07APR2023 – Quote of the Day

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A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences. Yet learning itself is not to be blamed, or is the simple knowledge of anything whatsoever to be despised, for true learning is good in itself and ordained by God; but a good conscience and a holy life are always to be preferred. But because many are more eager to acquire much learning than to live well, they often go astray, and bear little or no fruit. If only such people were as diligent in the uprooting of vices and the panting of virtues as they are in the debating of problems, there would not be so many evils and scandals among the people, nor such laxity in communities. At the Day of Judgement, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done; not how eloquently we have spoken, but how holily we have lived. Tell me, where are now all those Masters and Doctors whom you knew so well in their lifetime in the full flower of their learning? Other men now sit in their seats, and they are hardly ever called to mind. In their lifetime they seemed of great account, but now no one speaks of them.

Thomas à Kempis

Tech Entrepreneur Stabbed to Death in San Fran. People of Color Hardest Hit

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San Francisco, that jewel in the crown of Gavin Noisome’s fantasy kingdom of California has reached the predictable point where even the Tech billionaires will have to become meta residents of San Francisco while their corporeal selves move to Montana and Idaho.

Bob Lee the tech entrepeneur behind Cash App and other tech companies was stabbed to death in one of the “safe” enclaves of the homeless encampment formerly known as San Francisco.  Lee had already moved out of the city because his family meant something to him but he was visiting for business and apparently mistook the description “relatively safe” for somewhere a rational person would walk with impunity.

When reached for comment Gavin Nuisance was heard to say, “California is pioneering a new way for billionaires and common people to interact; stabbing.  If given the chance I’d like to spread this new way of living across this great nation.”  At that point the Gordon Gecko look-alike had to dodge a hammer-wielding homeless man who was wrestled to the ground by the governor’s entourage.  The hair-gelled talking head was whisked away in a helicopter to avoid the gathering zombie crowd and the speech ended predictably.

ArthurinCali Has an Article Over at His Site About Forever Wars

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Being a retired service member he gives his personal reflections on US defense policies and their impact on the people out there on the front lines.

At present, the military cannot fill its coffers with required personnel due to lack of interest in serving and too many disqualifying factors. Obesity, drug use and criminal records cancel out 75% of eligible young adults to even join. That is 24 million out of 34 million from the 17–24-year-old range. Of those who do qualify, why would they join? The stated purpose of the US military to defend the nation is dubious at this point.  What is there to defend except the stock value of defense companies and a politician’s re-election chances?

Interesting read.

Twitter Labels NPR State Sponsored Propaganda. All Three Listeners Object Strenuously.

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This Elon Musk guy is a pretty funny dude.  He recently relabeled NPR with the same designation as the one used for North Korean and Zimbabwean state-sponsored media entities.

 

In protest the head of NPR complained,

In answer to this tweet, thousands of hecklers mocked him mercilessly reminding him of the Hunter Biden story and countless other examples of NPR toadying up to the Democrats.  To borrow one of the ZMan’s favorite terms the consensus was that NPR was guilty of regime rumpswabbery.

And Elon had the last word.

 

 

Chicago Boldly Declares Its Future: Detroit

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Yep.  In their election yesterday of the “progressive” choice, Chicago voters (or however it is that they decide these things there) picked the candidate who thinks law and order is racist.  So on with the descent into hell.  Probably this election should be enough to empty out Chicago of anyone who loves their children.

After all, four more years of gang-bangers and car-jackers running the city should be enough to convince even those not paying attention that Chicago will be kind of tough on kids.  What with a school system that doesn’t teach, an open-air drug market on every corner and a race war brewing in the streets you’d have to be an idiot not to get your kids the hell out of there.  So, Chicago will become like Detroit, a city of those who can’t get out.  The criminals will feed on the weak and the strong will become the political leaders and feed on the weak and misery will dominate a once great American city.

But that’s the dynamic.  The Democrats have their people and they will keep them in charge regardless of how miserable conditions become.  So be it.  Democracy says it respects the will of the people no matter how stupid it is.  We might as well too.  We’ll see how this pattern plays out.  All the larger urban centers, especially those in the blue states will probably follow suit.

Now, how does this election impact us?  Only as a confirmation that we are beyond thinking that the consequences of the Left’s policies will convince people to throw them out of office in the areas where their natural constituencies predominate.  This is the evolution of dependency that began with the Great Society programs of the 1960s; whole cities and even regions made up of nothing but people subsisting on welfare.

The parts of the country we need to consider are the ones where there are enough people left who still want a future.  These are the places that may have a chance to head off the same fate.  To do this they need to strictly enforce immigration laws and limit welfare benefits to only the truly deserving.  Doing this will be an enormous struggle against the full power of the federal government pushing for the opposite of these policies.  Florida and some of the other red states are the test cases for this.  The struggle will be for them to get their cities under control, even against the will of the “democratic” majorities within them.  If they can’t then eventually the functional population will be outnumbered by the non-functional urban dwellers and these states will become blue states.  And they will join Chicago and Illinois.

There you have it.  Another data point in the evidence of our decay.  In the same week we had Donald Trump victimized by the anarcho-tyrannical nincompoop that George Soros installed as Manhattan’s district attorney.  And Wisconsin elected a progressive state supreme court justice to tip the balance of that court progressive.  Everything moving along nicely toward the hive future we’ve been promised.  Let’s hope there are a few good men who plan to put up a fight.  But we won’t find them in Chicago.