Comments on: Richard Fernandez on China

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 00:29:57 +0000

GeoffB
I was aware of the styrofoam cladding. One dumbness on top of another. But there was a report that, at least in some cases, the cladding was not attached to the building, but was several inches away, generating a chimney effect which made things worse. Not sure about that, it seems pretty stupid not to have the insulation not in contacted with the material to be insulated.

But, see Bryson’s “The Road to Little Piddling”. Doesn’t have much sympathy for UK’s bureaucrats, as part of his tour around the country.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 21:59:03 +0000

William Graves. Back in the mid-Sixties, I bought a pre-war Enfield from a friend. Cost $14. Sold it recently for parts on account of headspacing wouldn’t take current loads and my orthodontia cost too much.
That thing, a really good military bolt action with plenty of non-mil ammo around–friend told me the Enfields kill more moose, elk, and deer in Canada than any other weapon.
Point is, this thing had been wandering around the civilian world since the end of WW II until last spring and nobody had a record of it. Three hundred million is a very low estimate.
So there are likely more than 80 million gun owners, by a good deal. But if only one tenth of one percent decide to go tactical, that’s 80,000 guys. And of the veterans, likely overlapping the first group, that would be 20,000.

And the other 99.9 percent is looking on….

See, as I’ve said before, The Battle of Athens, and The Battle of Sugar Point.

By: William Graves

William Graves — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 11:34:55 +0000

China and Russia aren’t afraid of Biden, they’re afraid of us, the American people. So is Biden. They’d all like to disarm us. Well, good luck with that. We don’t work for the government, they work for us. They’ve forgotten that, and are going to have to be reminded. There are 80 million gun owners who have over 300 million guns. As a result of the former draft, there are over 20 million veterans. If you think you’re going to take us down, you’ve been smoking dope.

By: Xylourgos

Xylourgos — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 07:04:26 +0000

Cap’n Rusty & Zaphod: Ditto! Walt is missed.

I believe it was one of our commenters that referred to Michael Pillsbury’s THE HUNDRED YEAR MARATHON – China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as Global Superpower.

https://elkitab.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/by-Michael-Pillsbury-The-Hundred-Year-Marathon-3572536-z-lib.org_.pdf

Not so secret now. I sense that Trump was on to them but with Biden at the helm we have no chance. Check out Chapter 2: The 9 principal elements of Chinese Strategy. Proceeding exactly as planned.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:58:26 +0000

Walt’s poems were great!

By: BigD

BigD — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:43:26 +0000

It’s actually fairly easy to sum up Biden. Joe Biden is a crook. That’s all he is, that’s all he ever was and all he really ever cared about is how much money he can steal.

By: Cap'n Rusty

Cap'n Rusty — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:32:43 +0000

I’m a long-term follower of Fernandez. As with the good blogs, Fernandez has a stable of commenters whose insight and experience is worth as much as Fernandez’ essays.

I still miss the poet, Walt. I think we all do. Walt was losing his eyesight, and said good-bye to us a couple years ago. He came back, briefly, from some new treatment, but apparently it didn’t take. *Sigh*

By: geoffb

geoffb — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:21:13 +0000

Corruption, government/private, may be the most uniting and at the same time the most divisive force on the planet. Uniting those against it, at the same time uniting those for it, and dividing those two groups in opposition to each other.

Clarity and light brought slowly by the Panama Papers and other hacks. Dare to dream of a world where the tax of corruption has been brought to heel.

By: neo

neo — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 02:58:26 +0000

Zaphod:

I’ve been reading Richard Fernandez fairly regularly since he was Wretchard at Belmont Club, even before I began blogging. He used to write more often when he had his own blog, and then a few years later when he moved to PJ he cut back to a few times a week, and then later about once a week. I think the change in frequency had more more to do with how busy he was in his other jobs, and what PJ wanted, than anything else.

Fernandez has never been a rabble-rouser – he’s very cerebral as well as creative, and quite philosophical – but he’s never shied away from telling what he sees as the truth. He just tells it in his own style and focuses on his own concerns (which have always included China, by the way). The idea that he’s putting a lid on it because he’s a “company man” in some way is the wrong reading of him. Your kneejerk cynicism is sometimes misplaced.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 01:35:05 +0000

Nah… I run a Whoopee Cushion Factory in my Day Job.