tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87075782024-03-07T18:13:33.358-05:00StaghoundsA Deerhound loyalist who spends the unmoored time irritating felons. My whole life is a losing insurgency!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger826125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-72554292182046540572024-02-14T15:54:00.001-05:002024-02-14T15:54:53.312-05:00That day again...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9nsn5S2rIeX968HicacJPFIsmbs6iUmZB7MdDhLLo0Rn-9cbpnaBDrN0G-BQG-UYoczbXNIxlZWq2uBvP-BlYmoDoGoSgYbXglcC-YsoriUqT1R6qHld1GYFnzmobfVCY7S_6KqcB_Zwjt3PgozM5Fa7Ph3d8SgwnGDidtwFJ7yFqO5YKTg/s393/044-400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="296" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9nsn5S2rIeX968HicacJPFIsmbs6iUmZB7MdDhLLo0Rn-9cbpnaBDrN0G-BQG-UYoczbXNIxlZWq2uBvP-BlYmoDoGoSgYbXglcC-YsoriUqT1R6qHld1GYFnzmobfVCY7S_6KqcB_Zwjt3PgozM5Fa7Ph3d8SgwnGDidtwFJ7yFqO5YKTg/s320/044-400.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-90778721942198144442023-12-01T15:06:00.002-05:002023-12-01T15:08:56.978-05:00Buckhounds in France...<p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-q6jqVLQHqiQotuK4NV65DoHW-ypwuUbawtfIbP7k5DgquPXD5vvdQi0lMZCmdqpSFLmhhutecDZGORIdg17AAuvnVQJkCIdytEPHD2bbBCR8ISOh-ZoXwypT4zWfOhg6ZIk/s1600-h/13549_1162976958563_1352027289_1707427_7693693_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415530361314838834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-q6jqVLQHqiQotuK4NV65DoHW-ypwuUbawtfIbP7k5DgquPXD5vvdQi0lMZCmdqpSFLmhhutecDZGORIdg17AAuvnVQJkCIdytEPHD2bbBCR8ISOh-ZoXwypT4zWfOhg6ZIk/s400/13549_1162976958563_1352027289_1707427_7693693_n.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />This post is a dozen years old- somehow I never hit "publish". So here it is!</p><p></p><p><br />There are those who say that the Roebuck is the most challenging quarry, and that hunting him is the greatest test of hounds and staff. Agree or disagree, we had a good day with the Chevreuil hounds today.<br /><br />And yes, it does sound like Chevrolet.<br /><br />This was a bit of a homecoming for me, the first time I hunted in the north of France it was with this pack. I was there by accident, sent after stopping for hunting directions into the saddlery in Chateau-Thierry. When I hove up in the forest, I was a couple of minutes late. I was taken in by two women in a little car, one of whom spoke much better English than I did French. It was a good day, and the courree in the darkness wasn't the end of it. The night was one of those icy, clear skied, star spangled ones that make the trees crack. After the hounds had their reward, the horn players kept going. People brought out wine, logs were thrown on the bonfire, and it continued into late in the night.<br /><br />My non-English speaking pilot and her husband took me back to their house to make sure I had good directions out. When we went in, the place was exactly what you would expect- deer horns, hunting prints, typical.<br /><br />But here's the thing- it was an apartment. And not just any apartment, but one of those soul destroying Le Corbusier "machines for living" tower blocks. Amazing.<br /><br />Anyway, we drove up to the meet, again in Compiegne. Husband of pilot was the first person we saw, followed shortly by pilot herself. Her English was no better, but my French slightly improved.<br /><br />And she makes the BEST apple crumble I ever put into my mouth!<br /><br />Her car was full though, and there were three of us, but she found us someone to follow.<br /><br />We were made welcome, and we could see at a glance our guide would be excellent. In every hunt Ive seen in France, there's been a Niva.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjllE4Z7Jmmm9aisM-XdGd0pTNiiqD9CwTDzlR58CkBCQUzeITnw99LUZ2cXb2ValhWnthaQUFHCab36mtPCce-0EuM_XsaFZmptdSEzRBDGJW0Xq3bUNq0mx-v9A1EVKyOoH0/s1600-h/13549_1162976718557_1352027289_1707421_5272059_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415527179633118642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjllE4Z7Jmmm9aisM-XdGd0pTNiiqD9CwTDzlR58CkBCQUzeITnw99LUZ2cXb2ValhWnthaQUFHCab36mtPCce-0EuM_XsaFZmptdSEzRBDGJW0Xq3bUNq0mx-v9A1EVKyOoH0/s400/13549_1162976718557_1352027289_1707421_5272059_n.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><br />And that Niva has been there, right far more often than wrong. So, with a cry of Cherchez La Niva, we moved off.<br /><br />They were slow to find. Lots of busy roads caused the typical problems.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-YbzJKM5JzrqvjX9nfaBQWVscJXTfwh7S5RjQKTQbscCwgWm_ZWzMJtYg4bvdkW9PtyBMckw9Gio7_mDZqren5OZxGfNbfdUGGvw7GjruS6eVG0QnSNXwnfz2g6Xj7J3Fy-Q/s1600-h/13549_1166865175766_1352027289_1716118_829076_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415527874431207666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-YbzJKM5JzrqvjX9nfaBQWVscJXTfwh7S5RjQKTQbscCwgWm_ZWzMJtYg4bvdkW9PtyBMckw9Gio7_mDZqren5OZxGfNbfdUGGvw7GjruS6eVG0QnSNXwnfz2g6Xj7J3Fy-Q/s400/13549_1166865175766_1352027289_1716118_829076_n.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Early on, a large stag ran out of the forest right in front of us. Hounds were not hunting him, but he did not want to wait to see if they were. He was alone, which is odd.<br /><br />I am sure he said, “You women wait here, I am just going out to get bread for breakfast. I will be right back.”<br /><br />When hounds did find the deer, they stuck. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp4mNzJe-yvYpfU1Laqy_4j8OThPKk1whYo8ujOu7mYm-mrfyyKNcAvtfYuGetHLbt-Ck3e7pxwMQgKZq49HxKYdHlc4-jO9ZORjkNlUaH8TkdLpLh0Ew3h30iVmPRnMywHSg/s1600-h/13549_1162976558553_1352027289_1707417_6390712_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415528373977447474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp4mNzJe-yvYpfU1Laqy_4j8OThPKk1whYo8ujOu7mYm-mrfyyKNcAvtfYuGetHLbt-Ck3e7pxwMQgKZq49HxKYdHlc4-jO9ZORjkNlUaH8TkdLpLh0Ew3h30iVmPRnMywHSg/s400/13549_1162976558553_1352027289_1707417_6390712_n.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5CAEIDdQNJ398VovfQNYFksSnqF-uI7nfDuXZ9vz9IcCBNpzU82rfwowpfNzB_IcOemgLBULnvK848pxghvC5I1PaYPM6qNNHVMzCvZML7hE4YM0nFUQrVdRfFg1i9uJio0/s1600-h/13549_1162976518552_1352027289_1707416_4460300_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415528365652314690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5CAEIDdQNJ398VovfQNYFksSnqF-uI7nfDuXZ9vz9IcCBNpzU82rfwowpfNzB_IcOemgLBULnvK848pxghvC5I1PaYPM6qNNHVMzCvZML7hE4YM0nFUQrVdRfFg1i9uJio0/s400/13549_1162976518552_1352027289_1707416_4460300_n.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The chase was in wide loops, covering a large area, but did not go far away from where we found. The hounds’ music was clear in the cold air. I think scent was not good, but the hounds worked hard. People were keen to get to the next viewing spot. Well I remember myself like this, "No, boss, he really needs to go out...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizdn8uQXiDp7jYqRcnnDz6LqmKTIUN_YKWv_PZFjTzwPeCBSXos-2EH1FKUMol2BSRH7gTi9PtKYsT-DRgwVSyWvq6lqWXHqrGVr_ij7BSAAIuUBFLG09-Z6STd2EsoBmCy4U/s1600-h/13549_1162976598554_1352027289_1707418_1686623_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415530781483851330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizdn8uQXiDp7jYqRcnnDz6LqmKTIUN_YKWv_PZFjTzwPeCBSXos-2EH1FKUMol2BSRH7gTi9PtKYsT-DRgwVSyWvq6lqWXHqrGVr_ij7BSAAIuUBFLG09-Z6STd2EsoBmCy4U/s400/13549_1162976598554_1352027289_1707418_1686623_n.