SOME thoughts on math as the “last bastion of truth” from Fitzpatrick Informer:

They have already removed honest study of religion from the system. Now they must remove the teaching of logic-based math—a science that naturally leads sincere students to religious conclusions. Logic and critical thinking have long been removed from the world education system. This explains why not only literacy rates but also mathematics comprehension rates are plummeting, mostly in the West.

…. Get the kids while they’re young. Retard their minds from learning to think critically and you will have a completely plasticized brain with which to mold into whatever you wish: a slave…an automaton…a creature alienated from his creator. (more…)

MADELY Court, a 16th-century manor in Telford, England, is housing "migrants" in style.  

TRUMP pardoned the most dangerous spy in American history --- and we're supposed to feel outrage that Biden did the same for his son? Sure, it's bad but we've been ruled by traitors for a long time. This is government not of the people, not for the people and not by the people.  

HINDUISM "has something to offer which is suited to all minds. Its very strength lies in its infinite adaptability to the infinite diversity of human characters and human tendencies. It has its highly spiritual and abstract side suited to the metaphysical philosopher — its practical and concrete side suited to the man of affairs and the man of the world—its esthetic and ceremonial side suited to the man of poetic feeling and imagination—its quiescent and contemplative side suited to the man of peace and lover of seclusion. Nay, it holds out the right hand of brotherhood to nature-worshippers, demon-worshippers, animal-worshippers, tree-worshippers, fetish-worshippers. It does not scruple to permit the most grotesque forms of idolatry, and the most degrading varieties of superstition. And it is to this latter fact that yet another remarkable peculiarity of Hinduism is mainly due—namely, that in no other system in the world is the chasm more vast which separates the religion of the higher, cultured, and thoughtful classes from that of the lower, uncultured, and unthinking masses." --- Sir Monier Monier-Williams, Brahmanism and Hinduism, 1891, p. 11  

IMAGINE India choosing a white American to run its top domestic security agency. I guarantee you, it wouldn’t happen. This government is a joke. It’s just a big DEI corporation run for the benefit of international thieves and our “greatest ally.”

Trump made it clear during his campaign — his second term will open our borders to many more Patels. So it only makes sense he would pick a Hindu like Kash Patel for director of FBI.

If Indians, by the way, will make us “great again,” as Trump has implicitly asserted, why are they eager to leave their own country? Shouldn’t it be too wonderful to give up?

I am really sick of saying what appears to be mean stuff like this. After all, I have nothing against hard-working Indians. I would want to move here too if I were them. But this unfolding nightmare won’t benefit anyone in the end but thieves and racketeers.

Interesting fact: Patel has been a big pusher of the Q-anon psyop. (more…)

"WHEN the heart is sick because 'truths are diminished among the children of men,' and the weight of unintelligibly triumphant and abundant sin lies heavy on it, and the mind is dragged through thorny places till it bleeds, then the frightened soul flies back to that moment of the first love of Jesus, and rests there with the more full assurance and abiding calm, because it knows that that first act of love is not ended yet. It has stretched from that old midnight at Nazareth to this hour, and is not weakened by the stretch. It can bear the weight of millions of new creations. It will wear for untold centuries. Old as it is, it is still new. It is unending. Its arms are round the majesty of God, its kiss is on his feet, for evermore." -- Fr. Frederick Faber, Bethlehem (Tan Books, p. 71)  

“HAIL and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born, Of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ, and of His blessed Mother. Amen.”

Say 15 times a day from St. Andrew’s Day (30 November) until Christmas (Imprimatur Michael Augustine, Archbishop of New York New York, February 6, 1897)

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[Reposted from Dec. 3, 2023]

YESTERDAY, as we were driving home from a twilight walk, Christmas lights went on all around us. Someone had turned on a master switch, or so it seemed. Lighted icicles dangled from gutters and electric nets encased shrubbery. Snowman inflatables rose from the dead on suburban lawns, a stuffed Santa held onto a roof and, minutes away, bright red boxes of peppermint bark adorned the aisles of Trader Joe’s. Was this Christmas Eve or December 2nd? I don’t remember so much decoration this early in the season years ago, except in stores. It seemed we were in a Christmas theme park. None of it, however, expressed the anticipation of Advent. Imagine if you received a birthday cake a month before your birthday. Would it mean as much?

