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The Savage Young

Posted on | December 4, 2021 | Comments Off on The Savage Young

Dave Reaboi is a hater.

The Southern Poverty Law Center doesn’t have a “Beatlephobia” category on their Hate Map, but if they did, Dave would be a dot on it.

Like a lot of Beatle haters — and I could also name Ace of Spades in this category — Dave Reaboi is a Gen Xer, and one suspects that there is some sort of intergenerational Boomer envy involved in his irrational hatred of the Four Lovable Mop Tops from Liverpool. Coming of age in the blighted MTV era, when Michael Jackson and Madonna were The Big Thing, it’s difficult for Gen Xers to relate to the cheerful Good Old Days of 45 rpm singles, AM Top 40 radio and Ed Sullivan. Like all prejudices, Beatlephobia is rooted in ignorance and misunderstanding that expresses itself in slurs like “overrated” and “hippies.” The new documentary Get Back, focused as it is on the way the Beatles ended — drugs and Yoko and “peace” — is unlikely to bridge this generational gap. If you want to love the Beatles, you must start at the beginning.

Because I was just 4 years old when the Beatles arrived in America, I missed the initial wave of Beatlemania, although my older cousins Deborah and Trish were caught up in it. It wasn’t until I was a teenager myself that I got into the Beatles, listening to their first Greatest Hits double album (the red one) which I’d gotten from my brother Kirby after he went to college and the Army. Listening to those early tracks — “Love Me Do,” “Please Please Me,” “From Me to You,” etc. — was an excellent introduction, and I also began rooting around in the trivia of the band’s origins. There was a copy of the 1968 Authorized Biography by Hunter Davies in our high school library, and I also listened to the crude early recordings that the Beatles made with Tony Sheridan in Germany in 1961, later released as The Savage Young Beatles.

In my mind, this is who the Beatles really were — rock-and-rollers in leather jackets and greased-back ducktail haircuts, playing Chuck Berry tunes for drunken crowds in Hamburg dive bars, popping amphetamines to make it through their eight-hour nightly sets. As Malcolm Gladwell observed in Outliers, it was in Hamburg that the Beatles did their “10,000 hours,” returning to Liverpool with a tighter sound that set them apart from the dozens of other rock groups in England. On their way to fame, they lost John’s buddy Stu Sutcliffe to a brain hemorrhage and replaced drummer Pete Best with Ringo Starr (who had played the Hamburg clubs with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes). They got cleaned up by manager Brian Epstein, a gay Jewish record store proprietor with a background in theater and, after having been turned down by several record labels (“groups of guitars are on the way out,” as one label executive remarked), caught the ear of EMI’s George Martin.

While the songwriting duo of Lennon and McCartney would eventually emerge as the greatest hitmakers of the decade, six of the 14 tracks on the Beatles’ first album were cover tunes, the most memorable of them being “Twist and Shout,” originally an R&B hit for the Isley Brothers. I don’t care how much Dave Reaboi or another Beatlephobe hates them, it is impossible to deny that this is one of the greatest rock-and-roll recordings of all time. Every serious Beatles fan knows the story of how this classic was recorded at the end of a 12-hour session at EMI’s Abbey Road studio. It was past 10 p.m. on Feb. 11, 1963, and John Lennon had been struggling with a chest cold. Because “Twist and Shout” required an all-out screaming vocal performance, they decided to record it last, knowing that John couldn’t get through it more than once. So what went onto the tape was a straight-up live recording, done in one take with no overdubbing, and it is absolutely perfect. If you want to know what had throngs of teenage British girls screaming their heads off in 1963, this track is the essence of it — wild and raw, that Savage Young Beatles sound cooked up during those long nights playing for crowds of gangsters and prostitutes in Hamburg’s notorious Reeperbahn district.

 

What you have to realize, if you want to understand how revolutionary the Beatles were at the time, was the difference between their sound and what was on the radio before they scored their big breakthrough. Go back and dig up some of the Top 10 hits of 1962-63 and see if you can find anything — anything — with a sound comparable to what the Beatles made. For example, contrast the Beatles’ version of “Twist and Shout” to the Isley Brothers’ original, and the difference is unmistakable.

