WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Tweeting Tonight, Tweeting Tonight, Tweeting on the Old Twit Ground
byVanderleunonJune 25, 2021
And now some Chinese EV ride-hailing startups are beginning to fail. Bad as the dockless bike-sharing tech bubble was, this has the potential to be so much worse.https://t.co/sUOMUY8MrB
[L ph: GregAbandoned] pic.twitter.com/2F28XUdMtf
‘You’ll Never Beat The Government With Just Guns,’ Says Party That Also Believes Government Was Almost Toppled By Unarmed Mob On January 6https://t.co/NX4eJCfVe3
We actually ended racism; aside from a few weirdos there just aren’t many real racists left.
So, they hit upon the idea of ‘systemic’ racism: Basically, we are all racists and we just don’t know it.
Racism thus never ends so those who profit can continue to do so.
— OccasionalBrainiac (@OccasionalBrai1) June 22, 2021
It’s simply because the people who profited off of the civil rights movement weren’t about to go home and find a new job after they achieved equality in the law. Same way feminists will never be satisfied these race hustlers will never be satisfied.
One of the very few to build like this today, @1000yearhouse in Oklahoma, USA, and he trains others. None of these apprentices knew how to lay brick, carve stone or cut timber before they started. Beautiful progress video. https://t.co/O9NrFPH1ZMpic.twitter.com/5IKZu8CV2K
“Once our authoritarian technics consolidates its powers, with the aid of its new forms of mass control, its panoply of tranquilizers and sedatives and aphrodisiacs, could democracy in any form survive? That question is absurd: Life itself will not survive.” — Lewis Mumford, 1964 pic.twitter.com/filJSVKAh8
I had to re-read the first bit a couple times, to realize the bike-sharing grift was described as “DOCK-less.” I kept thinking it was that other, tranny, thing.
Dan PattersonJune 26, 2021, 9:16 AM
Good Saturday morning one and all. An excellent collection of thoughts and points in this post and I appreciate the optimism in some and honesty in others.
The Glenn Loury, Charles Murray conversation, however well-intentioned it is, is another category. Foolishness. Not between the two of them; they relate to one another on an academic and cultural level and do so quite well. But the idea that the conversation they are having, and the points they agree upon can be taken outside that circle and applied to urban neighborhoods is Pollyanna in the extreme. Those sites are brimming with generally lower than average IQ fatherless young men with tendencies toward violence, and lower than average IQ females waiting to pounce on a weaker subject, all to show dominance and elicit submission. The chick with a shaved head and huge hoop earrings standing with her fist in a Marxist salute beside a burning cop car in DC last year isn’t interested and neither are her gaggle of “You GO Grllll” followers. Same with the twerkers on the ambulances, same with the fools in antifa outfits mad at some damned thing or other. No. In your Sunday School class, maybe Charles, but not “in da sshtreets”.
Apologies for being a grouch, but the poor excuse we have for a society has made me see the light
Gordon ScottJune 27, 2021, 9:55 PM
Tje guy who installs the water filters is a kind and thoughtful guy. I try to use that level of foresight myself when doing installations.
Mike-SMOJune 30, 2021, 7:36 PM
CRT is a drum, the only instrument they have, so they’ll beat it. Sort of like Tulips in the Netherlands, if only you will just believe…..
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Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
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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.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Gerard Van der Leun
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I had to re-read the first bit a couple times, to realize the bike-sharing grift was described as “DOCK-less.” I kept thinking it was that other, tranny, thing.
Good Saturday morning one and all. An excellent collection of thoughts and points in this post and I appreciate the optimism in some and honesty in others.
The Glenn Loury, Charles Murray conversation, however well-intentioned it is, is another category. Foolishness. Not between the two of them; they relate to one another on an academic and cultural level and do so quite well. But the idea that the conversation they are having, and the points they agree upon can be taken outside that circle and applied to urban neighborhoods is Pollyanna in the extreme. Those sites are brimming with generally lower than average IQ fatherless young men with tendencies toward violence, and lower than average IQ females waiting to pounce on a weaker subject, all to show dominance and elicit submission. The chick with a shaved head and huge hoop earrings standing with her fist in a Marxist salute beside a burning cop car in DC last year isn’t interested and neither are her gaggle of “You GO Grllll” followers. Same with the twerkers on the ambulances, same with the fools in antifa outfits mad at some damned thing or other. No. In your Sunday School class, maybe Charles, but not “in da sshtreets”.
Apologies for being a grouch, but the poor excuse we have for a society has made me see the light
Tje guy who installs the water filters is a kind and thoughtful guy. I try to use that level of foresight myself when doing installations.
CRT is a drum, the only instrument they have, so they’ll beat it. Sort of like Tulips in the Netherlands, if only you will just believe…..