In The Mail

6 Replies to “In The Mail”

1. When you look up cockwomble, politician is a pretty good synonym.

   BTW. A good read. Thanks to his wife and kids for helping him out with spelling and grammar.

2. A review of the book is here:

   https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-glengarry-news/20191218/281642487069255

   The world needs more of what the know-it-alls call “social history” of rural Canadians, that doesn’t treat its inhabitants as (at best) antediluvian curios that industrial capitalism hasn’t yet gotten around to tossing in Darwin’s dustbin with the Beothuk.

   Put it this way: it fell to the Jews to record their history. Left to Gentile historians, Israel would have been a footnote in histories telling of the glories that were Egypt, Babylon, and Greece, and the power that Rome was and China still is. (Britain and America would never have existed in the form we know them.)

   If we don’t transcribe our real history, the globalists will see to it we are forgotten, except as a problem that needed solving in the name of progress.

   (And, of course, when our masters finally see off the entire human proletariat, their robotic replacements won’t be programmed with any memory of their predecessors.)

3. DS, we will be forgotten anyway. Only despots and evil people are celebrated and remembered. The good ones who are remembered are denigrated by the current crop of morons who think they can change human nature. The current crop of morons applies to each and every generation that thinks they can change the world, by doing those things once again that have destroyed so many lives and countries generation after generation. History is really difficult for damn near everybody. Utopia is unobtainable, does not exist, at least in the physical realm.

4. When my brother died I got his collection of Joan Finnigan’s books, oral histories of the Ottawa Valley, she collected stories and photos, a lot from very old people. They were an amazing read, logging, hunting, the river, farming, lots of old pictures and lots of tales of ordinary people.
   The general impression I was left with was generations of very hard-working people usually living in terrible poverty. A lot of darkness, alcohol-fueled violence, catholic-protestant hate, but overall stories of good people working very hard and getting by.
   They were a really interesting and entertaining read, the abundant photos were great. If I had known better I would have treated the books better, they were oversize soft covers and I sent them off to a used book sale, I kept one “Some of the Stories I Told You Were True”, published in 1981.

5. A great guy.
   A great investigative reporter.
   A great read.
   You won’t regret buying a copy.

6. I can tell you this: Ian is “a gem” within our community of Glengarry County. He documents our people, our lore, our history (which is as old and rich as anything in North America). The political, the social, the racial, and the religious tensions and controversies – along with the cohesiveness of our shared heritage(s), and our “I’ve got your back neighbour” attitude, despite our differences. He has given voice to people being abused by government bureaucrats; he has dug into the miasmic manure pit of the half century of the Canadian supply management system like no one else – and has taken severe personal abuse as a consequence – to an extent that few people could/would have endured with such stoic equanimity, myself included. He is Leon Uris and Ralph Connor; he is Wilbur Smith, Frank McCourt and Roy MacGregor. He ain’t no Shakespeare though. Just buy the book. It won’t disappoint.