August 19, 2014
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Forgotten Victims of St. Louis
August 19, 2014
ALAN writes:
Four months ago I wrote about an 11-year-old black boy in St. Louis who was hit and killed by a bullet fired through a window by some black thug. But there was no looting, vandalism, or “protest marches” afterward – because his death gave blacks no opportunity to beat up on white men.
In the 1950s, one of my aunts lived in Ferguson, Missouri. My father took me there to visit her, and her young son and I played in their back yard. Never a thought of lawlessness or vandalism. If there had been, she and her husband would not have lived there.
Within the past few decades in St. Louis and St. Louis County, black men:
— Kidnapped a white woman and threw her off a bridge into the Mississippi River, where she died
— When driving while drunk, struck and killed a white woman motorist
— Kidnapped, raped, and shot two young white women, killing one
— Shot and killed a 60-year-old Korean woman cashier in a robbery
— Beat and strangled a 20-year-old white woman Read More »
A Literary Divorcée on Family
August 19, 2014
ALAN writes:
The hard-drinking, twice-divorced American novelist and short story writer Jean Stafford, writing in the midst of the turmoil of the late 1960s-early 1970s, said the following:
“….I believe our society is an utterly decadent one. And I believe so because I believe any society is decadent in which the family is not the basic unit—the basic moral, social, economic unit. …. Of course families cause us great pain, but unless we are decadent we must be willing to suffer for principles. …. The structure of the family, of whom the woman is the architect, has been weakened to the point of debility …. Nothing obliges us to love our parents or our cousins…but, plainly, the individual must be nurtured within an edifice, within a form.”
[The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford, Ann Hulbert; Knopf, 1992, pp. 350-51 ]
The Sudanese in America
August 19, 2014
IN 2009, Luka Wall Kang, a 50-year-old Sudanese refugee, drove into a group of children walking home from school in Salt Lake City. He told police at the time that he was depressed and couldn’t find a job. Kang is not the only Sudanese to have trouble adjusting to life in America or involved in violent incidents. Refugee Resettlement Watch has a long archive of newspaper articles from the U.S. and Canada on the subject. It includes articles about AIDS, murder, and hostility American blacks have shown toward the Africans.
This fall, the Ron Howard film, The Good Lie will be released. Reese Witherspoon stars as an American woman who helps four Sudanese men resettle in this country. Judging from the trailer, it is fair to say it does not tell the whole story.
ISIS Militants Appeal to Ferguson Rioters
August 19, 2014
ACCORDING to The Daily Mail:
ISIS militants and their supporters are using social media to encourage protesters in Ferguson to embrace radical Islam and fight against the U.S. government.
Jihadists in Syria and Iraq and their sympathisers in the West have taken to Twitter to send messages of support to hundreds of demonstrators taking part in a ninth night of angry protests in the U.S. city following the shooting by police of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
Other developments in the Michael Brown case: Autopsies show that he was shot in the front, not in the back, and, according to The Washington Post, Brown tested positive for marijuana.
You can listen to rap songs allegedly recorded by Michael Brown here. WARNING: Graphic content and photos.
A New Diversity Flick
August 18, 2014
Foundational, fundamental differences between countries and cultures (France and India) are not explored deeply in The Hundred Foot Journey, the latest in feel-good diversity cinema. Instead, these differences simply melt away, even after an incident of extreme violence. Profound connections are made through romantic desire and high-end culinary recipes. One especially heavy-handed moment comes when the stern French restaurateur defends a Gallic recipe’s 200-year tradition, while her apprentice Indian chef offers a challenge to the effect of “Isn’t 200 years long enough?” and then proceeds to diversify the dish with his South Asian spices.
Women in this movie treat men as if they don’t really need them; and then these men continue to pursue them, not necessarily sexually but emotionally and psychologically. The young Indian male here goes off to Paris to conquer the French culinary world but still expresses (through texting!) his desires for the young French woman who treated him in ways that any self-respecting male would not find appealing. And if you think this couple ends up married and happy ever after, this movie is far too hip (and this beautiful French woman far too “strong”) for that. Instead, they are united at film’s end in a multicultural business venture complemented by their romantic ties!
Britain: Land of Subsidized Child Abuse
August 18, 2014
RICHARD NEWMAN writes at Public Discourse:
Later this fall, the UK’s Department of Health will be launching a national sperm bank to “meet demand,” using £77,000 in public funds to effectively subsidize fatherlessness. British women can reduce their child’s father to the conveniently assorted drop-down menu categories of ethnicity, eye color, hair color and education level with just the click of a mouse.
Dear Anonymous Father
August 18, 2014
THE Anonymous Us website collects first-person accounts of the reproductive industry. Here is a letter from a person conceived with an anonymous sperm donor. It reads in part:
Dear Father,
I thought I saw you the other day.
I was standing in the hall of the DMV office, waiting for someone, when a man walked past me to reach the door. And, for a moment, I couldn’t breathe.
This had never happened to me before. Mainly, I had never seen anyone in public who was so close to your height, but this man was very tall, like you. He was naturally tan, like you. And he was young, like you. I had never seen anyone who could have so easily been you.
