The MalaCast

George Washington really wanted to win the Revolutionary War.  He was desperate for it, thank God.

“Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”  -Friedrich Nietzsche

I stumbled upon a #MeToo video from 2018 and it's as foreign to me now as a video of the Salem Witch Trials would be.  What were people thinking?  Louis CK asked women if he could masturbate in front of them.  Love it or hate it it's not the work of Genghis Khan.  But that's how it was treated.  Louis inspired the same hatred as a Saddam Hussein did.

"... a ravenous machine seeking new fears, new terrors. I’m telling you, this is the way modern society works—by the constant creation of fear. And there is no countervailing force. There is no system of checks and balances, no restraint on the perpetual promotion of fear after fear after fear. . . ."  -Michael Chricton

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.  -Abraham Lincoln

We set the last spring some twenty acres of Indian corn, and sowed some six acres of barley and peas, and according to the manner of the Indians, we manured our ground with herrings or rather shads, which we have in great abundance, and take with great ease at our doors.  Our corn did prove well, and God be praised, we had a good increase of Indian corn, and our barley indifferent good, but our peas not worth the gathering, for we feared they were too late sown, they came up very well, and blossomed, but the sun parched them in the blossom; our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a more special manner rejoice together, after we had gathered the fruit of our labors; they four in one day killed as much fowl, as with a little help beside, served the company almost a week, at which time amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest King Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain, and others.  And although it be not always so plentiful, as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want, that we often wish you partakers of our plenty. We have found the Indians very faithful in their covenant of peace with us; very loving and ready to pleasure us: we often go to them, and they come to us; some of us have been fifty miles by land in the country with them; the occasions and relations whereof you shall understand by our general and more full declaration of such things as are worth the noting, yea, it hath pleased God so to possess the Indians with a fear of us, and love unto us, that not only the greatest king amongst them called Massasoit, but also all the princes and peoples round about us, have either made suit unto us, or been glad of any occasion to make peace with us, so that seven of them at once have sent their messengers to us to that end, yea, an Fle at sea, which we never saw hath also together with the former yielded willingly to be under the protection, and subjects to our sovereign Lord King James, so that there is now great peace amongst the Indians themselves, which was not formerly, neither would have been but for us; and we for our parts walk as peaceably and safely in the wood, as in the highways in England.  -Edward Wilslow, 11 Dec 1621 

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.  -Theodore Roosevelt, 1910

Three years ago a French teacher named Samuel Paty was killed on his way home from the high school at which he taught because a Muslim was offended by Paty's speech.

What has the effect been?  Well, two years after a British teacher made the same gesture Paty had (showing a drawing of Mohammed), he is in hiding under an assumed identity.  His life and the lives of his family have been turned upside down.

And now 55% of teachers in the UK would not use images of "prophet" Mohammed in their classrooms even if it were relevant.

The effect of terror is orders of magnitude larger than those killed or maimed.

Those who imported millions of Muslims or supported doing so have the blood of your countrymen on your hands.  In a moral sense, you do not deserve to be here any more than they do.

I watched an interview with a Soviet defector.

He said journalists:

-1) Fear the enemy so lie for him.  a la Vichy France.  2) If journalists tell the truth about figures they cover, typically they will be fired.  So all the remainers are loyal and therefore are disqualified from real journalism.  This is not true when a journalist's employer hates the target, of course.

“I thought that it was proper to commit injustice, so long as I would be the only one to suffer. But nothing can justify injustice.”  -Ayn Rand

Professor Gad Saad has painted a picture of the average anti-semite in America:  He's a white hick from the South!  Yes, this is what he and people like him really believe.  It's one of the last forms of acceptable, high-society bigotry left.  Of course, polling shows that white protestant middle-of-nowhere types actually hold Jews in high esteem, which, as you might realize reading the Saad Tweet, is not reciprocated.

The World Jewish Congress has published an ad against tearing down pictures of abducted Israeli children.  Who's tearing them down in the ad?  That's right, beautiful blonde coeds.  Just like has never happened once.

I don't find this sort of thing funny anymore.  I don't laugh at it, even in mockery.  This is evil.  

