HURRICANE BETSY writes:
Thanks for those two American songs, Buffalo Gals and Red River Valley. Quite different in tone. And speed!
Here is my entry. The opera singer Thomas Hampson sings a song from the composer Stephen Foster, whose statue was removed in Pittsburgh for its offense to minorities.
"CHAINS OF PETER" writes: I spent this weekend traveling to my state's Capitol based on social media rumors that "the biggest rally yet" would occur on Saturday. Based on my previous experience with here-now, gone-later "protests" in my home city, I had mental reservations that I would come to a city with empty streets. Fortunately, I was wrong. The Capitol Mall of Sacramento was absolutely teeming with people. Majority of them were Trump supporters, and although I have my doubts regarding his sincerity or ability to affect any change, what mattered more to me was the fact that perhaps thousands from around the state have cast off the 24/7 relentless programming of the Establishment regarding the "new normal" of this "killer" disease. Another reservation that I had was that this was not a truly grassroots rally. Indeed, the event had set up a podium with scheduled speakers and was sponsored by a group called the Freedom Angels. While there was a police presence, there were no riot cops and the officers present were few in number and benign towards all the attendees. The attendees also respected their boundaries. No one practiced social distancing and no police attempted to enforce it. Does this mean that the rally is "fake?" Maybe so, or maybe the rank and file of this formerly great state are beginning to relent. For my part, I attended because I wanted to protest the evil, inhuman, satanic…
DOCTORS and nurses in Northern California say they have seen more deaths from suicide than from the coronavirus: Kacey Hansen, a trauma center nurse at John Muir Medical Center for more than 30 years, says she’s worried not only about the increased suicide attempts but also about the hospital’s ability to save as many patients as usual. "What I have seen recently, I have never seen before," Hansen said. "I have never seen so much intentional injury." And the lockdowns were motivated by compassion?
THIS POOR young woman is controlled by truly chilling emotional manipulation. Wow, this is serious. Keep watching --- and you will realize you are in this relationship too.
“A LOYAL READER” writes:
I thought I would send you an update on one person’s battle against the lies that are openly being perpetrated throughout the world. It is sickening, but not surprising, that our leaders continue to perpetrate the COVID scam, as it has benefited them well in their lust for power.
I appreciate your links to Ron Paul’s videos. My brother has been a Ron Paul fan for years, and I hadn’t educated myself enough to realize how cogent Dr. Paul’s arguments are until recently. His words, and those of others who cherish their freedom, have emboldened me in this daily conflict of ideologies. It is not about a virus, it is all about control. I will not go down lightly.
On the front lines, I am taking a stand against the COVID nonsense wherever I confront it. I am speaking out publicly to anyone who will listen (and even some who don’t), in order to gracefully but firmly present another perspective besides the one proclaimed 24/7 on TV, radio, and all mass media. It is not hard to stand up against the hoax, but it does require a firm resolve. (more…)
MY HUSBAND and I went to a nursery today to buy some flowers and when we got there we found it was closed. But guess what? It wasn't closed because of the virus. It was closed for Ascension Day!! Can you believe it? I hope you enjoy this Bach oratorio, composed far away and many years ago, but in the spirit of the farmers who gave up money to honor Our Lord's departure for heaven almost 2,000 years ago. Happy Ascension Day!
HUNDREDS of doctors have signed a letter to Pres. Trump expressing alarm over the health toll of the ongoing virus shutdowns and calling for a resumption of normal life. The group was led by Dr. Simone Gold, an emergency medicine specialist in Los Angeles who has started an organization of doctors opposed to the shutdowns. A Republican public relations firm reportedly helped publicize the letter.
The letter states that heart disease, alcoholism, undetected cancer, child abuse, various other diseases, depression and suicide have all increased dramatically as a result of the closures. (Sad, that the letter describes “unplanned pregnancies” as among the negative consequences.) The doctors said the shutting down of schools and universities is “incalculably detrimental … for years to come.” (more…)
THE horrors of "contact tracing" have only just begun.
