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November 13, 2020

At the Observatory Café...

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... you can make all the observations you like.

70 comments:

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: Dems Look To Quell Massive Nationwide "Ingratitude Protest" on Nov. 26

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“FRAUD VITIATES EVERYTHING”
— United States Supreme Court: United States versus Throckmorton.
link

* “Vitiates” in a legal context means negates, quashes, annuls, invalidates, revokes and abrogates

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...and maybe get to know Ron Watkins; 11/13/20, 7:30 PM
320Busdriver said...: Anyone here following attorney Lin Wood?

Lots of info there. None I’ve seen before.; 11/13/20, 7:42 PM
Humperdink said...: Amusing Amish story. I needed some help finishing a roof for a lady in our church. The men in the church worked a Saturday on it, but did not complete it. On Monday, I enlist my Amish friend Ervin to help. He brings along his young, wide-bodied friend Mosie. As I was not young anymore, I was not not going to lug bundles of shingles (75# each) up the ladder.

After watching them each carry one bundle up, I join in. The next trip I see Mosie carry two bundles up at one time. I look at Ervin and tell him: "I am not carrying two up". Ervin responds: "He's done three before".; 11/13/20, 7:49 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: raid on SCYTL per Gohmert?; 11/13/20, 7:50 PM
320Busdriver said...: raid on SCYTL per Gohmert?

Yes; 11/13/20, 8:38 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: interesting thread from Bad Kitty

https://twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/1325203412716154882; 11/13/20, 8:41 PM
Vonnegan said...: Humperdink, when my Grandfather was in his mid-80s, my mom and her sister received calls from his neighbor: the man was re-shingling his roof by himself. When they raced over to see him, his defense was that he broke the packs of shingles in 1/2 before carrying them up the ladder. They don't make people like him anymore - with the exception of your Amish friends, obviously.; 11/13/20, 8:51 PM
320Busdriver said...: Ballot marking machines like Dominion....

Critics of these new voting machines, called ballot-marking devices, said they fail to guarantee that votes are counted correctly. They prefer paper ballots filled out with a pen, not by a computer printer.

“Voter intent is best captured by a person marking on paper who they want to vote for,” said Joy Wasson, a concerned Atlanta voter.

Printed-out ballots will include the text of voters’ choices, but scanning machines will read computerized bar codes to count ballots.; 11/13/20, 8:54 PM
narciso said...: Dark comedy

https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/; 11/13/20, 8:58 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: ok Syd! Let's get kraken!!; 11/13/20, 9:13 PM
walter said...: Hard to believe a product with Chavista DNA might be concerning.
Racist much?; 11/13/20, 9:16 PM
The Godfather said...: I grew up in Connecticut, which was (I believe) the first State to have voting machines for all voting locations. These fairly primative machines required that the voter FIRST pull a Party lever, which meant a vote for ALL candidates of that Party. Then you could manually change your vote for particular offices. So a Republican voter could (say) pull the Republican Party lever, and then unvote the Republican candidate for US Senate in order to vote for the Democratic candidate Tom Dodd (this was in the 1950's). But, of course, this technology encouraged straight-ticket voting. So in 1952 snd 1956, with the immensely popular Ike at the top of the ticket, the Republicans won a lot of the down-ticket races, but in 1954 and 1958, with no Ike, the emerging Democratic majority in New England was revealed. My first Presidential vote was in 1964, and by then as I recall the mandatory Party lever had been changed to an option.; 11/13/20, 9:19 PM
Lurker21 said...: I saw the New Statesman list of best book of the year recommendations. Plenty about race and the legacy of imperialism, about Trump and Putin, also something about pandemics, the environment, and Brexit. Not much about socialism, which is surprising in a magazine that started out as in essence an organ of Britain's socialist Fabian Society.

Socialism - the working class, public ownership of the means of production, even decreasing income inequality - doesn't look like the focus of today's left. It's more post-socialism than socialism. It seems like it's more about a privileged class enjoying its privileges and claiming power in the name of its own idea of the common good than anything else. There's much emphasis on the bad old racist and imperialists, and this allows one to feel comfortable with one's own advantages because one is leading the way in kicking down old barriers and sweeping away old prejudices.

