There are still a lot of unpleasant jobs that white people don’t want to do. Sure there are plenty of takers for nice, no show type civil service jobs but do you think that there are millions of white people in DC who are clamoring to become bus drivers and garbage men and are being blocked by DEI initiatives?
 

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One critic said Springsteen is the future of Rock and Roll. This was a bazaar statement to make at the time. At the time Springsteen was more like a 50's rock act. He would not be out of place touring with Bill Haley and the Comets. He has never done psychedelic, or jazz, or punk, or grunge, or composed an opera. Pat Boone has done more with heavy metal than Springsteen.
The only change is that he went solo and tried to be a new woody Guthrie.
Springsteen is about the past not the future.

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but missed the fun the folkie music people had back when Van Ronk was the mayor of Greenwich Village.
 

The Real Van Ronk
Brian Tokar
February 7, 2014
[...]
But before I’d read even halfway through Dave Van Ronk’s exceptional memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street, I found myself completely rethinking my enthusiasm for the film.
[...]
First and foremost, what Van Ronk’s book thoroughly exudes and the film completely misses is the cooperative, community-centered spirit of the time. I’m sure the early folk scene had its share of schleps and even borderline sociopaths, but for the most part, Van Ronk shows us how the rediscovery of folk music was a joyful, collective endeavor.
 

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See what I mean?

I paid to see this guy and even I can't remember his name!

RIP, Dave Whatever

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Adding together all the new materials available it is far from clear during what period Mangione had back pain, what type of back pain it was, and whether the surgery provided any relief,

For example back pain could be muscular, it could be related to pressure on the spinal nerve, or it could be related to other nerves.

About 13 years ago I had a bout of really severe sciatica on the right side. It was so bad that I could not walk to the bathroom without pushing a dining chair in front of me. I would have fallen down.

And yet I had a bicycle which I was able to ride without any serious discomfort. In fact I remember riding to a clinic to get an injection for my sciatica, and then having almighty difficulty crawling up the steps of the clinic once I had parked by bike at the kerb.

At the time I genuinely thought I would never walk again without two walking sticks, a walker, or a wheelchair. And yet a week or so later, I was fine again.

If Mangione had surgery of some kind, perhaps spinal fusion, he must have had some follow-up care, and we don't know anything about that.

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She could get on top or you could get a blowjob.

LOL you have never had a serious back injury then.

Even a blowjob will cause pain. Your body tightens when you orgasm.

What you are trying to do most of the time is not move so your back can heal. You're not thinking about sex. You are wondering if you will have permanent damage.

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Maybe Eddie, Kevvie, Keithie, and Ronnie called him that while naked in the shower. Lindsey and Ralph and Bob never did on the air:





https://i.pinimg.com/originals/86/fd/d1/86fdd1e4db2069e5d177cab945e9455b.jpg


Nor did Topps nor the press.


I watched or listened to hundreds of Mets games in those years. Bob Murphy's centennary was a couple of weeks ago. Only slightly older than Truman Capote and Jimmy Carter. Gogi "The Wayward Wind" Grant was born the very next day.

I'm reading a book by William Rehnquist at the moment. Just learned that he and pianist Roger Williams were born on the same day as Carter.

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"Rooting for the all-time greatest team reveals a pronounced lack of character"

Uh, bullshit.

It has been said, that winning can teach you many things. In actuality, losing, perpetually losing year after year after year, only teaches you one thing--how to lose.

"how easy and lazy is that?"

Anyone can be David, it's much harder to root for Goliath.

Real character can also be a conditioning experience. Think about the mindset that goes into winning, and that once a team has won a championship, and several more, and then several more, that they must constantly and continually repeat every. single. YEAR.

From 1920-64, over a 45 yr span, NYY won 29 AL Pennants and 20 WS. They finished 7th in '25, and in 4th place in '45. Aside from those two seasons, they never finished lower than 3rd place...in 45 YEARS. On average, if a MLBer played for the Yankees for at least 3 seasons, there was a guarantee that he would play in at least 1 WS. Anyone thinks that that is easy?

It's much EASIER to finish last or near last yr after year. Losing like that takes no character, it is the epitome of laziness, the lack of desire to improve one's standings, which, is what MLB's format is called---standings.

The main reason why Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle are so widely praised is not just because they were great players; they also were winners.

"Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing"--V. Lombardi

"Winning is contagious, unfortunately, so is losing"--V. Lombardi

Prior to finally winning in 2016, the Cubs won 2 WS in 1907 and 1908, and they went through a 108 yr span of losing. They went 71 yrs between WS appearances.

What did they learn in 108 yrs? How to lose, and sometimes the ways were creative, and sometimes they were blown out by the entire league. But in their case, losing didn't teach them....how to become better and win.

