Saturn Has 146 Moons

 From Discover:

How many moons are in our solar system? First, it would help to understand that a moon is an object that’s formed naturally and orbits around a planet. The Earth’s Moon is well known. It’s the brightest light in the sky, and you can see it most nights. But there are many more moons in the solar system, and some of them have pretty interesting stories. According to the most current count from NASA, there are 293 moons in our solar system and likely more to be counted. Let’s take a look at some of the most memorable moons to date. (Read more.)

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Ça Ira

Death of Louis XVI

 

Ça Ira or "It Will Be Fine," was the song which defined the French Revolution even more than the Marseillaise. It had already been a popular tune, which Marie-Antoinette herself played on the clavichord at Petit Trianon. But the words were changed to fit the new politics and some versions specifically mocked the Queen while rejoicing in the murder of the upper classes and the clergy. For instance,

 We shall have no more nobles nor priests
Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine
Equality will reign everywhere
The Austrian slave shall follow him
Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine
And their infernal clique
Shall go to hell
Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine
aristocrats to the lamp-post
Ah! It'll be fine, It'll be fine, It'll be fine
the aristocrats, we'll hang them!

 That is why having Ça Ira sang by a decapitated Marie-Antoinette at the Paris Olympics last month is seen by so many as obscene.

 

Here is one of the best articles on the French Revolution ever. From The Washington Stand:

There is much talk today, across the Western world but especially in America, of communism, socialism, Marxism and Leninism, and the Total State. Grand allusions are made to the Soviet regime, to third-world dictatorships, to 20th century coups, and to Nazi propaganda. But what is tragically and all-too-often overlooked is not the Bolshevik Revolution, nor Hitler’s ascension to the chancellorship of Germany, nor the numerous communist revolutions and counter-revolutions which populated the latter half of the 1900s, but an older revolution, which served as the root of them all: the French Revolution.

The opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris makes manifest not only the dread influence that the French Revolution exercises over the world still, but also makes clear that the demonic forces within leftism recognize their own parentage and have not forgotten the Luciferian goals of the French Revolution. Drag queens performing a diabolical parody of the Last Supper may seem like an innovation of degeneracy, common enough across the globe: the promotion of the LGBT agenda coupled with irreverence toward the Divine. But the inclusion of a nude, blue-painted Dionysus may have confused some and certainly provided some cover for the Paris Olympics organizers to claim that they were not mocking Christ — how could they be if a pagan god were the centerpiece?

But the appearance of Dionysus, coupled with a garish mockery of the decapitated Queen Marie Antoinette, made it evident that the radical, pro-abortion, pro-LGBT themes adored by leftists everywhere and celebrated profusely (and profanely) in Paris last week trace their lineage to the too-often-overlooked French Revolution. The forces of Hell declared on Friday, in Paris, that the French Revolution is far from over. In order for its evils to be resisted and, eventually, undone, it must first be understood. (Read more.)

 

From The Catholic Register:

Ancient Rome’s pagan Emperor Nero, who famously burned his city to blame it on Christians would undoubtedly have been very proud of the bizarre spectacle that today’s pagan leaders conjured up for the whole world to see. Thus, the French Olympic Committee and its seemingly strongly atheistic French government led by French President, Emmanuel Macron celebrated in grand fashion the union of athleticism and sadistic narcissism. This is not so surprising when one considers that several months ago French parliamentarians, by a vote of 780 to 72, made France the world’s first country to enshrine abortion into its national constitution.

Among the most glaring examples of their shocking displays of perversion during the opening ceremony were:

• a collection of drag queens parodying Christ’s Last Supper
• a celebration of the anti-Catholic French Revolution with a gruesome skit displaying at least 37 decapitated models depicting Marie Antoinette standing in the windows of a huge castle, holding her bloodied and yet talking head in front of her body
• dancing cross dressed males with beards
• scenes of encouragement of gay orgies with threesomes;
• godlike adoration of huge statues emerging from the banks of the Seine depicting women who pushed for the killing of unborn children on French society
• a mocking display of Rome’s horrible custom of crucifying criminals, especially Christians in later times, by having several people dangling on with their arms outstretched, on long flexible poles above a bridge.

The culmination of this sadistic and satanic mocking of Christianity were the two huge golden bull idols displayed on the main Olympic stage at the end of the ceremony – akin to the golden calf idol made by the rebelling Israelites when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments from God. (Read more.)

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Olympics: Celebration Of Sport Or Violent Social Experimentation?

 From Jan Greenhawk at The Easton Gazette:

I loved the Olympics when I was a child. I loved the idea that people worked their whole lives to achieve athletic excellence and share it with the world every four years. My heroes were Nadia Comaneci and many other women who were such strong and athletic females. It inspired me to run track, do recreational gymnastics, play softball, and eventually coach these sports. I was a National Age Group Chairman for USA Gymnastics and a Brevet Level judge as well.

I still love watching some sports like gymnastics.

Unfortunately, commercialization and television ratings have turned the event into an orchestrated monstrosity that no longer celebrates the efforts of so many but has turned the Olympics into a social experiment in many ways, such as allowing men to compete against women.

The most egregious display of this social experimentation came in a recent bout in Women's Boxing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Forty-five seconds into her bout with Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, an athlete who had previously failed two gender tests, Italian boxer Angela Carini called off the bout, saying that she had never been punched that hard before. Carini was in tears and voiced her frustration, shouting "This is unjust!" and slamming her headgear in the ring. She refused to congratulate the "winner" of the fight. (Read more.)

From Honest to Goodness:

Female athletes from all ages and athletic disciplines were losing trophies and medals and championship titles to men appropriating their sex. It went from “it’s not happening that often, so why care?” to “Sports aren’t that important anyway, so find a cause to champion that actually matters.”

