This is fascinating. Russia gave up most of its empire in the 90s. It’s invaded hardly anyone since then. The US, on the other hand, has sent troops into Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Syria, and Somalia, and in each case, caused massive loss of human life and immiserated those who survived. All in the name of “democracy.” And then later we learn that the pretexts for these disasters are lies: the weapons of mass destruction, Assad “gassing his own people”, Gaddaffi’s alleged plans to kill his own people, the non-existent Bosnian mass graves, etc.

The US has troops in, at last count, over 180 countries. It bombs whom it pleases, invades whom it pleases, assassinates whom it pleases. It has no problem slaughtering civilians with “shock and awe” terror bombings, and during the War on the Iraqis forbade the counting of civilian casualties. It supports some of the most corrupt and anti-democratic regimes in the world, including Zelensky, who just banned all political opposition.

But it’s Putin who’s the imperialist monster. Please.

Just who do you think they are trying to attack? Certainly not Ukraine, which would be far more trouble than it’s worth.

What Putin is doing instead is humiliating the geniuses in Foggy Bottom and at CNN. He has shown the US that he has the will and the ability to counter US aggression with a highly-motivated, quickly mobilized, well-equipped army. He’s showing them that he won’t back down, and US generals know he has the ability to hurt the US military badly if it tries anything stupid. That’s what the impressive mobilization of troops, from eastern Siberia, no less, was about. And warning off that British destroyer. Not invading anybody.

True enough. It certainly would discourage some of their more outrageous aggressions.

“We”, by which I assume you mean the rulers of the United State, certainly don’t need it. Russia, on the other hand, has legitimate reasons for demanding it. Reasons that the bozos in Trantor would do well to remember.

Just because the landlord had no gun, he didn’t deserve to be shot. Shame on you!

Crows go after raptors for the same reason other birds do: they are a threat. Hawks and owls prey upon nestlings and fledglings given the chance. It’s not unusual to see mockingbirds and other smaller birds harassing raptors, not just crows.

Ironically, many birds also harry crows, for the same reason. Crows aren’t above raiding nests for food themselves.

More aggressive species often push out less aggressive ones, due to competition for nesting sites and food. Bluebirds used to be common backyard birds in the eastern US until the imported starlings and English sparrows drove them away. Now you only see them in rural areas free from those species.

The Left began far earlier than Marx. The Jacobins are an excellent example of fanatical leftists, bent on destroying the old and all who clung to tradition. Then there were the original anarchists, not to mention the utopian socialists. All before Marx. The fact that today’s left is not Marxist is irrelevant.

Not going to happen. Here’s a prediction: the “vaccine” will turn out to be more dangerous than the bug.

https://multidimensionalocean.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/dr-peter-mccullough-warns-that-covid-19-vaccines-are-more-dangerous-than-the-virus/

That’s not a prediction. It’s already happened.

Ole Bobdole was never supposed to win the Presidency. He was chosen because he couldn’t, and he obviously didn’t care. I called him the “Happy Loser.”

Yeah, and it’ll stay funny until the brown shirts or the Gestapo come for you.

Ask Randy Weaver.

Maybe Biden’s regime will go down, but the Permanent Regime, where the real power is, will remain firmly in charge. The psychos and the feminists and the BLM/Antifa types are just tools. The real power is firmly in the hands of others, and they’re NOT incompetent.

People for too long have focused on the outer regime. They seem not to have noticed that no matter who is running that, things get worse and worse.

If voting really made a difference, it wouldn’t be allowed.

You’re assuming that all the jurors are serious, logical, and unprejudiced. And that they’re not afraid of being doxed and attacked.

Is that really a safe assumption?

Who ever heard of “trophy wives,” anyway?

The charges against Ziminski are just one of many examples of the dishonesty and viciousness of the prosecution. They charged him so that he couldn’t be given immunity from prosecution in return for testimony. And they delayed his trial to guarantee that he wouldn’t testify.

They knew that if he DID testify, it would turn out to be extremely helpful to the defense, even more so than Exploded Bicep Man, the convicted criminal Gage Grosskreutz who admitted on the stand that Rittenhouse didn’t shoot until Grosskreutz pulled a 9mm on him.

