Hi everyone and welcome back to another issue of Laura's Links. This week was a major downer in terms of witnessing wild mobs all over the world savagely obliterate a wide variety of historically important and honourable vestiges of Western culture.
Statues were beheaded and pulled down or splashed with bloody red paint. Humans were shot at. Police have been screamed at by useless, violent imbeciles. Citizens were bombarded with firecrackers and gunfire. Stores and small businesses were looted and ransacked in urban areas and now in suburban America as well. People were murdered in cold blood and instantly forgotten if they were not victims of the "right" cause. And while the destruction has taken many pernicious and evil forms, the non-reaction of our pathetic and cowed "leaders" has been relatively universal and consistent.
In every language and in most every country, the reply to the lawlessness has been a massive shrug and an even bigger promise to bow down further to evil. We are, in fact, at war, so this pathetic spinelessness is actually treasonous.
Every frenzied, rabid looting spree and every uncivilized and repulsive tantrum captured on video has birthed additional capitulation from politicians, corporations, universities and other foundational institutions of our society – and shame on them all. What have we learned? That wanton destruction, vandalism and lawlessness works. And it will work until it is stopped. The repulsive displays of cowardice that we are witnessing today will bear much sinister fruit. And as Mark pointed out earlier this week, what has gone down is not likely to come up again so we must ask ourselves what we are going to do about it. One has to actually question and answer precisely what hill we are willing to die upon.
I apologize for not being in the mood to hunt for the elusive "silver lining" to this story. I don't see it now and I often don't see it in other events. People always want the silver lining, but I cannot deliver it here. Sorry, but all I see now is a real vacuum in moral leadership playing out right in front of our lying eyes. And tweeting is not a responsible or appropriate response to acts of war. The November elections are consequential for all of the angry masses and the whole world. More needs to be done.
My delightful and menschlach host, The Honorable Most Unwoke Bloke in Bespoke is also on my pessimism wavelength. Accordingly, your SteynOnline In-House Jewish Mother urges you to keep up to speed on how the past week looked to Mark including his special update on Mann v Steyn, a fabulous spot on Tucker Carlson Tonight, and new episodes of The Mark Steyn Show on Better Dead Than Ted, how The Wheels of Justice Grind, Columbians At War, a very topical Song of the Week and two amazing guest-hosting spots for the great Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Now, let's take a look at the messy and rather grubby week that was.
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North America:
Plus ça change, etc... for the Canadian Libranos.
Independent journalist Tim Pool puts his money where his mouth is and asks, where is everyone else?
No justice for Canadian murder victim. What a disgrace.
Canadian government to investigate Canadian government regarding clusterfarky refugee program.
What happens when the madness ends?
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The Land Down Under:
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Israel and Jews:
Really interesting video from an Arabic-speaking Israeli journalist on what Palestinians really want. Hint: not living under PA rule. You should also watch because Zvi Yechezkeli is very cute (Iraqi Jew! Gotta love them swarthy Jews.)
Shocking! No "Zionists" (or police) allowed at Linda Sarsour's civil rights rally.
A knock-out column from the great Caroline Glick: The silent American Jews.
My idiot people. Religious leftists, merely born Jewish. Disgusting.
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The Formerly Great Britain:
Libyan "refugee" shrieks a few blood-curdling rounds of the old pub singalong favourite, Allahu Akbar, before massacring gays. Alas, the motive may never be known.
The great and cute and currently beardless (!) Douglas Murray on the craziness of our times and on those who have been "educated into imbecility". And for real and not for joking, fawning over Douglas Murray definitely and for sure counts as sufficient celebration of Pride month/year/decade. Right? Kidding, kidding, sort of not really.
(By the way: a picture perfect American example of being "educated into imbecility" can be found right here. You're welcome.)
Lastly, ain't multiculturalism grand?
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Middle East:
Hubba hubba! What a charmer. Maybe Canadian PM Justin Trudeau will invite her to the next Pride celebrations in Canada because multiculturalism something something.
