Pardon the Swearing

 In many cases, it’s good advice.

What’s with the Germans?

 With some election coming up in Germany, I hear the German authorities are trying so hard not to be Nazis, that they are turning into Nazis.  Shit posting and Meme posting can apparently get you thrown into jail, or be raided so that your phones or computers can be seized. And apparently some NGOs that are fine with this sort of thing are receiving USAID-style funding from the German government to help in these persecutions.

Maybe the Germans should also have made it illegal to be Stasi.

I suppose this blog post would earn me prosecution if I had posted it from Germany.

Chesterton on Sanity

 “Of a sane man there is only one safe definition: he is a man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.”

Chesterton on Moderns & Nature

 I think modern people have somehow got their minds all wrong about human life. They seem to expect what Nature has never promised; and then try to ruin all that Nature has really given.

Is the Blob being disassembled?

 

What to do if you’re in government and your iron rice bowl is threatened?

 The proverbial iron rice bowl is, simply stated, someone’s way of making a living.  Hopefully, most iron bowls are honorable; but surely many iron bowls are rackets and grifts.

What to do if you have a government iron rice bowl?  You have the bowl because there is a problem that exists and you are said to be solving it.  So, what to do if a reformer enters government and questions how you are dealing with the problem and even questions if you’re solving the problem at all?  Your iron bowls being threatened, you can exacerbate the problem and then blame the reformers.  Or you can expose what hithereto had been a result of your workings that you had hidden, and blame it on the reformers.

Anthony Esolen: The Vandals Within

 “Consider a few measures of cultural oblivion.  We have college graduates who have not read a single book in their lives.  We are not replacing ourselves with children.  Marriage is not on the rocks; it hardly gets out of port to begin with.  Churches are closing.  Ignorance of Scripture, in part bound up with a general ignorance of history and the cultural heritage of Western civilization, is endemic.”

Esolen is another favorite writer of mine.  What he writes has that hard slap of the unvarnished truth.

Read his whole essay here.

Zman on Trump and Prudentialism

 This is how we arrived at this odd time where John Derbyshire and Paul Gottfried share a pew with RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard. The excesses of progressivism, unconstrained by the necessity of the Cold War, have put everything at risk, thus calling forth an old force that has been dormant since Gettysburg. That force is prudentialism. The thing that lies at the heart of Western conservatism is a set of precautionary principles that act to avoid unknowable negative consequences.

Read it all here.

David Warren says to make the USA a monarchy

 Without entering overmuch into details, I am an enthusiastic monarchist, and see it as the solution to many little problems; that, and an appointive legislature. I think this would appeal to that sizeable majority of Americans who approve Mr Trump’s policies, on immigration and everything else, and might also assuage the minority of voters who worry what might happen if he were ever deposed. For with democratic practices, the future is always unsound.

Immediately we have the lovely Queen Melania, and a very plausible, impressively tall heir in Prince Barron, together with an extensive royal family. But more to the point, Canada and Greenland could join this American Union uncontroversially, together with other entities including Panama and Gaza, for our own various monarchical traditions (British, Danish, Spanish) could be easily revised.

Mr (surely, Lord?) Vance would make an excellent Prime Minister — a job he already has de facto —  and any one of Mr (surely, Lord?) Elon’s youthful staff could be given the Treasury to mind, assuming the rocket-man himself wouldn’t have time.

Read it all here

NGD #34

 —Acabamos tratándonos recíprocamente como bienes fungibles cuando dejamos de creer en el alma.

—We end up treating each other as fungible goods when we cease believing in the soul.

Josemaría Escriva. #5

It’s not enough to be learned, in addition to being a good Christian. If you don't correct the brusqueness of your character, if you make your zeal and your knowledge incompatible with good manners, I can't

see you ever becoming a saint. And despite your learning — because of it — you should be tied in a stall, like a mule.

NGD #33

 

NGD #32: My truth

 —Mi verdad es la suma de lo que soy, no el simple

resumen de lo que pienso.

—My truth is the sum of what I am, not a simple

summary of what I think.

