Did you have to include that picture? It makes me want to vomit.

And I still don’t know what the “crime” is when you write “Hail Hitler” on a sidewalk in non-permanent chalk.

Chile (to name but one) is now a freer country than the F.U.S.A. by most every meaningful measure.

The US is not particularly free at all, compared to the country that I grew up in. Congress has ensured that with the amount of federal “crimes” they add to our books yearly. I believe someone noted that it is impossible for a US citizen not to commit some kind of crime practically on a daily basis. I do remember the feds trying to put someone in jail for “destruction of evidence” because he threw an undersized fish back into the ocean (that was a real case). Of course this gives federal prosecutors essentially unfettered power to lock anyone up for anything. And that means we are not free at all.

As for Latin, well I did my part. My children were required to take 5 years of it, from 8th grade on.

Writing “Hail Hitler” on a playground in chalk cannot possibly be a crime. If it is a crime, then I would like to know what crime it is (it cannot be vandalism, the writing is in non-permanent chalk, and if someone wants to write “Hail Hitler” – so what – you can buy Mein Kampf in the bookstore if you want) and I want to know what is happening to all the chalk artists who wrote “Viva Che” on the sidewalk in Berkeley. Those offended me. If writing “Hail Hitler” is a crime, then – seriously – writing “Trump 2020” in chalk can be a crime.

Chait assumes too much. She never said what was the “foreign” country. America could very well be that “foreign” country. In fact, I strongly suspect that America is indeed what she meant by that foreign country. Way, way too many people owe allegiance to it, (and not to the Muslim Ummah), So really this was a compliment.

“Hail Hitler” ? When I was a kid everyone knew it was ”Heil Hitler”. Cuomo should worry about the educational standards in New York if a 12 year old writes “Hail Hitler”. Did he think Hitler was a Roman Emperor?

Because it’s about tribe and ethnicity not spergy principles. See Reginald Denny. Your skin color and sex are your uniform and side.

Making Dems choose BDS and piss off powerful Jewish donors particularly in Hollywood and finance or donors and piss off their antifa shock troops and Muslims is hilarious popcorn time.

The wedge issue the way abortion and guns are to White men and Nice White ladies. Turnabout and all.

BURN THE WITCH!

Completely correct. She learned about all of the things you mentioned (and got a poster of Rosie the Riveter for her wall) but she did not learn about Stalingrad. She did learn we dropped atomic bombs on Japan of course. And about some peace shrine in Hiroshima.

Breitbart reports the triumph of globalism in Chicago:

The middle class in Chicago, Illinois is “almost gone,” new research finds, as the vast majority of residents are either wealthy professionals or working-class residents living paycheck to paycheck.

Research by the Voorhies Center chronicled the near six-decade shrinking of Chicago’s middle class, which is close to nonexistent today, as corporate developers and multinational conglomerates continue dominating metropolises across the U.S. — forcing middle class residents out.

For instance, in 1970, middle income residents made up about half of Chicago, while about 42 percent of residents were either poor or working class and less than ten percent were considered wealthy.

Remember: all of the problems we have — the hair-brained schemes of the globalists come to ruinous fruition, but more the desperate campaigns to win people over or marginalize them — are really because the middle class exists. It is the middle class that wants a house and not an apartment for their stable family. It is the middle class the stabilizes society and makes “world repair” difficult. It is the middle class that votes other than instructed. It is the middle class that raises its impertinent hand at city council meetings and that paints NIMBY signs. It is the middle class which distinguishes the US from the third world: Mexico has plenty of millionaires. The poor don’t matter and the rich are generally on board with the globalist agenda (or they can be threatened). Brazil the model requires what this article describes.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/25/study-chicagos-middle-class-almost-gone-majority-either-rich-or-poor/

He killed his own dogs. What kind of sick f*ck does that? We are letting sociopathic degenerate freaks set our national agenda. They are insane but how insane is listening to them?

