At 3:48, there's a young Mayor Lightfool.

I was there downtown Chicago when they were filming that scene; one of the camera men even asked to occupy the position I was in on the sidewalk.

Ferris Bueller sucks. Bring back the birch for teachers. That'll fix the little bastard.

Catherine the Great (and later Alexander I) invited settlers because
Noworossija was a wasteland when the Turks vacated it - it was much the same
along the edge of Turkish advance (Siebenbürgen, Banat, ..);
the Russians have always been a bit schizophrenic about it - the Germans may have
invented the devil but they cannot be trusted like True Believers*...
may be now they can develop a certain nostalgia :D

* It seems the Israelis are aware of the problem ...
("What´s the difference between a Jecke** and a virgin? Jecke remains Jecke.")

**very German Jew

Replies: @SIMP simp, @George Taylor

Isn't it historically Dutch? When did the Germans displace the Dutch in New York City?

Replies: @Prosa123, @Rob

Prior to WWI, several states outlawed the teaching Of German in schools, in a successful effort to de-Germanize the population.

"New York City is historically more German than Irish or Italian."

I think we're missing the Dutch presence, especially in NYC and the Hudson River valley. The House of Orange-Nassau sent planter families and, of course, financial agents into the colonies to secure their influence in New Albion.

I think it is assimilation and intermarriage. I probably know more people who have a mix of German and British ancestry than German alone. Once the German language dies out after the first generation, there is little, if any, difference between Americans of British and German descent. No one thinks of Donald Trump as a German. He's just a white American of generic Northwestern European ancestry.

Replies: @ScarletNumber

Almost every generic white person in the U.S probably has at least a little German (and Irish) ancestry, however I wouldn’t say that 23andme tests would reveal white Americans are overwhelmingly German. If anything English ancestry is downplayed.

Unfortunately, some people think fighting Russia is a great idea. Better yet, Russia and China at the same time. WW3 will be just like WW2 in their minds.

Replies: @Buzz Mohawk

The great problem I see with this thesis is that this path to destruction is being led by the elected president of Ukraine. The U.S. and the E.U. leader may even be aware that this is all foolish, but it just wouldn't look good for those leaders in the eyes of the masses who watch this on TV and get to vote in American and European elections if those leaders would just come out and say: "Surrender, idiot."

An awful article. You’ve also gone off the deep end lately.

The article:

“ Chamberlain, like many statesmen reacting to bad news, veered from one irrational extreme to the other in 1939, from abject appeasement of Hitler to mindless confrontation.”

So the author seems to think that WWII wasn’t really Hitler’s fault, but at least partly because of Britain’s “mindless confrontation” of Germany.

“Once again, despite promises of military support, Ukraine’s main sponsor has left her alone on the battlefield.”

That’s just a lie. There has never been a US “promise” to militarily protect Ukraine. And we have done far more than obligated in military supply aid.

“Peace is the only hope: the killing must stop”

What P-Dave and McMeekkn really mean: I want the killing to stop, so you Ukrainians need to just surrender to the soldiers bombing and invading your homeland. They were “provoked” by the USA to their invasion, and are righteously taking what’s theirs, like Hitler to Danzig. Oh my, how much killing could have been avoided if only the Poles had properly handed over Danzig!

The reality is that Ukraine is not akin to anything in WWII, but is Russia’s Iraq, but a mistake that will be ten times larger. Retard militarism by an awful and evil leader. Putin isn’t Hitler, he’s Russia’s George W Bush.

Replies: @HA

Thanks for the essay Phys. Dave. Nothing new, but a reasonable write up, worth the read.

As so many of us have tried to emphasize here, this is not a matter of being a Putin apologist. It is a matter of realistically confronting the suffering of innocent people and honestly thinking about how to end that suffering. ...

Peace is the only hope: the killing must stop.

 

Replies: @Wokechoke, @rebel yell, @PhysicistDave

Poland exists today, and is protected by NATO.

If the West had not found a casus belli in Germany's demands on Poland, Germany would still have invaded Poland, only it would have succeeded completely and dismembered the population, committing worse genocide than it actually did. Today there would be no Polish state, and precious few Polish people. They would suffer the fate of the Wends, another Slavic people who were killed off or absorbed into the German nation.

The effect of World War II is that Poland ended up in the Soviet sphere, not the Nazi one. The Soviets did not annihilate the Polish nation as the Germans would have. After the Soviet experiment failed, Poland found itself free and intact, with hardly any of the minorities (German, Jewish, Belarussian, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian) that made its pre-war existence so fraught.

