George Bush son of Prescott bush, financier of both Lenin’ s and Hitler’s revolution.

He was nothing of the kind. Brown Brothers Harriman raised capital for enterprises all over the world, and that included some industrial concerns in Germany during the Weimar period and during subsequent periods as well.

It is difficult to seem like a competent leader when you have the thankless task of winding up a lost war.

It wasn’t lost in 1969 and Nixon, Laird, and Kissinger did not think of their task in those terms. Kissinger stated it thus: to withdraw American troops as a matter of policy and not as a matter of defeat. Gen. Creighton Abrams was able after 1968 to implement a successful strategy which neutered the Viet Cong as a military force (and implemented an agrarian reform in South VietNam). The South VietNam government fell in 1975 to a conventional invasion by the North VietNam government, who might have been stopped had the U.S. military provided air cover to the South VietNam government, something Congress would not permit.

Watergate was an attempt to gather information on something which remains unclear to this day. John Dean’s wife may have been married to a clown, she certainly had some colourful friends

Again, the Nixon Administration had two interlocking crews running criminal operations, one directed by Egil Krogh, the other by Gordon Liddy. You also had Charles Colson’s staff (though they appear to have never gotten their more inventive plans off the drawing board). I think it’s likely Dean account of his doings between January and June of 1972 is fictional and Gordon Liddy has in the intervening years been quite vehement about that (with some corroboration from others). Both Liddy and Dean are agreed that John Mitchell and Jeb Magruder were fully cognizant of just what Liddy’s actual duties were at the Committee to Re-Elect the President and that Liddy made elaborate presentations to both men in jonesing for a budget for his operation. We also have it from Dean that John Ehrlichman knew all about (and, in fact had ordered) the Colson office’s preliminary planning to firebomb the Brookings Institution. If I’m not mistaken, Magruder and Liddy have confirmed that Gordon Strachan was in the loop on the activities of the Liddy crew at the CRP. So, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, and H.R. Haldeman’s secretary know all about these shenanigans and somehow the President is unawares?

I wasn’t trying to express that it was worse (although it may be) – what I was trying to say that in this game of musical chairs, while almost all black students are at the low end of class rankings at their respective universities, Harvard blacks are still plausible college material while at the lower ranking schools the blacks that they are able to get fall below the minimum threshold and are unable to graduate (or if they do graduate, unable to pass professional certification exams). Harvard shoves every black to the left, but theirs are still on solid ground while the ones at the other end of the line fall off the cliff.

No. However, I doubt many social psychologists would have done what she did. Most people are risk averse and only an odd minority are willing to lie their tuchus off in front of a nine-digit audience. (N.B., Blasey at the beginning of her career was a child development specialist, not a social psychologist).

What was disconcerting about l’affaire Blasey is the readiness of partisan Democrats and NeverTrump twits to credit what she said. You’d think someone bringing a complaint 36 years after the fact, someone whose account was undermined by each of the four people she named as being present, someone whose account had incredible gaps, someone who could produce no evidence she ever met the accused, someone whose residence and school enrollments were such that there was no particular reason to presume she ever knew the accused, someone whose name and initials are absent from the accused’s period appointment calendar, someone who provably lied about a number of ancillary matters would encounter some skepticism from people generally. In discussions I’ve had in fora like this, I’ve yet to encounter a single identifiable Democrat willing to say plainly that her story was sh!t. Pretty amusing that most Democrats assume they’re Daniel Dennett’s Brights.

A lot of top students in the Midwest as a consequence never apply to the private schools on the coasts. The ones who do tend to be prep school products or the kids of parents who are more aware of the benefits of an Ivy League or Stanford pedigree.

It may also be that the parents are more into seeing their kids on a regular basis – more likely if they go to a state school – than they are into seeing their kids once a year, if that, should they enter the career path of an Ivy League grad (typically coastal city metro area job).

Russians are, despite their whiteness, fundamentally Eastern in their nature and will never be fully part of the West. They don’t need to be part of the West (especially the globo-homo West we actually have – the “proudly white” West of your imagination no longer existed by the time of the Soviet downfall) – they are their own civilization. Certain aspects of Russian civilization are worse than what we have, certain aspects are better, but most of all they are a little different. They (unlike the Chinese) are part of Christendom but a different side of it. We are the descendants of the western Romans, they are the eastern Romans (the Byzantines). We are never going to be Russian and they are never going to be Western.

Now could the transition have been handled better? For sure, but this is mostly on the head of the Russians (with Western naivete added in – we thought that Iraq was going to be a democracy too. Same for Afghanistan. We think that everyone is really an American at heart. They ain’t). The Germans had to handle a transition to capitalism and democracy in E. Germany and they handled it a lot better because they are Germans (and because they were willing to pour a lot of $ into it, which we weren’t).

The notion of voting for a man who made himself hundreds of millions of dollars as a vulture capitalist, buying up failing companies with leveraged loans so as to sell off the assets whilst firing the workers is hard to countenance.

Because it would be so much better for the workers if you just shut the business and fired them all toute de suite.

Among 25-44 y.o. adults, blacks and Native Americans still outperform, but whites are (very) gradually catching up:

https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/06/06/Health-Environment-Science/Graphics/2300-DEATHRATE-0601.jpg?

I think you are off track in your last paragraph. Suicide (other than suicide by cop) is just not that popular in black culture. The 1960′s heroin epidemic (and the ’80s crack epidemic) was a largely black thing but this drug epidemic seems to have fallen more on whites. During prior drug epidemics blacks were ODing AND killing each other – one does not preclude the other. It could just be some sort of uncool fashion thing (heroin is seen as old fashioned – something done by your grandparents generation) but maybe after a couple of generations of decimation, blacks have gotten the message that heroin is bad or maybe the most addiction prone part of the gene pool is already dead. Or else blacks are relatively happier than whites – whites see their race as sunsetting while blacks see good thing to come for them and are relatively content with their lot. At this point, a lot more doors are potentially open to the average black than to a white working class guy.

I think there are STILL a lot of blacks involved with drugs. It’s just that whites (who are 5x more numerous than blacks) are now ALSO involved with them, so it’s a much bigger problem instead of just a minority of a minority.

What with cell phone tracking, facial recognition, etc. the surveillance state doesn’t need to chip you to keep track of you – they can do it very nicely without a chip.

Anyone who uses the internet can be tracked by his web browser.

We know that AI is “racist” and that Google is working hard to find a way to make it not racist (and yet still produce meaningful results), which is probably impossible. We also know that Google has plenty of human resources (although not an infinite #) to throw at such problems until an automated fix is found, just as Facebook now has thousands of people searching manually for Rooshian election interference in order to keep the dogs of Washington at bay. We can also guess that they are not eager to publicize to what extent they are tweaking or hand tuning algorithms or results – they would much rather you think that it is all done by “science”. Putting this together, it’s my guess that they are doing a fair amount of hand tuning, which is some spotty and uneven combination of combatting SEOs, de-racisting their AI bots, the leftist predilections of Google employees, the commands from on high of Google management, etc.

