RSSNo amount of Kremlin stoogery will ever be able to conceal the war crimes emanating from Putler and his Kremlin lackeys and slaves.
Congressman Kinzinger? Is that you, sir?
1991 ?
I’m still waiting for my Peace Dividend.
numerous dead men in civilian clothes, some with their hands bound, were found lying by the side of the road as the Ukrainians recently recaptured the place.
No, that’s not true.
The bodies did not appear as they recaptured the place. They appeared 4 days after they recaptured the place. They appeared 1-2 days after Azov entered the place.
Mar 30:
Ru troops leave Bucha
Mar 31:
Mayor of Bucha announces town 'liberated', makes no mention of atrocities.https://t.co/WLAfjJOfZt
Apr 1/2:
Azov Nazis enter Buchahttps://t.co/WkSTMUJy4O
Apr 3:
Ukr MinDef publishes video of 'Russian' atrocitieshttps://t.co/HDUUYI7zex pic.twitter.com/PQUgD9izpz— Moon of Alabama (@MoonofA) April 3, 2022
The MoA blogger seems pretty reliable on these sorts of things.
The bodies did not appear as they recaptured the place. They appeared 4 days after they recaptured the place. They appeared 1-2 days after Azov entered the place.
Steve, how often have you posted about anti-Orthodox atrocities in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, let alone in Syria?
I refuse to cry Pavlovian tears for Baby A and then tell Baby B to go to hell.
Why should he, when they only exist in Russian propaganda?
Steve, how often have you posted about anti-Orthodox atrocities in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions
We discussed this altercation at a meeting I had at work.
I was taken aback my how important people seemed to think it was.
This one 20something landwhale thought Will Smith had somehow destroyed his career.
As if that would even freakin’ matter, LOL. He’s some buffoon who appears in movies for kids & dummies.
Although BRIGHT was alright.
How can you really be sure?Replies: @Servant of Gla'aki
I took my girlfriend to see this at the cinema, last autumn.
We both enjoyed it a lot, albeit her a bit more so.
How can you really be sure?
LOL, I’m never sure of anything.
But I don’t let myself be paralyzed by uncertainty.
Hear, hear!
But I don’t let myself be paralyzed by uncertainty.
I took my girlfriend to see this at the cinema, last autumn.
We both enjoyed it a lot, albeit her a bit more so.
We’re also both unironically excited about Scott’s upcoming Napoleon film, with Joaquin Phoenix.
How can you really be sure?Replies: @Servant of Gla'aki
I took my girlfriend to see this at the cinema, last autumn.
We both enjoyed it a lot, albeit her a bit more so.
It’s not like Niccolo’s wrong….
You could go to Mass in Gernan there when I was young.
There are still towns in central South Dakota where you can attend church services in German.
Freeman, SD, north of Yankton, is apparently such a place.
Home of Schmeckfest!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmeckfest
Hoo-boy.
I’m not really sure what to say.
Other than than I hope Russia prevails.
That kindergarten poster, strikes me as a legitimate, unironic casus belli.
I’m always skeptical of extreme outlier smart lawyers…What character flaws convince these people to do this?
Speaking as someone born in the year 1970, I was subjected to tons of cinematic & TV propaganda during the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, all to the effect that being a lawyer was, like, the greatest job imaginable. Or maybe #2, after journalist, LOL.
All this propaganda doubtless impacted the choices some people made, especially among women.
I wish I had something more insightful to suggest, but definitely keep your kid away from Disney (pre-1980 Disney flicks are probably OK), and don’t let him watch stuff like Nickelodeon, or any of those other “kids” network programming.
All that stuff is catamite propaganda. And propaganda works.
“The belief that Justin is the bastard son of Fidel is based on the fact that Justin looks nothing like Pierre…”
The one hole in your theory?
Justin and his father look almost identical, as the main photo at Pierre Trudeau’s Wikipedia article makes eminently clear.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau
On a related note, I saw an unusual, billboard in Bismarck yesterday.
It read as follows:
THE PERSON READING THIS SHOULD NOT BE DRIVING WHILE HIGH
This sort of thing is why real cops sometimes just execute loose dogs on sight when serving a warrant or whatever.
Perhaps, but that still sounds like a bullshit pretext to me.
On a related note, I was headed east on I-94 yesterday, about midway between Bismarck and Fargo, and I spotted a U-Haul truck towing a compact car. So I said to my girlfriend that this guy just had to be a refugee from one of the three coastal states. I got up too close behind him, in order to confirm that yes, he was from Oregon.
Oddly, this film came back to my local cinemas, and so I was able to catch it.
And yes, HOUSE OF GUCCI is a very good movie.
Pacino, Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, and especially Jared Leto as an Ignatius Reilly-type character, are all excellent. My girlfriend and I both really got a kick out of it. I can’t recall laughing so much at a drama in some time.
