Post-it-Notes
Culture
Beethoven, 9th Symphony, Ode to Joy
Alinsky Rules – Criminalize your opposition
This regime aims to criminalize political dissent, and that will require demonizing and stigmatizing fully half of the electorate. It is increasingly clear that when Biden claims that white supremacists are the biggest terror threat the nation faces, he means ordinary Americans who have never broken any law but who oppose his agenda. If everyone who opposes him is a white supremacist terrorist, then the nation has over a hundred million of them.
President Calvin Coolidge on Bureaucracies
“Of all forms of government, those administered by bureaus are about the least satisfactory to an enlightened and progressive people. Being irresponsible they become autocratic, and being autocratic they resist all development. Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy. It is the one element in our institutions that sets up the pretense of having authority over everybody and being responsible to nobody.”
The Bureau
“The FBI offered to pay Christopher Steele, the author of the infamous anti-Trump “dossier,” up to $1 million for evidence linking Donald Trump to Russia and paid Steele’s primary sub-source hundreds of thousands of dollars even after the source was unable to provide evidence for any of his claims, according to a report from Special Counsel John Durham.
Embattled FBI agent Brian Auten traveled to Rome to meet with Steele on October 3, 2016, and made the offer despite knowing that his dossier relied primarily on one person, or “sub source.”
The Bureau then paid that “sub source,” Igor Danchenko, $220,000 even after Danchenko was unable to provide evidence for a single one of his claims.”
Do they award Pulitzers for works of fiction? If they did, Steele’s dossier would be the winner of the decade.
The Woke
“Woke” means that you are enlightened enough to see and reject the hidden sources of all the injustices of the world. These injustices spring from a world-spirit or zeitgeist the ancients called the demiurge and the moderns variously call capitalism, patriarchy, whiteness, white supremacy, and cis-heteronormativity.
To become enlightened, one need pass no test, shed no blood, work no miracles, donate to no charity. One need only recite the bromides, whatever happens, to be fashionable, among the other members of the conformist mob of the Woke. To fail to do so invites ostracization, called cancellation and de-platforming.
No merit makes one Elect. Indeed, a lack of merit is an advantage.
The fact that you lack any virtue, any value to self or others, means you are a victim of the world-spirit, which proves your worth to yourself. The fact that you are a victim means you are secretly a king: the fact that you are a loser proves you are a winner.
The reasoning here is that of a paranoid megalomaniac: the Woke regards himself as worthy of the persecution of the world, for the same reason prophets and messiahs are persecuted, because of their exceptional exceptionalness.
Jho Low
How do you steal $4.5 billion (unless you’re the government)?
Low Taek Jho (born 4 November 1981), often called Jho Low (or Jay-Lo), is a Malaysian fugitive businessman, wanted by authorities internationally in connection with the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal (1MDB scandal). He has been named the mastermind of the massive fraud, which prosecutors allege was a scheme to siphon US$4.5 billion from 1MDB into Low’s personal accounts.
Despite denials from the Worker’s Paradise, he’s in the PRC and they decline to extradite him. I expect that he’ll end up in a koi pond, face down, eventually if he’s not already there…once they’re sure that they’ve emptied him.
From The Bee
(Link) ATLANTA – In what many are calling a long-overdue act of democracy, justice, and equity, Sports Illustrated has honored Stacey Abrams as this year’s Swimsuit Edition cover model.
“Despite decades of unfair Abrams-suppression measures, we have finally ascended the pinnacle of what our institution represents: beautiful governors ignoring haters, racists, and meanies,” said Sports Illustrated managing editor Gob Dibbons to the press at yesterday’s unveiling event for the highly-anticipated magazine issue. Amid cheers for Abrams finally being recognized as a beautiful, powerful governor, several members of the press fainted when Dibbons drew back the black felt curtain to reveal the cover depicting the bombshell Democrat supermodel.
The Washington Post saved money by cribbing their 2020 article “The Power Of Stacey Abrams,” which had heaped breathless praise on Abrams: “Pandemonium ensues as she walks…like a runway supermodel, stops on a dime, poses, tilts her head slightly and smiles…Abrams is summoning her inner actress, and she is both enjoying the moment and getting through it to get to the conversation…” Sources confirmed that more of the article couldn’t be quoted, as it was causing too many readers to become flushed and out of breath.
