tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post7534423296141714136..comments2023-11-16T05:28:12.324-05:00Comments on _It Don't Make Sense_: American Thermidorsig94http://www.blogger.com/profile/11460563552989533923noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-78462041223287775082012-07-01T19:48:11.122-04:002012-07-01T19:48:11.122-04:00Very happy with the Supreme Court ruling. On to r...Very happy with the Supreme Court ruling. On to re-election!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-826319612012822532010-12-20T02:39:37.079-05:002010-12-20T02:39:37.079-05:00Was good to come back here and see your work, Rhod...Was good to come back here and see your work, Rhod. Thank you for this. What strikes me most is your optimism. Longtime readers will note that this is somewhat like the historical lightning bolts that you talk about. <br /><br />The Demos have pushed too far, and they are still doing so even in a runaway lame duck with Christmas upon us. People are upset and will be heard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-57952123493256592632010-12-20T00:41:12.836-05:002010-12-20T00:41:12.836-05:00I was referring to:
"If the ballot no longer ...I was referring to:<br />"If the ballot no longer protects our liberty, there’s always rope. "<br /><br />I don't advocate a rope for little lisa or her ilk-<br />I do not like voter fraud -by Ds or Rs...<br />C-CSchristian soldierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04781627688988991192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-61061343794219421952010-12-20T00:37:37.927-05:002010-12-20T00:37:37.927-05:00what a great historical overview-thank you!
any w...what a great historical overview-thank you!<br /><br />any way we cn get little lisa murkowski out and the real winner - Joe Miller (Alaska - primary winner-Senate)-in ?<br />we'd have to side-step the RINO -NRSC-they went up to 'help' little lisa...<br />C-CSchristian soldierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04781627688988991192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-24971977621539390692010-12-19T17:24:28.337-05:002010-12-19T17:24:28.337-05:00Rhod - you are absolutely correct my friend, but i...Rhod - you are absolutely correct my friend, but it is the transition period that is always the bloodiest.sig94https://www.blogger.com/profile/11460563552989533923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-66150029261519498942010-12-19T15:49:05.111-05:002010-12-19T15:49:05.111-05:00Para III should read:
"This isn't a comp...Para III should read:<br /><br />"This isn't a complaint with your great take on the startling similarity between the nastiness of the French Enlightenment, and its wicked Revolution, with the goals of Progressivism".Rhodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06143862655497197999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-18993191685723156812010-12-19T15:44:38.955-05:002010-12-19T15:44:38.955-05:00Sig, it all sounds familiar, but I'm always na...Sig, it all sounds familiar, but I'm always nagged by the idea that big events are mechanistic and Hegelian, that identical or similar results will issue fror identical or similar conditions. <br /><br />Then, I'm a believer in The Black Swan view of history, that prediction of the probable is ridiculous and based on averages; that the world, human and natural, is propelled most by an explosion of the highly improbable. Last year, who could have predicted Nov 2nd and its immediate result? Time will tell. <br /><br />This isn't a complaint with your great take on the startling similarity between the nastiness of the French "Enlightenment" and <br />its wicked Revolution.<br /><br />The Catholic Church somehow survived in France (the authority of the Pope didn't) in spite of the hellish de-christianization campaigns, probably because none of the secular cult alternatives provided The Answer. <br /><br />Thermidor brought with it a volcano of liscentiousness and debauchery in France. In re the conduct of the militaary, somehow by 1799, Napolean managed to bewitch them once again. And it was only a mere ten years or so after they failed to support the monarchy/monarchists when people were in the streets.<br /><br />Brass is brass. I was a soldier once, but I don't respect "the military" as an abstraction. What "they" do never surprises me. They're a caucus with guns.Rhodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06143862655497197999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-68755724281861043652010-12-19T13:52:39.390-05:002010-12-19T13:52:39.390-05:00Bear this in mind; France was considered a super p...Bear this in mind; France was considered a super power at this time.sig94https://www.blogger.com/profile/11460563552989533923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-13793018296933259072010-12-19T13:49:54.273-05:002010-12-19T13:49:54.273-05:00Rhod - excellent piece. What scares me is the role...Rhod - excellent piece. What scares me is the role of the French Army in allowing the Terror to happen and finally the emergence of Napoleon as dictator.