#1
Communism has been apologized for from the left and tolerated from the right for far longer than is moralistically possible. When John Dryden's dictum, "Beware the wrath of a patient man." plays out, what happens to the world's remaining communists will make Khmer Rouge Cambodia look like a petting zoo.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/29/2020 13:42 Comments ||
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#2
And no apologist nor accomodator from either side of the spectrum will be spared.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/29/2020 13:48 Comments ||
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#3
I sure hope you're wrong MM - have you read on French Revolution?
#11
I suppose one might ask, did Ted Bundy belong in the electric chair? No? Really?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/29/2020 15:14 Comments ||
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#12
Some people will be stuck saying "Not all communists are bad people. Some of my friends and family are communists. You can't just lump them all together with Stalin." Well. That's something some people can say and think...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/29/2020 15:43 Comments ||
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#13
Asked how he felt about killing people, Rafał Gan-Ganowicz responded "I wouldn't know. I only killed communists."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/29/2020 15:48 Comments ||
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#14
I mean, once you start killing people over differences of ideology - where do you stop?
Who will decide how many cannibals, child murdering pedophiles and Ed Gein types we keep?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/29/2020 16:07 Comments ||
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#15
Straw men - I said difference in ideology, not actions
#16
Ideology. Ideation. Rationalizations. Excuses. Etc.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/29/2020 16:14 Comments ||
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#17
As an abstraction any idea is harmless. It's in the realm of action where some ideas become toxic. Straw men bur hot and sometimes burn down the whole damn wheat crop.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/29/2020 16:15 Comments ||
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#18
I think you been looking at the abyss too long, MM.
[Aljazeera] Scary, distressing, catastrophic: A bleak assessment by experts, humanitarians and epidemiologists on what a severe coronavirus outbreak would look like in countries across Africa sheltering millions of refugees and other vulnerable people.
The virus that swept across the globe has infected more than 660,000 people and killed some 30,000 since it was detected in China late last year. In Africa, the confirmed figures are still fairly low - but on the rise. As of Saturday, 3,924 infections and 117 deaths had been reported across 46 of the continent's 54 countries. "Bad luck"
[The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiller] Watch this before the ChiCom operatives in Google (obviously the Foreign Agent Registration Act that placed Maria Butina in federal prison doesn’t apply to U.S. media and social media platforms) take it down:
The Chinese Lung Clap is not the first pandemic inflicted on the rest of the world, SERS, MARS, H1N1 and about 90% of the seasonal flus are other examples that we’re not allowed to talk about, but it IS the first that has completely paralyzed the already minuscule minds of politicians all over the world and is threatening to throw the entire globe into a self-inflicted economic depression. Self-inflicted in the sense that the hysterical overreaction we’re currently seeing is on US, not China.
But that’s the ONLY part of it that’s self-inflicted.
It will take several more iterations of these pandemic cycles before Karen and the Normies finally realize that elections and relying on our "public servants" to do something about China is delusional.
And by then, so much damage will have been done that it will either be too late, or the remedy will have to be far more extreme than they are currently willing to contemplate.
The world is going to look very different five to ten years from now, and the hand wringing, pearl-clutching NPCs squalling "Who could have imagined?..." and "No one ever warned us..." will have no one but themselves to blame.
h/t Instapundit
[Harvard Law Review] - Not since 1918 has the United States faced the kind of wide-scale public health crisis that Americans face today. The novel coronavirus pandemic of 2020 jeopardizes multiple millions of Americans’ lives, especially the elderly and immunocompromised. It also stands to cripple the American economy with the real prospect of the nation plunging into a depression. The virus itself is more easily transmitted than other seasonal diseases like the flu. Each non-isolated case of novel coronavirus will infect 2 to 2.5 additional people compared to the flu, where each additional case will infect 1.3 other people on average. Moreover, it is more deadly than the flu. As I write, nearly 85,000 Americans have been infected, and over 1,000 lives have been lost to the pandemic. These numbers will surely grow as the challenges to respond to the crisis mounts. Public health resources are strained, and the testing capacity of the United States lags behind other nations.
Public health experts and government officials face a stark choice: swift crackdowns on private movement or the possibility of mass mortality. To "flatten the curve," i.e., slow the exponential growth of new infections and avoid overwhelming the healthcare system, governors and mayors have mandated social distancing and instituted stay-at-home orders. And while the pandemic has touched every state in the nation, certain states like New York, New Jersey, and Washington have acute outbreaks. In response, some governors have instituted de facto travel bans for short-term visitors. The governors in Alaska and Hawaii issued mandatory self-quarantine periods for all persons entering either state for 14 days. Travelers whose final destinations are Florida or Texas coming from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut must quarantine for 14 days, as must persons traveling from New Orleans to Texas. Rhode Island has instituted a similar policy directed at New Yorkers, including police stops of non-commercial vehicles entering the state with New York license plates, that has come under fire from the state American Civil Liberties Union chapter.
These gubernatorial actions raise essential questions about states’ power to restrict the constitutional right to interstate travel that is grounded in dormant commerce clause doctrine. Observers are likely to initially turn to the foundational 1941 Supreme Court decision on the freedom of movement, Edwards v. California, for guidance because it captures restrictions on the movement of persons in a way no other case does.
