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The Blog, It Is A-Changin’?

14 Sunday Jan 2024

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This humble little web-log began on a burning hot afternoon in the summer of 2012. There were several false starts. Then, on January 14, 2015, nine years ago today, things began rolling on a regular, semi-professional basis. If I ever achieved coherence, it was purely accidental.

Today, we stand somewhere around 6,000 posts over the past dozen years. It’s not going to be 6000 and out. But there will be a few changes, starting now. I have many things to concentrate on so I will likely reduce the daily postings, especially concerning current events (and double-especially those current events pertaining to the USA). At some point this year, I hope to bring you a major announcement, one that will most likely involve either a bit of a format change here, or the creation of совершенно новый блог! Stay tuned. Особенно те, кто может прочитать это предложение.

What Lurks Beneath

09 Tuesday Jan 2024

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Vox found another coincidence:

The Bochurim Dug Too Deep

It appears another pedo tunnel has been discovered, this one under an Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn. The weaponized autists of 4chan are all over this, as the police video has already revealed what appear to be child-sized blood-stained mattresses and what is definitely an infant’s highchair. The empty building to which the tunnel led is also across the street from a children’s museum.

I’m sure it’s nothing.

 

Cчастливого Рождества!

07 Sunday Jan 2024

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Моим православным братьям и сестрам, счастливого Рождества 2024 года!

И в шестой месяц ангел Гавриил был послан от Бога в город Галилейский, называемый Назарет, к деве, обрученной с человеком, которого звали Иосиф, из дома Давидова; и имя деве было Мария. И ангел, войдя, сказал ей: радуйся, благодатная, Господь с тобою; благословенна ты между женами. Которая, услышав, смутилась от его слов и подумала про себя, каким должно быть это приветствие. И ангел сказал ей: не бойся, Мария, ибо ты обрела благодать у Бога.

Вот, ты зачнешь во чреве твоем и родишь сына; и наречешь ему имя Иисус. Он будет велик и наречется Сыном Всевышнего; и Господь Бог даст ему престол Давида, отца его; и он будет царствовать в доме Иакова вовеки. И царству его не будет конца.

Лука 1:26-33

(Москва и москвичи.)

 

 

Answer and Punishment

04 Thursday Jan 2024

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It’s coming. While people with names like Graham and Bolton bleat stupidly about bombing Iran, Israel exercises the only option it and the GAE have – terrorism.

Ch. Nasrala in a little while – “ Today is historic and will be mentioned for what will follow ”

In a statement, Hezbollah emphasizes that the assassination of Saleh al-Aroui is a «serious attack on Lebanon, its people, security, sovereignty and resistance of », warns « that this crime will not go through without an answer and punishment ».

He ends up saying that “ today is historic and will be mentioned for what is to follow ”.

For what is to follow. We remembered what followed the murder of the general. What, one wonders, will happen now that a replacement has also been killed along with 200 people at a cemetery memorial? Odds are, we’re about to find out.

2023: The Year That Was

31 Sunday Dec 2023

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I’ve never been that crazy about yearly reviews. But WP sent me a reminder the other day. I don’t recall why, but they say July 23 was my biggest, bestest day here. I think all six of my five 2023 visitors visited on that day. Many thanks to you, good people! There will be a thank you party with cake at a far-future nebulous date that probably won’t happen.

The site remains largely unpromoted by me and I figure we’re still shadow banned to a degree. Still, traffic was up a little from 2022, though down a tad from 2021. All things considered, not bad.

The audience remains hyper-majority American. Bots or AI or Intel outfits or digi-trolls came in a distant second place, though their “business” visits were muted by my disallowance of interaction beyond “liking” and by Mr. Filter. (Thank you, Mr. Filter.) Most of the rest of the top 10 location traffic came from the UK, France, other Euros, East Asia, Lebanon(!)(thanks, guys & gals!), and a growing little contingent from Russia. Спасибо! Ты потрясающая. Люблю тебя!

After the homepage, I think 9 of the top 10 most visited articles and pages were weekly columns. The most visited of all was October’s “A Review of WHY THE WEST CAN’T WIN by Fadi Lama“, likely on the strength of links from Mrs. Annie and the Reckoneers and the SDL himself, Vox Day. (2 of my favorite peeps! Many thanks.)

And, as always, many thanks to all of you who make everything here a delightful pastime for this humble little internet possum critter. Happy New Year and here’s to a great 2024. Quality will improve tomorrow.