So, in the end, the British and French promises to Poland did save the country, some 51 years later. If they'd thrown Poland under the bus, Poland wouldn't exist today.

But never mind, go ahead and believe that the Nazis would have dealt kindly with the untermenschen encumbering the ground.

Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Jack Armstrong, @Buzz Mohawk, @PhysicistDave

If a no-fly zone is declared over Ukraine, as irresponsible members of Congress are now proposing,
 

Dave, I agree with that the war in Ukraine needs to end, and the sooner the better. The Ukrainian regular army is no match for the regular Russian army. (The Russians have honest-to-God hypersonic missiles. USG doesn’t have hypersonic missiles.) A guerrilla war will result in the devastation of Ukraine and millions dead. That’s assuming that a drawn out conflict doesn’t bring the two nuclear superpowers into a direct conflict that leaves billions dead.

Maddeningly, USG’s position appears to be that we should fight to the last drop of Ukrainian blood and sanction Russia out of existence. USG promises that it wants to avoid a nuclear holocaust, but I get the sense that it’s not taking that promise too seriously. It’s damned hubris.

I don’t expect USG to course correct. All but a handful of Congressmen voted for ending normal trade relations with Russia. (The Hill framed voting to end normal trade relations with Russia as anti-war by the way.) A Republican Congress will, if anything, push harder for war. Even so, USG is rather immune to political considerations. I fear that we are going to get the war that USG wants to have with Putin, short of a revolution.

If a no-fly zone is declared over Ukraine, as irresponsible members of Congress are now proposing,
 

You are very disappointing on your Ukraine-Russia commentary.

The guy you quote seems to believe that smaller nations have no national "agency" and therefore must be a puppet or surrogate for larger ones.

So everything that happened to Poland is what, Britain's fault? The US? I'm confused.

Why would Ukraine somehow (as a nation) think that NATO would rescue them?

As it is, they are able to withstand a pathetic Russian performance. They should just leave out cases of good vodka along Russian routes of attack. Lots of them. This will result in Ukrainian victory.

(Of course Ukraine has it's own problems with corruption/Biden/oligarchs, etc.)

Poland has long "punched above its weight" but between Russia/USSR and Germany, it is outnumbered.

The rise of cheap, small and very smart weapons has equalized things in military terms, to an extent.

The Russians have now proven that giving up your nukes (or not having them) is a bad idea for smaller nations. Great going, Russia! North Korea, India and Pakistan salute you!

Having nuclear power stations upwind of your larger "neighbors" along your borders with them is a second best idea. Even Putin doesn't want to glow in the dark. Chernobyl might have worked for the Ukes, but I don't know about the winds, etc.

A drastic idea, but not unrealistic.

Replies: @PhysicistDave

I totally agree with you. I remember telling people in 2016 that I was voting for Trump because I feared Hillary Clinton would start World War III. I am very sorry that seems to have been right...

Replies: @clifford brown

I knew the ole "He's a Puppet" thing would come out here even before I started to read your post.
Obama was a puppet and not in control but not Bush/Cheney they were masterminds. Hillary was in the Senate and voted for the Iraq war. Hillary was half a president and was trying to change our healthcare system back when Bill was the president. It was voted down, Obama knew this he was in the Senate too, I watched his speech at the Democrat National Convention. It was touted how great he was (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0efLsBPSFdA). He would have known Hillary and he was no new kid to being a crooked politician...
"Machine candidates have an unimpeded path to public offices because they often run unopposed–like Barack Obama did when he won his first election in 1996.

The machine’s henchmen working at the CBOE showed Barack Obama’s four 1996 state senate opponents no mercy. The CBOE ruled that 62% of the signatures that these opponents submitted with their nominating petitions were invalid. Two of Obama’s state senate challengers were so outraged, they filed federal court lawsuits. "
https://stoneformayor.com/obamas-strategy-to-win-at-all-costs-violated-his-challengers-civil-rights/
Tony Rezko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Rezko

There are plenty of Obama pals and even more apologists and even more "He's just a Puppet :( sniff"

"I was a democracy-promotion idealist ..."

NGOs like Freedom House and NED are used as operational covers by CIA and malignant oligarchs to destabilize nation states. Good stuff in your comment, thanks.

If Treaty of Versailles led to WW2 wouldn’t WW1 be worst event in history? That’s how I always read it.

Do people forget that Basil Fawlty is an egotistical buffoon and not someone you are supposed to emulate?
 

This is something I can never understand about Steve. He can be so insightful, creative, and humorous about so many different subjects that challenge the narrative.

But he seems full on board with the narrative playbook about some really important events. For example, ignoring the role the United States has played in driving Putin to invade Ukraine, or who really may have been responsible for 911.

