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Monthly Archives: March 2016

Doom and Bloom

31 Thursday Mar 2016

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economy, Masters

My pain seems to have subsided entirely. Now I am suspicious, indeed paranoid. Hmm…

Chance of a recession. Economy weakening. Already in a recession. At least the economists are slowly getting on the same page. Batten.

Enough doom…here’s why we’re so crazy about azaleas:

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They smell just as good.

This little fellow agrees:

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Only two more days until Drive Chip and Putt. And, then…

 

March Melancholy

30 Wednesday Mar 2016

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I wanted to sleep in this morning. Pain had other ideas. I suppose I am lucky in not needing an alarm clock nor ever missing a sunrise. Also, the pain of a thousand workouts has departed my back – now settling in between the shoulders and neck. Progress.

When inspired I write; days like this, I cobble. Here’s what I have:

I need a vacation. Scott Adams seems to be taking the whole month off. You’ll notice the “Vacation Artist X” label on current Dilbert cartoons. Jealous, I must find a friendly squirrel to help me out here.

Dr. Walter Williams gives his informed analysis of what’s wrong with higher education. He also provides some happy exceptions around the country.

A senior German journalist has admitted what many have feared for decades: the European and American media are largely instruments of state propaganda. This being nothing new is still shocking nonetheless. I hear that the nightly news will be renamed the CIA PsyOps Hour.

The trend of indoctrinating American school children in Islam has spread from MN to TN. Nathan Deal having stabbed his majority Christian constituents in the back, perhaps Georgia elementary students will be invited to the next ISIS crucifixion of a Catholic priest. We pay for this crap.

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State child abuse. Google.

Happily Masters mania cranks up next week. Shinebox and Daly at Hooters. Golf carts on Washington Road. Class and sunshine in the second city.

Now, where’d I put the Advil?

The Bull and the Buzzard

29 Tuesday Mar 2016

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns, Other Columns

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Part One

Once upon a time there was a funny little country. Actually it was a vast land with a burgeoning population. The details matter little; the populace was largely large and illiterate and most of them had never ventured far beyond their own villages. The whole kingdom was really more of a dystopian construct loosely held together by the magic of a box like device called “television”. The land was rumored to have once been a mighty nation of strong folk. Reality did not resemble the rumor.

Anyway, the same small clique of evil wizards that operated the television also controlled the kingdom’s government. Every four years they installed a new puppet king. Sometimes popular puppets maintained the act for two terms. The wizards encouraged the silly and poorly dressed peasants to participate in the new king’s coronation through a year long carnival called an election. This spectacle gave the commoners the illusion of control while providing the wizards with ample entertainment.

The successive election carnivals produced a continuously declining quality of kingship material. The few intelligent citizens gave up on the carnivals entirely and burned their magic boxes. It was believed there were fewer than fifty of these wise people in all the land. For the most part they lived in the forrests on the fringes of society. The masses paid them little notice.

The latest carnival rolled around with the usual assortment of offerings: fat con men; wild-haired and wild-eyed communists; shrieking banshees; deviants; false prophets; spiteful, warmongering toads; and complete idiots. These unworthies held rallies where they proclaimed molehills to be mountains while simultaneously denying the existence of actual mountains. The people cheered. The wizards howled with laughter.

'It doesn't look good, Bob!'

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Into this particular carnival were thrust two candidates of unusual character (or lack thereof). One was a raging bull of a man who, previously, had been successful in a real job. He spoke loudly. He mentioned the real mountains. People cheered wildly at his turbulent events. The forrest dwellers were suspicious. The other oddity was a grizzly old buzzard of a woman. She was suspected of being a witch. Her defining traits were her hideous cackling and her being a notorious unconvicted felon. Despite her grotesque demeanor she held sway over many of the plebeians. The forresters thought her wicked.

To be continued…

Big Tent Tyranny

28 Monday Mar 2016

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America, Constitution, Masters Tournament

I don’t feel like writing this morning. My back hurts. That makes sitting, standing, and lying down painfully difficult. You can imagine, I imagine…

So, I give you this: a link to Paul Craig Roberts’s incredible March 23rd oration on the state of the U.S. and the Constitution. Sometimes it’s just better to hand over the mic; no one says it like Roberts.

