Greetings and welcome to another collection of links for the immediate post-Coronapocalypse era.
Magically, Kung Flu is done. It's so yesterday! It's like totally not a thing anymore. And anyway, if it was a thing, what The Science tells us is that it completely distinguishes between infecting dumb-bum Bible thumpers, evil and selfish granny-killers (like you, not like Democrat governors of course), the terrible mean people who just want a haircut (bad people) and the noble people who are demonstrating to save lives (good people, the best and most saintly prayer people ever).
Just remember, the virus cannot harm you and is completely done if you are a noble protester. But if you are a regular ole' law-abiding, normal person, Stay Home Save Lives We Work For You So Stay Home For Us And We Are In This Together Forever In These Challenging Times We Will Get Through This Never.
Sadly, as we have marked the anniversary of D-Day, we are in the revolutionary phase of the lockdowns, watching the Woke Taliban and its bureaucratic, unelected fifth column cheerleaders destroy our past, our history, and therefore our present and future. We are being ordered to burn our books. And by the way: nuts to you, NPR fascists. We are being consistently and intentionally lied to by the media wing of the Wokestapo. Who are you going to trust? Your own lying eyes or the whiplash inducing, about-face public health mandarins who changed their tune overnight?
Friends, now is not the time to go wobbly. Buckle up. Gird. Yer. Loins.
As you well know, my gracious host is not only Un-Woke, he is also Un-Wobbly!
Sorry, is it getting hot in here??? I feel a bit warm. Un-wobbly, Mark Steyn, err... where were we??
*composes self*
*waves*
OH right. Right, silly me. Mark has thoughts!! Yessiree. Mark's thoughts. OK OK OK. Back on track! Focus, Rosen, focus!
Mr. Steyn has quite a number of thoughts actually, about the current state of affairs in America and throughout the world. You can read more in Plywood Thursday. He was also burning up the airwaves this week, guest hosting the Rush Limbaugh show on Monday and Tuesday (click links to access full audio – what a treat). He also put out new episodes of The Mark Steyn Show, so make sure you check out Corona-Friendly Rioting and The Neither-of-The-Above Box. And last but not least, he penned a fabulous Song of the Week essay about Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made For Walking.
Friends, keep your chins up and your powder dry. It's going to be another crazy week – probably just as crazy as the week that was. Let's take a look back and hope and pray for better, more peaceful and freer days. Stay safe and vigilant as we muddle through yet another man-made mess. This too shall pass.
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North America:
A must-watch segment from Tucker Carlson on the current insurrection in America.
From City Journal: The utterly terrifying collapse of the rule of law.
Geronticide in America: nearly 26,000 seniors were sentenced to death by Kung Flu in America by their own "leaders". Utter schmucks like this guy. More geronticide here.
Demonstrators are saintly non-granny killers, OK? Got it?
Why should anyone ever, ever trust anyone of the public health tyrants ever again? Answer: don't.
An excellent podcast clip from the great Adam Carolla via Kathy Shaidle (thanks, Dreidel) on the lockdowns. Listen to the whole thing.
If protesters can pray with their feet, why can't we pray in our shuls, asks Bethany Mandel. Answer: because they hate you.
(They hate business owners, too.)
American cities consider disbanding the police. What could possibly go wrong? They didn't get the memo about how bowing to the mob never works? This is the guy that Mark Steyn called "the love child of Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and Elmo". Also, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there a Democratic mayor, attorney general and governor in Minnesota? If so, can someone explain to me how this is all Trump's fault?
It's clearly time in America for a massive dose of "no". Read the whole thing.
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Israel and Jews:
The Chasid who built a church.
Jewish store owner speaks about looting in Los Angeles. Seems pretty Kristallnachty to me. Thoughts?
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Middle East:
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Europe:
Austria okays plan to turn the building where Hitler was born into a police station. What could possibly be wrong with that?
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The Formerly Great Britain:
As per Mark Steyn, the U.K. is where everything is policed except crime (and riots).
Her Majesty's Royal Constabulary is chock full of wankers, except for this one apparently.
More about the UK lockdowns here and here.
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Humourless Kook Left, Wokestapo and Trans:
Thoughts about the new cult religion.
Nutbar European princess says bonking a black man has been essentially a very instructive crash course on white supremacy. And really, isn't that what everyone really wants out of their relationship?
Lying liars of the media describe British riot as "mostly peaceful".
As Mark Steyn said earlier this week on the Rush Limbaugh Show, America has turned into a giant college campus.
Never bow to the mob: it will never show you mercy.
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Human Grace:
Despite all the terrible news lately about terrible humans there are still a great many honourable and good people around.
And thankfully, there are also those who bravely refuse to bow down to any man and good on them. May G-d bless and keep this brave soul and others like him.
Take care and see you in the comments!
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With all this destruction I am reminded of a Bugs Bunny cartoon, which had the character "Black Jacques Shelac." Somewhere for some reason Bugs had built a dam of boulders across a river, and Jacques would blow it up. Bugs retreated to the next dam up the river a few times, every time saying, "Not THIS one, Jacques!"
Eventually they get to what must have been the Hoover dam, and Bugs shouts from the top, "Not this one, Jacques!"
Will this statue destruction ever manage to make its way to perhaps Mount Rushmore?
LRC, I'm thinking about making a pillow with your "Just remember...." paragraph in needlepoint!
Ooooh! Janet if you do please send us/me/Steyn HQ a photo!
"The Chasid Who Built a Church" is inspiring. Kristallnacht in Kalifornia is infuriating.
On the matter of the latter, I've seen leaflets declaring "Ending white privilege...intersects [sic] ending Jewish privilege. ... #BlackLivesMatter, #WeAreAllMuslim, #WhitePrivilege." As Dana Carvey's Church Lady used to say, isn't that special?
