“Photographer Tara Ruby says she hopes the picture will show that military moms ‘can be amazing mothers and soldiers at the same time.'” — Source

Totalitarian countries love the military gal!

North Korean female soldiers

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KENTUCKY clerk Kim Davis returned to work today after her six-day jail stay and made a moving statement (see video here.) She said she will not issue same-sex marriage licenses under her name because of her religious objections and any licenses signed by her deputies must state they were issued under federal authority. She pleaded for what she calls a “modest accommodation” whereby the licenses would be issued by the state or federal government instead of her office. The video of her statement is well worth watching (despite the commercials).

“I don’t want to have this conflict, I don’t want to be in the spotlight, and I certainly don’t want to be a whipping post,” she tearfully says. “I am no hero, I am just a person who has been transformed by the grace of God and who wants to work and to be with my family. I want to serve my neighbors quietly without violating my conscience.”

“While my case might be the most visible right now, there are millions of people out there in the private and public sector who face similar situations and they need reasonable accommodations.”

The 2004 Kentucky marriage amendment, which did not allow for homosexual unions, was approved by 74 percent of those who voted. This instance of oppressive federal authority makes the tax and sovereignty disputes which launched the American Revolution seem minor by comparison.

FROM Catholic Tradition Newsletter by the Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier:

One thing faithful Catholics must always remember is that priests are not happiologists. Somehow the common masses, of which spirit the majority of pagan Catholics have absorbed, believe that the Church is there to make them happy. If they mess up their lives, the Church is there to take away the consequences and restore them to happiness. If their marriage is unhappy, the Church is there to remove the husband or wife or children that are making them unhappy and give them another husband or wife or children that will make them happy. If they become diseased because of their lifestyle, the Church is there to miraculously restore their health so they can continue to live happily in their lifestyle.  Read More »

I WILL be back in action today after a few days away from the computer. I have received some comments on recent entries that I have yet to post.

John George Brown (American genre painter, 1831-1913); The Country Gallants. (Image courtesy of It’s About Time blog.)

SHEFALI writes from India:

Growing up as a convent-educated woman, I wistfully dreamt of the old country. Lace tablecloths, cups of the finest Darjeeling over a Charles Dickens. I know now the West I once lionized with the civility and beauty lacking in my own surroundings is an illusion that exists in the minds of us bigots. It’s exactly like you said, first same-sex marriage, then siblings, then a menage-de-trois, then maybe one with your own pet. In times like these, you know that either you are insane or the whole world is.

THIS 2012 video presents seven facts that challenge the official story of 9/11. One of those “facts” is that the remains of the 19 hijackers were never found. The FBI, however, claims that the remains of some of the hijackers have indeed been found and are stored in an undisclosed location. Given that this DNA evidence has never been independently verified, I consider the video’s point on this subject valid.

The fake shooting of Alison Parker

MAKIA FREEMAN writes at a New Age-y site with a healthy skepticism about major news events:

The recent spate of amateurish false flag shootings, which are now being rolled out at an increasingly rapid pace, give one cause to wonder: why? Why are the elite orchestrating such feeble and poorly executed false flag shootings? With all their money, power, control of the media, control of law enforcement and control of politicians, why can’t they make these false flag shootings look more real? Aren’t they worried that with such amateurish false flag shootings they are running the risk of being caught? Of being exposed? Of doing such an atrocious job that it defies common belief, and thus acts as a catalyst to wake people up?

[….]

Since the elite own the MSM and Hollywood, they could pull off a false flag shooting that looked way more believable than what we have been seeing. Is it possible these amateurish false flag shootings are calculatedly fake? In other words, are they a kind of test to see who’s paying attention? Is one of the main points (alongside gun control, promotion of fear, promulgation of terror, police state mental conditioning and distraction) to collect data on post-crisis reaction? Read More »

#PopeFrancis: “I like to laugh–a lot. It helps me feel closer to God & closer to others.” 

Jokes can change the world. (So can papal impostors.)

“When we laugh with each other — and not at each other — God’s love is present in a special way,” Francis says.

Forget the ancient pursuit of holiness. Let’s laugh! God isn’t dead. He’s a Clown.

FURTHER evidence that the recent, racially-motivated shooting of a television reporter and cameraman in Virginia was a hoax. (The voiceover is hard to take but the video is compelling.) Read More »

THESE interesting and charming photos taken by the social reformer Lewis Wickes Hines show mostly mothers and children doing paid labor at home in the early 1900s. The photos were used to campaign against home labor, writes Barbara Wells Sarudy.

The captions published with the original photos are not flattering. The text for a photo of what appears to be a contented family picking nuts reads:

“Picking nuts in dirty basement. The dirtiest imaginable children were pawing over the nuts eating lunch on the table, etc. Mother had a cold and blew her nose frequently (without washing her hands) and the dirty handkerchiefs reposed comfortably on table close to the nuts and nut meats. The father picks now. New York City, December 1911”

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A PITTSBURGH area barber, who turned away one potential female customer, has been fined $750 by the state for “gender discrimination.” He says he had no idea he was required to serve women.

