The church burnings came about entirely due to an unqualified twat with a GPR set up and the Canadian "Press." Not a single body has been found based on the latest residential school hysteria, and most of the Catholic churches burned were attended by indigenous Catholics (aside from one Orthodox church of Armenian refugees, "presumably misidentified").
Fuck women only spaces.
The point is to make people like Carney squirm. And he did. This was a bigger deal than progressives like to believe in the 2024 election, but troons bother a lot people regardless of who they typically vote for. Americans didn't like politicians being coy about whether or not they knew what a woman is. Don't know if the voters of New Hindustan feel the same way, but as an outsider it sure didn't look like he liked the questions.
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: Imp was right again. That said, Nitobe Inazō seems an interesting character, might check out his book. Worth it OP?
To this day, the John Wick shit that dopey teenager pulled of baffles me.
Its amusing that we try so hard to include these same people in the governance of our countries and school libraries . Perhaps Conan would have a better solution; it would probably not account for community safety and comfort.
What is best in life?
Edit: sorry, Stormlight audiobooks are pretty good, but I wrote a bunch about my dislike of the latest books too. Purged any real spoilers. Despite my complaints, Sanderson's books fits OP's bill and are better than most Fantasy options out there today.
Good recommendation in terms of quality audiobooks, but I just want to complain about the Stormlight Archives because I just finished books 4&5 via audiobooks after reading the first 3 on paper, and I feel Sanderson has lost the plot. Sanderson got real weird after Covid.
Maybe it was me, because I had a long gap between reading book 3 and coming back to the series, but books 4&5 have all sorts of themes about social progressivism and science that I don't recall in the first three books (aside from one character's atheism). That's fine, all these things should be a source of interesting story telling, but every damn case that Sanderson writes involves a character on a world distant in time and place coming to the Reader's 21st century American ideas and treating it as novel within the context of the story. Hell, Sanderson literally broke he fourth wall to do this in book 5. There was a clear point where I can tell hat Sanderson watched pop science videos on youtube and tried to work in things he didn't understand into his worldbuilding including a certain character going on about the "conservation of [relevant magic system]"; thermodynamics took centuries of literal geniuses to work out and Sanderson has one charter mention it in passing?
I grew up being taught "we have to save Christendom," before it was cool. It was a whole bunch of "we will create a new generation of people who go into Government and become 'leaders." Not a single person I went to school with getting a 'classical education' based on the Trivium and Christian history has a position greater than "successful real estate investor." Some of these groups succeeded in going down the Mormon path, that is to say, they raised a bunch of compliant Teetotaling idiots perfectly prepped to be Feds, and nothing else.
There is no migration, leftist indoctrination, or economic problem than can be solved without what I like to call grassroots democracy. We have been taught that grassroots democracy has no place in democracy since the end of the second World War. If we want to fix the world, we need stop teaching children about 'civics' and start teaching the basics of [rule violation].
All I have to say is: object permanence. Is this woman mentally 3 (as apposed to the more normal 14)?
Trump officials are talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens
TDA has been determined to be a terrorist organization, and under the naturalization statutes joining such a group within five years of one's naturalization (or hiding your affiliation at time of naturalization) is valid reason for denaturalization. These are old laws. Don't know how many people they can nail under these statutes, but the media will have a field day defending foreign gangsters. "Father of five denaturalized by Trump and sent to foreign prison," as if knocking up an American woman absolves you from being a criminal.
Did You Know: ISIS (Syrian branch) of all groups stopped publishing their brutal execution videos because they felt they were getting a bad rap due to MS-13/TDA/CARTEL types copying their style?
This is a microcosm for the presence of Mohammedans in any country. We have spent 1300 years keeping these fuckers at bay. Either Europeans go back to their roots, or go the way of other indigenous people."
and let men be men.
It works. Of course the politicians immediately took the credit after decades of allowing foreign governments to own and destroy British industry. To be honest I imagine the entire policy of the UK government is preventing what just happened to Jingye from happening to themselves. No newcomers in any of the pics surrounding this event, btw.
And new housing starts only covered about 4% of the annual pop increase.
The great thing about increasing population the old fashioned way, is that you have two decades to prepare. Of course the old fashion way does not increase "diversity."
Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe series
Been meaning to check these out, thanks for the reminder.
even better if you can get his narration of them
Seconded. Here's a copy on youtube. Best download it because Adams' narration is in some sort of copyright limbo, not available, and various rights holding parties are playing whack-a-mole when copies popup on the internet.
