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"‘Black Panther’ will return to theaters for free screenings to celebrate Black History Month" https://t.co/smjWyzWS6N
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) January 29, 2019
Imagine what it would be like if after 1000’s of years of civilization, the only advanced one of your groups you can celebrate is an imaginary one created by jews.
How about free showings of the “Pink Panther”? — better movie from a better time with better actors.
‘Africa Addio’ would be a better fit for black history month imho.
I haven’t seen Black Panther, but to what extent does it shed light on African-American history or African history? Even a technically fictional account of something can contain some instruction as to “how things were.”
As Elise Wiesel has been quoted as saying,
In literature, Rebbe, certain things are true though they didn’t happen, while others are not, even if they did.
Maybe Chinese historians of the future will show the film in that light when they try to explain how America went off track, in the way that we watch the Jud Süß today not as a documentary depiction of court life in 18th century Württemberg or the 1915 Birth of a Nation as a documentary history of the KKK but rather as a mirror into the secret fears and obsessions of its makers.
Despite the trashing some here are giving it, it was, strangely, sort of "Alt-Right," making a case that an advanced country could not allow itself to be over-run by the riff-raff.
Also, it is far better if black kids model themselves on the black good guys in this film than many of the black celebrities that are commonly put forward by pop culture.
So, on the whole, I'd say the movie may have had a somewhat positive effect on American culture. We've done worse.
Bad movie. Incoherent plot. Apparent endorsement of the African Big Man theory of government.
So, just about right for Black History Month.
Also, as noted, it endorses rule by a dictator, who is selected in a trial by combat This would probably be an improvement over the current method of making policy in the U.S.
A subconscious admission that all the other great black achievements of bhm are also fictional. Love it.
How about free screenings of Death Wish and Dirty Harry for White History Month?
The Coen brothers got their start with Super 8 "remakes" in their chilly St Louis Park backyard. One of them was The Naked Prey. The poor boy in the lead role!
They laugh about this today.
Oh wait. Nobody ever made a movie of that.
It has to win the Oscar since Gollum and Bilbo are the only hobbit people in the movie.
Great, just as long as we get a showing of The Lord of the Rings for White History Month.
When is White History Month, anyway? Heh. If you search for White History Month on Wikipedia, it redirects you to Black History Month.
In other news, movie house sees 100% drop in paying customers over the weekend. Unexpectedly.
yeah i rocked my ex wifes world with that documentary
Presumably so they can work the vibranium mines.
As Elise Wiesel has been quoted as saying,
In literature, Rebbe, certain things are true though they didn’t happen, while others are not, even if they did.
None at all. Or to be fair, that Lesotho has a ski hill. I learned that from the movie and then doing some reading on the director, who visited Lesotho before making the movie. I wouldn’t be surprised if the director Ryan Coogler, who is a talented man, has some kind of Darwinian theory that if Bantus had been able to move into southern Africa, displacing Bushmen, without encountering whites coming up from Capetown, they would have had to evolve to deal with winters. Successful movie directors spend a lot of time worrying about the future.
While I wasn’t much a fan of the film, I did see it and was surprised at how deep the hole went once you started thinking about it. The film basically endorses “benevolent” colonialism on a neoliberal model at the end. The whole structure of the film is based on “What if Jared Diamond was right, and culture means nothing, magic rocks explain everything?”. Wakanda, by dint of its magic space stones, develops massive technology, but retains a culture from prehistory. The titular King, isn’t really even that, in the way we think of kings. He’s a chieftain who heads a confederation of chieftains, and cannot even compel the service of subsidiary military forces. And the kingship is held purely by physical force alone. No political development past the Bronze age.
What’s the point? That with free energy and post-scarcity, what people really want to do is wear bones in their nose and beat each other up for status?
Also worth noting that while at the end they decide to improve the lives of the backwards denizens of the US, they don’t bother with the Congo. I get the implied slam on white americans, but it’s pretty strange when you think about it.
He bampfs in near the Terran Fleet and is let aboard one of the flying fortresses. Two officers come to meet the strange creature. Barely comprehending what happens to him, the erstwhile pilot reflexively blurts out "The War is Over - We Have Won!!", which is met with incomprehension by the officers.
He hands over the box.
The box contains the announcement of an armistice for an earlier space war, as well as the log of the pilot who was tasked to bring said announcement to Earth. While on the way, he got attacked by a dead-ender enemy patrol and had to crash land on an inhospitable planet. The only inhabited of that planet turn out to be small lizards, not even enough to make a meal. The pilot knows he will die soon and will be unable to fulfill his mission. He wonders what will happen to the "assistant" he has been injected with, a semi-sentient and practically immortal utility that is supposed to help him fulfill his mission by any means necessary.
Understanding what has happened, the officers look at the large lizard space pilot who has come aboard to fulfill the mission - by any means necessary.
He is already reverting to savagery and tearing into his spacesuit.
...gets to join and mix with the white super heroes as they do cool and important stuff.
So, Wakanda is historically accurate? The things you learn during Black History Month!
OT again I’m afraid, but this is pretty iSteve
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/opinion/buttigieg-2020-millennials.html
We obviously need more immigration.
What we--the nation--obviously needs is a President--and every other sort of politician--who can talk seriously about the disaster of immigration not just in terms of "illegals", "the border", "crime", "drugs", but jobs, wages, income inequality, housing prices, schools, affordable family formation, national cohesion, traffic, open space ... declining quality of life for us and for our posterity.
Yes, immigration actually is making everything worse. We need politicians--one would be nice--who can speak intelligently about it.
If he were writing during the 1980 election campaign, he could've written, "for anyone under 40, the 1970s were one long recession."
He baldly cherry picks starting points and makes fallacious assumptions in order to deliver outcomes that don't occur. E.g. those in the nine-year age cohort of 25-34 in 2017 are not the same people who were in the cohort in 2000, making the "earning slightly less observation" absurd.
Since, as one ages, one moves up an age cohort, and experiences the higher incomes indicated in the graph, the cumulative change is meaningless, i.e. one doesn't remain in their cohort.
All the first chart measures is cohort incomes at that time compared to the others. Older workers tend to be more productive for a variety of factors, and hence, earn more.
I don’t supposed any of these would be screened for Black HISTORY Month:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_documentary_films
No. Of course not. They’re not up for Oscars.
It is not surprising that Lesotho has a ski hill as it has the highest lowest elevation of any country in the world.
They were the Tolkein whites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wS_6ok9u2c
And more historical accuracy.
When is White History Month, anyway? Heh. If you search for White History Month on Wikipedia, it redirects you to Black History Month.
Based on a few things I’ve seen, I would say April. Though I haven’t checked.
As Elise Wiesel has been quoted as saying,
In literature, Rebbe, certain things are true though they didn’t happen, while others are not, even if they did.
Elie Wiesel applied that rule to his memoirs.
It caused Roger Ebert to blow a gasket or twelve as well. Which is by no means a bad thing…
Just think, at one time, he actually reviewed honest films about the government assault at Waco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsaif8wn15E
Italians be rayciss.
White History Month went out of style and was abolished in 1914.
Actually, Addio Zio Tom would be more appropriate.
That the movie that will be playing nonstop to pump up black pride is a total fantasy is a pretty sad comment on the age we live in. Toss in that it is just OK – and looks even that good because so many of the other comic book movies are that bad – but is played up as culturally significant is also a backhanded compliment as well.
Nice one!
As with “true Communism,” true Black History has never really been tried.
In Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther’s kid sister Shuri is smarter and even more sciencey than stale pale male Dr. Bruce Banner.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/opinion/buttigieg-2020-millennials.htmlWe obviously need more immigration.
To his polemical credit he Leonhardt didn’t say that. I think Leonhardt is smart enough that he realized mentioning “immigration” at all in a story that presents graphs which basically show that capital (retired people’s incomes) has wiped the floor with labor (everyone else, but progressively the youngest cohorts) would be too much. So it’s the usual Democrat polemic on taxes and spending.
What we–the nation–obviously needs is a President–and every other sort of politician–who can talk seriously about the disaster of immigration not just in terms of “illegals”, “the border”, “crime”, “drugs”, but jobs, wages, income inequality, housing prices, schools, affordable family formation, national cohesion, traffic, open space … declining quality of life for us and for our posterity.
Yes, immigration actually is making everything worse. We need politicians–one would be nice–who can speak intelligently about it.
The way larger and rock bottom fundamental point:
There now exist two Nations within the borders of America:One White…the other non-White…..And they despise each other. What happened to the Native Born White American Covington High School Students in DC is more overwhelming evidence of this obvious fact. Both sides can not share a common Soil……….
The only way this could have been avoided is if back in 1965….1)The 1965 Immigration Reform Act had not been passed and 2)a National Origins Immigration Policy had been passed that completely excluded all nonwhites such as POTUS Kamala Harris’s Parents….her Attorney General Preet Bharara’s Parents from India….
The passage of the 1965 Immigration Reform Act was a direct consequence of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act….which was a direct consequence of the integration of the US Military…..which was a direct consequence of the Cold War…….It is now time to rethink the Cold War…….
If you think partitioning the US into two separate Nations…one White…one non-white…..will achieve long term peace……you are massively delusional……
Was Sports Entertainment-Tom Brady(three mudsharking White Sisters) worship worth it?…You have lost your Living and Breeding Space to India and China…….Think about it…………
You don’t think this is subtle pressure on AMPAS to give “BP” a boat load of shiny statues later this month, do you?
How are they going to distribute the free tickets? If it is first come, first admitted, I feel sorry for the theater workers.
Kamala Harris: “We know that if we want to live in a world that looks more like Wakanda, the first step is you invest in some women and girls.”
Presumably so they can work the vibranium mines.
Black Panther was published last year. It’s like totally history.
Still, you have to admire the hustle of Black Panther’s marketing team. They have managed to sell a super hero movie to be shown in schools over and over. (Last year there was a ‘free’ showing for the kids too, wasn’t there?)
