Are Flores Hobbits Ebu Gogo?

In 2003, stunned archeologists discovered tiny humanlike skeletons in a cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia. Could these dwarf relatives of modern humans be the ancestors of the island's mysterious race of jungle dwelling pygmies, the Ebu Gogo?

Named Homo Floresiensis or "Hobbits," the Flores skeletons reveal a small race of hominin that stood around 3 feet tall and had a brain the size of a grapefruit. Initially dated between 100,000-12,000 years ago, paleoarcheologists speculated that the pint sized creatures may have interacted with Homo Sapiens and could even exist today.

Rumors of a pygmy race of living in the impenetrable jungles of Flores have persisted for centuries. Called Ebu Gogo, whose name means "grandmother who eats everything," these strange creatures are reported to steal food, kidnap children and even mimic human speech. At 60" tall, they're also good candidates to be the Hobbits' descendants.

However, new dating suggests the Hobbits left their cave far earlier than previously thought, 50,000 years ago. This, say experts, makes it unlikely for the height-challenged beings to exist today.

"Sorry, cryptozoologists -- 'Little Foot' and 'Hobbits' are very unlikely to have persisted from 50,000 years ago to today," says science communicator Kristina Killgrove.

Have the little people we know as Hobbits died out or do some still live among us today? You, the reader, be the judge.

Hail to the Chief,

LSP

OUT DEMONS OUT

Right minded people everywhere were shocked and appalled when the Satanic Temple set up a temporary shrine to Satan at Arkansas' state capitol.

The Baphomet statue, which has creepy overtones of pedophilia was put up to protest a monument featuring the 10 Commandments. If the state can endorse the one then it has to allow the other, runs Satanic Temple logic.

And to be fair, it's all a larf. Until you wake up and discover a satanic portal in your backyard and a demon's gnawing on your buddy's elbow.

Speaking of demons, here's Asia.

Rumors that Asia's a devil witch pedo occultist are entirely that, rumors. And lest you forget, Baphomet's trans.

Out Demons Out,

LSP

Sex Scandal

Here at the Compound we want to post something uplifting about America's popular and glamorous First Lady, because it's Monday. Instead it's got to be this, Bishop Robert Morlino's "letter to the faithful" concerning the scandal roiling the dioceses of Pennsylvania.

Here's an excerpt:

It is time to admit that there is a homosexual subculture within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that is wreaking great devastation in the vineyard of the Lord. The Church’s teaching is clear that the homosexual inclination is not in itself sinful, but it is intrinsically disordered in a way that renders any man stably afflicted by it unfit to be a priest. And the decision to act upon this disordered inclination is a sin so grave that it cries out to heaven for vengeance, especially when it involves preying upon the young or the vulnerable. Such wickedness should be hated with a perfect hatred. Christian charity itself demands that we should hate wickedness just as we love goodness. But while hating the sin, we must never hate the sinner, who is called to conversion, penance, and renewed communion with Christ and His Church, through His inexhaustible mercy.

At the same time, however, the love and mercy which we are called to have even for the worst of sinners does not exclude holding them accountable for their actions through a punishment proportionate to the gravity of their offense. In fact, a just punishment is an important work of love and mercy, because, while it serves primarily as retribution for the offense committed, it also offers the guilty party an opportunity to make expiation for his sin in this life (if he willingly accepts his punishment), thus sparing him worse punishment in the life to come. Motivated, therefore, by love and concern for souls, I stand with those calling for justice to be done upon the guilty.

The sins and crimes of McCarrick, and of far too many others in the Church, bring suspicion and mistrust upon many good and virtuous priests, bishops, and cardinals, and suspicion and mistrust upon many great and respectable seminaries and so many holy and faithful seminarians. The result of the first instance of mistrust harms the Church and the very good work we do in Christ’s name. It causes others to sin in their thoughts, words, and deeds — which is the very definition of scandal. And the second mistrust harms the future of the Church, since our future priests are at stake.

