An inconvenient Jew: Dr. Bernard Nathanson

When you've studied Satan as much as I have you learn to recognize his tricks. One of these is THE pop theme of our time: YOU are the captain of your life. Yet, as Dr. Nathanson's story shows, people have a penchant for going off the (Satanic) reservation.

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, 1926-2011, was not your average atheistic Jewish abortionist. While it's often the case that abortionists are atheistic Jews, not all of them repent, disavow their former ways, become vocal anti-abortionists; and to top it off... convert to Catholicism.  Dr. Nathanson was by any standard a very unusual man - and an inconvenient Jew.

Nathanson was one of the founding fathers of NARAL, the National Abortion Rights Action Leage.  Years later this would prove helpful when he explained how NARAL conjured numbers out of thin air in order to advance the abortion agenda, issuing statements such as, "Ten thousand American women a year die from 'back alley' abortions."  In truth, they knew the number was only about 300.  Abortionists might reply, "even one woman dying in a back alley abortion is too many."  That's debatable, but the point is that a fundamental fraud was afoot. If you apply for a loan claiming $10,000 in assets, when in truth you have only $300, you've committed fraud. The mainstream media generally broadcast NARAL propaganda without question.

There were other tricks as well: the attempted suppression of the fact that a human life begins at conception.... Fabricating poll numbers.... One of NARAL's favored tactics was to paint the anti-abortion movement as a mass of isolated, reactionary old Catholics: wizened, celibate priests who knew nothing about the REAL world, a world of women in emotional distress. The argument worked. Anti-Catholic types jumped on the bandwagon with both feet. Even many Catholics bought into it. To be honest they were bad Catholics to begin with (but then most Catholics are pretty bad). The msm, in a mechanical formula that's now familiar to everyone, churned out sob story after sob story of "women caught between their inability to support an unwanted child and the intransigence of the reactionary Catholic Church."

Years later, after the introduction of ultrasound technology, Dr. Nathanson was able to see an actual abortion being done. What he saw, the fetus desperately recoiling from the suction curette, horrified him.  He eventually repented and recanted his earlier pro-abortionism. A few years later he took that video and made a documentary called The Silent Scream - one of the most powerful anti-abortion arguments ever produced. Dr. Nathanson produced another video, The Eclipse of Reason, with Charlton Heston and also wrote a landmark book on the matter, Aborting America; as well as a book about his spiritual journey from pro-abortionist Jew, to anti-abortionist Catholic. Once, while debating the pro-abortionist Jew Dr. Henry Morgentaler on Canadian TV, Nathanson responded, "Henry, I have to laugh when I hear you throwing those arguments and numbers at me.  I'm the one who invented them!"

His Catholicism was a germinative process.  Basically he showed up one day and told a priest he was friendly with that he wanted to become a Catholic.  Some said that he wanted to get into some of that Christian money.  However, while there are $billions to be raked in by the abortion industry, there is no money to be had in opposing abortion. So that argument is a bucket without a bottom.  When asked why he converted, he stated, "No religion matches the special role for forgiveness that is afforded by the Catholic Church."

By all accounts, Dr. Nathanson became a good, unapologetic Catholic. He was troubled by his involvement in killing unborn babies and friends noted how he would undertake long fasts in expiation of his former crimes. Dr. Nathanson died after a long battle with cancer.  He was a unique man and it's fitting and proper to say a prayer in his memory and honor.

Fitz

How Much War is Enough?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States

Normally I prefer not to use Wikipedia as in information source, but in this instance I think I'm safe.

The US, which gained its independence in a war, early on recognized the great value of it. War is good for business. Also, it unites the people against an enemy out there and takes the focus off of internal issues. And while people's attention is focused "out there" all kinds of chicanery can take place much closer to home. The ruling elite know this.

Whether a war is bona fide, or one manufactured out of thin air, like the Spanish American War, is irrelevent. What is important is the unifying mass psychology aspect of the word. Be it a "war on poverty", a "war on drugs", a "war on crime", a "war on terror", a "war on hate"....

Yep, "War" is a very powerful metaphor. Although the cynics among us no doubt notice how often the magical words "War on..." fail to deliver on their promises.

But just say "war" and people will begin to focus their energies on others rather than the real problem: which is themselves. That and perhaps even more importantly, at least from their perspectives, the czars, industrial and political, make million$. And all those peons laboring away in the forges of bureaucracy for their own subjugation, do so obediently and quiescently.

People are happy to have a supposedly righteous cause to fight for, and will undergo all sorts of privation in order to inflict suffering or even death on "the enemy". With the added benefit that war is a reliable cash cow for the elites. So yeah, a happy confluence of interests there.

Which is likely why the US has been involved in some kind of military action against others for about 95% of its history. And if you include the various "social wars" we've engaged in, the number is probably more like 99%.

Fitz

I Couldn't Care Less

It's Superbowl Sunday! One of the high holy days in America - where we get to watch absurdly overpaid athletes chasing after a ball. And, maybe, get to see someone carried off the field on a stretcher.