The deception about the drone footage is another example. Then there are the examples of Binger brazenly violating Rittenhouse’s 5th Amendment rights by bringing up his silence. Etc. The list goes on and on.

In any case, the Ziminski case will not result in any justice. Just you wait.

Many of my fellow Democrats usually believe in protecting the rights of the defendants unless the defendants are right wing whites. Many Republicans don’t seem to care about the rights of defendants unless the defendants are right wing whites.

That really sums up our situation when it comes to the public. Meanwhile, the politicians on both sides are colluding to destroy us. Case in point: the Biden “infrastructure” bill that enough Republicans voted for to guarantee passage. Will they face any bad consequences from their Republican colleagues? Fat chance, because the Republicans don’t really have a problem with passing it. Their only problem was who could vote to get it passed without paying for it at the polls. That kind of thing happens all the time. I know. I used to work in the Senate.

Santa Fe has had its own creepy giant puppet for almost a century. However, they don’t parade it around. They burn it. http://www.burnzozobra.com

I was wondering why New Yorker cartoons weren’t very funny anymore. Now I know.

Read Tom Wolfe’s “From Bauhaus to Our House.” The International Style did start out as a socialist movement to produce inexpensive “machines for living.” But it appealed to capitalists because undecorated glass-curtain-walled boxes are a lot cheaper than ornamented masonry facades.

Meanwhile, many of the architects pushing the style were contemptuous, arrogant egotists who wanted to punish ordinary people. Sound familiar?

Perhaps the worst was Le Courbosier, who wanted to demolish Paris and replace it with identical boxes. His buildings, and his successors’, are vicious assaults on the public.

Our world becomes uglier and uglier because of these people and their allies.

They used a lot of the materiel the US gave them, including P-39s and P-63s, artillery, and the Studebakers, which they copied. Back then US war equipment was often top quality, instead of overpriced, overcomplicated maintenance hogs. They also copied captured B-29s, from which they eventually developed the Bear bomber.

That’s not to say that Soviet weapons weren’t excellent, especially their planes, tanks, and artillery.

Perhaps not. But it’s the truth. The only thing more risky than being an enemy of the US is being its friend. Ask Noriega, Saddam, Ghaddafi, Diem, Taiwan, and the thousands of collaborators through the years whom the US turned on or abandoned. Not to mention the countries of Central Europe handed over by Roosevelt to the Soviets.

So this is just standard US practice. It’s best that the world knows.

I’d point out that many people, not just Africans, believe in a zero-sum economy. Thus the popularity of socialism, etc. You don’t need to believe in witchcraft, although I’m sure it helps.

I’d be surprised if most people didn’t believe they’re poorer than they should be because somebody else has more than his fair share. It’s part of human nature.

Also, black slaves in America didn’t come from southern Africa. Africa is a big continent.

Wow. You sound like lots of fun at parties.

Seriously, have you never done anything foolish? Are there any incidents in your past life (or your future!) which might result in other people finding your actions offensive?

I think the “magazine” was actually a radio. It’s got an antenna, if you look at it.

If only pigs would fly.

How long is it going to be before people realize what’s staring them in the face: the political system in this country serves the ruling class and nobody else. That’s what it’s for. Anybody who thinks that “if we just get the right people in, things will be great!” is fooling himself.

If you do get the “right people” in, they very quickly become, or turn out to have been all along, the wrong people. “Conservatives” turn out to be cucks and traitors. Trump turned out to be an incompetent clown. Amy Coney Barrett is turning out to be just another establishment time-server who doesn’t want to change anything substantial. She’s Ms. Stare Decisis. I could go on.

The system supports the ongoing destruction of civilization because it serves the interests of the ruling class and its courtiers, hangers-on, and clients. They prefer a deracinated population with no traditions because it’s easier to rule. They want to replace whites and/or destroy their position in society because whites are traditionally ornery and individualist, and other races are easier to rule.

It’s time to wise up and stop participating in a corrupt system that blocks any attempt to challenge it. I don’t know what the answer is, but voting for political saviors sure ain’t it.

