A US American Who Thinks the Greenland Threat is Not So Fun

If We Invade Greenland: WARNING To All Americans Abroad
Large Man Abroad | 18 Jan. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ5nY6jfcAU

Bienvenues à Paris, les Majestés et Altesses Royales

På Svenska og på Dansk på Antimodernism: Velkommen til Paris, Jeres Majestæter og Konglige Højheder · New blog on the kid : Bienvenues à Paris, les Majestés et Altesses Royales

Ou la fille avec "Lycée 1952 international" — était-elle de la famille présidentielle française ?

Again, God Bless Queen Margerethe!

Or however you speak of former queens who have abdicated.

Queen emerita? Anyway, John Garth's article reminded me:

Queen of the Rings: Did Tolkien help Margrethe of Denmark abdicate?
https://steadyhq.com/en/john-garth-on-tolkiens-life-and-works/posts/71f170d2-fe0a-4ff4-9a32-6bafd760ab6a

PS, I do not share his views on Giorgia Meloni. Not totally on Trump either./HGL

God Bless the Queen

Denmark's queen abdicates after 52 years on the throne
Sky News | 1 Dec. 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqRPv6c-A-Q

De Dacie decapsulatoribus

In Dacia, sepe substituunt aliud quid pro decapsulatore in ampulla cerevisie decapsulanda.

Non loquor de finibus a Trajano victis et sub Romam ductis, ubi tardius se dicebant in Wallachia sive Moldova sive Transsylvania, et hodie in Romania quod scribunt ipsi Rumânia. Set potius de finibus qui temporibus Augusti a Frothone rege pacifico recti sunt, qui et dicuntur Dania. Hic Parisius autem ad Sorbonense vel Navarrense collegium vel in genere in studio universali dicebant potius hunc regnum Daciam.

Quare substituunt aliud? Quia volunt scire aptitudinem uniuscuiusque aperiendi quam diversissimomodo ampullas cerevisie.

Dicunt, de quo suam ampullam aperire nequit, nimis iam eum bibisse.

Aperiunt ergo, cochleari, charta ephemeridis apte plicata, incensorio (potius Bic quam Zippo?), capsula alterius ampulle, et ampulla decapsulata cum capsula manu collata.

Daci ergo decapsulatores non adhibent? Certe, qui domi bibit, sive cerevisiam, sive aquam mineralem dulcem, quam vocant "sodavand", sive aliud cuius ampulla habet capsulam, voluntarie utit decapsulatore. Domi, non ita sepe nimis bibunt, et non ita sepe necesse est verificare si quis adhuc potest aperire ampullam.

Alia est et ratio quare decapsulatores domi relinquunt antequam in platea vel alias foras cerevisiam bibunt : sepe habent decapsulatores magni pretii, cum aliquo ioco vel sententia vel imagine que possessorem bene placet. Non volunt huiusmodi decapsulatores perdere. Ita, certatio nationalis vel quasi est, pro decapsulatore aliud substituere.

Ioannes Georgius Lundahl
Bibliotheca Parmentier
Cor Immaculatum Marie
sive Octava Assumptionis
vel die 22 mensis augusti AD 2019

PS Post signaturam correxi uno loco orthographiam./HGL

Jon Arskog who Dissed Trish Regan

He did not really want a debate on what socialism really is in Denmark. Citing his actual words:

Det er egentlig ikke en diskussion jeg ønsker at fortsætte. Hvor skal den føre hen? Der er meget andet godt at bruge sin tid på.

No, his FB post in response being clumsy (confusing a contrast between Venezuela and Denmark as two diverse examples of Socialism with Trish actually considering Denmark a good parallel to Venezuela) was not really what he wanted to debate, there are so many other things that are good to use one's time on.

He's a journalist. So, how come he "disses" a colleague over the Atlantic like that? Well, perhaps because they don't feel the same about politics.

He said he has been a niche journalist, for instance a Motor journalist, and also business journalist for Berlingske, though now he is freelancing.

Now, Berlingske, what politics are that? Let's look at the editors in chief:

• 2001-2002: Karsten Madsen
• 2002-2007: Niels Lunde
• 2007-2015: Lisbeth Knudsen
• 2015 -: Tom Jensen

The last has no wikipedian article. Lisbeth Knudsen is Danish minister of culture. Niels Lunde is formerly an Employers' unionist. Karsten Madsen is more like wavering, "Socialdemokraterne, Konservative og senest af Venstre".

Generally, I'd take Berlingske as more or less conservative, about the Danish version of New York Times.

This said, it is a Conservatism with some ... complicity with Socialism, a bit like Socialism with less pathos for employees. It is like much Nordic countries Conservatism a very far cry from Tea Party.

They are people who certainly don't like tax money to be wasted on useless projects, and yet, they are not really into lower taxes. Sometimes, as with Lisbeth Knudsen, socialism - what Maurras called "fiscal socialism" or more properly "socialisme fiscal" - provides them with power.

