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Fat and Stupid: Can We Rebuild American Education and Culture?

26 Wednesday Jul 2017

Posted by perrinlovett in Other Columns

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America, Anthony Esolen, book review, books, culture, education, society, Vox Day

Americans aren’t just increasingly fat; they’re increasingly stupid.

Today, Vox Day noted the decline in the average college IQ over the past six decades. We’re collectively down 12.3 points, almost a whole SD. It kind of matters. Smaller brains and larger waistlines so not make for a good or viable trend.

I also read a review of sorts by Chris Sullivan of Anthony Esolen’s Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture. Esolen may have some answers for the academic decline and more.

Anthony Esolen, a professor at Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire and recently of Providence College, Rhode Island, has written a stinging critique of modern education and American society in general titled Out Of The Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture published by Regnery Publishers, 2017.

It’s a short book – 203 pages – but contains much wise social commentary and observations on everything wrong with American education, if there’s any such thing. Esolen is not one to beat around the bush. If you don’t agree with him it isn’t because he is opaque. For instance, chapter one is titled, Giving Things Their Proper Names: The Restoration Of Truth Telling. It is divided into several sections with their own headings, one of which is Are We a World of Liars?

“In a word, yes.

…

It was the education angle and the fact of Thomas Moore College that caught my attention. TMC may be the best deal in the country for affordable, quality higher education, Catholic or otherwise. I want my daughter to consider the school.

Anyway, I bought a copy on Kindle this morning. I’m planning to start reading it tonight. If warranted, and time allowing, I’ll post a review here and at Amazon. Chapter Four is: Man by Nature Desires to Know: Rebuilding the College.

That’s important to me and should be to all Americans. Most of our “schools” have become anti-intellectual, places where knowing is the last thing desired.

Looks good from my cursory overview. I’ll let you know.

Order your copy HERE.

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Esolen/Regnery.

 

The SJWs are even Coming for Your Beer

18 Tuesday Jul 2017

Posted by perrinlovett in News and Notes

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beer, SJW, Vox Day

Vox Day explains the progression of the madness:

In April 2017, the Brewers Association (BA), a trade group that serves the craft beer industry, enacted a set of rules designed to stem the use of sexist and offensive brewery and beer names (see Brewers Association standing up to breweries, beers with offensive names, labels). But, Flying Dog Brewery sees the move by the BA as an overt attempt at censorship. And, to protest the move, Flying Dog CEO Jim Caruso has severed ties with the industry group.

In a letter dated July 14, 2017 and addressed to BA CEO Bob Pease, Caruso says that the policy, “… is an attempt by the BA to censor beer names that offend the sensibilities of some at the BA, primarily by trying to intimidate breweries into censoring themselves.”

In the BA’s policy, a procedure is laid out on how brewers can police their peers — Caruso reads this as competitors — by lodging a formal complaint. Should the offending brewery cease advertising or using a name that is considered offensive by the reporting brewery within 30 days of the complaint, the matter is considered closed. But, if the name and/or advertising is not ceased, a sort of tribunal is convened. The final decision of the tribunal — in reality a group of three BA appointed representatives — is published on the BA’s website for all the world to read. In addition, names found to be offensive will be banned from being spoken at BA sanctioned events like the Great American Beer Festival, Savour and more. If a brewery or beer with a name deemed offensive happens to win a medal in a competition at one of these events, they will not be publicly identified. Winners are also banned from using Brewers Association intellectual property such as identifying a banned beer name as a medal winner in a BA sanctioned event.

Caruso sees all this as forms of censorship, thought policing and just plain creepy.

VD: You have two choices with SJWs. Submit or destroy them. Choose one. Choose wisely.

This may be where Americans draw the line. Freedom yes, jobs maybe, but their beer never.

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A Review of The LawDog Files

16 Sunday Jul 2017

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Amazon, book review, books, Castalia House, Humor, LawDog, The LawDog Files, Vox Day

Vox asked for reader reviews of Castalia’s new release, The LawDog Files, by LawDog. I volunteered and My God! I’m glad I did. My Amazon review:

LawDog leads the reader on a fantastic and hilarious journey through human psychology, the realities of rural Texas, and the ups and downs of LEO life.

Going into the book I was uncertain what to expect. I don’t think I’d every heard of the author before (my shame). He’s much more than a Sheriff’s Deputy – a humorist of great eloquence and adroitness. Think of stories by Jerry Clower, Ray Stephens, Andy Griffith, maybe Fred Reed; then, think about small town policing. That’s the nature of The Files.