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Eventually they ran him down.<br /><br />Back to the meet. Some of the hounds were patient...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwRK6fkCn7JNL9qF0t4VMtRQOnzHCtuCTVi-FOYXcqsNsvSuon71-YdSL2BmYDn_VhP8A_RT9KsCvn20duhYdST8jG2RJivu1xAXwjPVKHSk_BF6P2izaPimS1TUf3mHcZFGs/s1600-h/13549_1162976878561_1352027289_1707425_1268163_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415529226037031042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwRK6fkCn7JNL9qF0t4VMtRQOnzHCtuCTVi-FOYXcqsNsvSuon71-YdSL2BmYDn_VhP8A_RT9KsCvn20duhYdST8jG2RJivu1xAXwjPVKHSk_BF6P2izaPimS1TUf3mHcZFGs/s400/13549_1162976878561_1352027289_1707425_1268163_n.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBkVqx434TLDT0e20v1FiS9I_RuKF6py-FR4GLxQxGr-wG57fRyBMfszVWALCBdJTyE96bTmuDu2BzbwKpCXINyjMY73dNeqyAo2pWhbhaGwHt8RvSHCOB8Vrt6cpvSzhCzBQ/s1600-h/13549_1162976798559_1352027289_1707423_2020412_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415529217020561074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBkVqx434TLDT0e20v1FiS9I_RuKF6py-FR4GLxQxGr-wG57fRyBMfszVWALCBdJTyE96bTmuDu2BzbwKpCXINyjMY73dNeqyAo2pWhbhaGwHt8RvSHCOB8Vrt6cpvSzhCzBQ/s400/13549_1162976798559_1352027289_1707423_2020412_n.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWZkljr_lSNvlPS0XpSwErOcHtk8pGtHbkNudeJenXhaSeZ6xoRtI4Gea5kNVCICnw5PhElkWzrx1CmgulqIObtoktAE54es1EReXhgsCoE0J_Y3TlkuOmtkMPQ44-JO832ec/s1600-h/13549_1162976758558_1352027289_1707422_7119600_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415529219868369986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWZkljr_lSNvlPS0XpSwErOcHtk8pGtHbkNudeJenXhaSeZ6xoRtI4Gea5kNVCICnw5PhElkWzrx1CmgulqIObtoktAE54es1EReXhgsCoE0J_Y3TlkuOmtkMPQ44-JO832ec/s400/13549_1162976758558_1352027289_1707422_7119600_n.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />Some more focussed.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBRxzzLS2MokvRwjv-zQfHxcA44UzLYwWlKn0LMOs_9JNwgDW1hrBxvkFqvVwP0u7QOzULpvxmssAmu952xjsEUbFZOhpzYT8ZgdFuNRCILH_KRf-nLT0X8loVc_8jklMRPC4/s1600-h/13549_1162976838560_1352027289_1707424_8071824_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415529590605652226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBRxzzLS2MokvRwjv-zQfHxcA44UzLYwWlKn0LMOs_9JNwgDW1hrBxvkFqvVwP0u7QOzULpvxmssAmu952xjsEUbFZOhpzYT8ZgdFuNRCILH_KRf-nLT0X8loVc_8jklMRPC4/s400/13549_1162976838560_1352027289_1707424_8071824_n.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><br />After the curee, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4sSr5B2RCokjcYs8PioZ3ADssQ9zNu7nbXsauQxUrGAyTvpRpNy6XyCiScKF2qWyefvzmC-aWiP8hUWJE29CukIPY6IK_X6fpqDbFqX9HMOs9Zvdv_H_kXBslIP0X4xD9gSI/s1600-h/13549_1162976918562_1352027289_1707426_4183381_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415529898895084754" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4sSr5B2RCokjcYs8PioZ3ADssQ9zNu7nbXsauQxUrGAyTvpRpNy6XyCiScKF2qWyefvzmC-aWiP8hUWJE29CukIPY6IK_X6fpqDbFqX9HMOs9Zvdv_H_kXBslIP0X4xD9gSI/s400/13549_1162976918562_1352027289_1707426_4183381_n.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />the humans had their own <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-q6jqVLQHqiQotuK4NV65DoHW-ypwuUbawtfIbP7k5DgquPXD5vvdQi0lMZCmdqpSFLmhhutecDZGORIdg17AAuvnVQJkCIdytEPHD2bbBCR8ISOh-ZoXwypT4zWfOhg6ZIk/s1600-h/13549_1162976958563_1352027289_1707427_7693693_n.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415530361314838834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-q6jqVLQHqiQotuK4NV65DoHW-ypwuUbawtfIbP7k5DgquPXD5vvdQi0lMZCmdqpSFLmhhutecDZGORIdg17AAuvnVQJkCIdytEPHD2bbBCR8ISOh-ZoXwypT4zWfOhg6ZIk/s400/13549_1162976958563_1352027289_1707427_7693693_n.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><br />with food and wine by the fire. No one bit anyone, at least not that I could see. I met two people who had hunted coyotes in the U. S., with the same pack but some 15 years apart. Small world!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-60226500611472256312023-02-14T14:11:00.003-05:002023-02-14T22:48:06.559-05:00That day again...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHrVDPhixEIGV8mC3VJ35PbZrVq_eE4hGzyecOcmJmtsdPuycby6X_of3i80iCIGv6D8CIOV9il_D6HQe9aWE8Y0WAtgMiPbHgudWTKQftqjEBMBSfMtWIoYUpiODmEAcUud1ECihGenH4lM_gDII2uTxQwAaD_xSSGCsD7cAISD26MI/s894/herouard009302274_5eln-1%20copy.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="669" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHrVDPhixEIGV8mC3VJ35PbZrVq_eE4hGzyecOcmJmtsdPuycby6X_of3i80iCIGv6D8CIOV9il_D6HQe9aWE8Y0WAtgMiPbHgudWTKQftqjEBMBSfMtWIoYUpiODmEAcUud1ECihGenH4lM_gDII2uTxQwAaD_xSSGCsD7cAISD26MI/s320/herouard009302274_5eln-1%20copy.tiff" width="239" /></a></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-5850168392563439402022-06-17T14:39:00.000-04:002022-06-17T14:39:04.569-04:00Neologism, "global force rejection"-<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;">Global Force Rejection- the military and/or diplomatic ability to prevent or avoid the interference of foreign powers. A successful response to global force projection. <br /><br />"The United States has built a military force to engage in global force projection. All Afghanistan or China need is the ability to engage in global force rejection." </td><td style="text-align: center;"> </td><td style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">
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</p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At
5 Grove Road is a man with a knife who's about to stab his wife. We
know this, because he dialled 999 and told us so. After he stabs her,
he's going to stab his son, then his daughter. And then he's going to
kill the first cop who comes through the door. At the moment, that's
likely to be me. I am therefore waiting at a distance that cannot
possibly be misconstrued as coming through anything, waiting for units
with taser to arrive and electro-shock the man to his sense.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It's
Friday night in Blandmore, and while the man at Grove Road considers
his options, a thirteen-year-old robber fresh out of custody climbs the
stairs of a multi-storey car park and stands on the edge of the top
level waiting to be noticed.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There's
disorder brewing in the town centre. The 24hr newsagent has been
serving out of hours again and the teenagers are gathering outside it
and scuffling with each other. We've had five or six calls, but every
time we go down there the kids are "fine". The inspector is deciding
whether or not to shut the place down.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Three
miles from where I sit drumming my fingers on the dashboard of my
panda, a young wife deliberately writes out a final farewell to her
husband, leaves it on the doormat and goes out without her coat or
inhaler. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Finally
the armed unit arrives and 5 Grove Road is surrounded, insofar as one
officer can actually "surround" anything. Negotiators are called.
