the details of history are always driven by battles between the elites 
 
It seems that recently many of those elites also happen to be Jewish.

Perhaps you can start a think tank together with Rev Wright.

Oprah could probably get you press.

He could do the talking and you could do the…

Let’s not forget that during the raid a meth lab was found inside the plant.

Right thing or the wrong thing? My post-modern interpretation of their situational ethics would define the right thing as doping without getting caught, which would bring great pride to the motherland.

I can’t decide if the wrong thing would be to get caught doping and not winning or to get caught doping after a win.

But to not win without doping might be the wrong thing too, if there is the possibility of winning without getting caught, which would be the right thing.

Or would it? I’m not as smart as the Chinese.

He’s black? I thought he was white.

It wasn’t just one reader thinking that way about that seal.

Since Obama seems to have learnt that he can say or do pretty much anything without repercussions if he packages it nicely in a speech, I can already imagine names and logos for all kinds of government programs he might alter or implement. Of course the branding and image will be more important than the content. Or at least completely obscure whatever he decides to mess with.

It actually does get better.

The hair should have been a tip-off.

Megan McArdle has been discussing Africa recently. No racists allowed, she says, but the discussion is more honest than in most places.

Isn’t Raila Odinga’s son named Fidel Castro?

I guess that would make Obama a tribal relative of Castro.

There are some great names in Africa.

Another good article about newcomers in a New York neighborhood.

It starts with these sentences:

Is Clinton Hill an okay place to move? It’s vibrant, diverse, and feels very safe. Clinton Hill is full of black people who have a chip on their shoulder and some white people who think themselves cool for living among them. It is a gorgeous little stretch of buildings. If you like the ghetto, you will love that area.

I just watched Starship Troopers 3. It’s about bugs and people’s reaction to them, which makes it interesting.

Also interesting is, AFAIK, the whole thing was made and shot in South Africa.

They’re going after the Brits.

It’s a big online bank in England.

http://www.cahoot.com/

I read somewhere recently that Obama will probably make the most warlike president in recent history because if anyone attacks America, it won’t be an attack on America — it will be an attack on Obama.

True or not, it makes a certain kind of sense.

I still haven’t figured out how Rezko and all his very strange deals (like the power plant in Iraq) can stay out of the national limelight.

We must be moving backwards. Just like in Rhodesia.

I recommend an episode from four years ago about the political process. Douche and Turd. The title sums it up nicely, and it is very appropriate for this year, too.

I’m with South Park. It’s between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. It always is.

Most honorable C.V. snicker, 
 
I fear several factors have conflated here to lend my comment the appearance of impropriety, the most salient of which is that the fact that I had intended to post the comment on the political thread. How it decided to rear its ugly head in the polite society of this thread is quite beyond me. That being said, it does seem oddly appropriate here, if one can possibly forgive its vulgarity. 
 
With regards to my lineage, I must admit that my trogloditic avian forebears were surprisingly ignorant of others’ opinions, thus constantly causing one predicament or another. Thus, this comment is likely more an expression of my genes than made with any malicious intent. 
 
Most humbly, 
 
k. n. (&ca.) wren

You didn’t mention where Rezko (‘s wife) got the money for all of this. That is pretty funny too.

What percentage do minorities account for of all the mortgage dollars that went into foreclosure in 2007-08?,I’ve recently been wondering what percentage of state and federal tax income as compared to state and federal outlays various races account for.

Where can I find this?

Being Japanese counts as a religion in Japan. IMO.

“This is what happens when you deny reality. First you lose your senses, then your mind, then your soul.”

–William Saletan

Right now, this is the top story on Google News, with about 2,000 links attached.

For every link that folks like truth may be able to find, there are probably 20 posted every single day on sites like LiveLeak showing more typical black on black or black on white crime.

Many commenters at sites like that have become profilers, often not because they were racists to start with.

The reality the security videos show overwhelms pc training.

I hope this officer or his union raise a stink about this.

One funny thing about The Root is that it was really originally put together by Jacob Weisberg.

He's distanced himself now, but he admitted it when it was first started.

I take that back about The Root.

When I re-read what he wrote I realize that he didn't put it together.

"In January, I helped launch The Root, under the editorial direction of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Lynette Clemetson."

Still, this was pretty funny to me. Wasn't there some other black organization that needed Jews to "help launch" it?

I wonder if he was particularly close to any of his numerous staff.

The police question he refused to answer?

"Is there anybody in the home with you?"

😉

Totally OT, but did you see this intriguing news, Steve:

"Johns Hopkins student kills suspected burglar with samurai sword"

What are the chances that, um, "the community" will agitate to try to prosecute this kid?

