On February 14, 2024 at 2:59 pm, Elisa Angel wrote:
Happy Valentine's Day! You're a poetry aficionado, Mark. What do you think of Columbia and Brown students' "Yemen, Yemen, make us proud. Turn another ship around"?
On February 14, 2024 at 2:59 pm, Keith Farrell wrote:
In the light of GB News Damadcene moment I wondered how this might support your case against Ofcommie. In the meantime Waiting for a crawling apology from Matthew Sweet.
On February 14, 2024 at 2:59 pm, Nicola Timmerman wrote:
Joyeuse Saint Valentin! Any romantic movie you can recommend? I like the comedy Hitch with Will Smith and One Fine Day with George Clooney. Top of the charts is Brief Encounter with the Rachmaninoff music!
On February 14, 2024 at 3:03 pm, Amy Boney Carrot wrote:
I fear the Republicans contain too many RINOs. Further too much 'idolatry' is being conferred on former President Trump with little attention of how he is ensuring voting irregularities are not going 'give him the shaft again'. This time not only will the Dems be working hard to screw him over but now the deep state/swamp will also be participating.
On February 14, 2024 at 3:04 pm, Jeff Estes wrote:
Hi Mark, If a Trump/Tucker ticket crosses the finish line, would you be amenable to, say a Secretary of EPA slot? Revenge is a dish served very cold. Keep your chin up and keep on trucking.
On February 14, 2024 at 3:04 pm, The Notorious Mr. J wrote:
How many people have remarked on this discrepancy? When Ronald Reagan was in his final term comedians and broadcasters were scourging him mercilessly over alleged mental decline. It's true that Reagan probably was in some decline then, but the hard truth is that he had way more marbles leaving the White House than Biden had entering it. And yet Biden's obvious severe mental decay is almost off limits for discussion in most of the Media. Who says the Media doesn't have a Leftie bias?
On February 14, 2024 at 3:08 pm, Rebecca Nurmahi wrote:
Mark have you considered asking Elon musk if he would help you in your case with micheal Mann the hockey stick man? As he is bad mouthing you on x/twitter.. as Elon has done with Gina Carano .. don't let them get you down mark as we all support you and will pray for you
On February 14, 2024 at 3:14 pm, Ben Poser wrote:
If the Great Hockey Match is indeed not over, as is proper, then I am at a loss as to how to continue. As by far the closest to a climate scientist of the dueling two, do you believe, even beyond the icy D.C. rink, that the public can be informed of the fact that one of the most befuddling areas of earth science has been transformed into the most "settled" and solid? Beyond the need to bring the population back to pre-Babel numbers, for example, how can any escutcheoned East Anglian swirling Châteauneuf-du-Phil Jones actually believe that we know what the climate is going to do in a century, when forecasting local weather a week from now is almost as amusing as Mark's Joe Biden impression from 20 minutes before dawn on D-Day? Worse still is the assumption that touching a thermostat or winging one's way over to E.U. beaches crammed with nude, syphilitic Nobel Prize winners can actually, significantly, alter the earth's atmosphere. The Greenland Vikings didn't need Herr Schwab to freeze themselves out of Herjolfsnes in the fifteenth century. More to the point, any self-respecting leather book with gold Hebrew writing on it doesn't mention the human ability to cause drought. I hope skating from a wheelchair is more comfortable, sir, and may the 270-word blog post's ramifications not manifest as the 270-Years' War.
On February 14, 2024 at 3:14 pm, Patrick Briney wrote:
Mark
Thanks for fighting the good fight for all of us.
You did a great job of representing yourself and all of us who find Mark Mann and his merry band an existential threat to our society.
Hang in there and don't let the (pick your favorite profane description favored by Dr. Mann) grind you down.
Pat Briney
On February 14, 2024 at 3:18 pm, Brian from Minneapolis wrote:
Dear Mark,
We have been labeled as the party that is anti-science, anti-vax, and others when what we are is the party that wants verifiable information that can allow us to make independent decisions instead of being ordered to do something regardless if we want it or not. Climate science may be real but the numbers need to reflect that the change they say is going to happen, is happening and not a fire alarm being rung just to get us all to go to net zero. After all of this, is it safe to say that Mann made the hockey stick to get people to believe the planet is in danger so net zero becomes a reality because if he showed data that proved otherwise, no one would care enough to go green?
