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Things We’re Powerless to Stop

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The recent hordes of ‘children’ flooding over the southern borders is just about that.

It wasn’t hard to stand strong against illegal immigration when it was young males. It became slightly more difficult when it became females of child-bearing age, or families.

But ‘children’?!?

I read a book a couple of years ago. It’s out of print now. Was then, too, but I hit up Amazon for a used copy, which I’ve since resold. (For a profit. I’m capitalist to the core.) The book is Camp of the Saints, published in 1973 in French because it has a French author, Jean Raspail. It’s been translated into English, though, and if you’re interested, you can find it in full here.

Quick synopsis? An upheaval in the East results in a mass exodus of completely destitute refugees who decide to land in France. Everybody knows it’s the end of France, but nobody is willing to do anything to stop them because it just simply wouldn’t be humane.

It just isn’t humane. One set of morals and values is exactly as worthwhile as another set, unless one of the sets is that lump of Euro-centric Judeo-Christian ethos that is the foundation upon which modern society rose out of the forests and fields to do literature and music and art and architecture and medicine and OMG! RIGHTS!, in which case ANY ethos is superior to those old dead white guys.

So send in the kids. Nobody is going to stop KIDS! They’re innocent. Guileless. And the perfect shills for a regime bent on tearing down everything we’ve put together. “It’s for the children!” was bad enough when it was OUR children, but now it’s those poor little waifs who aspire to a life of American ‘poverty’, because our ‘poverty’ includes TV and indoor plumbing and EBT cards and government housing which, if compared to a Guatemalan slum, is positively palatial.

In the story, the protagonist watched France end, buried by the hordes that France was too good to stop.

1973. Prescient.

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The Name Game

The Name Game #369

Eighty by eight.  Low probability of rain.  Humidity at 90%.  Summer.

Opened up the Sunday paper past the headliner article about the guy who’s been arrested twenty-seven times since 1999, read a few other articles, got to the birth announcements.  It’s the big hospital across the river this week with forty-eight new babies to forty-seven new parents.  Twenty-five babies with unmarried parents.  Yeah, yeah, I know…  “We don’t need a piece of paper to show we’re in a committed relationship”.  Until the baby daddy finds out that a screaming kid eats seriously into the free time and then there’s nothing…  Wait!  There hasn’t been anything in decades.  More ‘blended families’ and single moms with absent dads…  It’s getting hot, I’m in a handbasket, and where did you say this path goes?  And seven babies to mommies who didn’t even have a clue as to who the daddy is.

Let’s get started before I get too depressed.

Chiquito(I’m sooo smart I named my daughter after a banana) R. apostrophicates her daughter, little Lai’Lynei Janae.  Baby daddy?  An archaic superfluous construct of male-centric society.

Anthony & Sydnee’ H. give their daughter THREE names, show us little Marlee-Mychael Olivia.

Jolee B. knows that the letter ‘y’ just drips sophistication, so her son is Paztyn Edward.

Kelly E. & Omeka B. tag a daughter with Myracle Monae.  The ‘myracle’ is if my tax dollars aren’t supporting this kid.

Also subscribing to the ”y’ denotes a level of sophistication’ motif, Kyle ‘n’ Brandi(with an ‘i’!) H. do a daughter, Kendyl Kate.

Miss Ashley S. shows her daughter, little Baylee Lynn.

Kelly M. & Helena T. triple up on thier daughter, little Rhylie Marie Zena.

Ronald & Unek(Just like everybody else) C. show their unek daughter, little Hollidae Jeanette.

Another triple shows up as Dustin ‘n’ Misty B. show their son, Asher Cruz Creed.

Michael M. & Kami F. give their son one of those manly tradesman names, Sawyer James.

Trent & Kacie R. show their innovation when they name their daughter Sicilia Bell because they don’t want her lumped in with all those plain ol’ Cecilias out there.

Mike & Tamara C. know that the letter ‘K’ shows huge sophistication in a name, so their son is Karson James.

And that’s the list for the week.

