It's surprising how wide spread this belief is on the naive right, that liberal jews are somehow "anti-israel". Liberal jews are less anti-israel than Pat Buchanan and Ann Coulter are anti-American. If liberal white gentile Americans were as anti-American as these liberal jews are anti-israel we'd have a white ethnostate with armed borders already.

According to Norman Podhoretz, 78% of Jewish persons have voted Democratic in presidential elections since 1928.
 

In the mid-to-later 1960s, my neighborhood had a commercial giant fiberglass slide maybe 30 feet tall that you slid down on gunny sacks. It was right next to the miniature golf course and bowling alley. The bowling alley is still there.

Way off bro.

Fine, let's use a blonde for comparison. Charlize Theron is beautiful, Ms Le-Pen is cute.

America's public schools used to be good. In the late 1960s, though, they began deteriorating and are now pretty hopeless.

Are you saying Hillary hired hookers to pee on Obama's bed?

BTW, any news in what bed Trump sleeps in at the White House?

Scandal-mongers really missed that one. Probably all the personal furniture is turned over between any two prez, but they could have spun that into "Trump, following up on defiling Obama's bed in Russia, refuses to sleep in Obama's bed in WH."

More likely: Russia's intelligence agencies consulted a psychological profile of Hillary that indicated she would latch on to an opportunity to humiliate Trump by exposing a deviant sex act, as vicarious revenge for the humiliation she endured as a result of exposure of her husband's deviant behavior, and worked it into their disinformation accordingly.

Some of my best friends are Jewish

LOL

Some of my best friends would make good Nazis.

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Our state's homeless problem has gotten objectively worse over the last two decades. No use denying it.

But I'd be willing to accept that CA homelessness was just as bad during the Depression.

His feelings for Israel can be best described as somewhat unnatural, even on right-wing shock jock standards. Even Ted Cruz doesn't display a latent homoerotic tone over it.

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Aren't we all? So what. Blow has a good last name. I like it...Bl....me!

"One’s time would be better spent mowing the lawn, or reading a Zane Grey novel."

I vaguely recall that my dad may have mowed Zane Grey's lawn in the early 1930s. He lived next door to Zane Grey's brother when he was a teenager and mowed the brother's lawn for money. I think he may have mowed the cowboy novelist's lawn too at some point.

Probably Mexican or Central American. This is a funny bit of the North side. It is very densely populated with rental apartments. A few blocks to the east is the Ravenswood Manor neighborhood filled with million dollar homes. Fun fact - Blagovich's house is three blocks away. This is some various Hispanic gang territory and they chase black folks out.

I live a mile or two away. Always avoid large apartment buildings when purchasing. The street parking stinks and section 8 is always a threat.

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The typical attitude of the average boomer conservative, and younger pseudo-boomers, is reverence for the military and "muh Constitution". I've never witnessed a boomer become teary-eyed over Alexander Hamilton's vision of the federal government. The edgier boomer might say something about "states rights" and might even say it was the cause of the Civil War. Boomers are frequently unaware of how tone-deaf they sound to blacks.

Even the cuckolded (closeted?) Rick Perry has jokingly made secessionist remarks.

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I was surprised that a bigger exodus of Boomers didn't happen after the NFL protests, I would credit Villenueva of the Pittsburgh team for mitigating some of the damage. The image of a military veteran player "defying" the protest in favor of "patriotism" touched the emotional nerves of many boomers.

The conservative response to the kneeling was laughably bad, as Kapernick & co. were called "unpatriotic" and "disrespecting the flag". Very few people called Kapernick an "Islamist" "Castro-loving commie" or "Anti-White".

The worst examples of Boomerism came from those saying the "players had no idea what they were protesting". Also cringe-worthy was those saying "the players should protest off-the-field".

The even more egregious anti-white comments from NBA stars LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Spurs coach Greg Popovich never attracted the scrutiny and boycotts they deserved.

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Indeed, Breitbart must be read with caution. Their rabid pro Zionist, anti Iran views are legion.

Too bad, they do publish some good take downs of the left.

www.codoh.com

I would say yes, but we know how sensitive and deluded you Americans are. You expect and demand flattery.