So I stood there for a moment, not breathing, and waiting for something, though for what I don’t know. He disappeared around the corner of the door, but the tears that had begun were still there as I stared at the spot he had occupied. It scared me slightly, this encounter, because he could have been you. It scared me how easily any man could be you. Read More »
Altar Fashion
August 18, 2014
DESIGNER Maria Sjödin offers stylish clerical wear for women. It’s comfortable, professional and alluring.
Bergoglio Drops Bombs in Korea
August 17, 2014
THOMAS DROLESKEY writes:
All one needs to know about Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s visit to the Republic of Korea, more commonly referred to as South Korea, is that he is always at home bashing believing Catholics where[ever] in the world he finds himself.
Just consider the following passage from the Argentine Apostate’s address to the conciliar “bishops” of the Republic of Korea: Read More »
Friend of Ferguson Police Officer Describes Encounter
August 17, 2014
AN alleged friend of Officer Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Michael Brown, gave an account on a radio show of what transpired when Brown was shot:
He [Wilson] pulled up ahead of them. And then he got a call-in that there was a strong-arm robbery. And, they gave a description. And, he’s looking at them and they got something in their hands and it looks like it could be what, you know those cigars or whatever. So he goes in reverse back to them. Tries to get out of his car. They slam his door shut violently. I think he said Michael did. And, then he opened the car again. He tried to get out. He stands up.
Modern Theology in Stone
August 17, 2014
WHY are modern Catholic churches so hideous and desolating? In short, these spaceships are not Catholic. See the post at Novus Ordo Watch.
America: Land of Child Abuse
August 17, 2014
IN an article that appeared in The American Thinker last April, Robert Oscar Lopez, who was raised by lesbians, wrote:
Gay parenting is built on sheer adult selfishness, but too many conservatives are scared of saying so because they have family members and colleagues they don’t want to offend. It wouldn’t be so bad if they chose to live in silence but at least supported those of us who are willing to call people out for doing things that are wrong. Yet when I say things like this, conservatives get scared; the radio silence deepens, and I end up in Europe again.
Europe is another world entirely. The French fill the streets and fight gay adoption – not because they are arguing for more civil discourse, but rather because kids have a right to a mom and a dad, and it is urgent to fight people who violate that right. They invoke the history of slavery when they see people who want to import children conceived by Indian surrogates. They compare lesbians engaging in sperm-banking and genetic design schemes to Nazi eugenicists, because the parallel is obvious. They refer to homosexual adoption as child abuse and remind people that it’s cultural genocide and a violation of international law to use children to engage in social experiments that will alienate them from the civic traditions of their biological parents.
Johnathan Gentry on Ferguson
August 15, 2014
HERE is terrific analysis from a wild-eyed, black “minister” named Johnathan Gentry. He criticizes Al Sharpton, the NAACP, and Obama. “We’re just going around in a cycle, year after year, decade after decade. Excuses, excuses, excuses,” he says. Of the police officers defending blacks from criminals, he says, “My heart goes out to them.” Of Obama, he says, “Where were you in Chicago on Fourth of July weekend when there were 16 drive-by shootings. You’re not there for the black community.” He says Michael Brown would never have been shot if he had obeyed the police officer’s simple order.
The Fox interviewers are truly obnoxious. They call his statement a “rant” and suggest he is “giving in” and is “extreme.”
Police Accounts Say Brown Robbed Store
August 15, 2014
ACCORDING to the latest from the Ferguson, Missouri police department, Michael Brown, the teenager killed by an officer last Saturday, was not the “gentle giant” he has been widely reported to be. The police account contradicts the report by Brown’s friend, Dorian Johnson, who never mentioned anything about a robbery and said the two had been accosted by the officer simply for walking in the middle of the street. Here is the latest from Fox News:
A suburban St. Louis police chief on Friday identified the officer whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager ignited days of heated protests, and released documents alleging the teen was killed after a robbery in which he was suspected of stealing a $48.99 box of cigars.
Ferguson, Mo., Police Chief Thomas Jackson said that the robbery took place just before noon on Saturday at a nearby convenience store roughly 10 minutes before a police officer identified as Darren Wilson fired the bullet that killed Michael Brown. Police say that the shot was fired after a struggled touched off by Wilson’s confronting Brown. Jackson said Wilson is a six-year veteran with no disciplinary action on his record. Read More »
The Feast of the Assumption
August 15, 2014
Hail Mary, Full of Grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Beautiful Humanitarians Pay the Ultimate Tax
August 14, 2014
MASON K. writes:
Two Italian college students flew to Syria, against their parents’ wishes, and have now been captured by militant Islamists. I don’t like to contemplate what is happening to them now.
As gruesome as this is, I thought it fits your current theme of “summer victims” and your perennial theme of the Eloi tax.
By the way, I’m a first-time commenter, but I’ve been reading your blog, on and off, for some time. I am a relatively young man at 29, and I had never encountered any thoughtful conservative opinions until just a few years ago. Read More »