Tactical decisions are laid out on the table. Some will result in the
deaths of innocent people. Some will bring glory to a brave armed
officer. Almost all of them will result in PC Bloggs sitting alone in
the dark for a further nine hours.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At the car park, Kyle Rodgers gets bored of waiting to be noticed, and phones his mum to tell her he's about to jump.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In town, the kids start offering cannabis to passers-by.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
negotiators have Mr Kidson on the phone. They establish his basic
needs: the deaths of everyone he knows, followed by his own.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Three
miles away, a young husband comes home and begins a frantic search. He
calls the police, but without knowing whether his wife is "high" or
"medium" risk, the police aren't sure how quickly to attend. They set
off slowly and are diverted to a report of a teenager standing on the
edge of a multi-storey car park.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr Kidson decides that if he only had some cigarettes, he might not need to kill anyone. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
newsagent reports that two younger teenagers have just had their mobile
phones snatched outside. The inspector gets on the phone to the chief
inspector. If they shut down the newsagent, the press won't be good.
If more kids get robbed, the press won't be good. It's a toughie. The
inspector doesn't feel that there are enough police officers in
Blandmore on a Friday night. The chief inspector is adamant that
Something Is Being Done About It.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Hours pass. Laws are made and broken. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr
Kidson stops cooperating with the negotiators. Armed units sneak into
the house and taser him where he sits quietly in an armchair. He'd
fallen asleep mid-negotiation and his knife-hand dropped to the floor as
the armed officers entered, making them think he was about to slash
himself.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In
town, thirty teenagers slope off home and make plans to meet back there
the following night. The inspector gets to the scene with closure order
in hand, and wonders what all the fuss was about.</span><br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For another eight hours, officers plead with Kyle Rodgers to come down from the multi-storey. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">In
the meantime, somewhere by a river, a young wife slides off her shoes
and slips down the bank into the dark cold depths. She doesn't tread
water, and she sinks.</span><br /></div><p></p><p>https://pcbloggs.blogspot.com/search?q=treading+water</p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-90359693643069190842021-10-02T21:50:00.003-04:002021-10-02T21:50:29.946-04:00"Lessons in the Sky: Gratitude at 30,000 Feet"<p> </p><p>"My gratitude swelled at 30,000 feet. I counted my blessings, of which there are many.</p>
<p>I marveled at the tenacity of the human spirit. How we can go on
loving and living and soaring through the air, despite the scariest
turbulence and darkest storms."</p><p> <br /></p><p>https://www.awheelinthesky.com/lessons-in-the-air-gratitude/#comments</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-75787430993213939372020-10-30T14:26:00.001-04:002020-10-30T14:26:38.774-04:00No Longer The Gayest Lurchers EVAR !!!!!1! I know why antis get the hump...<br />
All of my loyal reader recalls the famous "Gayest Lurchers EVAR!!!1! day. Here is its sequel.<br /><br /><br /><br />This week end, out with the New Flat Hunt. A crisp, cool day with a clear sky that so often means a scentless day. Less than a dozen followers and staff. The secretary of my Home Hunt was riding, I think his first day here. I like these intimate little fields!<br /><br />Among the group were the Gayest Lurchers EVAR!!!1!. They were still in the same little truck/launcher, with their same explosive little owner/crew.<br /><br />I rode with a local farmer. As we pulled away from the meet I realised that my camera had been left behind, and told my pilot that we'd have a good day because there seems to be a relationship there.<br /><br />Hounds moved toward the first wood to draw. Before they could be leud in, out of the other end crept a coyote! No need to draw, our Huntsman carried them to the line and they were off, screaming.<br /><br />The coyote ran across plough and into the next covert, and hounds held on. Along through a big s curve shaped wood, and out the other side. He shed some pursuit in the process, passing two or three couple on to another coyote who smelled better to them and ran a different way out of this covert. He also shed all but two of the mounted field, who followed that smaller group.<br /><br />On over another field, then into another covert. Rinse, repeat. Typical of this country, he decided to run and did. Not straight though, and not really taking to open country. He seemed to think his salvation was in the twists and turns he could make in the woods, those crack-the-whip turns which slow hounds and stretch out the distance from his pursuers.<br /><br />It wasn't happening for him today though. Hounds stayed right on through every evasive twist and turn. <br /><br />We pulled up in a field as we saw him run into a V shaped covert. Here's a diagram:<br /> . <br />x < *-<br /> ,<br /><br />The < symbol represents the covert. We were at the comma, about 60 yards below the covert near the point. Mr. Coyote came in at the asterisk, followed by the hyphen marked hounds. The period? About 60 yards up, that was the location of the GLE!!!!!1!<br /><br />He was dragging. Hounds had been absolutely on him for twenty minutes or so, and you could see that he was not coping. He came out at the point of the covert, heading across an open field- toward the x on the diagram.<br /><br />He wasn't going to make it. His distress was plain to see. The field was a big one, rolling uphill. The next covert was three or four furlongs off. <br /><br />And hounds were screaming maybe 100 yards behind him. That undergrowth was barely slowing them down. <br /><br />He was going to lose his last race. <br /><br />A few years ago I was out with a pack of foxhounds in the south of England, riding with the Terrierman. They drew a small patch of rough ground, and from our vantage point we could see a fox in the middle of it. <br /><br />He waited too long to get a move on, and hounds chopped him. As we checked the ragged remains over for disease, my pilot muttered, "Sometimes I see why the antis get the hump." <br /><br />Me too. <br /><br />At this point, my eye was attracted to a flurry of activity at the GLE!!!!1! truck. <br /><br />Lock on, launch!<br /><br />Those hairy demons hit that coyote like a Predator strike and rolled him over. Absolutely classic.<br /><br />And up he jumped, whirling to face them, snapping defiance. As sight hounds will, the GLE!!!!1! stood there staring. "Oh noes! He's not running away! What do we do?"<br /><br />He snarled again and turned to leave, and the hounds hit him in a body. The end.<br /><br />This was, I think, only the second time this season these hounds had caught one. The Huntsman and staff were very pleased, as they should have been. On what was actually a poor scenting day, hounds had fairly and honestly run down a fit coyote. The lurchers' owner was ECSTATIC, she was jumping and yipping like a terrier being held back at a rat hole. I was afraid- no hopeful- she would run in to assist in the worry herself.<br /><br />Alas our Secretary and most of the mounted field missed it. <br /><br />And then off to find another one. Which they did, but just could not hold. 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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-52279939607352451982019-04-18T08:48:00.004-04:002019-04-18T08:48:42.557-04:00STOP MAKING THEM STARS!!!! <span data-offset-key="e2dp6-0-0"><span data-text="true">There is no better demonstration that media fame drives spectacle criminals than the news stories about the trash that tried to burn St. Patrick's cathedral. "That's my picture on the front page of the Post!" Which of course gives the worthless loser exactly what he wanted, and inspires the next one too. STOP MAKING THEM STARS!!!! </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-24565268538620581062019-02-14T09:59:00.002-05:002019-02-14T09:59:44.501-05:00That day again!<br />
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<span data-offset-key="dtpdo-0-0"><span data-text="true"> The 29th were a fighting regiment, staying on the Western Front right through the war. With a full strength of about a thousand soldiers, over 4300 men served in the battalion during the war. About 600 were killed and 1400 more were wounded, not good odds at all for the originals. </span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="kmu6-0-0"><span data-text="true"> Their battle honours are a list of awfulnesses- </span></span></div>
