WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Noted In Passing: Full Mobilization of the Reserve at “First Light”
byVanderleunonJuly 15, 2021
With their “necessary equipment” including, I suppose, ammunition since there are wide reports of the police having run out. It would be nice if South Africa could avoid a full-scale civil war devolving into a race war. We’ll see.
“It would be nice if South Africa could avoid a full-scale civil war…”>>>
With an attitude and belief such as these -actually saying them out loud- the same wish goes for what’s left of e pluribus unum in this country. Just jaw-dropping. And not just any ass-in-a-brass-hat, either. I’ve no doubt that he’d give the order to open fire on the citizenry with positively no compunction whatsoever. If we actually had a Press this would be quite a story.
We have a press, unfortunately is the Lügenpresse.
ghostsniperJuly 15, 2021, 9:12 AM
@Richard, read that article carefully that you linked.
Milley is not quoted in any of the things the various people said he said.
I’m not saying he didn’t say what that article claims.
I am saying the article doesn’t make the case.
If Milley actually said what they say, why did they write it up like they did, leaving doubt in the reader?
NEVER trust the media, or any of the gov’t factions.
ArtyJuly 15, 2021, 11:01 AM
The devolution into race war is a process that is in the hands of the south african government. It will happen when they have totally exhausted the economy.
AnonymousJuly 15, 2021, 11:22 AM
@Ghostsniper “If Milley actually said what they say, why did they write it up like they did, leaving doubt in the reader?”>>>
As best I can determine after several re-reads of the article in question, author Tyler O’Neil was referencing a book written by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, two Washington Post reporters. In said book, the quotes attributed to Milley, were provided without attribution by those proffering them. This seems to be the way things are done anymore, within the “profession” of journalism.
This is nothing new, of course, as Mark Twain famously observed: “If you don’t read the newspaper you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.”
It would seem to be easy enough for Milley to address the issues raised by going on record and dealing with the quotes he is cited as having made, rather than to have responded through an aide.
It’s probably more evidence of just how Balkanized the country has become. The various media outlets carve out niches and attempt to appeal to the biases of those whom they purport to serve.
As I am adamantly anti-Left, I well realize that I bring my own biases to bear in terms of evaluating information. Wasn’t always so, however. But as the Left has seized and appropriated everything in communications, entertainment, the so-called Academy, and government; my perceptual screens go up the moment one of their representatives starts blathering about anything.
As for your last statement: I completely concur.
where does the military’s participation reach, what are its limits in a case like this?
askin’.
ghostsniperJuly 16, 2021, 4:27 AM
It’s no longer “the military”, it’s now something else.
Something that is harmful to you.
A new one, similar to the old one, will spring up at some point.
Remember the army slogan from 20 years ago?
“An Army of One”
It starts with you.
World War, what better way to distract folks from a world that spent themselves into the broke side of the ledger. Only one way out, cut their heads off put em on a pike, Not! . Of course we’ll continue to stick our heads in the sand, and read fiction posted daily by the blogdaddies.
If I seem pre occupied by bullshit from the war monger blogdaddies, I am! I’ve met and spent time with many of them, great men, fun to be around, always welcome here, I spent years in the slugfest, became disillusioned recently when the election was stolen, and all we got was crickets chirping louder.
Hell I went so far as to get my life and legal affairs in order, was convinced we were gonna kill commies for mommy. Na what happen the blogdaddies just talked louder, pounded their chest continued stirring the pot.
Grew tired of being angry all the time, I quit what I re recognized was that crews strategy is gonna talk em to death. They continue to talk shit, with zero intentions of doing anything. I recognize these guys think they will lead the right into glorious battle to defeat those dog face pony soldiers of the left.
Wars is hell, killing an enemy combatant in dirkadirkastan, is literally nothing like killing a fellow citizen on US soil. I’m in no hurry to get to killing. Life’s grand here, literally not a thing has changed here, except for the fires, which happen yearly anymore.