I'd say, there may be a political reason why Jon Arskog dissed Trish Regan. And I suppose that he may have contributed to that Danish News Anchor giving a very much less clumsy fact check ending with the saying that opening a cup cake bakery is a very noble ambition.

But, I did not get of him a real discussion of the real problems with Nordic type fiscal socialism.

Nor, for that matter, did Trish Regan give a totally accurate one. Saying students are paid to study is half inaccurate, since a great part of the monthly "check" is actually a study loan. I have mine, and taking a small job won't cut it for paying back. I either remain poor, or I start get able to pay back when I get able to live off my writing. This is not because the system encourages bad students to remain students. You don't accumulate this kind of study debt by systematically failing exams, you get off study loan system very quickly then (even for delaying exams, meaning, I was part of the time studying in poor and study loan less conditions).

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Francis of Assisi
4.X.2018

Eight Links from Legally Kidnapped

Trish Regan, do you want to know the real backside of Danish or in general Scandinavian Socialism?

Here are links to its parallels in US and UK:

NM’s foster care system ‘broken,’ advocates say · NJ Family Court Judge Reprimanded for Involvement in Friend's Custody Case · 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons (in European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU) · County Settles Sexual Abuse Claims with Twins in Foster Care · Experts want tough laws on lucrative adoption business · Single mum takes Tusla to court after agency takes away foster baby · Troubled Kansas system for protecting kids was making progress. Then this happened · Report Shows 1/3 of Foster Kids Are Improperly Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs

H/T Legally Kidnapped

I omitted such links as would seems to me "that hasn't happened with us", once or twice./HGL

2004 and 2018

In March 2004, I left Sweden for, as I first supposed, Austria, via Denmark and Germany. I got stuck in Denmark and stayed in Copenhagen for a while.

In homeless shelters I could still sleep at night in the night shelters, and I could still get new friends in the day shelters, including one "breakfast up to lunch" one. One of the men I met was a pusher who was working at Pusher Street in Christiania.

Now, some Puritans may frown, some Medical Precautionists (which is really a form of Puritans) may frown, but one should understand that Pusher Street was not about heavy drugs. Hashish, kat, mushrooms - but no coke and no heroin, no lsd, no metamphetamine, no ketamine and so on. A pusher on Pusher Street had a kind of aristocratic position in Christiania (which is a kind of Communist kibbutznik thing), so he was in certain ways running things. And one of the things he guaranteed was keeping what he classified as "heavy drugs" away.

Now, in Christiania's own "free state" rules, he was not a criminal. Before the Danish law in common, he was. Up to 2004, he had been tolerated. Denmark said, more or less, Christianites do their thing. In March 2004n there came a crackdown on them.

The pusher I had met (or presumable such), was no longer seen, I think he was caught in one of the big police trucks which were driving to and from Christiania several ones a day. If not, he got out and kept away or started living in hiding.

It is interesting, however, that the volunteers (at the Lutheran "Kirkens Korsehær" - literally "Church Crusaders") explained this crackdown in these terms : the police was showing off its capacity to guarantee the safety at the wedding of Crown Prince Frederik. (If he is king, after Queen Margarethe, he will be Frederik X). It took place 4pm and 47min in the Our Lady's Church of Copenhagen.

Nobody dreamed of a crackdown on the homeless. As I was not (and I have also not since become) a pusher, I was safe, and I was learning Waltzing Matilda, which I used as a street singer in Copenhagen and some places elsewhere for 2004 and much of 2005 after this. (Btw, this was not my only song, back when my throat was not burdened by infections and my front teeth were good).

Now, look at this:

Windsor official backs homeless crackdown for royal wedding
https://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/8182566-windsor-official-backs-homeless-crackdown-royal-we.html#.1258-stage-hero1-7

Borough council leader Simon Dudley kicked off the controversy by tweeting over the Christmas holidays about the need to clean up Windsor's streets. He then wrote to police and Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May suggesting that action be taken to reduce the presence of beggars and the homeless.

Dudley referred to an "epidemic" of homelessness and vagrancy in Windsor and suggested many of those begging in the town are not really homeless. He said the situation presents a beautiful town in an unfavorable light.

Oh dear ... I see a Puritan hatred of beggars somewhere. I see rich people, not being afraid of thieves, but disgusted with people poorer than themselves.

I don't intend to become a councillor of Prince Harry, but if he'll take an advice for once, don't do it. Don't "clean up the streets". There was a time when the cleaning up was done by throwing money to the beggars and letting them go off to enjoy themselves and to drink your health and bless you.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre University Library
Eve of Epiphany
5.I.2018

PS, it is obviously not the oldfashioned "cleaning up" by alms I am against!/HGL

Was eating the forbidden fruit a venial sin?