Our current crop of students is so poorly educated, and miseducated, you can say pretty much whatever you want about “50 years ago” and get away with it completely. America 1969 is as foreign a country to our students as the Athenian Empire. If you told our student body that America was lynching thousands of people in 1969 most of them would swallow it whole. You can tell them anything you want and that is, in fact, what the Left is doing. According to my daughter’s high school teachers, General Rosie the Riveter parachuted into Normandy and won WW2 single handedly.

“In his own schooldays, Winston remembered, in the late fifties, it was only the helicopter that the Party claimed to have invented; a dozen years later, when Julia was at school, it was already claiming the aeroplane; one generation more, and it would be claiming the steam engine.”

The entire matter can be compared to someone being investigated for murder, and during the investigation the murder “victim” actually shows up alive and then the prosecutor announces triumphantly he is going after all the witnesses who lied to him about what they were wearing last Tuesday night.

We are going to get a list of all the witnesses who lied about what they were wearing last Tuesday.

“Our” Amy has a goofy smile but at least she is smiling and is not some Madame Mao type. Or do I detect a hint of a smirk?

Yeah, she’s a perfectly pleasant looking woman. (Looks feminine, not like a man.) She isn’t one of these smart, but ugly women out to make the world pay for its unfairness. I don’t think the underlying issue here revolves around her looks.

I think it’s the religion thing you mentioned above:

Since according to her faith (and by faith I don’t mean Judaism) there are no genetic differences in abilities in human populations then if any differences exist in the real world they can only be the result of racism, lack of opportunity, poor schools, etc.

This racial blank slatism is her replacement–i’m guessing–for Judaism. This gal is clearly not without some personal energy and intelligence–though from her writing, i can guess she really skews verbal, she doesn’t really seem to have any “feel” for what math is about. But it’s all misdirected.

She would have been far better off in an earlier time getting hitched to a nice Jewish boy, getting her dose of religion at the synagogue on saturday and directing her energies into raising a passel of smart, well-behaved kids.

Unfortunately, she’s not alone. There are just boatloads of these gals who have misdirected their lives away from the momming they’re suited for, over to blabbing about politics or social science, with a mental makeup–full of feelings–ill suited in terms of rationality, logic or numeracy, to the task.

And seriously, no one should be blathering on about nurture\nature–certainly taking the nurture side–unless they have had at least two kids. There reallly ought to be law.

OT: The designer of the Israeli Wall says critics who say walls don’t work don’t know what they are talking about. From Fox News: https://video.foxnews.com/v/6005702978001/#sp=show-clips

The Arabs or the Muslims did not make Western civilization, except by being what we struggled, and still struggle, to defeat.

I don’t know why but I have this feeling they won’t be tying the knot until the lawsuits are all over.

I would argue that Israel is the (more) normal country and we are the ones thru the looking glass.

Her dog was 99% dog and 1% wolf. She said: “it’s a wolf”. Her product was 99% failure and 1% working. She said “It works”. There is a pattern here.

Must be nice to live in a country with free thought and speech.

We may have reached Peak Hate Hoax.

Good for George Bush…

It’s difficult and somewhat subjective to parcel out blame for pieces of the disaster, but George H. W. Bush might just be the worst president the US has ever had. The Immigration Act of 1990 might be the worst piece of legislation in history.

… We were kicking ass during the Reagan Presidency. Low trade deficits, low illegal immigration. Economy was good. Music was very good. Yeah I know Simpson-Mazoli but……. White percentage of population was still high at 82% in 1985.

This is crazy thinking.

Yeah, things were much better in the 80s than today with that 82% white population, but that was inherited from the past, and Simpson-Mazzoli–amnesty without a secure border or interior enforcement–is kicking off both the great Hispanic baby-boom and the tsunami of further illegal immigration.

You judge a policy by it’s effect, a US Presidency by it’s effect on the future US.

Reagan’s presidency had it’s ephemeral “good times” and some positive work on the Cold War, but with Simpson-Mazzoli, long term it was a disaster. Reagan’s lack of interest in racial issues–not that that stopped him being called “racist” by the lefty Jews in the media–and lack of focus or follow through meant the US got demographically rolled and the nation destroyed.

Forget Smollett. Time to start talking about another actor: John Wayne. And believe me, that’s the only actor you are going to be hearing about for the next few weeks.

