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    Last week, when former FBI Director James Comey gave his long-awaited public testimony about his apparently rough-and-tumble relationship with President Donald Trump, he painted a bleak picture. The essence of Comey's testimony was that the president asked him to drop an investigation of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn -- Trump's former national security adviser --...
  • So when exactly did any of us, or our representatives, vote on the income tax? Because I certainly don’t remember consenting to it.

    Or twelve years of public schooling.
    Or the TSA.
    Or the entire history of Civil Wrongs laws.

    Hyperventilating about the actions of one set of corrupt public officials vs. another is a bit far down the list of non consent issues any of us should be concerned about.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @themann


    So when exactly did any of us, or our representatives, vote on the income tax?
     
    You didn't, your great-grandfather did. When he elected his state legislator in one of the at least 38 states (only 36 were necessary) which in turn ratified the Sixteenth Amendment.
  • President Trump may be chief of state, head of government and commander in chief, but his administration is shot through with disloyalists plotting to bring him down. We are approaching something of a civil war where the capital city seeks the overthrow of the sovereign and its own restoration. Thus far, it is a nonviolent...
  • @Hairway To Steven
    @wj


    Obesity Rates –
    All Adults – 34.9%
    Black – 47.8%
    Latino – 42.5%
    White – 32.6%
     
    Interesting that you omitted the biggest disparity of all in obesity rates -- that between East-Asian-Americans and everyone else. In virtually every meaningful stat battle -- e.g., education and income level, crime rate, test scores, longevity -- they dominate. If it weren't for the fact that the men have such small penises and struggle to achieve even the tiniest semblance of cool, they would totally rule.

    Replies: @themann

    Fitness is a prerequisite for combat and even our active duty military personnel are in some degree to fat to fight. This might be mitigated by the fact that the next war will be dominated by mechanical\cybernetic\EMP type weapons. As a small example, knocking out the AC for an entire city during the summer months would likely severely reduce anyone’s ardor for fighting. But we will never fight another Civil War with mass infantry formations.

    Maybe a more realistic goal would be to appeal to American’s inner sloth, perhaps a national tax strike with the idea of ending the income tax forever. Only the top 50% or so of earners pay much income tax, if they all took a couple of months off, no income, no tax, the Federal Government would be in extremis in short order. A lot less bloody too.

    • Replies: @Diversity Heretic
    @themann

    The general strike, which might also appeal to sloth, is an underrated instrument of economic coercion.

  • This year the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to grow larger than ever. Oceanologists predict the lifeless expanse of water below the Mississippi River Delta will swell to an area bigger than the state of Vermont, an aquatic ecosystem despoiled by industrial fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, oil leaks and the lethal effects...
  • Anybody want to count the number of times that Authorial Asshat gratuitously insulted the South?

    Democrats are losing because they are trying to destroy southern whites in particular, and whites in general. And we are on to them.

    • Replies: @jimbojones
    @themann

    Yep, the hatred seeps between the lines. The guy just couldn't help but spoil a decent article with venomous bigotry. Stuff like this: "a region that understands the relationship between master and slave." Wow, bro! 1860 was a long time ago.

  • The Western media shame Germans, stay silent on endless attacks against Muslim countries and insist on massive immigration into mostly white nations. Meanwhile, false flags are staged that are blamed on Muslims, with the aim of flaming hatred between pale, nominal Christians and darker Muslims, for this animosity distracts from the systematic economic and war...
  • Observation:

    If you are on the internet without end to end encryption, and fail to use an encrypted email service, you are an idiot.

    Question:

    Are VPNs illegal in Germany? Encrypted emails?

    Observation:

    The more you know, the more you know that is wrong.

    Question:

    Do you ever get on the internet and pretend to be a completely different persona? (My favorite is my English soccer hooligan. Fill those dossiers with bad info!)

    Observation:
    The State is a parasite upon the productive economy. The State expands, the Economy contracts, this only ends one way.

    Question:
    When is the fiscal breaking point?

    Observation:
    The history of mankind is written in pages of blood, and Germany has produced some real masterpieces.

    Question:
    Push comes to shove, you think Germans will go gentle into that good night?

    Comments?

    • Replies: @German_reader
    @themann


    Push comes to shove, you think Germans will go gentle into that good night?
     
    So far it looks like that, they're quite conformist and docile. I suppose there'll be eventually some right-wing terrorism, but I don't think there will ever be some sort of real backlash.
    , @jacques sheete
    @themann


    The history of mankind is written in pages of blood, and Germany has produced some real masterpieces.
     
    Germany was not only late to the party, but has produced nothing by way of bloody pages compared to the Roman, British, Bolshie, Amerikan and Zionist empires.

    Replies: @Randal

  • Apologies to the reader. Perhaps I wax tedious. But the question of intelligence is both interesting to me and great fun as talking about it puts commenters in an uproar. It is like poking a wasp’s nest when you are eleven. I am a bad person. Clearing the underbrush: Obviously intelligence is largely genetic–if it...
  • Most of you would just love taking Cisco IT Certification Exams- no going forward or back on questions, tight time limits on the tests. Really sucks when you get a question wrong, a later question jogs your memory, and you can’t go back to change a mistake. At least they are really specific in the material being tested.

    Intelligence testing, in any case, doesn’t measure drive, energy, or determination (with the possible exception of the drive to prepare for the exams). Not to mention, for instance, massive Asian cheating on SATs, and I suspect a whole lot else. The tests are approaching garbage levels of reliability for a lot of other reasons too. At least on the aforementioned IT exams, you go into a little room, by yourself, no phones (etc.), AND a camera right over your shoulder. That could be the only way to administer exams in the future.

    • LOL: Daniel Chieh
  • PREDICTABLY, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have already pooh-poohed President Trump's July 26th LGBTQ directives, banning the politicized transgender production from the theater of war. Why "predictably" (preachy, too)? Whether Republicans like it or not, the military is government; it works like government; is financed like government, and is marred by the same inherent malignancies...
  • Let me begin by stating, I was in the US military, my father was career military, his father was career military, his Grandfather fought at Gettysburg…get the idea. ok so:

    Military organizations do three things, and they do them in this order:

    1. They loot.
    2. They rape.
    and
    3. They kill.

    Primarily civilians, over and over and over.

    Duty, Honor, patriotism, Bullshit!

    Let filth serve filth, and the judgement of God be served upon them.

    • Replies: @Hibernian
    @themann

    They can come in handy if you ever have to play a home game, and it may not be long before we do.

  • Veteran political journalist Dave Weigel (who interviewed me in the Washington Post last year) has a new book out about his real passion: old-fashioned progressive rock of the Emerson, Lake, & Palmer / Yes / Genesis / King Crimson ilk: The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock. From The Atlantic,...
  • I attended two ELP concerts in the 70’s. Their music was not only not awful, it was close to astounding. Yes, ultimately the attempt to fuse rock and roll to classical was doomed to failure, but we achieve nothing without trying.

    This whole post seems strange to me. I don’t assign color to music. nobody listened to Motown because they were black, they listened because they were good. No one listened to Crimson King because they were white, they listened because they were revolutionary.

    Music, and musical taste, are ultimately indefinable, and ultimately not transferable.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @themann

    I saw ELP in Houston in 1977. Good show.

  • [A major oration, previously unpublished, by Prof. Paul Gottfried] Those Southern secessionists whose national flag we are now celebrating have become identified not only with a lost cause but with a now publicly condemned one. Confederate flags have been removed from government and educational buildings throughout the South, while Confederate dignitaries whose names and statues...
  • Make a Venn diagram.

    Label the first circle “physically brave”

    Label the second circle “physically cowardly”

    Then start plotting Yankees and Southerners.

    And that will show why Yankees hate us.

  • Katie, bar the ever-lovin’ door. Compromise seems a forlorn hope in today’s strange version of America. Anger runs too deep. All that is left is to choose sides. We will then see whether the country sinks—continues sinking–into a Soviet future already largely upon us, or we see armed mobs battling in the streets. Does this...
  • 1. Fact or assumption: Americans are too fat to go to war.

    2. Fact or assumption: This isn’t the ’60’s. Whole cities burning, massive increases in crime,
    colleges shut down by “protesters”.

    3. Fact or assumption: Tiny supply disruptions can have major, passably catastrophic, impact. A case study would be the atenolol shortage.

    4. Fact or assumption: In general, ordinary Americans are becoming increasing aware of the Government\Media\Corporatist Circus of Lies, and no one is shoving the Truth
    Genie back into the Bottle.

    5.Fact or Assumption: The internet is a megaphone for amplifying crazy, and there is no engagement with crazy where you win.

    I read it as :

    1.probably
    2. certain
    3. certain
    4. One would certainly hope so
    5 certain

    That doesn’t add up to war, low level conflict, or much of anything else, really.

    Now let us consider the one thing that does offer the prospect or real conflict:

    Long term, the Federal Government cannot meet its financial obligations. It may get away with stiffing all the oldsters out of Social Security, because they can hardly go to war (although they do vote), but can it default on bonds, fail to make military payrolls, stop infrastructure spending, let the various States go bankrupt? What does it look like when your EBT gets refused, soldiers aren’t paid, and roads fall apart, all at the same time?

    A rabble of Lefty Shit Stains are hardly the long term problem here. Government fall down go boom, that is the problem here.

  • Amy Wax is a tenured professor at the U. of Pennsylvania School of Law with a knack for low key crimethink. (Here's Prof. Wax's recent article on "Educating the Disadvantaged" in National Affairs.) Now many of her colleagues are out to get her, although they can't seem to think of any reasons for why what...
  • Sounds to me like 33 Penn Law Faculty Members need to have parachutes strapped to their fat asses and shoved off the end of a low flying plane over Lagos or Mogadishu.

    I categorically reject their claim to any further consideration.

    • Replies: @Eagle Eye
    @Themann

    What's the point of the parachutes? The natives like their bush meat tenderized.

  • From The Atlantic: The Question of Race in Campus Sexual-Assault Cases Is the system biased against men of color? EMILY YOFFE 11:56 AM ET EDUCATION The archetypal image of the campus rapist is a rich, white fraternity athlete. The case of Brock Turner—the freshman swimmer at Stanford University convicted last year of sexually assaulting an...
  • @Twinkie
    @Randal


    the feminist campaign to criminalise male sexuality in order to make men eternal hostages to malicious accusations by women
     
    You know there is an easy defense for this, right?

    Don't have sex with a woman you did not marry.

    Just as women having sex with random men open the former up to all kinds of possible dangers and abuses (mostly physical), so do men who have sex with random women increase their exposure to the mentally unstable and/or malicious, and the associated risks.

    Men and women courted in the old days for a reason. Even if one couldn't be bothered to wait untill, at least getting to know one's prospective sexual partner for a while and understanding that person's character ought to precede, not follow, physically intimate acts.

    You can't have cake and eat it too. You can just blame women for their sexual promiscuity leading to dangers and also try to exempt men from similar (but somewhat different) risks.

    Replies: @Randal, @Alec Leamas, @Ed, @guest, @Carbon blob, @theMann, @AnotherDad, @Bill Jones

    You hit the nail on the head with your argument, which I can condense down to two sentences:

    Sleeping around is a bad idea for guys, and a catastrophic one for women.

    So, if you do sleep around, take your chances, because morally speaking, you have no ground to stand on.

    • Replies: @Twinkie
    @theMann


    Sleeping around is a bad idea for guys, and a catastrophic one for women.
     
    Very good! Concise, indeed.
  • From USA Today during the Late Obama Age Collapse: It's almost as if white men are more likely to volunteer for and succeed in the most dangerous and demanding assignments, while the Coalition of the Fringes prefers rear-echelon jobs? Back during the worst part of the Iraq War, I used to try to excavate the...
  • Three things I learned in the Military:

    1. The Federal government is pure evil.

    2. Paperwork isn’t the solution to anything, it is the solution to nothing.

    3. One Black ok, two Blacks maybe, ten Blacks, don’t turn your back on them…ever.

    This has been expounded on many times, by many people. for example:

    https://www.amren.com/news/2008/08/diversity_in_th_1/

    The historical record:

    http://aavw.org/served/racetensions_riots_abstract03_full.html
    scroll down to the end under the heading “security”.

    I could go on but you can do your own non-Google searches. Be advised though, you will have your eyes opened. The Military has been pretending since Korea that integration is just a big old happy success, and that is a false and perjured lie. And the proof is in the combat.

  • From "This Land Is Their Land," the strikingly unfiltered diatribe in Foreign Policy magazine by NYU professor Suketu Mehta about why you evil white people deserve to have your nations overwhelmed by immigrants like him and his relatives:
  • And it is every Americans dream to live long enough to see if migrants can figure out how to use a flush toilet.

  • From The Telegraph:
  • I doubt many films of the 70’s could be made today, probably none of the comedies. And we just had Politically correct Star Wars, the complete derivative of episode 4, itself derivative of Kurosawa, so….Star Wars, second derivative.

    I would pay money to see college Snowflakes wander into a screening of Young Frankenstein though. or Silver Streak.

    • Replies: @Bernardista
    @theMann

    Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: You know, I'm a rather brilliant surgeon. Perhaps I can help you with that hump.

    Igor: What hump?

    No one would be able to get past the crowd of hooded and prosthetic hump-wearing anti-fas.

    Replies: @Rosamond Vincy

  • Whaddaya think?
  • Gee, when I go in to work Monday, I think I will start annoying all our customers with “free Catalonia, free vote” campaign…. or something equally worthy. Because, you know, free speech an all that. I am sure I will stay employed for all of 5 minutes.

    Hum, now let me see how offensive I can make this:

    News flash spearchuckers, you are out on that field\court\diamond of play ON YOUR EMPLOYERS DIME. They decide to fire you over non work related behavior while at work, good bye and good riddance, and welcome to the real world where the rest of us live.. And along the way, why don’t we let every one of these Prima Donnas know they aren’t that special, and we don’t care they think.

  • Maybe “some are rapists,” in Donald Trump’s nasty words. But many are geniuses. Just ask the MacArthur Foundation, which responded to our president’s frequent demonization of immigrants, including that infamous phrase, by doing a little math. Every year since 1981, the foundation has bestowed so-called genius grants on more than 20 of the country’s most...
  • So what he is saying then is that we give every potential immigrant an IQ test and if they hit 130 or better, we let them in?

    Didn’t think so.

  • This is a topic which has had so much written about it that you could fill an entire city library with books entirely dedicated to this topic. Marx took a shot at it. As did Sartre. There were, of course, also plenty of good books written on this topic, but rather than list them all,...
  • Gee, I always figured most people don’t like Jews very much because they are assholes. Looking for religious reasons is likely to be completely futile.

    Occam’s Razor people. Seriously.

  • In the New York Times, Manohla Dargis writes: And yet, if you go back before the Studio System fully emerged in Hollywood in the 1920s, you'll see that women were more integrated into behind the scenes jobs than after the Mayers came to dominate the business. As I wrote in Taki's Magazine in 2013: For...
  • @kihowi
    The most interesting question is as usual not being asked.

    What does this say about women? There was no rape here. He didn't shackle anybody to a bed in a soundproof basement. These were all situations that could be walked away from at any time.

    That would mean no more chance at fame, of course, but that's exactly the trade-off that these women made. He was able to do this for such a long time because all those women at some level of consciousness bartered with their bodies.

    As with a lot of sexual politics, all the indignation is built on the assumption that women are imbeciles. That they did not understand what was up:

    a) before they met him. Were they the only people in the western world who didn't know about this aspect of Hollywood? Don't make me laugh.
    b) when they saw him. He drips sleaze. Nobody is this clueless.
    c) when he started putting the moves on them. He's obviously not a subtle man. You'd know.

    In real life, women are really good at knowing what kind of man they're dealing with.

    Replies: @Redman, @MBlanc46, @whorefinder, @Old fogey, @Sean, @theMann

    Well gee everybody, when you understand that women are amoral, irrational, and vicious, it becomes a lot easier to understand what is going on here.

    Weinstein my be an out of control little creep, but he didn’t create the situation he found himself in, he merely exploited what was already there with a little more aggressive fury than most. Give him his props for committing fully to the wickedness of his opportunities, most bad people are much weaker than that.

