I have little personal knowledge of Myanmar (formerly called Burma), or its politics. What I do know of it is concerning its Woke-Beloved, now deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is the putative head of National League for Democracy (NLD). Here’s what CNN has to say about it (and we all know how reliable …
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Feb 01 2021
Monday, Monday…
I’m torn when it comes to playing The Mamas and The Papas songs. On one hand, the sleaziness of John Phillips is almost beyond belief – even for a Rock & Roll group leader. I won’t go into a discussion of the details, suffice to say that it’s a very sordid and – for Mackenzie …
Jan 31 2021
I Like Technology, But…
…The more that tech tries to do more, the more likely it is to fail. Think about it. A relatively simple technology, such as a Raspberry Pi (can be assembled with cheap plug & play elements), still fails at times. I had to return my first Pi4, as it would crash when stressed. When I …
Jan 31 2021
These Are Not the Actions of a Victorious Government
VoxDay has a point – why the worry about dissident thought/speech? Why are they cracking down, harder and harder? Well, we KNOW why. It’s because the Reality is not the Leftist Message. They are working overtime on forcing the Leftist ‘Pravda’ to be the ONLY permitted ‘Truth’. So, that does mean that we are winning …
Jan 31 2021
If This is True, Then Who Will Triumph?
Short Answer – Not Us The Sultan Knish – Daniel Greenfield – has an essay that contrasts cultures by type, and seems to say that we are on the way out. Civilizations are divided into three types: Barbarian Vigorous Decadent By his standards, we have moved beyond the Vigorous type, and ended up in the …
Jan 31 2021
Here we go again.
Insert F bomb after “Here we.” [Secretary of State nominee Antony] Blinken displayed his hubris a few minutes later when he said, “The door should remain open” for Georgia to join NATO under the justification of curbing Russian aggression. * * * * Blinken’s framing of the issue exposes his disingenuous approach. Russian aggression is …
Jan 30 2021
Pointed question.
If you thought 2020 was off the hook, how do you like 2021 so far?[1] What I’m getting from this Gamestop oopsie is that it’s as Mr. Jeftovic says: “a generalized revolt against financial repression and asymmetric rulesets (a.k.a ‘rules are for thee, but not for me’).” I don’t understand how the day trading peasants …
Jan 30 2021
What Trump was up against.
I have been dismayed by Trump’s failures to act on various issues but his actions or failures to act have to be understood in the light of the immense and scurrilous attacks on him by the the Department of Justice and key national security organs of the American government: For more than two years, the …
Jan 30 2021
Ya’ Know, That Kid Has a Way With Words
He’s no Hemingway (I read his book a while back. Not a Deep book, but really funny in his take on the Deep State and Their Official Cronies). But, Donald Trump, Jr. either has a terrific staff person to write these tweets, or he’s got a true gift. And, since the tone is pretty consistent, …
Jan 28 2021
Eh, It’s a More Interesting Use of My Time Than Working
I refer to sitting in front of my laptop, endlessly following threads of discussion, leaping from link to link. But, in the process, you do sometimes find gems: Such as this useful explanation of how a person fought back against the Cancel Culture. I’ve generally found these Quillette posts to be more thoughtful than most, …
Jan 28 2021
Pearls of expression.
For liberal democracies are built on the premise that human values and interests are unavoidably and perpetually in conflict with one another. The solution to these conflicts is not to grant total victory to one side or another, but to accept a system of government and civil society that allows pluralism to flourish within a …
Jan 28 2021
Coded Message
Greeted this morning by quite an awakener. Health care worker dies after second dose of COVID vaccine, investigations underway Here, with a little emphasis added, is what suggests a coded message may be present. “We are not blaming any pharmaceutical company,” said Rochelle Zook, a resident of Orange. “My husband loved what he did. He …
Jan 27 2021
Why I am Ramping Up my Prep
It’s not IF the electric/electronics grid will go down – it’s WHEN. On one hand, this SHOULD kill the Left as a viable party. But, let’s be serious – the Left will manage to find a way to blame US for it happening. If you don’t already: Get a decent generator, preferably one that could …
Jan 27 2021
This Just MIGHT Persuade the Border States…
…That they made a hell of a mistake letting Biden steal the election. Short-term? Patriots would be advised against coming to DC again, to protest. Biden’s people are just LOOKING for an excuse to shed blood. Tulsi Gabbard is warning of this already, and she is not wrong. (We need to covertly court her – …
Jan 27 2021
Hoyt’s on a Roll!
I’ve always liked Sarah A. Hoyt. Discovered her around – I don’t know – maybe 5 years or so ago. She’s a very different type of person – much more focused about her writing. More cosmopolitan, more educated. Today, she talks about Walk Away, and its founder Brandon Straka. She makes a good case for …
Jan 26 2021
Just Read About SC’s NG Troops
They, along with many of the other Red State’s National Guard members, will be returning home very shortly. The stories about poor facilities, disregard for their sanitation/food/hydration needs, as well as the act of kicking them out of the Capitol building (the one that they were supposedly brought to Washington to guard), have had their …
Jan 26 2021
Just Taking a Road Test
Squirming around, finding a comfortable position for my seat in the blog. It’s looking good. Of course, I’ve long used WordPress on Right As Usual and other blogs over the years (The Declination, for a time). Let the following picture give you hope for the Not-Left’s success. And, more than a little fear that the …
Jan 17 2021
Publick Announcement
Greetings, liberty lovers! Mike from Ye Olde Cold Fury websty here, welcoming one and all to the new incarnation of your Curmudgeon Emeritus’s humble blog, Liberty’s Torch. As you probably know, Francis was concerned about his future prospects as a Right Wing White Supremacist Nazi Death Beast on Google-owned Blogspot; we constructed this joint to …
Aug 08 2019
“Too Much Like Work!”
Don’t expect the Left or its mascot groups to solve their own problems. They’ve been told – relentlessly, for decades – that their problems aren’t really theirs to solve. No, that responsibility belongs elsewhere…probably to “the government.” What’s that you say? If they created the problem – perhaps by letting the garbage pile …
Dec 15 2018
Nightmares of a Wine Enthusiast
You know, no matter how aggressively you go about it, there are a lot of wines out there you’ll never taste. And that is probably for the best. Because in keeping with Sturgeon’s Law, 90% of them are crud. As an avid sampler of wineries and their wares, I’ve had some crud in …
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