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June 9, 2025
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John Derbyshire recorded his 1000th and final podcast last week. He just turned 80 and decided he had had enough. Congratulations to John and best wishes for the future.
On another thread I was talking about the brilliance of Stanley Crouch. He was a jazz critic and he later branched out into discussing politics, including race. Really honest guy, and a great writer. My favorite writer on race, actually. I haven't read him in a couple of decades but now I want to go back and read more of his stuff.
It's funny but another jazz critic, Nat Hentoff, would also branch out into politics, and he became a ferocious free speech advocate and a fearless pro-lifer.
Jazz critics rock!
Race car driver takes his wife for a lap an oldie I had forgotten
Besides Sly Stone, I see that Frederick Forsyth died today also.
I have nothing to say about jazz, but I I know what I like.
And I like it!
I have a cousin who just sold his house in an upscale neighborhood of Austin. He can't decide whether to purchase a downsized house in another upscale neighborhood or move to Europe until this awful regime is voted out in 2028. He's the type that posts all the internet articles claiming Trump is a dictator, Trump has dementia, everything is awful, Medicare and Social Security will be taken away, you name it. I hope he chooses Europe.
An acquaintance of mine posted a link to an MSNBC (?) article about a family of mother, daughter and granddaughter were arrested in Milwaukee for speaking Spanish. They are from Puerto Rico and therefore US citizens. The usual "Nazi" outrage ensued. I tried to find if anyone else had the article or if it was verified. Nope. Just that one article based out of some "source" in Puerto Rico. John Henry, do you know anything about it? Obviously the outraged ones haven't bothered to check into its veracity. I've learned to do that with anything that seems to be a bit over the top. Both sides.
..."who were arrested..."
Let's Go Blue
Bio weapon 2
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/06/09/another-chinese-researcher-caught-smuggling-agricultural-bioweapons-into-michigan/#more-272856
The sunrise pix have been impressive (on non rainy days) for the last two weeks. Canadian wildfires?
CA Atty Gen Bonta says the riots were mostly peaceful until Trump sent in the National Guard. It's all Trumps fault.
An ABC reporter said the protests "could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators."
Saint Croix at 634 - Agree strongly. Stan & Nat are/were top notch.
Ducks on Parade! Well, I suppose it is better than tanks, artillery, and thousands and thousands of marching soldiers on parade. Let's just pray they don't start goose-stepping.
BG - regarding the viral report from back in January that some Puerto Rican family was detained in Milwaukee when overheard speaking Spanish: nothing from that report originally spread by Telemundo was ever verified. The (D) governor’s office, a Milwaukee (D) Hispanic alderman, the local and surrounding police offices, local media, etc. all reported that nothing in the viral report was confirmed; ICE denied it also. It was completely fabricated, but apparently some suckers fell for it and are still repeating it. Adding to their gullibility is the fact that if you google the viral report, Google’s AI Overview repeats tons of details about the false report and public reaction to it, while only making tiny mention about the fact that no one (even biased interests) were able to verify anything in the report. Talk about fake news!
Someone in this country illegally who commits a crime, any crime, especially violent crime, is making war upon the United States, by definition, and is also then, by definition, an unlawful combatant. I'm referring to anything over and above the fact that if they're here unlawfully- a crime in itself- they are, also by definition, invaders.
Time to start giving all of them the due process they are entitled to as unlawful combatants, trial by court martial, with sentences determined by the court. Using the UCMJ for guidance. There's a lot of capital crimes in the UCMJ.
If anyone wants to make the argument that by attacking Americans or violating the law they are not making war upon the United States, explain your logic. Especially if it's a violent crime. Such as rioting while carrying the flag of another nation.
I had to wait for about twenty Canada geese crossing a four lane road at midday. Fortunately traffic was light and most drivers here are considerate. You can tell who is from the north when they use the horn at all…usually cattle prod style…but as I said are considerate here. Also armed with large capacity mags…
…and a few hummingbirds after a quick and violent thunderstorm. I’ll have to keep the feeders going I guess…
The political leader has the monopoly of force. And Trump is showing on the streets of Los Angeles that he has the monopoly of force and that he knows how to mobilize and use it. All who care to look are being warned.
We're doing Thomas Hobbs here, not George Washington.
Are we shocked when the D-hack media - do their thing? No.
On The View today Whoopi Goldberg asked whatever happened to State's Rights, in the context of a rant about Trump calling out the National Guard and Marines. I hope someone took her over to the side at some point and gently explained the Civil War to her.
Whoopi thinks it's a "states rights" issue to allow rioting and destruction of property? wow - she stupid.