One contributor expressed great enthusiasm for Germany, ostensibly because it's embraced liberal democracy, but more likely because it hasn't, preferring instead to vest power in elites and bureaucracies and keep the populace far from the levers of power (the book he recommended is John Kampfner’s Why the Germans Do It Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country). But among the recommended books is also The Tyranny of Merit by Michael J Sandel, which could be a critique of what I've been describing above.; 11/13/20, 9:22 PM
WK said...: Lin Wood. SCYTL. Declassify everything.....
Nothing ever happens. It is always covered. Like to believe someone is interested in finding truth.
The truth is out there.; 11/13/20, 9:42 PM
Gospace said...: If the US Army (or any US government agency) seized servers in Germany, that’s huge.

Right now, I’m still going with if.; 11/13/20, 10:00 PM
Josephbleau said...: Whether the truth matters in the moment, make sure that the truth is certified legally for our posterity.; 11/13/20, 10:02 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: is Flynn the 'kraken' Powell will 'release'?

"he knows where the bodies are buried"; 11/13/20, 10:21 PM
WK said...: I’ll need to search. Who in the government is ever held accountable? Obama, Biden, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Mueller? Iran Contra. Email servers? Foreign payoffs to family? What ever happened to the Clinton Global initiative? Nothing ever happens. And recounting votes will fix this? We are all being played. Enjoy the next lockdowns.; 11/13/20, 10:22 PM
stephen cooper said...: The older I get, the more I realize that there are an awful lot of people in this world who have found love.

On Veteran's day, I was at the liquor store here in Virginia (they call them ABC stores here ) and the woman at the checkout --- well, I knew she was Ethiopian. Five foot six, sort of cute, but she worked at a liquor store and trust me, she did not want, for obvious reasons, to be flirted with ----except, because it was me, she did want to be flirted with, at least for a minute or two.

I asked her if I could get a discount, as a veteran. We talked for a while. I know an awful lot about Ethiopians, and eventually we started talking about her experiences in the Ethiopian army. It got a little too intense, so I tried to make her laugh --- I will leave out the specific things she and I said, but I did make her laugh, and I made her believe she had made me, too,laugh.

Well that is not much of a story , but the fact is , a couple days ago, on Veteran's Day, I , an old veteran from a long forgotten USA war, was able to share a few laughs with a hot 30 something Ethiopian woman who,back in the day, was in the Ethiopian Army.

That being said ---- yes it was charming that she used almost no makeup, because she knew (this went unsaid) that she had big beautiful expressive eyes, and her dark hair, pulled back but nice and thick and curly, was not something most people would notice for the beauty of her hair, which is after all the crown of beautiful women, or something like that ---- and that being said, NOBODY SHOULD CARE IF I MEET A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN AND WE SHARE A FEW MOMENTS TOGETHER, MOMENTS WHERE EACH OF US WONDER IF THE PERSON WE ARE TALKING TO IS WORTHY OF LOVE -----

the important thing is this.
I know how easily so so many people have found love in this world.

God bless them all. And for the people who have had difficulty finding love ----

well, they have people like me who are ABSOLUTELY WILLING TO LOOK THEM IN THE EYES AND TELL THEM

don't feel sorry for yourself.

YOU ARE UNIQUE AND YOUR VALUE IN THE EYES OF GOD AND NOT ONLY IN THE EYES OF GOD BUT IN THE EYES OF ALL OF US WHO KNOW WHAT THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE IS....

your value is INFINITE.

Not "almost infinite", trust me.
INFINITE.

There is nobody who can bring as much love to the world as you can.

Try and tell me I am wrong about that. You can't because I am right.; 11/13/20, 10:47 PM
walter said...: I hear ya WK. No shift in the landscape possible...; 11/13/20, 10:48 PM
Narr said...: @Lurker21 opens up book night!

First, an observation: I waste a lot of time typing on essentially expired threads. Did a 24-hour curtain fall and I missed it? Oh well, I can say it all again next week, probably.

Vy ze Chermans do it Better sounds interesting; I'm not familiar with the author, but one of my pet peeves (I have come close to posting about it several times--you just wait, though) is the infatuated and utterly a-historical notion many liberal Murkins have that Europeans are politically sophisticated, especially in their view of US/us.

But I'll take a look; not sure about the other one, Sandel's.

I'm still working through Colley's book Captives; it's not hard going at all, but I get distracted. In fact it's very good, well-conceived, sourced, and argued; British Imperial history without ornate gold framing or nostra culpas.

