Saturday, April 5, 2025

The Greek Chorus Explained courtchicago 1.12K subscribers Subscribe

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orXPMdCU-6s

Francine Stephens: Connecting a local farm, its food, and families

 https://www.vtcng.com/thecitizenvt/community/notable_neighbors/francine-stephens-connecting-a-local-farm-its-food-and-families/article_2ea9545d-2ca1-5e94-b3cf-dc2d426df0fa.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/francine-stephens-223a21138/

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/food-drink/dining-on-a-dime-philo-ridge-farm-21403438

The Clove Cafe

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/934118284675756/user/100087794071706/

Family Sown

 https://familysown.com/

Protectionism: The Jewel in the Crown of Trumponomics

 https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/04/protectionism-jewel-crown-trumponomics-joseph-pearce.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawJeWKdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHiUwNJat2CHPAQefvsvBJHqrIvMDfywA-E9ZtNvDlB8bbV8EfRS1VR7575LE_aem_JlSGU2zjJy4_dQz1CrTQsw

Robert Carter

 Carter was always said to have great integrity, but acting on his principles even when it essentially ruined him financially was an example of virtue few followed.

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/robert-carter-and-manumission

Augustine

 "And lo, I was now in my thirtieth year, sticking in the same mire, greedy of enjoying things present, which passed away and wasted my soul, while I said to myself, 'Tomorrow I shall find it. It will appear manifestly, and I shall grasp it. Lo, Faustus the Manichee will come and clear every thing! O you great men, ye Academicians, it is true then, that no certainty can be attained for the ordering of life? Nay, let us search the more diligently and despair not. Lo, things in the ecclesiastical books are not absurd to us now, which sometimes seemed absurd, and may be taken otherwise, and in a good sense. I will take my stand where as a child my parents placed me, until the clear truth be found out. But where shall it be sought or when? Ambrose has no leisure. We have no leisure to read. Where shall we find even the books? Whence, or when procure them? From whom borrow them? Let set times be appointed, and certain hours be ordered for the health of our soul. Great hope has dawned: the catholic faith teaches not what we thought, and vainly accused it of. Her instructed members hold it profane to believe God to be founded by the figure of a human body. And do we doubt to knock, that the rest may be opened? The forenoons our scholars take up: what do we do during the rest of the day? Why not this? But when shall we pay court to our great friends, whose favor we need? When shall we compose what we may sell to scholars? When shall we refresh ourselves, unbending our minds from these intense cares?'" (6.11.18)

Friday, April 4, 2025

Amma Sarah said, ‘According to nature I am a woman, but not according to my thoughts.’

 Another time, two old men, great anchorites, came to the district of Pelusia to visit her. When they arrived one said to the other, ‘Let us humiliate this old woman.’ So they said to her, ‘Be careful not to become conceited thinking to yourself: “Look how anchorites are coming to see me, a mere woman.” ‘But Amma Sarah said to them, ‘According to nature I am a woman, but not according to my thoughts.’

She also said to the brothers, ‘It is I who am a man, you who are women.’*

https://iconandlight.wordpress.com/2019/07/12/amma-sarah-said-according-to-nature-i-am-a-woman-but-not-according-to-my-thoughts/

Growing up with gay parents: What is the big deal?*

 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4771005/#:~:text=7.%20A%20ground%2Dbreaking%20study%20from%20the%20University,broad%20range%20of%20emotional%20and%20social%20problems.

How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study

 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0049089X12000610

Monday, March 31, 2025

Vladimir Soloviev, “The Russian Church and the Papacy” (1889)

 “No amount of argument can overcome the evidence for the fact that apart from Rome there only exist national churches such as the Armenian or the Greek church, state churches such as the Russian or Anglican, or else sects founded by individuals such as the Lutherans, the Calvinists, the Irvingites, and so forth.

The Roman Catholic Church is the only church that is neither a national church, nor a state church, nor a sect founded by a man; it is the only church in the world which maintains and asserts the principle of universal social unity against individual egoism and national particularism; it is the only church which maintains and asserts the freedom of the spiritual power against the absolutism of the state; in a word, it is the only church against which the gates of Hades have not prevailed.”