Is it possible to make someone like Dave Reaboi understand this? Probably not. Love and hate are fundamentally irrational, and Dave’s anti-Beatles prejudice is unlikely to be overcome by any evidence or argument I could produce. My love of the Beatles is, of course, equally irrational, involving fond memories like the time I was bopping around my $1.80-an-hour job at Six Flags over Georgia when I was 16. Working the front line at the Plantation House restaurant, I was singing “From Me to You” when I heard a vocal harmony and found the buck-toothed girl at the cash register singing along. Ah, sweet memories!

Talk about doomed teen romance — Kathy’s favorite Beatle was George, while mine was John — and I could narrate the sequel, which involved Kathy’s younger sister (similarly buck-toothed, though more buxom) but why bother? Dave Reaboi could never relate. It’s so sad . . .

Dave doesn’t want to hear these stories from a gray-bearded old grandpa, but trust me: The Savage Young Stacy McCain was a wild man.




 

Category: History, Music

In The Mailbox: 12.03.21

Posted on | December 4, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.03.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

You are here.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Are You Expecting “The System” To Guarantee Your Personal Safety?
EBL: The Last Man To Walk On The Moon, also, The Truffle Hunters
Twitchy: “The Truth Has To Matter”, also, “No, It Just SUCKS”
Louder With Crowder: Occasional Cortex – I Have Student Loan Debt. That’s Not Fair! The Government Should Cancel My Debt!
Vox Popoli: Vaccine Mandates Are War Crimes, also, Boosters Are Forever
According To Hoyt: Words Of Power, also, The Feral Modern’s Guide To Beginning Homemaking
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S1E15 – Supporter Spectacular Round 2
Stoic Observations: Stoic Racelessness

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Before Russiagate There Was Watergate
American Greatness: Rand Paul – Fauci Should Get Five Years In Prison For Lying To Congress
American Power: Alec Baldwin  – I Feel No Guilt For Shooting My Cinematographer Because It Was Really Someone Else Who Did It
American Thinker: The Job Market’s Booming Demand For “Diversity Specialists”, also, Smashing & Grabbing Blue America Into Ruin
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Who Is John Galt Friday
Babalu Blog: GOP Congressmen Propose Requirement To Teach The History Of Communism, also, Cuba’s Communist Pressure Cooker
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For December 3
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, More Delays For SLS? and SpaceX Completes 9th Falcon Launch With Starlink & BlackSky Satellites 
Cafe Hayek: Spent Theory, Neil Oliver On Omicron & Modernity’s Plunge Into Dark Ages Superstition, and On The Advisability Of A Policy Of Unilateral Free Trade
Don Surber: Red China Wants Us To Fight Russia In Ukraine, also, Give Babies The Rights Murderers Have
Gates Of Vienna: The Mysterious Death Of Dr. Andreas Noack, I Plead Not Guilty Because I Was High, and Lynched For Blasphemy In Pakistan
The Geller Report: DeSantis – Big Tech Has Become The Censorship Arm Of The Democrat Party, also, Biden Lies About Being Liaison During Six-Day War – When He Was In Law School
Hogewash: The Second Buchanan Administration, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Orwellian Censorship, and The Year Of The Jackpot
Hollywood In Toto: Encounter Takes Big Risks (How Refreshing!), also, Does Who Is Amos Otis Argue For Trump’s Assassination?
The Lid: UN Votes Against Christian, Jewish, & Muslim Faiths
Legal Insurrection: U. Akron To Close Campus Confucius Center, Florida & Tennessee SBAs Withdraw From NSBA, and Court Denies Injunction Sought By Native Americans Against Colorado Mascot Ban
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Warning To The Woke – The Sad Case Of Keith Olbermann Is How It Ends, Brian Kelly Apparently Developed New Accent After Landing LSU Job, and Former Roethlisberger Teammate Calls For Big Ben To Take A Seat
Power Line: Thoughts From The Ammo Line, Aussies Gone Mad, and Biden Bunk Brigade At It Again Today
Shark Tank: Plot To Extort Rep. Lauren Book Leads To Arrest
Shot In The Dark: Spoils, also, The Real Usurper
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – The Problems Of A Conservative Legislator
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, The Army Is Racist, The Marines Hate The Government, And The Air Force Are Just Extremists, and DeSantis Plans To Reinstate The Florida State Guard And Liberal Heads Explode
Transterrestrial Musings: The New Space Race
Victory Girls: Alec Baldwin & Elitist Whitewash, also, One Key Item Missing From Biden’s Winter Plan
Volokh Conspiracy: Yes, The Supreme Court Has Reversed A Precedent Based Entirely On Its Wrongness
Weasel Zippers: EU’s LGBT Ambassador Poses For Photo Op As Trans Virgin Mary, also, $87 Billion In COVID Unemployment Paid To Fraudsters, Nearly 10% Of All Benefits Lost To Fraud/Waste
The Federalist: Living With COVID Requires Confronting Obesity, My Twitter Ban Proves Twitter Manipulates The Platform To Silence Conservatives, and Is Homer Hickam The Most Interesting Man In The World?
Mark Steyn: “Wrongful Conception” Is A Wrongful Concept