Behold: A match made in hell (some funny comments in the thread).
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Evil Communist China:
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Kook and Humouress Left, Wokestapo and Trans:
These people have power over your lives. More here.
Filing this under "articles I really wish I had written" (read the whole thing).
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Human Grace:
Kindness to animals is a hallmark of civilized persons.
"If you've never heard a fox laugh, you're welcome."
Stay safe and take care of yourselves. See you in the comments!
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I have been reading Churchill's biography of his ancestor John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough in the course of which W. Churchill addresses a controversy related to a letter (which he identifies as forgery) which purports to have Marlborough writing to inform the deposed James in France about an imminent English plain to attack the French fleet in Brest. Churchill writes the following:
"Although the letter did not influence events, it might have done so. If it were ever written it must leave upon the character of John Churchill an ineffaceable and fatal stain. Standards of conduct and morals - public or private - change with the ages, and men are largely creatures of their environment. Custom and convention play their parts.... Many allowances should be made where a different "climate of opinion prevails". But in every age the loyalty of a general to his comrades in the army, to the troops he has led and may lead again, is an inflexible obligation."
There are further arguments made by W. Churchill that Marlborough would have been aware that such a letter would be a stain on his character.
I think Winston Churchill has nailed the standard for judging the actions of men of earlier ages. There are inflexible obligations which are recognized across time and then there are passing fads. Washington, Lee, and other American heroes embodied to their own age and to our own exemplary behaviour in relation to these timeless standards. They have failed to live up to our passing fads. In our time we have inverted Churchill's standard rejecting the timeless virtue of Washington, Lee and TR because they transgress against the "current climate of opinion". The future will eventually revert to Churchill's earlier standard and it will not be Washington et al who will be jettisoned but the small creatures enamored of the current climate of opinion who will be judged harshly. There is not a single politician alive today who is half as great as Washington or Lee and it is perhaps this recognition and the envy that it engenders that encourages our "leaders" to attack men far greater than themselves.
Pubs in England are open today but it is an experience that has had all hints of joy sucked out. Who in their life ever wants to meet a "Loo Monitor"?
Sharon Osbourne wants John Wayne removed from Orange County airport. I met Sharon once at a Christmas party along with her lethal dad. She was exactly as charming then as she is when I inadvertently glimpse her on the telly.
And, lest we forget, her hubby Ozzie was once arrested for urinating on the Alamo. Kick 'em to the curb America. Happy 4th of July from North London.
Loo Monitor??
I thought I'd better get this joke over to Mark before he thought of it himself...
Now they're calling the Little Mermaid a "Racist Fish"; since she's half-piscine, isn't that a case of surf and TERF?
Abraham Lincoln said this in the Gettysburg Address:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The honored dead. Looking at our nation now this July 4th, how will we honor our dead on this day and moving forward? For now we remember Lincoln's words but how long until even our youth will never know those words til it is truly forgotten by the world?
Brian, you gave me an idea! We can start chain letters into the future generations! Why not? If you can dream it up, you can make it happen, right? Type the words from your favorite American document and roll it up and tie a ribbon around it and bury it in the ground a tin box. So when the earth is incinerated by an asteroid or Antifa, the documents will be found by some future earthling kid playing out in the dunes or the petrified forest lands or filled subway tunnels. The last will have to go anyway, sooner rather than later, because of the ease with which the various deadly viruses circulated through metropolitan areas. I like your pick here. I've been trying to remember the words without looking it up this past month. The children had to memorize it in 8th grade homeschool. I memorized it too, to see if my brain could still perform the function. This could go viral and besides teaching a famous speech from the USA's glorious history, the archeologists could also understand how people through the first two hundred and twenty five years more or less of its history actually used cursive to communicate.
Or typeface!
I see that Justin Trudeau is now dithering about his trip to Washington this coming week...I say, come on down only if you're willing to put on your full blackface get-up!
Washington Redskins being renamed is back on the front burner. Why not go after the Patriots, Chiefs, and the Cowboys as well. Not to mention the Yankees and Nationals for MLB.