Reporters from Fox News claim that Abrams lost the 2018 Georgia Governor’s election and is not, in fact, a beautiful governor, but they have had their press passes revoked for spreading hurtful disinformation.
At publishing time, Al Gore had also been honored as People’s “Sexiest President Alive,” which many are calling a crescendo of long-overdue democracy, justice, and equity.
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The Creative Vaults of Disney
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From the Days of Fighting Sail
Jack Crawford (1775-1831) was the hero of the battle of Camperdown on 11 October 1797. Crawford was serving on the flagship HMS Venerable during the battle between the English and Dutch fleets. Despite heavy gunfire, he climbed the mast to nail the Admiral’s flag back into place after it had been shot away. The lowering of the flag (colors) was a signal of surrender. After more fighting, the British fleet eventually won. (The artist has mistakenly shown the Union Jack, not the Admiral’s flag. It is also the Union flag design from after 1801, well after Jack’s heroic achievement.)
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Identify this Aircraft (hint: Yellow Peril)

Stearman-Boeing N2S2 / Kaydet / PT-17, etc.
My dad learned to fly in them.
-Kle.
Identify the aircraft:
USN N3N
Built near my home town that’s the only reason I know. The Coolidge quote is awesome. One of my favorite President’s in U.S. history. He hated the corruption he faced with the Harding crime syndicate/administration. One of the most humble strong president’s that people don’t even care to know about. Thank for that LL.
-Sta lethal
N3N-3 to be precise. I’ve learned to read the tail. :)
Touché my friend. I almost put the 3 but forgot what it meant to the, “Canary.” ;) Glad to see ya back.
Surly nailed it.
Well done!
That’s what I get for not looking closely.
-Kle.
Many, who clearly are not members of the conoscenti here, do not know that it was an N3N that strafed Cary Grant in the corn in North By Northwest.
Indeed it was.
“If everyone who opposes him is a white supremacist terrorist, then the nation has over a hundred million of them.”
Including parents standing up to school boards.
Taking the known premise that the Dems project onto us what they are actually doing, then when they accuse us of being the enemy it’s actually them.
The inhabitants of Washington DC are the enemy within, the domestic terrorists…otherwise none of this anarchy and treason (‘open border’ designed to dilute America with a new supporting class) would be occurring at this scale.
I’m investing in a yardarm and rope company…there might/should be a run.
Ed, arbeit macht frei. Those climate deniers and high propensity non-democrat voters can be re-educated in work camps and their homes can be given to more pliable illegal aliens in need of a roof over their heads.
‘Name that tank’- “Tank” — sub-model: PITA in Blue (not to be confused with Rhapsody in Blue)
Ode to Joy- Indeed! (needed that this morning)
@ Paul M
where did you go to find that tank model?
Atlanta, and it’s for sale to the highest grifter bidder. Thankfully it’s a one-off prototype that doesn’t actually work, but does manage to leave a wake of manure wherever it rolls into while loudly demanding a front line position from it’s 120mm turret hole.
Joy indeed. And here is more Freude— from 10,000 Japanese.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayw4l58IWb8&pp=ygUiMTAgMDAwIGphcGFuZXNlIHNpbmdpbmcgb2RlIHRvIGpveQ%3D%3D
For the impatient, power through to 3:50 which is the “Laufet, Brüder, eure Bahn” part that I find most moving.
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As to the “Yellow Peril”. Waaal, my high school class had about 575 students. About 30-35 (depending on the particular subject) of us were in the AP track. Of these there were 12.5 East Asians, 1.5 of whom were Korean and the rest Chinese. A few years after graduation, we discovered that the AP teachers referred to us as “The Yellow Horde”. Now nearly all of these teachers were good radical hard-left liberals. There’s a moral in there somewhere, but I’m not sure what it is. Some people were offended when they found out the nickname, but I laughed my butt off.
I expect that you were the leader of the horde.