I guess we all have our blind spots, even SS and Basil Fawlty.

Oh, that thing. Thanks.

I do not disagree with anything you wrote. Except I want Europe to deal with the hard issues and figure itself out.
 

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NATO is the one of the critical means by which the United States controls Europe. ...

NATO is a colossal waste of resources and undermines European sovereignty. France and Germany would do a much better job dealing with Russia if they did not have the United States and the NATO apparatchiks constantly pushing for territorial expansion and saber rattling.
 

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At this point, I don't think Biden remembers who he is most of the time.

Worth noting, too, that the same Obama-era State Department appointee responsible for Ukraine, Victoria Nuland, was reappointed to do the same job in the Biden administration.

There was no coup. The Russian puppet who was "elected" by fraud ran off to Russia with the tail between his legs, the chairman of the parliament became acting president (following the constitution), called a new election (following the constitution), and a new president was elected (following the constitution). The Russian puppet has since been convicted of treason (following the constitution) and is trying to escape his 13-year sentence.

Thanks for posting that interview. Biden claimed that we would have placed serious sanctions on Ukraine if there was evidence of oppression of the ethnic Russians in the Donbass.

I don’t believe Biden or anyone in the Obama administration ever wanted any scrutiny of exactly what was going on there after 2014. Such examination would inevitably raise questions about “The Narrative.”

Agree.

The comments system wont let you use the standard reply buttons unless you posted at least five messages in the last month. I left school almost fifty years ago and I'm not going to be forced into doing homework at this stage of life, so there... ;-)

the main effect of the Ukrainians having Stinger missiles was that Russian aircraft just flew at much higher altitudes, which, he indicated, gives significant protection against the Stingers.

But of course if you drop bombs from a much higher altitude, you have much less control over where they land.
 

The way this is going to work is that the ICC is going to indict Putin and various figures in Russia for war crimes. The current sanctions against Russia are not going to be lifted until some future Russian government turns the war criminals over to the ICC for trial.

If you are a Russian soldier, you should keep in mind the possibility of future prosecution as a war criminal and govern your conduct accordingly. Remember that "I was just following orders" doesn't work. It will be interesting to see if Russian pilots start defecting with their planes as sometimes happened during the Cold War. A lot of Russian soldiers have already deserted. They were told that they were going on "exercises" or to shoot "Nazis", but then they found out that they were supposed to shoot at their Ukrainian brothers and sisters. Maybe the Russians will go back to their old trick of having secret police positioned at the rear to shoot anyone who tries to desert. The Ukrainians have offered to release any Russian conscripts who they capture over to their mothers if they will come and get them. Of course they probably have to go on to a third country since it won't be safe for them to go back to Russia.

Now right now it may seem impossible that these indictments are going to have any meaning. Putin, Lavrov, etc. will just laugh at them. The Russian people are not going to tolerate being turned into N. Korea for decades just so Putin can live in a palace. He who laughs last laughs best.

PS China has just announced that they won't supply the Russians with spare parts for their airliners in violation of Western sanctions. The Chinese air fleet is also 100% Boeing/Airbus and they are not going to get THEIR fleet grounded just to help their "inseparable" Russian buddies.

Putin is making all sorts of brave noises about how Russia will be self-sufficient but as a practical matter it's just not possible. Even during the Cold War they always had to beg/borrow/steal stuff from the West and in the last 30 years they have been de-industrialized in many areas and are completely dependent on Western technology.

Replies: @PhysicistDave

For what it's worth:

Ukrainian official: Bennett told Zelensky he should take Putin's proposal to end war

 

I don't like her but the presstitute put Harris and Duda in an awkward position and Harris reacted the same way many people would.

Replies: @J.Ross, @Poco

I don’t find this clip funny and do not see how it relates to current events.
 

Replies: @bomag, @Jus' Sayin'...

Cleese sure rubbed it into those Germans! Britain gained so much from winning that war, jolly good show!

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/content/uploads/2010/11/177_feature_coleman_chart1.jpg

I note there are multiple examples of Cleese passive aggressively railing against diversity as well in recent years. I bet if he had his time over this is one skit he would have second thoughts on. Contrast with this deleted scene from LOB.

https://youtu.be/qWVQZIH-B6U

As for American situation comedy all I can say is you have my deepest sympathy.

Churchill wasn’t just a drunk. He was a compulsive gambler who lost all the time. That combined with his life grandiose style put him “ in the hands of the Jews” or usurious money lenders as it was called. His income from his government salary and writings was very comfortable upper middle class. But he lived like a billionaire.