Some of the distractions were classic 60s paperbacks about WWII left by a wargaming friend who died last year. The few of us left paw and shuffle through the piles; looking for some we haven't read already.

HMS Warspite by Roskill-- story of a BB that was all over the globe from 1914 to 1945, a great ship in both World Wars. The rudders would get stuck from time to time, even during battle . . . I had read about Jutland but forgotten that tidbit. Served the last half of WWII with one of four turrets out of action--the RN couldn't spare what was still one of it's fastest and best-shooting ships, if not the newest and heaviest armed.

Just to stay with the Brits, despite a really good knowledge (IISSMAID) of WWII air war in Europe, the whole area of British night fighters was in darkness to me. "Bob" Braham was the RAF's top night fighter ace with 29 victories before being shot down himself in June of '44 and captured. An outstanding memoir, "Night Fighter" is honest-- he and his superior at the time, who both rose to high command, write that he was too stressed to keep flying and should have been held back. Stiff upper lips only get you so far.

And because I had to look something up the other day after a contretemp here, I was reminded that one of the really fine military historians of recent decades, H. P. (Hedley) Willmott, died this summer. He and the late John Lukacs, died last year, among others, put an ambitious amateur revisionist through some public floggings back in the day; Willmott was on the history faculty at my U for a time, and though I was a part-time grad student in the department for some of it, my studies didn't take me his way.

In the fall of 2001, after Bush the Lesser had sent the Afghan Taliban packing, Willmott (who had moved on) was invited back to give to give a lecture; I can't recall the announced topic but in the Q and A he was asked to predict what would happen in Afghanistan after the apparent great victory and liberation.

He replied immediately, that in Afghanistan the wars don't start until winter, and they can last forever . . . Now that I think of it, he lectured as part of the series that (not yet Sir) John Keegan had done maybe 15 or 20 years before IIRC--the one and only time I met Prof. Keegan.

When Willmott became interested in Pearl Harbor, he just learned Japanese so he could use the archival sources in the original. That's professional commitment.

Narr
RIP and nighty-night; 11/13/20, 10:56 PM
DavidUW said...: Government officials are only accountable when you can count their bodies swinging from the trees; 11/13/20, 11:22 PM
Yancey Ward said...: I went through the Starbucks drive through this morning for a venti mocha- $5.43. When I got to the window, the girl manning it told my order had been paid by the lady driver in front of me. I have no idea who this lady was, and she had cleared the light by the time I got back to the intersection with the Oak Ridge Turnpike. In any case, in a dark week that was nice ray of light. This is one I will pay forward the next time I do the drive through.; 11/13/20, 11:41 PM
Yancey Ward said...: On the Scytyl story- I think we are seeing increasing amounts of bullshit stories- either being spread by desperate people or as active disinformation countermeasures. I wouldn't chase this one- it is likely untrue, and even if it isn't, I am not going to waste any time with it without better information than I saw in the Gohmert tweet. The Trump people need to keep the focus on the absentee verification in Georgia, and getting similar actions in PA, AZ, and WI- Michigan is probably too hard a hill to climb, though a hand recount in certain counties would be useful information. As I wrote several days ago, the Democrats' plan is to deny recounts of any kind in WI, MI, and PA.; 11/13/20, 11:46 PM
stephen cooper said...: Narr - both Bushes were Bush the lesser.

Remember that.

And thanks for your interesting observations.; 11/13/20, 11:53 PM
walter said...: Yancey,
Think Sidney Powell is hanging herself?; 11/13/20, 11:55 PM
Readering said...: Lin Wood!

Flynn!

(That was a reassuring Starbucks starbucks story.); 11/14/20, 12:02 AM
Readering said...: Is there a still-pending lawsuit challenging Dominion machines in a close state? Asking for Giuliani, who needs to get back up to speed after being last seen resting on hotel beds this week.; 11/14/20, 12:05 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Walter,

I think she is just as likely as anyone to retweet a bullshit story- just because the lady is smart doesn't make her infallible in this regard. Look- I want stories like that to be true- desperately so, which is why I don't trust them. They are either true or they aren't, so they don't need my interest in either case.; 11/14/20, 12:06 AM
walter said...: Yancey Ward said...
Walter,
I think she is just as likely as anyone to retweet a bullshit story..
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Umm she kinda went on world-wide nets.
Did you view her statements on Dobbs?
Not exactly hedging,.; 11/14/20, 12:08 AM
narciso said...: World war 1 2 all started in the fall. Korea and vietnam in the summer. Same with the gulf war.; 11/14/20, 12:09 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Walter,