Audie Cornish does have a good voice for radio.
I used to wonder if she might be Black. Apparently so.
Whatever, breaux.
Back in the 1980s, the Men of Unz were not into New Wave ‘n’ crap like that.
We would’ve beat you up if we caught you listening to The Cure.
Seriously, when I think of 80s music, I think of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Flotsam & Jetsam…bands that actually rocked…as opposed to dressing up in “gender-queer” costumes, and making generic “pop” music. That’s the stuff girls listened to, for crying out loud.
And, and since I’m going on record here, David Bowie sucks too.
As do the rest of the Marc Bolan* imitators.
*Marc Bolan himself was awesome, however.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulqwrN3XI1k
According to Marc Bolan, he and Rod Stewart were sitting on a park bench in New York when a girl roller-skated by holding a frog. Hence the song's only real line, "Did you ever see a woman coming out of New York City with a frog in her hand?"
Fail.i) The aerospace cuts hardly affected all of Greater Los Angeles. Only the 10-mile Aerospace corridor (El Segundo, Redondo Beach, Torrance, etc.) south of LAX, and barely 2% of the jobs in the metropolis. Plus, by 1996, Aerospace was hiring a lot again.ii) I regret to inform you that the 1994 Northridge Earthquake would have happened whether Cheney cut aerospace spending by the D0D or not.iii) Did the OJ circus really have any affect on the Los Angeles economy? The people most interested in it were almost certainly not the same people who worked in the Aerospace corridor. Plus, it is not like the murders would not have occurred if there were more Aerospace jobs in Los Angeles in 1994, since none out of the victims or murderer relied on the aerospace sector for their livelihoods. You forgot to mention the far more cataclysmic event for California in 1994. As if by ancient prophecy, a man by the name of Ron Unz ran for Governor of California, on a weird strategy of combining a bunch of far-left (for the time) positions into a platform despite running as a Republican claiming to be more conservative than Wilson. Needless to say, he did not win his party's primary, even though his party won. It was rumored at the time that voters were suspicious of a man with the middle name of 'Keeva'. But I think it was just the platform, and the alleged claim of an IQ of 214 (as per Wikipedia).Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Servant of Gla'aki, @Nathan, @Mike Tre
until Dick Cheney turned off the aerospace budget spigot after the fall of the Soviet Union, which ushered in Los Angeles’s 1990s time of troubles of riot, earthquake, and OJ.
You forgot to mention the far more cataclysmic event for California in 1994. As if by ancient prophecy, a man by the name of Ron Unz ran for Governor of California, on a weird strategy of combining a bunch of far-left (for the time) positions into a platform despite running as a Republican claiming to be more conservative than Wilson. Needless to say, he did not win his party’s primary, even though his party won.
I remember that.
I was actually quite favorably disposed to the Ron Unz candidacy (although I literally had no firm idea who he was, unlike today), and definitely would’ve voted for him…had I been a registered Republican in 1994.
But alas, I was a registered Libertarian that year. So I voted for Richard Rider. Who obtained 100 percent of the vote, since he was the sole candidate for the LP’s gubernatorial nomination.
Rider’s campaign signs, when he was a serious candidate for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, a couple years previous to ’94, had characterized him as “Dick Rider”.
We were college students, and yes, we made the requisite jokes deriving from that.
The two I’ve read, Heller’s CATCH-22, and Wouk’s THE CAINE MUTINY, were both worthwhile.
They’re not. On the surface, the Cultural Revolution was driven by high school students. In reality, they were just cat’s paws.
Same thing here. The idiotic underlying who got an entire book cancelled because one of the essays contained the word “Negro” is a nobody by herself (you can be sure that it’s a she) but she is empowered by a whole army of idiots (you might say a “Confederacy of Dunces”) and that army has hidden generals. Random House is not cowering in fear of Shawniqwa the black studies major/junior proofreader, they are cowering in fear of the army that she belongs to.
Imprison the Gang of Four and the army dissolves and the next time Shawniqwa brings up something stupid like this (if Shawniqwa has any sense she won’t dare to anymore) you laugh in her face and tell her to get back to her proofreading. But you don’t dare do this now while the Gang still rules.
Did Lewis & Clark climb any mountains for the fun of it…?
It would seem not, for if they had, we’d know they had stood on the summit of any such peak.
But as is fairly well-known here in South Dakota, there is only one spot where we can say precisely where they stood during the course of their western expedition. And it is atop a small hill ie. what has come to be known as the Spirit Mound.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_Mound_Historic_Prairie
It’s in Clay County, in the southeastern part of the state (near Vermillion.)
It’s a brief stroll up the trail to the top of the hill, but it’s a cool place to visit in the late spring or early summer months especially.
Why are humans so separated from the natural world. Unlike animals we must buy clothes, get a job, live in artificially created structures, and buy food at a grocery store. This is the key why we are in a political matrix on earth, we are being manipulated because who we are, artificially created beings, designed in a lab, not some creature that evolved.
