Even if sleeping with hundreds of people a year is indicative of objectifying women, and let's say for the sake of argument that Magic did that back I'm the day, is there any proof or even any indication that he still objectifies women or is incapable of forming attachments (although I'm not sure why or how these sorts of attatchment problemss are indictive of character flaws, perhaps he's just aromatic or wasn't interested in relationships at that point in his life) or any other problematic things, that was more than twenty years ago and since that time he got what was thought at that time to be a death sentence and is now understood that with the right (very expensive) medications that is no longer the case for most people and instead it's a chronic illness. To me that sounds like an experience that could be profoundly life changing. Don't you think that experience might have changed him and that along with normal amounts of change and the general changes in society during that even if he once had those attitudes that there is a chance that his views are different now? Donald Sterling on the other hand seems to have been almost unrepentantly racist until now when he's about to lose his team, and his excuse/apology was pathetic, he was trying to get into a black woman's pants by telling her not to take photos with or bring black men to basketball games, but sure fuck them if you want, it doesn't make any sense.

This is pure speculation, coming from someone with little knowledge in this field. But one idea bouncing around in my head is that soil quality could be an overlooked variable in much of this research. Take skin pigmentation, for instance. Presumably producing more melanin requires higher levels of certain micronutrients. If those micronutrients are rare in British soils, then increased melanin production could cause deficiencies, leading to decreased overall health. Darker skin could come to be culturally associated with such deficiencies, even among perfectly healthy people, magnifying the reproductive effect.

Selection for lighter skin because of latitude should have hit diminishing returns long ago. But farming techniques over the past several thousand years are known to have caused slowly deteriorating soil quality, which could be causing continuously greater pressure on any micronutrient related genes.

If my guess is right, Borlaug’s “Green Revolution” should lead to a whole new set of selective pressures, roughly beginning with the millennial generation. It’s a possible explanation for the explosions in rates of autism, diabetes, and food allergies. (though I suspect those are largely products of more extensive testing, and cultural hypochondria) Modern farming techniques are disastrous for soils in the long term, so we might be on the edge of a huge bump in evolutionary change.

Of course, my experience is limited to the few dozen refugees I’ve personally known. Almost all were children when they came here. With the notable exception of the Vietnamese, they all seem to resent the US, at the very least. In every case, they insist their home country is far better, in every way, and they’ll never forgive their parents for inflicting upon them the torture of living here. Some have expressed outright hatred for America, it’s people, and it’s society. When I ask why they came here, the answer is always the same. No other country would take them. But somehow, we’re still the most evil people on earth.

Living in Southern California, I know far more illegal immigrants than refugees. By sheer numbers, the illegals cause a lot more problems. And I’ve definitely seen similar resentment/hatred of America in some of them, but the fraction is far lower. If I had to choose between equal numbers of illegals and refugees, I’d take the illegals. It’s not even close.

After watching that Swedish video, am I the only one who thinks the released prisoners look surprisingly well fed? They don’t have the look of people were recently emaciated, then quickly fattened up for release. They look like normal, healthy men.

Was it normal practice for the North Vietnamese to adequately feed prisoners? Did officers and/or VIPs get extra food?

I’m not trying to imply anything about McCain, or his fellow prisoners. I won’t speak ill of things a man does under circumstances I don’t understand. (his record in government, however, is atrocious) I’m just curious about the prison food situation, and whether or not those men were representative of the prisoners who came home.

I haven’t read through all the comments, so forgive me if this has already been beat to death. But it seems to me that this is just another battle in the war against noticing. A huge part of intelligence is pattern recognition. This drivel is designed to convince people that pattern recognition is irrational. Of course, intelligent or not, it’s impossible to make rational decisions without recognizing the patterns in the information available.

I think the fundamental point these authors are trying to make is that, when you get on the subway at 2:00 am in Brooklyn, it’s irrational to believe you’re better off sitting next to the 50 year old Asian woman than the 19 year old black man.

“Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms.”

And how well has that worked out? Does humanity seem, on the whole, to be doing better today than 40 years ago?

I see intuition as the sum total of all the experiences of every ancestor of ours, going back to the beginning of life, but edited down to fit within the available storage medium. So much of that data has been lost that the instinctual conclusions may make no rational sense. But the fact remains that every one of us is the product of only our ancestors who survived long enough to reproduce. We don’t have to understand the logic of those intuitions to accept that they kept our line going, while other genetic lines died off. If billions of years of evolution can account for sentience, I see no reason to believe that it can’t account for an intuitive system that outperforms pure logic, at least in terms of survival to reproductive age.

It’s more useful to be correct on a non-trivial question than a trivial one. Because ALL possible answers contain the fact that Linda is a bank teller, that information can be treated as a given. It’s no longer part of the answer, but part of the data available for finding the answer. Being a known quantity, it becomes trivial. That shifts the question, in the minds of the test takers, to the only non-trivial question left: Is Linda a feminist? People preferentially solved the non-trivial portion of the problem because trivial problems are unimportant to survival.

Consider this alternate example. Two men see a dog. One says, “That’s a dog.” The other says, “That’s a dog with rabies.” Obviously the first man is more likely to be correct. But the second man’s assertion, even if wrong, is the one that matters.

State – Pat Buchannan

Treasury – Ron Paul

Attorney General – Chris Christie

Surgeon General – Ben Carson

ICE – Joe Arpaio

Supreme Court – Ted Cruz

Press Secretary – Sarah Palin

Fed Chairman – “You’re Fired!” And don’t replace her.

Ambassador to North Korea – Dennis Rodman

No, really. He seems to be the only American who has a decent relationship with Kim.

I realize I’m late to this, but is there anyone left out there who can help a brotha out? No matter how long I look at that chart, I just can’t find where the 50% figure for 1980 births comes from. I see the 1980 plot dropping permanently below the 50% line at the 34th percentile. I interpret that to mean that 2/3 of the population is unlikely to make as much as their parents. At the 50th percentile, only about 45% make more than did their parents. What am I missing? Even integrating, it’s clear that there’s considerably more area below the 50% line than above.

On a personal note, I’m 40. I make about $54,000 a year, before taxes. I get no benefits except for 5 paid holidays a year. No vacation or sick pay, no pension or 401k, and no insurance. Other than the complete lack of insurance and vacation pay, I’d say my income is about average for my job. My father turned 40 in 1984. He made about $28,000 that year, (about $65,000 today) plus 100% medical coverage for 4 of us, (him, me, my mother, and my brother) 10 paid holidays, 3 weeks combined sick/vacation pay, and a pension plan that currently pays him about $2,400 a month. As a union employee of the dominant company in his field, his pay was, almost by definition, average for the job.