-PL

 

 

New Year, New Calendar

31 Sunday Dec 2023

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A reminder from the wonderful Anne Wilson Smith that 2024 is tomorrow(!) and proud Americans need a new calendar. Shotwell Publishing obliges with 365 Days of Dixie! Read all about it:

We’re on the cusp of 2024. Based on the trajectory of the past few years, there doesn’t seem to be much cause for optimism, and I haven’t heard much hopeful chatter in real life or on the interwebs. It’s my philosophy that at the global level, what will happen will happen, and you or I can’t do much to change that. However, what we CAN do is engage in small, purposeful actions with the goal of edifying ourselves, preserving things that are valuable, and savoring moments of joy and meaning in our everyday lives.

One way to do this is to cultivate the habit of keeping alive our Southern culture and traditions. Those of us who value the old and contemporary South have a wonderful new resource for incorporating it into our daily lives. Our friends at Shotwell Publishing (“Southern Books. No Apologies.”) are offering their first edition of the 365 Days of Dixie calendar for 2024.

Order one today! If I’m right, by a repetitive temporal fluke 2024 is the same calendar as 1607. So if you’re a time-traveler, this might be the only calendar you’ll ever need!

*My 2023 review is coming this afternoon!

The “D” Factor

30 Saturday Dec 2023

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One wonders if this stunning-sounding new science is real.

Meet D, the newly identified Dark Factor of Personality.

The theoretical framework of the D factor has its underpinnings in what’s known as the g factor: a construct proposed by English psychologist Charles Spearman over a century ago when he observed that individuals who performed well on one kind of cognitive test were more likely to score well on other kinds of intelligence tests, too.

In other words, a ‘general intelligence factor’ could be measured. But it turns out that’s not all scientists are able to detect.

“In the same way, the dark aspects of human personality also have a common denominator, which means that – similar to intelligence – one can say that they are all an expression of the same dispositional tendency,” explained psychologist Ingo Zettler from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark back in September 2018.

If D turns out to be as real as G, then look for the same people who deny that IQ exists or is relevant to disclaim any attempt to measure darkness. In a way, doing so will be much more imperative for them than crudely dismissing general intelligence. That is because while IQ is helpful a propensity for morality over darkness is critical. And most of the deniers themselves are probably “dark” at best. It will be very interesting to see whether G is correlated with religious belief and acceptance, particularly of the Christian variety. One suspects it is.

Ignoring the Genocide in the Room

28 Thursday Dec 2023

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Read this column, “Why does the Christian West ignore Palestinian Christians’ plight?”, about the pathetic silence from the “Christian” West concerning Palestine, and especially Palestinian Christians.

Since October 7, Israel and its allies have tried to put the war in Gaza within the “war on terror” framework, actively comparing Hamas to ISIS. Many who instinctively equate Palestinians with Muslims have indeed fallen for this false narrative.

But the brutal war Israel has waged on Gaza has not targeted “only terrorists” as it has claimed. Instead, it has massacred Palestinian Muslims as well as Palestinian Christians in what legal scholars agree amounts to genocide.

The Christian community in Gaza has lost at least 21 members so far. This may sound like a small number, but given they were only 1,000 before the war, these massacres threaten to eliminate the Christian presence in the strip for the first time in almost 2,000 years. Proportionally speaking, the death rate of Palestinian Christians is double that of the entire Palestinian population in Gaza.

And yet, the leaders of Christian-majority countries in the West have remained shockingly silent on the plight of Palestinian Christians. United States President Joe Biden, a devout Catholic, has said and done nothing to protect fellow Catholics in Gaza, who have also been targeted by the Israeli army.

Read the whole thing. Read it to any retarded Churchian-Zionists you know.

I wouldn’t call Brandon a devout Catholic, even by Novus Ordo standards. But the gist and horror of the story is clear. Maybe the answer is that there are few Christians anymore in the West, and virtually none among the fake leaders of the West. But most of the rest of the world stands with the Muslims and Christians of Palestine as does God the Almighty.

The New Soleimani?

26 Tuesday Dec 2023

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If recent history is a guide, then the occupying IDF won’t have to wait long to find out whether their strike into Syria crossed one too many red lines.

An Israeli air strike outside the Syrian capital of Damascus has killed a senior adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to reports from Iranian state media.

Sayyed Razi Mousavi, one of the top IRGC commanders in Syria, was killed on Monday.

He was responsible for coordinating the military alliance between Syria and Iran, an important part of Iran’s regional network of allies and proxies known as the “Axis of Resistance”.

Mousavi “was killed during an attack by the Zionist regime a few hours ago in Zeinabiyah district in the suburbs of Damascus,” Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported, using a different name for Sayyida Zeinab south of the Syrian capital.

In a statement read on state TV, the IRGC said that the “usurper and savage Zionist regime will pay for this crime”.

The GAE can attest to the kind of payment the IRGC can extract. And over the past 4 years, Iran’s already impressive rocketry forces have only become more sophisticated, accurate, and powerful. Perhaps now would be a good time for Bibi Herod to consult with Orange Man about the appropriate after-the-fact bluffs and lies to sling.