Quick Abacus – Page 6 – Commentary and Critique by Florian Deltgen

October 29, 2022 Political Ideologies

Putin saves the West and Zelensky kills the Jews – uh – no, wait …

Recently, I had an opportunity to listen to a presentation by Ms. Krone Schmalz, a German Putin enthusiast, who attempted to defend Putin’s war against Ukraine. Ms. Schmalz, as do many Pro-Russia people in Europe and the USA, did not say that she condoned Putin’s war of aggression. She did say, however, that we must “understand” where Putin is coming from and what his psychological and political motives are that motivated him to attack Ukraine. I have heard this from many people who listen to Russian TV and TicToc. Goebbels said that for propaganda to be credible, one must mix lies with truth and make the mixture sound plausible and reasonable. The way Ms. Schmalz sounded, she could be a Russian disinformation propagandist. But let me assume for the moment that she is not and that she really means what she says.

October 22, 2022 Culture and Religion / World

White Men Can Pack

When I lived with the Yebámasa Indians on the Río Piraparaná in South-East Colombia in 1977/78, one day, a group of Indians from Síoro Jáiro, a place directly on the Piraparaná consisting of four palm-leaf malocas, decided that they wanted to travel to the mission town of Mitú by canoe. Mitú was approximately 300 miles by river from Síoro Jáiro.

October 16, 2022 Economy

Boycott ‘Woke’ Companies

It used to be a cardinal rule of business to never discuss politics. Today, many business companies have chosen to alienate half of the country’s consumers/voters by smearing Donald Trump, Conservatives, Constitutionalists, and Republicans, attacking voting integrity laws, pushing for censorship of conservative speech, pushing ESG, and fomenting the toxic culture war waged against the rest of us by the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party, including by pushing the false and racist narrative of systemic racism.

Here is a list of woke businesses whose goods and services you should not buy if you consider yourself a constitutional conservative and a liberty-loving citizen. Buy from businesses that are not on the list, if possible.

October 8, 2022 Political Ideologies / Socialism

Who is a NAZI and who is a Fascist? A Clarification.

I have written about Nazi-ism and Fascism before. However, in light of these two terms having become the standard pejoratives in our time to smear and discredit political opponents or, as for that, just opponents, I have to come back to this issue once again and at the risk of repeating myself.

October 1, 2022 World

Climate Skeptics and the Evolution of Knowledge

There is no uniform position of climate scientists or scientists as for that about global warming or Man-Made Global Warming (MMGW). Serious scientists have argued with convincing arguments based on scientifically verified facts against the sacraments of the MMGW religion. Here are the views of 14 of the most prolific “climate deniers” in a nutshell.

September 23, 2022 Economy

The Coming Green Train Wreck of Our Economy and Society

Billionaire Bill Bonner warns that someday in the near future America’s entire energy system will collapse. Fuel will not get delivered. Rolling blackouts will sweep the land. Pipes will freeze. Food in the freezer will go bad. And you may shiver in the dark, as you are praying for power to come back on.

September 17, 2022 Culture and Religion

The Meaning of Colors

Colors have always been used as symbols. And their symbolism differs from culture to culture. They can carry social, political, and religious messages. And since the messages differ from culture to culture, knowledge of culture-specific color symbolism plays an important role in global marketing and communication between people with different cultural backgrounds. Let’s check into the meaning of some of the main colors.

September 11, 2022 Culture and Religion

Civil Liberty and Religious Freedom

The Marines in the picture below are all bowing their heads. Are they all ashamed of something? Is this the military equivalent of “taking a knee”? No. Guess what! They bow their heads because they are all praying! Oy, oy, oy! Not woke.

September 3, 2022 Science and Philosophy

COVID 19 and Bioethics

You have probably never heard of the “Nuremberg Code” (Nürnberger Kodex). Neither had I until recently. My wife brought it to my attention. She had been listening to a TV debate and one of the participants, a Jewish journalist, mentioned it, claiming that the way the US Government or governments in general handled the COVID crisis did not comply with this code. That made me curious and I looked it up.

August 27, 2022 Political Ideologies

Law, Justice, Righteousness, and the Constitution

I am a life member of the NRA. Every month I receive the NRA periodical “American Rifleman”. Every issue contains an article by Wayne Lapierre and every one of his articles invariably contains the words “law-abiding citizen”.

The argument is always that law-abiding citizens are entitled to owning and carrying firearms because they do not constitute a danger or threat to other citizens, as potential criminals, or to the government, as potential insurgents. I often wondered what we, the law-abiding citizens, would do, if the laws were no longer just. What if the government made a law that ruled that citizens may no longer own and carry firearms? Since gun owners are law-abiding citizens, would we then all abide by such gun-prohibiting law and surrender our firearms to the government like the British and the Australians did?