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August 14, 1945: Victory Over Japan
Today marks the eighty-first anniversary of the ending of the attempt of Japan to conquer East Asia and form a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. In that attempt, Japanese forces murdered some three to ten million civilians. This figure does not include civilian deaths caused from military operations which resulted from Japanese aggression or famines
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Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Benilde Romancon
Sanctity does not consist in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Saint Benilde Romancon
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I Guess They Want Tehran to Become a Glass Palace
Elon, you still have too many idiot AIs on the site.
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Thought for the Day
Mario the Pious was a complete fraud. He supported legal abortion because he would have lost his position in the Party of the Jackass otherwise. A true Richard Rich type.
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Truth
Sorry for the rough language above, but Army Grunts tend to be like that. I recall in ROTC we were taught that there were only three proper responses: “Yes sir. No sir. No excuse sir.” We were also told, accurately, that one bad fitness report would probably destroy our careers. Such attitudes tended to produce
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Karl Leisner
Though the road wind through the blackest night, Victory will be ours in the dawn’s crimson light. We are ready to proclaim, in all lands and climes, That God is the Lord even of these our times. Blessed Karl Leisner
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LeoWatch: No Organized Religion
I wonder if anyone at the Vatican ever stops to wonder how much faith is lost by the idiot policies they embrace, policies which have bupkis to do with Catholicism? I doubt it.
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Open Thread
Go here to read the article. The usual Open Thread rules apply: be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing!
August 12, 1919: Henry Cabot Lodge Opposes US Participation in League of Nations
One of the chief opponents of the Versailles Treaty was Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (R. Mass.). He found most objectionable US participation in the League of Nations. Here is a speech he gave in the Senate on August 12, 1919 in which he summarized his opposition: Mr. President: The independence of the United
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Henry Karlson is still Henry Karlson
Long time readers of this blog will recall Henry Karlson, a member of the Leftist Catholic blog Vox Nova. Time has not altered his opinions apparently. Go here to read his latest at his blog on Patheos.
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Burn of the Day
And of course this was a statement made by Trump in 2025 and not a response to the recent comment of Hunter Biden that his father’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body, which is tragic news for anyone who has had a loved one die of cancer or has battled cancer
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Clare of Assisi
Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Saint Clare of Assisi
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August 11, 1945: US Responds to Surrender Offer
On receipt of the Japanese offer to surrender, the decision was quickly made by Harry Truman as to the US response. From his August 10, 1945 diary entry: “Ate lunch at my desk and discussed the Jap offer to surrender which came in a couple of hours earlier. They wanted to make a condition precedent
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But I Was Told the Science Was Settled!
Go here to read the story. This issue was raised by Covid critics in 2020. Like other critics of the hysteria abroad in the land, they were shouted down, threatened with job loss and completely ignored by the media. Our hapless bench of bishops, who went along with this rubbish hook, line and sinker, along
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The Havoc Wrought By Spoiled Brats
There is a good monograph waiting to be written on the subject.
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Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Lawrence
Sheltered under the name of Jesus Christ, I do not fear these pains, for they do not last long. Saint Lawrence
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August 10, 1755: The Expulsion of the Acadians Begins
The last century of horrors has tended to swallow up the memory of crimes prior to it, but the expulsion of the native French Canadiens from Acadia by the British, beginning on August 10, 1755, still stands out. Acadia is now divided among the Candian provinces of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and
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The War on Beauty
I have been following the videos of Julia James Davis, a Jewish convert to Catholicism recently, and I believe her thesis is correct. One constant aspect of the Left is a war waged against art that prior generations regarded as beautiful in service to contemporary Leftist crusades. It is a way to sever the
An Interesting What If
Forrest is the devil, and I think he has got some of our troops under cower…I will order them to make up a force and go out to follow Forrest to the death. If it costs ten thousand lives and breaks the Treasury. There will never be peace in Tennessee until Forrest is dead.
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Thought for the Day
Or without those white and blue haired ladies saying the rosary before Mass.
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Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
God is Truth. All who seek truth seek God, whether this is clear to them or not. Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
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Burn of the Day
Did lack of material possessions by contemporary standards mean we were unhappy? Rather the reverse. The attempt to rewrite the past in order to serve current political agendas is always a red flag for those who knew the past personally.
Happy Days Are Here Again
I am sure Alger Hiss would agree. La Guardia was pretty far to the left domestically, but he was a Republican.
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Open Thread
Salem and Brooke say hello on International Cat Day. The usual Open Thread rules apply: be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing.
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Dominic
Arm yourself with prayer rather than a sword; wear humility rather than fine clothes. Saint Dominic
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Please Mr. Postman
Something for the weekend. I have been on vacation from the law mines this week and I am feeling rather mellow. Cue the Queen of Mellow, Karen Carpenter, and her cover with her brother of Please Mr. Postman (1961) in 1975.
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And No Tip!
News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: BETHSAIDA — Reports confirmed that Jesus of Nazareth had successfully fed a crowd of 5,000 men, plus women and children, using just five barley loaves and two small fish, achieving an estimated cost-per-serving of approximately $0.0039. While the hungry crowd celebrated the free meal,
Gulp!
Go here to read the story. I don’t believe I have anything to fear, but if the Vatican does excommunicate me some day, I hope they will not misspell my name.
Saint of the Day Quote: Blessed Edmund Bojanowski
Look for the only consolation and care at the foot of the Blessed Virgin as her faithful servant, and you will always see above you the blessings of Jesus from the heaven. Blessed Edmund Bojanowski
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August 7, 1945: No Japanese Surrender
One of the arguments of critics of Truman’s use of the atomic bomb, is that a demonstration could have been made of it without blood being shed, over the ocean for example, the Japanese would have seen the power of the bomb and surrendered. Well, we know that is incorrect. We know that because
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Prayer Requests
Put your prayer requests in the comboxes. The Memorare Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To thee do
Transfigure Us
Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus. Then Peter said to
Saint of the Day Quote: Pope Saint Hormisdas
“The first condition of salvation is to keep the norm of the true faith and in no way to deviate from the established doctrine of the Fathers. Pope Saint Hormisdas
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Thought for the Day
I believe this. My sainted mother would cry when the Passion was depicted on television and I have been known to shed a tear or two myself at such times. I saw The Passion of the Christ once and I have not been able to bring myself to view it again, too overwhelming. Love begins
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Michiganstan?
News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: DETROIT, MI — Following the Senate primary victory won last night by Abdul El-Sayed, an official announcement was issued that the Middle East had expanded to include the state of Michigan. El-Sayed’s win further solidified what geopolitical experts were calling the “New Middle