I reached the "Show Me" stage about a week ago. I hope to be proven wrong here- you can't understand how much I want to be wrong.; 11/14/20, 12:15 AM
walter said...: "Did you view her statements on Dobbs?"; 11/14/20, 12:18 AM
Yancey Ward said...: I did watch the video, Walter- it didn't change anything for me.; 11/14/20, 12:20 AM
walter said...: Ok..so..you think she is re-tweeting a bullshit story..i.e. hanging herself.
Motivation?
(She's already credible re Flynn case etc); 11/14/20, 12:25 AM
walter said...: I mean re-speaking. Kinda mo' badder.; 11/14/20, 12:27 AM
Readering said...: She is not credible on Flynn.; 11/14/20, 12:29 AM
J. Farmer said...: @narciso:

World war 1 2 all started in the fall. Korea and vietnam in the summer. Same with the gulf war.

What dates are you using for these?; 11/14/20, 12:31 AM
walter said...: Readering,
Do tell.; 11/14/20, 12:33 AM
walter said...: And readering(S), what is she wrong about now?
(those are two issues for those counting); 11/14/20, 12:46 AM
walter said...: For Fun!: random handcount of those working in private sector..; 11/14/20, 1:00 AM
walter said...: +111; 11/14/20, 1:00 AM
Nichevo said...: This raid on servers in Germany is as yet unconfirmed. Other avenues to pursue.

The thing is that the stakes are SO damned high. Get this - Althouse, if it wouldn't be beneath you:

FIGHTING TRUMP’S UNDERMINING OF OUR INSTITUTIONS BY undercutting civilian control of the military.

With press approval, natch.

8:42 pm by Glenn Reynolds

<a href="https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1327242401967181825?s=21>Link to tweet here</a>; 11/14/20, 1:14 AM
Nichevo said...: That's

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1327242401967181825?s=21

Link to tweet that I would love comment on by:

Robert Cook
J. Farmer
Howard
AA; 11/14/20, 1:16 AM
Nichevo said...: Here let me just quote the damn thing:

Jim Sciutto
@jimsciutto
·
17h
In #TheMadmanTheory, senior DOD officials told me how they fooled Trump into leaving troops on the ground:

“If you look at his tweets, they were definitive about leaving. And then we didn’t leave. And now we haven’t left, we’re still there, and that’s a good thing.”
Quote Tweet
Liz Sly
@LizSly
· Nov 13
US officials have been lying to Trump - and the American people - about the true number of US troops in Syria in order to deter him from withdrawing them, according to the outgoing Syria envoy. Trump thinks it’s 200 😂😂. By @KatieBoWill https://defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/
Show this thread; 11/14/20, 1:16 AM
walter said...: Insty must have the skinny, since no mention, right?
Stupid Dobbs!; 11/14/20, 1:21 AM
walter said...: (But see Amazon clearance!); 11/14/20, 1:25 AM
readering said...: Read John Gleeson's briefs as amicus on DOJ's motion to dismiss the Flynn criminal case. He destroyed DOJ and Flynn (and by extension his current counsel).; 11/14/20, 3:08 AM
gadfly said...: It is a fact that someone (or someones) who were part of the Jeffrey Jensen review of the Mike Flynn prosecution altered documents for public consumption. That is not speculation. It is not hyperbole. It is a fact, one that other outlets had better start replicating and enhancing if they want to prevent Barr’s green light on investigations into election irregularities, announced last night, from doing the same.