I will add only the following, off topic enough to inspire speculation as to Ibuprofen intoxication: the big tent is up at Hooters.

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Yes. It’s almost Christmas at Disneyland.

The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail

27 Sunday Mar 2016

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Christians, freedom, government, Jesus Christ, terrorism, The People, The West

On this Easter weekend, amidst all the celebrations, countless examples manifest of what we face. Christianity and civilization are under assault as usual.

*correction* I, along with the media, botched the names of one of the Brussels terrorists, the man in white. His name is Legion, for they are many.

Their plans are both sophisticated and far ranging. The Brussels bombers were under investigation, seemingly too late. However, police pressure probably averted greater tragedy. The real plot was to enter a commercial nuclear power plant for sabotage or in order to craft a dirty nuclear bomb. The terror web is vast and well organized. Others may attempt to carry out the original plan.

The groups and individuals involved are also better known than might be expected. One of the Belgian terror brothers, an actual Belgian citizen, entered Turkey on his way to Syria. There he was arrested and deported back to Belgium. Turkish authorities warned that he was a terrorist. The warning was lost.

Much seems lost in America too. Attack after attack and this weekend Hussein Obama vowed to import even more terrorists into the U.S. Once here they are given preferential treatment. In Minnesota public schools are bending over backwards to accommodate the surge in Muslim students, with prayer rugs, dietary requirements, and periodic calls to prayer. These are the same government schools where Christian children are treated like outlaws and the mention of Christ as a felony offense.

In Georgia proposed legislation to protect religious freedom, namely Christian, is under attack from a host of hellish forces. Marvel, Disney, Hollywood and the NFL, all purveyors of filth and wordly degeneracy, are raising hell to keep Christians in check.

Sadly, most of these battles go unnoticed and unheeded by the masses. Even without Disney and ISIS the people are perfectly capable of acting like savages.

A video from a neighborhood brawl in my city has been making the rounds and the news on the internet. This majority (or all) black affair resulted in the death of one young man and murder charges against about a dozen people. The violence started over a stupid dispute at a local high school. It could have been much worse.

In Connecticut thousands of (mostly white) people rampaged like wild animals at a free to the public Easter egg hunt. “Adults” ran around like mad and trampled small children into the mud. All over nearly worthless prize eggs.

In a way these two stories are heartening. In a land with so much racial strife it’s nice to see blacks and whites getting down on the same page. Another recent example of racial harmony in America: a young friend of mine narrowly escaped kidnapping and rape by a gang of thugs. Happily, the gang was 50/50 white and black. You see the problem, don’t you? We, collectively, seemed to have sunk to unthinkable lows of barely human behavior.

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Google.

All of this is almost enough to make one disclaim humanity and the modern world. Yet, especially today, it does not matter. As bad as it ever gets the Faithful shall endure. So Jesus said to Saint Peter: “upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18 KJV. 

He rose so that we too might.

Happy Easter 2016

27 Sunday Mar 2016

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He is risen.

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Death at the Academy

23 Wednesday Mar 2016

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America, college, culture, debt, education, freedom, government, internet, law, learning, Mississippi, political science, political theory, Second Amendment, students, stupidity, The People, University of Georgia

I used to want to teach law or political theory at the university level. Now I do not. Well, honestly part of me still does. However, I have come to the conclusion it isn’t going to happen anytime soon. For years – a decade or so – I had a search running at Higheredjobs.com. I recently turned it off.

After maybe 100 failed inquiry letters and several first (and last) interviews I realized there is a disconnect between me and the academic system. It’s a good thing. I would not fit in. I imagine being the only non-communist on the faculty might be uncomfortable. Less comfortable would be my students. As I have chronicled here modern university students are large toddlers, less concerned with learning than feeling safe.

There’s a new and better educational model anyway. It uses independence and technology for a new take on the classical school experience. Socrates and Aquinas would approve if they were still around. In their respective ancient days only those who desired to learn furthered their education beyond a rudimentary level.