We know what white supremacists look like: Big guys from Nigeria. So therefore these attacks were carried out by white supremacists.

They are the living embodiment of Jewish privilege, which is the only real privilege in this country.

While this might be true, both hacks are primarily living embodiment of a complete degeneracy of the American “elites” much of which is not Jewish at all. Basically, for the last 15 or so years I observed an astonishing corruption and decline of American “foreign policy” and military academe and “expertdom”–it is pathetic.

These “human rights” commissions seem to be outside of the legal system. How can a “commission”, not a court, levy such a fine and award uncapped damages? How can they force a company to hire? Is a defendant entitled to a jury, to counsel, to the rules of evidence, to an appeal? Is there a statute of limitations on this “crime” or tort or whatever it is. Can a New York lawyer explain this? Can a city “commission” really wield this kind of power constitutionally?

This sounds more like an anti-hate crime law than an actual anti-lynching law. Like all vague Federal laws, it has the potential to be abused by the Feds for political purposes. It also sounds like a way to turn a minor assault into a Federal felony with a sentence of 10 years with no parole if you are someone that the Feds don’t like.

I’m not sure I understand the distinction between Section 250 (a) (i) and 250 (a) (ii) – they seem to overlap in part (religion or national origin) but crimes under (i) require no “special circumstances” but crimes under (ii) do. What was the logic?

And, in the meanwhile, the girls who ran off to get knocked up by ISIS jihadis are all now begging to be allowed to come back home because they were just innocent, brainwashed victims

One of them, admits she was fine with beheading the Kafir because it is approved by Islam.

But soon these “Brits” won’t be begging, they will be demanding. And then they will be suing and will there ever be plenty of human rights organizations taking up for them! No question. And then they will win and be given free public housing, free medical care etc. The West is suicidal.

Lynching is definitely the # 1 crime threat facing our nation. So very good news. I’m hoping Congress passes a new horse thieving and cattle rustling bill as well. We need relief on that front and badly. Also a bill against Irish draft riots might be useful.

What the hell does “of Nigerian descent” even mean? They are Nigerian. Would The NY Times say Smollet is of American descent?

Why? Because America is a secular theocracy and the beliefs they express are the beliefs of the Established Church of the DC Party. Trump is a heretic, not merely someone who disagrees. That is why the clerics in the DC Media Inquisition hate him so.

America is way past thinking logically about anything.

I have seen nothing about them being charged or deported. Soon enough they will be running for office and lecturing us on racism.

I guess a skilled actor of any race really can play any part at all. I mean these guys were so good that even a professional like Jussie Smollett thought they were white supremacists.

A Jewish surgeon just operated on my wife. He was considered the best in our area for the type of sensitive surgery she had. I am fully aware of the problems which Jewish liberalism brings. However, I don’t begrudge our surgeon his skill or his wealth and I think this kind of comment is utter nonsense.

Financially it would certainly be worse for the diaspora Jews, unless the neighbors of Israel opened up their markets to Israel. But that is never, ever, going to happen. However considering that Israeli Jews have a lot of kids and American Jews don’t, from a purely biological imperative point of view, it would be much better for them to move to Israel. Would it be better for America ? I think it would be an even trade. Yes, we would lose a lot of talented doctors and scientists and business people. But we would also lose Sarah Silverman and Chelsea Handler. So definitely even for America.

I have been looking forward to this for a long time. I can’t wait until the NYTimes reading stale pale liberals wake up to the fact that the people they imported against the wishes of Americans have no interest in them, have no interest in whatever interests them, have no interest in their snarky tv shows, no interest in Coen Brothers movies, and especially no interest in their stale pale leadership. When voodoo and Santeria animal sacrifices are conducted in the US (and they will be) PETA just might wake up to the fact that only Trump could have saved their pets. Of course the way things are going, we will have human sacrifices before long.

In the private sector you don’t get to vote you boss out of his job if he takes some of your wages away.

On topic: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-have-abandoned-israel-jews-should-abandon-democratic-party

Sooner or later a group with trans-women and feminists, Muslims and Jews, Muslims and gays, Muslims and feminists, blacks and immigrants, Indians and Pakistanis, is going to fall apart. It’s fun to watch, although depressing to think about too deeply.

