And to all my Christian Readers: have a Happy Easter, and may all your eggs be tasty (I think that’s a traditional greeting).
It’s not often we get Easter and Pesach on the same weekend because of that calendar thing, but here we are.
My best wishes to all of you.
Update: from Former Bandmate Knob:
To all my Tribe Readers: have a safe and joyous Pesach, in whatever form you choose to have it in these troubled times.
And bedehr gesocht, once this insanity is over, we can meet next year in Jerusalem or (more likely) at Boomershoot.
The Divine Sarah’s younger boy Marshall (a younger Millennial) takes on the Millennials in general, and Marvel comics in particular:
You got be f**king kidding me.
Marvel, gender-swapping and race-changing existing characters doesn’t count as doing something new. Granting, seeing what you do with new characters, I guess this is an improvement.
Besides the coming funeral plans for comic shops thanks to the senseless murder by Marvel comics and its weapon of pure woke, this brings into focus the purpose of my post today, because I haven’t given away the dirty little secret about these comics, and I think it’s appropriate to do a short history lesson, and turn back the clock a bit.
Read it, and chuckle. He had me at “The blood sucking, flying albino with a bad 90’s Goth outfit is the most believable character in your roster.”
Note to Marshall: let Mum edit yer stuff for grammar before publishing.
Mitch Berg (my old buddy from the Pleistocene Age of blogging) provides a little historical perspective which, like most of Mitch’s stuff, is superbly written and crafted. But there’s one part which got my attention, bigly:
But America is a restless, endlessly creative, impatient nation, overstocked with people who are not going to sit on their hands and wait for things to get better; it’s a nation full of people who are descended from people who came from all over the world, uprooting everything they knew, to make things better.
I think that we forget this, sometimes, and I know that certain sections of our society — the Press, the academe, and all the Socialist-politicians — rather wish that we were not like that, because it interferes with their little plans to turn us all into vassals and serfs of the Almighty State.
But we are like that; and that national characteristic is going to make the recovery from this Chinese bio-invasion lightning-fast and stronger than anyone can imagine. And if anyone disagrees with this, the chances are that they are part of the problem: the Press, the academe, and all the Socialist-politicians.
We shall overcome — not “some day”, but soon, Bubba. Buckle yer seatbelts.
With all the crisis talk and “We’re all gonna diiiieeeee!” and “Gummint must do something!” nonsense, there’s still more proof (as if we needed it) that most of America made the right choice back in 2016 by electing God-Emperor Trump. Here’s why:
President Donald Trump did something difficult and remarkable during the White House press briefing on Sunday: he stood up for the free market in a moment of crisis, when at least half the country is pushing him to abandon it.
A reporter asked the president why he was not using the Defense Production Act to nationalize industries to take control of companies and force them to produce needed health care equipment for treating coronavirus patients.
Trump’s answer was that the United States does not believe in nationalization, and does not need it, either.
…and he goes on to give examples.
You know, I have always preferred that our presidents have executive political experience — e.g. a state governorship (despite Jimmeh Carduh) — but of late I’m starting to revise that opinion.
I realize that Trump is quite an aberration — he’s something of an iconoclast, and not all businessmen are in his mold — but I have to tell you that I’m starting to think that we need to elect, or at least give serious consideration to presidential candidates who have made their way in successful businesses. (I’m not talking about CEOs of corporations, necessarily, because they’re often no better than the stultified politician type.)
Can anyone imagine where we as a nation would be now had we elected Her Filthiness as POTUS instead of DJT? There’d be a Virus Czar, a Nationalization Czar, a Facemask Czar and countless other “czars”, all equally incompetent and ineffective — and you’d better believe that we would now be in the death-grip [sic] of a UK/EU-style NHS (which, from all accounts, is proving absolutely incompetent to handle this current emergency).
We dodged a bullet back then, folks; and we now need to do two things:
Otherwise:
Not to mention at least one other charming situation:
Clearly, someone — doesn’t matter who — in the Trump administration saw something coming when the Chink Wuhan virus started to spread back in November 2019. But that’s not as important as what POTUS did — and over at the Treehouse, Sundance explains how lucky we are.
In early 2017 President Trump and his administration coined the phrase: “economic security is national security”, and the economic team set about starting a very complex process to ensure the past three decades of trade policy was reversed.
Because the Left controls the history books as well as the media, it will never happen; but in a saner world, Trump may well prove to have been one of the most successful U.S. presidents ever.
Once again, something to remember come November 2020.