Ian Holm did get to play Napoleon: in Terry Gilliam’s “Time Bandits”, as a bitter little man with a short-man complex. He gave a hilarious performance.

As someone old enough to remember 3,000-mile tuneups and chassis lubes, and cleaning and rebuilding carburetors (among other headaches), I can tell you that old-school cars were a lot more work to keep running, didn’t last as long, and weren’t anywhere near as care-free as modern ones. They also used a lot more fuel and spewed a lot more crap out the exhaust.

So I’m not so sure the term “perfectly well” applies.

The stimulus checks ARE inflation. They inflate the money supply.

All money is fungible, and the overall effect of conjuring money out of thin air, notwithstanding the money’s initial use, is to cause prices to rise. Rising prices are not inflation; they’re an effect of inflation. Initial price rises can be in different sectors of the economy, depending on prevailing conditions.

This used to be common teaching in economics classes, and widely understood among the people. But the development of the Keynesian monster and the massive power of the central banks now mean that simple, easily-understood principle is obscured with a lot of smoke, mirrors, and lies.

Tulip bulbs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Please explain why:

1. Inflating the money supply doesn’t result in rising prices. Yes, it is debt: monetary expansion almost always is, because it happens through banks (or, in this case, the Fed) loaning money they don’t have, thus diluting the value of the existing money supply.

2. Why “deflation,” or the rising value of money, would be a bad thing. If allowed to play out, it results in the liquidation of bad assets and a fresh start to the economy. If not allowed to happen, as is currently the case with continued money-pumping, stagnation and continued high unemployment is the result.

Yeah. And the space they have keeps shrinking every year. Also, ever been to Gaza?

I, too disagree with Mr. Lynch. I usually greatly enjoy his reviews, but I think he missed the point here.

Kubrick shows the society of the future as utterly depraved: the art, the architecture, the ubiquity of pornographic images. It’s a world bereft of beauty, in which people live empty lives devoid of meaning. I don’t think that was because he hated England, but that he was simply projecting current social and political trends into the future. In hindsight, his scenario was frighteningly accurate. Who can argue that we aren’t seeing the same kind of thing happening to us now?

The Pavlovian training of Alex is another facet of that society’s depravity. Like our own regime, that of A Clockwork Orange rejects tradition, morality, ethics, and anything else besides expediency in the service of power. They boast that they have made Alex “good,” when of course, all they’ve done is take away his free will. Alex is still evil; he’s just prevented from engaging in violence. And on top of that, they’ve also ruined his only link to possible redemption: his love of classical music, which he now can’t listen to without being violently ill.

Similarly, this violent, corrupt state has addressed the youth violence problem by making thugs policemen: problem solved! Now when they beat people up, they’re doing it in the service of the state. And the depravity and corruption of the society have also corrupted the people still trying to hold on to morality and decency: in resisting the state’s program of attempting to turn people into programmed robots, they resort to torturing Alex to prove their point.

Alex’s autodefenestration makes the regime look bad, so they put him back to the way he was: not because it’s the moral thing to do, but to cut their losses. The slimy minister’s visit with Alex in the hospital reveals that he and Alex are much the same: they’re both only interested in their own selfish interests, so they easily come to a mutually satisfactory agreement.

A key theme is, of course, free will. Free will is what makes virtue and love possible: without it, we are mere organisms reacting to stimuli, as progressives seem to believe. The catch, of course, is that it also makes it possible to reject those things: thus the fall of the rebel angels and the sin of Adam. The chaplain is another product of the depraved society. He has forgotten the point of free will — if he ever knew it — and confuses it with license, rejecting God and morality. In doing so, he has made himself a slave to his impulses, for true freedom tempers free will with morality, prudence, discernment, and justice.

To sum up, a society that rejects morality and meaning in favor of utilitarianism (symbolized by the drab, horrible architecture), hedonism (the ready availability of drugs and the tasteless, obscene decoration), and situational expediency, builds itself a nightmare world, in which there is no beauty, subtlety, meaning, or decency. Its denizens are hopeless slaves to base instincts and the fads of the moment.

