The Rabbis on Women
NO WONDER the most fervent feminists have been Jewish. There's nothing even remotely comparable to this in Christianity.
NO WONDER the most fervent feminists have been Jewish. There's nothing even remotely comparable to this in Christianity.
RESIDENTS of a Colorado nursing home gathered outside last Thursday to protest ongoing lockdown of their facility. The Greeley Tribune reports: “Enough is enough. Set us free,” Fairacres Manor resident Josie Sanchez said through a microphone Thursday afternoon while parked in her wheelchair on 16th Street across from North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley. Sanchez, 76 years old, was one of organizers of the protest. She was joined by approximately 19 of her fellow Fairacres residents as they sat in their wheelchairs on the sidewalk in front of the medical-center parking garage for two hours while the 16th Street traffic passed by with some drivers honking their horns. The residents held signs and some waved to the motorists. One of the signs read: “We want families back.” The theme of the signs was the same and they were all directed at state officials: let us hug our families. One woman held a sign saying, "I'd rather die of Covid than loneliness." What governments have done to the elderly in the last six months is a crime against humanity. Removing the restrictions is not enough. Criminal trials and long prison sentences are in order.
FROM CNBC: Billionaire wealth jumped by more than a quarter during the height of the coronavirus crisis, according to new research, with a rally in stock markets helping the wealth of the world’s richest surpass the $10 trillion mark for the first time. The “Riding the storm” study, published on Wednesday by Swiss bank UBS and accounting firm PwC, found that global billionaire wealth climbed to $10.2 trillion between April and July this year, up from $8 trillion at the start of April. That reflected an increase in wealth of 27.5% and exceeded the previous peak of $8.9 trillion recorded at the end of 2017. The number of billionaires worldwide also reached a new high of 2,189, compared to the previous record of 2,158 in 2017.
'EVERY best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights. Every emanation of splendor overflowing from the divine goodness upon man, reacts in him as a principle of spiritual simplification and of heavenly union; and by its own power leads him back towards the sovereign unity and godlike simplicity of the Father. For all things come from God, and return to God. "By the very fact that things exist, inanimate objects partake of God, who by the sublimity of His Essence, is the being of all that is...." --- St. Dionysius
IF I were a photographer, I would take a photograph of one of the apples I bought yesterday. Since I can't take a decent picture, I will try a snapshot in words. I went to a roadside stand far from the supermarket. Instead of pristine apples from 200 hundred miles away in plastic bags, they were all jumbled together, entirely naked in bins, separated by variety and pestered by a few bees. They were 39 cents a pound. A Jonagold, this apple has tiny brown varicose veins or scribbles along the top, a small black spot where a worm or fungus had a meal, and skin that is pinkish red and dusky yellow. It is not shiny or shellacked. The hostile action of the wind and rain seem visible on its dulled skin. The spot suggests hardship too. This apple has been through some stuff. Did you know that an apple has a soul? The apple's musky golden-ness is all the proof you need. It is like no other apple you've seen and like every apple you've seen. Plato would say it's an expression of the ideal apple. An apple has a soul, but not an immortal soul. Artists have spent much time and effort painting bowls or piles of fruit on tables not because they were hungry or in the advertising business for apple growers but because they were trying to capture the evanescent soul of fruit. When I looked…
KIT Knightly writes at Off Guardian (ignore warning; it is not dangerous to access this site):
The World Health Organization has finally confirmed what we (and many experts and studies) have been saying for months – the coronavirus is no more deadly or dangerous than seasonal flu.
The WHO’s top brass made this announcement during a special session of the WHO’s 34-member executive board on Monday October 5th, it’s just nobody seemed to really understand it.
In fact, they didn’t seem to completely understand it themselves. (more…)
FROM Chuck Baldwin’s article, “Another Phony Conservative Judge Nominated To The Supreme Court:”
As with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, Barrett is just another Big Government, Police State ideologue who will continue the assault against our constitutionally protected liberties and who will do nothing to overturn Roe.
Here is what Constitutional attorney Robert Barnes says about Barrett:
Barrett sided with the government on almost every civil rights case, every big employer case, every criminal case, while also siding with the government on the lockdowns, on uncompensated takings, on excusing First Amendment infringements & Fourth Amendment violations.
Barrett exclaimed the benefits of Jacobson, the decision that green-lit forced vaccines & carved out an emergency exception to Constitutional protection in “public health” or “emergency” cases used to justify forced sterilizations & detention camps. (more…)
MARK CRISPIN MILLER made the mistake of introducing live propaganda to his college students. Speaking of propaganda, this clip below is from an event in Doylestown, Pennsylvania in which Governor Tom Wolf and PA State Rep Wendy Ullman "chat about removing their masks to speak. Ullman says she is going to play 'political theater' and wait to get her mask removal 'on camera.' They laugh. Gov. Wolf responds 'okay, that’s good.'"