As noted, last night Barr authorized what had previously been forbidden for over forty years, DOJ’s conduct of investigations into claims of irregularities ginned up by the very same lawyers — Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani — who invented the complaints about the Flynn prosecution. One of Barr’s investigations has already altered official documents to sustain false claims. That means there’s reason to believe he would do it again, to serve the same cause. Indeed, Trump’s election loss gives Barr’s a greater incentive to repeat the process, to ensure he is not replaced by someone who would treat these alterations as a crime.; 11/14/20, 4:42 AM
n.n said...: the Mike Flynn prosecution

This was part of Obama's Water Closet, which was a cover-up by the NYT, WaPo, CNN et al, in order to protect carrying out social justice adventures (i.e. wars, coups, immigration reform a.k.a. refugee crises, and betrayal of Americans) in Iraq War 2.0, Clinton's collusion, Biden's influence peddling to the highest bidder in Kiev, Russia, and China, pedophilia, too?, and the JCPOA deal to fund Iranian sponsorship of terrorism in the Middle East and abroad.; 11/14/20, 4:53 AM
exhelodrvr1 said...: Based on what has gone on for a long time, but not really brought to light until the past four years, it looks like the U.S. will be getting the government it deserves. Unfortunately.; 11/14/20, 4:54 AM
n.n said...: DOJ’s conduct of investigations into claims of irregularities

Yes, Democrats, leftists, have been working through democratic gerrymandering, including: immigration reform, illegal alien migration (in anti-emigration reform causes), intimidation through their neo-fascist Antifa movement, their neo-KKK Some, Select Black Lives Matter (an incorporated sect of diversity and exclusion), and denying civil rights to American citizens at the ballot box through commission of mass "irregularities". This is similar to their effort to establish the rape-rape culture in order to morally, socially, and legally justify elective abortion a.k.a. planned parenthood (and other purposes e.g. Mengele/Cecile clinics) of nearly one million human lives in America alone in the Progressive Church's reproductive rites, and psychiatric peddling of various phobias founded on false premises, Obama's normalization of political congruence ("=") a sociopolitical construct to enable selective-exclusion. Democrat demands of the President to promise to step down was a foward-looking effort in anticipation of the cover-up of their plan where democracy dies in darkness. I wonder if Planned Parent in New York and other places was modeled after the Chinese communists' one-child or the Progressives' selective-child human rights models. Also, the denial and stigmatization of early treatments, their lust for alien-sourced capital (e.g. labor arbitrage, foreign-paid tuition in universities, etc.); 11/14/20, 5:06 AM
n.n said...: re: political congruence ("=")

The Rainbow (i.e. the symbolic exclusion of black, brown, and taking pride in the shredded remains of white) coalition has not been the same since trans/homosexuals appropriated popular semantics: gay and lesbians, to socially distances themselves from others in the transgender spectrum: bisexual, intersexual, neosexual, and activists took it upon themselves to conflate sex (i.e. genetic) and gender (i.e. physical and mental - sexual orientation - attributes). So much for COEXIST, another liberal (i.e. divergent) movement a la diversity (i.e. color judgment) and exclusion, not limited to racism, sexism.; 11/14/20, 5:12 AM
stevew said...: Watched the David Lynch version of Dune again last night. Lordy what a mess of movie that is. The special effects make it obvious when it was made. Pretty good cast - Patrick Stewart of all people. I had read the book and looked forward to the movie. Was terrifically disappointed at the time. Watching last night mrs. stevew and I just laughed at the disjointed absurdity. We should have gotten stoned before watching.

I'm hopeful and expecting that the new version will be substantially better, in all areas. Bummer that the release is postponed. Just another victim of Covid.

Maine has reinstated the travel ban (required quarantine or negative Covid test) on Massachusetts. Those damn Massholes are at it again with their sloppy approach to this pandemic.; 11/14/20, 5:13 AM
rehajm said...: At this point why wouldn't Georgia lie about the runoff results, too?; 11/14/20, 5:16 AM
n.n said...: Socialism - the working class, public ownership of the means of production, even decreasing income inequality - doesn't look like the focus of today's left. It's more post-socialism than socialism.

Socialism and other Marxist derivatives have always been about consolidating capital and control in minority hands. This is where progress is made and millions of lives are sacrificed as amoral (e.g. "ethical") ambitions are not tempered by competing interests, and policies like the Progressive Church's final solution/wicked solution are enacted and normalized in a forward-looking vision with long-term consequences.; 11/14/20, 5:16 AM
rehajm said...: ....meanwhile in the part of the GOP sweep the Democrats didn't care about the Republicans are picking off House seats even in CA. Surprising those democrat old farts with women and minorities filling the seats. All racists according to those old farts...; 11/14/20, 5:21 AM
Marcus Bressler said...: Readering said...
She is not credible on Flynn.

