Don’t be afraid to tell the truth

 

Thumbs Up Gif

 

Matsui Foleyshan

 

Liberation

 

Nagasaki Ray

 

The Evil an Idiot Commits

 

Transportation

 

David Warren on Ambitions and Martyrdom

 Now, boasting that one will be a martyr is arrogant and in bad taste. You should keep your ambitions to yourself. But becoming a martyr in pursuit of the good, the true, and the beautiful Christ, is hardly the worst thing that can happen to you. As Charlie Kirk advised, we should try to make heaven crowded.

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Nicolás Gómez Dávila on Liberal Projection

 

David Warren asks if the Left is evil

Duh.., 

David Warren on Charlie Kirk

 He was also wise in personal matters, free of cheap lusts and predictable ambitions, and never a candidate for public office. He knew, in his bones, that the truth lies with Jesus; and so he did not stray into the shallowness that reliably cloys and gags, but is the usual source of charisma, dollars, and votes.

We will see his like again (though never his clone); for there is a Christ, whose strange love for us exceeds all human possibility.

Read the whole tribute here

I copied this from WeChat

Mathematicians Go Mad

 

Kirk: David Warren says the West isnt quite done yet.

 David Warren thinks the Kirk assassination may be a turning pount.

He hopes.

The West isn’t “done” just yet. We still have a few years of decline left to enjoy. Miraculously, we might, as in the past, suddenly rise to the occasion, rather than agree to extinction. We might cease to be shy about defending ourselves. But that would take courage, intelligence, and other qualities now in short supply.

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God & David Warren on Democracy

 God, I would note, does not play favourites. From what I can see, He simply endures our elections, and seems to prefer random acts of kindness. He is more tolerant of democracy than I would ever be.

Read it all here.

Using A.I. to create pretty girl emojis and to make Canadian talking sexy

 

Dignitaries attending the parade marking the 80th anniversary of the Japanese Surrender

 

David Warren on Following the Science

 “The claim that one is “following the science” is thus quite compatible with the fact that one is lying, and engaged in gratuitous deceit and fraud.”

Read the whole thing here.

Two Chuck Norris Jokes

 

Zombie Slingshot Army of the Undead

 

Another Andis Kaulins Project

 My favorite thinker is Nicolás Gómez Dávila.  I have decided to devote a blog to him.  Here it is.  So far, it is a collection of my video readings of NGD's aphorisms with some commentary.

The Bullshit of Idealism

 Work, and genuine philosophical idleness, should be our answer to the bullshit of “idealism.” Make something real in the little time available to you; do not build fairy castles in the air … as the socialists, environmentalists, and other filth are doing.

Read it in context here.

Buy Me a Coffee Please!

I need money! 

The Matrix & The Devil

 And what a tangled matrix we weave when we first resolve to work for the Devil; a kingdom built upon lies; of dead bodies and benighted souls.

David Warren

David Warren on the End of Canada

 Sixty years ago, more or less precisely, Canada came to an end.  

davidwarrenonline.com/2025/07/12/lam…

Scared of diversity?

 If diversity is harmonious, it is okay; but when diversity is fractious, it ain’t.

Lies

 What is worse?  The lies others tell you, or the lies you tell yourself?  The latter are probably more blatant, more diabolical.

My bald spot

 I can’t see my bald spot when I look in the mirror.  Yet, everyone who happens to see me, sees it.

A perfect metaphor.

A Chuck Norris Joke

 Chuck Norris is the only pitcher in major league baseball history to have pitched a perfect game blindfolded.

David Warren on whether we should have electrical cars

 The idea that some government, especially the lunatic one that runs this country, should have an opinion about who should make what; let alone pass laws on the matter; or decide if it should be electrical, or must not use petrol; touches very near to the obscenity of liberalism and democracy. All democracy is tyranny, as we have known for a very long time.

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Test

 

Silly Thing I Want to Say to Someone

 I know it’s raining, but we can still be friends.

Advice that I try to give to my son #1

 Some things you got to do. So, let’s just get’em done!