Heh! I was a disappointment even then — not Temujin to The Horde. (The “Yellow Horde” included white and Jewish kids, BTW.) Interestingly I don’t think there WAS a leader. I was fortunate, it was just a bunch of mostly good kids who overall were good influences on each other. Everyone went to an elite college, for one thing. But we weren’t real-world smart. Not a one went into finance nor politics. Nearly everyone ended up with a STEM or med doctorate of one sort or another, but that’s a strategy of minimizing your greatest possible loss, not maximizing gain, be it money or power.
There’s nothing more racist, sexist, bigoted and close-minded than a ‘Progressive’ or ‘Liberal’ or outright ‘Leftist.
True conservatives don’t care what someone looks like as long as it doesn’t cause problems and does its damned job in a somewhat more than adequate way. But we’re the ones that are wrong, right?
Spot on. Yet they do [see appearance only] for some bizarre reason…like the wiring is crossed in more than one place, constantly popping the breakers. We, however, could care less what people do, as long as they’re productive members of the greater good.
That was American-level go big or go home epic, proving exceptional genius in music transcends culture. Thanks Mike.
Germany late ’20s
Criminalize your opposition
Shame the fence-sitters into silence
Exhort the true followers to more meaningful acts
History may not rhyme precisely, but the poetry remains the same
It’s the same Horst Wessel-style tune.
Don’t forget: Release the crazies and the aggressive criminals and then use that as reason to nationalize all police forces, prosecutors, judges and all other aspects of the criminal justice system.
Oops! forgot about them.
how about we just open the borders to them from all over the globe and we encourage ’em join the “true followers” and/or the police forces.
Ode to Joy. A great counterpoint to all of the negative crap that is running rampant the past few years, sorry can’t think of a more descriptive word.
Stacey Abrams. Thank God that was from the Bee. I know civilization is floundering on the edge but that would be a step too far.
The Bee is prescient…
I am remiss. The sight of Ms. Abrams caused a brain fog and caused me to forget to mention that Calvin Coolidge is one of my favorite presidents.
I know, she takes your breath away. You know, she’s a successful porn author.
More like creates an eclipse that sucks the atmosphere from the warehouse.
Porn huh…that explains a lot. Hopefully not a first person account from her slave days on the Plantation.
The thought of fat, sweaty, foul-smelling not-a-governor Abrams engaging in any sort of sexual congress with machine, animal, or, god forbid, human, is enough to put me off my feed.
Don’t forget her meteor sized level of sanctimony.
She’s a victim, PaulM. Sure, she graduated from Yale Law, but the whole time she attended, there was not one date with a white man. She did score the NAACP Image Award for Social Justice Impact. So there were small compensations. She. may have turned to porn in the absence of a mechanical or human solution. Victim.
By nearly anyone’s standards I’m more of a white nationalist than over 90% of actual whites. (For those who find that cryptic, I’m genetically Han Chinese — or so I’m told…) Oh the irony.
Low Taek Jho is a “Malaysian” in the same way that Karl Marx was “German”. That fat bastid is Teochow Chinese (a particularly annoying Chinese sub-ethnic group). The greedy, grasping, nepotistic, condescending behavior of the Teochow is one of the reasons “Overseas Chinese” are so virulently hated in SE Asia. Add that they are disproportionately successful economically in their host countries and they are really really hated. (To be fair, they probably are a bit smarter than the host populations, and they can/do work hard. So they did sort of earn their success. But the neoptism and the way they openly consider their hosts as quasi-subhuman makes them hated with good reason.) Yuri Slezkine labels them as “Mercurians” (q.v.).
Teochow are not only horrible to Malays, Thais, etc. They are also horrible to other Han. Derbyshire has lots of stories about the problems his (Chinese) wife has had with the feckers. My own mother had unpleasant run ins with Those People also. That said, I dislike Mercurian behavior on principle, not because of family history. (In other words, persons not ethnically of traditionally Mercurian groups who act as Mercurians are on the personal shit list too. Conversely, Mercurian-descended individuals who act decently are just fine.)
The extent of the influence of Teochow criminal organizations is largely underappreciated. The Teochow took over Thailand in 1957 and still run the place. They control the Golden Triangle today as they have essentially since WW2. Naturally, their influence dates much farther back historically. They’re represented in Hong Kong by the Sun Yee On Triad.
My professional experience with the Teochow in the US and Asia is rich and colorful and is not grist for this public blog, but suffice to say that the Teochow have an exceptionally long reach and an inexhaustible supply of money.