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<a class="_42a-" data-hover="tooltip" data-lynx-mode="hover" data-offset-key="d7vc1-0-0" data-tooltip-alignh="center" data-tooltip-content="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arras_%281917%29" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBattle_of_Arras_%25281917%2529&h=AT0oEBRtfuyFWSVEY7D13jNKbmoFO7oRWHqs5Kt6C2UmWNeDYHl5-wv0ThAMSPO8kfpXWG-gf8HEwtQ5jcs5zV0Xz3U9n2pXyDnuMOs0gNrv9JfUIRtzboCpVZPEVMQMMxZMLkOECpcZ0NE29oft-Ys" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span data-offset-key="d7vc1-0-0"><span data-text="true">ARRAS, 1917</span></span></a><span data-offset-key="d7vc1-1-0"><span data-text="true">, </span></span><a class="_42a-" data-hover="tooltip" data-lynx-mode="hover" data-offset-key="d7vc1-2-0" data-tooltip-alignh="center" data-tooltip-content="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arras_%281918%29" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBattle_of_Arras_%25281918%2529&h=AT0oEBRtfuyFWSVEY7D13jNKbmoFO7oRWHqs5Kt6C2UmWNeDYHl5-wv0ThAMSPO8kfpXWG-gf8HEwtQ5jcs5zV0Xz3U9n2pXyDnuMOs0gNrv9JfUIRtzboCpVZPEVMQMMxZMLkOECpcZ0NE29oft-Ys" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span data-offset-key="d7vc1-2-0"><span data-text="true">'18</span></span></a></div>
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Curtis Abbott’s watch. Undoubtedly he was carrying it at Rosieres, and a
hundred years ago today it began its journey to me from Rouen hospital.
Sometimes an object can take you places all by itself. Thank you, Mr.
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-75491447495884598272018-01-11T08:45:00.001-05:002018-01-11T08:51:54.102-05:00"Figuring" is Shell Shock Imitation...Apparently the New York Times thinks it IS <a href="https://www.barstoolsports.com/chicago/figuring-the-new-dance-style-which-proves-you-are-a-big-ole-white-weirdo/" target="_blank">hip 'n' cool to imitate the disabled</a>, as long as the disabled are <a href="https://www.barstoolsports.com/chicago/figuring-the-new-dance-style-which-proves-you-are-a-big-ole-white-weirdo/" target="_blank">dead soldiers</a>...<br />
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Jll9_EiyA<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-59244194993446959432018-01-04T12:07:00.000-05:002018-01-04T12:07:26.507-05:00Grr. <h4>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span data-offset-key="egvn3-0-0"><span data-text="true">n French first, because that's whom it's for:</span></span></span></h4>
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<span data-offset-key="7sgk-0-0"><span data-text="true">La première fois que je suis allé en France pour chasser, je me suis montré.</span></span></h4>
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<span data-offset-key="b7s1g-0-0"><span data-text="true">Puis, et dans la douzaine de saisons depuis, les chasseurs de Compiègne-Laigue-Retz-Villers-St. Les forêts de Gobain m'ont fait, une personne qui ne parle même pas la langue, bienvenue. Ils sont tissés dans les jours de chasse qui sont les points forts de ma vie.</span></span></h4>
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<span data-offset-key="e6avf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Maintenant, les Antis ont choisi d'attaquer là-bas. Pas seulement des gens comme moi, mais des gens dont j'ai secoué les mains cinquante fois. Je connais leurs noms et ils connaissent les miens. Je les reconnais dans les images comme je le ferais lors d'une rencontre. C'est exaspérant. Si cela pouvait faire du bien, je me dirigerais vers un travail de contre-insurrection.</span></span></h4>
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<span data-offset-key="bicp0-0-0"><span data-text="true">Mais ce ne serait pas le cas. J'aimerais que nous puissions faire quelque chose pour aider. Il n'y a pas vraiment de défis à relever. Au moins, nous pouvons dire à nos amis que nous sommes derrière eux, et que nous voyons et comprenons les assauts auxquels ils sont confrontés. Garder une meute de chiens en marche est un véritable exploit, et c'est encore plus difficile avec ce genre de choses.</span></span></h4>
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<span data-offset-key="6e12u-0-0"><span data-text="true">Alors. Ils ne passentont pas.</span></span></h4>
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<span data-offset-key="be92a-0-0"><span data-text="true">Et comme d'habitude, je recommande la chasse en France à tous mes amis américains et britanniques. Et aussi, comme d'habitude, d'inviter tous mes amis français à venir chasser au Tennessee et en Alabama, où il n'y a pas d'écologiste à voir.</span></span></h4>
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<span data-offset-key="d0749-0-0"><span data-text="true">Then, and in the dozen seasons since, hunting people in the Compiegne-Laigue-Retz-Villers-St. Gobain forests have made me, a nobody who doesn't even speak the language, welcome. They are woven into hunting days that are highlights of my life. </span></span></h4>
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<span data-offset-key="6l2el-0-0"><span data-text="true">Now the Antis have chosen to attack there. Not just people like me, but people whose hands I have shaken fifty times. I know their names and they know mine. I recognise them in the pictures as I would at a meet. It is infuriating. If it would do any good, I'd head over for some counterinsurgency work.</span></span></h4>
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<span data-offset-key="cossb-0-0"><span data-text="true">But it wouldn't. I wish there were something we could do to help. There isn't really, the challenges just have to be met. At least we can tell our friends that we are behind them, and that we see and understand the assaults they face. Keeping a pack of hounds running is a real accomplishment, and it's made even harder with this stuff.</span></span></h4>
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<span data-offset-key="aq96v-0-0"><span data-text="true">So, hang on. Ils ne passeront pas. </span></span></h4>
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<span data-offset-key="5da3f-0-0"><span data-text="true">And as usual, I recommend hunting in France to all my American and British friends. And also as usual, extend to all my French friends an invitation to come hunt in Tennessee and Alabama, where there is not an ecologiste to be seen. </span></span></h4>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-77693594509245763332017-02-04T11:51:00.002-05:002017-02-04T11:51:35.517-05:00is hunting fun?<div style="text-align: left;">
Another A. P. Herbert Misleading Case...<br />
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Mr. Justice Plush gave judgement to-day in the Harkaway Hunt case.</div>
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<i>His Lordship: </i>These proceedings have
been instituted by the Crown against the Master of the Harkaway
Foxhounds to secure a declaration that he is liable for Entertainments
Duty. <br />
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This tax is a singular product of our own times. Our fathers
regarded the entertainment of the citizen as a lawful and desirable
business, and the Roman emperors went so far as to provide free
entertainment for the people, ranking this in importance next to the
provision of bread. But the King-Emperor of our realm has in his wisdom
seen fit not only to withhold all assistance from the purveyors of
public entertainment, but to levy a heavy duty upon them. This tax is
so heavy as to partake almost of the nature of a fine, only exceeded in
severity by the duties on the sale of spirituous liquors; and there is
reason to suppose that in the mind of the Grown the two things are
coupled together as harmful practices deserving of discouragement.</div>
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The tax is not a tax upon profits but upon
gross receipts; and it has been proved in evidence before me that a
theatre which is not attracting the public for the reason that it is
presenting one of the plays of the national poet, Shakespeare, and is
therefore making a weekly loss, will still be required to render a
weekly payment to the Exchequer amounting, roughly, to twenty per cent
of its takings. It is within the knowledge of the Court that the
bookmakers of our land were recently required to pay a duty of only two
per cent on their receipts; but so energetic was the objection of these
valuable citizens to a tax which had no relation to profits that it was
removed. The Entertainment Tax ranges from sixteen to nearly twenty per
cent, varying with the prices charged for the entertainment. The impost
is a strange one in an age which announces as its chief objective a
general increase of leisure and recreation, and in so far as
entertainment is founded upon literature and the arts the tax may be
said to be a tax upon education and the mind.<sup>1</sup></div>
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These considerations have a relevance, which
may not immediately appear, to the question which the Court is called
upon to answer: <i>Is fox-hunting an entertainment?</i></div>
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The defendant, Lord Leather,
is Master of the Hark-away Foxhounds, and he has in the box given us a
clear and straightforward account of his proceedings, which I am
prepared to accept as the truth. As I understand him, the country
district in which he resides is subject to the ravages of a cruel and
voracious quadruped of the genus <i>Vulpes alopex, </i>commonly known as
fox. This creature is of a carnivorous habit and preys upon the poultry
of the peasants and farmers, causing much distress of mind and monetary
loss; it is cunning, swift, difficult to catch, and a prolific breeder.
