Francis W. Porretto
Mount Sinai, NY USA
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May 15 2023
Verbal Subterfuges 2023-05-15
The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. — George Orwell With the above, Orwell hit near but not quite on the mark. He crept closer to the bull’s-eye with his conception of Newspeak, in which a character posited that “thoughtcrime” could be made impossible simply by …
May 15 2023
Thought I Was Kidding, Did You?
When I wrote: Families are the fundamental building blocks of a stable society. Extended families—clans—are the best conceivable environment for the rearing of children, the perpetuation of a commercial forte, and the germination of new families and their ventures…. And all healthy families, which cherish life and bind their members to one another …
May 14 2023
The Death Cults’ Primary Target
…is motherhood. For them to achieve what they seek, motherhood must be defamed, made ever less socially acceptable and ever more difficult, and ultimately – dare I say it? – divorced from procreation and childrearing. Such procreation and childrearing as they intend to allow, at any rate. The campaign to part children from …
May 14 2023
An Early Morning Thought For Mothers’ Day
The image is richer than the thought; hence the act by which we comprehend an image, gazing, is richer, more profound, vital and storeyed than the thought. People today are, if the word may be permitted, over-conceptualistic. We have lost the art of reading images and parables, of enacting symbols. We could relearn some …
May 13 2023
Compare And Contrast
This graphic is so penetrating that I’ll let it stand alone: Pass it around.
May 13 2023
Breakthrough?
The following was culled from Facebook: I hope this guy’s life insurance is paid up. Imagine the kind of attention he’d get from homosexual activists were he publicly identified as the originator of this thesis. Yet it’s worth some thought – and an effort to find further evidence, whether “for” or “against.”
May 13 2023
Death Cult Chronicles
Good Morning, Gentle Reader. No, I’m not in a better mood than yesterday. I just got more sleep than usual and am therefore ready to start fulminating uselessly at an earlier hour. Along with that, it’s Fatima Day, the remembrance of which energizes me more than one might expect of an event more than …
May 12 2023
The Shell Game Part 2
Friends of mine – yes, I have a couple – have returned to a hopeless task: persuading me to re-engage with electoral politics, possibly (ulp) even as a candidate for office. They been saying some of the most incredible things: “If you want to change the system, you have be part of it.” …
May 12 2023
The Shell Game Of Contemporary Politics…
…still has a few desperate players: It happened again on Monday. Mr. Biden appeared alongside Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to brief reporters on new efforts to force airlines to compensate passengers when a flight is canceled. As soon as his remarks ended, Mr. Biden turned and walked off, ignoring questions from reporters. This …
May 11 2023
After Peak Compassion Fatigue
Cause People frequently fall victim to the error of the “oversell.” That is, they persist in hammering anyone who’ll stand still long enough with their sacred Cause. This results in a long-term rejection of the Cause and, often enough, its advocate as well. The “tragedy” often includes making potentially receptive listeners, people who could …
May 10 2023
Dress Rehearsal Tarantella
First, a little music: Judy Collins singing a grim Leonard Cohen tune: Now that we’re properly depressed, “on with the show.” *** Stephen Kruiser has a warning for us: Because the beating heart of the 21st century Democrats is communism, civil unrest is a favorite tool of theirs. It provides a …
May 10 2023
Inherit The Wind, 2023 Edition
If you were fascinated by the clash of issues and titans in the Scopes Monkey Trial, whether the movie version with Frederic March and Spencer Tracy or the original “starring” William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, you can’t fail to be mesmerized by this modernization by Hidden Truth author Hans G. Schantz: I …
May 09 2023
Matches And Powder Kegs
In this recent piece on “CW 2.0,” John Wilder reviews current conditions that could lead to the outbreak of a second Civil War. His observations give renewed force to questions that have plagued me for some time: Will the Right ever cease to prioritize the avoidance of conflict over the restoration of the Republic? …
May 08 2023
The “Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes” Edition
We have this, from Robert Spencer: The least honorable president in American history had a softball interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on Friday, in which he uttered one of the most outlandish lies of his entire life, which has been filled with his outlandish lies: “I think I’ve proven myself to be honorable, …
May 08 2023
Owing To The January 6 Trials…
…and much else, including such events as the death of black thug Jordan Neely at the hands of a public-spirited Marine veteran, the legal principle – yes, Gentle Reader, it is a principle, not just some libertarian’s half-baked notion – of jury nullification has re-entered the national discourse. It’s actually rather strange that …
May 07 2023
Human Institutions
They’re imperfect – all of them. Every now and then, a reminder is useful. The Acts of the Apostles contains a pair of segments that make many things plain – indeed, plainer in some ways than the Church would like us to know. The first of them is in Chapter 2: And …
May 06 2023
The Idiosyncratic Extreme Exhaustion Edition (IEEE?)
Nothing makes me wearier than shouting into a gale, yet I do it here virtually every day. The exhaustion arises, not from the physical effort it requires, but from the sense of futility it involves. Still, someone has to do it – few are brave enough to say certain things, these days – and …
May 05 2023
A Brief Announcement
Someone who gave the name of “Mike Bizzaro,” along with a strange-looking email address, just wrote to inform me that “[my] soul has been removed from Christianity.” He also provided a link to one of the ugliest web pages I’ve had the dubious pleasure of visiting. It is extremely important that anyone who agrees …
May 05 2023
The Plunderers Hunger Part 3: The Root Of It All
Do you reject Satan and all his works, and all his empty promises? – Rite of Confirmation If you undergo Confirmation as a Catholic, you’re asked that question, and you’d better answer it correctly. Yet Catholics are usually Confirmed around thirteen years of age. The young Catholic is seldom much acquainted with Satan, …
May 04 2023
The Plunderers Hunger Part 2: The Coin Of The Realm
Let’s start the day off with a little Ayn Rand: “Well, anyway, it was decided that nobody had the right to judge his own need or ability. We voted on it. Yes, ma’am, we voted on it in a public meeting twice a year. How else could it be done? Do you care …
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