Rule by the insane. We may be the first society in history to allow ourselves to be governed by the completely insane.

The desire and ability to enjoy the most enjoyable thing in life: a family.

Israeli Jews want to live and want their tribe to survive. They believe survival of Jews is a worthwhile goal. A significant proportion of the West does not wan to live and does not care if their tribe survives. Why? Because a great deal of the West despises its own people. In particular the ruing elite of the West hates its own population. And that is the root of the problem.

When I was in high school in the 70s, college bound white American high school kids from middle class homes still picked tomatoes and were paid by the bucket. Not to mention working in McDonalds and as movers for local stores and in car washes and and as busboys. Even mowing lawns. I think what killed it for middle class kids was the demand for high prestige items on the resume for college. Now every kid wants to say he helped a refugee family from Somalia.

We should start with using Somalis for the workers. And yes, it is perfectly fine for everything to come to a full stop so the crew can pray on the rig 5 times a day for 1/2 an hour each time. That’s nothing. Because if I was on that rig, I would be praying ALL the time.

Labor is an insignificant cost in oil production as a % of the value of the product, so saving a few pennies hardly makes a difference to the bottom line. The Deepwater Horizon cost BP $1,000,000 PER DAY to operate. So if you spend another $50,000 on labor by hiring the most competent, experienced people available (grizzled old white guys) and paying them an extra $10/hr and the well gets finished a week sooner, it is well, well worth it – it’s not even close. The crew also has the potential to cause tremendous damage ($60 billion worth) so again you want the best that $ can buy. This ain’t the chicken plant.

Did the Romans, watching the barbarian tribes come across the frontiers, understand the Empire was going to end. I don’t think so. I think they believed that the Empire would right itself, absorb or repel the invaders. They could not conceive anything but the Empire. Our leaders are too limited in their imagination to conceive of what is coming.

This isn’t the first time someone has driven the wrong way on 101 and killed someone. I remember a case from a few years ago, a Stanford B school kid (from America). I wonder if there is something about the entrances which is confusing.

Oh! Oh! And one more thing Northam should say, since one of the pitchfork mob is Kamala Harris.

“And you know what else? When I dressed up in that stupid costume I was younger than Kamala Harris was when she was getting boned by a guy old enough to be her grandpa. My costume was just for one night. Say Kamala, how many nights did you let Willie Brown bone you?”

Co-Ed university should serve the exact same purpose but we have created a climate where a young man approaches a young woman at his peril. I told that to my son in the least awkward way I could. 25 years later your whole life can be ruined. I would assume we would do the same if we had a draft.

The Germans of Eastern Europe were most assuredly not assimilated. They spoke German, identified as German, had their own villages – with German architecture. After WW2 they were forced out of the towns they had lived in for hundreds of years, forced to return to Germany proper and millions died during this forced removal.

Outsourcing Federal Government work to contractors is where the real graft is.
Turning off that pipeline for 33 days wouldn’t have made Trump very popular in some Republican circles, so I doubt he’ll do it again.

But geographically dispersed hereditary groups have been rare in recent Europe

The Europeans had the most two pre-eminent dispersed hereditary groups prior to the world wars: The Jews all over the continent and the Germans in Eastern Europe. However unlike the Roma or Irish travelers, the Jews and the Germans were known as higher IQ than the surrounding population. Jealousy it would seem is a more dangerous emotion than contempt.

We needed a Wall and a significant extension of the time it takes an alien here now to legally become a citizen – at a minimum. We had to slow the rate of replacement above all. Only Miller understood that I think. Paul Ryan would never have delivered it but that was far more important than a tax cut (that will be reversed). The numbers of invaders, the super billionaire class and the Permanent Bureaucracy will soon overwhelm us. Mueller’s investigation already approaches a Bolshevik show trial – everyone being arrested for crimes committed during the investigation itself! of a non-crime!

That is hardly a liberal democracy in action.

I am very sorry to say that the US (and the West) are pretty much over – we just can’t quite see it yet. In 25 years everyone will see it.