Does any of that seem to resonate with our current situation?

The end reveals that nothing has been learned by anyone, nothing has changed. They have constructed Hell on Earth. That seems to be where we are headed, too.

Journalism Dies in Post Lies

You make a lot of good points, but I think you’re mistaken when you say that the elites don’t hate ordinary whites. I think the evidence says that they do. All you have to do is listen to them talking about “rednecks” and “trailer trash.” They’ll never talk that way about any other group.

They despise Middle Americans with a passion, and they’re scared of them, too. They don’t like blacks much, either, except for those in the ruling class, and they certainly wouldn’t live near low-class blacks themselves. But they use blacks as a weapon against the whites they hate so much.

Show me where Mises or any other Austrian says that voluntarily giving something away causes any of the problems you mention. Show me one sentence.

In New Mexico, which was settled in the 1500s by Spanish immigrants, a number of those immigrants were in fact “conversos” who had not really converted, and who took the chance to remove themselves from the Inquisition. It wasn’t a very large number, but it did happen, and some of them did in fact retain some of their Jewish customs, despite becoming Catholic along the way.

That’s not to say that AOC or any of the others have genuine Jewish ancestry. I have no way of knowing.

He’s the real-life Bond Villain.

The Corps of Engineers is a good example of why putting the military in charge of anything is a bad idea. The levees they built protecting New Orleans were not up to the task of holding back a hundred-year flood. The Corps knew it, but did nothing to fix them. So, when Katrina came, New Orleans drowned.

Other half-assed boondoggles by the Corps include damming rivers, thus destroying valuable salmon fisheries and forests, and nearly destroying the Everglades by installing an unneeded but hugely expensive drainage scheme, causing periodic fires. We need them the way we need a hole in the head.

I’ll give you one example just off the top of my head. The Chinese company Chery stole the design for a GM car (designed in Korea) known in the U.S. as the Chevrolet Spark, lock, stock, and door hinge, and produced it.

That means they stole the entire data base of designs, for everything from the engine, body structure, etc., down to the individual sensors, taillight lenses, floor mats, ball joints, dashboard knobs, radiator cap, plus the tooling and the production line. Here’s a link:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/18/content_401235.htm

When the time comes, I think the cops will carry out their orders. Look how they don’t seem to mind persecuting pro-life demonstrators. Many of them will do it with relish.

As for Mussolini’s fate, remember that he had been in power since the ’20s, without significant opposition. He only wound up on that meat hook after the Allies had invaded and his regime had fallen. Only then did all those Italian patriots find it safe enough to spit on his corpse. I fear the same will be the case here, only there’s no liberating invader on the horizon.

When the time comes, I think the cops will carry out their orders. Look how they don’t seem to mind persecuting pro-life demonstrators. Many of them will do it with relish.

When the time comes, I think the cops will carry out their orders. Look how they don’t seem to mind persecuting pro-life demonstrators. Many of them will do it with relish.

I wonder if the reason for the article was to put the blame for the violence on “anarchists,” and so provide cover for BLM.

Nitrogen. Enough heat and oxygen: Bam!

Look up “Texas City explosion.”

Nitrogen. Enough heat and oxygen: Bam!

Whoa! Hang on! Everybody knows that white people are eight times more likely to commit violent crimes than blacks. I think I read that somewhere…

Anyway, NPR is on the side of armed citizens! It’s true:

I have a huge tank of it in my garage, which is refilled at my local welding supply store. No prescription, and the same quality as medical oxygen.

True enough, but neocons — or neo-Trots, which is more accurate — are not loyal to Trump, or anyone else except each other and Israel. And they are certainly not populists, patriots, or nationalists.

Trump has hired a bunch of fifth columnists, who will stab him in the back at every opportunity.

They have airplanes. And there are airports near the celebration sites.

It me that enterprise in this country isn’t free. Not even close.

I think I disagree about Melville. Ray Bradbury wrote a good screenplay for Moby Dick, and it was made into a decent movie. Of course, it had to leave out a lot, and it can’t reproduce the beautiful language of his exposition, but all movie versions of novels leave a lot out from necessity.