The defendant, therefore, a public-spirited man, has taken certain
measures to rid the district of this pest and so to secure the
livelihood of the poultry-keeper and the food-supply of the country. He
has purchased a number of specially selected dogs and has trained them
to pursue the fox across country, guided only by their sense of smell,
which is exceptional. He has also organized a band of ladies and
gentlemen who, like himself, have the interests of British agriculture
at heart and are willing to assist him at whatever personal risk.
These helpers, loosely called the ‘Hunt’, are mounted on horses, and by
their mobility and knowledge of woodcraft render invaluable aid in the
intimidation, apprehension, and destruction of the fox. Many of them,
the defendant has told us, are willing to give up a day’s work in the
metropolis and make a special journey to the country in order to play a
small part in one of his concerted operations against the common enemy.
These operations are conducted three or four times in a week with
tireless vigour all through the winter months; but even so it has been
found impossible to exterminate the pest. It was not made quite clear
to me why the defendant relaxes his efforts in the summertime, but I
understand that once again he has been guided by his solicitude for the
farmer, whose standing crops might suffer damage from the exertions of
the defendant’s dogs. The fact remains that during those months the
fox is unmolested, as free to multiply his own species as he is to
diminish that of the hen. Indeed, the witness Turmut, a farmer, some
of whose irrelevant and noisy evidence I ought not perhaps to have
admitted, maintained with some heat and no little ingratitude that the
defendant and his helpers would do better to conduct their campaign
against the fox with rifles and shot-guns both in winter and in
summer. But I was assured by the defendant that for technical reasons
this is wholly impracticable.</div>
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The procedure of a hunt, as I understand it, is as follows: The fox
is alarmed and dislodged from its lair by the loud barking of the dogs
and the playing of musical instruments. Should the quarry escape into
the open country, as, to the chagrin of the hunt, it often does, the
dogs at once give chase, and the horsemen follow the dogs; other
helpers follow in motor-cars along the nearest road, and many of the
poor follow on foot. Now, it is the case for the Crown that all these
persons, although as practical men and women they genuinely desire to
rid the neighbourhood of a destructive animal, find a keen enjoyment in
the process of destruction for its own sake. No one has ventured to
question the single-minded purpose of the defendant, but it is argued
that what for him was a crusade has become for his helpers an enjoyable
spectacle, excitement, gratification—in a word, an entertainment. The
witness Turmut strongly supported this view; and he remarked with some
force that the number of the defendant’s helpers is in fact far in
excess of what is practically necessary or useful, and that it is still
increasing. He went so far as to say that many of the helpers did more
*harm than good, but that portion of his evidence did not favourably
impress me.<br />
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If the contention of the Crown be correct, there is here a
development not without parallel in other departments of the national
life. The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.²He
does not play cricket because it is a good game, but because it creates
good citizens. He does not love motor-races for their own sake, but for
the advantages they bring to the engineering firms of his country. And
it is common knowledge that the devoted persons who conduct and
regularly attend horse-races do not do so because they like it, but for
the benefit of the breed of the English horse. But their operations have
attracted many thousands of citizens who do not conceal that they visit
horse-races for their own selfish pleasure. Accordingly the State
imposes an Entertainment Tax upon their tickets of admission; and a
member of the Jockey Club would not be excused on the ground that his
purpose at Epsom was to watch and foster the English thoroughbred.<br />
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The relevance of my observations on theatres will now begin to
appear. The defendant has admitted in evidence that he collects an
annual tribute from his helpers, from farmers, and others, who
habitually attend his operations and enjoy the spectacle of his dogs and
horses at their pious labours. These contributions are necessary for
the maintenance of the dogs and their keepers and for other purposes;
and they are willingly given by the ladies and gentlemen of the Hunt in
return for the pleasure or entertainment which the defendant has
provided. The Crown say therefore that he is liable to pay Entertainment
Duty on the sums so received, at the statutory rates, that is to say,
two shillings on the first fifteen shillings and sixpence for every five
shillings or part of five shillings over fifteen shillings.<br />
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The defendant’s answer is that the fox may be said to enjoy the hunt
for its own sake—and even the dogs and horses—but that his human
followers are governed only by philanthropic motives, and that his
takings are devoted to a philanthropic purpose, the destruction of
vermin and the preservation of poultry, and should therefore be exempt
under the Act. Unfortunately for him this plea is disposed of by the
precedents of the racecourse and the theatre. There is a school of
thought which still holds that the plays of Shakespeare have an
educative and uplifting character; but even if that could be established
it would not exempt the rash man who presented them from handing over
nearly a fifth of his takings to the Exchequer. In my judgment the
contention of the Crown has substance.<br />
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I hold that fox-hunting is an
entertainment; that the moneys received by the defendant from the
hunters and farmers are by way of payment for that entertainment, and
that it must, like other entertainments, make its proper contribution to
the public revenues according to law. Lord Leather is, as it were, the
manager of a theatre: the Hunt are his audience and the dogs his actors.