    There is no such thing as sexual morality where women are concerned, they simply seek status, approval, and power, and sex is the means to all those things. (As a mental exercise, figure out how much porn there is in America, how much of it involves hot women ages 18-36, and how many hot women there are in America ages 18-36. Seriously, that is the number of women willing to do porn for crying out loud.)

    The casting couch doesn’t exist because some men are exploiters, it exist because women have the power to choose, and a lot of them choose to give it up to an appalling physical creep like Weinstein, for status (actress), approval(roles), power(fame). Seriously, he never got kicked in the balls? Once even? Nobody comes off looking good here, and if you want to make a case for burning Hollywood to the ground, I won’t argue against it.

    • Replies: @James Kabala
    @theMann

    Actually, the women who have come forward so far almost all claim to have refused his advances (whether truthfully or not, who knows).

    Also, the morals of neither sex are very good right now, but very few people are literally professional porn actors/actresses, so I am not quite sure what you were attempting to say there.

    , @Sean
    @theMann

    Weinstein is a 6 foot 300lb rapist. Women hitting men is in his movies, not the real world.

  • Slate's film critic realizes her entire worldview was a fraud: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal Is Changing How I Look at the Movies Just as the election challenged my perception of America, the past week has transformed my whole understanding of Hollywood. By Dana Stevens OCT. 13, 2017, 1:50 PM For the past week I’ve been...
  • @notice
    If there is any real surprise, its that Weinstein just didn't get expensive call girls in his hotel rooms instead of risking having an actress he'd try to force himself onto calling the police. That is surprising. He must have been supremely confident in how badly these young women wanted to be in the movies.

    Replies: @theMann, @guest, @Alden, @CK, @BB753, @dfordoom

    Wow, did you ever hit that one on the head.

    Three things I take away from this, intrinsic to American dishonesty:

    1.) Weinstein’s Jewishness was both a shield and a weapon in all this, but he will never get called out on it.

    2.) The sheer number of women falling back on the ” ’tis entirely innocent I am” defense. Because, clearly, none of them were prostituting themselves, and every single last one of them lacked the sense to not get alone in a room with a strange guy…..IN HOLLYWOOD.

    3.) Every single last person in Hollywood knew what was going on, but how many of them, especially the Feminists, will ever be called out for enabling him?

  • @WIlkey
    @guest

    That still wouldn’t be rape. Even if destroying their careers meant they’d be starving on the Mean Streets.

    No, perhaps not. So maybe just a higher, more refined type of Not Quite Rape.

    Jeff Sessions' Justice Department better be ready to take full advantage of the opportunity this scandal provides. By exposing the sexual harassment, the not quite rape, and the deals that are made to keep people quiet - keep in mind those deals often involve the press, not just showbiz (which are barely distinguishable these days) he could utterly destroy the credibility of the industry. And he should. This scandal goes deep.

    Replies: @anon, @theMann

    Maybe all you legal types out there know better than me, but it seems:

    1. Rape is a crime against Chastity. I doubt very many rapes have occurred in the USA in 30 years.

    2. Assault is a Crime against the body. An easy case could be made for some number of assaults re Weinstein, but good luck prosecuting them with juries full of women.

    3. Extortion is a crime where ‘provide me with benefit ‘A’, or bad thing ‘B’ will happen to you.

    Now I think we are getting somewhere. If all the extorted women got together and filed criminally and civilly under the RICO act, a Hollywood mogul and 500 of his feminist enables could all be going to prison or seriously fined. And I would buy that for a dollar.

  • With his declaration Friday that the Iran nuclear deal is not in the national interest, President Donald Trump may have put us on the road to war with Iran. Indeed, it is easier to see the collisions that are coming than to see how we get off this road before the shooting starts. After "de-certifying"...
  • Zero % chance of a direct war with Iran.

    1. Unknown, but significant number of Iranian submarines operating in the Persian Gulf, at least 3 of which are upgraded Kirov class boats more than capable of acquiring US carriers, etc. If even one boat got loose in the Med or Atlantic, consequences would be devastating.

    2. Logistically impossible to make a major occupation of Iranian territory as per Iraq, plus Iran has at least 350, 000 trained and equipped troops.

    3. Iranian resources with SS cruise missiles (or even subsonic ones) not entirely known, but certain to have enough ship killing capability to achieve deterrence.

    4. Spare parts flowing back into the country have restored air power, this is at least 150+ quality strike aircraft. Consider what Argentina did with a handful of Aircraft and a few Exocets.

    5. And this doesn’t assume major Russian or Chinese aid, which they would certainly get in event of a major conflict.

    6. Hezbollah would go nuts, the rest of the middle East would have an even more unpredictable than usual response.

    7. Pakistan might just come to an agreement to provide Iran with nuclear assistance.

    Any attack on Iran wouldn’t be a few pilots, aircraft, and special forces, it would be massive casualties, especially to our surface fleet.

    The whole kerfuffle is just so much Kabuki Theater by the Israeli a$$lickers in Washington, nothing else to see here.

    • Replies: @Randal
    @theMann


    Zero % chance of a direct war with Iran.
    ...
    The whole kerfuffle is just so much Kabuki Theater by the Israeli a$$lickers in Washington, nothing else to see here.
     
    It would be nice if what you write here were true, but sadly it seems unduly optimistic. Remember, the issue is not whether it's in the interests of the US or the American people to go to war with Iran, nor even just whether it's in the real interests of the people and lobbies who manipulate US foreign policy. The question is whether it's perceived to be in the interests of the people and lobbies who manipulate US foreign policy, by those people.

    People like the ones Giraldi talks about here, as well as assorted other dual loyalty, Christian evangelist zealot, and war profiteering types. A lot of those people either have very different objectives and desired outcomes than any patriotic American would have, or are not really members of the "reality based community", as they sneeringly dismissed critics of the advocacy of the disastrous attack on Iraq. Or both.

    From their point of view your points might be addressed as follows:

    1. You mean Kilo class, but they would have to go round Africa to operate in the Atlantic, let alone the Med. Not going to happen. Iran has better uses for them, so long as they survive at all, in the Indian Ocean.

    2. The idea would probably be to only occupy strategic shoreline areas on the Persia Gulf, and deal with any Iranian military response by air and standoff missiles using the many US systems specifically designed to destroy massed military forces highly effectively.

    3. Iranian missiles would be restricted in use navally by an inability to find US ships outside the Gulf, and would be dealt generally with by destruction of launchers and by countermeasures.
    [Remember this is how the US advocates of war - men like Quartermaster and Johann Ricke on this thread - think reality is, not how the rest of humanity necessarily does]

    4. There is no serious fear of Iranian air force capabilities within the US military elite. It is anticipated all Iranian aircraft will be destroyed or in hiding within hours of the initiation of open conflict. In fairness, the warmongers are probably correct on that one.

    5. Any Russian or Chinese assistance to Iran will be too indirect, too limited and too late to materially affect a war. Those countries will not want to risk US responses against them for Iran.
    [Again, remember this is how the US advocates of war think reality operates, not how the rest of humanity necessarily does]

    6. War with Hezbollah is a feature, not a bug, for the warmongers. The Israeli warmongers seriously think they can beat Hezbollah if they can get a proper go with full US backing. A large part of Israeli motivation in seeking a US attack on Iran is probably their assumption that manipulating the US into a war with Iran will bring them US backing to crush Hezbollah.

    7. Pakistan is not going to choose Iran over Saudi Arabia and the US.

    Any attack on Iran wouldn’t be a few pilots, aircraft, and special forces, it would be massive casualties, especially to our surface fleet.
     
    A price well worth paying for achieving the goals of those pushing for war, as far as they are concerned, as long as they can establish a political/diplomatic context that allows them to evade too much of the direct blame.

    And that in the end is what it is all about. Can those who desire a US attack on Iran establish such a context and persuade those nominally making the decisions to act? In the case of Iraq in 2003, the answer was yes. In the case of an open US intervention against the Syrian government in 2013, the answer was no. In the case of Iran so far it's been no, but that can easily change. All it would probably take would be one sufficiently convenient pretext, such as a 9/11 type event (even one of much lesser scale) that could be pinned, however implausibly, upon Iran.

    Replies: @peterAUS, @Chris Mallory

  • From Newsweek: One reason fans aren't bothering to show up on time for games is that the NFL's offensive execution has appeared to be more inept this year: offensive production is down. The median team scored around 22.4 points per game for all of last year, while the median through the first 7 weeks this...
  • “On the other hand, a nightmare scenario for the NFL is that Black Lives Matter racial discord is undermining team cohesion.”

    Could we get Derek Carr’s opinion on that one?

    I am glad to see the NFL crash and burn. Watching idiots run into each other as hard as possible for 3+ hours and calling it a sport is laughable to begin with, but adding the unending layers of NFL corruption and an hour’s worth of commercials makes it absolute garbage, truly unbearable to watch.

    • Replies: @bartok
    @theMann


    Watching idiots run into each other as hard as possible for 3+ hours and calling it a sport is laughable to begin with
     
    You should have seen football before the forward pass was invented. "Stover at Yale"
    Fullbacks kicking punts at random times. Rugby without the scrums.
  • "Do you think his assessment is accurate?" was the subject line of an email I got from a good friend recently. The email referred to the article by Paul Craig Roberts "One Day Tomorrow Won't Arrive" which claimed that "the US military is now second class compared to the Russian military". The article then went...
  • @Cyrano
    I think that Pierre de Coubertin would be proud of US for living according to the Olympic principle: It’s not important to win, but to participate. And then let someone else win the wars and then take credit for it.

    Like in WW2 when USSR did all the fighting and then after the war they discovered that communism is not “democratic”. The shock there, good think that they found out that in time to start the Cold war and prevent their former undemocratic allies from “taking over the world”.

    Then in the 80’s they decided to start harnessing the power of Islam in order to fight their wars on the cheap (without too many losses of US lives) I guess you can say the peaceful country met the peaceful religion and of course great things can happen when 2 such great pacifistic entities join forces.

    Of course soon after they started using Islam to fight their wars for them, they also conveniently discovered that they too are not democratic, so the war on terror started in order to make sure that their “allies” don’t make too many gains at the expense of democracy.

    Replies: @theMann, @Kevin O'Keeffe, @anonymous

    Gee, I must of missed the history where the Russians fought at Iwo Jima, Manila, and Okinawa, every battle of which would have been bloodier than Stalingrad if the Japanese could have resupplied.

    The Russians fought, on the whole, rather poorly, a single front war on their own terrain against a known opponent.

    US forces fought a multi-front war against two opponents above and below two oceans, while fighting on the ground in multiple locations of Africa, Europe, multiple Pacific islands, SE Asia and God knows where else. All this while supplying the British, French, Australian, Dutch, Chinese, and yes Russian, armies with massive amounts of material aid (what do you think 400,000 trucks are worth in a war of movement?), the greatest logistic achievement of all time. And did it all while managing about 1\100th the casualties of the other combatants in similar situations.

    So, yea, US and Russian achievements in WW II are not remotely comparable.

    As far as the present, past and future are concerned, “the spiritual to the materiel is as a force of ten to one”, will always be true. Our Navy will always be better than their Navy, our Air Force will always be at least as good as their Air Force, and if you put 10 US infantry men against 10 Russian infantry men, we would win 9 to 1. And for this simple reason: The Russians may be better at dying than we are, but we are WAY better killers than they are. Them, or anyone else.

    • Replies: @Andrei Martyanov
    @theMann


    So, yea, US and Russian achievements in WW II are not remotely comparable.
     
    Damn right. Eastern Front dwarfs anything US ever experienced in its history. I also wonder what would Patton do, in the breaks between inflating 3-4 times Germans he "killed", should he have met with Meinstein, Hoth or Model at the peak of their form and SS and Wehrmacht Panzers, say circa 1942-43. Other than that--sure, USA saved the world, the whole US propaganda machine was built around this delusion and as any sand castle it is disintegrating.

    Replies: @Diversity Heretic, @L.K

    , @Cyrano
    @theMann

    Those “glorious” victories of US against Japan were nothing more than boat accidents, extra-proportionally glorified by American propaganda. Chew on this one for a while: US already had the nuclear bombs and Truman still begged Stalin to help him defeat Japan with a massive offensive in Manchuria. Which Stalin did.

    The nuclear weapons were just for special effects – and killing civilians, militarily they were close to useless. USSR pretty much almost single handedly defeated not only Germany, but Japan as well. You are nothing but brain-washed idiot who believes that knows something. I am sending you a link too. Read and weep - at least someone in your country is still capable of publishing the truth.

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/08/14/historians-soviet-offensive-key-japans-wwii-surrender-eclipsed-bombs.html

    Replies: @FB, @Kevin O'Keeffe, @Vidi

  • Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile reveals she did some contingency planning after Hillary passed out at a 9/11 ceremony last year about replacing Clinton-Kaine with a Biden-Booker ticket. The response from Hillary staffers is pretty funny: So, remember, a bystander didn't actually happen to video Hillary collapsing, you just think you remember that because...
  • I think that the entire “Russians interfered with our election!!!!!” meme is a deliberate strategy of inoculation-

    Create a meme that everyone knows is false to protect against one that everyone should recognize as true.

    Imagine after two years of the Russians interfered lie going into the next election cycle, when some (extremely) non establishment candidate tries to bring up:

    Israel interferes in our elections.
    Saudi Arabia interferes in our elections.
    Mexico interferes in our elections.

    Rather unsettling idea.

  • From the Chicago Tribune: Okay, but both of you do realize, don't you, that the show you were working on, Mad Men, was basically a softcore porn soap opera? Granted, it had nice nostalgic camera work and art direction. And it was adept at pushing the buttons of women in the media in the 21st...
  • @guest
    Don't we usually save the term "accused" for such things as crimes? He has been "accused" of making a charged comment. Big deal.

    Men in the workplace want to see certain women in the workplace nude. Big surprise.

    Replies: @Elmer T. Jones, @theMann, @Forbes

    And women in the workplace…well:

    The business at my part time weekend job now has cameras covering every nook and cranny of the building interior, at considerable expense. For the simple reason that we once had a female employee who went out of her way to sleep with every married man at that place of business, or shine on every married man she wasn’t attracted to, and then in your face their wives about it while filing sexual harassment charges. I was at work twice when wives came up to confront her.

    The reality is that if your business has as many as (as few as?) ten female employees, at least one of them is going to be a grade A sexual predator looking to create as much chaos and harm as possible, to as many people as possible. But of course, we only hold men accountable for their behavior, and that is 100% of why our civilization is collapsing.

    • Agree: BB753
  • Not so long ago, mere mention of the deliberate murder of whites in South Africa—country folk and commercial farmers, in particular—was called "racist." "Raaacist!" the media collective brayed when candidate Trump retweeted a related "white genocide" hashtag. It's still "racist" to suggest that the butchering of these whites, almost daily, in ways that beggar belief,...
  • “Like South Africa, America is a creation of (northwest) European settlers. And it is in Man’s nature to dislike those who are unlike him—all the more so when they, as a group, have accomplished what he has not.”

    And it is men’s nature to virulently hate those who are superior to them. The more inferior, the greater the hatred.

    What incredible insanity ever possessed so many millions of Whites, to start treating our inferiors as our equals, and blindly unaware that they would hate us all the more for it?

    • Replies: @Jake
    @theMann

    That answer is easy: post-Christendom Liberalism, which replaced traditional Christian morality.

    , @helena
    @theMann

    Apart from conspiracy it is also the case that ideology didn't change even though technology did.

    Hence the continued urge to help people whose population is now larger than that of Europeans.

  • Following up my Taki's column on Larry David, "Curb Your Self-Awareness," here's a self-aware excerpt from a 2001 interview by Emma Forrest with Rachel Weisz, the lovely Oscar-winning Jewish-British actress:
  • @anony-mouse
    Like your friend who taught department store marketing this may be an excuse for her own lack of success. Some manage. Some do very well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q8fG0TtVAY

    Anyhow Weisz was married to a non-Jewish blond herself (Daneil Craig). Projection? Until she wasn't.

    Replies: @Dave Pinsen, @CAL2, @Glaivester, @Olorin, @theMann

    “Blondeness is nature’s clearest warning signal of a naturally cold disposition” – Somerset Maugham.