I can’t remember the titles. But there are several you tubes dealing with his drunk ness.

A real pig. For the bombings of Dresden, Hamburg and the French fleet he should have been hanged for war crimes.

2 things I’m glad I lived long enough to see. The de glorification of Churchill and the Kennedys

Replies: @JMcG

Tranny is born and he shall be named Karen.

Maybe the whole country is trans. I heard the same thing happened to Siberia, so the Russians built a train line over it. Probably something to do with Chernobyl.

News organizations had dozens of reporters working on the fake Bubba Wallace NASCAR noose story, yet ABC has one elderly Brit and the even more elderly Martha Raddatz in Kiev. It's not an important story like trans rights or BLM.

Replies: @profnasty, @J.Ross

A 17 year old diva, who is under tremendous pressure on the world stage (let’s not forget her nation in on the verge of WWIII), threw a hysterical public fit. She should have flipped out in the locker room, but this is hardly an unexpected event.
 

OK, I'll bite.

The Covid vaccine is intended to limit the effects and the spread of a deadly disease, so that while it is not without risk to administer this to healthy 15 year olds, the benefits outweigh the risks in the judgment of public health officials (YMMV). Very few healthy unvaccinated 15 year olds become seriously ill with Covid, but for the few that do, the result can be tragic.

Vaccinating them also helps prevent them from bringing the disease home and killing their grandpas, although the rise of the Omicron variant has made it less effective for this purpose. Next year's version of the vaccine (yes, they will have new ones every year, just like flu shots) will be more effective against Omicron.

When my kids were growing up, they were given (voluntary) flu shots thru their school every year. I don't recall this being a big matter of controversy. Attempts to mandate the Covid vaccine were a big mistake but the idea that getting a vaccine for a respiratory disease once (let alone annually) is somehow shocking and terrible is ridiculous.

OTOH, there is absolutely no health justification for giving heart meds to healthy 15 year olds. This was done only to improve their medal chances and may even be bad for their health. Medically there is zero reward, only risk and so it can never be medically justified.

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My guess is that Ghislaine will walk or face a very light sentence.
 

Ah, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. You've got good taste.

Of course: in the end, they'll be happy to throw them to the wolves to protect the clients. That doesn't shock me. What I'm worried about is that they'll get away with all the horrors. That everything going around us will be the "new normal": from the SSRIs to the Brezhenvite political reality. This ain't normal. This shouldn't be accepted as normal.

>My guess is that Ghislaine will walk or face a very light sentence.

Whatever happens, it'll be far too good.

Replies: @J.Ross

Schools could be improved by dropping much of the politics, increasing discipline and raising standards, but these improvements would be marginal.
 

The only thing that really matters in a school is the demographic make up of the students. Dem controlled schools in affluent white neighborhoods do very well. Socialist public schooling in Russia produced excellent results. Conservative religious schools in Turkey turn out morons.

The Dems who control Chicago, etc., provide an education nowhere near equivalent to that provided by the liberals of New Trier Township, etc. This is despite funding levels almost as high, as high or a little higher than these affluent suburbs, and largely because they have no regard for how money is spent.

clifford, I'll read the other replies to you after I post this. You give me four 'great' dem controlled school districts and I will give you four hundred dem controlled failed school districts starting with Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago and on and on. Big city school districts are terrible because they are controlled by dems.

As Steve has said a million times, the best school districts are in Texas.

Thanks for the information.

If I'd been Mickey's life coach, I'd have told him if you're getting punched in the face all the time, you're not a good boxer and have no business in the ring. Do judo or BJJ instead.

Replies: @Muggles

Mutation? No obvious radiation burns. Hopefully the radiation had a sterilizing effect.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sam-brinton-kinky-joe-biden-puttin-on-the-dog/
https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1491893993931743234

So according to the Daily Mail this person is the offspring of ultraconservative southern baptist parents who put him through gay conversion therapy, so clearly this is an extreme case of rebelling against that upbringing. He's still rubbing it in dad and mom's face trying to piss them off. More reason why if your child is gay, embrace them and keep them close, not put them through torture to try to change them (it doesn't work) because that will just result in them running far away and seeking approval and love from gay world, and it's never a good idea for an 18 year old to feel isolated and scared of their own family trying to find a substitute father figure in strange older men. Just like you wouldn't want your daughter to do so.

