AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
NORMAN AND SAXON
By Rudyard Kipling
My son,” said the Norman Baron, “I am dying, and you will be heir
To all the broad acres in England that William gave me for my share
When we conquered the Saxon at Hastings, and a nice little handful it is.
But before you go over to rule it I want you to understand this:—
“The Saxon is not like us Normans, His manners are not so polite.
But he never means anything serious till he talks about justice and right.
When he stands like an ox in the furrow with his sullen set eyes on your own,
And grumbles, “This isn’t fair dealings,” my son, leave the Saxon alone.
“You can horsewhip your Gascony archers, or torture your Picardy spears,
But don’t try that game on the Saxon; you’ll have the whole brood round your ears.
From the richest old Thane in the county to the poorest chained serf in the field,
They’ll be at you and on you like hornets, and, if you are wise, you will yield.
“But first you must master their language, their dialect, proverbs and songs.
Don’t trust any clerk to interpret when they come with the tale of their wrongs.
Let them know that you know what they’re saying; let them feel that you know what to say.
Yes, even when you want to go hunting, hear ’em out if it takes you all day.
“They’ll drink every hour of the daylight and poach every hour of the dark,
It’s the sport not the rabbits they’re after (we ‘ve plenty of game in the park).
Don’t hang them or cut off their fingers. That’s wasteful as well as unkind,
For a hard-bitten, South-country poacher makes the best man-at-arms you can find.
“Appear with your wife and the children at their weddings and funerals and feasts.
Be polite but not friendly to Bishops; be good to all poor parish priests.
Say ‘we,’ ‘us’ and ‘ours’ when you’re talking instead of ‘you fellows’ and ‘I.’
Don’t ride over seeds; keep your temper; and never you tell ’em a lie!”
Update 1: Boris Johnson Puts Together A Brexit All-Star Team
As Allison Pearson writes:
Like the illusionist Derren Brown, Boris peppered his paragraphs with can-do words. Nerve, pluck, ambition. It was as if he were trying to hypnotise an exhausted, riven country into a state of self-confident belief, just as Churchill did. It sounded like a wartime speech. We haven’t had leadership for so long that we had almost forgotten what it looks like.
Update 2: More NYT misdirection. All the actors yesterday and today know something very consequential — in earlier eras sometimes referred to as The Truth — is about to emerge. Force of nature one called it, yesterday. The show yesterday and Mueller’s partly-feigned dementia, too, were misdirection to send attention away from the indomitable inevitable. Instead, the show and the dementia, the latter under color of righteousness, served as Fantasia to the great Fugue in-coming.
Update 3: If one assumes the intent of the hearing was to drum up support for impeachment, one must conclude the hearing failed its mission. But D leadership long since is on record opposing impeachment. So the assumption that impeachment was their intent in this hearing is at least ambiguous and more probably fallacious.
So what was their intent, actually? They are stupid but not imbecilic. They would have known that a hearing would not drum up impeachment fervor, especially not with a central witness they also would have known would not answer questions but would appear demented (thus the last-minute insertion of a handler for him). Despite those risks, they proceeded with the hearing. Why?
They must have calculated, accurately or not, some ineluctable benefit to themselves and their electability to be conjured from proceeding with this demonstrably dangerous hearing and central witness. What is that benefit?
I have not, I hope, a mind twisted enough, an intellect corroded enough, and a heart dirty enough to answer that question.
I do offer this: All the actors yesterday and today know something very consequential — in earlier eras sometimes referred to as The Truth — is under way. Force of nature one called it, yesterday. The show yesterday and Mueller’s partly-feigned dementia, too, can be seen to have served as misdirection to send attention away from the indomitable inevitable, the consequential something that is in motion. In actuality, however, the show and the dementia — the latter under color of righteousness — have served as Fantasia to a great Fugue in-coming.
BazzaMcKenzie to David R. Graham
The commiecrats and their media are working on their decades-long playbook of how to attack Republicans. What they have been doing would long ago have destroyed any other Republican president — probably even Reagan. But it doesn’t work on Trump because he is unbowed by their repeated attack and he not only fights back (bigly), he also keeps delivering results for America.
They can’t believe it, and it is the only way they know to operate. So they have doubled down, tripled down, quadrupled down. From past history they know this has to work and with Trump it keeps blowing up in their face.