One more question: Any plans on taking a vacation from all of this? I know the trial took a lot out of you and I think your health is more important than anything at this point. Rest assured there will be plenty to discuss when you feel better. Best wishes.
On February 14, 2024 at 3:20 pm, Chris Davies wrote:
Mark,
I hope you are as well as can be expected. Well done on surviving DC.
Are you aware of the Abdul Ezedi story?
This is a cultural enricher from Afghanistan, twice refused asylum in the UK before succeeding at the 3rd attempt after converting to Christianity. As you do.
After throwing alkali in South London, causing life changing injuries to several people, including himself, after a week of searching for him, the Brit wanker coppers concluded he had jumped off Chelsea Bridge.
To date, no body has been found.
Apart from New York, London is the most surveilled city outside of China.
In the hours after the attack, Ezedi was spotted in various parts of London with a gaping wound around his right eye so was hardly inconspicuous.
A few days before the coppers decided to push the Chelsea Bridge swan dive theory, arrests were made in Newcastle for assisting an offender and the Police said the last sighting of Ezedi was near Tower Hill, nowhere near Chelsea Bridge.
I sense the Mayoral hand on the scale here, with Sadiq Khan (who is the London Police and Crime Commissioner) desperate to get this story out of the news cycle in re-election year.
The whole thing wreaks of a cover up of convenience.
Khan's London: where justice goes to die.
Keep well Mark.
On February 14, 2024 at 3:22 pm, Scott Schertzer wrote:
Dear Mark:
As if I needed one more example of America's institutions going straight to hell, the verdict in your case is the capper. The first amendment is now effectively null and void and I expect the second amendment to not be far behind.
Yet as the United States sinks further into the abyss our elected representatives continue to obsess about Ukraine, The Senate has just approved several billions more for a lost cause and managed to do it without one thin dime to protect our southern border. It's as if they had no intention of closing the spigot of Illegals entering the country and really only wanted funding for a war that has nothing to do with our national security all along.
This combined with our cultural rot and enormous debt will come to no good end. My question to you is how much longer do you think we have to possibly change course and retain any semblance of the country as founded, or is it already too late?
Please do take good care of yourself as you make this wicked world much more bearable. See you on the cruise in only ten more days!
Sincerely,
Scott Schertzer
Maimi Beach
On February 14, 2024 at 3:27 pm, Nick Russell wrote:
Hello Mark,
Hope you are recovering from your ordeal in DC. Here's a change of topic.
Many of us remember with pleasure your evisceration of Simon Shama in the Munk Debate a few years back. I had pretty much dismissed him as an insufferable bien pensant, until a few weeks ago, I happened to be listening to his preface to the History of Britain Volume 1. It is beautifully written; a masterpiece of intelligent and balanced analysis of English History and how it has been interpreted from different perspectives over the ages. My question: How can such an intelligent insightful historian as he be so naïve about current affairs?
On February 14, 2024 at 3:29 pm, Carol Cox wrote:
Changing the subject and a question for the Q&A: The election theory I've heard speculated is that 2 wks. beforehand they'll put up Michelle O. So shocking and such a shiny new thing to delight in, she'll be elected before it can become old news. She won't have to do a thing, not even live in the White House, which she's purportedly said to have hated. All the unelected minions will keep their transformation of the country rolling. Is it a crazy idea?
On February 14, 2024 at 3:49 pm, Joe Bottini wrote:
I was revisiting the CRTV defamation decision. Oh, what could have been and what should have been with Mann. Line by line, it was statement of opinion, true statement, or figure of speech. There was nothing even rising to false statement *with provable damages* *with malice*. Regarding judgments, did you manage to collect the multimillion judgment from CRTV? Best wishes.