If, after remunerating his actors and paying the duty, he is out of
pocket, it cannot be helped. It is a dangerous thing to give pleasure to
the people. He has been Master for sixteen years, and he must pay duty
not only in respect of the current year but for every preceding year
since the institution of the duty by the Act of 1916. It has been urged
before me that this will be a hardship; but, as Lord Mildew said in <i>Mope v. The Llandudno Sewage Commissioners, ‘Nullum tempus occunit regi’</i>—or ‘Time is no object to a Government Department.’ Costs to the Crown, <i>paripassu.</i><br />
<sup>1</sup> And sec page 247 for a full examination of the <b>tax, </b><i>per </i>Wool, J.<br />
² The same thought has been well expressed by the poet Herbert:<br />
‘No Englishman—’tis one of Nature’s laws— Enjoys himself except for some good cause.”Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-69909783742204493712017-01-06T09:07:00.000-05:002017-01-06T09:07:20.999-05:00What is Education? Guest Column by Alan Patrick Herbert<h3>
I like A.P. Herbert's Misleading Cases, and this is one of my favourites-</h3>
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WHAT IS EDUCATION?</h3>
The Court of Criminal Appeal gave judgement in this case today, which
arose out of the conviction of a canal boatman for failing to send his
children to school.<br />
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<strong> The Lord Chief Justice</strong>: This case is simple but
important. The appellant, Samuel Bloggs, is a boatman owning and
navigating a pair of monkey-boats (erroneously described by Sir Ethelred
Rutt as barges) on the Grand Union Canal. Mr. Bloggs is a married man
and has three children, who reside with their father and mother on the
two boats, which are loyally entitled George and Mary. Mr. Bloggs was
summoned by the Education Authority of the County of Middlesex for
failing to send his children to a school for the purpose of receiving
elementary education, and he was committed.<span id="more-7496"></span><br />
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It has to be remembered that, if the prosecution is successful, the
defendant’s children will be educated free of charge. The prosecutors,
therefore, are wantonly seeking to increase the public expenditure. It
is difficult to see why, in the present state of the national finances,
the children of a class already too prolific should be educated for
nothing. If a man can afford beer, tobacco, and entertainment, and a
weekly contribution to a trade union, he can to contribute some small
sum weekly towards the education of his children. The State at one time
could well afford to educate them without the assistance of the parents,
but it can well afford it no longer, and therefore we must look <span style="color: black;">with particular suspicion on any attempt to increase the burdens of the State in this respect.</span><br />
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In the course of his trade or occupation as a carrier of goods or raw
materials, Mr Bloggs travels continuously up and down the canal between
Birmingham and London; and he put forward the reasonable defence that
it was difficult for him to send children who were constantly in motion
to a. school which remained stationary. He also questioned the right of a
Middlesex authority to intervene in the private affairs of a family
which spent more than half the week in Warwickshire and other counties.
But a defence founded on nothing more than reason and practicability was
easily brushed aside by a public authority, and Mr Bloggs was driven to
that second line of defence which has perplexed and divided the Courts
below.<br />
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‘What is Education?’ says Mr Bloggs. But it is not necessary for this
Court to add one more to the many answers which learned men have made
to that question. The question for us is, What is meant by Elementary
Education in the Education Acts of this We find, after careful research,
that the expression ‘elementary education’ is nowhere defined in that
long series of statutes. The omission is wise, for the notion of what
constitutes elementary education must obviously vary in every age,
county, and class. But, though Parliament has been discreetly vague, the
Court in this case is compelled to be definite.<br />
<br />
The respondents ask us
to say that by elementary education is meant education in those
elementary subjects which are ordinarily taught to our defenceless
children, as reading, writing, and arithmetic. But it has been argued
for Mr Bloggs that the words mean education in the elements or first
parts to be learned of any subject which may be useful or necessary to
the good citizen in that state of life for which he is destined by
Providence, heredity, or inclination.<br />
<br />
Now, the children of Mr Bloggs, though they have not attended a
school, have already acquired the rudiments of their father’s and
grandfather’s trade, that is to say, the handling of boats and the
navigation of canals; they are able in an emergency to steer a boat into
a lock, to open or close a lock-gate, to make bowlines and reef-knots,
clove hitches and fisherman’s bends, and to do many other useful and
difficult things which the members of this Court, we admit, are unable
to do. Further, it is common ground that the children are healthy,
sufficiently fed, well-behaved, and attached to the life of the water,
as their forebears for three generations have been. Mr and Mrs Bloggs
are instructing them slowly in reading and writing, and even, with
reluctance, it seems, in arithmetic.<br />
<br />
It is not contended that in these
subjects they are so far advanced as children of the same age who attend
the public elementary schools; on the other hand, the evidence is that
those children are quite unable to make a bowline-on-a-bight, to
distinguish between the port and. starboard sides1 of a. vessel, or to
steer the smallest boat into the largest lock without disaster, while in
health, discipline, manners, and practical intelligence they are
inferior to the little Bloggs.<br />
<br />
Standardized themselves according to a
single pattern, they conceive it their right and duty to take offensive
notice of any person who seems to them to be unusual, a man with long
hair or a woman with a short skirt. The Bloggs children do not shout
‘Oy!’ at passing strangers, as do increasingly the ‘educated’ children
of the shore; they are more courteous to persons and more respectful of
property. They do not commit what are called, it appears,
‘runaway-rings’, steal flowers from window-boxes or apples from trees.
They would scorn to spit from bridges or throw stones at the mariner
passing below. They exhibit the same good manners and gentle bearing as
their parents; and since they are not in constant attendance at the
cinema their speech is uncorrupted by the slang or accent of Chicago.<br />
<br />
Now, Mr. Herbert Spencer said that if we give our pupils the
knowledge which ‘is of most worth’ – that is, the knowledge which has
indispensable practical value in regulating the affairs of life – we
shall at the same time give them the best possible mental training. And
Mr. Bloggs (who, by the way, can read but not write) is an unconscious
follower of Mr. Spencer. It may well be that our education authorities
exaggerate the value of reading, writing, and arithmetic as aids to
citizenship. In these days a person unable to read would be spared the
experience of much that is vulgar, depressing, or injurious; a person
unable to write will commit neither forgery nor free verse; and a person
not well grounded in arithmetic will not engage in betting,
speculation, the defalcation of accounts, or avaricious dreams of
material wealth. At any rate it will not be denied that the spread of
these three studies has had many evil and dubious consequences.<br />
<br />
But the
practice of navigation is at the bottom of our national prosperity and
safety, and has played no small part in the formation of the British
character. The charge against Mr. Bloggs is that he has given his
children an elementary training in the arts of this noble profession to
the neglect of certain formal studies which are not essential to a
virtuous, God-fearing, and useful life in the calling of their
forefathers.<br />
<br />
They are unable, it is true, to read fluently the accounts
of murder trials in the Sunday newspapers; they cannot write their names
upon the walls of lavatories and public monuments; they do not
understand the calculation of odds or the fluctuations of stocks and
shares. But these acquirements may come in time.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, as day by
day they travel through the country, the skies and of England are their
books, their excellent parents are their newspapers, and the practical
problems of navigation are their arithmetic. As for writing, there is
too much writing in our country as it is; and it is a satisfaction to
contemplate three children who in all probability will never become
novelists nor write for the papers.<br />
<br />
It cannot have been the intention of Nature, which fashions the
flowers and fishes in such variety, that Men, the noblest works of
Nature, should be all exactly alike, shaped in the same mould and fitted
to the same ends. But that, it appears, is the principle, which has
prompted this prosecution.<br />
<br />
What is in the mind of the Education
Authority, however, is no great matter. The short point in this case is
that Parliament does not support them. Parliament has nowhere said that
the first essentials of an elementary education are reading, writing,
and arithmetic. I hold therefore that Mr. Bloggs, who is carefully,
lovingly, and without cost to the State equipping his children for a
useful career, is providing for them an ‘elementary education’ within
the meaning of the Acts. He was wrongfully convicted, and the appeal
must be allowed. Costs to Mr. Bloggs, and a lump sum of one hundred
pounds by way of compensation for his time and trouble.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-51759636469224194532017-01-05T09:14:00.000-05:002017-02-04T10:42:11.777-05:00French Draft....<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_9">
My draft was of course edited for style and length,
as is perfectly correct in a magazine. For those who might prefer my
own, um, breezy style, here's the original. Links are to to <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=713670572" href="https://www.facebook.com/sarahfarnsworth1986">Sarah Farnsworth</a>'s better-than-reality pictures.<br />
Where can you look around yourself and see carbon fiber bicycles,
tricorne hats, dogs with names like Aphrodite, trotting horses, gilded
swords, thoroughbreds, and huge cameras, all being used at the same
time?<br />
Any Saturday out with a pack of staghounds in France!<br />
Last fall your correspondent had the chance to introduce some American
friends to the chasse à courre - French mounted hunting. Experienced
hunters in the U. S. and in England, they found out that across la
manche it's the same- and different. We were lucky enough to have
magnificent sporting photographer Sarah Farnsworth along, so the
pictures are almost better than real life! A spectacle that has been
refined since medieval times, it's the ancestor of English hunting. And
like all our ancestors, the same, and different.<br />
To start with,
French hunting is done in large forests, which have been carefully
maintained for centuries. The woods are organized- they are cut with
two-horse-wide pathways in a pattern that resembles a pattern of spider
webs. You always know where you are- every intersection has a name, and
in this forest, a signpost telling you which clearing is which way. <br />
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Our meet, at the Croix Bacquet in the forest of Villiers Cotteret, was
with the Villiers Cotteret stag hounds. The red deer, which looks
somewhat like an American elk but slightly smaller is generally
considered the greatest game. But don't say that too loudly around the
followers of the scores of packs that chase the wily roebuck, tough
boar, boar, speedy hare, or clever fox- à chacun son goût.<br />
Just
like a North American day with hounds, people show up in ones and twos
at the designated clearing. The first thing a hunter from the U. S.
