October 29, 2019 Leo Handel, of late and happy memory, was a community activist from West Orange, NJ.

October 29, 2019

Leo Handel, of late and happy memory, was a community activist from West Orange, NJ. He was also a Semitic saloonkeeper whose last bar was a big one in Newark. Those 2 decidedly uncomplementary facts speak volumes about the man.

He was also the poster boy, the caricature, the prototypical paradigmatic template of modern American Liberalism long before I copyrighted that term. That also speaks volumes about the man.

At his Florida funeral, a service that became a rally for abortion rights, I wondered why a lot of people were waving at me. Alas, it was because I was sitting in front of Michael Satz, the state’s attorney in Broward County. That didn’t stop me from waving back.

I remember a serious conversation with Leo just after “Losing Ground” by Charles Murray came out.

 Murray’s major premise, that government attempts to solve social problems only make them worse, is daily buttressed by empirical data; real stuff, observable and recordable things. It’s what makes Murray resemble a hot tub filled with holy water into which modern American Liberals must be dunked. It is why Murray is scorned, cursed, and threatened by the masked Anti-Fa brigade of Speech Stiflers of modern American Liberalism. It’s why Dracula is always traveling West. Anything to beat the sun coming up.

Leo, God Bless him, was many times in error but he was never in doubt.

“We owe them.”

Which leads us to Beethoven.

I watched “Copying Beethoven” this morning. Who could resist 10 minutes of his 9^tth Symphony? Which leads me to another, older, unanswered question. Bach, Handel, Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven and it all wound up in Dachau. How in the Hell did that happen?

ALLES MENSCHEN WERDEN BRUDER

ALL MEN SHOULD BE BROTHERS

It is a straight line from Rousseau to the left side of the tennis court to Beethoven;  to Socialism in all its perverse forms, to the still being fought, casualty strewn War on Poverty, to Lard Kennedy, not quite dancing around Madison Square Garden in 1980, declaring the “the dream will never die” to Lieawatha Warren saying that 2 + 2+= 5 or 6.5 if that’s the number you Pecksniffian critics need. 

I am told that the average salary of a Florida teacher is not quite $48,000 per annum. [That’s Latin] The average salary of a Chicago teacher is about $79,000, also per annum. [Still more Latin] The Chicago teachers have been on strike for a week. The last offer they turned down would have raised their average pay to $99,000 per annum. Some people just can’t take yes for an answer

Several things are certain:

#1 - The Chicago salaries have not produced a slew of Nobel Prize winners 

#2 – Chicago has produced a generation of feral gunfighters who can’t read.

$3 – Modern American Liberals continuously and confusingly conflate causation and correlation.

#4 – Only a Sophist would conclude that #2 was caused by #1.

The beauty of socialism, like all things dear to the heart of modern American Liberals, is that nobody ever keeps score, that it is judged on its expectations and never on its results – Pop Quiz – What was the official name of the Nazis, the guys who put 12,000,000 people into the ovens? Give up? The National Socialist Party.

Bernie and Lieawatha will be able to give us Medicare for All only when they take private health care away form 160,000,000 Americans. The iron fist in the iron glove. Hayek was right. 

Come back anyway, Leo. See if you can bring Max Katz with you, maybe Al Nechemie. I need to have some true believers explain things to me.  

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      Kevin Smith

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PS – As a SRRC – Semi-Retired Roman Catholic - I was beyond words, entering into near rhapsody, when I learned that Slow Joe Biden who was graduated from 2 Catholic schools in Wilmington, Delaware, was denied Holy Communion, one of the 7 Sacraments, the one with the bread, water, wine and a seldom used word, Transubstatation, tied into it because the priest, Father Morey,  thought he was not worthy of it because of his Mario Cuomo stance on abortion. It began, begins with :Yes,but…” 

In baseball, it’s 3 strikes and you’re out. In football it’s first down one way or it’s first down the other way. In cancer, the slide is either malignant or it’s not.  When you wear the uniform and “ride for the brand”, you ride for the brand or you don’t ride for the brand. Roman Catholics can’t have it both ways. Abortion is an infamia, it is malum per se. You can only ride one horse, Curley. Pick him.