Death threats are no laughing matter.

LOL

https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1754207079663907192

Growing up in the American South, I was usually the only Thai person in any room. I’m used to seeing the limited knowledge that many Americans have about Thai culture, often reducing it to a takeout order or an object of fetishization.

Does whatshername have a side hustle writing Ivy League admissions essays?

The Tower-22 Strike in Jordan Triggers US, Israel Into All-Front War

This has to be one of the silliest headlines ever seen on this website.
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The general summary from a number of sources is:

• Iran (or their proxy Hezbollah) struck at the same time as a U.S. drone was returning to the site.
• C-RAM detected the inbound, but was not allowed to engage as the operators thought it was friendly.

Obviously, the U.S. forces should not have made this mistake. An internal AAR is likely to be scathing. Procedure changes should greatly reduce the odds of this type of exploit working again.

Various groups are already backing away from this strike into Jordan. The U.S. will take recompense by striking at Iranians, most likely those in Syria. There is no reason to believe this will cause a large escalation into an “All-Front War”.

PEACE 😇

If it is not McConnell, it would have to be another insider. Thune and/or Cornyn?

Perhaps. They’re more on the ball now than Mitch.

I think that Mitch could be involved; but I think that, considering he isn’t what he used to be mentally, his big donors could have played a bigger role.

Mitch has a lot of big Wall Street donors, like Blackstone. I doubt that Lake is their cup of tea.

It is not impossible, but consider the mechanics of a bribe transaction. The person accepting had to believe that the individual offering:

-1- Personally needs action
-2- Has the resources
-3- Will follow through
-4- Can keep the secret
-5- Not a set-up

A faceless Blackstone droog may wish the event, however the potential bribe taker would lack faith in the other side. If it is not McConnell, it would have to be another insider. Thune and/or Cornyn?

PEACE 😇

Steve, I’m waiting until I can get a used copy for under $20 at Moe’s on Telegraph.

If not Mitch McConnell, who else would it be?

Good question.

“Back east” is more likely to mean the East Coast.

I would look to major donors on the East Coast, especially the major cities.

I think that Mitch could be involved; but I think that, considering he isn’t what he used to be mentally, his big donors could have played a bigger role.

Mitch has a lot of big Wall Street donors, like Blackstone. I doubt that Lake is their cup of tea.

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mitch-mcconnell/contributors?cid=N00003389&cycle=CAREER

The Blackstone founder had interesting things to say in 2015.

https://money.cnn.com/2015/04/29/investing/blackstone-schwarzman-gop-presidential-election/index.html

Are you sure it was Mitch McConnell?

I was very curious about who they were talking about. She seemed to know what he meant.

How do you know that Patrick Mahomes got his good “arm genes” from his mom rather than his dad, or both?

There are a lot of black guys with good arms. When I was growing up, one of my favorite baseball players was Dave Stewart. Pat Mahomes was a pitcher, too.

Yes; but they could make it more dense, have more multi-story, multi-use buildings.

Who will be blamed? Besides the usual suspects (Trump, anti-Likud Jews, Black Hebrews, Irish, Italians, Palestinians)?

Maybe Iran and/or Russia.

Not a single of the 6 parts the land was divided into in 1948 had a Jewish minority — yet the Jews were assigned 3 of them. Practically all the Jews there at the time were recent immigrants — yet the Jews were assigned 3.

That simply isn’t true.

Only a third of the population was Jewish.

The correct answer

House of Pain — “Jump Around”

Video Link

It might be a good idea to develop more density, including a midsize urban core or two, in the Gilroy-Hollister area.

They could build a commuter rail line parallel to 101.

The area appears to be just south of the Preeti Rang Animal Sanctuary, just northeast of the Western Railway Museum, and just north of the Birds Landing Hunting Preserve.

Let us start off the OT with Motorsports.

The Dakar Rally (which does not visit Dakar) is under way kicking off 2024.

Video Link

America’s season will start next weekend, the 19th, with the “Roar Before the 24”, introducing new GTD/GT3 cars for both Corvette and Ford Mustang. The full “24 Hours of Daytona” will take place on the 28th and 29th.

PEACE 😇

So, it seems more likely that American parents, when endowed with eugenic superpowers, will instead tend to choose whatever stupid thing their peer group thinks look cool for their kids at the moment.

Maybe skin dark enough to help get affirmative action; but not so dark people cross the street.