notices is that mounted hunters are distinctly a minority, although the
etiquette is that they have the right of way. Although hunting started
as as an aristocratic pastime, these days all sorts of people come out. <br />
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On foot, in vehicles, on bicycles, it's an occasion for everybody who loves the chase. <br />
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This man on his very well muffled scooter is a regular.<br />
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Like hunters in the states, everyone is smiling. And the first thing
you do when you get there is to shake hands, or share a kiss on the
cheek, with everyone there! The meet-and greet goes on for a while,
snacks come out, and the tufters straggle up. Just a coincidence.<br />
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The tufters are hounds that went out with their handlers at dawn, looking for signs of big red deer stags. <br />
Patrice, who's providing our livery for the day, always has wonderful
horses. Well turned out, mannerly, and hard as nails. Ex race horses are
a great source for hunter prospects everywhere. And since trotting
tracks are big business there, more than half the horses you'll see in
the woods had a first career pulling a sulky around. It works- as you'll
see, endurance matters more than sprinting. <br />
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And here come the hounds! They have their very own minivan- <br />
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"We want to hunt!"<br />
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Out they get, and everyone gathers up for the rapport. <br />
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The tufters line up, and each one tells the Master what he's found- or
not found- in the solitary misty dawn. It's an example of how French
hunting is more crowd sourced than ours is. Those volunteer tufters who
think they have a good stag try to "sell" what they've found to the
Master, and there's plenty of banter. Eventually he decides where he
will draw, and puts us all in the picture. He also warns us about
possible problems, where things are going on in the forest, and so
forth. <br />
So, to horse/truck/bike/track shoes!<br />
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This is where another French difference starts- the music! <br />
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The more experienced hunters and some of the professional staff carry
full sized, valveless French horns wrapped around themselves. <br />
Everything that happens during a hunt has a specific tune to go with it,
and "Let's go" is first. All through the day, you'll hear those horns
telling you what's going on. Remember this is the woods, so unless
you're right there, you can't see the action. And once hounds get
rolling, they are tough to spot by ear as well. The cry echoes back and
fort among the trees, and sometimes it sounds as though you are right in
the middle of the action. You might be, too! But If you know the
tunes, the horns will let you know if they have found, what kind of
stag it is, when it crosses a road or goes along it, goes to water, or
gets away out of the forest. <br />
The move off is part of the
pageantry. The hunt's fanfare- each one has one- is blown, along with
fanfares from packs who have visiting members, personal signature music,
and probably what seems like a brassy version of "Woo Hoo!"!<br />
And
by the way, another difference (and one of my favorites) from
anglophone hunting- NO electronic communication. They'll send you home
if you use a cell telephone to hunt, and I think a radio might get you a
head shaving. If you can't keep up or you get lost, you miss out. Eyes
and ears were good enough for Charlemagne, they are good enough for us.<br />
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The dress, too, is different from ours. Gold braid, long coats,
and swords add panache and draw the eye in a way our somber livery
doesn't. And that's another part of the hunt as spectacle- each item of
clothing transmits information about who the wearer is in the scheme of
the day. <br />
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We're off! The huntsman heads for the designated section of forest
and casts his hounds out to search. Drawing for game is the same in
Virginia or the Vendee. But hounds may pursue only a mature stag. So
when hounds speak, all eyes are out to see the game- everyone is looking
along the allees to see it cross. <br />
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Even the horses know what's what.<br />
And another difference appears- there's no organized, controlled field
as is typical west of Finisterre. You're on your own here- everyone
goes where he thinks he'll have the best chance to spot the quarry and
hounds. It would make most English and American huntsmen crazy. Thirty
horses, twenty cars, a hundred foot and bicycle people all over the
place. I love it myself, but it will look like seven train wrecks the
first time you see it.<br />
And it works, I think, because of
something all the visitors remark on. Once things start, the hounds
seem to be the full focus of everyone out there. It's a truism that some
people ride to hunt and some hunt to ride, but here the first seem
almost absent. We found that everyone was listening, watching, trying to
figure out what was going on and what might happen next.<br />
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And that continued all day. Just as anywhere, people had a snack and a
visit, but their eyes and ears were always cocked to the hounds and the
forest.<br />
Once hounds found, the stag put on his skates and ran.
