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Hoosier Homie retweeted
November 11 is the Feast of Saint Martin of Tours, a.k.a., “Martinmas.”
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Warren Harding once choked a man inside the White House. Honestly, he had it coming.
His name was Charles Forbes.
Forbes had met Harding and his wife on a trip to Hawaii years earlier. He was charming, fun, and a great poker partner, which mattered a lot to Harding. When Harding became president in 1921, he made Forbes head of the brand new Veterans' Bureau.
It was one of the biggest jobs in Washington. Hundreds of thousands of men had come home from France wounded, gassed, or shell-shocked. The bureau had a huge budget to build hospitals, buy supplies, and care for them.
Forbes treated it like a personal piggy bank.
He toured the country picking sites for new veterans' hospitals, and the contractors who wanted those jobs knew who to take care of. Forbes partied with them, traveled with them, and steered contracts their way in exchange for kickbacks. Hospital construction costs ballooned.
Then there was the warehouse.
At a massive government depot in Perryville, Maryland, the bureau had stockpiles of supplies meant for veterans' hospitals. Sheets, towels, blankets, gauze, medicine. Forbes declared huge amounts of it surplus and sold it off to a private company for a tiny fraction of what it was worth. Trainloads of brand new goods went out one gate while the bureau was buying replacements at full price through the other.
At the same time, the bureau was buying some things at wildly inflated prices. It bought so much floor cleaner that, by one estimate, it would have taken a hundred years to use it all.
Meanwhile, veterans were waiting for care that didn't come.
Word eventually reached Harding, and he did not take it well.
Forbes was called to the White House. Harding grabbed him by the neck and shook him the way a dog shakes a rat, calling him a "double-crossing bastard." The only thing that saved Forbes was the President's next appointment walking in on the two of them. Whoever that poor visitor was, they walked into the Oval Office and found the President of the United States throttling a member of his own administration.
Forbes was out. He sent in his resignation in early 1923.
Things got darker from there. A few weeks later, the bureau's top lawyer, Charles Cramer, took his own life. Then Jess Smith, a close aide to Harding's attorney general, did the same. Washington was buzzing about how deep the rot in the Harding administration went.
Harding knew it was coming. Around that time he told a journalist that his enemies weren't the problem. It was his friends who kept him up walking the floor at night.
That summer, during a trip out West, Harding fell ill and died in San Francisco on August 2, 1923.
After his death, the scandals came pouring out. Teapot Dome got the headlines. But Senate investigators dug into the Veterans' Bureau too, and the numbers they put on waste and fraud ran into the tens of millions, with some estimates far higher.
Forbes's life fell apart. His wife divorced him. Then, in 1925, he was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government and sentenced to two years in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas.
The man trusted to take care of America's wounded soldiers ended up behind the walls of one of the most famous prisons in the country, a few miles from Fort Leavenworth and the Army he'd been robbing.
It's called the Veterans' Bureau scandal, and almost nobody learns about it.
Hoosier Homie retweeted
Why is individualism vs. collectivism a false dichotomy? It's b/c humans are both individual & social by nature. Individualism can elevate personal autonomy above the common good. Collectivism can subordinate individual dignity & rights to collective interests. Classical ...
Hoosier Homie retweeted
Please say a prayer for me. I’m having a lot of pain this morning and it’s making it hard to concentrate on my job
Hoosier Homie retweeted
"It is impious to say, ‘I respect every religion.’ This is as much as to say: I respect the devil as much as God, vice as much as virtue, falsehood as much as truth, dishonesty as much as honesty,
Hell as much as Heaven.”
— Fr. Michael Müller, C.Ss.R (1825-1899)
My husband watched me pray in our Sikh faith at the RNC — and one of our last text messages before he died a couple of weeks later was telling me
he was so proud of me. He was supposed to be there, but he was also dying from two serious illnesses, and he could not make it at the last minute. Our medical staff at home took care of him while he watched me pray in our faith tradition -/ just as we did at home daily over each meal.
All you trash who have denigrated my prayer to the ONE GOD many faiths believe in, deeply hurt me for the last two years, but I could not comment back because I was part of a campaign and then confirmation -/ administration. It’s over. I won’t be silent any longer.
