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Remember June 6, 1944
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Things seem to be going well.
Thank you hawkeydjb, I had the same thought.
It doesn't even pay for you to go to bed at night! Pretty sunrises.
hawkeyedjb said...
Remember June 6, 1944"
Well said. That is what we should be remembering today and not the phoney martyr created by the Communists.
The road less traveled by these days in center Mass is more likely to have deer ticks with Lyme disease.
I love seeing the peaceful protests tonight. Hopefully nothing or no one will agitate or instigate violence.
"Take your bow, O Hiawatha,
Take your arrows, jasper-headed,
Take your war-club, Puggawaugun,
And your mittens, Minjekahwun,
And your birch-canoe for sailing,
And the oil of Mishe-Nahma,
So to smear its sides, that swiftly
You may pass the black pitch-water;
Slay this merciless magician,
Save the people from the fever
That he breathes across the fen-lands,
You know what you know.
'Aim For Center Mass!"
... should be the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism's slogan
might tick off some people, but 2A folks'll luv it!!
I think the things would be all right at the end....
Hey, check out this one also....
On the eve of D-Day General Eisenhower wrote a note to be read over the radio in case the D-Day invasion failed.
"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."
The note was later found crumbled in his shirt pocket by his Naval aide. I'm trying to figure out which modern politician would have taken the blame for things going wrong. Certainly none of the Democrats! Nothing that goes wrong is ever their fault. Probably not even Trump, for all I admire him. Maybe Rand Paul in the Senate, but nobody else in either party that holds a Senate seat. To paraphrase Noonan, we are governed by people who are very, very small inside.
"Remember June 6, 1944"
Baseball was played through the War, but I just found out that all the June 6 games were cancelled.
Over in Michigan barber Karl Manke beat Governor Whitmer in a 7-0 unanimous ruling by the state Supreme Court. Way to go Karl!
these days, with talk of sparking protests, riots, and controversy
...is there any concerted effort to ...spark Joy?
“In times of universal upheaval, sparking joy is a revolutionary act”.
(not referring to destructive Leftist's perverse glee)
Protesting is easy and mindless. The left has always been useless because even in the few circumstances they identify the correct policy to oppose their policy proscriptions are almost always irrelevant at best and usually counterproductive . Instead of addressing the problem their recommendations are political.
For example in the past their anti-police movement has entirely focused on race preferences in leadership and membership, sensitivity training, or community oversight. In every circumstance the "remedy" is jobs for politically active minorities. Every one of these recommendations has been enacted and failed to improve the circumstances they were intended to address. Unsurprisingly most leftists continue to recommend them because they solve the problem they are most concerned with: employment demand for left wing activists.
While the BLM demands fall in this useless category [defund police, give us their money] I've been encouraged to note some organizations have outlined more thoughtful reforms which could conceivably help. What I note though is that when left wing organizations finally get serious they adopt the recommendations libertarians have pushed for decades. We could have saved some time and quite a few lives if the left prioritized solutions rather than their own institutional power.
Of course then there's Crack Emcee hoping to get a payoff for the dead bodies, so not everyone is on board yet.
I don't know if Drew Brees, a sad little man, ever reads what I write.
But that sad little man sold out his grandparents, who fought the enemy, in order to keep his sad little job playing a game that is, after all, just a game for people who can't make real achievements in this world.
Drew, you little man, you need to respect braver men than yourself, and not sell them out. You disgust me.
I'd wager that the only reason many young people are going to protests now is because it's the only place they can hang out together in a group without some nasty old Inga/Karen calling the cops on them.
P.J. O'Rourke said the main reason he went to anti-war protests in the '60's was to pick up chicks.
Inga's friends created a food desert on the South Side of Chicago:
"CHICAGO (CBS) — It was bad before and it’s even worse now.
Food deserts in some South Side communities have even fewer choices for groceries after the weekend’s violence.
For neighbors, the Jewel-Osco on 75th is the grocery store. But no longer.
“It’s kind of a sad thing to think about,” said resident William Wright. “I take my grandma here every Sunday.”
On Sunday night, it was ravaged by looters, as you can see by the aftermath captured in video from the next day, leaving neighbors frustrated.
“It’s not what you do. It’s how do you do it,” Wright said. “What did we accomplish, aside from take our property value down and embarrass ourselves?”
Wright, his grandmother and so many around here are trying to figure out which stores on the South Side are even left right now."
Inga doesn't give a shit. There are plenty of grocery stores in her neighborhood.
Lyme disease
Racist.
Lol, there is nothing left to loot, Inga and ARM.
look, i am not a big fan of "professional football players".