Maybe a slightly Semitic nose; but not too Semitic.

Of course.

It was politically expedient for those not named “Dulles” or “McCloy” on the Warren Commission to go along with the (false) non-conspiratorial solution to the president’s murder, a “solution” aggressively pushed by Allen Dulles at their very first meeting.

Dulles and McCloy were so forceful that they even overrode Earl Warren’s first choice for general counsel, his long-time colleague Warren Olney III.

https://www.justice.gov/criminal/history/assistant-attorneys-general/warren-olney#:~:text=Olney%20became%20the%20Assistant%20Attorney,private%20practice%20in%20San%20Francisco.

Instead, Dulles and McCloy arm-twisted Earl Warren into accepting their man, J. Lee Rankin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Lee_Rankin

Rankin, in his role as general counsel, directed the 14 junior attorney who actually did the work of sifting through various reports and calling some witnesses.

Thus the other members of the commission only saw what Dulles and McCloy had approved Rankin to show to the rest of the commission.

Edward Epstein may have enjoyed a nice life.

But his JFK books were mere sounding boards for James Angleton’s and Allen Dulles ‘ talking points.

Edward J. Epstein did nothing to help our understanding of what happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

Instead he obscured it.

was there a memorial service in Russia where all the KGB greats got together, planted a tree and thanked Angleton for his deeds in service to the USSR upon his death in 1987?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/12/05/the-secret-ceremony/d8d30dab-fe95-4ba0-b52f-c50a04795b77/

We also know Angleton was the likely architect behind the death of Mary Pinchot Meyer.

https://www.marysmosaic.net

What a piece of work.

It turned out to be good for Epstein’s career to pretend that.

The contending theory is that Warren was Dulles’ cutout and was placed on the commission for appearance and gravitas not decision making. It is hard to imagine a sitting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court operating in an effective, as opposed to figurehead, staff director role for a criminal investigation especially with an active, opinionated, experienced, and domineering former professional investigator for the nation’s top investigatory body sitting on the commission.

His name was “Howard Brennan”, not “Berman” and on 11/22/63, Brennan had NOT identified anyone!

When the Dallas Police (allegedly) took him to line-up on that Friday even, Brennan did not identify anyone!

MR. BRENNAN: . . . I saw his picture twice on television before I went down to the police station for the lineup.

MR. BELIN: Now is there anything else you told the officers at the time of the lineup?

MR. BRENNAN: Well, I told them I could not make a positive identification.

(Several days later, after “Oswald” was conveniently murdered, a Secret Service agent – or not, the Warren Commission couldn’t be bothered to check – apparently strong armed Brennan into a belated identification of the now safely dead “Oswald.”)

So much for your abysmal knowledge of how and why the DPD “solved” the case. As of 10 pm on that Friday night, the Dallas Police had exactly ZERO eyewitness to any shooter, let alone anyone who could identify “Oswald”!

Further, when the FBI took possession of the infamous Mannlicher-Carcano rifle around midnight from the Dallas Police, there were “no usable prints” on it.
That remains the official position of the FBI to this day.

The Dallas Police belatedly claimed on Sunday that they had recovered “Oswald’s” prints on Friday night from the rifle, but then somehow managed not to say anything to either Chief of Police Jesse Curry nor District Attorney Henry Wade until Sunday, after “Oswald” was dead and there would be no trial.

(Obviously horseshit.)

So why did the DPD insiders focus immediately on “Oswald”?

Because key insiders in the DPD were acting on behalf of the plotters in the federal intelligence agencies, both before and after the assassination.

On whose behalf were the federal spooks stooging?

I can’t say – the president’s murder was never honestly investigated.

I doubt that it will happen before 2028.

China might beat us back to the moon. They’ll probably get there in 2029.

To Epstein, the time limitations put on the investigating staffers by Chief Justice Earl Warren—such as that they couldn’t go to Dallas until after Jack Ruby’s trial was finished, and then they had to wrap up before the election—did not appear to grow out of some nefarious plot to cover up the awful truth. Instead, they simply appear to have turned out to have been mistakes that had seemed like good ideas at the time to Warren.

How could it have been a good idea to wait so long before going to the scene of the crime?

“Where’s Jack? ”

In Brooklyn, someone needs a tunnel dug.

I am also confused. Do the Men of Unz agree with Hamas that Jews are not white or do they agree with BLM that they are white? Or are the Jews too brown to be white and not brown enough to be People of Color?