Most of the Jews were purged around the time of the Secret Speech in 1956, so by the time of the 1967 pogrom they were long gone from the levers of power. Communism was supposed to be free from race and religious prejudice, so why shouldn’t Poles of Jewish descent have been involved in it along with Poles of Christian descent? Weren’t such distinctions supposed to disappear and become irrelevant under Communism? If 37% of secret police directors were Jewish (not that you are counting – oh wait, you are) then 63% weren’t.

In pre-war Poland, Jews (who were not religious and who were interested in politics) were disproportionately drawn to leftist causes because all of the right wing parties were explicitly anti-Semitic.

This is wishful thinking. Blacks are wedded to whichever party offers more gibmedats. Unless the GOP wants to compete in giving out more free stuff it will never be able to peel blacks away from the Dems. Blacks understand that they cannot compete in a free market environment and need the Democrat version of government to give them endless benefits and privileges or else they would still be living in shotgun shacks and eating cornmeal except for a few rich entertainers. Even what appears to be a black middle class exists only because they have mostly government jobs or are AA hires.

That statement is an indication that Brooks is fatuous above and beyond the call of duty. Obama’s executive experience consisted of running the Chicago Annenberg Challenge into the ground. He trained as a lawyer and only as a lawyer. Pro-rating part-time and seasonal employments, he worked in law offices for all of four years. What Thomas Sowell said: the Anointed confound expertise with intelligence, then confound intelligence with articulateness. (And, in Obama’s case, confound articulateness with being articulate when a TelePrompTer is running).

A quote from the Nikkei article linked above:

With its finances in a shambles, JNR eventually raised train fares by 50% in 1976, a desperate move that backfired, driving customers away and putting JNR into a worse position. Total debt ballooned to 37 trillion yen at the time of privatization, forcing it to spend more than 1 trillion yen annually to service the debt.

Each year the company received 600 billion yen to 700 billion yen of state subsidies. But the funds did little to address the root problems.

Eventually, the government took over JNR’s debt after it was turned into the Japan Railways group of private-sector companies. The government spent 24 trillion yen from its general-account budget to pay off part of the debt, but at the end of fiscal 2015, there was still 17.7 trillion yen of JNR debt to pay back. The debt has thus been shifted to future generations of taxpayers.

At some point, just their Japanese counterparts, the Chinese government will probably end up using taxpayer money rather than fare revenues to pay off hundreds of billions of dollars in debt incurred to build this hugely expensive white elephant.

Here is much of why the US has not one inch of fast rail: It would kill of a lot of business for politically well connected airlines.

Fred’s travel writing is fun to read, but I wouldn’t put too much stock in his analysis. Chinese rail is likely heavily-subsidized. Just how heavily subsidized? Here’s a clue – the cheapest fare from Chengdu to Chongqing, a distance of around 200 miles is 97 yuan, or about $14.

Whereas the cheapest bus fare from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, around 75 miles away is 80 yuan, or about $11.42. Given that train travel is *always* more expensive than bus travel, even after subsidy (just compare unsubsidized Greyhound with subsidized Amtrak fares), the Chinese bullet train subsidy might be several times the ticket price.

https://www.chinatrainguide.com/chengdu-railway-station/chongqing.html

https://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/guangdong/guangzhou/bus.htm

Meanwhile, China’s railroad authority had a debt to fare revenue ratio of over 5 to 1. American Airlines, the most indebted US airline, has a debt to fare revenue ratio of 0.5 to 1. That’s another way of saying that relative to revenues, China’s railroad authority is using 10x the leverage ratio of American Airlines. At some point those bullet train fares will have to go up. I suspect at current levels, they’re not even covering most of their operating costs, let alone debt service.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/China-pays-a-high-price-for-world-s-fastest-train

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAL/balance-sheet?p=AAL

As an addendum to my earlier comment, Chinese actions in that respect aren’t even particularly unusual either as a part of its history or of anyone else’s history. The random massacre was a part of the campaigns mounted by the Anglo-Norman nobility to regain its patrimony. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevauch%C3%A9e What limited English gains in France was the fact that its force lived off the land, and would starve if it killed every civilian along its route. Chinese forces in Vietnam were logistically self-sufficient and had no need for local provisions. The same would apply to Israeli troops in Gaza, if it chose the ancient method of settling differences. The Romans certainly killed half or more of the Jewish population in the process of suppressing the Bar Kochba revolt. In modern Gaza, all it would take is to seal off the territory while waiting for starvation to do its work. That was a key tactic used by the Romans to reduce the Jewish fortress at Masada.

If Israel had no regard for the rules of engagement they would just drop nuclear weapons on Gaza.

Due to radiation-related issues, I doubt any Israeli government would do this, short of the threat of being overrun, as in conquered and exterminated. However, Chinese rules of engagement would likely have ended the Palestinian guerrilla attacks decades ago. In just over a month, during its invasion of Vietnam in 1979, China is said to have killed 100,000 civilians. 100,000 here, 100,000 there, and pretty soon you run out of civilian supporters for guerrilla fighters.

http://www.historynet.com/war-of-the-dragons-the-sino-vietnamese-war-1979.htm

An entry in Quora describes this approach, which is probably as old as warfare itself:

https://qr.ae/TUhfZe

Guerilla warfare can be easily defeated if the attackers are resolute.

Genghis Khan, probably the greatest conquerer ever, never had a problem with guerilla warfare, even though the lands he conquered included Afghanistan. Why? Because his army simply slaughter all civilians, including their babies, who dare to fight against them.

In the Vietnam war, the Americans struggled against the Vietcongs. When China fought Vietnam, China simply romped through North Vietnam (north of Hanoi), transport removable factories/infrastructure back to China while destroying those that they cannot bring back. One crack Vietnamese division that was rushed back from Cambodia wisely decided to settle into prepared defensive positions near Hanoi instead of reinforcing the surrounded troops north of Hanoi. Why didn’t China has problem with Vietcong guerilla fighters?

When I first visited China in the 1990s, a retired veteran bitterly told me that his Major was killed by a ~6 year old Vietnamese kid holding a secret pistol when he was giving out food to the kid. Apparently, this is not an isolated incident. Very soon, they enacted Genghis Khan’s strategy. North Vietnamese villagers encountered were simply labeled as “civilian militia”, treated as combatants and showed no mercy. PLA never encounter anymore guerilla problems because there were no civilians left to provide the guerilla with information, shelter and food!

In the 1980s, there is no internet and no international reporter who has access to report on this. Chinese body counts, which included “civilian militia combatants”, concluded that enemy casualties were in excess of 10 times PLA losses.

Few successful counter-revolutions occurred after Communist victories in the 20th century. Sympathetic leftist journalists and thinkers have tended to attribute this to virtuous leadership. In reality, Communist victors generally massacred the opposition. The Indonesians killed their Communist movement to the last man, woman and child, and then some. Communism never regained its momentum in the country either.

The other thing is, Israel’s military isn’t as great as it’s made out to be, they consistently suffer losses and casualties (Despite having no regard for any kind of rules of engagement) in operations that the US would never take.

