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2022-06-15 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Photolog: Alexander III Cadet Ball in Yalta

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Posted by badanov 2022-06-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Hair colors found in nature, women and girls in flowing gowns and young men and boys wearing neck ties and squared away uniforms, no visible ink or excessive piercings, and all celebrating their country's heritage...but WE are really the good guys, the veritable torch of civilization. OK

Posted by Cesare 2022-06-15 07:49|| 2022-06-15 07:49|| Front Page Top

#2 I wrote a short story once about a guy who was all tatted up but no one could tell while he was dressed for work.

He had to dress funny on the golf course.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-15 07:55|| 2022-06-15 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Cesare, the Nazis were exquisitely groomed and wore designer outfits, too. Aesthetics do not correspond to morality.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-06-15 08:33|| 2022-06-15 08:33|| Front Page Top

#4 That's kind of a leap, Rob. I make and made no defense of the Hugo Boss boys, long defeated and well massacred. But we have trouble, and yes, I do mean right here in river city.

We live in a country that castrates it's little boys and neuters it's young women. Ask yourself, can you imagine the emergent drag queen menace showing up at the Alexander III Cadet ball?

How about celebrating their history and a victorious struggle. You know, maybe like the 150th anniversary of our Civil War and the anniversaries of so many incredible sacrifices on both sides. The 100th of the United States kicking the absolute crap out of the Hugo Boss' boys fathers. Yeah, I guess I missed that. Damned Wild Turkey must have gotten the upper hand again.

Morality? Suffice it to say I got involved in the independent oil business while I was still in college. Before the Army, Mrs C and the multitude of jr.'s. Not that I imagine it commends me in any way, but to be sure I absolutely understand the wrapper doesn't always foretell the goods.

We have a serious problem here. Look anywhere. Art? architecture? Public discourse? We are bombarded daily, Hell hourly with commands to hate Ivan. Chiefly from people who spent decades tongue bathing the Soviet Union.

Yet they are a country that is building nearly a church per day. A country that built a cathedral to celebrate it's fighting men. So what? we just had Memorial Day. That's right,' Day'. Now we have "Pride MONTH' and I don't care if you're a lighthouse keeper or a fire watcher you will not escape it.

Fine. The Russians are the stuff of the darkest nightmares. If that's so, it only makes events like this and even the Romanov wedding in St Petersburg awfully hard to square with the current American version of civilization.

Posted by Cesare 2022-06-15 10:32|| 2022-06-15 10:32|| Front Page Top

#5 What did I see in the very first picture? Little boys ooohhhing and aaaahhhing over a Chevrolet Camaro. So, at least, we can still do a few things that Russians cannot.

But anyone who is paying attention must certainly notice that ours is a society in decline. Church attendance in the United States is falling at an alarming rate. Fentanyl overdoses are killing hundred of thousands per year. Homeless encampments foul our cities. Gang violence terrorizes our inner cities. Our southern border is undefended. Formerly great cities like Detroit, Seattle and San Francisco are dead or dying. The mainstream media is in bed with the Chinese Communist Party and ignores these problems while trying to make us believe that a senile old crook has it all under control.

I don't know if Russia is any better. I've never been there. But it's hard to imagine that it's any worse.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-06-15 14:10|| 2022-06-15 14:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Russia is not the West's enemy. Ukraine is not an ally. Ask yourself, in which cities would a man like De Gaulle or Eisenhower or Churchill, or his traditional conservative descendants, feel more at home today: in Moscow or Budapest? Or in rainbow-worshipping, "diversity"-soaked New York, Paris and London?

Posted by Jean-Paul 2022-06-15 16:05|| 2022-06-15 16:05|| Front Page Top

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