I know some diehard Washington Redskin fans (Don't most of the ticket holders get their season passes through the family Will?) and they would rather pluck their eyes out than change the name of the team. (Ooh, that would be a gory start to a new Woke Week 1 of the hundred and first NFL season)! I'm hearing a joke going around that the franchise will solve the team name dilemma by simply changing the mascot to a red potato.
Thanks, Laura, for your links. I hadn't heard from Douglas Murray in a while - he's terrific and I wouldn't have had the time to search him out. His use of the word "nonsense" is perfect and preferable to some of the words I might have chosen. John
My pleasure, John. Douglas Murray is truly a breath of fresh air.
Oh, you hadn't heard? National Parks are now racist.
Exactly who is being educated into imbecility in that perfect picture? The daughter? The father? Both?
Mark, who knew that Ghislaine Maxwell would wind up in your backyard! With any luck she'll stay alive long enough to spill the beans.
Dear Mark Steyn: Speaking of R's we can do without, Fox is reporting a group of the old guard who are gonna endorse Biden. Evidently, they couldn't find a Bush to support. Seems to me to be bad form (doesn't that matter to the upper crust anymore?) to avoid a primary challenge (that is, they should have found a Bush to support a year ago) and go straight to endorsing the D, but I'm not surprised. I used to read these folks along with our host, and had some respect for their opinion. When Mark saw something, excitement for Trump among the hoi polloi, none of the others saw it. So many of them (I refer to people who fancy themselves to still be republican influencers) still don't get it, and they delude themselves that they still have influence. Such an endorement wins Biden at least 40-50 votes! Another delusion- supporting Biden will somehow profit them.
Great Links Laura. I can't imagine how much material you plow through before you come up with your final product, wow! I appreciate you usually have VDH material also, just in case I have missed it in my on-line perusing. That wedding match made in hell was actually scary, it creeps me out thinking what life is like for average citizens in that hellhole. It has always driven me nuts when I see a news report of the latest atrocities referring to "London Man", or wherever. We know what that means, along with "Motive Unknown". Yeah, right.
Thanks again for all you do.
Al Man from CA
My pleasure Al. It is a great privilege to be here.
I think I remember from years ago when a four year old boy was mauled to death by a pit bull in a park in Germany the Germans illegalized pit bulls. muslims murder Germans and they import more. A win for self loathing.
Did you write years ago about a statue erected by the French memorializing two muslim juvenile delinquents who while running from the police electrocuted themselves to death by hiding in a transfer station? The left has been destroying western culture for years in Europe. They've accelerated their efforts here in the U.S. now that it looks like President Trump may have one more term in office.
Juneteenth, along with a bunch of muslim holidays, was downloaded into my five year old I-phone without my consent more than a year ago. More recently some covid app tried to download itself into my phone without my permission but failed because my phone is old and has no room for it. It creeps me out that my phone can be accessed by whoever is working in some cubicle somewhere making the decision that I need this unwanted stuff in my phone.
For some time now I've been bleating to anyone who'll listen that I want all senators and judges, who are our employees, to be audited by a private accounting firm- a different one every year. Regular citizens like me, and probably everyone else on here, can be audited by the IRS capriciously. Yet, we don't work for the government, at least we're not supposed to. The government is supposed to be working for us. Time for people like schumer, pelosi, biden, kamal harris and John Roberts to have their financial dealings exposed to sunlight and fresh air. President Trump could sing an executive order requiring it. Since Justice roberts insisted that some crummy executive order of obmama's was law then so must be any executive order or President Trump's.
"Juneteenth, along with a bunch of muslim holidays, was downloaded into my five year old I-phone without my consent more than a year ago."
Exactly the same to my new cell phone, Kitty, and about the same time. I was disgusted. But is there anyway to remove them, I don't know how w/o calling a support team, even then, what will they do? Start a file on me called "super racist"? It's part of the endless multicultural inculcation that goes on. We're noticing little intrusions into our privacy and they know they have us in their death grip and we can squirm all we want but until we dump their products, they got us and where it stops nobody knows.
