BlackRock's Larry Fink on ESG and Diversity Equity Inclusion: "You have to force changes. It has to be imbued in the culture of a firm. Behaviors across the entire firm in every region have to be similar, and every citizen of the firm has to understand what are acceptable and unacceptable behaviors." (Thuletide on Telegram)
SOME Canadian provinces, with the full support of Justin Trudeau, are encouraging doctors to prescribe highly addictive opioids to drug addicts and British Columbia has decriminalized the use of hard drugs, including fentanyl, cocaine and heroin. Children as young as 13 are becoming addicts through the legal prescription of the opioid, Dilaudid. Canadian city streets from Ontario to Vancouver are filled with homeless addicts and crime has skyrocketed. Cheap fentanyl and crack are available like never before. Learn more about the devastation caused by drugs in this documentary by Aaron Gunn. He doesn't probe the most important issue, which is where these drugs are coming from, but it's still worth watching.
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RAMBUNCTIOUS "teens" bestowed honors this Memorial Day weekend on three off-duty Marines.
INDIAN author Frank Raymond wonders why all people on earth are entitled to their own countries, with the exception of whites.
“WHEN water comes down from the heavens as rain, it is always the same in itself, yet, it produces different effects – one in a flower, another in a tree, and yet a third and fourth in an animal or person. So the grace of the Holy Spirit, like water, adapts itself to the needs of every creature that receives it. In the same way the Holy Spirit, whose nature is always the same, simple, and indivisible, gives grace to each man [or woman] as He, [the Holy Spirit] wills.” — St Cyril of Jerusalem
"DURING the centuries of contact, the white man has looked upon the Negro either as a case of hardened degeneracy or he has gone wild in the other extreme of expecting the Negro to assume equal rank with the Caucasian. Both theories are wrong. Possibly equally so. To deny the Negro the right to develop according to natural laws is unjust; to expect him to develop as a Caucasian is a species of sentimental insanity. The one overlooks that he is human, the other ignores that he is a race. He is human and should not be denied the right to work out his own salvation. He is a fully constituted race and like other races, is possessed of ineradicable race instincts and tendencies, and may work out his salvation along race lines only. This understanding of the Negro and the Negro problem will be at the bottom of any rational dealing with the Negro and the problem he constitutes to civilization. "In the Ideal Negro State the Negro will develop as a Negro, in accord with his race instincts and capacities; but he may need white guidance in the first stages of his independence. Heretofore the white man has made the Negro work for the white man's advantage. In the ideal Negro State, the white man, if there be need, may direct the Negro's work for the Negro's welfare. Heretofore the white man has received chief profit from the…
"OUR part is not fitly sustained upon the earth unless the range of our intended and deliberate usefulness includes not only the companions, but the successors of our pilgrimage. "God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or to deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath. And this the more, because it is one of the appointed conditions of the labor of men that in proportion to the time between the seed-sowing and the harvest, is the fulness of the fruit, and that generally, therefore, the farther off we place our aim and the less we desire to be ourselves the witnesses of what we have labored for, the more wide and rich will be the measure of our success. "Men cannot benefit those who are with them as they can benefit those who come after them; and of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave." --- John Ruskin
The 1937 movie Victoria the Great is a moving portrayal of the marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In this portrayal of the couple, the most powerful woman in the world manages to retain her husband's love and express her tender submission to him. It is not important if all the details of this dramatic account are accurate. The movie, which is based on Laurence Housman's 1935 play Victoria Regina, works as an inspirational love story and is clearly accurate enough. Few women in history have so publicly expressed devotion to their husbands as Victoria and it is doubtful anyone loved her man more. In one scene, Victoria, played by the outstanding Anna Neagle, is outraged at what appears to be Albert's flirtation with other women at court. The truth is, he has deliberately tried to anger her because she has refused to allow him to help with matters of state. His point is that if she won't allow him to be more than a loafer, he will express his masculinity in other ways. Anton Walbrook is excellent as the German prince, who goes to his chambers in a huff after Victoria displays her anger at him in front of others. Victoria follows. She bangs on his locked door. "Who is it?" Albert asks. "It is the queen," she says proudly. He refuses to let her in. "Who is it?" he calls out when she bangs on the door again. "It is Victoria," she says imperiously. There is no answer. She is…
ALAN writes:
On a night in November 1923, an ex-con pulled an armed robbery at a confectionary in north St. Louis. Or he tried to. But he encountered a little resistance. It made the front page of next day’s newspaper.
A married couple owned the store. The wife and her mother and two boys from the neighborhood were inside the store when the bandit walked in with his revolver and ordered the women to reach. “The boys, terrified, fled from the store,” a news account reported.
Then he began shooting. Provoked to anger, the wife pulled a revolver from beneath the counter and fired three shots. Her husband was in the back of the store. He heard everything, grabbed a revolver from a dresser, and waited quietly for the bandit to enter the room. Then he opened fire at the ex-con and nailed him with three bullets. The bandit fled. The husband chased him up the street and gave him a merciless beating about the head and ears. (more…)
