Light Brigade

 

We had to memorize this as kids, and I tell you, dear readers, education don't come cheap. "All in the valley of death rode the six hundred," and that's exactly what they did. What men, cavalrymen, like no kidding:

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Half a league, half a league,

Half a league onward,

All in the valley of Death

   Rode the six hundred.

“Forward, the Light Brigade!

Charge for the guns!” he said.

Into the valley of Death

   Rode the six hundred.

II

“Forward, the Light Brigade!”

Was there a man dismayed?

Not though the soldier knew

   Someone had blundered.

   Theirs not to make reply,

   Theirs not to reason why,

   Theirs but to do and die.

   Into the valley of Death

   Rode the six hundred.

III

Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon in front of them

   Volleyed and thundered;

Stormed at with shot and shell,

Boldly they rode and well,

Into the jaws of Death,

Into the mouth of hell

   Rode the six hundred.

IV

Flashed all their sabres bare,

Flashed as they turned in air

Sabring the gunners there,

Charging an army, while

   All the world wondered.

Plunged in the battery-smoke

Right through the line they broke;

Cossack and Russian

Reeled from the sabre stroke

   Shattered and sundered.

Then they rode back, but not

   Not the six hundred.

V

Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon behind them

   Volleyed and thundered;

Stormed at with shot and shell,

While horse and hero fell.

They that had fought so well

Came through the jaws of Death,

Back from the mouth of hell,

All that was left of them,

   Left of six hundred.

VI

When can their glory fade?

O the wild charge they made!

   All the world wondered.

Honour the charge they made!

Honour the Light Brigade,

   Noble six hundred!

Noble six hundred! Dam straight. The UK doesn't have any cavalry units anymore because they sold all their regiments to buy votes for Moslems. What does this mean? They'll have to reform.

Your Pal,

LSP

Listen Up Heathen

 

Today, punters, is the Feast of All Souls, yesterday was the Feast of All Saints and, rather than listen to my rambling, Austin Farrer writes with magisterial wisdom:

THIS sacrament is not a special part of our religion, it is just our religion, sacramentally enacted. It is whatever Christ is, and Christ is everything to Christian men. In particular, he is the supreme bond between us. Everyone of you communicating is bound to his neighbour by this, that the Christ who lives in one, lives in the other. You care for your fellow Christian as you would care for Christ, and that in you which does the caring is also Christ. Christ in each cares for Christ in all when we communicate together. The same bond unites us with the saints in paradise, who make up by far the greater part of Christ’s people, and with our departed friends who may not yet be in paradise, but for whom we care, and for whom we pray. (Crown of the Year, worth every penny)

 

Imagine, if you can, the supreme gift which God makes of Himself in the Sacrament of the Altar. There He is and there we are, utterly unworthy, and yet He would make His home in us.  “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house.” Welcome Him joyfully with a truly repentant heart and be lifted up to glory. "Today," says Christ, "salvation has come to this house."

No small thing, eh? And may the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace.

Crux Sacra Sit Mihi Lux,

LSP

Is This Country Lost?

 

I present you, dear readers, Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff, Gen. Jennie Carignan: Check zhir out, I dare you:

Punters, do you think Canada's lost? Or are they, like Great Britain itself, simply gambling that they'll never ever, ever have to fight another war again? Now look here, I'm not a betting man, never have been, but I'll lay a solid Guinea on the fighting monkey that Jennie's on the wrong side. Devil take the hindmost and twice as fast, what?

Money on the monkey,

LSP

Halloween

 

Some people think Halloween's Satan's birthday, but it's not, it's the Vigil of All Saints wherein children run around mocking the devils which the Saints vanquish. That in mind, we set up a candy depot outside of Mission #1 and hundreds of kids turned up, first time ever.

Beautiful, they got lots of candy and blessed Bibles. "Here," I offered, "would you like me to bless those Bibles?" Downward glance, "Si." Right on, and in nomine there we were. What a sweet event, next year we'll set up a couple of grills and it'll be even better.

Now, bear in mind, dear readers, that Witches, Crowleyites and assorted occultist malfeasants have claimed the Vigil of All Saints as their own. Seriously, they go around hexing candy and invoking demons. We took a stand, however small, against that today.

We are, punters, engaged in a war, a spiritual war of truth v. lies, light v. dark, God v. Satan. Choose your side wisely.

Vade Retro,

LSP

Wolf!

 

"I am a wolf man." Can't for a moment think who or what that might apply to. With applause to all concerned:

Seriously, check out Virtual Mirage for real news and please, try not to take Captain Calvert too seriously. 

DFTR,

LSP

Magnum Mysterium

 

Just throwing it out there. Don't say brainwashing, turpitude, fraud, malfeasance.

