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rome v queen boudica

3/21/2023

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​I’m rooting for the
Romans.

SPQR is inscribed on all the manhole covers of Rome.
Senatus   S
PopulusQue   PQ
Romanus   R

Legio XX

Centuries later the British themselves became famous for
the line formation, the great Roman teacher. See the 1964 film, Zulu.
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body glorified

3/21/2023

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Fr. Gordon, FSSP, says low Mass with one server in one hour, my follow-up to the 3/20/2023 San Antonio School post on Latin responses for the server. See if you can discern the disgusting portmanteau, “hocus-pocus”, concocted by anti-Catholics long ago. Gordon gives insight into the glorified body.

The Mass is live-streamed, which is why only two partake and why in August 2020 I started looking for a church that was open. Never again will a church be closed by an arbitrary rule issued by an arbitrary government. Latin could be oso subversive. Let us learn it and be conversant.
Lucky for us now, Google live caption cannot translate Latin.
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klutsy cadaver

3/20/2023

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Who might the person be? I unearthed the dig by a young Tweeter.
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san antonio school

3/20/2023

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Incredulous it is that elementary and middle schools cannot stick to reading, writing, math, social studies, a little basic science, music, and art, and a bit of PE. Parents are the primary educators, and when it comes to reading, dear teachers, stay with unaltered classics, regardless of words that offend ears present.

Stop underestimating children! We have 104 altar boys, ages 7-18, who learn all the Latin responses, which are considerable, and all the movements during Mass, by heart. Here are the responses, labeled R. With enough repetition, they understand what they are saying and doing.
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kirkwood ca 7,800

3/20/2023

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music "Scandinavianz - Hiking" under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license
​650 in. = 54 ft. Based on a 10-foot ceiling, that is 4 1/2 floors.
Take lessons if the first time skiing or snowboarding.

(​tallest Sierra peak Mt. Whitney 14,400)
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louis XVI/Marie antoinette

3/19/2023

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Trending on YouTube right now at 10:30pm.
Rather than post videos offering disputable commentary,
here is their son, just facts.
​His father made a last confession on the day of his execution.
Such was not case for his mother on the day of her execution.
​
Indisputable facts:
  • 8am - a juror priest arrives to hear her confession. Juror priests are those who have taken an oath to the new republic. Marie declines for that reason.
  • 12:15pm - the blade cuts off her head.
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soc sec/medicare

3/19/2023

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Conservative economists are not madmen. They earned an A or B in Econ 10. I received the fifth highest grade. The top four got an A. “Red” can denote a negative balance on a company’s financial statement or an individual’s bank account. It can also signify unfruitful investments, as well as unfavorable government regulations.
dailyconservative.com/new-study-says-biden-anti-growth-policies-will-steal-400-900-billion-from-social-security-and-medicare/?utm_source=BPN&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=BPN3&utm_content=BPN3A
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cold hot & dirty

3/19/2023

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No, not porn. Refrigerators, gas stoves, and washing machines are under attack:
​https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/consumers-blast-bidens-plan-to-attack-gas-appliances/?utm_source=PNA&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=PNA6&utm_content=PNA6
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quebec ice

3/19/2023

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In Québec City, Canada, you'll find one of the most unique hotels in the world, Hotel de Glâce. The resort has been operating for over two decades, though the structure changes when it’s rebuilt from ice each year. Hotel de Glâce is only open during the winter season, and it offers themed suites, ice beds, fireplaces, and an ice bar.
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james the less

3/19/2023

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frankfurt cathedral

3/18/2023

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Skip ahead to 13 minutes. To comprehend the “performance” on March 9, 2023, you need look for minutes only. By posting on YouTube they have unwittingly given us proof of how low Germany has sunk. Batty Bätzing. Faltering Francis. These people are Plutonian. You would get more enjoyment out of watching Planet of the Apes. If you prefer, listen to a reading of Dashiell Hammett’s gritty detective story in gritty San Francisco. Recommended.
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the cloud

3/18/2023

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We might not own certain “possessions” in the future.
They might reside in “the cloud.”
Your computer has a hard drive, and you store pictures, music, movies, and documents there. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it.
All that is changing.
Apple, Microsoft, and Google are finishing up their latest “cloud services.”
When you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system.
Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet.
If you click an icon or save, it will open something or save something to the cloud.
Some people are beating their breasts.
Not I.
If all of it disappeared, including my computer and everything I have published, I would not mind.
None of what I have published will mean much after I’m dead.
Hopefully, my soul will be infused.
My shoulders will catch up at the General Resurrection and feel the embrace.
That’s my goal anyway.
T
he thing I miss right now is joined handwriting.
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alvin bragg