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In The Mailbox: 12.02.21

Posted on | December 2, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.02.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

If they’re dying because I didn’t get the jab, why aren’t they dead yet?

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Tate Myre – Hero
EBL: BALDWIN LIED, HALYNA DIED
Twitchy: “Troll Level: Master”, also, Liberal White Woman Finds White Supremacy In Farmers’ Markets, Food Charities
Louder With Crowder: Racist Scum Who Killed Six With His SUV At Waukesha Christmas Parade Whines That He Feels “Dehumanized”
Vox Popoli: The Convergence Of Medicine, What VEI Looks Like, and The Tide Is Turning
Gab News: Gab Is Not For Sale

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Taliban’s War On Drugs
American Greatness: DeSantis Proposes Pay Increase For Florida Police
American Thinker: The Frogs Have Begun Fleeing The Government’s Boiling Pot
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Automotive News
Babalu Blog: Over 350 Protests In Cuba During November Despite Repression, also, Artists In Cuba Expose The Communist State’s Repression
BattleSwarm: Foreign Follies – A Roundup Of Things We Might Want To Pay Attention To
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, Russia Threatens To Destroy U.S. GPS Satellites, and NASA Awards Contracts To Three Private Space Station Projects
Cafe Hayek: The Precautionary Principle Is Poison
CDR Salamander: What Happens When The SAPR Knob Goes To 11?
Don Surber: The War On Christmas Gets Physical, also, Cuomo – I Did Not Pull The Trigger
First Street Journal: Hold Them Accountable!, also, As People Get Tired Of Living In Fear…
The Geller Report: Minnesota Greets Biden With “FJB” And “You Suck” Signs, also, Dying COVID Patient Recovers After Court Orders Hospital To Use Ivermectin
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Some Nebulae
Hollywood In Toto: How Watcher In The Woods Shattered The G-Rated Disney Mold, also, HBO Max’s YouTube Channel Silences Woke Santa Inc. Critics
The Lid: Remain In Mexico Program Coming Back On Monday
Legal Insurrection: No Charges For Students Who Put Up Fake KKK Flyers At FSU, Judicial Watch Suing On Behalf Of Teacher Who Claims She Was Fired For Social Media Posts About CRT, and DOJ Investigating Andrew Cuomo And His Executive Chamber 
Nebraska Energy Observer: All I Want…
Outkick: Crazed Keith Olbermann Attempts Dunk On Portnoy & Barstool Sports, Fails Miserably, Alabama Considered Underdog Against Georgia?, and MLB In Deep Freeze As Lockout Is Official
Power Line: Believe All Women?, Not Just The NBA, and Another House Democrat Abandoning The Sinking Ship
Shark Tank: Longest Serving Florida AG Endorses Crist
Shot In The Dark: Hard To Believe, also, The Odds
STUMP: Quick Take – Gasoline Prices & Petroleum Production
The Political Hat: Deathmongers – One-Stop Euthanasia/Mortuary Centers, Killing The Disabled In Portugal, and Dutch Doctors Death Double-Down
This Ain’t Hell: Army & FAA Investigating Epic Flyover At Titans Game Last Month, also, Alec Baldwin’s Magic Revolver
Transterrestrial Musings: Aquatic Disaster, also, A Space Station Gap?
Victory Girls: The Process Is The Punishment
Volokh Conspiracy: Law Review Editors Behaving Badly, also, The Stench of Justice Sotomayor’s Putrid Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Weasel Zippers: If You Plead The Fifth You’re Guilty, #BLM’s Corporate Donors Silent On Group’s Call To Boycott “White Companies”, and Crew Cut has Left The Building
The Federalist: Pennsylvania Unions Ignore SCOTUS, Force Teachers To Continue Paying Dues, also, YouTube Meddles In French Election
Mark Steyn: Lighting Candles & Banishing Darkness, also, Return Of The Pre-Rudy New York

