Either the Constitution is functioning as intended, in which case it's useless, or the Constitution was not able to keep itself functioning in the manner it was intended, in which case it is likewise useless.

What conservatives miss in their infatuation with the Constitution is that while de jure power lies in the law, de facto power lies with the elite/rulers. There is no "system" which can be devised to restrict evil, only wise and just rulers weilding power righteously.

Tomorrow, Saturday, at 8:00 am CST, I will be discussing similarities and differences between Spain and the US with Panama Hat

https://youtu.be/wS7HW-tJMV0

Live in five!

This very sane, very normal guy played a part in getting Corey J. Mahler banned

Some people need to hang

A reminder: Constantine put Jews to death for circumcising their (Christian) slaves; Boomers circumcise their sons for purported ‘aesthetic’ and ‘health’ reasons.
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I used to give daily music recommendations on Twitter, but nobody really saw them. This might be a better platform for it, so we’ll start with a lovely rendition of Greensleeves

https://youtu.be/tQxINIyBejY

Today’s piece is from one of (or the) first piece commissioned for wind band that was not a march, Lincolnshire Posy. All six movements are English folk songs from the turn of the last century, the first one being ‘Lisbon Bay.’ Grainger, the composer of the piece, tried to find non-professional locals in England to sing the folk songs for him to transcribe so as to get the songs in their pure form. The Englishman that sang Lisbon Bay was a very old, dying warehouseman who, after hearing the then-modern recordings, accepted to sing it. Grainger remarked, "I thought he might as well die singing it as die without singing it." The lyrics are attached and the movement linked.

https://youtu.be/8Gz6RbapxeA

“The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.”

Why did the great classical liberal and economist Mises say this?

We tell the story of the Two Red Years in Italy.

With Ryan Turnipseed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkWOn9WklF0

I was busy after the stream with Stephen yesterday, so I’ll drop two songs

The second movement of Lincolnshire Posy is Horkstow Grange, notable due to just how localized a song it was. The English tradition of music (inherited by the American tradition and particularly in the South) regularly saw songs being created, usually using the same tune as more popular songs, to commemorate events within a village or ever so slightly larger locality. Horkstow Grange details a fight between one John Bowlin’ and one Steeleye Span

https://youtu.be/TmfteV1uj0E

The next movement, movement three, is Rufford Park Poachers. The song details a story originating in the year 1851, where ten gamekeepers were attacked by fourfold their number, with one of the gamekeepers dying. The last few stanzas sing of the trial of the poachers, with the murderer being sentenced to “fourteen years in convict slavery.” In the music itself, you can hopefully hear the saxophone in a very prominent part of the melody. This is significant, as this piece is one of the first major symphonic pieces to include the saxophone

https://youtu.be/r3OezAfGayU

For lyrics, I can actually share a channel given to me by Morgoth. I’m sure you will enjoy as much as I did:

https://youtu.be/okqAtjSLzoo

Makes one consider, doesn’t it?

Israel Has Officially Banned Fluoridation of Its Drinking Water

Via: Newsweek:

On Tuesday of this week (Aug. 26), Israel officially stopped adding fluoride to its water supplies. The decision has “been lauded by various rights groups, but criticized by many in the medical and dental communities as a serious mistake,” as the Times of Israel put it.

The tasteless, colorless chemical is put into…

https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=64548

There will be no show tomorrow. I have a funeral to attend.

Before I arrive at the funeral, I figured I would post the next two movements to Lincolnshire Posy

Movement IV is named “The Brisk Young Sailor,” though the name of the folk song is commonly known to be “A Fair Maid Walking.” The piece was recorded in Barrow-on-Humber, sung by a “Mrs. Thompson” (this detail I think really underscores how genuine and authentic this symphony is, that all the melody and lyrics was collected from locals in small English villages). It is worth noting that this piece is not the same as the similarly named “A Brisk Young Sailor Courted Me.” The lyrics are provided as always, and a link to the movement is below:

https://youtu.be/uuC5zBStDi0

The reason I post two movements today is because the fourth movement ends very abruptly and leads immediately into the fifth movement, “Lord Melbourne” or “Lord Marlborough.” The former is how the song appears in the symphony, but the latter is the actual folk song. As the lyrics suggest, this is the war song, and in the symphony it is written in what is called “free time,” that is, there is no discernible beat except for what the conductor gives. Legend has it that the movement is written this way because the gentleman that sang the song in the recording was drunk.

https://youtu.be/b4dJ3oiYFzw