I know lots of guys who played football in high school or at the service academies and went on to have the sort of jobs real men have, instead of staying in their little groove playing "professional football" and being bossed around by the type of sad loser older man that coaches football teams.
that being said, i can't figure out why little Drew Brees, with his stupid bald head, sold out the real men who were his grandparents (who fought in WWII - and trust me, I fought in a war, and I am glad Drew Brees was not there with me, I am glad he was home with the womenfolk)and said they were not important enough for him to continue to salute the flag, in their memory, and that he is gonna go along with people who disrepect the flag (and his war hero grandfathers, both of whom had courage in their hearts that little Drew apparently cannot even imagine).
Maybe I am missing something or maybe little Drew Brees is just a steroid freak, and a cheater (well his boss did get suspended for a season for cheating - for God's sake, what kind of man cannot even play games with honesty?)
Hey Drew, if you are reading this, a hundred years from now, people are gonna remember you as that fat cowardly kid who sold out his brave grandparents.
Howard said...
The road less traveled by these days in center Mass is more likely to have deer ticks with Lyme disease.
You is kind of a 'glass half empty' sort of guy, aren't you, Howard?
ok, this might not be exactly "sparked joy",
...but does schadenfreude count?
Hell's Angels vs Antifa
According to various reports on social media, several biker gangs coalesced to prevent an Antifa demonstration from taking place in Placerville, California.
Crack is a hell of a drug.
Trying to explain to myself the violence of the past week: (This is probably not very original so I will be brief) A generation raised on 'America the Ill,' 'America the Racist,' America the Oppressor'. That is a heavy load of guilt for a young generation to bear. An event comes along that 1) confirms the aforementioned categories; 2) offloads the guilt onto the one group of uniformed citizens with license to kill; 3) permits smashing and looting under the benevolent eyes of authority - an authority that has been softened up with near constant accusations of "racism!"
An even shorter version:
Where does all this go? The snowflakes have landed but they are not melting away on the hard stone of reality ... reality is melting away ... are they really snowflakes ...?
Inga: "I love seeing the peaceful protests tonight. Hopefully nothing or no one will agitate or instigate violence."
For many, the damage from Inga and Howard's Heroes is already done:
"Chicago’s South Side Left With Few Food Options After Weekend Violence"
"For neighbors, the Jewel-Osco on 75th is the grocery store. But no longer.
“It’s kind of a sad thing to think about,” said resident William Wright. “I take my grandma here every Sunday.”
On Sunday night, it was ravaged by looters, as you can see by the aftermath captured in video from the next day, leaving neighbors frustrated.
“It’s not what you do. It’s how do you do it,” Wright said. “What did we accomplish, aside from take our property value down and embarrass ourselves?”
Wright, his grandmother and so many around here are trying to figure out which stores on the South Side are even left right now.
Chicago now has food deserts in places that weren’t food deserts before.
“Bronzeville Mariano’s was looted, the Walmart on 47th was looted. Jewel,” said activist William Calloway.
And the food deserts that were there before are worse now."
It's those MAGA hat guys again....just like the ones that attacked Jussie Smollett.
In fact, EXACTLY like the ones that attacked Jussie Smollett......
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/06/george-w-bush-donald-trump/
@AA/
I hope you realize you're slowly killing your overnite "cafe" via "moderation." As of 12:40AM CST, you have a paltry nine--count 'em--nine comments showing. You're literally throwing the proverbial baby out with the bath-water. Wake up and smell the covfefe!
Interesting and aligns with other state by state polling:
Chris Stigall✔@ChrisStigall
Pennsylvania primary results:
(R) Trump 748,110 (80% reporting)
(D) Biden 572,691 (60% reporting)
Sanders 141,106
2012 Obama 616,102 total votes
"And judging by the numbers so far, President Trump drew voters out in force. With almost 98 percent of districts counted, Republicans have cast more than 861,000 ballots for Donald Trump, with 734,000 Democrats voting for Joe Biden.
And while it’s still unclear how many people voted in person versus mail-in ballot, some counties are reporting that Trump drew plenty of supporters out of their homes.
Four years ago, pundits dismissed the overwhelming number of Trump signs posted on back roads, farms and highways in Rust Belt states as an unscientific measure of voter enthusiasm. But the signs for Trump (and lack of signs for his opponent Hillary Clinton) revealed a passion factor that traditional polls missed.
In 2020, Trump signs are once again everywhere in Pennsylvania. And Biden signs seem nonexistent."
Of course, its possible lots and lots of Biden signs were burned up in the "mostly peaceful" mass burnings of stores and properties occurring in democrat controlled areas.
Take-aways: Bernie still a problem for Biden. Enthusiasm flat for Ds.
Trump holding, beats Obama numbers 8 years earlier.
7:20 AM - Jun 3, 2020
Howard's and Inga's Heroes still active tonight:
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — "A Northern California sheriff’s deputy was killed and two law enforcement officers wounded Saturday when they were ambushed with gunfire and explosives while pursuing a suspect, authorities said.
Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, 38, was shot and killed in Ben Lomond, an unincorporated area near Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart said. A second deputy was injured, and a third officer from the California Highway Patrol was shot in his hand, Hart said."
The lefties body counts just keep rising.......
The sick religion of Social Justice.
Another entertaining social media fad genre: white beta males saying that police have never been on guard around them because of white privilege. Dude, you may have white privilege, but the reason the police aren't worried about you is because you look like a wuss.
I won't kneel.
I won't back down.
I won't apologize for the actions of anyone other than myself.
If you try to make me, I'll fight you.
I wouldn't have surrendered to the fucking Russians; I won't surrender to your sorry ass, either.
And there are millions out there just like me.
Don't push us.
I am a white guy. I want to stick up for black people who have good values. I live in a suburb of a minority-majority city. When I first moved here my neighbors on one side were black, two families across the street were black, and the neighbors on the other side were hispanic. There were lots of white people, too. We just all lived like regular neighbors. The kids played together.
All four of the neighbors I mentioned were two-income families with kids. All of their jobs were with big companies and must have come with health insurance and 401k accounts. All four families were homeowners building equity every month. All had two nice cars. Two of the four had taken in a sibling’s child, a situation which has come up in my own extended family.
I drove an old car that twice had a problem while I was in my subdivision. Both times it was black guys who immediately stopped and offered to help.
I have recently been thinking a lot about keeping the fruits of the spirit in mind as a way to have a good life. This is Paul’s list of love, joy, peace, patience, etc. He also lists the alternative mindset. It includes quarrels, fits of rage, dissensions, jealousies, a contentious temper, etc.
What goes through my mind as I watch the news this week is that we are seeing people with the second world view acting it out for all the world to see.
(Mostly) peaceful night! (Except, apparently, Portland?)
How in the heck did THAT happen?
I'm not complaining, but I am wondering. Is it that there is nothing left to loot or burn? Or is it that the state and local PDs finally figured out how to handle these things? Curfews? (No one seems to be enforcing them.) Bringing in the National Guard?
Or maybe, the Feds have rounded up the trouble-makers so all that's left are the actually peaceful protesters? I'm hoping it's the last, but that seems awfully naive.
Most coverage I saw of the huge turnouts today made them look like street fairs. People have nothing better to do (can't work - COVID!), the weather is great, and everyone just misses being around other people. I know, let's go to the protest!
I'm worried that we're getting lulled into a false sense of security here, and then once everyone starts repairing their windows and reopening their stores, the chaos will start up again. I'm really, really hoping we've nailed the bastards behind the violence, though.
Do you think maybe we could focus on what can and should be done about police brutality, then? But everyone just wants to continue the party...
Commenter rhhardin discussing scything over at Instapundit. I'm a big fan of tools that always start and never run out of gas, but start slow or you wake up the next morning feeling somewhere between a bar fight and your last motorcycle accident.
It's all a matter of scale. A long time ago, I noticed an old gentleman on a front porch watching me pull chopper boxes back to the farm so I pulled over with the last load to introduce myself. He said "In Poland we would line up 40 guys with scythes and you two kids put up more hay this afternoon than we could all summer."
I hope you realize you're slowly killing your overnite "cafe" via "moderation."
I don't think she cares anymore. It does help other blogs. There are plenty.
I see Glenn Loury released a rebuttal letter to the administration at Brown University where he is a prof. It is at City Journal.
Most excellent.
"The road less traveled by these days in center Mass is more likely to have deer ticks with Lyme disease."
Jesus, Howard. Man up. Tuck your trousers into your socks, spray on some bug dope and march on. There has always been ticks and disease.
Howie the Marine? Doesn't blouse em?
I have/had a couple of distant cousins that never made it to the beaches of Normandy. To see these "protests" materialize is insulting.
Remember Robin Carre and Dr. Beth Potter? The they were two wypipo killed by two Blacks. Unlike Ahmaud Arbery or George Floyd, they seem to have been completely innocent and law abiding. They were probably too innocent, and willfully ignorant.
Remember Robin Carre and Dr. Beth Potter? The they were two wypipo killed by two Blacks. Unlike Ahmaud Arbery or George Floyd, they seem to have been completely innocent and law abiding. They were probably too innocent, and willfully ignorant.
Mike K said, "I don't think she cares anymore. It does help other blogs. There are plenty."
Would you please make some recommendations to others with a similar style of commenting? It was you who turned me onto The Conservative Treehouse many years ago during Trayvon. While I love the posts there, the comments are not to this level.
Just read Caitlin Flanagan's review of Woody Allen's memoir. Amazing writing. Maybe especially appealed to me because like her I recently re-watched Manhattan.
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