<br /><br />The French Army was effectively immobilized due to war with other European alliances (Wars of the First to Fifth Coalitions) which were initiated by European monarchies in response to the French Revolution. During this time the Committe of General Security was responsible for the imprisonment and execution of counter-revoluntionaries. As many as 300,000 were arrested and as many as 50,000 were executed. In Paris alone, nearly 3,000 were beheaded in a single month.<br /><br />There was also a De-Christianization Program which abolished Sundays and religious holidays. The seven day week was abolished in favor of a ten day <i>decade</i>. Public religious observations were banned outright.<br /><br />In Paris they destroyed religious statutes, banned clerical dress and Notre Dame Cathedral was renamed, "The Temple of Reason." A new secular holiday was created, "The Festival of Supreme Being." Festivus?<br /><br />Generals eager to avoid being seen as counter-revolutionary would carry out any orders to suppress domestic rebellion. Perhaps as many as 250,000 civilians were slain during the peasant revolt against the anti-religious activities of revoluntionary radicals - the War in the Vendee.<br /><br />Does any of this sound familiar?<br /><br />Decades old anti-Christian developments in our own country, Obama's call for a national security force and the politically correct manipulation of our own armed forces force me to conclude that we may be in for a rough patch of road. <br /><br />Keep your powder dry.sig94https://www.blogger.com/profile/11460563552989533923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-52103347696830974412010-12-19T12:06:30.192-05:002010-12-19T12:06:30.192-05:00Nah, Odie. Most of it is useless knowledge, or may...Nah, Odie. Most of it is useless knowledge, or maybe it's just information, and not knowledge.<br /><br />Libs of the '60's type (like me, formerly) had to be fluent in the arcane language of revolution in order to be interesting to girls of the same type.<br /><br />That's what the '60's were about. Sex.Rhodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06143862655497197999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-65947020931406715712010-12-19T09:45:22.119-05:002010-12-19T09:45:22.119-05:00Wow Rhod, did you have to go to school for this st...Wow Rhod, did you have to go to school for this stuff? You be one educated dude.<br /><br />Actually, thanks for the history lesson.Woodsterman (Odie)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00423574390748358762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-25112874129363216272010-12-19T09:03:30.395-05:002010-12-19T09:03:30.395-05:00Wetzy, you're on the call list.
Nick, that...Wetzy, you're on the call list.<br /><br />Nick, that's the kind of fear I have in mind; too bad it doesn't insure the right to own a guillotine. <br /><br />Banned, Zio, I polished and oiled my banger yesterday, after a solid breakfast of eggs and sausages. Nobody should trifle with me.Rhodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06143862655497197999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-74195899746387971272010-12-18T21:35:53.229-05:002010-12-18T21:35:53.229-05:00Zio Rico, they backed down from banning the banger...Zio Rico, they backed down from banning the banger but we had to reduce the sawdust content :)bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-31502391890964442322010-12-18T16:55:25.956-05:002010-12-18T16:55:25.956-05:00Two words, Don Goomba.
Tar
FeathersTwo words, Don Goomba.<br /><br />Tar<br />FeathersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-12948868416182683372010-12-18T16:54:01.345-05:002010-12-18T16:54:01.345-05:00I remember a few years back when there were EU mum...I remember a few years back when there were EU mumblings about banning the banger.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-25397549551806650242010-12-18T16:51:26.080-05:002010-12-18T16:51:26.080-05:00This is why I welcome recent edicts from the EvilE...This is why I welcome recent edicts from the EvilEU forbidding the Crusifix in Italian school classrooms or forcing Ireland to legalise abortion on demand.<br />Britains Thermidore moment will come when they try to impose selling beer in litres rather than pints.bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-50683152648455019302010-12-18T16:50:58.687-05:002010-12-18T16:50:58.687-05:00A government frightened by the power of the people...A government frightened by the power of the people is a beautiful thing to behold. It's as beautiful as the 2nd Amendment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6921935853428237245.post-15936842253662385512010-12-18T16:18:22.235-05:002010-12-18T16:18:22.235-05:00I keep a few ropes stored in my garage. Are we the...I keep a few ropes stored in my garage. Are we there yet?Wetzynoreply@blogger.com