http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/04/26/girls-forced-to-role-play-as-lesbians-in-front-of-class-64632
Repeat after me, "Sin has no rights."
Friday, 26 April 2013
Thoughts on Black and White
Going into a black and white stage is really dying to self.
That is the entire point of a habit. It is not only a “sign of contradiction in
the world” but a denial of self-expression.
I did not think this would be so hard, as I am not
particularly attached to my clothes, but the reality of giving away things and
living by a list complied by someone else is the beginning of purgation.
The commentators on the Rule of Benedict write that it is
sometimes the small things which cause the most anxiety at first. One’s
favourite pen, or one’s special tea cup or coffee mug; one’s hair-dryer or
one’s bubble bath are not BIG things, but part of the rhythm of life about
which one surrounds one’s self for comfort and continuity.
There will be a new continuity, which I have partially
experienced, of the daily hours and daily schedule organized for centuries in
Benedictine convents and monasteries throughout the world.
Prayer, work, study, more work, more prayer. The denial of
free time or coffee breaks again is part of the denial of self in a small way.
One cannot stop and have a cuppa when one feels like it. One cannot sit down in
choir, but kneels or stands.
The denial of self happens in the world as well, such as
when one faces financial ruin, or cancer, or the death of loved ones.
One cannot escape, nor should one run from suffering.
Sometimes God paints us into a corner, so that we cannot run away unless we
want paint all over our shoes and leave a messy, ruined floor behind.
The denial of color allows God to paint the empty canvas of
the soul. Memory, understand and will become purified over time. The advantage
of the monastery is that this process speeds up the three-fold movement towards
perfection, if one cooperates.
Cooperation involve many things: obedience, conformity,
denial of singularities and eccentricities (which are caused by pride and
encourage pride), setting aside one’s own ideas and even ways of working.
Last year, I had to learn how to clean without cleaning
supplies, as the monastery in Cove only uses water on the floors and rarely
uses sprays. The nuns live as if the 20th and 21st
century had never occurred.
The value of all this self-denial must be rooted in the
growing awareness of God’s Love.
One can set aside one’s own ideas and habits and even
expertise for one reason only, and that reason is love, the love of God.
Even that love is sprinkled with pride and self-seeking
until one gives up everything.
Purification is death.
The black and white clothes I am rolling up and packing in
my suitcase remind me of death.
But, the truth is that we all die and face God. Is it not
better to allow Him the freedom to start the process of purification, leading
to illumination and, finally, unity, now?
If one loves someone, one will do anything for that person.
One wants to be with that person, and eventually, one wants to be completely
united with that person.
So, too, with the Brides of Christ in Tyburn. They only want
to love and be loved.People ask me why I want to do the hard thing. I want to be like Christ.
The Modernist Soup of the Witches of Macbeth
The Baby Boom generation represents the good, the bad, and the ugly. Abortion became law when most of us were in our teens. We did not understand what was happening. Some of us had read Humanae Vitae
in college or high school. Some of our parents read it. Some of us praised Pope Paul VI for this document, perhaps THE most important encyclical of the entire 20th century. Some of us had a maze-like way out and back to the Church. Some of us were political activists and some flower children. Some of us by the mid-1970s saw clearly the death of the West. Perhaps we were deluded for a time by the optimism of the 1980s, but this optimism changed to reality with the growing use of abortifacients and infanticide.
But, the damage was done under our watch and our parents watch. Few "twigged" onto the prophetic nature of this encyclical.
I am going to quote three small sections of this pivotal work, which is infallible, and which is linked above. One quotation is one the picture here.
Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the solution of a particular family difficulty? Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone. It could well happen, therefore, that when people, either individually or in family or social life, experience the inherent difficulties of the divine law and are determined to avoid them, they may give into the hands of public authorities the power to intervene in the most personal and intimate responsibility of husband and wife.
