A very interesting picture. There were a lot of things wrong with society back then, there were also a lot of things right. Just thinking back 50 years made me realize 1 stark difference from today. Society enforced its own good behavior. Today when someone acts a fool there’s no one to tell them to stop. Something so fundamental as not knowing what sex you are. Back then we were embarrassed if we had to ride a ‘girls’ bike, now a boy runs on a girls track team like he’s some sort of groundbreaking hero! Men go out in public dressed as women. And if someone says, “What the fuck are you doing?” They’re the ‘bigoted’ one.
[FYI the center store front says: ‘Best & Co. – Liliputian Bazaar‘. It was a small east coast chain, New York, Pennsylvania and the like. Women’s and children’s clothes. Finally liquidated in 1970.]
Gab had a picture of this 1972 Ford Mustang convertible. The picture triggered a couple of things. The first was that is a really ugly car. Could you pick an uglier brown? My gawd, how do you make a Mustang that ugly? I’ve seen Democrats that weren’t that ugly. I’ll put a picture below of what a good looking Mustang looks like.
The other thing it triggered was recalling the 1973 Oil Embargo. And here’s where it gets a little fuzzy. Detroit (we used to make cars there) in 1972 was scaling back the ‘muscle cars’. Wikipedia says the embargo lasted from October 1973 until March 1974. It was targeted against those nations supporting Israel in the Arabs latest attempt to wipe them off the map on October 6 of that year.
But the 1973 models actually come out right at the end of 1972, and January of 1973. The “pollution controls” were already appearing on the 1972 and 1973 models, way before the embargo that fall. It was the 1974 models that would have been most affected, and they were way past the drawing board stage, too late to be affected by the oil shortage.
I just get a little suspicious about it all. I remember at the time gas prices went through the roof. I was just starting to drive and the days of .28 cent gas were gone! I was paying double that, .55 cents and better. We were being shown long lines at the pump on the nightly news, but I don’t remember being told why. The nations speed limit dropped to 55 mph.
In order to alleviate congestion and gasoline shortages, some communities came up with the idea of “even and odd” days you could fill at the pump, depending on the last number on your license plate. Aggravating the situation was the creation of the EPA in 1971 I believe.
The phucking Arabs did this. Saudi Arabia was pissed we supported Israel. So they brought our economy and the auto industry to its knees. The stock market had a horrible down turn. It coined the term, “economic malaise” of the late seventies when they did it again with another oil shortage in 1979.
And our foreign policy never changed! We continued to treat Saudi as if they were some great ally! We sold them a ton of weapons, with which they could try and destroy Israel, for the next 20 years! Then on September 11, 2001, 19 Saudis brought down the World Trade Center, destroyed the Pentagon, and tried to destroy the Capitol Building!
For 30 years they did nothing but try to destroy us and make American lives miserable, and all we could think about was selling them more weapons!
Dat’s a Mustang.
[When I wrote this all I knew was that I missed cars from this era. Their power and looks and their ease of repair. Those cars were a dream in each of those aspects. I really resented whatever it was that made them go away. The more I learned and the more I realized the impact of government, I have to believe what killed the auto industry was the EPA.]
“Every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
“[C]lassical political theory, with its Stoical, Christian, and juristickey-conceptions (natural law, the value of the individual, the rights of man), has died. The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good — anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name ‘leaders’ for those who were once ‘rulers’. We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, ‘Mind your own business.‘“
— C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), British novelist Source: Willing Slaves of the Welfare State, first published in The Observer on July 20, 1958
“Socialism is the idea that violent force is an appropriate response to peaceful, voluntary exchange.”
— Frank J. Fleming American columnist, author, satirist Source: Twitter Oct 13, 2015
[The fella who runs Liberty Tree up in Canada does a fantastic job throughout the year sending daily quotes 5 times a week. Every few months or so he hits a homerun that is so topical it amazes you. America here on 7/27/20 is experiencing a communist insurgency like no other time. All 3 of these quotes deal directly with that attack even though they were written 70 years, 62 years and 5 years ago. Its not that America hasn’t been experiencing socialist attacks the past 100 years, its just that now they are so blatant about it and it has become so mainstream. These 3 are the type of quality of quotes that before I would have first put on Facebook and Gab in the mistaken notion that others might benefit from seeing them. I have since come to the conclusion that people are morons, more interested in factoids than wisdom. More interested in getting upset with AOC, “She’s stupid!” Or wound up about the latest Bill that Pelosi is trying to hustle through the House, than they are in learning from history. But anyway, 2 of these quotes are from the fifties! Telling us 2 things: None of this is new, and secondly, you were warned. You were just too stupid to listen.]
“After several delegates had spoken on the issue, Patrick Henry rose from his seat in the third pew and took the floor. A Baptist minister who was watching the proceedings would later describe him as having “an unearthly fire burning in his eye.” Just what happened next has long been a subject of debate. Henry spoke without notes, and no transcripts of his exact words have survived to today. The only known version of his remarks was reconstructed in the early 1800s by William Wirt, a biographer who corresponded with several men that attended the Convention. According to this version, Henry began by stating his intention to “speak forth my sentiments freely” before launching into an eloquent warning against appeasing the Crown.
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided,” he said, “and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves, and the House?”
Henry then turned his attention to the British troops mobilizing across the colonies. “Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?” he asked. “Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? …Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other.”
As he continued speaking, Henry’s dulcet tones began to darken with anger. “Excitement began to play more and more upon his features,” the minister later said. “The tendons of his neck stood out white and rigid like whipcords.”
“Our petitions have been slighted,” Henry said, “our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne…we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!”
Henry stood silent for a moment, letting his defiant words hang in the air. When he finally began speaking again, it was in a thunderous bellow that seemed to shake “the walls of the building and all within them.” His fellow delegates leaned forward in their seats as he reached his crescendo.
“The war is actually begun!” Henry cried. “The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?”
As he spoke, Henry held his wrists together as though they were manacled and raised them toward the heavens. “Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
(We’re going to have to fight for it. Governments don’t give freedom, you take it.)
Patricia McCloskey’s gun was inoperable, so government made it work to charge her (her Jimenez firearm had previously been disabled to be used as a stage prop).
A picture is worth a thousand words? Well 147 anyway.
This picture is of longtime NPR radio host Terri Gross. Like all NPR employees she is a New York liberal, homosexual and a Jew. She is also the best interviewer on the planet. She has had the most wonderful interviews of people that I never would have imagined would be riveting. Before anyone is put in front of a radio microphone they should have to pass a 40 hour class on Terri Gross. She evidently keeps her ego in her desk. She lets the guests talk.
Transition to Christian radio. I had always thought Jan Markel up in Minneapolis was the worst host of all time. She is an expert in the ‘3 paragraph’ question. Its really not a “question” at all, she simply runs out of breath for a brief moment and the guest is allowed to talk for the few seconds it takes her to recoup. She has no need for guests, she is the expert on every topic.
Then I heard an episode of Faith Works Live on Truth Talk KTIA 99.3 FM. The host there is Pastor Mike Demastus. Oh my God (pun intended). How can one individual be so unaware? I don’t think he can best Markel for run on, but he gives it a shot. Why anyone comes on that show is beyond me. This stuff is pretty basic. You don’t tell us how great your show is, you show us. Your guests are the expert, drain them dry. Bring them out. Be like Terri. Don’t be like you. You’re dumb. Put your ego in a drawer.
But to answer the question: ‘Why does Christian radio seem to be so bad at this?’ I don’t know. Usually something that comes along with the Holy Spirit is a measure of wisdom. Clearly that’s not always the case.
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“Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.” — Thomas Jefferson
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