You can read the whole thing here. One noted evangelical journalist commented, "That's the best statement I've ever seen."

And credit where it's due, can you imagine Justin Welby, for example, calling out the crimes of a "homosexual subculture"? 

Right on target, Bishop Morlino.

LSP

World's Oldest Human Fossil Discovered in Morocco!

Paleoanthropologists  were stunned to discover the world's oldest human fossil, in a Moroccan cave. The fossil remains from Jebel Irhoud date back to a remarkable 300,000 BC, pushing back the history of the human race by some 100,000 years.

human?

“This stuff is a time and a half older than anything else put forward as H. sapiens,” said baffled boffin John Fleagle of the State University of New York in Stony Brook.

not human?

However, there's doubt about whether the fossil is actually human, its teeth and jawline align with Homo Sapiens but its cranium is elongated, suggesting a different kind of brain than those humans enjoy today.

a different brain

Still, whether human or humanlike, the Moroccan fossil is important. “It's placed at a critical time period when the earliest members of our species could have evolved, and they’re critical for better understanding the patterns of physical and behavioral evolution,"  says Zeray Alemseged from the University of Chicago.

Moroccan Fossil

As debate simmers over the ancient Moroccan fossil, the quest for the origin of our species continues.

Explorers Club forever,

LSP

Are We Descended From Apes?

Are we descended from apes and chimpanzees? Good question and one expert, Robin Crompton of the University of Liverpool, says it's the other way around.

Based on the fossilized bones of a 3.7 million year old human ancestor, Austrolipithecus, Crompton believes that our early ancestors lived in trees and were bipedal, they could walk upright. Chimps and other monkeys went on to knuckle drag in the interests of speed and ease but we didn't.

This means that the apes and ourselves, for that matter, come from a common ancestor that's more like us than some kind of chimp and that we took the high road and the apes didn't. Well done, human forebearers, you made the right choice.

Well so what. So a lot. We've been taught that humans started out as chimps, got bigger, became apes and then somehow became rational or irrational human beings. Ascent of the Species and thank you very much, Darwin, Boom.

But this lineal progression may not be true. Something very like a human existed in the happy canopy of the trees, according to Crompton, and advanced on. Others, coming from the same stock devolved into bestial apes, leaving us where we are today.

I'm no expert but maybe Crompton has a point, his early hominin fossil seems to say so, but consider this. When did monkeys become rational? When did apes start to reason?

We did, at some point, albeit imperfectly. When and how did this happen and why didn't it happen for the rest of the monkeys and still hasn't now. No one knows but it should have done, right? 

If we all come from a common arboreal ancestor and the ability to reason is simply part of the evolutionary process, then the monkeys that devolved from us should be able to pick up the plot, but they haven't.

Perhaps they're evolutionary dead ends. But serious question. There's a massive leap from irrational animal to rational human. How did that occur and if it could do so for us and not our ape allies, then why not? 

After all, we have a common ancestor, or not.

Harambe Weeps,

LSP

The Adamites?

Around 7000 years before Christ (BC) we're told that mankind, which had been living a jolly hunter-gather sort of life, suddenly domesticated wheat, became farmers and settled down. Nuts, berries and the odd Mastodon steak, so delicious, didn't cut it for them anymore. No, they wanted to farm.

With that, the whole edifice of civilization began, Pyramids, temples, Emperors, armies, philosophers, the FBI, lying, venal, slick, aggressive mainstream media, all of what we know today as civilization came into being. Thanks to wheat at 7000 BC.

Then a German archeologist discovered Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, a temple complex of monumental masonry that dates back to 10,000 BC or 12,000 years before now. 

There they were, the Flintsones, scavenging about for roots, bark, the occasionally unfortunate saber tooth tiger and, as a side hobby, building huge stone temples with sophisticated lithic art. And then, waiting some three thousand years to start farming.

Something doesn't seem right with this picture but there it is. An obviously civilized, stonebuilding, aesthetically skilled culture putting up temples(?) when they should have been foraging about for nuts and wondering why their uncured animal skin clothes smelled so bad. And then, three millennia later, getting it together to grow wheat.

