Month: January 2021

We Need a Win

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After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 Americans were despondent.  The propaganda machine was running 24/7 pumping out rah-rah stuff to bolster American resolve and boost the efforts to get men in uniform as quickly as possible.  But the beating the US Navy took at Pearl Harbor had shocked the American populace and devastated morale.

FDR was a shrewd judge of American sentiment and knew instinctively what was needed to boost that morale.  He told his War Department that the American people needed a symbolic act to prove that Japan hadn’t destroyed our ability to take the war to their door.  He wanted his generals to come up with a plan to hit the Japanese capitol, Tokyo.

The result of that order was the Doolittle Raid.  Basically, it was a suicide mission to send planes from an aircraft carrier to bomb Tokyo without enough fuel to return.  Sixteen five-man crews in B-25B medium bombers were launched from the USS Hornet under the command of Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle.  Each plane dropped its ton of bombs on Tokyo and the surrounding cities and then flew off to crash land somewhere in China.  Miraculously most of the crews survived the crashes and found their way back home.

The bombs made no meaningful dent in the Japanese war machine but the message to the Japanese was clear and the lift it gave to American morale was critical.  It proved that even knocked back on its heels by the Pearl Harbor defeat the US military was able to strike back at the very heart of the Japanese empire.  It had exactly the effect it was meant to have and provided the morale boost needed, well in advance of when the effects of war time production and military mobilization would allow a meaningful assault on Japan.

Here’s the analogy, the fraudulent electoral victory by the Left is our Pearl Harbor.  They have knocked us back with the dirtiest shot imaginable.  And we have nothing to counter it with.  Morale is rock bottom and more attacks are imminent.  We need a win.

We need a symbolic win.  Not something chaotic and irrational like the Capitol debacle that boomerangs on the participants.  We need an action that helps our side or hurts our opponents and for which they have no effective counteraction.  As I said it doesn’t have to be an important event or change.  But it does have to have some clear symbolism that says we are pushing back against the all-encompassing attacks of our enemies and that we can organize a resistance that can’t be crushed.

Somewhere in this vast land someone has to take back some small corner and successfully say, “On this spot Free America still exists and will not be overtaken.  And it can act as the foundation for a renewal of all that is good and normal and ours.

Whoever can do that will be the actual leader of something more than one hundred million Americans who are completely fed up with the evil that has degraded almost every single organization and entity that makes up the civic and business life of this country.  Maybe it will be a state governor or a state representative who takes that first step.  Or maybe it will be a businessman who steps up.  Or maybe it will be just some private citizen who figures out how to rally our people.  He’ll have to be smart and fearless and strong.  But smart especially.  Figuring out a move that can’t be counteracted is not easy.  But if he succeeds, he’ll be as famous as Washington, Jefferson or Lincoln.  Because he’ll have saved the greatest nation in history from falling into tyranny.

We need a win.

18JAN2021 – Quote of the Day

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Slugs have ridden their contempt for defensive armour as much to death as the turtles their pursuit of it. They have hardly more than skin enough to hold themselves together; they court death every time they cross the road. Yet death comes not to them more than to the turtle, whose defences are so great that there is little left inside to be defended. Moreover, the slugs fare best in the long run, for turtles are dying out, while slugs are not, and there must be millions of slugs all over the world over for every single turtle.

Samuel Butler

Guest Contributor – Soterious – Some Thoughts on Religion, Organized and Otherwise – A Reply

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(This post is a reply to an earlier article called Some Thoughts on Religion, Organized and Otherwise)

Great article and your observations are no doubt true about the subversion of the Catholic hierarchy and thus all of its institutions (can you think of anyplace more pagan than Georgetown University?). Unfortunately since the RCC is so top down in its formal structure, the Faithful have little if any input unless they simply withhold their envelopes (as was done in Boston when the pedophile enabling Cardinal was forced from his cathedral only to be made “archpriest” of a Roman basilica-a promotion!) and this would have to be done in a concerted transnational way with the US congregations indispensable in a leadership role. Historically, during the worst periods of venality and corruption in the RCC, the monasteries functioned as islands of piety, orthodoxy and reform. I can’t speak to their condition but if the seminaries have become bath houses and the convents are lesbian retreat houses celebrating Gaia, I have little hope for the monasteries, but I could be wrong since the homosexual population would tend to stay in the seminaries and parishes so they could have the most unimpeded access. What is especially galling is that the current Bolshevik bishop of Rome (am I a sedevacantist? I guess it depends if I really believe that the papal office itself is that important) has told us that climate change is the new dogma, homosexuality should be celebrated, but incredibly still he will not allow married men to become priests which would remedy the priest shortage and allow the RCC to enforce Benedict’s ignored directive to ban seminaries from accepting homosexual men from formation…..incredible.