That, and the now de rigueur woke nonsense that accompanies all the hoopla. Being scolded again about what stupid racists we White people are; and how even today, millionaire Black athletes are brutally oppressed by a savagely racist system. Even in the commercials.

It's all so tiresome.

Anyway, plot spoiler alert: One team wins. One team loses - for a net of zero. And all but one of the 32 NFL teams end the season as losers. There's a message in that.

Fitz

Random Meme Friday

                                    Dura lex, sed lex

       Not a cellphone anywhere. Just people living in the moment

You Get What You Pay For?

                                   "But it's a Rolls-Royce!"

Sometimes “You get what you pay for!” Sometimes... not so much.

Sometimes what you pay for is the name. I've got name basses that list for nearly $2K, and others that I paid only a couple of hundred $$$ for and which I played on stage. My Schecter Stiletto Custom was my go to bass with my last band. It still is. I got it for about $300... new. They go for over twice that now because people have figured out what good basses they are.

My cheap $240 zebrawood, Chinese Fender Jazz Bass knock-off would be perfectly acceptable in any venue large or small. It sounds and plays fine. But there is one problem with it: it weighs a ton. Its a beautiful bass. A real eye-catcher. But you feel it after ten minutes.

My son learned to play guitar on a Squier Stratocaster. He got halfway good on it, so a year later for Christmas I bought him a Fender Hot-Rod Stratocaster. He said the difference was like night and day. The Hot-Rod Strat played that much better.

But he'd persevered for a year, so I knew that buying him the expensive new Strat wasn't going to be a waste of money. I always advise people wondering whether to buy their kid an expensive instrument or not to start them out on a cheaper one so as not to be out all that $$$ when the kid puts it in the closet just short months later, where it will gather dust, when they go back to their video games. They probably don't listen to my advice but hey, I'm not the one who'll be out $1,500 on a guitar rig (guitar, amp, cords, case, etc.) that'll probably get sold for half that in a few years.

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/90-percent-of-new-guitarists-abandon-the-instrument-within-a-year-according-to-fender
Guitars aren't easy instruments to learn. Really none are, but especially guitars.

As an aside, the pros like certain guitars for a number of reason: They like the sound. They like the playability. They like the feel. They like the look. They like the endorsement money. Famous musicians have a defined sound, and their audiences expect to hear that sound when they buy their songs or go to their concerts. This demands special attention from pro guitarists because so much work goes into creating their sound. More than any other instrument.

Great musical talents are very rare. Mediocre musicians are a dime a dozen. But even they are a small few when compared to all those who started down the road, but gave up. Or those who never tried. There's a life lesson in there.

Fitz

The Greatest of Them All

More BS from the MSM: even BB King was greater than George!

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066632618/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/entertainment/article/best-rock-guitarists-of-all-time/

George Harrison doesn’t get the respect he’s due when talking about the great guitarists. People almost always go to Hendrix, Page, Clapton, Allman, Beck and sometimes Keith Richards when talking about the most noteworthy guitarists of that era. For some reason Harrison often doesn't make it into the top ten lists. Not always, but far too often. That needs to be fixed.

Harrison was the most influential of them all. But he did so quietly. Hendrix took things to the next level with his strange, glorious genius. But Harrison is the guy that tens of millions of budding guitarists started out aping.

He’s somewhat like Ringo in that respect. Ringo was actually a phenomenal drummer. He wasn’t flashy, he just came up with the exact beats the songs needed using a "less is more" approach. He very rarely screwed up, and even experienced drummers have trouble keeping some of the unassuming sounding beats he put out there.

Harrison for his part came up with some of the most iconic guitar lines of all time. Melodic, catchy, unforgettable. For every memorable lick of Hendrix, think of how many more Harrison had. Same with all of them.

He wasn’t afraid to experiment with new sounds; and whereas Hendrix pretty much limited himself to power blues, Harrison could cover any type of song. He could have come up with good licks if you’d put an opera score in front of him. He just didn’t wave his own flag.

As is often the case in God’s great creation, the quiet ones are the ones doing the greatest things.

Fitz

In Memory of Captain Waskow

        Henry T. Waskow: September 24, 1918 – December 14, 1943

Captain Henry Waskow was raised in Belton, Texas. A city about 130 miles south of Dallas. His parents were German immigrants, and had they not emigrated to America their famous son would likely have been fighting for Hitler.... He was described as kind hearted and generous by all who knew him.

Henry had just graduated from college when the US became involved in WW2, and he died in the bitter fight for Mount Sammucro, near San Pietro Infine, Italy on December 14, 1943. He was only 25. Although beloved by the men in his command he only became famous when war correspondent Ernie Pyle wrote about his death. His bones remain in Italy.

It's fitting and proper on the anniversary of his death to remember this young man with a prayer.

A couple of questions:

What would Captain Waskow think if he were to come back and see what the America he died for has turned into?

And why was it appointed for him to die so young - when so many unworthies live long lives?

The following video is a brief masterpiece. Sketched out by an underrated YouTube creator going by "DoodleWorks", and written by Ernie Pyle, the famous war correspondent.

Pyle himself crossed over to the other shore just sixteen months later... his story cut short by a Japanese sniper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrJaGJ59TCwwent

Fitz