Getting people to join the resistance is a hard sell. You can persuade people to quit a job or a relationship by arguing that “it isn’t really you.” But imagine telling people that everything about their world, including the people they love, including their very selves, is fake. The real world is a hellscape where they are living corpses, imprisoned in coffins, fed upon by parasites. Which world would you choose?
The reason we choose our world of money and income and not all run to the woods and live as hermits is that living away from society is practically impossible. Even the hermit will probably have a radio and some store bought food even if it’s just beans and rice. How our situation happened and why it happened is why the resistance is a hard sell.
If you are a hominid evolving on some planet, like earth, before alien intervention, then by definition you are fit, and fit means you are fit into the environment like a key into a lock. You are made for one another. Take our cousin the Gorilla, the Gorilla is surrounded by food, it has thick fur and doesn’t need a home, a Gorilla needs no wage and will not dig a ditch with a shovel even though a Gorilla is incredibly strong.
Using this example of the Gorilla illustrates the difference of man, the Gorilla is wild just as God made him (by evolution) and man is artificial, a domesticated creature in need of support, just as the gods made him. That is the difference and that means man did not evolve on earth into his present form. Sure when those from the heavens came here, they did find wild hominids, covered in fur and perfectly adapted to their environment, but they changed us into big brained hairless (and helpless) slaves.
Planet of the Apes (1968) is an allegory for alien intervention, change the Apes to Anunnaki, and you have a perfect fit to the movie, a more advanced civilization captures wild humans and makes them slaves. This movie came out before Zacharia Sitchin’s first book, The 12th Planet, 1976. Sichin weaves a tale that the Anunnaki came down from the heavens in space ships and created man as a personal slave race to mine gold they needed to save their home planet. They did this by removing eggs from wild Homo Erectus and impregnating the egg with Anunnaki sperm then put the fertilized egg into an Anunnaki nurse Ninmah.
The first of us were kept as house pets, to do chores around the Anunnaki mission, but were unable to breed, thus the story of Adam’s rib. Sitchin’s story is much more complicated, but after some surgery man was able to breed by correcting our missing sex chromosomes. After tens of thousands of years of slavery, when these space pirates packed up and left they tried to wipe us all out with the Flood, but chief scientist Enki saved his favorite offspring Noah (Sumerian Ziusudra tale). We are all descendents of those that survived the intentional wiping out of humanity way back – when the gods walked amongst us.
This was all a great tragedy for us, similar to leaving puppy dogs behind a dumpster to fend for themselves. Humans, being domesticated, need their gods just as dogs need their human masters. Since we are not wild we are dependents, on family and society to survive. And that IMO is the real reason we are all currently trapped in a fiat money matrix and forced to slave away for food and rent. The political matrix is real, and it’s cause goes all the way back to illegal alien intervention.
Letting women into universities has been an unmitigated disaster for western civilisation. They’ve already crippled it with their vaginisation of the law schools but now they’re deconstructing the very fabric of reality.
Case in point.
Letting women into universities has been an unmitigated disaster for western civilisation. They’ve already crippled it with their vaginisation of the law schools but now they’re deconstructing the very fabric of reality.
All ideologues assume (or insist) that science rests on moral assumptions. It doesn't. That a value statement can be verified in the same way that an empirical or predictive statement is verified is an attitude that very few people have outgrown. This is why people are constantly subjecting scientific statements to moral interpretations. The irony is their moral interpretations go unexamined and unanalyzed. That fact is Darwin, Wilson, etc. were scientists, not moralists, and they knew it. But she doesn't. So, her statements on the matter have no scientific authority.Unfortunately, however, and as everyone here knows, this isn't about scientific authority. It's about political power. And that, sadly, she does have. The only good news is to be found in the inevitable consequence of giving lots and lots of credentialed mediocrities like her lots and lots of power - Cultural Impoverishment and the Collapse of the Social Institutions that Power Controls! And that means all of them. A process already well underway. Just look around. These people are far from invincible.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Curmudgeon
His predecessors—mathematician Karl Pearson, anthropologist Francis Galton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel and others—also published works and spoke of theories fraught with racist ideas about distributions of health and illness in populations without any attention to the context in which these distributions occur.
The Common Law system is an unmitigated disaster. The law schools make it much worse.
Big corporate urban law firms were created in the 1880s and 1890s, and grew concurrently with trusts like Standard Oil and General Electric. (Gibson Dunn, for instance, was founded in 1890.) Progressive elites created corporatist institutions, like law schools, to staff these new administrative bureaus, and gradually fought a war to eliminate the country lawyer who learned his craft through apprenticeship. Doing so took a long time. Even into the 1960s, there were more committee chairmen in Congress with a one year degree from Cumberland law school (which didn’t require a college education to enter) than Harvard Law.... big law gradually won the fight, until it became impossible to be a lawyer without a college and law school education. And then in the 1980s, the ethical boundaries completely collapsed. “For half a million dollars you could buy any legal opinion you wanted from any law firm in New York,” said one anonymous lawyer in that first decade of neoliberalism.