"It is just a game, after all"

Sports are a metaphor for life. Lessons for life can be learned thru sports.

"why not cheer for the losers?"

So says the losing mentality. Why not go for the winners? They learned how to get it done.

And life is short enough with few guarantees. Therefore it makes more sense to watch the winners, observe what they do correctly, and attempt to emulate them in one's own personal lives.

It is much harder to be Goliath--total dominance, year after year. That was the goal that was ingrained in NY for generations.

Arrogance? Absolutely. But if the results back up the arrogance than it is understandable.

Can't honestly think of a single team in MLB that has an equivalent history like the Yankees. Perhaps to a lesser extent the Cardinals, or even the Dodgers. But the Dodgers don't give the attitude that they really care about winning. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Certainly not every year, every decade and every generation, like the Yankees.

The Yankees didn't get to be a global brand because they had the greatest 20th century player who changed the game forever (Babe Ruth).

They're a global brand...because they win, and win more than any team ever in history. AND they continue to set that bar as the team standard--either you win the WS, or you have failed for the season.

No other team in MLB does that. None have that standard.

It is much harder to repeat and maintain dominance than to lose. If anything, character is stronger and built through more adversities by...overcoming the challenges, and winning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv9XNFpRdhg

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Maybe Eddie, Kevvie, Keithie, and Ronnie called him that while naked in the shower. Lindsey and Ralph and Bob never did on the air:





https://i.pinimg.com/originals/86/fd/d1/86fdd1e4db2069e5d177cab945e9455b.jpg


Nor did Topps nor the press.


I watched or listened to hundreds of Mets games in those years. Bob Murphy's centennary was a couple of weeks ago. Only slightly older than Truman Capote and Jimmy Carter. Gogi "The Wayward Wind" Grant was born the very next day.

I'm reading a book by William Rehnquist at the moment. Just learned that he and pianist Roger Williams were born on the same day as Carter.

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https://www.newsday.com/opinion/editorials/buddy-harrelson-new-york-mets-miracle-mets-long-island-ducks-ijy7ye2r#

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Rose barreled into Buddy Harrelson
 

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Hoban Korean looks in better shape in that photo than in this shot from Google Maps.


The "2947" tells us that this is Hennepin at Lake St (which = 30th). Right across Lake is the shopping center known as Calhoun Square. The city renamed (or retronamed) the eponymous lake Bde Maka Ska*, but John C has managed to survive commercially, likely for his greater pronounceability. Fireeaters can get your vintage clothing, primitive jewelry, pad Thai, and curious coffee there.



*Not to be confused with Ski-U-Mah, from "The Minnesota Rouser".

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I've always preferred "Coalition of the fringes."

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Amazing:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/us/trump-rally-gunman-thomas-crooks-invs/index.html

A colleague who worked with Crooks at the nursing home and who asked not to be named described him in an interview as “the sweetest guy.” Just this week, the colleague said, the two of them worked together to find an easier way for nursing home residents to open ranch dressing packets, an act the colleague said was indicative of how caring Crooks was.

“These stupid ranch packets in the kitchen — no one can ever open them,” said the colleague, who also went to high school with Crooks. “Earlier this week he was helping me with a bunch of sick old ladies (to) put ranch on their salads.”
 

Or maybe it’s just another of those overlapping lattices of coincidence (Steve knows that movie reference).
 

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Demolition Ranch shoots ranch dressing:

Demolition Ranch Dressing.....I Hate You All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqeuPfGu9bQ
May 14, 2021

The Trump Shooter was Wearing My Shirt...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAnvLjavON0
Jul 15, 2024

https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/DemolitionRanch

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So from now on, when you correct some commenter here with facts, he can just dismiss you as an austist?
 

J.Ross started with his own gaffe by not knowing about the popular ‘guntuber’ channel Demolition Ranch, speculating (without evidence) about it being an antifa concern of some sort: Of course I had to have some fun, with a pun on ranch dressing and making absurd references to “Angie’s List” and “J.D. Powers” as being hosts for leftist message boards. Only spergs and East Asians (but I repeat myself) would step in to “correct” such ‘errors’, LOL.

By the way, when I later asked Gandy if he went on a “wild goose chase”, I didn’t mean literally—it’s an idiom in the English language…

Gandy: Why would I chase a wild goose, and what does chasing a wild goose have to do with you being wrong about Angie’s List being a leftist message board??

Twinkie: JIE, why are you unmanly changing the subject and accusing people of chasing geese? Why would he chase a goose?
 

No more “owning” the internet for you, I guess.
 

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Met a young couple from Slovenia on the elevator. The husband asked me, in perfect English, what I thought about the attempt on Trump.

I told him things have been so bad and suspicious for the past several years that Americans have lost trust.

He expressed understanding.

