Apostate?

 

Mountebank

In 1521 Pope Leo X acclaimed Henry VIII Defender of the Faith, Fidei Defensor, my, how that worm turned. Picture the monasteries of England plundered and destroyed, their abbots hung, drawn and quartered, all to enrich the royal purse.

In fairness, Henry needed cash, lots of it, and monastic land and wealth were clearly too easy a prize to give up. And what happened? Per Belloc, Henry's land grab created a whole new class of millionaires. Go figure, the Tudor despot had to buy powerful votes, to say nothing of needing ready cash.

Goof

Fast forward to today and the English monarch still retains Pope Leo's honorific, Fidei Defensor, FD; well kind of. King Charles III's broadened the title's definition to mean "protecting the space of Faith." Protecting the space of Faith. 

There he is, the anointed King of England, crowned in Westminster Abbey, announcing to all the world that his protectorate extends not just to any one Faith  or even all of them, but to the space in which they exist. What does this even mean?

Nice suit, shame about the Apostate

Most obviously, that the King is a Space Protector and the icy vacuum of the interstellar void springs to mind. According to Charles, he's defending or protecting nothing, not Christianity, Hinduism, Islam or anything else, just empty space. Don't say vacuous. But of course we can put it another way, more bluntly.

He's an apostate traitor to the Faith he swore at his coronation to defend, the Christian Faith which is whole, complete and entire, the Catholic Faith given once for all by Christ, who is the way, the truth and the life. Not one way amongst many, the way. But the current monarch can't bring himself to come down on the side of this and what can we say? It's hard, right about now, to be a monarchist.

OK, salute the uniform not the man, don't be a Donatist, but please, can we not have a Christian ruler in the UK to lead and rally the faithful, to undo, even, the rapacious crime of the Tudor despot. Clearly not yet. We wait in hope.

Yours,

LSP

.22 Pistol - Ruger Mk. IV

 

Guess what, I've been after a Ruger Mk. IV .22 for ages but haven't bit the bullet. Why? Too busy collecting Glocks perhaps, messing around with Lee Enfields, AR 15s and all of that. Whatever the case, .22 pistols have slid me by. But everything's changed.

The awesome Ruger Mk. IV's been reengineered with a view to easier take down/cleaning. You may recall this wasn't easy, and now the problem's fixed. Solution, good work, Ruger, and I don't know about you but I'm more than tempted to get one of these little blasters. Here's Hickock in review:

Look's good, right? But maybe I should hold out for an awesome High Standard. Hey, why not both, to maximize benefit, there is that. In other news, the ridiculously behind the cultural 8 Ball King of England has declared he's the "Defender of Faith" in a multi-faith kingdom. Hate to say it, and I really do, but the monarchy's obviously part of the problem in Rainbow Utopia UK.

That aside, surely a new Ruger IV makes sense,

LSP

Citizen Vigilante

 

Banned in Germany, Uwe Boll's film tracks Michael Sanders, ex-US Army, who doesn't like two-tier policing, corrupt Leftist officials and out of hand migrant violence, unpunished until he punishes the perps, vigilante style. Sanders ends up killing Moslem savages who raped a teenage girl and the German judge who set them free. Or something like that.

Point being, Sanders decides to take action into his own hands because the State won't do it. As in, if you keep going down the present track of rainbow left wokery, of population replacement, and with it the rape of your daughters, which you're paying for, well then, something's gonna snap.

Dear friends, expect the Left to double and triple down. Remember too that everything they enact or intend produces the opposite of its stated effect. In this case, a beautiful, rainbow flag, they/them multicultural utopia. Yes indeed, lots of cash and votes in that cunning green energy equation. But beloved Overlords, do you think the people caught in the midst of your experiment in power will take it lying down?

Apparently they do. Uwe Bolls describes a different reality and both timelines are unsettling at best. If Europe and the UK's ascendant rainbow-hued elitocracy wins, then their countries will descend into an Islamic sub-Detroit. Worse than that, the erasure of what's left of national European/UK identity, all for short term profit and power. That's one scenario. The other is that people get fed up with imported savages raping their daughters and get kinetic. Not as though the cops are gonna do it, eh?

