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(1) Victor Davis Hanson has a good summary of the lawfare against Trump. Sometimes it’s hard to keep it all straight, but Hanson is a help.

(2) Here’s a book that seems relevant. I haven’t read it, but it’s on my list. It’s by Dara Horn, came out in 2021, and is entitled The World Loves Dead Jews. It’s a thought I’ve had independently: the Jews as victims are okay with a lot more people than Jews defending themselves against those who would make them victims.

(3) There were no mass graves of native Americans in Canada:

The announcement sparked international outrage. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called it “a shameful chapter of our country’s history.” Millions of dollars were allocated for relief and the recovery effort. The Pope was compelled to issue formal apologies on behalf of the Catholic Church. The anger generated led to over 80 churches being burned or vandalized, arson leading to many that were over a century old being reduced to cinders.

This was all over the announcement that a mass grave had been discovered in Kamloops, at a former Catholic Residential School location. A local tribe announced that ground-penetrating radar technology exposed the location where hundreds of native children were buried in a mass grave. This was said to be the result of systematic racism in Catholic schools for decades. …

This media-generated outrage ended up leading to a violent catharsis in Canada. … Anger swept through the nation and the violence lashed across the provinces as dozens of Catholic churches were targeted, many becoming destroyed.

It has all been over nothing substantial.

As the BBC had reported at the time, at the Kamloops school property, the remains of 215 children had been found – except that term was completely inaccurate. No actual remains were uncovered, just indications through the radar research of anomalies in the ground indicating the presence of graves. In the ensuing years, a number of excavations have taken place at several locations. By last summer, it was becoming obvious this was a completely overblown hysteria.

(4) My restaurant-going is way down. Looks like I’m not alone in this. Several of my longtime favorite local restaurants are no more, and the rest have just about doubled in price.

(5) More on plummeting fertility rates.

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  2. 4) Even within the last couple of years, the cost has gotten out of control.

    Last night, I hesitantly decided to add a large bowl of clam chowder to my ale order. While the bowl was wide, it was shallow, and there wasn’t that much chowder. Then add 30%? 10% for CA sales tax + a 20% tip. Uhg.

  3. 3) Is it “Nevermind, eh” or “Aboot that, nevermind”

    But to fair to the memory of Gilda Radner, Emily Litella was not evil. Unlike the media.

  4. miguel cervantes:

    Red Lobster never did well in New England coastal areas. Too much seafood of much higher quality.

  5. #3…Never believed it.
    Knew from the howling of all the right people it was a scam.

  7. #4,

    It’s very difficult, even at a midling restaurant to get out below $40 -50 for 2 people. Inflation is certainly most in your face at the prices in restaurants.

  8. One almost feels sorry for cohen almost
    Re that last link he reminds me of pyatev on one those purge victims that volunteered more crimes than vyskhinky had charged

  9. + a 20% tip. Uhg.

    TommyJay:

    When did the 20% tip become the ground floor? I remember when the expected tip was 15%.

    This amounts to inflation upon inflation.
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    This will not stand, you know. This aggression will not stand, man.

    –Jeff Bridges, “The Big Lebowski” (1998)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyLdtG7KZvw

  11. (3) There were no mass graves of native Americans in Canada:

    neo:

    Thanks for covering this. I’m not the biggest fan of the Catholic Church and the pedo stuff is real and wrong, but the burning of churches on this specific basis was sad and wrong.

  13. “I’m not the biggest fan of the Catholic Church and the pedo stuff is real and wrong”

    Hey Huxley…
    Not defending the indefensible…but now do public school teachers.

  14. I knew about the Canadian hoax last year. Numerous churches were burned because of this false story.

    Cervantes, Peru is right to classify these problems as mental disorders. Adult transsexuals merely trying to live as best they can are one thing; pushing dysphoria and mutilation on children, and demanding that society in general acquiesce to the insanity, are entirely different.

  15. I’ve found that sticking to water at meals undoes most of the inflation in restaurant prices. Soft drinks are especially high margin, you’re paying several dollars for something that cost the restaurant several nickels.

    Of course if everyone did that the restaurants would have to raise prices more on food or go under, so there’s that. But I live in a state that’s jacking up minimum wage anyway, so maybe it’s moot.

  16. Yes, my norm for tipping always was around 15%. There’s all this pressure now for a 20 to 30% tip. But with the CA government now enforcing a $20/hr. minimum wage, I’m thinking about going back to a 12 to 15% tip.

  17. Not defending the indefensible…but now do public school teachers.

    John+Guilfoyle:

    As I recall, public school teachers didn’t take sacred vows nor were they enjoined by their Lord, Jesus Christ:
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    But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

    –Matthew 18:6
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    The abuses, not just sexual, of schoolchildren in RC schools are common knowledge. I can tell a few stories myself. Much worse than anything I saw in public schools.

  19. Huxley…your first point is spot on & absolutely beyond question.
    The church has shamed itself…particularly given the intense scrutiny pastoral candidates (regardless of denominational flavour) experience prior to engaging in preparation for ministry & then again upon leaving the seminaries/Bible colleges or the like. The bad actors should never have been within a 1000 yards of young people. Trust me…I know a few of them who gave me, as an adult, the creeps.