Then, as we were exiting the elevator in the lobby, he took the time and care to stop, think, and wish us luck in our election.

We will return on Monday to a country that looks tragic and ridiculous to the rest of the world.

I am embarrassed to be an American...

...But not enough to spoil my fun with my wonderful wife in the very beautiful city that is the heart of her civilization.

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For some puzzling reason, people’s visceral reaction against her exceeds their visceral reaction against Biden
 

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only non-white character (in Fargo) is Native American Shep Proudfoot
 

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I'm not sure which husband is "first" and which is "second" since she seems to have "divorced" and "remarried" one or both of them at various times, which her PR flacks have doctored up with a carefully crafted timeline and strategic use of the "faith-based" modifier to the term "marriage".

All her kids seem to come from the same "husband", but is it the gay one or the incest one? Just so we know which kind of adverse genetic load her kids are carrying around.



BTW, since it's the weekend, can we get an "Ilhan Omar: would or wouldn't" sub-thread going?

I'll go first: probably would. Despite her age she is slender and feminine, and I enjoy the sound foreign of languages.

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Nobody is going to sell you much actual insurance coverage over age 60. That's why we have Medicare, because insurers won't underwrite medical casualty risk for people over age 65.

Also given iSteve's core demographic, there's a good chance that snot-nosed brat is over age 40.

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This has always struck me as survivorship bias. How is LE at age 71 calculated? How fat are the tails? How many in the 84-yo survivors' cohort versus the entire peer group at age 71? For that matter, how many at age 71 versus the entire peer group at birth? Again, you're calculating averages from a shrinking pool of survivors.

This was the kind of statistic that got waved around in 2020 when we were told not getting jabbed and not wearing drywall hangers' masks meant we were killing everybody's meemaws.

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'It was way too late by then. That’s why so many survivors thought Israel was necessary.'
 

No large Jewish population with an authentic choice has ever emigrated to Palestine. Look it up: five million American Jews, how many have moved to Israel? Canadian Jews? British Jews? Australian Jews?

Aside from everything else, Israel was simply unneeded. It didn't have to happen.

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Were there any Palestinians among the 9/11 hijackers?
 

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71 isn't young. it isn't middle-aged (what boomers have been calling themselves since the 90s).

you guys are truly ridiculous people.

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The problem, of course, is that under woke ideology there is no such thing as a Good White. To the woke, all whites are irredeemably evil.
 

Commenter Twinkie disputes* the assertion that the rapid increase among liberal whites in support for preferential job treatment for blacks at the expense of whites is necessarily indicative of ethnomasochism. White elites tend to be liberal. They compete with Asians and with high-achieving whites from working and middle class (and relatively conservative) backgrounds. They don’t compete with blacks or Hispanics, so they aren’t hurt by pro-black affirmative action like Asians and white plebs are.

My initial reaction was to point out the obvious–even though many white elites are liberal, most white liberals are not elites. But as Twinkie insinuates, it is middle and upper class white liberals who are extraordinarily supportive of black preferential treatment. Liberal whites of more modest means don’t much care for it. The following graph shows support by class and by political orientation among non-Hispanic whites during The Great Awokening
 

Seen from this perspective, this strategy (if we could call it that) results in white elites (yes, a disproportionately large fraction of whom are Jews, if Ron Unz were to be believed) 1) establishing their ideological bona fide all the while 2) replacing their elite segment competitors with blacks and Hispanics rather than Asians.

That’s a win-win for the practitioners of this strategy. Meanwhile the people who get the rough end of the stick are non-elite whites and less-than superstar Asians.
 

While most white liberals are not elites, there is obviously a lot of truth to this.

Hell, if there weren’t, we’d see large numbers of these white liberals who want preferential treatment for blacks at the expense of whites giving up their own positions and urging their institutions to replace themselves with black applicants. We do not see this, of course.
 

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If Americans really cared about 9/11, they wouldn’t allow the US government to engage in military actions in Syria and Yemen which directly benefit Al-Qaeda.
 

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In 1968, Bob Gibson was never taken out of a game except for a pinch hitter.
 

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Thanks.

In 1968, Bob Gibson was never taken out of a game except for a pinch hitter. In 1969, it looks like much the same.

One of the weird things was how many innings pitchers threw in the early 1970s, especially in the American League, even though the rules had been moved in the hitters favor in 1969: Mickey Lolich threw 376 innings in 1971, with 308 strikeouts.

If you go back to the 1950s, basically only Robin Roberts threw 300 innings per year (granted seasons were 154 instead of 162 games then). Warren Spahn threw 300 innings in 1949 and 1951, but then didn't hit 300 again despite being dominant through 1963.