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‘Killadelphia’ D.A. Turned Loose Teen Carjacker Who Murdered Marxist Student

Posted on | December 2, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘Killadelphia’ D.A. Turned Loose Teen Carjacker Who Murdered Marxist Student

Latif Williams is only 17 years old, but he already racked up an impressive criminal record before he was arrested this week for murder. And let’s face it — if you’re an ambitious young criminal, there’s no better place to commit crime than “Killadelphia,” which has already eclipsed its all-time record annual murder total this year. Last year, Philadelphia saw an 80% increase in carjackings, and Latif Williams got in on that action this year when he “was arrested on Aug. 14th and charged with eight crimes in connection with an armed carjacking, including aggravated assault, robbery, conspiracy and possession of an unlicensed gun.”

Considering his prior record — Williams was first arrested at age 13 for “robbing a college student on the Temple [University] campus of a cell phone” — you might think this carjacking would have put him behind bars for a long time. Ah, but need I remind you that this is Killadelphia, where Joe Biden got 81% of the vote? The city’s “progressive” District Attorney Larry Krasner has a policy of turning loose criminals, and on Sept. 30, “Judge Martin Coleman granted the D.A.’s motion to withdraw all eight charges against Williams, and he was a free man.”

Didn’t take him long to return to his life of crime:

Williams is accused of fatally shooting 21-year-old Samuel Collington of Prospect Park, Delaware County on Sunday during an apparent robbery near the North Philadelphia campus. . . .
According to police, Collington had just parked his mother’s SUV on Sunday afternoon near the 2200 block of N. Park Avenue after returning from Thanksgiving at his family’s home.
Authorities said while he was unloading his things, a suspected robber snuck up on him and a struggle ensued.
According to police, Collington was shot in the chest and back. He was taken to Temple University Hospital where he died of his injuries. . . .
The 21-year-old was a political science major who was set to graduate from Temple in just weeks.

Here’s a little dash of irony: “Collington . . . was passionate about social justice issues and racial and income equality, friends said. He was the president of the Political Science Society for the last year and an officer of the College Democrats. . . . [I]n the past, he had canvassed for Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.” A friend of Collington’s, Douglas Leake “described his friend . . . as a ‘devout Marxist’ who ‘would not want his death to be used to push any sort of right-wing pro-police agenda such as stop and frisk’:

“We must not let this travesty spawn oppression of any kind,” Leake wrote. “I will never stop defending his legacy of radical justice, peace and equality.”

“Radical justice”? Progressives turn loose the criminals who kill them.

Hard not to view this as a win-win. Way to go, Killadelphia.




 

Category: Crime, Pennsylvania

In The Mailbox: 12.01.21

Posted on | December 2, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.01.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff or signed up with one of Amazon’s various services through my links last month. It’s very much appreciated!
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Go away, Corona-chan. Bored now.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1553
Doug Ross: A Chart Of Human Conditions Over The Centuries
EBL: Big Supreme Court Case Argued Today
Twitchy: Jussie Smollett’s Trial Might Not Be Going His Way, also, Occasional Cortex Can’t Believe “Credibly Accused” Rapist Kavanaugh Weighing In On Abortion
Louder With Crowder: Elon Musk Mocks New Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal With Stalin Meme, also, Police Release Bodycam Video Of MSNBC Reporter Following Rittenhouse Jury Bus
Vox Popoli: Hiding The Science, EU Lobbies For Forced Vax, and Vax-Enhanced Infection

