THE belief that if Catholics are fun, fun, fun, they will draw people to their faith, is a cardinal tenet of the false religion of Vatican II. In fact, many people are simply repelled by something so lacking in reverence, majesty and seriousness. If you want song and dance you can go to your local Evangelical church, which is usually far less stringent in its moral demands. Besides, even cool nuns make lousy dancers.

A blogger calls the annual pagan festival known as World Youth Day, which just wrapped up in Krakow, Poland, “World Moron Day.” At The Eyewitness, he writes:

I’m tempted to once again mention the famous Belloc quote about standing by and watching the Barbarians but will instead point out that this sort of thing is not Catholic. Clueless young people travel long distances for an emotional “high” offered by a media-celebrated Pope.  What good will this do for them?  What solid, demonstrable good?  Emotions do not produce Saints, and these jamborees are nothing if not emotionalism gone to extremes. Read More »

CLAIRE writes:

Thank you for posting the interview with Assad. I watched it in its entirety. It supports my suspicion that he is not the boogeyman he is made out to be in the media. The interviewer had an obvious intention to make him out as such but failed spectacularly.

I asked my husband if the propaganda has became more painfully obvious lately or if we’re more tuned in to detecting the lies. It’s his impression that it has gotten more obvious. I follow the news much more than he does. Many of those that can critically think have figured it out and the media are focusing on the remaining people who believe what they see on TV without question.

I, like Mike Rivero, on What Really Happened, worry about  how they will handle losing this propaganda war… Major false flag is my big fear. Of course I pray for that not to happen.

Thank you for your posts. I appreciate your blog. Read More »

TONIGHT and tomorrow night, the spectacular summer display of shooting stars known as the Perseids will be at its peak. If you are fortunate enough to live away from dense urban lights and are in the Northern Hemisphere, you should be able to see as many as 150 of the flaming bits of comet debris every hour in the sky. The moon will set at about 1 a.m. (your local time) tonight and the lights should be especially visible thereafter. You can also watch the meteor shower live online. The meteors appear in all areas of the sky but always streak away from the constellation Perseus; hence their name. The flaming particles are the debris left in the path of the Comet Swift-Tuttle, which takes 130 years to circle the sun; the earth passes through the densest area tomorrow night.

Sarah Lewin writes at Space.com:

Comet Swift-Tuttle is the largest object known to repeatedly pass by Earth; its nucleus is about 16 miles (26 kilometers) wide. It last passed nearby Earth during its orbit around the sun in 1992, and the next time will be in 2126. But it won’t be forgotten in the meantime, because Earth passes through the dust and debris it leaves behind every year, creating the annual Perseid meteor shower.

When you sit back to watch a meteor shower, you’re actually seeing the pieces of comet debris heat up as they enter the atmosphere and burn up in a bright burst of light, streaking a vivid path across the sky as they travel at 37 miles (59 km) per second. When they’re in space, the pieces of debris are called “meteoroids,” but when they reach Earth’s atmosphere, they’re designated as “meteors.” If a piece makes it all the way down to Earth without burning up, it graduates to “meteorite.” Most of the meteors in the Perseids are much too small for that; they’re about the size of a grain of sand.

The spectacle is also sometimes referred to as the “Tears of St. Lawrence,” in honor of the Roman martyr who died in 258 AD and whose feast day was commemorated yesterday, August 10.

The deacon Lawrence is said to have wept when he saw Pope Sixtus II being dragged off by soldiers after the emperor Valerian ordered all deacons, priests and Bishops to be put to death. The Pope asked the young deacon to protect the sacred altar vessels and distribute them to churches and the poor. Lawrence was arrested three days later after he was overheard saying he had treasures. For his refusal to offer up the objects and to sacrifice to the Roman gods, he was roasted alive on a grid iron.

“[T]he fire which burnt outside was less keen than that which blazed within,” Pope St. Leo the Great wrote of the martyr’s death.

St. Lawrence is the patron saint of single men and deacons. He is also, somewhat morbidly, the patron saint of cooks. See more here.

Consider saying a prayer to St. Lawrence if you see one of the falling stars:

Blessed Lawrence said: The darkness is no darkness with me, but the night is as clear as the dawning, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Pray for us, o holy Lawrence!

Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, artist unknown

SAGE M. writes:

The day we’ve long dreaded has arrived, finally.  May the memory of the West live long, and may it bear fruit yet greater than that which we have known.

SHEIK Ahmed el-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University in Cairo and chief scholar of Sunni Islam, has been the object of friendly overtures by “Pope” Francis, including a warm meeting (above) two months ago.

The sheik recently reiterated his belief, based on the Koran, that all apostates — including converts to Christianity — should be killed. See more here, at Mahound’s Paradise.

I HIGHLY recommend this recent interview with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. He contends the United States government and its allies never intended to defeat the country’s terrorists, including ISIS, but has sought to manage them in the hope of toppling him.

IN THIS lull between reports of massacres and terrorist events, I would like to suggest strategies for dealing with these extremely alarming and disturbing incidents, events which are having such a profound effect on our world. Surely, there will be more.

“Conspiracy” researchers will continue to investigate each and every report, but it takes time for them to sift through it all. They commit inevitable mistakes and blunders, and sometimes seem to suggest that everything in the news is disinformation. Everything in the news is not disinformation. Deception is embedded in truth. Perhaps you reject all of their skepticism and have a rock-solid confidence in the non-existence of mass manipulation. In any event, most people do not have time or energy to apply a searing skepticism to the news and find out what is true and what is false.

In light of this, consider responding in the following way whenever a mass shooting or terrorist event occurs:

* Follow written reports (or none at all) and avoid imagery, which is more emotionally powerful and prone to manipulation. Obviously those researching the media presentation of these events must look at the imagery, but you don’t need to if you don’t want to get caught up in the details or fear falling into a universal skepticism that is confusing.

* Reject “gun control.” The solution is armed citizens, not “gun control.” School massacres can be prevented by a minority of armed teachers or administrators trained in the use of firearms.

* Reject increased security. Protest it. Refuse the police state. Reject empowerment of the profit-making security industrial complex. People are making vast sums of money off our fears and have a financial stake in inflaming them. Enhanced security and surveillance demoralize, dehumanize and create a climate of constant tension by their very existence and pose an extreme threat to our liberties.

* Reject all international military solutions to domestic terror events and all interference in the affairs of other countries. Too many good and decent soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians have lost their lives in the “War on Terror,” which is not in our national interest.

* Reject fear. Pray for confidence and hope.

We can defeat “terror.” With truth, patience, confidence and heroism, we can prevail.

THERE IS no precedent in American history for the number of civilian mass shootings that have occurred — 16 so far this year — under Obama. Dave Gahary reports on the issue at American Free Press. There is also no precedent for Obama’s politicization of shootings. Ironically, gun sales have soared. Read More »

SOMETHING TO explore and ponder: A “public honor-based credit system where everyone is his own central banker.”

ESCAPE from this hectic world and all its distractions. Here is one of nature’s most beautiful sounds: the song of the wood thrush, recorded in the Smoky Mountains. (See “Thrush Hollow”)

FROM The Anti-New York Times:

It is always as amusing as it is aggravating to witness the speed with which the intolerant atheists of the political Left can, when the situation calls for it, suddenly switch on a dime and profess such love and empathy for Christianity and, in this case, Islam. The latest display of this hypocrisy is evident in the sudden “rock star” status bestowed upon one Khizr Khan, father of Humayun Saqib Muazzam Khan, a Pakistani-Muslim-American soldier killed in the Iraq War, in 2004.

In this article by Maggie Haberman (cough cough) and Richard Oppel (cough cough), Papa Khan is cast as the righteous victim-hero who dares to defy the evil anti-Muslim bigot who would be King. Whether Papa Khan knows it or not, this is just a goof-ball script straight out of Hollywood. Sulzberger’s Slimes and the Demonrat Party couldn’t possibly care any less about some dead Muslim soldier or his offended parents. Papa Khan is either a pathetic fool who can’t see that he is being used, or there are some shekels coming his way in gratitude for the “historic” anti-Trump speech which he delivered during last week’s Demonrat Convention in Filthydelphia. Bravo, Papa Khan, bravo — and a shout-out to Mama Khan for her silent pictures routine.