If you go back far enough, ace pitchers were used in critical relief: e.g., when Lefty Grove went 59-9 in 1930-31, he made 62 starts and 29 relief appearances. He never pitched 300 innings in a season. After WWII, philosophy changed toward using your ace starter only as a starter, at least until the last week of the season. Then when the Yankees lost the famous 1960 World Series and Casey Stengel was blamed for only starting Whitey Ford twice, the philosophy shifted again toward a super methodical system of starters going every 4 days (every 5 days beginning in the 1970s), instead of trying to work matchups. E.g., in the 1950s the lefty Spahn was seldom used against the mighty righthanded bats of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

If you go back far enough, pitchers were held out or moved up in the rotation to make for big showdowns to excite the fans: e.g., Walter Johnson vs. Smokey Joe Wood in 1912

https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/september-6-1912-smoky-joe-wood-outduels-walter-johnson-in-epic-clash-of-smokeball-kids/

Johnson had set the record with 16 straight wins and now Wood was closing in on breaking Johnson's record, so the managements arranged to have the two stars face each other on 9/6/1912. Wood won 1-0 on his way to a 34-5 record, while Johnson went 33-12.

And Curt Schilling keeps showing up as a definite Hall of Fame pitcher -- here he pitches deeper into the game than the Big 4 of Martinez, Maddux, Clemens, or Randy Johnson.

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When only John the Baptist is available, you embrace John the Baptist.

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You shouldn't let that stop you. Nearly everybody who quotes Herr Moustache hasn't read him, and fewer understood him.

Having just suffered Hechtus Interruptus yesterday when an American Karen in Egypt decided to call the police on me for reading Ben Hecht's PERFIDY into my YouTube video I'll take this opportunity to share a few pages from his 1943 book, "Guide for the Bedeviled" where he briefly wheels Nietzsche into the proceedings of his case against Germany's Nazis with a tale that is apt to Ahmari's own attempt to sound smart by feigning an understanding of Friedrich Nietzsche and those who read him in truth rather than to feign intelligence by flopping his name about.

Here, first, is my truncated Israeli Independence Day message from Egypt:

https://youtu.be/nfUXhmXVpXc

Captioned and volume-maxxed:

https://youtube.com/shorts/p5FVk4QNOn4?feature=share

And here is my hero, the one and only Mr. Ben Hecht.



KEGS OF DYNAMITE IN A WINDOW

I was once in the town of Carlinville, Illinois, on a Sunday afternoon in June.

The coal miners of Carlinville were on strike. My editor, on hearing this news, had been certain that the State Militia or the regular Army would be called in to end the strike by shooting down a few score of the malcontents. This solution had been tried in the towns of Herrin, Illinois, and Ludlow, Montana, and turned out very well.

In both these mining towns it had been demonstrated that unarmed miners, however angry, hungry, and full of complaints, were no match for infantry. That was a happy time in which rich people allowed policemen and rifle squads to straighten out all their economic problems.

I forget now the number of workers who were killed in Ludlow and Herrin. It was large enough, however, to fill my editor with the goriest of expectations. My instructions were to keep on my toes.



On this Sunday afternoon, I walked the Main Street of Carlinville with a weather eye out for violence. A no more idiotic pastime could be imagined, for there was no hint, smell, quiver, or promise of violence within a thousand miles. There was not even a prospect of rain. The striking miners were all in their Union Hall listening to the oratory of their leaders. I had sat there dutifully for an hour and gone away feeling sorry for the miners. The hall was jammed and hot, the oratory was without charm, and the cause of the strikers looked a little shaky.

A prairie sun lay on Main Street like a washerwoman's iron. The town sizzled under it. Prairie towns in Illinois looked always the same in those days-blank as the sky above them and full of a dust that made you dream of the South Seas and other places of escape. There were no movie theaters, no radio; the hotel lobby was an ill-kept oven; there were no ice cream parlors, and the saloons were all closed.

There was nothing to do but walk down the empty street and sneer at my editor who, like all editors, was full of stark idiocy. Violence, forsooth! There was not even a dog barking, a drunk snoring in the gutter, or a cloud in the sky. I was a sentry in a wasteland.

I stopped to look into a window. The window contained chiefly wall paper samples, cans of paint, a few farm tools and alarm clocks, and a large pile of bottles guaranteed to cure constipation. I was moving on to other diversions when I spied in the window corner a row of six books, standing like a little troop that had lost its captain. I grew happy with the thought of buying them all and devoting the rest of my stay in Carlinville to the improvement of my mind.

A second look revealed that the six books were all of one title. They were six copies of "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche. Nothing could have astonished me more. The only book on sale in this dust-bitten prairie town was a great, wild, half-intelligible work of philosophy! As an avid admirer of Nietzsche, I was thrilled by this evidence of his unexpected popularity. But as a reporter, I was full of cynicism and curiosity. I entered the store, open because of its commerce in constipation cures. I ex- pected to find some eccentric old scholar who was slyly peddling intellectual anarchy to his townsmen. A mid- western chromo rose from behind the counter-the bleary, toothless storekeeper who is as inevitable a part of a prairie town as its Civil War monument and its Sunday doldrums.