23. And now We wish to speak to rulers of nations. To you most of all is committed the responsibility of safeguarding the common good. You can contribute so much to the preservation of morals. We beg of you, never allow the morals of your peoples to be undermined. The family is the primary unit in the state; do not tolerate any legislation which would introduce into the family those practices which are opposed to the natural law of God. For there are other ways by which a government can and should solve the population problem—that is to say by enacting laws which will assist families and by educating the people wisely so that the moral law and the freedom of the citizens are both safeguarded.
Those of my generation who voted for the most anti-life president ever must face the judgement of God. Those of my generation who do not understand that contraception and abortion are THE issues of the day, will have to answer to a Just Judge, who loves the innocent, as He is innocent.
Those of my generation who continue to compromise within the Church, and thereby weaken the Church, ESPECIALLY priests and bishops, will have to answer to the One Who died for our sins.
By 2008, one million embryos, that is human beings with souls, had been destroyed by IVF. There are Catholics here and in Malta who think IVF is ok despite the teaching of the Catholic Church. These people choose to ignore this call to suffering without children, or the call to adoption.
Look at this older article. .http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/1_million_embryos_destroyed_in_uk_in_14_years
The entire globe is sick and getting more ill by the day. Ireland is about to pass an abortion law and Malta will follow within a year.
Some of us watched The Seventh Seal as youth. It became a cult film. Bergman hated both communism and the Catholic Church. His vision of the future was that humans had to free themselves from all "isms". Sadly, he lacked faith in Jesus Christ, and put too much faith in the goodness of men and women to change the earth. This is a false view, which is part of the modernist heresies of both millenarianism and progressivism.
Star Trek, as I wrote in my first blog, also preached the gospel of humanism, progressivism and the so-called spiritual evolution of mankind. Both these iconic media formed a generation who left the teachings of the Church. Humans become the center of all, and finally, the individual became the narcissistic center of his or her own universe. The ideal of civic order and civic duty died. The next generation, the "Me Generation" of Generation X was born into this modernist soup.
Modernism in the Church is the witches' brew of selfishness, ambition, pride and lust. The very pope who gave us Humanae Vitae noted the age of dissent, and this is a translation and explanation found here:
Referring to the situation of the Church today, the Holy Father affirms that he has a sense that “from some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.” There is doubt, incertitude, problematic, disquiet, dissatisfaction, confrontation. There is no longer trust of the Church; they trust the first profane prophet who speaks in some journal or some social movement, and they run after him and ask him if he has the formula of true life. And we are not alert to the fact that we are already the owners and masters of the formula of true life. Doubt has entered our consciences, and it entered by windows that should have been open to the light. Science exists to give us truths that do not separate from God, but make us seek him all the more and celebrate him with greater intensity; instead, science gives us criticism and doubt. Scientists are those who more thoughtfully and more painfully exert their minds. But they end up teaching us: “I don’t know, we don’t know, we cannot know.” The school becomes the gymnasium of confusion and sometimes of absurd contradictions. Progress is celebrated, only so that it can then be demolished with revolutions that are more radical and more strange, so as to negate everything that has been achieved, and to come away as primitives after having so exalted the advances of the modern world. June 29, 1972.
There are false mediums who think they are explaining what will happen in our short, Baby Boomer futures.
They only have to look at the anarchy they allowed to occur.
My generation could have changed this great movement into moral anarchy.
We did not. We shall witness more and more moral anarchy and the age of the martyrs. We allowed the door to open to death and death walked in, stomping about the earth and claiming nations for his own. Only the one, true, holy and apostolic Catholic Church will stand firm against this destruction of the moral framework of the rule of law.
We have experienced an age of Mercy. Do not pass Mercy by....He is Real, the Incarnate One, and He stands at the door and knocks.
Pray, think, reflect, act.
in college or high school. Some of our parents read it. Some of us praised Pope Paul VI for this document, perhaps THE most important encyclical of the entire 20th century. Some of us had a maze-like way out and back to the Church. Some of us were political activists and some flower children. Some of us by the mid-1970s saw clearly the death of the West. Perhaps we were deluded for a time by the optimism of the 1980s, but this optimism changed to reality with the growing use of abortifacients and infanticide.
