Sunday, January 24, 2021
Battle Flag
Yet More Fog
It's another day of mist and mellow fruitfulness in bucolic olde Texas. And I like that, it reminds me of strolling about in the Cairngorms, Snowdonia or 'Nam. That'd be Cheltenham, obviously. This in mind, it's good to see our ancient adversary turn from blazing, stupid hot to something else. Nice. Climate Change, bring it on.
Climatic context set, there we were in the sacristy of Mission #2 this morning, getting ready for the sacred mysteries when the Junior Warden knocked on the door.
"Come in!" I uttered, like Stentor himself, and he did. "What's up, Chief?" he was one, "Thought you might like these," he replied. I looked at the offered copies of NRA's latest MAGAzines and said, "Thank you very much." And then, turning to the Altar Party, "Gentlemen, let us pray," and we did.
An acolyte was heard to mutter, "You know you're in a country parish in Texas when..." And I fixed him with a lazerlike eye as we prepared to process, "Quite." Come and take it was left unsaid. I tell you, they're a good and faithful crew. Praise God for that.
This lifts my spirits and I hope yours too.
Spero in Deo!
LSP
Saturday, January 23, 2021
The Fog of Olde Texas
Mist, gentle rain, and the fog of war against our old enemy, The Weather. It's like Aberystwyth in June or Oxford in July but no, this is Texas. Not that I'm complaining, it's good to get some Skywater. Speaking of which, they say that if you collected all the rain that fell here you'd have enough water to last the year. So word to the wise, build cisterns for when the grid goes down and civic infrastructure with it.
In other news, the most popular Administration in the history of popularity's promised to "codify Roe v. Wade," thus making access to abortion the "law of the land" and the potential for SCOTUS to overturn Roe moot.
Gerard V. Bradley, a legal prof at Notre Dame, gives an excellent analysis at First Things, you can read the whole thing here. A snapshot:
If the Court were to recognize the unborn as the persons they are, then all the problems Roberts catalogued would disappear. For when the unborn are counted as “persons” equal to others, the universally applicable legal norms about justification and excuse would pertain to them too. In a certain sense, it would be business as usual; abortion would scarcely be a special case at all.
Let's see how this plays out and in the meanwhile, pray that the wickedness comes to an end. As it is, we have a group of vehemently anti-life politicians in control of our country. For them, the right to kill your child in the womb equates to sexual equality, and with it money and votes, a level playing field in the workplace between men and women.
With abortion, both sexes are free to pursue careers and economic independence without all those inconvenient babies. And what are you worth if you're not out in the workplace earning money?
Nothing, obviously, said no Marxist ever.
Cheers,
LSP
Friday, January 22, 2021
Debtstar Rising
Do you remember the debt? No, not your paltry burden, but the US debt, standing at a mighty, earth shattering and climbing 27 Trillion, at interest, and rising every second. It's a vast, almost unimaginable amount of money and, as with all debt, the people who lent it in the first place want their money repaid.
That's the nature of debt. Take out a loan to buy stuff, like votes, how very awesome, but you have to pay it back, it's part of the deal. Now, how do you pay back 27 trillion bucks and climbing? You can inflate your way out of it and make your money worthless, or you can can blow off the debt, and make your money worthless.
What a conundrum, and I'm glad I'm just an inconsequential kebab vendor on the information superhighway as opposed to the kind of banker who feels forced to throw himself off a balcony at the age of 57 despite being a multi billionaire. But let's get down to brass tacks.
Our money's rotten and waiting to implode, it's a matter of time. When it does, and it will, who's going to pay the soldiers. Seriously, what's going to happen when the people under arms don't get a paycheck? No one's talking about that, and maybe they should.
But no, they're just sending soldiers off to sleep in carparks as they celebrate the political theater of a stolen election. That'll endear you to the soldiery you have to pay to protect you and who, notoriously, voted for you in the last election. Except that they didn't.
Your Pal,
LSP
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Go To Church
Preferably with lots of incense, which indicates the prayers of the saints and elevates the spirit to God. Regardless, it was good to drive over to Arlington, which is a suburb of the DFW Metrosprawl, and assist Mass at St. Albans, Arlington.
Which was good. Fr. CC was installed as Master of our province of the Society of the Holy Cross (SSC) and and all was well. And here's the thing, the SCC was set up as a missional society of priests, to claim and defend catholicism for our part of the Church, Anglicanism.
