FROM The Connecticut Post:

Under pressure from the NAACP, the state Democratic Party will scrub the names of the two presidents [Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson] from its annual fundraising dinner because of their ties to slavery.

Party leaders voted unanimously Wednesday night in Hartford to rename the Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner in the aftermath of last month’s fatal shooting of nine worshipers at the historic black church in Charleston, S.C.  (more…)

“A GRATEFUL READER” writes:

Your discussion of Solange Hertz recalls today’s article on the Orthosphere  by Kristor. He discusses the book, The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks. He writes:

Three key insights inform everything in the book:

1. In the ancient world, essentially all the meat available for consumption in human settlements was the fruit of sacrificial rites.

2. Cookery and sacrifice were therefore aspects of the same procedure. Sacrifice was the way animals were slaughtered and butchered in preparation for cooking; cooking the meat was part of the sacrificial rite. (more…)

IN Sin Revisited, Solange Hertz describes three forms of gluttony:

1. The first one consists in eating whenever we please. This might mean often or seldom, ahead of time or later, never or simply constantly nibbling between meals. Habitually indulged in, this form of gluttony quite predictably disposes its victim to restlessness and dissatisfaction with his state in life. It feeds instability. (more…)

DEANA writes:

I have been reading your blog for about a month and just wanted to take a moment and tell you thank you for sharing your thoughts with the world.

I am a 46 years old. I married late in life (41) so I do not have children but I do have a wonderful husband and I have work that I enjoy (I am a nurse). I have much to be thankful for but of late, I find myself despairing and perhaps in a depression. Laura, I am afraid. I feel as if I’m looking at the most beautiful tapestry hanging in front of me and people are walking by, grabbing a thread and pulling it, shredding it to pieces. Our country is falling apart. (more…)

I DON’T know anything about “Sofia Smallstorm” other than what you see here. She does a good job of analyzing Sandy Hook in this video from September, 2014, offering a plausible theory for why numerous people may have participated in a fraudulent event and explaining why you, yes you, may be part of a brave new experiment in social engineering.  (more…)

  SEE excellent reflections at Novus Ordo Watch on cornball dance and song routines in the Vatican II pseudo-mass. If this turns off human beings, imagine how it turns off God.

ON the morning of December 14, 2012, 20 young children and six adults were murdered in a shooting spree by a gunman at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. As most of you know from the official account, the gunman was 20-year-old Adam Lanza, the emotionally troubled, homeschooled son of a gun-toting Republican mother with whom he lived alone and whom he also allegedly killed that day. Lanza’s frightening and bizarre photograph appeared in news outlets throughout the country for months after the event, which was the second deadliest shooting by a single person in U.S. history. He reportedly committed suicide at the school. (more…)

LET’S SAY you live in a city where a weird cult is practicing a grotesque ritual whereby it cuts off the right arms of its most devoted followers. The idea is that amputation will appease the gods. Awful, but that’s what this cult does.

Now let’s say you are a medical doctor and you are working in a hospital emergency room one day when a woman arrives in a desperate situation. She is the victim of a “botched” amputation. Normally, the cult members are treated by their own doctors. But in this case, she is mistreated and is dying from loss of blood. (more…)

AT Natural News, Ethan A. Huff writes:

The corporate media, as hilariously and obviously bogus as it has become these days, is no different from an addictive junk food product like Doritos, Oreos, or Coca-Cola. What makes these fake food products salable has nothing to do with their nutritional content, which is basically zero; it’s the monosodium glutamate (MSG), refined sugar, and artificial flavors that provide that instantaneous flavor “high” to keep consumers enslaved to buying such products, even when they know they’re toxic!

The latest manufactured media controversies are really no different. Artificial elections, fake shootings, crisis actors, and manufactured hashtag campaigns have become the bread and butter of the phony American media machine, which almost always ignores real news like the recent passing of “fast-track” authority by Congress allowing the executive branch to enact treasonous trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership without oversight.