This is not solely a rant, I think there is an escape hatch….Orthodoxy may well represent the life boat for the RCC fatihful. Don’t get me wrong, Orthodoxy has its issues (phylestism or the conflation between ethnicity/state and religion) as the current schism over Ukraine exhibits, but the Orthodox Church has never strayed from the tenets of the ancient church and has the added advantage of never having a Vatican I (infallibility and the Assumption) or Vatican II (the “Novus Ordo” or new mass, a disaster that brought us the “folk mass” and gender neutral hymns and bible translations). However, what has always bothered me is that joining the Orthodox Church means abandoning the cultural and emotional ties of childhood religious experiences (think of the Easter and Christmas hymns with triumphant organs playing before these were destroyed) and however beautiful the Divine Liturgy is, its not my culture.

Fortunately, one eastern Orthodox Church (the Greek Church of Antioch) has created a “vicariate” overseeing what they call “Western Rite Orthodoxy”. In its best formulation, it takes the Tridentine Mass, adds an “epiclesis” and conducts the Mass in English and allows these parishes to keep their Western Christian identity but within a hierarchical framework that precludes the perversions of the RCC. As an added bonus, children are not baptized and then “excommunicated” as they are in the RCC by not being confirmed (“christmated” in the eastern parlance) or allowed to Communion. These all happen at baptism which is followed by anointing and a drop of Eucharistic wine. Along with triple immersion at baptism, these elements would be the only thing foreign to a RCC member who decided to go over. My advice, find a nicely built abandoned Church from the high Anglican tradition, find some disillusioned ex-RC who left the seminary after realizing that he was surrounded predatory swingers who got married and got a job but always wished he could have ministered to the faithful and then approach the Western Rite Orthodox Vicariate and ask that your ex-seminarian be trained, he could very well be ordained and become your pastor. Soon as you ca, have the parish start a grammar school and then high school and you can save your kids.

What I just described has happened, reproduce it. Last one out, shut the lights in the RCC at least until there is a second Cluny.

The Pause Before the Plunge Redux – Four Years Later

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In January of 2017 I wrote a post right before President Trump’s inauguration.  Re-reading it now I seem to have been pretty accurate about the things that lay ahead.  Four years later we are in a similar but much less hopeful point.  This again is the pause before the plunge.  You know, the roller coaster has reached the top of the rickety wooden scaffolding and even though the car has already pointed its nose down it hasn’t begun its sickening fall.  You are suspended in time and space but the anticipation of the horror is actually worse than the thing itself.  Wow, that was overly dramatic.

In reality, because of the stupidity and ineptitude of Dementia Joe and his lackeys it will be more like a Chinese Water Torture.  A slow drip, drip, drip of annoying and uncomfortable executive actions and a slow contraction of freedom and prosperity as the vampires suck away all the life and vitality in the country.

But at the same time, I remember that the last four years and especially the memory of the election fraud did happen and we will not be going through a redux of the Obama administration.  There will be no honeymoon from the Right.  There’s no benefit of the doubt left because there’s no doubt.  Most of the Left hates Dementia Joe too.  He’s their tool but he’s no one’s hero.  And Willie Brown’s Ho is no Eva Perón.  Having to listen to either one of them give a speech will be like listening to fingernails screeching across a chalkboard.

So, perched here between heaven and hell is an odd feeling but the last twenty years have all been odd.  Since 9/11/2001 it has never been a normal world we have lived in.  That’s probably why the millennials are so messed up.  They’ve never known normalcy so they’ve been groomed to believe degeneracy and madness are normal.

Well, anyway I won’t let this rant turn into a generic rant.  The point of this post is to point out to you that there is a little time left before the full brunt of federal power is marshalled against us to get your affairs in order.  Maybe there are some financial decisions you want to make based on any changes that might be coming down the line.  Or maybe personal decisions like visiting a friend or buying something that may become off limits in the future.  If you can think of something that can be more easily accomplished now rather than after Big Brother completely controls us then do it.

One thing I plan to do is purchase some of Solzhenitsyn’s books and read them carefully.  The Soviet and other Eastern European dissidents have an enormous amount of experience that we can learn from.  Let’s not kid ourselves.  The Left has taken off the mask and at this point we can assume they’ll do what it takes to hold onto the levers of power from now on.

Sorry if that sounds melodramatic or overblown but after the election fraud, I no longer believe that the restraints that used to be in place exist.  It truly resembles the Orwellian dystopia of 1984.  The only thing that was needed to complete the picture was the pervasive surveillance apparatus.  And no one can doubt that the Patriot Act and the Tech Monopolies have combined to outdo anything Orwell imagined for that facet of the totalitarian state.

Well, here we go!