This is false in every respect. Of course Israeli soldiers are not supermen – they bleed like everyone else. Arabs consider it a great victory every time they shed Jewish blood even if it doesn’t advance their military objectives at all – shedding Jewish blood IS their objective.

If Israel had no regard for the rules of engagement they would just drop nuclear weapons on Gaza. In fact Israel exercises great restraint despite having an enemy that TRULY has no regards for the rules of engagement, who fire from their own civilian areas onto Israeli civilians. I would hope that the US would undertake operations to ensure its survival but maybe you are right about that (but perhaps not in the way that you meant).

Note that JayMan goes so far as to seriously cite HBD differences in Korea to explain the “propensity for Communism” in the northern part. Leaving aside minor and irrelevant details such as Chinese and Soviet military involvement, it’s worth noting that the North had traditionally been more Christian and more collaborationist with the Japanese, while the South had been more nationalistic and xenophobic (according to B.R. Myers in The Cleanest Race).

That is inaccurate. While the northern part of Japanese-occupied Korea was more Christian, it was NOT more collaborationist. Among Korean elites, northern elites were disproportionately – in other words, highly – represented in the independence movement, even setting aside those who were communists.

By far the most collaborationist part of Korea was the southeastern part of the peninsula, especially around the major port city of Busan that had long been a commercial entrepot for and trading post with Japan and had had Japanese residents in relatively large numbers even before the occupation. Indeed, many of the elite military and industrial figures who came to dominate South Korea later came from the southeastern part of the country, and benefitted from education, training, and experience during the Japanese rule.

Also, the greatest geographic division in Korea is not north vs. south, which is a result of the Japanese economic policy (industrial in the north, agricultural in the south) and the later international political situation that led to Soviet-American division. There is much greater geographical and historical division that runs east-west, particularly in the southern part of the country where a mountain range long cut off communication between the southeast and the southwest (indeed, highways across the two regions were not built until recent decades, so that it was faster to travel from Busan to Seoul than from Busan to Gwangju).

The southwest was long “oppressed” by the elites in Seoul and Busan (recall that this enmity very runs deeply – the ancient kingdom of this region, Baekjae, was extinguished by the alliance of Chinese Tang and the Silla of the southeast very long ago). The southwest has always been “rebellious” since. Paradoxically, despite the fact that Baekjae had strong ties with Japan and contributed ancestry to much of Japanese royalty and aristocracy earlier, the people in the southwest – long despised by other Koreans – were the most resistant to Japanese occupation in both the Hideyoshi invasions of the late 16th century and the later modern encroachments of the early 20th.

This southwestern rebelliousness has persisted. There were numerous communist insurgencies in the area prior to the Korean War. In the post-war period, the infamous Gwangju Uprising and the subsequent, brutal military suppression during the military dictatorship of South Korea occurred in the southwest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising

The online NY Times now has a feature called “the Comment of the Moment” , where right in the middle of a news story they will insert a bubble quoting from one of the reader comments that they have chosen as a favorite ( a “Times Pick”) . In today’s story about the gathering of criminals on the border, the “Comment of the Moment” was (for a moment) the following:

With everything these immigrants have gone through, I am sure that many would become very successful integrating into the fabric of American society and given the opportunity, many of those little kids wearing rags and flips flaps could become doctors, lawyers or teachers. I pray and hope I get to hear their success stories one day. – Patricia Gonzalez
Costa Rica

Yes, all those Central American Indios are future Salks and Sabins, every one of them, despite the fact that hardly any of them have ever shown any promise in 500 years of contact with the West. Perhaps Patricia could persuade the government of Costa Rica to take in these future geniuses so that the people of her country could enjoy the scientific breakthroughs instead?

I mean really, what does America represent? Wal-Mart, Wall Street, warmongering, Nascar, BLM, third world cities, hatred of whites, Hebrew supremacy, mass shootings, obesity, McDonald’s, shitty and overpriced health care, Zionism, gay pride parades, radical feminism, forced multiculturalism, the surveillance state, police state, etc. You’re free to love these things, or love America in spite of them, but I just can’t bring myself to do so.

1. Wal-Mart is an efficient purveyor of retail trade. No one is compelling you to shop ther.

2. Wall Street: no clue how you fancy a modern economy operates without capital markets

3. ‘warmongering’ is a nonsense term, not a coherent concept.

4. NASCAR: if you don’t like motorsports, don’t spend your time on them. If you prefer Le Mans, here it is:

5. BLM: it’s a lousy political movement, but one indulged in by the few. The Communist Party used to command a quarter of the French electorate, which is an indulgence of the many. You’re not going to be free of ludicrous sectaries by emigrating. You’ll just have ludicrous sectaries yapping at you in some foreign tongue.

6. Third world cities are to be found in the third world. We have urban slums. Other than Detroit, they don’t resemble 3d world cities in their amenities. The problem there is crime and disorder (about which very few people on these boards care about addressing).

7. ‘Hebrew supremacy’ is a fantasy.

8. ‘Mass shootings’ you find abroad as well. They’re more likely to be politically-motivated in those loci, of course.

9. ‘obesity’ is something you’ll find the world over wherever malnutrition is uncommon

10. McDonald’s: no one is compelling you to eat there. (And it’s also a global enterprise for a reason).

11. ‘shitty and overpriced health care’ is a fantasy. You’re not going to get better medical care by emigrating. You might find more rational cost allocation. (A subject in which no one on this board expresses and interest).

12. ‘Zionism’: no clue why Israel bothers you, or what that has to do with daily life in America.

13. ‘gay pride parades’: something you will find in every occidental country in the world with a certain threshold of affluence.

14. ‘Radical feminism’: quite uncommon outside of college campuses, and, again a feature of intellectual life all over northern Europe, in Canada, &c.

15. “The police state” is a fantasy.

Your problem, really, is one you encounter when you look in the mirror.

So Kemp supports taking away your Constitutional right to boycott Israel.

So you boycott Israel, the country collapses, Israel’s 6m or so Jews end up in the US, and you think that will reduce Jewish influence stateside?

Roasting a whole turkey is mission impossible because the white meat is overcooked before the dark meat is done.

A whole roasted turkey looks photogenic but you can’t eat a picture.

Here’s my strategy for the beast – 3 dishes out of 1 bird.

1. Turkey soup – wings, ribs, back, neck, gizzard. Better than chicken soup.

2. Turkey oven braised “osso bucco” style – legs and thighs. The sauce (finely chopped onions, carrots, celery and tomato) is fantastic with pasta although arborio rice is more authentic.

3. Roasted turkey breast. Dry brine to get some salt into it because otherwise turkey breast tastes like nothing. Do not allow to go past 160F. If it wasn’t so damn cold I’d smoke it outdoors.

12 lbs. or more of roasted bird is sheer monotony but if you break down the bird you can cook each cut to best advantage. The same reason we break down cattle, sheep, etc.

I almost feel like I stumbled onto some self-loathing white liberal rag.

No, you’ve stumbled onto boards inhabited by people who admire the Alec Baldwin character in Glengarry Glen Ross.