3/18/2023

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Breaking News
  • GBNews, a UK television news channel, reports.
  • YouTube lifts its ban on Trump.
  • NYC DA is possessed.
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pentecost 2033

3/18/2023

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The date is June 5, 2033. On that Sunday, the Catholic Church will be 2,000 years old. Left is a fresco of the Holy Ghost in the Karlskirche, Viennese Church of St. Charles, the last great work of the Baroque architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Completed in 1739, it was built when Emperor Charles VI made a vow during a plague. The church is dedicated to the Habsburg emperor’s namesake, St. Karl Borromäus (St. Charles Borromeo), whose life and works are depicted on the two giant columns next to the entrance portal. The lavish dome frescoes are by Johannes Michael Rottmayr and cover 1,250 m². Multiply the area value by 10.764, and the result is approximately 13,455 square feet.

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blm a-z

3/18/2023

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Donations to BLM or related causes: ​​https://www.newsweek.com/americans-deserve-know-who-funded-blm-riots-opinion-1787460
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kate mitchell

3/18/2023

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“Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show that one [Silicon Valley Bank] director, venture capitalist Kate Mitchell, has donated tens of thousands of dollars toward groups boosting Democrats, including those supporting Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama.

“Mitchell made news for sharing how she prayed at a Shinto shrine in Kyoto, Japan, over Thanksgiving after Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. ‘I prayed for me and us to get beyond our grieving and shock and to figure out how to engage and listen to what happened and come back together,’ she said, according to CNBC.”


https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-svb-board-trump-shock-prayers-dem-donors-and-improv
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We can only pray that God finds this woman. I respect other religions, but she won’t find Him there. Born in 1962, she is old enough to remember the hippies and all their gurus. Maybe she needs a refresher course in history.

“Shinto gods” are called kami. They are sacred spirits which take the form of things and concepts important to life, such as wind, rain, mountains, trees, rivers, and fertility. Humans become kami after they die and are revered by their families as ancestral kami.

Donations and investments:
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=Kate+D.+Mitchell
https://wallmine.com/people/22419/kate-mitchell​

Update, pre-dating my post: The president calls for action against directors:
https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/biden-looks-to-crackdown-on-senior-bank-execs-following-the-silicon-valley-bank-collapse/
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blog vlog pod

3/18/2023

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A blog, short for weblog, is a frequently updated web page used for personal commentary or business content. Blogs are often interactive and include sections at the bottom of individual blog posts where readers can leave comments.
 
A vlog, short for video blog or video log, is a blog in video form. Think of it as your own little TV show or channel, only it’s on the web, produced by you and presumably starring you.
 
A podcast, short for iPod and broadcast, is a series of audio/video episodes focused on a particular topic or theme and easily consumed while on the go. The word is a portmanteau, a blending of two words, just as brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch.
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dour faces

3/18/2023

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From the cross Our Lord entrusted to His mother that which was most dear to His Sacred Heart, the priesthood. He said, “Woman, behold thy Son. Behold thy mother,” He then said to St. John. Mary was commissioned to do for John and the other apostles what she had always done for her Son, to serve Christ in His priests.

The sisters of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) find their service under Mary’s title, Our Lady of Compassion, as priests renew the Holy Sacrifice of the Cross on the altar. They pray for the priesthood and serve Christ in His priests. Archbishop Lefebvre and his own sister co-founded the SSPX sisters.

In addition to the virus, fun and laughter is what brought me to the Latin Mass. Have you ever noticed how leftists and modernists have no sense of humor? We are serious while in church and during prayer time. Outside, we screw around and up a lot. Francis says we have dour faces.
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macron

3/17/2023

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​From the time Clovis I (b. 466, d. 511) was converted, up to the French Revolution (1789-1799), Catholicism was the state religion, leading to France being called “the eldest daughter of the Church”. The King of France was known as “His Most Christian Majesty”. Now there is this…
The social and economic liberal skirts the constitution and gets pushback. He cites a low birth rate. We know why: abortion, contraception, and sterilization. Has the Catholic Church moved? Nope. Thanks be to God, the FSSP is there: www.fssp.fr/

Pope Francis is useless. He ignores sin, telling seminarians that as future priests they cannot withhold absolution ever; focuses on climate change and politics; and punishes Latin Mass goers. All French kings went to the Latin Mass, and one was a saint: Louis IX. Can you think of a politician saint?