But, the damage was done under our watch and our parents watch. Few "twigged" onto the prophetic nature of this encyclical.
I am going to quote three small sections of this pivotal work, which is infallible, and which is linked above. One quotation is one the picture here.
Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the solution of a particular family difficulty? Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone. It could well happen, therefore, that when people, either individually or in family or social life, experience the inherent difficulties of the divine law and are determined to avoid them, they may give into the hands of public authorities the power to intervene in the most personal and intimate responsibility of husband and wife.
23. And now We wish to speak to rulers of nations. To you most of all is committed the responsibility of safeguarding the common good. You can contribute so much to the preservation of morals. We beg of you, never allow the morals of your peoples to be undermined. The family is the primary unit in the state; do not tolerate any legislation which would introduce into the family those practices which are opposed to the natural law of God. For there are other ways by which a government can and should solve the population problem—that is to say by enacting laws which will assist families and by educating the people wisely so that the moral law and the freedom of the citizens are both safeguarded.
Those of my generation who voted for the most anti-life president ever must face the judgement of God. Those of my generation who do not understand that contraception and abortion are THE issues of the day, will have to answer to a Just Judge, who loves the innocent, as He is innocent.
Those of my generation who continue to compromise within the Church, and thereby weaken the Church, ESPECIALLY priests and bishops, will have to answer to the One Who died for our sins.
By 2008, one million embryos, that is human beings with souls, had been destroyed by IVF. There are Catholics here and in Malta who think IVF is ok despite the teaching of the Catholic Church. These people choose to ignore this call to suffering without children, or the call to adoption.
Look at this older article. .http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/1_million_embryos_destroyed_in_uk_in_14_years
The entire globe is sick and getting more ill by the day. Ireland is about to pass an abortion law and Malta will follow within a year.
Some of us watched The Seventh Seal as youth. It became a cult film. Bergman hated both communism and the Catholic Church. His vision of the future was that humans had to free themselves from all "isms". Sadly, he lacked faith in Jesus Christ, and put too much faith in the goodness of men and women to change the earth. This is a false view, which is part of the modernist heresies of both millenarianism and progressivism.
Star Trek, as I wrote in my first blog, also preached the gospel of humanism, progressivism and the so-called spiritual evolution of mankind. Both these iconic media formed a generation who left the teachings of the Church. Humans become the center of all, and finally, the individual became the narcissistic center of his or her own universe. The ideal of civic order and civic duty died. The next generation, the "Me Generation" of Generation X was born into this modernist soup.
Modernism in the Church is the witches' brew of selfishness, ambition, pride and lust. The very pope who gave us Humanae Vitae noted the age of dissent, and this is a translation and explanation found here:
Referring to the situation of the Church today, the Holy Father affirms that he has a sense that “from some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.” There is doubt, incertitude, problematic, disquiet, dissatisfaction, confrontation. There is no longer trust of the Church; they trust the first profane prophet who speaks in some journal or some social movement, and they run after him and ask him if he has the formula of true life. And we are not alert to the fact that we are already the owners and masters of the formula of true life. Doubt has entered our consciences, and it entered by windows that should have been open to the light. Science exists to give us truths that do not separate from God, but make us seek him all the more and celebrate him with greater intensity; instead, science gives us criticism and doubt. Scientists are those who more thoughtfully and more painfully exert their minds. But they end up teaching us: “I don’t know, we don’t know, we cannot know.” The school becomes the gymnasium of confusion and sometimes of absurd contradictions. Progress is celebrated, only so that it can then be demolished with revolutions that are more radical and more strange, so as to negate everything that has been achieved, and to come away as primitives after having so exalted the advances of the modern world. June 29, 1972.
There are false mediums who think they are explaining what will happen in our short, Baby Boomer futures.
They only have to look at the anarchy they allowed to occur.
My generation could have changed this great movement into moral anarchy.
We did not. We shall witness more and more moral anarchy and the age of the martyrs. We allowed the door to open to death and death walked in, stomping about the earth and claiming nations for his own. Only the one, true, holy and apostolic Catholic Church will stand firm against this destruction of the moral framework of the rule of law.