There’s a lot of interesting data on interracial pairings (including cohabitation) in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_United_States

Like La Griffe du Lion wrote after describing affirmative action in medical school admissions, if you get a black doctor in the emergency room, pray that he or she got into med school through the front door.

You are going to have to pray REAL hard because almost all black professional school attendees get in based on affirmative action. Some of them might have gotten into lesser med schools than the one that they attended but the ones that go to lower tier med schools would not have gotten in at all. Ask the doc where he/she went and if it is not in the top 50 then pray extra hard.

Kind of hard to believe – an international phone call in 1927 was no small thing. You didn’t just dial up your friend. You had to book it in advance with the international operator who would call you back when they made the connection. Future SS-Sturmbannführer von Braun was 15 in 1927 – did he even speak English at that time?

As you say, to the extent that Mexico has an entrepreneurial class, it is usually foreign – Mestizo geniuses of any kind are rare.

AMD is kind of a case in point. The previous CEO, is a mestizo from Mexico. He brought the company to its knees. The new chief is a lady from Taiwan. AMD is doing a Lazarus – that which was practically dead is now giving Intel a run for its money. As with other turnarounds, there is a great deal of serendipity involved. But the contrast is pretty striking.

Israel conducts its own defense using its own precious flesh and blood. No US soldier has ever died defending Israel. You must be mixing up Israel with the Saudis or Kuwaitis or someone.

This was also preferable to a college run by “administrators,” otherwise known as useless leeches.

The director of physical plant, the chief of purchasing, the comptroller, the treasurer, the CIO, and the registrar are useful enough. So are the people in charge of miscellaneous services (mailroom, bookstore, campus transportation, shipping and receiving). I doubt the athletic director is a troublesome influence most places (they are at schools overly invested in sports). The chief of fundraising is useful (though may be running something of a scam). The troublesome administrators are the the provost, the instructional deans, the dean of students, and the president to whom they report. The provost and the instructional deans are invariably faculty members (though some are hired-to-tenure from the outside). The president is usually a quondam professor as well, but not invariably. The dean of students and his minions commonly come from the ranks of the world’s MEd holders. For the most part, the faculty do own the situation.

Remarkably, researchers have found that a pair of siblings may share as much as 61.7 per cent of their DNA, or as little as 37.4 per cent.

Wait, but I thought that all humans share 99.9% of their DNA? I am 99.9% similar to random African strangers but only 37.4% similar to my blood brother? This is some kind of strange math.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1416706/DNA-survey-finds-all-humans-are-99.9pc-the-same.html

I guess I’m all wrong. I saw all the drama on TV about the Michael Brown slaying in Ferguson and I started to think of those events as the Ferguson Effect but I took its meaning a little differently.

I was struck how all the black people would come on TV and tell preposterous lies. That’s when the Ferguson Effect took root in my psyche. After that when I see a black person on TV saying anything, I immediately presume they are lying.

Personality makes a man. There are plenty of men who served in the military and came out not one bit manlier.

Never met such a person. And, no ‘personality’ does not. Personality is an aspect of character.

He has a mostly passive personality.

No, he has a craven and dithering personality. To say he’s passive says he’s the recipient of the acts of others, not that the acts of others induce no reaction. The one element of resistance you see him undertake is exploring a lawsuit against the neighbor impinging on his property.

His children steal from his billfold and he’s uncertain what to do. This is 1967. Kids are into consumer culture. Lots of parents in the 60s were blind-sided by kid behavior. See the movie PEOPLE NEXT DOOR.

Blindsided by behavior that was novel and outside their experience, which petty larceny was not. I recall my own mother ca. 1971 at sea with some of my sister’s antics. When a party crasher invaded her bedroom and emptied her purse of cash, that she could get her mind around.

But would acting like Newman make him any better as a man?

Who is ‘Newman’?

Putting his bloody paycheck in an account his wife cannot access, telling said adulterous wife if she wants his co-operation in a divorce proceeding she gets her tuchus out of his house, not allowing her paramour over the transom, and telling her in no uncertain terms that the man’s relatives will be paying for his funeral is what a better man would do. Also, telling daughter dearest that the next time she steals four days worth of household cash expenditures from him, she’ll be in front of a suburban JP and telling her that it’s time she started earning is what a better man would do. As for the odious student in his class, the cash should have been turned over to the dean of students with a letter delineating the sequence of events; the student’s father merited a complaint to the police or a letter from an attorney.

There is a distinction between being good and being harmless. A good man has a store of righteous anger. Rules don’t enforce themselves.

Trump got ’round it only by being filthy rich and – more importantly – having the luck to run against a gorgon in a two-party system.

None of the 16 Republican candidates he competed against were gorgons, though people who’ve worked for Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina have uncomplimentary things to say about them. They were all caught flat-footed by the immigration issue. (Rick Santorum was supposedly something of an immigration hawk, but he was in 2016 having no success at marketing and fundraising, his performance in 2012 not replicable for some reason).

Trump I think that scares the media witless. They’ve amused themselves for decades stirring up sh!tstorms against candidates they despise and here comes a man who breaks the gaffe meter several times a week and they can hardly touch him.

Reagan wasn’t ‘cheating’. Radio, screen acting, and public relations were how he’d earned his living. As a union official, he also learned something of the business side. He was atypical among Hollywood types in that he not only had opinions, he’d given serious thought to policy questions. About 8% of the 1911 cohort had some measure of tertiary schooling. Reagan and his brother came from a small town petit bourgeois family impecunious enough that they were likely worse off than a great many of the wage earners who made an infrequent purchase from the family shoe store. Those of their stratum were not ordinarily college material. They both attended, both earned degrees, and both made an excellent living in Southern California. Reagan often said strange things and you couldn’t talk to him when he’d made up his mind, but the systemic cock-ups you saw during the Nixon Administration you didn’t see with Reagan. There was more there there than his detractors realized.

There’s the narrative and there’s what that article really said. The narrative is that there is this white beauty standard, an environmentally created facet of white male hegemonic patriarchy, which causes all non white women to feel lesser.

Then there is what that article said which is that black women feel like ugly refugees, the Pakistani girl is hairy but she’s laughing at it and the Chinese girl is in demand.

Last I was in Europe, most black women were at least somewhat ugly given that they are completely black West Africans. The exception were street walkers, who were surprisingly good looking. If not for being there, I would have thought “refugee” prostitutes were merely women who took a boat to Europe and had no other prospects. Not so. A lot of the street walkers were clearly chosen and shipped over to appeal to a European audience. The human traffickers picked out some very good looking west African girls and sent them over for this purpose.

The Pakistani girl has got a problem, the hairiness, but that’s not hard to remove. Her bigger problem is probably what her uncles would do to her if they found out she was dating a danish dude.

And the Chinese girl has got no problems but the narrative just has to pretend that all women of color face similar challenges when reality is that no one is more different to an African woman than an East Asian woman.

But East Vancouver and Brampton are getting as bad as LA.

