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St. Klemens Maria Hofbauer (1751-1820) Click the ▶ Button to sing the Hymn in the Key of G, or play the song in a New Window ⧉https://www.sing-prayer.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ActOfGoodIntention-G.mp3Click the ▶ Button to sing the Hymn in the Key of D, or play the song in a New Window ⧉https://www.sing-prayer.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ActOfGoodIntention.mp3Let my ob-ject e__-ver be, To give glor-y Lord to Thee. If I work or if I__ rest, May God’s Ho-ly Name__ be blest.Grant me grace my all__ to give, Un-to Him by Whom I live. Je-sus for Thy help I__ plead, Mary for me in__-ter-cede. A__-men.“All the works of the scribes and...

The story "The Man Who Wouldn't Join" (at the article link click) in consideration of Gabriel Marcel's "Man Against Mass Society", René Girard's notion of "the scapegoat mechanism" (violent mass psychology), Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda" (siloing of ideologies), and Edward Bernays' "Propaganda" (manipulative mass techniques). The Man Who Wouldn't Join is about a rebellious individualist who attains security from invasive collective-movement recruitment demands by finding a similar, rebellious individualist woman who also "won't join" with whom he can ally in a marriage. Our very belief in our individual political points of view is merely grist for the mill of oligarchic control,...

Think Mamdami is the worst thing? No matter. If you don't have all your kids, if you practiced contraception and abortion, you're already pitching yourself headlong over the lemming cliff. I live in the area with the greatest variety of ethnic groups. Forty years ago, it was Russians. Then it was Hmongs. (What's that? See Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino".) Now the streets of Sacramento are filled with women in veils leading strings and strings of kids. It doesn't matter if you or I don't like them. Like-schmike. We don't have kids; they do. We are dinosaurs. The future is theirs....

CAUTION! Be sure to use the restroom before viewing the video!!! Cartoon: two men boiling in a lake of fire in hell are preparing for a devil to queue up a record on a stereo. The devil says "And now, once again, it's 'Ode to Joy' ". The YouTube screen gets divided into sixths, preparing to be populated 6 Meeps me-me-me-ing "Ode to Joy" in three part harmony, the Meep character based on "The Adventures of Grover in Outer Space".

"Unless you eat my body and drink my blood, you have no life within you." — John 6:53 (The disciples who would turn against you, interpreted this as cannibalism. One of the plagues of Egypt had been the river turning into blood, because the Egyptians consumed the blood of sacrificial animals to gain their life strength, a kind of bodily idolatry, against your command. So the Lord God made that blood one of the plagues, to choke in their craws.) Then when you totally reversed that, Jesus, in the new dispensation, saying "unless you eat my body and drink my...

(Music in the link-click.) Mary declared in her Magnificat: "My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For He hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden." - Luke 1:46-55 This is why satan hates her, because she is more humble than all other creatures created in the image of God, angels and men, taken together—most images of her portray her with downcast eyes, in humility. satan declared "I will not serve" (Jeremiah 2:20). "It is better to reign in hell than serve in heaven". (John Milton, "Paradise Lost", Book I, line 263)...

(Video link at article click.)So, do you remember when exactly you realized that it's not about left vs. right (trans vs straight, pagans vs. Christians, Biden vs. Trump), it's about the tiny number of filthy rich vs. the vast majority of hard workers?Cartoon: Servant to King | Oh, You Don't Need to Fight Them - You Just Need to Convince the Pitchfork People that the Torch People Want to Take Away their PitchforksJimmy Dore: 29% of American are considered low-income, 98 million Americans. (Ronald Reagan: A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose...

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck is suing Google for defamation after its AI tools allegedly linked him to false accusations of sexual assault, child rape, and financial exploitation, reporting he was a part of January 6, a supporter of the KKK, creating fake therapy records, fake police reports, fake court records, generating full details on the allegations in first-person form with the point of view of the, quote, ‘victims’, impersonating major media outlets, creating fake links to their websites and fake headlines so users would then accept them as objectively factual. Google AI even made an argument for the death penalty...

When President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan arrived in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, it was not merely another state visit - it was a statement of purpose. Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, two key pillars of the Turkic world, reaffirmed their shared vision for a future built on unity, connectivity, and strength. The visit symbolized the natural deepening of economic and cultural integration among Turkic nations, while sending a clear message that regional cooperation can serve as the foundation of global influence.As the strategic ties between Baku and Astana strengthen, Israel naturally perceives new opportunities for economic and security engagement across Central...

A Video is at the link-click, but if you have young children or grandchildren, it would be worth your while to get the book, work out how to perform it as poetry, and read it to them yourself--they'll always remember it. This is avowedly biased on the side of Rudolph Flesch's 1955 "Why Johnny Can't Read"; if you're hydrophobic/distempered about this topic, please don't bother with any flaming in the comments. This is just Dr. Seuss fandom, no fanaticism intended. Bruce Deitrick Price's "Science of Illiteracy" is in the 1st comment, for those who maintain an open mind. That damned...