...Rather, case law resolving the tension between public health and the movement of goods under the Commerce Clause long predated Edwards. Two livestock quarantine cases that date back to the late nineteenth century enforce states’ prerogative to establish rules to protect the public welfare against contagion, notwithstanding incidental burdens on interstate commerce.
...The quarantined goods cases are about the shuffling of commercial products across state lines, but the Supreme Court took the same approach to state officials’ purported work to curb the transmission of communicable disease.
...The nation finds itself in a historic moment that will change how Americans live for the foreseeable future and will leave an indelible mark on American society. Governors and state public health officers will use every arrow in their quiver to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. That much is clear. Some of these actions will inevitably raise honest concerns about civil liberties, and Americans should endeavor to debate the wisdom of government policy even amid a crisis to hold government actors accountable and protect constitutional values. However, the simple reality is this: federal courts will not enjoin temporary measures that are facially calculated to save lives. Pikuah Nefesh doche Shabat (saving life come before even the Shabbat)
#1
I always remember the cattle burning scene in Hud.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/29/2020 10:55 Comments ||
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#2
I was visiting in Georgia when this started in February. I have been in lockdown for 21 days because a friend came down with the Virus. I now want to go to my home in Colorado but that requires a hotel stop in Missouri. Can I be prevented from crossing state lines on my drive?
Posted by: Boss Dingle7996 ||
03/29/2020 11:19 Comments ||
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#4
Boss, yes you can be. Governors can do whatever they want right now unless a state court stops them. States are only sort of required to comply with constitutional provisions of the federal bill of rights. Except for 14th amendment penumbras the federal bill of rights only apples to the federal government.
However, practically, no state is going to deny passage through their state to your home.
If they stop you, then you are nearby to potentially cause problems; if instead they let you go, you are out of there in a few hours.
Just be polite, show your id with out of state address and you should be on your way.
#5
And to minimize the number of state boarders you cross, plan to take the Mississippi bridge between Tennessee and Missouri using interstate 55. It cuts out Kentucky and Illinois. Travel safely.
[Arutz 7]-Only in Israel can politics beat Corona for center stage and for surprise value.
Until Wednesday afternoon the Left/Arab bloc was riding high and mighty in the camel's saddle. The Supreme Court and the loyal, cheerleading media were gleefully pushing the throttle forward of the steamroller, burying underfoot any chance of Netanyahu escaping the political juggernaut partnership of Arabs and post-Jewish Jews.
They were certain that the nasty Jewish part of the Jewish state would be put in its place this time.
Well, as happens so often in Jewish history and compounded in Israel's short, miraculous history, "der mentch tracht un der Gott lacht"(Man proposes and G-d disposes).
Benny Gantz, who was convinced that he could be prime minister leading an alliance of the angry minority groups in Israel (Arabs and post-Jewish Jews), realized that his eager minions were not enough for the final punch. Within his ranks of those promised power for their allegiance were a few individuals who in the critical test just could not sell their soul. Apparently the "Pintile Yid" (the intrinsic spark of a Jewish soul ) in them gave them no rest.
Perhaps the images of loving grandparents who longed for Zion blocked their way to actually walking hand in hand with Jew-haters.
Gantz did the math and realized that without them he lacked the sixty-one seat majority to form the anti - Bibi government.Thus, in a last-minute move, without informing his erstwhile allies, he struck a deal with Netanyahu.
Gantz will share power in the government together with what is left of his alliance, now that Lapid and Ya'alon have broken off from Blue & White. However, his political career will in all probability end there.
It will be interesting to see how Gantz, the most unpopular politician in Israel up to today will function in the "Unity Government."
He made two strategic promises that catapulted him into political power; One: never Bibi and two never Arabs. He broke both promises.
Jewish Israel will not vote for him unless he works miracles in the second half of the coalition agreement - not yet signed - when he is acting prime minister. Netanyahu is a hard act to follow and the Likud will certainly not nominate him.
Who is to be his constituency?
He seems to have no political future and it would seem that neither does the Left which ran circles around themselves in a whirlwind of backstabbing.
Yes, one can die of many things in Israel; even G-d forbid of Corona, but never of boredom.
#1
Sounds like good news all around to me. Mysterious ways, indeed.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
03/29/2020 10:27 Comments ||
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#2
grom, I'm from Louisiana ("Home of Louisiana Politics"), so forgive me for asking: Is any money changing hands in the process?
Posted by: Matt ||
03/29/2020 10:53 Comments ||
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#3
#2 I'm not privy to such secrets, but - if you mean Blue & White people who objected to Arab supported government being bought off? Doubt it, there are some things in Israeli politics that you just don't do - unless you're leftard on EU payroll.
#4
/\ ...unless you're leftard on EU payroll. Did it start becoming obvious to even the dullest that the EU is going to find it hard enough to deal with the Coronavirus Epidemic...?
#7
As Quaid said in Total Recall, I give it "Twwwoooo Weeeeks!"
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/29/2020 13:52 Comments ||
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#8
Can't wait to drop the phrase "Pentile Yid" into a conversation.
Posted by: York Harding ||
03/29/2020 18:48 Comments ||
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#9
#6 ^They don't think on certain subjects.--g(r)omgoru
I was told by an ex-acquaintance that he was a "...Socialist Atheist Jew". At that point I was gobsmacked by the combination.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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