A SINGER who got his start in church choirs in Georgia at the age of six, Roy Hamilton is little known today, but his version of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” was a huge hit in 1954.

He faced illness early on his career and died at the age of 40.

In recognition of Black History Month and Hamilton’s forgotten struggles to produce wholesome popular music, here is a recording of his performance of the song. Compare this song to the degrading noise proffered as black music today, and weep.

Booker T. Washington

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON was “mercilessly ridiculed” by black liberals in the North for his insistence that blacks focus on improving themselves and not on attacking whites.

In recognition of Black History Month, here is an excerpt from “Du Bois vs. Washington: Old Lessons Black People Have Not Learned,” by Ellis Washington:

Although born a slave, Booker T. Washington triumphed against an overwhelming set of circumstances to become one of the great Black educators, speakers and university builders in American history. Perhaps even more amazing is that Washington was of such high moral character as to not have any hatred or animosity toward Whites. Neither did he manifest any psychological debilitation from suffering what had to be a traumatic childhood as a slave. One of the many maxims Washington followed was that, “It is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him.” He believed that racial reconciliation could only be gained through compromise and finding common ground even among the most radical White segregationists in the South. Washington further stated in his Atlanta speech:

The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

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ALAN writes:

The cast of television’s “Father Knows Best” appear in a 1959, 33-minute film called “Twenty-Four Hours in Tyrantland,” produced by Screen Gems television in co-operation with the U.S. Treasury Dept.  It is a dramatization of how tyranny becomes possible when people are gullible or apathetic enough to permit the enactment of non-objective laws and the surrender to government of arbitrary power that such laws make possible.  In light of two years of COVID Tyranny, it is well worth watching.

Father Jim Anderson (portrayed superbly by actor Robert Young) says to his apathetic children: “What would happen if everyone in America was as little concerned about our way of life as you are?  Why, freedom would go zinging right out the door. “

“Oh, you know that’s not going to happen,” his daughter Betty replies (portrayed by actress Elinor Donahue).

To which he responds, “It could happen much easier than you think.”

If Americans learned anything from such warnings, it was not evident in 2020 when they allowed their nation to be made into a kind of Tyrantland. Read More »

NOW Candlemas is come at last, therefore my dearest friend,
Since Christmas time is almost past, I mean to make an end
Of this our mirth and merriment, and now the truth to tell,
He must be from our presence sent, O Christmas, now farewell.
Now Christmas will no longer stay, my very heart doth grieve,
Before from us he take his way, of him I’ll take my leave:
It is a time none of the least, as I the truth may tell,
For him we’ll make a worthy feast, then Christmas, now farewell.
With nappy ale both brown and stale, we’ll fill our bumpers full,
And pippins too as I am true, they make the best lambswool:
So fast and smooth it will go down, thy sorrow to expel,
And then at last when all is past, Christmas we’ll bid farewell.

CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMAS EVE
by Robert Herrick

DOWN with the rosemary and bays,
Down with the misletoe ;
Instead of holly, now up-raise
The greener box (for show). Read More »

O GLORIOUS Virgin, ever blest,
Sublime above the starry sky,
Who nurture from thy spotless breast
To thy Creator didst supply.

What we had lost through hapless Eve,
The Blossom sprung from these restores,
And, granting bliss to souls that grieve,
Unbars the everlasting doors.

O Gate, through which hath passed the King.
O Hall, whence Light shone through the gloom;
The ransomed nations praise and sing
Life given from the Virgin womb.

All honor, laud, and glory be,
O Jesu, Virgin-born, to Thee;
All glory, as is ever meet,
To Father and to Paraclete.

TODAY, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, or Candlemas, is the last day of the liturgical Christmas season.

The angel-lights of Christmas morn,
Which shot across the sky,
Away they pass at Candlemas,
They sparkle and they die.

Comfort of earth is brief at best,
Although it be divine;
Like funeral lights for Christmas gone,
Old Simeon’s tapers shine. (Source)

Above is one more beautiful carol for the season.