Times had changed by the 1970s when my father was teaching at Mississippi State. The emphasis was primarily on learning but the post hippy culture was creeping in. Serious students mingled on campus with party animals. In the corners social revolutionaries plotted the future of safe spaces, inclusion, and sustainability (still not sure what they sustain – certainly not education). I remember the pretty girls and the copious amounts of coffee and cigarettes consumed by the faculty.

Times kept changing. By the advent of my tenure at the University of Georgia the counterculture was taking control. Still, those that wanted to learn could but it was frowned upon. I fell somewhere between the studious and the partyers. The pretty girls still got my attention. Things were worse in law school. There I joined, fully, the ranks of the studious. As a rebel of demented mental ability I sought out the fundamental theories and origins behind the law. I largely did so in secret and on my own.

Today the inmates run the asylum. Beyond math, science and engineering real learning is frowned upon. There’s a lot of frowning. Tell a pretty girl she’s pretty and you may be brought up on charges. Coffee still seems safe but nicotine is verboten. Say things like “I like guns” or “taxes are too high” or “people should work for a living” and the student crybabies will melt and the faculty will launch into hysterical tyrades.

To be a white man on campus results in treatment once reserved for the likes of Hester Prynne. Pride in Western tradition, morality and common sense are treated like leprosy.

The schools (as they are still called) waste resources on sports, safe spaces, counseling, women’s studies, black studies, gay black women’s studies and a host of other nonsense.

These are the universities mind you. From Harvard to Notre Dame to my beloved UGA the failure of education has spread like a cancer. The lower, primary schools (especially those run by government – most) are in even worse shape.

Notre Dame professor Dr. Patrick Deneen says even the best colleges, like his, are “committing civilizational suicide.”

“What our educational system aims to produce is cultural amnesia, a wholesale lack of curiosity, history-less free agents, and educational goals composed of content-free processes and unexamined buzz-words like ‘critical thinking,’ ‘diversity,’ ‘ways of knowing,’ ‘social justice,’ and ‘cultural competence.’

Our students are the achievement of a systemic commitment to producing individuals without a past for whom the future is a foreign country, cultureless ciphers who can live anywhere and perform any kind of work without inquiring about its purposes or ends, perfected tools for an economic system that prizes ‘flexibility’ (geographic, interpersonal, ethical).”

Frightening but accurate. What happened? What are the sane and the responsible to do?

Gary North did a fantastic job laying out the history and demise of American education. His conclusion is simple and right – “close the schools.” They have failed. They do the opposite of what was once intended. They are beyond the point of redemption. Close them all.

The public schools are in group two. They are likely to die, no matter what. The only economically relevant question today is this: “How long will voters authorize the tax money required to keep them on life support?”

 – North, March 19, 2016.

He mentions the modern, better alternative, guaranteed to deliver real learning – the online education. The Kahn Academy is the largest school in the world with 25 million students. It’s free to anyone. There are others like it. They are beginning to take a bite out of traditional, failed schooling.

MIT boldly put nearly all of its courses online for free, for anyone. Some books will need to be acquired. There will be a small expense associated though many, many books are completely free on Kindle. Any ambitious young person with a laptop and a very basic comprehension of English and fundamental math can literally educate themselves at little to no cost and at their own pace.

There are a host of other opportunities online like Udemy. It’s an outfit or concept like this I may end up going with. Or I might just publish books and/or create my own e-classes in topics that interest me. The sky is the limit.

Educrats and silly professors are panicked because of this increasing competition. No time wasted waiting on the lowest common denominator to catch up. No boredom. No anti-western indoctrination. No crushing student loans of money illegally printed out of thin air.

No need to wallow amid a bunch of weak socialists in a dangerous environment. I recently noted the progress of Georgia’s H.B.859, a bill that would allow free people to legally carry firearms at state colleges. At present these schools are gun free zones – the type of places where the majority of violence occurs. It happens because criminals have a monopoly on force in such places.  The bill would tilt the tables in favor of ordinary people.

As such, it is opposed by criminals and school faculty and staff lacking common sense. UGA law professor Sonja West wrote a hysterical piece for Slate decrying self-defense. Using backwards antidotal evidence and shaky psuedo legal reasoning she conveys her central thought: she does not like guns. At least not guns in private hands. It’s just terrible people might have a legal fighting chance to repel attacks; the Second Amendment be damned.

