Category: History - ROBERT E DUNN

gender lies

3/28/2023

“… The American approach effectively puts distressed teenagers in the driver’s seat of making risky and irreversible medical decisions. It assumes that ‘gender identity’ is innate and immutable, that some kids are just born ‘trans’ and can know this from as young as toddlerhood. It also uses the ‘minority stress’ model to explain away co-occurring mental-health problems, which appear in roughly three-quarters of patients presenting at pediatric gender clinics.”

https://www.city-journal.org/yes-europe-is-restricting-gender-affirming-care

herman shine

3/25/2023

Read the story of Herman Shine, one of the few escapees from Auschwitz. He and his wife lived a few blocks from us in San Francisco, and my sister, who was 11 or 12 at the time, walked his dog, Mischief. He learned roofing in the concentration camp and founded Standard Roofing in SF. My impression of him was that he could lift a car. https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/one-of-the-few-herman-shine-who-escaped-auschwitz-dies-at-95-1473

kolbe on ecumenism

3/25/2023

Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe, OFM Conv., Auschwitz prisoner number 16670, was a Polish Catholic priest who had four brothers.

At the end of July 1941, a prisoner had escaped from Auschwitz. Deputy Camp Commander Karl Fritzsch picked 10 men to be starved to death in an underground bunker to deter further escape attempts.

When one of the selected men, Franciszek Gajowniczek, cried out, “My wife! My children!” Kolbe volunteered to take his place.

After being starved and deprived of water for two weeks, only Kolbe and three others remained alive. The guards wanted the bunker emptied, so they gave the four remaining prisoners lethal injections of carbolic acid.

Jan. 8, 1894-Aug. 14, 1941

shou chew wealth

3/25/2023

Shou Chew, TikTok CEO, wealth

annual salary estimated to be $25,000,000
public fortune estimated to be $167,000,000
net worth estimated to be $200,000,000

By the way, the estimated net worth of Xi Jinping, Chairman of the Central Military, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, and President of China, is $1,200,000,000. Yes, $1.2 billion.

A new Nature Special produced by the Discovery Channel is underway: The Lucrative Lives of Lice.

armada demo

3/24/2023

churchill

3/23/2023

familiar

3/23/2023

This is who, not what, we lost after Vatican II, nearly as bad as WW II.

Virtue, bravery, she makes me weep.

british empire

3/23/2023

Virtue, bravery, he makes me weep.

splc bullies

3/23/2023

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2021/02/02/splc-denounced-as-thoroughly-disgraced-after-labeling-pro-life-family-organizations-as-hate-groups/

The report, dated February 2, 2021, mentions Amazon, NBC, and the FBI.

“The SPLC [Southern Poverty Law Center] has been forced to retract several of its hate group designations. In 2018, it apologized and paid Maajid Nawaz a $3.375 million settlement for including him in its ‘Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists.’ The SPLC retracted the entire field guide, which also notoriously included respected human rights advocate and scholar Ayaan Hirsi Ali.”

I had a field guide to birds as a youngster, and somewhere in my house is one on trees in the Sierras.

proofs

3/23/2023

Some proofs that the Latin Mass, in roughly its present form, is traceable to Pope St. Victor I (AD 189-199):

“Jerome calls Pope Victor the first Latin writer in the Church (Chronicon, ad an. Abr. 2209). Prior to him, Greek was the nearly universal language of theological discourse. Jerome mentions small theological treatises written by him in Latin. However, besides the letters touching the Easter controversy, none of Victor’s actual works is known. The question of whether he promoted the use of Latin in the Roman liturgy is an open one.

“It may have been during Victor's administration that the canon of scripture used at Rome, and which has been partially preserved in the Muratorian Fragment, was drawn up.”

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Pope_Victor_I

“Muratorian Fragment [is] a late 2nd-century fragment of a Latin list of New Testament writings then regarded by Christians as canonical (scripturally authoritative).”

I edited the quotation to remove CE, “Common Era”, a ridiculous replacement for AD. Try explaining CE to an inquisitive young student only to discover the endless “why” questions that are sure to follow. Read the section on the Muratorian Fragment. The rest is general and does not directly address Latin Mass proofs.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lodovico-Antonio-Muratori

hate group list

3/21/2023

Besides the SSPX, Republican Senators Marsha Blackburn, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley are on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Hate Group List, and don’t these senators strike you as being very violent people, just like the SPLC staff attorney Thomas Jergens, who was arrested at the Atlanta Riot on March 5, 2023? See the Crime Blog for 3/7/2023.

agatha christie indult

3/21/2023

You need to know: Pope Paul VI granted an indult in 1971 for use of the Latin Mass in England and Wales. Indult is a term from Catholic canon law referring to a permission to do something that would otherwise be forbidden. Above are the signers of a letter asking that the Latin Mass be allowed. Lies need to be exposed. The Latin Mass was never forbidden, but we were led to believe so. Presumably, the signers did not know either. Ironically, it was Bugnini, the man who created the New Mass, who sent the letter to Cardinal Heenan communicating the indult. With two exceptions, Badano (b. 1971) and Acutis (b. 1991), every declared saint attended the Latin Mass.

