Sometime ago I expressed puzzlement over the fact that “I” is capitalized in English. Budarick, being Budarick, has put “i” in small letters ever since. I get a kick out of this.

I simply cannot spell that as anything but “htat.” That is just how my fingers hit the keys. But that leads me to the realization that I keep spelling “what” as “hwat.” It occurs to me that that is the way it is pronounced. Even the most fluent of people whose native language is not English have trouble with pronouncing “Whitaker.” It looks like it should be pronounced W–HITAKER. That is hard to say when you are speaking quickly.

Whitaker, of course, is pronounced hwitikker, just as what is pronounced hwat.

If anybody cares about the technical side, the reason for this is that the original Saxon had a lot of gutterals, like the ch in “loch.” When you see gh in light, it is because it used to be pronounced li(gutteral)t. In German it is Licht because German has changed the gutteral to ch.

Whitaker and what used to be what were originally pronounced )utteral) ittiker and (gutteral) at. If you make the gutteral, you will find your lips start with a w or u shape.

So what is right? Hwat is right.

Most of you are too young to remember this, but the Moon was formed about four and a half billion years ago when a planet bigger than Mars slammed into the original earth.

The previous earth is referred to now as Earth Mark I. The planet that slammed into it is now called Orpheus.

Her real name was Orphea.

I know that Orphea was the origin of women because she slammed into Earth Mark I TWICE. Orphea bounced away and hit Earth Mark I again.

I know that Orphea was the female and Earth Mark I was the male because Orphea, many millions of megatons of solid matter, smashed into Earth Mark I the first time and Earth Mark I STILL didn’t get the POINT.

So she hit him again.

I know whereof I speak. Not all of the wrinkles on my face come from age. A lot of them are slap marks.

So the guy who wrote, “Women are from Venus, Men are From Mars” just got his planets wrong.

The seeds of life from Orphea produced women, the ones from Earth Mark I produced men.

I am deeply sorry to announce that, as usual, the marriage isn’t lasting. When the Moon first formed it was only 14,000 miles away, roughly the same distance my dates used to sit from me.

The Moon is now 23o,ooo miles away and is receding an inch and a quarter every single year. In a few million millennia the divorce will be complete.

This may strike many of you as a very slow separation.

You need to keep in mind that four and a half billion years ago was a more conservative time.

The genetic urge is an urge to perpetuate OUR KIND, people who LOOK LIKE US.

Take a look at this “no borders” crap and then take a look at nature. A bird or a monkey will allow a different kind of bird or monkey to cross its borders with no problem. But if an INTERBREEDABLE type comes on its ground, there’s a fight.

This is EXACTLY what the Wordist always told us that nature did NOT do.

Nothing is more of a violation of nature than the idea of Humanity.

The sea change article Elizabeth talked about, by Rushton and Jensen, shows why this won’t work. It was published mainline, which is one hell of a breakthrough, and it shows how a race is a FAMILY. People tend to marry people who look like them, even when they cross the sea.

The battle which produced us was a battle between interbreedable groups.

You can talk your throat raw and make whites defenseless, but Hispanics are going to fight for Hispanis, blacks for black. You would be astonished if am Oriental did not take an insult to orientals far more personally than he would an attack on Australian aborigines.

When someone says something negative about Jews, what group do you expect to lead the charge against them?

Jews, of course.

Only whites are not supposed to react this way.

Nobody, but NOBODY takes this “mankind” crap seriously unless they’re talking about white people.

In all of nature, the battles are between INTERBREEDABLE groups.

Get up to date.

The time is past when a Marx could say that all human class distinctions are artificial results of economics. Now we know that class is alive and well in every social animal.

The days of the sweet little chimpanzee munching on his grass and puzzsling over the violence of man are OVER. We have seen them tear monkeys to pieces and eat the,

GET OVER THE OUTDATED CRAP.

Leave Humanity in the past where it belongs, and join us in the new millennium.

For the person who has not outgrown his college education, the professor is a surrogate Mommy, telling him what he should believe. In fact this person is a perfect example of the Victorian prude Mommy Professor is supposed to reject, banning all reference to any Forbidden Subject.

But when I am talking about Mommy Professor should I say “he” or “she,” or should I use the generic term “it.” to indicate Mommy Professor is a phenomenon, not a human being?

Most professors are thught of as male. But Mommy is female.

The most accurate and descriptive pronoun for Mommy Professor is one I cannot use here.

It is a contraction of “she” and “it.”

Half a million people marched in Los Angeles demanding that US borders be opened.

One is not allowed to say that American Hispanics have no loyalty to other US citizens, but only to other Hispanics.