David Warren on Politics and Quiet

 Deafening hype is coming from both sides (there are only two) of American politics at the moment. I find it hard to think of any other topic, even though I long for quiet. Given my preference for peace over war, and freedom over slavery, and strength over ignorance (some subtleties are being concealed here) — and, more generally, for good over evil — the reader will understand that I associate with the “Far Right” on the usual political spectrum. It is a reactionary and controversial position.

Read it all here.

It was good to read this.  I’m glad I’m not alone.

Tracked Shopping Carts?

 Somewhere in Wuxi, there is a supermarket where the shopping carts don’t have fixed back wheels.  That is, the back wheels spin like the front wheels. I learned about this when I was accompanying someone on a beer buying odyssey. This someone complained about it and asked me if I hated it as well.  I had to confess that I had never noticed, never thought about it, and that furthermore, I usually let my son control the cart.on family shopping odysseys.

So, the next time, I went on a shopping trip, I had to check out the back wheels of the cart.  I didn’t want to feel like I was blind to something.  I even took a video and sent it to that someone.

The rear wheels were fixed.  That turned that someone on! 😛

Which leads me to wonder why there aren’t tracked shopping carts, like a tank is tracked.  It’s a useful innovation that the Chinese are capable of like all those mop and pail combos my wife buys.

Is Justin Trudeau a USAID Project?

 If it’s true, those Americans are dastardly!

David Warren on the best politics

 the best politics consists simply of negating whatever the other side has done: retiring regulations and withdrawing taxes. There is no economic argument for government interference, even against corruption; only the moral argument of preventing evil.

It is why, while Donald Trump is no saint, I was more or less delighted by the hundreds of executive orders by which he cancelled everything Joe Biden had done. Alas, I fear he may try to do things himself.

Read it all here

Z-Man on USAID

One of the things that is becoming clear to everyone as the USAID scandal unfolds is that much of what has been presented to us over the last several decades, as far as politics, has been an illusion created by the blob. The media was part of the blob, underwritten by the government and cultivated with government access, so they presented a version of political reality that favored the blob. Even the debates over policy were staged by the blob.

Read the whole thing here.

David Warren on Reading

 I had years of reading “for pleasure,” which led from Pookie through Kipling to other story-tellers, and I was able to avoid what was given me to read, for “education.” But I was not reading, nor thinking, philosophically.

Read the whole thing here.

So far, the Canusa trade war has been comedy gold!

This Canada USA trade war has to be one of the silliest in Economic History.

You’ve got Canadians going to Costco to boycott American products.

You’ve got environmental whackos wanting to put tariffs on electrical vehicles 

You’ve got the premier of  British Columbia wanting to boycott the liquor of states that voted for Trump while allowing the liquor from states that voted for Kamala to stay on the shelves.

You’ve got the President of the USA who can do stand up comedy.

You’ve got a Canadian PM who can’t do stand up comedy or even play a straight man.

David Warren on The Trump Tariffs

 A more suitable financial topic for this morning, in the Canadian news, is “Trump tariffs.” (He is settling the score for decades of smug, Canadian abuse of American generosity.) I mentioned in a previous post that his intention is, incidentally, to destroy our government, and implied that this would be a good thing. The Canadian government is cooperating, by counter-tariffing, and the voters, especially in Ontario, are confirming their reputation as malicious idiots. I could explain how the trade war they are demanding will accomplish Trump’s end, by accelerating the tailspin of the Canadian economy (“drill baby drill”) — but why throw pearls before swine?

Read the whole entry here.

Anagrams of Andis Kaulins

 The name "Andis Kaulins" can be rearranged to form various anagrams. Here are a few possibilities:

1. **Anakin Sulids**  

2. **Sulids Anakin**  

3. **Kain Sulands**  

4. **Luna Skandis**  

5. **Sank Dailuns**  

:

• Sandal Kisiun

• Akin Sun Dials

• Said Ankulin S

• Island An Suki

Here are more anagrams of Andis Kaulins:

• Sandals Uki In

• Akin Dual Sins

• Alas Kind Sun I

• Dusk Ail An Sin

• Ink Laid Us San

• A Sun Kind Ails

• Skid As A Unlain

These are mostly abstract combinations

Z-Man on Trump: The Destroyer of Worlds

 What we are seeing is the long-anticipated end of the 20th century. Russia and China have moved into the 21st century, but America and the West have remained moored to the prior century, convulsively resisting any attempt to abandon it. That world, however, is gone and now, thanks to The Mule, it is being destroyed. For now, the destruction is the show, but soon, what comes next is what will matter. Everyone needs to remember that The Mule is the destroyer of worlds, not the creator of them.