Like a coyote back home, they have superior speed and strength, intimate
territorial knowledge, and they evade for a living.<br />
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So there's going to be an hour or two of find him lose him, draw again. <br />
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Sarah will do whatever it takes to get the shot, you can't see it but
she climbed a pretty good little bank to get this one, and took a pretty
good tumble coming down quickly! You don't have to be on a horse to get
hurt doing this.<br />
And here we saw more of that crowdsourcing. The
Master and the Huntsman weren't shy about asking what we'd seen, or
what we hadn't seen. After a while, this whipper-in saw the hunted stag-
lucky us, we were right there- and we were off again!<br />
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Injured hounds have priority, just like at home.<br />
Horses were getting tired, and people too. Another French difference-
no alcohol out hunting! I know, it sounds crazy in the land of
champagne- and actually on the border of Champagne itself- but it's
true.<br />
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The Americans were still in it! <br />
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Cary McWhorter and Crispin Menefee weren't about to go home. <br />
A tai-o, and we were off again! This find-lose-find took much longer on
this day than usual, there was speculation that the stag was a visitor
because he did not seem to run typical routes. We got to see lots of
forest! As you'd expect, to a visitor one wall of oak trees looks much
like another, but our experienced French hosts knew the place
intimately. <br />
And then, away! I must confess that your humble
correspondent made the mistake of taking a chance on where he thought
the stag would go. I have got to quit that thinking stuff, it hurts my
head. I was wrong, and we were thrown well out.<br />
It turns out that
the stag left the forest! They do that now and again, and once they do,
it's tough to catch them up again. Although I've seen this pack do it
they didn't today. Shadows were lengthening, there were only a few
people still up (including the Americans!), so they gave him best.<br />
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I admit that I like this part of the hunting day a lot. <br />
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It's a pleasure to see piled up hounds, tired horses, making sure
everyone is accounted for, and loading that last one who's just too
tired to take another step. <br />
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The universal end of the hunting day.<br />
One of us diaried it- "We saw the hunted stag six times, six hours in
the saddle, 45 Kilometers". By French standards, it wasn't a
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-56832383149618289012016-12-02T11:00:00.002-05:002016-12-02T11:02:44.883-05:00President Trump's First Official Act Advice...<br />
" The criminal power of Federal law, and the resources devoted
to its enforcement, should be reserved for those acts we as a people
agree harm us all.<br />
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It is clear to me that <a href="https://www.mpp.org/initiatives/" target="_blank">the people of the United States no longer wish the possession and use of Marijuana to be a Federal crime.</a> I hereby exercise this office's powers under Article II of the Constitution to pardon every Federal conviction for marijuana crimes, whenever committed. I intend to issue a similar pardon to each person so charged as long as I am President, and to instruct my Attorney General and U. S. Attoneys to cease enforcing this unwanted prohibition until Congress votes to repeal it, which act I would sign immediately. I except from this pardon and instruction crimes of importing Marijuana into the United States. " <br />
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Just an idea.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-50024821583491259512016-10-06T15:15:00.000-04:002016-10-06T15:15:11.360-04:00California Ballot Initiatives- You Have To Be High...California has two ballot initiatives, in addition to the usual one letting the State horn in on the weed business.<br />
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They are <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_67,_Plastic_Bag_Ban_Veto_Referendum_(2016)" target="_blank">Propositions 67</a> and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_60,_Condoms_in_Pornographic_Films_(2016)" target="_blank">60</a>.<br />
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67 outlaws the practice of offering plastic bags to store shoppers at the point of sale.<br />
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60 requires the wearing of a plastic bag while filming pornographic movies.<br />
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The first has no special monitoring mechanism, but the second will be enforced by California Occupational Safety and Health inspectors.<br />
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The jokes write themselves.<br />
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If I could go back in time and show my grandmother a newspaper from today, she'd say<br />
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"That H. G. Wells has gone mad. The time machine and invasion from space were believable but this is just crazy."<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-2879049855070247472016-08-10T13:39:00.000-04:002016-08-10T13:39:11.633-04:00"Take Care of (Name Redacted)" - I know who it is!It's <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=take+care+of+dowb&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=take+care+of+%22dowb%22" target="_blank">Dowb!</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-25779770020802037592016-04-15T10:10:00.001-04:002016-04-15T10:10:23.646-04:00The Creepiest Thing Ever Sold...I used to think the safety plug for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy" target="_blank">Little Boy</a> was the creepiest thing I'd ever sold at auction. No more.<br />
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And it's not<a href="http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/hermann-historica-ohg/catalogue-id-srher10018/lot-60af559e-fba2-4e43-8a83-a5df010581ab" target="_blank"> this</a>, either. Although it's creepier than the plug.<br />
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No, it's this<br />
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<a href="http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/hermann-historica-ohg/catalogue-id-srher10018/lot-52b62175-f172-4a17-8b4a-a5df010479aa" target="_blank">humble desk blotter</a>, a 1941 Christmas present from a loving wife to her devoted husband. It still has his signatures all over the blotting paper. He liked the pretty blue ink, who knew?<br /><br />
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If you hold it up to the mirror you could probably read them.<br />
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Reinhard Heydrich, Reinhard Heydrich, Reinhard Heydrich...<br />
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I would not have it in my house, thank you.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-39198763545355297612016-02-27T13:00:00.001-05:002016-02-27T14:44:05.500-05:00This explains EVERYTHING!!!The Washington Post's aggressive investigative team has <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-scalia-spent-his-last-hours-with-members-of-this-secretive-society-of-elite-hunters/2016/02/24/1d77af38-db20-11e5-891a-4ed04f4213e8_story.html" target="_blank">broken it all out into the open</a>!<br />
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"When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died 12 days ago at a West
Texas ranch, he was among high-ranking members of an exclusive
fraternity for hunters called the International Order of St. Hubertus,
an Austrian society that dates back to the 1600s."<br />
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By burrowing deeply into such obscure, concealed places as websites, newspapers, police reports, and party invitations, they have ferreted out the International Order of St. Hubertus! All that J-school training paid off.<br />
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What the Post fails to mention- probably out of fear of retribution- is the real power behind what appears to be a friendly group of like- minded men. * It's there though- right in the ninth paragraph-<br />
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"In 1695, Count Franz Anton von Sporck founded the society in Bohemia..."<br />
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This explains EVERYTHING!! Clearly, Justice Scalia was a plant all along. People have often been confused by his rulings, but now we know what was behind them. The Washington Post may be afraid to say it out loud, but I'm not.<br />
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Justice Scalia was a tool of Big Spork. Upholding flight restrictions, so no proper forks on airplanes in the cheap seats. What do you think the Guantanamo prisoners eat with? He ruled for Monsanto in Bowman- and what is the favored tool for creamed corn? How many times could his otherwise inexplicable decisions in favor of fast food giants be understood now that his loyalty to the two tines and a bowl is known?<br />
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Perhaps the clearest, almost explicit, demonstration is in his opinion in Thomas v Chicago Park District. Scalia, despite his own disgust, had found burning a flag to be free speech. Yet in Thomas, he ruled AGAINST a marijuana advocacy group which had appealed the denial of a park permit for a rally. Why? "The picnicker and soccer player, no less than the political activist or
parade marshal, must apply for a permit if the 50-person limit is to be
exceeded."<br />
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And who uses sporks? Picnickers and soccer players. Not weed, they eat the doritos right out of the bag. <br />
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And of course he held against Marriage Equality. Can you imagine a fabulous wedding with sporks? I thought not.<br />
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Alas, we found out too late. <br />
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*"They have capes! What is this men only stuff, I want to join!"- TheGirlUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-28740486727887828682016-02-15T07:41:00.003-05:002016-02-15T07:41:42.935-05:00That day again...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8707578.post-3718583139684293592015-11-16T04:05:00.000-05:002015-11-16T04:05:19.555-05:00Not Lunatics, Heroes...After Paris, so many people calling the killers crazy.<br />
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"The real limiting factor is finding about a dozen psychos who are so
mentally whacked that they think that this is a good idea, but are still
composed enough that they can work together effectively."<br />
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What nonsense. <br /><br />
The limiting factor is finding about a dozen heroes who are so dedicated to the cause that they are willing to strike a serious blow for God.<br /> <br />
These people are mission-identical with the Dam Busters, FTP, or the Doolittle raiders. The ideology is different, and the social infrastructure a lot weaker, and you don't like seeing what they do on the news, but they aren't crazy spree killers. They are soldiers, they think of themselves as soldiers. Their friends, families, teachers, and millions of people think of them as soldiers.<br /><br /> The Aurora slug and the Chattanooga murderer illustrate the difference. Aurora was a nutjob, but the Chattanooga one was a functioning, job-holding, friend-having, electrical engineer with a serious ideology for which he was willing to die. FFS, he went after the entire U. S. Marine Corps and the Chattanooga Police Department on his own. If he'd been a German in 1940 there would be statues and street signs all over Europe.<br /><br /> And like it or not, pretend otherwise or not, stadia, bars, malls, supermarkets, grade schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and $%^&* pet dogs are all legitimate military targets, at least they are since the Allies found a way to attack them in 1943. They remain, in this day of perfect targeting, legitimate military targets for us when there's an important, or unimportant, or possible enemy in them. Certainly they are in an insurrection, where the goal is to make the State look helpless to protect its own, frighten the government, weaken its resources, and impress the wavering with the insurgents' power, determination, and ferocity. What do you think this is, Chancellorsville?<br /><br /> This isn't a mental heath problem any more than it's a criminal justice problem. It's Algeria. It's Béziers.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0