I’ve been in Texas a few times but never trekked into Bugscuffle. It’s the kind of sleepy little town where the darndest things happen, only to be publicly forgotten and thereafter only retold by old men (in boring fashion). Except that, here, LawDog captures the essence of the area, its people, and the demands of law enforcement, melding them out of keen memory and superb wit.

You’ll love this book if: you have ever worked in or around law enforcement; you’re from Texas, the South, or anywhere rural; you fondly remember the “good old days” from a past America, or; if you just like to laugh. Thrill to: an amorous armadillo, a murderous animatronic Santa Claus, a Dick Cheney-style pheasant (quail??) hunt, and perps appropriately referred to as “critters.”

The layout was easy-going (for an ebook) – a straight flow from one funny tale to the next – as well designed as written. I found one drawback, due entirely to the subject matter and exposition. My reading slowed as I “lived out” the files in my head. And that’s as fun a literary problem as one can have.

I loved it! Do yourself a favor and buy The LawDog Files today. Many thanks to LawDog for serving on the thin blue line and then, again, with the fine lines of his pen.

BUY IT TODAY

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LawDog/Castalia/Amazon.

You’ll love it!

More Thoughts on London and May

04 Sunday Jun 2017

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns, News and Notes

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England, invasion, London, politicians, terrorism, The West, Vox Day, War

Vox Day commented on Theresa May’s comments about last night’s attack: (My reactions in red);

While it beats the usual “diversity is stronger than hate” ritual, the UK Prime Minister’s new anti-terrorism program falls well short of one with any chance of success:

‘We cannot and must not pretend things can continue as they are. Things need to change and they need to change in four important ways.’

Defeating the extreme Islamist ideology to make them understand ‘pluralistic British values’ are superior

Ending the ‘safe space’ online for the plotting of terror attacks

Continuing military action against ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria

Tougher prison sentences at home for terrorist offences

First, the problem is not “the extreme Islamist ideology”, the problem is Islam. Period. The West will continue to suffer these attacks so long as Muslims are permitted to reside in the West. There is a reason why Western nations periodically expelled troublesome minorities, and they will have to do so again if they prefer peaceful societies to diverse ones. The West will either embrace Reconquista 2.0 or it will cease to exist.

Amen. The pot itself is now melting.

Second, pluralistic British values are not only not superior, they are not even coherent. “Pluralistic values” is a self-contradiction.

Yes. The “native” values never differed that much at all, as to nearly seem identical to the non-British, from Nottingham to Wales to Scotland. E Pluribus Unum. Multi de Bellum.

Third, the problem is not safe spaces online, but the safe spaces in the West. It’s very difficult to commit an attack in London or Manchester if you reside in Libya and your travel is banned. Not so tough if you reside in Bradford.

I thought May’s attack on socials was as stupid as Kathy Griffin’s attack on “old white men.” It’s not Farcebook and the Twits, Mrs. May; it’s you and your policies.

Fourth, fighting them there instead of here hasn’t worked since 2001. It’s not going to work in 2017 either. Military action against Islam is needed in the UK, Europe, and the USA, not in Iraq and Syria.

As I noted last night, as always, Iraq and Syria (et al) do not matter. Bombing there does nothing except create more “refugees.”

Fifth, imprisoning terrorists has historically proven counterproductive everywhere from Egypt to Germany. It usually leads to more terrorist attacks and hostage-taking. Even simple deportation is probably preferable. And the prospect of prison is not likely to dissuade suicide bombers. Only severe reprisals will suffice to do that.

The leaders of the West are still shirking their duties. They’re trying to win a war without fighting it. That is why new leadership is required. And that is why the God-Emperor should now declare martial law and imprison the judges who are illegally attempting to tie his hands.

A slight disagreement, here. The “leaders” aren’t just shirking responsibilities – they are actively adding to the problem. Trump has ancient precedent to round up dissenters, to include judges and members of Congress, but he will not do it. He won’t even stop the enemy from Taqiya-ing in the street in front of his home. The same goes for May. Instead I foresee some more pointless missile strikes in the near future in the usual pointless places.

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On Farcebook I’ve seen people echoing Trump’s sentiment that the courts need to “give us back our rights.” That’s not going to happen and it shouldn’t be expected or welcomed – completely the wrong mindset. The Constitution is dead and gone and the rules you whoop to follow are all rigged against you.

They’re also wondering how much worse this all has to get before the masses look up from the idiot boxes. I would say “much worse” but I just have no real idea; TeeVee is a powerful drug.