Cheers,

LSP

Getting A Little Frosty

 

Welcome to Biden Stasiland. Operation Arctic Frost spied on and targeted over 400 GOP politicians, influencers and organizations. Objective? Wipe out top level resistance to the Democrat Party using a captive FBI, the DOJ, and corrupt elements of the Judiciary.

Some of us may remember Watergate and the scandal that ensued. This is orders of magnitude worse, but will anyone be held accountable? Don't hold your breathe, still, low hanging fruit like Chris Wray, James Boasberg, Jack Smith, Lisa Monaco, Andrew Weissman and Walter Giardina might, just possibly, fall beneath the torpid blade of US justice.

Speaking of which, do you remember Stormy Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenetti? He was a rising Democrat star, and now he's looking at 8 moar years of orange jumpsuit for thieving, fraud and malfeasance. Is this some kind of precedent? We can but hope.

That in mind, it's freezing here in Texas. We clearly haven't paid enough tax to cover enough of our land with windmills and black glass.

Cheers,

LSP

RIP Wayne Broadhurst

49 year old Wayne Broadhurst was stabbed to death by an Afghan migrant while he was walking his dog on Monday in Uxbridge. The crazed Moslem savage stabbed Wayne three times in the neck. So when is enough enough? On point, when will the people who deliberately imported this and continue to do so be held accountable.

Moslems made up some 7% of the UK population in 2021, around 4 million+ people. In 2023, 65% of prisoners held in the UK for terror related offenses were Mohammedan. Imagine what the UK will be like when 7% turns to 20% and higher.

I'd imagine things might get violent, not that they aren't already, ask Wayne, except that you can't. Wow, what wickedness reigns in the Sceptered Isle's corridors of power. Of course we had something similar going on here, but people woke up and stopped it. Let's see the same thng in the UK.

RIP, Wayne,

LSP

Crush The Demon

 

Do you remember when we excoriated the SovBloc commies for being against freedom of religion, speech and pretty much everything else? Of course you do, and you remember their titanic if weirdly underperforming fall in the late '80s, see Berlin Wall. And herewe are today.

GloboHomo Rainbow MIC faces off against Christian Russia, How could the former possibly GDP lose? Because, dear friends, we don't make anything anymore, we've offshored our industry to our enemies. Big drinks all 'round..

Incredible things are happening to the Zoomers pic.twitter.com/XQjZRo0sKy

— Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺 (@witte_sergei) October 27, 2025

 

In the meanwhile, perhaps you remember when the West stood for freedom of the Press and Religion? You do? Haters.

There’s more pic.twitter.com/MKMoMCzrVh

— Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺 (@witte_sergei) October 27, 2025

See you in the Waterloo Room,

LSP 

Exorciso Te

 

Satan Really Hates This

You may have noticed that the Latin Mass community filled St. Peter's in Rome on Saturday for a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Burke. Excellent, but you may have overlooked a most serious aspect of this festum. It's this, during the resplendent liturgy, Cardinal Simoni prayed Leo XIII's exorcism in the magnificent marble basilica. Here's a short concluding excerpt:

“Beseech the God of Peace to crush Satan under our feet, that he may no more be able to hold men captive and to harm the Church. Offer our prayers in the sight of the Most High, so that the mercies of the Lord may quickly come to our aid, that thou mayest seize the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan. . . We cast you out, every unclean spirit, every satanic power, every onslaught of the infernal adversary, every legion, every diabolical group and sect, in the name and by the power of our Lord Jesus + Christ.”

Cardinal Delivers Exorcism Prayer in St. Peter’s Basilica:
Something else happened yesterday at the Summorum Pontificum Traditional Latin Mass in the Basilica of St Peter (October 25, 2025) that strikes me as significant. Among the well-known prelates in attendance at the Latin… pic.twitter.com/CmGpgHQOvX

— Michael J. Matt (@Michael_J_Matt) October 26, 2025

 

Like... what? You may know the context, Latin Masses and exorcism are scorned by today's Vatican, don't say Grindr Vatican Gardens, but yes, right there in the heart of the Western Church, a prayer of exorcism, Old Rite, in the language the Devil hates. Imagine the darkness and venal insanity driven before it. We are, dear friends, engaged in a deadly war of dark v. light, lies v. truth, God versus Satan. So choose your side wisely. Per Matt M: 

Cardinal Simoni is an Albanian cardinal, born October 18, 1928, who according to his entry in the College of Cardinals Report, spent “eighteen years in jail at the hands of Albanian communists.” After having completed his seminary study clandestinely, he was ordained a priest on April 7, 1956. But on Christmas Eve 1963, after celebrating an “illegal” public Mass, Simoni was arrested and imprisoned.

Initially, he was sentenced to death for offering the Mass (the TLM at that time), but the sentence was later commuted to twenty-five years of hard labor. During his years of imprisonment, Simoni endured “torture and harsh conditions, including work in mines and sewage canals.” Far from being intimidated by the threat of torture, he secretly celebrated the Latin Mass from memory and heard the confessions of his fellow prisoners.