How is it our fault if they can’t decide what race they are?

One of last year’s Oscar winners, Everything Everywhere All At Once, cast a Jewish woman to play a stereotypical “Jewish American Princess” called “Big Nose.”

So they should have cast a gentile?

Moreover, when Jewish characters are featured, they are often played by non-Jews, a rare practice for other marginalized groups.

So …. they both should and shouldn’t have cast a gentile?

Sorry, this logic is too sophisticated for my tiny goy brain.

Jews in Hollywood often changed their names and told stories about Jews with caricatures, tropes

I get it. So, maybe instead of exaggerating the whole Jewish thing, they could tone things down? Would that work?

While there have always been Jews working in the industry, the industry has only accommodated a certain type of Jew: the toned-down Jew.

So …. don’t tone it down?

It seems that whatever gentiles do in Hollywood, they can’t do anything right. The only solution I see is banning gentiles from Hollywood.

Steve made an interesting point:

Never forget all those Dark Age Italian and French women who founded the Ashkenazi race by raping Jewish men in Provence!

That sounds horrible, Steve. Something has to be done to protect nice Jewish boys from those evil shiksas. The only solution I see is banning shiksas from having sex with Jews. They have polluted the Jewish race with their evil goy cooties long enough!

The British Army has, in fact, been traditionally small in peacetime – as few as those instances were..

Same with the US Army.

We are naturally sea powers.

The British Army has, in fact, been traditionally small in peacetime – as few as those instances were..

{…… and had made every effort to ally himself with the Slavic Poles.}

Is that true?

What about this:

[“Kill without pity or mercy all men, women or children of Polish descent or language. Only in this way can we obtain the living space (Lebensraum) we need. The destruction of Poland is our primary task. The aim is… annihilation of living forces.”]

Is that quote a fabrication by Polish researchers?
I don’t know either way: just asking.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190805125226/http://www.pacwashmetrodiv.org/events/holoc04/moor-jankowski.htm

However, as German historian Kurt Glaser wrote of the controversy: “It is hardly necessary to repeat here that Hoggan was not attacked because he had erred here and there — albeit some of his errors are material — but because he had committed heresy against the creed of historical orthodoxy.”

Were the material errors that Glaser mentioned addressed in the new edition?

Why not focus on the gist of the article and offer your insight into how and why you seemingly disagree with its conclusions?

“Should we consider “massive voter fraud” an example of the No True Scotsman fallacy?”

Make the case rather than merely throw out a rhetorical fallacy.

There haven’t been any Palestinians at the Olympics since 2012

Wrong. Google is your friend.

https://www.newarab.com/news/whos-who-palestines-olympic-team?amp

I also predict an outpouring of support for Palestinian athletes at the Olympics,…

There haven’t been any Palestinians at the Olympics since 2012, and there probably won’t be many next time unless there is a new event for how many unarmed civilians you can shoot in 5 minutes.

A woke church in my town is selling Palestinian trinkets. I predict that in 2024, among the woke class, “Palestinian Is The New Black.”

2024 will see fighting between Jewish Ivy League students over who gets to be Black, Palestinians or Jews.

Nethanyahu gets the Peace Prize, of course.

My prediction is that 2024 will be a nothingburger—the last nothingburger.

Donald Trump wins the election and the relative lack of hysteria comes as a surprise to many. The southern border is closed but other than that, almost nothing about domestic politics changes noticeably. His trials are neither completed, nor are the charges dropped, nor does the Supreme Court intervene. They just get shunted into some indefinite legal transporter beam loop.

2024 is the last year of the housing bubble. In 2025, the layoffs start, and people run out of ways to save their house. A wave of forced selling blows out the bubblicious valuations and a bunch of recent buyers end up seriously underwater. But that happens next year. In 2024, the Federal Reserve will do a token rate cut or two to keep the markets pacified.

The war in Ukraine will not stop, nor will Russia pull off a “big arrow” offensive. Russia will continue to grind forward and Zelensky will remain in power, funded by asset seizures and special-purpose EU bonds.

Israel will remain in Gaza, committing atrocities and lying about the large number of casualties it is taking. The Houthis’ gambit works, and humanitarian aid is sent into Gaza, but the conflict continues at a lower level. The Red Sea area calms down. Netanyahu remains.

The price of oil stays at a relatively stable level between $70-$80.

