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.
After scanning its face again and again,
I began to scale it, picking my holds
With intense caution. About half-way
To the top, I was suddenly brought to
A dead stop, with arms outspread
Clinging close to the face of the rock
Unable to move hand or foot
Either up or down. My doom
Appeared fixed. I MUST fall.
There would be a moment of
Bewilderment, and then,
A lifeless rumble down the cliff
To the glacier below.
My mind seemed to fill with a
Stifling smoke. This terrible eclipse
Lasted only a moment, when life blazed
Forth again with preternatural clearness.
I seemed suddenly to become possessed
Of a new sense. My trembling muscles
Became firm again, every rift and flaw in
The rock was seen as through a microscope,
My limbs moved with a positiveness and precision
With which I seemed to have
Nothing at all to do.
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
APT 379
Chico, Ca 95926
Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Comments on this entry are closed.
“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.