Posted on 04/03/2017 11:31:13 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
We have fire ants here, bigtime. We find that spading up a different colony and dumping it in the hole will usually kill it. We have stopped using pesticide since the little bastiges will kill each other off for free.
Might be a bit hard to do with ghettos and barrios........but it got the job done.
And left you with a unique sculpture!
I may steal that to bombard liberals on my local liberal rag opinion website.
Partly. Add in one more little point, and it's true.
The liberal judges and their courts have done their best to establish *abortion as a constitutional right,* protect it with court decisions that set precedent and negated state laws protecting the lives of unborn children. And many of those judges will remain on the bench for decades as more than a million abortions a year continue to take place.
But there are now nearly enough Republican Senators to ensure Senate approval of a treaty with another nation or nations that would outlaw abortions. And nearly enough Republican states to manage passage of a constitutional amendment along the same lines.
Either approach might be successful, aside from RINO backpedaling and nonsupport. And the chance of their losing their right to kill the unborn would be a horrible blow to the liberal incrementalists who worked so long and so hard to get us to where we are now. It's their linchpin issue.
“National socialist dictatorship”?
Franco was the most apolitical man you could ever meet; he only insisted that he wanted to live and die in a Catholic Spain. He restored private property rights and the right to attend Mass; he let people come and go as they pleased. He didn’t allow elections because that is how the communists came to power - and the government they elected simply tossed out the rule of law.
Political scientists don’t refer to Franco as a “Nazi” with good reason.
Now that’s an interesting and unique idea - very cheap also. Will try on Allegheny Mound ants here. However often one of the many queens in a nest will go off to start her own, so would have no assurance that one would not just be returning queen to previous friends.
Fascist, allied with others, Mussolini & Hitler, long outlived them all.
I'm not certain there is any practical difference between the words "fascism" and "national socialism", seems to me there were both private and government run business in both.
During WWII Franco somehow remained officially "neutral" while sending divisions to support the German Eastern Front against the Soviet Union.
I'm guessing Hitler agreed to this with the thought that a neutral Spain could import raw materials Germany needed (i.e., rubber) whereas Spain allied with Germany would be subject to the same Western powers blockade.
Anyway, the point here is that a choice between "right wing dictatorship" and "left wing tyranny" is a false choice for American conservatives.
We chose freedom & constitution, and will not willingly sacrifice those for a return to one-party or one-man rule.
Hitler was furious that Franco wouldn’t join the Axis; Franco shared none of Hitler’s racial views and wasn’t an enemy of the Western allies. He asked them for assistance in the Spanish Civil War because the Western democracies stood by while Spain underwent a violent communist revolution; the fact that they alone assisted him speaks volumes.
Much of Europe (particularly in eastern Europe) saw right-wing governments supported by their populations to fight off communist unrest; it brought Hitler and Mussolini to power as well. After the brief assistance to the Whites in Russia’s civil war in the early 1920s, the Western democracies did nothing to stop the spread of communism throughout Europe. When nothing was done to aid Spain or later Finland, Europeans realized they’d have to deal with communism alone. Salazar in Portugal shared many similarities with Franco (and provided invaluable assistance to him), yet I never hear him referred to as a Nazi.
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Nor did I intend to call Franco a Nazi.
I used the generic term national socialist as equivalent to fascist in their economic policies.
Those were people who supported Franco in Spain's civil war and who Spain supported (i.e., the Eastern Front) during WWII.
kearnyirish2: "the Western democracies stood by while Spain underwent a violent communist revolution;"
Agreed -- without doubt the Western democracies (France, Britain, USA) stood by and watched throughout the 1930s while Spain suffered a proxy war between fascist/national socialists (Italy, Germany) versus international socialists (USSR).
They also watched Italy invade Ethiopia and Japan invade China, doing nothing beyond speeches at the League of Nations.
One result of their inaction was the bloodiest world war in history.
Placemark
A first rate summary of what rational Americans are contending with. It also spells out lucidly what institutions we must eliminate or replace.
The inaction of the Western democracies during Spain’s communist uprising mirrored their inaction ten years earlier when Germany and Italy underwent the same strife.
The non-aggression pact between Stalin and Hitler floored the West; that wasn’t part of their plan...
I teach economics in a school of business in a small, Christian, school. The past-past-past-past president of the school is in his nineties and STILL COMES TO FACULTY MEETINGS. We are frequently reminded that we are a liberal arts institution. Only a matter of time until I’m adjunctified.
Last year our best chemistry professor left (the others are still pretty good) and this year our best biology professor is leaving. Neither is being replaced. Bad sign, but it gets worse. Every time a historian leaves, we hire a replacement historian, the chief requirement of which is to be to the left of Barack Obama. They teach large enrollment “core” classes and low enrollment history and social justice classes, many of which are high-priced indoctrination sessions. The students and parents are smart enough to transfer most of that “core” stuff in from community colleges or high schools at a fraction of the price of taking it here. And the old guard administrators wonder why the university is tanking. It must be those evil, overpaid, underworked, capitalist business professors.
This semester I am teaching 18 hours and haven’t had time to publish a single paper so far this academic year. I wonder why? Just lazy, I guess.
Needless to say, the science folks truly are way overworked and underpaid, so I feel guilty complaining.
BTW, our past-past-past-past president is a social sciences type whose father was president of the institution IN THE 1930s!
Hmm. I wonder what the problem is?
You give them way too much credit, I don't think they had a plan, they were floundering from one crisis to the next, with the only clear idea that they wanted to avoid another war at all costs.
Sort of like our previous president in that regard.
They also hoped the League of Nations might be more effective than it proved.
On the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact, you might remember that leading up to it Stalin held, in effect, a bid-off with Britain & France bidding against Hitler, and Hitler made him the better offer.
But it's hard to say what the Brits might have done differently, historians say Brits were too arrogant and condescending with Stalin, but I suspect they just didn't have anything of major value to offer him, compared to the risks.
And there's no telling if anyone foresaw in the summer of 1939 what Hitler might do just two summers later.
It is so sad what has happened to so-called “Christian” universities, colleges and seminaries as a result of political correctness and inherent corruption. Why in the world would a Christian college promote “social justice”, which is Marxist and anti-Christian?
I guess it sounds good to virgin ears, as bad ideas always do at first. After all, who wants to oppose “justice”?
What alarms me more is how many “Christians” think Marxism is the way to go. I try to alert my ethics and economics students to the false promises of Marxism, but when so many pastors use the pulpit to tow the Marxist line that they hear in seminaries, it’s tough to counteract it in the classroom.
It took me until later in life to really study the Bible. Once I did, talking with others about why marxism is poison was suddenly a lot easier, and I don’t need to thump the Bible to do so. But the deep precepts and the wholeness of the scripture from beginning to end is transformative, even to the intellect. I hope you have a sabbatical time ahead to delve in.
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