"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

    

  AN up-and-coming painter with a Covid hairdo utilizes his time under house arrest to engage in safe, non-contagious artistic activity.  

ADD lying statistics from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center and you're set! -- Comments -- Michael writes; The only issue I take with that kit is the Toilet Paper caption should have been foot-noted "(Optional -- Void Where Prohibited)" -- it is not deemed essential like OTC cannabis products at my local grocery chain store, booze, and so forth ... Cordially and not coronally yours, Michael  

ACCORDING to the New York City Department of Health, as of May 6, 2020, only 86 of the nearly 11,000 people in the city reported to have died of the coronavirus had no underlying disease other than the virus. (more…)

   THIS Youtuber goes too far. I'm not convinced all the people he says are transgender really are. But hidden trannies among politicians and celebrities? Surely, there are.  

A COMMENTER AT Youtube offers some perceptive observations about the case of Shelley Luther, the Dallas salon owner who made national news last week after she defied a judge’s order to keep her salon closed:

So I have to say that my gut tells me that this whole drama is orchestrated …. Ok so here is my assessment of the Tucker Carlson report on the jailing of Shelley Luther in Dallas County, TX. (more…)

  THIS IS an outstanding presentation by Dr. David Martin, a financial investment advisor. He argues that the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Anthony Fauci and governors who ordered lockdowns are guilty of domestic terrorism under the Patriot Act, as well as violations of the Constitution and anti-trust laws. These are criminal and civil offenses. There is no basis in U.S. law for emergency restrictions on civil liberties because of health threats (as opposed to actual health catastrophes.) America can never recover from the Covid Conspiracy unless criminal and civil charges are filed against its perpetrators. "Public sector officials are promoting a conspiracy which is ... a violation of five provisions of the United States' laws," Martin says."And it is not acceptable [for citizens] to sit quietly and allow a criminal conspiracy to go on and let the sheep be sent to the abattoir."  

"THE RIGHT of the strongest was exercised among the ancients in a horrible manner; and this is one of the causes to which must be attributed the state of annihilation, so to speak, in which we see the individual with respect to society. Society was strong, the individual was weak; society absorbed the individual, and arrogated to itself all imaginable rights over him, and if ever he made opposition to society, he was sure to be crushed by it with an iron hand. When we read the explanation which M. Guizot gives us of this peculiarity of ancient civilizations, we might suppose that there existed among them a patriotism unknown to us; a patriotism which, carried to exaggeration, and stripped of the feeling of personal independence, produced a kind of annihilation of the individual in the presence of society. If he had reflected deeply on the matter, M. Gruizot would have seen that the difference is not in the feelings of antiquity, but in the immense fundamental revolution which has taken place in ideas; hence he would easily have concluded, that the difference observed in their feelings must have been owing to the differences in the ideas themselves. Indeed, it is not strange that the individual, seeing the little esteem in which he was held, and the unlimited power which society arrogated to itself over his independence and his life, (for it went so far as to grind him to…