Go read the First Amendment and my extensive record on behalf of ALL people of faith in America. For 34 years. And then let’s measure our respective records on religious liberty. I welcome all comers who think they can prove they did more than I did for ALL people of faith in this country. There are none. I intend to keep fighting for ALL people of faith in America for the rest of my life. But I won’t hide my own faith for one second. It’s protected by our Constitution.
Hoosier Homie retweeted
Friends, what is chastity—the second of the evangelical counsels?
Though the clergy and religious practice chastity through celibacy, the virtue itself is just as applicable to the laity.
Chastity simply means sexual uprightness or a rightly ordered sexuality—and this means bringing one’s sexual life under the aegis of love.
As Thomas Aquinas taught, love is not a feeling but rather an act of the will—more precisely, willing the good of the other. It is the ecstatic act by which we break free from the ego, whose gravitational pull wants to draw everything to itself.
Notice how the Church’s teaching that sex belongs within the context of marriage is meant to hold off this negative tendency. In saying that our sexuality should be subordinated to unity (the radical devotion to one’s spouse) and procreation (the radical devotion to one’s children), the Church is endeavoring to bring our sex lives completely under the umbrella of love.
What would our country look like if, starting today, every Catholic lived out the counsel of chastity? We would make an enormous dent in the pornography business; human trafficking would be dramatically reduced; abortions would appreciably decrease; and families would be significantly strengthened.
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We're likely to see more riots, violence, assasinations, etc. from a jubilant Far Left that thinks they are on the ascendancy. As the 2028 draws closer and the left smells blood in the water with their chance to fully seize power forever, you will need to defend yourself, your family, and your home.
JUST F---KING SH--T EVERYBODY IS NOT A PLAN. It seems satisfying, but is most likely an overreaction at this stage (and possibly entirely). You must have different plans for different types of conflicts and political-legal situations rather than thinking every solution is a ballistic one.
If you run afoul of the leftist mob, they will come after you. In many jurisdictions, they have the local prosecutor and state Attorney General on their side. Soon, they will have the federal government too. Non-judicious responses that might be appropriate in a tactical sense could lead to the full weight of an anarcho-tyrannical government coming after you.
For example, former Army sergeant and Uber driver Daniel Perry defended himself against an armed leftist during an Austin protest. He was convicted of murder at the hands of a leftist, Soros prosecutor and leftist jury, but was eventually pardoned by Gov. Abbot. Even so, he was still charged with misdemeanor deadly conduct charge for driving into a crowd (he didn't), but was acquitted.
I have thought this through extensively. Less-lethal force, avoidance, and intelligence are all vital ways to prevent becomeing a paraiah, and if you do, mitigate what happens to you afterwards. The goal of the left is to crush every right-winger who defends themselves into submission with prosecutions like Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Perry. Don't give them the opportunity. Have a multi-layered plan.
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Hoosier Homie retweeted
Ok, so your 2-year vacation is over and now you have to go back to being man and taking care of yourself, the family and your community.
Ok here is the checklist:
1. Opsec: Stop displaying any weapons or gear on social media. Want to motivate, recruit and encourage mutuals? Use encrypted apps to setup your chats. Don't be that guy giving away all this intel for free to ppl that hate you.
*You can still do this if you are a store that sells this stuff. But as a normie, why do this?
2. Health: Drop the pounds and start fasting first. Cut the lbs and the refined sugar. Stop drinking, and get your head and body cleared up.
- Visit the dentist, chiropractor, or Dr to understand if you as a man are physically capable of moving weight over distance. (don't skip this step, I know many of you will) (if you can't don't despair, logistics are incredibly important)
3. Gear: Stuff is insanely expensive, inflation is killing our purchasing power. So be wise with what you spend your money on. Do you need 5 rifles? Of course not, better to have a lean setup and keep that cash for (courses) and other purchases. (this covers also your chest rigs, plate carriers and all the other fun stuff)
4. Recruitment: Finding other men to do this stuff with is v challenging. Most men have been conditioned to obey and will not leave that comfort zone. Here is the deal, don't look down on them, but remember that even in the military only 10% actually fight and other 90% does logistics. It's no different in your community.
- If you find guys that show interest, then go on a 3 mile walk (flat surface) and tell them to bring backpack and throw some weight in it). If they like it and and they don't complain, on to the next step etc...