Studying Swantow and the history of Seven Mountains is instructive.
And in late-breaking news, J-Low reportedly left China…alive.
Does that mean we’ll see more of those not spy balloons floating over the landscape and military installations trying to “get Low”?
The not spy balloon program has been very successful. Old Pedo Joe didn’t want to have to order them shot down. He had to be shamed into it by his own propaganda machine.
He doesn’t work for you, Jack….er…..Larry……
That’s obvious.
But how much money did he retain?
Or who is he actually working for? Which CCP senior member is his controller/godfather/owner?
My limited experience with the CCP, if you get out alive that makes the chance of you being an agent/puppet/muppet/spy/peon pretty damned high.
Suspect everyone. It’s like my friend from Vietnam. Shoot all the elephants, secondary explosions were around 95% as the Norks were using elephants to transport explosives. And water buffalos. Trust no-one
Arnaud Amalric (Latin: Arnoldus Amalricus; died 1225) was a Cistercian abbot who played a prominent role in the Albigensian Crusade. It is reported that prior to the massacre of Béziers, Amalric, when asked how to distinguish Cathars from Catholics, responded, “Kill them [all], for God knows which are His own.”
Works for me.
And people don’t understand the reason for the statement.
First, ‘real Catholics’ refused to point out their neighbors who were Cathars during a real crisis of faith inspired by said Cathars.
Second, medieval rules of warfare stated that when a besieging army pulls up, if the besieged give up little punitive action will be taken against those not involved in the reason for the siege. Once a hole/breach was made in the defensive line, some punitive action would be taken if the besieged surrendered, usually more of the involved hung or punished and ransoms and payments from all persons in the besieged camp.
But refuse to surrender after the walls are breached? F. Them. Kill them all, God will know his own. Close the wall with our dead as we kill everyone in the city from men, women to children, babies, dogs, cats everyone and everything.
If the ‘real Catholics’ had just turned in or turned on the Cathars, things would have been okay. But, no, the good subjects of Beziers didn’t surrender and hand over the rebels, nope, so even the most chivalrous and gracious Simon de Montfort had no problem killing everything and everybody.
Sucks? No. The besieged had the chance. They rolled the dice and lost, bigly.
Same with the City of Jerusalem in the First Crusade. Crusaders made a huge breach and the city should have surrendered. They did not. So the Crusaders did what medieval Christians did. Killed them all and God will know his own. Muslims, Christians, Jews, dogs, cats, everyone. Kill, rape, capture and sell as slaves, nobody was safe from The Sack.
Sacking an enemy was the ultimate ‘weapon of mass destruction’ held over everyone on the receiving end of a siege. And it usually only took one good sack or massacre at the beginning of a campaign to show the rest of the defending castles, cities, forts, villages, hamlets and so forth a reason to surrender.
And people were so scared of being sacked and massacred that there are instances where the besieged turned upon their leaders and either turned them over alive to the besiegers or just tossed them over the wall, dead or alive, as proof that they were giving up.
Medieval Europeans knew the damage of a sack, of a siege, of ‘city fighting’ and worked very hard to mitigate the damage. Eh, meet our new rulers, same as the old rulers, yay, there is much rejoicing (that we are all alive and still have most of our possessions and can feed our families over the winter…)
miss abrams is on the list of those invited to the bilderburger(sic) society meeting next week. she must have thought they said “build a burger society”.
Good point. She hasn’t missed many meals and she must like them fried because she sweats a lot of grease out during interviews. You know that she’s stuffed inside 8 kinds of sausage casings for the photo. My mind can’t go to what she’d look like without the corsets, but the name Harkonnen drifts through my mind. (as in Baron Vladimir Harkonnen).
A hundred million of “us”, huh? And how many rounds of ammo do “we” have?………
I always liked Coolidge. One of the better Presidents we’ve had.
Several trillion rounds.
And quite a bit more than the reported number of firearms, by at least 50% from what I guess.
I’m a bit concerned, LL, are you questioning our rulers?
No, I love Big Brother (or Big Tranny – to be more politically correct)
I think the Big Tranny needs an overhaul.
They’d rather that you just bought tranny fluid.