The biggest difference between us? I’m a CNC programmer/prototype machinist, with 20 years of experience. He was a bus driver, with 10 years of experience. Why did he have less experience at the same age? Because he tried being a machinist at about the same age I started, and he found that he couldn’t hack it. I mean no disrespect to my father, but I’m objectively a more valuable employee than he was. I can drive a bus just fine, and I currently have a standing offer to do so professionally. He washed out as a machinist.

Machining is FAR more technical today, and far more intellectually demanding. I need to know almost everything my father was supposed to know 50 years ago, plus be a borderline computer expert. On a daily basis, I use three very expensive and complex software packages, (Mastercam, Solidworks, and Gibbscam) and I still have to program the 9 axis Swiss lathe longhand, because all that fancy software still isn’t powerful enough for the most complex machines. And once the CNC machines are running, I go back to making parts manually, exactly the same way my father used to in the 60’s. Parts I’ve made are currently in orbit, (and likely on or orbiting other planets) at the bottoms of the oceans, inside human bodies, and pretty much everywhere else you can think of. And today, the pay for that is over $10,000 less every year (inflation adjusted) than a fairly typical Greyhound driver made in the 80’s.

Of course, bus drivers don’t make that much anymore, either. According to Glassdoor,com, it looks like bus drivers average about $45,000 a year now, or about 70% of what my father made in the 80’s. While immigration has probably driven that down some, I get the impression that bus driving is still a much whiter profession than machining. Unlike machining, there’s no way to outsource bus drivers. And as of yet, they still face no competition from automation. (for the moment) Off the top of my head, I can’t think of a single job that’s changed less over those 32 years than driving, in terms of either the job requirements, or value to society. On paper, it should be about as stable a profession as there is. But wages haven’t come close to keeping up with inflation.

I agree completely that immigration and outsourcing have hurt Americans severely. But it seems to me there’s more going on. It seems like every job outside the top levels of finance, government, or entertainment, is slowly converging on about $20 per hour. This is coming from both the bottom and the top, as minimum wage (at least in California) is currently going up much faster than inflation, while higher income jobs are going up much slower. In my field, for instance, a lead machinist now typically makes less than twice what a first day apprentice makes, even though he’s dozens of times more productive. Some here would blame immigrants, communism, capitalism, Jews, SJWs, etc. I don’t claim to know what’s behind it, but it’s clearly NOT Adam Smith’s invisible hand. There’s a concerted effort in this country, and probably the world, to force 99.99% of the population back to the status of undifferentiable serfs, who can be mixed, matched, or disposed of, at will. It’s clear to me that whomever is behind this movement has come to the conclusion that allowing the talented to rise is more dangerous than it is productive, so everyone must be held back to the level of the lowest. Globalism is one, but only one, of the means this person/group is using, so I don’t think ending it will solve the problem. I’m 100% behind Trump’s stated goal of tackling globalism. But I fear that even if he’s wildly successful, we still won’t make any progress until the masses quit fighting amongst ourselves, and pick up the torches and pitchforks. The system can’t be “fixed”, because it isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as intended.

Sorry for the rant. Sometimes you get started writing, and just have to go where it takes you.

I’m not sure I’d call the kidnappers disabled, in strict clinical terms, but I’d be somewhat surprised if all four of them could score higher on an IQ test than the victim.

I’m pretty sure Steve has written before about the tendency of, say, a 70 IQ white person to be much more seriously disabled than a 70 IQ black person. I’d guess it’s because a 70 IQ kid from two 100 IQ parents probably has a physical deformity in his brain, where an equally intelligent kid from two 82 IQ parents is just on the low end of normal.

I think of it like cats vs. humans. A human with a 30 IQ isn’t likely capable of living without assistance. But among cats, I’ve read that an IQ roughly equivalent to mid 20’s in humans is average. Yet most cats would do fine on their own. It’s because their mental programming is appropriate for their processing ability. They’re simply not trying to do things that are vastly beyond their abilities.

I think it’s the same with black and white people. A 90 IQ black man thinks of himself as exceptionally intelligent because, frankly, he is. Compared to average African Americans, he’s somewhat above the mean. But compared to the average sub-Saharan African, from where the majority of his mental programming originates, (the actual program, not the user inputs) he’s a legitimate genius. His complete and easy mastery of his simplified programming makes him appear to himself, and even to vastly more intelligent others, as a fairly smart guy. And as long as he sticks to tasks reasonably accomplished within that software, he can function as well as those around him. I would argue that he might even function better, because he might be using a smaller percentage of his capacity, due to the simplified software. But when you ask him to do something beyond what that programming can handle, his deficiencies suddenly become clear. With a 90 IQ, he probably can’t learn calculus. No amount of studying will help, because the programming he was born with simply can’t accommodate it. It’s like asking a chess computer to play checkers. The necessary instruction set just isn’t there. In contrast, a 105 IQ white kid can probably muddle through it, because his inborn programming is more capable of abstract math. At 105 IQ, I doubt he’d understand calculus, but he could probably pick up enough, temporarily, to pass a class in it.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to write a book. Back to my point; I’d guess that the kidnappers have little to no IQ advantage over the boy they tortured. But I’d classify the white kid as disabled, while the black kids are probably just on the low side of the black average. They can function comparatively normally in life (except for the being evil part) because they’re closer to the intelligence their mental programming was designed/evolved for.

Off topic:

Steve, have you paid any attention to the “Baby it’s Cold Outside” controversy? I finally watched the clip from the movie a few days ago. What struck me wasn’t the rapiness of the situation, but the modern liberal tolerance of it. In the 40’s, they had a born and bred Mexican man (Ricardo Montalban) with a white woman, and NO ONE CARED. Aren’t we supposed to believe that Mexicans were lynched daily back then? Now that I think about it, Montalban, a Mexican, probably qualified as a second tier sex symbol for about 50 years. My impression is that he was seen by white women as about Burt Reynolds level attractive, but much MORE respectable.

Maybe no one ever noticed he was Mexican?

Just a point on grammar:

“They are/were” doesn’t seem correct for this absurd usage. While the pronoun appears to be redefinable at will, it’s usage is still plainly singular, making the verb also singular. As such, wouldn’t “they is/was” be more appropriate?

Or would it be racist for a white person to say, “they was?”

But in this case, it doesn’t even matter. Since we all know that no genuine trans person could ever commit a violent crime, the murderer’s pronoun is plainly “he.” Any real Scotsman would tell you that.

If it has a life sentence, with no possibility of parole, why should anyone try to stop it’s suicide attempt? I’m totally serious. Society has already deemed him unworthy of participating, and he apparently agrees. Where’s the problem?

While some obvious safeguards would need to be put in place, I think everyone with a minimum sentence longer than 25 years or so should be given the option to choose suicide. Especially in California, where pretty much everyone on Death Row is destined to die of old age.

I was just about to write something similar. When I see criminal charges start getting filed, I’ll take it more seriously. If someone were to rape my wife, assuming I didn’t hunt him down myself, (which I would) we’d go to the police, not to a lawyer. Filing civil lawsuits for violent crimes makes me think more of Haven Monahan than of Jack the Ripper.