In your imagination only. The reality is that a great many of us are sick of being presented with the bill for other people's failures and dysfuctions and we're sick of being told (by our own chatterati and their counterparts abroad) that we're just so vulgar and unsophisticated compared to...the Canadians, or the Germans or the Swedes. Blow it out your ass.

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Although, roads in South Korea and Germany may be better than in the US, at least they're comparable. The road systems in the US and Russia are not even comparable! :-(

99% of the roads in Russia are filled with holes, rocks and are notorious for detroying a cars shock absorbers. This doesn't even address the paucity of roads in Russia to begin with.

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Perhaps an engineering expert out there can tell us if Joachim von Ohain made any unacknowledged contributions to aviation in the U.S.A. He seems to have disappeared after inventing the jet engine at about the same time as Whittle.
 

He was brought to the US via Operation Paperclip and became a distinguished scientist and administrator in the Air Force Research Lab. His contributions were all "acknowledged" except where security restrictions did not permit.

To the OP: I doubt Ukrainian aerospace engineers are any better than American ones. They would probably do about as well under the current management and funding system as Americans, which is to say, not very well. Norm Augustine must be surprised at how long his laws have held up.

Perhaps an engineering expert out there can tell us if Joachim von Ohain made any unacknowledged contributions to aviation in the U.S.A. He seems to have disappeared after inventing the jet engine at about the same time as Whittle.

You don't have to be an engineering expert to use Wikipedia:

Hans von Ohain

Hans von Ohain

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Post-WWII[edit]

In 1947, Ohain was brought to the United States by Operation Paperclip and went to work for the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. In 1956 he was made the Director of the Air Force Aeronautical Research Laboratory and by 1975 he was the Chief Scientist of the Aero Propulsion Laboratory there.

During his work at Wright-Patterson, Ohain continued his own personal work on various topics. In the early 1960s he did a fair amount of work on the design of gas core reactor rockets which would retain the nuclear fuel while allowing the working mass to be used as exhaust. The engineering needed for this role was also used for a variety of other "down to earth" purposes, including centrifuges and pumps. Ohain would later use the basic mass-flow techniques of these designs to create a fascinating jet engine with no moving parts,[10] in which the airflow through the engine created a stable vortex that acted as the compressor and turbine.

This interest in mass-flow led Ohain to research magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) for power generation,[11] noting that the hot gases from a coal-fired plant could be used to extract power from their speed when exiting the combustion chamber, remaining hot enough to then power a conventional steam turbine. Thus an MHD generator could extract further power from the coal, and lead to greater efficiencies. Unfortunately this design has proven difficult to build due to a lack of proper materials, namely high-temperature non-magnetic materials that are also able to withstand the chemically active exhaust. Ohain also investigated other power related concepts.[12]

He also invented[13] the idea of the "jet wing", in which air from the compressor of a jet engine is bled off to large "augmented" vents in the wings to provide lift for VTOL aircraft. A small amount of high-pressure air is blown into a venturi, which in turn sucks a much larger volume of air along with it, thus leading to "thrust augmentation". The concept was used in the Rockwell XFV-12 experimental aircraft, although the market interest in VTOL aircraft was short-lived. He participated in several other patents.[14]

Ohain was the influence in shifting the mind of Paul Bevilaqua, one of his students at WP-AFB, from math to engineering,[15] which later enabled Bevilaqua to invent the Rolls-Royce LiftSystem for the JSF F35B STOVL: "in school I learned how to move the pieces, and Hans taught me how to play chess".[16] Ohain also showed Bevilaqua "what those TS-diagrams actually mean".[17]

During his career, Ohain won many engineering and management awards, including (among others) the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Goddard Astronautics Award, the United States Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Award, Systems Command Award for Exceptional Civilian Service, the Eugene M. Zuckert Management Award, the Air Force Special Achievement Award, and just before he retired, the Citation of Honor. In 1984–85, Ohain served as the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, a competitive senior fellowship at the National Air and Space Museum.[18] In 1991 Ohain and Whittle were jointly awarded the Charles Stark Draper Prize for their work on turbojet engines. Ohain was elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE).[citation needed]

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Note: I think there may be other claimants to to the origins of MHD and of "jet wings," a.k.a. jet flaps.