We have experienced an age of Mercy. Do not pass Mercy by....He is Real, the Incarnate One, and He stands at the door and knocks.
Pray, think, reflect, act.
A Sad Synchronicity
Yesterday morning, I had a long talk with a friend of mine about this very subject. Michael says it better than I can. This was another Michael (friend) with whom I was discussing the lack of teaching in the Church here. He was decrying the lack of guidance on IVF, abortion and contraception from the pulpit in England. I have several friends in the 65-75 age group. None of them, NONE, have ever heard a sermon against abortion, contraception or IVF in England. None.
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Ear Feast Two
Famous Coloratura soprano singers in the order of appearance:
Mado Robin (lyric coloratura, soprano acuto sfogato)
Mady Mesplé (lyric coloratura)
Lily Pons (lyric coloratura)
Silvia Voinea (lyric coloratura)
Anna Moffo (lyric coloratura)
Beverly Sills (lyric coloratura)
Luciana Serra (lyric coloratura)
Edita Gruberova (dramatic coloratura)
Joan Sutherland (dramatic coloratura)
June Anderson (dramatic coloratura)
Mariella Devia (dramatic coloratura)
Ruth Ann Swenson (lyric coloratura)
Natalie Dessay (lyric coloratura)
Elisabeth Vidal (lyric coloratura)
Diana Damrau (lyric and dramtic coloratura)
Désirée Rancatore (lyric coloratura)
Jessica Pratt (dramatic coloratura)
Maria Aleida Rodriguez (lyric coloratura)
Mady Mesplé (lyric coloratura)
Lily Pons (lyric coloratura)
Silvia Voinea (lyric coloratura)
Anna Moffo (lyric coloratura)
Beverly Sills (lyric coloratura)
Luciana Serra (lyric coloratura)
Edita Gruberova (dramatic coloratura)
Joan Sutherland (dramatic coloratura)
June Anderson (dramatic coloratura)
Mariella Devia (dramatic coloratura)
Ruth Ann Swenson (lyric coloratura)
Natalie Dessay (lyric coloratura)
Elisabeth Vidal (lyric coloratura)
Diana Damrau (lyric and dramtic coloratura)
Désirée Rancatore (lyric coloratura)
Jessica Pratt (dramatic coloratura)
Maria Aleida Rodriguez (lyric coloratura)
And, of course, the first one I heard on black and white television as a child, Maria Callas
View from the Bridge
This is the new "Iron Bridge", not the one in Little Dorrit, my favourite book. A complete replica of the old one was made for the 2008 television series.
Happy St. Mark Day
He is writing to the tribes of Israel. The lion can represent his strong, fast words (16 chapters) or his writing to the Sons of Judah, the tribe of the King. Of course, Christ is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah Himself.
Today, I am grateful for my wonderful instructors in college who taught me Scripture. I had superb teachers and God bless them all.
A Re-Post on Blessed Karl
Because one of my readers reminded that Blessed Karl was a military man, I am reposting something from earlier this year.
Monday, 14 January 2013
Blessed Karl, pray for us...
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church - read on - and give his life for her (Eph. V, 25). This headship, then, is most fully embodied not in the husband we should all wish to be but in him whose marriage is most like a crucifixion; whose wife receives most and gives least, is most unworthy of him, is - in her own mere nature - lease lovable. For the Church has not beauty but what the Bride-groom gives her; he does not find, but makes her, lovely. The chrism of this terrible coronation is to be seen not in the joys of any man's marriage but in its sorrows, in the sickness and sufferings of a good wife or the faults of a bad one, in his unwearying (never paraded) care or his inexhaustible forgiveness: forgiveness, not acquiescence. As Christ sees in the flawed, proud, fanatical or lukewarm Church on earth that Bride who will one day be without spot or wrinkle, and labours to produce the latter, so the husband whose headship is Christ-like (and he is allowed no other sort) never despairs.” The Four Loves
A man must assume headship. He must be the authority over his children. We need such leaders more than ever in these days of chaos.