It is based on the story of King Cnut, also known as Canute, and his visit to Ely Abbey on Candlemas in the eleventh century. Canute, of Denmark, was famous for his brutality in his invasion of England. “He came as an invader and ruthless destroyer, and by a change of temperament as remarkable as it was far-reaching in its effects, remained to rule, in justice and peace, a people whose part he wholly espoused. ” (Source)

The Clerk of Oxford tells the story:

“King Cnut was making his way to Ely by boat, accompanied by Emma, his queen, and the nobles of the kingdom, desiring to celebrate solemnly there, in accordance with custom, the Purification of St Mary, starting from which date the abbots of Ely are accustomed to hold, in their turn, their position of service in the royal court. When they were approaching the land, the king rose up in the middle of his men and directed the boatmen to make for the little port at full speed, and then ordered them to pull the boat forward more slowly as it came in. As he turned his eyes towards the church which stood out at a distance, situated as it was at the top of a rocky eminence, he heard the sound of sweet music echoing on all sides, and, with ears alert, began to drink in the melody more fully the closer he approached. For he realised that it was the monks singing psalms in the monastery and chanting clearly the Divine Hours. He urged the others who were present in the boats to come round about him and sing, joining him in jubilation. Expressing with his own mouth his joyfulness of heart, he composed aloud a song in English the beginning of which runs as follows: Read More »

AFTER reading this opinion piece about the truckers protesting in Ottawa by David Moscrop of The Washington Post, it occurred to me just how deep anti-trucker sentiment is among the “educated” and enlightened. Moscrop does not hold back, calling the dissident drivers “toxic,” “far-right,” “authoritarianist” and “insidious extremists.” You can find similar vitriol in other news pieces and in statements from politicians over the past few days.

This disdain perhaps does not apply only to the truckers protesting forced medical injections — the real issue at hand that Moscrop doesn’t even acknowledge, thus suggesting the truckers are engaging in indiscriminate, “anti-government” trouble-making — but to truckers as a class.

Truckers are part of the invisible class of men that keep the economy going by doing often unpleasant jobs. What could be worse?

** Truckers are overwhelmingly white men, i.e. they are “white supremacists”

** Truckers don’t go to college

** Truckers don’t go to diversity and inclusion seminars

** Truckers control our food supply

** Truckers drive big, big vehicles and are responsible for destroying the planet

** Truckers don’t read The Washington Post or listen to NPR

Whatever happens in the next few days in Ottawa, and however encouraging all the support from ordinary Canadians who have cheered the truckers on is, I predict truckers in general are not going to come out looking good, at least not in the news. I also believe those in power genuinely fear the trucker. He is organized with his brothers; he could refuse to participate in, or expose, deliberate sabotage of our supply lines; he is not easily seduced by propaganda and he could weaponize his vehicle. Expect truckers to be increasingly portrayed as villains in order to rally the people against them and ultimately to automate their jobs out of existence.

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Zeno writes:

Besides the general animus against truckers (and against working-class people in general, which is not new — but then, isn’t the Washington Post owned by a famous billionaire?), what strikes me is the expression used in the title, which I read as “toxic freedom”. Yes, I suppose the writer is applying it only to the “Freedom Convoy”, but it does seem to be a rant against “freedom” in general.

The same people who supposedly pushed “freedom” until recently — “freedom” to have sex with anyone, “freedom” to divorce, “freedom” to abort babies, now appear to be increasingly against freedom in any way or form — even the most basic freedoms of movement, of choosing which medicine to take, and even of protesting against unfair rules.

They really, really want us to be slaves, with no choice other than whatever the elites decide is “good”, and they will stop at nothing to do it — they will even turn us into cyborg automatons if they can. Scary stuff.

Laura writes:

Moscrop is guilty of projection.

He’s the insidious extremist and authoritarianist.