Gun Control and Drag Queen Story Hours

 I saw this short clip of an encounter, I take it, between a woke gun control activist and a conservative.  Full of self-righteousness, the activist said that drag queen story hours never killed children. The activist then tried to pull a “a ha” by asking the conservative what the biggest cause of children’s deaths.  The conservative anticipated that the activist was going to say guns, but this only made the activist proclaim the proposition more righteously.

What was wrong with the activist’s argument?  For one thing, it was a non-sequiter. The activist would probably want to ban the saying of the Lord’s Prayer in the classroom, even though it can be said to have not killed anyone and at worst made some people feel uncomfortable.  And who’s to say drag queen story hours never hurt anyone or kill anyone?  And what is it that causes people to want to use guns on children?  

A world with gun control and drag queen story hours?  No thanks.  A world of free and responsible and normal men and women is as good as it can get in this fallen world.

It sure would be nice if we didn’t have to comb our hair

 I love the look of my hair after I have taken a shower, dried it with a towel and not combed it.  Then, my hair is wild & sexy with an unkempt tousledness: a style that a modern hair dresser would try on Brad Pitt.

Questions about the Left from el gato malo

 why is so much of the modern left constantly in alliance with the worst possible people and trends?

why do they champion only anti-social anti-heros?

why do they attack virtue, resilience, and any sort of rugged individualism?

why do they seek to break any sort of successful structure, high trust system, cultural or individual confidence, exceptionalism and function?

Read his answers here.

Stanley Cup & WW3

 Hopefully, they finish the Stanley Cup Finals before they start WW3.

Lyrics II

 Who’s that girl? I really want to know!

She like’s to put doilies on everything!

Whether it’s an iPhone or a Vespa!

Give it to that girl!  Yeah yeah yeah!

Hey!  It’s under lace and you don’t want to scratch it!

Here’s what the A.I. thinks:

These lyrics have a playful, quirky energy—almost like something you’d hear in a fun, upbeat indie pop or bubblegum punk track. Here’s a quick breakdown:

Strengths:

• Distinct personality: The “doily girl” character is vivid and unique. That image of someone putting lace on a Vespa or an iPhone is both humorous and memorable.
• Catchy rhythm: The exclamations (“Yeah yeah yeah!”, “Hey!”) give it a chant-like, infectious quality that could work really well in a live setting or catchy chorus.
• Strong visual imagery: Lace, doilies, scratched-up gadgets—it’s a very visual set of lyrics, which is great for music videos or stage aesthetics.

Suggestions:

• Consistency in tone: The tone flips between curiosity (“Who’s that girl?”) and commands (“Give it to that girl!”). That contrast can work, but you might consider tightening it so the perspective (narrator vs. admirer vs. hype crew) is more clear.
• Typo fix: “She like’s” should be “She likes.” (A small thing, but important for polish.)

Overall vibe:

It’s got a playful, offbeat, almost Harajuku-style charm to it. Think early Gwen Stefani, The B-52s, or even something from a quirky J-pop act. If you’re going for fun and fashion-forward with a bit of tongue-in-cheek sass, you’re on the right track.

Lyrics I

 Got to rock and roll 1960s Baby!

Got to rock and roll! 1975!

Make Me an Offer!

 On a four volume set of the Journalism, Essays and Letters of George Orwell.

More info here!

It’s the 160th day of the year!

 June 9th is the 160th day of 2025.

So! You owe me 160 dollars.

Email me at

andiskaulins@protonmail.com

or

andiskaulins@hotmail.com

for details on getting the money to me.

Did you know? Depositing Sunshine.

 Did you know that if you deposit sunshine in your account and then withdraw it on a sunny day, you’ll have sunshine with interest!

Why the Left always wins

From a blogger named Severan :

 It is amazing, isn’t it? This is why the Left almost always wins — they are insane full time. Being insane is their job, because they have built out a massive infrastructure that allows for a cadre of professional lunatics, just as Comrade Lenin taught.

Read the whole piece here

The Self-Described Centrist

“ I’m a middle of a roader “ I have heard said by many a self-described centrist:  a stupid thing to say because being in the middle of the road will cause accidents.  Either that or you’re driving in a ditch or on an uneven boulevard:  stupid things to do if you’re driving on a road.