Lol. That one is pretty much neck and neck with Black Panther in the historical accuracy department.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/africa-addio-1967
Last year I read " The Fate of Africa" by Martin Meredith. It is a comprehensive 750 page history of African independence movement. It covers the end of colonialism in every part of Africa. It is a hard read. The history of African independence is pretty ugly. Lots of torture, murder and cannibalism. Every black nation is like every other. There are no bright spots. The typical African leader is a monster. It's hard to keep the atrocities separate.
Bokassa and Amin were both convicted in court of eating their political rivals. Those were proven, other African leaders were only suspected of the practice . The reality of African governance entales a degree of horror that that surpasses the imagination of nice Westerners.
If “Black” history takes a month to celebrate, how long does it take to celebrate “White” history? A century? A millennium? An Eon?
A great movie choice to headline a month-long celebration of fictional black achievement.
As Elise Wiesel has been quoted as saying,
In literature, Rebbe, certain things are true though they didn’t happen, while others are not, even if they did.
It reflects history only indirectly, in the sense that it is a mirror of black fantasy life in the face of what they obviously understand on some level to be their inadequacies in real life. You fantasize about what you lack and would like to be, not what you are already. Just as in the case of individuals, what people obsess about in their imagination is very revealing. 4 year olds imagine themselves as terrifying dinosaurs whom all fear but pre-pubescent girls imagine that they are riding gentle yet powerful ponies who love them.
Maybe Chinese historians of the future will show the film in that light when they try to explain how America went off track, in the way that we watch the Jud Süß today not as a documentary depiction of court life in 18th century Württemberg or the 1915 Birth of a Nation as a documentary history of the KKK but rather as a mirror into the secret fears and obsessions of its makers.
animals were harmedblacks were involved in the creation of this comic.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY49bfLTCV0
Well duh. In Wakanda they teach all the young grrrrls/womyn to code. Get with it, Amerikkka!
A leftist perspective:
https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/tech/2019/1/29/18201695/learn-to-code-twitter-abuse-buzzfeed-journalists
Rightist
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/01/27/no-work-lefty-journalists-learn-code-not-secret-alt-right-phrase/amp/
https://twitter.com/SixStringTweets/status/1088851874109898758
Presumably the key word there is “select”.
I don’t go out to the movies at all. (I don’t have a burning need to see Hollyweird’s crap right away–usually at all. And don’t really know why anyone, beyond kids on a date looking to be away from their homes, bothers at all.) But if I did, i’d make sure not to be around those free screenings.
Jerry Clower compared the nine channels in his NYC hotel room with the 200 on the satellite dish at his Yazoo City homestead. "And they call me a hick!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIdtb0-CIeA
A little further on, he exposes himself as a hereditarian. "Y'ain't gonna 'catch' much 'cept what your mama and daddy put in ya when ya was born!"
A moment’s reflection, and i realized this short paragraph pretty much encapsulates American politics during my lifetime.
I feel bad for Walt.
“Africa Addio” is relevant to the Oscar race because it shows documentary footage of the Black Power massacre of Indians, Parsis, and Arabs in Zanzibar, which Freddie Mercury’s family fled. This offers an insight unmentioned in “Bohemian Rhapsody” into why Queen wasn’t in much of a hurry to sign up for Live Aid for Ethiopia.
“Africa Addio” is relevant to the Oscar race because it shows documentary footage of the Black Power massacre of Indians, Parsis, and Arabs in Zanzibar, which Freddie Mercury’s family fled. This offers an insight unmentioned in “Bohemian Rhapsody” into why Queen wasn’t in much of a hurry to sign up for Live Aid for Ethiopia.
(((Bob Iger)))
I feel bad for Walt.
And? The Black Panther movie has nothing to do with real history, it’s been adopted by the black identity and political “diversity” movement.
The movie itself is actually good, broadly non-political superhero action. The movie featured a humorous quip about Wakanda not accepting refugees “If you let the refugees in, they bring their problems with them. And then Wakanda is like everywhere else”, which really undermined any idea of that being a left-wing political propaganda movie.
When Whites speak about Western Civilization in a manner that suggests they are proud of their heritage, they are mocked for trying to take credit for stuff they didn’t do. Yet when blacks show pride in black history month and bang on about claims, often dubious, no one points out that they are trying to take credit for stuff they didn’t do.
Let’s change that this year.
Fringy fun:
For years, Hollywood has taken our lives, our stories, our history without paying. It is long past time for Hollywood to start paying back. Movies must be free for black people. Not just “for a limited time”, but for all time.
One of you who is twitter savy should get that going on black twitter. Could be loads of fun.
Good, but you missed an opportunity to use "black bodies" here.
An African retrovirus got Freddy Mercury in the end.
I see what you did there.
In truth, other men's DNA and feces got into Freddy's bloodstream via his nether regions and overwhelmed his immune system. AIDS/HIV is a myth.
When sodomites hid their deathstyle for fear of imprisonment and capital punishment, they restrained their behaviors, which benefitted their health.
For years, Hollywood has taken our lives, our stories, our history without paying. It is long past time for Hollywood to start paying back. Movies must be free for black people. Not just "for a limited time", but for all time.
One of you who is twitter savy should get that going on black twitter. Could be loads of fun.
> Movies must be free for black people.
Good, but you missed an opportunity to use “black bodies” here.
Kamala Harris = NPC
According to my dad, an old joke back in the early 90’s was that if only Freddie Mercury had eaten bushmeat, he’d still be around…
And vice versa.
Have you been following the hilarious “Learn to code” phenomenon regarding the recent Buzzfeed/Yahoo journalist layoffs?
A leftist perspective:
https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/tech/2019/1/29/18201695/learn-to-code-twitter-abuse-buzzfeed-journalists
Rightist
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/01/27/no-work-lefty-journalists-learn-code-not-secret-alt-right-phrase/amp/
What we--the nation--obviously needs is a President--and every other sort of politician--who can talk seriously about the disaster of immigration not just in terms of "illegals", "the border", "crime", "drugs", but jobs, wages, income inequality, housing prices, schools, affordable family formation, national cohesion, traffic, open space ... declining quality of life for us and for our posterity.
Yes, immigration actually is making everything worse. We need politicians--one would be nice--who can speak intelligently about it.
What’s wrong with Donald Trump? He’s trying to address those issues intelligently. But then he’s got to fight against the MSM, the Government (including the FBI), the Judiciary, the Dems and his own party to get anything done. Not to mention his treacherous daughter Ivanka and her globalist shill of a useless husband.
Trump is a mountebank, a blackguard, and a fool.
So, just about right for Black History Month.
That really caught my attention when I watched the movie. I thought it was illuminating. I wonder how a real life Wakanda would fare after a few generations of that.
They had never been to Britain but got British passports. Same with the Parsis from Uganda “one of the most successful groups of immigrants anywhere” acording to British PM David Cameron . Forcing out the largely Pasi Gujarati Indians was class war by the Africans. Letting them into Britain was a kind of class war by Oxbridge elite that dominated politics especially Labour. The Labout cabinet had an incredible number of Oxbridge ‘firsts’. Now or course people will tell you that the “Indians” had went to Uganda as labourers for railway building. Not likely
Birth of a Nation or Gone With the Wind. *
Free Wakanda movies? It’s all a scam by Whitey. The only thing available at the snack bar will be $20 slices of watermelon.
Invariably some big man down the line would sell out exclusive rights to the Vibranium mines to a member of the Gupta family for pennies on the dollar.
As Elise Wiesel has been quoted as saying,
In literature, Rebbe, certain things are true though they didn’t happen, while others are not, even if they did.
It is nothing but a dumb comic book movie. It does approve of border walls though.
While that viewpoint is advocated in the movie, the final scene and after-credits scene undercut this and push for globalism by showing the Black Panther ending Wakanda's isolationism.
Hopefully the Black Panther will come to his senses in the next movie as a bunch of Chinese move in and start doing the jobs native Wakandans can't be bothered to do.
Has Ebert gotten more “normie” over the years?
Just think, at one time, he actually reviewed honest films about the government assault at Waco
But he went off on Africa Addio when it came out, so easily 50+ years ago. So in a word, no.
What we--the nation--obviously needs is a President--and every other sort of politician--who can talk seriously about the disaster of immigration not just in terms of "illegals", "the border", "crime", "drugs", but jobs, wages, income inequality, housing prices, schools, affordable family formation, national cohesion, traffic, open space ... declining quality of life for us and for our posterity.
Yes, immigration actually is making everything worse. We need politicians--one would be nice--who can speak intelligently about it.
National cohesion can’t be stressed enough. Otherwise you leave the door open for the (valid) argument that importing a smaller amount of high-skilled/high-IQ S. and E. Asian immigrants provides many utilitarian benefits. It does, but it also creates costs that are harder to measure (eg social capital). We’re human and that’s why the homogeneous nation state works better. For example, if Ireland had taken in a large amount of 120+ IQ S. and E. Asians it may have actually been better off on paper. But which Ireland would you rather live in? (FWIW, I ascribe to Derbyshire’s “salt in the stew” analogy – a tiny bit of diversity is desirable, but too much ruins it. A 97% White country with a sprinkling of S. and E. Asian high achievers would be just about perfect, 100% White a little less desirable, and once you drop below 80% majority all hell breaks loose).
The cult of globalism reminds me of communism. Communism failed because it assumed people are self interested; globalism assumes people are not tribal. Both are theories of the blank-slate left for obvious reasons. Per my favorite quote: “Wonderful theory, wrong species.”
As Elise Wiesel has been quoted as saying,
In literature, Rebbe, certain things are true though they didn’t happen, while others are not, even if they did.
