Kitchen Interior, Joachim Bueckelaer; 1566

“JUST as it is good to get one’s fingers into the soil and plant seeds, so it is good to get one’s fingers and fists into bread dough to knead and punch it. There is something very positive in being involved in the creativity which is so basic to life itself. Home-made bread, home-made cakes and pies, home-made vegetable soup from home-grown vegetables or from vegetable market purchases, home-made jams and jellies, home-made relishes and pickles — these are almost lost arts in many homes. For growing children at play, there is nothing so interesting as really ‘doing things.’ To ‘help cook’ is one of the most enjoyable things of childhood — to say nothing of being a sure way of producing good cooks. A child can cut up carrots at a very early age, with no more risk of injury than from falling down outside at play! A child can mix and stir, knead the dough and be given a piece to make a roll man, cat or rabbit with raisin eyes. A child can fry eggs or make scrambled eggs — one of mine did every morning from the age of three! The kitchen should be an interesting room in which communication takes place between child and mother and also among adults. It should be interesting in the same way as is an artist’s studio, as well as being a cosy spot in which to have a cup of tea while something is being watched or stirred, or while waiting to something out of the oven.

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“It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in color and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.”

— Edith Schaeffer, The Hidden Art of Homemaking (Tyndale House Publishers, 1971), pp 119-120.

SOME interesting analysis of the trial and now famous judgment against Alex Jones. Read More »

URSULA Haverbeck, the German patriot, scholar and writer who spent much of the last 20 years in court and was jailed for more than two years in her 80s, has reportedly died at the age of 96. I first wrote about her in 2015 (also here).

According to Haverbeck, she simply started asking polite questions and, after receiving no answers, came to unacceptable conclusions about the death toll in World War II. In the second entry above, I quoted Nigel Jackson:

This sentencing of this woman can justly be described as a crime against humanity. Why is this?

There are two possibilities: either she is right (or largely right) or she is wrong (or largely wrong). Let us assume that the latter is true. We then have a pitiful spectacle of an elderly person stubbornly and irrationally clinging to a mistaken view of historical events. Shakespeare’s King Lear is the archetypal work of art examining the ramifications of such a situation. As we watch Lear rave in misery on the heath, we feel compassion for him; but that does not stop us knowing that his disaster has been mainly self-inflicted as a result of his stubborn holding of illusions earlier in the action. None of us, however, would want to punish him for the awful threats he issues during his agony.

If Ms. Haverbeck is wrong (and a formidable battery of opinion, including learned opinion, around the world maintains that she is), then what damage can her statements really do to anyone? …

If such is the situation, why on earth was she ever brought to trial? Why were her remarks not just passed over (‘Poor thing! Off her head, of course!’). Why did the prosecutor maintain that her age should not prevent her from being sentenced? In this scenario, we plainly have an example of inhumane treatment being meted out to a too-elderly victim.

She never gave in and never seemed angry. She had remarkable courage, dignity and graciousness. I know very little of her early life, however, and cannot comment on it. German authorities were still seeking to return her to prison at the time of her death. This song below was reportedly her favorite patriotic song:

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Karin Reading, Carl Larsson

“OF ALL the modern notions generated by mere wealth the worst is this: the notion that domesticity is dull and tame. Inside the home (they say) is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. This is indeed a rich man’s opinion. The rich man knows that his own house moves on vast and soundless wheels of wealth, is run by regiments of servants, by a swift and silent ritual. On the other hand, every sort of vagabondage of romance is open to him in the streets outside. He has plenty of money and can afford to be a tramp. His wildest adventure will end in a restaurant, while the yokel’s tamest adventure may end in a police-court. If he smashes a window he can pay for it; if he smashes a man he can pension him. He can (like the millionaire in the story) buy an hotel to get a glass of gin. And because he, the luxurious man, dictates the tone of nearly all ‘advanced’ and ‘progressive’ thought, we have almost forgotten what a home really means to the overwhelming millions of mankind.

“For the truth is, that to the moderately poor the home is the only place of liberty. Nay, it is the only place of anarchy. It is the only spot on the earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. Everywhere else he goes he must accept the strict rules of the shop, inn, club, or museum that he happens to enter.”