Based on 2017 statistics, Brampton and Vancouver had murder rates of 2.7 and 3 per 100K population, respectively, compared to LA’s 7.3 in 2016.

https://www.bramptonguardian.com/news-story/8017885-crime-map-16-murders-in-brampton-mississauga-in-2017/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brampton

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouvers-homicides-rise-in-2017-while-surrey-reports-decrease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver

http://www.city-data.com/city/Los-Angeles-California.html

My guess that Indians expats in Canada who repatriate to India probably have an issue with fewer economic opportunities in Canada vs the US. Some of that may be due to more Asian immigrants in Canada, thereby providing more competition, on top of Canada’s Euro-like tax and regulatory policies, which hamper those economic opportunities.

I have no idea why any man would choose a non-blonde

On average, blondes are less good-looking than brunettes. If you look at the Swedish pop band ABBA, it’s pretty obvious that the brunette is way better-looking than the plain-Jane blonde. It’s a mystery to me why women dye their hair blond. The vast majority look worse as bottle blondes. For the ones that look better, it’s mostly because the fair hair distracts from their sub-average facial features. Good-looking brunettes look worse with blond hair.

In contrast, the father in SERIOUS MAN tries to do the right thing, and when the world turns against him, he wants to know why. He’s sometimes pitiful but also pitiable.

Actually, the character is a series of contrivances, as is the plot. It may be true that literature deals with the possible rather than the probable, but you begin to pile the improbable higher and deeper and it damages (in this case ruins) the quality of the plot and the characters.

1. The protagonist has a 16 year old daughter, so it’s a reasonable inference he’s been married for about 18 years and is about 42 years old.

2. Recall a 42 year old man at that time was likely to have had military service (> 70%). He’s been married for 18 years. He’s had children at home for 16 years. He’s been earning a living (or had fellowships) for close to 20 years. Yet, he has absolutely no aplomb in any situation, no capacity to stand up for himself, no capacity to induce anyone else to back off.

3. There’s no mention of any trade he’s ever had other than teaching, yet there he is at age 42 without tenure. And you’d think a middle-aged professor would have some experience with troublesome students and the games they play (as well as an understanding of disciplinary procedures) but he’s quite unsure on his feet. (You’ll notice from the conversation with his department head he has no idea how to put together a tenure application)

4. His children steal from his billfold and he’s uncertain what to do. This is 1967. Even in a moderately affluent family, cash withdrawals from the bank are going to be around $35 a week, most of it kept in the mother’s purse because she’s doing the shopping. They empty his billfold and he dithers.

5. Expressive divorce wasn’t common among my mother’s contemporaries. Women divorced alcoholic husbands, they divorced tomcatting husbands, they divorced husbands with volcanic tempers if the children were out of the house. He isn’t angry, he isn’t disgusted, he doesn’t brood. He allows the man cuckolding him to put on cloying performances in his house (a parody of California flakiness ca. 1977) and then is later manipulated into paying for the man’s funeral (as if the man had no assets and no relatives).

He’s not trying to do the right thing. He has no idea how to handle adult life at all.

the northern european staple was weighted more towards dairy farming or pigs until they got the heavy plow c. 1000 years ago so lots of butter, cheese, cream, fatty meat etc

The average northern European did not have enough resources for lots of meat or dairy. The 16th century French ruler, Henry IV, once said “If God keeps me, I will make sure that no peasant in my realm will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot on Sunday!”

Yes, I learned the hard way. I ate beef at least once a day for 20+ years and now in middle age, I have major cholesterol issues.

But it worked for the weight and body fat problems though. I was lean and mean despite my growing cardiovascular problems.

If I might ask, where are you on the BMI (body mass index) range? Above, at the upper border, in the middle, at the lower border, or below?

Barack Obama was verbally fluent

Only when scripted. Off-the-cuff, he was inarticulate.

Exactly. People in E. Europe lived on a high carb diet – lots of bread and potatoes and cabbage and beans, etc. . Meat was mainly as a flavoring – you’d make a big pot of soup for the whole family which you would eat with plenty of bread and there would be 1 little piece of meat on the bone (more bone than meat) in there to give it a little flavor and maybe you’d get a little taste of meat in each serving. If you were poor, none at all. People couldn’t afford to eat big hunks of meat. But people worked outside all day in the cold so they didn’t get fat. Also very little sugar in the diet.

I think the key to not getting fat (aside from vigorous exercise) is some kind of limited diet. People eat more when there is a large variety of foods to choose from. If you arbitrarily cut out entire categories (no carbs or no meat or no sugar – it doesn’t really matter which as long as you cut out a big enough category) then you are going to eat less overall. Bread will make you fat if you eat a whole bunch of it and then go on and have a full meal but if bread IS the meal then there’s a limit to how much of it you feel like eating. If you are disciplined you could eat a little bit of everything and be fine (French meals feature many courses but the portions for each course are small by American standards) but most people don’t know when to stop so cutting out a whole category makes it simpler.

If you light your straw man on fire, the smoke will keep the tsetse flies away.

You know a lot of single unemployed Asian-American guys who live with mom and dad and hit on overaged pregnant women in the upper Midwest? That was a character in “Fargo.”

I tend to think that was just a character where they decided to cast an Asian guy just to be different. They could have inserted a Hispanic or black guy, but that would racist. And a white guy would be too much like any number of stock white guy characters. The Asian character stuck out more, because he was the diametric opposite of the Miyagi character in Karate Kid.

I am really not a big fan of the patent system as it currently exists.

We have the worst patent system, except for all the other ones out there.

You are obviously a Farnsworth fan. His image dissector required extremely bright lighting and was impractical. It was very quickly replaced in broadcasting with Zworykin’s iconoscope. Farnsworth had some blocking patents that RCA could not circumvent but broadcast TV could not have been based on his original image dissector because it sucked. Likewise, Farnsworth’s patent #2,087,683 put a block on Albert Rose(nblum)’s image orthicon (also developed at RCA) but Farnsworth could never get his version to actually work (just as Zworykin could never get the device he described in his 1923 patent to work).

Now Sarnoff was an arrogant asshole and Zworykin didn’t really invent TV as he was said to have in the RCA PR machine’s version of history (which for decades was the accepted version). But RCA spend $50 million 1930′s $ (when $50 million was a LOT of money) turning TV into a practical system and without that (0r a comparable investment by someone else) Farnsworth’s crude image dissector could not have been the basis for TV as a practical device found in everyone’s living room.

Farnsworth makes a great story of the lone inventor vs. the giant soul crushing corporation but any highly complex modern invention pretty much requires the resources of a giant soul crushing corporation to be made into a consumer product. Even Edison (in his later years) had the resources of a giant lab (his own) behind him.

The law encourages settlement. But because patents are such a high stakes, all or nothing bet they often get litigated because neither side wants to settle for half a loaf. The patent holder thinks he is entitled to the whole enchilada and the challenger thinks he should pay little or nothing.

In the modern world big corporations all have their own portfolio of patents and they usually cross license each other in a sort of Mexican standoff, but not always (see Apple vs. Samsung).

The world is changing my friend. The days of hissing anti-semite or racist to shut people up are dying. You overplayed your hand. I’m sure that normies will cower at this latest atrocity, but a growing number of us will not play your game.