The text of the appeal, dated July 6, 1971, follows:

One of the axioms of contemporary publicity, religious as well as secular, is that modern man in general, and intellectuals in particular, have become intolerant of all forms of tradition and are anxious to suppress them and put something else in their place.

But, like many other affirmations of our publicity machines, this axiom is false. Today, as in times gone by, educated people are in the vanguard where recognition of the value of tradition is concerned, and are the first to raise the alarm when it is threatened. [boldface added by me]

If some senseless decree were to order the total or partial destruction of basilicas or cathedrals, then obviously it would be the educated - whatever their personal beliefs - who would rise up in horror to oppose such a possibility.

Now the fact is that basilicas and cathedrals were built so as to celebrate a rite which, until a few months ago, constituted a living tradition. We are referring to the Roman Catholic Mass. Yet, according to the latest information in Rome, there is a plan to obliterate that Mass by the end of the current year.

We are not at this moment considering the religious or spiritual experience of millions of individuals. The rite in question, in its magnificent Latin text, has also inspired a host of priceless achievements in the arts - not only mystical works, but works by poets, philosophers, musicians, architects, painters and sculptors in all countries and epochs. Thus, it belongs to universal culture as well as to churchmen and formal Christians.

In the materialistic and technocratic civilisation that is increasingly threatening the life of mind and spirit in its original creative expression - the word - it seems particularly inhuman to deprive man of word-forms in one of their most grandiose manifestations.

The signatories of this appeal, which is entirely ecumenical and non-political, have been drawn from every branch of modern culture in Europe and elsewhere. They wish to call to the attention of the Holy See, the appalling responsibility it would incur in the history of the human spirit were it to refuse to allow the Traditional Mass to survive, even though this survival took place side by side with other liturgical forms.

Signed: Harold Acton, Vladimir Ashkenazy, John Bayler, Lennox Berkeley, Maurice Bowra, Agatha Christie, Kenneth Clark, Nevill Coghill, Cyril Connolly, Colin Davis, Hugh Delargy, +Robert Exeter, Miles Fitzalan-Howard, Constantine Fitzgibbon, William Glock, Magdalen Goffin, Robert Graves, Graham Greene, Ian Greenless, Joseph Grimond, Harman Grisewood, Colin Hardie, Rupert Hart-Davis, Barbara Hepworth, Auberon Herbert, John Jolliffe, David Jones, Osbert Lancaster, F.R. Leavis, Cecil Day Lewis, Compton Mackenzie, George Malcolm, Max Mallowan, Alfred Marnau, Yehudi Menuhin, Nancy Mitford, Raymond Mortimer, Malcolm Muggeridge, Iris Murdoch, John Murray, Sean O'Faolain, E.J. Oliver, Oxford and Asquith, William Plomer, Kathleen Raine, William Rees-Mogg, Ralph Richardson, +John Ripon, Charles Russell, Rivers Scott, Joan Sutherland, Philip Toynbee, Martin Turnell, Bernard Wall, Patrick Wall, E.I Watkin, R.C. Zaehner.

rome v queen boudica

3/21/2023

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.

louis XVI/Marie antoinette

3/19/2023

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.

pentecost 2033

3/18/2023

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.

blm a-z

3/18/2023

Donations to BLM or related causes: https://www.newsweek.com/americans-deserve-know-who-funded-blm-riots-opinion-1787460 The Claremont Institute lists the corporations, and it is truly shocking. We have all done business with these companies.

macron

3/17/2023

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.”
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“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.

transgender ideology

3/16/2023

“… 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.

shark tank

3/14/2023

journalists speak

3/14/2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has primary responsibility for determining whether specific advertising is false or misleading and for taking action against the sponsors of such material. In my world, independent journalists are writers, not advertisers.

Tucker Carlson: “If you have no privacy, you have no freedom.” He is referring to communications.

A fifth journalist is harassed. “Today News Africa reporter Simon Ateba was booted out of the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA).” https://americandigest.com/simon-ateba-removed-from-whca-claims-karine-jean-pierre-was-behind-it/?

nypd resignations

3/14/2023

“According to the Daily Wire, the rate of resignations this year is astonishing.

“‘In the first two months of 2023, 239 officers left the New York City Police Department, substantially more than the 176 who left in 2022 and the 110 who left in 2021 during the same time period,’ the outlet wrote, citing data obtained by the New York Post.”