So true. Definitely a great many repulsive looking people on the other side. They are bitter, loathe themselves and want to punish everyone for their misery. Kathy Griffin barely looks human to me. What is strange is we are letting these people, who do not seem in the least bit normal to me, control the debate. We are letting ourselves be ruled by the repulsive and abnormal and even insane – by a freak show. It is like we have made the demented banjo player from Deliverance our national symbol.

Some actual Americans are so full of self-loathing they anxiously await the destruction of everything as a way out of their misery. Naturally they ally with the third world freak show. Other Americans really don’t really understand what they are bringing upon themselves by allying with the third world freak show. But you want to image the future, imagine shrill hijabed Muslim women lecturing us about all the wonderful human rights found in the Koran – forever. Actually that’s not the future, it was last week at the woman’s march.

He calls their bluff and more. He’s sending the army to the border and consequently pulling it out of the border of other nations – the troops are leaving Germany, Japan, Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq and everywhere else. They are heading to Arizona. As for the shutdown, we either have a Wall or no government.

Muhammad (seriously) wore make-up – eye liner to be precise. Kohl. And if their perfect example for all time wore makeup, why you should too. Mr. Farhad Manjoo may have some other even more interesting ideas put up for a vote once all of his billion co-religionists move here.

The laws of physics are different in Israel as proven by all the miracles in the Bible. The fact that Arabs cannot simply walk through that Israeli concrete and steel is simply a miracle on the order of the loaves and fishes! It could never work here because we don’t have miracles here. Maybe if we transported some magic dirt from Israel to put under our wall it would work. It’s worth a shot.

The Romans painted Cleopatra as white skinned and auburn haired. But what did they know? It’s not like they were interested in their own history, Julius Caesar or Egypt.

The Near East is now certain areas of Birmingham, Rotterdam, London, Paris, Marseille, Amsterdam and Brussels. Very near. Very East.
The Middle East is now Israel and every country/area that hates it. That would include Libya and Algeria.
The Far East still remains.

…as diverse as Jennifer Lopez, Priyanka Chopra, and Rihanna…

That is, a Spanish-Indio, an Indian Dravidian-Syriac-Punjabi or a West African-Irish woman should, ideally, play an ancient Greek.

To diversity mongers, all non-whites are interchangeable. The lack of self-awareness is remarkable.

How dare you think this country is for your children. Haven’t you read the Constitution?

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posteriors, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of …

In order to give the blessing of liberty to our posteriors we need workers from the third world to ensure our posteriors never leave the couch. It is that simple.

What is the effect on the massive amount of junk food eating and sugar soda drinking by lower socioeconomic youth in the United States? It certainly is making kids fatter but does it deprive them of their full height potential? What about the increased use of video games and therefore less outdoor sunshine (and Vitamin D)? What about pre-natal care for those whose socio-economic status is not high. Life seems considerably less healthy for children of the non-elite these days. During the 1800s the English aristocracy was far taller than the working class.

The FBI and the CIA have become a lot more popular with the press once they went from being nominally right wing to being nominally left wing. This transition was largely unnoticed by the rest of the populace. Can you imagine the uproar if the FBI was still “right wing” and it investigated if say Obama was really loyal to Kenya?

In reality, although the Permanent Government is largely Democrat (which is after all, the party of government) in reality it transcends party. You can be a Republican and still pose no threat to the Permanent Government (which is why Congress is so worthless even when it is controlled by “Republicans”) but if you are , like Trump, a threat to the Permanent Government (not that Trump has really damaged it much) then they will do everything in their power to destroy you. Republicans and Democrats united to destroy the Tea Party because the Tea Party did not favor the Permanent Government.

The Permanent Government has made a deal with the Banking Mafia and the Plutocrats and they get along just fine (see the Bush Family) . They have all agreed to plunder the Common Man and divide up the spoils. In order to distract the masses, the have some kayfabe where they argue about gun control and abortion and other BS that doesn’t really mean anything, but fundamentally they agree that the plunder should continue.

Once you understand this, then the conventional left/right, R/D prism is no longer fully explanatory.