SATIRE from The Babylon Bee:
WASHINGTON, D.C—President Donald Trump is once again under fire from the media for recklessly downplaying the danger of COVID by refusing to die. As the president begins to show signs of recovery, many worry that this sends the wrong message about the seriousness of the global pandemic.
“Every hour that he lives is another hour that the severity of this virus is undermined!” said reporter Sara Grace Major for CNN. “Why won’t he just DIE and show the American people how deadly this virus truly is?” (more…)
TO LEAVE this world at the age of 95 is no great tragedy. But to spend one's last months in intense loneliness -- for no good reason -- is a great tragedy. Shame on all those people, including our presidential contenders, who have let many thousands die this way because of a flu that has killed about 10,000 people who were not already seriously sick. By the way, I was in a restaurant yesterday and saw a sad sight. An elderly man walking down a ramp with a mask on fell to the ground. Fortunately, he was able to get to his feet and walk away. But he was very shaken. Whether he fell because his vision was impeded by the mask, I don't know, but I do know other people, not all of them old, have fallen because of masks. We see with our faces.
KAMALA Harris is more physically attractive than Al Sharpton but she's cut from the same cloth as the famous race hustler. To present Breonna Taylor and George Floyd as national martyrs as she did last night at the debate with Mike Pence says a lot about her audacious lack of integrity. Breonna Taylor was killed because her drug dealing boyfriend fired at police and they fired back. George Floyd was a convict who resisted arrest and had taken fentanyl. A total of nine unarmed black people have been killed by police this year. Meanwhile, 57 children under 12, all of them black or brown, have been killed in street violence; every single one of them likely by a black shooter. Every year, about 7,000 blacks are killed by other blacks. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron was called a "coon" by other blacks and received death threats for supporting the decision by a grand jury that no criminal charges be filed against Louisville police in connection with Taylor's death. Harris in the debate was implicitly attacking Cameron too. If Harris, the black supremacist becomes vice president or president, she will do much to wake up more people to the lies behind the sloganeering for "racial justice." They are just so obvious. This kind of racial agitation is a form of political control on behalf of the one percent.
IF you were disgusted by the race hustling of Kamala Harris in last night's debate, you might be interested in this address by a former Communist in the 1950s and his description of how the NAACP incited and used blacks.
CHRISTIANS who thought they were too holy to defend the white race in the face of its constant demonization might be surprised to find that they are considered de facto racists and "white supremacists" anyway. (But then Christianity was the target all along.) Here are relevant headlines (from Leonydus Johnson) of the last few months:

THIRTY-three days before the election, The President is diagnosed with The Virus and is airlifted to Walter Reed Hospital, where he bravely battles for his life with “mild symptoms.” Operation Warp Speed has failed him. Never again can he be accused of not taking the global bug seriously.
In this latest episode of the reality TV show Pandemic, Trump is prevented from Making America Great Again for two weeks. His enemies openly cheer on the virus they have fanatically feared. Not known for their devotions, they are fervently praying now. His sparring partner, scheduled to meet him in the debating ring for another bout on Oct. 15, secretly wishes he could be hospitalized too. Scientists receive major grants to study whether Republicans are more susceptible than Democrats.
The Third Lady, also positively diagnosed, remains photogenically at the White House.
Stay Tuned for “Election Night,” the forthcoming episode when the recovered president, his ratings boosted by his dramatic illness and the resulting confidence that he can indeed lead the nation through the pending economic and social chaos, will win a second term. (more…)

ALAN writes:
Is there no escape from the drivel of human chattering? And could that question ever be more apropos than in this year of propaganda, revolution, electioneering, and the Great Flu Fraud?
These thoughts came to mind when I read a column Chicago newspaperman Bob Greene wrote twenty years ago about walking along the beach in Florida. He had been doing that for more than fifty years, since he was a boy. He enjoyed it immensely. He walked alone, but he knew he was not alone. The Gulf, the beach, the sky, the silence, the sounds of night were always there for him to see, to hear, to absorb, and to appreciate.
He wrote about that experience in sharp contrast to the busy-ness and transience of men and women chattering about this or that political candidate.
He preferred the beach and the ocean. As far as I am concerned, there would be no contest. He was right.
The older I got, the more respect I have for nature and the less for modern Americans.
It was years and years ago when I concluded that there is no human invention for which I have less use than television. During the early weeks of the Great Flu Fraud last spring, I decided to see whether I could find anything worth listening to on AM radio. I was looking for some evidence—some tiny trace—of reason and old-fashioned American common sense. I couldn’t find it. (more…)
KATHERINE writes:
What do you think about Trump’s nomination for SCOTUS? I see this as a worse attack on motherhood/homemaking than anything the Democrats could do. Amy Coney Barrett should be home taking care of those seven children and her husband. She obviously does not need the money. But her career as a lawyer and judge is SO much more important than being a mother. Trump is implicitly sending this message, as I see it. (more…)