Black people believe with complete sincerity that Wakanda is what Africa would look like today if Whites had not oppressed Africans and stolen their knowledge, therefore it is history that should have been.
http://media.graytvinc.com/images/690*649/BOOK67.jpg
I for one will no longer stand by as National Frozen Food Month (March) is once again overshadowed by Black History Month (February). Let’s commit, as a nation, to preparing for the monumental celebrations to mark that great event when it arrives in a few short weeks.
Hungry-Man® Frozen Dinners.
Hot Pockets.
Ice cream, sorbet, and sherbet.
Jimmy Dean® Brand Sausage Biscuit Sandwiches.
And of course, the pioneers of yesteryear, without whom we would not be what we are today:
MicroMagic Fries, Burgers, and Shakes.
When pizza’s on a bagel, you can eat pizza any time! – It’s who we are.
They still make something close.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LOn7Y991iHE/Tkgmy0fKaDI/AAAAAAAAAtU/LOvRa8PY9K8/s1600/French+Fries.jpg
I don't see these around much anymore. The quality is excellent however.
http://www.trivialtraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Fries.jpg
NB: I just learned from a passing semi that Jimmy Dean's is now a Tyson product. Ouch.
I grew up on Jimmy Dean and Rowlf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pbKHDpOmYU
This one's a big LOL.
I hope to see posters of famous frozen food in the hallway's of my kid's elementary school this March. My favorite is Swanson's TV Dinners. The teachers should have all the kids do reports on their Daddy's and Grandaddy's favorite TV dinners of the past.
Then, in Science time, they can take a few of them that some PTO pack-rat/prepper parent has kept in the chest freezer for some decades, and see how they've held up over the years ... probably a whole damn lot better than that "judging a man by his character bit", I can tell you right now.
(See, now that's a blog post! It's a blog about nothing!)
Maybe Chinese historians of the future will show the film in that light when they try to explain how America went off track, in the way that we watch the Jud Süß today not as a documentary depiction of court life in 18th century Württemberg or the 1915 Birth of a Nation as a documentary history of the KKK but rather as a mirror into the secret fears and obsessions of its makers.
No
animals were harmedblacks were involved in the creation of this comic.The original internal concept name for Black Panther inside Marvel was "Coal Tiger". Actually, between me and you, Stan called him "the schvartze with the cat outfit" - "Jack, so then the schvartze with the cat outfit punches the big shvartze with the spear...", but don't tell anyone.
What we--the nation--obviously needs is a President--and every other sort of politician--who can talk seriously about the disaster of immigration not just in terms of "illegals", "the border", "crime", "drugs", but jobs, wages, income inequality, housing prices, schools, affordable family formation, national cohesion, traffic, open space ... declining quality of life for us and for our posterity.
Yes, immigration actually is making everything worse. We need politicians--one would be nice--who can speak intelligently about it.
He said we needed economic dynamism, which is a codeword/dogwhistle for more labour market competition i.e. immigration.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2013/06/07/economic-dynamism-is-still-needed/
Black Panther stamping on a human face forever.
Yet another opportunity for me to miss this movie. I’ll wait until it’s streaming so I can skim it.
Zulu or 300.
Theaters are giving free movie showings of a black-oriented flick? Free events + Wakandans = drama. (to say the least)
You might as well just turn the sound off, the Wakandans are going to be in there blasting music, inventing new coordinated dances and having rap battles and cookouts inside the theater itself.
And there will be plenty of stuff “going down”…
A leftist perspective:
https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/tech/2019/1/29/18201695/learn-to-code-twitter-abuse-buzzfeed-journalists
Rightist
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/01/27/no-work-lefty-journalists-learn-code-not-secret-alt-right-phrase/amp/
https://twitter.com/SixStringTweets/status/1088851874109898758
I have, and I’ve been relishing every second of it. I lived in Austin for two years—one of which I worked in tech—and have really just had way more exposure to those sorts of people (not just canned-response clickbait journalists, but the sort of rudderless, cookie-cutter nerds who take Vox seriously) than anyone should have to endure over the course of several lifetimes. Thank god I got a better job (in a field that isn’t able to collapse in on itself any day now) in another state; I may have lost my goddamn mind.
What's the point? That with free energy and post-scarcity, what people really want to do is wear bones in their nose and beat each other up for status?
Also worth noting that while at the end they decide to improve the lives of the backwards denizens of the US, they don't bother with the Congo. I get the implied slam on white americans, but it's pretty strange when you think about it.
“Thinking about it” is presumably not something they’re expecting from much of the audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY49bfLTCV0
Not content with the over the top virtue signalling that is killing their brand, Marvel said “why not?” and stated that Shuri is the biggest fucking brain on earth.
It is nothing but a dumb comic book movie. It does approve of border walls though.
While that viewpoint is advocated in the movie, the final scene and after-credits scene undercut this and push for globalism by showing the Black Panther ending Wakanda’s isolationism.
Hopefully the Black Panther will come to his senses in the next movie as a bunch of Chinese move in and start doing the jobs native Wakandans can’t be bothered to do.
Vegas now taking bets….what are the odds this is an elaborate hate hoax?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6645049/Empire-star-Jussie-Smollett-hospitalized-Chicago-premeditated-homophobic-attack.html
Bleach, a noose and a cliche letter threat with magazine cut out words?
I haven’t seen “Africa, Addio” but I have read the book. Not exactly but close.
Last year I read ” The Fate of Africa” by Martin Meredith. It is a comprehensive 750 page history of African independence movement. It covers the end of colonialism in every part of Africa. It is a hard read. The history of African independence is pretty ugly. Lots of torture, murder and cannibalism. Every black nation is like every other. There are no bright spots. The typical African leader is a monster. It’s hard to keep the atrocities separate.
Bokassa and Amin were both convicted in court of eating their political rivals. Those were proven, other African leaders were only suspected of the practice . The reality of African governance entales a degree of horror that that surpasses the imagination of nice Westerners.
You can watch the whole thing free on YouTube. It has some slow points I fast forwarded, but worth it.
Netanyahu’s “center-left” rival is the top general from the Gaza war, first campaign ad shows urban bomb craters and annouces 1000+ terrorist casualties.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/29/israel-netanyahu-chief-rival-benny-gantz-launches-election-campaign
Hungry-Man® Frozen Dinners.
Hot Pockets.
Ice cream, sorbet, and sherbet.
Jimmy Dean® Brand Sausage Biscuit Sandwiches.
And of course, the pioneers of yesteryear, without whom we would not be what we are today:
MicroMagic Fries, Burgers, and Shakes.
When pizza's on a bagel, you can eat pizza any time! – It's who we are.
“MicroMagic Fries”
They still make something close.
I don’t see these around much anymore. The quality is excellent however.
It does? Every East Asian and subcontinental immigrant investment banker, lawyer, doctor, nurse, and IT professional is taking a job that would otherwise go to an American native. That deprives Americans of the better jobs in their own country, pushing them down the job and socioeconomic ladder, if they are fortunate to find a job at all.
For American men, who must depend on high status and high income jobs to attract a female mate and be able to support a family, the impact is especially devastating, as the immigrants become relatively more appealing to American women. This kind of immigration is a miscegenation tool.
When drs don’t fillow their own practice manuals, their insurance companies have no choice but to settle as fast as possible. And when the malpractice is so blatant, the insurance premiums rise a lot higher than if the Dr made a reasonable effort to follow the manual and standard accepted practice. And they are kicked out of hospital privileges as well.
I’d rather just burn them at the stake slowly but I got some revenge
You are right that every single foreigner means another American loses a job.
Just think, at one time, he actually reviewed honest films about the government assault at Waco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsaif8wn15E
He’s gotten pretty dead over the past five…
But he went off on Africa Addio when it came out, so easily 50+ years ago. So in a word, no.
Oh my god, you’re not kidding. Multiple uploads of the full (2+ hour thing). Wonder how long before they take all of them down…
There are a fair number of TV shows I have watched multiple episodes of on YouTube. Lou Grant, Mr. Belvedere, Cybill, Roseanne. Some of these a few years ago, some recently. Archive.org also has plenty of TV shows, including a low resolution school film projector version of Roots.
It is nice to escape to the older, better America for 22 minutes sometimes.
As people move into Virtual Reality space like in Matrix, blacks can really have their Wakanda.
way to a man’s heart is through his stomach
Even though one could argue that the Way to the First World’s Wealth is through its Women’s Wombs. The Simon Mol way. As white women(and even Japanese women) got jungle fever, black guys just have to move to rich nations, conquer wombs, and produce sports stars who become worshiped as national heroes. Then, as blackness will be worshiped, it will be difficult for rich nations to say NO to more black immigration. After all, blacks have won sports trophies and brought glory to those nations. The Dong-Strong Strategy may allow blacks to take over the First World. Blacks don’t need to build Wakanda. Just take it from cucky folks of the First World.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wS_6ok9u2c
The surprising thing for me was just how dull and flat the movie “Black Panther” was. There is all this turmoil around this middle brow Marvel super hero movie. But there’s not much to it. I guess it’s one of those “Black Things” that whites can’t appreciate.
Super hero movies are all fairly similar. The hero almost always engages in fisticuffs. In the real world soldiers don’t punch out the enemy. They shoot them. Super heroes however almost never carry a firearm. They punch the bad guy right in the nose.
They also have strange powers that others don’t. My little dog has a sense of smell that no person can match. Maybe I should learn how to draw comic books and create a “Super Nose Dog” series. Naw! Too reality based. Dogs really do have super noses.
If you’re going to enjoy super hero based movies you’re going to have to work on your” willing suspension of disbelief” thingee.
The problem with “Black Panther” isn’t that its preposterous – all comic book heroes are preposterous. That’s the art form. The problem is that it is so leaden and plodding. It might have been saved if had had a different eponymous star. The guy in the movie looks like some black male fashion model. What’s worse he’s polite and circumspect. How black is that?
No. The Panther should be impulsive, violent and out of control. In short – Wesley Snipes.