China does absolutely nothing about Taiwan. In one unusually surprising move, there are increasing rumors about a shakeup in the CCP, with Xi losing some support, especially among the military, for his indecisiveness.

There will be no CBCDs and no BRICS currency introduced in 2024.

The oldest Baby Boomers are turning 78 today, the age of US life expectancy. An inexorable increase in mortality begins this year, but the trend will really become noticeable around 2028 as the Boomer wave starts approaching the modal age at death. I’m betting on 2028 as the year that deflation becomes unstoppable as the forced liquidation of Boomer estates and forced distributions from their retirement accounts floors the price of all assets.

I’m betting on 2028 as the year that deflation becomes unstoppable as the forced liquidation of Boomer estates and forced distributions from their retirement accounts floors the price of all assets.

One of the interesting questions of our age is how the inflationary and deflationary pressures will resolve. I find it hard to believe we will see serious deflation as long as the US can keep the money printer going “brrr…” Has there been a deflationary period in the US since we went off the gold standard?

P.S. Your prediction is one of the more interesting here. Will be worth coming back to see how on target it was.

Prediction 2024: The Olympic Games will NOT have any terrorist incident.

I agree, and hope you are correct.

I also predict an outpouring of support for Palestinian athletes at the Olympics, and lots of complaints from supporters of the Israeli government.

Prediction 2024: The Olympic Games will NOT have any terrorist incident.

Detroit’s population in 1960 was 1.67 million — more than double the 639,111 counted in 2020

“More than double” is an understatement. “More than a million fewer” is closer to the mark.

A million isn’t just a nice round number. It has constitutional implications, at least according to the state lawyer who taught the local government course I took in Lansing years ago. Cities of over one million have a special status in Michigan’s constitution. No city other than Detroit has ever reached 200,000. (Though, thanks to a recent rebound, Grand Rapids may have just done so. Hoera!)

Detroit gained that privilege with the 1930 census, and lost it with the 2000. Only two counties, Wayne and suburban Oakland, have a million. Perhaps if every municipality in Wayne outside of Detroit’s limits were to amalgamate, this new “city” could recoup whatever privileges Detroit once was accorded.

Detroit’s population in 1960

…dropped about a tenth from it’s 1950 peak. Detroit’s first loss ever, the 1950 count being its last gain. Astonishingly, registered Republicans held the mayor’s office for all but seven or eight of the previous 50 years. (The elections themselves have been nominally non-partisan since 1918, which helps.)

Other states also have different classes of cities. Wisconsin law allows Milwaukee and Madison, due to their size, the status of “first class”, though, for some arcane reason, the capital chooses not to take advantage of it. Menomonee Falls, pop 38,000, is the state’s most populous “village”, while places a thirtieth that size are “cities”. Many of New York’s more famous suburbs– Chappaqua, Armonk (IBM), Elmont (Belmont race track), Hicksville, are unincorporated “hamlets”. Oyster Bay, Huntington, and Islip are also hamlets within town(ship)s of the same name.

Where is the homicide rate up the most since 2014?

It looks like things have gotten much worse in Kansas City.

https://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article282502563.html

DC and Memphis are in trouble, too.

DC

https://wjla.com/amp/news/local/dc-crime-homicides-shooting-murder-kathy-henderson-anc-commissioner-district-city-mayor-muriel-bowser-metropolitan-police-department-national-guard

Memphis

https://www.actionnews5.com/2023/11/21/memphis-has-broken-homicide-record-new-numbers-show/?outputType=amp

At that time the prevalent written form was very close to Danish, and was, or had been until recently, referred to as Dano-Norwegian. One of the modern forms, Bokmål, is derived from Dano-Norwegian, but now uses much more Norwegian-style spelling, and the other, Nynorsk (‘new Norwegian’) used by a minority – 10-15% – is rather different (three genders instead of two) and is a mash-up of western dialects. But yes, it is now mostly a non-issue.

A lot of people drink when socializing to get over their shyness — Nordics are especially notorious for this. Are Jews less shy on average?

I haven’t seen any official statistics; but that is almost certainly the case.

Should Jews Scrap DEI?

Too late! DEI’s scrappin’ ‘em first.

Abe Foxman and David Harris, two former longtime leaders of prominent Jewish communal organizations, called for an end to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy at colleges on Wednesday.

Abe Foxman’s a swell guy. He’s also a based and redpilled genocide denier. The Armenian genocide, that is:

https://www.unz.com/isteve/operation-nemesis/#comment-6309708 (#199)

“Our focus is Israel,” he explained. “If helping Turkey helps Israel, then that’s what we’re in the business of doing.”