But that’s how they vote.

That’s how they march.

At the World Series the main speaker at the HIspanic celebration said he was speaking not only to Hispanics in the US but to “Our brothers in other lands.”

When Republicans backed a referendum to take benefits away from known illegal aliens national Republicans backed away from it. Liberal Democrats said repeatedly that that meant the end of the Hispanic vote for California Republicans.

No one said, “You mean that Hispanic American citizens would rather have all Americans pay Hispanics because their only real loyalty is to other Hispanics?”

Like so many other home truths, that is a fact everybody takes for grnted and that no one is allowed to THINK, much less SAY.

On one television show, the black character was terribly upset when someone assumed that since she was black, she was a Democrat.

But the Democratic Party bets tens of millions of dollars, very openly, on that assumption every election year.

But if you say it, you’re a bigot.

“The truth,” as the British Court ruled, “Is no defense.”

There is only one way to get things said, and that is to SAY them.

You can do more good repeating what I just said in Newsgroups than you can by bitching and whining and being depressed for the rest of your life.

If one person repeated the truth for every hundred people who bitch and whine about how hopeless everything is, we could make some real progress.

I asked this question at the AR Conference, and people were bit taken aback by it.

I asked if there were a pamphlet, at the Conference! — that gave a brief description. No one cold tell me one.

So I ask my readers: What IS AR?

The most amazing thing about Aryan society requires a roll of drums. We are the first and only society in history where the following can happen.

Someone produces statistical proof that magic works and ghosts are all about us. It is unlikely, but let’s say it happens.

Does our society, based on science, then collapse?

No. We say, “Damn! I would never have imagined such a thing could happen.”

Then we factor in the fact that magic works and ghosts exist and go on with our lives.

In this century, three concepts of hte universe have held sway, the old Newtonian physics, Einstien’s physics based on light speed, and Heissenberg and quantum physics.

For the first time in history the truths contained in three different concepts of the universe existing side by side didn’t even ause a ripple.

I was just a kid at the time but I remember the trouble Gallileo caused. His intellectual world was based on the Old Testament, and the Old Testament said in the clearest terms that God created the firmament, the firm earth, and spread the heavens above it. When Galileo looked through the telescope invented in Northern Europe he found the earth was not the only firmament.

Copernicus had said much the same thing. But Copernicus was a Pollack, so what did HE know?

Galileo was put under hosue arrest. He was challenging the entire universe his society was based on. One person put it perfectly:

“Do you think that a man with a tube with a piece of glass in each end can overturn the whole History and Authority of the Church?”

Actually a guy with a tube with a piece of glass in each end DID overturn the whole Authority of the Church.

In fact, there has not been a Catholic school since 1700 which did NOT go with the tube instead of the Authority of the Church.

This has gone so far that before his death Pope John Paul mentioned the possibility of removing the Catholic Church’s condemnation of Galileo as a heretic. It didn’t happen, but it could.

One of the most important documents on which the Papacy based its temporal power was the Donation of Constantine. This was a forged document which was supposedly written by the Emperor Constantine which explained the reason he moved the capitol of the Roman Empire from the city of Rome to Constantinople.

In the Donation, Constantine said that, due to a miracle, he was giving all of the Western Roman Empire to the Pope. So he, the lesser of the two, had to move to the East, since the Pope owned the West. If you read Dante’s Inferno written inthe fourteenth century, Dante believed the Donation was genuine.

Actually the Donation was silly. It was forged inteh eighth century using the scholarhip of the time. It ws FULL of absurdities. For one thing, it was written in the wrong language. The Latin in it was eight-century Latin, not fourth-century Latin. And the Roman upper class wrote in Greek back tehn anyway.

The Donation got EVERYTHING wrong. It cited the wrong divisions of the church at the time of Constantine and so forth.

One of the heroes of all ages was the man who exposed the Donation. All the scholars in the fifteenth century knew it was bogus, but he wrote the book that exposed it. He stated flatly that he expected to be burned at the stake for it.

Everybody else had kept quiet. But this was the sort of person who comes from Aryans. He just couldn’t STAND for something that was obviously true to be ignored.

That was the ONLY reason he did it. Any of our Heroic Practical Men would tell you he was a fool.

But the Aryan world is not based on Practial Men. Our real hero escaped from the stake. He was surrounded by Aryans back then.

Our society discovered statistics. We found the Bell Curve. It is a very heretical Curve. It says that whether you succeed in battle does not depend on what the priests and Authorities determine from Traditional values, but one simple probabilities.