On a different note, it’s time we do something about the Doe family. They’re clearly the most litigious people on earth. This is the first time I’ve heard of Elizabeth suing anyone. But I read about another lawsuit by John or Jane every day.

The psychological analysis is easy. Politics for many people, of all political stripes, is more of a team sport than an ideology. At least subconsciously, they don’t think themselves capable of forming moral judgments, or understanding society’s problems. Instead of wading through the evidence to come to logical conclusions, a task for which they my not in fact be competent, they just join a team, and let “the experts” think for them.

As a Cleveland Browns fan, for instance, I can tell you that the Steelers are the worst team in sports, and their fans are the embodiment of evil. The fact that I can’t present any evidence for this, and that any rational person would conclude that the Steelers are currently a far superior team, has nothing to do with my beliefs. I’ve embraced the life of a Browns fan, therefore my fundamental identity is tied to the knowledge that the Steelers suck. Evidence to the contrary doesn’t even merit refutation; It’s prima facie heretical, and therefore wrong. It’s simply us against them, and it makes no difference who the “us” or the “them” is, or what either side says.

How the Russians specifically were chosen as the current enemy is probably just habit. The over 40 crowd grew up knowing that them Ruskies were the enemy. The democrat leadership are betting on the belief that the American public still believes the Cold War propaganda. In my experience, the younger democrats, particularly the Bernie Bros, are openly laughing at this Russian hacking idea, even as they protest Trump. Having grown up without the Red Menace, they never got in the habit of blaming Russia.

These two clips put it more succinctly than I ever could:

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You, sir, are the living embodiment of Santoculto’s very accurate comment above.

“We just don’t know who will end up holding the title, once all the lawsuits are decided ”

Sure we do. In all of history, it’s always been the same. Petty chattels remain with whomever possesses them. Sometimes, as in the fall of the Soviet Union, that possession rule can extend all the way up to homes. That case was extremely generous, as these things go. Anything bigger always, without exception, becomes property of the governing body. At least on paper, that probably won’t be the government recognized at the start of the collapse. It may be a new government. Or a Church. Or a bank. Or it could just be whichever local warlord holds power over your particular area, once some semblance of order is restored. Most likely though, it’s the old government, with a catchy new name. (meet the new boss, same as the old boss) Regardless, that group/person will assume ownership of everything with more than trivial value. The new boss may distribute ownership to some favored individuals, but only as a means of consolidating power. If, for instance, Bill Gates is allowed to keep Microsoft, it will be made abundantly clear that continued ownership is contingent on him kissing the ring, and doing as he’s told.

If anyone knows of a societal collapse that didn’t play out as I’ve described, I’d be very interested in hearing about it.

About a year ago, a friend of mine was stopped for a random traffic ticket. I never asked what, but he ended up not even getting the ticket. (he’s a lousy driver, so I don’t question the initial stop at all) When the cop asked the usual question about weapons in the car, he said there was a rifle in a locked case, in the trunk. Keep in mind, this was a trivial traffic infraction, and he was an army veteran, with no criminal record at all. And even here in California, it’s perfectly legal to have a gun locked in the trunk. Of course, the cops decided that simple possession of a completely legal weapon constitutes probable cause for a complete search of the car. The only thing they found was the locked rifle case, exactly as my friend described it. After cutting the lock off, the cop found a legal (at the time) AR15, with a 10 round magazine held in by the then standard “bullet button” legal workaround, and 2 additional empty 30 round magazines. Contrary to popular belief, possession of 30 round magazines was still legal in California until the first of this year, provided they were acquired before they were banned. The cop, however, arrested him for possession of a machine gun, and 2 high capacity magazines. Yes, I saw the arrest report, and it explicitly said “machine gun.” Because of that wording, he was held without bail. They got a search warrant for his home, and confiscated his other completely legal firearms and ammunition. Once he finally got to see a judge, after THIRTY SIX DAYS in jail, the prosecution announced that they couldn’t find any crime to charge him with, so they dropped the case. As a final slap in the face, they still made him spend one more day in jail, while they filed his release paperwork. Again, HE WAS NEVER FORMALLY CHARGED WITH ANYTHING.

He was released to find that he now owed over $3,000 in impound fees for his car, he’d been fired from his job, and his ex wife had been granted sole custody of their children, because he now had a very serious arrest record. (with no charges filed) Between the car and his lawyer, he was already out about $10,000, and they still refuse to return about $8,000 worth of property, a year later. Including the lost wages for the month+ in jail, that arrest cost him well over $20,000, his job, and the 50% custody he had of his children. But because he was released, the system gets to pat themselves on the back, and claim “justice was served.”

Thank you for that.

Aside from any constitutional problems, I’ve been pointing out for years that, in most jurisdictions, governments never got around to formally passing laws giving police any power. In most of the country, a police arrest is legally identical to a citizen’s arrest. The distinction doesn’t even exist. It’s not legislation, but mere “policy” that makes an officer’s arrest any different from the now obscure and ridiculed concept of a citizen’s arrest. Sheriffs are a completely different subject. But city police are legally nothing more than security guards, who happen to work for the government.

I’m sure that plenty of cops will object to that charge. If you can point me to SIGNED LEGISLATION defining a municipal police officer’s arrest as different from a citizen’s arrest, I’ll happily withdraw the claim, and apologize.

The problem is that the powers that be have inextricably linked fascism with Nazism, which was merely Hitler’s particular implementation of it. That verbal sleight of hand is unfortunate, as it leaves the world’s most common economic system unnamable. Capitalism, which in it’s purest form can only exist under anarchy, is currently blamed for all the problems brought about by the state’s interference with trade, leading far too many people to conclude that communism must be the answer. But communism is even less workable in the real world than is capitalism. In actual fact, Mussolini didn’t so much invent fascism, as he just described his idealized version of almost every functioning economy in history. Fascism is merely what happens when capitalism or communism has to contend with human nature. The only real alternative is despotism, which the world is currently sliding back into. But Hitler killed a bunch of people, so we can’t talk about this.

It’s even worse than that. Today’s “liberals” have actually adopted Orwell’s vision of socialism, where the proletariat is openly despised and ridiculed by the socialists themselves. I’ve always had that complaint about 1984, that it was completely incompatible with the drivel Marx spewed. Yet here we are, with the self proclaimed party of the working man constantly telling the working man to sit down and shut up, because he’s too stupid and evil to be listened to.

It wasn’t loaded. Even the arrest report notes that it wasn’t loaded. He’d kept that rifle in his trunk for as long as I’d known him, to that point. I even did some work on it for him a few times, (he’s not very mechanically minded) and I’d never seen a single round. I have no idea where, or even if, he kept any in the car. I can only assume he did, but I never cared enough to ask. I know he had a case or two at home, though, and he went to the range every few weeks.

