Second World War vet turns 100 with a socially distanced party — and a parade

I'm happy for Mr. Robert Spencer and especially for the fact that he survived the massive crimes committed by the various governments in WWII. I hope he has a happy birthday.

There is a lot of cognitive dissonance in this comments section, though.

Consider this comment,

"Pretty cool !! A special thx for your many sacrifices, from my grandchildren, children & especially myself. We live free & enjoy life because of people like you."

Live free?

... even though the report clearly states, "This year's Remembrance Day will be difficult for Spencer. Thanks to COVID-19 (not COVID-19 - government lockdowns, I.E. health fascism,) he won't be able to share the moment in person with other veterans."

So, remind me, what was all of the fighting about?

Second World War vet turns 100 with a socially distanced party — and a parade

Wow! Is this a miracle? My overlords have graciously allowed this one to see the light of day! It's almost like... living free.

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Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it.

Not News

Given all the stink going on right now respecting the claim that Donald Trump has lost the 2020 presidential election against an old man who, for all intents and purposes, didn't even run, it should not surprise anyone that the Democrats cheated their asses off. It's to be expected.

I won't list all of the obvious tip-offs indicating the election was stolen. There's plenty of information about that on the internet in spite of the gargantuan efforts of the Fake News media to cover it all up, along with the congenital criminal mentality of most of those who call themselves Democrats.

I will just give you a broad outline of why I know that they cheated in this election.

First of all, the vast majority of Democrats are leftists. Regardless of whatever else leftists may call themselves, from "liberal," to "socialist," to "democratic socialist," etc. the common thread in their ideology is the idea that some people are born to work and produce, while another group have the right to benefit from that production. Hence their angry demands for evermore free stuff, like free money (INCLUDING Basic Income,) education, health care, and so on. In other words, they believe in slavery.

It cannot be denied, not for a millisecond that leftists are strong defenders of property rights. Superficially, this makes no sense, since they are also the ones who so adamantly attack property rights. "Property is theft," is one of their sayings. But when you get right down to the nitty-gritty and examine their demands what do you find? They are all about wanting something for nothing. While no leftist will admit it openly their basic credo is, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine."

Though I am no saint, I have never supported this leftist model of social organization for the simple reason that I cannot see it working in the long run. It's unsustainable, to use a fashionable term. It's simple economics. People respond to incentives. If prices go up, people buy less and vice-versa. And in a society organized in accordance with leftist "principles" productive activity is disincentivized, while sloth and irresponsibility are rewarded. The trajectory of this upside-down incentive system is too easy to see. To each according to his need, regardless of whether that beneficiary lifts one finger to satisfy his own needs.

Theft is baked right into the leftist cake.

And since those who are being deprived of that which they earned tend to resist such an indignity, the left must devise ways of extracting those things of value they believe they have a right to.

And as every taxi driver soon learns, those who want something for nothing will lie, cheat, and steal to get it.

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From the COVID-19 File

Panicked COVID Man

News? Or Propaganda?

More Evidence on how the Fast News media deceives its audience through omission.

Gorge until you Puke

Life was a lot easier back when I thought I knew everything, or at least, everything one needed to know.

I try to visualize the info-blast, and its impact on the brain.

I got the idea just now, after checking my emails, and finding a deluge of information and opinion, and suddenly,

I felt totally overwhelmed.

Books I had read as a teenager by Alvin Toffler and Marshall McLuhan, though I NEVER understood McLuhan, other than to deduce that the medium is, somehow, the message, that the thought of Western Man is linear and sequential (White Supremacy?) and that the impact of electronic media was going to be GIGANTIC.

The wheel is an extension of the foot.

The hammer is an extension of the hand.

Electronic media is an extension of the nervous system.

"Global Village."

And just now, after deleting all of those emails, I thought of this:

So much tantalizing material, yet so little energy and time.

Back in the day, as we Boomers like to say, you had to really dig for information.

Oh, yeah, you could buy a newspaper for "information" for a quarter and get some "information."