As for "A small amount of high-pressure air is blown into a venturi, which in turn sucks a much larger volume of air along with it, thus leading to "thrust augmentation" -- that is not the gist of jet flapping.

"Easterners, Midwesterners, and Southerners like to portray themselves as morally and/or intellectually superior to Westerners, for mysterious reasons."

That's almost never the case in the modern era. In fact, it's projection. How could anyone really think the people of Iowa sit around all day stewing about how much better they are than everyone else? Usually, these places end up on the defensive end of an insult.

https://youtu.be/mctuhbNeuzA

As far as I can remember, Law and Order did an okay job portraying the grittier side of NYC black and Hispanic gangs and criminals. What probably gave some people the impression of the show being PC or the likes is that it tended to focus on white collar criminals, oftentimes with storylines that were motivated by events in the real world.

So you'd end up with episodes where some uh white lady doctor perpetuating fraud at her clinic hired a hit man to kill someone else who started digging into her business. But throughout the course of such an episode, you'd encounter various shady figures, many of whom tended to be black or Hispanic. So for the most part I didn't get a sense that the show was trying to portray NYC in a particularly unrealistic manner.

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"They even did an episode on how evil Korean shopkeepers trap blacks in cages and shoot them, and one on how the Catholic Church wields decisive political power"

They've also done a couple of episodes where the ADA blames guntoting Southern States for NYC gun violence - something about guns being easier to acquire there, but no introspection regarding the people in NYC actually doing the shooting. It's all West Virginia's fault, apparently.

If I remember, they once did a hilariously racist - if that's even possible - episode where a stereotypical white Southern guy with the typical accent murders a black girl; the concluding scene has a black female detective rush in to confront the Southern racist, but not just him. She relays loudly to the audience that this is indicative of the entire "new South." In other words, they were saying white Southerners were irredeemable deplorables back before Hillary coined the term.

For Law&Order, everyone's to blame but themselves. The left lacks introspection.

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The northern parts could be populous and prosperous if the various gov'ts would let it happen. That's why the state of Jefferson is anathema to the angry hippie left. All sorts of gorgeous areas up there completely sealed off from development that could be productive.

Portland is one of the less stable cities. One long-time friend recently relocated there and is looking to leave. His stories corroborate what others have said about the level of convergence and dysfunction, with inmates running the asylum. Too bad as it was once a livable place. Now there are high prices, meth out east, anarchists in various quarters itching to trash the place and that dampness that rusts the spirit.

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Can't agree with much of what you say, but I am glad to see the disappearance of "recovered memory".
While it was being respected as credible evidence, it shook the legal world.

And what’s wrong with keeping African Americans out?

Just 5 percent causes a lot of problems.
10 percent blacks tips the school into violence and anarchy. It’s like putting 10 hungry wolves into a pen with 90 new born lambs

It’s just one more proof that journalists just make up anything and it’s published

The truth is that the school boards all over the country have dumped French and other languages for Spanish, Spanish, Spanish.

The problem is that the primitive Indian kids may have Spanish names but their parents don’t speak more than one hundred or so words of Spanish.

In California the Southern and Central Valley schools all teach Spanish.

The Bay Area and Santa Clara County aka Silicon Valley all teach Mandarin as the favored foreign language.

It’s incredibly naive to teach non Chinese mandarin in the hope they will not be shoved aside when the Chinese take over the area.

No matter how well they speak Mandarin, Chinese will always discriminate against non Chinese.

The only reason to learn Spanish is to get a$30,000 a year job in the welfare department.

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I'm sure there are several young black women in America who want to take French classes. They come from places like Senegal, Gabon and Haiti and are looking for an "easy A" or at least an "easy C".

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A couple of years ago, I went to New Orleans for the first time. Rather naively, I was expecting to meet at least one person who spoke French. The closest I got was a restaurant owned and operated by some Cajuns who were the real deal but all they spoke was Redneck.

The other thing that stuck me what that so many of the younger people working in the hospitality industry there were from all over the Mississippi basin. I usually thing of Inter-US migration going from East to West, but here is was all North to South. There were lots of college educated well spoken (English) people who were recent arrivals and did not really know the town or a lick'n of French.

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