— G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World

FROM Money: Fact and Fiction by J. D. Malan (1971):

ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a good King who ruled over a small country where the people were poor but honest and hard working. The King was worried about the poverty which was almost universal throughout the land, and spent almost all his time deep in thought trying to find ways to help his people. Most of his subjects, however, did not worry about their hard life, and found enjoyment in discussing amongst themselves their ideas of dream worlds where life would be comfortable and luxurious. But they knew they were only dreams, and they returned to their labours without complaint.

The King, however, being a more serious man, was upset by their complacency and sought the advice of his Oracle, who was also a very cunning man. The Oracle told the King that his subjects should be prevented from talking about their dream worlds. This he undertook to do if the King proclaimed that no person could use words which were not authorized by the Oracle, who would have sole control over the issue of new words. So as not to be too hard on the people, the King insisted, as a condition of the agreement, that any word which described anything the people already possessed would be free for all to use. And so the people were able to see that their King was indeed a good and kind man, and life went on much as before even though they were rather restricted in their dream talks.

Years passed, until many generations later there was nobody who knew why the Oracle was the only person who could issue new words, but it was not very important and no one bothered to work it out. Then one day a very clever man invented a new tool to make life on the farms easier, and he dutifully asked the Oracle for a new word to describe it. This began to happen more and more often as the people learned new skills and discovered new materials, and soon the Oracle began to demand a share of each new invention every time he issued a new word. Read More »

FROM The ‘Achilles Heel’ of the Conservative Movement by Eric D. Butler (1968):

A genuinely conservative approach to life requires humility, to accept the fact that the man is not self-sufficient. lt is surprising how many conservatives will accept this truth concerning some subjects, but reject it in the field of economics. Far too many conservatives create the impression that their concept of “rugged individualism” is a type of free-for-all where the self-made man succeeds and the weak go to the wall. The truth is that no man is self-sufficient today in the field of economic endeavour. Even those pioneering on some of the world’s remaining frontiers are making use of machinery and technical assistance which comes from co-operative industrial societies, themselves the heirs to a thousand years of “accumulated” industrial arts. The creative conservative of the Twentieth Century must take a new look at economics if he is to meet the Socialist challenge. Some proper humility is a prerequisite.

The following are basic truths which must be accepted in evolving a policy which will enable the best of our civilization to be preserved and developed along the lines of a genuinely conservative and co-operative society, one in which the creative initiative of every individual can find expression:

1. What might be described as man’s basic capital consists of vast natural resources, including the soil. Growth is impossible without sunshine, rain and fresh air. All this is a gift from God. lt is not produced by men’s work. Labour does not produce all wealth as the Socialist and Communist claim.

2. The use of basic capital requires production capital. This has been developed at an ever-accelerating rate because each new generation is the heir to the accumulated knowledge of the past, which is part of man’s cultural heritage. Without this knowledge, man would still be subsisting at a primitive level without even knowing about the wheel. Read More »

“THE thought of death and what follows death can be not only salutary, but even sweet and attractive, by linking it with the thought of our deceased ones — parents, relations, neighbours, friends. When a person is advanced in years, he can count more friends beyond the grave than this side of it. It is sweet to live in memory with them, to pray for and to them. When our conversation is with them, as St. Paul might put it, we learn to see the things of this life in their proper perspective. The soul turns from things of earth, and unites itself with God, and longs for the day when they shall receive it into everlasting dwellings, where it will be united to its friends. The invisible and beneficient presence of our departed friendsis about it. Whether they are in Heaven or in Purgatory, they pray for us. When the soul has tasted the sweetness of this company, it cannot be separated from it, because the world holds no charm for it and a heavenly nostalgia fills it to the overflow.”

— Martin Jugie, Purgatory and the Means to Avoid It, The Newman Press, 1950

“AS human beings we are free to deny God, but we are not free to do away with our need (because it is built into our nature) for something that is beyond us, that transcends us and provides the meaning of our existence. So, when people deny God, who is, as it were, the ‘vertical’ transcendent, they start to look for a ‘horizontal’ transcendent substitute. This horizontal transcendent is, pre-eminently, other people. Furthermore, as I said, since God is that which is most Other from ourselves, the more different other people are from us, the more they seem like God or fulfill the function of God in our psyches. Thus the worship of man devolves into the worship of other men, other cultures, other peoples, combined with a contempt for our own. This is the mystical cult of multiculturalism — the uncritical identification with the Other, whoever the Other may happen to be.”