From the halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Southern California
We will fight our country’s battles
In the air, on land and in the streets ……
Ha! Victor Davis Hanson wants to know why Newsom is going "Full Jefferson Davis".
https://x.com/VDHanson/status/1932074568598118736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Yeah, the Democrats are the real racists. That's always been a winner.
Yesterday I watched Peachy's No Bones. (link to original post)
Today I raise "Guy looks out of place" (link to YouTube)
I like how we can link to other peoples... outlandish comments btw. Not you Peachy.
Speaking of Google easing up on their censorship. Does anyone know if that Althouse blogpost that was taken down,, outlandishly censored has been restored? Thank you.
Duck, duck, goose?
Somehow the comment thread from the post on Shellenberger’s and Reich’s dueling articles about LA degenerated into a discussion of Bloody Sunday at the Edmund Pettus bridge in Alabama. I’m disappointed that, with the entire Internet at their fingertips, so few people seem interested in actually researching a historical event. There’s a lot of information out there; why not read first and bloviate later.
I was especially irritated that Freder-the-idiot seems to be assuming that the Civil Rights demonstrators were blocking the bridge. The demonstrators were marching. They only blocked the bridge in the sense that it takes longer for hundreds of people walking takes longer to cross a bridge than an automobile.
There were three marches. The first was Bloody Sunday, where state troopers engaged in what is best described as a police riot and clubbed peaceful marchers unconscious. The second march was terminated when word arrived that a judge had issued a temporary injunction. Thx third time the marchers got safely across the bridge and all the way to Montgomery because they were escorted by the Alabama National Guard after it was nationalized by Lyndon Johnson. at all times the marchers were truly peaceful and nonviolent, which IX in marked contrast to the people who throw chunks of cinder blocks and burn cars.
More like capriciously censored, rather than outlandish. 👆🏽
Video: LA protesters go Full-Boomer
Resurrection Boomer
Lem -
wow - Burning the flag of the host nation.
I love the capture of that red Sun ☀️
Adam
NEKORANDOM.COM
June 14th might be another day of leftist temper tantrum and destruction.
"The left is quite literally arguing that enforcing the law causes chaos and allowing lawlessness brings peace."
Kakistocracy said...
The political leader has the monopoly of force. And Trump is showing on the streets of Los Angeles that he has the monopoly of force and that he knows how to mobilize and use it. All who care to look are being warned.
We're doing Thomas Hobbs here, not George Washington.
More like Abraham Lincoln vs. Jefferson Davis. I look forward to Habeus Corpus being suspended so we can deal with the confederate fucks and their imported foreign invaders.
"Peachy said...
June 14th might be another day of leftist temper tantrum and destruction."
Might be. I'm donating platelets at noon, going to treat myself to a birthday meal afterwards, then ice cream with my daughter's family in the evening. Gonna ignore news reports.
Interesting, isn't it, that after the Russia collusion hoax and the BLM mostly peaceful riots and Joe sharp as a tack, the MSM, having learned nothing, still blithely call the riots "protests."
I beg your pardon, I never promised a rose garden.
Catchy Country Western.
wanderin' star by Lee Marvin.
Most popular song ever by a man who couldn't sing. Just croaked.
Let's just pray they don't start goose-stepping.
You are the very definition of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
A post that has absolutely nothing to do with Trump, and you turn it into some sort of Nazi delusion.
Maybe you should take a nap. Until 2029.
The Simpson's "Paint your wagon" is one their funniest satires.
But the movie could've been a hit, if the Studio Execs hadn't been morons. Eastwood and Lee Marvin - Good. But Jean seaberg? Get an actress who could sing dummy! And that crazy plot, marvin and Eastwood sharing a women - what is this haight-ashbury or the old west?
The damn thing drags on forever. Another Josh Logan disaster.
They should have got rid of stupid songs like the one about cans of beans, and I talk to the trees. And just got some good ol' western tunes. Hell, i'd rather listen to Red river valley than someone sing about a can of beans.
But keep Wanderin Star, Call the wind maria, and that comic one with Lee Marvin.
Newsom’s lawsuit against Trump was filed in the Northern District of CA, that is, San Francisco. The rebellion is in the Southern District. Case should be transferred. What a disgrace.
They should have gone old school and dubbed the singing voices
LOL. Yeah, i forgot that 700 unelected lawyers who call themselves "Judges" rule America. Well, I hope they approve of the actions of the POTUS. But if not, they're the boss. After all that's in the invisible ink Constitution.
"They should have gone old school and dubbed the singing voices."
The main problem was the songs. Not the voices. Although Clint's "talking to the trees" couldn't have been song worse.