Well this week, we saw a male athlete physically punch a woman in the face on a global stage, and it still seems like no one cares. Algeria’s Imane Khelif is one of two male boxers permitted to fight against women at this year’s Olympics despite being disqualified from the women’s world championships last year for failing testosterone and ambiguously defined “gender eligibility” tests.

It is yet unclear to me whether Khelif is trans identified or a male with a DSD. There’s a difference between claims of trans identities and intersex or DSDs. One is based on subjective feelings. The other is based in material reality that renders a person’s actual biological sex ambiguous. To be clear, intersex is a mutation of the male/female binary; it is not a third option.

I obviously have a LOT more empathy for people in the latter category. It would be very difficult to inhabit a body with a genetic mutation that makes it difficult for people to know if you’re a man or a woman. I imagine it would be very isolating. But chromosomes don’t lie. And when there’s a Y chromosome present, you’re dealing with a male and most of the physiological advantages a male body affords. It is not safe or fair to expect female athletes to compete against males. We cannot afford to care more about the men’s feelings than we do about the women’s safety.

I’ve written extensively about the male takeover of women’s sports before and don’t wish to have to rehash that all here. What the world needs to know for this conversation is that Italian boxer Angela Carini was matched against Khelif in the Olympics this week, and Khelif pummeled her in the face with such force that she resigned after just 46 seconds of the fight, falling to her knees and sobbing. She declined to shake Khelif’s hand at the end of the match. (Read more.)

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Tolkien’s Letters Are Up For Sale

 From Country Life:

70 years and two days ago, The Fellowship of the Ring, first part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, was published. To mark the occasion, Bayliss Rare Books has launched ‘the finest collection to come to the market in decades’, with first editions of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (ranging from £30,000 to just under £80,000), as well as various opinionated letters written by J. R. R. Tolkien to his friends, publisher and the original theatre director of The Hobbit. In these, he discusses theories of language, his thoughts on Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes (‘quite a sniff of priggery about these two precious gents’) and how he named the home of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, Bag-End, after his aunt’s house in Worcestershire.

‘I am well aware that dwarfs is the correct modern English plural of dwarf; but I intend to use dwarves for good reasons of my own,’ wrote Tolkien to his publisher Allen & Unwin on July 22, 1953. ‘I take it harder that my elven and elven-should be replaced, though not consistently, by the detestable Spenserian elfin, which it was specially designed to avoid… I never have voluntarily used, and do not intend (if I can avoid it) to be represented as using the form farther for the older further, and should be grateful if the further of my copy could be left alone… I think it would be much better, and save time and annoyance in the end, if it was assumed that all apparent oddities and idiosyncrasies… were intentional.’ The letters range in price from £15,000 to £40,000. (Read more.)

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Schoolwork of the Dauphin

 

 The lessons of the Dauphin Louis-Charles (1785-1795) with corrections from his Papa, Louis XVI, while the Royal Family was in the Temple prison.

Louis XVII being interrogated by his tormentors

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SECRET SERVICE WHISTLEBLOWER

 

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Houses from Amazon

 From Better Homes and Gardens:

Anyone who shops on Amazon knows it’s a great place to find pretty much anything you need for your home, but before you shop for decor, you may want to first add a new house to your shopping cart. Yes, you read that correctly—you can indeed buy a brand new house right on Amazon. The online retailer sells tiny houses that can be purchased for one full payment or in monthly payments, and they’ll deliver it to wherever you’d like. From a new plot of land to a large backyard of an existing home, as long as it fits, it can go anywhere.

Available at a fraction of the cost of an average home, tiny homes have exploded in popularity over the last few years. As mentioned, they can also be placed anywhere, making them great for people hoping to downsize or add on to their existing homes—maybe as a vacation house, too. Other positives include no mortgage payments or loans, and if you’ll be moving from a larger home, it’s a great time to declutter and follow a minimalist lifestyle.

While you’ll find a variety of tiny homes on Amazon, our recent favorite is this modern modular luxury tiny house listed for $35,000. Move-in ready, the home includes a fully equipped kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and living space. (Read more.)

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JD Vance Makes Dems REGRET Calling Him ‘Weird'

 

From The Washington Examiner:

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) said he is the product of “strong women,” amid criticism from Democrats over past derivative remarks he made about “childless cat women.” At a rally in Reno, Nevada, Vance touched on his upbringing, mainly by his grandma. He used the story to implicitly counter allegations of sexism leveled by Democrats, who took issue with past comments he made about “childless cat women.”

“Now some of you know my story, and some of you don’t, but I grew up in a poor family,” he said. “I was raised by my grandmother. I called her Mamaw.”

“And I’ve been the beneficiary, I have to say, of a number of strong women in my life, especially my beautiful wife,” Vance added. “But I’ve lived the American dream because of those strong women, especially my grandmother,” he continued. “I was able to go and enlist in the Marine Corps, and go to school, and get a good job, and become a husband and father and all the things that I’ve dreamed of. In fact, I’m living it right now, getting to spend this wonderful evening with you fine people.” (Read more.)

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The Ancient Greek Tradition of Birthday Cake

 From Greek Reporter:

The global tradition of blowing out candles which adorn a birthday cake to be shared with well-wishers might be rooted in an ancient Greek votive ritual to honor the goddess Artemis, the female archetype associated with childbirth, wildlife, and the moon.

The Ancient Greeks started making cakes that were modeled after the moon as tribute to Artemis, the goddess of the moon. The cakes were circular and then lit with candles to shine like the moon, notes Columbia Daily. Tradition tells us that a long-lost connection with devotional cakes to Artemis may survive today as part of the most popular celebratory habit in the Western world and beyond. (Read more.)

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