Solange Hertz

“THE Declaration of Independence states:

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government …

“Here is formal canonization of revolution. In the face of it, to insist that Church and state must – or can – remain separate is to make every citizen a moral schizophrenic. To tell him it’s ‘self-evident’ that all men are created equal leads him to deny the evidence of his senses; to tell him that authority comes only from the people, is to make of him a formal revolutionary with a mandate to turn against any authority that doesn’t suit him. This is why ‘democracy,’ doomed from the beginning, is even now disintegrating beyond repair.”

— Solange Herz, The Star-Spangled Heresy: Americanism (Kindle Locations 5500-5507). Tumblar House.

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BISHOP Donald Sanborn, who openly rejects the fake papacies of recent years, weighs in on the Kavanaugh case. Bishop Sanborn is also — like me — indifferent to the outcome of Kavanaugh’s nomination. At the same time, he examines the violations of decency and due process involved.

There seems to be a great deal of misunderstanding about Kavanaugh’s future if he joins the Supreme Court. He will not be overturning Roe v Wade, as he himself acknowledged. Furthermore, the GOP continues to be essentially a pro-abortion party despite its own platform. As the Protestant columnist Chuck Baldwin writes:

[W]hen Republicans say we must wait for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe (remember it was a Republican Supreme Court that passed Roe, and the Supreme Court has been dominated by Republican appointments ever since), they are spouting utter balderdash. Under Article. III. Section. 2. of the U.S. Constitution, a genuine pro-life Congress and White House could overturn Roe v Wade anytime it wanted to. The only reason the Republican Party hasn’t overturned Roe is because it hasn’t wanted to overturn Roe.

And, incredibly, there are millions of Christians and conservatives who continue to believe that the GOP is pro-life. Is this stupidity, naïveté or what exactly? Read More »

EVERY child should know he has a divine protector.

Angel, O Angel,
Close by me stay.
Tenderly guard me for I am thy child.

And every adult has one too. Of course, you can’t acknowledge that truth in the world, the fake world where to have a supernatural friend and protector is a laughable superstition, but you can acknowledge it here, in the real world where illusions are despised.

My most zealous protector and dear angel guardian, I pray thee, by the charge which God hath given thee to guard me in all my ways, as a mother carries in her arms her beloved child, avert from me all occasions of sin, and preserve me from all perils which could make me offend God, and for that, repress the temptations of the infernal enemy and my own passions, so that having conquered the enemies of my salvation, I may walk with ease, by the grace of God, in the way of His commandments, till I die. 

    —- [Novena to Our Guardian Angel]

Dr. Thomas Droleskey reflects on this, the Feast of Our Holy Guardian Angels.

Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light and to guard, to rule and to guide. Amen.

Perugia Tryptich (detail), Fra Angelico

“HAS EVERY child of Adam a Guardian Angel? Yes, every one without exception, as long as his probation lasts–Heathens and Christians, princes and beggars, the idiot as well as the man of genius, the little child just born into the world as well as the old man on the verge of the grave. What respect this should give us for others! How we should tremble before the anger of their Guardian Angels, and count ourselves happy to win their approval! Read More »

Christine Blasey Ford

STEPHEN IPPOLITO writes from Australia:

Is Dr. Christine Blasey Ford just sui generis or is she perhaps representative of a whole class of female academics and professional women in the U.S. today who, while intellectually bright and professionally accomplished, have become infantilised and fragile? That would be inevitable when one is raised to believe that to be a Western woman is to be everywhere and all the time a victim.

I don’t want to sound unkind, but I surely can’t be the only one to have seen Christine Blasey Ford give her statement to the Senate select committee and come away baffled by just how very immature she seemed – especially, but not limited to, her pattern of speech and intonation.

I’m no expert on American regional accents but I do recall that in the ’80s and ’90s a lot of U.S. movies featured teenage female characters called “Valley Girls,” who spoke with a weird vocal intonation where they would vary their pitch during a sentence to produce what has been called “up-speak.” This affectation has the effect of making even the most declaratory statement sound like a question. It’s associated forever in my mind with pampered teenagers, particularly girls.

Dr Ford seems, at 51, and of professorial rank, to have managed either to retain a Valley Girl accent from her youth or, worse, acquired one during her maturity. It’s a very girlish and unimposing manner of speaking, no? Read More »

HALLOWEEN, and the weeks of preparation for it, becomes more and more ghastly every year. These lovely skull planters are sold at the supermarket chain, Trader Joe’s. What kind of sick minds came up with these in the back offices of the retail giant? They’re even advertised with a lengthy piece in the corporation’s mailer:

Whether you’re looking for some seasonal, window skill decor or an actual, skull-sized statement piece, we’ve got you covered.