"I'd like a copy of that book in the window."

The weary merchant-druggist looked at me a little furtively.

"Thus Spake Zarathustra."

He nodded, cocked a suspicious eye and shuffled off. He returned with all six books.

"How many of 'em you want?" he muttered.

"They're all alike, aren't they?"

He nodded, reluctantly.

"One will do."

He sighed and handed me a volume.

"Are they selling pretty well?"

He shook his head.

"Have you got any other books?"

Again a shake of the head.

"Only this one," he said.

"How did you happen to lay in a stock of 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'?יי

"I saw it advertised," he said, "and I fell for it."

"I take it you were misled."

He nodded.

"Yep, I was misled. I thought the thing was a sequel to that Tarzan book. The names are practicly the same. That Tarzan book went like hot cakes. Sold twenty of 'em last year. Only book I handled. When I saw this advertisement, I thought it was Tarzan who was talkin' and not somebody nobody ever heard of. So I ordered eighteen of 'em."

"Where are the other twelve?"

"Sold 'em. When I found out I'd been stung I kept my mouth shut. I just put the damn things in the window and let people figure it anyway they wanted. Twelve of 'em fell for it, same as me."

"Have you read the book?"

"You can't read it. It don't make sense."

"Did any of the customers return their copies?"

The merchant's eye lit up.

"Not a one. I figure they were too ashamed to come back with 'em."

"Ashamed of what?"

"Ashamed of being took in. Or maybe of admittin' they were too dumb to understand a book that was written plain in black and white."

"Do you remember the names of any of the people who bought the book?"

He weighed this for a while and then came to a conclusion.

"I ain't tellin'," he said.

I spent the next hours at the writing desk in the hotel lobby composing a feature story for my paper-Nietzsche in Carlinville! My editor handed it back to me unused when I returned to the office two days later.

"The next time you put anything like this on the wire marked rush," he said, "you will be called in and handed over to a lunacy commission."


THE GOLEM AND THE ROSE

I tell this anecdote because I have always liked it and because this time it will not be thrust back at me with insults, and because I have always seen a symbol in it-not only of Nietzsche's relation to Germany, but of all high literary men's relation to the world. They are there by mistake and they inspire chiefly embarrassment or confusion.

Germany was Nietzsche's Carlinville during most of his life. The man went mad sitting like an impostor in its store window. And I think it likely he would go out of his mind all over again were he to peer from his grave and see all the Nazis playing ride-a-cock-horse with him. For he was never a cool head nor one given to laughing at jokes. The only joke he knew was Germans and he did not laugh at them. He stood in their midst and cursed brilliantly, lyrically, and until the day he dropped dead.

He found a certain cheer in this for he fancied that some day the Germans would read him, blush with shame, and mend their ways. It is the weakness of all philosophers that they dream of making the world more honest. They succeed usually in providing the Devil with more Scripture to quote.

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I never heard about the Witte incident before this. And interesting that in 1972, black guys had names like Corkey, Ron and Jim.

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Because as a classic Right-winger son of a bitch, Sailer is incapable of empathy, so he is dumbfounded that there are compassionate people that actually care about a Neo-Nazi state torturing civilians for purely ethnocentric reasons. But then, this is the Right-wing mosnter that called ethnocentrism a "healthy instinct". To him, it has to be anything else other than genuine care and concern for the oppressed.

In fact, the only thing that Sailer resents about this whole situation is not that Israel practices a vicious in-group, out-group morality when it comes to the Palestineans. As a classic Right-wing conservative, Sailer is all for in-group, out-group morality. What Sailer resents is that Jews don't include him and his fellow conservative Americans in their in-group. That is the only thing that he doesn't like.

This is why Sailer ignores the plight of Palestinenas and sucks up to Jews. Because he knows Jews are powerful, and he wants them on his side. Sailer, being the classic Right-wing piece of ST, always wants to be on the side of power. If progressive are the ultimate anti-establishmentarians, Right-wingers like Sailer are always pro-establishmen, even when the establishment is against him.

This is why Sailer grifts as a Centrist/moderate, when in reality he is to the Right of 90% of Republican voters. It's because he knows that the establishment is liberal, and he still wants their approval even though he hates everything that they stand for. Right-wing conservatives always want to side with the strong, with the powerful, even when the powerful are their enemies.

"Brain-dead liberal attitudes towards whites."