ANOTHER excerpt from Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Contemporary Books, 1979) by Robert S. Mendelsohn M.D. (read online for free):

When hospitals started relaxing visiting hours, they didn’t do it because they realized that people should be allowed to be with their family. They did it because pediatrics was dying and the beds in the pediatric wards were empty. They would have done anything to get children in there — let mothers, fathers, siblings, cats, or dogs in for a visit! Obstetrics is dying, too. People want to have their babies at home, not in the hospital. So today they’ll let anybody in the delivery room, husband, sister, mother, boyfriend … anybody! As long as they get the revenue.

What they’re counting on is that people will be lulled into feeling that the hospital really is the place for them, that the Temple really can save them. Of course, it can’t. The Temple has nothing to do with health. There are no facilities in hospitals for health or for any of the things commonly recognized as contributing to health. The food is as bad as you’d find in the [138] worst fast food drive-in. There are no facilities for exercise. All the personal factors that can make you well or keep you healthy are removed — family, friends, and sense of self. In no uncertain terms, when you walk into a hospital, you are surrendering — “Here | am, totally unable to help myself. You must save me. I am without power. All power is yours.”

Hospital costs are the biggest single element in the country’s total bill for medical “care.” That bill is rapidly overtaking defense, the Number One item on the country’s total bill for everything. When medicine exceeds defense, the Inquisition will really be unstoppable. No one seriously challenges whatever institution is the first item on the budget. Whatever costs more than anything else gathers bureaucratic inertia of such immense proportions that it controls the destiny of the country. Then the dream of Modern Medicine will be fulfilled: the whole country will become a hospital. We’ll all be patients in the Temple of Doom.

Read more here. [Not a blanket endorsement of Mendelsohn’s book.]

                                   Robert S. Mendelsohn

ROBERT S. Mendelsohn M.D. was a practicing physician for over 25 years. He was Chairman of the Medical Licensing Committee for the State of Illinois, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health in the School of Medicine of the University of Illinois, and received awards for excellence in medicine and medical instruction.

In his 1979 book, Confessions of a Medical Heretic, he denounced his profession and said modern medicine is religion, not science:

I believe that Modern Medicine’s treatments for disease are seldom effective, and that they’re often more dangerous than the diseases they’re designed to treat.

I believe the dangers are compounded by the widespread use of dangerous procedures for non-diseases.

I believe that more than ninety percent of Modern Medicine could disappear from the face of the earth — doctors, hospitals, drugs, and equipment — and the effect on our health would be immediate and beneficial.

I believe that Modern Medicine has gone too far, by using in everyday situations extreme treatments designed for critical conditions.

Every minute of every day Modern Medicine goes too far, because Modern Medicine prides itself on going too far. A recent article, “Cleveland’s Marvelous Medical Factory,” boasted of then Cleveland Clinic’s “accomplishments last year: 2,980 open-heart operations, 1.3 million laboratory tests, 73,320 electrocardiograms, 7,770 full-body x-ray scans, 24,368 surgical procedures.” Read More »

A Chip off the Old Block, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, New York; 1887

DO not be vexed at the contradictions you meet in ordinary intercourse, for they give an opportunity to practice the most precious and amiable virtues, which Our Lord has recommended to us. Believe me that true virtue is no more reared in outward repose, than good fish in the stagnant water of a swamp. How shall we prove our love for God, who has suffered so much for us, if not among contradictions and repugnances?

–—  St. Francis de Sales

Rembrandt, Man in Armor

FROM The Broad Stone of Honour; or, Rules for the Gentlemen of England by Kenelm Henry Digby (Rivington, London; 1823):

No man will be so hardy or so insensible as to deny the genius and the inimitable humour evinced by the author of Don Quixote, but with respect to the moral tendency of that work as affecting the ordinary class of mankind, in this or in any age, there will arise quite a legitimate subject for discussion. Many are the men of reflection who think with me that it is a book never to be read without receiving melancholy impressions, without feelings of deep commiseration for the weakness and for the lot of human nature.