Advent calls on us to be especially counter-cultural. (more…)

"PERSONS who keep themselves low in their own estimation and love to be considered of little account and despised by others please God in the highest degree; and, therefore, He willingly lowers Himself to them, pours upon them the treasures of His graces, reveals to them His secrets, invites and draws them sweetly to Himself. Thus, the more one lowers and abuses himself before men, the more he rises and becomes great in the sight of God, and the more clearly he will, one day, behold the Divine Essence." ----Thomas a Kempis  

ALAN writes:

I am very grateful to have been a child in a place and time when the older generation still had substantial common sense,  good sense, and moral fiber.

Every year on Thanksgiving, we went to visit aunts and uncles or they came to visit us. Everyone dressed up, never casually. The men talked about football. The women presided over the kitchen. Thanksgiving Dinner was always a wonderful feast, served at the dining room table on a white linen tablecloth. I was always the youngest one there.

In those days I was too young fully to understand the meaning of Thanksgiving. We were expected to be thankful for what seemed to me at that age ordinary things. I could not figure out why we should be thankful for ordinary things, ordinary settings, ordinary days. Years would go by before I did figure it out. I attribute that degree of unawareness partly to childhood inexperience, but also partly to my having been part of a pampered generation of children. (more…)

IT wasn’t in New England, but in St. Augustine, Florida:

An explorer, Pedro Menéndez de Avilé, along with 800 Spanish settlers celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving to commemorate the successful sea voyage & founding of the town of St. Augustine, which would go on to be the 1st & longest-lasting port within the present-day United States. St. Augustine is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement on  the Atlantic Coast of the United States.

Occurring as it did so soon after trans-Atlantic landfall, this was a maritime Thanksgiving, with sailor’s fare making up the bulk of the feast, probably along with local native food, which would likely have included oysters & fish. (more…)

"‘BE nothing solicit­ous,’ says St. Paul ‘but in everything, by prayer and supplica­tion with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God’ (Phil. 4: 6); for gratitude gives prayer its greatest efficacy. Do you wish, therefore, to be in good health? Then thank God for the health He has given you hitherto. Do you wish to have means to support yourself and your family? Then thank God for the daily bread He gives you. Do you wish to bring up your children well, so that God may bless them? Then thank Him that He has pre­served them in innocence up to this. Have you some affair on hand that you wish to bring to a successful termination? Thank God for having so often helped you in your business and aided you with His fatherly protection. Are you visited by suffering, crosses, or trials? Thank God for having saved you from still worse, which many others have to complain of. Have you suf­fered loss in your temporal affairs through misfortune? Thank God for having preserved to you so long what His Providence knew to be for your good, and for having now taken it away for the same reason. Are you well endowed in temporal matters? Thank God for it and through Christian charity share your wealth with those who have nothing, that so God may preserve it to you. If you have little, then thank God for that, too, and…

DONALD TRUMP’S choice for Treasury secretary is Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager who has grown extremely wealthy in the big casino or shark tank that is our financial system. According to Trump, Bessent will “make America rich again, prosperous again, affordable again, and, most importantly, great again.” That many Americans might believe this statement shows the depth of financial illiteracy that grips the nation.

If Bessent secures you cheaper gas for a few years, he will do it only by fiddling with a game rigged to dispossess the great mass of people over time and to so embed every nation in debt that a world government appears to be the only conceivable solution. That Bessent is also “married” to a man not only exposes Trump’s anti-family values for what they are, but illustrates how culture and finance converge.

See my previous post on The Money Masters, a documentary which provides a quick introduction, and see the many great articles on economics compiled by the Australian League of Rights. As I said, (more…)

TRUMP, the former sponsor of beauty pageants, is in his element assembling his staff for his second term. Tulsi Gabbard, Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem, Janette Nesheiwat — attractive, telegenic women are a big part of the package. All that’s left is for them to walk down the runway in bathing suits.

Long gone are the days when to be a conservative woman meant to exhibit modesty and defend traditional sex roles, with women ceding leadership in political affairs to men.

Today a “conservative woman” may work against abortion and transgenderism, but her whole way of life supports the very things that lead to family breakdown and are the foundation of moral decline. They are role models for feminist ambition. They make little girls want power instead of invisible influence.

The real leaders behind the scene are men.  The more women are empowered, the more the politicians are merely puppets. Feminism is a lie — a total lie. It doesn’t really empower women. It makes them losers in the fields in which they are most naturally gifted.

I saw Pam Bondi, Trump’s pick for attorney general, in a televised interview with a low cut top and a prominently displayed cross around her neck. That said it all. (more…)

KATHY G. writes in response to this post:

There are no longer any conservatives of any consequence or power. If one should arise, he will be quickly disposed of or compromised. Civilizational advances always build on what came before, “standing on the shoulders of giants.” I don’t think anyone denies this. But as culture is destroyed, so will the advances be. (more…)