The fact that you have to post this anonymously is a sign that this “growing number” represents hope rather than reality. In reality, a growing number of people are voting for Democrats, and you can bet this influences the way GOP pols position themselves on race issues. We can’t even keep a horde caravan of illegal aliens out who are currently making their way, in plain view, towards the US-Mexico border, without getting a lot of flak from non-Jewish media and pols, and you think this is a sign that more people are getting worked up? You’re whistling past the graveyard.

This is the way of the world. The big $ and credit go to the hustler Jobs and not to the electronic genius Woz. Inventing a world changing device and running a successful consumer products company (which involves getting access to capital, managing people, marketing your product, etc.) are two completely different skill sets. Sarnoff couldn’t do what Farnsworth did and Farnsworth couldn’t do what Sarnoff did.

I had a look at his book when it came out. Some inventive observation. However, he was a literary critic, not a sociologist. And, as was noted by reviewers, he didn’t have the same ironic detachment from his own class that he did from everyone else’s. One of his wives sliced him up in a memoir. Good for her.

I think if you expect a political order to emerge in something other than a territorial state, you’re bound to be disappointed. You’ll have a territorial state with congenial politics or uncongenial politics, but you will have a territorial state. The Ottoman Empire was not some sort of non-territorial body. There were provincial administrations in the Fertile Crescent.

If you recall the high ambitions the ideologues in the USG had for Afghanistan and Iraq this should be sounding familiar.

I know of no ‘high sounding ideologues’ in the State Department, the Defense Department, or the CIA, then or now. They may be there. I couldn’t name them. I suppose you could reprint George Bush’s speeches. Treating ceremonial public addresses as if they were inter-office memoranda is a bit of inanity Andrew Bacevich favors. Not my deal and shouldn’t be yours.

It’s not at all like British and French imperial policy shaped the modern world or anything like two world wars and something called Vietnam. Or divvied up the Middle East in poorly conceived, top-down prescriptions in any way. Whatsoever.

I think you mean ‘divvied up the Fertile Crescent’. Iraq and Lebanon have suffered insurrection and civil war because of ethnic and confessional cleavages. OTOH, Syria’s a broken down wreck even though the population is almost entire Arab, is predominantly Sunni and is predominantly composed of people who speak Levantine vernaculars; the minority confessions in Syria aren’t concentrated geographically, so there was no pathway to better boundaries. Jordan to date has been a passably successful endeavour even though its Arab population is derived from three distinct streams (one indigenous, two migratory), one of which has a history of being quite disruptive in the other countries where they’ve settled.

I answered your other points before you made them.

Even Hillary Clinton is small time evil compared to many Neocons.

When did Max Boot or Jennifer Rubin hoover up 8-digit sums in pre-paid bribes? The closest you get to that sort of behavior would be the grossly inflated salaries the nonfeasant boards of National Review and Commentary are paying Richard Lowry, Kevin Williamson, and John Podhoretz. (FreedomWorks, Catholic Answers, and Hillsdale College are among the notable NGOs exposed for this sort of thing).

Max Boot and Jennifer Rubin write opinion pieces for a living. That’s it. They’re both ornaments of the non-profit sector with no real following with the crucial exception of a couple of people who sign the checks. Rubin once had a more consequential position practicing law. No clue whose ox was gored in her years doing that.

“Nothing” is an overstatement.

Obviously the commonality is a savory filling enclosed by dough and then fried or baked until brown. The Central Asia samsa (probably the mother of them all) is usually baked and often made from a bread dough rather than a flaky short dough so it is clearly different than the Indian samosa, but it is still its relative both in name and concept. In other places the sambusak (a Persian name) takes the shape of a half moon rather than a pyramid. Anything with potatoes (perhaps the most common filling) must antedate their introduction into India (probably via the Portuguese in Goa). Some variations (e.g. the samoosa of the Cape Malays in S. Africa) are close to the Indian version both in name and form. So the samosa is both an Indian import and an export and not a “pure” Indian thing at all. Since Asia is one big landmass (and the trade routes extended to Africa and eventually Europe and the New World) it’s hard to find anything that is purely Indian.

The concept is not exactly rocket science and so other cultures’ versions (the Cornish pasty, the Spanish empanada, the Jewish knish) maybe be cases of parallel evolution rather than related.

Her face has that Joan Rivers look. I’d wager some of the $20 million has paid off plastic surgeons.

When God was giving out looks, he really was stingy when it came to Indian women.

I suppose tastes vary greatly. I’m a fan of Indian women. And their cooking is, of course, divine. Availability is an issue. My perception is they tend towards endogamy within not just ethnicity but caste, even more than Indian men.

The problem is putting blacks and Whites together into one society and expecting them to behave the same. Of all people, you should know that.

I don’t know how to break this to you, but blacks and whites have been living together in this country for 400 years. You have about 15 million blacks living uneventfully in small concentrations in the larger society as we speak. There is no legitimate purpose to a white ethnostate. You need something simpler, which is a police force that is amply staffed and willing and able to do it’s job.

This woman is a mulatto who in the course of her life has been succored by Vanderbilt University and Stanford University, not to mention the offices of Mr. “Justice” Harry Blackmun. Her sister parlayed berths at Cornell and Stanford into decades of secure employment first at Ohio State then at the University of Oregon. You can see her sister’s blech research programme here (https://history.uoregon.edu/slide/welcome-leslie-alexander/). Michelle Alexander doesn’t do real estate closings or wills and estates. She works in the har-de-har public interest bar while drawing income from academic sinecures (Union Theological Seminary) and sorosphere patronage.

We have one woman whose fancies herself quite the ‘fighter for justice’ while working to make the daily life of impecunious working-class blacks as disagreeable as she possibly can. Her sister, having been so sweetly nurtured by this country all her life, is in the business of trashing it in university press books which will be purchased by university libraries and left to collect dust there unless some faculty member much like her assigns reserve readings from them. Condign punishment for these two would be to strip them of their citizenship and dump them on any Eurotrash latrine too inept to resist having to take them. They’re not doing a bloody bit of good for any party with whose welfare decent people should concern themselves.

The reason they have lore about this is because they did – that’s how the Pacific Islands were populated. The Polynesians started from Taiwan and worked their way across the Pacific in outrigger canoes. They didn’t reach New Zealand until around 1,000 AD (the aborigines of Australia arrived circa 50,000 BC).

Some of the distances were vast – Marquesas to Hawaii is around 2,000 miles and it’s not like you are aiming for an unmissable continent – a few degrees off course and there is only the vast emptiness of the Pacific. God knows how many expeditions were lost at sea for every successful one.

That being said, there is a limit to what medical science can do against the ravages of time and disease and RBG should probably be buying her mayo in the pint jar.

Pint jar seems optimistic. I’m thinking packet-sized mayo for deli customers.

In fairness, “Soros” really kind of is shorthand for “the Jews,” even if MAGA types like the unconquered Seminole Filipino don’t realize it.

That’s like saying Koch brothers is shorthand for the Christians. Back in the real world, Soros is shorthand for Soros, the man who broke the Bank of England.

Immigrants from non-European countries and their descendants.