    Not sure how he personally would have known that, but it is an accurate observation.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @theMann

    The flip side of this is that brunette hair signals a woman's got a heck of a temper.

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @theMann

    So Maugham is to blame for no one being able to spell "blondness" these days?

  • From the San Francisco Chronicle:
  • @Anonymous
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41950198

    Sepp Blatter: Hope Solo accuses ex-Fifa president of sexual harassment
     

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @theMann

    Yes, a little grab-ass must have been a terrible shock to her, what with it being the first time in her whole life it ever happened……

    • Replies: @Forbes
    @theMann

    How many of Hope Solo's teammates grabbed her ass...

  • The stars came out in Hollywood on November 2nd, or at least some of them did. The gala event celebrated the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and raised funds to support its mission in Israel itself and on the occupied West Bank. The organization being fêted was the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF), which...
  • If in the end, all politics is local, then every one of us needs to locally confront our elected officials for their support for all Israel, all the time.

    I confront the Israeli supporters every time, as the twice fold traitors of human history.

    First, because they put the interests of a hostile foreign power ahead of the interests of Americans. Morally, if not legally, treason, and likely at least sedition at the level of law. And if you think Israel isn’t a hostile foreign power, well, a whole lot of commentators have already sited chapter and verse.

    Second, because they deliberately put the interest of Jews ahead of the interest of Christians. Now that argument may not especially work in Yankee land, but in the South it has real resonance. Especially if you confront a local State Rep at Mass….on Good Friday.

    Confront, confront, and confront some more. And if you don’t think this is critically important for the future of our nation, try travelling abound some time, making an effort to talk to ordinary blue collar workers, and found out not how much we are disliked (that would be a lot), but why. Because I guarantee you, our foreign policy is number one on the list.( Ok, maybe number two after lack of language skills, but that is another subject.)

  • One of the more amusing things about the Current Year is how Social Justice Jihadis make up ever more self-destructive jargon to explain what they are are resenting, such as the inherently comic "microaggression" and now ... "microinvalidation." From Teen Vogue: I'm not sure if Hillary guest-edited this contribution, but Hillary probably knows all about...
  • This is at least your second article on Teen Vogue, which, since I am not a teenage girl, I just don’t care about….but

    How intergalactic a cosmic dumphuc do you have to be to screw up Teen Vogue? Talk about a target audience that advertisers would fight their way to get into line for…

    Every one associated with this disaster needs to have their names meticulously recorded, and spread all over world, so that they are never hired for any similar job again. EVER.

  • Commenter loveofknowledge writes: The whole time the Ferguson Michael Brown hoax was going on, I was asking myself, why are they doing this? Are they TRYING to start a riot? If the media gets everybody convinced that this was a case of an innocent black kid murdered by a racist white cop… well then people...
  • I doubt if any of us are old enough to Remember the Maine, but I certainly remember the media coverage of the Vietnam War. It was all lies, all the time, but from before Tet to after, the lies turned on a dime. Very educational for a person soon to enter their teens.

    In any case, I learned early that everything I see and hear on the “news” is, and always have been, a collection of false and perjured lies. What surprises and dismays is that, after all of: The Alar scares, McMartin pre-school scandals, Waco holocausts, Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, Barrage of anti-Nixon tirades, Clinton crime cover-ups, refusal to reveal the Race of crime perps, unless White, and so forth ad infinitum, ad noctum, most Americans still rely on the “news” for “information”. Just how invincibly deluded are all of you?

    Well, on to some useful facts:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2016/06/01/these-15-billionaires-own-americas-news-media-companies/#54adc1f4660a

    Now of those media owners…..How many are baptized Christians, Served in the military, grew up rural or small town, ever voted for a non left-wing political candidate, lived in a majority non-White neighborhood, or volunteered in a soup kitchen? But they will go on and on about “diversity” which they will never experience first hand, and in which usage they mean the opposite of what the rest of us do.

    They are every one of them the vilest propagandists imaginable. False and perjured liars in all things, filth irredeemable,

  • Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, who was always being mentioned in the 1980s as the Democrats' next Supreme Court nominee, has an amusingly demented Twitter account these days. Today, Tribe intuits the anti-Semitic conspiracy behind a Trump misspelling in a Tweet: Tribe once wrote a law review article entitled "The Curvature of Constitutional Space:...
  • @JohnnyWalker123
    @JohnnyWalker123

    If rape has decline by 85% since the early 70s, that implies the average American man back then was 7x more likely to commit rape. Does that sound plausible? Did American men used to be exceptionally rape prone?

    Really, if that 85% figure is true, that'd imply that there used to be (by current standards) horrific levels of sexual violence in the U.S. It'd also imply that a relatively large percentage of older men have raped a woman at some point in their life.

    Replies: @anonymous, @Steve Sailer, @theMann, @Travis, @Hippopotamusdrome

    If any of you can find it, I strongly recommend watching a French film called “Les Ripoux” for some reason released in the US as “My New Partner”.

    That film will help educate you in the realization that all crime “statistics” are pure politics and always have been.

  • The New York Times has been at the forefront of the campaign over sexual misconduct in the entertainment industry in particular, which has now been extended to the political arena (preposterously in the case of Sen. Al Franken). The newspaper has devoted considerable resources and published dozens of articles and “exposés” on the subject since...
  • Perhaps this is tangential to a thoughtful article, but

    1. Film aint art.

    2. Anybody who thinks Louis C. K. is funny has their head so far up their a$$ they can self examine their molars.

    3. GOT follows the novels closely. The first four seasons had a lot of gratuitous soft core porn thrown in, but it has disappeared as the show got better.

  • And then they came for Harold Ford Jr., a quasi-black politician, VIP, and MSNBC commenter. From the NYT: Basically, we are seeing a culling of the extraverted ethnicities, the "not shy" boys (to quote Spy magazine's 1989 assessment of director James Toback's one good trait), such as Jews and blacks. Who is going to be...
  • “But it came after a woman who did not work at the firm accused Mr. Ford of acting inappropriately in a professional setting”

    Apparently, a presumably anonymous charge, from some one who doesn’t actually work there, resulted in the immediate firing of a man who evidently didn’t get a hearing at all, let alone an impartial one?

    Where do you think this all ends? Because when you throw out the Rule of Law, all of the carefully built up English common law which is the basis for our orderly and stable civilization, where the last several hundred years of Anglo-Saxon Polity are the ONLY orderly, stable civilization in human history, you end up with the Law of the Jungle, where few men, AND NO WOMEN, can manage to live.

    And when they don’t even list the “inappropriate behavior”, that leaves me wondering. Because that can cover everything from taking your sock off to blow your nose when you don’t have a Kleenex; to slipping in a joke like “what is the best thing about a blow job?” “It is ten minutes of your life when a woman has to shut up about her feelings”; to my personal favorite, stating, “you know, Richard Nixon was one of our Greatest Presidents!”.

    • Replies: @anon
    @theMann

    My guess ... he hit on, and pissed off, a big customer. Or the wife or mistress of one. It's about money and whoever got him fired has more of it. That is ... brings in a lot more than him.

    Replies: @dr kill

    , @Anon
    @theMann

    So far, every time more information comes out, it turns out the accused was lying and trying to cover up a lot of bad behavior. When I hear an employer just gives the bounce to someone, I assume it has more reasons that it's not talking about.

    , @Anonymous
    @theMann

    Another thing, which I scarcely see mentioned anywhere, is that when you throw out the Rule of Law, globalism collapses.
    Almost all of the globalist billionaires have "wealth" that exists almost ENTIRELY as electronic data. What MAKES this into actual wealth is the rule of law, and the relation of law to the government guys with guns.
    Even the billionaires who to some degree control hard assets would not have nearly as much "wealth" if they were not relying on the legal system, and most especially the legal system of the United States.

    Replies: @Bleuteaux, @EdwardM, @Jim Don Bob

    , @International Jew
    @theMann


    Where do you think this all ends? Because when you throw out the Rule of Law
     
    That's the most important issue here; we're watching the emergence of a parallel system of "justice" that, as you say, is unconstrained by any of those rules of procedure that together constitute the Anglosphere's greatest contribution to civilization.

    This new system can't jail you or execute you, but it can end your career, ruin your reputation, and nullify elections. That's quite a bit right there, I'd say.

    Replies: @dr kill, @Frankie P

    , @Charles Erwin Wilson
    @theMann

    Wow! Richard Nixon gave you a ten-minute blow job! Think about how your grandchildren will love to hear you recount that story. And then they can pass it along to your posterity. Win-win-win!

    , @Mr. Anon
    @theMann


    Where do you think this all ends? Because when you throw out the Rule of Law, all of the carefully built up English common law which is the basis for our orderly and stable civilization, where the last several hundred years of Anglo-Saxon Polity are the ONLY orderly, stable civilization in human history, you end up with the Law of the Jungle, where few men, AND NO WOMEN, can manage to live.
     
    I agree. Perhaps the courts shouldn't have done that - throw out the Rule of Law.
    , @Karl
    @theMann

    19 the Mann > Apparently, a presumably anonymous charge, from some one who doesn’t actually work there, resulted in the immediate firing of a man who evidently didn’t get a hearing at all, let alone an impartial one? [...] Where do you think this all ends?

    the endpoint is that guys who are producing $85,000/year of value for the company, while only costing $65,000/year are immunized from this nonsense.

    But Ford was producing a fractional amount of value at a high cost. So, he's disposable the first time there's even a hint of a ruckus.

    If Harold Ford Jr had accepted a position as Morgan Stanley's Deputy Assistant Vice President for Janitorial Staffing, no one would have cared when he got accused of trying to feel up a chick at a convention in Vegas, of Janitorial Management Executives


    8 Mis(ter Anthrope) > How long will it be before men start making sexual harassment claims against Obama?

    those cats are all long since buried in Chicago. Obama learned from Governor Clinton, how to handle problems.

    , @Danny D
    @theMann

    The rule of law as we know it seems somewhat passe in the post scarcity digital Era. The tedious procedure of trial seems likely to go away. As long as you receive food and entrainment you won't have much right to complain. This was true in the olden days too, poor didn't really have legal recourse for greivences. Now with scale there is ever greater inequality.

    , @Jack Highlands
    @theMann


    you end up with the Law of the Jungle, where few men, AND NO WOMEN, can manage to live.
     
    You make some good conjectures, but just so we're clear on the fundamental sexual calculus that underlies all this: the sex with the small, cheap, vastly plentiful, disposable gametes is itself relatively disposable. It struggles, often violently, to distinguish itself in order to gain access to the sex with the large, nourishing, scarce and precious gametes. That is how life for a sexual species IS.

    Under the Law of the Jungle, the ratio of reproductive age women to men goes up, not down. At root - heh - civilization itself is an implicit pact between men to avoid violence and preserve value by sharing women according to rational male standards, not the bad boy standards of women.

    , @Bill
    @theMann

    When did the iSteve commentariat become socialist? Isn't the official line that at-will employment is a Good Thing(TM) and that any interference with at-will employment is a violation of the rule of law, freedom, apple pie, the non-initiation principle, and everything which is good and holy?

    A fair hearing and due process for termination of employment? That's a Very Bad Thing(TM), at least when the UAW negotiates it or some Randforsaken Euroweenie parliament legislates it.

    Oh, I remember now. That's all a canard. It's socialism for the rich and laissez faire for the poor which is the glibertarian way.

    Wait for it . . . "Oh, I'm not saying they shouldn't be able to fire . . . blah blah blah . . . "

    , @Frau Katze
    @theMann

    They were likely thinking of firing him for some other reason.

    If not, it’s unfair to go on a single unsubstantiated accusation. The guys fired so far have multiple accusers.

    , @Intelligent Dasein
    @theMann

    This is really quite an hysterical and silly comment.

    First of all, you can bet that Morgan Stanley knows a heck of a lot more about this situation than they're saying in public. There is no need to tarnish the company's image by revealing the salacious details of their employee's misbehavior. Their PR people advised them to quickly get rid of the troublemaker and to stay mum about the specifics, and they were right.

    Second, since you were not a party to these events, neither as a victim of Harold Ford, Jr. nor as a client of Morgan Stanley nor as an employee of Morgan Stanley, you do not have the right to demand knowledge of his antics, nor does anyone have the obligation to provide you with knowledge of such.

    Third, the rule of law has absolutely nothing to do with any of this. Harold Ford, Jr. is not being prosecuted by the government. He was terminated by a private employer who had every right to fire him if they didn't like what he was doing. Absolutely no laws were violated by Morgan Stanley, and in any event there is not even a legal issue at stake.

  • As Larry David, myself, a guy at the Tablet, and about three other members of the Awkward Squad have noted over the last ten weeks, the current purge of guys accused of sexual harassment has disparately impacted Jews by at least an order of magnitude. Commenter unpc downunder speculates: As I pointed out in Taki's...
  • @PiltdownMan
    The most striking thing about that Tablet magazine article is this



    COMMENTING CHARGES
    Daily rate: $2
    Monthly rate: $18
    Yearly rate: $180

     

    Replies: @theMann, @ScarletNumber, @Kevin O'Keeffe, @Dr. X, @Anonymous, @Jenner Ickham Errican

    Well, I guess if you really want to put your 2$ worth in…….. inflation…….

  • In accordance with the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (CAA) the Office of Compliance (OC) compiled and published shocking statistics listing (1) the number of settlements paid to its employees and interns after allegations of abuse by legislators; (2) the total amount of dollars paid by US Treasury to the victims of Congressional workplace abuse....
  • A joke from the 70’s:

    -How is a Congressman like a bookmark?
    -They both bend over a Page!

    Seriously, people go there with certain expectations, one of which is Sex, Power, All the Same.

  • Introductory note: I wanted to touch upon this subject for a long, long while, because it is one I care about a lot. However, it is also totally off-topic for this blog. However, since in Russia there is a lull (that is putting it mildly) between New Year and the Orthodox Nativity, I decided to...
  • Good article as far as it goes, but I will add a few points:

    1. When Saker says most people will fire 1-3 shots in a real firefight, he means one. Most people will have minimal training, outdoors, with hearing protection. Firing a short barreled .357 indoors without protection will result in most dropping the weapon and holding their ears screaming.

    2. Know your target, know what is behind your target. You fire a high penetration round in an apartment and it goes into the next apartment, you are responsible for the results.

    3. I wouldn’t recommend a handgun for most people in any situation. They require a lot of training to use with even minimal competence. Honestly for most users their best feature, if they have it, is the ability to fix a strong tactical light on the rail. Getting a powerful light in somebody’s face, especially after dark, is pretty deterrent.

    4. Can’t emphasize this enough: shooting is a skill, and all skills require both training and practice. Guns don’t require as much training\practice as swords or hands and feet (which is why people use them), but they do require some. If you aren’t going to put the time in, don’t even think of getting the weapon in the first place. And keep this in mind: the least lethal deterrent is the best.

    • Agree: Alden
    • Disagree: anarchyst
    • Replies: @pyrrhus
    @theMann

    The Saker states that cops are required to enforce the law and protect people from violence. This is not true. The Supreme Court has specifically ruled that police have NO duty to intervene in a violent situation or protect you, even if it is happening right in front of them. Moreover, in many cases police arrive long after an "incident" (45 minutes in a case I am familiar with) or not at all....
    Second, he talks about 1-3 shots being fired...Ridiculous. In a home invasion, you will keep shooting until the problem is solved, whether by impact or the flight of the criminals involved. Hence the great advantage of a 17 round magazine.....As to the difficulty of teaching someone to fire a handgun, it isn't difficult at all if they are reasonably intelligent.

    , @dkshaw
    @theMann

    I fired a .357 at an outdoor range having forgotten to insert my ear plugs. I can not imagine what that would be like in an enclosed space. It deafened me for a couple minutes. Never ever forgot my hearing protection again. I sure hope those home intruders will give me a half a minute or so to put my ear plugs in.

    Replies: @Chris Mallory, @Alden

    , @Sbaker
    @theMann

    Concerning point 1: my experience and others I have talked to; the one pulling the trigger when there is a strong adrenalin surge on board, is rarely bothered by the explosion of the shot. Many deer hunters report never having noticed the sound from a high powered rifle when they shoot the big one. I know this is not a closed space in most instances, but neither is a pistol a 7 mm magnum. Worrying about ear protection during a confrontation with a criminal should be the last thought on your mind.