The hoplophobia and mania runs deeper at the Red and Black, UGA’s leftist student newspaper: “Donald Trump may be the 21st-century equivalent of Mussolini, but the real threat to democracy is right here in Georgia.”

That’s all I really need to quote. Having worn out the Hitler label the lefties are turning to Mussolini. The poor argument is that guns threaten democracy. Democracy is about as big a threat as one might contrive. Free people with guns are a check on violence and tyranny, democratic or otherwise. Pitiful.

There was a death at the academy. Learning died. Now the schools themselves are headed to the graveyard. I hope you will share this information with a young person and said person’s parents. Help save them from wasting time and money and from exposure to whimps, communists, and freedom haters. Help them learn and explore their world freely.

Brothers Without Arms: We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

23 Wednesday Mar 2016

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Belgium, Europe, Geert Wilders, Islam, terrorism

Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui, “Belgian” brothers, are dead. Suicide bombings have that effect regardless of familial relation. By itself this would be great news. However, as you know, these brothers took out dozens of decent people – more of a homicide bombing.

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The men in black. Dailymail.

The man in white in the above picture is master bomb-maker, Najim Laachraoui. Najim sadly did not participate in the suicidal part of the attack. He’s too important. He made the bombs and those used last year in Paris. He’s probably the most wanted man in Western Europe.

Europe’s former most wanted, or most hated man is Geert Wilders, a real Belgian who has the crazed idea that Belgium is for Belgians. Today he has a good deal more support. Geert has spent a long time studying Islamic terrorism in his country. Based on his research he says, “I fear that we ain’t seen nothing yet.” I fear he’s right.

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Potential leader of Belgium, Wilders. Breitbart.

The solution is very simple. Get men like Wilders into authority and get dogs like Najim into the ground or at least out of civilized nations. The other option is to make frequent use of my terrorism template.

Just Some Observations of Late

22 Tuesday Mar 2016

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Anyone shocked or surprised by the attacks in Brussels and Paris must have recently awaked from a decades long coma. Congratulations to them on their recovery.

The Nationality Law of 1984 is to Belgium what the Immigration Act of 1965 is to America – demise wrapped in attractive lies.

“Refuge” and “target” must be synonymous.

Left untreated heartworms and terrorists will eventually overwhelm their respective hosts, usually with the same charm and gratitude.

U.S. Marines are taking casualties in Iraq, again, still… We’ve been meddling there a quarter century. Haven’t the bankers kind of bled that one dry?

I actually approve of President Obama’s olive branch to Cuba. It’s about damned time.

“They” say Al-assad is behind the European terror attacks. Just like how Saddam was behind 9/11.

Neo-Nazis are being arrested (for hate) in Europe even as more “refugees” flood in. Funny, but you don’t see many (any) skinheads blowing up trains.

A curious little clique profits, financially and in terms of power, from all this war and terrorism.

Globalism and Satanism seem to go hand in hand.

Though many Americans are unaware Belgium is a real country they are able to gleafully recite the roster of their March madness team. Hope, that is.

Basket weavers are starting to ridicule colleges. With good reason too.

An entire segment of the population is hoplophobic. Their’s are the panicked lives of lemmings.

People used to prefer books to tattoos. Then we got hip. Hip and dumb.

Televisions are like politicians. They convey nothing. They take your money. You can waste a lifetime watching them.

Angela Merkel is like Robert Mugabe in reverse. Less pleasing to the eyes though.

If I had a dollar for every voter who really thought it out,  I’d be dead broke.

Sad to say, but the American way went the way of Pompeii.

I’m envious: at least Dante had a guide.

The central banker makes one hanker for a canker. Astounding, really.

Gandalf for President, 2016? I’m in. Or Radagast. Hell, at this point I’d settle for Nob. Maybe even a plain old Midge.

The average Carolinian points at Georgia and laughs. The average Georgian points at Alabama. In Alabama they’re not sure where they’re pointing to.