Replies: @SFG

LGBT is a program of population control. Most policies championed by American society, drug abuse, abortion, high real estate prices, LGBT are intended to undermine healthy, normal family formation.
 

duh - their operation is to keep drilling this shit into the heads of normies to guilt them out from guilt they don't even understand.- so ridiculous

I don't think so. The target would be the working class whites who are the greatest rival to the elite for power, but being gay is relatively rare in the lower orders of the population (Steve's post about gays having higher academic achievement), and through their teen years working class kids are openly scornful of non heterosexuality. In my opinion open acceptance/ promotion of LGBT is going to hit the elite especially liberal Jewish families much harder than the masses. The elite are the most accepting of indoctrination.

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https://wweek-wweek-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/HsjzRg4F0FGTyzwduPanFAfqPUI=/800x0/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/wweek/AKHM3I2CDBG7RCROFUHFZVQEJQ.jpg


This is here in Portland. https://www.wweek.com/news/2022/02/16/whos-behind-the-portland-billboards-demanding-people-stop-having-kids/

There is serious social and legal pressure to not use a smart phone while driving, but car companies have addressed the problem by installing massive touch screens in the dashboard of all new cars. Might this be distracting?

Increasingly, you cannot change a radio station or adjust climate control without taking your eyes off the road in order to manipulate a touch screen which often requires more than one menu tree. Is the government monitoring whether this “screenification” of all interior car controls is contributing to distracted driving?
 

Yeah this is a serious problem. It's bad in my 2015 car, I imagine it is much worse in new cars, which is why I hope to keep mine for years to come. They ought to keep it simple and easy to operate. An auto is not the place for distracting gizmos.

Replies: @Garglepox

I don't think this kind of thing is the main cause of current year issues, but it certainly doesn't help. I have a 2019 Honda, the unhelpful gadgets are myriad, and I am always finding new ways that they annoy me by being less useful than their unfashionable predecessors.

The number of ways in which a touch screen is inferior to a dial or slider for controlling temperature, power level, and mode of the climate control system probably would not be believable until one has experience of both. Another amazingly stupid thing is climate control to the degree. So rather than simply adjusting the dial to slightly more or less warm, or raising or lowering the power, you have to keep tapping the screen to change the setting by 10 or 15 degrees when there's a big change in outside temperature.

For the radio, the steering wheel controls are all I use, so it's much less annoying.

So the Revolution eats its own. That's how it goes. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Replies: @Dick Oldhead

So it seems the real issue is why a professor who is married is getting too close to female grad students. The ethics of this are pretty simple: you owe your wife fidelity; you owe your students professional mentorship.

Replies: @Alden, @anon

Good anything bad that happens to a liberal or commie I applaud. I hope some ugly black students or TA’s sue him for the racism of not harassing them.

Replies: @Colin Wright

This is one of those stories - all too common these days - in which everyone is a villain and no one is likable, let alone virtuous and good.

Thanks, I always love a happy ending.

Comaroff and his wife are marxist critical theorists who argue that crime is a social construct...
 

...created by the racist capitalist hegemony.
 

Even worse, notice in that clip that gas was just $1.69

Sobering cellphone clip. Could be Brian's theory in action.

The murder rate is high because safe people are staying home out of caution. Safe people are more cautious. Murder usually happens because unsafe people encounter each other in public. With fewer safe people out, we multiply the chances of unsafe people running into each other.
 

The weekend after Memorial Day was like something out of a post-apocalyptic movie.

Targeting Target:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96DA41XgOI

Black Saturday shopping at Best Buy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gau8teUWjCc

Even CNN had to admit that the s**t was hitting the fan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yve9DhT8Nt4

Replies: @HammerJack

So saying the Jews run Hollywood is "anti-Semitic", but refusing to say Jew ran Hollywood is too?

A Catch-כ"ב!

Of course your standard issue lower felony (C, D, E), such as assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated vehicular manslaughter (such as if the perpetrator is drunk), or drug distribution, is no big deal (these are eligible for up to 15 years prison under the law), but there is an exception for domestic violence and sex crimes in those categories. Who, whom?

Rightist DAs/AGs need to take their cue and adopt their own prosecutorial discretion. I would propose starting with a decree to not punish tax evasion, child support non-payment, and weapons proliferation.

Actually, I believe we need alternatives to incarceration. Caning is humane and probably more effective. Death penalty for the more hard core crimes.

Letting them go Scott free is wrong but Warehousing people for decades really doesn’t make much sense.

I saw the newly elected Soros puppet black District Attorney’s speech telling the ADAs not to prosecute.Thanks for posting the links.

Let the Hispanics and blacks fight it out. Let the Russian E European Israeli etc mafias flourish. Let the Asians continue to vote democrat and declare solidarity with the rest of the POC. And be brutalized by the blacks.

