MAKIA FREEMAN writes at a New Age-y site with a healthy skepticism about major news events:

The recent spate of amateurish false flag shootings, which are now being rolled out at an increasingly rapid pace, give one cause to wonder: why? Why are the elite orchestrating such feeble and poorly executed false flag shootings? With all their money, power, control of the media, control of law enforcement and control of politicians, why can’t they make these false flag shootings look more real? Aren’t they worried that with such amateurish false flag shootings they are running the risk of being caught? Of being exposed? Of doing such an atrocious job that it defies common belief, and thus acts as a catalyst to wake people up?

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Since the elite own the MSM and Hollywood, they could pull off a false flag shooting that looked way more believable than what we have been seeing. Is it possible these amateurish false flag shootings are calculatedly fake? In other words, are they a kind of test to see who’s paying attention? Is one of the main points (alongside gun control, promotion of fear, promulgation of terror, police state mental conditioning and distraction) to collect data on post-crisis reaction? (more…)

#PopeFrancis: "I like to laugh--a lot. It helps me feel closer to God & closer to others."  Jokes can change the world. (So can papal impostors.) "When we laugh with each other -- and not at each other -- God's love is present in a special way," Francis says. Forget the ancient pursuit of holiness. Let's laugh! God isn't dead. He's a Clown.  

FURTHER evidence that the recent, racially-motivated shooting of a television reporter and cameraman in Virginia was a hoax. (The voiceover is hard to take but the video is compelling.) (more…)

THESE interesting and charming photos taken by the social reformer Lewis Wickes Hines show mostly mothers and children doing paid labor at home in the early 1900s. The photos were used to campaign against home labor, writes Barbara Wells Sarudy.

The captions published with the original photos are not flattering. The text for a photo of what appears to be a contented family picking nuts reads:

“Picking nuts in dirty basement. The dirtiest imaginable children were pawing over the nuts eating lunch on the table, etc. Mother had a cold and blew her nose frequently (without washing her hands) and the dirty handkerchiefs reposed comfortably on table close to the nuts and nut meats. The father picks now. New York City, December 1911”

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A PITTSBURGH area barber, who turned away one potential female customer, has been fined $750 by the state for “gender discrimination.” He says he had no idea he was required to serve women.

“I didn’t really consider it so much a discrimination thing as – it’s a barbershop… for guys,” he said.

Silly man. He didn’t know the sexes have been outlawed. (more…)

THE blogger Weapons Man analyzes the recent graduation of two women from the grueling Army Ranger School: The two women who were nurtured through Ranger School recently (and who, we must say, showed incredible grit and determination to hang in there through multiple recycles) were so much more impressive than the 136 who fell by the wayside that the Army has decided, after long deliberation a pause to provide a Decent Interval® and look like long deliberation of orders that came from Ash Carter and John McHugh, to open all future Ranger classes to women. Who will graduate. Remember, we called it back in November 2014, as the first 31 women for the Corps of Commissars were selected (out of 36 volunteers… now that’s real selectivity): Lower Standards, Commissars, to Guarantee Graduation. The distaff Ranger graduation is also being used as a wedge to crack open the rest of combat arms, because the Maslovian self-actualization of a couple of career women who want to play Army, and a victory for the lesbo-wiccan coven that is DACOWITS, are more important than whether units can fight and actually beat anybody. “Since they’re only ever going to play Little League, we might as well get ’em used to participation trophies.” [cont.] -- Comments -- Josh F. writes: It seems that the "cost" of "women" in combat is a loss of womanhood and thus a self-revocating appropriation of the title "woman" for each and all female so inclined to make it all the way to…

FROM John Gray’s False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism*:

The free market is a construction of state power. The idea that free markets and minimum government go together, which was part of the stock in trade of the New Right, is an inversion of truth. Since the natural tendency of society is to curb markets, free markets can only be created by the power of a centralized state. Free markets are creatures of strong government and cannot exist without them … It is well illustrated by the short history of 19th century laissez-faire. The free market was engineered in mid-Victorian England in exceptionally propitious circumstances. Unlike other European countries, England has long traditions of individualism. For centuries yeoman farmers were the basis of its economy. But only Parliament [in which most English people were unrepresented] using its power to amend or destroy property rights and create new ones — through Enclosure Acts in which much of the country’s common land was privatized — did an agrarian capitalism of large landed estates come into being … By the middle of the 19th century, through the enclosures, the Poor Laws and the repeal of the Corn Law, land, labour and bread were commodities like any other: the free market had become the central institution in the economy … By the First World War, markets had been largely re-regulated in the interests of public health and economic efficiency. (more…)

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON writes: My analysis of new IRS data shows that, adjusted for inflation, the bottom half of Americans reported average total incomes (excluding welfare benefits like food stamps) of just $14,775 in 2012, down 18 percent from 2003. [emphasis added]

THIS POST is for parents of children in the ten- to 12-year-old age range. Mothers and fathers, please pass on this important knowledge to these children, an audience which is dramatically under-served by this website. Many of these children are resuming schoolwork this week, and my heart goes out to them. I would like to give them this vitally essential knowledge to distract them from their disgusting and exploitative drudgery and show them that there are some things which are never, ever found in school books. In the first two and half minutes of this video, they can learn how to pull out a loose tooth. It's common sense, and it works!!  

MR. JORGE BERGOGLIO, leader of the One World Church, not the still-existent Catholic Church, streamlines the process for Catholic "divorce." See the report at Novus Ordo Watch. 

CHERYL Chumley at World Net Daily reports on a Fox News show in which two attorneys and host Gregg Jarrett come to the unified conclusion that Kim Davis’s legal defense is “stunningly obtuse.”

The attorneys reject both the argument that the Supreme Court does not make state laws, and thus cannot command Davis to issue same-sex “marriage” licenses, and the argument that Davis has a constitutionally-protected right to act upon her religious beliefs. (more…)

DUE to the illness of an elderly relative, I am behind in responding to e-mails, posting comments, and adding new posts. I hope to be back later today.

ALAN writes:

“Pop culture is filth,” John Derbyshire wrote in an essay several years ago.  And music is part of pop culture.

At a time when blacks and whites compete to determine who among them can produce the most vulgar, tasteless, and repulsive noise in the history of recorded sound, I thought it may be useful to consider what kinds of songs American blacks were singing half a century ago.

Here is a list of 20 popular songs that I compiled from memory.  These were sung by black men, women, or groups and played on AM radio stations in the years 1962-’64: (more…)

MRS. T. writes in response to the entry on flex-time: I have an acquaintance who is a professional counselor. The vast majority of her clients are women...working women. They are mostly customer service representatives for a major phone/internet/cable company and teachers. Both jobs are very emotionally demanding. I cannot imagine what these women have left when they get home to their families. My husband also works in customer service for a major utility. His co-workers are primarily women who are the main financial providers within their relationships. And a large percentage of them are on some sort of anti-depressant. It's no joke; it is not uncommon for women to be either entering the building or leaving it crying. Although in regards to kicking children out of their own home, I am guilty of this. As a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom I get a little crazy if the children don't have time outdoors, away from me!

HENRY McCULLOCH writes: Great idea I saw today for a campaign season bumper sticker: I voted for Bush Senior, but I ain’t voting for Señor Bush!