What is the character of the hero in this history?

It is that of a man possessing genius, virtue, imagination and sensibility, all the generous qualities which distinguish an elevated soul, with all the amiable features of a disinterested and affectionate heart. Brave, equal to all that history has recorded of the most valiant warriors: loyal and faithful, never hesitating on the fulfilment of his promise; disinterested as he is brave, he contends but for virtue and for glory; if he desires to win kingdoms it is only to bestow them upon Sancho Panza; a faithful lover, a humane and generous warrior, a kind and affectionate master,  a gallant and accomplished gentleman — and this is the man whom Cervantes has represented as the subject of constant ridicule and of occasional reproach.

Without doubt there is an important lesson to be derived from the whole, the lesson which teaches the necessity of prudence and good sense, of moderation and respect for the institutions of society, of guarding the imagination from excess of exercise, and the feelings from an over excitement. But this is a lesson to be gently hinted to men of virtue, not to be proclaimed to the profane amidst the mockery of the world. This is not the lesson which the ordinary class of mankind will derive from it; and if it were, this is not the lesson of which it stands in need.

…. There is no danger in this enlightened age, as it is termed, of men becoming too heroic, too generous, too zealous in the defense of innocence, too violent in hatred of baseness and crime, too disinterested and too active in the cause of virtue and truth: the danger is quite on the other side: there is much to be apprehended from the ridicule which is cast upon sentiment, from the importance which attaches to personal convenience, from substituting laws for virtue, and prudence for devotion, from the calculating spirit of the commercial system, from the epicurean principles of enjoyment which are proclaimed by the modern philosophists. Cervantes exposed the knight errant to the ridicule of the world, but did he stop when he had done this? … Cervantes in exposing what he conceived to be the danger and absurdity of chivalrous sentiment, held up to mockery not alone the excess and the abuse, but the very reality of virtue.

[This excerpt has been divided into additional paragraphs.]

                                      Ida Tarbell

“HUMAN society may be likened to two great circles, one revolving within the other. In the inner circle rules the woman. Here she breeds and trains the material for the outer circle, which exists only by and for her. That accident may throw her into this outer circle is, of course, true, but it is not her natural habitat. Nor is she fitted by Nature to live and circulate freely there. What it all amounts to is that the labor of the world is naturally divided between the two different beings that people the world. It is unfair to the woman that she be asked to do the work of the outer circle. The man can do that satisfactorily if she does her part, that is, if she prepares him the material. Certainly, he can never come into the inner circle and do her work.”

— Ida Tarbell, investigative journalist and author

FROM “Have We Lost Our Common Sense?” Dr. Jonathan Dolhenty, Ph. D:

“Our culture and society today are decidedly under the influence of a philosophy of Subjectivism, an unrealistic, and even anti-realistic, philosophy which is both relativistic and pragmatic. Subjectivism is the result of the intellectual battle which has waged between the philosophies of Idealism (actually Idea-ism) and Materialism (or Naturalism) for the past several centuries.

“According to Subjectivism (whether Idealist or Materialist), there is no such thing as objective truth (truth is relative) and there are no objectively defined, universally true principles of moral behavior (morality is relative). This has led to the current situation which is permeated with intellectual chaos, resulting in disastrous practical consequences for everyone.

“There is little doubt among knowledgeable observers that our present age is on the verge of conceptual collapse. If Subjectivism is valid, then all truth is relative, and the laws of physics and the laws of civil society are simply arbitrary. If Subjectivism is valid, then morality is merely a matter of opinion and personal taste, and personal responsibility is simply a figment of our collective imagination. Subjectivism also undermines empirical science, undermines the entire concept of jurisprudence, and undermines any attempt to promote a human and humane morality. We are all subject to the whims of the moment and are all victims of the latest public poll. Read More »

Edmund Burke, studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“IT is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals, that their maxims have a plausible air, and on a cursory view appear equal to first principles. They are as light and portable; they are as current as copper coin, and about as valuable. They serve equally the first capacities and the lowest, and they are at least as useful to the worst men as to the best.”