The only thing that happened of political import on 22 November 1963 was that a strange but inconsequential man put a bullet in the head of the president. There weren't any major discontinuties of policy in 1948.

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reaction to Trump’s election and his entire presidency was one long Color Revolution.

Exactly. Literally. Textbook.

Excellent movie, but I'm a post-punk partisan, so I would say that. The only thing that might have improved it is subtitles on the screen every time any of the Happy Mondays -- especially Shawn Ryder -- spoke. A Mancunian accent is one thing: Shawn Ryder's diction is even worse than that of the late, great Mark E. Smith.

Time to pull out my JD, Magazine, PiL, GoF and Fall albums. Thanks for the reminder.

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Yes, unlike the Smiths, Oasis were set up with every headwind by a major label to be the next big thing and break America, but they didn’t make it because of the internicine interfamilial feuding between the Gallagher brothers and various substance abuse problems. It’s a pretty Irish story. The Smiths only ever played around 30 dates in the US, playing fairly minor venues. So Oasis are a better example of Irish-British rock.

Replies: @SunBakedSuburb

Never forget Oscar Wilde. The Irish have been playing at the English dandy game for quite some time.

Add up grandparents and the Beatles are substantially more Irish than U2. Adam Clayton’s parents are English and the Edge’s are Welsh. Irish people even with southern English accents (and remember Liverpool is just a ferry ride away) still consider themselves Irish—the London Irish, for example. Similarly most Catholic bishops of England and Wales are of Irish heritage no matter what kind of accent they have.

Replies: @Jon Halpenny, @Hypnotoad666

“ In the end of course, they were more English than the English could ever hope to be”

Not sure I understand this. To me they were always Liverpoolians (Liverpudlians?) which I’ve always imagined to be to the British what New Mexico is to the US, a largely foreign outpost inside the territorial borders. When I think of characteristically British bands I usually think of one of those borderline to full on fairy pop outfits from the ‘70s and ‘80s; Duran Duran, Wham, Queen, Elton John, etc.

Like I told you, what I said... steal your face right off your head.

 

Like I told you, what I said .. steal your face right off your head.

Replies: @Reg Cæsar

I am glad we now agree as to the 2020 homicide data.
 

As for other social conditions, I encourage you to visit urban America in the current year.
 

Homicide is the last honest data point.
 

1970 - 7.9

1980 - 10.2

1990 - 9.4

Today - 6.6

My position is that the United States underwent a revolution in 2020 and social conditions in the United States are declining not improving.
 

The US. went through this before in the late nineteen-sixties and early nineteen-seventies. Racial riots in the cities. White flight. Homicide rates skyrocketed from 4.9 in 1964 to 9.8 in 1974. We lost a war. Global communism appeared to be winning.

And yet, as I said before, there is a lot of ruin in our nation. We didn't in fact decline. We rebounded. We won the Cold War. The nineteen-nineties was one of the best decades in American history. Low crime. Prosperity. Peace. Budget surpluses at the end of it. High productivity through half of it. Welfare reformed and largely ended.

By the end of the decade, we thought one of the most important political questions we had to answer was whether an intern's blowjob on the president was legally considered "sex".

Is she for real?

Replies: @duncsbaby, @OFWHAP

Argentina has declined, US has exploded and will be even higher in 2021. The TREND is that the United States will be more like South America.
 

This is not even worthy of debate.
 

Christian Taubman looks like one of the Agents from the Matrix. Scary.

Replies: @Polistra

I'm not sure where you are getting your information, but that is not true.

Intentional homicide rate by country:

Brazil - 27.3 per 100,000 (2018)

Argentina - 5.3 (2018)

United States - 5.0 (2018)

America's latest homicide stats in this era of BLM have gone up to 6.6. Is this higher than Argentina's murder rate now? Probably. But it is not 70% higher. And it is still just a quarter of Brazil's.

By why focus on murder statistics? Even when the U.S. was in its heyday, its murder rate compared unfavorably to other developed countries.

Why not compare per capita income?

United States - $68,309

Argentina - $22,141

Brazil - $15,643

Why not compare COVID death rates?

Brazil - 2,948 per million

Argentina - 2,627

United States - 2,520

Why not compare inflation rates (which have been in the news lately in the U.S. but are a perennial concern in Argentina)?

Argentina - 48.4%

Brazil - 10.7%

United States - 6.8% (latest monthly figure)

There are many points of comparison between the largest South American countries and the United States. America looks better for almost all of them - and often a lot better.

If you think America will soon takes it place "between Argentina and Brazil," then you have no idea about any of those three countries.