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Act III - Prelude

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrwWx6q7CQY

Friday, March 21, 2025

Polyvagal Exercises That HEAL Long Covid

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=1Y3FhtnLuaU&fbclid=IwY2xjawJK4ThleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbtuJebgIs3C4o7Dwz0C2LplhosKy_Yl6rIEsZ8s1xjPTq_1JCQuZkutxw_aem_hARQ00m2pOppXIrwGR-hhg

10 min Laughter Yoga Brain Break - reset, rewire & reinvigorate your mind, body & energy

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNKyUp3PYDE

University of Dallas vs. Sands Casino is a modern David and Goliath battle

 https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-of-dallas-vs-sands-casino-is-a-modern-david-and-goliath-battle/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJK3MtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHenEvafVi04rkYoWBhLRwVKW3GebnFky3Ryzfzd8kXiLBSXIkFqKpBTCLQ_aem_EZR9aeuSaXUvX3a6kzf6LA

What's Happening to Students? Here's the latest news from the zombie wars

 https://www.honest-broker.com/p/whats-happening-to-students?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F751986e4-8b13-47e2-8f4a-4bd35ef8d176_2400x800.jpeg&open=false

Nonfatal Gun Use in Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review of the Literature

 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27630138/

AI Detection Accuracy Studies — Meta-Analysis of 9 Studies

 https://originality.ai/blog/ai-detection-studies-round-up

replaced cylinder head on briggs stratton no combustion compression

 here

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Deliberico

 https://deliberico.us/?srsltid=AfmBOoo1uEuwICJ6Yq60GKLkD8ON_K3kLV3THceFMCi-dUzQifTLHCYs

Dwight D. Eisenhower Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.  It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.


 https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwighteisenhowercrossofiron.htm

Answering FAQs about COVID Spike Protein Disease and Healing Protocols

 https://fastwell.substack.com/p/answering-faqs-about-covid-spike?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1291291&post_id=158398035&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1bwy6w&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Elon Musk Drops Bombshell on $12 Billion Swindle: “Only the Government Can Get Away With This”

 https://www.dailyfetched.com/elon-musk-drops-bombshell-on-12-billion-swindle-only-the-government-can-get-away-with-this/

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

22 democrat Senators were just caught using the same script and clips word-for-word.

 https://x.com/InsiderWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1896965208830308778%7Ctwgr%5E83d21b12bc827a350ab9235b96bce9ac7100f584%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fnews%2Fdemocrats-caught-reading-from-same-anti-trump-script-in-videos-before-presidential-address%2F

Staggering cost of Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen's scandalous secret revealed

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14461157/Kroger-CEO-Rodney-McMullen-resignation-personal-conduct-cost.html

Tuam Death Certs Reveal No Babies Were 'Murdered'

 https://www.catholicarena.com/latest/tuamdeathcerts2108?fbclid=IwY2xjawI0VrVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHT2b7FhgxcxKOwSCKX9npdPmpF9Pyn1USWXrja6ZA4YaZ04SEVStTGUwpQ_aem_1r_Od1foTUpRGl08AXpgtg

A $20 Billion Slush Fund—Paid by You to Progressive Nonprofits

 https://www.thefp.com/p/a-20-billion-slush-fund-nonprofits?utm_campaign=260347&utm_source=cross-post&r=1r747a&utm_medium=email

Failure to find bodies ends Canada’s inquiry into mass burials at Church-run schools

 https://thecatholicherald.com/failure-to-find-bodies-ends-canadas-inquiry-in-mass-burials-at-church-run-schools/

Stunned families reveal how their children's autism symptoms were REVERSED by cheap 'life-changer' drug

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14455577/families-reveal-children-autism-symptoms-reversed-cheap-drug-leucovorin.html

Monday, February 24, 2025

Montana Cowboys, Adam Smith, and Trump

Dreams of ownership enticed our ancestors to leave the Old World and build a new country.  They did not want to work other people’s lands.  They did not want to be taxed by feudal lords for the rest of their lives.  They wanted to own the fruits of their labor.  They wanted to own their own farms.  They wanted complete control over their economic fortunes — beholden to no-one.  Needless to say, most of their descendants have forgotten why freedom is impossible without private property.  Renting everything from a handful of oligarchs and governments, as Sheridan’s cowboy points out, means that we end up working entirely for them and never for ourselves.

 https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/montana_cowboys_adam_smith_and_president_trump.html

The Lost Agrarian World

 https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/24/the-lost-agrarian-world/

Saturday, February 22, 2025

Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice (Vienna version, 1762)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUpZ1Npj23M

The Restaurant Alton Brown Says Has 'The Best Double Cheeseburger In America'

 Read More: https://www.tastingtable.com/1791635/alton-brown-flycatcher-club-best-double-cheeseburger-us/