—- Lawrence Auster, Our Borders, Ourselves: America in the Age of Multiculturalism (2019)

FROM Our Borders, Ourselves: America in the Age of Multiculturalism (2019) by Lawrence Auster:

By peoplehood or race consciousness, I do not mean an ideology in which race is seen as impermeable or as the determiner of moral values or as a substitute for fairness and humanity. Rather than expressing an ideology of race-supremacy or race-hatred, this race consciousness I speak of arises from the realization that European Americans are indeed threatened in their cultural, political, and ultimately physical existence by demographic dispossession and the ideology of anti-racism. In many cases, it is only by becoming aware of the mortal threat to their existence as a race that whites begin to become conscious of their race. Read More »

FROM an article by Will Tanner at The Tablet:

“When Nelson Mandela ascended to power in 1994, with his African National Congress (ANC) winning South Africa’s first multiracial election, the world was full of hope. South Africans hoped that the “rainbow nation” would turn out differently than the Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Angola, among other decolonized lands where mass violence between ethnic groups and tribes filled the vacuum of postcolonial defeat and withdrawal. To this day, South Africa has seen no Gukurahundi between its native groups nor mass slaughter between natives and Europeans. Read More »

FROM Daniel Colcannon:

“Here’s what I will do to defeat anti-Whiteism and defend our White citizens in America. My first week back in the Oval Office, my administration will inform every college president that if you do not end anti-White propaganda, they will lose their accreditation and federal taxpayer support.”

— Donald Trump to the White-American Council at a “Fighting Anti-Whiteism In America” event in Washington DC.

Just kidding.

Politicians don’t stand up for White people. [Trump] said this regarding “antisemitism” at the Israeli-American Council’s “Fighting Antisemitism In America” event in Washington DC.

After decades of unabashed, institutional anti-White hatred and discrimination from colleges across America…

~ Colleges that have served as the front lines in the War On White people

~ Colleges from which malicious anti-White theories and policies such as CRT and DEI have spread

~ Colleges where tenured professors have openly called for the genocide of the White race Read More »

“IN the Convent garden and elsewhere he delighted to sing [prayers to Mary] with intense sweetness, devotion, and enthusiasm. His sighs and tears would often interrupt his song, and thus disclose his fervour, love, and ardent piety. ‘What a touching sight to witness the greatest scholar of the Middle Ages, who combined in himself every species of science, walking alone in the garden of Cologne Convent, and singing with tears the praises of Mary his queen!

“Nor does Prussia seem able to tell us enough of our Master’s devotion to the holy Mother of God. He styles him Mary’s secretary, who surpassed all who have ever written Concerning her. ‘For,’ says he, ‘the Jeromes, the Ambroses, the Augustines, the Bernards, the Anselms, and the John Damascenes have extolled her in rapturous language and with all the charms of the most fragrant devotion; they have shown, in a style brilliant with beauty, how amiable she is, how powerful, full in merit, rich in virtue, in short, how good and compassionate she is; but, despite their reasoning, which amounts even to evidence, they know not how to convince the mind of the auditor as our venerable Master docs when he speaks of Mary in his sermons.”

— Dr. Joachim Stighart, Albert the Great, of the Order of Friar-Preachers: His Life and Scholastic Labours (1876)

IN Albert the Great, His Life and Scholastic Labours (1876) by Dr. Joachim Stighart (transl. by Rev. Fr. T. A. Dixon), we find interesting observations on today’s feast of this towering philosopher, scientist, theologian and saint: Read More »

ALAN writes:

One of the cultural trends that philosopher Richard Weaver wrote about in the 1940s-’50s was the increasing deference by the older generation to the younger. A consequence of that surrender of authority was the development of the Vital Child.

