INSPIRED by the hideousness of the design for the new Atlanta Falcons billion-dollar football stadium, Sage McLaughlin at What’s Wrong with the World reflects on the ugliness of public rituals. He writes:

Though long an enthusiast of organized sports, I just cannot imagine what would attract a person whose only knowledge of the subject was this artist’s rendering to take part in anything that happened in that building.

The incessant braying of our loud, vain, ugly public rituals signifies terminal decay. Now having been inured to it, there is next to no offense against beauty and dignified public order that will not find its defenders, all the more if it is packaged as entertainment. Spectacles of apocalyptic violence and destruction are more popular than ever.

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ON December 11, 1925, amidst the rise of statist and totalitarian regimes in Europe, Pope Pius XI issued his encyclical Quas Primas, establishing the annual Feast of Christ the King, now celebrated on the last Sunday of October in the Extraordinary Form. The encyclical described the proper relationship between Church and State and argued that the foundations of man’s social existence had been undermined by the banishment of the Church from civil affairs:

When we pay honor to the princely dignity of Christ, men will doubtless be reminded that the Church, founded by Christ as a perfect society, has a natural and inalienable right to perfect freedom and immunity from the power of the state; and that in fulfilling the task committed to her by God of teaching, ruling, and guiding to eternal bliss those who belong to the kingdom of Christ, she cannot be subject to any external power. Read More »

IN THIS previous entry on the Colleen Ritzer murder, Diana writes:

Black children in the year 2013 are different from those raised in previous generations. First of all, the whole society is drenched in violent porn. I don’t have to remind Thinking Housewife readers of that. Second, and much more important, our “education” system is basically a hate-whites-guilt-indoctrination system. I don’t have to remind Thinking Housewife readers of that, either, but let me add two observations to the picture.

Presently the film 12 Years a Slave is playing in selected theaters, preparatory to a big Oscar roll-out, and general release. I’ve read nothing but fulsome reviews. I haven’t and won’t see it, but I know someone who has (a critic who got a comp ticket), and I trust his judgement implicitly. I have at times disagreed with him, but I always respect his opinion. Read More »

THE Daily Mail reports:

Philip Chism, the 14-year-old accused of killing beloved school teacher Colleen Ritzer, ‘completely planned’ the brutal attack, according to police sources.

The teenage soccer star even brought a spare set of clothes into class so he could change and dump his bloodstained outfit to avoid detection when he made his trip to a local cinema and Wendy’s restaurant.

He was caught on security camera at the Hollywood Hits movie theatre soon after 4pm on Tuesday wearing a clean sweat suit. Police found his discarded clothes and the box cutter knife used in the attack hidden in woods near Danver High School and now have them as evidence. Read More »

KARL D. writes:

Here is an article about a midwife’s assistant who calls herself a “doula” and who photographs couples during home births. Is it just me or are these photos disturbing? Besides having a very intimate sexual feel to them, the moment is clearly all about the mother and her “partner” more than about the birth of their child. Not to mention the fact that she has a virtual audience with her two sisters and someone else watching on as she gives birth in a kiddie pool in her living room. You would think she was Cleopatra getting ready to birth the new Caesar the way she has a roomful of people fawning all over her.

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In this video, a mob attacks the priest Don Curzio Nitoglio, mistaking him for the celebrant of Priebke’s funeral mass.

DON VINCENZO writes:

Few will dispute the fact that the recent death of Erich Priebke was no great loss to anyone outside his immediate family. Indeed, to many Italians who gathered at the site of his interment, Priebke was a symbol of death, for he had been involved in the death of hundreds of Italians in the Andeatine Caves outside of Rome where, in retaliation for an attack on German troops in Rome in 1944, Hitler ordered the execution of ten Romans for every one Nazi soldier killed in the assault. Much of this is explained in Robert Katz’s account, Death in Rome, which later became a movie starring Richard Burton. (I have seen the plaque at that square in Rome that describes this event.)

