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.
Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
For the disrobed faceless forms of no position
Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts
All down in taken-for-granted situations
Tolling for the deaf an’ blind, tolling for the mute
Tolling for the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute
For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an’ cheated by pursuit
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An’ the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An’ for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
They will declare: Every journey has been taken.
You shall respond: I have not been to see myself.
They will insist: Everything has been spoken.
You shall reply: I have not had my say.
They will tell you: Everything has been done.
You shall reply: My way is not complete.
You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard.
Fear not. You are the gate – you, the gatekeeper.
And you shall go through and on . . .
—Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis, THIRD WISH
ARTIST: CASEY KLAHN
from The Painter by Neil Young
The painter stood Before her work She looked around every where She saw the pictures and she painted them She picked the colors from the air Green to green Red to red Yellow to yellow In the light Black to black When the evening comes Blue to blue In the night
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
Search American Digest’s Back Pages
Contemplation of the Sword
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide.
The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel,
formerly used to kill men, but here
In the sense of a symbol. The sword: that is: the storms
and counter-storms of general destruction; killing
of men,
Destruction of all goods and materials; massacre, more or
less intentional, of children and women;
Destruction poured down from wings, the air made accomplice,
the innocent air
Perverted into assassin and poisoner.
The sword: that is: treachery and cowardice, incredible
baseness, incredible courage, loyalties, insanities.
The sword: weeping and despair, mass-enslavement,
mass-torture, frustration of all hopes
That starred man’s forehead. Tyranny for freedom, horror for
happiness, famine for bread, carrion for children.
Reason will not decide at last, the sword will decide.
from Preludes
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
from Canto CXV BY EZRA POUND
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
“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’.”
Ferreya
ARTIST: GIBSON
Edwin Deakin, American
Hillegas
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Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
The scientists are in terror
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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.