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ush transgender ideology president donald j trump delivered a decisive blow against one of the most destructive social and political experiments in modern american history the biden harris agenda wrought indescribable harm but this easter season the nation witnessed not just policy reversals but also the forceful unapologetic reclamation of sanity trump ended the democrats transgender for everybody agenda that treated biological sex as optional children as experiments and women s rights as collateral damage trump banned federal funding sponsorship or promotion of the chemical and surgical mutilation of minors he protected children from irreversible physical and psychological damage ordering agencies to cut funds from institutions involved in these practices more than three dozen health systems including kaiser permanente children s hospital los angeles children s minnesota denver health lurie children s hospital of chicago stanford medicine and nyu langone then announced they would stop or suspend child mutilation programs these concrete results followed directly from executive resolve if returned to power democrats will undo every one of them their woke base demands it republicans cannot afford to forget this reality as the midterms approach trump further dismantled indoctrination in schools his administration terminated federal support for transgender ideology and its attendant so called equity curricula states now face clear notice remove such content or lose funding parents regained ground against an un american and arguably inhuman assault on their rights and their children s minds this action exposed the galling hypocrisy of democrats who claimed to champion families while funding confusion and erasure of biological truth read more share posted by elena maria vidal at 1 00 am 0 comments labels abominations health motherhood the donald do gop voters recognize how trump saved them from trans barbarism ray bradbury american individualist from modern age did this opposition to liberal attacks on free speech indicate that bradbury had embraced conservatism or libertarianism in fact he may not have moved to the right politically so much as the ground beneath his feet had shifted bradbury had been voicing concerns about free speech since his 1950 novel the martian chronicles which also features book burning how could i expect you to know blessed mr poe says the character william stendhal he died a long while ago before lincoln all of his books were burned in the great fire he and lovecraft and hawthorne and ambrose bierce and all the tales of terror and fantasy and horror and for that matter tales of the future were burned the politically correct censorship started small and then grew they began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and of course films one way or another one group or another political bias religious prejudice union pressures and it was based not on pure ideals but on fear there was always a minority afraid of something and a great majority afraid of the dark afraid of the future afraid of the past afraid of the present afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves stendhal continues every man they said must face reality must face the here and now everything that was not so must go all the beautiful literary lies and flights of fancy must be shot in mid air for bradbury censorship wasn t just about proscribing certain kinds of speech but about hobbling the imagination so they lined them up against a library wall one sunday morning thirty years ago in 1975 they lined them up st nicholas and the headless horseman and snow white and rumpelstiltskin and mother goose oh what a wailing and shot them down and burned the paper castles and the fairy frogs and old kings and the people who lived happily ever after for of course it was a fact that nobody lived happily ever after and once upon a time became no more bradbury continued to develop the theme of the violent effects of censorship in the name of lofty ideas in fahrenheit 451 there authors were seen as a threat to the leveling pressures of mass democracy the novel s captain beatty puts it like this the bigger your market montag the less you handle controversy remember that all the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean authors full of evil thoughts lock up your typewriters the death of literary culture didn t come from the government down beatty says there was no dictum no declaration no censorship to start with no technology mass exploitation and minority pressure carried the trick thank god today thanks to them you can stay happy all the time you are allowed to read comics the good old confessions or trade journals read more share posted by elena maria vidal at 12 00 am 0 comments labels books land of the free ray bradbury american individualist monday may 4 2026 the daily life of a medieval king the great charles v of france from medievalists a medieval king s day was carefully structured balancing prayer governance and moments of rest thanks to christine de pizan we can follow the daily routine of charles v of france in remarkable detail offering a rare glimpse into how a ruler lived and worked in the late middle ages around the year 1404 christine de pizan finished her work livre des faits et bonnes mœurs du sage roy charles v which was both a biography of the french king who reigned from 1364 to 1380 and a guide to how an ideal monarch should live and rule christine had a good vantage point to tell this story as her father tommaso di pizano was a personal physician and astrologer at charles court so one can assume that she was sometimes at the court herself moreover in later years she was able to consult other men and women who served the king including his chamberlain and valet her section on the daily life of charles v begins with him rising from bed in the morning typically between six and seven o clock after saying a prayer the king would chat and joke with his servants christine writes when he had been combed dressed and outfitted according to the demands of the day s program his chaplain a distinguished person and honourable priest brought him his breviary and helped him to say his hours according to the canonical day of the calendar around eight o clock he would go to mass which was celebrated each day with glorious solemn singing read more share posted by elena maria vidal at 2 00 am 0 comments labels books chivalry enfants de france liturgy queens of france the daily life of a medieval king the iranians ask us to surrender from and magazine the iranians have trotted out a new peace plan which the united states says it is currently reviewing the exact text of the proposal has not yet been seen publicly but multiple press outlets including those tied to the iranian government have made clear that the plan includes all of the following points an end to all hostilities within 30 days this includes lebanon the complete withdrawal of all u s military forces from the region understand what this means this is a demand that the united states remove its military forces from the middle east this is a demand that we pull out of bahrain kuwait iraq qatar saudi arabia turkey israel and anywhere else we have bases in that part of the world a guarantee of non aggression from both israel and the united states we are expected not only to end hostilities and withdraw from the region but to promise that we will never again attack iran