Blue states are very busy euthanizing themselves, but life remains great here in the red state heartland.
Something Wonderful: The Good Life
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Only by Fire is Fascism Finished
Year upon year in Earth’s darker forests,
Heaped at the foot of the trees,
Dry drifts of wood rot and leaf fall increase
Which sunlight shall never seize.
The vampire by sunlight or stake.
The wolfman by silver in bone.
The demon by bell, book, and pentagram.
The fascist by fire alone.
The ash that descends in the September skies
Where the leapers swam down the stones?
Best answered by bombs from mid-heaven at prayer
With that fire which hollows the bones.
The vampire by sunlight or stake.
The wolfman by silver in bone.
The demon by bell, book, and pentagram.
The fascist by fire alone.
If their god decrees war, God’s war shall prevail.
His lessons are seared in His stone.
No dreams shall defer, nor wishes erase,
The answers that burn in the bone.
The vampire by sunlight or stake.
The wolfman by silver in bone.
The demon by bell, book, and pentagram.
The fascist by fire alone.
Only by Fire is Fascism Finished.
This Sin is demanded that Your Line may Live.
Only through Fire is Freedom Reborn.
Each generation pulls the Sword from the Stone.
— Van der Leun
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If only we could give Cook County to Wisconsin.
Thank you for this, Gerard. Everything has been so horribly depressing lately. Sometimes simple and sweet can hit the spot. Song made me a little misty. My wife went to a Judy Collins concert not so long ago. She said that Judy’s voice is just as clear and fine as it was when this song was recorded.
JWM
Some people only see this stuff in videos.
I see it everyday with my eyeballs.
I’m richer than I seem, and know it, and appreciate it.
Oh sure, you get to see deer cavorting.. whoop-de-doo.
But have you ever seen a pack of rats running down a subway platform, fighting over a slice of Famous Ray’s pizza?? Or a flock of seagulls …real seagulls, not that whiny British synth band…
dogging the stern of the Staten Island Ferry, grabbing french fries that hoodies from Stapleton are tossing in the air??
No? Man, you haven’t seen it all.
Too bad we can’t post pictures. One of my lophophora flowered this morning. That is a rare sight.
JWM

So let it be written. So let it be done.
Grinning! My day has been made, and I thank you for it!
It’s hard to appreciate just how tiny these are in real life.
JWM
Way off topic but.. Gerard, can someone reach Old Remus? He has not posted in three consecutive tuesdays. This is troubling to me. He is an anchor and if he is missing, moving, shaking, I guess for some reason I need to know.
All the mid country/fly over states are under attack. They are being invaded by groups of out of state liberals (WA State). These young people are being moved in to flood the voting process, to act as agents of change, to take jobs away from the local middle class.
Here is one example:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/technology/tiktok-grandma-trump-biden.html
Are there any R people out there acting so creatively? Or, are they just all waggin on about their guns?
I’ve written to Remus but have not heard back and no news is no news.
A most appropriate title,Something Wonderful:The Good Life.
Funny how the lyrics mean so much more today than they did then.
That blue camo dog at the 2.00 part is a k-9 to keep. Sweet.
Rats and sea gulls eating pizza and french fries?
That’s what you’re bringing to the table?
When I was an EMT on a call to a run down urban housing development I saw a very young negro child whose fingers were chewed off by members of the rodentia class. I lived in Florida for 40 years and once saw about a hundred sea gulls devouring a beached dolphin, vulture style, and it was ghastly. So yeah, nunnya, I’m familiar with those things too. I prefer the rural wildlife.
A good decade ago plus I was on an evening walk on the pier in Santa Cruz CA. Someone was feeding a large seal some people food. It barfed on his leg.