THE Eric Whitacre Singers perform on the album, "Water Night," in a video made by Mike Ring. God's artistry is written on every summer day. The sun shines on the good and the not-so-good. The gifts of nature are distributed to all. No one is barred from divine love.
THE FIRST Commandment of American life is “Thou Shalt Worship the Peeps of Color.” No exceptions permitted. And whether you love ’em or not, they will impose their non-stop reign of terror on you, your city and your country. Many years ago, I used to wonder (secretly) why blacks — I mean People of Color — went to great lengths to spray hideous, depressing graffiti all over bridges and buildings, some of which were architecturally beautiful and made urban life so much more tolerable. How did people who were on welfare have so much time and energy, let alone arrogance and criminality, when most of the people I knew were working so hard to make a living?
I realized (secretly, of course) there could be no other reason why a group would deliberately deface public buildings in this peculiarly sickening way — at some expense and trouble when they could just use inexpensive and readily available paper and canvas to express their supreme artistic talents — than that they hated civilization, order and competence. They hated to submit. In other words, they were spoiled brats. Their being brats was largely due, I realized, to their being indulged, given false expectations and lavished with a freedom and license they could not handle by people with a strange fetish for the colored races, a form of state-sanctioned idolatry that made it impossible to express any of these things openly. (more…)
“A MAN does not become a curmudgeon for no good reason. Perhaps he was sick and tired of dealing with pretenders, parasites, connivers, moochers, opportunists, do-gooders, excuse-makers, and excuse validators – and grateful for the simple, forthright integrity of small animals who asked nothing of him. I, too, have ‘had it up to here’ with most human beings. Long, long ago, when I was young and naïve, I half expected to grow up and live the duration of my life among reasonable human beings. Boy, was I wrong. I have seen the stupid and inexcusable things those ‘reasonable’ human beings have done or permitted to be done to this nation in what surely must rank as one of the most astounding examples of national and cultural suicide in all history. With such people for our countrymen, we do not need enemies. I would sooner choose the company of birds or cats than that of most human beings, because I know that birds and cats will never pretend to be anything they aren’t. They will not betray, nor will the stars or the flowers.”
— Alan (2013 post, “The Stars Weep Too.”) (more…)
TONY S. writes:
My youth was spent with these girls and young women. So many indoctrinated in this clown world faith.
How I wanted to hear just once from all the girls I knew or dated that what they wanted to be when they got older was a mother/homemaker. As I approached thirty I would say to any woman on a first date something along the lines of, “Although I can buy a house, I can never create a home; only a woman can make a home.” It never made any impression on any of them. When I was in college I knew a number of nice young women, all from good families, and I would ask them if they really wanted that career they were studying for (especially, since most students, male or female at that time, the early 90’s, were obviously not interested in learning); wouldn’t they rather stay home and raise a family? And every single one of them gave the same answer, as if programmed, “I want both the career and the family.”
Looking back, now in my mid-50’s, it is clear to me that my generation (Gen X) were indoctrinated, mostly I believe by their parents, who told them to have a career first and then a family second. And I think the young women were really looking for acclaim by becoming a lawyer, doctor, business woman. How superficial they were raised to be. (more…)
"THIS is the picture of a woman who has zero need to work except to feed her own ego. Another fake conservative woman with jewish values who would sacrifice the best years of her child’s life for a sick and twisted career. "And the MAGA seals clap." Source Here is White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt again, this time wearing an all-too-conspicuous, all-too-large cross -- as if that somehow makes her a devout Christian. But I guess in the eyes of many people it does, because they think political theater is reality. The blonde, attractive press secretary is a Trump trademark. I guess these aggressively ambitious, know-it-all, workaholic babes are supposed to make him seem more macho. His staff is part beauty pageant, part Sanhedrin. I guarantee you, when Leavitt is holding a baby, she's thinking of something else. She sets a horrible standard for other women and proves how completely bankrupt American conservatism is.