Read the whole thing here.

Buy Canadian!?!

 On X, I saw a  Canadian who was up in arms about Trump Tariffs saying we must buy Canadian: a kind of MAGA like policy for Canada proposed by a Canadian Anti-MAGAer.

So, in a way, Trump is actually helping Canada start to put its house in order.  What will Canadians do when they find out that most of the stuff they buy in malls isn’t made in Canada.?  Or in America, for that matter.

The End of Quantum Reality

 Trailer.

I enjoyed this film.  It gave me hope.

How many units of Gid?

 I’m so giddy!  109 units of giddy I am.

No need to shoot me!

 I’ll just shoot myself!  Thank you very much!

Is Andis Kaulins a Hottie?

 Of course not!

Is Andis Kaulins in China Haughty?

 

Haughty

 I have more reason to try to be a hottie than to be haughty,

Instead of saying “lord it over”, I should say “be hsughty!”.  But if I say that: stupid moderns would think I mean hotty.

Haughty hotty.

Chinese New Year GIF

 

To Live with Lucidity

 

Countryside Foreigner

 A countryside foreigner is a foreigner who is living in the countryside of China and is thus not familiar with the modern contrivances of China’s big cities.

Chuck Norris Super Bowl Trivia

 Chuck Norris is the only individual to have won the Super Bowl.  Chuck Norris defeated the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXIV on January 28, 1990   Norris won with a dominating score of 55-10, which remains the largest margin of victory in Super Bowl history. The victory has been falsely attributed to the San Francisco 49ers.

It’s a great moment in history

 You got to admit that we’re living in a great moment in history.  Common sense is in charge.  Thought can be free again!  Mistakes can be corrected.  Stupidity is really ineffectual.

Possibilities abound for sanity!  Imagine them!

It’s great to be alive!

It’s a great interregnum.  Alas, stupidity will eventually return.

Enjoy the moment while you can.

Andis Kaulins on the Nantong Big Bridgr GIFs

 

David Warren on Trump

 It is getting more and more difficult for me to dislike Donald Trump, for he seems intent upon destroying everything I want destroyed, including, most particularly, the Government of Canada.

Do you like drinking coffee?

 

Andis Kaulins on Trump’s First Few Days as President

 

Hsu Yü Washing His Ear

 https://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2025/01/23/hsu-yu-washing-his-ear/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Breathtaking!

 Trump is not fucking around!

Five Year Streak Almost

 

Karina Gould is Evil

 How do I know? I hadn’t heard of her till last week.  I’m going off two data points.  One, I saw her make a statement chastising some Tory for not doing anything about Climate Change.  Two, she declared her candidacy for the Liberal Party of Canada leadership.

Biden’s Pardons

 Biden pardoned his family, Anthony Fauci, General Milley and the J6 committee.  The justification is that these people don’t deserve retribution for their actions.

The pardons are an admission that either the justice system is corrupt and that lawfare is a thing, or that the Biden regime and the Biden family were corrupt.

Biden pardons a mass murderer

 

Shameful!

On Trump Becoming President

 

To be a Christian

 “the believer does well to say, not that he is a Christian, but that he is trying to become one.”

Excerpt From

The Lord

Romano Guardini

Inauguration at 1:00 AM

 This is because I’m in China.

I may stay up for it.

I look forward to Trump being the president.  Biden was truly atrocious.

On X, I see that there was a big march against Trump.  Could anyone in that march articulate a reason I would care for, for Harris being the President instead, that wasn’t wish-washy or progressive woke garflegab?