On July 17, 1429, Saint Joan of Arc stood in armor next to Charles VII as he was crowned king.
Notice that imperialist coups began under French politicians, not kings. Not ironic. Good Catholics do not operate that way. They persuade by example more than words. Notice also the stability of almost two centuries: Louis 13, 14, 15, and 16, 1610-1792.

Noteworthy wife: Napoleon III chose a Spaniard named Eugénie du Derje de Montijo, age 23, 20th Countess of Teba and 15th Marchioness of Ardales.

“The daughter of the Count of Montijo, she received much of her education in Paris. Her beauty attracted Louis-Napoleon, who tried to seduce her, as was his custom, but Eugénie told him to wait for marriage.”
…

“Though a fervent Catholic and conservative on many other issues, she strongly advocated equality for women. She pressured the Ministry of National Education to give the first baccalaureate diploma to a woman and tried unsuccessfully to induce the Académie française to elect the writer George Sand as its first female member.”

Wikipedia with citations

George Sand (pen name for Aurore Dupin) was Chopin’s love interest, but in the end their relationship fizzled.
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musk and one child

3/17/2023

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Even Elon Musk has problems. Here is an October 2022 interview he did with The Independent, a British online newspaper, about one of his children. What he says is shocking and revealing about our educational system. He must feel forlorn. My mother and stepfather modeled God and made me a grateful, lifelong Catholic man.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-daughter-vivian-children-trans-b2199979.html
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factitious ai

3/17/2023

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factitious [fak-TIH-shəs] adjective
  • “factitious” comes from the Latin adjective facticius, meaning “made by art”
  • “fictitious” comes from the Latin verb fingō, meaning “to deceive”

They are near homonyms. One letter separates them.

Other definitions
  • produced artificially rather than by a natural process
  • lacking authenticity or genuineness; sham
      example: Speculators are responsible for the factitious value of some stocks.

Modern usage
  • “Outside the spaceship, a factitious robot gave instructions to those about to enter.”​​

I had a brief conversation with a sales clerk at Home Depot. Her husband is an artist. She is quite concerned about AI undermining the art world by its ability to create art using thousands of images of real art and creating sham art.
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said the fool

3/16/2023

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Dixit insipiens “said the fool”

Dixit insipiens. The general corruption of man before our redemption by Christ.

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God, [then] They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one. [fool reportedly identified as Anonymus, nickname Amus, Biden fifth cousin, once removed]

2 The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be any that understand and seek God. 

3 They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they acted deceitfully; the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their ways: and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes. 

4 Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread? 

5 They have not called upon the Lord: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear.

6 For the Lord is in the just generation: you have confounded the counsel of the poor man, but the Lord is his hope. 


7 Who shall give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when the Lord shall have turned away the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad.
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transgender ideology

3/16/2023

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“… 71% of respondents are ‘either concerned, angry, or upset about efforts to expose children to transgender ideology.’
“… 71% ‘believe that pharmaceutical companies and doctors who promote treatments for underage children seeking gender transition should be legally liable for any harmful side effects.’”
The polling by McLaughlin & Associates/Summit included 1,000 likely general election voters and was done Feb. 17-22.
The poll of 1,000 general election voters has an accuracy of +/- 3.1% at a 95% confidence interval.
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effloresce

3/16/2023

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Examples of how one word can be used in many ways.

Song: “The song starts out slow, but it will effloresce when it reaches the chorus.”

Product: “Keep the package sealed until you’re ready to use it, because the product will effloresce quickly.”

Person: “A student often effloresces after a few weeks of getting comfortable with me.”

done with the help of worddaily.com
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latin at the opera

3/16/2023

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Eight million listen to the rare countertenor.
Cityscape - St. Petersburg, Russia
Composer - Venetian Vivaldi
Psalm 126
Douay-Rheims
https://www.drbo.org/chapter/21126.htm#:~:text=1%20Unless%20the%20Lord%20build,eat%20the%20bread%20of%20sorrow.
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Nisi Dominus

Cum dederit dilectis suis somnum
Ecce hereditas Domini filii mercis fructus ventris.
 
Without God
For he brings rest to those he has chosen
Behold, they are a legacy and a testament of the Son of God.


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