On February 14, 2024 at 3:51 pm, Scot A wrote:
Mark,
For what it is worth you have my full support and I will continue to pray for you and your family.
I am sure all of us club members were disappointed by the jury's decision and also not surprised. If we could wave our constitutions this case should never have even been considered by any court. If we followed the principles of the Bill of Rights any court should have laughed at Mann and his case and kicked him out of court.
As you say we are a post constitutional country here in the US now and both the Democrats and the Republicans look to the courts as a tool and misguided savior. The Democrats look to the courts as a tool for lawfare and a means of legislative and executive action. The Republicans think the court will be some kind of savior for their issues. Oh, don't worry the appeals courts of the Supreme Court will save us. The Republicans have given up thinking they need to sway the people to their side. The Republicans just think if old McConnell can get another judge on the court and all our problems will be solved. The Republicans are naive to think the courts will save them.
The courts have shown from your trial to the J6 trials that the courts are only interested in protecting the power of the State.
As, I have commented before here at Steyn Online it is time to wave the Declaration of Independence around but then again the FBI will just show up and arrest us all.
On February 14, 2024 at 3:52 pm, ed wrote:
Frankly, I hate the inability to understand English by the jury... My name in the same sentence as the word pedophile does not mean the sentence says that I'm a pedophile.
I mean, not to sound to rough, but I'm sure it partly comes down to jury hating you. In my experience, that's often how it works.
On February 14, 2024 at 3:53 pm, Suzanne Reny wrote:
Whoa Mark, your intro about the latest Penn State professorial debacle is an image I'd like to scrub from my brain! Yikes! Best wishes and Happy St. Valentine's Day to you and yours.
On February 14, 2024 at 4:08 pm, Benjamin Johnson wrote:
Hi, Mark, or Friends,
If this has already been explained, wish someone could point it out. Mann testified he had not paid a penny to his lawyers. Even if Mann's attorneys took the case on a contingency basis, do they want us to believe they did all this work for years without even getting periodically reimbursed for their expenses, which could exceed the verdict exponentially? Firms don't keep the doors open with cases like that. You think they tapped reliable sources, such as Dem donors? They did ask for a charge to make an award of at least nominal compensatory damages, which they did, apparently so they could brag about a win. But would appear the punitive award was no sure thing even in DC. Follow the money
On February 14, 2024 at 4:09 pm, eaglepatriotminuteman1776 wrote:
Dear Mr. Steyn,
Thank you for answering my question the other day. It is too bad you can't read Flashy because I would love to hear your impression of the ironically named John Charity Spring. Mr. Fraser did an excellent job naming his characters. I will comment on Flashy at a later date. Also, regarding the verdict, please accept my condolences. It is a travesty of justice.
If INC style civil disobedience is bound to fail, we must resist in other ways. You seem to believe this is impossible because our society lacks proverbial turbulence. I do not agree. I believe there is turbulence as indicated by mass shooters, suicides, and overdoses. These are people frustrated with society's direction but have no productive way to vent their frustration, so they vent the only way they think they can: at the innocent or themselves.
State and local politicians need to take advantage of this turbulence and redirect it into something productive, such as a secession or nullification movement or apply public pressure to Congress and the White House to make substantial changes, as was the case when the Whigs applied public pressure to Parliament to achieve Reform.
A mistake would be to have armed mobs rioting. That may work for BLM and the French, but not for Americans or British. Our revolutions are started by legitimate authority, such as the Whigs in 1832, the Continental Congress, or the Southern state legislatures in 1860-61. Our state and local governments need to take a page from the wretched Whigs and South Carolina. Personally, I think they need to bring back the Rotten Boroughs, Corn Laws, and public hangings.
Anyway, I doubt anything can be achieved through Congress or Parliament, but the recent spark of moral fibre shown by the Republicans in Congress regarding Ukraine funding and the border gives me some hope. But if that fails, and it likely will, and INC inspired actions are impossible, we need to push our state legislatures and local governments into nullifying federal law and supreme court decisions or seceding as a last resort. Border states can start by deporting illegals at gunpoint and ignoring any and all court injunctions or rulings.
