Latitudinarianist

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Larry-Lambert

Captioned Photo: The Gate of Angkor Thom in Cambodia.

Captioned Title: One who adopts a doctrine of discretion in religious belief and conduct.

 

Should One Photograph Dinner?

Is food featured on social media more often than pictures of kittens?

It’s not as if you were Cooking with LSP or doing something fancy. The garnish is important, not because you have to beat yourself up over whether or not to eat it. It only makes the wet burrito look more colorful, and we eat first with our eyes.

While we’re discussing eating… Is your income keeping pace as Pedo Joe and the Ho build back better?

 

They could buy carbon credits from me and eliminate their tax.

What could be more simple? (hahaha)

 

Elegant evidence of global cooling. It’s time to dump that electric car and start pumping hydrocarbons into the atmosphere to save the planet.

 

America First

(American Thinker) Donald Trump’s “America First” doctrine encountered stormy weather in the community of American globalists who characterize it as a mix of nationalism, unilateralism, and xenophobia. The substantive disagreements could not be more explicit: globalists see American commitments as implicitly limitless and irreversible, and Trump, driven by effectiveness, not ideology, believes the existing commitments are not eternal and are limited by resources. Therefore, we must define our national interests to shape our commitments, not allow existing commitments to define our interests.

The “my country first” concept is not a new approach to international order. It originated in the 17th century with a Frenchman, Armand-Jean du Plessis, called Cardinal de Richelieu. Historically, authority was personal and reflected the rulers’ will, which was often capricious, unpredictable, and counterproductive. To create stability in the international system, Richelieu offered a revolutionary concept, the guiding principle of which was national interest as perceived by objective political and security necessities. This principle became later known as raison d’état or national interests, the indispensable element of a successful foreign policy for most of the world. Richelieu’s design had been practiced by the United States pretty much till the ascendance of President Woodrow Wilson.

Wilson sought to impose American virtues upon the world. His vision was to hold every nation to our social justice and human rights standards and to end tyranny worldwide. Speaking to the graduating class at West Point in 1916, Wilson told the graduates,

In the providence of God a continent had been kept unused and waiting for a peaceful people who loved liberty and the rights of men more than they loved anything else to come and set up an unselfish commonwealth.

Since then, every American president has been advocating policies that became globalists’ rallying cry for imposing democracies around the globe and building the economies of other nations. With each president, the policy was growing progressively toward helping others until the interests of Americans were nearly forgotten.

 

Unintended Consequences?

(the Washington Post) Democrats spar over registration as worries over young and minority voters grow. “The rise in Trump support among nonregistered voters has run up against a long-held Democratic policy priority of growing the voter rolls.”

It’s called the Trump Effect. After 4 years of FJB, young black and Hispanic people see what young white people see in him — a leader who cares about them. FJB only cares about the bribes.

The story said, “Aaron Strauss, an influential data scientist who helps direct progressive spending at the firm OpenLabs, sparked private disagreements over this issue in January when he sent about a dozen major Democratic donors a confidential memo that challenged traditional nonpartisan registration.”

Strauss said, “Indeed if we were to register nonvoters and get them on the rolls blindly, we would be distinctly aiding Trump’s quest for a personal dictatorship.”

The story said, “He also warned that efforts to gain Democratic votes among younger and non-black people of color were often expensive — costing more than $1,200 per net vote in 2020, by one estimate — because the groups now include so many non-Democrats. Among voters of color, he wrote that ‘only African American registration is clearly a prime opportunity,’ adding that netting Democratic voters among Black people cost approximately $575 per vote in 2020.”

People also know the 2020 election was not on the up-and-up. They are fixing that.

 

The Rowling Effect?

BBC reported, “JK Rowling hate law posts not criminal, police say.”

It is unclear if this applies to her alone because she is a celebrity, but she is speaking out and standing up for free speech.

She tweeted, “I hope every woman in Scotland who wishes to speak up for the reality and importance of biological sex will be reassured by this announcement, and I trust that all women — irrespective of profile or financial means — will be treated equally under the law.

“If they go after any woman for simply calling a man a man, I’ll repeat that woman’s words, and they can charge us both at once.”

 

Which would YOU choose? The Fokker or the SPAD?

 

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  1. My wife and I went to Angkor Thom about 6 years ago. Very impressive but the buildings never developed beyond that point. Lots of small to medium rooms.

    European architecture using arches is much better for large scale like the great cathedrals.

  2. So when will everyone catch on that the Democrats are now the Black (lives matter) Party? I’ll take the Fokker.

  4. Ahhh, the old structures and religious caves of Malaysia and other sights in Indo-China. The historic smell, mostly of bat urine with a hint of guano. and the obligatory statue of Buddha make a lasting impression on the western visitor.
    Cletus

    1. Yes,and then there is the small snake temple in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia, which, over the past fifty or so years, has been turned into a tourist gimmick. Place is full of snakes, both large and small, although mostly large, all semi-comatose/sedated from continually breathing is the thick miasma of incenese fumes. They are laying everywhere inside the building. Outside there are the usual touts, with snakes draped around their necks, seeking the tourist dollar. For a price the tourists can handle the snakes, even draping them around their own necks, for the obligatory “look at me handling the dangerous reptiles” photographs.