All of this is well known in Italy, for the men and women who gathered at the funeral interment knew all about Captain Eric Priebke of the Nazi S.S. The funeral drew not only media attention, but also attracted an understandable fierce resistance by those whose family members had been murdered in those caves north of Rome. It should also be pointed out that Katz drew a clear line between the executions of 335 Italians, 70 of whom were Italian Jews, and the unwillingness of the then Pope Pius XII to try to stop the murders, for which Katz was sued for libel by Pope Pacelli’s family, but later acquitted by the highest Italian court. Read More »

THE art world today is mourning the death of the abstract expressionist sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, who has died at the age of 89. Since we are not among the Beautiful People, since we are ignorant, rigid and unsophisticated, since we could care less about Sir Caro’s exalted artistic credentials and about the millions that have been paid for his works, we can bid a not-so-fond farewell to another artist who helped make the world uglier. Here are some of his sculptures. Excuse me if I refrain from giving you the titles. In most cases, the titles don’t mean a thing.

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POLICE in Danvers, Masschussets are reportedly investigating the possibility that the math teacher Colleen Ritzer was killed by a 14-year-old student after she spurned his sexual advances. Of course, it would never occur to most people today that having beautiful young women teach adolescent boys, especially women who dress provocatively as almost all women do today, is not a great idea.

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New York Post

HENRY McCULLOCH writes:

Not content with forcing unprecedented numbers of women into billets for which most are entirely unsuited, or with foisting homosexuals on normal GIs, or with continuing the Bush II administration policy of filling the ranks with alien (often illegal) mercenaries, the Obama regime once again draws a bead on the most military of America’s evanescing armed forces: the Marine Corps.

This time, some genius in the regime has decided that the Marines’ dress cover (men’s version) is too masculine, so Pharaobama is pushing a unisex cover (hat, that is, for you soldiers and civilians) for both Marines and women-in-the-Marine-Corps.  Not surprisingly, the unisex cover, named for World War I hero Gunnery Sergeant Daniel Daly, looks a lot more like the girls’ than the boys’ cover. Read More »

DANIEL S. writes:

Blogger Daniel Greenfield has provided us with the latest examples of the enrichment that Muslim immigration is providing to Europe. In Norway, Muslim immigrants raped a 12-year-old girl in a school yard and received a small fine and community service for their act. (So far we haven’t seen FEMEN or other Western feminists arrive at the scene to decry the very real rape culture perpetuated by Muslim immigrants and enabled by Scandinavian governments.) In Britain Somali Muslim immigrants recently smuggled in a young girl from their country to use for organ harvesting.

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WHENEVER a scene of demonic horror occurs in one of our modern indoctrination centers known as schools, we are reminded again of just how much niceness keeps these sterile, ugly, soulless places afloat. Teddy bears, candlelit vigils, a tidal surge of unanimous praise for the niceness of the victim follow nightmarish, bloody carnage. Philip Chism was only 14 years old and yet he stabbed a teacher to death with a craft knife after hiding in a suburban Massachusetts classroom and waiting to accost her. He then placed her body in a recycling bin and walked out the door. He went to the latest Woody Allen movie after dumping the body in the woods and then wandered the streets, alone with his demonic secret in a perfectly nice community.

How can we explain this? There seems to be no way to process it in the vocabulary of nice. Teddy bears, candles and pledges to remember the deceased are the best answers it can give. Even the murderer in this case is believed to have been nice. Of Philip Chism, one of the few blacks in the town of Danvers, Massachusetts, The Daily Mail reports:

Other students, who played soccer with accused 14-year-old Chism, said that he was a really nice boy but incredibly shy and hard to get to know.

One said: ‘He was nice, but really quiet. No one really knew him that well. Apparently when he was arrested he was unresponsive and barely said anything at all.

