Year: 2021

Stucky QOTD: Knowledge

I’ve done a “resolutions” type New Year’s post  before.  This is NOT another one …. since only .000001% of us actually keeps them past January 11th.

One thing that draws us here, keeps us here, and makes it all worthwhile (even the shit-fests) is a common refrain I hear over and over, literally almost every day;  “Hey, thanks, I learned something new.”  That’s the focus on this episode of QOTD.

Question:  — What one or two things are you going to dedicate you mind to learning this year?  Something you want to become an expert in?

Hopefully, maybe, we all will learn something about you.  Maybe some will even take up your quest for themselves also!

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Forecast 2021 — Chinese Fire Drills with a side of French Fries (Jacobin-style) and Russian Dressing

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

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As I write, the presidential election is still not resolved, with dramatic events potentially unfolding in the first days of the New Year. I’m not convinced that Mr. Trump is in as weak a position as the news media has made him out to be in these post-election months of political fog and noise. The January 6 meet-up of the Senate and House to confirm the electoral college votes may yet propel matters into a constitutional Lost World of political monsterdom. The tension is building. This week’s public demonstration by one Jovan Hutton Pulitzer of the easy real-time hackability of Dominion Voting Systems sure threw the Georgia lawmakers for a loop, and that demo may send reverberations into next Wednesday’s DC showdown.

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The Year In Review

Guest Post by The Zman

This year has been strange in many ways, but one bit of weirdness that has gone unnoticed is the paucity of predictions for the coming year. For as long as anyone reading this has been alive, this time of year has featured both year in review content and predictions content. This year both have been limited. Maybe the awfulness of 2020 is keeping people from thinking much about it. The wild unpredictability we have seen has probably made forecasters squeamish about predicting anything.

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There’s a Slight Twist Regarding the Death of GOP Congressman Who Contracted COVID

Guest Post by Matt Vespa

There's a Slight Twist Regarding the Death of GOP Congressman Who Contracted COVID

Congressman-elect Luke Letlow (R-LA) passed away this week at the age of 41. It’s terrible. He leaves behind a wife and two young children. Mr. Letlow contracted COVID on December 18 and died on December 29. He had no underlying conditions. It took less than 24 hours for the liberal media to jump all over his grave. It’s been an appalling couple of days. A Vox reporter was forced to backtrack a bit from his initial tweet about Letlow’s passing, only to make the situation worse.

Remember, the Left wants to see you dead. We shouldn’t be shocked by these reactions from progressives. It reveals the disturbed and horrid nature of American liberalism and how they wish death upon those with whom they share disagreements. Yet, it would appear that Letlow tragically passed away after suffering a heart attack during surgery (via NY Post):

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect – 1994

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On January 1, 1994, one of the largest and most significant trade pacts in world history comes into effect. The North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico removed most of the trade barriers between the three countries, but it has been controversial in all three since its inception.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.

Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.

Thomas Paine

Defund the Police? No, Defeed the Destroyers

There are times when all the world’s asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned?
I know it sounds absurd
But please, tell me who I am
Supertramp, The Logical Song

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I had sincerely hoped I would make it through 2020 without a major system shock. I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few years preparing as much as possible for whatever our garbage government would screw up and/or make worse. I was able to roll with the punches, even while my children’s social lives, education, and well-being were torn asunder by our fearless and ever-talented “public servants”. I watched in helplessness as my closest neighbors lost their jobs in addition to nearly everything they had strived so hard to achieve. Retirement, savings, inheritance – all drained.

However, on the morning of Christmas, the day on which I celebrate the birth of the King of Kings, I got that major, full- system shock. Nothing, it seems, is sacred anymore in these godforsaken times. There’s no walking back my seething rage; even if I could, I wouldn’t retreat into dispassion. So please forgive me ahead of time for being unable to speak without calm or without emotion. I do not possess the eloquence of Sam Adams, nor can I convey a thought as effortlessly as C.S. Lewis. Admittedly, I’m now a resister who will not cooperate with evil from this point forward.

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