Perhaps some enterprising youtuber could add a few elements to the final cut to make it more palatable to westerners.

I spent a very enjoyable afternoon reading "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" recently, and imagine that a similar mashup could do wonders for the film.

And all this time I thought Jody was a girl…

Hmm. Pictures on the web of "Babyface" seem to have plenty of foreigners (both male and female) in them.

A description includes this:

"Babyface is perennially crowded with local teenyboppers, scenesters, international students and older Asian expat males on the prowl."

😉

I do hope to see more of Mindy Jones, either in some reality TV show or better yet a Charlie Kaufman movie. She reminds me a bit of Catherine Keener for some reason. But she isn't acting. Or maybe she is.

My favorite reporter clip is of this guy.

Hilarious.

I put this video in the thread about Mindy Jones and reporters affecting a different accent, but perhaps it belongs here.

The Liger is much bigger than a Tiglon. Indeed it's bigger than either of it's parent species. Ligers easily reach 900 lbs when young and healthy or 1200 lbs when old and fat. Tiglons are merely the size of normal Lions and Tigers.

Wow, that is really interesting.

And your thoughts about differing gene expression depending on the sex and race of the parents are plausible too.

More than appearance though, I wonder how behavior could be measured.

Wow, the male occupation category makes the Chinese look a lot more capitalistic than folks in the US.

Perhaps they are.

I always thought Krugman's sudden turn had to do with him gunning for some political appointment.

If his wife is actually behind it this might be even more true.

One of my favorite white raps :
Suburban Homeboy, by Sparks.

Did anyone from Columbia that remembers him being there ever turn up? Other than that professor?

Like all the missing girlfriends, something seems to be missing.

What about his Pakistan trip? Has any new info come up?

Too much weirdness. I feel like those guys analysing Chauncey Gardiner's clothing, trying to figure out where he came from…

Lots of eye-opening, sourced, information
here.

Truth wrote: Now Kylie, you know that what you wrote was like porn to some of the female readers here, don't you?

Let's just say that I think your paragraph assisted a few young ladies with their "lubrication."

It's racist, misogynistic comments like yours, Truth, that give this blog a bad name.

Your computer fan may be full of dust.

I blew the dust out of mine and not only did the computer cool way down, the fan almost never has to come on now either.

Bosch and Bruegel did paintings with details that remain funny, for a particular humor, anyway.

When I hear Jews vs Gyspies, I'm reminded of this scene.

Both doomed in this particular context.

"What is government if words have no meaning?"

So, the New York Times made him do it?

Instapundit has been all over the left's
elimininationist rhetoric for quite a while now.

The breadth and depth is pretty amazing compared to the right, imo.

Regular Jews have a Jewish problem, too, in their leaders. And we don't even have many places to voice our opinions.

Contra anon above, I too have met several Jews who swear by Fox News, but tell me they can't mention this to other Jews due to fears of persecution.

Perhaps it's time for some secret symbol (fish taken, sorry) to identify safe spaces to voice opinions…

Wow, they really do look like a slightly different species.

I didn't read Obama's book, so excuse me if he covered it, but I have sometimes wondered if his conception was consensual.

My wife announced to me the other day that movies like this, Green Lantern, Battle: Los Angeles, etc. are actually prepping us for the coming alien invasion.

She seemed pretty serious about it.

Apparently, Spielberg et al are trying to give us some advanced warning.

Somehow or another this is all connected to the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, but that part wasn't really clear to me.

That was an interesting film, Truth.

My wife seems to have emigrated to the "conspiracy community," so I now have to invest a lot of time looking into it all. Big headache, but interesting stuff in there, too.

I doubt I'll join her though.

Plunge for distance FTW.

Sort of.

Perhaps we can bring all the women who want to leave Afghanistan to NYC to work as hotel maids.

My favorite concert in the eighties was Oingo Boingo. Great show.

Recently, I've been listening to a lot of Sparks.

Wikipedia tells me that Oingo Boingo started as a brotherly project, and of course Sparks is Sparks.

Both out of LA, so perhaps Steve has some insights on these guys as well…

I'm not sure that it is a good idea that MLK gets his own holidays and statues and things when we now know he was such a plagiarist.

Your post reminds me of the South Park episode where the kids have to choose a new mascot (due to PETA intervention) and the choice ends up being between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. Later Puff Daddy show up to shoot anyone who doesn't vote.

Classic.

I still wonder why not more people thought it interesting that the guy who designed Obama's famous (and popular) "Hope" poster has such a huge Stalinist, fascist fetish. He even rips off Nazi imagry in his art…

Maybe Steve's readers can figure out something I couldn't.