Many of your statements may be dismissed as your POV. This one proves you're a fool. She, single-handedly, has rescued Flynn from a unlawful conviction and an undeserved prison sentence. You should only pray that someone so valiant and prepared would represent you in your time of need.; 11/14/20, 5:33 AM
Rosa Marie Yoder said...: Peaceful photograph. I wonder if, on a warmer day, you can sit on that hill and have a picnic.; 11/14/20, 6:46 AM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: who watches the watchers?

Smartmatic, founding member of the DHS Council to protect election integrity and security

This council on Election Security is a collaborative effort between the Department of Homeland Security, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED), the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), state and local election officials, and other election technology providers.

https://www.smartmatic.com/us/media/article/smartmatic-founding-member-of-the-dhs-council-to-protect-election-integrity-and-security/

Smartmatic teamed up with a Venezuelan software company, #Bitza, which at the time was 28 percent owned by Chavez’s government.

Dominion bought Diebold/Premier, Sequoia.
Dominion uses Smartmatic software

https://t.co/g77HHLKfTV?amp=1
https://t.co/MvVNhJEQqr?amp=1
https://t.co/REoGOrtvpd?amp=1
https://t.co/jt9U98Ysmt?amp=1

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SOSP--A small tax-exempt political group with ties to wealthy liberals like billionaire financier George Soros has quietly helped elect progressive Democrats as secretaries of state to oversee the election process in battleground states

Known as the Secretary of State Project (SOSP), the organization was formed by liberal activists in 2006 to put Democrats in charge of state election offices, where key decisions often are made in close races on which ballots are counted and which are not.

...and where did Jeffrey Dean end up?; 11/14/20, 7:36 AM
Michael K said...: Blogger Readering said...
She is not credible on Flynn.

Desperation is the standard of the left. Black is white. Up is down.; 11/14/20, 9:13 AM
mockturtle said...: n.n. observes: Socialism and other Marxist derivatives have always been about consolidating capital and control in minority hands.

Exactly. Because the revolutionary elites know better than the masses how their money should be appropriated and spent.; 11/14/20, 9:44 AM
Readering said...: Gee, when did I get elevated from commenter to blogger?

Awake the Kraken! Is that up or down?; 11/14/20, 11:27 AM
Narr said...: @mockturtle, save electrons: The revolutionary elites know better. Full stop.

Narr
And too many other people agree; 11/14/20, 11:30 AM
mockturtle said...: My daughter just heard from her friend in Tuscany who said it will be a Red Zone [lockdown] after midnight their time. She pointed out that Italy is still accepting boatloads of African refugees, however...; 11/14/20, 11:49 AM
Narr said...: That's interesting, mock, but not surprising. One of the main lessons of Murray's book the Strange Death of Europe is that acceptance, if not encouragement of what n.n. calls anthropogenic population change, doesn't have any coherent basis beyond vague humanitarianism or any notion of when enough is enough, and the elites have chosen, as they have here, to simply make certain topics out-of-bounds.

I hope to cram as much Euro-travel as I can into my remaining years, before things unravel entirely.

Narr
If I'm ever allowed back in; 11/14/20, 12:14 PM
mockturtle said...: Mark Steyn in 2006 forecast the demise of Europe in America Alone but I see America's demise, as well.; 11/14/20, 12:55 PM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: Mark Steyn in 2006 forecast the demise of Europe in America Alone but I see America's demise, as well.

Yeah. Considering how gloomy he usually is (while still being funny..), it's sad that even his moment of optimism turned out gloomy in real life.; 11/14/20, 1:35 PM
Michael K said...: Narr, I went to Europe in 2015 for the 200th anniversary of Waterloo. Stayed with friends and toured the battlefield. Read Bernard Cornwell's book first. We also went to Ypres and some of the cemeteries. One great place was a museum that the children of a farmer had made of the farm after WWI. Part of a trench is preserved.

I think the third generation is keeping it up now. Lots of gear they have found on the property.

Anyway, that will do it for us.; 11/14/20, 1:36 PM
Narr said...: Ideally, I'd rent a car out of Berlin or Prague and drive myself gradually Westward, or the converse, west to east.

See as many 7YW, Napoleonic, and Franco-Prussian sites as I could in ten days or two weeks.

World Wars later; of course there's overlap.

Narr
Drove myself around Waterloo, Ligny, and QB in 1978.; 11/14/20, 5:18 PM