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Showing posts with label Video of the Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Video of the Day. Show all posts

Monday, October 4, 2021

We Demand Bread and Circuses!

By Rich Kozlovich

Let me start by saying the last thing in the world I would want to be is an English Royal, and for obvious reasons.  So I could easily understand Meghan's difficulties, but I found her explanations of racism self-serving and totally dubious.  As for Harry's desire to be left alone, which is an attitude I can certainly applaud, but in both cases I have to ask:  If that was really true, why do they act in ways that makes sure no one leaves them alone?

Where you aware of the fake "Royal Tour" to NYC by Harry and Meghan (actually perhaps I should be saying Meghan and Harry in order to clarify the relationship).   No?  Me neither, and neither was Thomas Lifson author of, Harry and Meghan’s ‘made-for-Netflix’ fake royal tour of New York, who posts a video by a Aussie commentator who outlines a growing view of people who recognize this couple's lack of class, dignity, vacuous hypocrisy and utter lack of credibility with this comment regarding a must see video:

Andrew Bolt is an Australian writer and TV commentator who deserves a wide audience here. I read a lot of his material that appears in the Murdoch-owned Aussie newspapers, sent to me by Australians.   Even (or especially) if you despise these egomaniacal shallow celebrities, this video will reward your investment of time.

I think these two vacuum tubes are totally meaningless to the world and the important events that really do impact humanity.   Furthermore, I hope I have the good sense to never publish another thing about either of them for the rest of my life. 

I put them in the same category as professional sports. Too expensive, too time consuming, too leftist, and a distraction from the real issues of the world, as were the Games of Rome.  We're now emulating the Romans demanding bread and circuses. 

Roman politicians passed laws in 140 AD to keep the votes of poorer citizens, by introducing a grain dole: giving out cheap food and entertainment, "bread and circuses", became the most effective way to rise to power.


... Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.[7]


Juvenal here makes reference to the Roman practice of providing free wheat to Roman citizens as well as costly circus games and other forms of entertainment as a means of gaining political power. The Annona (grain dole) was begun under the instigation of the popularis politician Gaius Sempronius Gracchus in 123 BC; it remained an object of political contention until it was taken under the control of the autocratic Roman emperors.

Rome had become a gigantic welfare state, and it fell because they failed in understanding their history, affirming their responsibilities and allowed tyranny and corruption to become so malignant they finally went broke.  

Can anyone explain to me why what's happening now is any different? 

Thursday, February 4, 2021

From an Outraged Citizen to Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina

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One of my favorite writers is Andrea Widburg, who on February 4, 2021 posted this piece: North Carolina's lt. governor shows how to fight back against a corrupt media, with what has to be the video for all time, along with these thoughts. 

Mark Robinson, currently North Carolina's Lieutenant Governor shows how to fight back against a corrupt media Mark Robinson stood up before the city council in Greensboro, North Carolina and gave an impassioned defense of the Second Amendment.

Since he's clearly not playing by the rules laid down by leftists and Republican invertebrates regarding how our children are being indoctrinated with leftist race dogma,  a local media outlet accused him, and the entire state Republican party, as being KKK entities.  He didn't like that at all, and when a local paper published this cartoon:

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They were calling the entire North Carolina Republican party a KKK entity, including Robinson.  Well, he didn't like it and went after them with a level of vigor that needs to be tranfused into the entire Republican party.  He "ferociously attacked the newspaper for its dishonesty and ignorance"  He makes it clear, "I'm not going to go along to get along.  I'm going to call them out every time. "That's what every Republican should say when the media goes low"

To quote the author, "this man is no shrinking violet." To see his video taped response to this cartoon and these charged, to the original article as I can't duplicate it here.  

Unlike the MSM I feel it's important to tell the whole story, so, in all fairness, I feel I should note her comments about his anti-Semitic views, but as Andrea notes: 

When it comes to Robinson, as with Majorie Taylor Green's ill informed statements about Jews, it's important to recognize that neither she nor Robinson backs his statements with active malevolence.  Unlike the anti-Semitic Democrats in Congress, neither has shown hostility to the Jewish state (so far as I know), and both support American values.

As Sally Zelikovsky said, the answer is to educate, not destroy, those Republicans who need a new understanding of Jews and Judaism.  The fact is that we have almost no fighters in the Republican Party.  We shouldn't jettison the ones we have because they're flawed.  We should, instead, work with them to make them better.

An even more extensive piece appeared in the Washington Free Beacon quoting Robinson saying:

"The system of government that we have in this nation is not systemically racist; in fact, it is not racist at all," he said. "To say that this is a racist nation—that is not true. And when we write standards that point to that direction in any way, we are doing our students a disservice."

He's not opposed to education discussing the complex racial issues in America but to second graders?  He wisely notes: 

"I don't think that these things that we have included have been for the benefit of the students,"...... "There's no reason why we should be trying to teach second graders about the complex issues of race. Those children have enough on their plate learning how to read, and write, and do mathematics."

The author notes that "Robinson is working to build an opposition to the curriculum, which he characterizes as divisive and anti-American. In a petition—that by Wednesday afternoon had nearly 30,000 signatures—he argued that the courses are designed to "indoctrinate our students against our great country."

In short, he's not against education, he's against propaganda and the indoctrination of leftist views into very young and malleable minds.    

To be or to do.  Which way will you go? - Col. John Boyd

Diversity Without Accomplishment is Philosophy Without Form and Incompetence Without Consequence - Rich Kozlovich

Thursday, August 27, 2020

Video of the Day: Pam Bondi Exposes Biden and His Family Corruption

Pamela Jo Bondi is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician. A Republican, she served as the 37th Florida Attorney General from 2011 to 2019.

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Truth is the Sublime Convergence of Reality and History

By Rich Kozlovich

Those of us who were raised by immigrants and heard all the stories of how the world really works,  how they suffered, how they overcame, how they were willing to do whatever was necessary for their families, this is poignant.

What we need is strong does of  clarity!  Truth is the sublime conversion of reality and history. Please enjoy this stark exposure to reality, history....and truth.

Sunday, June 28, 2020