One of the better lines from Avengers 2 is by Hawkeye:
The city is flying, we’re fighting an army of robots and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense.
Well, there are Wakanda whoopers, and Wakanda whoppers.
This is really the soft bigotry of low expectations. Stuff like this actually makes me feel a little sorry for Black people.
Black Panther would have been an OK movie if you removed the Oakland/inner-city political angle and added some standard Marvel humor. (Comic book movies are inherently ridiculous, which is why humor makes the Avengers, Spider-Man Homecoming et al watchable. Otherwise you’re just watching a bunch of people running around in tights with magical powers).
I see no problem with making a fictional Wakanda where Blacks are smart, successful and good looking. That’s the whole point of fantasy movies. Imagine if Star Trek was all White (and better looking). We wouldn’t cite it as an example of what Whites could be if only it weren’t for those pesky Sun People jumping our borders and destroying our inner cities. No, we’d just enjoy a movie depicting a fictional group of super smart and really good-looking White people fighting aliens and jumping to hyperspace. Nothing wrong with that, and nothing wrong with packaging the same product for Blacks or any other race. But, of course, the SJWs couldn’t just leave it at that, so instead we get Black Panther (Picard facepalm).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3pxKOzeZIA
The problem with self-conscious White Trek can be seen in the movie Iron Sky. That could have been a much, much better movie if it had not been so PC and so campy. Imagine a mash-up of Bladerunner and the first Star Trek movie (V-ger) with the nazi moon base idea. It would have been a fun movie, but no way to make it non-campy without promoting crimethink.
Or A Man Called Horse and The Naked Prey.
The Coen brothers got their start with Super 8 “remakes” in their chilly St Louis Park backyard. One of them was The Naked Prey. The poor boy in the lead role!
They laugh about this today.
And don’t have an H1-B program!
Hungry-Man® Frozen Dinners.
Hot Pockets.
Ice cream, sorbet, and sherbet.
Jimmy Dean® Brand Sausage Biscuit Sandwiches.
And of course, the pioneers of yesteryear, without whom we would not be what we are today:
MicroMagic Fries, Burgers, and Shakes.
When pizza's on a bagel, you can eat pizza any time! – It's who we are.
Serendipity– just in time, I came across a recent biography of Clarence Birdseye in a Little Free Library.
NB: I just learned from a passing semi that Jimmy Dean’s is now a Tyson product. Ouch.
I grew up on Jimmy Dean and Rowlf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnnHprUGKF0
Always on topic:
http://m.tmz.com/#!2019/01/29/empire-star-jussie-smollett-attacked-hospitalized-homophobic-hate-crime/
This probably isn’t exactly how it went down.
Just think, at one time, he actually reviewed honest films about the government assault at Waco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsaif8wn15E
Roger Ebert died almost six years ago.
I don't go out to the movies at all. (I don't have a burning need to see Hollyweird's crap right away--usually at all. And don't really know why anyone, beyond kids on a date looking to be away from their homes, bothers at all.) But if I did, i'd make sure not to be around those free screenings.
You and your cheap cracker ass might as well be dead to Hollywood and to most of corporate America. They would much rather that you be replaced by folks with a greater willingness to spend their disposable income on the finer things in life (such as tickets to Disney movies and Disney merchandise) instead of hoarding it “for your retirement” and to accept what is on offer as long as it hits a few simple hot buttons instead of constantly comparing their product to some mythical Golden Age that ended long before their current customers were even born. Even if you make 10 times what a ghetto teen makes, they ain’t seeing ANY of your money so they like him 10x better.
NB: I just learned from a passing semi that Jimmy Dean's is now a Tyson product. Ouch.
I grew up on Jimmy Dean and Rowlf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pbKHDpOmYU
And, yes, the first Tyson in the business was a big, bad John. But not quite as heroic as Jimmy’s.
(yeah, wasn't a thing back in '55)Frozen Jimmy Dean Pure Pork Sausage sounds much better than a "sausage fest" or morgue-chilled James Dean Roadkill.Heard this homophobic sonic blast from the past on Minnesota's KQRS many years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOx0iGkHGowAlso see posthumous collaboration of Vladimir Nabokov and Jane Austen in producing an urban legend-ish
- Invitation To A Beheading: Jayne Mansfield Park & RideSee also the food-fight and fury over Tyson Fury vs The Great Non-White Hope aka The Slaughter House Wage-Lowering Immigrantpaul walker comments not necessary
‘Black History Month’ should be changed to ‘Black Content Month’. That way they can celebrate their music and films, and have their Wakanda festivals (which no doubt will end in some shooting or the other).
If they really drew attention to black history, then virtually all of their current gripes would seem pretty hollow.
From P.J. O’Rourke’s Foreigners Around the World:
“Africans – Racial Characteristics: Probably not people at all. Probably some kind of monkey. They eat each other and worship bundles of sticks and mud. You can never remember the names of their countries, which have a new Main N–er every half hour and too many snakes and bugs anyway. They eat those, too. They put bones in their noses and wear plants for clothes.”
Emphasis mine. From today’s news:
https://www.foxnews.com/world/ten-children-in-tanzania-kidnapped-and-killed-for-their-body-parts-authorities-say
Wakanda right around the corner…
Amy Harmon with the ultimate appeal to authority – an evolutionary biologist with dark skin.
“Might the black scientist occupy a special place in modern conversations about scientific racism?” he asks. He sure does – as the go-to quote guy? But what about scientific fact?
“History, contexts, and environments turn the knobs on how genes are built” – hmm. Environment maybe – but history?
I don't go out to the movies at all. (I don't have a burning need to see Hollyweird's crap right away--usually at all. And don't really know why anyone, beyond kids on a date looking to be away from their homes, bothers at all.) But if I did, i'd make sure not to be around those free screenings.
There are only two Blockbuster franchises extant today. Though its Huizenga sister, Waste Management, is doing just fine.
Jerry Clower compared the nine channels in his NYC hotel room with the 200 on the satellite dish at his Yazoo City homestead. “And they call me a hick!”
A little further on, he exposes himself as a hereditarian. “Y’ain’t gonna ‘catch’ much ‘cept what your mama and daddy put in ya when ya was born!”
Free admission to a movie aimed at Africans in America makes participating theaters co-conspirators to murder.
The truly great superhero characters have some human flaws or weakness that makes them empathetic and 3 dimensional – they are not just pure bundles of superpowers untroubled by anything except bad guys. But you couldn’t possibly portray a black hero as having any flaws so T’Challa is this cardboard cutout figure that is completely uninteresting.
“An African retrovirus got Freddy Mercury in the end.”
I see what you did there.
In truth, other men’s DNA and feces got into Freddy’s bloodstream via his nether regions and overwhelmed his immune system. AIDS/HIV is a myth.
When sodomites hid their deathstyle for fear of imprisonment and capital punishment, they restrained their behaviors, which benefitted their health.
What are you even talking about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnnHprUGKF0
Sheb Wooley (under the name Ben Colder) used to do parody versions of big country hits. “Big Sweet John” was one of his best. “A smashing blow from his mighty purse/Put a California feller in the back of a hearse.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr4Cw_xP5M0
Access to Knowledge. I think we have found the latest plank in the Democratic Party platform.
Evil Whitey greedily hordes knowledge (he keeps it in a deep underground vault somewhere) and denies it to POCs.
You have no shortage of real-world examples from which to extrapolate.
A leftist perspective:
https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/tech/2019/1/29/18201695/learn-to-code-twitter-abuse-buzzfeed-journalists
Rightist
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/01/27/no-work-lefty-journalists-learn-code-not-secret-alt-right-phrase/amp/
https://twitter.com/SixStringTweets/status/1088851874109898758
I am so frustrated that there is no comments section for that ringer.com article. Molly McHugh would benefit from learning to code.
I see what you did there.
In truth, other men's DNA and feces got into Freddy's bloodstream via his nether regions and overwhelmed his immune system. AIDS/HIV is a myth.
When sodomites hid their deathstyle for fear of imprisonment and capital punishment, they restrained their behaviors, which benefitted their health.
AIDS/HIV is a myth.
What are you even talking about?
Kind of like Gallipoli and Pearl Harbor. Which were both real, and mythic.
Has a movie been made of “Adios America” yet?
Oh, that’s right, silly me. We’re living it.
A likely fake hate crime just in time for Black History Month.
https://www.tmz.com/2019/01/29/empire-star-jussie-smollett-attacked-hospitalized-homophobic-hate-crime/
Just Say No to Fake Hate.
A likely fake hate crime just in time for Black History Month.
https://www.tmz.com/2019/01/29/empire-star-jussie-smollett-attacked-hospitalized-homophobic-hate-crime/
Just Say No to Fake Hate.
Anyone have data on Empire Ratings?
That’s an amazing fact if true. I would have guessed Bhutan or Nepal or Lichtenstein or Andorra.
I agree - remarkable. I too would have guessed any of the countries you mentioned to hold that distinction, not Lesotho.
Free viewings. Sounds like a recipe for a riot.
Nice.
Steve, this is no time to joke about Wakanda.
A black, gay actor was beaten in Chicago at 2:00 a.m. by white racists in ski masks. They recognized him from his role on the show Empire. They called him a [email protected] and a nlgger, beat him, poured bleach on him, and told him, “this is MAGA country!” This is all very true.
If (on the very slim chance) this turns out to be a hoax, it should be properly documented.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c507c46e4b0f43e410b4a27/amp
Ha ha ha ha! Eagerly awaiting the police sketch on this one:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/empire-star-jussie-smollett-attacked-rope-put-around-neck-suspected-hate-crime-175325540.html
I don't go out to the movies at all. (I don't have a burning need to see Hollyweird's crap right away--usually at all. And don't really know why anyone, beyond kids on a date looking to be away from their homes, bothers at all.) But if I did, i'd make sure not to be around those free screenings.
