The MalaCast

"It is a grave error to suppose that a dictatorship rules a nation by means of strict, rigid laws which are obeyed and enforced with rigorous, military precision. Such a rule would be evil, but almost bearable; men could endure the harshest edicts, provided these edicts were known, specific and stable; it is not the known that breaks men’s spirits, but the unpredictable. A dictatorship has to be capricious; it has to rule by means of the unexpected, the incomprehensible, the wantonly irrational; it has to deal not in death, but in sudden death; a state of chronic uncertainty is what men are psychologically unable to bear."  –Ayn Rand

Jim Jordan has revealed leaked Amazon emails.  One of which says:

"Starting March 9—the same day as its meeting with the White House—Amazon enabled “Do Not Promote” for books that expressed the view that vaccines were not effective."

I have two things to say.

The first is:  With government as limitlessly large and therefore limitlessly powerful as it is at present, it can do immense harm to your company or your life out of pure spite.  You will pay far more for thumbing your nose at the state than you would have in, say, 1880.

The second thing I have to say is:  These are among the biggest scandals in our history.  They will not be treated as such by our media because our media agree with infringing our First Amendment.

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”  -James Madison

"A lie never lives to be old."  –Sophocles

Walmart Battle Orc @ASo1omons:  "Brits are lost."

Egyptians only kept records of the good things.  So every battle was a win, just... closer.

Three illegals have been charged with armed robbery in Massachusetts.  I think the punishment should be somewhat more severe than whatever free room and board they will undoubtedly receive.

One reason why political pugilism is so popular is everybody wins.  At least, everybody who likes you and who you therefore like in return will slap you on the back no matter how poorly you did.

I may have figured out why the left, for all it's incessant winning, is so miserable.

“Astronomy’s much more fun when you’re not an astronomer.”  -Brian May

“You ask me what makes Rockefeller the unquestioned leader in our group.  Well, it is simple. In business we all try to look ahead as far as possible. Some of us think we are pretty able. But Rockefeller always sees a little further ahead than any of us—and then he sees around the corner.”  -John Archbold

I've been listening to a "Great Course" on Audible.  It's by a man of the left and is therefore alienating and a bit dull.

He manages to critique Isaac Newton, the Bible, and Great Britain in the first two hours.

“Often it is those who are most critical of a ‘Eurocentric’ view of the world who are most Eurocentric when it comes to the evils and failings of the human race.” -Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals

*disturbing content*

Martin Luther King, Jr was many things.  Like me, he advocated nonviolent protest.  Unlike me, he was a Communist sympathizer.  An advocate of reparations and antiwhite discrimination.  But the most distressing allegation about the man is what he did in a hotel room once in the early 1960s.

https://www.davidgarrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/DJGStandpoint2019.pdf

“Man, I went through hell … I’ve really never been this sick,” he said.

Stern also thanked those who helped develop the vaccine against COVID-19.

“What a wallop this thing is — can you imagine if we didn’t have the vaccine?”

Josh Slocum:  Mistakenly once believed "That "science" was an un-contaminated-by-human-ego endeavor that could solve all human problems."

To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more.  -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live. For neither in war nor yet in law ought any man use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death, if a man is willing to say or do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs deeper than death.  –Socrates

"I have also turned to Christianity because I ultimately found life without any spiritual solace unendurable — indeed very nearly self-destructive. Atheism failed to answer a simple question: what is the meaning and purpose of life?"  -Ayaan Hirsi Ali

"If the world is against the truth, then I will be against the world." —St. Athanasius of Alexandria

“In 100 years, we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching remedial English in college.”  -Joseph Sobran

A Charlie Brown Christmas, 1965, CBS, commissioned and sponsored by Coca Cola was simply breathtaking.  I play a clip

“The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago, and the second best time to plant a tree is now.”  -Local city councilman George W. White in 1967

“It has always therefore been one of my main endeavours as a teacher to persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.

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All contemporary writers share to some extent the contemporary outlook—even those, like myself, who seem most opposed to it. Nothing strikes me more when I read the controversies of past ages than the fact that both sides were usually assuming without question a good deal which we should now absolutely deny. They thought that they were as completely opposed as two sides could be, but in fact they were all the time secretly united—united with each other and against earlier and later ages—by a great mass of common assumptions.

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People were no cleverer then than they are now; they made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mistakes. They will not flatter us in the errors we are already committing; and their own errors, being now open and palpable, will not endanger us.”  -CS Lewis

I notice that on political debate shows, and in history textbooks, the bias is not found so often in lies or in errors, but in omissions, in focus.

John Ratcliffe was a fine man who was later made into a villain by leftists.  Why?  Because leftists rape history.

A man on Twitter asked me if "invaders" were "the bad guys."

1) Only sometimes.

2) Invasion pre-supposes boundaries and laws.

3) Is the leftist standard that illegals are "the bad guys" no matter what is done to them?

No, the truth is they just hate Europeans and will use any twisted logic to make Europeans history's perpetual bad guys.

The Celebration Parallax may be stated as: “the same fact pattern is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states it.”  -Michael Anton

“That’s not happening and it’s good that it is.”  -Michael Anton

“The War on Noticing.”  -Steve Sailer

“A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”  -Anthony Daniels

"...contemporary leftism is a revenge plot with themselves as its targets..."  -Michael Anton

"Now, God be praised, I die in peace!"  -James Wolfe

"I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec."  -Louis-Joseph de Montcalm

"Of the mother I was ten times more afraid than I ever was of my own parents."  -George Washington's schoolmate on George's mother

George Washington had four bullets through his coat and two horses shot out from under him.  And that was before he ever got to the Revolution.

George Washington was not offered permanent service in the British military because the latter hired and promoted on the basis of nepotism.