I can agree that the U.S. might already be in decline, but there's a lot more ruin in the nation before we get to the level of South America.

Replies: @clifford brown

Nah. Just a standard issue Covfefe

Pro-Zionist support went back deep in British political leadership long before 1945. This often led to tensions in the 1920s with local military commanders who tended to be more sympathetic to the Palestinian and Syrian Arabs. They recently fought the Ottomans together in WWI, after all.

The British didn't have an intentional plan laid out for the Holy Land, contrary to stereotypes in the Arab world: hell, the Zionists themselves struggled to attract more than a minority of Jews* until The Obvious happened in the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. But it's undeniable that one of the keys to eventual Jewish success in Palestine was having a much greater degree of familiarity and sway in the upper echelons of British society, financial or political, as well as a superior media presence.

(To look at what early immigrants to Israel were like, look up a guy named Joseph Trumpeldor, who served the Russians-the Russians under the Tsars, of all regimes!-bravely until embracing Zionism. This sheds light on how this led to a disconnect with Zionist leaders who never actually visited Palestine, who often came from a different mentality entirely in the UK or the German speaking world.)

But if the LAUSD is only 9% non-Hispanic White but Grant High School has four times that number (whatever their ethnic group), then what percent of non-Hispanic whites in the LAUSD are on free lunch. Usually by high school, it is the student and not the parents who is either pushing or not pushing for free lunch.

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Śliwa
 

...is kind of clownish and more of a gadfly than a politician.
 

Thanks for the additional Sliwa videos. Yes, he’s amazing.

As for Adams, he knows what he’s about, and he’s plenty ideological.

“Is the black supremacist Murder Cult, the nation of islam, Poised to Seize Power in New York City?”
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2021/06/is-black-supremacist-murder-cult-nation.html

Thanks for posting the video. This is extraordinary, moving stuff. Sliwa completely turned around a dangerous situation. Unfortunately, I never saw that side of Sliwa during the campaign (of course, the msm largely silenced him); his many appearances on NY1 "news" over the years were typically clownish; and he failed to do things that would have helped him, like emphasizing Eric Adams' longtime connection (and probable membership in) the black supremacist murder cult, the nation of islam; or call for respecting New Yorkers' right to self-defense.

https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2021/11/breaking-news-alert-new-york-city-is.html

Replies: @Clifford Brown

Soros is a radical leftist revolutionary driven by power-to-the-people ideals?

You know what is unfortunate, is that the more laws and prisons we have the further from Mayberry we move as a country, and it shows. Moving from Mayberry is exactly what the left wants. They don't want free and down to earth countries full of small communities full of families that know and care for each other. They claim it stifles the individual, but you can still be an individual and know your neighbors, while Andy watches out for the bad folks from the cities. They'll have everyone clamoring for more street lights and cameras to spy us. Most of that equipment won't be in their neighborhood but ours. The endless harassment at their hands will not end. Their bullying will just intensify and they'll justify it even if they have to lie. No matter how bad it gets for a while, lets not ask for more harassment? There still is fake news ya know to be used against us. Don't forget how many on their side.

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Wow, thank you for the correction as to NY’s discovery laws.

Replies: @AKAHorace

Some time around 1989 I was arrested on the upper west side and charged with a misdemeanor. Very shortly thereafter, I got a document outlining what the sole witness against me was prepared to testify in court. His name and address were printed over a patch of squiggly lines intended to make it illegible on my copy, but I could easily read it by holding the paper at an angle to bright light. I still remember his name, as he was a well-known administrator at Columbia university. To the best of my knowledge, he was never murdered.

But I wonder if such an obvious breach in security ever got anyone killed.

Along with no-cash bail, this policy has helped set NYC's crime rate back to levels not seen since the early 1990s. And these policies are supported by most progressive politicians.

Replies: @Clifford Brown

The Dems have run both houses of the New York state legislature for several years now, and they have gone Full Progressive.
Illegal to discriminate against a hairstyle? Check.
All municipal and utility employee must now address trannies with their chosen names and pronouns? Check.
Allow 16-year-olds to register as voters? Check.
Quick discovery in criminal cases? Check.
Reduce necessity of cash bail for release pending trial? Check.

They have not yet imitated California in a de facto legalization of shoplifting, nor have they imitated New York City in allowing non-citizens to vote (the city council vote on this will be held Dec. 9, I expect it to pass), but give them time, give them time.
I never thought I would miss Cuomo II, but he was not a complete fool, and he understood that if the Legislature got too crazily Woke, people and businesses would simply pack up and leave, taking their productivity and their taxability with them.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know if there was a mass exodus of Soviet scientists akin to “Project Paperclip” with the fall of the Soviet Union?

Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Jack D, @Jan Sobieski, @Philip Owen

Thanks for this -- not like anything I've seen before. Both innocent and outré.

The MSM narrative definitely changed. Initially, the rapist was referred to as someone who identified as "nonbinary" in most articles.

...not by a transgendered student, but a male student wearing a skirt.
 

Replies: @Alden

This shirt "magnified the complaints".

Unjustly.

They are all sorry, okay?

Meanwhile, in another place, oppo research moves from the Heady Heights of Hillary downmarket:

Scottsdale School Board Member Publicized Parents’ Social Security Numbers, Divorce Proceedings, Financial Records In Effort To Track Outspoken Parents

Parents have since dubbed the Google Drive an “online dossier.” The folders housed within the dossier are labeled “SUSD Wackos,” “Press Conference Psychos,” and “Anti Mask Lunatics,” among others. Included under “Press Conference Psychos” was a video that shows parents calmly holding signs that read “CRT is Racist” and “SUSD We Demand Transparency.”

The dossier takes specific aim at the concerned parent group “Community Advocacy Network” (CAN). Administrators and founders of CAN’s active Facebook page have folders dedicated to screenshots of their Facebook comments, pictures of them with their husbands, and in some cases financial records.
 

golfclap ;;;;;;;

Here's a "shower thought:" Why are woksters "splitters" when it comes to subdividing every kink in the ever expanding LGBTQQIP2SAA+ universe. https://oie.duke.edu/knowledge-base/glossary/lgbtqqip2saa

And yet they insist on lumping all trannies into two generically binary categories of "trans-woman" or "trans-man." For example, surely it's worth carving out (pun intended) different words to describe: (a) A man who becomes "female" by having his genitals reconstructed, taking hormones, and seeking to have sex with men; vs. (b) A man who becomes "female" by wearing a skirt while having coerced sex with females using "her" penis.

As Confucius say: “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”

It is always great to get the extremely important pedophile perspective, and especially impressive that you took time off from your middle school lurking to post here.

Biden/ Harris is what happens when The Traditional Media and Silicon Valley collude to quash all descent
 

Don’t forget how utterly, I mean, utterly insane the Democratic primaries were.
 

Try entering the West Bank or Gaza. Who controls access to this territory? Try entering Gaza from the sea. Report back.

Try taking your hand off the goalpost. Since the West Bank is landlocked, other states will 'control access'. Since Hamas hasn't any naval capacity or prospect of acquiring any, other states will be able to inspect shipping at will. Your actual complaint is not that they haven't 'ceded territory'. It's that they're not dead.

You might check out the map in UN Resolution 181. that map remains the only internationally recognized boundries between the Jewish and Arab states. Everything subsequent is legally a ceasefire line.

Tel Aviv has tried for 70 years to create facts-on-the-ground, but failed. I for one wouldn’t buy any property on the wrong side of the UNR 181 borders.

Thanks.

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"So were Project Veritas’ attorney client privileged materials leaked by the Feds to the media?"

It's worse than just that:

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1458971918988562435

Replies: @Hypnotoad666

Same questioning of the right to counsel occurred today in the Rittenhouse Trial from the district attorney sporting the Star Wars Resistance lapel pin. This is beyond disgusting.

 

in a sane society he'd be committed to a mental asylum.

The prosecutor needs to be disbarred and imprisoned (at a minimum). But this is Weimerica so he won't be

Israelis will never give up their land to a Palestinian state. I know this and you know this.

They ceded the populated zones of the West Bank to the PA during the period running from 1993 to 2000, ceded all of Gaza unilaterally in 2004, and put offers on the table in 2000 and 2008 to cede the rest of the West Bank and portions of greater Jerusalem, offers the PA rejected.

Replies: @Clifford Brown

I respect you enough that I know you do not believe that there will ever be a Palestinian state.
 

If what you say is true (it isn't really - see Art's responses) then it's all the more evidence that the Israeli's have arranged to have it BOTH ways. OTOH, there is never going to be a one state solution where the Hamas controlled Gazans vote in the Knesset. OTOH, they are not going to allow Hamas full sovereignty to attack Israel either. This makes perfect sense.

Could the white people of America arranged a way to have it both ways? Once upon a time they did, at least in the South. They were credited with 3/5 of the population of blacks even though they were not allowed to vote and then after the Civil War it got even better when they were credited with the electoral weight of 100% of black voters but again the blacks weren't actually allowed to vote. So every white vote in say Mississippi had twice the weight of a Yankee's vote.

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