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Monthly Archives: August 2021

A Grand August

31 Tuesday Aug 2021

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I can safely go ahead and give thanks to all readers for making this month the biggest and most heavily trafficked month of the year along with the best August in at least three years. Thank you, all. It’s also safe to say this blog will never be mainstream. I’m grateful for that! But, in addition to the longtime fans (all two of you!), we welcome friends from Freedom Prepper, other prepper places, the Shield Wall brigade, and even a few holdovers from TPC. I’d be remiss not to mention the bots – I love being big in Whereverstan.

Anyway, this one may or may not wrap the month. Tomorrow brings another PPN report and, then, more of the same old keeping on. Forward!

Thanks again. P

PPN 8/31/21

31 Tuesday Aug 2021

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PREPPER POST NEWS – Aug. 31, 2021 – Alternatives To Madness

Just Making It Up

30 Monday Aug 2021

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They’re trolling us now. More of that ever-trusty !SCIENCE! from the CDC:

The COVID-19 vaccines’ ability to keep people out of the hospital appears to be dropping slightly, particularly for those 75 and older, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday during an advisory panel.

The CDC has previously estimated that 97% of people in the hospital being treated for COVID-19 are unvaccinated, but that data was collected before the spread of delta, a hyper-transmissible variant that many doctors have warned appears to be making people sicker.

The latest CDC analysis estimates that the ability of the COVID vaccines to keep a person out of the hospital is now between 75% to 95%.

In other words – and they still dodge the numbers – the majority of serious cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are among the vaccinated poisoned. B-b-but, still,

However, the vaccine still remain highly effective at preventing serious illness, according to the briefing.

Of course! Because being hospitalized has nothing to do with serious illness! Seriously, dumbshit Amerikans will still believe this idiocy. Well, it’s probably nothing a third monthly weekly daily BoOsTeR won’t fix!

Hey! Speaking of boosters and !SCIENCE!, check out the history of the “boosters” on the Space Shuttle, circa 1986, to see the stellar track record. Make sure to ask about the O-rings. Very important, especially as it gets cooler.

3:29 to Yuma

30 Monday Aug 2021

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Afghanistan, dead empire, war over

Well, thank God that’s over.

The U.S. has completed efforts to evacuate its remaining civilians and troops from Afghanistan, effectively ending the longest war in American history, the Pentagon said Monday.

“I’m here to announce the completion of our mission in Afghanistan,” Marine Corps General Kenneth McKenzie told reporters in a virtual briefing. “The last C-17 took off at 3:29 pm.”

The great tragedy is that so many incompatible “refugees” and other terrorists were left behind. It’s a shame the State Department didn’t think to litter the country with fill-in-the-blank visas so these poor would-be invaders might sneak into the remains of the USSA a little later. Oh, wait…

The Best and Consequences

30 Monday Aug 2021

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A Fatal Mercy, God, Robert E. Lee, Tom Moore

Inspiration from the wisdom of the fiction of a friend:

We have a duty to God first, then to our families and our community. What if they conflict? We must do the best we can and leave the consequences to God.

– Gen. Robert E. Lee to Drayton FitzHenry, A FATAL MERCY, Ch. 51.

A eulogy for Tom Moore to follow this week.

His Obituary.

No. 4444, with Prepper News

30 Monday Aug 2021

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This post should be mildly interesting to the numerologists for its place number alone.

For the rest, a little news recapping:

PREPPER POST NEWS – Aug. 30, 2021 – The Killer Kure

Why, No

29 Sunday Aug 2021

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Faceberg, idiocy

I am not on Faceberg and I haven’t been for years. But many thanks to the lower-IQ binary thinkers I always encounter for repeatedly and stupidly mentioning it. You all enjoy those cat videos and whatnot.

A Review of “A Fatal Mercy, The Man Who Lost The Civil War,” by Thomas Moore (1948 – 2021)

28 Saturday Aug 2021

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A Review of “A Fatal Mercy, The Man Who Lost The Civil War,” by Thomas Moore

 

*We can add to Tom’s long list of achievements his proper raising of three sons and his very positive influence on his step-children. Within two or three hours of learning of his death yesterday, I had a few ideas and thought, “wow, I need to run that by Tom.” I’m still in the hit in the face stage; shocked to follow, I suppose. Here, I repost my 2019 review of his last major novel, an instant classic on several fronts. He was approached, though I don’t think the porject evolved far, about turning A FATAL MERCY into a TV or Netflix mini-series, which, if done correctly, would be excellent. Don’t wait for that; buy the book. 

 

The boy had it right in quoting his grandfather: “courage and fortitude are never in vain … no good cause is ever lost because all good causes are lost causes.” Even if he didn’t exactly understand the last part of it, that quote expresses an oft-felt theme, if not a rule, of life and of a higher civilization. It is the theme of his grandfather’s story from 1863 through 1913.

 

Was Drayton FitzHenry the man who lost the War for Southern Independence? The man himself certainly thought so, perhaps with good reason. Then again, the reader can, likely will, come to understand that there may have been a good reason behind the losing. The story is simple in its complexity, and visa versa.