    , @Return of Shawn
    @theMann

    The most important thing for a CC gun is to buy the gun you will ACTUALLY carry. Most people, especially women, aren't going to want to lug around a .357 revolver.

  • From the New York Times: This attack was on the third anniversary of the Islamist attack on the kosher supermarket that followed the Islami
  • “Can a Jew love France?”

    Is this question addressed to:

    1. A Frenchman, who happens to be Jewish?

    2. A Jew, who happens to be a French citizen?

    And what happens when we replace France with America? FYI, Muslims bow outnumber Jews in America, and are growing rapidly.

    Wow, the NYT, hot bed of anti-Semitism.

  • From Commentary: (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump by NYT deputy Washington editor Jonathan Weisman is to be published on March 18, 2018.
  • So what is he saying here- you can be a Jew, or you can be an American, but you can’t be a Jewish American?

    Even if that isn’t what he is saying, that is how it will be interpreted. How this is going to be helpful to anybody eludes me. Even if that isn’t what he is saying, Secular Leftists are heartily despised by pretty much all the rest of humanity, so when Jews as a group get associated (maligned?) with them that isn’t going to go well, especially with so much of the world trending “right” in the sense of rediscovering National Identity.

  • Indoctrinated for decades by relativism, we’re supposed to consider all life styles equal and never pass judgments. There must be legitimate reasons for a culture to embrace, for example, child marriage, bride kidnapping, female circumcision, Oprah Winfrey, or universal, all day long access to pornography. Shit, though, is a hard sell, thus open sewers or...
  • What would have served India better, building 600 million flush toilets connected to modern sewage treatment centers, or building a nuclear weapons program?

    India made its choice, it can wallow in the results.

    Germany and the USA are the cleanest and most modern countries on earth. They won’t stay that way considering who they are inviting in.

  • NPR is mad that not enough purveyors of a 1970s nostalgia musical style called hip hop won Grammy Awards last night: Do you realize how racist it is that Jay-Z has only been nominated for 74 Grammys and won but 21 times? Seventy-four Grammy nominations is no more than Sir George Solti had and four...
  • “If you play a tune and a person don’t tap their feet, don’t play the tune.” – Count Basie

    Wonder what any of the Greats of American Music would think about the current Grammys?

    I believe it was Duke Ellington who said: music is composed of harmony, melody and rhythm, and rock and roll is deficient in two of the three.

    As apposed to hip hop, which is objectively speaking, deficient in all three.

    And I am not sure if I am impressed or repelled that Pierre Boulez has 67 nominations.

    • Replies: @stillCARealist
    @theMann

    I looked up Pierre Boulez and listened to a few minutes of a "piano sonata". It's about as interesting as when a cat walks across the keyboard.

    why do people consider crap like that worthy of anything? it's not enjoyable in any way.

  • From Medium: With Los Angeles as being the metro area with the most winners and losers. This value will shift from properties with a convenience premium reflected in their current price (e.g. near public transit, short commute) to properties that currently have an inconvenience penalty baked into their price (e.g. long commute, far from city...
  • Everybody seems so concerned with the technical aspects of making self driving vehicles work, but I am more concerned with the external implications:

    1. How will local Police Departments react to the loss of “probable cause” to pull drivers over at a whim? Not to mention the loss of revenue from tickets?

    2.How will insurance companies react to a potential loss of revenue on a massive scale?

    3. How will people react to the idea of driverless cars on a conceptual level? Drone pizza delivery has already been experimented with, but so far people seem to strongly prefer an actual person handing them their food. And that is one tiny subset of all driverless possibilities.

    4. I am 100% certain that driverless cars will be hackable, thus usable as a weapon platform. First time that happens, all bets are off on how people will react.

    5. Just how many gearheads are there out there? I am guessing they will have zero tolerance for driverless cars.

    Maybe driverless cars are coming, and maybe they will be birthed in blood.

  • The Democrats don't seem to understand that the Russia investigation has made Trump stronger not weaker. They don't see that their evidence-free probe has strengthened Trump's base and convinced his supporters that their leader is being unfairly attacked. (According to a January Quinnipiac survey, a full eighty-three percent of Republicans believe the current investigation is...
  • @Authenticjazzman
    @Twodees Partain

    If one were to undertake a survey in the waiting rooms of shrinks, psychologists and psychiatrists, of the party affiliations of the folks waiting for therapy and or medication , one would come to the not so suprising results of : 98% Democrat.

    Just who actually are the supporters of this abberated, bonkers political entity :
    Okay start with millions of urban "baby mommas" and their shiftless offspring, living off of the hapless working stiffs til the end of their days.
    Then progress to blue-hair nut cases, permanent fifty-semester students clogging up the already destroyed edumacation sysstem, and then on to the legions of communist teachers/perfessers and admin personal, and then to the hollywood air-brains who can't spell Karl Marx, yet are determined to push his sick concepts onto the decent, up six in the morning, working folks.

    And then onto the armies of gov employees, then to the thousands of shit-talking attorneys, so-called journalists, so-called "artists" non-musicians : enemies of music rappers, leftist clergy pushing the democrat vote from their position of "authority", damn the list could go on for miles, but suffice it to say I guess I made my point.

    Authenticjazzman "Mensa"qualified since 1973, airborne trained US army Vet, and pro jazz musician.

    Replies: @bluedog, @theMann, @uslabor

    Dude, you have the most exact analysis the Democratic Party’s voting base ever. if you could also point out that they are owned and managed by oligarchs, and then shorten it to a bumper sticker…..

    In all fairness, I was a lukewarm Republican until the stupendous stench of George W. Bush Jr permanently polluted that organization. Watching the local Repubs, all of whom knew him personally, go from “yea, he is a (formerly) drunken asshole, but we will run him for governor” to “Oh yea, he is the greatest guy ever” was…..sickening.

    Even so, watching the Democrats pour illegals into our country, while replying to any issue with “oh, you are ra-ra-ra-Racist!” isn’t just repellent, it is something close to treason.

    As much of a disaster as Trump has been on foreign policy, he has wildly exceeded expectations on the domestic front. Maybe we can give him a (very short term) pass until he figures out that the Israelis are not our, or anybody elses, friends.

  • From Arutz Sheva: Right-wing activists invite infiltrators to leftists' homes Illegal immigrants in Tel Aviv 'invited' to actress Sarah Silverman's sister's home as right-wing activists distribute 'invitations'. Contact Editor Yoni Kempinski/Mordechai Sones, 29/01/18 18:26 Dr. Michael Ben-Ari and Baruch Marzel arrived in southern Tel Aviv today and distributed leaflets to infiltrators in Tigrinya, the language...
  • You do realize any homeowners ownership record is a public document in the county of ownership, right? And these are just about all online now. Not putting out their home address is moot in that circumstance. Or if they are in a physical phone book, or if they have ever been involved in a legal proceeding, especially over property, whose records aren’t sealed, or….well there are a lot of ways to get an address.

    Following them around though, that is stalking and definitely illegal.

    I assume that most rich people buying property is done through a dummy corp, and all of them live behind gated communities. funny how they isolate themselves from the consequences of behavior we have to deal with every day.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @theMann

    But the most dangerous wackos tend to be bored by and ineffectual at boring research.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    , @Twinkie
    @theMann


    I assume that most rich people buying property is done through a dummy corp
     
    Some do it through a trust. And it’s not just rich people. Women fleeing from abusive husbands/boyfriends and don’t want to be found also use it.
  • From the Harvard Business Review: Nah, you've likely got causality more backwards than forwards. Expensive cost of living cities like San Francisco have high wages but repel families where the wife wants to drop out of the labor force for awhile and stay home with her kids. Cheaper cities like Columbus attract families looking to...
  • A couple of things:

    1. Say’s Law is true by definition. Simple example- what was the demand for desktop computers in 1970? Oh yea, zero, they didn’t exist yet. Understanding the truth of Say’s Law is understanding that all production is risk…..until you get a nice fat government contract that pays out regardless.

    2. Most of you are lucky to not know just how awful women in the workplace really are. If, for instance, you do contract IT work and have to go into an all female office to upgrade/replace the infrastructure, desktops, laptops etc…… well then you are TOUCHING THEIR WORKSPACE and that will not be fun.

    In a more mixed work environment the 20/80 rule always applies- 20 per cent of the workers do 80 per cent of the work. There is no guarantee the 20 per cent will be mostly male, but bet that way if you have to.

    The Founder was one of those films trying to make some one look bad, in this case Ray Kroc, that of course did the opposite (Patton is still the gold standard). It particularly wanted to point out how awful he was in insisting on an all male work environment, because females spent all their time flirting with customers and gossiping. Ah, the good old days of hard headed reality, I miss them.

    • Replies: @Alec Leamas
    @theMann


    1. Say’s Law is true by definition. Simple example- what was the demand for desktop computers in 1970? Oh yea, zero, they didn’t exist yet. Understanding the truth of Say’s Law is understanding that all production is risk…..until you get a nice fat government contract that pays out regardless.
     
    Are you sure there was no demand for a combined work processor/typewriter, printer, calculator, etc.?

    The personal computer simply combined several functions for which there was already demand for purpose-specific products into one "do it all" product. As personal computers hit the market, I'd bet that the demand for other purpose specific products fell correspondingly. Manual typewriters and supplies are now niche products used sparingly by a few industries (i.e., most law offices will have one to fill certain pre-printed makework forms). The pc is a better mousetrap, but it's still a mousetrap.

    2. Most of you are lucky to not know just how awful women in the workplace really are. If, for instance, you do contract IT work and have to go into an all female office to upgrade/replace the infrastructure, desktops, laptops etc…… well then you are TOUCHING THEIR WORKSPACE and that will not be fun.
     
    We joke that Lady Lawyers, particularly of a certain age, are like those Betta fish you can buy in the aquarium store. You can only have one to an office/floor/practice group or they'll tear one another apart.
  • From Bloomberg: Women Once Ruled the Computer World. When Did Silicon Valley Become Brotopia? How the tech industry sabotaged itself and its own pipeline of talent. By February 1, 2018, 1:00 AM PST ...Today, according to a recent study published by Axios, even famously sexist Wall Street employs a higher percentage of women than tech.......
  • Funniest article ever! It will take me a long time to stop laughing today.

    The only necessary retirement for the entire tech sector is that you like to figure things out. Seriously, how many 10 year old girls ever take a watch apart and try to reassemble it? How many 14 year old girls start gearheading in a major way? How many 18 year old women are running off to college going “oh boy, oh boy STEM! What can discover!”. And how far do you have to stick your head up your a$$ not to discover that men like to fix, invent, discover, and just simply play with, all technology? And women, not so much?

    Oh, and btw, techies are not anti-social. THEY ARE ANTI-STUPID!!!!

    • Replies: @Jim Christian
    @theMann


    Seriously, how many 10 year old girls ever take a watch apart and try to reassemble it? How many 14 year old girls start gearheading in a major way? How many 18 year old women are running off to college going “oh boy, oh boy STEM! What can discover!”. And how far do you have to stick your head up your a$$ not to discover that men like to fix, invent, discover, and just simply play with, all technology? And women, not so much?
     
    Come on, man, brilliant women program the robot to go faster. Men are stooges, just to tools that enable the women to fly HIGH! It's the women. It's all about the women.

    https://youtu.be/sucKTktHYA8

    https://youtu.be/Co0qkWRqTdM

    Replies: @bartok

  • Gazing out over the chaos of America today, the racial and ethnic antagonism, the hostility over sex and faith and politics–I have never seen anything like it. The country is imploding. The main culprit is diversity–in the broad sense, not just the juxtaposition of races, but the mixing of ideas and philosophies with no dominant...
  • @Anon
    Well, I could add to what Reed says, agree with him on quite a few things. But I have kids. My side (socially conservative, anti US imperialism, anti Marxism in any guise) is losing.

    The alt-right talks about immigration restriction. Suppose Trump achieved it, during his next term too. We can then talk about expulsion of Latinos and Muslims. But they are symptomatic. How to fight an enemy we cannot pinpoint? We are not fighting only "the Jews". How do we publicly identify American globalists? Where do we send a press corps to cover their meetings?

    The globalists we are up against, what is their next move?

    Replies: @theMann, @unpc downunder, @Allan

    “How do we publicly identify American globalists? Where do we send a press corps to cover their meetings?”

    Are you trying to be funny?

    Media
    Academia
    Government Employees
    Corporate Boardrooms
    and repeat, Media

    Identified.

    And to the point- for all the diversity advocates the undercurrent becomes ever more openly Satanic.
    From Samantha Bee to Mark Zuckerburg to the Clintons and the Bushes, all of them increasingly resemble something that stepped out of a Hieronymus Bosch painting. Hate radiates off of them in stinking waves of intolerance, wrath, and envy, and it shows in their faces.

    • Replies: @athEIst
    @theMann

    Hieronymus Bosch painting

    Hieronymus Bosch painted the World. See the Haywain.

    Replies: @Negrolphin Pool

    , @Toby Keith
    @theMann

    "American globalist" is an oxymoron.

    Globalists are Jews, wherever they may be, plus their dupes and hired help. Whatever Gentile elites may be involved can be classified under "Dupes", as they mistakenly believe that the Jews intend to share power/oxygen once White Gentiles have been substantively dispossessed.

    , @Harbinger
    @theMann

    theMann,

    And what do you do once you've identified these globalists?
    Globalists are incredibly easy to find. You've also missed possibly those who indoctrinate the most - school teachers, college professors, musicians and film and TV actors/celebrities you can add to the list.

    And again, what on earth do you do in order to stop them? This has been the question I've been searching for an answer for, for quite some time now. What policeman is going to arrest any of them? What police chief will allow any of the globalists to be arrested? What solicitor is going to prosecute any of them and more importantly what judge will listen to the case and give any verdict?

    It is overwhelmingly clear, to anyone who has been studying the global, new world order that this system is incredibly wealthy and even more powerful. The CIA, NSA and FBI are overwhelmingly part of it. MI5, MI6 here in the UK, along with other European secret services to boot. Then you have Mossad most certainly involved.

    As already stated, I'm not from the USA, but have a keen interest on what's going on globally. The fact that Hilary Clinton broke goodness knows how many rules and clearly corrupt, having come out cleaner than a baby at birth, with your average man getting life for committing just one of the many offenses she has, proves that these people are above the law.

    I don't know how many times I have stated this, in the many replies I've written on this subject, but you CANNOT use the system to BEAT the system. It's like trying to prosecute a pedophile, with a defense lawyer, a judge and a jury who are all pedophiles. They know this. They know that whatever happens, as long as they've been good, obedient servants to the 'hidden hand' that's controlling all of this, they'll be ok.

    Replies: @Sowhat

    , @Corvinus
    @theMann

    "Media, Academia, Government Employees, Corporate Boardrooms, and repeat, Media"

    So, the enemy is essentially millions of American white people who work in these positions, along with their non-white toadies, along with their children.

    How do you propose to reverse this alleged tide of oppression against "your people" in accordance with the law? Moreover, would your proposals not interfere with their liberty to make their own racial and social decisions, along with the freedom to associate?

    Please offer a cogent response to these important questions.

  • We went to see Black Panther, but that was sold out until 10:45 pm (front row only), so we went down the street to the $3 Theater, which is now the $3.50 Theater due to the success of Trumponomics, and saw the mystery hit movie The Greatest Showman with Hugh Jackman as a singing and...
  • @Busby
    Fields hasn't aged well. Ironic. He was a very big star. So big he was able to negotiate creative control of his films. He was also very methodical in writing and developing his material. Plus he was very physically talented. Of course he was also a major league alcoholic.
    I've enjoyed him for years, though i do not share the popular opinion that The Bank Dick is the best film.
    On a related note...
    I worked with a youngish 30 something guy who had no familiarity with The Marx Brothers, the 3 Stooges and Abbot and Costello. The reason? "I don't watch black and white movies."

    Replies: @AndrewR, @theMann, @larry lurker, @anonymouslee, @YetAnotherAnon, @whorefinder, @Steve Sailer

    well if there are an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of mes, in one of them I might care about Musicals…..but I doubt it.