Since Shepard Fairey plagiarized much (or most) of his work, and famously plagiarized an AP photo of Obama for his iconic "HOPE" poster, where did he get the idea for the artistic part from?

It would be really funny if there is some Maoist or Stalinist propaganda poster out there somewhere that looks nearly identical…

I think Steve could use a new banner logo to "improve brand awareness," or something.

Perhaps a competition would work.

Glaivester — yes, I don't know why people didn't find it more odd that the guy who created Obama's official campaign poster was the same guy who was most famous for his "OBEY" propaganda brand.

Post-modern irony or whatever may explain it away, but I believe there is a better explanation.

It is interesting that certain folks are on the one hand openly hostile to Christians who question evolution, and on the other openly hostile to scientists who take evolution seriously and try to understand it.

You just can't please some people.

Gawande wrote an excellent article on learning to be a surgeon, "The Learning Curve," but I don't see it online. A good teacher is very important, apparently.

The first time is not easy for anyone.

Plenty o Luttwak links right here.

This article caused me to think. Thank you, Steve.

I am from California, and not at all homesick.

I am envious of folks who grew up in an area with a traditional sense of place.

I like Cain, but I feel that I haven't seen the real Cain yet.

From "Nerds for Cain:"

He has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, a master’s degree in computer science; he was a mathematician for the Navy (rocket scientist), a data systems analyst for Coca-Cola; he held various IT positions at Pillsbury; he was VP in charge of corporate data systems. "To me, that screams nerd."

The Derb on Cain:

"I asked him about the ballistics work he’d done for the Navy. Lotta differential equations? Oh, yeah.
ODEs or PDEs? Mostly O’s—which is the right answer in ballistics. I recall thinking: Smart cookie. I doubt mathematical ability is directly relevant to a president’s tasks, but a guy who can do advanced math is a guy who can pursue chains of deductive reasoning for minutes at a time—rare in human beings."

Read more: http://takimag.com/article/raising_cain/page_2#ixzz1c9Yt1QBb

Did Cain take those military exams, too? If so, Steve could calculate his IQ. He may not have, though, as I don't think he was in the military.

Steve! Sparks fits this category perfectly, and they fit another of your interests – frauteurs.

Plus they are from LA.

From wikipedia:

"Sparks are best known for the song This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us which reached number 2 in the British charts in 1974, "When I'm With You" which topped the French Charts in 1980, and "When Do I Get To Sing 'My Way'" which topped the German and European charts in 1994/95 and was the top airplay record in Germany for 1994."

Few people (that I talk to) seem to be aware of them in the US, even though they've been pumping music out since the late sixties and are still going strong.

"But still I am impressed at your achievement!"

Europeasant, don't forget that the neandertal seems be strong in Steve.

I find myself looking for the grand theory that Steve may be searching for in all these posts about people who are more popular outside of their own culture or folks who did not produce their own work, etc., etc.

The B&B where I spent my honeymoon and visited about once a year after that got bought by Oprah, and then closed to the public.

I will never forgive her for that.

I read "Android Karenina" and noticed it was better than what I normally read for some reason. Great book! In a parallel universe Oprah is recommending it for her scifi book club.

Hawaii is now filled up with Wal-Marts, K-marts, Home Depots, Costcos, Targets, every imaginable chain restaurant, malls that have exactly the same shops as everywhere else in the country, endless suburban sprawl and development and terrible traffic jams.

The "American approach" they speak of is "applied behavioral analysis, I believe. It is a field that strives to be seen as a real science. I have seen good outcomes, but one never knows what would have happened without it, either.

Freud: Patience Barry. Now tell me, would you say your wife is more like your mother or more like your mother's idealization of your father?

There might be something to psychoanalysis after all.

Nice.

Come to think of it, Barry would have kept Freud pretty busy.

"I think it was actually rather insightful of Bettelheim to notice that the mothers of autistic children were often "different."

No offense, but totally ignorant. If you have much experience with folks at the far end of the autistic spectrum, the type that try to bite off their hands and are covered in scar tissue, you would know that severe autistics aren't even human. The full brain just isn't there. The mother can be any pattern you'd find, it doesn't matter.

My experience with folks at all points on the "autistic spectrum" leads me to believe that Amy P was correct, and not at all ignorant.

The genetic component in autism is without question. Environmental triggers, I can only guess.

Perhaps Steve and Derbyshire could create a new site.

If they wanted to.

They could add some columns from friends, and I think it would be much better than Taki's, NRO, VDARE, etc.

Is this going to be another Cochran theory mystery that goes unanswered?