Judge upholds $83m E Jean Carroll defamation verdict against Trump

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/e-jean-carroll-trump-defamation

ABC and Stephanopoulos to pay Trump $15M, apologize in defamation suit settlement

 https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/14/trump-abc-stephanopoulos-settlement-00194391

NBC settles defamation lawsuit with doctor falsely labeled "uterus collector"

 https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5305268/nbc-settles-lawsuit-ice-doctor-msnbc-maddow-georgia-detainee

Education Department Moves to Reimbursement Model for COVID Relief Funds After Billions in Wasteful Spending

 https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/02/21/education-dept-switches-reimbursement-model-covid-relief-funds/

How America’s Aid to Ukraine Actually Works

 https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-america-s-aid-to-ukraine-actually-works

https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-ukraine-aid-package-and-what-does-it-mean-future-war

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Pope Pius XII, Message on Women’s Duties in the Social and Political Life of Today (October 21, 1945)

 “Equality of rights with man brought with it her [woman’s] abandonment of the home where she reigned as queen, and her subjection to the same work strain and working hours. It entails depreciation of her true dignity and the solid foundation of all her rights which is her characteristic feminine role, and the intimate coordination of the two sexes.

The end intended by God for the good of all human society, especially for that of the family, is lost sight of.
In concessions made to woman one can easily see not respect for her dignity or her mission, but an attempt to foster the economic and military power of the totalitarian state to which all must inexorably be subordinated.”

miguel moreno fort worth

 here

Undetectable.ai Review - Does it Bypass AI Detectors?

 https://originality.ai/blog/undetectable-ai-review

Poll: 9 in 10 Young Britons Believe Their Lives Have No Purpose

 https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/02/poll-9-10-young-britons-believe-their-lives-have-no-purpose/

How much does the government spend

 https://usafacts.org/state-of-the-union/budget/

Are You Grafted Into Israel? Part 4: ‘No Longer Gentile’

 https://apaulogetic.com/2018/12/29/are-you-grafted-in-part-4-no-longer-gentile/

Dramatic increase in the proportion of births outside of marriage in the United States from 1990 to 2016

 https://www.childtrends.org/publications/dramatic-increase-in-percentage-of-births-outside-marriage-among-whites-hispanics-and-women-with-higher-education-levels

Charted: Single Mothers in America by Ethnicity

 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-single-mothers-in-america-by-ethnicity/

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

How to Dress Like a Gentleman—And Why

If I were to give my younger self some advice, I would tell him to start with a dark navy suit, a gray suit, two white shirts, two light-blue shirts, and a pair of black shoes—loafers or oxfords. 

 https://www.thefp.com/p/elliot-ackerman-how-to-dress-like-a-gentleman?utm_campaign=260347&utm_source=cross-post&r=1r747a&utm_medium=email

Monday, February 10, 2025

Low-Carb Mongolian Ground Beef and Cabbage

 From facebook:


Ingredients:
1 lb ground beef
3 cups shredded cabbage
2 cloves garlic (minced)
1-inch ginger (grated)
¼ cup soy sauce (or coconut aminos)
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp rice vinegar
1 tsp chili flakes (optional)
1 tbsp brown sugar substitute (like erythritol)
2 green onions (chopped)
1 tbsp sesame seeds (for garnish)
Instructions:
Heat sesame oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add minced garlic and grated ginger, sautéing for about 1 minute until fragrant.
Add ground beef to the skillet, breaking it up with a spatula. Cook until browned, about 5-7 minutes.
Stir in the soy sauce, rice vinegar, brown sugar substitute, and chili flakes. Mix well to combine.
Add the shredded cabbage and cook for another 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until softened but still slightly crisp.
Remove from heat and top with chopped green onions and sesame seeds.
Serve hot and enjoy!

The Trendy Peasant Homesteading has become trendy, but the Catholic Land Movement has been advocating for it for decades.

 https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-trendy-peasant?fbclid=IwY2xjawIXR0VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHf2QnU33jwv6bgKL88s5zwfFJhi8hr5BzON5A2WEbAF7SAJ6fD0zBIJbww_aem_Ql02j40GfscEx4yaAZHzxQ

Sunday, February 2, 2025

What Natural Law Can and Can't Do

 Natural law is invoked in a wide range of contexts, sometimes reverently and sometimes with deep skepticism. Here, Howes explains clearly what natural law is and why it is useful. In general it is not good for supplying definitive, unassailable answers to difficult moral questions. Rather, it supplies a framework for debating moral questions fruitfully. It complements virtue ethics by presuming that human nature and human thriving are real things, and that morally good behavior will promote the latter. But its greatest value may flow from the affirmation of a moral standard that transcends positive or civil law, and the belief that applying human reason to difficult questions can bring us closer to the truth.