 

History

Today in History – June 29

1613 – The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII and ignited the theatre’s roof. Sure! Blame the pyro guy. According to one of the few surviving documents of the event, no one was hurt except a man whose burning breeches were put out with a bottle of ale. Yeah, in its day, Shakespeare was “must-see TV”, the entertainment of the masses.

1922 – France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge “freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes”. Can you imagine how much foreign blood has been spilled in France over that last hundred years just so they don’t have to speak German?

1956 – The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.

1975 – Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.

2007 – Apple Inc. releases their first mobile phone, the iPhone. I have a 5S.

History

Today in History – June 28

1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday. Naturally we celebrate “labor” by taking the day off.

1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal, enabling Jimmy “I never met a murdering dictator I didn’t like” Carter could give it away later.

1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.

1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria-Hungary on the other side. The terms of the document, mainly due to French demands, place such an onerous burden on German that the foundations of WW II are laid. Twenty-one years later Hitler “let” France sign the surrender to Germany. In the delicate terms of international diplomacy, this is called “rubbing their noses in it.”

1950 – Seoul is captured by troops from North Korea. North Korean Army conducted Seoul National University Hospital Massacre, murdering 900 including doctors, nurses and patients.

1965 – First US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Johnson . Ain’t nothing like a dimmocrat president playing with the military… MC note: “Wow, man… like deja vu…”

History

Today in History – June 27

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1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia, in his 36+ foot converted oyster sloop, Spray, thereby feeding the dreams of sailors and wanna-be sailors ever after…

1905 – (June 14 according to the Julian calendar): Battleship Potemkin uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. “an end to war”? You’re serving on a BATTLESHIP. What do you think it’s for? Fishing?

1915 – Temperatures of 100 degrees F (38C) recorded at Fort Yukon, Alaska, a state record. Da*n those SUV’s!

1923 – Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane.

1941 – Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Ia?i, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews. Like Obama’s IRS, they didn’t need specific orders. They knew what the boss wanted without him having to tell them.

1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War. Can’t have commies just arbitrarily running the place, that is until they can fool half the country into electing them…

1957 – Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas. The number of deaths is an arbitrary figure. I was almost seven. Dad worked the night at the refinery, straight through the storm. Our next hurricane worthy of the name wouldn’t come until 2005 when Rita showed up.

1967 – The world’s first ATM is installed in Enfield, London. Second customer waits ten minutes while the first customer, a woman, rifles through her purse looking for her card, then tries to find her PIN written on the back of a scrap of paper.

1980 – Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while in route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as the Ustica disaster
. No official cause of the crash is given although there is somewhat credible evidence that the plane was shot down by the French who mistook it for Moammar Gadaffi’s plane.

1981 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its “Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China”, laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong. Somewhere between one and twenty million people died. We’ll never know for sure, but what does it matter? You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.

1985 – U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway, killed by the Interstate. Traveling the old US Highway routes is a trip into Americana that you miss from the interstates.

1986 – The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in Nicaragua v. United States, mainly because the ICJ is an arm of the UN, composed of a majority of people that only WISH their sh*thole nations amounted to a pimple on America’s a*s.

History

Today in History – June 25

253 – Pope Cornelius is executed (beheaded) at Centumcellae. Today Muslims still recommend this method of proselytizing Christians among them.

1867 – First barbed wire patented by Lucien B. Smith of Ohio. It is oh, so useful! Fences. Concertina rolls. Double aprons. Tanglefoot.

1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.

1938 – Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour

1948 – The Berlin Airlift begins. When America had the guts to stand and say “NO!” instead of “Can we talk?” while people die.

1949 – Long-Haired Hare is released in theaters starring Bugs Bunny. Warner Brothers is at the pinnacle of the cartoon game, dare I say, the ACME?!?!?

1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea. American troops are STILL there. We clearly need an exit strategy. Of course, each successive North Korean despot is wackier than the last…

1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen. The culprits are a mob of radical Norwegian Baptists. Wait! NO? Saudis, you say? Muslims? You’re kidding, right? That’s like, the Religion of Peace” and those are our, uh, ALLIES.