An Irish political reporter/commentator named Eoghan MacConnell opines upon voters who stray off the reservation (won't be good house n-words) refusing to vote for slates of establishment candidates (eunuchs in the Sultan's harem), as if party discipline extended down to the voting booth. This is in "People who spoil votes shouldn't get State benefits says Laois Fine Gael Councillor" https://www.ireland-live.ie/news/laois-live/1928027/people-who-spoil-votes-shouldn-t-get-state-benefits-says-laois-fine-gael-councillor.htmlThis takes me back to the Irish Olympic team's "national anthem" when they fielded their first national team, in the 1924 Summer Olympics, having just thrown out the bloody British. This is titled "Let Erin Remember the Days of Old". A...

Surely many people would like the option of viewing the first score of text characters like it always used to be.

(I don't believe people who just happened to be born on any of 365 days, deserve any special notice for it, but their Mothers do. My Mother, born in 1912, gave birth to me this day in 1954. So, to indulge myself, I thought I'd pass along this comedic poem from her birth year, 1912, from a children's book.) The Rocket Book (1912) by Peter Newell. Narrated at the click-link at Librivox by Phil Chenevert. The Rocket Book by Peter Newell at Gutenberg(Twenty-one comedic illustrations) [pg] The ROCKET Book by PETER NEWELL HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK [pg] COPYRIGHT, 1912,...

Of major assassinations in the past 65 years, JFK, RFK, Lee Harvey Oswald & Charlie Kirk were executed in the presence of large numbers of witnesses or with significant, direct media coverage of the assassinations. The question, perhaps unanswerable, is, is there a message or effect intended here, with the high public exposure in those cases? Jeffrey Epstein and, strangely, MLK, were either "suicided" or outright assassinated in a relatively confined environment, in the absence of a high number or witness or with only limited media exposure of the actual killings. The determining issue about Epstein's secretive "suiciding" seems obvious....

Judge Napolitano and Col. Macgregor (queued at 17'13"). Video at the link-click.

A roving reporter who covered Italy’s top politicians explains to The Grayzone how his country was reduced to a joint US-Israeli “aircraft carrier,” and raises troubling questions about an Israeli role in the killing of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro.For years, Israel’s Mossad monitored and secretly influenced a violent communist faction that carried out the March 16, 1978 kidnapping and murder of Italian statesman Aldo Moro, veteran investigative journalist Eric Salerno has documented.Having worked closely alongside multiple Italian heads of state during his 30-year career as a correspondent, Salerno published an expose of their secret relationship with Israeli intelligence in...

Which Muslim-majority country is Israel surprisingly close friends with? From oil to weapons, learn how this decades-long partnership has evolved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yF4RpwuAAA&t=6s

U.S. Flag with Israeli Stars Which of the United States or Israel uses the other for its foreign policy? Is Israel the proxy for US foreign policy in the Middle East? Or does Israel determine US foreign policy, both through and because of the Zionist lobby and the neocons and liberals present in the US administration? Is it “the world upside down” “tails wagging dogs”? This is a very old question: who manipulates whom in this American-Israeli relationship?

DUBAI, June 16 (Reuters) - Iran does not intend to develop nuclear weapons but will pursue its right to nuclear energy and research, President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday, reiterating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's religious edict against weapons of mass destruction.

Jan of the Windmill, by Juliana Horatia Ewing https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5601/5601-h/5601-h.htm JAN OF THE WINDMILL. A Story of the Plains. BY THE LATEJULIANA HORATIA EWING.AUTHOR OF “SIX TO SIXTEEN;” “FLAT IRON FOR A FARTHING;”“MRS. OVERTHEWAY’S REMEMBRANCES,” ETC. WITH ELEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY MRS. W. ALLINGHAM(HELEN PATERSON). FIFTH EDITION LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1890. DedicatedTO MY DEAR SISTER MARGARET.J. H. E. CONTENTS. PAGECHAPTER I.THE WINDMILLER’S WIFE.—STRANGERS.—TEN SHILLINGS A WEEK.—THE LITTLE JAN.1CHAPTER II.THE MILLER’S CALCULATIONS.—HIS HOPES AND FEARS.—THE NURSE-BOY.—CALM.14CHAPTER III.THE WINDMILLER’S WORDS COME TRUE.—THE RED SHAWL.—IN THE CLOUDS.—NURSING V. PIG-MINDING.—THE ROUND-HOUSE.—THE MILLER’S THUMB.20CHAPTER IV.BLACK AS SLANS.—VAIR AND VOOLISH.—THE MILLER AND...