The film, despite having Gregory Peck (one of the most wooden movie stars ever) as Ahab, is riveting and beautiful, and captures the spirit of the novel well.

In the 1970’s I went to a lecture by Bradbury, expecting to hear him talk about the Martian Chronicles, or Fahrenheit 451. Instead, his entire lecture was about Moby Dick and his screenplay, with many interesting insights. Of all his accomplishments, he was most proud of that screenplay.

Yeah, and so Oswald made the perfect fall guy.

I think the Dems have had their fill of Hillary, no matter how desperate they may become. In any case, the Bernie Bros may go back to their basements, but not before throwing all their toys out of the pram: it’ll be Chicago ’68 all over again.

They were angry enough that they were shafted by the DNC last time; but coming this close to success only to have it snatched away by scheming Establishment types will goad them to white-hot rage. The Antifa violence in Berkeley, Charlotte, and elsewhere is but a foretaste of that.

This kind of behavior has been around for a while. Read Tom Wolfe’s Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flack Catcher for examples in the 1960s.

Brian de Palma satirized it in the 1970 film Hi Mom, which included a sequence in which whites pay to be brutalized by blacks in an off-off Broadway “play” called “Be Black, Baby.” After being beaten, and one of them raped, the liberal whites claim to have had a favorable, enlightening experience. It’s the kind of satire that could never be done in Hollywood today.

https://trailersfromhell.com/de-niro-de-palma-the-early-films/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065836/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_3

It may seem preposterous to you, but the ones I know do indeed hate their fellow whites less fortunate than they. They identify with their class, including Jewish elites, not their ethnicity.

You need to expand your field of vision. Elite gentiles have adopted the same contempt toward lower- and lower-middle class whites. They hate them, and now they’re not afraid to show it.

The elite’s animus against the ordinary man has been gestating for a long time. I remember as a high-school music student in the early 70s helping some fellow musicians move a piano. There wasn’t enough room in the cab of the pickup, so two of us sat in back.

This was about 10:00PM, and we were driving through a quiet residential neighborhood. The other guy, in his twenties, started pounding on the piano as we drove. I told him, “You’ll wake people up.”

He replied “Who cares, all these ordinary middle-class people, living their ordinary middle-class lives! They deserve it.”

A few years later I was talking to a former high-school classmate who’d become a feminist. She expressed hatred of ordinary housewives living at home and raising kids. I, naively, said, “Why should you care about what other people do with their own lives. They’re not hurting you.

She hissed, “Yes, they are. Just by existing they are.”

I’ve run into many more examples throughout my life. This has been a long time coming. The difference now is they feel safe enough to show their bigotry publicly.

They’re not exactly Bolsheviks. More like neo-Trotskyists. That’s worse, if anything.

Who’s this “we” you keep talking about? Are you part of the U.S. ruling class? Because if you’re not, saying “we” is wishful thinking at best, utter surrender to people who hate you at worst.

1. Whether or not Iran enriches uranium is really nothing to do with me, my family, my friends, my country (that’s America), or anything else I might be remotely interested in. The only reason Iran is a “threat” is because our rulers keep doing their best to provoke it.

I’d be a lot happier if they’d stop clogging up the fast lane.

Regarding a new car:

1. Honda and Toyota are the most reliable (that includes Acura and Lexus).

2. Mazda’s quality is now very good.

3. Nissan’s quality, including Infiniti, is now compromised, especially since the merger with Renault.

4. Forget about Korean or the other Japanese make cars if you want to keep your vehicle for a long time.

5. Don’t get a German car if you don’t want to sell it by 70,000 miles at a huge loss, or keep it longer and pay huge repair bills.

6. SUVs are more expensive to buy, more expensive to drive, and more expensive to repair. They’re also less stable because of the high center of gravity. Don’t bother with them unless you really want one.

7. Similarly, all-wheel-drive is more expensive to buy, drive and repair, and doesn’t really give you any safety dividends. It’s good for not getting stuck, but not to keep you from skidding on slippery surfaces, despite what people seem to think.