Instead of reporting on this traitorous dissolution of American sovereignty by our own elected leaders, the corrupt mainstream media is instead feeding the gullible masses the equivalent of a handful of MSG-laced corn chips by raising hell over a historical flag. The “excitotoxin” effect of this intellectual drugging, if you will, is now evident all across social media and in the public conversation as people fight each other over yet another ridiculous non-issue rather than direct their anger at those who instigated it in the first place: the media, the government, and the shadow puppet masters who control what these entities say and do. (more…)

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FIRST, the military has to change almost everything to let women in. And then it has to change everything else to prevent them from leaving. They want in and then they want out.

The problem is, the Navy does not accommodate motherhood, writes Lt. Mary Witkowski. Things are so bad, Lt. Witkowski says, she is redirecting her elite Naval Academy training, which she obtained at public expense and for which she arguably displaced some man who might have stayed much longer and supported a family while doing so, to find a job in the public sector that is more congenial to daily child neglect. (She doesn’t mention it, but getting rid of that dreadful uniform would be nice too.) “It’s the pre-ordained military schedule that can make Navy life and motherhood so hard to balance,” she says. Children do get in the way, don’t they? She advocates more flex time and telework. That’s interesting. I did not realize you could be a surface warfare officer by phone. Can you be a submarine commander and cook dinner at the same time? I have to admit, that would be very cool and then women would finally have it all. Men could find something else to do.

Lt. Witkowski writes: “To stop the flow of talented women out of the Navy, we must stay focused on why these women are leaving. Only then will the military be able to retain the intelligent, motivated, and experienced women that are helping it to thrive.” Jawohl, Lieutenant! We must stay focused! Our mission is to destroy American families one feminist step at a time. We will accept nothing less.

One major motivating factor is not mentioned in Lt. Witkowski’s analysis: MOOLA.

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SOME of you may have already seen the very disturbing undercover interview with Dr. Deborah Nucatola, senior director of medical services for Planned Parenthood since 2009. In the interview, Dr. Nucatola describes the process by which Planned Parenthood sells body parts of fetuses to medical research-affiliated companies such as StemExpress. She sips wine and eats salad while explaining how she tries to preserve lungs, hearts and intact heads while surgically removing fetuses. She has a “huddle” in the morning with administrative assistants who know what companies are looking for that day. Then she tries to procure the parts intact while performing abortions.

She defends the trade in body parts, for which PP does not make much money, as not motivated by profit but primarily by the need to find more methods to dispose of bodies and the desire to aid science. Many women having abortions, she says, are eager to donate the parts because they think it will do good. They signs papers agreeing to the donations. A full transcript of the interview is here. It is a chilling look into the abortion industry, to say the least. Planned Parenthood performs 40 percent of abortions in the country and, according to Nucatola, spends about ten minutes counseling each woman who has an abortion.

Rather than reading or viewing this disturbing material, you may prefer to read this response by Abby Johnson, who used to work for Planned Parenthood and now is an anti-abortion figure.

Feminism has been great for women, hasn’t it? It’s opened up so many career opportunities. If it weren’t for feminism and the mass psychological warfare against women by the media, women like Nucatola might be producing children instead of killing them. (more…)

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EVEN under the seemingly best of conditions — when a hard-working female officer is put in charge — an all-female military battalion  faces extraordinary conflict. A reportedly tough female Marine officer who led the only all-female recruit battalion has been dismissed, allegedly because she was too hard on the women soldiers, whom she insisted should meet higher standards:

On one occasion, the investigation found, she made comments during a sexual assault prevention brief that female Marines interpreted as victim-blaming, leading some to testify that it would make them feel less comfortable reporting a sexual assault within the command.

[Lt. Col. Kate] Germano also “reinforced gender bias and stereotypes” in the minds of her Marines by telling them on several occasions that male Marines would not take orders from them and would see them as inferior if they could not meet men’s physical standards, the investigation found.

I did not know soldiers grade their commanders. Germano did not score well on the “Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute command climate survey taken by 64 members of the battalion in April.” (Be forewarned. Pretty soon your children will be taking a “command climate survey.”)