This list has officially run out of steam…

The Terrorism Template, with Commentary on Brussels

22 Tuesday Mar 2016

Posted by perrinlovett in News and Notes, Uncategorized

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Brussels, Europe, government, ISIS, Islam, murder, Paris, terrorism, The People, The West, War

Last month I reported on a ranking of livable cities world wide. Brussels, Belgium ranked number 21, ahead of any American city. The city even ran a tourism advertisement this year suggesting it is “a peaceful, welcoming city.” The ad followed negative publicity from the known association between the November Paris terror attacks and Brussels’s Muslim community. Brussels certainly has been welcoming to Muslims and “refugees” – they are a quarter of the populace. Paris related terrorism arrests where made in Belgium just last week.

The city proved less friendly this morning when ISIS bombed the airport and a train station. Thirty-something are dead and maybe 200 are injured.

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The religion of pieces – pieces here, pieces there. UK Dailymail.

Friday’s arrest of Salah Abdeslam, an ISIS terrorist formerly welcomed into Europe, coincided with the admission by French officials of the vast scope and complexity of the terror network behind the Parisian massacre (and that of Brussels and so on).

Investigators have come to realise that the Paris attackers, sent by the Islamic State’s external operations wing, were well-versed in a range of terrorism tactics – like suicide vests, gunmen in various locations and hostage-taking – to hamper the police response, the report shows. They have exploited weaknesses in Europe’s border controls to slip in and out undetected, and worked with a high-quality forger in Belgium to acquire false documents.
The scale of the network that supported the attacks, which took 130 lives and wounded 813 people, has also surprised officials, as President François Hollande of France acknowledged on Friday. There are now 20 people in detention in six countries on suspicion of assisting the attackers.

 – French Terrorism Report, reported by The Irish Times.

Everyone, from elected officials to the media to the public, is surprised. They’re shocked by these acts of war. My question is, “why?” How can anyone be surprised at this point? Why isn’t this an expected outcome? I have written and others have written about this problem and its solution. What on earth will it take to wake people up? Is it possible the West has merely accepted terrorism and dominantion by savages as the new normal?

If that is the sad case, I humbly offer the following news story template to make future reporting of these attacks a little easier.

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TERROR IN [Insert City]!

[City] was the scene of carnage today after terrorists [shot up, bombed, etc.] the [exact location(s)]. [Approximate number of dead] are dead and [approximate number of wounded] are injured, some critically.

Terrorists [began shooting, detonated bombs, etc.] around [time] at the [location(s)]. In the blink of an eye [whatever normally happens at location(s)] turned into a nightmare for those present. The injured victims are being treated at local hospitals. [Quote from witness about bodies and/or body parts everywhere].

[Insert pictures of the aftermath]

Immediately prior to [shooting, bombing, etc.] the assailants screamed, “Allah Akbar!” [ISIS, al-cia-da, other known terrorist group] has claimed responsibility.

[Insert security footage of Islamic attackers just before bombing, etc.]

[City and/or Country] is on highest alert. Residents are being told to shelter in place as [police and/or military] units scour the area for additional suspects [and/or unexploded bombs, casings, other evidence]. [Quote from security official].

[Idiot national politician] vowed today to leave no stone unturned to bring the perpetrators and their supporters to justice. [Self-serving quote from idiot politician].

In [Other Country A (probably America or Great Britain)] [Idiot President or Prime Minister X] declared, “[stupid quote]”. [Insert additional stupid quote if politician X calls for bombing or other military action in unrelated county B – also insert podium pounding picture of serious looking idiot or map of country B]. The shocked attention of the world is now turned towards the people of [city].

[Republican Presidential candidate (or, alternatively, John McCain)] called for immediately carpet bombing the entire Middle East. [Democratic Presidential candidate (or John Kerry)] called for compassion for the Muslim population of Europe and for all refugees.

The facts of and motives behind the [type of attack] in [city] are not clear at this time. It is important, despite the claims and boasts of ISIS, that the public not rush to judgement. [Quote from Social justice warrior Y about the need for tolerance]. In spite of what happened today we all know Islam is a peaceful religion. The government will make things right.

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Pulitzer prize material it is not. It does fit the narrative though. We either get used to these attacks and the worthless subhumans behind them or we take back our civilization. I opt for the latter course of action.

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