Probably the same “select” theaters that have police cars stationed in the parking lot on Friday and Saturday nights.
I was thinking about that. I’m not sure we know how it really started. In Africa, the main line of transmission seems to be straight people, but it is still tempting to think it started with gays.
Now, if it started with urbanized gays, then here’s a really odd thought: they were shaping the genes of average Africans. Maybe, making them smarter or more monogamous. Maybe, removing rapists. Maybe, even causing a natural demographic transition. Because of gays. And we may have stopped that by sending lots of aid and antiretrovirals. Again, because of gays.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/african-female-sexual-freedom-spreads/https://www.unz.com/isteve/what-causes-high-rates-of-aids-in/
If your superhero dog would be using his super nose to solve crimes, that would be about on the realism level of “Black Panther”; in the real world, dogs use their olfactory superpower to figure out who peed where.
If the superhero dog using his super nose to solve crimes is like "Black Panther," then the real world dog using his olfactory sense to figure who peed where is like ___________?
Presumably so they can work the vibranium mines.
Peri, Is she talking about “working girls?”
Africans have been rioting in Portugal for the last two weeks:
https://www.uudis.eu/en/portugal-violent-african-immigrants-arrested-after-throwing-stones-at-police
https://www.uudis.eu/en/portugal-violent-african-mobs-throw-molotov-cocktails-at-police-stations
So, just about right for Black History Month.
On the bright side, it endorses nationalism (Wakanda First!) and strict immigration controls.
Also, as noted, it endorses rule by a dictator, who is selected in a trial by combat This would probably be an improvement over the current method of making policy in the U.S.
Haven’t seen it, but shouldn’t the “Black Panther” be a black man? Why did they cast a mulatto? At best, it seems like it undermines the premise of the character, and the movie as a whole. At worst, it provides an malicious negative racist commentary: Blacks aren’t of the highest value if they don’t have white admixture. Hardly the tent pole activity for celebrating black history.
And speaking of which, why cant we have a Mulatto History Month? Why don’t whites and places seem to not want Mulattos to be recognized for their historic achievements?
This confusion must end. I have a dream.
Nah, screen Zulu if you want to go full anti-PC, white colonial triumphalism. Zulu is the mid-20th Century anti-Django. Also, in fairness, “White History Month” is really March-January.
Our lads were fantastic, but in fairness the other chaps put up a damned fine show!
Alfa, I know the colonists made off with a lot of things, but how do you “steal knowledge?” All their knowledge was “one of?”
I see what you did there.
In truth, other men's DNA and feces got into Freddy's bloodstream via his nether regions and overwhelmed his immune system. AIDS/HIV is a myth.
When sodomites hid their deathstyle for fear of imprisonment and capital punishment, they restrained their behaviors, which benefitted their health.
Thank you Dr. Omar. – the scales of medical science have been lifted from my eyes. What kind of tinfoil do you recommend for a hat lining to block the Zionist mind control rays? I think Reynolds Wrap is a little thin but the heavy duty stuff is OK if you use several layers.
The Coen brothers got their start with Super 8 "remakes" in their chilly St Louis Park backyard. One of them was The Naked Prey. The poor boy in the lead role!
They laugh about this today.
Reg, Saw “The Naked Prey” at the drive-in, suspended all amorous activity for that thriller.
One or more Steve Sailer threads suggest that Mel (white, older, "right-wing") is at some risk of turning into something like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Girl
Worst case 2020 scenario - the election of "Apocalypto" Louis Farrakhan?
OT
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/29/jussie-smollett-hospitalized-in-alleged-hate-crime-attack/
Supposedly the attackers said “this is MAGA country”. I guess I can believe a 2am drunken dustup at the Subway but that statement just rings so false.
I'm guessing that if he did get jumped it was by a couple of blacks who probably did call him a [email protected] that they saw on Empire, but that's too embarrassing and doesn't fit the narrative.
Completely made up
Black gangbangers/drug deal gone bad
Gay black lovers' tiff
Down the memory hole without any further coverage
https://www.foxnews.com/us/hate-crimes-and-hoaxes-10-campus-stories-debunked-in-2017
http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/
Je Suis, Add free admission for black Americans to any black themed movie. After Free Public Education it is number two on my list of reparations.
Why is Black History Month the only one with a Leap Day?
I see what you did there.
In truth, other men's DNA and feces got into Freddy's bloodstream via his nether regions and overwhelmed his immune system. AIDS/HIV is a myth.
When sodomites hid their deathstyle for fear of imprisonment and capital punishment, they restrained their behaviors, which benefitted their health.
I also feel more like the level headed guy in the room after my morning reads on iSteve. Thanks for that.
Try reading the comments on one of UR's Pat Buchanan articles. You'll feel like the only sane person left on the planet.
According to Wikipedia (which I have no reason to doubt on this point), the lowest point in Nepal is 59m in elevation.
I agree – remarkable. I too would have guessed any of the countries you mentioned to hold that distinction, not Lesotho.
And who-whom approved for diz Hollliest of The All Days gibs ?
Adam Aron is CEO of AMC.
https://variety.com/2017/film/news/adam-aron-amc-cinemacon-exhibition-industry-120201673/
According to Jewish Exponent,” He’s Got Game” in August of 2012, and, also according
to Jewish Exponent ,”Sixers Jewish CEO Steps Down” in July of 2013;
http://jewishexponent.com/2012/08/30/hes-got-game/
http://jewishexponent.com/2013/07/09/beyond-the-buzzer-sixers-jewish-ceo-steps-down/
Adam Aron on the subject of waisting your time, money, culture, and future on movies-schmovies:
Boycott.
Ignore.
Starve The Beast.
http://jewishexponent.com/2013/07/09/beyond-the-buzzer-sixers-jewish-ceo-steps-down/
https://twitter.com/amy_harmon/status/1090297946548129792
Well, history insofar as who conquered who and what types of men had the best mating opportunities as a result.
Hungry-Man® Frozen Dinners.
Hot Pockets.
Ice cream, sorbet, and sherbet.
Jimmy Dean® Brand Sausage Biscuit Sandwiches.
And of course, the pioneers of yesteryear, without whom we would not be what we are today:
MicroMagic Fries, Burgers, and Shakes.
When pizza's on a bagel, you can eat pizza any time! – It's who we are.
Rats, I just used up my LOL/AGREE/DISAGREE click for a while, just 1 minute back.
This one’s a big LOL.
I hope to see posters of famous frozen food in the hallway’s of my kid’s elementary school this March. My favorite is Swanson’s TV Dinners. The teachers should have all the kids do reports on their Daddy’s and Grandaddy’s favorite TV dinners of the past.
Then, in Science time, they can take a few of them that some PTO pack-rat/prepper parent has kept in the chest freezer for some decades, and see how they’ve held up over the years … probably a whole damn lot better than that “judging a man by his character bit”, I can tell you right now.
(See, now that’s a blog post! It’s a blog about nothing!)
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/29/jussie-smollett-hospitalized-in-alleged-hate-crime-attack/
Supposedly the attackers said “this is MAGA country”. I guess I can believe a 2am drunken dustup at the Subway but that statement just rings so false.
There’s more that’s unbelievable about this. It’s freezing out, they jumped a guy that they recognize from “Empire” (like white MAGA fans are also avid consumers of a show about blacks in entertainment) and also put a rope around his neck and poured some kind of chemical on him.
I’m guessing that if he did get jumped it was by a couple of blacks who probably did call him a [email protected] that they saw on Empire, but that’s too embarrassing and doesn’t fit the narrative.
What are you even talking about?
Regardless of the veracity of Omar’s science, he’s right. AIDS/HIV is indeed a myth, a founding myth.
Kind of like Gallipoli and Pearl Harbor. Which were both real, and mythic.
I believe a better way to put it is that AIDS is a real condition that has multiple causes including methamphetamine use but none of those causes are due to a retrovirus commonly referred to as HIV, a retrovirus which may or may not have been properly isolated in a lab as other retroviruses have.
And that sometimes people with other conditions are lumped in with AIDS despite not truly having the condition...such as hemophiliacs.
It certainly did advance the science of virology.
Agree. Can’t get enough Zulu.
Our lads were fantastic, but in fairness the other chaps put up a damned fine show!
A lot of the great black actors around are too old for the role of young Big Man. Samuel L, Ving Rhames, Denzel, Keith David (my favorite), Danny Glover. I am not sure if any really fit the role. It seems like Hollywood picks actors that fit stereotypes of their own which is not a good fit to the Big Man. I would think that a good actor for that role would have to be the kind of one trick pony only suitable for the one starring role.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/29/jussie-smollett-hospitalized-in-alleged-hate-crime-attack/
Supposedly the attackers said “this is MAGA country”. I guess I can believe a 2am drunken dustup at the Subway but that statement just rings so false.
Were the perps seen speeding off in a red pickup? That’s a sure sign it’s a true story.
“If you let the refugees in, they bring their problems with them.
And then Wakanda is like everywhere else.”
Now if he'd followed that with "... look at Lewiston Maine", i'd go watch it.
http://m.tmz.com/#!2019/01/29/empire-star-jussie-smollett-attacked-hospitalized-homophobic-hate-crime/This probably isn't exactly how it went down.
Hate Hoaxes are the new Leaked Sex Tape.
http://m.tmz.com/#!2019/01/29/empire-star-jussie-smollett-attacked-hospitalized-homophobic-hate-crime/This probably isn't exactly how it went down.
Oh come on now!! You’re telling me Chicago isn’t MAGA country!?
And where wuz the Black Panther when two Chickago’s huwhite rajsis, masked with a ski masks, put a noose around the neck of some gay black celebrity guy ?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6645049/Empire-star-Jussie-Smollett-hospitalized-Chicago-premeditated-homophobic-attack.html
They got me at ski masks part.
Gran Torino.
