Existentialism in Chester

IT’S BEEN a while since we visited Chester.

You remember Chester — the small industrial city on the rat-gray Delaware River, the city in Pennsylvania where my husband grew up back in the day when America had small industrial cities.

I haven’t been able to go there lately — I don’t mean physically, but mentally. I feel almost ashamed to go there.

For all their faults, and Chesterites had many faults, they were not all that afraid of death. I don’t think they would have identified with a war against an invisible enemy. I don’t think they would have identified with a war against the common cold.

You might even say they courted death. They tempted it with cigarettes and beer and bad food and toothless grins.

Take the neighbor next door, Mrs. Weiry (pronounced “Weery”) — to mention one minor example.

She played on the train tracks when she was a girl. She lost her legs doing it. Both of them, below the knees. She had two wooden legs for the rest of her life. All for a day of fun on the train tracks. (more…)

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The Hunger of the Hummingbird

Cornell/Ruby-throated hummingbird

EVERY day, at this time of year, hummingbirds appear in our backyard — just a few ruby-throated hummingbirds, not the hordes this blackberry farmer attracted to his fields.

Hummingbirds are extremely popular creatures, but we don’t entice them to our yard with feeders. They just appear, spending less than a minute at a time but coming many times during the course of the day, whirring and hovering, drilling with their fantastic, needle-shaped beaks into the tubular salvia blossoms and other flowers, taking away with their speedy, trademark sips the nectar that sustains them or grabbing a few barely visible insects.

For many years the hummingbirds were afraid of us and as soon as we walked out the back door they would fly away in a flash. Now we can stand a few inches away and they don’t flee. I don’t know why this is. I assume different birds come each year, but then hummingbirds can live as long as nine years, so perhaps it is possible, after traveling thousands of miles from Central America in the spring, they come back to the same yard — and have gotten used to us. I don’t know whether this is possible. I only know I can now stand close to them, look right into their jet black eyes, see the details of their emerald backs and iridescent, red or white throats — and hear the whirring of their wings, which move so fast they cannot be seen by the human eye and make the birds appear as if suspended in air. When I’m weeding, I sometimes hear the tiny, humming motors passing very close to my ears. They don’t seem to mind my presence. Maybe some hummingbirds are just not as fearful as others. (more…)

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Who Is “Delta Variant?”

FOR THOSE of you who have not been tuning in to the riveting miniseries The Pandemic, I would like to explain briefly who the popular character “Delta Variant” is and also a little about the plot — though I strongly recommend you tune in yourself.

Episode Nine is currently underway. Now, Delta is a sinister and scary villain (I mean, can’t you tell by the Masonic, Luciferian name?) who has “appeared” after the series’ original arch villain, Covid, had been terrorizing the people in the Land of the Goody-Goodies for many months, as seen in previous episodes.

The Goody-Goodies just want to do what they are told and be nice people. The more conspicuously they can be nice, the better. The problem is, both of these supremely diabolical villains are invisible and they want to destroy every last Goody-Goody.

They enter people’s bodies when their victims are not looking and make them sick, sending them to the hospital where nurses and doctors work frantically to cure them. Many people do not make it out of the hospital.

The illness these marauders create is similar to the flu — and numerous other ailments. But it’s also different, in invisible ways. Neither Delta — a twin brother of Covid who learned everything he knows from him — nor Covid can be shot down with guns or bombs. They can only be poisoned with injections. These injections kill and sicken a lot of people, but it’s better to die that way than be killed by Delta or Covid.

Anyway, these invisible marauders are creating a lot of havoc for the Goody-Goodies. (more…)

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“Psychopaths in Power”

JEFF GREEN analyzes a recent piece in the news that advocates forcing the "unvaccinated" to pay for damages. This is a rant, but a good one.  

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Saying No to Pests and Tyranny

ALAN writes:

The COVID “menace” is a myth involving relabeling, the hypostatizing of mysterious entities manufactured entirely out of the blue, naive and wholly unwarranted trust in doctors, and the false attribution to a single cause of myriad effects and occurrences arising from unrelated causes.

