Sunset over a Danish Fiord
Peder Monstead 1901
Peder Monsted (Balle Molle, Denmark 1859—Fredensborg, Denmark 1941) was a Danish landscape artist, profiled here before.
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Aspiring totalitarians ignore the law
The baffling concept that half of America will
simply shrug their shoulders and submit to the dictatorship of the other
half is as dangerous as it is misguided and foolish. When you toss out
the law, bad things happen. Somehow they got the impression that the
American people will accept whatever they do, whatever injustice they
impose, whatever whims they choose to enforce. That is an unbelievably
dangerous notion, says Kurt Schlichter in this article, Rejecting The Rule Of Law Means Inviting The Rule Of Guns, at Town Hall.
The Impending Catastrophe
There is no rule of law any more if you're a
government employee—or one of those protected by same. The majority
opinion appears to be that as long as you can get your little piece of
the grift, whether it be Medicare, Food Stamps, Section 8 or a rising
stock market it's all ok. Ask yourself—is that actually true or are you
deluding yourself? Are you falling behind despite getting your little
piece of the grift or are you getting ahead? What about your children?
Are they able to get ahead?, says Karl Denninger in this article, The Impending Catastrophe, at Market Ticker.
Tried and true virus protection
A killer infectious disease is discovered nearby.
You drive down to the big-box store to buy a dozen cans of spray. They
are wiped out. It looks like a bomb hit the aisles of the pharmacy. You
curse the social media that generated the panic and left you the last
person in-the-know. But virus, in general, are not that hard to kill.
Joe Mama has some proven alternatives for you in this article, Field Expedient Disinfectants, at Eaton Rapids Joe.
Old school
What all these fellas had in common was morals,
sense of community, honor, strength, the good old virtues. They vibed
calm, deadly if necessary; do the right thing always, no bullshit, word
is my bond. No showboating or colorful language tossed around just to
hear themselves talk, no hey look at me how important I am sort of
conduct. The Polack that ran the junkyard, he still dressed like a
Polack even though he came home from the Pacific with a sack full of
ears and a face full of shrapnel. "Wat? Wat? I went dere. I done some
tings, I come home. Dat's it," says Chasmatic in this article, Father's Day, at Spillers of Soup.
Reality check
- Both during slavery and as late as 1920, a teenage girl raising a
child without a man present was rare among blacks. A study of 1880
family structure in Philadelphia found that three-quarters of black
families were nuclear families (composed of two parents and children).
What is significant, given today's arguments that slavery and
discrimination decimated the black family structure, is the fact that
years ago, there were only slight differences in family structure among
racial groups.
Walter Williams at townhall.com/columnists
Ferguson and the press
- There’s no point in marching around and shaking your fists if no one
is paying attention to you. The riots and looting will continue for as
long as there are correspondents there to shove cameras into angry faces
while asking them what it is that they are so angry about. And if they
aren’t angry yet, they’ll find something to be angry about if they want
to be on the evening news.
Daniel Greenfield at sultanknish.blogspot.com.au