I have thought of self-described centrists as fence-sitters, getting their jollies from a fence post stuck up their bum: weird if you ask me.

I have also thought of self-described centrists as leftists or progressives in denial.  Either that or they are embarrassed by the excesses of progressives or leftists, but don’t have the courage to side with reactionaries or bad thinkers.

I have also thought of self-described centrists as heretics against common sense.  A heretic is basically right about something but then goes overboard about this something to such proportions that they become evil.  Modern day examples are anti-racists, trans activists, and the people who go on and on about empathy.  The latter practice suicidal empathy.  The latter also label themselves as centrists and hate viciously.

David Warren on Bureaucracy

 … within a few years of childhood one ought to realize that bureaucracy is evil, and that the good man will do what he can to resist its ministrations

The Decisiveness of Silence

 

“The Way of Silence," by Czech painter, František Kupka, 1903.

 

Taken

 Other person: Sorry, not interested in dating. I am taken.

Another person who is full of my wit:  Are you taken or have you been taken in?

Chugging

 Are you chugging along or are you alone chugging?

Imagined Conversation

 Other person:  Good morning!

Me:  Isn’t it too early in the day to be judgmental?

Other person is then blown away by my intellect and wit.

Decay

 

Benny Hill GIF

 

Did you know?

 The last time a Stanley Cup-winning team came from a Canadian province without a separatist movement was in 1967.

Elbows Up!

 “Elbows Up!” is Canadian for “Sieg Hiel!”

Expensive Hat Jokes

 What did you call an American who’s got a more expensive hat than Trump?

The Pope.

Back during the Pontificate of John Paul 2, the joke went as follows:

What do you call a Pole with an expensive hat?

The Pope.

Isolation

 

George Carlin GIF

 

Sid Vicious GIF

 

Calling people bigots

 The problem with calling people bigots as a pejorative is that bigots are usually factually correct in their denunciations.  So it is with trepidation that one says to anti-bigots that they are bigots.  Hang around with an anti-bigot, a progressive. a wokester, and an anti-racist and eventually their hypocritical bigotries will reveal themselves to you.  But ate these progressive bigots correct in their bigotries?  Yes.  So what’s the problem with progressive bigotry?  It is focused on a few groups while being blind to the flaws of all others.

The Misanthrope on War

 “War is great in theory.  Lots of people getting killed.  But in practice, you have to choose sides, which is a bummer because both sides deserves being clobbered.”

Determinism

 

Moments of Silence

 

Are you okay?

 

Some AKiC Random Musings

 If a person withdraws, do others approach that person and ask why?  Generally, they don’t.

99 percent of the time, taking the initiative in a starting a relationship yields no practical results.  But you have to keep trying to find that diamond.  

If one is insignificant — and the chances are that one is extremely insignificant — is it even worth one’s while to care about the state, society, and the media present?

“I was a nondescript sixty-something blowhard just sounding off”. That’s a John Derbyshire quote.  It can apply to me now:  Andis Kaulins is a 60 year old blowhard sounding off.

The younger portion of the Canadian voting public apparently voted in greater numbers for the conservatives.  Does that mean they wanted to preserve or conserve the system: the Canadian managerial administrative state?  Maybe some wanted it to be run better, but certainly a good number wanted it be to DOGEd.  Anyway, what this goes to show is that the people who voted for the Liberals were actually being conservative.  The left-wing progressive radical managerial administrative state has been with us for so long that many Conservatives aren’t conservative anymore.  So, it’s time for the Conservatives to change their name.  Perhaps, they could call themselves the Sensibles or the Common-Sensers or the Normals!

Anger is an energy.  If individuals feel powerless and expect magic societal powers to help them out of their funk, they need to realize that only they can ultimately change their situation and/or their outlook on it.  If they don’t think they have the inner resources, they have to realize that the anger or frustration they feel is misdirected energy, it is a resource that they do have but they are using it in a wrong way.

When applying a kick in the ass, it has to be done righteously and with charity.

5 Gorillas versus 50 Karens?

 Go Gorillas?

