Tea at Trianon: Truth Is Hard For National Wildlife Federation Blogger

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, April 10, 2024

Truth Is Hard For National Wildlife Federation Blogger

From Jan Greenhawk at The Easton Gazette:

Does this look like a beautiful shoreline to you? Does it look like it is a habitat? Does it look like it is protecting the beach from erosion? Does this look like a recreational beach? It's none of those.
It's a far cry from the pictures the National Wildlife Federation put in the blog entry. A visual lie is just as bad as a verbal one as they show Underwood and Associates publicity pics. Oh, by the way, the statement that Underwood and Associates is a "local" firm is also a lie. They are not local to the Eastern Shore, much less Talbot County.
Lie#3: The third lie in the paragraph is where they claim the project "addresses flooding along a crucial local road," Again, the sad truth is that the Strand Road is actually flooding more now than it did before. The two pictures below show flooding after they stopped working on the project. (Read more.)