Tale of two newspapers:

TRUMP IN GEORGIA: ‘GET OUT AND VOTE‘ In the days leading up to President Trump’s rally in Valdosta, Georgia, there was a lot of speculation about what might happen. Would Trump spend all his time complaining about the presidential vote count, in Georgia and some other states? Or would he stick to the purpose of the event, to promote the candidacies of Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in the January 5 Georgia runoffs that will determine control of the Senate?

To look at the headlines, Trump made it all about himself. “At Georgia rally, Trump spouts election falsehoods, amplifies old grievances,” was the headline in the Washington Post. The New York Times went with “At Rally for Georgia Senators, Trump Focuses on His Own Grievances.”

But there was much more to the story. In fact, Trump delivered for Perdue and Loeffler. Yes, he talked a lot about the presidential election. But he also talked a lot about the Senate races, stressed the importance of the races, and pushed repeatedly for Georgians to vote in the runoffs. He even took took a not-so-veiled shot at his own allies who have been urging Georgia Republicans to boycott the race.

Have they no shame?

Monkish behavior in well-traveled ‘hood.

Man with coffee, seated, looking around . . . 3:30 in the p.m. on Colectivo patio, a few yards from Clark Street reading Richard Hughes’ Fox in the Attic. Very careful writer, says intro, author who takes time to do it right. It shows.

Lo, on Clark and the side street Rascher, where the man sits, mad monks walk by. Mad monks — he’s never met one, it’s a Gothic trope — are his fellow citizens in masks, covered nose to gullet, one after another, heads down, avoiding so much as a glance at this man in snappy red sweater under stylish green, chilly-weather vest. . . .

More to come from Blithe Spirit Weekly.

What a guy.

And he once had a telephone and a pen.

People of faith:

Have you ever just actually read Willam Bradford’s account of the Pilgrims’ voyage from Holland to America, and their subsequent management of Plymouth Plantation? It has to be one of the most remarkable primary sources from the early days of European settlement in the New World. It’s a crime we don’t assign it in schools more widely. Bradford himself was an astonishing figure—orphaned at 7, he grew up to lead his tight-knit community through hardship that seems almost unthinkable today.

What sticks out to me most about the book this year is how real these people’s faith was to them, how seriously they took its implications and accepted their consequences. Here is one of the most famous passages, describing the worship service they held in advance of their departure from Holland (I’ve adjusted the spelling for ease of reading, but you can find the marvelous original here):

[Much] of the time was spent in pouring out prayers to the Lord with great fervency, mixed with abundance of tears. And the time being come that they must depart, they were accompanied with most of their brethren out of the city, unto a town sundry miles off called Delfes-Haven, where the ship lay ready to receive them. So they left that goodly and pleasante citie, which had been their resting place near 12 years; but they knew they were pilgrims, and looked not much on those things, but lift[ed] up their eyes to the heavens, their dearest country, and quieted their spirits.

For more on all this I heartily recommend Chris Caldwell’s excellent essay in the recent CRB. These were people whose God was as real to them as the noses on their faces. It shows.

For them also there was turmoil.

Can this be true?

The news about the successful Oxford University Corona vaccine seems to be a matter of considerable rejoicing, except among American providers who had been planning to sell their own vaccines at eight times the price.

Father M. is great on all things Catholic and also astute, responsible writer. So???

Chuck has a way with words.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was ecstatic when Joe Biden was declared president-elect, telling a celebrating Brooklyn crowd on Saturday that the Senate would be next to flip blue.

“Now we take Georgia, then we change America!” Schumer said.

Trouble is, will they play in Georgia?

Slavering over all those Democrat votes.

Since the election, Presidential Aspirant Joe Biden has triumphantly confirmed that he intends to Elect A New People by not only undoing President Trump’s semi-tough immigration measures but also by flooding the country with refugees and legal immigrants plus Amnestying every illegal alien stashed away in every trailer park he can pinpoint with Google Earth [Biden
plans sweeping reversal of Trump’s immigration agenda,
by Meg Kinnard, CBS News, November 11, 2020].

Under guise of humanitarianism.