Karen Bass has gotta go!
https://x.com/Yolo304741/status/1931915171662049772
It’s disrespectful to the audience to hire actors who can’t sing and then not dub their voices. They did the same thing in Les Miserables. Anne Hathaway butchered I Dreamed a Dream.
rhhardin said...
Race car driver takes his wife for a lap an oldie I had forgotten
A vital force that AWFL's can never possess. And she likes polenta!
We were fifteen.
1: Stanley Crouch. I spent a lot of time reading Stanley in my youth, and the greatest thing I discovered from Stanley was Albert Murray. If you haven't read Albert Murray, you should.
2: Check out Ted Gioia's substack today for the truest review of the life and career of Sly Stone. I wish everyone some hot fun in the summertime.
Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) tweets “My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement.”
He does not understand that you have to have ever had the high ground in order to lose it.
Goodbye Derbyshire, goodbye Crouch. I highly recommend George Schuyler, raised under Jim Crow, navy veteran, commie-hater, once the most famous black opinion writer in black publications in the 40s and 50s. Until he joined the JBS and called MLK a commie and a few other choice things. Schuyler wrote detective fiction based in Ethiopia and wrote for Mencken. His only daughter died in Vietmam. His wife killed herself after that. The daughter was a correspondent and a concert pianist. Many libraries have a black newspapers collection digitized. Use webcat to find the main one in NYC. Fascinating stuff. Not what you expect. You can really see how the Communist Party, USA put the screws into them and are largely responsible for their failure to overcome our segregation of them and enable them to thrive as middle-class Americans, as times changed. Schuyler saw it.
That was four minutes and thirty-nine seconds very well spent.
More to come...
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/06/09/it-looks-like-the-revolution-kiddies-are-planning-a-june-14th-party-n3803626
Stanley Crouch. I spent a lot of time reading Stanley in my youth, and the greatest thing I discovered from Stanley was Albert Murray. If you haven't read Albert Murray, you should.
Mezzrow, thanks!
From Stanley Crouch's wikipedia page
Crouch befriended Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, who influenced his thinking in a direction less centered on race. He stated with regard to Murray's influence, "I saw how important it is to free yourself from ideology. When you look at things solely in terms of race or class, you miss what is really going on."
Attended 50th HS reunion this past weekend. Went with trepidation, left with much appreciation of our brain’s ability to remember things from decades prior….and also not remember things from decades prior. Glad I went. We don’t change, but we do soften.
I've always been a music guy, not a lyrics guy. Probably because I destroyed my hearing at a Who concert many years ago by standing right next to a speaker bigger than I was. So my ability to hear lyrics is questionable. In my younger days, I really did think that Pete Townshend was singing Let Milo Open the Door. I didn't know who Milo was, but I loved that song.
En Vogue was one of those acts that had a song that I really like, Free Your Mind. I never went to their concerts or bought any of their stuff. It was one of those random songs on the airwaves that you hear. And I actually heard some of the lyrics in 1992. "Free your mind, the rest will follow. Be colorblind, don't be so shallow."
I'm on board with freeing your mind, especially from racial thinking. Some people mock this dream as impossible. And maybe it is, I don't know. But it's the way our brains should work.
So the Free Your Mind video is worthy of our attention.
The video opens with a black girl surrounded by skinheads.
Then we cut to a drawing of an old school white racist from a century ago. And in front of this drawing, we have a chimp, or a monkey.
So already that's a couple of striking visuals to open the video. This girl is surrounded by skinheads who hate her (presumably), or at least, they're really crowding her and making her uncomfortable. And then you have the hateful yelling guy with his eyes closed, and the dehumanizing monkey, or chimp. And then you have the "we are the world" image with humanity happy and everybody's getting along. And then the really, really hot lead singer does a prance on a catwalk while all of humanity looks up to her.
Love the song, love the lyrics. (Had to look them up because I can't hear much of the lyrics).
I wear tight clothing, high-heeled shoes
It doesn't mean that I'm a prostitute no, no
I like rap music, wear hip-hop clothes
That doesn't mean that I'm out sellin' dope, no, no, no
Oh my, forgive me for having straight hair, no
It doesn't mean there's another blood in my heir, yeah, yeah
I might date another race or colour
It doesn't mean I don't like my strong black brothers
Why, oh why must it be this way?
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Before you can read me
You got to learn how to see me
I said
Free your mind
And the rest will follow
Be colour-blind
Don't be so shallow
Free your mind
And the rest will follow
Be colour-blind
Don't be so shallow
So I'm a sista
Buy things with cash
That really doesn't mean that all my credit's bad
Oh
So why dispute me and waste my time?