Not funny , actually frightening to realize what the left will do once they re-take the White House. They attempted to hide their crimes yet now realize the media will justify their illegal actions and they face zero repercussions from the GOP senate.

The attraction of the Left to cruelty is now openly displayed. If the GOP has any brains (they don’t) they would be dismantling the IRS and the Justice Department now, along with every other federal agency including the FCC and the FBI. As Stalin said, the government “weighs” a great deal and against that weight few can stand. Watson and Kavanaugh are a nice preview. The desire of the Left to publicly humiliate their ideological enemies is strong and – down the road a bit – will certainly be followed by a desire to punish them. When I see people like Harris as a possible President, I fear for the country. With a Democratic Congress, sites like this would certainly be banned by the FCC. And that will be Step One.

In my experience, foreign H1B workers are not recruited overseas for the most part. They are recruited from non-US students here in university. They then intern and interview with US firms just as a US student would. The law allows this. The only way they can then work here permanently is to get first a training and then a permanent visa but that effort is now considered so ordinary that it is part of the standard US HR process. Just as they take up spots in our universities, the students take available jobs. Did you believe the foreign engineering students at MIT or Berkeley or Texas or Illinois just go home? They stay. Naturally HR departments want this supply – increased supply means lower costs and faster hiring times. Once the non-US students are here the process begins.

That is one good looking wall. We need that wall. “Monstrosity”? No sir. “Necessity”.

Agree: Germany tried suicide twice the old fashioned way – by being badly beaten in a war they could not possibly win. The Confederacy chose that approach as well. Russia tried it by allowing themselves to be ruled by gangsters and genocidal maniacs. Merkel took a more feminine approach to suicide, by actually inviting a conquering hostile foreign horde right into the gates. America is trying a combination of opening the borders to a foreign peasantry – who are allowed to vote and therefore rule, IQ lowering dysgenics and a rigid code to ensure mediocrity of performance. There are indeed so many ways for a nation to commit suicide.

Who they are not, are Americans.

Thanks
I picked what I thought was one of the more modest poses. Anyway I’m sure she’s a fine economist.

We know exactly what feminized economics looks like. The below is real and there are other pictures which are not nearly so discreet. This is a professor at Cambridge. She has shown up at department meetings this way:

Nonsense! Natural conservatives, to a man!

I don’t doubt it. But whatever it is they’re conserving, I don’t want.

I have no idea what his grandma was like and I don’t care. My assumption is that Foer is assigning meanings to his grandmother’s life that she herself would probably find bizarre. My assumption is she was grateful to America and put no demands at all upon it. Foer is the issue. If he wants to retroject then I prefer he do it my way – maybe it will wake him up.

I don’t put it down to hatred. Just stupidity of the descendants. I see the exact same phenomenon with the Irish and others. I care about American unemployed, I don’t care about Irish unemployed. The US isn’t here to be a safety valve for Ireland but I have seen Boston Irish lobbying for more Irish immigration for 40 years. Tip O’Neill – remember him? Ted Kennedy. Would our ancestors really have let your ancestors in had we known you would demand we let in any unemployed Irishman, forever? I don’t blame the original immigrants. They probably were grateful to be here. I blame their descendants who assign meanings to their ancestor’s lives that their ancestors probably would find strange. We need to stop all immigration for a while and re-establish our sense of American nationhood.

Lower Merion is an upscale area filled with intelligent idiots. I am not surprised.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20161117_College_students__double_protest__Trump_and_Lower_Merion_police.html

Does Mr. Foer think this country would have accepted his grandmother if she would have announced – “if you are gracious enough accept me, a scarred teenage communist, my descendants will show their everlasting gratitude to you by demanding your descendants accept any person, no matter how useless you find them, from anywhere, no matter how horrible, into US borders, no matter the law, no matter their wishes”.

My god if they would have known that would they not have said – “Off to Israel with you – good luck”.