In all history there has never been a society that could absord three forms of physics without a ripple. In all of history there has never been a society that had one sentence as it guiding light:

“PROVE it.”

Every other society was based largely on the statement, ‘Things are not as they appear.”

I can say to you, because we are part of Aryan, which is called “Western” thought:

“If the world is not as it appears, why did God or evolution, or both, give us EYES?”

If your little tube with a piece of glass in each end is RIGHT. PROVABLY right, we will absord it into our society and go on.

The basis of our society is an old scientific saying, “One experiment is worth a hundred Expert Opinions.”

What would DESTROY any earlier civilized order only elicits, “Damn! I would have SWORN that wasn’t true.”

Soviet society was based on the concept that mankind was a product of economics. So as soon as the Medicogenetical Institute killed that idea, Stalin had to kill them.

Oriental societies were based on philosophers who were silly. So Marxism took them over. You would not believe what African societies are based on.

Jews like Marx are the Great Authorities. And Einstein NEEDED a universe based on a certainty.

Aryans ASK the universe, “What is true.” Odin lost an eye hanging on the world tree to learn some FACTS.

The society Odin’s people produced is called “Western.” All the Old Testament and other Middle East fanatics, including modern historians, are STILL trying to find some way to shoehorn the developement of Western Civilization into the Old Testament.

The world tree Odin hung on was called Yggsdradil, and its roots were miles deep. The roots of what is called “Western” Civilization are miles deep.

What is true is simply true.

And we are the only civilization in history that could handle that.

Now that I know there are some other physics geeks, I mean students of science, in my audience, I want to go out on a limb.

PLEASE don’t write me this was terribly boring. I have spent many hours listening to people speak to each other in languages I did not understand. It was pure cruelty to me.

But this is WRITTEN.

That means you do NOT have to sit there through the whole endless crap I did.

Scan it. If you don’t like it, forget it.

PLEASE don’t write me about how boring it is. I will figure you are an idiot for not being able to scan it.

But I’ll try to be more diplomatic than that.

OK.

Quantum physics says — yes, I know the quibbles — that electrons come into and out of EXISTENCE on a random basis.

Before it collapses into a Black Hole matter weighs a million tons a teaspoonful.

What is a Black Hole? A Black Hole is gravity field which light cannot escape.

Why is it Black?

Because we can only see light.

OK. Let’s remember simple statistics. Once you get into the thousands, much less the millions, things even out. We live in a consistent universe.

Did you notice the word “WE?”

We experiment by what we observe. Do you understand the word “observe.?” It means from the observer’s point of view.

It is not just the observation, but the observer’s point of view that determines the equation.

An Equation has two sides.

We exist INSIDE the equation, not outside. Electrons do not come into EXISTENCE on a random basis. They come into the equation of which we are a product in a bell curve.

But when you get into the quadrillions, much less the googles squared, the bell curve is nothing.

The equation of which we are part has two sides, and we, the observer, are one of those.

Have I made myself sufficiently obscure?*

* From IMAS

Now that I know there are some other physics geeks, I mean students of science, in my audience, I want to go out on a limb.

PLEASE don’t write me this was terribly boring. I have spent many hours listening to people speak to each other in languages I did not understand. It was pure cruelty to me.

But this is WRITTEN.

That means you do NOT have to sit there through the whole endless crap I did.

Scan it. If you don’t like it, forget it.

PLEASE don’t write me about how bring it is. I will figure you are an idiot for not being able to scan it.

But I’ll try to be more diplomatic than that.

OK.

Quantum physics says — yes, I know the quibbles — that electrons come into and out of EXISTENCE on a random basis.

Before it collapses into a Black Hole matter weighs a million tons a teaspoonful.

What is a Black Hole? A Black Hole is gravity field which light cannot escape.

Why is it Black?

Because we can only see light.

OK. Let’s remember simple statistics. Once you get into the thousands, much less the millions, things even out. We live in a consistent universe.

Did you notice the word “WE?”

We experiment by what we observe. Do you understand the word “observe.?” It means from the observer’s point of view.

It is not just the observation, but the observer’s point of view that determines the equation.

An Equation has two sides.

We exist INSIDE the equation, not outside. Electrons do not come into EXISTENCE on a random basis. They come into the equation of which we are a product on a mathematical basis.

Have I made myself sufficiently obscure?

One episode of Seinfeld showed him wearing a fur coat and carrying a purse. But, as the characters kept saying, it wasn’t a PURSE, it was a European wallet.

At the end of the show, someone snatched Jerry’s purse. Someone told the cop, “That guy snathced this guy’s purse.”