There are also now a number of strong, active supporters in Congress for the President. But such supporters disappear if the President is weak or hesitant. PDJT’s own strength and fighting spirit inspires and enables his supporters, who know they are not going to be left out on a limb, something again different from the Bushes, for instance.
David R. Graham to BazzaMcKenzie • 20 minutes ago • edited
So true! Leadership, only by example, and only by successfully transiting fire. It is so simple, yet there are so few who do it. But always enough.
IMO, the DOJ announcement today for resuming executions is auspicious.
MrLynn to David R. Graham
“They are stupid but not imbecilic.”
‘Imbecilic’ may not be the right word, but I suspect Nadler is both stupid and utterly blinded by his decades-old animosity to President Trump. Word is that the two of them have had serious conflicts over the years in New York City. Nadler appears to be on a crusade to wreak revenge on Donald Trump. So he will persist until he is stopped, either by the House leadership, or the 2020 elections. And the President will laugh, and make fun of him. /LEJ
David R. Graham to MrLynn
Theologians and exegetes long have pointed out that the Bible and tradition counsel against humans taking revenge, even nursing a wish for it, and for leaving revenge, even when deserved, in the hands of God, because, no human has knowledge of the depth and breadth of the sin that must be atoned — and all sin must and will be atoned, especially the sin of enmity — no man knows the actual amount and extent of revenge that is deserved or how to administer it, and not because revenge per se is wrong, undeserved, or unnecessary.
A weed has to be pulled from the garden, but the whole weed has to be pulled, not just part of it. Revenge is bootless unless the whole of the sin deserving it is punished right down to the deep motivations which impelled it. Only God know that technology. Thus, revenge is His alone if it is to be effective, and revenge should be effective. Totally effective.
Law and its operation are necessary, but they strike the body only, which is not where the crime originates. Revenge is necessary in addition to the necessity of law and its operation, and the operation of revenge is beyond the human ken.
Bryon Grosz to David R. Graham
Even if the Dem leadership aren’t the morons they appear to be, they created a monster with their followers by convincing them the right is evil and thus anything goes when combating us. They are riding on the back of a Lion now. Even if they realize their mistake, it is too late to get off.
How that translates specifically to the Mueller hearings is that their base demands action. The results of the Mueller hearing was entirely predictable but they have to do this sort of thing anyways. Otherwise their base will scream “WHY AREN’T YOU DOING ANYTHING!!!” They will vote for anyone that does something … anything … no mater how stupid that something may be.
David R. Graham to Bryon Grosz
Cogent. Then perhaps their actual intent is to sow chaos, even among themselves, perhaps on the presumption that in chaos there is profit. Socialists are known to have theorized in those terms. This assessment would start, I think, with the observation that they assess they are not electable as presently postured and so must obviate the electoral process itself.
Colonel Travis to David R. Graham
David, I don’t think the answer is any more complicated than this: (D) leadership is not that bright. For three straight years, they have said that Trump must not be president, and they keep lighting Wile E. Coyote ACME bombs that blow up in their face before they are able to lob them at the White House.
David R. Graham to Colonel Travis
I offer no argument against that observation. 🙂
Another_Fred to David R. Graham
The Pelosi wing of the Democratic Party had to let the Squid wing have their way with a hearing. This way they gave the squids enough rope to hang themselves. If she shut down the hearing directly she would have been accused of being pro-Trump. Now she gets her way and there are no fingerprints on her scheme to kill a doomed to fail impeachment attempt. She’s trying to save the House for the Dems and right now it looks like she’ll fail but if impeachment went forward she’d [by] definition lose the House.
David R. Graham to Another_Fred
Sounds reasonable to me.
Old Goat 36 to Another_Fred
Nadler was calling for impeachment right after this Herr Mueller show. So, I think it was their desire. Heck, Styer is running on impeaching Trump.
I think Nancy is barely holding on to power. And her comments while barely making sense sure didn’t sound like they would drop the idea of impeachment. This after polls are showing huge negative numbers again the whole sham investigation.
Pelosi has the senility excuse. Natty Dresser Nadler just has to be either lower than room temperature IQ or on some really potent drugs.
Update 4: The link between pot and mass shootings may be closer than we think
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