But will it backfire?

The rest is there to read . . .

. . . Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? (Women too, but they’re not around). As for Camels, there’s a “best way to balance eating and smoking.” A James Lileks production.

Since it’s Thanksgiving soon, let’s take a look at this ad for Camels, and study the best way to balance eating and smoking.

Step one: I think it goes without saying that you smoked a Camel before you started in on the soup.

For digestion’s sake! Otherwise that soup will stay in your stomach like molten lead.

We move quickly to the main event:

Remember, smoke between helpings.

I’m rather surprised they don’t advise having a Camel before the salad, as well as after. Again, burn a nail afte pie, so the food is effectively broken down and moved into your digestive tract:

YOU ARE NOT DONE SMOKING YET

Note: it is advisable to have many cigarettes with many cups of coffee.

And we haven’t even started the serious drinking yet.

Experts agree:

Dorothy Malone’s wikipedia bio says “1901 – date of death unknown.” Somehow she faded away.

This was Mr. Ferguson’s sole appearance outside of his corner of the world and time. If he existed at all, that is.

The penultimate ep – meaning, it’s the last cliffhanger. Such as they are.

For links to these short snorts of the episodes, go to the story itself. It’s gloriously memorable and funny for people who viewed such movies many years ago.

Certain death!

The last ep is just the unmasking of the enemy, if his identity was in question, and then his eventual defeat. Remember, we’re supposed to think it’s one of the plutocrats at the Cobalt Club. Their nerves are shot after 13 episodes of industrial warfare. Either that, or someone’s feeling guilty.

He’s setting a trap, you see. He passes out some cards with an address, and asks everyone to memorize it. I presume that all the addresses are different, and whoever shows up will give himself away. This is our cue to head back to the Black Tiger’s HQ, where he turns invisible, bangs his gavel, does his is angry snivel:

Lamont stakes out the location where he thinks the Tiger will strike, and actually gets shot. But it’s just a scratch! Now his suspicions are confirmed, but before he does anything it’s time for racist Cosplay as Lee Ching, World’s Tallest Asian man:

Meanwhile, the Tiger has managed to install airtight shutters on all the windows of the Cobalt club, and has also arranged for the record player to automatically play a taunting message as he fills the room with poisonous gas. He’s such a drama queen.

All the plutocrats are drama queens.

It’s Lamont to the rescue. Always be sure to shut the door behind you when you enter a room full of poison gas:

Uh – that was unexpected, I guess. One more go to.

That’ll do; Matches await.

Nice rundown of Yeadon’s take-down of lockdown:

In this video, Big Pharma insider Dr. Michael Yeadon is speaking out; confirming what I and many others have been reporting, such as:

✅ The pandemic is fundamentally over;

✅ Science clearly indicates that there will not be a second wave;

✅ Many people have T-cell immunity;

✅ COVID-19 PCR tests are scientifically fraudulent;

✅ There are 10 times more false positives than actual positives;

✅ Lockdowns are deliberately based on unscientific, completely fake data;

✅ COVID-19 threat has been greatly exaggerated;

✅ Lockdowns led to tens of thousands of avoidable deaths.

[You can also watch this
video on Facebook here.]

The video that lasted two hours on Google-owner’s You Tube.

This Is Not a Sane World, Exhibit #1,000,006

Dr. Micheal Yeadon is a respiratory health professional with an impressive CV.

. . . .

Last week the former Pfizer veep posted a video on YouTube, explaining that he believes that “there is no science to suggest a second wave should happen.” Dr. Yeadon also warned, “half or even ‘almost all’ of tests for COVID are false positives.”

The lockdowns, Yeadon said in an interview last September, were a mistake.

We are basing a government policy, an economic policy, a civil liberties policy, in terms of limiting people to six people in a meeting…all based on, what may well be, completely fake data on this coronavirus?

YouTube took down Dr. Yeadon’s November video after all of two hours.

Is he correct? Are we getting tons of false positives? Should we fully re-open the economy?

These are important questions, and Insanity Wrap would answer “possibly” to the former and “OH HELL YES!” to the latter.

Agreed.