 

Moore has really written two books in one. A Fatal Mercy is an in-depth study of the human condition and of Christian morality, Western in origin – Southern by the grace of God. On the one hand, the book is a stirring rendition of The War. In that alone, it is fantastic martial fiction, at once woven by an elegant and commanding imagination and steeped in painstakingly researched history. The story is compelling, riveting.

 

That is especially high praise from me. Unlike my father, I am not a “Civil” War buff. As a child, the old man dragged me from battlefield to battlefield, constantly uttering information gleaned from his (separate) War library. I certainly gained a respect – and the good manners to at least phrase “Civil” with those all-important quotation marks – but I never developed the … obsession. This book, all through its 727 pages, engendered some of that. This is a work my father would have read – and liked. Those of you who knew him, know that is higher praise.

 

Perhaps highest of all, is what that aforementioned history and the associated culture, presented alive and burning, generates with regard to what I see as the second grand interpretation, a thoughtful, reasoned, and unapologetic defense of relevant antiquity, classical knowledge, honor, and the grandeur of Western Civilization.

 

I am a student of classical Greco-Roman tradition. Here, Moore writes as well and true as any: “One reason we study the Classics, apart from the value of the knowledge itself, is for what they may teach us about our times.” With this sentiment, Cicero concurs: “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”

 

Today, most Americans, Southerners included, are ignorant of history, children easily led astray from their ancestral heritage. Moore addresses this issue, with direct examples, slightly dramatized, through the eyes of his protagonist. Drayton’s book-long dilemma revolves around a momentary eye of the storm at Gettysburg. Rather, around the eye of the fish hook, as Shelby Foote put it if we stretch Foote’s geographic definitions to include Little Round Top (and it is, topography-wise, a sub-eye). See: The Civil War, a Narrative, Stars in Their Courses, p. 479, Random House, New York (1963).

 

Of that terrible battle and its defining outcome, Bruce Catton wrote: “There was no pattern to any of this, except for the undesigned pattern that can always be traced after the event.” Never Call Retreat, Encounter at Gettysburg, p. 186, Doubleday, New York (1965). If this is true – and who doubts Catton – then Drayton’s dilemma is understandable. Drayton lived out the maxim: “Iniuriam facilius facias quam feras – Easier to do a wrong than to endure one.” – Syrus, Maxims. As he refrained from the former, so he endured the latter. Both counts are attributable to – and tribute to – his wisdom and honor.

 

And, there is an honor, and a wisdom, about Drayton FitzHenry that is rare among literary creations. Odysseus has it, as does Frodo. That wisdom moves beyond the narrative of the War, the horrors of Reconstruction, and into the following age. Along with other, innumerable truths, a lesson and a warning speak directly to us. It finds different ways of expression:

 

  • The kindly nature of a freed slave towards her former master;
  • The correct realization that the War ended the original American Republic, freeing one class of slaves only to create another;
  • Understanding the force and effect of the demonic legal trilogy of 1913: to this end, three separate quotes, conjoined (by me, for my purposes): “Power transmutes into Empire. Empire begets hubris. Hubris brings ruin. … [O]ur virtues will be needed by America, perhaps even the world, more than ever. … We must do the best we can and leave the consequences to God.”

Moore’s articulate, enrapturing characters witness the end of a Republic. We stand at the very possible end of an Empire. Then, in the fable, and now, in our reality, both intelligent free will and resolve to honor Providence properly combine. Sayeth the poet: “Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo – If I can’t move Heaven, I’ll raise Hell.” – Virgil, The Aeneid, VII, 312. The men at Gettysburg, of both sides, did exactly that. A Fatal Mercy does the same, does both in fact, recalling the horror and heroism of combat while instilling pride in the genteel, the cultured, the learned, the respecting, and the respectable. It is all of powerful magnitude.

 

The Author states: “My principal goal was not just to write the best contemporary novel of the War, but also to place my protagonist in an excruciating moral and emotional dilemma and see how he would resolve his inner conflict.” Moore has done that, and greater still. This book is a timeless Classic.

 

Also: The letters… The burning of the letters, Chapter Seventeen, moved me. The reader will, I trust, understand soon enough.

 

(Picture: Amazon/Green Altar Books – Shotwell/Moore)

 

A Fatal Mercy, The Man Who Lost The Civil War, Thomas Moore, Green Altar Books, Columbia, SC (2019).

A Loss

27 Friday Aug 2021

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A literary master and his brilliant intellect have just departed.

Thomas G. Moore, repose en paix.

I will have more on the grand life, times, and thoughts of my good friend and brother soon.

Lt. Michael Byrd

27 Friday Aug 2021

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Ashli Babbit, crime, DC, murder, War

Was probably, and it is so hard to trust any of this, just doing his job. He is the officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbit, the unarmed White woman murdered at the peaceful protest in Mordor in January.

As I said at the time, he was told to protect the door at all costs and he did. He said as much. He did what he had to do and it, for what it was worth, worked. Babbit was murdered. Byrd was the instrument, not the perpetrator. The killers are the worthless sacks of shit he was charged with protecting. It may never happen in this world, but they will all face inescapable justice one day.

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