"It creeps me out that my phone can be accessed by whoever is working in some cubicle somewhere making the decision that I need this unwanted stuff in my phone."
Also, my precise sentiments. What really sets me off is that somehow they organize photos from trips I take with my husband and loop it with music I don't really like and just spring it on me, as if it will make my day complete. The last one was to San Antonio to see The Alamo. They looped in some kind of carnival music and I might have selected Texas ballads. I never had a chance even to edit out trash photos. I'm not particularly photogenic (think Squeaky Fromm crossed with Frankenstein's grandmother, so when I smile it takes nineteen snaps to capture what remotely resembles a smirk, so it's labor intensive, not to mention overwhelmingly depressing, to sift through dozens (to find one which doesn't show me to look even slightly sloshed even when I'm not) and to select those photos which won't scare the grandkids. One day my photo was on the front cover of Time! Someone I knew told me that and I though, "oh, crap, what did I get caught doing"? It was the girl who tried to shoot President Gerald Ford! I was her spittin' image. I was ruined for any professional future other than sewer cleaner. It also completely ruined my little "photo memory trip" to The Alamo. I can't look at that photo album without thinking of her.
Oh no! I'm so sorry to hear of your travails with your phone. Were you really on the cover of Time magazine? I would be mortified to show my tired, old face on any magazine!
My I-phone did the same thing yours did. It sorted my photos into 'albums,' and it tagged my location to every photo. When did my cell phone acquire this creepy ability? The other bothersome thing is that all of my kids have the same thing on their cell phones and they all think it's normal.
Honestly, if an EMP wiped out all this stuff tomorrow (I know there'd be a lot of suffering) it would be refreshing for my kids and their friends to be forced to socialize face to face and for the rest of us to do as much as well. I often leave my cell phone somewhere in my house when I'm not working, and I don't really need it. Otherwise, I get this creepy feeling that nothing I do is private. I'm probably the most boring person in the world, nonetheless, I don't want my boring self monitored by some leftist algorithm.
God bless and keep you and your always in His care.
Thanks, Kitty, the very same Blessings back to you! Such a strange July Fourth. Oh, no, it wasn't me just an uncanny resemblance to that woman who tried to assassinate Gerald Ford. Life plays little jokes on us and we have to take them in stride and get past them.
I've enjoyed the convenience of having the computer as a cellular in my back pocket but technology changes so fast it's hard to keep up. Trade offs come with every decision we make anytime, so I guess how we manage what controls our devices is up to us but I often think society might be better off without so much daily bombardments from outside. That's progress, I suppose. Funny though, it sure doesn't feel like progress to me of late. We sure do have a challenge on our plates. For just today, we can look at the upside: we're connected to Mark Steyn and his fans and for that I'm quite content.
That's an excellent point! I have this fantasy village that I pray for when life is discouraging. It's somewhere in New Hampshire near Mark and you and everyone else here lives in it. Imagine the parties and gatherings we would have! I may have to wait till heaven, but no one can stop me from wishing for now.
In your fictitious world I can sew flags like my heroine Betsy Ross:) Anyway, last I heard wishful thinking didn't harm a fly.
I, too, am filled with pessimism these days. We have failed miserably as a Society in passing on our cultural values to the younger generations. The late Governor of Georgia might have said it best:
A better Class of Prisoner
By William McPhersson; the writer is a member of the editorial page staff.October 30, 1984
"Some years ago Lester Maddox, the former governor of Georgia, came up with a mindlessly cheerful -- yet stunningly obvious -- solution to the problems that trouble our prisons. The problem with our prisons, he said, is caused by the class of people who inhabit them. Clearly, then, we need a better class of prisoner."