  • The Taliban in Afghanistan have published an attempt to reason with “the American people, officials of independent non-governmental organizations and the peace loving Congressmen.” This “Letter of the Islamic Emirate to the American People” attempts to open a dialogue with American citizens. I happen to be an American citizen. It’s kind of funny in itself...
  • “But following the American invasion of Afghanistan, poppy cultivation skyrocketed from 185 hectors to 328,000 hectors while under the shadow of seventeen year occupation, ”

    And that is 100% of the reason we remain in Afghanistan. How many plane loads of opium a week fly out of Afghanistan, who protects them, and where do the profits go?

  • Emil O. W. Kirkegaard - 2018 - Is national mental sport ability a sign of intelligence? An analysis of the top players of 12 mental sports [data] Ability in mental sports is g-loaded: The games used to test Chinda Chisala's thesis: For games, we included every esport listed at with at least 1,000 top players....
  • I would think that Bridge and Backgammon are the most commonly played mental sports, no mention of either. Really wonder how many Catan players exist world wide as well.

    Dota 2 is free, I believe, which I sincerely hope accounts for 99% of its popularity.

    And as a relatively strong chess player, I can assure you it is no measure of intelligence at all.

    • Replies: @Wency
    @theMann

    Chess performance is correlated with IQ, in that you need maybe a 120-130 minimum IQ to be able to play at top levels. After that, it’s mostly a test of how obsessively you’re devoted to improving your chess game, am I right?

    This is probably true of every game listed here though, after shifting that minimum IQ up or down. Apparently down for Scrabble.

    One thing about Scrabble that may also be relevant: it’s more of a woman’s game, at least on the casual level. CS is definitely not. But I wonder if that is feeding into this study in any way.

    , @Krastos the Gluemaker
    @theMann

    The methodology is questionable in some ways. I'd owe Kirkegaard a better review and this is like the most Kirkegaard-esque paper possible, as just an observation, but my shorter thoughts on just the above:

    It was really a drunk-looking-under-lamppost attempt since no possible independent analysis would include this group of competitions/sports together without the preexisting bias. Looks bad in a cherry-picking sense. Chisala aside, nothing in terms of say prize pools would justify inclusion of Scrabble and simultaneous exclusion of others. Excluding shogi might have helped Japan look like an outlier O.o In fact the criteria to cut dozens or more potentially relevant videogames (and there are huge headscratchers, like SCBW to SCII) would in fact have cut off Go (<1000 players in the data source!) if it was actually applied.

    I don't think that really changes any of the picture, if one understands few weird sweeping conclusions can be made. As an exploratory analysis this is reasonable, and including a bunch of other games wouldn't necessarily change the qualitative appeal of the major graphs.

    Also seriously, including team sports alongside individual sports clearly really skews what you're looking at; it would be almost like concluding Usain Bolt isn't that great of a athlete on some "general athletics factor we just derived" because the German soccer teams over the years as a whole had more players than Jamaica. Definitely a lot of the result in a principal components sense is that wealthier first world and higher population countries are able to put together teams more easily. (Since common frictions like language barriers affect team formation)

    None of this is exactly my first interest anyway, at least not compared to discussing say AI performance vs game theoretic properties of these games, (which I would maintain does crucially impact understanding of human skill and correlation with IQ) but that's for elsewhere. I again truly don't care much whether average Scrabble tournament participates have 115 IQ and some videogame players have 110 IQ or 120 IQ or vice versa; I don't even know enough about all of the videogame scenes. Still to be clear it's a decent writeup by Kirkegaard in general though.

  • Another school shooting, another flurry of pointless arm-flapping from the commentariat, every commentator mounting his favorite hobby-horse and galloping off to the races. Most popular: Stricter federal gun control! Couple of problems with that, most notably: It’s not what Americans want. Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution tweeted out a very nifty little video showing the...
  • Well now:

    https://crimeresearch.org/2015/06/comparing-death-rates-from-mass-public-shootings-in-the-us-and-europe/

    So shooting things up is not distinctly American after all.

    Now about the SCHOOL shootings:

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

    so the USA doesn’t especially dominate that category either.

    Quiet probably the single most effective deep state lie most Americans believe in is the

    “America is uniquely full of school shootings” lie. Well that is the trope, and it is bullshit.

    But there are three things US school shootings have in common:

    1. They are shootings
    2. They are in schools
    3. The shooters are on psychotropic drugs

    Go to the head of the class if you recognize the SSRI connection. Maybe we should stop giving people drugs that have a side effect of inducing homicidal rage.

  • Audacious Epigone mines the long-running General Social Survey for fertility by an IQ proxy (score on a ten-word vocabulary test included in the survey): The smarter Mormons have a lot of kids, while the smarter blacks don't. (This is probably a big issue in why African-Americans don't make much progress.) Also, on the GSS, the...
  • Slightly off topic but since others are commenting on it –

    17 years experience of tipping jobs on weekends in Texas so I will break down the experience for everybody:

    tipping by fans:

    1. New Orleans Saints – just areal nice bunch of guys every which way.
    2. Dallas Stars fans – both of them, really.
    3. Baseball fans generally.
    4. Texas Tech.
    5. Spurs.
    6. UT Austin\ A&M .
    7. Cowboys – which also includes putting up with Cowboys fans.
    8. Cubs fans. I sincerely hope it is another 100 years before they see a WS again.

    tipping by sex\race\ethnicity

    1. Working class Guys, regardless of race.
    2. Working class women, again regardless…
    3. Wealthy White males.
    4. Wealthy other males.
    5. No such thing as wealthy females being good tippers.
    6. Public Officials of any sort – Cops, School teachers, any of them. Yea, they are just a treat walking in the door.
    7. Asians. sorry, but the truth is the truth.

    Seriously, if I had to face a weekend of Wealthy Asian cubs fans, I would just call in sick and be money ahead.

    • Replies: @European-American
    @theMann

    For what it’s worth as far as I know there is no tipping in East Asia.

    , @Twinkie
    @theMann


    7. Asians. sorry, but the truth is the truth.

    Seriously, if I had to face a weekend of Wealthy Asian cubs fans, I would just call in sick and be money ahead.
     
    There is a well-established set of studies that show that blacks consistently under-tip compared to whites, even after controlling for income and education level. In other words, the stereotype about blacks and poor tipping is reflective of reality.

    What about Hispanics and Asians? As usual, the best sources for studies on hospitality/restaurant business is from Cornell (which has a well-known school of hotel administration): http://www.tippingresearch.com/uploads/AsiansHispanicTippingJASPaccepted.pdf

    ABSTRACT
    Asians and Hispanics are perceived by many restaurant servers as poor tippers. This study tests the validity of those perceptions using data from a large restaurant chain’s online customer satisfaction survey. Findings partially support servers’ perceptions – Hispanics but not Asians tipped less on average than Whites after controlling for bill size, the customer’s own ratings of service quality and other variables. Discussion centers around the differences between these findings and those of a previous study and on the practical implications of the findings for restaurant managers. [Bold face mine.]
     
    In other words, Hispanics (to a lesser degree than blacks, but still) under-tip compared to whites. But that is NOT the case with Asians. I suspect that if we were to further delve into the data and separate East Asians and South Asians, we would likely find that the former tip better than the latter.

    By the way, this is in the United States. Obviously, in East Asia, there is little to no tipping. It is in general not a part of the culture.

    I do not cast aspersions on your own experience. You may have indeed experienced what you assert here. I would point out, however, that your experience is not reflective of the general trend regarding Asians and tipping, as is indicated by the study.

    Replies: @Bill, @Brutusale

    , @Daniel Chieh
    @theMann



    7. Asians. sorry, but the truth is the truth.
     
    I admit this - I tip quite a bit myself, but I notice that my Chinese family often deplores or mocks me for it. It can be frustrating.
  • From The New Yorker: The Fundamental Uncertainty of Mueller’s Russia Indictments By Masha Gessen February 20, 2018 ... It is true that the indictment tells us nothing about connections between the Russian efforts and the Trump campaign, and the Trump victory. It is also true that Moscow is laughing, at least in part because the...
  • four points I’d like to make:

    1. Trump’s win was always predictable and obvious for two reasons. A) Winning was spelled C O A L and if the Democrats hadn’t become so utterly degraded that they don’t even remember Tip O’Neill, they might have known that all elections are local. The fact that they lost because of the flip of coal country counties, and they still can’t figure that out, is truly pathetic. The fact that they come up with ever more hysterical, lunatic, and genuinely ridiculous reasons for their painfully obvious loss, is frightening. B) Anybody with as many unsavory nicknames as H R Clinton didn’t have a prayer of a chance in hell of winning a national election. ( Remember Shrillery, Hitlery, Killery, Cankles, the Hildebeest, Frosty the Snow Bitch, and, my personal favorite, the Salmon Scented Secretary of State?)

    2. In all the “Russians interfered with the election ” crap, no one has yet said what their actual “interference” consists of. So what, hacked voting machines, voter suppression, giving money illegally to Candidates, threatening people? What the hell did they actually do?

    3. If we can accuse Russians of interference, for at best, a minor propaganda effort, what on earth can we accuse the Israelis and Mexicans of doing? If we are going to accuse people of crimes vis a vis the Russians, then every politician in this country can be hanged for treason for what they have done for the Israelis.

    4. Minor point, but Hillary “won” the popular vote strictly on the backs of the illegal alien vote. Outside of California she was pretty decisively crushed, and if Trump’s personality was anything other than well, Trump’s, it would have been a Nixonian\Reaganesque landslide.

    • Replies: @anonymous
    @theMann

    Spot on--especially #2. Still waiting for an answer. And waiting...and waiting...and waiting...and...zzzz.

    , @J.Ross
    @theMann

    This is a very good comment. I was thrown by deep feelings regarding Gessen, who has made unambiguously genocidal comments about Russians which would be illegal if she made them about other people, and Friedman (who did the same thing with the Russian brother-folk, the Serbs), and couldn't get past my old observation that, insofar as the Jews are a single programmatic entity (which if course they're not in a literal sense), the bright ones are sent into finance, the middle gets academia, and our burgeoning international mass media absorbs the guys who couldn't figure out where to sign their name on the intelligence test.

  • From my new column in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there.
  • Of course, the future may be out of our hands in ways that are really terrible to behold.

    1. In all the hullabaloo over global warming, any one with any experience of farming knew it was all BS because no one could point to a single acre of permafrost that, well, thawed. More is the pity, north of 50 degrees is a gigantic band of soil with enough minerals, (frozen) water, and long, long summers, to massively increase world wide food production. Instead we look to be heading to a Mounder minimum of really reduced solar activity. Every one degree drop in temperature is going to be bad, really bad, and for this reason alone: Canada, the USA, Russia, and Ukraine are all major food exporting countries. They won’t be once it gets colder.

    2. Courtesy of a policy as short-sighted as it is immoral (sex selective abortion on demand) China and India are reaching a point of no return for societal destabilization due to a massive imbalance between marriage age males and females. So in those societies, which is the most likely scenario:

    A. Polyandry
    B. Sex bots
    C. A massive, and deliberately engineered , war, between two countries who hate each other and need to get rid of 50 million or so surplus males?

    I rule out A, B is not sufficient, so placing my money on C.

    3. The USA of my youth put a man on the moon, built the computer age, and developed the Green Revolution. We are now a society whose every policy is dictated by the masturbatory fantasies of neurotic and nitwit females, which have now reached a critical mass of systematically destroying traditions and institutions that were care fully built up over a thousand years of Anglo-Saxon Polity. When you go out of your way to reject reason, evidence, inference, and logic as necessary tools for solving problems, you are well and truly f@$ked as a society.

    So we may not be doomed, but what is the countervailing set of positive developments? Yes, we could reverse number 3 above, and absolutely must do so, but where is the evidence of that? Number two may take care of itself, and that leaves number one, which remains really, really bad news unless the current cooling trend reverses itself.

    Sorry to ruin every bodies morning.

    • Replies: @Bernardo Pizzaro Cortez Del Castro
    @theMann

    I agree , if the Sun spots continue their decline we may see another cooling period , which would be very bad for humanity. The increase in CO2 levels over the last 100 years has greatly benefited humans by helping increase crop yields.

    , @Jim Don Bob
    @theMann

    Agree with much of what you said, but it is the Maunder Minimum. I have vacationed in Canada for the last 60+ years and the summers do not seem as warm as they once were. Or maybe I'm just old.

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

    , @Harry Baldwin
    @theMann

    The average global temperature could drop 10 degrees F and progressives won't stop going on about global warming, any more than it will ever acknowledge the obvious explanation for the black - white achievement gap. To admit they are wrong about anything means the nazis win.

  • From the Los Angeles Times: Commenter Piltdown Man points out, "Vision Zero is a terrible name for the initiative." Mayor Garcetti, who, by the way, is being mentioned as Presidential Timber, is likely too young to remember Mr. Magoo, a Vision Zero motorist: As a Los Angeles pedestrian, an 82% increase in pedestrian deaths in...
  • Do towns in California still have newspapers, and if they do, do they still have the police blotter on page 2, 3 or 4?

    Because reading that for a few days would be a real simple way to determine who is at fault for increased traffic issues.

    The Texas town I live in is at most 30% Hispanic, but Hispanic surnames account for at least 80% of the traffic arrests. And my particular Texas county has a kill rate per miles driven at least FOUR TIMES the national average.( In a place that is perfectly flat, level, nearly treeless, and having minuscule amounts of severe winter weather.) Seriously, fifty KIA’s a year, and if the newspaper is any guide, at least four times out of five, an Hispanic driver is involved.

    Import third worlders, get third world problems. Now California, back to your hepatitis epidemic.

    • Agree: RadicalCenter
    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @theMann

    I remember the first time I randomly read one of those out of boredom in an employee break room in a small town and thought, that's funny, all these stories start at the same address block, like all of our problems really are caused by a small group, who all live together in one Section 8 complex. Or we're NPCs living in a cosmic sitcom.

  • You may have gotten the impression from all those Harvey Weinstein movies that lissome women are good at fighting with fists or guns. (Oddly enough, though, Harvey evidently never believed that in his private life.)
  • @Sunbeam
    Geez.

    If I were a teacher and had to carry a gun to "feel safe," I'd just walk away and find another job.

    Replies: @theMann

    Am in 100 % agreement with that idea, and would like to add one of my own.

    How many Public School teachers have you encountered in life? How many would you trust with a set of nail clippers, let alone a gun?

    • Replies: @S. Anonyia
    @theMann

    You realize there are tons of moron cops and security guards with guns right? There is at least a little more screening for public school teachers.

    Only elementary teachers fit your stereotypes, secondary teachers are pretty level-headed and “woke” to reality unless they work in a cushy district.

    Maybe the talent pool for elementary teachers would improve if they were expected to be armed. More discipline, less pointless macaroni art and discussion of feelings.

  • The film is actually pretty funny. My favorite bit being when Rachel McAdams gives the (people she believes to be) bad guys the yoga lesson. (BTW, she did Sherlock Holmes 9 years ago, so kudos for extremely taking care of yourself.) My second favorite is when Lamorne Morris builds the tower to the skylight to get out of a locked room, and it works….sort of.

    OK, so this film is actually pretty funny…… by the current standards of Hollywood comedy. That is a bit like saying the burrito you just had was the best food truck burrito you’ve had in a while. So Bringing Up Baby it was not, but for a five dollar Tuesday show it was a reasonable amount of entertainment.

  • A friend writes: Sometime I'd like to have a long discussion with you about family history/genealogy, something I know a lot about. For example, regarding one of your recent posts, I can tell you with some certainty that, at least in the period from about 1700 to say, 1840, 90% of men married wives from...
  • “Divorce was rare at that time, but there was a fair amount of family abandonment.”

    I suspect more often by women than men. Given the relentless westward expansion over two centuries, it may not have been easy, but was certainly possible, to simply drop one’s identity for another and start a new life. It could have even been a genuinely useful safety valve for women being mistreated in their marriages, or men escaping harridans.

    BTW, didn’t Wyatt Earp marry an ex prostitute?

    If it could be established, and it never could, I would be curious to see the following table mapped out:

    Divorce rates for:
    1. Both parties being virgins.
    2. One party being virgin, breakdown by sex.
    3. Neither party being virgins, breakdown by # of previous partners.