“I didn’t really consider it so much a discrimination thing as – it’s a barbershop… for guys,” he said.

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THE blogger Weapons Man analyzes the recent graduation of two women from the grueling Army Ranger School:

The two women who were nurtured through Ranger School recently (and who, we must say, showed incredible grit and determination to hang in there through multiple recycles) were so much more impressive than the 136 who fell by the wayside that the Army has decided, after long deliberation a pause to provide a Decent Interval® and look like long deliberation of orders that came from Ash Carter and John McHugh, to open all future Ranger classes to women. Who will graduate. Remember, we called it back in November 2014, as the first 31 women for the Corps of Commissars were selected (out of 36 volunteers… now that’s real selectivity): Lower Standards, Commissars, to Guarantee Graduation. The distaff Ranger graduation is also being used as a wedge to crack open the rest of combat arms, because the Maslovian self-actualization of a couple of career women who want to play Army, and a victory for the lesbo-wiccan coven that is DACOWITS, are more important than whether units can fight and actually beat anybody. “Since they’re only ever going to play Little League, we might as well get ’em used to participation trophies.” [cont.]

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Josh F. writes:

It seems that the “cost” of “women” in combat is a loss of womanhood and thus a self-revocating appropriation of the title “woman” for each and all female so inclined to make it all the way to the war zone AS combat soldiers. Furthermore, you, with all due respect, are invoking what I call “cultural correctness.” Similar to political correctness, it is the traditionalist’s “liberalism.” By using the phrase “women in combat,” you are unwittingly helping to manufacture a false liberal reality. It seems that a female who volunteers to war void a motivating existential crisis is VOLUNTARILY QUITTING any viable path to womanhood. Ergo, there is no such thing as a “woman” soldier in the U.S. military. To be a soldier is to be a paid and trained killer and women cannot be paid and trained killers AND STILL BE women any more than a woman can be sexually averse to man and be known as a lesbian “woman.” In this subtle imposition of cultural correctness, you are, in fact, exalting the liberationist, ie., the female/dyke/de facto dyke at the expense of the essence of woman. In the inverted realm of radical liberation, it is in the “dyke” “soldier” where one finds something “more” than just “woman.” In the perverted realm of radical autonomy, “we” are to believe the “dyke” “soldier” is MORE THAN just a woman. Of course, “ours” is the absolute opposite reality. Woman CANNOT be a soldier and woman CANNOT be a dyke UNLESS there is simply no womanly essence to speak of. To be these things… Soldiers and dykes and female autonomists… Is to not be women, period.

Laura writes:

We will have to agree to disagree on this.

FROM John Gray’s False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism*:

The free market is a construction of state power. The idea that free markets and minimum government go together, which was part of the stock in trade of the New Right, is an inversion of truth. Since the natural tendency of society is to curb markets, free markets can only be created by the power of a centralized state. Free markets are creatures of strong government and cannot exist without them … It is well illustrated by the short history of 19th century laissez-faire. The free market was engineered in mid-Victorian England in exceptionally propitious circumstances. Unlike other European countries, England has long traditions of individualism. For centuries yeoman farmers were the basis of its economy. But only Parliament [in which most English people were unrepresented] using its power to amend or destroy property rights and create new ones — through Enclosure Acts in which much of the country’s common land was privatized — did an agrarian capitalism of large landed estates come into being … By the middle of the 19th century, through the enclosures, the Poor Laws and the repeal of the Corn Law, land, labour and bread were commodities like any other: the free market had become the central institution in the economy … By the First World War, markets had been largely re-regulated in the interests of public health and economic efficiency. Read More »

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON writes:

My analysis of new IRS data shows that, adjusted for inflation, the bottom half of Americans reported average total incomes (excluding welfare benefits like food stamps) of just $14,775 in 2012, down 18 percent from 2003. [emphasis added]

IN this 2014 Infowars interview, Rudy Dent, who had recently retired in 2001 after 32 years with the New York Fire Department, describes what he saw on 9/11.

A reference is made to Larry Silverstein, owner of the World Trade Center complex who made a comment on 9/11 that the Fire Department was going to “pull” World Trade Center 7, the 47-story building which was not hit by a plane and strangely collapsed in six seconds later that day. Dent explains why Silverstein’s comment was patently false. He said many firefighters cannot speak out for fear of their pensions and jobs.

Of course, many brainwashed Americans would automatically dismiss Dent. Despite his decades of firefighting experience and the lack of any motive for him to lie at the risk of his own reputation, he is just a “truther,” as if pursuing truth is lunatic. Read More »