VI
VanderleunJuly 16, 2021, 10:51 AM
I’m down with the Dirk here. But I am alert for changes in the weather.
ghostsniperJuly 16, 2021, 5:39 PM
The weather has changed at least 11ty seven times here. Today. Started off raining for a couple hours, then it stopped and the sun came out and the heat was overwhelming. Then close to noon it welled up again and hell from the sky rained down upon us and the power went out at 11:50am. Stayed out til 3pm and the rain stopped in between and the sun came out again. At 5pm the rain started again and this time it was sideways, dark, and the on-at-dark lights on the deck came on. By the time Jeopardy started the rain had stopped. The RADAR shows most of the weekend this way. Happy happy, joy joy. Glad I have a lot of CAD work to do. I’ll make another $3k by monday.
Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
Still persuade us to rejoice.
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress.
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountains start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
– – WH Auden
from “1054 AD”
Sometimes it seems I had a dream, and, as a dreamer woke immersed in mineral baths closed within a cool, dark chamber fed by streams flowing in from the center of nowhere.
Hanging from the granite ceiling a kerosene lantern cast shards of light through the pale steam rising from the surface of the pools.
Ripples radiated outwards from the edges of my body and tapping faintly on the rock revealed the edges of the chamber.
Outside I could hear the wind slide across the spine of the mountains, speaking in a language that I remembered but could no longer understand.
Steam filled my nostrils and heat penetrated my bones until, after a time, I had no body, only a sense of silence and distance and calm.
The steel mill sky is alive.
The fire breaks white and zigzag
shot on a gun-metal gloaming.
Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can’t be bought.
The fireborn are at home in fire.
The stars make no noise,
You can’t hinder the wind from blowing.
Time is a great teacher.
Who can live without hope?
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief
the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
“Where to? what next?”
— Carl Sandberg
Camouflage
Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Down valley a smoke haze
Three days heat, after five days rain
Pitch glows on the fir-cones
Across rocks and meadows
Swarms of new flies.
I cannot remember things I once read
A few friends, but they are in cities.
Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup
Looking down for miles
Through high still air.
BY GARY SNYDER
Chimes of Freedom
Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look
Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
“From a student radical/hippie/leftist of the Free Speech Movement/Vietnam Day Commitee era and a full-on Democratic Liberal in the decades after, I think I’ve evolved a politics that is neither right nor left but is, in its elemental nature, draconian. In the last 20 years, I’ve taken apart my beliefs with a sledgehammer. Now I’ve got to put the surviving parts back together with tweezers and other ‘shabby equipment, always deteriorating’.”
Byzantium
That is no country for old men. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God’s holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
– – W. B. Yeats, 1865 – 1939
De Breanski
VAN GOGH
Hillegas
To the Stonecutters
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
Challengers of oblivion
Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
The square-limbed Roman letters
Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
Builds his monument mockingly;
For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
Die blind and blacken to the heart:
Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace in old poems.
— Robinson Jeffers
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
APT 379
Chico, Ca 95926
from “1054 AD”
Sometimes it seems I had a dream, and, as a dreamer woke immersed in mineral baths closed within a cool, dark chamber fed by streams flowing in from the center of nowhere.
Hanging from the granite ceiling a kerosene lantern cast shards of light through the pale steam rising from the surface of the pools.
Ripples radiated outwards from the edges of my body and tapping faintly on the rock revealed the edges of the chamber.
Outside I could hear the wind slide across the spine of the mountains, speaking in a language that I remembered but could no longer understand.
Steam filled my nostrils and heat penetrated my bones until, after a time, I had no body, only a sense of silence and distance and calm.
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Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
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“It would be nice if South Africa could avoid a full-scale civil war…”>>>
With an attitude and belief such as these -actually saying them out loud- the same wish goes for what’s left of e pluribus unum in this country. Just jaw-dropping. And not just any ass-in-a-brass-hat, either. I’ve no doubt that he’d give the order to open fire on the citizenry with positively no compunction whatsoever. If we actually had a Press this would be quite a story.
https://tinyurl.com/3xxwmsnj
Damn climate change…
We have a press, unfortunately is the Lügenpresse.