    The little thing s let you know you are a bad person, but when I look at number one I think even God needs a laugh occasionally.

    • Replies: @Alden
    @theMann

    Wyatt never married her although they lived together all their lives. She wasn’t an ex prostitute either. When not being a lawman, Wyatt was a pimp and he and his wife ran brothels

    It was mostly men who went west leaving the farm to the wife and kids. There were a lot of wandering men, migrant workers, fur trappers etc who came home every couple years and started a new baby. One day they just decided to stop coming home.

    Daniel Boone, Kit Carson and other explorers were wandering men but they always came home.

  • In the wake of the Parkland massacre, in a land whose citizens own an estimated 265 million guns, half of them in the hands of just 3% of the population, and with mass shootings (four or more people) taking place, on average, nine out of every 10 days, this country is unique among developed nations...
  • Hey Tom, maybe you can explain why El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Columbia, and Venezuela all have astronomically higher per capita murder rates, and gun violence rates, than the USA despite strict gun control laws?

    Hey Belle, maybe you can explain why there are higher per capita murder rates in France, Italy, and The Balkans, all of which have strict gun control laws, than there are in the USA?

    Hey maybe any of you, seriously, really any of you, can explain why the America of 1960 had nearly zero gun violence – an America where you could buy a gun via the mail and gun registration didn’t exist- with the America of today where an ever expanding collection of restrictions go hand in hand with an ever expanding occurrence of gun violence?

    The greater reality is this: Whites own 80+ % of the guns in the USA, non whites commit, well, we just don’t even collect that data any more, but way the hell more than 20 % of the gun violence in America. Simple and indisputable fact: the ultimate aim of all gun laws in this country today is the systematic attempt to disarm Whites in the face of ever escalating violence towards Whites by non Whites. And we need to call out every one of these gun control liars for what they are.

    • Replies: @llloyd
    @theMann

    I just googled. The murder rate per capita for France was about three times lower than in USA. The rate for Italy was several times lower than in France. That is the era that pre dates the refugee crisis. However that would not make much statistical difference maybe even lower it. The refugees are not into murder. They just want to live there so good reason not to do major crime. The common denomination sadly seems to be the black populations in these countries. If guns were allowed into France on American scale, the statistics would jump dramatically.

    Replies: @Saxon

    , @lavoisier
    @theMann


    Simple and indisputable fact: the ultimate aim of all gun laws in this country today is the systematic attempt to disarm Whites in the face of ever escalating violence towards Whites by non Whites. And we need to call out every one of these gun control liars for what they are.
     
    It is much more sinister than that. The ultimate aim of the gun laws in this country is to disarm the citizenry to make it easier for our corrupt Republic to impose their totalitarian multicultural utopia on all of us as they continue to engage in wars around the globe in thrall to the territorial ambitions of Zion.

    The stakes are very high.

    A disarmed citizenry is the goal of any totalitarian government. While I am fearful of the largely black criminal element in my country and their penchant for violence, I am more fearful of the criminals in government who would take away my freedoms for a few shekels.

    Replies: @Jonathan Mason

  • Isn’t what they are doing essentially ethnic cleansing? In some countries that is illegal, even considered a war crime.

    This is ultimately a very simple situation – non-Whites attacking Whites. Do these people simply not realize, or is their deliberate endgame, Yugoslavia # 1000? Because that endgame isn’t going to be pretty for anybody.

    • Replies: @rogue-one
    @theMann

    >Yugoslavia # 1000?

    If, and if any white group tries to organize against these rioters, fellow whites & (((liberals))) would use all means, fair & foul, to crush the whiteys.

    , @Seth Largo
    @theMann

    L.A. is less than 30% white. It's gonna be non-whites attacking other non-whites and super-lefty whites who need a good beating.

    Remember, the Mexicans didn't get their prime real estate by being nice to blacks.

    https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2013/01/15/latino-gang-leader-convicted-la-ethnic-cleansing-campaign

  • From the New York Times:
  • @CJ
    @The Anti-Gnostic

    Agree. One part of the Trump Effect on me is the realization of just how pathetically bad the last few presidents actually were. (And, ditto for most of the losing candidates in recent presidential elections.)

    That said, on this latest thing from the Norks, let's wait and see.

    Replies: @theMann

    I am still convinced that Woodrow Wilson and LBJ we the two worst Presidents, but they weren’t pathetic, just evil. In LBJ’s case pure evil, and I am old enough to remember him.

    In the 1-2-3 order of pathetic, wrong, stupid, weak, cowardly, and incompetent though, you can put
    Clinton, Dubya, and Obama in any order you want.

    History will not remember any of those three at all kindly, but Trump will be remembered as the guy who took more crap than any one else in the history of American politics, and just kept plodding along trying to get something done. And that will be thought of as admirable, no matter how much you might dislike him and hate his politics.

  • From my new column in Taki's Magazine: Sure, Terry Bryant "stole" Frances McDormand's Oscar. But he's a black man. Haven't you heard about #OscarsSoWhite? And what's all this gender binary stuff about Best Actress? So, as explained by the Theory of Systemic Intersectionality, Mr. Bryant deserves a Best Actress Oscar more than a white woman...
  • A modest reply to the Oscars so White crowd.

    Suppose every White guy in the country just happened to, all at the same time, take his money out of the bank, and take a few weeks off from work. A National Strike of White males, if you like.

    We could hashtag it as: non-Whites so Screwed.

    Because in three days the country would shut down, within weeks there would be widespread famine. If you are unclear on why, try to figure out how many farmers, truck drivers, and technicians are White.

    If every race-baiter in the country wants to play this game, fine, lets play it to win.

    • Replies: @ben tillman
    @theMann

    I agree. Ultimately we will have to leverage our value in ways like this. We are the goose that lays the golden eggs.

  • Lots of comments at "No Country for White Men."
  • Seems to me that a lot of you are missing an important underlying current that runs through the Coen brothers films, which is their absolute fascination with America and things American. Their films consistently are tied to a place, time, and part of America and tend to be spot on with the rhythm of language and behavior local to the area depicted. Even if the over all quality of their films is (extremely) uneven, they are accurate ( well, as film accurate as possible) slices of particular times and places. Only Miller’s Crossing isn’t very specific to a time and place, although the outdoor scenes are clearly shot in deep south woodlands.

    BTW, it can be a real pain to watch movies when you have a good ability to identify plants. Stranger Things is in Indiana, so what is with all the Kudzu in the background? Jurassic Park And Fast 5 open in the Dakota badlands and Brazil, respectively, so why do both have plant life distinctive to the Mojave? X Files would have episodes all over the place, but always had Garry Oaks and Douglas firs in the background. The Frighteners was the first film that stumped me on location, but I knew it wasn’t the Northern Hemisphere. (New Zealand, actually.) All of it helpful reminders that FILM IS FAKE and not to be taken seriously.

    At least the Coen brothers make different films every time out, Woody Allen has made 300,000 consecutive films the are essentially about Woody Allen kvetching about being….Woody Allen. Stanley Kubrick was a brilliant film maker whose career reached the Olympic heights of Dr Strangelove, and then went off a cliff after wards. I like Barry Lyndon ok, but wow were his other late films pretentious garbage.

    In the end, film making is difficult, and I think Fellini summed it up with the observation that the job of the film maker is to tell the truth through lies. now if you will excuse me, I am going to go binge some Zhang Yimou.

  • The New York Times oped page takes on today's burning issue: Or, perhaps, "Get Out" didn't win Best Picture because it wasn't the, you know, best picture? Guillermo del Toro's fishcegenation movie was awfully stupid, but he at least put much effort into how it looked and hired some good actors. (This is not to...
  • @Dave Pinsen
    This whole decade so far seems to have had fairly weak Best Picture movies, as if the Academy is trolling audiences:

    2010: The King's Speech - Okay, but underwhelming.
    2011: The Artist - Didn't see it, but basically a novelty movie, as I understand it.
    2012: Argo - Didn't see it, but IIRC, Steve said it was good.
    2013: 12 Years a Slave - Black.
    2014: Birdman -- Another novelty movie, no? I won't even watch this if it comes on cable and I can't find the remote.
    2015: Spotlight - Hollywood bravely going after sexual abuse in another industry.
    2016: Moonlight - Black, gay.
    2017: The Shape of Water - Coalition of the Fishes

    Replies: @Tyrion 2, @Boomer the Dog, @Yan Shen, @bartok, @Matthew McConnagay, @theMann, @songbird, @Pat Boyle

    Well, when you put it like that………

    Good Lord, what an appalling collection of crap those films are, or at least, the ones I’ve seen. I haven’t, and never will, see Moonlight or Shape of Water. The Artist is actually a brilliant and interesting film, and serves to illustrate even more perfectly what an appalling collection of ……..

    Get fed up with the Oscars back a while ago when Shakespeare in Love , so boring I fell asleep twice trying to watch it and never have finished it, The English Patient, ditto, and double, Titanic, pretentious nonsense, and Chicago, a waaaaay overrated musical, all won in pretty short order. A collection of second rate films that we now know bought their Oscars.

    From bad to worse, vote buying is bad, but allowing Actors to have the biggest single block of votes in the award process is much, much worse. Letting a collection of narcissistic jacktards whose two most common characteristics are their egotism and woeful lack of any real education is a recipe for terrible decision making in any milieu , even aside from their hilariously idiotic Hollywood politics. Bill Buckley’s observation about the first 500 names in the phone book goes double here.

    • Replies: @JMcG
    @theMann

    The English Patient was just awful.

  • From the Washington Post: The public didn't think much of it either upon its theatrical release in 1998: It opened soft and didn't particularly show legs, winding up with $17 million in North America, the equivalent of $34 million today. That's not terrible, but nobody much noticed the movie until it started showing up on...
  • Hollywood insists that by box office receipts, women buy just as many tickets as men. I would like to know their methodology for determining that, because I just don’t believe it, but ok, lets accept that at face value.

    Maybe the whole idea of a cult classic is that it uniquely appeals to men. My experience has been that you can’t get a woman to even sit through The Warriors, Big Trouble in Little China, or Kick-ass, (Especially Kick-ass), let alone a clearly feminist screed like Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!, or its illegitimate child Bitch Slap. If there are films with unique female appeal, my brain can’t even remember the titles, and it goes without saying I wouldn’t watch the films. If you are going to try to come up with cult classics with unique female appeal, I think you would start with the Horror and Musical genres (especially Horror) the two film genres that I utterly loathe.

    Hate to say it, or even think about it, but I suspect films like Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Anti-Christ, and Cannibal Holocaust appeal more to women than men, which if true, is really unfortunate. And I am certain that all the soft core porny, S&My crap like Fifty Shades, Every Vampire film etc, are overwhelmingly female attended films. Yech.

    I really hope I am wrong, and everybody else is right, that female appealing cult classics include Romy And Michelle, Clueless, and The Notebook- none of which strike me as especially cultish.

    Well just great, now I am really wondering, and could ask every woman I know what their favorite cult classic movies are, but I doubt I would get an honest answer, so no help there.

  • Democracy is, and always has been, two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

    So is Democracy the bastard child of Communism, or Communism the bastard child of Democracy? And when counties “slip away” Democracy, what are they really slipping way from?

    Personally, I think it is refreshing that the Intellectual\chattering Class is making something perfectly clear:

    You vote until you get a result I like, and to hell with what you like.

    Now that is Democracy.

  • From Wired: But, of course, Wired didn't ask Ms. Wojcicki about her central role in getting James Damore fired. Why not? Well, would you want to get the head censor of the video monopoly mad at you if you put videos on Youtube?
  • If YouTube and Twitter exist in any recognizable form 10 years from today, I will be very impressed. Because I guarantee you they won’t exist in current form by them.

    1. Civil War, they get wiped out.
    2. War with Russia, we all get wiped out.
    3. Return to anything like a constitutional Republic, they get regulated as public Utilities.
    4. The Left runs rampant over the next ten years, the critical lack of competent White Males in their (or any other) tech industry will cause a general lowering of standards to complete collapse. Seriously, what these filth have in mind would make Zimbabwe look like paradise.

    I really see no future where they continue to exist as in the present. We should all meet in ten years and see.

  • From the AP: Colonel Qaffafee was also unavailable for comment.
  • Yawn…..

    When anybody gets arrested for taking bribes from the Israelis , Saudis, or Chinese, get back to me.

    Of course, that would be every politician in Western Europe, the USA, Canada, South America, Africa. What the hey, in some countries you have to bribe to do business. Is France one of them?

  • Leo Hohmann has the details on the Minneapolis case in VDARE.
  • I had to look up what “3rd degree murder” is, since the State of Texas doesn’t tolerate that nonsense.

    Hey it is murder, or it is manslaughter, period. They fact that the Prosecution is making the charge in the manner they are is deliberately setting the Cop up for acquittal by confusion. I guess it is helpful to know how dirty things are in Minnesota. Progressives, they never let you down.

    • Agree: bomag
    • Replies: @Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY)
    @theMann

    theMann writes: "The fact that the Prosecution is making the charge in the manner they are is deliberately setting the Cop up for acquittal by confusion."

    More details, please. How does "acquittal by confusion" work?

  • Back in 2013, the New York Times gave huge publicity to a new research project on income mobility over the generations headed by then-Harvard economist Raj Chetty. The goal, a worthy one, was to find the places that were doing things right that help children move up the income ladder. Chetty's map of high income...
  • It remains a a fact that the only place on the face of the Earth where Blacks and Whites have lived together for several centuries now, without one race destroying the other, is the Southern USA.

    And yet both Yankees and Indian immigrants seem to think they know so much more than us, and feel free to feel superior. So how y’all doing there in Chicago, Detroit, and San Fransisco? Please keep the lectures coming, as Black Men do so well in Yankee Land…….

    • Agree: Almost Missouri
    • Replies: @Mis(ter)Anthrope
    @theMann

    There is an old saying about how white people in the different regions feel about blacks:

    White people in the North love the race but hate the people. White people in the South hate the race but love the people.

    In my experience, there is a lot of truth in that old saying.

    Replies: @John Derbyshire

    , @Newyorker
    @theMann

    Spending time with my daughter and SIL in Charleston sc, it became clear there’s a tacit social contract between the races which has been evolving for a long time.
    The whites are often racist but part of the deal is to keep things polite, in a part of the country where manners are important for both groups. ( a lot of honorifics, sir and ma’am, addressing older people).

    I get the sense black communities are stronger, the churches are influential and there’s more respect for elders and family.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri

    , @gunner29
    @theMann


    It remains a a fact that the only place on the face of the Earth where Blacks and Whites have lived together for several centuries now, without one race destroying the other, is the Southern USA.
     
    But it's only been the last 50 years that negros have had much power and influence down there. Rest of the time it was slavery or Jim Crow. Nat Turner tried, but the powers that be dealt with him, so everybody cooled it until LBJ....

    But I really wish you could of kept them there. Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Oakland, and all the other big cities outside the south wouldn't be the shitholes they are.

    Actually, I'm most pissed off at Booth, Lincoln was getting ready to ship them back to Africa with some cash and well wishes. Instead they stayed. And have been the biggest burden to the country since....

    Replies: @Hapalong Cassidy

  • From the New York Times: Here's Razib's early reaction to Reich's book. Greg Cochran is doing a fundraiser at West Hunter to pay him to review "Who We Are" in depth. In 1942, the anthropologist Ashley Montagu published “Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race,” an influential book that argued that race is a...
  • Short version of a long article:

    Murray Rothbard’s observation “all stereotypes are true” is, in fact, true.

    AND THAT IS INTOLERABLE.

    Wasn’t that so much easier than reading the whole article?

    • Replies: @Twodees Partain
    @theMann

    Yes, it was. Stereotypes and cliches share the same property, for the same reason.

  • Lets generalize about women:

    Rachel Bloom, a woman who actually manages to be screamingly funny.

    (Two words: Ray Bradbury.)

  • From Sports Illustrated: When I was young, Sports Illustrated would run literary essays about marlin fishing with gentleman adventurers, but now they just run nine-part series on the NFL draft prospects of Baker Mayfield, the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback from Oklahoma. At some point during the NFL combine, between the MRIs and the 15-minute team...
  • He is a one question IQ test for you:

    Suppose you strapped on a bunch of plastic junk and then proceeded to run into other similar individuals, as fast as could, as hard as you could, for 3-4 hours at a time.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    Football players have already deselected themselves for intelligence.