Because you really think the price is high for me
I can't look without being watched, no
You rang my buy before I made up my mind
Oww
Oh, now attitude
Why even bother?
I can't change your mind
You can't change my colour
Why, oh why must it be this way?
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Before you can read me
You got to learn how to see me
I said
Free your mind
And the rest will follow
Be colour-blind
Don't be so shallow
Free your mind
And the rest will follow
Be colour-blind
Don't be so shallow
Free your mind
And the rest will follow
Be colour-blind
Don't be so shallow
Free your mind
And the rest will follow
Be colour-blind
Don't be so shallow
Free your mind
Why, oh, why must it be this way?
Before you can read me
You got to learn how to see me
I said
Free your mind, and the rest will follow
Be colour-blind, don't be so shallow
Free your mind, and the rest will follow
Be colour-blind, don't be so shallow
Free your mind, and the rest will follow
Be colour-blind, don't be so shallow
Free your mind, and the rest will follow
Be colour-blind, don't be so shallow
Free your mind
Speaking of Sunrise, I blame Trump—"Fight! Fight! Fight!"—for this fracas: "Chaos in Sunrise"
It's a low key war with Canada going on. I am kind of rooting for Canada a little bit because a loss will be so humiliating it might take a while for the country to get over it. I live on the border, and the restaurants here are struggling. I like it that the roads are not clogged with Quebecois cyclists, but the anti American rhetoric that the Liberals used to hold on to power by their fingernails has had some unfortunate effects.
I might be the only person not following this story, but doesn't the governor have to call out the National Guard?
And "Paint Your Wagon" is a gem.
might be the only person not following this story, but doesn't the governor have to call out the National Guard?
…sounds like protecting Federal buildings, property, employees…prisoners. There’s also insurrection options, thins used as recently as the 1990s but Hawaiian judges and law profs say Republicans aren’t allowed to use laws on the books if they haven’t been used lately…barring those, Remember ‘novel legal theories’ that allow lefties to act in unprecedented ways, at least until the Supremes get around to reminding them they can’t…
"Paint your wagon" is UNQUESTIONABLY Clint Eastwood's BEST musical! and it's one of the better Lee Marvin musicals TOO!
I Talk Too the Trees, is *my* favorite musical number..
Even better than "'I'm Just a Girl That Can't Say NO"
"Wanderin' Star" is a great performance by Lee Marvin. Sorry h8rs.
The inability to discern lyrics dates back to the Kingsmen’s version of “Louie, Louie”:
One line was either, “I smelled the rose in her hair”, or…”
Eva Marie said...
“It’s disrespectful to the audience to hire actors who can’t sing and then not dub their voices. They did the same thing in Les Miserables. Anne Hathaway butchered I Dreamed a Dream.”
The thing I remember most about the film version of Mamma Mia! is Pierce Brosnan singing.
Jaq said...
I might be the only person not following this story, but doesn't the governor have to call out the National Guard?
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10 U.S. Code § 12406 - National Guard in Federal service:
Whenever—
(1) the United States, or any of the Commonwealths or possessions, is invaded or is in danger of invasion by a foreign nation;
(2) there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States; or
(3) the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States;
the President may call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those laws. Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States or, in the case of the District of Columbia, through the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia.
Eva and Rocco, ref non-singing actors trying to sing: it does break the fourth wall. Which is a pain if you’re looking for high-quality interpretation. But if you just want to have fun watching big stars engage in a very high-budget community theatrical, it’s not so bad.
Mamma Mia had hardly any good singers, so the concept probably worked better than Les Miz, where you had Russell Crowe up against Hugh Jackman. It was like the production couldn’t make up its mind.
JSM
In my family, we have men who always want to pay for dinner. My grandfather on my Mom's side, always wanted to pay. My father always wanted to pay. And my aunt's second husband always wanted to pay. Not "most of the time." Always.
This was only a problem if two or more of these family members were trying to eat together.
Meanwhile, I've been accepting free meals my whole life. "That's cool," I say, as somebody else feeds me. I am greedy, maybe I got a little gluttony, but I am definitely a peace-keeper. You want to pay, that is great. No argument from me.
My first girlfriend, always wanted to go Dutch. "I'm paying," I would say to that. I don't know why. I just wanted to stomp those damn Dutch, with their neutral Swiss tactics, into the ground. "We're just two independent contractors who happen to be sitting at the same table." Not on my watch! We are breaking bread, together. And I'm paying, apparently.
Now that I have my new handsome avatar, it looks like I am going to have to change my style of commenting.
Jaq said...
“Now that I have my new handsome avatar, it looks like I am going to have to change my style of commenting.”
Is that one of the Fairbrass brothers from Right Said Fred?
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