— Edmund Burke

LOST DAYS
—- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The lost days of my life until to-day,
What were they, could I see them on the street
Lie as they fell? Would they be ears of wheat
Sown once for food but trodden into clay?
Or golden coins squandered and still to pay?
Or drops of blood dabbling the guilty feet?
Or such spilt water as in dreams must cheat
The throats of men in Hell, who thirst alway?

I do not see them here; but after death
God knows I know the faces I shall see,
Each one a murdered self, with low last breath.
‘I am thyself, — what hast thou done to me?’
‘And I — and I — thyself,’ (lo! each one saith,)
‘And thou thyself to all eternity!’

In 1967 a Soviet adventure TV series Operation Trust (Операция “Трест”) was created.

STEVE writes:

Americans, especially white, middle-aged con-servatives, have an insatiable appetite to be conned, deceived and betrayed! They are the utter personification … and perfection of ‘golem.’

A good example — but there are legions — is this article in Breitbart last September, urging conservatives to take the vax so they can “Own the Libs.” These controlled-opposition groups couldn’t possibly be any more blatant, and utterly pathetic. Yet so many keep falling for it.

Believe me, you can always “TPECT” con-servatives.

Operation Trust (операция “Трест”[1]) was a counterintelligence operation of the State Political Directorate (GPU) of the Soviet Union. The operation, which was set up by GPU’s predecessor Cheka, ran from 1921 to 1926, set up a fake anti-Bolshevik resistance organization, “Monarchist Union of Central Russia”, MUCR (Монархическое объединение Центральной России, МОЦР), in order to help the OGPU identify real monarchists and anti-Bolsheviks.[2] The created front company was called the Moscow Municipal Credit Association.[3] Read More »

ALAN writes:

I’ve decided to partake of the World Economic Forum’s “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” I am now working from home. Here are two snapshots to prove it.

In the first, you will see that I am hard at work in my unmentionables as I arrange books by the Dewey Decimal System.  Afterward I was exhausted from reading all those names and numbers.  So I took a nap.

When I awoke, still in my jammies (second picture), I had a brilliant inspiration for my next work project:  A Deep Research essay on the Interdimensional Intersectionality of Higher Learning, Advanced Gullibility, and Modern Advertising Slogans when correlated with phases of the moon and the paramount question: How many times can Feminist TV Anchors say “Awesome!” in a single newscast?  An alternate idea that occurred to me is a study of correlations between Fauci’s bank accounts, multiple levels of no-account bureaucrats, and the astronomical increase in Americans’ gullibility over the last forty years.

I aim to publish my Deep Research in the Journal of Psycholinguistic Imponderables or the Journal of Nescience, Nonsense, Non-Knowledge, and Non-Entities (whichever pays more).

For breaks during working hours, I watch Looney Tunes. For even better laughs, I listen to Fauci-the-Carnival Barker’s latest medical advice in each day’s new episode of Follow the Flim-Flam Artist.   

It is imperative for Comrades like us to pursue such Deep Drivel…..er, I mean Deep Research…..in opposition to Dissenters who must be Debunked, Demeaned, Defamed, Denounced, Derailed, Deplored, Deplatformed, Deconstructed, Discredited and Disrupted ….. ideally in One Swell Foop.

“WHAT we most need in our day are men conscientiously and invincibly attached to principle, — God-fearing, self-respecting, nobly independent while reverencing the rights of others, — incapable of betraying their conscience, their trust, or their honor; men uniting to the vigor of body inherited from chaste and temperate ancestors and sustained by personal virtue, to the strength of soul which true piety begets, that dignified and gentle courtesy which is only the flower and perfume of Christian charity.”

— True Men as We Need Them: A Book of Instruction for Men in the World, Fr. Bernard O’Reilly, 1878