You sound like the kind of guy who would be really happy with a Lexus sedan, or perhaps a Toyota Avalon. Lexuses (Lexi?) are comfortable, with a lot of bells and whistles, and ride really nicely. And they last.

“The “profit motive” to which Cook refers is the insane “shareholder value” that has taken hold over the last 40+ years …”

Let’s call things what they really are. Share value is not profit. Profit is the difference between your cost to produce and sell an item, and the amount of money you receive when you sell it. What El Dato says about profit being necessary to any economy holds true: without the chance to make a profit, why would anybody take the trouble to produce anything to sell? There would be no market, and so people would each be scratching out a meager, bare existence of hand to mouth.

I would agree that the drive to raise share prices at the expense of everything else is a huge problem in today’s casino securities markets, made much worse by the counterfeiting of fiat money by the banks, and the resulting devaluation of people’s savings. But that doesn’t mean that lending and borrowing are by themselves evil, either. The problem is the existence of the central banks, which enables that ongoing counterfeiting.

“Corbyn’s Defeat Has Slain the Left’s Last Illusion”

No, it hasn’t.

Nor has it slain the exact same illusion held by “the right” .

Both ‘sides” share the exact same core illusion. To whit:

governments can solve societies problems.

Or to expand: a gang of crooks [“left”, “right”, or whatever], can improve societies.

One of the main reasons that this illusion prevails is that most persons on either “side” have no understanding of the true, core, criminal nature of ALL governments everywhere:

“Because they are all ultimately funded via both direct and indirect theft [taxes], and counterfeiting [central bank monopolies], all governments are essentially, at their very cores, 100% corrupt  criminal scams which cannot be “reformed”or “improved”,simply because of their innate criminal nature.”   onebornfree

“Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.”      Albert J. Nock

“Everything government touches turns to crap” Ringo Starr

“The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic” H.L.Mencken

“Government  is a disease masquerading as its own cure”  Robert LeFevere

Regards,onebornfree

I’ll believe Boris making good on his promises when I see it. Somehow, when it comes to helping the people and turning around the abuses of the Establishment, politicians just never seem come through.

Remember that the children of Protestant missionaries in Hawaii were behind the seizure of Hawaii by the U.S. They wanted to take political control of the islands from the natives to further their sugar and pineapple enterprises.

By sending your precious children to the State’s day prisons, you’re putting them at the mercy of monsters who think they own your children, not you. They believe that they can and should do whatever is necessary to alienate them from everything you hold dear.

The original purpose of public “schools” is to make good little conformist citizens and suppress individuality. That was John Dewey’s (founder of the National Education Association) publicly-stated goal. And that means making sure their victims can’t think for themselves. We see the results all around us.

I think you’re overlooking a few things. True Christianity encourages critical thinking, even though many of the more extreme adherents don’t. The dynamicism and economic growth of Europe until fairly recently was in large part due to it.

That means that intelligent Christians capable of critical are a big potential threat to the State. As a result, power-hungry politicals from John Dewey onward have been hostile to Christianity, and have actively worked to destroy it. Nerds probably played a part, but only as willing servants of our true rulers.

I saw it in an almost-empty theater, and loved it. I guess people weren’t interested in goofy that year.

This is starting to remind me of Douglas Adams’s “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, which includes, among many amusing ideas, that of the elevator psychologist:

“Elevators: Modern elevators are strange and complex entities. The ancient electric winch and ‘maximum-capacity-eight-persons’” jobs bear as much relation to a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Happy Vertical People Transporter as a packet of mixed nuts does to the entire west wing of the Sirian State Mental Hospital.

“This is because they operate on the curious principle of ‘defocused temporal perception.’ In other words they have the capacity to see dimly into the immediate future, which enables the elevator to be on the right floor to pick you up even before you knew you wanted it, thus eliminating all the tedious chatting, relaxing and making friends that people were previously forced to do while waiting for elevators.

“Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking.

“An impoverished hitchhiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counselor for neurotic elevators.”

Actually, when you think about it, elevator psychologists make about as much sense as a “billion-dollar industry” for indoctrinating artificial intelligence in political correctness.

Sure they did. Trust me, I was there.