Weird, right? Some speculate that a comet or fragments of one, smashed into or burst above the North American ice sheet around 13,000 years ago, causing massive flooding and an influx of cold, glacial water into the Atlantic. Hence the Younger Dryas cooling and mega fauna extinctions.

Long story short, it would have been a cataclysmic event, characterized by huge flooding, a rise in sea level, die-off level conflagration and global cooling. 

This, some believe, was the Deluge and from it emerged rare survivors from an Ice Age civilization who started afresh, with the seeds, literally, of a previous world. They did so in places such as Gobekli Tepe.

But then, just as civilization began to flourish again, the earth passed through the orbital train of cometary debris from the previous disaster, shutting down sites like Gobekli Tepe, notoriously backfilled around 9,500 BC for no apparent reason. Were they attempting to save their temples from the coming catastrophe?

Who knows, but thanks to intrepid Germans, we can see the mute testimony of their culture today and wonder at the tenacity of the people, the Adamites?, who made it through earthquake, fire and flood to domesticate wheat and build the pyramids.

The rest, of course, is history.

Your Friend,

LSP

New Mexico Jihad Madness

So, a compound full of heavily armed, fanatical Moslem Jihadis was busted in New Mexico. There they were in the desert, training kids to commit suicide attacks and, in passing, killing a 3 year old. That's right, Law Enforcement found a dead three year old on the compound.

Moron

But that's OK if you're Democrat Judge, Sarah Backus, who released the Jihad Moslems on recognizance. Why? Well, you wouldn't want to be a racist or anything for locking up Muslim people of color who killed a 3 year old and trained kids to be terrorists.

Our Minneapolis desk had this to say.

The left goes on about taking guns away and "think of the children." Well here's a Jihad nutjob TRAINING SCHOOL SHOOTERS and he/she isn't even jailed. Murdered a 3 year old too. WTF?!?

The Leader. Did it kill the 3 year old?

Outrageous isn't in it. Apparently the leader of the New Mexican Muslim death cult's been arrested by ICE. The very same agency the Democrats want to abolish because it's you know, so very racist.

Kizmet,

LSP

Counter Revolution

Via Forward in Christ magazine:

Who will save Christian civilization with all its values and freedoms from the revolutionaries who want to destroy it?

The answer, of course, is the Church. As Belloc famously wrote, Europe is the Faith. The Faith, catholic Christianity, is at the foundation and heart of Western culture, it defines us and provides the necessary value to fight back against the anti-value of the destroyers.

“They build and we destroy,” says the Satanist Manasseh in Williams’ War in Heaven. Manasseh, in the grip of his hatred wasn’t wrong; the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, militant on earth, builds up with all the creative power of God Himself.

You can read the whole thing here if you like and while you're at it...

Out, Demons, Out,

LSP 

Assumption

It's the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, so take a break from pondering the iniquities of Agent Sztrok, Wacky Dog Omarosa, Russia Hysteria Syndrome and consider this instead.

From Pius XII's encyclical Munificentissimus Deus:

It is to be hoped that from meditation on the glorious example of Mary men may come to realize more and more the value of a human life entirely dedicated to fulfilling the will of the Heavenly Father and to caring for the welfare of others. We also hope that while materialistic theories [such as Communism] and the moral corruption arising from them are threatening to extinguish the light of virtue, and by stirring up strife, to destroy the lives of men, the exalted destiny of both our soul and body may in this striking manner be brought clearly to the notice of all men.

The value of human life, I'd say that's under attack right now at pretty much every level, not least from the nihilists who are working feverishly to destroy what's left of Christian culture in the West. 

They won't succeed but in the meanwhile...

Ora pro nobis,

LSP

Russia Hysteria Syndrome

Check out this helpful infovideo on the serious, debilitating, so far incurable disease that is Russia Hysteria Syndrome (RHS).

Will our medical professionals ever find a cure? We don't know, in the meanwhile, enjoy BPS.