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Omicron Is Their Get Out Of Jail Free Card
American Conservative: Why Beto Might Win, also, America Without Abortion
American Greatness: Biden Approval Rating Still An Abysmal 36%
American Thinker: The COVID Vaccine Failure
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Feature Documentary To Be Made On “Patria Y Vida” Freedom Anthem, also, A Vision Of Communist Cuba, Now & In The Future
BattleSwarm: WW2 Tanks & Planes Still In Active Service
Behind The Black: Sculptured Lava South Of Olympus Mons?
Cafe Hayek: Sound & Fury, Signifying Pandering, Fauci’s Laboratory – Blinding Us With Science, and Clear Eyes On Government
CDR Salamander: No, You Wouldn’t Want China’s Strategic Position
Don Surber: The Four Pillars Of Biden’s Failure, also, Media Laughs At Christian Leader’s Death But Silent On Vax Deaths
First Street Journal: A Few Items About Excess Government Power, also, Were They Not Paying Attention?
Gates Of Vienna: Is Islam A Threat?, Lies of Omission 2021, and After Tav, We’ll Have To Use Chinese Ideograms
The Geller Report: CNN Suspends Chris Cuomo “Indefinitely”, also, 5000-Strong Muslim Mob Torches Pakistani Police Station, Demands Blasphemy Suspect For Burning
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Zooming In On A Pair Of Black Holes, and Listening To The Supremes
Hollywood In Toto: Andrew Schulz Shreds WHO, Media For Protecting Red China, also, Colbert Denies Cancel Culture Exists – But Thinks It Should
The Lid: Federal Critical Race Theory Program Drops “Critical Race Theory” Pretending It’s Not CRT
Legal Insurrection: Smollett Jury Views Video Of Dry Run For Alleged Hate Crime, Alumni Starting To Withhold Donations From Colleges That Don’t Defend Free Speech, and Judge In Solas Anti-SLAPP Hearing Doubts NEA-RI Had Claim To Prevent Records Release
Michelle Malkin: There Is No Vetting
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Book Of Concord – Treatise On The Primacy & Power Of The Pope
Outkick: Penn Swimmer Who Was Male For Three Seasons Now Dominating Womens’ Swimming, Video Leaks Of Brian Kelly’s Final Meeting With Notre Dame Players, and WTA Boss Stands Up To Red China Over Peng Shuai, Cancels Tournaments
Power Line: Confirmed – Academic Paper a Deliberate Hoax, Temple Student Killed By Criminal Philly DA Krasner Let Walk, and Biden’s Pandemic History
Shark Tank: Rubio – Demings Has Commitment To Opening Our Borders
Shot In The Dark: Wag The Dog, Today’s Joke Is Tomorrow’s Pitched Battle?, and Not For Turning
The Political Hat: Inter-Species Organ Transplants – One Step Closer To Catgirls
This Ain’t Hell: AF Civilian Steals $1.1 Million With Travel Card, Gets Probation, Space Force General Details How Space Assets Are Under Constant Attack, and Putin Continues Testing Biden
Transterrestrial Musings: The War On Tesla
Victory Girls: Teachers Want To Teach Less, Though Students Need More
Volokh Conspiracy: Abortion, Marbury v. Madison, And “What’s Written In The Constitution”
Weasel Zippers: Sen. Cruz Slams Biden’s “Pattern Of Appeasement” After FARC Taken Off Terror List, Obese Deadbeat Running For Ga. Governor Again, and Biden Whips Off Three Lies On Inflation, Debt, & Taxes In 30 Seconds 
The Federalist: The Fifth Circuit Has Harsh Words For Biden’s Vax Mandate, also, Google’s YouTube Threatens To Ban Users Who Question Mask Effectiveness
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet, also, Courting Controversy

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In The Mailbox: 11.30.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | December 1, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.30.21 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

EVERYBODY PANIC

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Why Are Democrats & The Media Putting Waukesha Down The Memory Hole?
Twitchy: “It’s Anti-YOU Hatred”, also, “Honey, Do You Even History?”
Louder With Crowder: “I Didn’t Trash The Man, I’m Speaking Facts”
Vox Popoli: That Sounds…Familiar, Not Whether But Which, and Starving Ukraine Again
Gab News: The Power Of The Powerless