    • LOL: Mike Tre
    • Replies: @Pricknick
    @theMann

    Couldn't agree more.
    Well done!

  • From the Washington Examiner: Obama then shared with his audience his self-conception of himself at the end of a long and worthy life passing the torch to his rightful successor in the relay race of human progress:
  • So, when Obama clones his army, does he send them first off to thieves school?

    Because it will take real work to top Obama Care.

  • From The Atlantic: When will Haven Monahan finally face justice? Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, with his ace newshound's nose for the truth, demands to know! I'm looking forward to next month's Atlantic article:
  • Maybe the biggest difference between a Frat and a Gang is that no self respecting Fraternity would allow Goldberg as a member, but there must be some gang somewhere that would.

    • Replies: @AnotherDad
    @theMann


    Maybe the biggest difference between a Frat and a Gang is that no self respecting Fraternity would allow Goldberg as a member, but there must be some gang somewhere that would.
     
    Can we just have separate countries?

    Ibram X. and Jeffery Goldberg--with David and Brett and Jennifer and Hillary--can have their own country and *they* can take in the 70 million Nigerians.
  • From CBS News in Dallas:
  • There a quiet a number of things you can do, starting with jettisoning proprietary software.

    If you don’t want to commit to Unix entirely, run VMware workstation inside windows, then select another operating system and use it. I run Debian on my laptop, because I am cranky and old and prefer CLIs to GUIs. Use the officelibre suite, which is MUCH easier to use than Microsoft Office anymore. (Seriously, the devolution of Word from 2003 to 2014 is a nightmare, and Excel is worse.)

    Use open vpn to encrypt all your outgoing Data, as proprietary VPN services are about to be systematically compromised by the FEDs via the CLOUD Act. Notice too, how the open source IPSec came automatically with IPv6, which we are still not using in the USA generally speaking? It is almost like the Feds REALLY don’t want you encrypting your data. They will eventually get around to just banning encryption, other than their approved forms, sooner or later. Well, sooner. In the meantime, encrypt. Until Quantum computers crack RSAs, (Which would likely leave the FEDs more phucked than anybody.)

    And keep in mind, the more data collected, the more wrong data is collected. Fill them up with deliberate lies, and when they play gotcha with them, sue them for defamation. In my opinion, Microsoft is the ultimate dirty corporation. Everything they do, they blatantly stole from Unix (tracert, traceroute, anybody?) and got away with it by being joined at the hip with alphabet soup intel agencies.

    Dont use social media and Dont use public cloud services. If you need a cloud service, set up a secure intranet not connected to the internet.

    Technologically, none of this is at all hard. Just stop being lazy.

    • Agree: Autochthon
    • Replies: @Cagey Beast
    @theMann

    You post and mine appears to be the only ones mentioning Linux, Unix or any open source operating system and this is not a crowd of dummies. It really shows what a horrible job the Linux community has done getting its message out.

    Replies: @schnellandine, @Anonymous

  • From the BBC: I suspect that what black people really want is some extension of intellectual property rights law so that every time a white person says a black catchphrase, or dances a black step, or wears his pants baggy or whatever, he has to pay a nickel into a fund that will be shared...
  • @Svigor
    Is it really sweeping America? Or just the hysterical, anti-American (((Big Media))) and usual suspects?

    a)Do whites usually buy guns legally? How about blacks?
    b)If they grabbed all the guns it would be likely taking it from legally?
    c)How would they find the guns hidden by gangs and others?
    d)Is there a solution to the “gun problem” in USA? A moderate position?
     
    a) Yes, of course. Yes, unless you count "straw sales" as illegal, but generally blacks are much more into illegal guns.

    b) Huh?

    c) The same way they find them now.

    d) Yes; repatriate Blacks, anyone who immigrated post-1964, and their descendants. Sure, respect the Constitution.

    Replies: @theMann

    I dont see any of your solutions happening, but it is nice to see so many people wake up to the fact that “gun control ” is just a euphemism for “disarm Whitey”.

  • From the New York Times an interview with geneticist David Reich (whose new book Who We Are and How We Got Here I reviewed in Taki's Magazine.) How to Talk About ‘Race’ and Genetics By David Reich March 30, 2018 In a Sunday Review essay last weekend, David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard, argued that...
  • @istevefan
    @Steve Sailer


    The border with Mexico is long but hardly undefensible.
     
    Add to this that Mexico is not exactly a military power either. Unbelievable as it might seem for a nation of over 100 million with the worlds's 11th largest GDP, Mexico has ZERO fighter jets in her air force. Zero. Nada. And it's not just the air force. The Mexican army has no main battle tanks.

    Contrast that to the world's greatest military super power who just received an extra $70 billion for its budget and there is no way one could consider defending that border as anything but a piece of cake.

    Replies: @theMann, @al-Gharaniq, @Whiskey, @Disordered

    Since all it would require is an electronic frontier, a rapid reaction force, a few helicopters, AND THE WILL TO USE THEM, it would be absurdly easy to control the border.

    It does help give the lie to the criminal oligarchs in DC, that they will ever do a damn thing about illegal immigration.

  • As you may recall, I closely covered the recent whoop-tee-doo in Palo Alto that led to stripping the name of the Terman Middle School, the public middle school with the highest standardized test scores in California. The school had been named for Lewis Terman, the father of standardized testing in America, and his son Fred...
  • Clearly we have reached the point of needing to name every public school in the USA after:

    Alfred E Neuman.

    Seriously.

    Or failing that, Rufus T. Firefly.

    Again, seriously.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @theMann

    Hey, I don't want my name, or any of my cousin's on the front of this or any other government indoctrination camp, thank you very much.

  • Australia tries hard to keep out illegal immigrants and selects legal immigrants based on a points system. This has been good for native Australian blue collar workers who are some of the most prosperous working class people in the world, due to the low supply of workers and the high demand from China for raw...
  • @PhysicistDave
    As someone who did extremely well on standardized tests myself, it has taken me a long time to see what's wrong with them.

    I suppose the biggest problem is "teaching to the test." I did not know anyone (this was back in the early '70s) who did any prep for PSAT, SAT, etc. except for reading the little booklet the ETS sent out to everyone. We did what we did in school, independent reading, etc. and that determined how we did on the test.

    But, of course, any test can be taught, and once people pursue that route, the test measures not how smart you are or how much you know but how diligent you were in prepping for this particular test.

    Having worked in engineering, I would rather have as a colleague some person who was obsessed with being a "ham radio" guy than someone who aced a bunch of tests.

    "Credentialism" is not working out well.

    Replies: @theMann, @D. K., @Altai, @the Supreme Gentleman, @Anonymous, @Nathan, @Almost Missouri, @danand, @Anonymous, @Yan Shen

    Credentialism is better than nothing, but it is also a limited tool for knowing anything about someone’s real qualifications.

    My experience is in IT, and I can can confidently state that the Comptia\Cisco\Microsoft exams are not fooling around, the first time fail rates on them are high, likely very high. But, and there is always a but, they are testing for very specific knowledge and that makes them rather easy to study for. Also very easy to cheat for, and to put it bluntly, I am certain every ethnic Asian applicant knows every cheat out there.

    Of course, IT people are very good at workarounds, so agencies and employers are moving more and more to their own exams which cannot be prepped for. I have had them run the gamut from rather easy to stunningly difficult, but I get that prospective employers cannot trust standardized credentials.

    • Replies: @PhysicistDave
    @theMann

    theMann wrote to me:


    But, and there is always a but, they are testing for very specific knowledge and that makes them rather easy to study for.
     
    Yes. If you want to make sure that a 16-yerar-old knows the difference between accelerator and brake, where the turn signals are, etc., you just ask the kid those few, very specific things.

    But, of course, for most worthwhile jobs, and certainly for STEM careers, the issue is understanding what is going on, not just having a finite (and small) set of facts stored in your head. Part of the problem, for example with the AP exams, is that in order to be "fair," they feel they need to lay out very explicitly in advnce what they are testing on.

    For example, a couple years ago, I was talking with an AP European History instructor and asked her how much she covered the English Civil War, a topic I happen to be especially interested in because it foreshadowed in many ways the American Revolution.

    She said they hardly covered it at all because to cover everything mandated for the AP test there was just too much matierial to actually go into any specific interesting subject.

    That's such a shame: we have Wikipedia (or in my days Britannica) as a storehouse of facts. You do need facts, but the ultimate goal should be understanding.

    Of course, the AP tests claim to test understanding, but all the AP teachers I have spoken with made clear that the AP concept of "understanding" was what AP teachers could teach kids to regurgitate on demand, not real thought.

    And, that is how the AP tests are indeed graded: an original thought not listed in the grading crtieria is not supposed to be given any credit at all.

    To make it "fair."

    Replies: @3g4me

  • Doesn't the Theory of Intersectionality posit that you deserve more Diversity Pokemon Points for being black and female than for being black and male? Have any black women ever gone Polar Bear Hunting upon Yglesias's skull for his crime of Walking While White through our nation's capital? From the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General: Superior...
  • ‘Here, we explore the darker side of cognitive ability”

    Recognizing pine cone whorls to allow classification is mildly useful, recognizing people you want avoid after dark is a serious survival skill. How exactly is that the darker side of cognitive ability?

    • Agree: ben tillman
    • Replies: @Rosie
    @theMann


    Recognizing pine cone whorls to allow classification is mildly useful, recognizing people you want avoid after dark is a serious survival skill.
     
    Especially for women. The great and the good are well aware of the dangers women face in inter-ethnic conflicts; they just don't care. I said in another thread that, under ordinary circumstances, feminism would be dormant for the time being. I take that back. Feminists have a lot of work to do. They're just not doing it. As in the major political parties, the donors set the agenda, and White women have no effective political representation except insofar as their interests happen to coincide with the interests of the plutocracy.
  • From the Harvard Crimson: But that's boy history. Harvard offers no similarly broad course and no Cold War survey course. Instead, we have “Cold War in the Global South.” Mean
  • What was it the French used to say about the Right?

    Cet animal est très méchant,
    Quand on l’attaque il se défend.

    How dare those wicked students vote with their feet!

    In the meantime, I would just LOVE to give Harvard Grads the same college graduate test I give everybody else:

    1.What is the derivative of e to the x?
    2. Who were the major combatants in the Seven Years War?
    3. What is the next line: “And post o’er land and ocean without rest:”

    Because I have never had anybody pass it yet. And frankly, if you are an alleged college grad and can’t answer those questions, you are completely pathetic. I have had STEM majors miss the first question, and English Majors flub the last. And if you can’t answer the second, go watch Barry Lyndon.

    • Replies: @Rosamond Vincy
    @theMann


    Cet animal est très méchant,
    Quand on l’attaque il se défend
     
    Is that French for "it all started when he hit me back"?
    , @Meretricious
    @theMann

    1.What is the derivative of e to the x? e to the x power
    2. Who were the major combatants in the Seven Years War? GB and France but many countries were involved
    3. What is the next line: “And post o’er land and ocean without rest:”--from Milton's On his blindness--forget last line but something like for those and sit and wait

  • From my new column in Taki's Magazine: Read the whole thing there.
  • China and India both have a future governed by one overriding fact:

    Sex selective abortion has caused a massive surplus of males over females. This is both country’s future, and it is completely destabilizing.

    • Replies: @MBlanc46
    @theMann

    Men without hope of access to women are social TNT. Sooner or later they will explode.

  • From the Columbia University Spectator: Was she paying much attention before? Todd Gitlin, 75, was president of the leftist radical Students for a Democratic Society in 1964 and helped organize some of the first protests against the Vietnam War. Gitlin has published 16 books. “It is in fact true, a matter of his
  • I think the only long term solution is to send the students so affected to Delicate Flower University, with the added bonus of dorms being shaped like wombs.

    In the meantime, the prof should have informed his student “real niggas don’t take directions”.

    BTW, The Boondocks is a rich source of triggering applications.

  • It’s the blecks (1): Guns. My biggest email bag of the month came after I hypothesized, in the March 23rd Radio Derb, that the enthusiasm white Americans display for owning guns, unusualamong Western nations, is connected to the other distinctive thing about our country: the presence in it, from the beginning, of a large black...
  • @Sunbeam
    "The key factor in establishment of a domestic federal despotism would be the military. Would they be on-side with the despot? If they were, with modern weaponry and surveillance techniques, I wouldn’t place my bet on Red Dawn-style citizen guerillas being able to restore the Republic.

    Would the military take a stand for liberty? I wish I could be sure. With women in submarines, though, and General Casey telling us that the loss of “diversity” would be a greater tragedy than the murder of a few troopers … I’m not."

    Regarding your point number 2, ... how good is the US military really? Seems to me it has performed very poorly in whatever theater you might care to mention for a long time. Iraq I, II, sure sure.

    But those were anomalies frankly. My god the enemy actually had tanks to destroy and military bases to bomb (did they even bother so send up one of their fighters? can't remember).

    But it has been about 15 years in Afghanistan, and has spent beaucoup money. Anything been accomplished?

    In the end the US military has about 13 Army Divisions, 3 Marine Divisions, and a bunch of Guard and Reserve units of questionable (particularly the Guard and Reserve) loyalty to whatever regime you care to define.

    If we were talking about pacifying Pakistan with 210 million people any military expert would laugh his ass off at that.

    Let alone the fact that if you are actually going to be using the US military directly against the American people the economy, stock market, and lots of other stuff is going to be going to hell at the same time.

    Whether the US population has it in them to rebel, I truly do not know. But I can tell you that all the Carrier battle groups in the world won't do much in this fight.

    And strangely I believe while our elites would be totally on board with saturation bombing of Chattanooga or Minot, I'm not so sure the air crew or maintenance/prep guys would be. If I were on the flight line, and I knew the plane was going to hit Marysville, Tennessee I'd do what I could at the loss of my own life to make sure that plane did not function.

    And no, I'm not joking or talking out of my ass. In that situation I definitely would.

    Not that I would be in the loop on the plane's target, but at that point it doesn't matter what gets personalized.

    Actually thinking about this some more... assuming there were any real resolve by flyover country I can't see how the powers that be could hold on to this. No real military solution to it.

    You might say it's been done in the past, like Japan and Germany after WWII. But those nations had bought into the change, forcibly or no. And there was a huge, powerful, nation overseas bankrolling the whole occupation. A totally different scenario than what we are discussing. Unless China could be pursuaded to bankroll or help out militarily with the whole thing.

    And I don't know how much resolve there is on the part of our elites either. Hell a semi organized effort to plink transformers with armor piercing ammo takes a lot of the electrical network out of commission for a long time - if anyone takes it that far.

    Think the elites around you in NYC are going to put up with Baghdad levels of electricity availability circa 2003 or so? What if you cut off the water to NYC? Just dig up and destroy fiber optic cables willy nilly (who the hell do you think planted them?).

    What happens if someone "appropriates" a manpad and shoots down a passenger jet taking off from JFK? It only takes one to make a Wall Streeter's butt pucker enough to squeeze coal into a diamond (maybe they are supermen).

    The British aristrocracy up to some time after WWII had balls of steel and stiff upper lips. These American elites are not cut from the same cloth.

    Mike Tyson once said "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

    I submit to you our elites are in just as sorry a shape as someone frying their brain with meth in a West Virginia trailer.

    These guys are not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill after all. They are snowflakes evolved to do well in very special circumstances. And it is child's play to utterly disrupt that special ecosystem they call home.

    If you are willing to pay a price that similar movements in the past would have found laughable.

    Replies: @Colleen Pater, @anarchyst, @theMann

    I would be very curious to see exactly what plan a Federal tyranny could institute upon the State of Texas.

    The town I live in has 140 cops and 1400 members of the local gun club, plus at least 2x more too crazy or paranoid to join the gun club. Think the cops would even consider orders they consider unlawful? Well, maybe you could call in the National Guard….wait a minute, the Texas national Guard taking orders from the Feds to shoot Texans?

    Ok, call in the regular military, and then deal with all 500 pumping rigs in Texas stopping at the same time. You would have national food rationing in a week, massive civil unrest in a month. While you, ah, go house to house fighting Texans? Bomb us into the stone age (bye bye oil production)? Way more worried about the Russians nuking us than any of that.