You know what is brain-dead? Your book. I first ignored your little book becaause I assumed that a book with a title as sophomoric and infantile as "Noticing Things" would not be taken seriously. This is the kind of itle that a 5 year-old would come up with. Reading through the book, it's the same race-bating garbage and homophobia as usual, masquerading as "science". The "scientific racists" of the past did it better than you, Sailer. At least phrenology was entertaining, and at least Güenther had an interesting re-imagining of history, you know, with his blond pharaohs and all.

Steve Sailer: Right-wing bigot grifting as some sort of moderate, a race-bating, homophobic, xenophobic, ulta-nationalist son of a bitch. .

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“ But gypsies produce nothing”

Pretty sure they dance for the money they throw, preach a little Gospel, and sell bottles of Dr. Good.

Additionally they are traditionally musicians, repairers of pots and pans, and horsemen.

We don’t need such labor anymore however. Pots aren’t worth repairing, traveling shows are for adult nostalgia not kids, horses are luxury hobbies, and we don’t need further music production beyond AI and hobbyists. All that’s left of their traditional “work” is crime.

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In a high school lobby in New Jersey, the principal saw a student heading toward a stairway and moved to cut her off. There was physical contact between them, though no blows.

The interaction lasted less than a minute.

The student filed an affirmative action complaint against the principal, saying that he had grabbed her and “slammed” her against a wall. The student is Black; the principal is white and Latino.

The principal, reporting the episode later that day, said he was preventing an altercation between the student and three others, who said she had threatened them…

On March 11, almost exactly a year after the encounter, the principal, Frank Sanchez, was taken into custody and charged with assault and endangering a minor...
 

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Thanks. I liked "A herd of independent minds." Another example.

https://twitter.com/jayvanbavel/status/1679133329231060997

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Keillor's sneer at middle America "above average" was easy to spot. He helped turn Minneapolis into the charming city it has become while earning a wonderful way 'above average' income doing so.

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NPR had Car Talk, Prairie Home (despite a liberal bent some core values) or, in NYC at least, Danny Stiles’ Music Museum. I bet even Oscar Brand’s folk music show had conservative listeners, even though he was a 1930s era communist.

Those hosts all died off or got me-tooed in Keillor’s case.

These days there’s a nightly show mostly about Gaza suffering. Y’all should like that.

I think David Mamet listens just to be outraged.

The thing I noticed immediately was they used to have Jack Spear, the news announcer, lead with “President Obama announced today…” in a deep serious voice. Once Trump was President it was always a higher pitched “In a move to yada yada, the Trump White House announced…”. From reverential to “Would you believe…?” Or “Get a load of this.” Biden it’s kind of in between.

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Steve, have you ever commented on how it feels to be so old that you’ll soon be dead? Like mortality thoughts. You are super ancient. Just wondering.
 

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If you look at the people who have assassinated US presidents or tried to, most of them were mentally unbalanced in some way, however their actions also reflected the thinking of extremist groups at the time. It didn’t come out of a vacuum.
 

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Everybody knows Babe Ruth was gay.

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“I always wondered why Fredric March’s character in The Best Years of Our Lives lived in an apartment with his wife (Myrna Loy) and two kids.”
 

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That’s another question: why is Al a sergeant?

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Keep in mind that for the most part, then as now, but especially then, most Hollywood screenwriters lived in apartments, and several (but not all) were Jewish, from NY, so the apartment experience was a real thing for them. Also, for the longest time, Hollywood didn't have a major understanding for suburban living, much less how to show it on screen and apply it to the US as a whole.

Probably among the first TV shows to show a more modern suburbia living was Leave it to Beaver.

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“I always wondered why Fredric March’s character in The Best Years of Our Lives lived in an apartment with his wife (Myrna Loy) and two kids.”
 

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I always wondered why Fredric March’s character in The Best Years of Our Lives lived in an apartment with his wife (Myrna Loy) and two kids.

My great grandfather lived at The Breakers every winter after his wife died.

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You have an exceptional life. Don’t you have 4 kids you raised in an MN apartment?

Outside of NY area I have never heard of 2+ white kids growing up in an apartment.

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Larry Demery, one of the two convicted, is relatively light skinned, swarthy, b
 

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One of them was a Lumbee “Indian”. He may have some black blood
 

The Lowrie gang, as it became known, resorted to crime and conducting personal feuds, committing robberies and murders against white Robeson County residents and skirmishing with the Confederate Home Guard
 

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Hence, Mr. Pacino is taking a page from black celebrities of his era (as is Mr. De Niro). Below is a list of black men who were famous at any point in the 1950-2000 period, and the number of children they had. They know what is important. Note the instances of numbers in excess of 20.