None of the COVID folderol is about health, medicine, or science.  It is about power, plain and simple.  It is a Communist-engineered, innocent-sounding pretext for unprecedented seizure of power and destruction of liberty and rights.  The only thing new is the medical-sounding pretext.

The COVID Fraud also offers wonderful opportunities for nobodies to become busybodies by joining the Mask Police Patrol, a job that enables them to stand around gawking at people, scolding them, barking out orders, and pushing people around – a veritable fiesta for petty tyrants.  I see them do this every week in St. Louis.

Much has been said about the life-destroying and health-destroying effects of so-called “vaccines” for that fake menace.  That is certainly a proper concern, especially when thousands of unwitting victims have learned it the hard way.

But there is a more fundamental concern:  The right to say NO; the right to choose; the right to discriminate; the right to be let alone.  These are among our inalienable rights.  We have them because we are human beings, not because government “gives” them to us. (more…)

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“How to Read a Book”


WHEN I WAS in my thirties, I began to read books differently. I felt a bit guilty about doing things this way, but, what the heck, no one was looking over my shoulders. I didn’t have anyone to please when it came to reading but myself.

I would pick up a book and check out the title page. Then, as long as it was non-fiction, I would go right to the end. I would read some of the very last chapter, usually a few paragraphs or, if interested, a few pages.

I would then go to the middle of the book, and read a few pages or paragraphs. After that, I would read the table of contents and scan the entire book quickly, with my thumb on the edge of the pages, and stop here and there, looking at chapter headings and random paragraphs. Maybe I would stop for a while in one place.

Finally, I would read some of the beginning. If the book seemed worth reading, I would later start from the very beginning and read the book in the conventional way, from start to finish.

To this day, I start many books at the end, whether they are digital or hard versions.

This method is very similar to one described by the late Mortimer Adler in his book How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Readingwhich I later encountered and which made me realize that it was okay to do things this way with certain types of books. (more…)

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Technical Issues with this Site

EVER since my hosting company updated some of its software, the archives on this site have not been working well. If you search for posts using keywords or subjects, you may not find them. The problem is that the "theme," or framework, for this site cannot be updated by me and it has not been updated in a while. I am hoping to resolve these problems in the next few weeks, either by updating the theme or transferring the content to a new one. In the meantime, you may have difficulty finding past posts. You can always write to me and I will try to find them for you.  

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Uneducated, but Sane

TERRY MORRIS writes from Oklahoma:

I am very grateful that I live amongst people who, in spite of the “lying scumbags” (as you rightly refer to them) at the CDC and otherwise running the country, take all of this COVID nonsense with a grain of salt for the most part. In my ‘neck of the woods,’ you rarely see anyone wearing a mask or practicing “social distancing” beyond what is just common sense and common courtesy. That is to say, one should never invade someone else’s space, a principle that most of us around here were taught as youngsters, either explicitly, or implicitly by good example in our parents and elders. “My people,” among whom I live and work and move on a daily basis, might well be “under-educated” by national standards, but, and as I’ve pointed out many times since this whole COVID 19 crap started up, they are heads above the “common herd” populating the rest of the country when it comes to good old fashioned common sense. I do know several persons who have gotten the jab, but most of them are elderly and, well, they are individuals who are scared to death of death. (more…)

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A Question Becomes a Crime in France

CONFITEOR DEO writes from Paris: A few weeks ago in France, the retired General Dominique Delawarde appeared on CNews, a supposedly conservative news TV station, where he was pressed to reply to the question, "Who controls the media?" The aggressive, kosher journalist, who looks like a clone of Leon Trotsky, pressed him with the word "Qui?" (Translation: "Who?") and even if the General didn't reply exactly, his response was enough to get the interview shut down and motivate the interviewer into attacking the terrible behavior of the General, who will never be invited on CNews again. Of course the General is facing a charge of anti-semitism, but this isn't the end of the story. The word "Qui" is now being brandished quite often in the anti-Covid demonstrations. The government is working to introduce a pass that will prevent the "unvaccinated" from entering businesses. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets. On Saturday, the 7th of August, Cassandre Fristot demonstrated in the city of Metz with a placard asking "Qui?" and listing 11 names. The media hysteria is quite something and Cassandre Fristot was identified and arrested yesterday morning. So today, in France, the question "Qui?" (Who?) is now officially a crime. We need to remember Cassandre Fristot, who is Catholic, in our prayers. She has been on the right side of truth for many years.  