The integration of America’s military forces is a farce. It has nothing to do with fighting for America and everything to do with fighting against it. (more…)

THE Associated Press reports:

This could be the story of an American dream. An immigrant family builds a successful business and buys a four-bedroom house in a quiet neighborhood with good schools for their young son. But not all is as it seems on the steep, curving streets of San Diego’s Rancho Penasquitos. (more…)

THE “PAPAL” pop star’s whirlwind visit to Latin America last week was a tour de force of revolutionary demagoguery. Just a few highlights: In Ecuador, the Marxist madman and papal pretender prepared the crowds for his expected raid on moral doctrine at the upcoming Synod (Nod-to-Sin) on the Family. Without alluding to any specific changes in store, he said a new era was coming. With messianic bombast, he described unforeseen happiness. His words were a straight-up shot of anti-Catholic mental booze that was just the sort of thing crowds swooning over the sight of a major celebrity (or innocently believing they were seeing a true Holy Father) would unquestioningly imbibe:

And this is the good news: the finest wines are yet to be tasted; for families, the richest, deepest and most beautiful things are yet to come. The time is coming when we will taste love daily, when our children will come to appreciate the home we share, and our elderly will be present each day in the joys of life. The finest of wines is expressed by hope, this wine will come for every person who stakes everything on love. And the best wine is yet to come, in spite of all the variables and statistics which say otherwise.

Holy Toledo, how will this remarkable happiness come about “in spite of all the variable and statistics which say otherwise?” By taking sin and converting it into “wine.” Pretty cool, eh? It’s all about reaching out to the moral peripheries, where the real action is. It’s all about reaching out to the world instead of heaven. See Thomas Droleskey’s commentary on the homily.

While in Bolivia, the Argentine Bomber apologized for the Church’s actions during the colonial era. Mike King writes at his blog:

First of all, Rabbi Pope Francis; this moronic nonsense about apologizing for the actions of others from centuries long gone is as childish as it is retarded as it is pointless. Can you imagine the current President of Mongolia, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj …. crawling to Kiev and Warsaw and Moscow and Baghdad to beg forgiveness for the horrific genocides committed by Genghis Khan and his successors. The eastern Europeans would laugh at him! (more…)

NATIONS do not have eternal souls. Whole societies don’t go to heaven or hell. Then how can it be that social organisms have any spiritual obligations whatsoever?

The following dialogue between a hypothetical teacher and student, taken from The Social Rights of Our Divine Lord Jesus Christ the King by the Rev. Denis Fahey, D.D., is a most logical and lucid explanation for why the modern notion that religion is purely an individual matter is fatally wrong. This is a great little book, available in its entirety online. Here is Chapter I and part of Chapter II.

Chapter I: The Supreme Authority of God Over All Society

T.  You know, of course, the first articles of the Apostles’ Creed. “I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord.” The Church expresses the same truth in the Creed at Mass. ” I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages.”

S. Yes, but what do you mean by the words “Creator (Maker) of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible”?

T. By those words I mean that everything that exists other than God has been made by God, and that all things visible and invisible have been created by Him.

S. What distinction do you make between visible and invisible things?

T. On the one hand, there are things which fall under the sense of sight, of hearing, or of the other senses, which are in some way tangible: these are the visible things. There are, on the other hand, things which really exist, of which one can have knowledge, but which cannot be perceived by the senses.

S. Would you kindly give some examples of invisible things.

T. The angels, the human soul, human thought and will, human power and authority—these are all examples of invisible things.

S. But is not human society also an invisible thing? (more…)

FEMINISM is a worldwide phenomenon. Japan, for instance, has a record low birthrate and relations between the sexes are showing the same symptoms as secularised Western society. Things are so bad, Japanese women have been publicly swooning on social media over Shabani, a male gorilla in the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens:

For many Japanese women, especially busy working mothers, an “ikemen” [handsome guy] who is also an “ikumen” [nurturing father] is their dream come true, as evidenced by the enduring popularity of Japan’s top pop idol, Takuya Kimura, who is now 42 and a dad of two.

There has been a trend among Japanese male celebrities to emphasise that they are good and loving fathers, and Shabani’s popularity may be the latest addition to that trend.

[Shabani] was born in the Netherlands 18 years ago and came to the Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, in 2007 as a gift. In human terms he would be in his mid- to late-thirties, the age most men, human or ape, are at the height of their strength and virility.

And what has proven more endearing for adult women is that Shabani’s wife Nene is 24 years his senior, who bore his son aged 40 – a surprising age for a female gorilla to give birth, according to the zoo. (more…)