Seinfeld shouted shouted, “It’s not a purse, it’s EUROPEAN!”

Then the show ended when Seinfeld shouted, “OK, it’s a PURSE!” At that point the show ended with a freeze-fram of Sinefeld with his hands in the air, with his fur coat on.

Before AIDS hit the scene, we bigotted rednecks kept saying that the reason womens’ fashions were so ridiculous was that all the clothes designers for women were queer. This vicious accusation was simply quoted by the mainstream media to show how ridiculous the idea was that womens’ clothes designers were queer.

All they had to do was to put us bigots’ words in quotes: “Fromer KKK leader X says womens’ cloths designers are quote queer unquote.”

Which proved that they weren’t.

Then AIDS hit. Barbara Walters did a special bemoaning how AIDS had wiped out the designers of womens’ clothes, who were Great Artists?

“Why is it,” Barbara Walters continued, “That homosexuality gives a man such a perfect appreciation of colors and designs …” And so forth.

Knowing networking as I do, I would guess offhand that if you were NOT a homosexual you weren’t admitted into the mutual admiration club that is womens’ fashions.

Back to Seinfeld and his “European wallet.”

In the early 1970s there was an all-out effort to get men to carry purses, wear “bell-bottomed trousers” that were straight out of womens’ clothing store, and “Italian heels,” which were high-heeled boots that were also straight out of a womens’ store.

It wasn’t queer, it was European.

When I was on Capitol Hill, one of the male stars on M*A*S*H* showed up to testify. The girls rushed out to attend the hearing.

Liberal or conservative, they were sickened. “He had on high heels and he was carrying a PURSE!”

I don’t know if anyone else remembers the guys walking around in bell-bottoms with purses and high heels and blow-dryed hair.

It was the Latest Thing.

It was the sign of Progress.

And no one remembers it but me.

If I could leave one intellectual concept behind, it would be this:

Look at the things that are so obvious that we never even notice them.

One of these is the fact that all the people who criticize white people do it on computers or the printing press — the real ones white people made revolutions out of, not the one the Chinese used to make playing cards with. Whites are attacked for not giving others enough of the goods and services and health and standards of living no non-white society ever even dreamed of.

No one can talk about this.

I come up with a lot of these, but I keep realizing I have not exhausted the list.

I myself saw one of these too-obvious assumptions just this year, and I am very happy about it.

For a man in his sixty-fifth year whose chief joy in life is thinking out the implications of the over-obvious, this is just plain fun. It is breath of fresh air.

By now trying to get people interested in the implications of the over-obvious has become a bit tiresome.

They just don’t get it.

So a new idea to chew on is very welcome.

One of the more disgusting things I have run into has been the attempt to make Jesus a homosexual.

Only this year did I realize that every church takes it for granted that Jesus had another, less disgusting but just as unnatural, attitude toward sex: he was asexual.

This is the subtext in every denomination I know about.

One thing CS Lewis taught me was that an obsession is an obsession. Our usual picture of the Deadly Sin of Gluttony is someone who eats too much. Lewis pointed out that gluttony has nothing to do with how much you eat. Gluttony is an obseesion with one’s stomach.

A person whose religion consists largely of dietary laws is a glutton. A person who goes to a family supper and says there’s too much food there is a glutton. The example Lewish gave was an old lady who sent an overworked waitress back to the kitchen with everything she had brought and insised on just a piece of toast, not overcooked and no unvercooke, but JUST RIGHT.

The piece of dry toast, which was all she wanted in her modesty, was sent back again and again without any regard for the trouble she was causing for others.

That is gluttony.

It seems to me that Satan couldn’t care less whether your obsession with sex is in always thinking about it or having it or whether your obsession was with chastity. It was St. Paul, who had been a Manichaean and therefore against ALL sex, who inserted the obsession with chastity into the dogma of every church.

When Jesus said one should not THINK about adultery, he was not saying he had never thought about sex at all.

But we assume that Jesus never gave any thought to it at all.

Even the Old Testament Jehovist Christians assume this. But there is not a hint of any obsession with chastity in the OT:

“It is better to put your seed into the belly of a whore than to spill it on the ground.”

When peiople talk about Jesus’s temptation in the desert, where he spent forty days, no one ever insists that he was never thirsty. In fact, the whole point of the story is that he WAS thirsty. He WAS hungry, he WAS tempted.

Not so with sex. You have to insist that Jesus had no sexual feelings at all.

I took that so much for granted that it took me over sixty-four years to realize how ODD this idea is.

The first thing any man will explain to you is that he doesn’t like blonds with big breasts.