CC will do well at that and I'll support him, 100%, wholeheartedly. Part of this might include skeet shoots, it's happened before. In the meanwhile, consider the power, for good, of a united Christian witness against the evil of age.
Your Pal,
LSP
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Science
Well here we are, in the land of science, or as someone famously said, "A blasphemous parody of a woman." And, apparently unironically, something to do with the nation's health. Try not to throw up in your made in China mask.
Speaking of health, I risked life and limb to drive into the Metrosprawl conurb this afternoon. And I tell you, it wasn't easy because cars were smashing up like Me 163s coming in to land. Komets aside, the Society of the Holy Cross (SSC) meets in the Fort Worth conurb tomorrow, where we'll install a new Provincial Master.
There's a story in that, because the venerable and awesome SSC is now a game of two halves in North America. On the one hand, there's the Anglo-Catholic clergy who side with the transgender Episcopal Church. And on the other, those who don't.
You can guess which side I'm on, but don't get me wrong, the TEC SSC is attempting an orthodox, catholic witness in their part of the Worldwide Anglican Non Communion (WANC). Good luck, guys. But more on this fascinating facet of ecclesiana later.
In the meanwhile, hail to the Chief, and who would that be, right about now?
Your Pal,
LSP
Morning Covfefe
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Just For Kix
OBEY YOUR RULERS
So where's it going to end? George Orwell put it well to the unfortunate Winston, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”
Make that a rainbow boot, please, and OK, maybe Tucker's fears of a latter day Thought Police are exaggerated. Then again, maybe they're not, to the tune of an unprecedented military occupation of the nation's capital.
Cheers,
LSP
Monday, January 18, 2021
Skorzeny
You may remember German specops supremo Otto Skorzeny. He rescued the bizarre Italian dictator Mussolini in the latter years of the war, which bought the Italian tyrant a few months to live before he was hanged in a Milan filling station.
Skorzeny went on to survive the war, and some of you may have known him. But regardless, he was given a Requiem Mass in 1975. Here it is, in part:
Was his honor loyalty? Good question, in the meanwhile, DC's protected by 30,000 soldiers because our new President's so unutterably popular. And if you believe that you'll believe anything.
Cheers,
LSP
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Is Lady Gaga a Satanist?
Is sultry superstar Lady Gaga an Illuminati NWO Satanist or just another workaday Millionaire Socialist? Good question, and there's no doubt that the talented songstress is a millionaire and a socialist. But if the genius behind smash hits like Poker Face, Telephone and Born This Way isn't a satanist, why is she good friends with America's top PR Witch, Marina Abramovic?
Here's Gaga with ABRA:
You might remember ABRA was caught out "spirit cooking" with top DNC players like Podesta. Here she is again, look closely at the background.
Serious question. How many of our ruling elite, regardless of party affiliation, are ritual occultists? I don't pretend to know, but I'll wager the aging if ferocious monkey against any six of your wimmyn priestesses that there's more than a few.
Lady Gaga's slated to sing at the Corpse's virtual inauguration, her net worth's a nifty socialist $320 million.
Your Pal,
LSP
Truth
As I read LL's excellent sermon on the nature of Truth and Mathematics, my mind went back to the good old days of the Church of England, the days before womyn priestesses. In fact, to the day of a "viva," OK, interview, with the suffragan bishop figure of Tewkesbury, which is a picturesque town in Gloucestershire noted for hippies, a battle and an abbey church, now a cathedral.
"Can we say," asked the grey-clad prelate in his unpleasantly low-ceilinged 'lounge,' "that there is such a thing as right and wrong?"
It was a genuine question and the fighting monkey was young in those days, so I answered, "Oh, I think there is. Say I took a baby and skinned it, alive. Would that be right or wrong?"
He muttered something like, "Ahem, yes," and moved on, doubtless mentally oppressed by the stifling lowness of the ceiling above him, and the ferocity of the monkey. I apparently passed muster, curiously.
Point of the parable? That there is such a thing as Truth, with a capital T, that which is, and our minds are in conformity with it or not. And, ultimately, this Truth is God, He who is, I AM that I AM, self-existent being which speaks all things into being. Try saying no to that and see how far you get.
Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος, in the beginning was the word and the word was with God, and the word was God. Reflect on that and do not dare, unless you are a fool, to go against it, reality Himself.
Here endeth the Lesson,
LSP