I'm still waiting for that living group of Neandertals…

Also, writing for a teenage daughter, I would have been especially emphatic about her staying away from black boys, no matter how smooth talking, until she's 21 at least.

Yeah, there's already a half blood prince from a teen mom.

With teen daughters myself though, I do have to say that some of these commenters sound silly. I agree with John.

I expected my kids to look Asian, and prepared myself for it, which wasn't really that hard.

A funny thing happened though.

Even with an Asian mother they look really haole.

Do the "intelligent and refined" blacks and Asians whose praises you sing communicate to you their loathing of the great mass of blacks and Asians? To ask the question is to answer it – only white liberals display your unique brand of racial self-hate.

I'm not whoever said that, but I do hear plenty of that from the few "refined" blacks and Asians I know. Asians seem to be talking about Asians in Asia though, and blacks are talking about blacks in America.

I think we may see this turn around.

Anecdotaly, I see the Harry Potter generation continue to read voraciously, and frequently write eloquent online comments. I am sometimes even surprised to see very logical, well-written, concise texts, as well.

I don't recall this facility so prevalent in the 70's 80's and 90's.

Perhaps it is my imagination.

Fleshing out my earlier comment.

My young teen daughter averages over 4,000 texts a month. We limit her facebook time, but that is essentially publishing in front of peers. They know who can't write well or cleverly and judge each other on it.

Plus, keeping up with friends on the Hunger Games or Twilight or Pretty Little Liars books…

Yes, quantity, not quality at this point, but the whole cohort seems this way, and their teachers do seem to be challenging them, so perhaps we will be surprised.

What a let down this was!

I was hoping for one of those once or twice a decade sci-fi films that blows your mind.

Instead, I found myself thinking "This just doesn't make any sense."

In the movie they kept saying what a big deal the whole expedition was, but it seemed to me like they had just hired the crew through craigslist (or 2083 equivalent) the morning of the flight or something…

Maybe Sir Ridley held auditions at the North Hollywood subway station.

Yeah, just like Weyland Industries. Was I misunderstanding it or did the crew actually learn what they were going to do after they arrived, sans any training or anything like that?

A trillion dollar trip, hibernating for years and then a five minute briefing about what the mission is ten minutes before they jump out of the ship? Right.

That brought out the autism in me.

Okay, I hacked in to Sir Ridley's computer to check his recycle bin for what got left on the cutting room floor. It all makes sense now.

This is what I found:

1) The movie was originally titled "Idiocracy in Space."

2) Due to the Great Diversity Suit of 2037 (State Vs. Weyland), all hiring is done by lotto, held at Starbucks.

3) Weyland concludes that the only way to get the healthcare he needs is to hire an alien doctor.

4) The green goo is actually Brawndo. Why does it work? It's got electrolytes.

5) The aliens seeded the universe with DNA in order to grow markets for Brwndo. Why? Because it's what you need.

6) The alien worried that Weyland actually was more interested in stealing their trade secrets. So he had to kill them.

Q.E.D.

Perhaps Sir Ripley actually made the movie as a vector to bring out the autism in people.

The movie itself is the environmental trigger that sets off the ticking timebomb hidden in our genes.

The comments here clearly demonstrate this.

It is an alien plot.

Nigel Farage calls for a moratorium on immigration into the UK.

Good for him.

A much better video of Nigel Farage sharing his thoughts on the disaster of EU immigration policy on the UK.

She is in the documentary Ballets Russes, which was fun to watch.

But is not for everyone.

He looks just like Esai Morales, the actor who played the corrupt lawyer who represented the drug cartels in the TV show "Caprica."

One day I'll have a bookmark for the Sailer/Derb/? site.

Another little tidbit is the probablility that Jordan had Jane Stanford murdered in Hawaii because he disagreed with her politics, or something like that. She would have likely taken things in a very different direction.

Title IX coming to STEM:

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/20/usa-whitehouse-titleix-idINL1E8HKJNC20120620

Unreal. The fastest way to screw up an advanced society is to enforce 50% women in things like mechanical engineering (education AND jobs).

I've been watching a lot of NASA youtube videos about their upcoming Curiosity Rover landing on Mars. It looks like a very exciting project. I am surprised to see how many young female engineers are working on the project. It is curious.

Title IX coming to STEM:

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/20/usa-whitehouse-titleix-idINL1E8HKJNC20120620

Unreal. The fastest way to screw up an advanced society is to enforce 50% women in things like mechanical engineering (education AND jobs).

I've been watching a lot of NASA youtube videos about their upcoming Curiosity Rover landing on Mars recently. It looks like a very exciting project and I am surprised to see how many young female engineers are working on it. It is curious.

Example.