GOV. TOM WOLF of Pennsylvania is among those (Democratic) governors who have promoted Covid junk science and implemented economic and social tyranny with a zealotry that suggests a personality deeply suited to the sick thrills of dictatorship. And that's what this man is --- a petty dictator not a leader implementing the public good and protecting public health. In the latest news, as he continues to keep Pennsylvanians incarcerated in their homes in a state of manufactured fear, Wolf scolds residents who might want to go to the New Jersey beaches (they have just reopened) for Memorial Weekend. Here is Big Mommy Wolf: “I wouldn’t go to the beach,” Wolf said during a video news conference in response to a question about whether he was concerned that beach-going would create a rise in coronavirus cases in the Philadelphia region. “There are people there who aren’t wearing masks, and you’re putting yourself at risk. I wouldn’t do that, I haven’t done that, and I’m not sure why the governors of Maryland and New Jersey have opened their beaches, but they have.” I have not seen a single image of Big Bad Wolf in a mask, have you? He goes around putting people at risk with potentially lethal exhalations every day. But masks are for the little people. Our major politicians know how intrinsically humiliating and unnecessary they are so they don't wear them. Look, if a person believes something so absurd…
FROM Mike King at The Anti-New York Times comes a great piece about the “feigned empathy” of The New York Times [See “Facing Adulthood with an Economic Disaster’s Lasting Scars,” The New York Times, May 19, 2020] for young people whose futures are imperiled not only by the ongoing, planned and minutely-conceived lockdown of the world economy but by the longstanding, everyday theft conducted by the central bankers (who are responsible for the lockdown), theft which far exceeds any economic tyranny experienced by America’s early colonists and for which there is only one accurate term: slavery:
Stories such as this are really blood-boiling – partly because of empathy for members of the younger generations who, in far too many cases, right out of the gate, have already been robbed of an opportunity at a decent life — and partly because the engineers of their lifelong economic hardship are still not being named, let alone being held to account. We’re all supposed to believe that this sorry state-of-affairs is just part of “the new normal” beyond anyone’s control.
Though the story tells about how the Stupid-19 lockdown will negatively impact recent graduates; the declining standard of living of 30-somethings and 20-somethings is a trend that started about 20 years ago. Year after year, even as the discontent of the failure-to-launch young and their frustrated parents grows, the normie public, unschooled in even the most basic of economic concepts, still cannot see the man who is tormenting them from behind the curtain.
The usurious International Banker (cough cough) — – hiding behind the curtain as he rakes in interest on every dollar of our own money supply — created “the new normal” but never gets exposed because the Slimes protects him.
Feigning empathy, the article describes a few sad cases:
"IF humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature. It cannot be unrestrained enjoyment of everyday life. It cannot be the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then cheerfully get the most out of them. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become an experience of moral growth, so that one may leave life a better human being than one started it. It is imperative to review the table of widespread human values. Its present incorrectness is astounding. It is not possible that assessment of the President's performance be reduced to the question of how much money one makes or of unlimited availability of gasoline. Only voluntary, inspired self-restraint can raise man above the world stream of materialism. It would be retrogression to attach oneself today to the ossified formulas of the Enlightenment. Social dogmatism leaves us completely helpless in front of the trials of our times." --- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Harvard Address, June 8, 1978
"REMEMBER ....... the sinner who is sorry for his sins is closer to God than the just man who boasts of his good works." --- Padre Pio
THE MICHIGAN Department of Health has taken the license away of a 77-year-old barber who reopened his business in defiance of lockdown rules. This is truly pathetic. All these government strong-arm tactics are political cover. They make it seem as if the virus is the boogeyman or "invisible enemy" "experts" say it is. But let me ask you something. Why does a barber need a license in the first place? Is it really so dangerous to cut hair that it needs to be regulated by the state? The cards are stacked in a million ways against anyone attempting a small business. Pretty soon Amazon will figure out a way to deliver haircuts to your door and barbers will be extinct.