I’m as solid a second amendment guy as anyone, but I’m also practical. I’ve had my own dealings with overzealous cops, though never close to that level. (I was once held at gunpoint for over an hour, for possession of an empty 1911 magazine) I’d told him before that nothing good would come from keeping that rifle in his car. It was just an old habit, from when his ex wife wouldn’t let him keep a gun in the house.

My point wasn’t even about guns, it was about the insanity of a “justice” system that destroys a man’s life, just to intimidate him out of exercising his constitutionally guaranteed rights. They fully admitted that he did nothing illegal. But only after they’d cost him his job, and half what he makes in a year. And they still took his children away from him, purely on the grounds that he’d been arrested for possession of a machine gun, that they admit never existed.

And the difference between here and Mexico?

MY FRIEND BROKE NO LAWS HERE. Yes, in Mexico, AR15s are illegal to own. Here in California, as of the time he was arrested for it, they were perfectly legal. There are plenty of things that are perfectly legal in Mexico, that will get you thrown in jail here, too, so your point is completely absurd. Different countries have different laws. And since Mexico has a far lower incarceration rate, your point is also infuriatingly disingenuous. The Land of the Free locks up more people than any society in history. You need to get your head out of the propaganda, and look at what’s happening around you.

Yes, Mexican police are known to occasionally lock up innocent people without charges, and blackmail them for bribes. But they don’t steal half a year’s pay from you, and take your kids away, while calling it “justice.”

I’m really trying to be civil, and understand your point of view. But your implication that my friend somehow got away with something would get you punched if you said it to my face. There was no “get out of jail card.” He wasn’t released on a technicality. He was released because the prosecutor came in to court and told the judge that he couldn’t find a single thing to charge him with. Complete absence of a crime is not a loophole.

I have to stop now. I’ve already written and erased too many things that would never get through moderation. If you’re so convinced of the greatness of our justice system, feel free to explain it to a 5 year old boy who hasn’t seen his daddy in 13 months, because some dirtbag judge doesn’t like the laws he swore to uphold.

No, disingenuousness is not “pretty talk for a lie.” To be disingenuous is to make a fraudulent implication, as you clearly did. Some of us find the English language to be more useful when words have actual meanings. But since you have trouble with big words, and since you’ve now moved in to outright lying, then yes, I’m calling you a liar. And a pathetic one, at that. Everything I wrote is still up there for everyone to see. Even you. Yet you choose to make up your own fallacious details, and attribute them to me. You’re embarrassing yourself.

On top of your pointless, accusatory arrogance, and your complete lack of reading comprehension, you’re also clearly demonstrating your stupidity. Laws don’t go in to effect before they’re passed. People in this country are NEVER released without charges if they’re found in possession of unregistered, fully automatic weapons. The AR15 is NOT a military weapon, nor is it fully automatic. (that would be either the M16, or the M4, some of which are fully automatic) And a bullet button is a device that locks the magazine in to the receiver, forcing the use of a tool to remove it, thereby making it meet California’s standard at the time for a fixed magazine, WHICH IS WHY THE MAGAZINE WAS IN THE F***ING GUN, YOU STUPID JACKASS. Don’t call me a liar for things YOU don’t understand.

I could play this game too. Since you were being chased by some sheriff’s office, then I could say you’re obviously a dangerous, heavily armed murderer, and they should have shot you. You’ve already told us all that the only reason anyone is in jail is because them damned darkies are all murders. I guess that must mean you’re black, too, since you’re a murderer. But I’m not going to just make up random bullshit about you, because I’m not a lying prick like you. I have no idea why you found it necessary to make up your own details about a disastrously wrongful incarceration, just to imply that someone you’ve never met deserved to have his life destroyed. And I don’t care. You’re wrong, you’re lying, and you’re flailing desperately, in a pathetic attempt to justify your delusions of omniscience. Since you’re so certain the prosecutor failed in his duties, maybe you should focus your bullshit on him, and leave my COMPLETELY INNOCENT friend out of it.

Yes, when you lie about what I’ve said, make up your own details about a situation you know nothing about, call me a liar, and accuse my deeply wronged friend of multiple felonies, you’re damned right I’d punch you. Once again, since you’re a blithering idiot, NO CHARGES WERE EVER FILED. THE PROSECUTOR WALKED IN TO COURT AND TOLD THE JUDGE THAT NO CRIME HAD BEEN COMMITTED. Yet they robbed him of tens of thousands of dollars, his job, 37 days of his life, AND HIS CHILDREN. Anyone who wants to tell me that the county should have done even more to destroy him, is fully deserving of a good beat down. Since you’ve abundantly demonstrated your complete lack of honor, I can see why that sentiment puzzles you. For those of us with functioning testicles, my position on this is perfectly respectable.

You clearly have an unnatural fetish for Mexican laws, as you keep implying that people should be executed for violating them up here. Once again, for the hard of thinking:
THIS ISN’T MEXICO.

And feel free to show us all which countries have more people in prisons than the United States. Now, or at any time in the past. Since you’re accusing me of just spewing a “left-wing talking point”, which you dismiss as nonsense, it should be a trivial matter to point out which countries have more than 2,173,800 people in jail.
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/ascii/cpus15.txt
Put up, or shut up, you lying bastard.

Show me where I wrote anything vaguely similar to that. Just like I said to the other imbecile above, put up or shut up. It’s all right up there.^ Just copy and paste.

I said a man had his life destroyed for a crime that didn’t even exist. If you’re in favor of that, then go to hell.

Men and women are exactly the same. There is no biological basis for the way people are assigned genders at birth. It’s just the way fascist doctors try to divide us, while claiming for themselves the right to pick winners and losers in life’s lottery. The penis and the vagina are just social constructs. If we gave trucks to little girls, they’d grow penises, and if we gave dolls to little boys, they’d grow vaginas. It was all scientifically proven decades ago:
https://samanthakatepsychology.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/david-reimer-possibly-the-most-unethical-study-in-psychological-history/

Anyone who thinks otherwise is an evil science denier. Unless you think your gender doesn’t match your chromosomes. Then, the difference is undeniable, objective reality. And anyone who thinks otherwise is an evil science denier.

Grammar:

The difference between knowing your shit, and knowing you’re shit.

I live here, in occupied California, and I’m 100% in favor of secession. Not that I disagree with your analysis. That’s spot on. I just, on principal, am always in favor of secession. I think almost every country is too big, and too populous, to be fairly governed. I’d rather see an upper limit of roughly Ireland, in both size and population, for any country. As such, I’d want to see a further breakup within California, after the initial split from the feds. It’s blatantly obvious that the conglomeration known as California is made up of at least 3 incompatible sectors, (southern coast, bay area, and everyone else) none of whom like each other, or has any desire to remain chained to the others.

