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The chief danger that confronts the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost,
Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration,
politics without God, heaven without hell.
William Booth
“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.”
― William Saroyan
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill
Ignorance is not an opinion, liberals
I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C. S. Lewis
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
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GeeeZ .... 
It’s our whole package. A cultural and economic and innovative system that provides the best possible standard of life and opportunity for everyone. Teach that. Teach why that is from all aspects of the above. Compare it other countries.
Well used to be that way. Democrats took care of that while republicans sat around playing with their thumbs.
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KID, ya, hoping to remind us with this post that there’s a lot of good here and what you mentioned really helps….TEACH THAT is right!!
I think it provides the best standard of life and opportunity, too………
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aMAZING…1:00 EST and Kid’s the only one who’s here to talk POSITIVE, albeit only a little, about our country.
I still think we’re pretty great…I refuse to buy into the China, Russia, Biden/Harris CRAP.
OK: I wanted to avoid NEGATIVE today SO badly, but let me now….
WHY DO 2 yr old ILLEGALS have their faces blurred in TV coveraGe “for privacy”? WHAT PRIVACY? Do non citizens get that? Does anybody think some kidnapper’s going to steal that kid for ransom, from a penniless family?
Did you hear Biden and President Harris talk ASIAN RACISM yesterday? CNN is celebrating that, REALLY whipping up the RACISM claims. Another RACISM NICHE..OH GOODY!!!
They had COVID, they had HATE-TRUMP, and BLACK RACISM for weeks…now they havE something new to talk about………..they’re avoiding immigration, keystone job losses, Ford moving to MX, how Trump was the one who got Warp Speed through, etc etc…..
My own Doc’s Japanese wife said she fears for her parents…..3,000 supposed incidents have happened in 350 million and she’s worried? He asked why, she said ASIAN RACISM…TRUMP STARTED THIS! My Trump admiring Doctor said he just walked out of the room ….
I would HATE if there was really racism AGAINST ANYBODY…MUST we over advertise it?
It’s HARD for AMericans, maybe, to see Chinese after what happened FROM China re COVID (whether Libs like it or not, it DID come from China and Trump was correct in saying so..that is NOT RACIST) but CHinese Americans are facing the same COVID fears…….they didn’t start this!
This Dem party which calls for UNITY is doing NOTHING but whip people up against each other….DOes a Columbia Graduation including six graduations…one for gays (the LAVENDER GRADUATION), one for FIRST GENERATION LOW INCOME (seriously?), BLACK, ASIAN….etc…that’s UNITY? To hold different GRADUATIONS?
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NOBODY HAS EVER RESPONDED TO MY QUESTION:
What did TRUMP DO which showed RACISM? The N or S Carolina thing was disproved, the virus IS Chinese, etc…yet the Left HARPS on TRUMP CAUSED RACISM.
HOW? HE helped Black colleges mightily, he won an award for helping the BlaCk community in NYC from Jesse JACkson not too many years ago, he NEVER did ANYTHING even slightly racist; WHat’s the Left cling to in hopes he is racist? Getting more minorities employed???
WHAT?
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A DEMOCRAT FROM NYC who lost his dad from COVID on TV just now…..”We’re so fortunate at least FOX has given us this platform to discuss what happened”…
Changing hearts…
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I also want to make a public apology for having said FOX’s Kristen Fischer is a leftwing plant. She isn’t. Now that she’s not just standing outside the WH but is doing news inside, a promotion…she is showing true conservative colors….she’s just HONEST and TRUTHFUL and probably was then but that sometimes gets on my nerves if I see something differently!.
SO, I’m sure she’ll sleep better tonight knowing GEEEZ approves of her now (WHEW!) HAAA!! But, I call’s ’em like I see’s ’em!
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Yesterday, Harris talked about ASIAN RACISM and said this “…and people with THE BIGGEST PULPIT who had spread HATE”…
What BIGGEST PULPIT is there but Trump’s? She’ll never stop hating. I’m SO glad I don’t have that hateful nature…
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In a nutshell, we are spoiled rotten, Z, and that has weakened us tremendously. I just forwarded one to you about the reply from the founder of Dubai, Sheikh Rashid when asked about the future of his country, and he replied:
“MY GRANDFATHER RODE A CAMEL, MY FATHER RODE A CAMEL, I RIDE A MERCEDES, MY SON RIDES A Land Rover, AND MY GRANDSON IS GOING TO RIDE A Land Rover, BUT MY GREAT-GRANDSON IS GOING TO HAVE TO RIDE A CAMEL AGAIN”.
WHY IS THAT, I ASKED? AND HIS REPLY WAS:
“HARD TIMES CREATE STRONG MEN, STRONG MEN CREATE EASY TIMES. EASY TIMES CREATE WEAK MEN, WEAK MEN CREATE DIFFICULT TIMES.
MANY WILL NOT UNDERSTAND IT BUT YOU HAVE TO RAISE WARRIORS, NOT PARASITES”
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I’ve been busy doing show prep and I’m on air now. I’ll catch up.
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OAN having a good discussion; hostess isn’t the strongest, but good strong conservative…and the panel is 3 whites, 1 black very conservative young guy (hoorah)…
Very good converation.
I know production shouldn’t matter and I’ve bitched about OAN’s bad production qualities can turn folks off, but maybe they’re improving? Looks good today.
ANYTHING is better than watching liberals Arthelle and Eric (the leprechaun) at FOX now.
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ED…thanks! I look forward to reading you and hope your show goes well.
What was it on today?
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Mal’s got it. Cycles. Human nature. Greed. Fear. Supply and Demand. Constants.
Freedom and exceptionalism isn’t passed down in the bloodstream.
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What a phenomenal question!