Source "THE Texas Department Of Licensing and Regulation webpage 'Harvesting The Texas Skies In 2022 - A Summary Of Rain Enhancement Operations In Texas' details numerous Texas cloud seeding operations, some of which have been ongoing consecutively since 1997. "These weather modification projects covered anywhere from 31-51 million acres in Texas with the objective of releasing silver iodide into the atmosphere using pyrotechnics or flares to increase precipitation: "West Texas Weather Modification Association (WTWMA) "South Texas Weather Modification Association (STWMA) "Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District (PGWCD) "Trans Pecos Weather Modification Association (TPWMA) "Rolling Plains Water Enhancement Project" Source: https://tdlr.texas.gov/weather/summary.htm
"YOU hear their overblown, nonsensical, brassy, in-your-face, upside down opinions on everything from what you should watch, to what you should wear, to what you should feel, to what you should buy, and, of course, for whom you should vote. You are surrounded with them. You are swamped by them. If they are from the ZAR lecturing Americans, your ears are punished by their thick gutteral, phlegm accents. All those know-it-alls: the tribe members, anchors, big mouths, spokesholes, blow-hards, clowns, pundits, experts, strategists, think tank twits, smear merchants – all telling audiences what to think, how to think, and what to believe. "Food (the kosher food tax), pharmaceuticals, movies, music, TV, literature, art, fashion, right on down the line, across the board, from top to bottom, every sector is monopolized by jew run Big Government, Big Business and Big Media and Big War. You know the pattern of their names; the 'bergs, the 'steins, the 'witz’s, the cohen’s. the 'man’s. Every time you turn on the news – there they are. Every time there is a Hollywood promotion – there they are. Every time there is a financial scandal (e.g.,Madoff); some sordid perversion; some abominable legislative horror (e.g., the 1965 Immigration Act) – Yes! There they are!" -- Solzhenitzen75
THE Guadalupe River rose about 26 feet in 45 minutes with no advance warning. Details about the tragic flooding in Texas hill country can be found here. To think of families and young children swept away during a holiday weekend like this is beyond sad.
By changing frames at hyper-speed and using all the techno-gimmicks modern technology makes available to them, techno-shysters will seize the viewer’s mind, bounce it around, distort it, erase it, restore it, insult it, flatter it, tease it, and anesthetize it. They will dice-it-and-slice-it by means of multiple frames within the frame … None of it is there by chance. All of it is meticulously planned and engineered by people who hate you if you have a functioning mind.
ALAN writes:
Decades have gone by since I stopped “watching television”. To be sure, I had my share of favorite programs in the years 1954-’65, before I reached an age of intellectual-philosophical awareness. But in the late 1960s I began to notice changes in and about television that did not impress me favorably. From then onward, I spent very little time “watching television”. I thought most of it was appalling — then and now. All the shows that were all the rage meant nothing to me. I got the impression that there was an inverse correlation between the moral-philosophical content of TV programming and advancements in TV technology. The more sophisticated the latter became, the more degenerate the former became.
Until recently and by intent, I had not seen or listened to any TV commercial in more than twenty years. I am old enough to remember TV commercials from the 1950s-’60s that are now called “classic”; advertisements for shampoo, cereal, soup, cake mix, cigarettes, Anacin, Geritol, Speedy Alka-Seltzer, Rice-a-Roni, Mr. Clean, Aunt Jemima’s pancake mix, the Gillette Bluebird, and the Doublemint Twins.
Upon seeing what TV commercials are like today, my only reaction was unqualified revulsion. How, I thought to myself, could any grown-ups worthy of that name agree to sit through, watch, and listen to such adolescent-witted, razzle-dazzle hype?
I have long been a credits-reader. I like to read the credits listed after a movie or TV show. It was possible to do that with 1950s programs like “Perry Mason” and “Leave it to Beaver”, in which the closing credits were clearly readable and sensibly paced. Today it seems that credits are shown at hyper-fast pace, doubtless to move on as quickly as possible to the next razzle-dazzle spectacle, but perhaps also because many TV viewers cannot read well, if at all.