- Everyone has skills, be wise on how you approach ppl and what their interests might be.
5. Tech: Find ppl that can build things like digital maps for you and load them on android tablets so you force multiply across your team(s). Find people who have 3d printers that can make a lot of interesting tools and or accessories for you. Find people that are tech savvy and will use open source AI models to help you build things.
6. Courses: We have a plethora of veterans (who are not brainwashed by our institutions) and are happy to teach you important skills. Take one course in the next 12 months and get over your own fears.
7. Faith: What's your relationship with God? Are you still living in sin? Living in darkness and as a child of the devil? Go to church, get a bible -> link.amazon/B02H1hTET and repent of your sins and become a follow of Jesus Christ. This is the most important one, everything else is irrelevant if you are living in sin and darkness.
If you have read this and know of great courses, stores, or other resources then leave a comment for others.
Hoosier Homie retweeted
New Castle, Indiana, once made nearly 700 kitchen cabinets a day. The kind with a flour sifter inside and a drawer built to keep mice out of the cake.
You could buy one for $1 a week.
Hoosier Manufacturing started in Albany making farm seed separators. The kitchen cabinets were a sideline, until the salesmen found they could sell those faster than the farm equipment.
After a fire in 1900, the company moved into an old bicycle factory in New Castle. It became the country’s largest kitchen cabinet maker, employing about 700 people at its peak.
Open one of these cabinets and you get a fairly good inventory of the work involved in feeding a household. Flour bin. Mechanical sifter. Spice jars. Bread storage. A work surface that pulled toward you. Some had a shopping list arranged like a clock face.
Before counters and cupboards ran along the walls, ingredients and utensils might be scattered between a table, shelves and a separate pantry. Hoosier sold the promise of getting through dinner with fewer trips across the room.
Then built-in kitchens took the market. The company was sold and liquidated in 1942.
I like the cake drawer. Somebody had to figure out how to keep the mice out, and somebody in New Castle went to work making it.
Hoosier Homie retweeted
Do not, I implore you, delay your conversion to God, for you know not the day appointed to carry you off. You tell me that God has given His grace to be converted, to some when they have reached to extreme old age. Does it follow from this that He will grant you the same favour? Perhaps He will grant it to me. Why add, perhaps? Because it has sometimes happened. What! does the question of your salvation depend on a perhaps?
St John Chrysostom
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I know I don’t have a ton of reach but if anyone sees this I could use some prayers for my wife.
Shes getting testing for cancer and we have already ruled out most of the easily solved/benign possibilities. I’d appreciate the prayers for her health.
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It’s been tough. I generally hate asking for help, but the bills are stacking up, and I don’t know what else to do. If you’re able, please consider helping us out.
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I’ve been red pilled, black pilled, white pilled, clear pilled. All the pills.
I don’t even know which one this is, but it’s one of the strongest ones I’ve had in a long long time. The desperation in his voice. You can see the sight of his kids in his eyes when he says he’s supposed to be home with them. You can see the math he’s doing in his head as he calculates how much money he has left, and how much he needs for his mortgage, and when it’s due.
What the hell is the American dream anymore? Is this what it’s about? Is there anyone who would say this guy isn’t working his ass off? For what? So that 25% of his income can go to a government that wastes it on a bunch of shit he didn’t vote for? Subsidizing the food he stocks grocery stores with for people who don’t work a 1,000th of how hard he works to buy groceries with EBT cards that he pays for, which then drives up the cost of groceries for him and his family that he pays for out of his paycheck because he’s doing it the right way.
This entire system is shit. It’s shit. There is no nicer way to put it. It is dog. shit.
This guy should be working a 9-5 at a job that gives him dignity so that he can be at home with his kids at a decent time. Instead he’s some jerk off’s content. His stressed out, end of his rope reaction is some asshole’s income.
This is bleak stuff. Absolutely bleak.
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Last year, several of you pointed me to Over the Garden Wall, Patrick McHale's 2014 Cartoon Network series. It's ten short episodes about two brothers lost in a dark wood on Halloween. It turns out to be one of the most complete explorations of the in-between I've seen in pop culture, closer to the first canto of Dante than you'd expect from a cartoon. In this video (link below) I discuss the symbolism in the show. Please note that it contains spoilers.