I think we’re to the point that an amicable split, somewhat resembling the collapse of the Soviet Union, is the only way to prevent the civil war that we can all feel coming. I don’t think it’s imminent, but I do think it’s becoming inevitable. And the closer we get to a violent split, the less likely we are to have a peaceful one. Just give me enough warning to get out of this future third world hell hole before it happens.

On the subject of Americans’ views on Mexico, I think that can be attributed to exactly what Trump said in the campaign. Mexico doesn’t send it’s best and brightest. My impression is that the ones who come up here are the most ambitious of the unemployable. Mexico isn’t a bad place to live, if you have a decent job. So the ones who can get decent jobs are happy to stay where they are. The ones who can’t, come up here, leaving Americans to form their opinions about Mexicans in general, based off an unrepresentative sampling.

Regarding the Obamacare analogy, there’s a huge difference between something said once, off the top of one’s head, and something repeated ad nauseum, in prepared remarks. You may be correct that Obama simply didn’t understand the details of the program. But, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,” was a focus group tested slogan, which he read off a teleprompter. If Trump repeatedly, over several months, told us there was a massive riot in Stockholm, on February 16th, then I doubt you’d hear anyone defending it as imprecise speech.

Regarding said imprecise speech, it’s clearly what got him elected. People are tired of politicians using all the right words, while saying absolutely nothing. When you ask Trump a question, he answers it. He might be wrong, he might be exaggerating, he might be completely off subject, he might even be lying. But it’s plainly HIS answer, not one written by a political team more concerned with making him look presidential than with answering questions. If he spoke like normal politicians, as you suggest he should, he would have been as much of an irrelevant joke as the media tried to convince themselves he was. He wouldn’t have made it past the primaries, much less the general election.

I wouldn’t be surprised if, as Tim Howells suggested above, Trump’s sloppy English is a consciously designed strategy, honed over a lifetime of high stakes negotiating. If nothing else, just making your opponents underestimate your intelligence can be very useful.

“Despite coming from a big city and living in a tower block, Trump is seen as an existential threat to the livelihoods of urban people…”

Not in spite of it, but BECAUSE of it. Trump is a rich New Yorker. On paper, he’s the epitome of “one of us,” to the ruling elites. But he’s chosen a different path. Instead of feeling annoyed condescension toward the masses, he seems to genuinely need their love. Whether he actually cares about the masses, or it’s just a manifestation of his incredible ego, the fact remains that he’s chosen to seek the approval of the wrong side. He chose the unwashed masses over the Beautiful People. He (literally) chose cheeseburgers over caviar, and the language of peasants over that of MSNBC pundits. Even worse, he made that choice after years of association with those Beautiful People, and with the full knowledge that they had welcomed him as one of them. It makes no difference what he believes, or what he does. He could bring universal peace, prosperity, and love to the entire world. He could end all suffering, and even death itself, and it wouldn’t matter the slightest bit. Because he’s a traitor. It’s that simple.

McMullin siphoned off a huge number of votes from Mormons who couldn’t bring themselves to pull the lever for someone with Trump’s personal baggage. Without him, Trump would have done considerably better in Utah and Idaho. Very few of his voters, if any, would call themselves liberal. His candidacy was a challenge to Trump from the right, not the left. Instead of discarding Utah as a freak outlier, it would probably be more reasonable, for the purposes of this analysis, to simply combine McMullin’s vote totals with Trump’s.

As a side note, McMullin is one of the most devout neverTrumpers, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker, and he was a surprisingly high level CIA officer, for his age. (Do CIA agents ever really leave the Company?) He admitted from the start that his only goal in running for president was to keep Trump out of office, and he currently runs a political organization devoted to fighting Trump. With his connections, he’s probably up to his neck in the deep state resistance. He’s too young to be running it, but he probably reports directly to whomever is. If Trump ends up being impeached, look for McMullen on the short list to replace Pence as VP, then as unelected president, a la Ford.

That last part caught my eye, too. Median age for first marriage went up almost 2 years, in only four years. That’s an utterly insane rate of change. If that number represents the median ages of women who were married for the first time in each respective year, the shift is something we should all be worried about. If it represents the median age at which all American women were first married, (i.e. it includes 60 year old women, who were first married 40 years ago) it’s borderline apocalyptic. It implies that young people have simply stopped marrying. I firmly believe that civilization only became possible because of the institution of marriage. Can civilization survive it’s disappearance?

But remember everyone, birth control is no threat to marriage. Divorce on demand is no threat to marriage. Feminism is no threat to marriage. Welfare is no threat to marriage. Secularism is no threat to marriage. Homosexual “marriage” is no threat to marriage. While all these things were being put in place, marriage just fell out of fashion, completely on it’s own. You’d have to be deplorable to believe there’s any connection.

Here’s the original story, with pictures:

http://www.courant.com/sports/high-schools/hc-hs-cromwell-track-andraya-yearwood-0407-20170406-story.html

Comparing him to the girls, and his (former college football player) father, I’d guess he’s about 6 feet, 185 pounds. He’s unusually tall and muscular for a 15 year old boy, and it’s clearly too late for puberty blockers to block anything. If he walked in to a bar with an ID that said he was 23, I doubt anyone would question it.

The weird part is, he’s not very good, for a 15 year old boy of his size. Here in Southern California, his times would be a stretch to make varsity at most schools. Or at least they would have been 25 years ago, when I was 15, and my short, stocky, white butt was running slightly faster.

In the picture of him sitting next to one of the girls, note the relative sizes of their knees. Not just the musculature, but the sheer bulk of the joint itself. In a sane world, this picture would be used as evidence for why men and women should never be allowed to compete against each other.

Looking at the race picture, does anyone else think he’s running with that floppy handed style that men use to mock the way women run? Maybe the whole thing is just a very dedicated troll.

Milo Yiannopoulos doesn’t believe in lesbians:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V77t0eEkx7I

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My experience is similar to his. Of the dozen or so lesbians I’ve known over the years, I can’t think of a single one who’s never been with a man. And about half of them ended up hitting on me, at one time or another. I even know one woman who went out and found a tranny, purely so she could claim to be a lesbian, while still keeping the only part of a man she doesn’t hate. (yes, she’s currently working on her doctorate in some version of ethnic studies, in case there was any doubt)

This is a somewhat foggy memory, as I simply didn’t care about homosexuality until WWG really picked up, but until around 2000 or so, didn’t lesbians generally claim they CHOSE their orientation? I thought that used to be one of the bigger points of contention in the LGBTQWERTY crowd, with the men saying they were born that way, and the women insisting it was a choice. Does anyone else remember it that way?

Gavin Newsom is straight???
I sincerely never would have guessed.