I’m glad they will run out of money. If we cannot have a Wall, it means we cannot have a border and without a real border we don’t have a real country, we have no nation. If there is no nation, I see no reasons for national courts. I see no reason for a national defense department. Who are they defending me from exactly? Certainly not the invaders who come across the border they don’t recognize. I see no reason for national taxes either. I don’t want my money to pay for an endless stream of Mauritanians and Guatemalans. I want my money to go to my nation – which does not exist – so I will have it go to my family. I’ve already written off any chance of actually getting any social security. If we have to start all over, better it be now, before it is too late. Trump should demand a Constitutional Convention of the States.

drug addicted gay prostitutes

Objection: Terminology, multiple redundancy

Is that really his primary residence? Does he really live there? Or is that a place he brings his drug addicted gay prostitutes – without alerting neighbors that matter?

They really have no intention of allowing us to leave what we and our forefathers collectively built to our children. At some point one will have to ask oneself, “why am I building anything at all?”

A pediatric neurologist once told me that a very high percentage (I remember at least 10%) of children were not fathered by the man named on the birth certificate. I don’t know if this is true or not, but the doctor told me that as part of his practice he saw the results of genetic testing. I suppose, with the availability of cheap home testing kits, we are gong to see a great deal more of this come to light. I wonder if this is going to start increasing our already high divorce rate. On the other hand once commonly used, it might be an incentive for everyone to be more careful.

This chart on has absolutely nothing to do with what people actually think and everything to do with what they are willing to say to a third party.

The guy on the right looks somewhat like a young Willem Dafoe. Which is almost as good a name as Haven Monahan.

The USSR was never going to touch the US, not with our nuclear arsenal. Western Europe was as populous and was richer than the USSR. Add in Japan and it is not even close. We should have cut them all loose in the 60s and said, “You are all on your own. We will trade with you but if you are not willing to stand up for your own freedom, I don’t see why we should.” As for whether or not the Soviets should control Afghanistan, there is not a question that I could care any less about. Afghanistan – just like Switzerland only instead of calm bankers, watches and chocolate, psycho maniacs, stinger missiles and heroin. Who cares who controls it?

What is it that made Scots so intelligent in the 19th Century, Jews so intelligent in the 20th, Chinese (?) so intelligent in the 21st Century? More interesting to me than the Flynn Effect is the fact that nations or peoples can shine so brightly for a time then dim.

Watson made his one and only important scientific discovery when he was only 25. He discovered nothing of importance afterward,

What? He didn’t continuously make Nobel Prize winning discoveries? No wonder he is so bitter. He only won a single Nobel Prize!

New York Times reporters continue to write amazing stories for decades. Even on the exact same topic.

As of Jan. 1, the CEOs of four of the nation’s five biggest defense contractors — Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and the defense arm of Boeing — are now women.

According to some of the other commentators these female CEOs don’t seem to have real engineering or military backgrounds. But when you think about it, why should they?

The key competency for defense contracting is politics. Women are good at politics.

Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Germany – all wealthy countries – barely have defense forces. Besides for the 1% of GNP spending:

Germany has 4 Eurofighter jets ready for deployment. Four.

https://www.thelocal.de/20180502/german-luftwaffe-only-has-four-operation-ready-eurofighter-jets-report

Sweden can’t even get enough troops to maintain the very small army they do fund
https://taskandpurpose.com/sweden-military-retention

You can learn all you need to learn about Norway from the accident report on the sinking of one of its very few Naval vessels which crashed into a tanker due to its own pathetic negligence and couldn’t even be retrieved due to even more pathetic negligence. https://news.usni.org/2018/11/30/norwegian-frigate-helge-ingstad-accident-report

Netherlands: They cannot even meet the most minimal commitments to NATO
https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/75484

Uncle Sucker defends these countries. Trump at least sees it and is getting tired of it but when he raised the issue of leaving NATO, you might have thought from the outrage he just said he was dissolving Congress. The DC Party is insane.

We need to get out of NATO and only spend what we need for our own defense.

Does everyone understand how much time is spent at corporations on “addressing” this kind of event thanks to our laws and the EEOC. Sanders voted for all of that, so too bad. Now maybe he will see -just a bit – what everyone company in America has to live with under the threat of lawsuits and settlements, thanks to him and like minded Senators. You didn’t show Bolshevik vigilance Senator, so let the show trial begin.