It was good for some things, like the classified ads, if you were looking for a job or an apartment, or an available product you were sure to find what you needed.

But if you had an interest in politics or economics, you would have to look elsewhere. Of course, most newspaper readers never realized that.

Though I didn't realize it at the time, I had developed a taste for "alternate news" way back in the 1970s. I had to buy money orders and mail my subscriptions into the U.S. to get subscriptions to publications like "The Freeman" from FEE and Liberty and Reason magazines.

I was always hungry for the news behind the "news." And I still am but WOW! I think it is coming to a point where I am starting to get sick of it.

Like the time my parents had a bag full of mini Oh Henry bars left over after Halloween. That was back when wearing masks was a kind of a joke, (get it?) So they left it on the top shelf in the kitchen cupboard, thinking it was too high for us kids to get at them. Parents are so dumb sometimes.

So, of course, I pilfered a whole shitload of them. And I got so fucking sick that I couldn't eat another Oh Henry for the next forty years, and I think I have not had more than one since then.

And now I am starting to, well, think of that experience, and associate it with the deluge of information now in front of me, and feel a little bit sick.

I can't honestly say, right at this moment, whether a sudden nauseating reaction to more information would be a good thing or a bad thing.

But knowing myself as I do, I will probably ignore my own advice and continue to gorge, until I puke, as I did this evening.

We Aren't Living in a Sane world.

Spindemic

"On Tuesday, Hamilton public health said three-quarters of those who are sick are women."

Sick?

Or returning a positive PCR test?

People should understand the difference. The Spectator obviously doesn't.

ONE person reported being sick.

One.

And, "No one that public health is aware of has been hospitalized, public health said Friday."

So, in the end, this is just another "casedemic."

How were so many infected?

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Raging Casedemic

Update: December 31, 2021

From the CHCH Evening "News" report - Dec 24, 2021:

Store Owner goes Kulak.

Some Kulaks destroyed their own farms and slaughtered their animals rather than surrender them to the collective farms.

Stock up on food. At some point, this collectivization of all Western economies may lead to starvation. People living in cities who have no means to grow their own food will be the worst off.

What we can see happening today is a rough outline, in the more modern form of government/corporate cronyism, of the collectivism that occurred in the Soviet Union under Stalin.

Small businesses are being destroyed en masse, while giant corporations are reaping in profits hand over fist.

Former small business owners, and their employees, will have no choice but to join the modern version of the collective farms to survive on minimum wages.

Those collecting CERB will eventually be cut off, either because there will be no more money, or because central bank money printing will eventually result in catastrophic prise increases for all goods and services, and the $2 Gs per month in CERB won't buy a cup of coffee.

All of this will be triggered by the psychotic response to a virus that is comparable to a serious seasonal flu. When the true cost finally hits, it will be like a tsunami.

The screaming Karens will WISH they had just minded their own business instead of demanding that everyone else modify their behavior to protect them from risk.

This didn't just happen. All of the pieces were in place before Wuhan hit. Wuhan was just the glue that puts all of the pieces neatly into place.

The death toll from the ideological virus of collectivism will be at least several orders of magnitude larger than the toll from COVID-19.

That means BILLIONS.

There is still time to turn it all around, but I doubt that will happen. Liberalism was once synonymous with libertarianism, but it mutated. And mutated. And mutated, until it came to become synonymous with communism, the exact opposite of its original meaning. And it is unquestionably the idea that has the mind of the world in its grip, like a steel trap. It is the most powerful belief system in the world. It dwarfs all religions. It permeates the mass mind of humanity. It may never go away.

Or it might, but that would require near extinction of the human species to the point that the survivors exist in isolation. Government mandates won't be needed. Communication will revert to drumbeats and smoke signals.

Because of the fact that the boomers managed to avoid the horrors and deprivations of the first half of the twentieth century and are less likely to have to endure the horrors to come, I think it can be said that we WERE the luckiest generation in history. Communism was still widely perceived as the enemy.

"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times." -- ― G. Michael Hopf

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." -- Ayn Rand