Laura Wood wrote in 2009 that the Vital Child “is not a creature of repose. He is a dynamic, rapidly evolving being, capable of ‘socialization’ even as an infant”. [“The Vital Child”, The Thinking Housewife, May 11, 2009 ]

I was part of the first generation born after World War II, the first in American history to be told we were Something Special: We had more choices, more opportunities, more possibilities, more things, more toys, more to do, see, and hear, more diversions, more amusements, and more Fun! available to us than any previous generation, we were told. In return for doing what? For doing nothing; just for existing! Some of our parents told us those things, but most of the time the message was pounded into us by the mass communications, entertainment, and advertising industries. Soft drink companies were part of that campaign. They played a significant role in promoting the youth subculture of the 1960s.

“Come alive!  Come alive! You’re in the Pepsi generation!” Read More »

HE’S filling the swamp with Israel Firsters, faster than you can say “matzoh balls.”

“Trump 2024 Administration

Huckabee – AIPAC Neocon
Ratcliffe – AIPAC Neocon
Rubio – AIPAC Neocon
Stefanik – AIPAC Neocon
Waltz – AIPAC SUPER Neocon
Zeldin – AIPAC Neocon

Every single person above has expressed a desire to go to War on behalf of a Jewish state calling itself ‘Israel.'” Source

Add Kristi Noem and Brian Hook to that list.

EXPECT more traumatizing staged shooting events or domestic terrorism attacks under the second Donald Trump  presidential term. “Gun control” is a major aim of the New World Order agenda — and he’s part of it. Under the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, the federal government was given permission to stage propaganda events and there have been dozens of them since then. These staged mass shootings are perfectly “legal” and have been wildly successful, creating a whole new sick, art form, with the help of centralized media empires — one of the most successful forms of fraud in the history of the human race.

The goal is not just to shred the Second Amendment and make tens of millions of dollars, but to increase division in society, make citizens weak, drained and fearful; and promote a state of government dependence. Fear is conducive to government control and so is mental enfeeblement. These events have a cumulative psychological effect and it’s not healthy.

This is not to say that there isn’t a real gun problem in the U.S. — and you can find it every Saturday night in cities such as New Orleans, Philadelphia and St. Louis.

See my post “Signs of a Staged Mass Shooting” to understand fake events and steel yourself for more.

THIS outstanding 1983 talk by Matthew J. Browning tells the story of the 19th-century Guernsey Experiment in monetary reform, pointing out its relevance to today.

How Guernsey Beat the Bankers is a 1958 pamphlet that tells how the Island of Guernsey “created its own money, without cost to the taxpayer, and established a prosperous community free of debt:” (Note: The “social credit mentioned in this pamphlet is not the Communist-style social credit.)

An excerpt:

Our story opens in the year 1815. It was a year of considerable difficulty for the people of Britain but the people of the little island of Guernsey were particularly hard hit. The effects of the Napoleonic wars had resulted in a state of despair on the part of the island community due to the acute economic distress then prevailing. The following extract from a document presented by the States (as the island Parliament is called) to the Privy Council speaks very eloquently on the state of affairs:

“In this island, eminently favoured by nature, nothing has been done by art or science towards the least improvement; nothing for the display or enjoyment of local beauties and advantages; not a road, not even an approach to the town, where a horse and cart could pass abreast; and the deep roads only four feet six inches wide, with a footway of two or three feet, from which nothing but the steep banks on each side can be seen, appeared solely calculated for drains to the waters which, running over them, rendered them ever yet deeper and narrower. Not a vehicle, hardly a horse kept for hire, no four-wheeled carriage existed of any kind, and the traveller landed in a town of lofty houses, confined and miserably-paved streets from which he could only penetrate into the country by worse roads, left the island in haste and under the most unfavourable impressions. Read More »

Prayer for Deceased Soldiers

Thou art all-powerful, O God, and livest forever in light and joy. Look with pity and love, we beseech Thee, upon those who have bravely fought and gallantly died for our country. By laying down their lives, they have showed supreme love for others. We implore Thee to accept their sacrifice and their belief in the justice of the cause for which they died. May their offering not be in vain. Deign to forgive any sins or misdeeds they may have committed. Bring them quickly, we implore Thee, into Thine august presence, where fear, sadness, mourning and death no longer exist. Have pity, in Thy loving kindness, on those they leave behind. In Thine own inscrutable ways, make good their absence, and lavishly bestow Thy love and consolations upon those deprived of their presence. This we ask of Thee in the name of Jesus Christ, Our King. Amen.

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