 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Not This Vaccine, Not Any Vaccine
American Conservative: SUVs Don’t Kill People
American Greatness: The Twin Pillars Of Biden’s Failure, also, The Madness Of Anthony Fauci
American Power: Democrats Struggle Ahead Of 2022, also, Taliban Covert Operatives Seized Kabul & Other Afghan Cities From Within
American Thinker: Resisting COVID Tyranny, also, How To Remove Critical Race Theory From Our Schools
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Two Cities News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Dictatorship Threatens Homeless Single Moms Living In Abandoned House With Eviction, also, Dissident Cuban Rapper Whose Arrest Sparked San Isidro Protests Goes Into Exile
BattleSwarm: “Bail Reform Project” Antifa Scumbag Is Also A Crook, also, Texas Governor’s Race Update
Behind The Black: Engineers Recover Third Hubble Instrument, NASA Postpones ISS Spacewalk Due To Debris From Russian ASAT Test, and Musk Shakes Up Raptor Engine Development
Cafe Hayek: Government-Imposed Vax Mandates Are Tyranny, Further Evidence Of The Deformity Spawned Since Early 2020, and Free Trade Is Not Remotely Elitist
CDR Salamander: The Global Posture Review – Strategic Vapor Lock
Don Surber: Media – The Truth Is What We Say It Is, NYT Writer Argues Like A Teen For The Vax Mandate, and Hillary Asks Why Biden Isn’t 50 Points Ahead
First Street Journal: Starvation As A Tool Of Diplomacy, also, Killadelphia
Gates Of Vienna: Fact-Checking The Fact-Checkers, A Handgun Against An Army, and Sea Watch Lands More Wretched Refuse In Sicily
The Geller Report: Trump’s White House Physician Calls Omicron Variant A Midterm Elections Trick, also, Hunter Biden Agreed To Spread Red Chinese Influence For $10 Million/Year And An $80,000 Diamond 
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Another One Bites The Dust, and A Second Bite Of The Dust
Hollywood In Toto: If You Love Yellowstone, You Need To See This Forgotten Mel Gibson Gem, also, Joe Rogan On The Russia Collusion Hoax – “Nobody’s Being Held Responsible”
The Lid: Biden Can’t Let A Bad Deal Die
Legal Insurrection: Duke Administration Intervenes After Student Government Refuses Recognition To Pro-Israel Group, also, RI Teachers Union Trying To Kick Me Off Twitter After Suing Me For Seeking CRT Records
Nebraska Energy Observer: Greek Letters, McRibs, & Galt’s Gulch, also, Whoa!
Outkick: Josh Heupel’s Not Worried About Any Other Job Besides Tennessee, LSU Two-Minute Offense Scores With Hiring Of Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly, and LeBron James Getting The Coof Another Obstacle For Fading Lakers
Power Line: Joe Biden – Red Chinese Stooge?, Latest Academic Hoax Is A Doozy, and House Democrats Desert Their Sinking Ship
Shark Tank: Rubio Questions Tight-Lipped Demings On Biden’s FARC Decision
Shot In The Dark: Nativx, Urban Progressive Privilege – Am I The Only One That Thinks…, and There’s A Part Of Me
STUMP: Movember Fundraising – Men & Suicide
The Political Hat: “What Happens In This Room Stays In This Room”
This Ain’t Hell: Army Officer Who Reported Prisoner Abuse Dies At 42, SecDef Rejects Oklahoma Request To Exempt Its Guard From Vax Mandate, and Navy Gets One Right
Transterrestrial Musings: More Fodder For The Defamation Suits, The Rise & Fall, and The Raptor Crisis
Victory Girls: Enes Kanter Is Now Enes Kanter Freedom, American Citizen, also, Lara Logan Dragged For Fauci/Mengele Comparison
Volokh Conspiracy: Federal Court Rules Takings Clause May Require Compensation When Cops Destroy An Innocent Person’s Home
Weasel Zippers: MSNBC Compares Banning Abortion To Banning Interracial Marriage, Ex-Pilot Testifies About Flights Aboard Epstein’s “Lolita Express”, and WH Accuses GOP Of Raising Middle-Class Taxes By Voting Against Bill That Raises Middle-Class Taxes
The Federalist: How Twitter’s New CEO Might Make A Poisonous Platform Worse, also, 15 States Threaten To Pull $600 Billion From Banks Trying To Shaft The Energy Industry
Mark Steyn: Where Justice Goes To Die, also, From Lockdown To Lockup

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In The Mailbox: 11.30.21 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | November 30, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.30.21 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Based gf