Not to mention armpits …

You overlook the large number of Anglo collaborators with the Zionists. There are the Dispensationalist born-again Protestants, the cynical hangers-on and courtiers, the outright traitors and allies in the ruling classes … the list goes on.

Without the collaborators, Judeo-Naziism would have no teeth. Anglo-Zionist is an accurate description of the phenomenon in this country.

Actually, the problem was that early photographic emulsions did not react to red or yellow light. Human skin reflects a lot of both, so it came out looking very dark.

This also meant that 19th century scenes that in reality were quite bright and colorful often looked dark and muddy in photos. Red would come out looking black.

Early movie actors were given light green makeup to compensate for this problem, which is why they looked so pale and unnatural. The problem was solved with the development of panchromatic film, which reacted more evenly to all wavelengths of visible light.

This is an excellent idea. But perhaps it should be accompanied by a little pressure, too.

“Mr. University President, I noticed that you referred to a sticker reading ‘It’s OK to be white’ as racist. So I was wondering, as a person of whiteness myself, if you’re saying that it’s not OK to white? I mean, that seems to be the obvious conclusion from your statement. I’m sure you can understand my concern in this regard. So will you please clarify whether being white is or is not acceptable?”

Obviously you’ve never seen cops go after pro-life demonstrators. They are trained to see civilians as others. They will follow orders and crack heads with relish.

Cab Calloway’s trademark was a white suit:

So, what did that make him?

I think we’re dealing with a troll here. He or she is enjoying poking us with a stick. No point in taking this any further.

Whether the plane is “horizontal” or not is of secondary importance.

Planes can stall when they are horizontal, too. Stalling isn’t dependent on the attitude of the plane alone, but the attitude (not “position“) and the airspeed combined, plus the configuration of the wing (are the flaps up or down, etc.). A plane can be making a horizontal turn, and have its inside wing stall because the airspeed over that wing is too slow. The result is a spin.

What the MCAS system does is compare the angle of attack, as measured by the vane in relation to the wing, not the ground, with the airspeed, which is the speed of the airflow over the wing.

And do I have to point out that the reason the planes crashed in this case seems to be that an automatic system took over from the pilots?

The Iphone was released to the public in June 2007. The first Android device followed a year later. Smartphone sales grew fairly steadily from that point.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/191985/sales-of-smartphones-in-the-us-since-2005/

The smart phone sales curve seems to correspond nicely to the pedestrian death curve, although phone sales seem to have leveled out beginning in 2017. Assuming many people keep their phones for a while, that would indicate that ownership is still rising.

Another possible factor: The crash of 2008 also seems to coincide with the beginning of the rise in pedestrian deaths.

Or, in Mexico, “joto”.

As long as we’re dumbing things down, just remember that in Spanish “moca” is the feminine form of “moco”, which means … booger.

I think it springs from the navel-gazing phrase “That’s not who I am,” often shortened to “That’s not me.”

Such words are often uttered after the utterer has committed some sort of outrage — anything from public urination to murder — implying that he was somehow forced to do the deed against his will, or that it happened without his realizing it. He’s just as surprised as you are. Thus he can’t be held responsible.

It’s a very New Age phrase.

Yeah, we’ve been hearing the “3-D chess” argument for two years. I haven’t seen one piece of evidence that it’s true.

It looks to me that Trump dithered and waffled for two years, and threw away his best chances. And now he’s up against it, with the electorate ready to turn on him for not fulfilling his promises, so he’s going to try a last-minute hail-mary. This isn’t 3-D chess. It’s dog-ate-my-homework.

No, of course he didn’t. That’s not the point.

The point is that U.S. interference caused far more suffering than he did. And it was bad for the interests of ordinary Americans, too. I still think that kind of thing matters.

What if Saddam DID “reconstitute” his military power? Would he use it to threaten me or you? And if not, why is it any of our business?

I know we’ve been taught to believe that the U.S. owns the world, but please …

I think you miss mark green’s point. His point is not that Saddam committed a crime; it is that the U.S. set up Saddam, and that it had no business attacking him.