After his release in 1981, according to the College of Cardinals Report, Cardinal Simoni was still considered an “enemy of the people” and was thus forced to work in the Shkodrë sewers. Nevertheless, he continued to exercise his priestly ministry clandestinely until the fall of the communist regime in 1990.

Fast-forward to present day.

This heroic priest – once sentenced to death for celebrating the Mass – took part in yesterday’s Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage. From the sanctuary of the Altar of the Chair, His Eminence delivered an exorcism prayer composed by Pope Leo XIII on May 18, 1890. The prayer was composed after Pope Leo had overheard a conversation between God and the Devil, just after offering Mass, in which the Devil bragged that he could destroy the Church in one hundred years. Fearful for souls and for the life of the Church of which Leo was visible head, the Holy Father composed the Exorcism prayer, which was recommended by the Church whenever any acts of the Devil are suspected.

This man drives out demons by the power of Christ, take note

 

Friends, I entreat you to join the right side of this literally existential fight. And what can we say? 

Vade Retro Satana,

LSP

The Golden Fleet

 

47's planning a new era Navy, a Golden Fleet featuring far larger, deadlier warships with a displacement of up to 20,000 tons, dwarfing today's destroyers.

These battleships will operate within a constellation of smaller ships, fast and agile, incorporating advanced new drone technology and weaponry.

Yes, America and the world awaits the maritime triumph of the Golden Fleet, but who will build it? According to Global Defense News:

"The U.S. shipbuilding industrial base, already stretched thin by the Columbia-class submarine program and Ford-class carriers, would need a major investment surge to support the Golden Fleet vision. Labor shortages, supply chain fragility, and capacity bottlenecks across key yards such as Bath Iron Works and Ingalls Shipbuilding may threaten schedule and budget discipline. According to a Navy shipbuilding cost model reviewed by Army Recognition, the Golden Fleet’s large surface combatant could cost between $4 billion and $6 billion per hull, depending on weapons loadout and radar suite."

US shipyards had better get busy, eh?

Semper Fortis,

LSP

So What Went Wrong?

 

beautiful

Have you been to a modern church or "worship space", and have you found it at best anodyne, two dimensional and somehow cheap, like a small but Ikea clean shopping mall? Perhaps you have, even worse, have you been to a modern church and found it offensively, actively ugly?

Sure you have, we all have, though I tend to avoid those places like the plague, which is hard in this part of the world. By way of aside, if you live in N Central Texas, everything's pretty much new, and that includes churches, which are built new style, and new style's not attractive, at best it's an ersatz simulacrum of the higher aesthetic of yesteryear. 

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"So what went wrong," I exclaim in disgusted wonder at varnished blonde pine, faux stained glass, shiny faked up wood plastic floors, water feature font and all the rest, "Two thousand years of Christian art and architecture reduced to this." At that point, I usually walk out of the grossly ugly HVAC temple and enjoy a cigarette, only to return again in repentant humility.

Please don't laugh, it's true, I do. Still, what went wrong, and it's a serious question, because something did go wrong, got broken, and within living memory for the most part. Why, dear friends, did this happen? Big question, with more than a few answers, but let's try and narrow it down.

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Why? Because society went godless, rejecting in its promethean pride the classical forms of beauty, truth and goodness, such utter  bourgeois oppression, and the Church, in a fit of apostasy, followed suit. Then, after the initial revolt, ugly became the new normal and there you have it. 

To put it another way, Satan hates beauty which elevates the soul to God and salvation, and encouraged trite at best, bestial at worst ugliness in our architectural norms, which the Church embraced, being foolishly married to the disbelieving spirit of the age.

how very beautiful, you satanists

Net result? Ugly churches which no one wants to go to. And guess what, they aren't, attendance's in free fall. The same rule, not that we believe in "rule" here at the Compound, applies to liturgy, the public work of the worship of God. 

Make that as banal, polyester and ugly as the building you're attempting to worship in and wonder, aghast, at your lack of converts to a Faith you don't believe in anyway. I say again, what went wrong? Apostasy on a grand scale.

This is discouraging to faithful Christians and others, no one wants to live in an ugly world, life's too short for such a thing. But perhaps people are starting to wake up, to reclaim their heritage and their faith, the Faith on which the West is founded. Stats, notoriously deceptive but there nonetheless, suggest younger people are doing just that. 

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And well done them, they're perhaps beginning to see through the miasma of the last fifty years or more. Part of this realization will involve a thoroughgoing rejection of atheistical Socliaism, to say nothing of the Liberal project of, ahem, radical personal autonomy, and an embrace of the Faith, without which Europe and by extension us, are nothing.

That's my call and I'm sticking to it, my monkey's in the ring. Do feel free to pit your ape against mine. Guinea take it, what?

Your Best Pal,

LSP