When is White History Month, anyway? Heh. If you search for White History Month on Wikipedia, it redirects you to Black History Month.
March is Women’s History Month (seriously). So maybe free showings of Heathers, or Double Indemnity?
Wakanda’s air force will get another test spin around the block:
http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/3d5RuDGyel2x.jpg
Not sure if Jones has the latest scuttlebutt about Wakandan forces, what with their extreme secrecy and all, but if they're using A-6s, they're likely working with Iran. Isn't Iran still trying to keep their Tomcats airworthy?
Early 1970s: Grumman Aviation employees had bumper stickers on their cars touting the F-14 and the RIAF.
Late '70s and early '80s: Grumman aviation employees remove the cool Tomcat stickers. "Ayatollah Assaholah" bumper stickers appear. I still miss seeing the "Airborne: Death from Above" bumper stickers.
An interesting aside: in the mid 1970s there was an avionics tech who had saved and patched enough scrapped modules from the Intruder's computer system that he had the whole thing running at home. One of the first real "home computers" along with the mini (still can't find what they had-a PDP-8? -11? DG Nova? HP 2xxx/3xxx? ) the Osmonds (yeah, the Mormon singing family) had.
You dont seem sincere, but I would recommend “Inventing the AIDS Virus” by Peter Duesberg.
While his ideas may have had some plausibility in the early 90s when not much about the AIDS and related viruses was known, laboratories were small, someone had an IBM PC and PCR was expensive, these particular ideas should have been shat down the crapper by now. It's 30 years later!
http://m.tmz.com/#!2019/01/29/empire-star-jussie-smollett-attacked-hospitalized-homophobic-hate-crime/This probably isn't exactly how it went down.
From TMZ:
The Target is on the corner of the next block from the Subway Smollett left at 2 AM. You can see the security cameras near the entrance on Google Street View. There is a PNC branch next to the Subway also, he obviously didn’t think through this hoax. The fake hate mail is a unique feature to this story and makes you wonder what his goal is in doing this.
Saved by obscurity and lack of an angry copyright holder.
There are a fair number of TV shows I have watched multiple episodes of on YouTube. Lou Grant, Mr. Belvedere, Cybill, Roseanne. Some of these a few years ago, some recently. Archive.org also has plenty of TV shows, including a low resolution school film projector version of Roots.
It is nice to escape to the older, better America for 22 minutes sometimes.
OT: Possible HateHoax Alert:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/empire-star-jussie-smollett-hospitalized-after-homophobic-attack-tmz
“This is MAGA country!” Plus noose bonus points!
“We’ll have a whole month dedicated to African history and achievement!
(thinks)
“I guess we better make it February.”
Super hero movies are all fairly similar. The hero almost always engages in fisticuffs. In the real world soldiers don’t punch out the enemy. They shoot them. Super heroes however almost never carry a firearm.
One of the better lines from Avengers 2 is by Hawkeye:
The city is flying, we’re fighting an army of robots and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense.
When is White History Month, anyway? Heh. If you search for White History Month on Wikipedia, it redirects you to Black History Month.
‘White History Month’ has been condensed down to ‘World Holocaust Day’.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/29/jussie-smollett-hospitalized-in-alleged-hate-crime-attack/
Supposedly the attackers said “this is MAGA country”. I guess I can believe a 2am drunken dustup at the Subway but that statement just rings so false.
Taking bets…
Completely made up
Black gangbangers/drug deal gone bad
Gay black lovers’ tiff
Down the memory hole without any further coverage
https://www.foxnews.com/us/hate-crimes-and-hoaxes-10-campus-stories-debunked-in-2017
http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/
Kind of like Gallipoli and Pearl Harbor. Which were both real, and mythic.
Regardless of the veracity of Omar’s science, he’s right. AIDS/HIV is indeed a myth, a founding myth.
I believe a better way to put it is that AIDS is a real condition that has multiple causes including methamphetamine use but none of those causes are due to a retrovirus commonly referred to as HIV, a retrovirus which may or may not have been properly isolated in a lab as other retroviruses have.
And that sometimes people with other conditions are lumped in with AIDS despite not truly having the condition…such as hemophiliacs.
Getting Camp of Sainty down in Arizona:
Remember, more CBP agents and “Smart Fence” without a wall makes this migration easier. These people cross and turn themselves in immediately for BS asylum claims. More cameras and agents help them.
These aren’t Mexican young men who want to sneak in and work construction for 5 years and then go home with their savings. Life in the USA on asylum-seeker-welfare is a step up from Guatemala.
Trump should simply suspend all admissions of asylum seekers for a year because of the huge backlog.
Don’t give Hollywood a minute of your time or a penny of your money.
I don’t have cable; I don’t have Netflix or Amazon Prime; I don’t go to the movies. And I never feel that I’m missing out on anything worthwhile.
That actor who says he got assaulted describes evil white men self-identifying as MAGA types (who are inexplicably more worried about gay black actors that are unknown to white folk, as opposed to say, y’know, mestizos) and claims that they identified him as “that f$ Empire n$.” Which depends on white people knowing what Empire is. The mass media do not say if the evil white men held forth at length about what a handsome devil the actor was.
There are a fair number of TV shows I have watched multiple episodes of on YouTube. Lou Grant, Mr. Belvedere, Cybill, Roseanne. Some of these a few years ago, some recently. Archive.org also has plenty of TV shows, including a low resolution school film projector version of Roots.
It is nice to escape to the older, better America for 22 minutes sometimes.
Danger UXB is on Youtube, a ton of excellent lectures and documentaries as well.
This is the “Mary Sue” character. Rey from the newest gaggle of Star Wars movies is a great example of this.
The story is already starting to fall apart for that actor nobody has heard of from that show that white folk do not watch, regarding that attack that did not happen.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/here-we-go-chicago-police-claim-there-is-no-report-attackers-shouted-this-is-maga-country-at-actor-jussie-smollett/
A black, gay actor was beaten in Chicago at 2:00 a.m. by white racists in ski masks. They recognized him from his role on the show Empire. They called him a [email protected] and a nlgger, beat him, poured bleach on him, and told him, "this is MAGA country!" This is all very true.
If (on the very slim chance) this turns out to be a hoax, it should be properly documented.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c507c46e4b0f43e410b4a27/amp
What white person watches Empire?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/opinion/buttigieg-2020-millennials.htmlWe obviously need more immigration.
If Leonhardt was paying attention, he realize inflation-adjusted median incomes haven’t risen since the early ’70s. That’s a helluva long recession.
If he were writing during the 1980 election campaign, he could’ve written, “for anyone under 40, the 1970s were one long recession.”
He baldly cherry picks starting points and makes fallacious assumptions in order to deliver outcomes that don’t occur. E.g. those in the nine-year age cohort of 25-34 in 2017 are not the same people who were in the cohort in 2000, making the “earning slightly less observation” absurd.
Since, as one ages, one moves up an age cohort, and experiences the higher incomes indicated in the graph, the cumulative change is meaningless, i.e. one doesn’t remain in their cohort.
All the first chart measures is cohort incomes at that time compared to the others. Older workers tend to be more productive for a variety of factors, and hence, earn more.
And then Wakanda is like everywhere else."
https://youtu.be/ev_RUKS8u6k
Well i’m warming to the movie now. I guess black is sufficient cover to utter obvious truths.
Now if he’d followed that with “… look at Lewiston Maine”, i’d go watch it.
But what did your date think?
https://twitter.com/CBPArizona/status/1090090236414021632
Remember, more CBP agents and "Smart Fence" without a wall makes this migration easier. These people cross and turn themselves in immediately for BS asylum claims. More cameras and agents help them.
These aren't Mexican young men who want to sneak in and work construction for 5 years and then go home with their savings. Life in the USA on asylum-seeker-welfare is a step up from Guatemala.
Trump should simply suspend all admissions of asylum seekers for a year because of the huge backlog.
How about: suspend all admissions of asylum seekers permanently?
There are a fair number of TV shows I have watched multiple episodes of on YouTube. Lou Grant, Mr. Belvedere, Cybill, Roseanne. Some of these a few years ago, some recently. Archive.org also has plenty of TV shows, including a low resolution school film projector version of Roots.
It is nice to escape to the older, better America for 22 minutes sometimes.
Haven’t watched one in a few months, but every episode of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist was up on YouTube last I checked.
EDIT: Yup, still there! Thanks for the heads up about Africa Addio, btw. Saw it with some friends a few years back and we weren’t exactly sober. After this thread I was (probably) gonna go through the trouble of torrenting it but YouTube is a lot easier.
Yogi Berra’s quip: In theory it works in practice, in practice it doesn’t work in theory.
Bologna. Trump loves, loves, loves immigration so long as it is “legal.” Ask anyone in Mexinchifornia or Chinese Columbia what that does for wages, rents, housing, etc.
Trump is a mountebank, a blackguard, and a fool.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/africa-aids-and-multiple-concurrent/
https://www.unz.com/isteve/african-female-sexual-freedom-spreads/
https://www.unz.com/isteve/what-causes-high-rates-of-aids-in/
Mark Steyn makes a Sailerian (nautical?) talking point on Tucker last night, 1-28-19.
Tucker cracks a preemptive smile as Steyn begins to describe Biden’s gaffe.
Will anyone important get Wattsoned? Will anyone unimportant get doxxed?
The Country Gentlemen beat Sheb to the punch. This was before Messrs Willis, Springsteen, Hornsby, Cleese, Idle, Chapman, Palin, etc, rescued the name Bruce from stereotype.
Duesberg is a fucking crank in this regard.
While his ideas may have had some plausibility in the early 90s when not much about the AIDS and related viruses was known, laboratories were small, someone had an IBM PC and PCR was expensive, these particular ideas should have been shat down the crapper by now. It’s 30 years later!