Supposedly a time of fun, Halloween surrounds children with the macabre, the monstrous, the ugly, the aggressive and the grotesque. They are further desensitized to the occult. Their innocence — the source of their greatest fun — is undermined.

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FROM The Jewish Telegraph Agency:

Casino mogul and Jewish megadonor Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, have given $55 million in the last few months to groups working to ensure Republican control of the House and Senate after the midterm elections.

The donations make them the “biggest spenders on federal elections in all of American politics,” The New York Time reported Saturday, citing publicly available campaign finance data.

The couple are very involved in how their money is being spent, meeting with the consultants and political strategists at Adelson’s office in Las Vegas, the newspaper reported. They ask pointed questions and demand campaign plans, preferably in writing, according to the report.

Adelson, whose estimated worth is $43.4 billion, has previously stated that his primary reason for backing the Republican Party is its support for Israel. The interests of Americans do not come first. If a Chinese billionaire influenced American elections and openly stated his purpose was to promote the interests of China, would Americans also look the other way?

IT’S ABOUT TIME looks at outdoor portraits of prosperous British families in the 18th century. (See more posts under the same title here.)

The settings of outdoor Conversation Pieces reflected the image the client wanted to present, especially the ideal landscape or more-natural garden, which he wanted to portray as the upper-class setting of his everyday activities.  And so, these Conversation Pieces are a great way to see what those in the 18C aspired to have in their planned, personal landscapes. The subjects of outdoor Conversation Pieces were depicted enjoying a variety of genteel pastimes, whether or not they actually could do the activities. Elites, aspiring or long-established, were painted sharing common activities such as hunting, fishing, outdoor meals & musical parties. Dogs & horses were also frequently included as proper gentry accessories.

DR. E. Michael Jones, in the first 15 minutes of this video, does a nice job of demolishing Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s August grand jury report on clerical sex abuse. The report, which I wrote about here, here, and here, and which attorney generals across the nation are planning to imitate, was calculated and organized defamation of the Catholic Church (to the public — and Dr. Jones — the Vatican II church is the Catholic Church.)

A COMMENTER on the Internet echoes at least one of my points in a previous entry:

Each of the 50 State Governors has it within [his] power to recall [his] State’s two U.S. Senators and the allotment of U.S. Members of Congress in Washington D.C. back to his State in order to try them for high treason and high crimes against the Constitution of [his] own home State.

Each State Governor can cite their abdicating their Oaths to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America by their current and past refusal to repeal the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act of 1913 which gave U.S. national sovereignty over to the …. private owners of the Federal Reserve central bank, and hence, gave away their State’s sovereignty as well.

Should the 50 State Governors refuse to recall his/her State’s Federal Government Representatives holed up within the District of Columbia …. tried for high treason and high crimes against his/her State, the Chief Justice of [the] State’s Supreme Court can issue his/her/their ‘Writ of Mandamus’ ordering the State Governor to recall their State’s Federal Government representatives to the U.S. Senate and U.S. Congress. Read More »

IF YOU ARE seeing ads on this site, please know that they have not been put there by me. Over the past week, my site has been repeatedly hacked. I hope to clear up the problem soon. (You may be getting the wrong font as well.)

TRUMP made false statements about Iran that are chillingly reminiscent of talk about Saddam Hussein by the George W. Bush administration before the Iraq War.

Daniel McAdams and Phil Giraldi discuss the details.

Iranian President Hassan Rohani also spoke before the United Nations General Assembly. His speech was generally ignored.

Most Holy Trinity Seminary, Brooksville, Florida

HERE IS A nice collection of photos of chapels in North America, South America and Europe maintained by Catholics who reject the Vatican II church and its claimants to the papacy since 1958 (including, of course, Francis, aka Jorge Bergoglio) and adhere to the traditional liturgy and all the dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church.

Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen chapel in Uberlingen, Germany

CONCLUDE to apply thyself seriously to this most necessary mortification of thy interior, and more especially of thy own will and desires. This mortification is to be exercised, first, by denying to thy own will whatever it craves contrary to the will of God; secondly, by accustoming thyself in things indifferent often to contradict thy own will, and never to do anything merely to gratify thy own inclinations; thirdly, by curbing, even in things that appear to be good, that eagerness and hurry which nature, passion, and self-love are apt to prompt thee to; and setting before thy eyes, and quietly following on these occasions the will of God, and not thy own.

— Richard Challoner, 1807

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MANY READERS of this website are too wise to be caught up in the vulgar political entertainment  surrounding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. And that’s what it is, distracting and vulgar entertainment, similar to the NFL. You can’t emerge from this show without catching some of the stink. For those wisely not paying attention, here is a short version of the plot, without the pornographic details: The Democrats say, “Bad boy! Bad boy! All men are evil!” And the Republicans say, “Due process! Due process! The Constitution of America! Feminism is evil!”

