I’ve just been checking the links. The link to the Flannigans now works. They are continuing their discussion of logical fallacies by discussing denying the antecedent.
Paige is one of the more sensible commentators at Alte’s place. Her website has been added to the blogroll. She gives an accurate by unromantic discussion of pregnancy (the ex only found coffee nauseous when pregnant, but then… the smell set her off). Her heart melted with the Royal Wedding. (In the Dominion of New Zealand, pukeko took his sons out to dinner to avoid the cloying sentimentality of the day). Alte, on the other hand, tried to describe the boxes her readers fall into, before going completely gooey when discussing German men.
In New Zealand, we have had a leadership change in the ACT party. This is an odd alliance of economic realists from both the liberterian and conservative positions. The new leader, Don Brash, is quite angry that the work he did to stablise NZ when head of the reserve bank is being destroyed by the current bunch borrowing a quarter of this year’s budget. Whaleoil has some comments from the Centre-Right: Cactus Kate (who is a loyal member of ACT) talks about how this should be sorted out: and Chris Trotter is the most polite of the left leaning bloggers in expressing his horror. Most are running around like headless chooks.
I spent the Easter week in Canada: that home of relentless political correctness. Walking around Vancouver, I felt that there was a sense of fin de siecle. In Manitoba, I had a long chat with a couple of conservative Christians who had got out of there and were finding in the priaries — despite cold winters and floods — a culture that allowed them to think freely and live in peace.
Because this has gone in Vancouver. A comic was convicted and fined — as was the club he was working in — because he abused hecklers. Canada is now a soft tyranny. For free speech to be free, it cannot just be for the deserving.
As far as the ongoing war between the elite tranzis (or SWPL) and the Narod, there is a discussion of the silent apartment — written by a woman who can no longer tolerate the cost that came with swallowing the swill she was told by feminists. Dalrock and his readers give some advice to women who want to change and therefore marry. The Anglican church in Australia (again) proves it is Tranzi by calling for people not to breed. And Keivsky describes with compassion and truth on the coming fallout when austerity hits. Alte turned her sarcasm level up to 11 when discussing the ongoing deliberate devaluation of the US dollar. I’m finishing this post by reprinting a comment that I wrote and she commented on. (Alte is “the editor”)
Alte and all.
1. Get money out of the US. Kiwis, Aussies, Loonies, Renbi, Swiss Francs. (Editor: Only if you have a lot of it. Most of us are better off spending the money, than moving it around.)
2. Get some silver.
3. Buy real property. Dump your shares and bonds. (Editor: And fiat.)
4. Get the hell out of big cities. This includes you, Obsidian. You need to be somewhere smallish where you are known and liked. Because when the hyperinflation starts, society breaks down. And you don’t want to have your family and kids there.
We should be hopeful, but we also need to be realistic
Thanks for the link love.
Thanks
What I find rebarbative about the royal wedding is that we have heard it all before. Every single time, it is the same cant. The royal bride is of the people; she is a “modern woman”, with a “mind of her own”; she will keep her career; ad nauseum. The latest royal bride has refused to promise her husband obedience, although she is happy to take all the advantages of tradition that suit her.
I predict that the same pattern will follow: disaffection, scandal, adultery. The women’s magazines will headline “Kate’s Secret Sorrow”. “Does the Prince have another woman?” In reality, he will tire of his less than dutiful wife. The pattern will be followed.
David, I think you need to completely ignore the hysteria of the media. They are projecting Diana’s life onto Catherine. I think the fact that Fergie was shut out was more significant: if you divorce, you are out. Of the family, and the firm.
Besides, the better Kings of England generally have mistresses, sometimes of both genders (James I ), while some of the worse ones were uxorious (Charles I).
We shall see. I maintain that feminism makes it impossible for these royal wives to shut up and get on with it. Instead they work the system and the medua like crazy. It all ends in tears, literally.