Welles was fat…but he was a rotund, barrel-shaped bear of a man.
Guillermo is just a pot-bellied nerdling.
Many such cases.
Wasn’t Blair Witch Project considered stylistically influential at the time?
It kicked off the whole “found footage” sub-genre of horror (technically, there had been a few others previously – most notably CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST – but BWP is the reason that something like one-fifth of all horror films in the 21st century, have been part of that same sub-genre.)
So yes, very influential. Even today.
Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets. I have this on good authority.Replies: @Servant of Gla'aki, @JMcG
Christmas is a really pretty time in L.A., with some rain finally washing the dust away
Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets. I have this on good authority.
YES.
Women and mass media look to be the most lethal combination in history -- deadlier to the human race than nukes and plagues and stuff that falls out of the sky.
Think about that, a man who would be the least suitable spouse in the world, a guy who likes to kill women, had women vying to be his significant other.
Good point. You’ll find women glued to their kitchen TV in the morning and anytime they’re in there. The kaffeeklatsch-like, gossipy and catty format of TV “news” shows targeting these boobs is like a drug, and they’re played for fools. Oprah-as-Aunt Jemima comes to mind, the fat black kitchen philosopher, like in the movies. She encapsulates leftist voting memes by dishing up Chinese fortune cookie platitudes written by Jews. White females then vote “Oprah” to prove they don’t really feel superior to obese black women with a fourth-grade education.
I just remember while growing up the in the Bay Area about 40 years ago, he was the most famous local person, period. I didn’t even know why, other than it had something to do with football.
John Madden’s local presence was HUGE at that time.
as for mr del torro —- relations with the creature of the black lagoon has severely tested everything h might be involved in
Guillermo enjoys making movies about inter-species love affairs.
But his greatest love affair, will always be with the chimichanga.
He was presented as one of the most honest and generous characters ever shown while during his elections, which he won through what was probably the biggest electoral fraud of US history ever…
I can think of a bigger, more blatant example of American presidential-level electoral fraud.
It was quite recent.
Can’t be president (born in South Africa) unless he bribes people to change the Constitution lickety-split.
I was going to respond to this poast, but it’s pointless to respond to someone who seriously believes you can pay a bribe to have the Constitution of the United States amended. That’s dumb, breaux.
Sure you can. It won't be a bribe, but many. The Sixteenth is a good example. "Your tariffs will go down, and you'll never have to pay this tax!"Replies: @Paperback Writer
...believes you can pay a bribe to have the Constitution of the United States amended.
lol. And you're a moron.
it’s pointless to respond to someone who seriously believes you can pay a bribe to have the Constitution of the United States amended.
Someone check his bank account, make sure her check cleared for him.
Yeah, there’s that.
Or maybe he just likes different shit from you?
…I’ve yet to see Nicolas Cage’s Color Out of Space, which might pleasantly surprise me.
It’s OK, but don’t get your hopes up very high.
I really wanted to see that, but it left the local cinemas before I had a chance.
I wound up seeing NIGHTMARE ALLEY instead.
It’s OK, but the 1947 Tyrone Power original is superior.
Look out for The Reckoning from 1970 starring another charismatic British actor, Nicol Williamson. He isn’t a gangster but a sociopathic businessman, so same difference.
An IMDB review –
Move over, Michael Caine! Your “Get Carter” might very well be acclaimed around the world and listed as one of the most virulent British cult thrillers ever made, but this obscure and undiscovered (and, at one point, even considered lost) drama/thriller with very reminiscent themes predates your film with nearly two years AND it’s a lot more ambitious in terms of character study and social criticism!
Women should not be allowed to sit on juries, period.
This should be enshrined in the federal constitution, and in the constitutions of each of the several states.
Funny how every single time there is an absolute joke of a jury trial, female jurors are at the heart of it. I have been observing this ever since the McMartin PreSchool farce of a trial. Every single world of that farce was sell-evidently a false and perjured lie, but women just ate up the lie. One can point to every travesty of judgement since, and female jurors are at the heart of it (especially in rape trials, amazing how routinely they will not guilty an obviously guilty Rapist.) Not that much changes- it was overwhelmingly females accusing other females of Witchcraft that lit up the countryside for a couple of centuries.
The simple fact of the matter is that for female jurors, their pwecious wittle feelings, and how they will relate to other women after a verdict, override any possible consideration of the facts. And the whole point of a Jury trial is to determine the facts.
Women should not be allowed to sit on juries, period.
This is absurd. White women are not to blame for black hyperethnocentrism.