ever an end to the naval blockade and all restrictions on iranian ports and shipping the lifting of all u s and international sanctions iran will be free to buy whatever it wants including components for advanced weapons and to sell whatever it wants to allies and surrogates around the globe the release of all frozen iranian assets this means billions of dollars currently locked up in accounts all over the world will be handed over to the world s number one sponsor of terrorism reparations as we leave the middle east with our tail between our legs we will be expected to pay iran for all the damage we have caused not just in the bombing but by virtue of the sanctions we have imposed for many years the creation of a new mechanism for control of the straits of hormuz one must assume from the overall tone of the demands that this will boil down to a recognition that iran controls this crucial waterway and will charge a fee to anyone who wants to pass through it read more share posted by elena maria vidal at 1 00 am 0 comments labels land of the free persia tyrants wars and rumors of wars the iranians ask us to surrender how the thirty years war ravaged europe from the collector the thirty years war 1618 1648 was one of the most destructive conflicts in european history what began as a religious struggle in the holy roman empire soon expanded into a continent wide power struggle involving nearly every major state entire regions were depopulated armies grew to unprecedented size and the war changed how europe understood sovereignty and statehood by the time peace finally arrived in 1648 the war had not only shattered old medieval structures but helped lay the foundations of the modern nation state the holy roman empire in the early seventeenth century was a fragmented and decentralized political entity composed of hundreds of independent kingdoms principalities bishoprics free cities and minor lordships while these territories owed nominal loyalty to the emperor real power rested with local rulers many of whom guarded their autonomy jealously this loose structure had endured for centuries but it was placed under immense strain by the religious divisions unleashed by the reformation by 1600 the empire was split between catholic lutheran and calvinist states although the peace of augsburg 1555 had attempted to stabilize relations by allowing rulers to choose between catholicism and lutheranism it excluded calvinists and failed to resolve underlying tensions religious identity became closely tied to political authority with rulers using confessional allegiance to assert independence from imperial control the habsburg emperors were staunch catholics and increasingly sought to reverse protestant gains and strengthen central authority within the empire these pressures erupted in bohemia in 1618 protestant nobles alarmed by perceived habsburg encroachments on their religious and political rights threw imperial officials out of a castle window in prague in the defenestration of prague the initial rebellion was against habsburg rule rather than a purely religious uprising although framed in confessional terms the conflict centred on resistance to imperial centralization read more share posted by elena maria vidal at 12 00 am 0 comments labels germany scandinavia the house of austria wars and rumors of wars how the thirty years war ravaged europe sunday may 3 2026 raymond ibrahim s trilogy baucent of the templars not to us o lord not to us but to thy name give glory psalm 113 vulgate motto of the templars once in a discussion with a fellow historical novelist i was informed that the crusades are the earliest examples of genocide i was surprised that the novelist being jewish seemed unaware of the various ancient persecutions against her own people including that of the greeks in the days of the maccabees that might be considered genocidal i reminded her of that as well as of the fact that there were twelve major crusades taking place over nearly three hundred years they were led by different people with the principle goal of liberating the holy land from muslim rule and thus delivering the christian population from slavery and oppression some were more successful than others some like the fourth crusade were total disasters in fact the fourth crusade is the one which most people think of when they view the crusades as orgies of mass murder in that case those being killed were other christians did other massacres of the innocent occur during the course of the various crusades yes so did the crusaders journey hundreds of miles to the middle east braving fatal diseases pirates brigands and an ocean of foes just for the joy of killing people that is one of the questions answered by raymond ibrahim in his brilliant trilogy about the centuries long conflict between christianity and islam ibrahim s books are the sword and the scimitar defenders of the wes t and the two swords of chris t the books present a background to the crusades containing detailed information of which most contemporary people are unaware as well as the histories of heroes like el cid and the rise of the two greatest military orders the templars and the hospitallers in the early church the practice of christians was even in the era of persecution to visit the places where jesus christ had been born lived died and risen pilgrimages were regarded as highly penitential in which the pilgrim would not only risk life and health but leave behind property home family occupation and offices the romans built pagan shrines over the venerable spots like the stable at bethlehem and the holy sepulcher but those temples only served to remind everyone where the sacred sites were hidden when emperor constantine legalized christianity in the fourth century his mother empress st helena went on pilgrimage to the holy land where she discovered not only the true cross but found and reopened many of the other places sacred to the memory of the savior this ignited centuries of pilgrimage to the middle east rich and poor would go often in parish sponsored groups as now special costumes were worn when on pilgrimage and one was often regarded as being temporarily in religious life when journeying to a holy site for jerusalem was not the only destination there were shrines throughout europe including rome and compostela but the pilgrimage to the holy land remained the ultimate of penitential practices with many indulgences attached people would go for themselves and for loved ones who were sick or who had died all this changed with the rise of islam in the 7th century meticulously described by ibrahim in his book sword and scimitar founded by mohammed an arabian who claimed to be a prophet of the one true god islam combined elements of nestorian christianity and judaism with the prophet s own inspirations many of which included teachings abhorrent to judeo christian morality one such teaching permits muslim men to take a non muslim infidel woman by force mohammed commanded his followers to spread islam by warfare within 200 years the christian lands in north africa spain arabia and the middle east were conquered great christian cities like antioch and alexandria which had been apostolic sees fell to islam with the churches and basilicas becoming mosques christians especially children young men and young women were made into sex slaves and concubines including monks and nuns many boys were castrated to be eunuchs in the harems of the various muslim elites hatred in ...