What we need is a better class of citizens, something that we are lacking. We raised these young people and their lack of values are our failures.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/10/30/a-better-class-of-prisoner/fa0d32d0-5aea-45ee-82e9-a08f59bb1190/
I had to homeschool my younger kids for a couple of years about ten years ago. I have all these text books from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Kids were so much more well rounded, sophisticated and competent then. More so than my generation. Even more so than the current young people being indoctrinated in the public schools of today. I think one of the silver linings of this covid business is that kids were pulled out of the crappy public schools and sent home to demonstrate to their parents how little they know.
'Father-daughter love'- oh my....thank you very much for the Human Grace respite!
Truly enjoy Laura's Links and thanks to all for making this a part of the Mark Steyn Club!
That was a lovely story. Plus, I believe she is an active service person in the US Army-I believe she said something like that in the comments. A fine young woman. Thanks for your kind comment as well.
Laura's Links at SteynOnline are a silver lining!
Great piece by Roger Kimball, especially his conclusion: "I am not inclined to say "I told you so,' but rather: 'We must do something about this. Now.'"
Tim Pool - what a hero!! If we all had just 5 percent of his courage - and pushed back - the Cult of Woke would lose its power over us. Good article by VDH, too.
PS. Images of young Hongkongers protesting in the streets highlight the true narcissism of the lawless Morons in the U.S. China always dominates the news now (in Australia) and it's concerning that Mark is one of only a few people in North America keeping an eye on the ball. Reading comments to the effect that "we've got our own problems [in America]" is a reminder of just how vulnerable the hyperpower is.
Thank you Kate and I agree with your comment on the Kimball piece. Tim Pool's podcast partner (can't remember his name at the moment) was also on record recently saying he would be voting for Trump. There may be a political and intellectual coming of age for some millennials who love their country, lean(ed) left but are disgusted with the riots.
The premise that chess is racist is weak. While white traditionally moves first, so what? Someone has to or there's no game. And there's a lot to be said--a whole lot--for letting a fool make the first mistake, and then seizing upon his weakness. There was even a school of chess early last century, Hypermodernism, that dared one side to seize the advantage, only to chip away from the sides and reduce the edifice to rubble. Call it guerilla chess.
What chess is, beyond dispute, is sexist. The King is a feeble coward, hiding behind pawns, barely able to limp from square to square, commanding all his subjects to sacrifice their lives for his survival. Indeed, he never dies. Checkmate ends the game when the King cannot escape capture on the next move; most tournament games end in resignation when the pitiful monarch prostrates himself before the invading forces--more Richard II than Henry V. And the Queen--the glorious, omnipotent Queen! Even she, who combines the power of the clergy (bishops) and the state (castles), will lay down her life in defense of her craven cohort. Is there a more perfect example of the power of the patriarchy then chess? As a man, I'm ashamed to admit I ever played the game. It figures that my father taught me.
Very funny, Josh, love it! (They even made it easy for the coward hide in the corner.)
Maxwell was found in Bradford, New Hampshire. She would have made a good living in Bradford, England maybe. She would of made millions working for the BBC.
You are right Laura , silver linings have really dissipated, we all feel it and find it quite uncomfortable, and not much is funny anymore , even our main man Mark is an angry, rightly so , man right now , the threat to civilisation as we know it is real , and when do we hear the republican outrage? it's disturbing, but we all have to keep speaking the reality and truth of what is happening, there is no other option, but we goddamn hope the ordinary powerful people see thru the bullshit like we do , oh is the full version of bs profane , I swear a lot anyway
Bravo Douglas Murray! He is a brave truth teller.
RE: Ten Commandments monument in Kalispell
Some years ago when the fad for removing the Ten Commandments from city properties was around, I took photos of the slabs here (I work in Kalispell, live out of town). They were moved when the county building was being renovated, and they didn't say whether they were going to go back up again. It turns out they just put them around the corner, in front of the juvenile detention center. The spot where this guy pulled the slab with the chain is actually right across the street from the county courthouses, which has the Sheriff's office on the first floor.
I find stories like this so disturbing. Tearing down the fundamental guidance for our society, the Judeo-Christian heritage, literally! So awful.