Women should not be allowed to sit on juries, period.
A stupid lie.
(especially in rape trials, amazing how routinely they will not guilty an obviously guilty Rapist.)
And yet grown men executed people on the say so of teenage girls!
Not that much changes- it was overwhelmingly females accusing other females of Witchcraft that lit up the countryside for a couple of centuries.
No, it is not. A judge could do that just as well or better. The whole point of a jury trial is to prevent abuses of power, hence the right to "a jury of your peers."
And the whole point of a Jury trial is to determine the facts.
This should be enshrined in the federal constitution, and in the constitutions of each of the several states.
Women should not be allowed to sit on juries, period.
Phillip K. Dick got this one correct.
J. Robinette Biden IS President Talbot Yancy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penultimate_Truth
The populist economics is not a problem for Dems. They could adopt those no problem. The problem is the social issues (and the promotion of Blacks to be the Hereditary Royalty of the Party). They can't let go of either of these things without alienating key elements of the Party but these are the very things that make the Party repulsive to Latinos.Replies: @Altai, @Hypnotoad666
Anytime the Dems want to go back to populist economic policies they’ll get these people back.
The populist economics is not a problem for Dems.
I’m not so sure. How did you think Trump won? He got the typical Republican states but he flipped a few otherwise solid Democrat ones and they were solidly Democrat because they there was nothing for them in the Republican party before Trump. The Democrats are now ideologically incapable of accepting deviation from what are essentially trade, economic and immigration policies that would make Milton Friedman proud. They may have internalised greater social welfare spending, but that is no replacement for the big forces like trade, immigration and industrial policy. It just isn’t. And it’s not reliable, it’s not power, it’s a handout that can be taken away. They sabotaged Bernie Sanders for a reason. They could have tried to counter Trump with their own economic populism but they didn’t.
What has happened is that these SJW social issues have superseded economic policy debate on the left. They have eclipsed it. And people are starting to intuit it. Working class hispanics and upper middle class whites are both making political migrations. And that is changing the nature of the political coalitions that dominated America or at least that realignment is trying to come into being, the establishment Democrats and Republicans will do everything to resist large parts of what that means.
Wokeness has become an incipient form of class warfare. That’s not it’s only facet but it’s a big one.
AOC wants social democratic policies without social democratic industrial policies. And she wants it all with as open borders as possible. And right now she is the face of the supposed progressive wing of the Democrats.
One thing I remember (and appreciate) about Bob Dole, is the fact that among the five then-living ex-GOP Presidential nominees, he was the only one of the group to endorse Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
I know the local custom here is to denounce the film industry in general (and Tarantino in particular), and then sneer at Steve’s lickspittle review.
I’m going to break with tradition, and just say, “Interesting review. I think I’ll take my girlfriend to see this, when it comes out.”
I hope that’s OK!
The transsexual craze has been especially unfortunate for ordinary, but somewhat mannish-looking women. Now, compared to a decade ago, instead of simply not being femininely pleasing to the eye, they draw scrutiny that maybe they are weirdo men.
She doesn’t look human but something made of plastic Even the hair, common ordinary style looks like thin strands of plastic. Not even a wig.
Why Does the “Facebook Whistleblower” Look Scary?
Because she looks like Dirk Manjaw in a seven dollar wig…but actually IS a real woman?
That’s scary enough for me.
People here in the Dakotas love T.R., so it’s a good fit.
Shame about the rest of the country gettin’ debauched, however.
And whence arises the rebelliousness of Andrew Anglin? Whence arose the rebelliousness of Jesus Christ, or the founding fathers? Are they all gay Jews?
This appears to be the rebelliousness of a Jew, the rebelliousness of a homosexual, being channeled into a positive ends.
…for the record I am the gayest and least germaphobic person I know.
I don’t like where this is going.
Because the real long-term goal of the trans op is to normalize the idea of them as partners for otherwise hetero men.
Interesting how by doing something so blatantly predatory, he gets demoted...
…the real long-term goal of the trans op is to normalize the idea of them as partners for otherwise hetero men.
Yes, as distasteful as this notion may be, it’s important to keep in mind that this is the goal.
They want your son (or grandson) to look at a relationship with a transy homo as being normal, healthy, and “straight”.
I knew about China’s Security Council veto power 40 years ago, when I was still in 6th grade.
We’re not sending our best.
“This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated.”
Intellectual debate and endless quibbling and obfuscation by a tiny minority on the other hand ...!
“This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated.”
It’s almost as if murderers don’t actually belong at the front-rank of society.
…the Virginia Tech shooter, who seemed like a tediously conventional—even passé—rampage shooter.
You dare to imply aspersions against the literary value of RICHARD McBEEF?!?