Elijah Muhammad : 23
Jabir Herbert Muhammad : 14
Warith Deen Mohammed : 8
‘Screamin’ Jay Hawkins : 33+ (perhaps over 60)
Ray Charles : 12 (!!!)
Sammy Davis Jr. : 4
Harry Bellafonte : 4
James Meredith : 4
Richard Pryor : 7
James Brown : 13
BB King : 15
Richard Roundtree : 5
Sidney Poitier : 6
Flash Tavares Sr. : 10
Fats Domino : 8
Miles Davis : 4
Roscoe Orman : 4
Otis Redding : 4
Chuck Berry : 4
Flip Wilson : 5
Busta Rhymes : 6
Sam Cooke : 6 (would have had more)
Louis Farrakhan : 9
Khalid Abdul Muhammad : 5
Benjamin Chavis : 8
Malcolm X : 6 (would have had more)
Frank Lucas : 7
MLK : 4 (would have had more)
Ralph Abernathy : 5
Jesse Jackson : 6
Conrad Tillard : 5
Roy Innis : 10
Gordon Parks : 4
Kweisi Mfume : 5
Andrew Young : 4
Willie Brown : 4
Joe Louis : 6
Bobo Brazil : 6
Muhammad Ali : 9
George Foreman : 10
Mike Tyson : 8
Evander Holyfield : 11
Floyd Mayweather Sr. : 5
Floyd Mayweather Jr. : 5
Kimbo Slice : 6
Bad News Brown : 9
Rocky Johnson : 8
Joe Jackson : 11
Jackie Jackson : 4
Jermaine Jackson : 7
Stevie Wonder : 9 (!!!)
Berry Gordy : 8
Eddie Anderson : 4
Quincy Jones : 7
James Ingram : 6
Barry White : 9
Ron Banks : 6
Isaac Hayes : 14
Bob Marley : 9 (not an American, technically, but still).
Ashton Barrett : 41 (not an American, technically, but still).
Philip Bailey : 7
Ramsey Lewis : 7
Curtis Mayfield : 10
Jackie Wilson : 9
Al Green : 6
Mario Van Peebles : 5
Lou Rawls : 4
Bill Cosby : 5
Ahmad Rashad : 5
Montel Williams : 4
Demond Wilson : 6
Ben Vereen : 5
Robert Guillaume : 5
Lawrence Fishburne : 4
Larry Holmes : 5
Ernie Hudson : 4
Fred Williamson : 6
Thalmus Rasulala : 7
Morgan Freeman : 4
Yaphet Kotto : 6
Eddie Murphy : 10
Phillip Michael Thomas : 11
Denzel Washington : 4
Cuba Gooding Sr : 4
Wesley Snipes : 5
Doug Williams : 8
OJ Simpson : 5
Travis Henry : 11
Calvin Murphy : 14
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar : 5
Meadowlark Lemon : 10
Michael Jordan : 5
Scottie Pippen : 5
Karl Malone : 7
Shaquille O’Neal : 5
Jason Caffey : 10
Willie Anderson : 9
Dwight Howard : 5
Royce White : 5
Shawn Kemp : 7
Emmitt Smith : 4
William ‘Fridge’ Perry : 4
Chad Johnson : 4
Willis McGahee : 9
Deion Sanders : 5
MC Hammer : 5
Bobby Brown : 7
Suge Knight : 5
P Diddy : 7
Master P : 7
LL Cool J : 4
Snoop Dogg : 4
Pharrell Williams : 4
MC Ren : 5
Dr. Dre : 6
Warren G : 4
Coolio : 6
Eazy-E : 11
Kurupt : 6
Kokane : 8
DMX : 17
Ginuwine : 7
Flavor Flav : 7
T.I. : 6
Run DMC : 6
Swizz Beatz : 5
Rick Ross : 4
Lil Wayne : 4
Ol’ Dirty Bastard : 13 (would have had more)
Ghostface Killah : 4
John Singleton : 7
Ice Cube : 4
Steve Harvey : 4
Eddie Griffin : 9
Tracy Morgan : 4
Kanye West : 4

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Actually of course Steve couldn't be more wrong here (cue Paul Weller:
"THIS IS THE MODERN WORLD!")

It's the precise opposite. The world as it stands is so f#cked up because it's run by math nerds who succeed in the hamster wheel exactly because they follow The Narrative and do it correctly and with statistical precision, and not by the smart-ass kids who were getting kicked out of CBGB and Al's Bar when they were drunk 14-year-olds, the kids who learned the hard way how everything really happens and who took the trouble to read Catullus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96UtZPLiT90

What's actually needed is the army of My Guys: the people who were literate at math but instead chose Philosophy and Art, the people who understood that humans are HUMANS, who know that technology might be run by grasping Asian immigrants, but Your Society is -- or at least should be
-- run by people who know why Fred Schneider is funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6IxaI1_iYE

Imagine being Tina Weymouth in 1980, having brunch with Patti down on Duane Street. You're the hottest, coolest, best female rock chick on Planet Earth. Isn't that the civilization you'd want to live in? And not this incomprehensible multicultural turd-fest?