Monday morning, a sleeping 4-yo boy was shot and killed by someone shooting at his KCMO apartment. The kid had open heart surgery at 5 months to address a rare heart defect. He survived four years of health issues and (based on pictures) appeared to be a happy little boy; he didn't survive the "community". (KC is on track to beat the record-setting 2017 homicide count.)
Wednesday, the KCMO park department removed two plaques memorializing J C Nichols, a prominent real-estate developer from the early 20th century (A street is also being renamed). Nichols also developed Country Club Plaza and was prominent in the building of the Liberty Memorial and KC University (now UMKC). He also used restrictive covenants (not unusual in those days).
The decision to remove the plaques was made on Tuesday. So a city that can take months to patch a pothole or over a year to fill in a crater in a two lane road can move quickly when it wants to.
I wonder if removing the Nichols plaques a few days earlier would have prevented the killer of the little boy pulling the trigger.
If/when all this dies out and we're liberated from problematic artwork and memorials, what will we do if urban problems persist? What will we destroy next?
Robert that is heartbreaking. Absolutely devastating.
It was Obama all along... yes it was.
I share your discouragement, Laura, and worry that we are indeed 'at war.' If we don't stand firm and resist this offensive, it won't end until all our monuments disappear and everything is re-labelled with numbers or a series of letters, like catalogue codes on the spines of library books. How has our society declined to the point where it can't deal with the reality of its history, and our leaders don't have the courage to protect what's left of it?
I think Tucker and Mark make the point well. Our "leaders" have to be pushed and shoved into doing the right thing. They need to be dragged, kicking and screaming. Actually, Mark also had a line about this some years ago which was that we have to make it impossible for them to continue to do the wrong thing. I'm paraphrasing but that's basically it.
Historically, when governments cannot protect working and taxpaying citizens, are there not changes in government? Why isn't that happening today? What is stopping worthwhile people from taking part?
Lol, chess is definitely a game In which the little white plastic pieces have the advantage over the little black plastic pieces. Fortunately, the actual players aren't tied to pieces the same color as their skin.
Excellent intro to your Links, Laura!
Two especially profound remarks, the first half has sunk in: "We are, in fact, at war," the second half, "so this pathetic spinelessness is actually treasonous." Hadn't really thought of it that way until you said it. Always hard to prove treason, but I'm sure feeling it now.
And: "Sorry, but all I see now is a real vacuum in moral leadership playing out right in front of our lying eyes." Yes!! This is the crux of all the problems we're facing.
And, one more: "no silver lining." Try as I might, can't find it either.
Fran, I believe that part of being a conservative is understanding that there is often no silver lining and accepting that as fact. That doesn't mean one needs to be morose, it just means that the human experience is not all sunny and unicorns, there are dark moments and experiences for all of us. The pursuit of the silver lining is damaging psychologically to many people, leading them to an acute inability to get through crisis and loss. Sometimes it's OK to not be OK.
I'll use this as my mediation for the week, Laura. Thank you! This week I'm meditating on Mark's frequently expressed sentiments about change. "When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change." I'm still trying to warp my head around that one.
Luckily, the BBC is going to spend £100 million of other people's money on promoting diversity and inclusion. While those aren't exact antonyms, they are verging on that. The supposedly cash-strapped Beebyanka already employs a disproportionate ** number of people from ethnic minorities, so there is no need for this highly costly soul-searching, because the result will certainly not be a plea for increased recruitment of white males with English or Welsh names. It seems to me that this is more a way to weed out any "village Hampden" left at the Beebyanka, who, regardless of race, culture, ideology, or religion, refuses to bend the knee to the "little tyrant of his fields."
** I am never in favour of any kind of racial quota, or favouritism.
If I were that kid's dad I'd cut her off so fast her head would spin. If the dad has any spine if she isn't footing the bill for whichever moron factory she is attending she will be now. Give the spoiled little brat a nice solid dose of reality.
That dad is the reason Republicans, and conservatives in general, always lose.
Moron factory!!!!
I'm so stealing that.