  6. “Is food featured on social media more often than pictures of kittens?”
    Confucius say: Why can’t picture be both?

  7. SPAD, mostly because my maternal grandfather flew them. That’s all my uncle (his son) could tell me. At some point in the distant past, I was told that he was a flight instructor in France. No indication that he ever flew combat. To date, I have had no luck finding any further info about his service in France. I do have copies his discharge as a 2Lt. from the Army Air Service at Camp Dix in February of 1919. I was discharge from Ft. Dix in February as well, 58 years later.

  8. WWM Carbon Credits Exchange…excellent mailbox money concept. Sign me right up.
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    Cambodian rock carving, incredible that a bunch of (slaves?) dudes with primitive hand tools could manage such “art”, the detail never ceases to astound.
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    Fokker…because it’s not French. Besides, those Geerrrmmmaann’s (as Clarkson would say it) are all about precision. Sorta like a Citroen v. BMW…not much of a choice.
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    Sidebar: WinterSpringtime in the Rockies is always predictably unpredictable. Had to go to Denver south yesterday, 77degrees (geez)…the Homestead right now, 30 degrees, snowy and windy, more like Barrow, Alaska. The domestic aspens we planted are wearing parkas hoping they freeze their buds off. The native aspens are still in Winter hibernation looking at their counterparts like we look at Lefty’s…Whuuaaahht?, are you stupid…it’s the same every year yet you still try to bud out early.

  9. If you wouldn’t mind, I’d prefer to log a few hours in each before answering “Fokker vs. Spad”
    though it always reminds of the story of the American WWI pilot, originally from Norway, giving a talk before a church ladies’ group in North Dakota: “Pardon Missus; but it war a Messerschmitt.”

  10. I sternly follow my creed: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatically broad-minded. I also do not engage with the majority of people in talking religion of any stripe with people. I can hold a interesting discourse with some learned people, LSP, even PaulM would be on that list. Most people disgorge such utter pablum and preprogrammed churchian propaganda. The common defense is: “I (have) read the Bible.” Yes, but do you understand it? Have you plumbed it’s depth, come to understand all it’s context in it’s parables and epiphanies? The dull, jaw slack is my answer.

    Oh, the Fokker of course, German engineering, which when I was in Berlin, I had to come to appreciate German precision and then some time in Paris in in Lyon and was amazed that most things stayed together and worked, sloppy doesn’t even come close. Pictures of food, only in a cookbook or a blog devoted to foods. Unless you are hyping a kick-assed meal or restaurant that our esteemed host or his much inspired and formidable readers…

  12. Regarding the two aircraft? Dunno, it’s a tossup. The later Spads were known to be light and easy to handle, full of power and fun to fly, but somewhat fragile. The Fokker D7 was, in comparison, a heavy beast, able to soak up damage better than the Spads, and with a huge engine. Probably the D7 because it’s more forgiving in piloting, damage and landing.

    It’s kind of like “Would you like to fly an ME-109 or a P-47?” question. The ME is light, easy to handle, full of power and fun to fly, but somewhat fragile. The Jug, in comparison, was a heavy beast, able to soak up damage better than the MEs and with a huge engine. (Answer for me, the Jug, just because it’s a friggin P-47 with that huuuge engine and 1/3rd of the interior being taken up by the turbo supercharger system (which is the reason why it’s such a big aircraft.)

  15. Bidenomics SUX. Common items I used to purchase, like spray paint, POL, adhesives, spare parts, et al, have doubled or tripled the last four years.

    I’ve always thought our downfall began with Wilson.

    Yep, gotta keep the Voting Plantation greased.

    No preference as to the aircraft.

    1. And if buying paint here in olorado you get nailed with a paint disposal fee plus, even for a can of Krylon, they have to check your age.

      (Late checking in…power has been out after all day flickering thinking it was due to high winds, even Starlink doesn’t work without power. Just now got an REA notice email that Tri-State Generarion…the same ones in bed with our Statehouse Dems and all in with “wind and solar”…lost a transmission line to “mountain areas”. Hmm, yeah. Just give me reliable reasonably priced power and quit fixing what ain’t broke.)

        1. Our DIL said the power is out in Laporte. The “Pie, Oh My!” store was having a “wind sale” so they didn’t have to lose as much stock. We had one mini-surge where the lights brightened for a line cycle or two, but otherwise we’re cool.

          Heard a radio call for Larimer County fire indicating a tree was down on a powerline, and it was sparking. Xcel disconnected and isolated that line section, but the line was still hot. Turns out a homeowner had installed a back-up generator WITHOUT a transfer switch! I’ll bet that’s gonna cost him more than installing it right the first time….

          2. Oh boy, not smart. Better have a good lawyer.
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            Power is back on, 4 hours shy of a full day so no biggie, generator took care of keeping the important stuff up and running. Last night TriState said a major transmission line was down (the blips then outage). Came back on at 8:35, then off again at 9:01. Today (from midnight on I’m sure) crews were replacing what looked like a rotted pole that snapped off at grade and landed on a house. Believe it was Livermore, so they had to shut down everything West and North. Infrastructure matters..but to their credit it was still nasty windy while they were setting the new pole and restringing the wires. Being prepared helps make it more relaxing than panic.

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