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Random Thoughts in the Face of Tyranny

ALAN writes:

In a conversation with my mother in 1966, I distinctly remember saying, “We are living in a sick society.”  Today I would abjure the medical metaphor but stand by the judgment.  At that moment I had in mind primarily the practice of coercion in the form of government-mandated schooling, government-forced conscription for young American men, and government-forced involvement in the Vietnam War.  People who called themselves “Conservatives” spoke in defense of all those things, so I concluded that there was also something not quite right with “Conservatives.”

Neither educating children, nor ordering free men to become soldiers, nor dragging such men into foreign wars whose combatants did not threaten one inch of American soil or any part of American liberty was any of government’s business, I thought in 1966.  It did not occur to me then that, in effect, I was declaring my opposition to Communism, which is of course the consummate expression of coercion writ large. (more…)

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“Why Are People Dying?”

FROM Jon Rappoport: As my readers know, for the past year I’ve been demonstrating—with much evidence and proof—that the SARS-CoV-2 virus doesn’t exist. Some people reply: “So why are all these people dying?” “What is the cause?” I’ve answered those questions at length. I’m going to answer them again. First of all, if someone says, “I know a family where three people died, so what else could it be, besides the virus,” the answer is: I have no idea why these three people died. I’m not doing remote viewing. The person who asked the question has no idea, either. But because we have no idea, that doesn’t mean it must be the virus. Think it through. It could be exposure to an environmental toxin. It could be the effects of a vaccine. It could be several different reasons acting in concert. But that person says, “It wasn’t a toxin or a vaccine. They were all healthy until last month.” How does he know it wasn’t a toxin? And again, just because we don’t know, there is no reason to skip from there to: “It must have been the virus.” Does “we don’t know” equal “the virus”? No. Does “we don’t know” equal “let’s accept the official propaganda about the virus”? No. Does “we don’t know” equal “let’s accept the preponderance of opinion”? No. All right. Moving on—the most important thing to know about so-called COVID is: THERE IS NO SINGLE…

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“You Lied to Me”

THIS SONG is dedicated to the obedient and naive people I saw in the supermarket yesterday wearing face masks.

Someday these people may wake up and realize that life is cruel and Daddy has lied to them. There will be lots of tears and shock. They may sing all the songs of betrayal they like, but by then, it will be far too late in the day.

If anybody comes up to me and asks why I am not dressed like a bank robber just like everybody else, they will get a few choice words about the lying scumbags at the CDC. I’m a very bad girl, a naughty, naughty girl. I just can’t get the hang of bowing to “experts.” What’s wrong with me? Their credentials do not impress me. Ooooh, Johns Hopkins!! Ooooh, Harvard!! They’re all the same lying scumbags to me.

It used to be a crime to be a bank robber, now it’s a crime not to be one. (more…)

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The Jewish Persecution Complex

FROM JUNE of this year, this outstanding article by Brenton Sanderson at Occidental Observer looks at the “competitive victimhood” of Jews and the untold damage it has done to America.

Sanderson highlights the militant, cultish arrogance of Jews who are obsessed with their alleged victimization while simultaneously possessing elite status in America and their complete lack of empathy for those whom they (falsely) view as their victimizers, especially under the heady (and fictitious) narrative of the Holocaust, with which they are fed from early childhood and which becomes a story of their own saintliness: (more…)

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Story of a Medical Heretic

ONCE UPON A TIME there was a young and earnest couple who married and had, by some miracle, three beautiful children in quick succession.

The couple loved their children very much. They wanted to raise them well. They had the very best intentions. They especially wanted their children to care about the world beyond themselves. They wanted their children’s lives to be filled with faith and sacrifice for others.

And that’s exactly how they raised them. (more…)

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