As Dr. Thomas Droleskey has said, “American politics and governance is just an exercise in theatrics.”

This latest melodrama shoved into sheepish brains  — in Orwellian America, R-rated political theater plays on public screens at gas stations and doctors’ offices — clearly illustrates that statement.

Many are being deceived or misdirected by all the fuss.

Any low smears against Kavanaugh, any denials of due process to him, ultimately serve the same purpose as the smears against Trump when called a “Nazi” or “white supremacist.” In other words, they result in the herd-like, unthinking defense by “conservatives” and patriots of a candidate who is not their friend.

Got that? Brett Kavanaugh is not your friend. He is not your savior, any more than the vulgar and lying demagogue, Donald Trump, is your friend or savior. Kavanaugh is just one more lackey for an entirely creepy establishment.

The Protestant commentator Chuck Baldwin writes: “A Republican-dominated Supreme Court (SC) gave us Roe v Wade, homosexual marriage and Obamacare. In fact, Republican appointments have dominated the SC for the last 45 years. All of this talk about Republican presidents appointing pro-life, constitutionalist, originalist justices is just so much hot air.

“Republican presidents have given us William Brennan, John Paul Stevens, Harry Blackmun (the man who authored Roe v Wade), Anthony Kennedy (the man who gave us homosexual marriage), and John Roberts (the man who gave us Obamacare). Trump’s appointment of Gorsuch (the man who made it illegal to deport illegal alien criminals) and now Kavanaugh are likewise in the mold of the above justices.

“Kavanaugh is a favorite of the establishment. Judge Andrew Napolitano rightly called Kavanaugh a “swamp pick.” He said that Kavanaugh was the “heart and soul of the DC establishment.” He said that Kavanaugh is “a big government guy.” Napolitano also quoted Kavanaugh as repeatedly saying that “the President [ANY President] can do no wrong.” Baldwin also points to what he says was Kavanaugh’s role in covering up the murder of Vincent Foster and his defense of mass surveillance.

The definitive piece on Judge Kavanaugh and why he offers merely the illusion of change, however, was written in July of this year, long before an apparently troubled woman came forward with hard-to-substantiate accusations against the judge. In Don’t Place Your Bets on Brett, Dr. Droleskey wrote:

Kavanaugh will be confirmed despite all of the huffing and puffing by Senate Democrats and despite all of the well-organized “demonstrations” and “protests” that have been staged by groups associated with and funded by the tentacles of billionaire George Soros.

My own first reaction upon reading the news of Brett Michael Kavanaugh’s nomination was, “Great. Trump has nominated a somewhat more “conservative” version Anthony McLeod Kennedy to replace Anthony McLeod Kennedy. Wonderful.” Obviously, this was sarcasm on the part of a displaced New Yorker. The point, however, is this: Brett Michael Kavanaugh has been part of the Washington, District of Columbia, establishment since his birth on February 12, 1965. Read More »

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LAWRENCE B. writes from Australia:

A couple of years ago, I attended an informal reunion of my small  group of friends from university. There was a group of us in those days — about 30 years ago — four boys and four girls who had socialized daily during the law course. The girls were the very best and most attractive our country had to offer. Therein lies the tragedy.

As late as the 70’s and ‘80’s, before our tertiary educaton system was opened up, only about 30 percent of Australians went to school beyond the age of 16 and of that cohort only a tiny fraction gained entry to our few universities which was determined solely by a single public exam. These four girls stood out on campus as bright and very physically  attractive. Feminism hadn’t turned toxic yet so they were also pleasant and feminine.  Of course they were determined to succeed in their legal careers so they planned to stay single for a few years. Read More »

ALAN writes:

In “Greetings,” the first post at The Thinking Housewife, you wrote in regard to the claim —increasingly popular in the modern world — that home life and the family are boring.

Your assessment of such claims was entirely valid, and I was prompted to remember it when I read the following passage in Anne Gertrude Snelling’s book A Vanished World (Syracuse University Press, 1964).  She was a teacher who grew up in upstate New York. She is writing about life on farms in that region in the late 1800s and early 1900s:

“What did the folks find to talk about after farm work and household matters and neighborhood gossip had been disposed of? Wasn’t it very dull? The world, as Robert Louis Stevenson observed, is dull only to dull people. The talk on farms was not bounded by stump fences or overflowing creeks. Besides the subjects that plain people have always occupied themselves with, there happened over and again, close at hand, events so unusual and disturbing that they offered unmeasured material for a lifetime of talk and reflection, the mind returning to them as experience brought a new point of view or age suggested a new interpretation.”

                                        [A Vanished World, p. 158; emphasis added]

I have never found life or the world to be dull in the least. On the contrary, I have always thought one lifetime is not enough to explore all the things available for us to learn, and to share what we discover in conversation or writing. Read More »