The most amazing people insist on this. A man who is proud that he likes beer and grits will tell you why he is not fascinated, as the masses are, with blue eyes, blond hair and large mammaries. He is not big on the Pamela Anderson types, though he understands why the masses are.

He says he likes darker coloring. He tells me he likes ARTISTIC breasts.

And he INSISTS on telling me this.

It reminds me of someone who said he didn’t mind anything about vegetarians except the fact that every vegetarian HAS to insert, somewhere in his conversation, that he is a vegetarian.

In earlier days, people who did not watch television would have to tell you, somewhere in the conversation, that they did not watch television.

People also tell me that wealth does not buy happiness. They explain to me their answer to
the question, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”

This question of “If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?” really upsets professors and grad students.

All this puzzles me greatly.

I would like to be very, very rich. I could then do whatever I wished and get drunk in the first class bar at air terminals and have suites instead of hotel rooms. So I could honestly say that I prefer to be at home with my computer instead of being at parties with the Rich and Famous.

Actually parties with the rich and famous are boring beyond belief. But that is not the
reason I am not rich.

I wouldn’t like to be at those parties but I would like the opportunity to be at them. I had big tickets to two presidential inaugurations and gave them away. I like to act like I didn’t care.

But I LOVE to be able to say that.

I would love to travel first class.

I would like to have first refusal. I would like to be at my computer when I wanted to and getting drunk in first class when I wanted to.

I can’t.

I would also like the right of first refusal on blonds who have beautiful front porches. No doubt it would become tiresome after a while, but why should it bother me to admit that I have not had the opportunity to reach that stage?

I know a couple of people who have license plates that say, “Medal of Honor Winner.”

I would LOVE to have one of those.

It would really put The Greatest Generation in their place.

Could I be rich or a sexual athlete or a vegetarian or a Medal of Honor winner?

I have no idea.

Like the guy who was tired of being told by vegetarians that they are vegetarians I just wish the other people who do not have first refusal on beautiful blonds, the other people who are not rich and
the other folks who have no major medals would stop telling me why they don’t want them.

I want them.

Or I would like to have first refusal on them.

I don’t have them. I don’t know if I COULD have them.

Maybe the folks who have this stuff are the ones who are not wasting their time explaining why they don’t.

I was just talking about science (below) and the most relevant example I could find was Ben Franklin and electricity.

When they talk about the future of science or the future of politics people assume that the latest news is what is important.

After all, they say, today is a lot closer to tomorrow than history is. So the Latest Thing must be the best predictor of the Next Thing.

So we jazz up the news by pontificating on how the latest news event will affect the future. We completely forget whatever happened yesterday and our pontificating on how THAT would determine the future.

Which is silly, but it is the essence of news entertainment.

I have been dead right about every presidential election I have liived through since 1948 when I was seven years old.

I am comfortably retired on the income I made largely because I was right, and literally, on the money.

Others predict the next two decades by what just happened.

What I do is look at other periods in history that were decades long.

I strike the Latest Thing junkies as asurd. They strike me as absurd.

I’m usually right. They’re usually wrong.

That is also why I am absolutely uncanny in my predictions about elections. I made my living that way, so even a Practical Man must give it a little credit.

Actually, they didn’t give me credit. They gave me money.

I don’t know how many young people have been right by the track when a train went by tooting its horn. When I was a kid and the train came by we would make a pulling motion over our heads and the engineer would reach up for the cord and toot his whistle for us, long and loud.

As the train moved toward us the whistle was very high. The train was moving, so the waves came to us faster and sounded higher. After it passed us the whistle had a lower pitch. It was kind of a “WHEE-ooooooh” sound.

People noticed this before Einstein was born, and it was called relativity.

Einstein developed the Theory of SPECIAL Relativity. Just as sound differs with the point of view of the person standing still, so things are different between things traveling at or near the speed of light and things standing still.

Einstein made some excellent observations on this basis, but like all theorists, he tried to explain EVERYTHING with it and he ran into what I call The Bob Problem:

It doesn’t WORK.

Einstein insisted that the speed of light was the fastest anything could travel. So it takes eight minutes for light to reach us from the sun.

So far, so good.

But then he said that the speed of light was the fastest ANY force could travel.

Huh-oh!

Actually, gravity moves MUCH faster than the speed of light. We have not been able to measure the speed of gravity, it may be infinite. But we do know that a gravity shift from the sun has an instant effect here on earth while light is coming toward us at light speed.

Einstein therefore inserted a cheat factor to take care of that inconvenience. He said gravity was a curve in space. I am not going into the details here, but it doesn’t really make any sense. He just needed it and put it in.