I have written a lot on the male person on this blog.
I grew up with three brothers and a dad.
I have a son.
I was a bit of a tom-boy.
But, I am continually praying for my single, female friends to find real men.
Less and less am I convinced this will happen.
Too many men have abdicated their roles as leaders in society, in the Church, in their families.
They think that being pals with the kids is being a dad.
They think that women can protect themselves.
They think that they do not have to take responsibility for the lives of family members
Blessed Karl of Austria is one of the patrons of this blog. He gave his life for his country.
He was a man. He will be canonized for his holiness, sacrifice and manliness.
His example is one of Christ on the Cross.
He faced the evils of socialism and apostasy in his country. Some men turn a blind eye to such.
They think that they can ignore apostasy, deceit and pride in their friends.
Some even ignore sin in their friends and families.
C.S. Lewis had a few things to say on the character of men, friendship and love. The first I chose is above. Blessed Karl taught by example, but a few words seem apropos.
"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and noisily they will have taken cover before you switch on the light."
Mere Christianity
“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.” The Four Loves
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” The Abolition of Man
Countries which have a long history of matriarchy have more problems with real masculinity than patriarchies. This might surprise some readers. Matriarchies insist on the women taking control of the household entirely. Matriarchies keep the boys at home too long, turning them into "momma boys". Matriarchies take the power away from men. We in the West find such paradigms funny, but these are deadly for raising boys.
Men must lead not only by example, but becoming strong Catholic men, obedient to Holy Church, but obvious in the prayer life of the family. The kids should see dad praying the rosary, going to Holy Communion, getting to Adoration and regular Confession. Otherwise, words are useless. A weak and pliable dad is a bad example. He will be accountable to God for his over-lenience or misplaced tolerance.
This leads to the lack of discipline of the children and sometimes, the lack of protection for the women. Men need to lead by example and in humility, but not weakness.
To lead is to be able to suffer and to love without counting the cost. Women friends, do not settle for less....
A man must assume headship. He must be the authority over his children. We need such leaders more than ever in these days of chaos.
I have written a lot on the male person on this blog.
I grew up with three brothers and a dad.
I have a son.
I was a bit of a tom-boy.
But, I am continually praying for my single, female friends to find real men.
Less and less am I convinced this will happen.
Too many men have abdicated their roles as leaders in society, in the Church, in their families.
They think that being pals with the kids is being a dad.
They think that women can protect themselves.
They think that they do not have to take responsibility for the lives of family members
Blessed Karl of Austria is one of the patrons of this blog. He gave his life for his country.
He was a man. He will be canonized for his holiness, sacrifice and manliness.
His example is one of Christ on the Cross.
He faced the evils of socialism and apostasy in his country. Some men turn a blind eye to such.
They think that they can ignore apostasy, deceit and pride in their friends.
Some even ignore sin in their friends and families.
C.S. Lewis had a few things to say on the character of men, friendship and love. The first I chose is above. Blessed Karl taught by example, but a few words seem apropos.
"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and noisily they will have taken cover before you switch on the light."
Mere Christianity
“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.” The Four Loves
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” The Abolition of Man
Countries which have a long history of matriarchy have more problems with real masculinity than patriarchies. This might surprise some readers. Matriarchies insist on the women taking control of the household entirely. Matriarchies keep the boys at home too long, turning them into "momma boys". Matriarchies take the power away from men. We in the West find such paradigms funny, but these are deadly for raising boys.
Men must lead not only by example, but becoming strong Catholic men, obedient to Holy Church, but obvious in the prayer life of the family. The kids should see dad praying the rosary, going to Holy Communion, getting to Adoration and regular Confession. Otherwise, words are useless. A weak and pliable dad is a bad example. He will be accountable to God for his over-lenience or misplaced tolerance.
This leads to the lack of discipline of the children and sometimes, the lack of protection for the women. Men need to lead by example and in humility, but not weakness.
To lead is to be able to suffer and to love without counting the cost. Women friends, do not settle for less....