On a related note, it turns out that the trans Nashville Christian school shooter hated white privileged kids for going to fancy private schools.  The so-called tranifesto has leaked to that effect.

Me and my kids are the last group you're allowed to hate.  "Abolish Whiteness."  I'm not playing along for one more second.

"We are often told it’s foolish to bite the hand that feeds you. I say it’s just as foolish to feed the hand that bites you."  Marji Ross

"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it." Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Washington DC is dealing with a nasty spate of carjackings.  Or, not dealing with them, to be more accurately.  But nothing would be easier:  100 bait cars every day, ten year sentences for every thief.  Boom, civilization again.

The TV actor Matthew Perry has died.  He prayed to God, once, to be famous.

I took my boy to the hospital.  It underscored my growing contempt for the medical profession:  "For the safety of our patients no weapons are allowed."

"The worst of all public dangers is the committee of public safety."  -CS Lewis

It is sometimes impossible to do good without appearing racist.  Sometimes you must choose between the two.

Maybe to a more astute observer they wouldn't have.  Certainly not to a less astute one.

The first is Israel:  The response to some thousand Israelis being tortured and murdered was... widespread pro-Palestine statements and demonstrations by the intelligentsia of the West.  Is this the first time terror attacks on civilians have been openly celebrated here, aside from Ward Churchill after 9/11?

The second is that a DA in the United States is openly charging -- it is the written policy of her office -- whites more severely for the same crime.  I'm seeing absolutely red:  This woman is violating the 14'th Amendment.

But I suppose it's ironically appropriate that the 14'th Amendment, which has been taken to mean women can have abortions after heartbeats are heard and brainwaves detected, is NOT taken to mean the law must be applied equally regardless of race.

“One of the mysteries of the ages is why the political left has, for centuries, lavished so much attention on the well-being of criminals and paid so little attention to their victims.” –Thomas Sowell

"The American Revolution presents the first example of slaveholders themselves not just questioning slavery's morality but considering doing something to end the system."  -Historian Christopher L Brown

"Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of one or the other race."  -Thomas Jefferson

"We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go."  -Thomas Jefferson

"The spirit of freedom which at the commencement of this contest would have gladly sacrificed every thing to the attainment of its object has long since subsided and every selfish passion has taken its place.  It is not the public but the private interest which influences the generality of mankind nor can the Americans any longer boast of an exception."  -George Washington

"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to “preserve, protect and defend” it.

I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."  -Abraham Lincoln

Book:  A Disease in the Public Mind, Fleming (2014)

"Lots of discussion at the sexual revolution debate about whether the revolution failed men, or failed women, or helped men more than women, or helped women more than men. Nobody asked whether the sexual revolution failed children. People already know. Too depressing a topic."  @robkhenderson September 15, 2023

Happy Columbus Day!

Hamas has killed 900 Israelis.  Why?  Because for decades Israel has gone unbearably soft on this menace.  It should finally say "no more, no matter what."  It should finally win.

"Though we bristle when we read of European colonists calling native people savages, and justly fault them for their hypocrisy and racism, it’s not as if they were making the atrocities up. Many eyewitnesses have brought back tales of horrific violence in tribal warfare. Helena Valero, a woman who had been abducted by the Yanomamö in the Venezuelan rain forest in the 1930s, recounted one of their raids:

Meanwhile from all sides the women continued to arrive with their children, whom the other Karawetari had captured. … Then the men began to kill the children; little ones, bigger ones, they killed many of them. They tried to run away, but they caught them, and threw them on the ground, and stuck them with bows, which went through their bodies and rooted them to the ground. Taking the smallest by the feet, they beat them against the trees and rocks. … All the women wept."  -Steven Pinker

Radio is the theater of the mind.  Television is the theater of the mindless.  –Steve Allen

"In the past 24 hours:

A liberal gay reporter was shot & killed in his home in Philly

A far-left activist was stabbed to death by a deranged stranger in Brooklyn

Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar was carjacked at gunpoint in DC by 4 black men

But the crime wave is not real"  -@EndWokeness

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.  -Eric Hoffer