Like all theorists who outlive their time, Einstein died a scientific reactionary. The last part of his life was spent fighting quantum physics, which is fully accepted today because it WORKS.

But this whole business of light speed is something we will have to deal with. You have watched satellite broadcasts on cable television, and the people talking sound a little retarded. A question is asked and there is a noticable delay in the reply.

With short wave radio we didn’t have that problem. If you are in Baghdad and I am here, the radio waves travel the six thousand miles between us directly. At the speed of light it takes the signal one thirteenth of a second to get to Baghdad, so there is no noticable delay.

But the satellite is 43,000 miles up. So the signal has to go all the way up there and back, some 86,000 miles, which takes half a second at light speed. That means the question and answer gap is a full second. In the give and take we are used to on the news, that is a very noticable delay.

What else moves faster than light?

This is not a practical matter right now. I suppose that when it comes to the speed of light we are about where Ben Franklin was in the matter of electricity. He tried and tried to think of some way electricity might actually be practical, but finally stated flatly that he couldn’t even imagine one.

By the way, the terms current, positive and negative and battery were all invented personally by Franklin.

So what I am saying here is just fascinating to me the way electricity was to Franklin. But they may become practical. I understand that some uses have been found for electricity since Franklin’s time.

So what is faster than light? Gravity is, but using gravity for anything practical is as weird an idea as using electricity was to Franklin.

What about ESP? It take years to contact anyone in another star system at light speed. But if I were in ESP contact with someone there, would the contact be light-speed or instantaneous?

This sounds like science fiction, right?

Do you happen to know who invented the entire satellite communications system we use today, every day, cable TV and all?

It was invented in a science fiction story written in 1947 by Arthur C. Clark. At the time no one could imagine it could have the slightest use outside of science fiction.

So let’s let Ben Franklin have the last word on this.

He was doing one of his experiments and some Practical Man asked him, “But of what USE is this?”

Franklin replied, “Of what use is a newborn baby?”

There is a First Church of Satan in California which, like any other church, is tax deductible. But a lot of people woud love to catch them doing something nasty.

What if this happened?

A reporter goes undercover pretending to be a Satanist and he discovers a brutal, bloody ritual. He discovers that whenever a male child is born into the sect, there is a party where a Satanist with no medical training and no anesthetic cuts a pice off of the newborn boy’s sex organ.

Everybody woud raise hell about such a indecent and vicious practice.

Unless, of course, the Satanists could prove they were JEWISH Satanists.

One of my definitions of luxury is, “the ability to take trivia seriously.”

Partly from teaching international law and also my lifelong ingterest in geography, I have developed a fascination with the political status of what I refer to technically as “tee tiny little countries.”

Does anybody else know anything about a country which exists called San Marino?

It sits there landlocked inside Italy. San Marino consists of about 12,000 acres.

It is not like one of the recent pieces of a colonial empire that gets a seat in the United Nations. San Marino has been an independent state since the fourth century.

VERY independent.

For years it had the only popularly elected Communist government on earth. When Mousolini’s ally Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June of 1941 San Marino declared war on Germany.

This left Il Duce in a bit of a quandary. He couldn’t just stomp on San Marino and San Marino hadn’t declared war on HIM. So he gave Germany the right to send troops across its territory and until the Americans got there they occupied the place, way the out inthe middle of Italy.

I wish I could find out more about that very strange occupation.

San Marino has turned its foreign relations over to Italy, so it has no UN seat.

But SMOM DOES a UN seat, and I’ll bet Elizabeth has information on that huge country.

The Sovereign and Military Order of Malta, though the origins of SMOM are disputed, is a worldwide Catholic organization that once ruled Malta, as the name indicates. Its size was reduced somewhat
after Rhodes was taken away from them.

SMOM now occupies no ground at all. It is located in an upper story of a bulding in Rome.

BUT…

SMOM has a seat inthe United Nations and has independent relations with 70 countries. It exchanges ambassadots with them!

Elizabeth, wherfe in the HELL do those ambassadors LIVE? Somehow I can’t picture seventy legations in the upper stories of an Italian office building.

Compared to SMOM Vatican City is a giant. It has 106 acres of actual ground.

I don’t understand why Vatican City is constantly referred to as the second smallest indepandent country on earth, next to Monaco, since the Vatican recognizes SMOM.

Compared to the three independent countries inside Italy, Leichtenstein is a sprawling giant. It is about the size of Washington, DC which is 40,000 acres, but Leichtenstein has long since turned all of its foreign relations over to Switzerland.