We can’t keep even new illegals from coming in, let alone legal aliens from whatever source. But you want to remove immigrants from non-European countries and their descendants, who now number perhaps 35% of the nation’s voting population (or more, if you use the one-drop rule). I suppose if you’re gonna dream, you gotta dream big.

China is welcome to assert any interest it may have in the south China sea. They aren’t, however, welcome to do that when it means trampling the rights of the neighbors as they have done with all their neighbors in the south China sea. China is setting herself up for war, and that’s why the vast expansion of her military. Xi is not good for China, anymore than Mao was. Neither much cared about the Chinese people.

We’ve outsourced this stuff because it is cheaper, not because it is impossible for us to make the stuff here (or in Mexico). In the event of a conflict we could bring stuff onshore pretty quickly if we had to. We can do amazing stuff if we have to – it’s just cheaper if we don’t have to.

For the Chinese OTOH, shutting off the pipeline of Western $ would have massive consequence for their economy. Could some insane Mao type guy do it anyway? Maybe, but the Chinese people (including the military who own many civilian industries) really enjoy being rich. Chinese also enjoy not having their one and only children not die in overseas military adventures. Xi has been consolidating his power but I’m not sure that the Chinese would really be willing to follow him into hell or that he is really interested in taking them there.

My prediction is that the Chinese will probe for Western softness and take advantage wherever they think that they can get away with it, but not up to the point of open warfare or irreparably breaking their relationships with the West. The corollary to this is that the West has to draw bright lines (e.g. hands off Taiwan) and let them know that we are not going to let them get away with pulling a Putin in Crimea shtick and that there would be big consequences if they did.

Trump did better than average for a mid term election. In the places where he campaigned, his candidates mostly won. He even picked up a couple of Senate seats. He couldn’t campaign in all 435 House races. There was no resounding rejection of his policies the way the Resistance was hoping for.

Trump is happiest when he is in combat and so D control of the House will give him plenty of red meat for his 2020 campaign. It’s not like Paul Ryan loved him anyway.

Cruz wins. Heidi is out. Republicans keep Senate. Maybe will gain seats in the Senate?

PA court designed Congressional redistricting map was very bad for R. Dems may pick up 7 seats in PA alone. Judicial power in America is scary and undemocratic (small d).

a seriously bad [person]: a liar, a dangerously unstable

While Hillary Clinton, OTOH, is

a seriously bad [person]: a liar, a dangerously unstable…

It’s not like we had a choice between Trump and Thomas Jefferson.

Russia has always dream to be America ally, only if its been treated with slightest respect & mercy. That’s all she wanted to be West most obedient maid, but in return they only rape her like whore in 1990′s, and continue to abuse & humiliate her until this moment.

Russia’s corrupt politicians filled and continue to line their pockets with the revenues from Russia’s vast natural resources. And point their fingers at the West, which invested tens of billions in Russia only to be forced to write off those investments when the Russian government decided to revoke the terms that led them to invest that capital.

Russia’s idea of respect is to be allowed to annex new territory without interference. That’s not going to fly, any more that we are going to go along with Britain re-acquiring the territories that used to fly the Union Jack.

No leader would use nuclear weapons, they all scream they would go out in a blaze of glory, but not one of them would, and it may not be irrelevant to mention that the elite would be the first to go in a nuclear exchange.

Precisely. Alexander being a prominent exception, political leaders are not known for their self-sacrificial tendencies. And Al died in his 30′s.

you insurance companies will have to insure everyone else and we will tell you what the maximum premiums and deductibles in each state will be.

People want unlimited health care but they don’t want to pay for it. If you ration what insurance companies charge but not what they must pay for , that is a recipe for driving insurance companies into bankruptcy. Socialism only works until you run out of other people’s money.

The way this works in other countries is that healthcare gets rationed. You can have this drug but not that drug. You want some elective surgery – we’ll put you on the list and call you in two years if you are still alive. Etc.

Now in credit to the Dutch and the British, they thought that they were doing the right thing by “buying” the land instead of just taking it by force the way that the Spanish did.

Not just the Spanish. Just about every conqueror in recorded history (and probably unrecorded history as well). For instance, you’d be hard-pressed to think of an instance where a Russian, African, Chinese or Muslim ruler purchased land rather had his armies acquire it in the usual manner – at swordpoint.

People in the individual market are a fairly small segment of the population.

8.8m is small relative to the total population. But if even half of these people are eligible to vote, they could be politically decisive, depending on how changes in Obamacare are affecting them.

To be fair, that’s not what the article said. It pretty much blamed mental illness, which still relieves Polite of any element of agency. Even when blacks are not the direct victims of racists (not too many KKK members at Brandeis or in Brooklyn so it’s hard to construct a credible narrative even by the standards of the NYT) they are always the victim of unfortunate circumstances and are therefore never responsible for their own actions.

In the article, Quinn admits that as his mental illness got worse so did his anti-Semitism, so it was obviously well known to her even before this incident.

I’m sure that if the graffiti writer/ fire setter had been white the Times would have been equally sympathetic to their mental illness.

Sometimes these women can find white men but most white men are not attracted to black women. So it’s a very tough dating market among black females in the professional class.

Is it even possible to tell if the problem has nothing to do with physical attraction, and everything to do with the potential for all kinds of racially-charged conversations? The majority of blacks I have dealt with have brought up anti-black racism at some point in time. Who wants to deal with that day in and day out, in a life partner? A guy who is stuck on black women, such as Robert De Niro, has probably embraced the black narrative. But how many men are like De Niro?

Tennesseean re [48], Allison’s Thucydides trap is a Classics 101 fail from bureaucratic hack Graham Allison, who munched CIA dingleberries for a living. If Allison had read more than the Spark notes, he would know the Spartans determined to go to war with Athens not because Athens was vaguely ascendant in some way, but because Spartan leaders met and concluded, we have to fight them, they’re not going to leave us alone.

Now that Russia is at that point, it would be useful to shed the CIA brainwashing that bled this trusting country white. Allison is yet another fluffed Harvard mediocrity. His gift to posterity is his incredible feat of making the the Kennedy School into a place where paunchy middle-aged political science teachers can score student babes.

China is heavily dependent on Western consumption of their exports to keep their economy going

That’s kind of a backwards explanation of what is actually happening. China is highly dependent on Western companies that hire Chinese workers through subcontractors (i.e. Foxconn, Flextronics, et al) to produce goods there. What the tariffs do is cause these companies’ subcontractors to move their plants out of China, thereby leaving large numbers of Chinese employees jobless. Americans will still want to buy iPhones, but a good chunk of Chinese Foxconn employees who used to make them for the US market will be looking for other employment once the tariffs hit.

The real kicker is that even Chinese companies will start moving some of their production out of China in order to take advantage of lower costs in the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. And from the perspective of the owners of those Chinese companies, moving that production abroad has the virtue of keeping their capital out of the reach of the Chinese Communist Party, which seems to believe that it has the right to confiscate property owned by any citizen of China at will.

Kyle Bass was able to make a right call on the housing crash in 2008 but since that initial success his hedge fund has been a loser. He has staked his reputation on a China crash predicting it for years but it hasn’t happened. He is now trying to get hands on to make it happen.

