Tea at Trianon: Apocalypse Now?

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Apocalypse Now?

Pat Buchanan on global warming.

This, it seems to me, is what the global-warming scare and scam are all about—frightening Americans into transferring sovereignty, power and wealth to a global political elite that claims it alone understands the crisis and it alone can save us from impending disaster.

Anonymous said...: We all need to work together in big and small ways to be good stewards of our planet.; October 24, 2007 at 8:50:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Yes, I think the Pope just said something like that.; October 24, 2007 at 8:51:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...: IMO global warming may well be real, but I find globalists solutions for it unconvincing. I doubt it's possible to have a globalist system that doesn't produce a lot of pollution. Unfortunately, mainstream environmentalism is globalist, with a strong misanthropic streak.; October 24, 2007 at 11:02:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Good point.; October 24, 2007 at 11:04:00 PM EDT