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Jack Dorsey To Step Down As Twitter CEO, Become Mystic Advisor To The Tsar
Twitchy: DeSantis Decimates D Media For Crappy Coverage Of Waukesha Parade Attack
Louder With Crowder: Ted Cruz Hits Back Hard At Anthony “The Science” Fauci
Vox Popoli: The Facts On The Ground, Verdict – Not Unfair, and Why The Vaccine Nazis Are Winning
Gab News: Join The Parallel Economy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Flag Of Our Nation
American Conservative: The Disunited States Of America 
American Greatness: A Tale Of Two Cities – Waukesha v. Kenosha, also, Dear Wokesters – Kyle Rittenhouse Is Coming For Your Money
American Power: Howard Zinn Poisoned A Generation, also, Rep, Rashida Tlaib Struggles To Defend Closing Federal Prisons
American Thinker: The Trump Comeback, also, When Everyone is A White Supremacist, Nobody Is
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Join Cuban Moms Demanding Freedom For Their Imprisoned Sons, also, Are Cuba & Nicaragua Weaponizing Migration Against The U.S.? 
BattleSwarm: Omicronapalooza, also, Joe Rogan On The Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict
Behind The Black: Nice Overview Of Space Tourism Options, The NYT Does Real Journalism! and Russians Set December 8 For Next ISS Tourist Flight
Cafe Hayek: The Key is To End The Obsession, Not So Simple, and And Here I Spread More “Terrible Misinformation”
CDR Salamander: We Need Maps At All Confirmation Hearings
Da Tech Guy: Paying In Cash Vs. Paying In Blood
Don Surber: America Didn’t Steal The Land Or Enslave Africans, also, WaPo Writer Discovers Guns Don’t Kill People
First Street Journal: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Gates Of Vienna: Austria Banishes The Unclean, Setback For The Great Reset, and Fines, Forced Vax – But Maybe No Piano Wire
The Geller Report: The Left Owns The Waukesha Massacre – Which Is Why You’ve Stopped Hearing About It, also, Key Republican Says GOP Must Assure Voters It’ll Impeach Garland, Force Change At DOJ
Hogewash: I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, and Our Best Images Of Pluto
Hollywood In Toto: How Psycho II Got (Almost) Everything Right, Eyes Of Tammy Faye Punches Down, Down, Down, and Joe Rogan – From Sitcom Sidekick To Red-Pilled Culture Warrior
The Lid: Biden Begins Talks To Reenter Iran Deal Obama & Kerry Lied To America About
Legal Insurrection: Goodwill Embraces Critical Race Theory, Black Conservative Student Protesting Jab Mandates At Auburn Met With Racial Slurs, and Profs Protest New CSU Chancellor For Not Being Anti-Racist Enough
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, The First Sunday Of Advent
Outkick: Tennessee Takes Care Of Vanderbilt To Close Out Successful Season, LSU Wins One for Coach O Over Aggies With Last-Minute Touchdown, and Iron Bowl Drama – Tide Edges Auburn 24-22 In Four Overtimes
Power Line: In Re Kerry’s Emissions, NYT Asks “Why Do Blue States Suck?” and Judge Halts Jab Mandate For Healthcare Workers In Ten States
Shark Tank: Rubio Endorses Ingoglia For State Senate
STUMP: COVID Mortality Update For November 2021 – Before The Omicron Variant
The Political Hat: The Queer Liturgical Calendar
This Ain’t Hell: Stupid People Of The Week, Army Cadets Raid Annapolis, Steal Wrong Goat, and Air Force Prohibiting Non-Jabbed From PCSing
Transterrestrial Musings: No, Dr. Fauci, also, NASA & Commercial LEO
Victory Girls: Et Tu, Salvation Army?, Biden’s COVID Strategy Is All About His Poll Numbers, and Canada Gets Its Own Fake Native Tall Tale
Volokh Conspiracy: Stop The COVID Travel Bans
Weasel Zippers: Notre Dame Cathedral Being Rebuilt As Woke Theme Park, Biden Shipping Illegals All Over America, and Leftist Student Groups Want Kyle Rittenhouse Kicked Out Of ASU
The Federalist: Democrats Make War On Religious Institutions Just In Time For The Holidays, also, Free Guy Is A Must-Watch Modern Truman Show
Mark Steyn: What’s In A Plague? Elia Kazan & Panic In The Streets, The Coming Men, and Send In The Clowns

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Instapundit Goes Socialist?

Posted on | November 30, 2021 | Comments Off on Instapundit Goes Socialist?