Minor quibble-

I think you’re mixing up two different lakes. The fish stocking story is about Cachuma, as is the picture. But the lake you’re describing, near Ojai, is Casitas. Cachuma is almost due north (past the first mountain ridge) of Goleta, which is the western most suburb of Santa Barbara. Casitas is the lake that was completely surrounded by the same fire that surrounded Ojai last year.

What’s wrong with white people?

I think it’s long past the time where any civilized society would conclude that there’s something seriously wrong with us. What is it that compels us to not only put up with behavior like this, but to almost deify those engaging in it? We live in a society in which people who believe themselves to be oppressed, simultaneously believe, correctly, that they can get ahead by increasing their own (perceived) oppression. And a large minority of whites cheer them on for it. Even worse, they insist that a black man falsely claiming to have been lynched, somehow proves that every white man secretly wanted to lynch him. It’s insanity on a level that I’ve never been able to comprehend. But somehow, the insanity keeps increasing. I can’t think of any actual oppressors in history who were so deeply terrified of disapproval from those they oppressed. It’s only modern day whites who give such power to people we supposedly hate.

The problem here isn’t the black man doing something that he’s learned will benefit him. The problem is the white people who have come to believe they can expunge their ancestors’ racism by displaying even more racism to their fellow whites.

We’ve completely overshot the Orwellian world so many of us fear, and landed instead in the realm of Lewis Carroll.

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
– The Cheshire Cat

You know those baked potatoes wrapped in tin foil? I invented that.

Up until the mid 90’s the Santa Barbara fig tree even had it’s own mail box. You could literally address a letter to:

Jimbo
The Fig Tree
Santa Barbara, Ca. 93101

And it would be delivered. Whether or not Jimbo would actually get it was up to whomever got to the mailbox first. There were sometimes dozens of homeless people living in that tree, and HUNDREDS sitting on or in it during the day.

I forget when, but many years ago the city built a fence around it. It seems that the invasive species needed protection from the locals. Oddly, I can’t think of any native oaks around here with protective fences. Could this be a vision of the future? Government building walls to protect immigrants from the natives? It’s really starting to feel like that’s where we’re headed.

* I’ve known Jimbo for almost 25 years, and he still lives in the empty lot across the street from the fig tree.

I forget her name, but there’s a regular at vdare who’s written extensively about the Sierra Club’s history with immigration. They were reliably anti-immigration until the early 90’s. Then they started caving in to the “RACIST!” screams, and drifted away from their roots. In 2004, David Gelbaum dangled $100 million in their faces, on the condition that they never mention immigration restriction again. Since then, they’ve been nothing more than a generic DNC puppet.

The best wildlife conservationists this country has left, aside from the Audubon Society, tend to be hunters.

If my math is correct, Oprah (black, woman, presumed lesbian, able bodied, multibillionaire) is being oppressed by those over privileged, straight, white, homeless, paraplegic men. She clearly deserves reparations.
And a plaque.

I’m all in favor of impeachment, and conviction, but not for the same reason as the swamp creatures. If they successfully overturn an election based on this flaming turd, it’s game on. It’s not looking like Agent Orange will make America great again by his actions as president. But his martyrdom may get the ball rolling.

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Correction-
POLITICAL martyrdom.

I would hope that would be obvious. But in clown world, I don’t want to take any chances.

“What I wonder is how did they figure it out? ”

It’s no mystery, once you understand the root problem. The Rube Goldbergian connection to the “white man’s original sin” wasn’t randomly stumbled upon, and the target isn’t Kate Smith. She’s collateral damage. The target is the deeply offensive (to them) song; GOD BLESS AMERICA. The song’s history was examined under a microscope until something, ANYTHING, could be found to label it evil, without the need to explicitly attack either God, or America. It’s no longer acceptable to tolerate either of those concepts in much of the country, but it’s not yet safe to openly demonize them outside of major cities. A tenuous link to “racism” turns their blind hatred into Goodthought.

How has no one brought up the aptly named Goldmember?

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Steve, did you hear about the WHITE guy who just ran under 10 seconds? Yes, the wind was twice the allowable speed, so it doesn’t go in to the record books. His best legal time is 10.22. But he’s only in high school, and looks like he’s still working on getting out of the blocks. With a little more time, and some better coaching, I’d be surprised if he doesn’t eventually put in a legal 9.

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One possibility is that first born children have more responsibilities than younger ones, particularly if there are only two children. It might force them to grow up faster, and be more practical, and harder working. I don’t see how that would translate to IQ, but it could certainly nudge people more toward STEM fields, and less toward humanities.

Since no one is addressing Steve’s question, I’ll answer it.

Yes, and no.
They have a different plan. In principal, secret ballots will remain. In practice, every vote will soon be easily traceable to the voter. But that data will be kept secret, and private. You have the government’s word on that.

After 2000, democrats demanded newer, modern, computerized polling, then spent the following decade screaming about how Diebold was stealing elections for republicans. I actually agree with them about the potential for hacking, and argued that point with democrats constantly in 2000/2001. Connecting voting machines to the internet is criminally insane. We now get hundreds of stories every election about voting machines logging the wrong votes. (though they don’t seem to favor republicans) Well, the next step on the path to making voting accessible to everyone, no matter how stupid or lazy, is voting by cell phone:

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-voting-by-phone-20190516-story.html

I guess those evil Diebold machines weren’t easy enough to hack. They don’t need to alter the premise of secret ballots, when there aren’t even ballots anymore. Will the next step be voting by Facebook? Who better to oversee elections than good ole’ Honest Zuck? We’ll soon see what going full retard really looks like.

As a side note, how did we come to the conclusion that voting should be easy? While I do agree that the unintelligent have a right to be heard, and have their grievances addressed, it seems counterproductive to give them electoral parity with those of us who can correctly fill out a ballot without help. I’m strongly in favor of basic competency testing for elections. If you can’t even name the candidate you’re voting for, why should I believe you’re informed about his positions?

You, sir, have made my day.
I am greatly in your debt for introducing me to this foul mouthed, brilliant, little girl. How have I not heard of her before? I now have more hope for the future than I’ve had in years.
Thank you.

I mostly agree. The courts have no authority to decide which members of the public are to be charged with crimes. I don’t like it, but Smollett’s charges were dropped. He was told he was a free man, and the government shouldn’t have any right to change that, without evidence of additional crimes.

But, Jack D is also correct about oversight. It’s perfectly reasonable for the judiciary to call foul on the executive branch. As such, it’s entirely correct for the judge to appoint a special prosecutor against Foxx. At this point, it’s she, not Smollett, who should be facing a criminal investigation. The debts owed to society for Smollett’s actions were transferred to Foxx when she let him go, while freely admitting that she thought he was provably guilty. I say, throw the book at her, for prosecutorial misconduct, AND whatever crimes they think they can prove against Smollett. Putting her in jail does far more to fix the problem than putting him in jail would.

