The Catholic fleet won the day against all odds. Calling up the Chesterton poem about the battle.

Chesterton reminds his readers that the Turkish galleys at Lepanto had Christian slaves labouring deep within them, each witless in his quiet room in hell / Where a yellow face looks inward through the lattice of his cell, / And he finds his God forgotten, and he seeks no more a sign. But as we take up the joyful story …

… Don John of Austria has burst the battle line!
Don John pounding from the slaughter-painted poop,
Purpling all the ocean like a bloody pirate’s sloop,
Scarlet running over on the silvers and the golds,
Breaking of the hatches up and bursting of the holds,
Thronging of the thousands up that labour under sea
White for the bliss and blind for sun and stunned for liberty.
Vivat Hispania!
Domino Gloria!
Don…

This virus was very selective:

The virus appears to have targeted Republicans only and left Democrats unscathed. Democrats are trying to characterize this as a Rose Garden or debate super-spreader — even though plenty of Democrats and Biden-supporters were at the debate and likely interacted with Republicans after the Amy Coney Barrett ceremony. They argue that, as avid wearers of the mask, they are shielded from Republicans bearing COVID. But if masks were ironclad, we’d all be immune. People can still contract the disease in spite of masks, hand-washing, and social distancing — which are only preventive measures that minimize risk. It is odd that in a town as small as Washington, D.C., only Republicans took the hit.

Yes.

Behind closed doors,
In the silky watery feel of deep darkness,
Evil lurks.

Under every scrutiny,
In a light brighter than a thousand suns,
Good sleeps.

Evil steps out into the streets
Dressed in its cloak of secrecy,
On a mission to steal and destroy.

Good hearing the cries of those
Under the machinations of evil,
Awakens and sets out on a journey of liberation.

In between worlds, in between feelings
Good and evil meet
Like a thunderstorm.

The darkness tries to absorb the light.
The light tries to dispel the darkness;
Hence the struggle between heaven and hell.

Vigano is down on the Jesuits.

Seeking to find any coherence of the recent action of the Society of Jesus with the original intentions of Saint Ignatius of Loyola is an arduous if not impossible task, to the point that in hindsight one considers the reconstitution of the Order in 1814 after its suppression by Clement XIV in 1773 to have been ill-advised. [!]

It is not surprising that, in the process of dissolution and self-demolition to which the entire ecclesial body is subjected, the contribution of the Jesuits has been – and still remains – decisive. It is no coincidence that since 2013 even the highest throne has been occupied by a Jesuit, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, even though this is in violation of the Ignatian Rule that forbids members of the Society of Jesus to take up positions in the hierarchy.

An all-systems-go condemnation.

Italy “a testing ground”…

An economist suggests an appropriate, not inappropriate, response.

A Curveball Isn’t an Existential Threat

Donald J. Boudreaux

– October 5, 2020

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Nothing is easier than imagining hypothetical threats to humanity that differ so categorically from any that we’ve experienced before that it would be folly to stick to the familiar rules of the game. Earth is in the path of a hurtling asteroid that will within weeks certainly blow our entire planet to smithereens unless the state confiscates on command whatever it needs to quickly build a giant missile to intercept the doomsday rock.

But it’s infantile to mistake a problem unusually challenging for one so unprecedented that many of the foundational rules of society are to be abandoned indefinitely. Just because reality occasionally throws us curveballs with uncommonly large arcs does not mean that we…

Says Trump is the kind that won’t let certain people into his country club. Not so.

Mr. Biden’s accusation that Mr. Trump is the one excluding people from country clubs is inaccurate. The reality is that Mr. Trump is the one who was himself barred from clubs in Palm Beach, Florida As a result, he started one with more populist policies.

Here is how the Washington Post, which is the farthest thing from a Trump campaign organ, described it in a 2019 news article: “Trump was shut out of all the private clubs, the heart of Palm Beach social life. … So Trump opened Mar-a-Lago as a private club in 1995. Unlike the Everglades or Bath and Tennis clubs, which did not admit Jewish members, and the Palm Beach Country Club, which admitted wealthy Jews, Mar-a-Lago was open to anyone. ‘Basically, he didn’t care who came in as long…

Source: White House Reporters Name Mark Meadows as Anonymous Source Who Contradicted Doctor’s Rosy Report on Trump (Update: AP Quotes Meadows)

Trouble is, at this point should we believe this? Has an enemy done this to POTUS. Just sayin’.