    My experience is different from yours re public school teachers, coaches, aides, etc… I’d argue there ought to be a similar level of scrutiny for any & all who have access to young lives. It’s nigh a weekly occurrence over at the Professor’s place to highlight another public school employee acting egregiously with young people. The church is, and has made itself, a pretty big target. Admitted. At the same time, and particularly in the last 30-40 years, public schools have become something of a cesspit for those who simply want to get close to kids…for millstone-able offences. IMO

    Oh and Jesus’ warning…was universal, not just to the church. But I know you know that too. Not looking for a fight…just an acknowledgement that evil wears all sorts of hats.

  21. This fake scandal is the flipside of the real life epidemic of islamism marxist and antisemitism

  22. Niketas Choniates:

    I’m a water drinker, and I virtually never order any sort of beverage in a restaurant. I happen to like water. The food has practically doubled.

  23. huxley, re: your query –

    When did the 20% tip become the ground floor? I remember when the expected tip was 15%.

    As I recall, when I was in Michigan last summer, it seemed to me that the tips were ranging around 10-15%. Those were the suggested ranges that they were printing on the checks, at least as I remember it, though the receipts seem to have gotten buried somewhere in all my stuff.

    In eastern NY here, I get the feeling that the default is nudging up toward 20%, maybe more.

  24. I haven’t eaten in a restaurant since 2019. They said I couldn’t during the scamdemic and I never have gone back. Wife unit occasionally gets takeout from various restaurants though.

  26. My personal anecdote regarding fertility rates:

    Mom is 1 of 5 (one died before having kids), and dad is 1 of 6. I’m one of 12 grandchildren on my mom’s side, and also one of 22 grandchildren on my dad’s side. I’m also the only ONLY child on both sides.

    Currently pregnant with number 5 (although #2 is in heaven), but of all those grandkids on both sides, I am the ONLY one to have more than three kids. Most have 2. Many have only 1. My kids are well-behaved, intelligent, and provided for…but almost no one in my family has been “happy” for me past kid #3.

    I don’t know what the issue is with Boomers, but they don’t seem to like their own kids having more than 2, in my experience. My own mother frequently reminds me that “all [her] sisters have at least one kid that brings them heartache.” I can see why people don’t have big families anymore when their own parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. try to convince you having kids is just the worst.

    I know the article linked mentioned plummeting fertility rates, which is of course a huge factor too. But still. Does anyone actually *encourage* people to have more than 1-2 kids anymore?

  27. NS,
    ‘Does anyone actually *encourage* peopIe to have more than 1-2 kids anymore?’
    I do! All the time! I tell every youngster I know – nieces, nephews, friend’s kids, random strangers… And my daughter is getting ‘the talk’ when she visits in June. I don’t care how much she likes to travel.
    I simply lay out the math and explain that they won’t be watching their grandchildren graduate from college if they don’t get started by 30. And waiting until mid thirties to have children will limit the number of kids they could have. Most of my friends that had their first by 30 had 3 kids. Two close together and a third later on. Having my first at 35 boxed myself out of that. And, I would love to have that five years back to spend with my grandchildren.
    You can travel when you’re old.

  30. Eli Lake takes a stab at the trial of the century…

    “The Trial Against Trump Will Throw the Election into Chaos;
    “The former president has been dragged into court on a flimsy charge that rests on the testimony of a convicted liar”—
    https://www.thefp.com/p/the-trial-against-trump-will-throw
    H/T Powerline blog.

    Chaos? You mean ANOTHER CRISIS??
    There’s a lot one can do with CHAOS—e.g., will the “debate”—can the debate—be an actual thing…with all this CHAOS swirling about?
    And what about the convention in Chicago? Some are saying it should be held on-line?…And what about the ELECTION in November…?)

    Well, what do we have here? The WAPO is telling us what Priority Numero Uno must be (as if we didn’t already know…)
    “…Nothing matters more than beating Trump”—
    https://jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby051624.php
    H/T Powerline blog.

    Well…”nothing” except for destroying the country.
    But then to succeed in destroying the country one must FIRST destroy Trump…I guess…
    …but, hmmm, WHY should that be so?

    Hold on! Is “Biden” admitting that Trump is trying to SAVE the country they so dearly wish to destroy…and so must be erased from the picture entirely?

  31. All this as the Oval Office has become the Home of the Whopper…
    “Biden White House keeps telling whoppers, and even the legacy media has started to notice; [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
    “He and the White House have further taken to regularly misrepresenting statistics when discussing the performance of the U.S. economy, an issue on which he faces considerable scrutiny from the public and scores poorly in many polls.”—
    https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/thurbiden-white-house-keeps-telling-whoppers-and-even-legacy-media-has-had

    File under: Have it OUR way…OR ELSE (sayeth the Fibber King)…

  32. Local diners are my best bet. Fast food not worth it, same with mid range and higher priced places.

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