Defund-the-police callers are guilty.

There are instances of suicidal people who want a cop to do it for them.

obrador/crenshaw/Bouguereau

3/13/2023

Congressman Crenshaw is a former Navy Seal and represents a district in Texas. Born to American parents in Aberdeen, Scotland, Crenshaw grew up in Katy, Texas. His father, Jim, is a petroleum engineer who has worked abroad, and his mother died of cancer when he was ten. He developed proficiency in Spanish during time spent in Ecuador and Colombia, and in 2002 he graduated from Colegio Nueva Granada in Bogota, Colombia.

There are many entries in the Crime Blog about illegal drugs coming from Mexico. We are not too clean, either. At least $276 billion of government funding intended for “virus relief” was fraudulently taken or wasted. Needing some poenitentiam, Latin for repentance. https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/inspectors-general-finds-276-billion-worth-of-fraud-and-waste-in-covid-relief-funds/

Premier Deuil
The First Mourning (of Adam and Eve over Abel)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), oil on canvas, 1888,
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

“At the age of twelve, Bouguereau went to Mortagne-sur-Gironde to stay with his uncle Eugène, a priest, and developed a love of nature, religion, and literature. In 1839, he was sent to study for the priesthood at a Catholic college in Pons. Here he was taught to draw and paint by Louis Sage, who had studied under Ingres. Bouguereau reluctantly left his studies to return to his family, now residing in Bordeaux.”
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“In 1856, William began living with one of his models, Nelly Monchablon, a 19-year-old from Lisle-en-Rigault. Living together unmarried, the pair kept their liaison a secret. Their first child, Henriette, was born in April 1857; Georges was born in January 1859. A third child, Jeanne, was born 25 December 1861. The couple married quietly (as many assumed they were already married) on 24 May 1866.”
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“…[A] French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. During his life, he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States, was given numerous official honors, and received top prices for his work.

“As the quintessential salon painter of his generation, he was reviled by the Impressionist avant-garde. By the early twentieth century, Bouguereau and his art fell out of favor with the public, due in part to changing tastes. In the 1980s, a revival of interest in figure painting led to a rediscovery of Bouguereau and his work. He finished 822 known paintings, but the whereabouts of many are still unknown.”

Wikipedia with citations

His figures are idealized to some degree, but they are also models for healthy body image and intimacy. I don’t think the family had time for extreme sports, and I don’t think Eve had a flat stomach. In case you don’t know the story of brothers Cain and Abel, Cain killed Abel. If the painting does not cause grief and sorrow in you and contrition for what you have done, what would?

paniolo

3/13/2023

Hawaiian cowboy. My sister lives in Paniolo Country. This is a high school competition honoring the paniolo. Both sexes hula. I told Kathy I liked it when girls did hula in heels. Here they are barefoot. The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters: a e i o u h k l m n p w. When they were very little, my brother could not pronounce her name. He called her, “Kaki”, short a. The Hawaiian word for child is keiki, long a. Participants Beth Maile Wong and her daughter were my sister’s students. Kathy taught combined kindergarten/first grade, and her husband is a Kamehameha alum.

Honolulu, March 10, 2023

Hawaii did not have the horse until certain “invaders” arrived. In 1803 Richard Cleveland, an American trader, brought the first horse to Hawai`i and presented the animal as a gift to King Kamehameha I. After seeing a riding demonstration, the king was so impressed that more horses were soon ordered.

In 1810 he unified the islands into one kingdom. There are a total of 137 islands, though the eight largest are the ones we think of: Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Ni’ihau, and Kaho’olawe. Seven of the eight are the only inhabited islands, so that excludes Kaho’olawe.

killed going to confession

3/11/2023

Born in 1852, Antoni Gaudí is the architect of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. Begun in 1882 and with a completion date set for 2026, the basilica uses the basic engineering principle of compression without tension, as found in the arch. On June 10, 1926, Gaudí, who had remained single, a fact that some say was due to unrequited love, died after being hit by a tram three days earlier on his way to confession, which was a daily routine. He was 73. I hope his journey was a success.

james martin, pacha pacifist

3/10/2023

Quotes by this ignorant and arrogant flagellant are selective and are abused to justify himself. Off with the Roman collar and expel him from the ivory tower!

https://sites.duke.edu/lawfire/2020/02/25/guest-post-the-just-war-tradition-has-much-wisdom-to-offer-in-this-moment-of-heightened-tension-between-the-united-states-and-iran/

Martin was assigned to a puerile magazine. Puerile is a contemptuous adjective for childish behavior, possibly connected to its origin in a Latin word, puer, meaning “boy”, and is associated with silly, empty, shallow ideas, as in “puerile drivel”, and is intensified with adverbs like “maddeningly”.