Glenn Reynolds linked to and quoted a critique of the “underhanded journalism and bogus history” behind the New York Times‘ 1619 Project.

When I clicked the link, I was shocked to find myself at the World Socialist Web Site, a platform of the Trotskyite “Fourth International.” And if you keep reading the article by Professor Tom Mackaman, you eventually get to the part where he quotes and praises Karl Marx:

But history is “a fixed thing” in at least one sense. The past actually happened. Generations of people lived, worked, created, struggled, loved, fought and died. They did so under conditions not of their own choosing, but those handed down to them from preceding generations. And they did not do so alone. Out of the development of the productive forces, as Marx long ago explained, classes emerged—lord and vassal, master and slave, capitalist and worker—now in hidden, now in open conflict. On top of all of this culture, law, politics, language, nation—and, with apologies to Hannah-Jones—race developed, always reflecting the ideology of the ruling layers, and always interacting dynamically with the class structure. . . .
Gobineau’s racialist conception of history appeared as a ruling class response to the emergence of the working class, and, in that connection, to the development of the materialist conception of history. This Marx and Engels had begun to develop in the 1840s as a critique of the Hegelian dialectic, which, not dissimilarly from Bancroft’s conception of American history, had imagined history to be the working out of a transcendent idea into the real world. Among the many expositions Marx and Engels gave of the materialist conception of history, perhaps the most succinct is a portion of Engels’ eulogy at Marx’s graveside in 1883:

Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.; that therefore the production of the immediate material means, and consequently the degree of economic development attained by a given people or during a given epoch, form the foundation upon which the state institutions, the legal conceptions, art, and even the ideas on religion, of the people concerned have been evolved, and in the light of which they must, therefore, be explained, instead of vice versa, as had hitherto been the case.

Within this vast arena history has unfolded. It is “fixed” because none of what happened can ever be changed even by one whit. And therein lies both the tragedy of history and its powerful capacity to speak to that which is progressive in the present. The tragedy of history and “the lessons” go together. This is the Via Dolorosa of the working class, Rosa Luxemburg said.

It is not my habit to look a gift horse in the mouth and, when one is engaged in all-out political combat, it is unnecessary (and in many cases unwise) to question the motives of one’s allies — the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and I don’t much care why he hates my enemy.

“Any stick will do to beat a mad dog,”  as the old country saying goes, and when a doctrinaire Marxist is whacking away at Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ibram X. Kendi, et al., all I can say is, “Carry on, brother!”

Nevertheless, it must be said that Marxism is the deadliest idea in human history, having caused about 100 million deaths in the 20th century.

Marx’s “materialist conception of history,” far from being a scientific discovery, was an intellectual formula for limitless hatred.

Karl Marx began with the idea of fomenting bloodshed in revolutionary class warfare, and his “materialist conception of history” was developed as a pretext for this intended slaughter. The ironic consequence — i.e., that the Marxist idea ultimately killed far more workers than the reactionary forces of the bourgeoisie ever did — has never been fully acknowledged by the Left, including such Trotskyists as Professor Mackaman. Like their namesake, Trotskyists prefer to dwell in that dream world where their beloved “dictatorship of the proletariat” requires no gulags, no secret police, no summary executions.

For Trotsky himself, this dream ended with the “materialist conception” of an ice-ax to the skull wielded by Stalinist agent Ramón Mercader.

Like so many socialists before him, Tom Mackaman wishes to rescue the Marxist idea from the evidence of its failure. And in attacking the racial obsessions of Hannah-Jones, et al., Professor Mackaman fails to acknowledge what is obvious to most conservatives, namely that “Critical Race Theory” is derived from Marxism, with race replacing class as the categorical basis of revolutionary struggle. (Feminism is similarly derived from Marxism, with sex replacing class as the basis of struggle.) That the Left has fragmented into warring factions, divided by identity politics, is something Mackaman laments but cannot remedy for the simple reason that leftists are human beings, and thus naturally self-centered, prone to heed whatever political appeal is most flattering to their egos.

“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? . . . The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. . . . Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”

Such is the only wisdom that will preserve us in this evil hour, the only truth that can guide us toward righteousness. The godless Commies are doomed to the pit of Hell, of course, and I would hope Professor Reynolds doesn’t mind my McCarthyism in warning against this danger.

If hating Commies is wrong, I don’t want to be right.




 

Category: History, Racism
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