I predict, for what little it's worth, that this will end in tears, per Mr Powell, "rivers of blood," and I hope I'm wrong. In the meanwhile, check out Citizen Vigilante, it's alright, not least for being banned in Germany. Here at the Compound we give it a sturdy 4 stars.

Your Old Friend,

LSP

Porch Life

 

One of the several benefits of country life in Texas is porches, front porches, back porches, wrap 'round porches and all of that. So pleasant; get out on your porch with a cold drink and take it easy while cocks crow, hawks swoop overhead, cicadas susurrate from the trees, and all is good.

If your house is smart, its architects designed it East/West facing so your front porch remains in shade during the morning heat of the day, and shields the front of the house from burning late afternoon sun. Use those periods wisely, shade's a valuable commodity in the pre-heating oven that is a Texan summer.

Here at the Compound we're blessed with a substantial front porch, essentially an open air room, and would've been more blessed before the place was remodeled in the '80s and a wrap 'round porch was turned into a large room, aka 'church hall.' Back in the day, people used part of the porch, it would've been screened in, to sleep on in the summer. Who can blame them, beat the heat in the days before AC.

We have AC now, unlike Europe, and thank God for that. Still, when you've just unleashed two flea foggers in the hall you can always retreat out of the toxic house and set up on the dam porch. No bad thing. In less pleasant news, the UK's student union commie government's fixing to tax capital gains at the same rate as their already high income tax.

This means UK money will leave the UK, tax revenue will shrink and taxes will rise to cover the shortfall until the whole poverty stricken economics of envy place collapses under the weight of fiscal insanity. See every Dem run US city for reference. Here? I'm going to step off this porch and see if the foggers have done their trick. So far they have.

Stay tuned,

LSP

FISH

 

This used to be a country Texas blog, so what happened? Got diverted by geostrat above my paygrade and egregious liturgical and doctrinal abuse. Hey, easy ongoing target, but what about all that country life? To be honest, I live it daily and like it a lot, so much better than the "Spawl, but you gotta focus.

To that end or τέλος we loaded up the rig with a couple of rods and headed out to the lake. Would the fish bite or would they not? Perennial question. Dam straight they bit, Bluegill after Bluegill, I lost count, just a whole lot of fish.

Didn't keep any, too small, those kids went back to fight again another day. And what a good morning, by the water, on the fish and lots of action, albeit small fish on a light rod. Good for mind, body and soul. Then it was back to the Compound for chicken thighs on the grill and cold white wine. Hey, all's right with the world. 

And now? Grilled chicken, the dinner of winners.

Tight Lines,

LSP

GONE

 

Britain's most hated Prime Minister in the history of history has resigned. Two-Tier Kier, 2TK, announced his resignation this morning from the steps of 10 Downing Street and the free world heaved a sigh of relief. 

What a disastrous mountebank who famously hounded veterans in court, as a hobby, took away pensioners' winter fuel allowance, tried to tax farmers out of existence, had people arrested for having the brazen, literal temerity to complain on the internet about imported head-chopping savages. The same 2TK who did his worst to wreck UK energy independence with idiotic and corrupt Net Zero climate cultism, all the while importing thousands of Moslem votes into a country the size of a shoebox. Don't you dare complain, serfs.

Wow, the list goes on and on. What gets me, as a loyal expat, is the betrayal of a great country by the people who lead it. In this case, by a gang of 1980s Student Union commies who hate their country, its people, its past and its heritage. No wonder, punters, that the British Army, Navy and Air Force are hollowed out simulacra of what they once were. No point in defending an island you despise, is there, when the cash to do so can be spent on importing foreign votes. The votes of people who scorn your country's culture almost as much as you do yourself.