1. Created from scratch, with a functional balance of freedom and responsibility. Not some utopian un-obtanium that could only exist with extreme totalitarian control. Then it wouldn’t be utopia, now would it.
2. Delineation of key rights and recognition that rights come from God, and government’s role is merely to protect these rights. (Europe’s kings typically believed this about themselves, but – whoa ho – not for the hoi polloi.)
3. Building in permanent tensions between power blocks that inhibit aggressive takeovers by one faction leaving people more free to go about their business. Federal vs. state. And the 3 branches of the federal government that vie with each other for power and position. (I was taught this division as more of a practical separation of responsibilities. But our founding philosophers nailed men’s motives and behaviors, so they made it harder for one to permanently gain an upper hand.)
4. I concur with Charles Murray’s observations of the 4 pillars that define (or defined) American culture in positive ways: broad Industriousness, Honesty, Marriage, and Religiosity
5. Our high engagement in solving local problems and the commonality of voluntary associations for all kinds of purposes are (or were) a central feature of civic life. VOLUNTARISM.
Sadly, virtually all of these belong in the past tense.
Good observations, Mal.
No one can answer the question about Trump causing racism It’s like expecting the sum of zero+zero to be greater than zero. 🙂
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I believe the answer to your original question “which historical happenings help create the heroic national narrative” it has to be our original war with the British to declare independence. Everything else after that wouldn’t have taken place were it not for our original fight for independence.
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Bizzy t’day. Long story.
Anyway, in answer to the basic question, Murka hasn’t been so much heroic as lucky. ‘Nuther long discussion I won’t bother y’all with ‘cuz it’ll just irritate ya.
Rather, in her prime, the US was reactive, and ordinary people were encouraged by necessity to do extraordinary things. Basically preferring to be left alone to build a healthy and prosperous country out of a bountiful wilderness, the people went about their bidness ‘til some jerk rattled their cage, and when they’d had enuffadat, they kicked his ass.
Murkans developed powered flight, assembly-line manufacturing, some really neat stuff, such as the Panama Canal, the Golden Gate, and Hoover Dam. I would say they developed space flight, but that was Verner von Braun; and the Manhattan Project, although magnificent, was done out of fear that Hitler would get one firs and give one to Tojo.
Murkans had their moments, but many other nations have had theirs too. We were best when we minded our own business, paid our own way, knew which words would get our mouths washed out with soap, and what kind of behavior would get us run outta town.
We were best when we had two-parent families with the adults making decisions and nobody confused about which gender he was. And if he DID have questions, he realized that life isn’t always fair and kept his mouth shut . . . and adjusted.
We were best when we tended to stay married and teenagers didn’t have boomboxes and i-pads and earbuds and smart fones.
We were best before TV got all corrupted with sex and violence and music sounded good, not like a freight train carrying plumbing supplies running into a warehouse full of harps and fireworks.
We were best when we all sat down to dinner together and children spoke when spoken to . . . and ate what was given and asked for permission to leave the table when finished.
And we were best when we got dressed up and went to church as families on Sundays and days of obligation, and nobody paid any attention to anybody else’s bathroom habits.
We were best before TV, before the Internet, and before Murkans realized they could vote themselves bennies and freebies. And we’ll never go back to those days again . . . unless we are attacked by Tralfamadorians, struck by a minor comet, or have a second civil war.
And I’ve been sittin here long enuf . . . gotta get back to work.
So there!
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BOCOPRO “it’ll just irritate ya.” YOu know me well by now HAAA!!!!!!
Of course, you know why I THINK America’s been so ‘lucky’!! The story of Squanto alone proves that! (if you’re inclined toward that direction!!!!)
The rest of your comment…with the list of “We were at our best” almost got me crying again. Yes, literally. They’re all such sweet memories it actually aches to consider them all.
Hoping all’s well at Casa Bocopro and M’Lady’s.
“asked permission to leave the table..>” Imagine? SO SO Sweet. It indicates SO MUCH that’s lost.
MAL: I think you’re right; that war certainly started all the very good stuff!!
I heard last night, I think on JEOPARDY, that another city had a Tea Party…a harbor off S Carolina, was it? I had had no idea.
BAYSIDER, VERY nice thinking there, thank you. LOVE this: “…broad Industriousness, Honesty, Marriage, and Religiosity: Amen and Amen, my friend.
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It wasn’t So. Carolina, Z It was a bit further south in Havana, Cuba. ;o)
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Sorry to be late to the party.
I had to go into work this afternoon and just got home.
I had William Federer on my show today talking about his new book.
Last Christmas I had him come on and talk about The Battle of Trenton.
“We’re Americans. We value our freedom so much that we’ll cross a freezing river in wooden boats on Christmas Day and slit your throats to protect it.”
That’s a historical narrative.
Bill writes history books.
Today he mentioned that Arthur Schlesinger, special assistant and “court historian” to President Kennedy, once said that a nation that loses it’s history is like a man who’s lost his memory.
Dementia.
You become non-functional and can’t make decisions based on past experience.
That’s why my show is called Your American Heritage.
Hope this counts.
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thank you, Ed…great to hear from you, and thanks for that input…excellent. I didn’t know the name of your show; EXCELLENT!!
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Ed, I hope you post that one.
The flip side of today’s posts is all in an issue I got of ACLU Magazine and am reading tonight: Straight Marxist enslavement celebrated under the rubric of justice, mostly racial justice, and the end of inequities with an “emphasis on the activism that will be needed.” That is a virtual quote from Marx. Once un-obtanium has been set as a goal, they’re clearing the path by blowing up all the good things we wrote about and cherish. That’s done by picking on social ills and unfairnesses that can be subject to endless harangue by cranky activists. No wonder we’re becoming such an unhappy country.
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Baysider. I just posted it.
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