Am I the only one who can’t find anything even vaguely reminiscent of a noose in that jumble of clothesline? I’m pretty sure that flattish looking section is just the rest of the line, still coiled from the package. It’s certainly not a noose.

Rule number one of staging a fake lynching:
Find actors who can tie a noose.

I think you may have cause and effect backward. Publishing isn’t getting more female because boys are reading less. Boys are reading less because publishing is getting more female. And men are writing less, at an even higher rate, because publishers won’t publish them. The powers that (shouldn’t) be have simply declared all fiction to be the domain of women, whether anyone wants it or not.

After decimating science fiction, the big push right now is, of all things, comic books. They started pushing woke comics hard about 5 years ago, with Thor becoming a woman. Then Spiderman became Puerto Rican, Captain America became a nazi, Iron Man became a teenage black girl, etc. (there are plenty more, but I’m not a comic book guy)

The latest step is tearing down the newly profitable comic book movies, and replacing them with woke fantasies. It arguably started with Star Wars VII, the Rise of Mary Sue. Now we have Captain Wammin, a black lesbian Valkerie, and soon, a movie version of Wammin Thor. The real Thor is now fat and, along with the Hulk and younger Nick Fury, pussified. Iron Man is dead, and Captain America isn’t far behind. Batwammin is about to crap all over Batman on TV, while the movie version is about to be played by a sparkly vampire. No man, EVER, watched Twilight and thought, “He’d make a perfect Batman.”

All this is being pushed on an overwhelmingly male audience, who’s kicking and screaming the whole way. The writers are openly calling their fans evil/racist/sexist/homophobic/nerfherders, while literally bragging about destroying everything traditional comic book fans liked about the genre. (youtube is going crazy lately with the “get woke go broke” theme) And, just like in sci-fi, it’s been an abject failure. Comic book sales have gone off a cliff, and movie tickets will almost certainly follow. D.C. comics is even talking about throwing in the towel completely. And none of this started with boys losing interest. It’s ENDING with boys losing interest, because women don’t know how to write the Hero’s Journey. Feminism preaches that women are born perfect. The end. It may be a fairy tale, but it’s just not an interesting story. It’s not even interesting to the wammins they’re trying to bring in. It was never an organic change. It was imposed from on high, and that just doesn’t work in artistic endeavors.

TLDR:
Publishers demand woke women authors, for purely political reasons. Stale pale males need not apply. Woke women are incapable of writing stories that interest boys. The genre is irrelevant. Males aren’t leaving by choice, we’re being kicked out. Fiction isn’t dying. It’s being ritually sacrificed.

Once upon a time, college was a place where only serious students went.

Today, college enrollment dips solidly in to the left half of the bell curve. I live about 3 miles from U.C. Santa Barbara, which is usually listed in the top 30 or so American universities. Conservatively, I’d say 2/3 of the students there have no business in any college, much less a high second tier one. I shudder to think what the students at Cal State Northridge must be like.

My guess is that Asians are becoming more Chinese. In my high school, in the early 90’s, Asian meant Hmong or Vietnamese. We had one Japanese kid, and I don’t think there were any from any other countries. In that same school today, pretty much all the Asian kids are Chinese.

Considering the fact that every group is improving, there’s probably some dumbing down of the test, too.

I doubt Asian scores are going up because they’re working any harder. I think the change is just more demographics. Until the mid 90’s or so, we had fairly few Chinese, Korean, or Japanese students, and far more Hmong and Vietnamese. Since then, it seems like Chinese have completely taken over Asian immigration. I live about 3 miles from UC Santa Barbara. 25 years ago, it seemed like it (arguably along with San Diego) was the top white UC. I’d guess it was at least 85% white. Today, UCSB is probably 30% Chinese, and rising fast, with whites somewhere around half. Still very few Hispanics or blacks, but also a lot more south Asians.

I see an odd trend here for New Jersey.

Asian: #1
White: #2
Black: #2

When you think of the most intelligent people in the country, does New Jersey rank at the very top?
How about when you think of the most corrupt politicians in the country? My guess is that New Jersey schools are gaming the test.

Also, would it be possible to calculate median scores for these states/races, in addition to mean scores? And does “Asian” include south Asians, or only east Asians?

Number 5 is the only one which could conceivably be described as a crime, high or otherwise. Your list is no better than the articles advanced by the house. It’s simply the desire to overturn an election because you don’t like the man who won.

Lets pretend all your allegations are 100% true:

The first amendment plainly establishes the right of citizens, including the president, to be racist.

If Trump is psychotic, that is explicitly NOT impeachable, as any claim that a president is unfit for duty must originate from the vice president and the cabinet, per the 25th amendment. The house has no authority to usurp powers explicitly granted to other branches of the government.

You didn’t even attempt to explain how Trump endorsed murder. The entire paragraph is bare non-sequitur. The Saudi government allegedly killed someone. Trump expressed doubts. There simply is no path linking those two facts to an endorsement of anything. An actual endorsement of murder would be if Trump openly accepted the murder, and praised it.

Just like your first claim, the first amendment guarantees the right of citizens to endorse fascism. But I can’t just leave it at that. On this claim, you’re outright lying. You should be ashamed of yourself. Here’s the press conference that you’re referencing, where Trump’s own words make a mockery of your lie:

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As I said, your emoluments claim may have some merit, if taken at face value. A president staying in his own hotel does not, however, constitute bribery. Perhaps a dictionary would help you make a more cohesive case. You keep using words in ways that are incompatible with the accepted definitions, hoping no one will notice.

Enforcing immigration laws is not only not impeachable, it’s a requirement of his job. When parents are arrested, regardless of the nature of the crime, they are necessarily separated from their children. Would you prefer that the children be imprisoned with their parents? As for “losing” some of those children, many aren’t actually related to their alleged parents. When neither the child nor the parent knows the other’s name, and no documents exist in any country linking the two, it becomes very hard to reunite them:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/dna-tests-reveal-30-of-suspected-fraudulent-migrant-families-were-unrelated

So the totality of your (legal) argument is that Trump should be removed from office because he owns hotels. Am I missing something? Is hotel ownership sufficient cause to overturn an election?

Articles like this can only be written by people who can’t comprehend basic statistics.

The last numbers I saw gave the total white population as about 61%. But do to immigration and differential fertility rates, among public school students, the white population is 48%. If we use that 48% as a proxy for everyone under 18, and we assume that group to represent 20% of the total population, we find that the over 18 population is about 65% white. Teachers necessarily come from the over 18 population. More realistically, since a college degree is required, they come from the over 22 population, which would skew the ratio even farther. But ignoring that, we’re left with a 35% nonwhite adult population, to teach nonwhite children totaling 52%. To hit the “proper” ratio, we’d need nonwhites to be overrepresented among teachers by about 50%.