@Richard, read that article carefully that you linked.
Milley is not quoted in any of the things the various people said he said.
I’m not saying he didn’t say what that article claims.
I am saying the article doesn’t make the case.
If Milley actually said what they say, why did they write it up like they did, leaving doubt in the reader?
NEVER trust the media, or any of the gov’t factions.
The devolution into race war is a process that is in the hands of the south african government. It will happen when they have totally exhausted the economy.
@Ghostsniper “If Milley actually said what they say, why did they write it up like they did, leaving doubt in the reader?”>>>
As best I can determine after several re-reads of the article in question, author Tyler O’Neil was referencing a book written by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, two Washington Post reporters. In said book, the quotes attributed to Milley, were provided without attribution by those proffering them. This seems to be the way things are done anymore, within the “profession” of journalism.
This is nothing new, of course, as Mark Twain famously observed: “If you don’t read the newspaper you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.”
It would seem to be easy enough for Milley to address the issues raised by going on record and dealing with the quotes he is cited as having made, rather than to have responded through an aide.
It’s probably more evidence of just how Balkanized the country has become. The various media outlets carve out niches and attempt to appeal to the biases of those whom they purport to serve.
As I am adamantly anti-Left, I well realize that I bring my own biases to bear in terms of evaluating information. Wasn’t always so, however. But as the Left has seized and appropriated everything in communications, entertainment, the so-called Academy, and government; my perceptual screens go up the moment one of their representatives starts blathering about anything.
As for your last statement: I completely concur.
That’s mine^^^^^^^. My bad.
I trust nothing that the media puts out.
Got any new neighbors lately?
You probably will.
They keep pushin’.
See this:
https://www.westernjournal.com/tucker-carlson-reveals-bombshell-emails-exposing-us-military-secretly-moving-illegal-immigrants-around-country/
“new neighbors”
where does the military’s participation reach, what are its limits in a case like this?
askin’.
It’s no longer “the military”, it’s now something else.
Something that is harmful to you.
A new one, similar to the old one, will spring up at some point.
Remember the army slogan from 20 years ago?
“An Army of One”
It starts with you.
World War, what better way to distract folks from a world that spent themselves into the broke side of the ledger. Only one way out, cut their heads off put em on a pike, Not! . Of course we’ll continue to stick our heads in the sand, and read fiction posted daily by the blogdaddies.
If I seem pre occupied by bullshit from the war monger blogdaddies, I am! I’ve met and spent time with many of them, great men, fun to be around, always welcome here, I spent years in the slugfest, became disillusioned recently when the election was stolen, and all we got was crickets chirping louder.
Hell I went so far as to get my life and legal affairs in order, was convinced we were gonna kill commies for mommy. Na what happen the blogdaddies just talked louder, pounded their chest continued stirring the pot.
Grew tired of being angry all the time, I quit what I re recognized was that crews strategy is gonna talk em to death. They continue to talk shit, with zero intentions of doing anything. I recognize these guys think they will lead the right into glorious battle to defeat those dog face pony soldiers of the left.
Wars is hell, killing an enemy combatant in dirkadirkastan, is literally nothing like killing a fellow citizen on US soil. I’m in no hurry to get to killing. Life’s grand here, literally not a thing has changed here, except for the fires, which happen yearly anymore.
VI
I’m down with the Dirk here. But I am alert for changes in the weather.
The weather has changed at least 11ty seven times here. Today. Started off raining for a couple hours, then it stopped and the sun came out and the heat was overwhelming. Then close to noon it welled up again and hell from the sky rained down upon us and the power went out at 11:50am. Stayed out til 3pm and the rain stopped in between and the sun came out again. At 5pm the rain started again and this time it was sideways, dark, and the on-at-dark lights on the deck came on. By the time Jeopardy started the rain had stopped. The RADAR shows most of the weekend this way. Happy happy, joy joy. Glad I have a lot of CAD work to do. I’ll make another $3k by monday.