No matter what you believe about Watergate, G Gordon Liddy never sold out the President to save his butt.
He stood up and served his entire sentence and refused parole so as to be rid of the "system" after release. He was a "man's man" and they don't make many like him anymore.
Requiescat in pace.

Well, I debated on bringing this up, but for some reason, I will find my thoughts drifting towards a certain person, whether celebrity or someone known to me personally, then I will later discover that the person died that day, or in the very recent past.  Just something I've always noticed.  Whether supernatural, or just the product of the fertile and quick mind of a guy who's seen everything, read everything, done pretty much everything, and been pretty much everywhere, no way to say.  But here goes:

Yesterday morning, I was in Walmart, doing some very ordinary grocery shopping, and behind me I heard the dulcet tones of someone singing soul, rhythm and blues, or whatever it was.  I turned around and it was a young black guy with a huge backpack (evidently homeless, people don't carry huge backpacks into Walmart).  I thought "oh, how sweet, he's celebrating his gift of blackness".  All well and good, and he did have a very nice voice.  I then reflected on whether my tax money was going to fund some kind of government assistance he might be receiving --- for all I know, he might be heir to a fortune and lives out of his backpack as a lifestyle choice, that's no crime, that's no sin.  But I thought, okay, you celebrate your blackness, I'll celebrate my whiteness, sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander, or as GGL said in Will, "you want race? --- I'll give you race!".  I then proceeded to sing, in a soft, barely audible voice, the patriotic German lied that GGL sang as he walked through the prison block.  Just blowing off some steam as a member of the only group in America that it's still considered OK to hate.

Don't take my comments as anything hateful towards the noble African race (whatever deficiencies they may have, they can't help, they didn't ask to be born with lower IQs), nor as any sympathy whatsoever for the NSDAP.  I played this for my son the other day, and he was horrified, as he recognized it from one of his military-fantasy video games.  He is a big WWII buff, so much so, in fact, that we paused our study of medieval Christendom (the TAN Civilization series) this quarter to study more contemporary history topics such as WWII.

  I then proceeded to sing, in a soft, barely audible voice, the ραƚɾισtic German lied that GGL sang as he walked through the prison block.  

 

Picturing you walking through WalMart singing "Die Fahne hoch" gave me a good chuckle. Thank you.

I played this for my son the other day, and he was horrified, as he recognized it from one of his military-fantasy video games.  He is a big WWII buff, so much so, in fact, that we paused our study of medieval Christendom (the TAN Civilization series) this quarter to study more contemporary history topics such as WWII.

Your son may enjoy the audio I posted earlier:


https://www.cathinfo.com/catholic-living-in-the-modern-world/war-memoirs-of-fr-hugh-thwaites-sj/


Fr. Thwaites was captured and spent time in a Japanese POW camp.

I didn't think that you did, SM. I'm not a nαzι or a real racist either, I just despise political correctness and enjoy racial humor.
 I have had some great conversations with people that are "minorities"; they have told me how much they despise the professional race-baiters that presume to speak for them. These same people face real backlash from their own when they speak up, and I admire them for doing it.

I love all people (at least theologically, in the case of individuals who challenge my sensibilities to the point that I can't "like" them) and realize that Our Lord created the different races for a reason, probably more a matter of their natural environments and suitability for the same, than anything else.  Different races, nationalities, and ethnicities have different abilities, though there is quite a bit of variation in either direction.  I am thankful to be European-descended and the heir of all those many things that Europeans have excelled at.  Asians and Africans have their gifts too.  You have to think on your feet in the jungle, and you have to prepare for that bitterly cold winter, if you're in northern climes.  Being melanin-rich also comes in handy when you live in a place with intense, direct sunlight twelve months out of the year.  And I will concede, while the human development problems of the African continent are regrettable, there is a small kernel of truth in their coming back to us and saying "you're the ones who have defined what is significant about human nature and what isn't, and you can't judge us, or our competence or abilities, by your standards".  This said, though, I'm not keen to start flying on airplanes built by, or receiving open-heart surgery from, people who think of things such as precision or logic as racist white values.  2 plus 2 will never equal 5.

To be perfectly blunt, my number-one problem with black Americans is that, in the main, they claim to be pro-life family values conservatives, yet they vote for pro-abortion Democrats in the name of their own self-interests.  If black Americans voted pro-life, a pro-choice politician could never be elected, at least not in vast portions of the US.  If they voted as a pro-life bloc, I really wouldn't care if they voted by mail, with no voter ID, or whatever, and I'd probably just chuckle at things like those loud, incessant cell phone conversations in the grocery store, insisting upon backing into parking spaces in crowded lots, and I could even ignore the not-tipping thing (easy for me to say, as I have never worked in food service).  I have a similar bone to pick with all the nominal "Catholics" in the traditionally Catholic areas of the US who vote pro-choice as well.  You'd expect places such as Massachusetts or Rhode Island to be the most pro-life states in the union, but it's not that way.  If both groups --- blacks and Catholics in the traditionally ethnic enclaves --- would vote pro-life, abortion would just be illegal, period.    There aren't enough feminists or Swedish cosmopolitans (uff da!) to decide the outcome of ɛƖɛctıons by themselves.