This is brilliant-liberals against America and revisionist history
From an article from Newsmax-a large snippet....
....only part of a longer article
....Aaronson is an acolyte of the raving, America-hating, deceased “revisionist historian” Howard Zinn.
Zinn was a liberal elite darling. Zinn claimed his eyes were opened to the racist, imperialist horror that is America by writer I.F. Stone, who later was confirmed to be a KGB covert influence agent when the Iron Curtain fell and certain Soviet documents became public.
Aaronson, who retired in 2007, used to brag to anyone who would listen that he had taught Zinn’s textbook to CLRS students since the beginning of his career in 1981.
.......
If you don’t know Zinn’s handiwork, here’s a sample of his writing in The Progressive. Zinn’s contempt for America and its citizens fairly drips from each word: “The deeply ingrained belief — no, not from birth but from the educational system and from our culture in general that the United States is an especially virtuous nation makes us especially vulnerable to government deception. It starts early, in the first grade, when we are compelled to ‘pledge allegiance’ (before we even know what that means), forced to proclaim that we are a nation with ‘liberty and justice for all.’
“And then come the countless ceremonies, whether at the ballpark or elsewhere, where we are expected to stand and bow our heads during the singing of the ‘Star Spangled Banner,’ announcing that we are ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave.’ There is also the unofficial national anthem ‘God Bless America,’ and you are looked on with suspicion if you ask why we would expect God to single out this one nation — just 5 percent of the world’s population — for his or her blessing.”
Aaronson boasted that angry parents called him to say their kids were talking about “that bastard Christopher Columbus … and his genocide, and how we have to question our history books and re-examine the evidence.” The CRLS teacher continued with relish, “Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
......
After the Marathon massacre, the media quoted the Zinn-acolyte Aaronson in its stories about the terrorist mass murderer.
Aaronson was “utterly shocked by the news.” The media reported that, “Aaronson taught social studies at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, where Dzhokhar was a student.”
The media reports continued, “Dzhokhar also lives just about three houses down from Aaronson’s condo, so they would talk from time to time after Dzhokhar's graduation in 2011.”
......
ABC, CBS, USA Today, The New York Times, and CNN all carried versions of Aaronson’s comments about “how normal” his neighbor and student Dzhokhar was.
None of the media provided any other background on Aaronson and his brainwashing of students at CRLS with Zinn’s history.
......
As for the older brother Tamerlan’s “education,” it appears that he was a follower of a Lebanese-Australian extremist cleric whose messages of hatred for Western culture were prominent on Tamerlan’s YouTube playlists, and he may well have been taught terrorist techniques during a recent trip abroad.
Kent Clizbe is a former CIA counterterrorism operations officer. His two books, “Willing Accomplices” and “Obliterating Exceptionalism,” detail how political correctness became part of American culture. His website is KentClizbe.com© 2013 Newsmax.
Thanks to all the commentators; swamps, shoes and an owl
I have had many fantastic comments on this blog. Thanks to all those polite and rational people who have contributed in the combox.
My pilgrimage to Walsingham has been interesting and diverse. Now, I am moving on.
I say goodbye to the owl in the garden. My only disappointment has been the incredibly cold weather, except for about two days.
Goodbye to Norfolk. I did get to the sea one day. The air is distinctly better than in Walsingham, which has a heavy atmosphere.
One local person told me today that when the Catholic shrine was at its height, the Carmelites had many houses in East Anglia and helped the pilgrims come by sea from other places in the area. These Carmelites were hermits, or anchorites, and boated pilgrims from certain gathering places.
In addition, there was, before the destruction of the shrine, a shoe "factory", that is, a great many shoemakers in Walsingham, as the pilgrims would leave their shoes at the Slipper Chapel and walk barefoot to the priory. However, they would need to buy new shoes.
One of those shoemaking families were still working in the village into the 20th century. Imagine, a business lasting 500-600 years.
The shoe business was so profitable, that barges of shoes were shipped to other parts of East Anglia and elsewhere for sale. I have bought new shoes in this area as well for my new adventure. Sadly, I am leaving in the rain....
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