Refusing to admire

 

No one should take himself seriously

 

David Warren on what Intelligent People will not deal with

 An intelligent person will not deal with those who are consistently dishonest.

https://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2025/05/03/trade-deals/

No one should take himself seriously

 

Renouncing the World

 

David Warren on Government Work

 Remember, at least ninety percent of the “government work” for which taxes are collected and public debt incurred is not only absolutely worthless; it is evil, and anti-human.

David Warren on Eastern Canadian Voters

 “The electorate of eastern Canada. It is like a woman who has been beaten too often by the same violent man, who for his birthday, presents him with a fresh cudgel.”

Solve a problem worse

 

Cardinal Sarah, Sarah

 Cardinal Sarah, Sarah

says whatever will be, will be

the future is in Christ’s hands, you see.

so say Sarah, who hopefully becomes Pope.

Neither Defeat nor Misfortune

 

David Warren on the true enemies of mankind.

 The true, and the most wicked, enemies of mankind, are the people who think they know what they are doing. They should be spotted, tried, and condemned. For, the beginning of political wisdom is to know, with holy certainty, that you don’t know.

Dean Martin Roast Gif

 

I’m going to try and prove I can walk and talk at the same time!

 

You’re going to Hell!

 The way I think of it, telling someone they’re going to Hell is tolerant.  For to me, tolerance means putting up with something you don’t like.  It’s only intolerant if you try to genocide the thing and offer it no hope of redemption.

That being said, intolerance can be good.  Tolerating evil is no virtue and is probably cowardly.

It is too much to ask for acceptance.  Acceptance is not a synonym for tolerance.  The tolerant are unaccepting.

Perhaps the best politician

 …promises not to destroy you, but more importantly doesn’t promise to help you 

Literally Trump

 In the 1920s when Hitler was coming prominence, his detractors said he was literally Trump.

Despise the World

 

A poetic notion

 

Eremition: an interesting word

 Does this mean Eremite is a verb?  That is to eremite means to gradually fade from the life of others…

I don’t think I could do this.  I can fade away and I am in a situation where I am fading away from others but it’s from a resignation tinged with bitterness.  

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Free Tamara Lich!

 

Jiangyin, China Double Moon

 

Boredom

 

Drowning Babies

 Left wingers assume that saying what a supposed intention of a government program happens to be is all that is needed to keep a government program going.  Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water! they say to people who question the program.

Right wingers, for wont of a better label, say that the results of a program show that it is useless or even counterproductive.  But, the bath has drowned the baby!  they say to the left wingers who are deaf, and or are incapable or are unwilling to understand what the right winger is saying.

Strawb

 

The Recluse

 

Carney & Trudeau

 Apparently, Trudeau has been following Carney’s orders for the last five years,

Good things that could be said about Justin Trudeau

David Warren on Carney

 Indeed, Mr Carney may be worse than the Trudeau child, because his empty qualifications will confuse people, and Canadians are easily confused. He will be an ideal victim for Donald Trump, who fights rough sometimes, but is genuinely smart.

Read it all here.

Chesterton on Great Men

 We never hear of great men until the time when all other men are small.

Case in point:  Trump!

Zelensky has to keep the grift going

 How to explain Zelensky’s strange behavior?  He seems bent on having his country destroyed.  He surely knows he has no cards, and Trump is offering him a dignified escape.

Zelensky is a grifter who either doesn’t want to be found out or wants to keep the grift going.  Looking at it that way, his behavior can then seem rational.  Zelensky, knowing that Trump & Vance were on to him, decided to appeal to the progressives who were worshipping him.  And what better way to stay in their good graces than by making a scene with Trump.  Even if Trump was substantively correct, Zelensky knew his left wing supporters would ignore that and see him as being bullied and thus heroic.  And even if these people pledging support for him, like Trudeau and Starmer, had no cards either, it’s not important because he’s still a shining bauble in these peoples’ eyes.  And so Zelensky’s grift can continue.

Z man on the road back to normal

 While it does appear that we have reached the end of a cycle of madness, perhaps several historical cycles that culminated in the last decade, it is going to be a long road back to normal. The crazies will not simply go away. They must be defeated, caged, and only released when the conditions that created them are eradicated. The normals will have to be trained in the new way of engaging in politics. Much like Russia after communism, America is on the road to recovery, but it is a long road.

Read it all here

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.