#WeAreRussianBots,

LSP

YOU'RE FIRED

The sinister, creepy, weird, traitorous and possibly possessed by Satan FBI agent, Peter Strzok's been fired. You have to go, said the FBI and had him escorted out of the building by security. Leave here, they said, harming no one.

And so another player in the slow moving coup to overthrow a lawfully elected president  gets kicked to the curb. Good, not before time and we have to ask, how many more?

In the meanwhile, seemingly possessed Strzok has launched an appeal for money on gofundme. Go right ahead, send Satan some more cash, as if it needs it.

Who knows, perhaps all of fantastically wealthy pedo Hollywood will support their pet demon. But I'd be surprised, looks like Satan's discarded his broken toy.

Out Demons Out,

LSP

Mid Term Blue Wave

The Dems are hoping for a massive win in the midterm elections because they think the nation will support Abolish ICE, a tranny in every bathroom and a crippling weather tax. And, you know, Ocasio Socialism.

Don't fear the Reaper, open borders, mujerista Democrats. I predict a wipeout but that's just me.

Trump 20/20.

Your Old Pal,

LSP

Bikers For Trump

Donald Trump, our President, met with bikers at some golf club he built in New Jersey. Members of the lying, slick, venal, mendacious mainstream media were there too and got a telling off. 

Apparently they're ganging together or "colluding" to bring the the President down. Media leftists don't want a president who puts America first.

They hate that, they think it's Nazi. A bit like borders which, if left open, have the potential to give them millions of votes.  Nice, right? Imagine this scenario.

Anyone can come to the United States but, and here's the kicker, they can't claim benefits!

Oh my, what an electoral disaster.

Your best friend,

LSP

Dalek Interlude

I've been in the land of the Houston Dalek, which is always awesome. 

There he is, the Dalek, beaming his beneficent light on the Maseratis, Porsches and McClarens of the Inner Loop. And motorcycles too, which like to race up and down Westheimer like ratcheting hornets. Stay on the bike, kids.

Normal programming to resume shortly.

God bless,

LSP

In The 2nd Second Second Of Forever

I saw a pair of plastic fangs, lying on the tarmac.

That is all,

LSP

Chicago Slaughterhouse

A Typical Ghetto Street Scene

Gun controlled, leftist, Democrat Chicago saw some 63 shootings since Friday. The city's West and South side are like Northern Ireland at the height of the "troubles" but worse. It's just one instance of our dirty urban hellhole secret and it's not getting better.

So much so that Chicago blacks are turning to the President for help and who can blame them, ultra lib Rahm Emmanuel hasn't helped, he's continued the Dem status quo. But it looks like people are fixing to get off the plantation:

I’ve spoken to many people who live on the south side of Chicago. They are not fans of Trump, but they fully agree that he should send the National Guard. IT IS A SLAUGHTER FEST. @GiannoCaldwell https://t.co/UBn4pJmoxi

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 1, 2018

"It’s my fervent hope that President Trump – who has frequently commented about the terrible violence plaguing the city – will intervene soon and provide federal law enforcement officers and funding to save lives of innocent men, women and children being gunned down every day in my hometown of Chicago."

In The Ghetto

If the Democrats really cared about people they'd be working all out to fix it. But no. Prosperous, working, functioning inner cities don't fit into their buy-votes-with-handouts scheme. Here's Candace again, speaking from the Ministry of Telling it Like it is:

Why does the left hate me?
The answer is simple: because the government has played the part of drug dealer to black Americans, and I’m offering their addicts sobriety. pic.twitter.com/zNELwYcLa5

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 3, 2018

Well said, Candace, less government, please. In the meanwhile, it seems there isn't much of that left in Chicago. Better sort it out; I'll leave you to parse the "or else."

Your Old Pal,

LSP

The Hippies Went Down To Portland

Well, well, well, the hippies went down to Portland. Some of them were going to abolish ICE and the nation's borders because, you know, without a border there'll be an anarcho-syndicalist revolution that's gonna overthrow the Man.