Finally, if Theresa May is still in denial, some Britons are not. This morning I received excellent ideas from the UK on what to do. “Want would Winston do?” More on that later.

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Puff, puff, bang, bang.

Run One Step Ahead: Vox Day on Success

28 Sunday May 2017

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success, Vox Day

I have this thing bout being one or two steps ahead of the news and the culture. Part of it is educated trend-spotting. Other parts are telepathy, intuition,and blind luck.

Today, as I nurse a slight sunburn, I offer you the chance to go one step ahead yourselves. Here’s a must watch feature:

Vox Day on Finding Success (30 min.)

A short description from Vox’s blog: “Sometimes it helps to reflect upon why you didn’t get somewhere before you try to start going somewhere else. Tonight’s Darkstream addresses how to go about making success rather than avoiding failure.”

Here’s the kicker: I haven’t watched it. Not yet. Sunburn… But I trust the source. I’m sure Vox has experienced one setback after another (the eggs and omelet phenomenon). However, one would never know that based on his public succession of successes.

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VD / Periscope.

Watch this and take heed if you’re struggling with something.

PS: I also like that his video skills are on par with mine. Success can be simple.

Video Editing Underway

21 Sunday May 2017

Posted by perrinlovett in The Perrin Lovett Show

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Chad Prather, The Perrin Lovett Show, videos, Vox Day, Youtube

Okay. In response to a recent request for new videos and in an effort to boost traffic here, at Freedom Prepper, and on YouTube, I am currently editing a test video. Editing as in splicing, adding text, and pictures, maybe etc….

You will never see the test subject. We all know my videography skills are … sub-possum. Anyway, it’s a process. I are actually learnin’ with some kind of editing soft…stuff. And it should lead – soon – to some downright entertaining material.

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Testing……..The Perrin Lovett Show Studio.

Anyway, here’s a video from a man who knows how to make them and how to sing, my old buddy Chad Prather (this is hilarious):

Chad Prather / Youtube.

Oh, and for a serious subject, please read THIS from Vox Day, today. Madness.

Infogalactic News

19 Sunday Feb 2017

Posted by perrinlovett in News and Notes

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Infogalactic, news, Vox Day

Bookmark this:

http://news.infogalactic.com/

Vox Day and his team have done an outstanding job creating an alternative to fake news. It’s a one stop shop for the best in what’s going on and associated commentary. Debuted literally a few minutes ago. I suppose it’s still in test mode. Should be officially unveiled tomorrow. Check it out early!

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That is all. Oh, wait. Soon I shall review the 2017 Alec Bradley Filthy Hooligan – a green barber pole of a cigar that I would have never looked at if not for a recommendation. Superb. That, is all.

Fun and Games and Felony Mayhem

04 Saturday Feb 2017

Posted by perrinlovett in News and Notes, Other Columns

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America, crime, free-speech, liberals, riots, SJW, violence, Vox Day

Tomorrow night the Atlanta Falcons are going to be beaten by the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LI. How badly remains to be seen. I have a meme parade on standby for Monday morning. It’s all aimed at poking fun at many of my friends and the legions of anti-Pats haters out there (97% of the world by their own memes).

That’s the fun and games. Here’s the deadly seriousness of the world:

Vox Day posted a story about an interview with a woman who was viciously assaulted at U.C. Berkeley this week.

He was referring to this interview:

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Said Vox:

Watch the video. Notice how they attack. They’re very skirmish-oriented, very hit-and-run. Effective, limited-force counters are going to require interfering with their ability to do so. Canes and staffs taking them down to the ground by application to the legs would likely be most effective for the untrained; sweeps and strikes to the knee would be the right tactic for the trained. Take them down, then have your allies drag them back away from their companions and zip-tie them.

It’s clear that they are inclined to use pepper spray, but those trying to pepper-spray can be taken out very easily, as when they extend their arm, they are vulnerable to either a) being taken down with a rotation, b) having their arm broken, or, if they’re small enough, c) thrown behind. The key is to be aware and ready for it; as soon as the arm comes out, grab with the opposite hand and pull hard.

Notice that Katrina and her husband thought they were prepared; they both were wearing kevlar vests. But defensive measures are not enough; one has to be prepared to neutralize the attackers when they attack. Always wear a belt, as it’s easy to loop it over an attacker’s neck, particularly one attacking someone else, and incapacitate them with it. In extremis, it can also be used in combination with a set of keys, or a pocket knife with a loop, as a flail.

