Month: October 2016

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I demitted from a lodge I helped found tonight.

Mumblety-teen years ago, there were four of us who decided that our fraternal interests would be well served by a lodge that did things differently than most.  A lodge that would be small, formal, and would inculcate the true lessons taught by our ritual and philosophy.  A gentleman’s lodge.  So we and about 30 other men formed that lodge, and I was its charter secretary for about 13 years.

The lodge ebbed and flowed; at one point it got down to fewer than 10 members, and then it started to grow again and is a vibrant lodge where everybody knows everyone and people come because it meets only five times a year and always has something educational (as well as a good restaurant-cooked meal).

As I’ve gotten older in both physical years and fraternal years, I’ve decided to back off of some of the things I do.  Particularly as a secretary.  I counted up the “secretary-years” of all the groups I’ve served in that capacity over my nearly two decades in the fraternity, and it’s now up over 50.  (At times, I’ve been secretary of five or six bodies at a time.)  So among my other “retirements”, I retired from the secretary position in this particular lodge two years ago.

Regrettably, I haven’t been to a meeting of that lodge since.  I’ve been to one of the festive dinners, when a friend and brother from Virginia addressed the lodge, but that’s it.  And because the lodge is predicated on mandatory attendance (which is admittedly honored more in the breach than otherwise), and because I’m tired, and have a life membership in another lodge, and because frankly I have better things to do with the dues money, I went over tonight and handed in my request to be dismissed from plural membership.

The few brothers I discussed it with were at first a bit shocked but then they understood.  I hope.  And I left before the meeting started, because I didn’t want to be sitting there in lodge when they read my letter — just because I didn’t want to see the disappointment I imagine was engendered when they heard that the second-to-last founding member was leaving.

They’ll be fine.  And I’ll have more time to do other things without feeling guilty that I missed the meetings.

It’s not meant to interfere with our usual vocations, you know.

Apparently the Republican headquarters down in North Carolina that was firebombed by Democrat terrorists (but I repeat myself) had a swastika painted on it along with the words “NAZI REPUBLICANS LEAVE TOWN OR ELSE”.  Normally I wouldn’t bother to link to Bill O’Reilly but it was in a video of his that I saw on Fecesbook.

Leaving aside the question of who is the more Nazi-esque, the alleged Nazi or the Nazi trying to run him out of town, the appellation “Nazi Republican” is, I fear, a contradiction in terms.  For the Nazis were not men of the right; they were men of the left, as is clearly indicated by the name of their part, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or in good clean American, National SOCIALIST German Workers Party.

The left seems to need to have this concept beaten into their heads on a regular basis, along with the correct political alignment of the term fascist, which is also a term for men of the left.  Mussolini, for instance, the Great Fascist Il Duce of wartime Italy, was a man of the left.  Indeed, he got most of his ideas from another great fascist wartime leader and man of the left — President Woodrow Wilson.

So please, Democrats, stop calling Republicans nazis and fascists.  If you’re going to use those old nasty terms, do so when looking at yourself in the mirror.  Or at your presidential and vice-presidential candidates.

I noticed on the way back from downtown that the cluster of traitors to their class who live on Grandview Drive just north of where it branches off of Michigan Road have suddenly sprouted a fresh crop of Clinton-Kaine signs in their yards.

Always nice to see who the rich folks are supporting.  Noted for future reference when the revolution starts.

A dear friend of mine — a dear misguided friend of mine, not only a lefty, but a Bernie Sanders advocate — greeted the news of the final closing of the Trump Taj Mahal casino (which hasn’t belonged to any Trump enterprise since February, when it was purchased by Carl Icahn) with the following lament:

He’d run the country like a business. /shudder

Well, alrighty then.

There are a lot of us out here thinking, “Gee whiz, running it like a business would actually be a plus.  Because it sure isn’t being run like a business now, and we’re damn near out of other people’s money as a result.”

Historically, socialism never works.  But Gen-X and later don’t read much history.  In their defense, their teachers didn’t teach them much practical history to begin with.  And these are the people who will be running the country when we’re old and trying to live on whatever scraps the busted Ponzi scheme known as Social Security tosses us.

Scares me.

(Historical reference in title:)

Yet it continues to amaze me that Trump is still being beaten up for things he said nearly a decade ago*, while Hillary is being given a complete pass on all the stuff that Wikileaks has been dumping, not to mention the other things we know about like the complete nudge, nudge, wink, wink joke of an FBI investigation into her illegal, insecure email server, the take from which the Russians are probably still chortling over.  Also not to mention Benghazi.  Also not to mention the trail of bodies that leads back to her.  Also not to mention her covering up for Bill’s indiscretions.  The woman has truly got a set of brass ovaries on her, no matter how withered they are at this point.

Hillary should be in jail, and I mean in federal prison, for some of the things she’s known to have done.  Trump gets yelled at for being a crude, rude SOB, none of which is cause to put him behind bars, and frankly, most of which most males have thought if not spoken aloud at one point or another in the hormonal blindness of their misspent youth.

Hillary supporters are the real danger to this country, not Trump supporters. Because it’s clear those who support Hillary don’t give a damn about the things she’s done that have actually made this country less secure.  If there is justice in this world, Hillary supporters will be the first sheep on the trains after January 20, when she reveals her true nature, and we find out that Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

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* When, just to keep the meme alive, he was still a Democrat.