Francis W. Porretto
Mount Sinai, NY USA
Author's posts
Aug 14 2023
Your Morning Stupidity
Just a little something to kickstart your day. However, some of it has a point, an edge, or both, so watch your fingers. *** 1. The Anchor Men On The IQ Curve. From Divemedic, we have this: …which – of course! – reminded me of this: Yes, Gentle Reader: there really …
Aug 13 2023
Schisms
I was minded to take the day off, but I started thinking about St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans: Brothers and sisters: I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie; my conscience joins with the Holy Spirit in bearing me witness that I have great sorrow and constant anguish in my …
Aug 11 2023
Alternatives
Utopia is not one of the options. — David Bergland This is likely to be a ramble, but it addresses one of the most important of all axioms in…well, in life, so I hope my Gentle Readers will bear with me for a few hundred words. Every human being engages in a …
Aug 10 2023
Are We Awake Yet?
Until they [the proles] become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. — George Orwell New York writer James Howard Kunstler has an impressive piece up today whose title – “Normies Awake!” – somewhat belies its actual content. That’s not a criticism, mind you; I …
Aug 09 2023
Don’t Give Up On Life
Pascal just forwarded this: A father took a gun into hospital to stop doctors taking his son off life support – and during the three-hour stand-off the young man squeezed his hand. The sign that he wasn’t brain dead meant he was kept alive – and he is now recovering and doing …
Aug 09 2023
Credit Where Credit Is Due
Apparently they’re not all stupid: Money – “free” money from a supposed benefactor – is more addictive than heroin. Washington has used money addiction to subjugate the fifty states and a number of small countries. If the people of Niger are aware of the danger that comes with “free” money, they’re more aware …
Aug 09 2023
Laugh, Cry, Or What?
I’m an admirer of Paul Joseph Watson. He’s done many excellent, entertaining-while-informing videos on various aspects of our milieu. Moreover, now and then he touches on something that would otherwise escape the notice of someone like me (i.e., an old fart who sits at a computer whenever he’s not laboring over his house and …
Aug 08 2023
What Remains To Be Seen?
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. – Originator unknown Have you ever heard someone use the phrase “That remains to be seen” to dismiss an argument someone else was making? If you’re above-average eloquent, perhaps you’ve used it yourself. It’s a polite way of doing an impolite thing, much the same …
Aug 07 2023
The Subjugated City
Time was, New York City was the nation’s commercial Mecca. Businesses fought to establish themselves there. Real estate there was considered the most prestigious on Earth. The city’s harbors, its status as the Eastern Seaboard’s transportation and communications hub, and its extraordinary cultural vitality were lures that few firms could resist. Time was. …
Aug 06 2023
Angry Day Off
Good morning, Gentle Reader. I did have a topic in mind for today, but I’m afraid I’m in no condition, emotionally, to write calmly and dispassionately. I’ve been struggling with a completely unsatisfactory purchase and shipment from Midland Radio and must spend at least a few hours emitting live steam over it. So while …
Aug 05 2023
No Courage In Politics
Just in case you’ve spent the last five years in a coma, the federal government of these United States, currently under occupation by the Ukraine-China-Democrat combine, is doing its damnedest to persuade Us the People that to question its legitimacy is against the law. Every now and then one of its boughten allies in …
Aug 04 2023
Warning: Transition In Progress
The most dangerous time for the people of a country transitioning from freedom to tyranny is the period of transition itself. The events of the transition period are invariably bloody. However, those events are also educational. Once the opposition has been destroyed, the survivors are aware of what it will take to remain survivors. …
Aug 03 2023
Unpleasant Foresight
Four years ago, I made a video in which I predicted, among other things, that if the mushrooming political polarization of the American people should continue as it had begun, hospitals would soon refuse treatment to patients of the “wrong” political persuasion. That video, much to my surprise, is still up at YouTube. Not …
Aug 03 2023
Too Much Honesty For Public School
Shamelessly stolen from Western Rifle Shooters: (I want to vote for that kid for President!)
Aug 03 2023
This Warmed The Cockles Of My Spiny Little Heart
I’ve said it’s coming. I’ve told you to watch for it. Well, it’s here – and I say it’s about BLEEP!ing time! Sikh grocery store owner was told that “there ain’t nothing you can do” repeatedly and that “ayy, just let him go” as they were being robbed. The Sikhs disagreed. pic.twitter.com/ZIb5CVLMNl — Ian …
Aug 02 2023
A Depressing Correlation
Trying to draw a causal connection between a measurable thing and an immeasurable thing can be an exercise in self-deception. Even so, some contemporary phenomena are important enough to make the effort. The decline in American birth rates is one such vital factor – in the exact sense. As Mark Steyn has said, …
Aug 01 2023
Sound And Fury Signifying…What?
There are days when another writer says what I had in mind, but more concisely and eloquently than I would. This is such a day: Remember, always temper investigative optimism about foreign policy corruption with two big picture realities. First, the entire business model of DC politics is designed around politicians selling …
Jul 31 2023
Calorie Counting
The rise of a tolerable level of civilization – i.e., a state of society in which our lives aren’t characterized by constant predation against one another – is largely due to advances in agricultural production. Indeed, a case could be made for the proposition that until the available calories per capita passed about 1500 …
Jul 31 2023
Forbidden Love
The signs of an impending apocalypse are everywhere. In fact, They Who Pour The Very Best Butter Over The Cams And Gears Of Society have decided that we must have our faces rubbed in them. It doesn’t matter what measures we take to avoid them; today they’re ubiquitous, apparently by design. A few …
Jul 30 2023
On Deceit
A huge number of people are running around who are determined to deceive others about something. It’s not news to any Gentle Reader of Liberty’s Torch that systematic deceit has become the hallmark of our politics. What’s on my mind this morning is the pervasiveness of deceit in ordinary life. Spouses lie to …
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