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series narrated by Patrick Tull (17 books, 15-20hr apiece). Not a long series (about 50 hours in all), but worth the time: Wolfe's Book of the New Sun narrated by Jonathan Davis. I haven't listened to Audible's Wheel of Time recordings, but in total it must be hundreds of hours, and Reading and Kramer have been doing fantasy narration for decades
You probably shouldn't. No seriously. One thing to note about Christianity is that it is a historical religion, that is to say, we claim that events of the Gospels actually happened and that these events are essential to our religion. Christians don't think Jesus was a prophet or teacher; we think he was the incarnate Godhead, and what he did 2000 years ago was pretty important. With this in mind, Christianity predates "the Bible." No Seriously. Even a bland reading of the New Testament reveals that the Church predates the writing of the New Testament. None of the he Gospels or The Acts were extemporaneous recordings, and the Epistles were written to people already practicing Christianity.
Unlike the Mohammedans or the Jews, Christians don't hold to the idea that our sacred texts can't be translated. So how then do or do not we understand "the scriptures"? The answer is (unlike the Jews) that one's personal exegesis is NOT a good way to go about understanding our scriptures. Even protestants didn't really buy into the idea of personal exegesis until it became popular amongst Americans in the late 19th century. Arius was quoting scripture out the wazoo at the Council of Nicaea; he was still heretic that claimed Christ was not God.
Are there fuckin shit translations these days? Yes, and I think you know that. The answer to your question is: pick a church you trust, and ask them what the Bible means, ideally Orthodox or Catholic.
And nice to see something that's not just blackpill shit.
Getting away from the blackpill is just "lets do something else." Whether its HHS or DoEd, many American institutions have been abject failures, and an Admin willing to say as much and DO SOMETHING DIFFERANTLY proves there is a chance at improvement.
Did you notice the lady's question "why don't you take all this power and use it for what you want?" I was astonished; both because it shows how deeply "power is everything" has established itself in our culture, but also the real or feigned ignorance that a malfunctioning institution can be reformed.
EDIT: a malfunctioning institution cannot be reformed as my typo suggested if the institution is doing what it is intended to do, ie HHS supporting drug companies over the health of the country
They were hoping for '16 Trump. They are fucking terrified that the new Administration is taking the country in a new direction as promised. They fuggin wish Trump was "selling the country to oligarchs" (lol, who owns it now?). I have no idea if the Trump Admin will succeed in realigning global trade, if MAHA will work, or if getting Europe off our teet will improve the world, but it sure as hell looks like we are done with the era "we've tried nothing and all out of ideas." This is a bad thing for a lot of people, many of them wealthy Americans, and its pissing off "liberals" and "conservatives" alike.
DS9 was really uneven. It gave us "Wrongs" but it also gave us "nobody leaves paradise'. Obviously its progressive writers' worldview seeping out, but back then they had a bit of skill and could produce good along with he bad. All that to say: B5 was better (and it was even more uneven with more ideal progressivism at times).
Due process
As supporters of illegal immigration have been pointing out for years being present in the US without status is merely a civil matter. Your "due process" in this situation is a case officer determining that you're an illegal alien and putting you on a plane. You don't get a fucking jury trial. This is no different than than if I traveled to another country and the Immigration Officer declined me entry: I don't get to request additional "due process."
would the extra money I put in go towards the number of people killed?
You didn't answer his question
ideal insurance company
Solvency is a prerequisite. I know the ACA tried to create Healthcare via insurance companies, but its an idiotic approach even if you're an advocate for "free" healthcare (especially if, really).
Assume spherical cows in a vacuum. . .
This is the best description of the unease I feel about guys like Friedman I've ever seen.
Ok, reading up on Rothbard and Murphy will take some time, but
It isn't the free market that is hurting our country, it is our lack of a free market that is preventing us from competing with the rest of the world.
I don't buy it yet. Every important industry in the states went tits up over the past 40 years, and American investors made bank on it (see also: boomer psychology); is this an American regulation a ploy? On whose behalf? Either the free market libertarians are wrong, or there's a national conspiracy that would make most alienated thinkers blush.
Vance shitting on Europe really spoke to me. I mean no offence to any European with a brain, but Europhilia has been a constant in my life for decades (early millennial). Ten years ago I thought American Europhilia was just a silly byproduct of college students thinking their tourism gave them a unique view of other counties. I assumed that the American Europhile was young, dumnb, and didn't realize every European country had a working class. You know those dirty normal people.
I have, of late, realized the the average American college student only loves Europe because Yuros have straight up gone down the Orwellian censorship path and the twatwaffle students think that's a pretty good idea.