Comments on: Mark Steyn on three things we’ve lost during the past year

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 04:12:35 +0000

If you have any trust left in the Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, think again.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/feds-accused-seizing-85-million-safe-deposit-boxes-without-any-legal-basis

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 19:58:53 +0000

On the flukiness of not assassinating Ford, there was one dark cloud obscuring the silver linings of their failures – gun restriction laws.
Neither one of which would have deterred either woman if they had been in place prior to their attempts.

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

[Fromme’s] Sacramento assassination attempt was the first assassination attempt against Ford during his presidency.[36][45] On September 22, 1975, 17 days after Fromme attempted to kill Ford in Sacramento, Sara Jane Moore, a political radical attempted to kill Ford in San Francisco. This second assassination attempt also failed and, two days later, California governor Jerry Brown responded to both assassination attempts on Ford’s life in California by signing into law bills imposing mandatory sentences for persons convicted of using guns in committing serious crimes and requiring purchasers of guns to wait 15 days for delivery.

By: Philip Sells

Philip Sells — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 15:44:57 +0000

Hi, Cicero. Your note @ 19-Jun 8:11 pm mentioned the potential for a sort of new Dark Age dotted with occasional ‘monasteries’ like Hillsdale. As it happens, I got a fundraising appeal from there in the mail just the other day, which I intend to fulfill. But I would also point out that the land is not devoid of real monasteries, a couple of the notable ones in my book being Holy Trinity, Jordanville; Holy Transfiguration, Brookline, MA (their liturgical publications are outstanding); St. Anthony’s in Arizona (I forget where exactly); and even smaller, less popularized ones such as Dormition Monastery in Rives Junction (I mention it partly out of home-state bias, but by no means only on that account).

As far as secular havens of real learning go, I wonder if one could, to a first approximation, focus on places that rest on the Great Books curricula.

By: Hong

Hong — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 09:00:10 +0000

We lost our real President and faith in the integrity of our elections and government. I’m guessing it’s irreparable. People will talk about this Presidential Selection as the turning point…

By: Boz

Boz — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 06:54:52 +0000

One could describe the American Left as Totalitarian. Quoting Michael Burleigh from The Third Reich, p 14, on Totalitarianism,
” the “total” part captures most strikingly the insatiable, invasive character of this form of politics, which regarded the individual, freedom, autonomous civil society and the rule of law with uncomprehending hatred”.
And from Richard II: “Throw away respect, tradition, form and ceremonious duty”.
Nuff said.

By: OBloodyHell

OBloodyHell — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 01:17:55 +0000

}}} If an objective press isn’t possible, how about a press that’s at least honest about its partisanship and doesn’t pretend to be objective when it’s not?

Not sure we have for quite a while ourselves. Lots of evidence for a partisan press since the 1940s, after the war, probably before it.

We’re only just now waking up to the lies, in the last 20-odd years.

You yourself have noted the lies about Vietnam. There’s plenty of evidence about the lies about the USSR dating back to the 40s, as well as lies about Russian spying after WWII. And yeah, I think the press had lots of lies to say about McCarthy, too. The lies about race have been in play since the race hustlers of the late 80s and early 90s.

There was a time when the press at least was patriotic, which has not been the case for a good 25-odd years…

But yes, a press we ack is biased is acceptable. Britain seems to manage just fine with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 19:09:18 +0000

But enough of that…
Let’s eat!!
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/food/articles/make-your-own-gravlax

…and a very happy Father’s Day to you all!!

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 19:01:59 +0000

Fortunately, we have NOT lost our sense of humor:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/georgia-secretary-state-outlines-100000-names-be-cut-voter-rolls
Key graf:
‘ “Making sure Georgia’s voter rolls are up to date is key to ensuring the integrity of our elections,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said in a statement.’

And this, hot of the press (such as it is)…from the “FOR THE PEOPLE” party!!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-big-business-ends-supporting-regime

(Actually, this one may not be that funny. Well, can’t be funny all the time, I guess…)

Etc., etc.

OK, we’re back. Humour (well, Canada-style):
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cbc-turns-facebook-comments-protect-fragile-journalists-mental-health-and-protect-free

In the meantime, who says that the “Biden” administration isn’t a success; isn’t achieving its goals?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/market-could-get-cut-half-charles-nenner-warns-geopolitical-chaos-pearl-harbor

By: huxley

huxley — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 17:52:50 +0000

Turns out Mark Steyn, the guy quoted at the top of this post, had a smoldering article in “National Review” about the WTC and the Filght 93 Memorial. He didn’t see the “Circle of Embrace” as all that much of an improvement to “Crescent of Embrace.” Neither do I really. Points scored for Zaphod too.
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But let’s not get into the weeds of what the “circle” means. To wind up chasing these guys through the circles in their circles and the wheels within their wheels is to lose sight of why “Let’s roll!” wound up as a Crescent roll. There shouldn’t be any effete circle of abstract hand-wringing in the first place. It’s not what this thing was about. As James Lileks wrote here a couple of years back:

“If 9/11 had really changed us, there’d be a 150-story building on the site of the World Trade Center today. It would have a classical memorial in the plaza with allegorical figures representing Sorrow and Resolve, and a fountain watched over by stern stone eagles. Instead there’s a pit, and arguments over the usual muted dolorous abstraction approved by the National Association of Grief Counselors. The Empire State Building took 18 months to build. During the Depression. We could do that again, but we don’t. And we don’t seem interested in asking why.”

9/11 was Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid on the same morning – Flight 93 serving as the latter. If the stone eagles aren’t an option, I’d rather see Todd Beamer, Thomas Burnett, Jeremy Glick, Mark Bingham and the other forgotten heroes of 93 in the pose from that Incredibles poster below with “LET’S ROLL!” chiseled in ka-powie Marvel Comics Jack Kirby lettering. Their story is one of action, not limp enfeebled passivity. Which says more about America today? What those guys did? Or how our culture chooses to memorialize them?

–Mark Steyn “Windmills of your mindlessness” (2009)
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/windmills-your-mindlessness-mark-steyn/

By: huxley

huxley — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 16:14:28 +0000

I’m operating under the assumption they knew bloody well what they were doing, which amounted to an upraised middle finger directed at the rest of us.

My question was somewhat rhetorical. Rock bottom, that’s how I see it. The title, “Crescent of Embrace,” made my blood boil.

What drove me out of the left was the post-9-11 question, “Why do they hate us?” So ignorant, so chock-full of self-loathing. I was pretty dumb back then, but not that dumb.