Here I am into answering three persons at once. Jim Rigby, who implies it was on any decent standard and that the God of the Bible who punishes original sin would be a moral monster if he existed.

Phil Robertson (whose article* quoting and answering Jim Rigby I am reading) who is distorting the doctrine of original sin. Because he is a Protestant.

And one commenter who discusses the French Revolution.

Jim Rigby, as quoted:

“I received some bad news this week. Apparently, because I don't believe in a literal resurrection, I'm not really Christian…

As I share meals with my family, I have to face the fact that while they are enjoying the heavenly banquet, I will be screaming in unending torment along with Jews and Democrats and the evil college professors who teach evolution…

My accusers explained to me that I had it all wrong. They said I did not understand the gospel. You see, the earth was once a paradise. The dinosaurs were actually gentle and friendly. But then Adam and Eve stole a piece of fruit. God got very angry. So God invented cancer and hemorrhoids to punish human beings for our treachery…

And God's righteousness is infinite, so God couldn't just forgive us or teach us how to do better. What might seem to some like a first time misdemeanor of shoplifting fruit, was actually an irreversible irredeemable sin…

So God decided to barbecue us eternally for the mistakes of our ancestors. But God has a son named Jesus who asked God to abuse him instead. And so God killed Jesus in our place. And we call this story, the "good news."

Oh, and we have to LITERALLY believe Jesus' corpse got up…”

My comment:

Sure, Jim, if you don't believe the Resurrection, the rest is folly. St Paul said so quite a while ago.

You argue that eating the forbidden fruit was normally speaking a venial sin, it would have been that if you or I had been doing it.

But Adam was much more perfect than either of us, he walked much closer with God and therefore he did not have the excuses we would have had.

Phil Robinson, as answering

His distortion of the biblical facts shows no appreciation for the holiness of God, or the reverence that we should have towards him. We ought to keep in mind the status and holiness of the One that was offended. The level of punishment corresponds to the infinite holiness of the One who was offended. In the case of the Fall, it was the eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient and wholly pure God who was able to create the universe by the power of his word! Our sinful nature, inherited from our ancestor Adam, means that we are now naturally pre-disposed towards continually offending God. We exist in a sinful state, “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one” (Romans 3:10–12). Hence, God cannot just teach, ‘us how to do better’, as, “We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment” (Isaiah 64:6). So it’s not a matter of God deciding to eternally punish sinners in Hell “for the mistakes of [their] ancestors”; we are each responsible to God for our own sin.

My comment:

Actually God does punish people as yet not responsible for any personal sin. Babies do suffer, and they do suffer for the sin of Adam.

As to eternal punishment, babies who die unbaptised do not go to the Hell of torments, as traditional Presbyterians (the ones against whom Jim Rigby is rebelling) would have it, but neither are they granted Heaven because they have as yet not had time to imitate Adam.

The guilt really is transmitted by propagation, as to Original sin, and not just through imitation, that being more a matter of certain personal sins, and of imitating people much closer to us in genealogy than Adam is.

Errol B., Australia, as commenting

250 years prior to the French revolution, France rejected the reformation in no uncertain terms. As a result, the French people were presented with a cruel, vindictive & unloving God which led to the French revolution & France was largely led into apostasy & atheism. I think it’s ironic that Jim Rigby could learn about God’s love from many modern day Catholics. Perhaps he should look at the history of the Presbyterian Church & what its founders believed.

I have on 5 occasions, after debating creation v evolution; asked non-believers if they agree with the peer-review methodology articulated by Dr Scott Todd & Prof Richard Lewontin (presented many times on creation.com). One man was asked repeatedly but still refused to answer. The conversation often turns nasty at this point & they resort to personal attacks. Could it be they've never critically examined their own bias or linked atheistic philosophy to their own paradigm? I'm sure the revelation that 'evolution' is a religious belief horrifies them.

My comment:

French Revolution was not very different from Russian Revolution after it or Protestant Reformations before it.

Monks fleeing from Gustaf Wasa or Frederick III of Denmark or Henry VIII experienced exactly the same horrors as monks fleeing from Danton or Robespierre.

One could argue that in the case of France, the horror was of lesser duration than in the case of either Russia (1917-1990, shadow perhaps returning) or England (Reformation to 1830, with some remission during Charles I, a fickle one under Charles II, a shortlived one under James VII and II, and a little more remission toward the end of the period - in the case of France it was just 1790 to 1815, or even just to 1804.

I agree that atheist evolutionists overlook the fact that they have a religious bias (as closely linked to Russian Revolution as Protestantism to the Reformation): the atheist part being just a negative position and the evolution part being "science, not religion". But they are indoctrinated by the sequels of one revolution, 1917, as much as Protestants by the sequel of another, 1517.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St Paul of the Cross
28.IV.2016

* See: CMI : An infuriated and vindictive God?
by Phil Robinson, Published: 28 April 2016
http://creation.com/an-infuriated-and-vindictive-god