The real injustice is that Florence King is no longer around to share her opinions on this topic. She could (and would) be withering, and in the most civilized fashion imaginable. On second thought, perhaps it's better that she not have to deal with our terminally benighted era.https://fredericksburg.com/news/local/fredericksburg/fredericksburg-author-florence-king-dead-at/article_434a042a-b665-11e5-a02e-0f90b2f4ca34.htmlReplies: @Dan Hayes, @Servant of Gla'aki, @Charles Pewitt, @Wade Hampton
It is the oldest of the Seven Sisters and is in the lesbian heavy Hampshires of Western Massachusetts. But lesbians are out of fashion. Some of them are so evil as to assert that fetishists in frocks are not real women.
Iron Florence is missed, rest assured.
I’m amused by the idea that an ostensibly defective (or perhaps just inefficient) A.I. visual algorithmic software routine (in that it is less successful at detecting Black people, as compared to White people), due to objective coloration disparities, could be described by an adult as “racist”.
Grow the Hell up already, Ted.
Good to hear.
My new girlfriend loves JAMES BOND films, and so I’m probably going to take her to see this on Friday, but I was a little concerned about it.
Then they get raided by Ottomoans wanting to grab white ass. FAIL.Replies: @Servant of Gla'aki
Oh, but they did colonize Iceland. Well, congratulations, boys.
Then they get raided by Ottomans wanting to grab white ass. FAIL.
A single raid on a minor settlement on a little island off the immediate coast of Iceland, constitutes failure for the whole Icelandic colonization project?
Have you experienced a recent head injury?
Why are we assuming the first colonists of the Azores were Vikings? Aren’t the Guanches also a good candidate?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanches
The Guanches seem to have been forgotten in the hustle and bustle of the Age of Exploration. The Spaniards wiped them out within a few years of discovering the Canaries, after a series of savage battles between the conquistadores and Guanche warriors. Guanches do not look like stereotypical POC subjects of white Europeans, but they were the original aboriginal victims of colonization. They apparently descend from Berber tribesmen who took to the sea sometime in the first millennium BC, although their native tongue seems to be a language isolate with no demonstrable relationship with any extent Berber languages. Some of their descendants still live in the Canaries.
I agree that the Vikings’ competence as mariners and farmers; relative success in settling Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland; and excess population, suggests that they would have successfully settled the Azores, if they had known about them.
But the Guanches presumably had much cruder sailing technology and a much smaller potential population to draw settlers from–and therefore a much smaller interest in leaving Tenerife/the Canary Islands. Admittedly, the Azores are hundreds of miles from the Canaries, but maybe they stopped off at Madeira, too, as in this cruise line map?

Perhaps these scientists ought to take a closer look at Madeira. The Guanches also tended to conduct burials and other ritual observances in caves. Maybe caves in the Azores and Madeiras are good places to dig to look for evidence of Guanche inhabitation of the islands.
Steve left this out, but if you follow his link:
Why are we assuming the first colonists of the Azores were Vikings? Aren’t the Guanches also a good candidate?
Replies: @Nimrod
...as Searle and colleagues documented in 2015, Azorean house mice share a substantial amount of DNA with house mouse populations that originated in northern Europe. The mice could have hitched a ride on the Viking ships and encountered an island with plentiful resources and few competitors or predators, says Searle, who was not involved in the latest study. The mice are like “living artifacts,” of a Viking presence, he says.
Kim Foxx is not a serious player in this game. It’s part of something much bigger than her. Ask her if she knows why George Soros gave her all that money, she would probably say something like “he is be support for da communinnies.”
That’s funny because it’s so accurate.
Rigoberta Menchu got her Nobel for writing a memoir entitled, “I, Rigoberta Menchu“.
That sounds made-up, but no, that’s literally what transpired.
In one of my favorite Rockford episodes, “the Rattlers, Class of ‘63” , Angel gets on the wrong side of the Boyajian family, the head of which was played by Avery Schreiber.
Americans “liberate” countries like shoplifters “liberate” things they want—except that the American criminals are orders of magnitude more violent.
I support your overall stance, but the idea of Wang JingWei being a credible chinese leader is such a laughable fantasy it has to be pointed out. True, he was neither in the American or the Soviet camp. That’s because he was in the Japanese camp, he led a collaborationist government, filled with people in the regions that the Japanese had taken over that didn’t want to risk their lives expelling them.
You are the one so wrapped up in a laughable fantasy that you cannot even see beyond this propaganda trick.
A collaborationist government comprised of cheap stooges for the Americans (or before them, the English—or in the era of which we speak, the Americans’ Soviet friends) is a “legitimate government”. The worse its lackeys sell their nation out to the Americans for a pat on the head, the greater the government’s legitimacy.
The true test of your government’s legitimacy: When an American official spits on the ground, how fast do you get down on your hands and knees, and lick it up?