Beneath the pervasive niceness, there is breathtaking hard-heartedness. One wonders whether Philip Chism, who may have been overwhelmed with phony niceness during his few months in Danvers because he was black and may have been used to demonstrate the wonderful tolerance of others, saw through this in some childish, intuitive way. There is no real love in these places. Where love is not, hatred blooms. It erupts after a period of silent, invisible fermentation. However nice the teacher Colleen Ritzer may have been, she worked for a brutally indifferent institution. She gave herself obliviously to a system that denies God with matter-of-fact efficiency and refuses to teach a student something so basic to life as prayer. Where God is not, Satan is. And he’s just not very nice.

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PHALLOCENTRIC anthropologists once believed these handprint paintings on caves in Cantabria, Spain, made some 40,000 years ago, were the work of male artists. Enlightened researchers have now discovered that they were made by women. Gee, I could have told them that with a lot less trouble.

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JOHN WHITEHEAD writes on the rise of deadly home invasions by the police. These invasions by SWAT teams more and more seem to end in the violent deaths of innocent people. Here is an excerpt of his article:

Unfortunately, with every passing week, we are hearing more and more horror stories in which homeowners are injured or killed simply because they mistook a SWAT team raid by police for a home invasion by criminals. Never mind that the unsuspecting homeowner, woken from sleep by the sounds of a violent entry, has no way of distinguishing between a home invasion by a criminal as opposed to a government agent. Too often, the destruction of life and property wrought by the police is no less horrifying than that carried out by criminal invaders. Read More »

ED H. writes:

At the commodity level prices are depressed. However, at the supermarket level, it is astounding. A one-pound can of coffee costs $11. And everything on the shelves is insanely overpriced. The only answer is that price competition is weak. The fact that 45 million pay whatever the cost via Food Stamps is a driving force behind this. The supermarkets can charge what they want and the U.S. Government via chits of printed paper will pay. Those not on Food Stamps are being crushed and driven into the socialist camp. Why has no one done a story about this??

Usually Food Stamps would be a minor factor, but not under the Obama Regime of Planned Poverty. If you aren’t on Food Stamps, you will be starved to submit, and then you too will be utterly dependent on the government. Much like Obamacare. Everyone is utterly dependent on the State.

Open this chart to see coffee prices back three years. And ALL commodities are like that: low on the real market and insanely priced on the consumer level. The government is claiming that raw materials are too high, but food itself is low. In fact, it is the opposite. This is like Obama’s claim that “the private sector” is doing fine, the truth being that the public sector is the most catered to, spoiled, protected and flourishing.

 If this Administration says anything, the opposite is guaranteed to be the truth.

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A NEW rule should be added to John Derbyshire’s list of precautions to avoid black aggression: Do not honk at black people, especially black teenagers. Unless you have a desire to be dragged from your vehicle and mercilessly beaten, keep your hands off the horn. From Sunday’s edition of The New York Daily News:

A group of 10 black youths — one of them a 12-year-old girl — surrounded a white couple’s car in Brooklyn, viciously beating the husband and yanking the wife to the pavement by her hair as they peppered the two with racial slurs, authorities said.

“Get those crackers!” some of them screamed, according to court papers. “Get that white whore!”

The confrontation erupted about 7 p.m. Monday, as the marauding group crossed Avenue U at E. 58th St. near Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Mill Basin.

Ronald Russo, 30, and his wife, Alanna, apparently had the green light and the husband honked at the group to get out of the way. The rowdy kids started kicking the car, according to the criminal complaint. Ronald Russo got out to check on potential damage to his vehicle. Read More »

DID you think Jews would overwhelmingly resist the Islamification of America? Think again. To the liberal Jew, the Muslim is “the Other,” the noble outsider, the heroic victim. See this amazing video.

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David Gibson,left, and Rich Kiamco, right, of Jersey City display their marriage license. 
(Photo: Joe Epstein,AP)

FROM The New York Times:

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey announced on Monday that his administration would drop its legal challenge to allowing gay marriage in the state, hours after same-sex couples started exchanging vows.

Mr. Christie’s decision to withdraw his appeal before the state’s Supreme Court, a reversal from his long-held position that the question of gay marriage should be decided by voters, effectively removes the last hurdle from making same-sex marriage legal in New Jersey. Read More »