Regular readers of The Anti-New York Times are aware of our disdain for Orange Man’s [Donald Trump’s] ignorant obsession with the fictional phenomenon that he insists we must call “radical Islamic terrorism.” However, in this particular case, we are compelled to defend Orange Man from the nasty attacks of this ignorant alien buffoon who seems to believe that his loss affords him some special moral authority that absolves him of the burden of logical thinking. Sorry Khan-Man — nobody gets a logic pass at The Anti-New York Times!

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This man went through the torturous and discriminatory process of obtaining a photo ID.

IT was bad enough that the bigots of North Carolina, wrongly thinking that they were living in a democracy, passed a law excluding men from women’s restrooms. They also all but ordered mass lynchings by attempting to enact legislation that required photo identification for voters at the polls.

Yes, the evil, white bogeymen of North Carolina, who irrationally persist in thinking they can make their own laws, hold the hateful belief that even their black citizens are intelligent and capable enough to acquire photo identification. 

A federal appeals court last week threw out a North Carolina law requiring ID (funny, how federal judges can just do that). The judges, who just happen to represent the party that would most benefit from black voter fraud, came perilously close to saying that the people of North Carolina are haters and nothing they do or say can ever redeem them. In code language that everyone understands, that’s exactly what they said. Writing for the court, Judge Diana Motz, said the voter ID law showed “an inextricable link between race and politics in North Carolina” and targeted blacks with “surgical precision,” as if the law, which applied to whites too, was an actual bomb. (We know there isn’t an inextricable link between race and politics in, say, New York City.)

Here are the thoughts of Governor Pat McGrory, nothing but a modern-day incarnation of a slave driver:

“Photo IDs are required to purchase Sudafed, cash a check, board an airplane or enter a federal courtroom,” Mr. McCrory said. “Yet three Democratic judges are undermining the integrity of our elections while also maligning our state.”

The intention behind the law was rotten, said the federal court. It does not matter that voter ID is a common sensical check against fraud that every state should adopt no matter how white or black it is. It does not matter that government and charities can help those who are poor obtain ID. What matters is that North Carolinians are bigots.

The Washington Post found absolute proof that the law was made with devious racial hatred in mind. The smoking gun? Voter fraud does not exist. Get that? Reports of voter fraud are as common as reports of abduction by space aliens. Of course, perpetrators of voter fraud immediately call the League of Women Voters to report what they have done. “Hello? Is this the League of Women Voters? Hi, I would like to report that I have just voted on behalf of my friend, Johneesha, for 50 bucks.” People are sooner abucted by Martians than agree to spend half an hour voting for someone else for a certain amount of cash.

The Exploiter of Blacks insists the black man is capable enough to attend any university, and yet says he is not intelligent or capable enough to obtain a simple voter ID.  It’s actually racist to think blacks are capable. But that’s not surprising. The pursuit of “racial equality” is not intended to treat black Americans with dignity, but to use them as pawns in the political conquest of America by …. those who are as white as snow.

What will the evil people of North Carolina do next?

Heaven only knows.

Perhaps they will pass a law — hateful to the core — saying two plus two equals four! Read More »

A POLICE wife, in this touching post, describes her fears, anxieties and happiness.

“THE ‘DAD’ DOCUMENTARY,” produced by Karen Hogkins, is an Australian film about the pervasive injustices against fathers. It includes heartbreaking stories. There are no serious penalties for false charges against a father in custody disputes.

Secular democracy, with its totalitarian family courts, unleashes demons within families. Men, women and children are victims. Read More »

THE ideological pursuit of racial equality at all costs has once again led to chaos. It was an unusually chaotic year in the schools of St. Paul, Minnesota, where teachers were increasingly under attack by out-of-control black students and could not discipline them because of Superintendent Valeria Silva’s efforts to keep black disciplinary rates on par with those of whites.

Katherine Kersten writes at The Federalist:

Fortunately for St. Paul’s children, the city’s parents and teachers were able to hold Silva democratically accountable. But the federal government is now imposing Silva-style “racial equity” discipline policies on school districts around the country under a “disparate impact” interpretation of civil rights law. When these districts experience increased violence and disorder, citizens there will be powerless to stop the debacle.

The greatest victims will be the poor and minority children in whose names these policies are imposed, but who will now be expected to learn in a chaotic environment where learning has become impossible.

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Novus Ordo Watch reports on the “Catholic” Woodstock in Cracow, Poland.