https://lawliberty.org/what-natural-law-can-and-cant-do/?mc_cid=53bea83e27&mc_eid=b9d5525f77

Root2Rise Larchmont NY

 https://www.root2riseny.com/

Kimchi, Egg and Cheese Sandwich

 https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025715-kimchi-egg-and-cheese-sandwich?campaign_id=58&emc=edit_ck_20250202&instance_id=146346&nl=cooking&regi_id=119435285&segment_id=189935&user_id=43beb249d6be37711663e6ba296a2776

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

The Obama Record on Deportations: Deporter in Chief or Not?

In his first term Trump deported 1 million.
Clinton in 2 terms deported 12,290, 905
Bush in his 2 terms, 10,328, 850
Obama in his two terms, 5,281,115
Biden: about 700,000


 https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not?fbclid=IwY2xjawIHukNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHWlc5KOX-HpfagAdmry22-2DJS9ePV21qVkxN9puyZ5R3cgsXT4WnUl0Tg_aem_1o5D4F-hPzBuXkM8OjV4cQ

While Pew did not have numbers for the early 1960s, a Gallup survey from that time found that 93 percent of Americans described themselves as Christian.

 https://www.voanews.com/a/congress-remains-overwhelmingly-christian-as-us-shifts-survey-shows/3661600.html

In U.S., 47% Identify as Religious, 33% as Spiritual

 https://news.gallup.com/poll/511133/identify-religious-spiritual.aspx

What does Catholic teaching actually say about immigration?

 https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/what-does-catholic-teaching-actually-say-about-immigration/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=catholic

Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke90fW02Bqg

User Clip: Biden Natural Law

 https://www.c-span.org/clip/senate-committee/user-clip-biden-natural-law/4887077

Trump blocks staggering foreign aid projects... from $50M in condoms for Gaza and 'trans operas' in Colombia

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14334647/donald-trump-condoms-gaza-trans-operas-colombia-foreign-spending.html

Trump’s chaotic loan freeze ordeal is bad for business

 https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/business/trumps-federal-grant-loan-halt-business/index.html

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Recipe for gluten-free bagels

From Facebook:

I made good bagels today. It took me a couple of tries to tinker with my current recipe and I am sharing it here in case someone wants to give it a try. I was going to take more photos, but I froze them before I was able to.

450gr of Caputo gluten-free flour
50gr of sorghum flour
20gr sugar
1 tsp baking powder
10gr instant yeast
10gr salt
350gr lukewarm water
30gr avocado oil
10gr white vinegar
Mix all dry ingredients and add wet ingredients until a dough forms.
Place on a lightly floured surface and divide into 9 (approximately 103gr each).
Roll into bagel shape or pat down and make a hole with your finger. I like to wear gloves and use some Pam oil for this part.
Put on a parchment coated baking sheet and proof for approximately 35-45 min.
Place bagels in freezer for 15 min (I find this helps firming them up before the boiling).
Preheat oven to 475F
Bring approximately 60oz water to a rolling boil and when boiling add 3 tbsp of brown sugar and 1 tbsp baking soda.
Place bagels in boiling water (my pot allowed 3 at a time) and boil for 1.5 to 2 min on each side.
Place on a parchment covered baking sheet and brush with egg wash. I topped mine with everything bagel and left some plain.
Put on oven and after 5 min bring temperature down to 400F.
Bake for an additional 15-20 min until tops are golden brown and shiny.

So where does that Catholic influence on Trump come from?

 https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/01/so_where_does_that_catholic_influence_on_trump_come_from.html

Federal officials suspend funding to EcoHealth Alliance, nonprofit entangled in COVID-19 origin debate

 https://www.science.org/content/article/federal-officials-suspend-funding-ecohealth-alliance-nonprofit-entangled-covid-19?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Excerpt, from Elegy in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray, 1751

  . . . Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial Fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.    But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of Time did ne'er unroll: Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.    Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.    Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of the fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. . .   The EPITAPH.    Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.    Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send; He gave to Misery all he had, a tear; He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.    No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his Father and his God.

https://anthonyesolen.substack.com/p/excerpt-from-elegy-in-a-country-churchyard?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=874270&post_id=154861868&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=1bwy6w&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email