But it gets worse. That 4% difference between over 18 whites and total whites needs to be made up in EVERY profession, according to modern SJW dictates. EVERY profession needs 4% nonwhite overrepresentation, because that age differential is never, ever, addressed. So, even if we assume total equality in college graduation rates, every college requiring field is competing to hire 104 out of every 100 degreed nonwhites. Since most of those fields pay better than teaching, you’d expect teaching to be relatively underrepresented, instead of 50% overrepresented.

All that assumes no racial differences except for population statistics. The real numbers are much worse.

To be fair, no one cares if there are enough black garbage men, or Maori ditch diggers. SJWs only really care about equality in fields that require college degrees. Fields like teaching. So that does leave us a way to make the ratios work, according to SJW decree. All we have to do is require whites to take menial jobs at greatly disproportionate rates, regardless of education. To achieve utopia, all you PhDs are going to have to start flipping hamburgers. Remember, it’s for the children. Not your children, of course. Helping your own children would be racist.

Every previous “worst-case scenario” prediction for the climate has turned out to have understated the gravity of the situation.

Here’s a brief sample of those “worst-case scenario” predictions:
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions

Can you show us a similar list of “worst-case scenario” predictions that turned out to be, as you say, understated? I’ll even give you a pass on your insistence that “every” worst-case prediction was understated, since you’ve repeatedly demonstrated that you don’t have a firm grasp of the English language.

If you insist on making up apocalyptic fantasies for the future, that’s your right. But please stop lying to us about easily verifiable history. Between this, and your previous insane comedy piece, I’m having a hard time deciding whether you’re genuinely malicious, or merely stupid.

Just because you want open borders, doesn’t make it so. Illegal entry to this country is a misdemeanor for the first offense, and a felony for the second:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325

Generally, bail is denied for ANY crime, when there’s a high risk that the accused will leave the jurisdiction. A person who’s been in the country for a grand total of several MINUTES would usually be considered a flight risk.

Your understanding of both law and logic make Mr. Rall look brilliant. Congratulations. Your ignorance is truly impressive.

You would learn things like yielding for an ambulance, and, at a RR crossing, the train gets the right of way.

It seems like it’s becoming the norm in Southern California for everyone to just stop, RIGHT WHERE THEY ARE, for an ambulance. I mostly get around by bike. When I see an ambulance or fire truck with their lights on, I usually get up on the sidewalk, and stop there, so I’m not in the way of cars pulling over. But then I look to the left, and see that no one is even trying to pull over. They just slam on the brakes, right in the middle of the lane. I’ve even seen them stop in the middle of intersections. They couldn’t hold up the ambulance better if they tried. I don’t know if it’s licensing problems, or just basic stupidity.

Probably the only times I’ve ever been mad at cops for NOT giving out tickets.

The vast majority of the whites with prestige, money, status, and influence in the US embrace not cultural liberalism but an increasingly strident and extreme version of it but you want us to think that they’re all broken and mired in their dysfunction.

I think the point you’re making is clear to anyone who reads Steve. The modern democrat party sees the most privileged whites as the only good ones, while the whites without privilege are the scum of the earth. It’s refreshing to see someone from your side confirm that so openly. I applaud your candor, if nothing else.

When, exactly, did the democrats become the elitist party? I’m old enough to remember when the democrats at least pretended they were the party of the working man. Maybe it was Regan. Maybe it was an inevitable consequence of the 1965 immigration act. Regardless, I don’t see how they can still claim the republicans are the party of the rich, while constantly bragging that all the rich people are democrats. And it’s downright bizarre that the ninth richest man on earth is currently running as a democrat, at least partially on the claim that it’s poor whites, not “self made” multi-billionaires, who are the privileged oppressors. Somehow, by hybridizing race and class conflict, the rich whites have managed to actually increase their power, while blaming all the world’s problems on poor whites, who never had any more power than the “oppressed minorities.” I guess that’s what happens when a single political party and the media become indistinguishable from each other.

Why do you hate the working class so much? Do you genuinely believe yourself to be superior to those of us who do something other than type on a keyboard for a living? Have working class people hurt you, in some way?

From where I sit, it looks like you’re just trying to assuage your guilt over having money/power that you don’t feel you legitimately earned.

Science is nothing more than a process:

Observe phenomena.
Formulate hypothesis to explain said phenomena.
Develop criteria by which said hypothesis can be falsified.
Make good faith effort to falsify, and invite everyone else to do the same.
The hypothesis stands until falsified, though it’s usefulness is forever limited by the scope of it’s predictive abilities.

The anthropogenic global warming concept has NO FALSIFYABLE HYPOTHESIS. There is no possible state of the climate which isn’t claimed to be consistent with the theory, therefore it simply isn’t science. At best, it’s philosophy. I’m not even saying it’s wrong. I’m saying that something that can’t be disproven, doesn’t qualify as science.

By all means, everyone, feel free to set me straight. Tell me exactly which conditions would definitively disprove the AGW concept. I’m perfectly willing to accept when I’m wrong. But I’ve been asking this question for 20+ years, and I’ve never been given a rational answer. I’m not asking for evidence for AGW. Science isn’t about proving anything. It’s about the good faith effort to disprove everything. The simplest definition of science is systematized skepticism. What I’m asking for is a specific set of circumstances that would disprove the theory. Anyone?

Or, maybe they could just stop REQUIRING nursing homes to take Beer Flu patients:

https://www.newsday.com/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-nursing-homes-1.43491608

Here’s my guess. The whole Warren/Pokahonky controversy made whites less likely to identify as Indian. The Indian group is so small that they’re probably dominated by people who can claim an Indian great grandparent or two, but plainly appear white.

What bothers me more is the 20 year decline by everyone but blacks and Asians. Is that real? Or could it be the result of continual re-norming, with an ever larger and higher scoring Asian cohort?

Also, could the “no response” group have shifted demographically? When I was in school, in the early 90’s, whites were encouraged not to give a race. Could it be more blacks and Hispanics refusing to identify today?

I’m no rap fan, so I can’t comment on how good he was. But Roy Jones Junior was known to do a concert immediately before stepping in to the ring, and he released at least a few albums. In an unrelated note, he was plainly the inspiration for Chris Rock’s “Terry Armstrong” skits.

Clearly you’re the one who needs to become acquainted with the basic numbers involved. The currently established price is $19.50 per dose, set in July, when Trump agreed to pay $1.95 billion, for 100 million doses. That’s the price paid to gamble on a possible future vaccine. The eventual retail price, if efficacy and safety are established, will very likely be higher. This vaccine takes 2 doses to work, as does every other one I’m familiar with. If there’s a smallpox type eradication effort, which seems reasonably possible, that makes a total of 15.6 billion doses for 7.8 billion people. At $19.50 each, that’s $308.1 billion. That’s not even counting distribution, transportation, refrigeration infrastructure…

You can whine all you want, but that’s literally hundreds of billions of dollars.