The U.S.’s crime is greater even than Saddam’s, because at least he was addressing what he saw as his own interests in his back yard. The U.S. butted into a small regional conflict that had nothing to do with us, did not threaten our interests in any way.

Our glorious rulers also killed a lot more people that Saddam did, most infamously on the “Highway of Death,” when U.S. forces, on the order of George Bush, strafed and bombed helpless defeated Iraqis, including civilians, without mercy. This was despite the fact that they were withdrawing under the provisions of a U.N. resolution. And then add those that died under the sanctions, about which Madeline Albright said that an estimated 500,000 dead children were “worth it,” and the total destruction of Iraq following yet another war based on lies and deceit, leading to the deaths of still more people and ruining of the lives of millions. What a wonderful victory for freedom and democracy.

And it all started with Bush’s refusal to give Saddam a way to save face when pulling out of Kuwait. He was a great leader, indeed.

We’d all be better off if he had.

Oh, come on! It was he who backed Saddam into a corner and made it impossible for him to back down by waving his little fist and shouting “This will not stand!” Instead of telling him through channels and allowing him to save face. We’re still living with the consequences of that completely unnecessary war.

He didn’t get suckered by anything. He was ruling class all the way, and had nothing but contempt for the people who voted for him. Remember “read my hips”?

Bush was always on the other side.

Let’s not forget the shameful way Buckley and his brown-nosers treated Joe Sobran, because he went to an Institute for Historical Review function. I think it’s very plausible that Buckley’s whole National Review operation was funded by the CIA from the beginning.

Due to the Allied blockade, I doubt they could import any cocaine from South America.

Actually, they started with Vampira, whom Elvira imitated. Vampira was in the great classic movie “Plan 9 from Outer Space.”

That’s immaterial to the ruling classes, who do not pay the costs, but benefit from the chaos caused by uncivilized immigration. It leads to a deracinated native population unable to come together to oppose them.

If your people are at each others’ throats, you can divide and rule; a principle the British used to excellent effect in their empire. And third-world immigration results in the impoverishment of the natives, which robs them of the resources to mount effective resistance.

It’s a “European” issue because the EU’s prime directive is to protect the banks’ loans, no matter how unwise, at the expense of the people. Just like here in the United State.

And you would have been arrested. The cops were watching — and waiting for the chance.

Yeah. The thing is, even if these guys are in fact the assassins, there’s nothing that points to the Russian regime.

Novichuk is supposed to be 10 times more potent than VX. And VX is so potent that a drop the size of a pinhead on your skin is enough to kill you in minutes. And yet, most of the people exposed actually lived. That indicates to me that the stuff was probably very old and deteriorated. So why would the Russian regime use expired nerve agent?

And that brings up another question. Why would the Putin regime use such a conspicuous method of assassination — one that pointed directly to them? Wouldn’t it be easier and safer to arrange an “accident” of some sort? Or a “mugging?” Surely the ex-KGB would have a whole arsenal of killing methods that were more discreet.

I think the Russian mafia is a much more credible suspect: some Novichuk went missing about twenty years ago. Who knows what sort of shady dealings Skripal might have been involved in? He was an ex-spy, after all. Or it could have been a false flag operation. Those have been known to occur.

I ride both kinds of vehicles. I’ve noticed that people wave and smile at me on a bicycle, but on my well-muffled motorcycle they often react as if I were Attilla the Hun or something.

And yes, in the past 40 years I have been injured numerous times on a bike, but not once on a motorcycle. Even so, I get all kinds of snide remarks about the dangers of motorcycles; never about how hazardous bikes are.

You’re joking, right? The first time you braked hard, the wheel would keep going with you twirling around like an over-enthusiastic hamster.

John, you’re wrong about the medieval monks. They did their prayers in addition to their work, which they did to survive.

Monasteries made huge contributions to the economic development of Europe in the Middle Ages.

According to this, race doesn’t exist because there isn’t a single chromosome that determines race, and because a lot of people don’t fit neatly into a single racial category. Also, laws concerning racial categories differ. That’s the sum total of the argument.

Who on earth is this supposed to convince?

What, exactly, is the value of a stupid question?