If I've said one thing to a group of seventeen people, I've said seventeen things.--Chris
The McGraws put Henry down last night. We went with them and Blair to Senti for a good meal.
Some headlines from the Babylon Bee: a) Portland Police: ‘We Wish There Were Some Kind Of Organized, Armed Force That Could Fight Back Against Antifa' b) Bernie Sanders Arrives In Hong Kong To Lecture Protesters On How Good They Have It Under Communism and c) Strong Link Found Between Supporting Communism And Never Once Having Opened A History Book
In 2017, a survey by the Pew Research Center found that more than half of India liked the idea of military rule.
Biden said this in N.H. yesterday: “Imagine what would have happened if, God forbid, Barack Obama had been assassinated after becoming the de facto nominee. What would have happened in America?”
He actually said that. He did not say, "Imagine what would have happened if Obama had put everybody from Nebraska in concentration camps?" Or, "Imagine what would have happened if Obama had carpet-bombed New Zealand?" So, I suppose that's good.
These people are too stupid to rule.
Bloomberg reports that Brazil is actually third in the world in wildfires over the last 48 hours, citing data from the MODIS satellite analyzed by Weather Source.
The always insightful McCloskey: "Growing cotton, further, unlike sugar or rice, never required slavery. By 1870, freedmen and whites produced as much cotton as the South produced in the slave time of 1860. Cotton was not a slave crop in India or in southwest China, where it was grown in bulk anciently. And many whites in the South grew it, too, before the war and after. That slaves produced cotton does not imply that they were essential or causal in the production.
U.S. health authorities are investigating the cases of 153 people, mostly teenagers and young adults, who developed severe lung illnesses after using electronic cigarettes, raising new questions about the health risks of the devices. (wsj)
The grotesquely swollen place of the presidency in governance (now that governance has become, for Congress, merely a spectator sport) and society has been made possible by journalism that is mesmerized by, and easily manipulated by, presidents — especially the current one, whose every bleat becomes an obsession. This president is not just one prompting from the social environment; he, in his ubiquity, thoroughly colors this environment, which becomes simultaneously more coarse and less shocking by the day.--Will
St. Bartholomew Massacre
Religious conflicts within nations offer a real teaching point on the importance of mutually agreed upon common beliefs within a culture. The 16th and 17th Century in England and France was a boiling cauldron of animosity and righteousness. Catholic Bloody Mary burned protestants, Protestant Elizabeth burned Catholics, James I carried on Elizabeth's savagery. Meanwhile, in France, everybody killed everybody. The Catholics defended their power through the Regency and the Jesuits, the protestants fought back through various noblemen and eventually became the Huguenots. Hungry for more chaos, Catholic Spain fought Protestant England in Holland and led them to raise the Armada.
In France, this brutality peaked and declined in The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
The McGraws put Henry down last night. We went with them and Blair to Senti for a good meal.
Some headlines from the Babylon Bee: a) Portland Police: ‘We Wish There Were Some Kind Of Organized, Armed Force That Could Fight Back Against Antifa' b) Bernie Sanders Arrives In Hong Kong To Lecture Protesters On How Good They Have It Under Communism and c) Strong Link Found Between Supporting Communism And Never Once Having Opened A History Book
In 2017, a survey by the Pew Research Center found that more than half of India liked the idea of military rule.
Biden said this in N.H. yesterday: “Imagine what would have happened if, God forbid, Barack Obama had been assassinated after becoming the de facto nominee. What would have happened in America?”
He actually said that. He did not say, "Imagine what would have happened if Obama had put everybody from Nebraska in concentration camps?" Or, "Imagine what would have happened if Obama had carpet-bombed New Zealand?" So, I suppose that's good.
These people are too stupid to rule.
Bloomberg reports that Brazil is actually third in the world in wildfires over the last 48 hours, citing data from the MODIS satellite analyzed by Weather Source.
The always insightful McCloskey: "Growing cotton, further, unlike sugar or rice, never required slavery. By 1870, freedmen and whites produced as much cotton as the South produced in the slave time of 1860. Cotton was not a slave crop in India or in southwest China, where it was grown in bulk anciently. And many whites in the South grew it, too, before the war and after. That slaves produced cotton does not imply that they were essential or causal in the production.
Economists have been thinking about such issues for half a century. You wouldn’t know it from the King Cottoners. They assert, for example, that a slave was “cheap labor.” Mistaken again. After all, slaves ate, and they didn’t produce until they grew up. Stanley Engerman and the late Nobel Prize winner Robert Fogel confirmed in 1974 what economic common sense would suggest: that productivity was incorporated into the market price of a slave. It’s how any capital market works. If you bought a slave, you faced the cost of alternative uses of the capital. No supernormal profits accrued from the purchase. Slave labor was not a free lunch. The wealth was not piled up.
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We need to stop using the history of slavery to bolster anti-capitalist ideology. Ingenuity, not exploitation by slavery or imperialism or finance, is the story of the modern world."
U.S. health authorities are investigating the cases of 153 people, mostly teenagers and young adults, who developed severe lung illnesses after using electronic cigarettes, raising new questions about the health risks of the devices. (wsj)
The grotesquely swollen place of the presidency in governance (now that governance has become, for Congress, merely a spectator sport) and society has been made possible by journalism that is mesmerized by, and easily manipulated by, presidents — especially the current one, whose every bleat becomes an obsession. This president is not just one prompting from the social environment; he, in his ubiquity, thoroughly colors this environment, which becomes simultaneously more coarse and less shocking by the day.--Will
St. Bartholomew Massacre
Religious conflicts within nations offer a real teaching point on the importance of mutually agreed upon common beliefs within a culture. The 16th and 17th Century in England and France was a boiling cauldron of animosity and righteousness. Catholic Bloody Mary burned protestants, Protestant Elizabeth burned Catholics, James I carried on Elizabeth's savagery. Meanwhile, in France, everybody killed everybody. The Catholics defended their power through the Regency and the Jesuits, the protestants fought back through various noblemen and eventually became the Huguenots. Hungry for more chaos, Catholic Spain fought Protestant England in Holland and led them to raise the Armada.
In France, this brutality peaked and declined in The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
The massacre began in the night of 23–24 August 1572 (the eve of the feast of Bartholomew the Apostle), two days after the attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the military and political leader of the Huguenots. The king ordered the killing of a group of Huguenot leaders, including Coligny, and the slaughter spread throughout Paris. Lasting several weeks, the massacre expanded outward to other urban centers and the countryside. Modern estimates for the number of dead across France vary widely, from 5,000 to 30,000.
The massacre also marked a turning point in the French Wars of Religion. The Huguenot political movement was crippled by the loss of many of its prominent aristocratic leaders, as well as many re-conversions by the rank and file. Those who remained were increasingly radicalized. Though by no means unique, it "was the worst of the century's religious massacres". Throughout Europe, it "printed on Protestant minds the indelible conviction that Catholicism was a bloody and treacherous religion"
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