Mini rant over, let's return to 2TK. He's gone or outgoing. Who will replace this unparalleled, unpopular buffoon? Evidently some leftist grifter from Wigan called Andy Burnham. Expect more of the same with, perhaps, a smiley face. So there we have it, unless a snap election's called the UK's left with the Nu-Left 'til the '29 election. A lot can happen in those years, no doubt about it.

Who did this? 😂 pic.twitter.com/dgUS0lgtAm

— Dominik Tarczyński MEP (@D_Tarczynski) June 22, 2026

Perhaps, US friends, you're a little baffled by UK politics, understandably. Look at it this way: imagine Kamala had won. Same playbook entirely, but with vastly more cash. We dodged that bullet. Good luck, UK.

Cheers,

LSP

Just Some Song

 

Europoors will hate this.

So what'd it take to liberate the UK from Rainbow Commie Tyranny. Look at you, Brits, being arrested for hurty words on the internet and lying down in pathetic, subservient compliance. Look at you, Left, you utter hypocrites, locking people up in the name of tolerance. You total, utter frauds.

OK, so maybe the UK's sunk beneath the waves of a rainbow caliphate. Problem. Solution? Launch USMC at the Sceptered Isle. Reliable sources tell me more than a few members of UKLF would support such a thing when they're not busy bulling boots.

Your Friend,

LSP

Just For Kix

 

Just for kix

old but gold - spot the glow

Den. Hmmm, for me that'd be some club on Pall Mall. Perhaps we're one, eh? 

See you in Clubland,

LSP

Happy Juneteenth!

 

Happy Juneteenth, punters. How are you celebrating this great feast of freedom, a holiday second perhaps to Kwanza itself. With fried chicken, yum, fall-off-the-bone tender ribs, spit roast cat and all of that? I hope not, because it's Friday and we don't eat meat on Friday, being Christians.

Weird, isn't it, how Protestants mostly look down upon or ignore fasting when it's right there in the Bible, as in Christ Himself does it and commends it. Huh, I guess some parts of Sola Scriptura are more sola than others. Fasting and solas aside, here at the Compound we're enjoying this jolly old Juneteeth by looking out on our Old Adversary the Weather from the safety of the front porch. And what do we see?

Typical Texan Porch Scene

Glowering clouds, a chill breeze, rain, and the dull rumble of thunder. Yes, a storm's threatening to blow in from the West, and for a moment it looked like we were in for a tornado, the air was turning green. But the threat has passed, for now.

Time, then, to break out champagne and smoked salmon (does this somehow count as fasting? Ed.) as we dare our Ancient Enemy, the Weather, to do its worst on this joyous day of liberation. Speaking of which, d'ye not think it about time for the US to reposition a Carrier Group into the English Channel and liberate the UK?

Random Infographic

C'mon, it wouldn't be hard, it's not as though the Sceptered Isle has a Navy, Army or Air Force. Way easier than, say, the Straits of Hormuz, and we'd be welcomed as liberators. Maybe next year, on this sacrosanct day, Juneteenth.

Cheers,

LSP

Is Anglicanism Utterly Doomed

 

I say again, people pretending to be something they don't believe in anyway, in this case priests and deacons at the altar celebrating the Eucharist. Anglicanism or the Anglosphere's embraced this, see the once patrician Episcopal Church, the venerable if dying Church of England and the tiny Churches of Wales, Scotland, New Zealand and Australia.

All of them locked into a spasm of 1980s Student Union righteousness, which curiously enough doesn't appeal to the Gen. Pop. So is Anglicanism dead, locked into a double-down Leftist death dive? Sure looks that way, Rudi Dutschke's Long March Through The Institutions, not least the Church seems to have reached apogee, see photo above. And guess what? Trad opposition to Cultural Marxist takeover has failed, in mainstream Anglicanism, which now marches merrily to the beat of a rainbow drum. 

Well that's not gay

Wow, a whole denomination, the world's third largest, hollowed out by the Frankfort School and its descendants. Is it utterly doomed? Yes, insofar as anyone or anything which goes against the Holy Spirit will be relentlessly destroyed by that same Spirit. But not so fast.