I used to believe "intersectionality" was just some bogus multi-culti claptrap term, but damned if they haven't irrefutably proved the point. Jew-hatred intersects with white guilt and with Black Lives Matter and with Islamic supremacy to create a virtual Five Points of infamy and deceit. Down these lanes march the likes of Antifa, Occupy Wall Street, ANSWER (remember them?), BDS, and other Stormtroopers of the Wokestapo, denouncing the police, "the 1%", "greedy Jewish landlords", and any other enemies of the people worthy of a two-minute hate. Come for the protest, stay for the pogrom. (Who know, Ilhan Omar might pop out of a cake.)
As for the Hungarian Rabbi, an infant survivor of Bergen Belsen who took American law down to its Hebraic studs (were they ever!) to beat not only city hall but Janet Reno and the Florida Supreme Court--and in doing so to set precedence for all other faiths--read, as they say, the whole thing. It's short in length, but boundless in inspiration.
Hi Josh, I think it's really important to focus on the good things even while fighting and dealing with the bad ones. And there are lots of good things, it's just really hard to see when there's a non-stop barrage of sensationalized, terrible news stories out there all the time.
I know you think that way, Laura and I feel both admiration and envy for you. I'm a little stuck in the go ahead, make my day frame of mind. Or, when I'm feeling more philanthropic, I recall Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." What do you say, Abe, to malice toward some? I mean the real SOBs. Maybe just a little malice toward them?
Thanks Laura, for the humor and the enticing smorgasbord of links.
I still chuckle at Mark's attempt to blow out the candles on Pete Hegseth's birthday cake with his WHO certified and Fauci approved Covid-19 mask on. After Mark tossed the chocolate cake aside, I looked for signs of smoke from the ignition of dry brush or grass.
So many links to choose, but the D Day one stands out. It always reminds me of my father-in-law who landed on the beach with the Regina Rifles. He made it off the beach but a month or so later a sniper laid him up for awhile until he chose to link back up later with his regiment of many strangers and some familiar mates.
My son made a special trip to the Juno Beach memorial a few years back to visit the brick that we arranged in his grandfather's name. He wanted to ensure that he crossed the path that his grandfather had made decades earlier as he ran up the beach on June 6.th So, he walked the entire width of the Juno Beach landing area and much more. His personal military record merely refers to the memorable and frightening landing as "disemb France Jun 6th/44."
He was an affable, kind, hard working, self reliant fellow that loved and raised a large family with his also incredible wife. Only days after returning to Canada, he was off to the forests of Northern Saskatchewan to work. My son and I had many great discussions with him and he always expressed his concerns whenever he felt people were not appreciating what they have in Canada or how society was heading in an unwise direction.
He saw how fragile societies can be with country after country in ruin. He would be horrified at the recent wasteful, reckless carnage in the USA, as I suspect so are the few surviving American D-Day and other veterans in America.
Hi Dennis, I'm glad you enjoyed the links. Thank you for sharing your father-in-law's story and how you and your son honoured him and his sacrifice. You are certainly blessed to have had him in your life and your son is blessed for getting such fine moral and philosophical grounding from you. I spent a year not long ago researching Canadians who died during the 1940s and the war obituaries were the hardest and yet most inspirational and and incredible things to read. I am still humbled by the bravery and selflessness of those who fought, and I agree with you that our society is completely fragile.
Laura,
You don't understand the power of Trump's dog whistle. Can you imagine what would happen if Trump came out against suicide? Democrats and never Trumpers would be dying in droves. The horror, the horror.
I'm actually just wondering where President Trump is right now.
The "protests" in the United States, the United Kingdom and elsewhere should be recognised as what they are: a leftist version of the muslim "day of rage." That is an entirely synthetic outpouring of violence, supposedly triggered by some grievance, but actually a well-planned assault on businesses, places of non-muslim worship and buildings representing officialdom, principally police stations.
In Karachi, or Chittagong, it takes a few months to get all those Danish flags together, to hand out for ritual burning. In London, or Chicago, the operation is slick; the foot-soldiers have nothing better to do and can be rustled up as soon as a pretext arises.
The Year Zero crowd is feeling its oats around the world, what with the assaults on statues and so on. I see that Dundas Street in Toronto is the latest target of the mob. Dundas Street is a major east-west thoroughfare in the city. Like the vast majority of people here I had no idea who it was named after but apparently a wokista "discovered" that 18th century Scottish politician Henry Dundas was not sufficiently woke enough for his liking. The disgraceful and cowardly Mayor John Tory struck up a "working group" today to ascertain if this long deceased grandee had opinions acceptable to the enlightened thinkers of the mob. Judging by what's happening else the answer is pretty much foreordained. Perhaps the new Dundas Street could be called "Pol Pot Avenue", in recognition of the future we are facing.
Thank you Laura. From my unscientific observations of the Kung Flu it would appear that the virus was "engineered" to attack and destroy the respiratory functions of those over 60 and the cerebral functions of those under 30. We may not know until November the effects of the virus on those 30-60.
Laura, I've been to Normandy twice, and my sons still have the little bottles of sand they collected from Omaha and Utah Beaches. They insisted on walking around the rows of graves in the American cemetery, refusing to walk over them. My Dad enlisted too late to make that battle, but he and his 106th Division buddies were on the Schnee Eifel just days before the beginning of the Germans' Ardennes offensive. We know it now as The Battle of the Bulge. He was fortunate to survive as his 423rd Infantry Regiment, surrounded and running out of bullets, bandages, and beans, accepted the Germans' surrender offer. Amazing what some people will fight for, and what others won't.
Hi John, thank you for sharing that beautiful story about your sons. How proud you must be. You've raised them well. It is truly amazing, in the traditional sense of the word what people will and won't fight for.