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/29/jussie-smollett-hospitalized-in-alleged-hate-crime-attack/
Supposedly the attackers said “this is MAGA country”. I guess I can believe a 2am drunken dustup at the Subway but that statement just rings so false.
Maybe they said “This be LAVA country!”
Sounds like a culturally appropriate analogy question on the SAT-verbal.
If the superhero dog using his super nose to solve crimes is like “Black Panther,” then the real world dog using his olfactory sense to figure who peed where is like ___________?
A black, gay actor was beaten in Chicago at 2:00 a.m. by white racists in ski masks. They recognized him from his role on the show Empire. They called him a [email protected] and a nlgger, beat him, poured bleach on him, and told him, "this is MAGA country!" This is all very true.
If (on the very slim chance) this turns out to be a hoax, it should be properly documented.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c507c46e4b0f43e410b4a27/amp
It must be true. Chicago is a hotbed of pro-Trumpers and crackers. Trump carried 90% of the vote in Chicago. Or maybe it was 9%. Well anyway, it had a 9 somewhere in the number.
Kind of like Gallipoli and Pearl Harbor. Which were both real, and mythic.
the founding myth of what? more income for Big Pharma?
It certainly did advance the science of virology.
Evil Whitey greedily hordes knowledge (he keeps it in a deep underground vault somewhere) and denies it to POCs.
Iger has been tokin’ on the weed a bit too much, me thinks…
Maybe not super smart, but White Trek accidentally describes every sci-fi movie before Star Trek, plus Starship Troopers and maybe some others.
The problem with self-conscious White Trek can be seen in the movie Iron Sky. That could have been a much, much better movie if it had not been so PC and so campy. Imagine a mash-up of Bladerunner and the first Star Trek movie (V-ger) with the nazi moon base idea. It would have been a fun movie, but no way to make it non-campy without promoting crimethink.
Back here in the real world. Hospital in Petersburg Va (92% black and bankrupt)
Southside Regional Medical Center
YouTube keeps deleting….
Willie Brown invested in her, Mr. Joe, and they both seem satisfied.
Well, it was mostly a rhetorical question. But in any case I don’t think any real world examples started close to Wakanda level. The best real examples I can think of (any more suggestions?) are South Africa and Detroit.
I didn’t see the movie, but what do they eat in Wakanda? Watermelons the size of beach balls and genetically-modified super-tasty fried chicken? Do they have a space-aged delivery method for Mary Jane?
Yes, that is the black nationalist idea of stealing knowledge. The Greeks stole all the knowledge that they are famous for from Egypt (which is in Africa, you’ll note). The Africans were then cruelly kept from benefiting from that knowledge. If you have a bicycle and someone steals it, then you don’t have the bicycle any more, right? It’s called magical thinking, something the West mostly gave up at the Enlightenment. In Africa to this day men are lynched as witch doctors during hysterias where other men believe the witch doctor stole their penises. The victims of penis theft actually look at their crotches and think it’s gone.
Except Petty.
NB: I'm just having fun. I support reasonable intellectual property protection (I'm the grandson, grandnephew, and great-great-grandson of patent holders), and fully intend to exercise my own should I ever have to.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, however, thinks such protection goes way too far, and protect the wrong people:
https://www.amazon.com/Copyrights-Copywrongs-Intellectual-Threatens-Creativity/dp/0814788076
Don't they find it next time they have to urinate?
I worked in Silicon Valley back in its heyday when we invented physical things, instead of just figuring out clever ways to market social media. "Intellectual property" was not that big of a thing in the Valley back then: you figured that by the time your competitors copied your latest thing and brought it to market, you had a later latest thing -- if you were any good.
Now, amazon thinks they can patent idiotic stuff like "One-click" ordering!
Of course, schoolboys used to learn (back when we studied history) that the US did to Britain in the early days of the Industrial Revolution exactly the same thing that China is now doing to the US.
Rising powers get better and better at making stuff and do not care where or how they learn to make it better. Fading powers try to hoard their old ideas, thinking that they can live off old glories forever, without actually getting better at what they do.
Reminds me to tell my kids to brush up on their Mandarin.
That’s what can happen when you don’t back up your files.
What's the point? That with free energy and post-scarcity, what people really want to do is wear bones in their nose and beat each other up for status?
Also worth noting that while at the end they decide to improve the lives of the backwards denizens of the US, they don't bother with the Congo. I get the implied slam on white americans, but it's pretty strange when you think about it.
In Algis Budry’s short story “The War is Over” (1957), an alien civilization is building a starship in single-minded purpose. They barely understand how it works, but they do know that getting it to work is the most important goal of all and justifies all sacrifices, be it diverting the whole economic output towards the space program, or dying in vast numbers mining radioactive ore. The launch time is approaching. The single designated pilot, after talking with his companion about a recent disturbing discovery that their ancestors were only small lizards with barely any brain less than 30 generations ago, is handed a small, ancient, sealed box, packed into the ship, and then blasted into orbit, burning the hamlets below, and from orbit into hyperspace.
He bampfs in near the Terran Fleet and is let aboard one of the flying fortresses. Two officers come to meet the strange creature. Barely comprehending what happens to him, the erstwhile pilot reflexively blurts out “The War is Over – We Have Won!!”, which is met with incomprehension by the officers.
He hands over the box.
The box contains the announcement of an armistice for an earlier space war, as well as the log of the pilot who was tasked to bring said announcement to Earth. While on the way, he got attacked by a dead-ender enemy patrol and had to crash land on an inhospitable planet. The only inhabited of that planet turn out to be small lizards, not even enough to make a meal. The pilot knows he will die soon and will be unable to fulfill his mission. He wonders what will happen to the “assistant” he has been injected with, a semi-sentient and practically immortal utility that is supposed to help him fulfill his mission by any means necessary.
Understanding what has happened, the officers look at the large lizard space pilot who has come aboard to fulfill the mission – by any means necessary.
He is already reverting to savagery and tearing into his spacesuit.
Peter Burnett successfully pushed a law in Oregon to keep free blacks out of the territory. He was less successful as the first state governor of California, but at least he tried.
There is still a school named for him in Sacramento!
Evidence for Peak Onion intensifying:
Angry Democrats call for Starbucks boycott after ex-CEO touts independent presidential run
OTOH, are there many black “intellectual property” lawyers?
…and returned to with intellectual property law. If you reproduce your copy of Tom Petty’s Greatest and give it to a friend, and his copy is stolen, you still have yours and can replace his. So nobody is out anything.
Except Petty.
NB: I’m just having fun. I support reasonable intellectual property protection (I’m the grandson, grandnephew, and great-great-grandson of patent holders), and fully intend to exercise my own should I ever have to.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, however, thinks such protection goes way too far, and protect the wrong people:
As an example, the Egyptians had a yin-yang parallel concept in a mother earth and father sky that hid a mother sky and father earth -- Greeks just skipped the second part with its implications of complexity and feminine sides. Ancient Greeks were also the Japanese of their day in the sense of hyper-adapting things of foreign origin to the point where they might as well have invented it.
Often, it is impossible to get rights to reproduce long tail material (material for which there is a definite but small demand, relatively speaking) because you just can't get anyone in the New York publishing houses to give you the time of day to talk to you about it. Other times there is no one left to approach, meaning if you reprint anyway, one, you set yourself up for a submarine heir to surface if it takes off, and two, printers won't do the job because of liability. Sometimes printers won't do the job when you DO have the rights-they think you are going over on them and will want an extortionate bond or insurance cover to do it.
Life pus say ten years or fifty years total for corporate copyrights seems good to me. Disney doesn't agree and the Mouse has an elephant's penis, er , lobbying budget.
As Elise Wiesel has been quoted as saying,
In literature, Rebbe, certain things are true though they didn’t happen, while others are not, even if they did.
If you ever had a straightforward power fantasy as a preteen, that’s what it is, with better costumes and worse CGI.
https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/0ed991f696c96f83e7e1843e1b12c48a4d7c1127/c=0-114-1968-2735/local/-/media/Louisville/Louisville/2014/01/20//1390251562007-lcjdc5-57yd1a1luo4sb7ujefv-original.jpg?width=292&height=390&fit=crop
Has there been any articles written bitching that they got the shortest month?
Except Petty.
NB: I'm just having fun. I support reasonable intellectual property protection (I'm the grandson, grandnephew, and great-great-grandson of patent holders), and fully intend to exercise my own should I ever have to.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, however, thinks such protection goes way too far, and protect the wrong people:
https://www.amazon.com/Copyrights-Copywrongs-Intellectual-Threatens-Creativity/dp/0814788076
My understanding of Greek adaptation of Egyptian wisdom is that the Greeks Hellenized the hell out of it and omitted at least half. And nowhere do we establish how much of this stuff went south and west, because that would require writing.
As an example, the Egyptians had a yin-yang parallel concept in a mother earth and father sky that hid a mother sky and father earth — Greeks just skipped the second part with its implications of complexity and feminine sides. Ancient Greeks were also the Japanese of their day in the sense of hyper-adapting things of foreign origin to the point where they might as well have invented it.
http://www.seaforces.org/usnair/VA/Attack-Squadron-35-Dateien/image137.jpg
Good one, Mr. Christian 😉 And don’t forget that “loose lips sink ships:”
Not sure if Jones has the latest scuttlebutt about Wakandan forces, what with their extreme secrecy and all, but if they’re using A-6s, they’re likely working with Iran. Isn’t Iran still trying to keep their Tomcats airworthy?
Early 1970s: Grumman Aviation employees had bumper stickers on their cars touting the F-14 and the RIAF.
Late ’70s and early ’80s: Grumman aviation employees remove the cool Tomcat stickers. “Ayatollah Assaholah” bumper stickers appear. I still miss seeing the “Airborne: Death from Above” bumper stickers.
Also, Egyptian cultural influence was a continuity in the ancient world, there were episodes like that bull cult that started well after the very ancient period and spread widely.
AD, Good question, but we dated again .