“Intellectuals Yet Idiots” explains the entire essay. Persons who read this blog should be well acquainted with the phenomenon. Our host points several examples out every day. And of course while it doesn’t make me believe that IQ testing is worthless, it does make me wonder sometimes about the nature of “intelligence”. So much of the West seems close to suicidal in their behavior.

I’ve been traveling to France for over 30 years for work. There has been a massive degeneration during that time period in cleanliness and in services. People on the street can be menacing. Even the food just ain’t that great any more. The restaurants in Italy are consistently better. The French want something they cannot have – less taxes, more government services, especially more government jobs, inability of the employer to fire but more private jobs, less hours at work but earlier retirement. Their position with regards to Muslim immigration is similarly bizarrely schizophrenic. They certainly fear it on some level but want to lecture you about racism. As far as I’m concerned, France is done. I hope I’m wrong.

Other nations see the problem and speak openly about it.

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5431917,00.html

Having free speech is a great benefit, if you want to try and avoid more problems in the future.

Walter Brattain one of the three American inventors of the transistor was born in Xiamen, China so I guess by the law of magic dirt, he was Chinese.

As the song says:

“Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter”

That’s right – I don’t give a flying F about any country but America, any people but Americans and I really don’t care for people whose religion demands my head or my submission. And I especially don’t care if a people who have irrendentist claims on everywhere lose a bit of land. Tough break.

MLB refuses to learn from FL issues with attendance and even TV watching. One factor is that FL is filled with hundreds of thousands of MLB fans who came from elsewhere and brought their ‘teams’ with them: Yankees, Red Sox, Mets, Phillies, Pirates, Orioles, Indians, Reds, Cubs, White Sox, Braves, Cardinals – all have strong fan following in FL.

I would bet that Nashville, Memphis, and Charlotte would all be better MLB towns than any in FL.

Being a muslim means they believe that Allah gave them the right to seize your land. It also means that a non-Muslim is a dhimmi, a second class citizen – as established by a 7th Century warlord – a situation that lasts forever. It also means if you leave Islam you are subject to the death penalty. It also means stoning as a punishment for adultery. It also means the dhimmi pays a special poll tax to the Muslims in “humiliation and submission”. It also means the world is divided into the Dar al Islam and the Dar al Harb: The abode of Islam and the abode of war. It also means that the unbeliever is najis – or unclean.

Being a muslim means you are perpetually at war with the rest of humanity.

The Muslims have seized North Africa, Turkey and the Levant from Christendom, or from the West, whichever you prefer.

And in return we are not getting any Nobel Prizes. We get terror, hatred, rape, crime and special pleading.

So I don’t care if any muslim country loses their land. Too bad. When they give Constantinople back to the Orthodox Church, then I might think about their poor poor loss of land.

The amount of modern weapons that the Arab and Muslim world together possesses is enormous, far, far outstripping NATO. Just look at the figures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_level_of_military_equipment
France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Netherlands etc do not come close to Egypt, Jordan, Saudi, the Gulf and Turkey. Jordan alone has twice the tanks of Germany. Of course using these forces is entirely another matter, as the Muslims only seem adept at using them on each other and usually in genocidal fashion. Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Iraq all have been in various stages of civil war in the last few decades. Still I can see how numbers of this size would make the Israelis a bit careful.

American Jews are the least self-aware people on the planet. They still have not figured out that in America they are among the wealthy ruling elite, and they are not the poor oppressed Jews of Fiddler on the Roof. Unfortunately, every time that movie is played, it reinforces their bizarre view of themselves. Israelis on the other hand seem quite aware of their position. I see no indication they are panicking over the US leaving Syria at all. Their chief of staff seems relatively unconcerned. I would assume he speaks for the Israeli security establishment and not some American Jewish Trump hating talking head.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-army-chief-u-s-leaving-syria-is-significant-but-we-shouldn-t-exaggerate-1.6768565

The scary, actually terrifying, thing is that the readers of the NYTimes believe that high taxes and subsidized yoga classes will work just as well anywhere on earth and that if you took 1000 people from Muslim North Africa and put them in this town, everything would turn out just fine – as long as you kept those subsidized yoga classes.

Agree.