I have heard too much about Monaco to care about it. I have heard plenty about the Vatican, but precisely because it is so important religiously its political existence has been largely ignored.

Like SMOM what is now Vatican City once occupied a lot more territory. The Papal States covered some forty thousand square miles of central Italy for many centuries. Like SMOM, the Pope’s empire contracted a bit when its original area was conquered.

The smallest REAL country in Europe is Luxembourg. I say REAL because it did ALL the things a sovereign country does. It printed its own money, though Belgian currency was also an official currency there until the Euro. I believe that is the only example on earth of a country OFFICIALLY accepting another country’s money as official and yet printing its own at the same time.

Luxembourg actually had its own army and used it as a member of NATO, to which it contributed on regiment. Luxembourg was exactly 999 square miles in size, which always made me want them to take another square mile when I was nine years old and studying my little red ge0graphy book all the time.

I believe Andorra is the only country on earth whose main industry, officially, was smuggling.

Throughout the 1950s Andorra’s official, appropriated military budget was exactly twenty four dollars and sixty five cents per annum.

The Channel Islands Britain had their own sovereignty. They were the only English-speaking areas occupied by Germany during World War II.

When I said that Luxembourg was eh only country that OFFICIALLY recognized a foreign currency and yet printed its own, I forgot that Scotland printed its own currency and may still do so but mainly uses the British pound.

I think that Vatican City is the only tee tiny country that does not have the same official language as its bigger neighbor(s). The official language of that country is still Latin.

Oddly enough, all this seeming trivia can be very useful in an international law lecture, but I was fascinated by it long before I taught that.

In our last exciting episode below I discussed the controversy that convulsed the early church, “Can the man Jesus, who was clearly a man, also be God?”

In the end the Middle East never accepted the idea that the G-d of Israel could be man and that is a major reason it is now Islamic. There is one God, and he is God.

North of the Middle East the doctrine that Jesus was both God and man was accepted.

North of the Middle east the debate completely reversed itself.

Instead of asking whether the man Jesus was God, the debate became whether the God Jesus could have been man.

Let’s bring this right up to date. There is not a single church today which would not be offended by the idea that Jesus the man ever wanted to have sex with any woman.

THINK about it before you react to this statement. Can you imagine telling any conservative Christian that Jesus wanted to go to bed with any female?

Jesus was God. He had no lust.

Can a man with no lust be a man?

This concept of Jesus had very practical consequences. In the centuries following the Council of Nicea Jesus became more and more God. The people who had looked upon Jesus as the mediator between themselves and God began to see Jesus as being as forbidding and as unreachable as Jehovah.

That is where Mariology came from.

People began more and more to pray to Mary, the Holy Mother, as the person who could understand us lowly humans. Jesus was as far away as Jehovah.

For over a thousand years theologians denounced the “Cult of Mary.” Augustine fought it. St. Thomas Aquinas fought it.

But Western people wanted someone human they could pray to, like the old gods.

Finally Mary was accepted as the human mediator with God, as the human being who could understand both God and men.

Once the idea that Mary had a direct link to God was accepted, Mary began to become a part of God in the eyes of theologians.

So once again, the theologians asked, “If Mary is a part of God, can she be fully human?”

One thing all of the church fathers agreed on was that any human being conceived by sex was conceived in sin. Jesus was conceived to the Virgin Mary, so he was the only exception.

But what about the Virgin Mary herself? Was SHE conceived in sin? Finally in 1854 the pope declared The Immaculate Conception of Mary to be dogma, and anyone who denied it was a heretic.

Mary was not conceived in sex. She was part of God.

Mary was a part of God, and therefore she could not be fully human.

As I keep repeating, Buddhist theologians have been proving for decades that the Buddha could not have come from the “dirty” womb of a female. And Christian doctrine now holds that Mary could not have come from the “dirty” sex act and that Jesus could have had any thought of the “dirty” sex act.

In the world of Islam, a man cannot be God.

In the Christian world, God cannot be a man.

Both are heresies.

And as Screwtape said, Satan doesn’t care how you got Down There. He just wants you There.

An obsession with sex is great way to get somebody Down There.

It doesn’t matter if the obsession is with having sex or with not having sex.

As long as your obsession keeps you from seeing Christ as both man and God, it can be used to get you straight to what Screwtape referred to as “Our Father Below.”

This illustrates that people always get so obsessed with their own cultural concepts that they forget the basics. That is an excellent lesson, even if you have no religion at all.

I keep pointing out that church history is a fascinating guide to how the human mind works.

