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FROM Rev. James L. Meagher, D.D.’s How Christ Said the First Mass: Of the Rites and Ceremonies of Jesus and the Apostles, Foretold in the Hebrew Passover (Christian Press Publishing, 1908), p. 94-95:

Noe, the second Adam, father of mankind, high priest and image of Jesus Christ, planted a vineyard, pressed the grapes and made wine. Not knowing its effect he took too much, lay naked in his tent, an image of our High Priest stripped of his garments, crucified, dead on the cross. Ham, Noe’s second son mocked his father as the Jews mocked the dying Christ. His two other sons, Sem and Japheth with a cloak, covered their father’s nakedness. (more…)

A DESPISED celebrity who stood her ground, never hating anyone and speaking the truth with kindness, Anita Bryant has died at the age of 84. For more about Bryant, see Alan's 2024 post, "Anita Bryant and the Liars."   .

WHAT kind of fire melts cars and leaves trees, as well as other cars nearby, untouched? What kind of fire “explodes” into existence in several places at once? What kind of fire is whipped into such intensity by wind in January that it quickly reduces the contents of an entire supermarket to dust? What kind of fire moves so ferociously, but kills very few people? What kind of fires just happen to occur when fire hydrants are undersupplied and the mayor’s out of town?

What kind of fire prepares an entire neighborhood in a desirable area for future development?

What fires are these?

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A READER writes:

Just a quick note to tell you that I lived in California for 33 years from age 21 to 54 and never in those years did we experience a fire in January.  Fire season was in late summer, usually September, the only time temperatures would reach 100 degrees.  And then the Santa Ana winds would come in — but never heard of them in January — ever!!!

It’s all weather manipulation and land grabbing just like Maui. It makes me sick.

My heart aches for those very poor people who lost their homes. Not all homes were Hollywood/elitist homes.

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BRITISH feminists have for years betrayed the powerless women of their country, standing by while the latter were brutalized by Muslim rapists. Their complaints focus exclusively on the white man. If it means some women suffer, so be it.  

“THERE are too many, too large, and too hot.” Peggy Hall has some thoughts from California on the latest fires in Los Angeles.

If these fires are caused by climate change then why in the non-spinning world aren’t the fire departments more prepared? Why aren’t there more personnel and more trucks and more technology and drones and the much-touted all-knowing “A.I.”?? Where is the water to put out the fires? The dropping of fire retardants by supertankers? You’re telling me that in this day and age of public serpents spewing their fear-mongering about the climate that these states have not taken steps to be prepared for the very climate change they rail against? I don’t believe in climate change, but even by their own standards, this is stupid.

Also here are some interesting facts about Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.

Bass reminds me of Wilson Good, the former mayor of Philadelphia who presided over a devastating fire after a confrontation by police with the cult group MOVE. I blame not these incompetent mayors so much as the dangerous egalitarians who put them in shoes they could not fill.

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THE existence of different races is ordained by God. It is not Christian to obliterate these natural distinctions anymore than it is Christian to obliterate male and female. To care about one's race, to seek its material and moral good, is not only not sinful, but an ethical obligation. As Pope Pius XI explained in 1938,"healthy racism" does not threaten the universalism of the Church. His words are especially meaningful today. Besieged by non-white "migrants", by the plundering of its economic patrimony, by anti-family propaganda and by the constant promotion of miscegenation, the white race faces an existential threat. This is already a catastrophe for the entire world. The white race has throughout history been the bearer of civilization and brought untold benefits to other races as long as it was able at the same time to prosper and reproduce. A major cause of population growth and a higher standard of living in Africa, for instance, is the technological developments brought to the continent by whites. More importantly, whites have been the chief guardians of Christian truth. They have brought spiritual progress to untold billions and upon their energy depends the spiritual welfare of other races and the integrity of the true Faith. Civilization in Ancient Egypt, China, India and Rome was the product of white initiative. Once whites failed to protect their racial integrity and blended with non-white races, civilization fell, bringing hardship and gloom for all. One of the…

“'THERE is a moral fitness in the idea of returning to Africa her children, whose ancestors have been torn from her by the ruthless hand of fraud and violence. Transplanted in a foreign land, they will carry back to their native soil the rich fruits of religion, civilization, law, and liberty. May it not be one of the great designs of the Ruler of the universe (whose ways are often inscrutable by short-sighted mortals) thus to transform an original crime into a signal blessing to that most unfortunate portion of the globe?' This suggestion of the possible ultimate redemption of the African race and African continent was made twenty-five years ago. Every succeeding year has added strength to the hope of its realization. May it indeed be realized! Pharaoh’s country was cursed with plagues, and his hosts were drowned in the Red Sea for striving to retain a captive people who had already served them more than four hundred years. May like disasters never befall us! If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost fatherland, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation. "…

THE January 6, 2021 "insurrection" at the U.S. Capitol was political theater staged by the government for the purpose of demonizing patriots and making them look like the most ridiculous fools on earth. The propaganda artists love portraying the patriot as a brute, little better than a caveman with a club, and they love creating fake heroes such as Ashli Babbitt, her name possibly a fun reference to the 1922 Sinclair Lewis novel in which middle-class, white Americans were portrayed as dull conformists. In any event, she was certainly like George F. Babbitt a character in pure fiction. The idea that patriots are dummies is an exciting form of wishful thinking and allows the enlightened propagandists to justify their own sense of superiority. After all, they're only doing it for the good of the fools. Trump played along with this scam and you can expect him to play along with much worse during the next four years. The guy's a Freemason -- he's long made that perfectly clear with his hand signals -- and Masons adore secrecy and ritual. These hoaxes are rituals of public mockery and humiliation which seek to control people at the deepest psychological level. But it's all for the good of the fools. Conservatives go along with it because they worship the State and can't accept that it is now an enemy using highly advanced arts of deception, emotional manipulation and sadistic abuse. Their patriotism is…

Here is the Little Door Here is the little door, lift up the latch, oh lift! We need not wander more but enter with our gift; Our gift of finest gold, Gold that was never bought nor sold; Myrrh to be strewn about His Bed; Incense in clouds about His Head; All for the Child that stirs not in His sleep, But holy slumber holds with ass and sheep. Bend low about His Bed: for each He has a gift; See how His eyes awake, lift up your hands, oh lift! For gold, He gives a keen-edged sword (Defend with it Thy little Lord!) For incense, smoke of battle red, Myrrh for the honoured happy dead; Gifts for His children, terrible and sweet, Touched by such tiny hands and oh such tiny feet. Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Words by Frances Chesterton  

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THE Eastern kings the star have seen, They hasten on their way; Long time they've watched and waiting been The dawning of that day: The dawning of the day of grace, The gleam of Jacob's star, The Virgin's child of Jesse's race Whom prophets saw afar. Glory give to God on high! And now they open treasures rare, Which Indian silks enfold, Of myrrh which sweetly scents the air, Of frankincense and gold. Their kingly heads they meekly bow The cradled Babe before, Their God confess, and kneeling low In humble faith adore. Glory give to God on high! With them I come to greet my King, Yet not with them to part; No gold, no frankincense I bring, I offer Him my heart. With Him to live, with Him to die, Who by His lowly birth, Gave glory to our God on high, And peace to men on earth. Glory give to God on high! Source