That was in March. Since then, China’s Shanghai index has gone down almost 20%. If he was short and failed to make money, he must have somehow picked all the wrong horses to bet against.

Churchill was the greatest man of the 20th century.

It’s hard to tell if the guy is poetic or just schizo. His writing has a certain manic “word salad” quality that a lot of psycho writing exhibits. He sounds high IQ for a black person but the mental illness gets in the way.

I think it’s merely today’s fashion. Jackson Pollock with words. No particular talent required – just a willingness to fake it until he makes it. Given how strong the Dunning-Kruger effect is with the average black person, maybe he really thinks this is genius-level work, unfairly maligned by racist wypipo. Frankly, with this type of material it’s hard to tell how much of a given artiste’s (of any color) success has to do with his presentation skills and how much is pure luck.

The sour note is, of course, provided by the fact that my friends would not be allowed in now, while dregs like poor Kashawn are ushered through the door.

But at least they are ushered right back out again.

The exclusion of today’s equivalent of your friends is the Left Coast’s loss. And hopefully some flyover state’s gain.

This is 180 degrees opposite to what happened. You couldn’t possibly be more wrong. Polite resented Jew liberals as patronizing, and railed against Zionism. Humans naturally resent being in need of charity and hate those who help them. It was entirely predictable that Polite would bite the hand that fed him.

In fact, you and Polite could be good buddies except for the fact that he hates white people too. But at least you agree on the Jew hating part.

This is like man bites dog. For every Jew on black attack in American history there must be 1,000 black on Jewish beatings.

The folks who administered the beatings were part of a citizens patrol. Someone had reported that this shvartze was vandalizing cars in the neighborhood – they had no way of knowing his sexual orientation. The Hasidim have had to put with living side by side with vibrant types in Brooklyn for decades and it is trying to say the least – less tough Jews fled to the suburbs decades ago. He was blinded only in 1 eye – in the course of trying to arrest him and his struggling back, someone stuck their thumb in his eye by accident. The prosecutors had a weak case – the shvartze was the only one who could make the identification and his testimony was weak (probably because he was trying to avoid confessing to vandalizing the cars) so a plea bargain to community service was the best they could do. One of their fellow patrol members went to trial and his conviction was overturned on appeal so he got off completely.

You see this kind of “Will you denounce X?” trap coming from the Left (especially the media) all the time. They ask moderate Republicans to denounce Trump, Trump to denounce the right, etc. They are still talking about Trump’s answer that there are good people on both sides.

This is nothing but a divide and conquer trap. No one is obligated to denounce anyone that they don’t feel like denouncing, except in totalitarian states. I don’t particularly like George Soros but it’s not my job to denounce him. If you feel like denouncing him, denounce him all you want but leave me alone.

This is the problem – obsolete farm equipment can be melted down for scrap, but obsolete human populations are virtually permanent. You bring in a slave or a migrant worker to pick crops for one season and two centuries later his descendants are still here and have multiplied exponentially. The entire Caribbean could be a vacation paradise but slavery turned it into an extension of Africa with African crime rates and it is going to be that way forever.

Back in the day, it was more common for lawyers to marry their secretaries, doctors their nurses, etc. But these women were not the same women who become secretaries and nurses today. These were women who today would become lawyers and doctors themselves.

Now there were (and are) some rich guys who only care about looks – they don’t want an intellectual equal, they just want a “10″. Trump seems to pick wives this way. Wives plural because women who are “10s” don’t stay that way for very long so you have to keep trading them in on a new model.

This strikes me as being like the article about the “new discovery” that the Greeks and Romans painted their statues, when in fact this has been known for decades if not centuries.

Maybe this is related to the fact that NY Times reporterettes nowadays all look like they are 12 years old and have been half-educated in some grievance studies program (albeit at a prestigious U). I have socks in my drawer that are older than they are.

The old cynical line is “I was born at night but not last night” but these women really were born yesterday. For them, everything is new (especially when viewed through the amazing kaleidoscope of race/gender which allows you to see the world in a wonderfully new and woke way), even things that others have known for decades.

Announcing that Ginsburg was on the way out would probably be one of the few things that might actually rescue Dem attempts to win control of the Senate.

1. What, the pro-abortion people will turn their megaphones up to 11? The demonstrators will go from hysterical to ultra-hysterical? Anyone who is going to vote on this issue is already voting Dem. I think the Dems gave it all they got and it looks like they are going to fall short on the Senate.

2. RBG is a private person. She clearly has all sorts of ailments that she has not spoken publicly about but which affect things like her ability to keep her head up. She had ample opportunity to retire during the Obama administration and allow Obama to appoint another Wise Latina to replace her but she didn’t. It seems pretty clear to me that she intends to die in the saddle so we are not going to learn about her final illness until it is really final – either when she is dead or checks into the hospital for the last time.

3. Pancreatic cancer is usually a quick death but it depends on the form. Steve Jobs lasted a lot longer than most (which just meant that he suffered more).

The “crank” phenomenon (Unz, Fischer, Chomsky, etc.) is not uniquely Jewish but Jews are overrepresented even beyond their overrepresentation in the far right tail of the IQ distribution (which is already considerable). Aside from the genetic IQ factors, I think that there are cultural factors which account for the difference. As someone mentioned, the Jewish apostate or convert (who knows and betrays the “secrets of the Jews”) has for centuries been a sort of stock figure in Western culture and who often received praise, honors and reinforcement from the larger society. Whereas vice versa is pretty much non-existent.

The photo and video evidence for the Moon landing is fake. There were probably no men on the moon

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Yup, not alot of people know this but the moon landing was actually shot on a mock up set on the grassy knoll outside the Texas Book Repository building in Dallas Texas.

I don’t know what the history is but for some reason every S. African Jew I have ever met is Lithuanian.

You and me both.

I used to think that the antisemitic commentary around here was relatively harmless and within American First Amendment traditions but now I wonder – is such talk dangerous because it may inspire less stable individuals to violent actions?

This logic could be applied to just about every category of political criticism. In practice, legal sanctions will be applied only to right-wing critiques of left-wingery.

You forgot to mention why he was expelled.

Rudolph was operations director for V-2 missile production in the underground factory at Mittelwerk. Between 12–20,000 (mostly Jewish) prisoners died while building the V-2 rockets at Mittelwerk, which is more than the number that died in actual V-2 bombardments. So the V-2 may have been the only weapon in history that killed more production workers than enemy citizens.

We had our own native rocket genius, Robert Goddard and didn’t need Nazi war criminals. von Braun and his circle considered Goddard to be a god, but in his own country he was a prophet without honor during his lifetime. The US Army was just not interested in rockets until the Germans started dropping them on London.

Harvard benefits greatly from all sorts of tax exemptions paid for by all taxpayers so telling Asians “go get your own university – this one belongs to white people (especially Jews) and our black pets and we make the rules” is not going to fly. Asians have every right to participate in the institutions of American life in accordance with the civil rights laws and shouldn’t be required to build their own “separate but equal” institutions while Harvard continues to break the law.