    Then there are the long term consequences of even a short burst on actual warfare in general terms. This wouldn’t be a US military vs. peasants conflict in some far off place, it would be the US military vs. former US military fought dead center in the tax base funding that military. Plus the wildcard factor of new technologies, such as drones used to target the homes and families of the people giving orders(on both sides), EW attacks on vehicles carrying supplies, and a host of other simple, but brutally effective, non conventional warfare methods. And not even assuming seriously nasty NBC level (especially the B part of that) events.

    I am more concerned that Revelation is literally true than I am that there could be ever be anything like a Civil War level event again in this country. On the other hand, I am more hopeful that I can sprout wings and fly than I am that most Americans today could stick their pwecious wittle feelings up their butts where they belong and start reasoning anything through.

  • From the New York Times: The horror, the horror. You ever notice how every.single.article these days is based on the premise of Too Many White People? Of course, my story is not unique — it’s an experience that’s probably shared by most American-born Asians as we shake off our perceived otherness and strive to prove...
  • How many non-White women want to be White women?

    All of them, because then they would be more attractive to White men. Every non-White woman in this country would kill to be thought of as being as desirable to Whites as other Whites.

    Try to figure out what than means for you as a White man.

  • Just back from Portugal. Will share impressions in a later post (most are positive). I'll be doing quite a bit of traveling this summer. I'll be in London again soon [business], will probably stop by in Denmark this May [because a certain event can no longer take place in London for political reasons], will be...
  • @Jaakko Raipala
    @notanon

    Women are already eugenic in mating choices. That's the whole reason high IQ women have low birth rates - they are unwilling to accept lower status mates. Men are more willing to date lower status women and IQ among men is positively correlated with reproductive success as high IQ men can turn their intelligence into career success which translates to mating success. High IQ women have no such option and their mate pool is reduced by the high status men dating lower status women.

    If you want more eugenic fertility by changing mating choices, you need to change the choices of men, not women. Women already prefer mates who display proxies for IQ such as educational or career success. For more eugenic fertility, you need to change the preferences of men away from the prettiest women and more towards women with STEM degrees, high paying careers and other proxies for IQ. Good luck with changing those preferences...

    Delusional ideas about women have to be one of the biggest problems in the alt-right.

    Replies: @Thorfinnsson, @theMann, @notanon

    In the immortal words of Don Penciotti:

    I’ve had smart and I’ve had pretty…..And I prefer pretty.

  • So, what do you think?
  • @densa
    Lost all stomach for it: Nikki Haley, Bolton . . . and Trump seeming to grow drunk on his neocon status. They're actually daring the 'rebels' to do it again; surprise, surprise when they comply.

    I despise Trump in the way that only a voter scorned can. Not only do I not care if they impeach him, I'll help them do it. If we're going to have more war in the ME, it might as well be Pence. He's a zionist but at least he'll bring a certain dignity to armageddon. There is no upside to remaining on Trump's crazy train.

    Replies: @theMann, @Charles Erwin Wilson

    “There is no upside to remaining on Trump’s crazy train.”

    That sums it up.

    There were only two issues that mattered in the last election, unrestrained (only, at best, half illegal) immigration and Washington’s relentless warmongering.

    Trump ran against immigration and against more war.

    We have less than nothing on immigration and even more war. Screw him and the horse (so accurately depicted by Lot at post #27 – seriously dude, t-shirts!) he rode in on. The Republican Party – traitors to the Republic, traitors to Christian civilization.

    Descendentibus illis iudicium malleus.

  • From the New York Times: To see why Powell's speech still elicits so much hate, just read the opening paragraphs: The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One
  • “The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils”

    Such as?

    “Statesmen” couldn’t even stop Prohibition. Or Vietnam. Or Jim Crow. Or abortion – talk about a preventable evil!

    But massive civil disobedience, that does work on occasion.

    Uhm, a national strike by every White man in this country………..

  • Commenter Ghgffffffff writes:
  • Ah, cheer up everybody-

    Tomorrow’s America in one picture is going to involve that megaphone being shoved up somebody’s a@@.

    BTW a) that has to be a staged picture
    and b) if Blacks want to boycott Starbucks, I might shop there despite their crappy coffee.

  • From The New Yorker: The Silently Regressive Politics of “A Quiet Place” By Richard Brody April 10, 2018 The success of “A Quiet Place,” the new horror thriller directed by John Krasinski, is a sign of viewers craving emptiness, of a yearning for some cinematic white noise to drown out troubling thoughts and observations with...
  • I have spent 30 years of adult life pointing out certain obvious things, such as:

    Film reviewers are uniformly gay\Jewish\Lefty\Anti-American\Anti-White, and it leads to a near uniformity of opinion about film reviews. Which, shockingly, is pro-gay, anti-Christian , Anti-American, and anti-White in stunning uniformity.

    I have taken a lot of crap over the years pointing out that obvious fact, but I am just mean enough to enjoy the moment of making people choke on the truth of it.

    • Replies: @peterike
    @theMann


    Film reviewers are uniformly gay\Jewish\Lefty\Anti-American\Anti-White

     

    As are all reviewers of culture, not just film. This was a particularly clever move on the part of Jews. They are good at criticism in general, far better than they are at art. But by controlling the critical apparatus, they can decide what's "good," which is why someone like like Phillip Roth is grossly over-rated, and a much better writer like John O'Hara tossed on the refuse heap. Why a ghastly, hate-filled artist like half-Jewish Richard Serra is proclaimed a genius. Why every bit of black-washing or pro-gay themes in movies, television, Broadway, etc. is praised. Und so weiter. Thus is the culture controlled.

    Owning the nation's critical apparatus, both in popular terms and in academia, has proven a very effective weapon. And it quickly became a self-perpetuating machine, because stepping outside the orthodoxy effectively un-persons you, whether you're Jewish or not. If you want to work, buddy boy, you better toe the line.
  • Last month I posted on a realistically alarmist new book (in French) by Duke professor Stephen Smith, who has made most of his career reporting on Africa for French publications: Now French supremo Emmanuel Macron has given an interview recommending Smith's book on what Macron calls (in translation) Africa's "bombshell" population growth. Meanwhile, however, the...
  • Not many hunters here, eh? Anyone close to the land realizes a sudden uptick in population growth is inevitably followed by a mass die-off the next generation.

    By any measure of success other than the sudden mass population bump, Blacks are a catastrophically failed sub group of humanity. Consistently low IQs , short life spans, and chronic health issues unknown to other racial sub groups are the genetic reality. The social reality is that Blacks as a race are incapable of even a bronze age level civilization, let alone a modern high tech society, so are utterly and completely dependent on non Blacks for their very survival, but also are openly hostile to those very people keeping them alive. That is an epic fail combination any way you look at it.

    Possible future scenarios:

    1. Something worse than HIV, Ebola, or Marburg will tidal rip through the Black subset of humanity resulting in a mass die off event. Something Western medicine won’t catch up with in time. OR, much worse, Whites (ok Asians) will say screw it, you are on your own.

    2.The STD rate will catch up with them in a way that results in mass sterilization. Or, much worse, some one weaponizes a set of STDs to do exactly that. Gee, wonder who might have a game plan for that.

    3. Now that non Americans are getting a massive dose of living with Blacks, a virulent racism (which could at least be justified in brutal realpolitic terms) becomes the defining political reality of the Next generation. With what seem to me to be rather foreseeable results.

    4. Global cooling results in serious agricultural downturns everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere. I don’t know how many third worlders would starve then, but I am guessing more than zero.

    5. Massive new gene manipulation technologies are developed that essentially put an end to racial differences, in which the Black sub race still disappears, but not with violent messiness as per scenarios 1-4.

    Since Blacks cannot survive as a group entirely on their own, they are headed for a future extinction level event no matter what, or remain a despised parasite class for an indefinite period. In any case, other than scenario 5 above, their future does not look good.

  • As a person of tallness, I'm struck by how little approbation there is at present toward height prejudice in favor of the tall. Nobody these days gets additional Intersectional Pokemon Points for being short. In Barbara Tuchman's The Proud Tower, she notes that Tory prime minister Lord Salisbury's cabinet of 1895 averaged 6 feet in...
  • Heightism is a real prejudice and leads to some glaringly obvious double standards.

    For instance, I have never gone grocery shopping in my life that some short person didn’t ask me to get something off the top shelf for them. Ok, fine, but if I asked a short person to get me something off the bottom shelf, they would call security.

    I am pretty sure the shorties want me bending over so that they can scope out my ass, so what I want to know is: where is the #metoo for tall people being violated in public like this? Tall people need to unite to fight the daily prejudices we encounter from the stubby world we live in. No more bending over, no more car seats putting our knees up our nostrils, no more stubbed toes or sore foreheads (pick your poison) every time we go into a bar. All this suffering just to have first pick of the hot chicks?

    Eh, never mind.

  • From the Daily Beast: ... At a sold out fundraising dinner for gay Wall Streeters in the lavish Old Stock Exchange building in the heart of Wall Street. Barbra Streisand sang an updated version of "Send in the Clowns" with lyrics addressing what Hillary seemed to see as the most burning issue of the campaign:...
  • The general problem with high level Democrats is that they live in such a tightly sealed bubble that they actually don’t realize how much ordinary Americans despise them, and this has been the case for decades. Pauline Kael’s notorious observation “I don’t know a single person who voted for Richard Nixon” is now almost fifty years old, and things have only gotten worse.

    One of the major problems for Democrats is that the Press, Academia, and Hollywood have become so obsequious in shilling for Democratic candidates that they get no quality information about issues, campaigns, opponents, really much of anything but self serving fantasies about how wonderful Democrats are, and how much everyone loves them. (Republicans are actually improved by Press hostility – weak candidates are weeded out, strong candidates become even stronger.) So when Democrats lose, they actually cannot believe it. Since the voters looooove them, and they are told this every day, there has to be SOME explanation other than voter rejection for their losses.

    The Democrats, apparently through chicanery, nominated a Candidate who has worked paying jobs for maybe ten years of her life, but was worth a quarter of a billion; had more unflattering nicknames than every other Presidential Candidate in US history combined; and was running on a ticket for a Party that had spent eight years nuking coal country while deliberately pursuing racial divisiveness on every level; but CLEARLY she lost because she was cheated.

    Wow.

    • Replies: @Buffalo Joe
    @theMann

    theMann, Obama's work resume' was thinner than Hillary's but he was the niche candidate, the first black president. Hillary was the next niche up, the first female president, to be followed by the first Hispanic, gay, trans whatever.

    , @Authenticjazzman
    @theMann

    It all boils down to one single word, one single expression which the democrats wield with relentless fervor and zeal, and which, this one single word, has handed them every unearned victory since FDR, and just what is this one specific word, okay I won't torture you any longer, this word is :

    FAIR

    They have monopolized and rode this expression 24/7 for the last eighty years, in spite of the blatent BS, lies, distortion, and hypocracy behind their employment of this expression.

    In every school, university and religious entity, they have been propagandizing the hapless, clueless public to believe, and accept that they , the democrats are : Fair, and the evil republicans are unfair, and this sums it all up, of course also taking into consideration the myriads of offshoots from this one specific word.

    Authenticjazzaman "Mensa" qualified since 1973, airborne trained US Army vet, and pro jazz musician.

  • I saw Don Giovanni tonight at the Pacific Opera Project. It got me thinking about how long Mozart has until they come for him too as part of #MeToo. On the one hand, he's Mozart. On the other hand, have you ever paid attention to his operas? Beethoven, for example, was scandalized by Mozart's and...
  • “In Italia seicento e quaranta,
    in Almagna duecento e trentuna,
    cento in Francia, in Turchia novantuna,
    ma in Ispagna son già mille e tre!” – Leporello from Don Giovanni

    Mozart was seriously unreconstructed where women are concerned.

    I don’t think Opera is remotely misogynistic, just brutally realistic about life, no matter how much fantasy is involved in the story telling.

  • It occurs to me you could have all kinds of fun rating Operas by some misogyny factor:

    Is the Rake’s Progress misogynistic, feminist, or just three hours of your life you will never get back for sitting through it?

    Is Norma pro or anti feminist, or just four hours of torturing some poor sopranos?

    Is Die Fledermaus feminist, or just the greatest drunk sing along Opera ever?

    Are Violetta and Gilda the victims of male machinations, or do they get about what they deserve? And did Verdi really have some issues with women?

    And lets face it, Carmen has to die just to let Don Jose crank out those final lines.

    • Replies: @Baythoven
    @theMann

    Verdi's women definitely tend to be weak. But it's just the opposite with Richard Strauss, where the men are weaker and the women tend to take control. Sometimes his heroines even achieve positive outcomes, such as in Die Frau Ohne Schatten and Arabella.

    The most supreme example of woman as a force of strength and goodness has to be Beethoven's Fidelio. Woman as a malign strength? I would cite first Cherubini's Medea. (a masterpiece of opera that is not performed enough.)

    You can have a discussion on this point, just looking at opera's spectacular suicides. For example, Brunhilde charging into the flames is definitely an act of strong character. But Dido's self-immolation strikes me as weak. Norma, somewhere in between.
    Tosca jumping off the parapet strikes me as strong. Lisa (Queen of Spades) jumping into the river, pathetically weak.
    Cio Cio San (Butterfly) stabbing herself is definitely as act of strength, when one bears in mind her particular cultural predicament.

    Replies: @Tono Bungay

  • Capture a diversity freak, female version, tie them to a chair and make them watch this:

    Video Link

    because all of the non-Europeans in the history of the world will never create something that beautiful.

  • An actress was arrested last week for helping her female empowerment / multi-level marketing cult leader (male) recruit other female sex slaves for branding. The cult leader, Keith Raniere, who looks kind of like Jeffrey Tambor playing 1977 Steve Jobs, has been at this kind of thing a long time. From Forbes way back in...
  • @Tyrion 2

    Why, his program can even cure ailments like diabetes and scoliosis.
     
    I can cure Type 2 Diabetes. Lose weight.

    Replies: @CK, @theMann, @Olorin

    And stop drinking soft drinks!

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @theMann


    And stop drinking soft drinks!
     
    Cutting down on all sugary drinks, including Kool-Aid, is VERY important. Ask some of the Jim Jones survivors - adult onset Type-II Diabetes was the least of their worries.
  • What does the average dingbat female get told all the time? But then, she joins a cult and gets told how intelligent she is, proof being she joined that particular cult, and she get stroked at the schwerpunkt .

    What does the average loser guy get told all the time? But then, he joins a cult and gets told how how smart and successful he is now for joining that cult, and gets stroked at the schwerpunkt.

    Alas, cults will always be with us. And historically, actresses have always been thought of as little (very little) better than prostitutes. Seems there might be a reason for that.

  • Freeman Dyson is perhaps the last surviving (or at least still active) physicist or mathematician of the Bohr / Feynman / Turing / Zeldovich / Heisenberg generation who were employed to use their huge brains during WWII. As a teenager, he worked as a statistical analyst for the RAF Bomber Command. He assisted an older...
  • Not to be a stickler for detail, but once again, some one seems to have missed possibly the single greatest explosion of human achievement:

    The development of Dutch military, scientific, and artistic achievement immediately upon the end of the Thirty Year’s War. That was a small population achieving an enormous amount.

    Practical space travel will require a great deal more than defeating gravity and time managing interstellar travel. Radiation protection, spinning sections to mimic gravity on voyages, some kind of deflector shielding (a grain of sand at relativistic speeds has a whole lot of kinetic energy), enough water and air to keep you alive for ten to twenty years, and a host of other problems……I think any physicist worth his degree realizes we are a long, long, long way from from anything like interstellar travel.

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    @theMann


    I think any physicist worth his degree realizes we are a long, long, long way from from anything like interstellar travel.
     
    No disrespect to 'em (especially Dave), but physicists do the pie-in-the-sky theorizing, while it's the engineers that try to make the whole thing work. The Apollo program is a monument to the work of a bright group of Americas best mechanical and electrical engineers. The physics theory played a role in the orbital mechanics calculations and of what COULD possibly be done and expected. Engineers had to do the hard work to make any of it actually happen.

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