There are islands of faithful Churchmen in our present sea of apostasy who uphold the Faith and Order of the Church as given to us by Christ Himself. The Diocese of Fort Worth is one of them, right here in North Central Texas, so is St. Peter's London Docks, in Wapping, England, and many others. The Faith, even amidst egregious Anglican chicanery and apostasy hasn't died out.

Typical Brompton Oratory Scene

It never will, the gates of Hell shall not prevail. That said, are we approaching the time when the various Churches of the Reformation stutter, die and fold into the greater thing? That Thing being  Rome. Think about it.

Just throwing it out there,

LSP

Iran War - Success or Failure?

 

So here we are with a Memo of Understanding, MOU. According to The Kobeissi Letter the MOU includes 14 key terms:

1. The US, Iran, and their allies agree to immediately and permanently end military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon

2. The US and Iran agree to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and not interfere in each other's internal affairs

3. The US and Iran commit to negotiating and reaching a final deal within 60 days, unless mutually extended

4. The US will begin removing its naval blockade immediately and fully end the blockade within 30 days

5. Iran will use its best efforts to ensure safe passage for commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days with no charge

6. The US and regional partners will develop a mutually agreed plan of at least $300 billion for Iran's reconstruction and economic development

7. The US will work toward terminating all types of sanctions against Iran, including UN, IAEA, primary, and secondary sanctions

8. Iran reaffirms that it will not procure or develop nuclear weapons and agrees to address its enriched material stockpile under IAEA supervision

9. Until a final deal is reached, Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, while the US will impose no new sanctions and deploy no additional forces

10. The US Treasury will issue waivers for Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, derivatives, and associated banking, insurance, and transportation services

11. The US will make frozen or restricted Iranian funds and assets fully available for use

12. The US and Iran will establish an executive mechanism to monitor implementation of the MOU and future compliance with the final deal

13. After signing the MOU and implementing key ceasefire, blockade, shipping, oil waiver, and asset-release provisions, the US and Iran will begin final deal negotiations

14. The final deal will be endorsed by a binding UN Security Council resolution

 

Social media's been pretty brutal. How is Iran getting 300BN, right to levy tolls on shipping after 60 days, unfrozen assets, sanctions release and various waivers not a US/Israel surrender? Good question. My take, for what little it's worth, is that EL SENOR and Bibi thought they could decapitate the head of the snake swiftly and the Mullahs would fall. But they didn't, annoyingly, and an uneasy stand-off ensues.

Have we gained anything by this maritime Persian adventure? Killed some bad guys, there is that, but what else. Maybe there's a neat geostrat hack that I'm not getting which justifies the whole thing. Hope so, but in the meanwhile feel free to weigh in: Iran War - Good/Bad, Success/Failure or somewhere in between.

Cheers,

LSP

Cat Trapping

 

Lo and behold, all these cute kittens! No, not so cute when they're feral and in your church hall, living it up and full of spitting fury when you try and catch 'em. Right, nightmare. Solution? Catch the wild kittens and send them on to another compound. How?

Call up Animal Services, borrow a couple of traps from Austin and some heavy duty gloves. Lay the traps in the church hall, baited with Feisty Kitten, which is like Cat Crack, no kidding, they love it. OK, rock on, catch your first cat. Well done, you're a Cat Trapper. Nice, but what about the rest?

They didn't want to go anywhere near the cage we'd laid out for them, Feisty Kitten notwithstanding, no, they were hunkered down like sleeper cell Jihadis and we had to pry those little furies out. How? Here:

Coax Mama cat into the kitten space (church hall)

Wait, as kittens and Mama get frisky

Remove Mama (let her out the door)

Watch through the miracle of phone technology as the kittens circle the trap, enter it and... close the deal. Well done team, take a feral cat award each. Seriously, no small thing. If you doubt me, try catching one with your hands; no, fool, wear heavy duty gloves, they're fierce, very.

End of story: We caught those cats, all three of them, and they're fixing to go to a friend's compound tomorrow. WE WILL NOT DO THIS AGAIN.

Cheers,

LSP