Those who form alliances with powerful enemies of America are “collaborators”—and they are “traitors”, because they did not betray their country to the Americans (or the Americans’ old buddies, the Soviets). Their allies are undoubtedly evil; they want to murder absolutely everyone in the world, so “given the chance [they] will definitely kill you,” as you said. (Who has a fantasy here?)
Those who defend their countries against Americans are “terrorists”. A country with an anti-American government is, by definition, a “rogue state”; it has no legitimate government, until the Americans helpfully bomb its people into “liberation”, and provide them with a legitimate government, i.e., an American puppet state.
In their chutzpah, the Americans even have a term for this: “Régime change”, i.e., forcibly replacing an independent government with collaborationist puppets who dance on American strings.
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Now, since you are so strongly opposed to collaborationist governments and otherwise illegitimate puppets, please advise: When may I expect for you to denounce the illegitimacy of the current so-called “German” government?
Iraqis who dare to be ungrateful for the American “liberation” of their country may understand my point. ®
But what suprised me was how easy it was for Japan to roll over China?
It wasn’t easy, breaux.
I saw this movie about a year ago, and I thought it was really good.
When friends ask me about it, I respond thusly: “It’s a great movie…if you’re interested in the history & politics of northeast Asia during the early-to-mid 20th century.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, no one I know IRL has yet watched it on that basis.
Tell them about the gorgeous sets and costumes, and how strange it all is
When friends ask me about it, I respond thusly: “It’s a great movie…if you’re interested in the history & politics of northeast Asia during the early-to-mid 20th century.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, no one I know IRL has yet watched it on that basis.
Chadtruscan v Virgiroman
that whole “Out of Africa” malarky always strikes me as a tall tale.
It doesn’t have to be Africa per se, however.
The underlying point of the thesis has always been that most species have this funny tendency to originate in one, single place.
The fossil record suggests this as being more-or-less southeastern Africa (but that’s not entirely definitive.)
If you have a different theory, then by all means, expound away. But merely saying “[I’m against the] Out of Africa [theory],” without proposing any alternative, hardly seems sufficient.
Carlson claims to be an environmentalist, but it’s clear that he qualifies only as one of the shallow and instrumentalist types. By contrast, many in the DR have legitimate concerns about climate change and would like see this nation move toward less fossil fuels, while expanding protections for wilderness and undeveloped rural areas. Dare I add that the original dissident right, the National Socialists, placed great value on nature. Once again, Carlson is primarily concerned with the potential hit to his bottom line, and that of his fellow elites.
It’s easy to assert that someone is, you know, bad.
But where’s the evidence for the assertion that Tucker is secretly not-really-an-environmentalist, and is actually just another Scrooge McDuck-style plutocrat who wants to exploit nature?
None is presented, presumably because no evidence for such a bizarre claim could ever be mustered.
This whole essay is just a series of unsupported allegations, which constitute little more than a litany of comical stereotypes that you apparently assume to be true of anyone with whom you experience ideological disagreement. It says more about its author, than it does about Mr. Carlson.
One memory which stands out about the coverage of the initial case, was the way all the photos the media showed us of Heather Heyer, were all taken from before she became an obese chain-smoker who favored Newports. It was reminiscent of the way the media force-fed us all pics of a cherubic, eleven-year-old Trayvon Martin.
I been waiting for San Francisco or D.C. or New York to get theirs.
But so far … nothing. I’m losing faith.
Do not despair, my friend!
Yog-Shothoth watches. And waits.
Not seeing any particular similarity.
I mean, they’re both young, pretty, and blonde.
That’s not really enough.
Ha!
And Mark Cuban is repellent.
North Dakota not South Dakota. I suspect they’re using the Interstate as a direct route from Minneapolis to colonize.
How it actually works is much the reverse of that ie. Lutheran Social Services brings them into North & South Dakota, and they hear about the better welfare benefits in Minnesota, and they go there. Half the Somalis in Minneapolis are previous residents of the Dakotas.
so at 6’4″ or whatever you are steve, you should weight at least 200 lbs at your age. better would be 215.
Is this even controversial?
Is it ordinary for men who are 6’4″, to think they should weigh substantially less than 200 pounds?
Because that seems odd.
“Have you considered how our healthcare system systematically underserves people who are considered to be in those groups?”
It’s kind of ingenious, the way they’ve got 450-pound, diabetic asthmatics thinking that their health problems are caused by discrimination/White Supremacy.
You can understand it’s lack of appeal: Accidents Happen (especially when would be assassins are shooting at you) is a really boring conspiracy theory.
I guess it’s basically understood now that this is what happened to Huey Long ie. Carl Weiss took a swing at him, and as he was being shot to death by Huey’s bodyguards, a stray bullet took out the boss.
The FBI and career-minded detectives hate this system, because it doesn’t allow them to go “deep undercover” and wait for years to get a “kingpin” while they embezzle funds and sit on their butts listening to gangsters talk about video games, strippers, and minor beefs.