Grace Slick With Some Deadbeat

So the hippies set up a camp outside the ICE house and stayed there forever because Portland's Democrat Mayor wouldn't let the police arrest the filthy, thieving, unclean, aggressive, reeking hippies. Then the Man told them to go and off they went but they left this, en lieu of overthrowing the State.

A Typical Hippie Encampment

Here's the Wall Street Journal:

Along the trolley tracks behind the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, a biohazard cleanup crew works under police protection. It finds used needles and buckets of human waste simmering in nearly 100-degree heat. The smell of urine and feces fills the block. For more than five weeks, as many as 200 people had occupied the site to demand ICE’s immediate abolition. They’re gone now, but a community is left reeling. Thirty-eight days of government-sanctioned anarchy will do that.

1st Battalion Garbage Cans

In related news, violent hippies tried to stop Patriot Prayer in Portland and deployed the 1st Battalion Garbage Cans. 1 BGC failed to live up to promise and ran away in the face of "flash bangs." 

Trash

Whether they duct taped their garbage cans together for waste disposal is currently unclear.

Spartacus,

LSP

What's Wrong With You?

Readers, all two of you, why is our art and architecture so ugly, why are the values, traditions and mores of our culture held in derision and more than that, attacked right down to the fundamentals? 

Why is gender, biology, family, the very givenness of who and what we are, all emptied of content as oppressive?

Why? Because we're dealing with an enraged, destructive spirit. NYU prof, Michael Rechtenberg, sounds the alarm:

We’re undergoing a Maoist-like Cultural Revolution — with the power of the corporate mass media, corporate social media, the academy, most of corporate America, the deep state, the shadow government, and most of the legal apparatuses behind it. Anti-western, anti-individual, anti-Christian, anti-liberty monsters are ravaging our cultural legacies as well as our contemporary arts and letters. Our entire culture is under siege and undergoing an utter and relentless social justice dismantling. Leftist totalitarianism is running amok.

Or to put it another way, in the words of Georg Lukacs:

I saw the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution. A worldwide overturning of values cannot take place without the annihilation of the old values and the creation of new ones by the revolutionaries.

In sum, we're dealing with nihilism, a parasitic evil whose end is destruction, pure and simple, and whose author is demonic. No wonder Saul Alinsky dedicated Rules For Radicals to Satan.

This battle is spiritual, it's an affair of the heart and mind. We must counter it likewise, spiritually, with love and truth as opposed to hate and deceit. 

If that inward and spiritual grace is belied outwardly by 7.62, so be it.

Deus Vult,

LSP

Anglo-Catholic As The Day Is Long

Keen-eyed readers of this popular mind blog might recall the oddity that is Anglo-Catholicism.

That's right, a movement that asserts catholicity for the Church of England and its various branches around the world. It started a while ago, with Pusey, Keble and Newman in Oxford, and spread.

Then in the '70s it went bust with the ordination of women. How could Anglicanism claim sacramental authenticity with the innovation? Not easy and its supporters didn't even try, it was all a matter of equal rights for a disenfranchised, oppressed "minority," women. 

Women are oppressed, runs the logic, because they can't have all the jobs men have. So hurry up, Nazis, and make them priests. The Anglican Church  in the West fell beneath the irresistible force of this powerful algorithm. And who can blame it. 

A creature of the state since Henry VIII, why should Anglicanism suddenly mutiny when its overlords start riding the rainbow?

For the most part it didn't, it embraced the rainbow, lovingly. But Anglo-Catholics held the line, protesting against all the odds that their denomination isn't a denomination at all but part of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church founded by Christ to be the Ark of Salvation.

We're at it today and you have to ask, is it a wasted effort? No, it's not. It's one small strike, to be sure, in the fight against evil and that's never a waste. On the contrary, it's a Gospel imperative.

 So, give up or hold the line? Ask Charles Martel.

STAND STEADY,

LSP

And By Request...

Thank you all for such great Presidents.

Cheers,

LSP