Monthly Archives: March 2020

Fixing Failure: End the Experiment

10 Tuesday Mar 2020

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Dr. Anthony Esolen writes excellently about the plague that the new schools are to boys.

One is that nobody cares. If you hire a man to teach English in your school, and the girls languish because they can’t stand his manners or the things he chooses to teach, you let that man go; it’s his fault. If you hire a woman for the same job in the same place, and the boys languish because they can’t stand her manners or the things she chooses to teach, she keeps her job as long as she wants; it’s their fault. Again, I am speaking generally. If some individual boy or girl fails in your class, that may not be your fault. But if a whole group fails, you are not the person for that job.

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However that may be, the facts speak for themselves. The experiment has failed. It is time for men to resume the responsibility to educate their sons.

Will anyone care to so resume? And, if so, when?

Alternative Hand Sanitizer for COVID Season

09 Monday Mar 2020

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Read a paper or visit a store and you’ll find out about the run on commercial hand sanitizer. The Coronavirus and such. Fear not. Preppers and normies can both use alternative means to keep the little bugs at bay. Like:

  • SOAP AND WATER (duh)
  • Solution: 2/3rds rubbing alcohol and 1/3rd aloe vera
  • Plain rubbing alcohol
  • 3% hydrogen peroxide
  • Vinegar
  • Vodka
  • Salt
  • Baking soda
  • And, more – Google about for that.

You’re welcome.

Bit by Bit the Agenda Emerges

09 Monday Mar 2020

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From Vox Day’s site:

Far worse than you think

As I have repeatedly observed, no matter how outlandish their theories may be, the conspiracy theorists are reliably far too conservative, as the historical reality is almost always more horrifying than the average individual is capable of imagining or even admitting:

VICTIMS of a warped social experiment in Germany where authorities deliberately placed troubled kids with paedophile foster parents are set to win compensation. Between 1969 to 2003, these homeless boys aged between six and 14 were handed over to paedos  — because it was thought the vulnerable kids might benefit from their attention.

The twisted logic behind behind the “Kentler experiment”— named after the leading sexologist Helmut Kentler who spearheaded it — was that paedophilia could have “positive consequences”. Astonishingly, in the late 1960s Kentler managed to persuade West Berlin’s ruling Senate that homeless boys would leap at the opportunity to be fostered by paedophile dads. It was successfully argued they would be “head over heels in love” with their new father figures.

Not just in Germany either. The worse it is, the more likely it is to be true.

Another Take on the Modern Schools

08 Sunday Mar 2020

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“Is it not the great defect of our education to-day (—a defect traceable through all the disquieting symptoms of trouble that I have mentioned—) that although we often succeed in teaching our pupils “subjects,” we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think? They learn everything, except the art of learning.” – Dorothy L. Sayers, The Lost Tools of Learning.

It does sound a little like Tom Ironsides, no? Except, she said the above … in 1947. Read about the Tools.

 

 

 

Viral Questions

07 Saturday Mar 2020

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I watched a duo of medical doctors answer questions about COVID-19. Actually, I skipped to the one about whether it was man-made. Their quick answer, potentially valid, was that it was highly unlikely so. Then, they blamed climate change and I wrote them off. Others are still asking questions, to include the possible origins of the disease.

So, you have your choice. Coronavirus occurred naturally, or it came out of a lab in China itself or even from Israel or the United States. If one suspects Israel and/or the United States, the intent clearly would have been to create a biological weapon that would damage two nations that have been designated as enemies. But the coronavirus cannot be contained easily and it is clear that many thousands of people will die from it. Unfortunately, as with Stuxnet, once the genie is out of the bottled it is devilishly hard to induce it to go back in.

Slight genetic modification of the bug might be all that it takes to cause group-specific effects. That might not require advanced procedures, though we now have them. Biologists discovered in 1955 that viruses cross-breed. So many ifs. If it is a weapon, then who made it and unleashed it? If we discover it was party X, then why did they do it? And, what do we do about it? Blaming “climate change” or the Tooth Fairy doesn’t appear to be a useful response.

Confirmation Friday!

06 Friday Mar 2020

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Yesterday, I quipped: “Like a deadly virus, but to infect everything and everyone. The sorcerors couldn’t stand being away:” I’m not the only one drawing the correlation; Zerohedge noticed too.

The coronavirus is now exposing a far more deadly disease: Namely, the poisonous brew of easy money, cheap debt, sweeping financialization and unbridled speculation that has been injected into the American economy by the Fed and Washington politicians.

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So both a renewed financial and economic crisis and an abrupt change of course lie dead ahead. The 30-year era of False Prosperity is over.

Accordingly, the Turbulent Twenties have begun. This will be a decade when the chickens come home to roost. It will be a time when the cans of delay and denial may no longer be kicked down the road to tomorrow.

To the contrary, the 2020s will mark an era when today’s economic and political fantasies are crushed by America’s accumulated due bills.

Bubbles will be burst. Speculators will get carried out on their shields. Easy money wealth will evaporate. Fiscal trauma will ensue. The national joy ride will end.

The decade of reckoning that lies ahead is rooted first and foremost in the fecklessly incurred mega-debts of the private and public sectors alike. Together they have soared to the staggering sum of $75 trillion.

That’s 5X more than the $14 trillion outstanding three decades ago.

Even Yahoo! Finance has open eyes: “Liquidity Concerns Build as Key Market Stress Indicator Surges”

Given the massive electronic paper printing of late, is this a crisis of liquidity drying up? Or is it a drought? We may soon find out.