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Churchill if I recall had British troops stationed on Irish, Indian, Kenyan, Canadian, Australian and various islanders' soil. Hitler's troops never once fired on Irish citizens, unlike some people I could name.

Churchill gave speeches to Parliament declaring that Hitler, a guy whose territorial claims ran all the way from small parts of Czechoslovakia to a few long-disputed fragments of the Polish Danzig Corridor, was a world-conquering menace to the planet; when he was not busy meeting with his military-installed ministers in Nairobi, Bombay, Belfast, Cape Town, Melbourne, Ottawa, and Sri Lanka. You tell me who is the world-conquering madman.

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Sayville, Long Island. The high school is 88% w, 1% b, 8% h and 3% a. The h component is going up although the elementary school actually has a lowwer h %. And the football team was 10-1 this year and 12-0 last year (state champs in their division). Not that football is that important in and of itself, but it does reflect a bit of geneder normalcy. It's a pretty good school district.

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If this plan flops, plan B is to teach health at a high school that is 99% white,
 

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Another approach is to grind out gentlemen’s C’s in a technical field, and then go into technical sales.
 

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Yes, polyamory would be terrible for children.

There is another huge drawback. In a normal household of man, woman, couple of kids, you can never find a damned thing. Somebody didn't put the can opener back, you find it a few days later under the sink. Or one of the grownups decides to reorganize the kitchen cupboards again. You find your razor in the toilet tank and your shaving cream in the backyard. Your best sweater is missing for some reason. Your socket set is no longer with your tools, but somehow ended up with the pots and pans.

All that would be exponentially worse in a polyamorous household.

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Zuckerberg will be 40 years old in May.

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At both the hockey and lacrosse games at UMASS this weekend they played “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, the so-called black (or Black!) national anthem in addition to the regular national anthem.

Sheesh.

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Greed is a strong force .

I would say that envy is an even stronger force.
 

Also to single out the Jews of Weimar as the sole source of greed would be wrong.
 

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JackD isn’t hard to figure out. In his mind Jewish hostility to outgroups and their projects, like border or heritage protection, expressed in either words or action, is always defensive and never offensive. By this mode of thinking Jews are never on the offense only the defense therefore they can never cause harm meriting restraint or correction by the broader society. It is a rule he applies everywhere and at all times. Paradoxically, as a matter of practice their actions demonstrate adherence to the rule that if you aren’t on the move somewhere causing trouble for somebody you’re losing. The open borders enterprise has no good moral purpose other than to make billionaires even richer yet they’ve put themselves at the very center of this movement going so far as to suggest it has some socially redemptive value. When porno restrictions were lowered in great measure due to Jewish ‘free speech’ legal advocacy on behalf of entrepreneurial clients , many Jewish, a sewer of smut acceptable for adults but not children nevertheless became more easily available to minors utterly changing the nature of childhood in this country.

Had Jewish pornographers not found boundary breaking Jewish lawyers and Jewish judges or judges elected with Jewish money the porno business wouldn’t be what it is today. The gentiles couldn’t and didn’t tie all the organizational strings together that brought this into existence.

Ask Jack about this topic or one like it and you’ll get an endless stream of displacement oriented responses. ‘Leftists’ paid for the porno industry failing to identify the ethnic makeup of that industry. “Leftist” lawyers organized the legal strategy, failing to identify the ethnic distribution of the lawyers. And on and on and on.

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Someone in Wisconsin learns to pass on the right on smaller roads
 

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“Oops, your theory is wrong.”

That’s a pop album.

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What's the story here? Do Sluizer and his American producers believe the American movie audience is so witless it will not accept uncompromising fidelity to a story idea? Are Europeans deserving of smart, cynical filmmaking, but Americans have to be approached on a more elementary level? I don't know. I simply know that George Sluizer has directed two films named "The Vanishing," and one is a masterpiece and the other is laughable, stupid and crude.
 

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But the film was on its way to the box office long before Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine and imposed a level of repression on Russia unseen since Soviet times.
 

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But then Pynchon was a brilliant novelist and I was not, so it appears he has won in the end.

 

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Flushing is the better bet for great Chinese in my experience. And fewer tourists.

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A fierce and well known left-liberal Nazi-hunter journalist gets into self created troubles at her paper Die Süddeutsche and - decides to kill herself. She works in Munich and drives her car to Hitler's birthown where passers by find her last weekend shivering but alive, .i.n. the waters of the 6° celsius cold Inn river - right across Braunau.
- You can't make this stuff up. - Impossible. - Well maybe Frank Zappa could have thought of such a story, or - Kurt Vonnegut? William T. Vollmann? I dunno.

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