Month: September 2019
Have the English People Had Enough?
In Britain, Boris Johnson has done everything legally possible to push Brexit over the line to completion, but a large contingent his own party has shown its true colors and figuratively and literally crossed over to the enemy camp to defeat the effort. Will the Remainers be able to forestall a General Election? Maybe they can. And maybe they’ll even find a way to cancel Brexit. But the real question is, have the English had enough? Has the open and shameless flouting of the people’s will reached the point where the English will do something about it? You may ask what? After all, Britain is a Constitutional Monarchy where the elected representatives of the people in Parliament are the ultimate legal authority. Is there anything the citizens can do if the various parties conspire to defy the will of the people and refuse to allow a General Election?
There surely is. Any Pro-Brexit voter whose MP voted against Boris Johnson this week can write and e-mail and let his MP know that when the next election finally rolls around the MP will be out on his ear and Nigel Farage will be providing a replacement under his Brexit Party banner. And he can add that this unfortunate MP shouldn’t expect to be elected for anything higher than dog catcher for the rest of his natural life. And he should ask his friends to send the same. In fact, Farage should already be publishing the names of all MPs who voted against Brexit and represent districts that voted for it. I’ll bet that should be an interesting list. There’s nothing an elected official likes less than the prospect of having to work for a living.
And that’s just the beginning. Call up Farage’s office and volunteer time and give money to help get publicity and public opinion rolling. Farage can use the money to buy advertising space in the papers and news sites. He can use the money to do research on these Remainers and identify their links to globalist interests that benefit from Brussels’ hegemony over Britain. There’s plenty that can be done if you’re angry enough.
A good example of how this can work occurred during the US 2018 Senate Elections. Despite the supposed mid-term doldrums that swept the Democrats into the majority in the House, the Senate races were predominantly in red states and there were at least four democrats who were incumbents in very red states. These were targeted by the Republican Senate Campaign Committee to showcase how these senators had voted against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court based on the lunatic charges and outright libel of a partisan hack. And all four of these senators were ousted easily.
It’s easy to get angry and spout off about politicians. But doing something, even something as easy as sending an e-mail, takes some willpower. So that’s the question. Are the English fed up with their disloyal government? Are they ready to get up off their butts and do something? I think they are. And I expect they will hear from Farage very soon. Hopefully Farage and Johnson can begin to coordinate how the coming election can be arranged between the Loyal Tories and the Brexit Party. If they are smart, as soon as the date of the election is nailed down, they should begin a campaign to wake up the country and lay out their platform. Let Brexit be just the beginning of reclaiming the country for its citizens. Many Labour MPs are from districts that went heavily for Brexit. Adding their seats to a Brexit Party constituency would begin an important realignment that is long overdue. It would be similar to how Rust Belt Democrats crossed over to vote for Donald Trump.
I am encouraged by the determination that the English people showed in making the Brexit vote a success. I am sure that they have the stamina to see this process through to a successful close. It will be necessary to throw the globalists out of Parliament to finish the job but it will provide the added benefit of producing a working majority in Parliament that knows it is accountable to the voters.
06SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.
Calvin Coolidge
06SEP2019 – Photo of the Day
The Twilight Zone – Complete Series Review – Season 5 Episode 21 – Spur of the Moment
Anne Henderson is the young daughter of a well-to-do family who is engaged to be married to an up and coming investment banker Robert. One morning she goes horseback riding on the family estate and a strange middle-aged woman wearing a black cape and riding outfit on a black horse spies her from the top of the hill and screeches something frantically at Anne and starts galloping madly toward Anne. Anne flees from her at top speed and barely escapes from the woman who keeps screaming incoherently at her.
When Anne arrives home, she dissolves into tears and chokes out her story as her parents and fiancé try to console her. When she finishes her story, her father calls the police and assures her the woman will be caught.
Meanwhile someone rings the doorbell and as an altercation is heard with the butler Anne realizes that her former boyfriend David is at the door and demanding to speak to her. Against the wishes of everyone else she agrees to speak to him. Her father warns David that he has one minute to conclude his conversation and leave before the police will be summoned.
David begs Anne to break off her engagement to Robert and marry David. She claims she can’t and when she attempts to run up the stairs David restrains her. When Robert intervenes, David pushes him away and Mr. Henderson produces a revolver and warns David that he will certainly shoot him if David does not leave immediately. David leaves.
The scene fades out to the same external location with caped woman in black arriving at the Henderson home. It’s Anne twenty-five years later. She is aged, bitter and alcoholic. Her mother is still living there with Anne and her husband. Mr. Henderson has passed away. Anne reviles his memory to her mother blaming him for not forcing her to grow up and learn common sense. Mrs. Henderson slaps Anne’s face but Anne slaps her right back. Anne now tells her mother that once again today she has seen her younger self riding on the property and once again she has relived that scene, she remembers from her past but from the point of view of the woman in black. She is chasing her younger self trying to warn her not to marry her present husband. And now we meet Anne’s husband. It’s David (shocking reveal)! He’s also alcoholic and maudlin. They’re about to lose the house because of his spendthrift ways. And they hate each other sincerely.
Next scene we go back twenty-five years again to the night after the events seen. The Hendersons are giving an engagement party for Robert and Anne. Anne goes out on the front porch obviously bored with the proceedings. When Robert comes out to join her, she asks him to go inside and get her a jacket for the cold air. When he leaves David appears in the distance and calls Anne over. She runs to him and hugs him. He begs her to run away and marry him. She agrees and they run into the night.
Back twenty-five years later Anne jumps back onto her horse and just in case we haven’t had enough she relives the pursuit of her young self again.
Is Rod Serling channeling one of the Bronte sisters? This story sucks. None of the characters is likeable or even interesting. Bah! C-.
05SEP2019 – Photo of the Day
05SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.
Calvin Coolidge
04SEP2019 – Photo of the Day
04SEP2019 – Quote of the Day
You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.
Calvin Coolidge
The ZMan has an Article About How the Dissident Right Differs from the Paleocons
His point is that those purged from institutions by the triumphant Left have either to abandon the legitimacy of those institutions and exchange them for the outsider dissident society or forever survive on the margins of those institutions, a pariah and a somewhat willing accomplice of its outrages. Pretty interesting. I guess it precludes the idea of reclaiming those institution.