I believe such action will give hope to millions of disaffected Americans who will get behind such actions 100 percent, and societal turbulence will finally be directed where it should be directed.
Respectfully,
William Fleishman
PS
Also, I forgot to add that I may be attending law school soon. I will be glad to help with appeals any way I can.
On February 14, 2024 at 4:14 pm, Robert Matthews wrote:
Re: Ellen Comeau. She is p'raps your *keystone* francophone? Re: the travesty of a verdict recently rendered, you are in the figurative good company of James of the Glens in the matter of the Appin Murder. "Tried by a jury of Campbells in a County of Campbells with the biggest Campbell of all cocking on the bench". (Quoting from memory, hope that was accurate). You are right to be outraged, but please don't ever think you are alone, and please, when your ire cools, keep some love for the English langauge and the people of the US of A (at least outside DC). Damn the litigation! Full Truth ahead! God for Steyn! England! and St. George! (Or words to that effect, and perhaps read us "Kidnapped" for your next Tales for Our Time.)
On February 14, 2024 at 4:17 pm, James Andrus [email protected] wrote:
Mark, The title of this is all I need after your recent DC experience: "Penn State Professor Charged with Animal Cruelty After Being Caught Having Sex with His Pet Dog, Faces Additional Charges After Video Emerges of Him Sticking "Tree Branch" and "Lollipop" Into His Butt in Public Setting." Gateway Pundit https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/penn-state-professor-charged-animal-cruelty-after-being/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=penn-state-professor-charged-animal-cruelty-after-being
Quite the repitation that Penn State has.
Jim from Concord NH
On February 14, 2024 at 4:18 pm, Michael Seth wrote:
Dear Mark, congratulations on surviving your trial despite the best efforts of the DC justice system! Since your case will be going up on appeal, may I suggest you NOT post anything about Penn State's latest morally-challenged professor, Themis Matsoukas. Per today's NY Post, Matsoukas is another of Penn State's award winning professors, (he's in chemical engineering), facing investigation - this time for open lewdness, indecent exposure and I'm afraid, sexual acts with his pet collie. Wish I was kidding but once Penn State investigates and finds no animals were harmed in the making of his 55(!) videos, I'm sure Professor Matsoukas will be combing the internet for anyone who has defamed him or caused him to suffer strange looks. After all, the precedent has been set. Best wishes for good health and much legal success in the future.
On February 14, 2024 at 4:18 pm, George Pereira wrote:
Mark,
What continues to baffle me is why anyone takes he who shall not be named graph seriously.
The graph's y axis is in 0.2 C gradations. That is a very, very small number.
Go look for yourself. Find a thermometer. I'll wait. (Insert musical interlude here.)
The claim is that the graph measures temperature anomaly from (1940? Why 1940?) from 1000 to 2000 to single or double-point decimal accuracy. Global temperatures from 1000 years ago from tree rings to single or double decimal point accuracy? The earth is 197 million square miles or 510 million kilometers. Let me state the obvious that's a really big number and about 75% water - No tree rings.
The graph ignores historical warming and cooling periods (The medieval warming period, the Little Ice Age If I recall correctly, he that shall not be named claims never existed)
It ignores periods of massive volcanic activity (1815 The Year without a summer) and massive heat waves (1936 one of the hottest years in America's history) Put all of this nonsense on a graph of 0.2 C gradations and supposedly you get to 2000 with a massive 'hockey stick" blade of 0.6 C. This is an incredibly small number and I dare say one that would be unnoticed by anyone and well within any measuring device's margin for error.
Change the Y axis to 2.0 C or 5.0 C and the blade disappears, and everything becomes a straight line.
The hockey stick only exists because of the graphing scale.
If I tried to present a massive and expensive business model that would up end the entire business on such a flimsy chart I'd be laughed out of the room and I'd also be looking for a new job.
Why was anyone willing to believe such an obvious wack job? No global doom proclamation in the last 100 years has ever, even remotely, come true. Why did this one take hold, especially since no good has ever come from it?