Gautama Buddha made it very clear that he was enlightened, but very much a man. But Buddhist theologians have developed complex theories to show how their Buddha did not come out of gthe “dirty” womb of a woman.

The gigantic community of Hellenized Jews who became the Christian Church still had trouble with the idea that Jesus, who was very much a man, could also be God. A majority of bishops believed that Jesus was above the angels, but below God.

Jesus the man had come back to earth and shown the Apostles that he was a man by eating a piece of fish and allowing the Apostle Thomas, the original Doubting Thomas, to put his hand into the wound in Christ’s side.

Jesus had sat and EATEN with the sinners, the tax-gatherers and usurers.

Every “Christian” loves to say, “We are all sinners” but he never BELIEVES it. The average self-styled Christian today would have led the mob to stone Jesus.

So when the Hellenized Jews accepted Christ they did not doubt he was a man, but the traditional faith of Hellenized Jews held to the idea that G-d was invisible. So Jesus was the savior and above the angels, but he was not God.

The Council of Nicea decided that Christ was both God and man. The idea that Jesus was above the angels but not God became the Arian Heresy.

There was an exact geographical split. The Hellenized world finally accepted the idea that Christ was both God and man, but in the Middle East, which had enough trouble accepting this savior in the first place, the idea that a man was also God was repeatedly challenged. The Arian Heresy caused constant rebellion against the church and kept it permanently weak.

In the end, a non-Christian faith took over the Middle East with astonishing ease. That faith said that Jesus was above the angels but below God, who stands alone.

That faith is called Islam.

If you a Christian, a Moslem or an athiest, this is a terrific lesson in human nature.

If you are not obsessed with labels, you discover that the thinking of the Middle East remained the same. If you are to understand the Moslem Shiites, you must understand that Iranian thinking is still in the Zoroastrian tradition.

Don’t get this backwards the way a theologian would. I am NOT saying that Middle Easterners were influenced by Arianism, I am saying that Arianism appealed to Middle Eastern thinking. Islam did not win out there because of unreconstructed Arians. Islam won because it appealed tot he same ingrained thinking that made Arianism so strong in the Middle East.

Middle Easterners want a G-d who is invisible, all powerful, and who regards men not as fellow men but as less than his slaves. There is only one God and he is God. There is no room for a God who is just another man.

Shiites do not exist because of a lingering memory of Zoroastrian wisdom. They are Shiites because of a mindset that their own Zoroastrianism appealed to.

It was not the theology of Islam that appealed to the Middle East, it was their natural mindset. This is a complete mystery to the theologian. He believes that mindsets come entirely from theologians. He believes in quotes, not in cultures.

A doctor will fight day and night against a disease caused by a virus or a particularly deadly form of bacteria.

But it never occurs to him to hate the virus personally.

When Aleksander Solzhenitsyn wrote “The Cancer Ward” about his own battle against cancer, he said “Everyone in the ward just wanted to LIVE. Even the cancer just wants to live.”

You have to be a very old Southerner, and from the Deep South at that, to remember Brother Dave Gardner. One of Brother Dave’s many classic sayings was, “Jesus was right. You should LOVE your enemies. It’ll drive ‘em NUTS.”

Hatred is like a duel. Robert E. Lee would never have fought a duel with a hunk of white trash. He would ignore him or take a whip to him, but he would NEVER duel with one of them.

You do not HATE a virus. You do not HATE a cancer or a bacterium. If you were in a hospital foaming at the mouth about the personal biases of the virus that was getting you the doctor would assume your temperature was out of sight and you were delirious.

There is an old joke that contains a lot of wisdom and is therefore banned by Political Correctness. And old black man is offended by a younger black man and says,

“You know, our race is divided into three groups. There are colored people, the better class, and then are niggahs, the general run of the population.”

“Down at the bottom are the real trash, the coons.”

“Niggah, you is a COON.”

In other words, this offensive black guy was to him what a hunk of white trash was to General Lee.

Below I had an article called “A Conscience of His Own” about a black writer named Levy who used the most viciously insulting terms he could think of to describe the blacks who acted like savages in New Orleans. He took their behavior as a personal insult to himself, the way I take it personally when a white Southerner is a traitor.

That is REAL hatred. To repeat, real hatred is like a duel.

What drives minorities up the wall about old bigots like me is that they know that I do NOT hate them.

To me, the “niggahs” of New Orleans were acting like a bunch of coons. I would cheerfully shoot them down with exactly as much compunction as I would kill a cancer.

But HATE them? HATE a cancer? You’ve got to be kidding!

But for Levy, a decent black man, this is nothing like what it is to me.

Levy HATES them.