As always, David Warren has the best thoughts on it.

Chuck Norris Joins The Trump Administration?

 Chuck Norris has been chosen to run the Department of Kicking Ass in the New Trump Administration.  It will mean tremendous savings on government expenditure, because the Department of Defense and the Department of Education can now be abolished.

Rejoice! We have avoided the endarkment!

 The Endarkenment is the pathological disorientation that convulses a society after it has extinguished all sources of meaning . . . . It is the triumph of wish over facts, the infantilization of top echelons of the social pyramid—of hyper-credentialed, globally mobile people, welders of power and wealth and media, who, on a routine basis, confuse their self-important imaginings with the world itself. It is the widespread descent of everyone else, now deprived of teachers, preachers, and role models, into a cognitive underclass, prone to the most bizarre theories about how things work.

Thank God Trump won!

Three Gorgeous Bankers Bank

 Here they are:

Z-Man on Divorce

 Someone who deliberately breaks a sacred trust is especially suspicious. It is why American corporations used to discriminate against divorced men. If your wife cannot trust, why should your boss? Adultery used to be a serious social crime when we were a proper society.

Read Here

The wildest Reactionary ideas…

 are the most practical in this day & age.

I’m not an alcoholic. What is my flaw that I always return to?

 I’m reading the Csptive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz.  He writes in one chapter of the book about a poet names Delta who would always have drunken episodes. I’m not a slave enough to drink to always have drunken episodes.  But I do have strange destructive episodes fueled by resentment or a desire to cruelly contradictory.

Too busy playing footsy, we didn’t notice the Sasquatch behind us.

 

Has anyone picked up on this overlooked detail of the Patterson-Gimlin film?

 Look in the top left-hand corner!  Whooo!!

Would I go back in time and kill Baby Hitler?

 No, I wouldn’t go back in time and kill Baby Hitler.  Come on!  He’s just an innocent baby!

I would go back in time and kill Hitler! Baby!*

*Hitler! Baby” would have made a name for himself at that point, and not as a painter…

Andis “Puffy Vest Orange Toque Four Cap” Kaulins

 

The best aspect of life is…

 that it can’t be taken seriously.

Chesterton on Voting

 “The mere machinery of voting is not democracy, though at present it is not easy to effect any simpler democratic method”

Excerpt From

Orthodoxy

G. K. Chesterton

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Chesterton seems prophetic

 “The chieftain chosen to be the friend of the people becomes the enemy of the people; the newspaper started to tell the truth now exists to prevent the truth being told.”

Excerpt From

Orthodoxy

G. K. Chesterton

This material may be protected by copyright.

Puffy Vest Kaulins

 Wearing a puffy vest jacket is okay while driving but I wouldn’t recommend it for when you’re walking about, going here and there, as it were.

Four Hats Kaulins

 

My thoughts on Turdeau Saying He Was Intending to Resign

 

Is Trudeau Going to Resign?

 It is something to divinely hope for. 

It is a rumor worth spreading.

Weirdness

 If people don’t think you’re weird because of your thoughts — not your actions — then, you’re not doing ‘er right!

Remember: Kamala was a horrible candidate

 

David Warren on what we exist for now

  (We exist for the government, now.)

David Warren on only things men can understand

 Perhaps only men can understand this: that you cannot be a man until you have risked your life. Nor can you be a good man until you have risked everything in a noble cause.

Invasion 2025!

 

2025 is a perfect square year!

 45 times 45 is 2025!

Z-Man has a beard!

 I learned while listening to the Ram-Z-Paul show that the Z-Man has a beard.  Cool to know!

Books I’ve read from 2014 to now

 Visit here.

David Warren on the three current leaders of the UK, Canada & USA

 British prime minister, Keir Starmer, who rose to power as the prosecutor protecting Pakistani “grooming gangs,” and now puts people in gaol who try to defend their rape victims. The idea that Mr Starmer should have a rôle in the government of a civilized country, is as absurd as the idea that the 14-year-old narcissist who has ruled Canada, or the 82-year-old senescent who has ruled the United States, are respectable members of the human race.