospital capacity anywhere in the country. Nursing homes, meat-packing plants, and prisons remain the main sources of new infections. Half the states are seeing cases decline or hold steady. Case counts are affected by more testing; the positive infection rate captured by testing is declining. The current caseload is younger, which is a good thing. The more people who have been infected and who recover, the more herd immunity is created. Meanwhile, daily deaths from heart disease and cancer — about 3,400 a day combined — go ignored in the press.