HOW TO MAKE A WOKE UNIVERSITY LIVE UP TO ITS WOKE RULES
The newly-named University of Richmond School of Law
Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” apply to all radicals, including those who take the radical position that patriotic constitutional conservativism is a good thing. Conservatives need to enshrine his sixth rule: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
That’s the wonderful move the descendants of T.C. Williams made when the University of Richmond deleted his existence. Okay, they said, we want our money back – with compound interest since 1890.
T.C. Williams’ great-great grandson is a smart and savvy lawyer. His lawsuit, entitled “As The University of Richmond Caves to the Woke Mob,” and addressed to university president Kevin Hallock, is seven pages long, and worth reading entire for its bullseye shut down of the woke mentality. Here are the high points.
THE PORTUGUESE RIVIERA
A cliff-top fishing village on the Italian Riviera? Nope, Azenhas do Mar – Watermills of the Sea – is on the Portuguese Riviera. This is a magic place of fairy tale castles, thousand year-old fortresses, luxury boutique hotels, fabulous food, great wine, gorgeous beaches, and postcard-perfect scenery everywhere.
The Portuguese people are among the kindest in Europe, while Portugal is one of the safest countries in the world. Of all the planet’s First World countries, it’s hard to find one more friendly, calm, and welcoming than here.
Who’s the pretty girl? Lucky me – she’s my wife Rebel, mother of our two grown sons, my business partner, and my best friend. We’ve had a home here for many years. Rebel loves Portugal so much she taught herself to be fluent in Portuguese.
If you’d like a personal experience of the best of Portugal, come with Rebel and me on our Portugal Exploration this May.
Let me know if you’d like to have too much fun here with your fellow TTPers: [email protected]. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #123 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
ANARCHY IN AMERICA
The 1960s revolution was both anarchic and nihilist. But it was waged against—not from—the Establishment.
Hippies and the Left either attacked institutions or, in Timothy Leary fashion, chose to “turn on, tune in, drop out” from them. The current revolution is much different—and far more dangerous—for at least three reasons.
The first is: The current Left has no intention of “dropping out.” Why would it? The Left is the Establishment now.
In other words, the greatest levers of influence and power—money, education, entertainment, government, the news, and popular culture—are in the hands of the Left.
They have transformed legitimate debate over gay marriage into a hate crime. Transgenderism went from a modern manifestation of ancient transvestism or gender dysphoria to a veritable litmus test of whether one was good or evil.
TO SAVE AMERICA, ABOLISH THE CIVIL SERVICE
The Progressive Era and its assault on Americans' money and personal freedom began in earnest 110 years ago:
*The 16th, allowing the creation of the IRS (1913).
*The 17th, ending Senators as the representatives of State Legislatures (1913).
*The 18th, prohibition of alcohol (1919).
Yet it's not just the constitutional amendments that have contributed to the decline of the Republic. It's also the actions of an ever-burgeoning federal government, which has simultaneously abandoned its core fiscal, executive, judicial, and legislative responsibilities.This is the Administrative State, beyond the direct supervision of all three legitimate branches of government, to the extent that they now form an illegitimate, constitutionally illegal fourth branch of government.
Like most things involving the feds, it is largely staffed by members of the Civil Service -- nearly three million employees and counting. It’s high time to abolish this entire unconstitutional monstrosity.
THE WORLD’S BEST MOONSHINE
Santo Antão island, Cape Verde. The world’s best moonshine, which the islanders call grogue, is made here. There are ten islands comprising the country of Cape Verde, some 400 miles off the West African coast of Senegal in the Atlantic Ocean. For hundreds of years, Cape Verdeans have been making grogue but the folks like the fellow here on Santo Antão have perfected it.
You’ll find their stills out in the sugar cane fields, where they put the cane in to a press called a trapiche, then cook down the molasses in an old oil drum into a clear distilled rum that’s up to 140 proof or more. This fellow is pouring me a sample to taste in a coconut shell. You have to be really careful because it’s so smooth and silky it goes down like water – making it very easy to get quickly wasted.
If you like it – which of course you will – he’ll pour fresh grogue into an empty plastic liter water bottle and sell it to you for six bucks. People are always partying in Cape Verde, and why not with all this grogue. They don’t mix it with anything except some lime juice and an ice cube. Really fantastic. Come to Cape Verde and have great time yourself! (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #171 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY UNDERSTANDING ONE MAN’S ROTTEN INFLUENCE ON US
Today let’s talk about one of my least favorite historical figures: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Pretty much all it will take for him to be one of yours too is this opening line in the Wikipedia entry on him:
“His Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought.”
Being against reason, science, civilization, individual liberty, and self-discipline, his thinking has been at the root of much of the psychological, political, and cultural trouble of our time. It has specifically popularized a philosophy of emotions that has done and continues to do great harm.
As you’ll discover, the insanities of today’s Woke Left can be traced right back to this foul man.
TRULLI
At the top of Italy’s boot heel, there’s an ancient village named Alberobello that’s become a World Heritage Site.
This is because the villagers have preserved a prehistoric building technique with the conical roofs of their homes built up of corbelled limestone slabs with no mortar. The homes are collectively called trulli (true-lee) as each home individually is a called a trullo (true-low). Some trulli are centuries old albeit regularly rebuilt in the traditional way and maintained immaculately.
It’s a fascinating look into unique millennia-old living. Yet it is only one example of this little-visited part of far southern Italy that’s worth exploring. There’s so much more to Italy than Rome, Florence, Venice and such tourist magnets, as worthwhile visiting them may be. You’ll learn that very quickly when you start exploring Italy’s remoter regions.
(Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #255 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
WOKETARD LOGIC
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – QARI BABA
Afghanistan, 1984. Yes, that’s me with the legendary Qari Baba, Commander of the Harakat Mujahaddin waging a war of liberation against the Red Army of the Soviet Union – and my dear friend. I told him he looked like a combination of Genghiz Khan and Buddha, and he couldn’t stop laughing. We had so many extraordinary experiences together – like blowing up the Soviet High Command of Bala Hissar in Ghazni.
After the war was won with the final Soviet retreat in February, 1989, Qari Baba became the Governor of Ghazi Province. Then Pakistani Intelligence (ISI) created the Taliban to seize control of the country. Qari Baba had to take up arms anew against them. In March of 2006, he was assassinated by a Taliban hit team on orders from the ISI. I will never ever forget him. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #111 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HALF-FULL REPORT 01/27/23
Finger-pointing at government corruption elsewhere in the world is small beer, as it’s so painfully embarrassing for us Americans to see that our own government is the most corrupt on the planet.
Our White House is run by a treasonous crime family, put and kept there by a ludicrously corrupt Dem-FBI-Media cabal who stole it from its rightful predecessor. Jesse laid much of this on the table last night (1/26), but the question is – what can be done about it when the Justice Department and FBI are corrupt to the core?
Well, now that Speaker Kevin has promised there will be no cuts in Social Security nor Medicare in debt ceiling resolution (following the wise advice of Trump), how about, say, a full 50% cut of the FBI budget (from last year’s, not from the projected increase of this year)?
Here we go – come on in for another great HFR!