But such a bottom line would seem an uncomfortable place for a Jewish leader to be when the question was genocide.

“Was it genocide?” he said. “It was wartime. Things get messy.”

“You’re not suggesting that an Armenian Genocide is the same as the Holocaust, are you?”

I can’t believe people are willing to be recorded saying and doing this stuff. Psychopathic monsters. Frightening.

The white supremacists of Israel.

https://twitter.com/CensoredMen/status/1736503178101735692?t=UcTEe1Ws58OfsulgETa5bg&s=19

https://twitter.com/CensoredMen/status/1733509330190672228?t=jaK4r11IwAFUOMgMSzktnA&s=19

You need to write more about people pretending to be wolves.

When Paul Ryan lied and knocked an hour off his actual marathon prowess, he was recasting himself from midpack to elite. (In the age-group sense). Sorry, Paul, but this was not an innocent mistake because every marathon runner knows whether he is in the far-right tail, or, is a regular guy. As Steve noted, Biden’s approach has been to do exactly the opposite of Ryan, that is, usurp regularguyness. I think that because “Joe” is a regular-guy name, he succeeded. If instead he had been “Kingman,” regularguyness would have been a nonstarter. (Kingman Brewster was a Yale president back in the day. I did not make-up that name. There was actually such a person.).

It’s hard to say what the Net Present Value of this deal is at this point. Interest rates are high so the nominal sum has to be discounted quite a bit, but how much remains a question?

Probably by at least 1/3.

I agree, but why is the effect worse 60 minutes after sunset compared to 180 minutes after sunset?

Because there are fewer pedestrians out 3 hours after sunset than 1 hour after sunset, especially if it gets cold.

But why is it still harder to see 60 minutes after sunset when the sky appears blacks than it is at midnight?

Headlights are a lot brighter than they used to be. This ruins drivers’ night vision, and can even temporarily blind drivers just long enough to cause an accident.

Also, fewer people are out on the street four hours after sunset than one hour after sunset.

In the winter, not only does it get darker sooner, it also gets colder at night.

For example, the builders of the Berlin-to-Baghdad railroad carried out a Schindler’s List project on a vast scale of hiring Armenians as essential workers ineligible for deportation.

I learned something new. Thanks, Steve!

There is an eagle killing a snake on the Mexican flag.

So, I guess everyone in Fresno can enjoy the monument.

What starts as a conversation about the Telfar turns into tales of concerts and exes and nail salons.

https://twitter.com/lulunolullaby/status/1343859270408753152?s=20

All the apologizing the mother did and look where it got her.

No, I’m sure other countries would be willing to accept some of them, too.

Ukraine needs more population given recent demographic trends, and Jewish immigrants would get to live under a Jewish President. They’d get to have their revenge on those nasty Russian Cossacks.

Or are they so chicken that they prefer bombing churches and hospitals to fighting Russians?

Ever consider that support for Palestine might not be driven by hatred of Jewry, but by hatred of Christendom?

It wasn’t the Palestinian Air Force that just bombed all the churches in Gaza.

Modern cancel culture started with the witch hunt against Norman Finkelstein, so I’m not surprised by recent assaults on the First Amendment.

You either support the First Amendment, or you oppose the First Amendment. It’s really that simple.

Yes. The White Europeans really are the weirdest.

Humanity may not have survived the past two Millennia without us.

They do it still, as I write.

I’m glad he wound up on our side and not somebody else’s.

Are you sure he wasn’t on China’s side? He seems to have done them a lot of good.

Nikki Haley is a nasty person, a globalist and basically Hillary Clinton with a tan. If Trump picks her he’s betraying his entire movement.

Your troll game is

Well played, sir!

good story/thx

…and “nobody should expect you girls to wear make-up, or shave your armpits?” No thanks!

In Scandinavia 40 years ago, girls didn’t wear make-up or even shave their legs. They didn’t have to! And, a few tough cookies aside, they could have given American women of the day lessons in acting feminine. It was an eye-opener.

As recently as the 90s, Scandinavians left infants in buggies on the sidewalk while they went into a store.

What happened to stop it? Were lots of babies kidnapped and sold overseas?

But I will go so far as to speculate that for team members it would not have been a piece of cake, which a few commenters have asserted was true for Oswald.