Dear Mark
Aha! Ghislaine Maxwell in your homestate of New Hampshire. A big story not so much breaking as imploding then exploding like a thermo- nuclear device...
The night daddy slipped, or did he fall, off the eponymous yacht...
Al Ca'impbell, A stranger in the Strangers Bar, Cap'n Bob's protegée, came to blows with Michael White, a hauntin' and a tauntin' on the night:
"When Captain Bob comes bobbin' etc."
It cane to blows, followed by a severe rebuke from The Sergeant - at - Arms.
The rest as they say, is hysteria...
Hey Mark, I see Epsteins lady friend was arrested in New Hampshire, was she anywhere near your digs?
New Hampshire's motto is "Live Free or Die". Maxwell chose one option, Epstein the other. Or rather, had the choice made for him.
#MaxwellDidn'tKillHerself is trending, in preparation.
Hah!
The Governor of our state has now issued a new directive that everyone in the state wear masks under a penalty of a hundred dollars. This will not be enforced by many local sheriffs. To date: 500 deaths in the state and just 9 in our county along the border. The state is considering school to be held Monday and Tuesdays and Thursdays and Fridays with Wednesday as a day to disinfect the physical plants. If they were smart they would hand each student a cloth covered with disinfectant and have they wipe down the last desk they sat in that day. The students need to understand you don't get everything done for you. They get free education and free breakfast, lunch and afterschool meals for those who get picked up at 6 Pm. (These meals were delivered even when the Covid virus had shut down the schools!) This is the very least that the students could do as a show of appreciation for being showered with free everything. It would build character, as well. But I'm sure nobody will listen to me. The morons march onward!
I think a cartoon icon depicting that half naked protestor taunting the police officer could be the emblem for the new flag for the nation of MORONS (just one of a couple of suggestions). Fiery oranges, reds and yellows could emanate from him here and there. I think someone is going to be inspired this summer to start a new comic strip in the Sunday funnies with this theme. The only major problem about this would be that nothing at all will be amusing.
Ooh, I love acronyms. How about Communists And Leftists Inciting Partisan Hatred And Totalitarian Extremism (CALIPHATE).
What about in the theme of the TFOT? MORONS: Most Obstinate Radical Obtuse Nutcase System.
If the glove fits....
So, I see you turned in your neighbor Ghislaine Maxwell today. :)
Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire. From my house arrest to yours?
Seriously, the FBI had some time on their hands when they were forced to stop their coup d'etat and no one was interested who was funding Antifa and BLM or that terrorists were crossing state lines to foment riots.
Breaking news! Ghislaine Maxwell, alleged Jeffrey Epstein madam, was arrested by the FBI in New Hampshire right in Mark's backyard. No word about her views on BLM yet.
So I see that my name has now officially become a meme (#kenandkaren) courtesy of a brigade of friendly suburban protestors in St. Louis, Missouri who decided to oh so peacefully congregate on the private property of Mr. and Mrs. Mark McCloskey, attorneys at law. Yeah, the man's name is Mark, but the hashtag isn't #markandkaren, is it? No. So how the heck did I get dragged into all this?
I'll tell you why. Kens have always been portrayed negatively throughout history. Whether it is in print, on TV, or on the big screen there has never once, ever, been a character named Ken that isn't a guy who, though kind of dull and apparently harmless, isn't also annoying and unlikable. Well, that's it. I've had it with the snickering, the microaggressions, and the endless discrimination. I'm officially asking Mr. McCloskey and his lovely wife to represent me, on behalf of oppressed Kens everywhere, in a class action lawsuit. Against who exactly, is still to be determined.
This stops now.
Well, looking at Kenny Rogers, Kenny Chesney and Kenny Loggins, if you'd gone by Kenny Costa you might have had a successful music career. And don't forget that the Ken Doll is the definitive boy toy. But yes, the careers of Ken Curtis - Festus on Gunsmoke - and Ken Berry - Captain Parmenter on F Troop - would seem to prove your point. Meanwhile, Ken Lives Matter - or KLM for short.