Category: history

Students of History, Beware

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Catherine the Great used to read history to calm her spirit. If it was good enough for Kate the Great, it’s good enough for me.

So I’ve been revisiting the case of Richard III, the king whom Shakespeare crafted into a bloodthirsty monster. Leaving the Bard out in the cold, I’ve just finished reading Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time. “One of best mystery novels ever written,” seems to be the critical consensus.

To me the most intriguing and instructive aspect of the book is its examination of how fake history, falsehood, folklore, propaganda, etc. get transmuted into “real history” and published widely, taught universally, and blinds posterity to the truth.

Other than that it’s pretty cool.

So who knew that that whole business of Richard murdering the little princes in the tower… was a lot of hooey?

Well, according to Josephine Tey, serious, fair-minded students of history have always known that Richard was innocent of that crime–innocent, in fact, of just about everything they ever charged him with. Establishment history was built on lies, sensationalism, Shakespeare’s play, Tudor truth-bending, and our attraction to a lurid story: some inner perversity makes some of us want evil stories to be true.

I think we are dangerously close to living in a time like Richard’s, and not far at all from inheriting bulging sacks full of lies and calling it “history.”  Oh, we are so close to that!

And as we also know from history… sometimes the Bad Guys win.

‘What in the World Is This?’ (2018)

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The Narmer Palette

Well, we can at least say it’s a famous artifact–the Narmer Palette, produced in the time of King Narmer, the first ruler of a united Egypt, circa 3150 B.C.

But then we look at the pictures…

What in the World is This?

In the middle of the composition we find two wranglers using halters to control a pair of animals with very long necks. No, they’re not giraffes. The ancient Egyptians had zoos. Their artists depicted animals realistically.

Either the long-necked creatures on the Narmer Palette were totally imaginary,,, or they were real.

And if they were real… what the dickens were they?

Oh, Canada! (You Gotta Be Kiddin’)

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If you ever thought Canada was a serious country, worthy of being taken seriously… this might change your mind.

Military wanted hate crime investigation into rampant male washroom tampon vandalism

Last year Canada’s Stupid Party government decided to install tampon dispensers in the men’s washrooms throughout the armed services. Why was this done? Well, it was done by idiots–ask them.

Guess what? Men vandalized the dispensers, threw the tampons into the trash, and made their displeasure widely known. So The Canadian Armed Forces [their version of the Pentagon] wept and wailed about “hate crime” and wanted an investigation but didn’t get one, lack of evidence, etc.

How much money was wasted on this galloping idiocy?  How many full-time ****-heads parleyed this into a well-paid career? Yeah, yeah, they’re gonna abolish hate crimes and “extremism,” making the world safe for their own extremism.

Would you believe it? Guys were emptying the dispensers and throwing away the tampons… and at first the nimrods Up Above were puzzled by what they interpreted as an unexpectedly “high demand” for tampons! These yo-yos are gonna defend Canada in case of war? Maybe the enemy will be laughing too hard to fight.

Beware: This bad seed has already been planted in the U.S. military and with any bad luck we could wind up with an army of woke fairies.

‘More Vaccine Weirdness’ (2021)

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Would this have tricked you into getting a “jab” you didn’t want?

Here’s another thing they got away with in The Pandemic: resorting to lies and trickery to get people to submit to the COVID “vaccine”–which I put in quotes because it’s not quite like a traditional vaccine.

More Vaccine Weirdness

They got away with it, all right. Turned the COVID scare into a big government extravaganza. And there has been no accountability, no one packed off to jail for lying and putting people’s health at risk. No one has been punished for trampling our civil liberties.

Shame on us for that.

‘Australia: King COVID Forever?’ (2021)

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“It’s a germ opera!”

They totally got away with it, the last time they strangled our liberties and had us scared to death of The New Disease Which Only They Can Cure. How many “variants” of COVID-19 can they come up with?

Well, how many elections do they want to win?

Australia: King COVID Forever?

Yes, they got away with it–and they’ll be damned if they don’t do it again, next time they think they need to. How else are globalist fat cats and Democrat sleaze artists to stay in power? “Quick, everybody under the bed, the new COVID’s coming! And stay there till we tell ya to come out!”

No punishment. No accountability. They got away with it.

So they’ll surely do it again.

It’s Killing Us Back (2019)

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We’ve warned you: kill the culture, and it’ll kill you back.

That seems to be what’s happening to ours.

It’s Killing Us Back

Do you ever think about whole civilizations that are dead and gone, wiped out, erased from the record, kaput…? Do you ever wonder why they went out of business? What did they do that turned them into ruins and tall tales?

I think they must have done a lot of things that we do.

By Request, ‘Via Dolorosa’

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Requested by Erlene: On location in Jerusalem, Sandi Patty sings Via Dolorosa. How much has this street and its surroundings changed since Jesus was there? I can hardly imagine what it must be like to stand there and take it in.

‘Our Democracy’ (My Newswithviews Column, Sept. 12)

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Felons out, dissenters in! Welcome to Democracy!

You will search the Constitution in vain for any mention of “democracy.” Our country’s founders feared democracy and took pains to protect us from it.

“Our Democracy”

These days we hear the word “democracy” almost as often as we hear “iconic.” It is a vast display of hypocrisy, hopefully confined to this planet and not infecting the rest of the universe. We apply the term to jailing anyone who disagrees with the government and silencing free speech. That’s “democracy.”

And we are running out of chances to save ourselves from it.

Remember September 11

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The World Trade Center… then

Today is the 23rd anniversary of one of the very worst things ever done on American soil: the all-Muslim terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon. When they crashed their hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center, thousands of Americans died.

Is our government fully, totally, committed to protecting us from those who would slaughter us? In a world where Sept. 11 can happen, and does happen, is it altogether sane even to think about being governed by Kacklin’ Kamala and Tampon Tim? I am not persuaded that they love their country. That us an understatement.

Are we safer now that our government has left our borders gaping open and refuses to enforce our laws?

Terrorism isn’t over. The next attack could happen tomorrow.

God defend us. The state won’t.

 

‘You Can’t Defy Reality Forever’ (2019)

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Scott’s polar party: they all died. Wanting success was not enough.

History teaches lessons that many people don’t want to learn. Consider R.F. Scott’s Antarctic Expedition in 1912

You Can’t Defy Reality Forever

Wanting things to work is very, very different from making sure they work. Captain Scott was abundantly endowed with wishful thinking–enough of it to supply an army.  Come to think of it, World War I–by then just two years away–featured whole armies and governments with decisions based on wishful thinking.

But don’t worry–that mess with the Ukraine and Russia, it’ll all turn out right.