I hope it is a success.

Wow, what a dad! I can see some happy times there.

Through your writing, I'd guess there's a bit of him in all of us now, too

A life well lived.

20 years ago I sold expensive leather goods in Ginza. Wallets were $500 or so and handbags were $1,000 or so and up.

I'd guess that most of my customers were "office ladies" although many were hostesses or their clients buying for them.

Disposable income was pretty high for those groups, so that was not really big money.

The brand was important of course, but they did seem to sincerely appreciate well-made durable products.

I'd say long term satisfaction was and is high.

I've been using the same $300 wallet for 25 years.

I didn't work for Hermes, but their Kelly and Birkin bags which are around $5,000 to $10,000, seem to be a pretty good investment, somehow. They hold their value, I believe.

I was once chased by a pack of wild dogs up a hill on a very weak scooter at night.

It was absolutely terrifying.

Wow, I read that in the 70's and forgot about it except for the title and the watchmakers, which I subsequently forgot came from that book.

Why did they stick in my mind?

I have been wondering what story they came out of for the last twenty years or so.

Thanks.

A shame it is not open for comments.

I have enjoyed amazing French, Italian, Greek, and of course Japanese food not only in Tokyo, but in provincial areas of Japan too.

I am not surprised by those stars.

At first, I couldn't believe how good things would taste even in some hole in the wall coffee shop in some small town train station, but later I learned that there was a lot more MSG in things where you might not expect it.

Maybe that is fooling the French. 😉

I am coming around to the conspiracy theory that he may not be a Copt, or the video thing was a set-up to rile people up, paid for by the people who took advantage of it.

Walid Shoebat proposed this due to Nakoula's partnership with Shoebat's Muslim terrorist cousin.

Also, his biography nicely hits on some themes Steve brings up on occasion:

Nakoula was born in Egypt,[1] and in an Arabic interview with Voice of America's Radio Sawa, he stated that he had graduated from the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt.[9] Nakoula later moved to Southern California where he once owned a gas station. He resided in Cerritos, in Los Angeles County, California[10][11][12] until September 2012.[2]

According to the Associated Press, "Nakoula struggled with a series of financial problems".[13] In 1996, a lien for $194,000 was filed against Nakoula's gas station for unpaid taxes, penalties, and interest dating from 1989 to 1992.[12] A $106,000 lien was filed against him in 1997.[13] He filed for bankruptcy protection in 2000,[12][14] owing several banks a total of $166,500, but later failing to make payments under the bankruptcy plan.[12][15] A $191,000 tax lien was filed against him in 2006.[13]

The Daily Beast reported that Nakoula was arrested by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in 1997 after being pulled over and found to be in possession of ephedrine, hydroiodic acid, and $45,000 in cash;[12] he was charged with intent to manufacture methamphetamine.[11] He pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 1997 to one year in Los Angeles County Jail and three years probation. According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney, he violated probation in 2002 and was re-sentenced to another year in county jail.[16]

In 2010, Nakoula pleaded no contest to federal charges of bank fraud in California. Nakoula had opened bank accounts using fake names and stolen Social Security numbers, including one belonging to a 6-year-old child,[3] and deposited checks from those accounts to withdraw at ATMs.[17] The prosecutor described the scheme as check kiting, "You try to get the money out of the bank before the bank realizes they are drawn from a fraudulent account. There basically is no money," she said.[4] Nakoula’s June 2010 sentencing transcript shows that after being arrested, he testified against an alleged ring leader of the fraud scheme, Eiad Salameh,[18] in exchange for a lighter sentence.[19][20][21] He was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison, five years probation, and ordered to pay $794,701 in restitution.[4][22] He was sent to prison, then to a halfway house,[23] and was released from custody in June 2011. A few weeks later, he began working on Innocence of Muslims.[24][23] Conditions of Nakoula's probation include not using aliases and not using the Internet without prior approval from his probation officer.[25][26] On September 27, 2012, US federal authorities stated Nakoula was arrested in Los Angeles for suspicion of violating terms of his probation and he is being held without bail.[27] Prosecutors stated that some of the violations included making false statements regarding his role in the film and the use of the alias Sam Bacile.[28]

Looks like he is a Copt after all, although the local LA copts don't seem to know him.

Still, his motives seem financial rather than philosophical. If it does turn out that he was encouraged and funded from outside, I suppose we won't hear anything about it until well after the election, if ever, the way things are covered up under the current administration/media regime.

Reading about the the Copt community in SoCal causes me to wonder if our policies of welcoming these persecuted minorities doesn't in fact exacerbate the situation in the home countries, increasing ethnic cleansing, extremism, etc.