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When I read that story back in high school, I thought it was the silliest thing I’d ever read. I couldn’t conceive of anyone, particularly a woman, who could have such a negative view of human relations that out of the blue they could turn on each other for no other reason than “that’s the way it’s always been.” What kind of parents must she have had that such a concept could be in her head? And what publishing company would think it was worth publishing?

I’ll try to answer that. The Jews have brought three things to “the table:”

Monotheism, which is the basis for Christianity in all its forms.

The Ten Commandments, which are the first real code of conduct for any civilized society.

The second part of The Great Commandment, love thy neighbor as thyself.

Those three ideals are the basis for all of Western Civilization, the greatest and most enlightened the world has ever known. Can anyone imagine what the world could be like if all three of these ideals were followed scrupulously by all peoples of the world? Those three gifts outshine any wealth, hedgemony or other influences any country has ever presented to the world. And that’s why our own United States supports Israel, the bedrock of all that’s good and worthwhile on earth.

Since most people consider their pets as their children, I can’t imagine anyone NOT defending them with deadly force. The Arizona State Judge who taught our CC course explained to us what to say to the police and/or prosecutor to avoid any repercussions for having saved your dog or cat. Good guy…

I think it’s on 31st Street. Fifty-five years ago I used to walk by this hole-in-the-wall “parish” on my way to Penn Station and even then it was always advertising the most radically insane leftist events it was sponsoring or taking part in. Most will recall the famous picture from 9-11 of firemen and other emergency personnel carrying the lifeless body of the Catholic chaplain of the NYCFD away from the collapsed wreckage behind them. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe that chaplain was the pastor of this church.

It breaks my heart to see how many of these creeps have Jewish-sounding names. I have to presume they’re all JINOs instead of the most prominent Jewish social influencers like Dennis Prager. I believe I once posted in one of my replies that I hoped someone with knowledge of Jewish culture would help us understand how the Jewish religion’s admonition to leave the world a better place than they found it could have been perverted into this insane love of totalitarianism as well as hatred of our own national culture, history and Constitutional Republic. It’s almost as if they are allergic to anything American.

Bolton, Carville and Krugman…the Triumvirate of Irrelevance

Crazy old mountain lady…the woods up there are full of them. They’re innocently ignorant beyond belief. I happen to know one personally and when it comes to anything regarding, history, politics, civics or economics she is totally lost in space while honestly believing everything she hears on NPR or reads in the Boston Globe and The New York Times.

Her reaction is exactly what I’d expect from a young, west coast, Asian woman. How would she ever be able to get something out of it except toxic masculinity? Besides being a guy, it helps if you grew up in the New York metropolitan area during the 50’s and/or 60’s where mobsters were real and their culture familiar to most people even if they’d never even met a real life Wiseguy. My wife grew up in Hudson County (right across the river from Manhattan) in a culture much like that of Brooklyn. Although the violence of “mob movies” is repugnant to her, the cultural references to that time and place are, for her, the real entertainment in movies like The Godfather, Goodfellas and Casino.

Besides growing a set of balls and relinquishing their ridiculously overbearing social welfare system, the British need guns. Lots of guns of all kinds and the willingness to use them. I have to presume their military is entirely under the thumb of DEI activism. I cannot believe there isn’t a single British army officer who is completely ignorant of his country’s history and will not use the troops and equipment under his command to begin turning that great civilization around. It would only take one area of the island of Britain to be rid of the moslems and DEI bureaucratic oppression before other areas would follow along.

Reminds me of the scene in the movie “Fatso” where Dom de Louise is holding a gun to his brother’s head: “Gimme those keys, gimme those goddam keys!”

Regarding the corrupt deal of 1824, I recall reading that John C. Calhoun was also involved in the bargaining of which states would support Adams instead of Jackson. Can anyone with a better knowledge of that historical period confirm that? Thanks in advance…

…His miracles to perform.

Toll House cookies, with walnuts or without, to me are the ultimate Christmas cookies. Using the recipe on the back of the yellow-packaged Nestle Semi- Sweet Morsels, I bake between 450 and 500 toll house cookies every December, packaging them up as gifts for relatives, friends and service people who do such a good job for us all year long. I have a simple trick that makes them nearly irresistible - recipients often ask why they, following the same recipe, fail to produce as incredibly delicious cookies as I do. That special trick is this: I never use a mixer. All dough is mixed by hand with the last stages being like mixing mortar that has begun to set. I don’t know why it works, it just does.

I only bake them in December and many of the usual people we send them to always make sure to ask for what they consider their ultimate Christmas gift, expressing fear that for some reason I’ll someday stop making them. But as long as I can do it, I will. For me, they’re the ultimate Christmas Cookie!

Absolutely correct. For further information, read Tom Wolfe’s “From Bauhaus to Our House.” And for an historical perspective, check out “ Brunelleschi’s Dome” by Ross King…not the biggest but certainly the most brilliantly innovative and ingeniously designed church from the Renaissance.

An article written by a woman, for a woman’s magazine, which only quotes other women. Halfway through this I began to get the feeling that something was off and in going back to check, discovered the “dripping with estrogen” effect was due to an entirely woman’s point of view. I’m wondering why the original poster felt the need to post this on a board predominantly read by men.

I was also a rabid NFL fan, particularly the Giants and Jets since I lived in Jersey. The kneeling did me in as it did so many others and for a few years I refused to watch it. But then my son clued me in to NFL RedZone. I love football action, not necessarily the league or any individual teams, so the RedZone feeds my enjoyment of actually seeing the professionals playing while not being emotionally tied to one or two teams. That saves me from locking myself in the bathroom to spite my wife who was making fun of my tears after a particularly galling loss to the Dallas Cryboys one Sunday afternoon in the 90’s…

I thought one of the major policy points the Suffragettes were in favor of was banning abortions. Unless you’re speaking of our modern-day suffragettes who populate college campuses, NGOs and corporate climbing ladders.

The abortion issue reminds me of the slavery issue in the early 19th century. I could never understand how the pro-slavers couldn’t see their own hypocrisy, attending church on Sundays while “owning” other human beings and forcing them to labor under some of the worst conditions imaginable (not to mention using the black women as their sex playthings.) In the same way, how can “women” who almost universally make such a fuss over new infants, blithely declare that a baby about to be born can be murdered in calculating, cold blood. Abortion clinics are the new “High Places” so despised by God in the Old Testament.

In late 2002, my son’s unit (Third Brigade, Third Infantry Division) became aware that shortly they would be deployed to Kuwait as a staging point for the invasion of Iraq in March of 2003. He told me this triggered a massive shopping spree on “V.D.” (Victory Drive in Columbus, Georgia adjacent to Fort Bennington) by the infantrymen of his brigade who knew that whatever they would be issued by the U.S. Army would be totally inadequate to actually get them through their deployment. Socks, sturdy rucksacks and underwear were the biggest sellers long with other essentials like reliable flashlights, weapon cleaning supplies, small mirrors and “silly string” spray cans for detecting trip wires in rooms they had to clear. When I asked him why the Army didn’t
provide adaquate amounts of these essentials, he just smiled at my naivety…

Too late - we’re way past that. Besides, God helps those who help themselves…

“Wendy” by The Beach Boys and Laura Nyro’s versions of “Walk On By” and “Crying”.