Another development in television that did not impress me was its bag of technical tricks, in which a scene is made to appear or disappear in a white flash, altered repeatedly, and presented in hyper-fast-cut edits within the span of a few minutes. All pretentious nonsense, I thought.
Compared with such high-tech hype, TV advertisements in the 1950s were models of restraint, form, and mannerliness. For an example, see the advertisements for Kodak film and cameras in 1950s episodes of “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” TV show. (more…)
NOT long ago, I bought two salvia coccinea plants. I knew from experience that the tubular, scarlet-red flowers are very attractive to hummingbirds.
I have had this variety before, but never ones so breathtakingly gorgeous. The blossoms on the vertical stems were so huge they weighed down the slender, green supports. They were deep red. I imagined a whole summer with these superior specimens and with happy hummingbirds. I put the plants in a new wooden planter and fertilized them. Then, I thought, “Maybe just a little more.”
I wanted so eagerly that these heavenly plants retain their spectacular blooms — and so I did it. I used more fertilizer than I normally would.
Since then, those first flowers have expired, replaced by ones that are shriveled, have tiny black spots and do not open. And these are usually such easy plants to grow!
I blew it. I loved them too much. (more…)
"THE peace which the Blood has made to reign in the high places as well as in the low; the impetus of its wave bearing back the sons of Adam from the yawning gulf, purified, renewed, and dazzling white in the radiance of their heavenly apparel; the Sacred Table outspread before them, on the waters' brink, and the Chalice brimful of inebriation; all this preparation and display would be objectless, all these splendours would be incomprehensible, if man were not brought to see therein the wooings of a love that could never endure its advances to be outdone by the pretensions of any other." --- "Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ," Dom Prosper Guéranger
Prayer to Venerate With Solemn Worship The Price of Our Salvation Almighty, and everlasting God, who hast appointed thine only- begotten Son to be the Redeemer of the world, and hast been pleased to be reconciled unto us by His Blood, grant us, we beseech Thee, so to venerate with solemn worship the price of our salvation, that the power thereof may here on earth keep us from all things hurtful, and the fruit of the same may gladden us for ever hereafter in heaven Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen (An Indulgence of 5 Years --Roman Missal) Prayers and Devotions to the Precious Blood
"IGNORANCE of God is the first and greatest insult one can offer to Him, as if God and His revelation were superfluities. Thus religion, which joins man to God, depends first and foremost on true knowledge of the true God. Moreover, any love which is not guided by true faith is more than misguided charity; it is quite simply false charity. The first love is the love of truth, and to set out to love God without accepting His revelation is an offense against the truth of God." -- One Hundred Rears of Modernism, Dominique Bourmaud
MY husband and I stopped at a farm store recently. A white peacock was in a fenced area next to the store. The bird displayed his stunning plumage, as if on cue, and my husband put it to music.
"THE Sacred Heart of Jesus was the instrument of a human soul, which contained in it all the perfections, natural and supernatural, of which the human soul is capable. It was the ideal of which the soul, even of the greatest of the saints, was but an utterly inadequate realization. Its sweetness, its gentleness, its power to attract, its Divine beauty were unbounded and almost infinite. Let us contemplate that Sacred Heart, radiant with glory and splendor, and adore it with grateful love. --- Rev. R.F. Clarke, S.J., Meditations on the Sacred Heart
"ONE day I saw the Son of God, holding in His Hand His own Heart, which appeared more brilliant than the sun and which was casting rays of light on every side; then, this amiable Saviour gave me to understand that all the graces which God unceasingly pours forth on men, according to the capacity of each, come from the plenitude of the Divine Heart." -- St. Mechtilde
"HE desires us to avoid the slightest faults, but He does not wish us to worry too much even about the great ones. He decrees that joy, liberty and peace of heart shall be the eternal inheritance of all those who love Him truly." --- The Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Fr. John Croiset, S.J. (1959)
THIS review makes me glad I don't watch many movies made after 1960.