Notice that both the pepper-spray attackers were women. These are not fearsome streetfighters, they are relying on getting in and out without being touched.

But most importantly, stop relying on the police and the media! They are not going to defend you, they are not going to take your side, and they are not going to give you a fair shake.

It occurs to me that as they rely upon anonymity, an Antifa List should be added to the SJW List so that everyone knows exactly who these people are.

These are the violent actions of the liberals who claim to love and support free speech. They love and support it so much that they must do whatever it takes to shut down the free speech of a gay man from Britain. The same liberals who invented 1,000 hate crime hoaxes after Trump was elected. The same who want to take your guns because you are so violent.

As Vox said, watch the video. Watch all of them – there are many. Another attractive blonde woman was attacked at Berkeley (Video). The same kind of thugs assaulted Richards Spencer in D.C. (Video).

Of course, in the eyes of the left, Spencer deserved it because he’s a “Nazi”. The kind of Nazi who holds rallies for his fellow black, Asian, gay, and Jewish Nazis. Maybe all the blonde women are Nazis too. They are all white. And that made me think of the sign I saw behind Spencer just before he was attacked:

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Does that really mean: “white lives don’t matter”? Or could it just be: “kill whites”? The actions of late speak louder than the words.

These idiots don’t read history. Or care about it. It was the constant attacks by violent communist thugs on innocent people that precipitated the Brownshirts in Germany. Do they want a self-fulfilling prophecy here?

Vox gives some excellent advice for self-defense from the crazed criminals. Also pay attention to what the victimized woman said about the police. They are not there to help you. They don’t care.

I’ll go a little further with the tactics. Even the best trained fighter can be blindsided. Move in groups and have spotters. And be ready at all times. Do not talk to the media or become otherwise distracted. If you can’t go armed to these events, don’t go. And if you’re there and armed, and if you are attacked, kill the bastards. Every single one of these little cretins deserves instant justice. We don’t need to wait for things to get worse (which they will). These thugs are happy as clams to get violent. So must we. They started it. Let’s finish it.

Sooner or later – probably this year (and sooner than later) – the video is coming of a decent citizen dropping one or more of the savages. You’ll see it here along with calls to repeat it until the problems are solved.

Then we go back to fun and games.

“always sink the damn ships”: Vox Day on Invasions

03 Friday Feb 2017

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns

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Aleric I, Europe, immigration, Roman Empire, Rome, Vox Day

This has to be one of Vox’s best columns ever. And it correlates today’s invasion of Europe to another from the distant, disastrous past.

Last summer, a number of normally sensible people were shocked when I said that the European governments would be wise to sink the refugee ships that were crossing the Mediterranean. Most of those people now realize that the people of Europe would be much better off if their governments had rejected the ridiculous “it is moral to help poor defenseless refugees” argument and fulfilled their responsibility to defend their national borders.

But my opinion is not based on any heartlessness or cruelty, it is based on knowledge of history. As it happened, I’ve been reading Charles Oman’s The Byzantine Empire, and the following incident caught my attention, presaging as it does the current situation. You will note that last summer was not the first time refugees in peril were permitted to cross a border, and as Oman’s account suggests, it will not be the first time that the people whose governments betrayed them have paid a bitter price for that failure either.

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It would be just if the Obamas and Merkels of the world met similar fates at the hands of the refugees they saved. Only six years after permitting hundreds of thousands of poor desperate refugees to cross the river and reach the safety of Roman lands, the Emperor Valens and fifty thousand of his best soldiers were dead at their hands. Seventeen years later, Alaric the Goth ruled over the north, and “wandered far and wide, from the Danube to the gates of Constantinople, and from Constantinople to Greece, ransoming or sacking every town in his way till the Goths were gorged with plunder.”

38 years after the Goths crossed the Danube, Alaric the Goth sacked Rome itself. One has to observe that it may not take 38 years this time.

And that, my dear bleeding heart moralists, is why you always sink the damn ships.

That, or wear stab-proof armor to the Louvre.

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And he was a “native” European.

Fight Back and Fight to Win

02 Thursday Feb 2017

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culture, SJW, Vox Day

Today, on his Periscope channel, Vox Day asked everyone to spread his free PDF: SJW ATTACK SURVIVAL GUIDE. Please download. 

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This being taken from SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police – a book I highly recommend. And I probably need to review sooner or later. Go ahead and buy it now.

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Vox Day / Amazon.

Given the level of violence the left is resorting too, I might add to the Guide: “…with a shotgun”.

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