After all, you don’t get Donnie Brasco or Casino or Goodfellas or American Gangster made about you if you just arrest the punks early and often and throw the book at them. Who cares about cleaning up the streets and the people the gangsters hurt for a decade, Badge Daddy needs his ten-year “deep investigation” on one case and the chance to write a book!
Are there nice gangs where they still let you join if you are not willing to perpetrate violence?
Isn’t it considered factual that within most infantry platoons, a relative handful of the guys really engage the enemy, and the others mainly hunker down when the shooting starts?
I suspect most gangs tend to possess a similar dynamic.
Eric Adams would be a darker-hued variant of the same pathology. Never trust an ex-cop who runs on being a cop, whom every other cop on the force including the brass distrusts and despises.
Cross yr fingers and vote for Curtis Sliwa if you live here. (Or even if you don’t! Who’d dare ask to see your ID?) He’s the only candidate in decades with the real potential to be another Giuliani. And he’s the only mayoral candidate anywhere who rode the NYC subways, unmasked, all last year, helping to get homeless guy into shelters. So naturally, he’s viewed as a far-right lunatic who Can’t Possibly Win. Let’s fuck those people and vote Sliwa in!
Why unmasked? Sliwa is against vaccine mandates. Adams does indeed seem dubious at best but how much better is pandemic denial?
And he’s [Curtis Sliwa] the only mayoral candidate anywhere who rode the NYC subways, unmasked, all last year, helping to get homeless guy into shelters.
White people have to show ID to vote.
Who’d dare ask to see your ID?
Inner city & suburban students alike, will be subjected to Africanized Spelling Bees.
But, Anglin, do tell us when they come for you at 3:00 am with guns drawn, and lots of screaming in your face. That’s worth some popcorn.
I’m sorry, but what law are you implying Mr. Anglin has violated?
Or do you just fantasize about police state squads abusing anyone with whom you disagree?
(((ANTIFA))) has a twitter account but Donald Trump was banned.
What more do we need to know?
I don’t always agree with you, but it’s hard to argue with your conclusions here.
How many Taliban soldiers, I wonder, are Taliban soldiers precisely because they were forced into bacha bazi as kids? Maybe Taliban soldiers are… less manly than average as a result.
You’ve got it backwards, my Iron Age friend.
JUDAS PRIEST had a song with a title that fits well here…screaming for vengeance is the operative concept here.
I’m shocked to discover Napolitano is part of the Wide Stance Cockus, er, I mean Caucus.
Don’t indulge the idiots.
When someone corrects you about use of their preferred pronouns, just tell them to shut up.
So far, Mays’ DNA has not been a match for DNA found at the scene.
How ’bout testin’ every other sailor & officer on the ship, to see if any of those people match?
You forget, or ignore, that Uncle Vladimir would gladly fulfill all of these Chinese needs. They may ven be more competitive and will certainly be more reliable.
China can’t have all her food needs met by Russia. If she could, she’d already be doing that.
It wasn’t that many years ago that the USA was still exporting large amounts of food to Russia.
That image is one of the most viscerally horrifying things I have ever seen.
It’s insane levels of aggression directed against the only country on earth that is potentially capable of beating us in a war.
China, potentially capable;
Russia, DEFINITELY capable.
One of the details about the Kennedy assassination which always struck me as intriguing, is that apparently when Khrushchev heard about it, he assumed he was next.
I let my subscription run out during the final months of the 20th century.
I’m sure it was a much better magazine when I first subscribed in the early 90s, as compared to now.
But Buckley and his allies still played the same nefarious role back then, too.
I don’t usually characterize the ruling class as being co-terminous with “the Jews”, but otherwise I think you have a pretty good handle on the moral character of our elite.
…Paris for 2024…
What’s the likelihood the Islamists will successfully stage at least one (1) massacre at the Paris Olympics in 2024?
50 percent?
75?
More?
If you live in the host country, you have to get your tickets directly from the Olympic committee. Anywhere else, it's from the authorized representative in your land. For the US in 1992, this was Olson, and sales were conducted by their Los Angeles branch. When I called this office to clarify something about my ticket order, I got a recording that they were closed for the day due to the Rodney King riots.
What’s the likelihood the Islamists will successfully stage at least one (1) massacre at the Paris Olympics in 2024?
Is this really a disease in which many people can be infected and yet have no symptoms whatsoever and pass it on to other people?
Yes.
For whatever reason, the media is extremely reluctant to talk about asymptomatic COVID infectees, but they seem to comprise the majority of all infectees. Perhaps this is due to the fact that the media all wants us to get vaccinated (we can debate why they want that some other time; it’s clear they are working to achieve that goal, irrespective of their motive), and they’re concerned that if people understand that the majority of people who contract COVID-19 will literally experience zero symptoms, there will be less enthusiasm for getting inoculated.