I guess there wasn’t enough comedic value in the creation of Kwanzaa so someone in the black community had to step it up a notch and say “Oh yea? I see your Kwanzaa and raise you Wakanda for our next holiday!”
Man, I’d buy a good steak dinner for Thomas Sowell or Walt Williams just to hear their thoughts on this ridiculousness. Gotta feel sorry for the blacks that don’t buy into this crap.
You never played Civ? Send your diplomat to the enemy city.
Apparently, Africa Addio really triggers TF out of lefties.
Or 2001: A Space Odyssey; much more likely to become history than Black Panther.
What's the point? That with free energy and post-scarcity, what people really want to do is wear bones in their nose and beat each other up for status?
Also worth noting that while at the end they decide to improve the lives of the backwards denizens of the US, they don't bother with the Congo. I get the implied slam on white americans, but it's pretty strange when you think about it.
Do blacks in Congo vote for the Democrats?
I didn’t think so.
LET IT ALL BURN
https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/28/fire-service-changes-entrance-test-deliberately-harder-white-men-8402291/
One of the county’s biggest fire services has been accused of discrimination after it emerged white men have to score higher in its recruitment tests than anyone else.
West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service wants 60% of new recruits to be women, and 35% to be from black and minority ethnic groups by 2021.
In a bid to reach the target, they have altered the pass rates to make it easier for people from those groups to get through the test.
Women and men from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups only have to score 60% on verbal and numerical tests – where as white men have to score 70%.
A senior source claims the new recruitment programme, introduced in late 2017, costs £100,000 a year.
This includes £2,500 a month spent on targeted Facebook adverts which just appear on the profiles belonging to women to ‘minimise white men applying’, the source said.
He claims West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service is the first brigade in the UK to introduce the tactic.
He said: ‘This directly discriminates against white men.
‘This approach was intentionally adopted to directly manipulate the diversity figures to meet the targets.’
Related: A Rescue Service in Need of Rescue, from Sweden but in English. Note the physical test where the healthy-looking young white male still has trouble, because firefighting is actually kinda hard.
Oh, on the Black History Month angle, it’s pretty sad, really:
“We have no history to speak of. Let’s watch this made-up stuff instead. Made up mostly by White and Yellow people, but at least it’s about Blacks.”
But BP is kinda sad all by itself, when you think about it; couldn’t just make up a Black superhero or a Black superteam and just leave it at that. It had to be this whole Zamunda thing…
“Daddy, are Blacks allowed unseemly levels of ethnocentrism because ‘tarded?”
A black, gay actor was beaten in Chicago at 2:00 a.m. by white racists in ski masks. They recognized him from his role on the show Empire. They called him a [email protected] and a nlgger, beat him, poured bleach on him, and told him, "this is MAGA country!" This is all very true.
If (on the very slim chance) this turns out to be a hoax, it should be properly documented.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c507c46e4b0f43e410b4a27/amp
What’s amazing is that millions of leftists will take this guy’s story seriously.
I'm guessing that if he did get jumped it was by a couple of blacks who probably did call him a [email protected] that they saw on Empire, but that's too embarrassing and doesn't fit the narrative.
I’m guessing Mexican window washers. Sounds like the kind of stuff they would keep in the boot of their hoopty.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/29/jussie-smollett-hospitalized-in-alleged-hate-crime-attack/
Supposedly the attackers said “this is MAGA country”. I guess I can believe a 2am drunken dustup at the Subway but that statement just rings so false.
Conveniently, chlorine, the chemical used, would destroy DNA evidence, which could have been used to identify the race of the reported attackers.
So we are to believe that two white Trump supporters just happen to be carrying chlorine and a rope with them when they recognize a black, gay actor who stars on a show they are unlikely to watch and know that he is gay, supposedly from watching some celebrity show on TV or reading about him in People Magazine or one of its competitors.
Right, nothing suspicious about this hate event.
Has Tawana Brawley started a hate hoax training school?
Let's change that this year.
They didn’t build that?
“The victims of penis theft actually look at their crotches and think it’s gone.”
Don’t they find it next time they have to urinate?
Except Petty.
NB: I'm just having fun. I support reasonable intellectual property protection (I'm the grandson, grandnephew, and great-great-grandson of patent holders), and fully intend to exercise my own should I ever have to.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, however, thinks such protection goes way too far, and protect the wrong people:
https://www.amazon.com/Copyrights-Copywrongs-Intellectual-Threatens-Creativity/dp/0814788076
Does he support copyright on his own works?
Except Petty.
NB: I'm just having fun. I support reasonable intellectual property protection (I'm the grandson, grandnephew, and great-great-grandson of patent holders), and fully intend to exercise my own should I ever have to.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, however, thinks such protection goes way too far, and protect the wrong people:
https://www.amazon.com/Copyrights-Copywrongs-Intellectual-Threatens-Creativity/dp/0814788076
The current law which provides for life plus 90 years of “protection” is insane. In the case of almost nonagerian Arthur Miller it means his oeuvre will be completely restricted until 2095, meaning he will have financed either some worthless great grandchildren he never met or some company which will have bought out his kids or grandkids for a pittance.
Often, it is impossible to get rights to reproduce long tail material (material for which there is a definite but small demand, relatively speaking) because you just can’t get anyone in the New York publishing houses to give you the time of day to talk to you about it. Other times there is no one left to approach, meaning if you reprint anyway, one, you set yourself up for a submarine heir to surface if it takes off, and two, printers won’t do the job because of liability. Sometimes printers won’t do the job when you DO have the rights-they think you are going over on them and will want an extortionate bond or insurance cover to do it.
Life pus say ten years or fifty years total for corporate copyrights seems good to me. Disney doesn’t agree and the Mouse has an elephant’s penis, er , lobbying budget.
http://www.seaforces.org/usnair/VA/Attack-Squadron-35-Dateien/image137.jpg
You know it’s a damn shame none of the Intruders made it on the civil register. Be a hell of a warbird if you didn’t mind the heinous gas bills.
An interesting aside: in the mid 1970s there was an avionics tech who had saved and patched enough scrapped modules from the Intruder’s computer system that he had the whole thing running at home. One of the first real “home computers” along with the mini (still can’t find what they had-a PDP-8? -11? DG Nova? HP 2xxx/3xxx? ) the Osmonds (yeah, the Mormon singing family) had.
Nowadays, it's all so controlled up there, they don't get to play much outside of training. Spontaneous playtime in military aircraft is restricted and punished now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnnHprUGKF0
Rebel Without A Seat Belt?
(yeah, wasn’t a thing back in ’55)
Frozen Jimmy Dean Pure Pork Sausage sounds much better than a “sausage fest” or morgue-chilled James Dean Roadkill.
Heard this homophobic sonic blast from the past on Minnesota’s KQRS many years ago:
Also see posthumous collaboration of Vladimir Nabokov and Jane Austen in producing an urban legend-ish
– Invitation To A Beheading: Jayne Mansfield Park & Ride
See also the food-fight and fury over Tyson Fury vs The Great Non-White Hope aka The Slaughter House Wage-Lowering Immigrant
paul walker comments not necessary
Totally agree. And as my very successful multiple malpractice suits proved, Asian Drs, especially woman Asians drs ain’t all they’re cracked up to be.
When drs don’t fillow their own practice manuals, their insurance companies have no choice but to settle as fast as possible. And when the malpractice is so blatant, the insurance premiums rise a lot higher than if the Dr made a reasonable effort to follow the manual and standard accepted practice. And they are kicked out of hospital privileges as well.
I’d rather just burn them at the stake slowly but I got some revenge
You are right that every single foreigner means another American loses a job.
OTish
https://stream.org/obianuju-ekeocha-population-control-africa/
That’s the theory spread by the White Jew Professor Bernal of Cornell university; hundreds of pages of absolute bullshit, including that some African warriors conquered China and became the first Emperors.
Reinforcing the narrative on the first bit… but wording of the second bit makes it sound like even TMZ doesn’t believe it.
Never mind $20 watermelon slices, those theatres better worry about the “patrons” smashing and grabbing the jumbo boxes of Milk Duds and Raisinettes. Maybe slashing the seats too. This stunt could really cost them. It’s not like Starbucks declaring their toilets are available to the public; free use of toilets was never going to be that much of a draw. But free movies will really pack ’em in.
The double-whammie is going to be that paying customers will shy away from patronizing these theatres during the free period.
And where wuz the Black Panther when two Chickago’s huwhite rajsis, masked with a ski masks, put a noose around the neck of some gay black celebrity guy ?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6645049/Empire-star-Jussie-Smollett-hospitalized-Chicago-premeditated-homophobic-attack.html
They got me at ski masks part.
Perhaps they should be called "mugger masks" or "rapist maks" or "serial killer masks" or "terrorist masks".
And who-whom approved for diz Hollliest of The All Days gibs ?
Adam Aron is CEO of AMC.
https://variety.com/2017/film/news/adam-aron-amc-cinemacon-exhibition-industry-120201673/
According to Jewish Exponent,” He’s Got Game” in August of 2012, and, also according
to Jewish Exponent ,”Sixers Jewish CEO Steps Down” in July of 2013;
http://jewishexponent.com/2012/08/30/hes-got-game/
http://jewishexponent.com/2013/07/09/beyond-the-buzzer-sixers-jewish-ceo-steps-down/
Adam Aron on the subject of waisting your time, money, culture, and future on movies-schmovies:
Boycott.
Ignore.
Starve The Beast.
http://jewishexponent.com/2013/07/09/beyond-the-buzzer-sixers-jewish-ceo-steps-down/
What's the point? That with free energy and post-scarcity, what people really want to do is wear bones in their nose and beat each other up for status?
Also worth noting that while at the end they decide to improve the lives of the backwards denizens of the US, they don't bother with the Congo. I get the implied slam on white americans, but it's pretty strange when you think about it.
Also note, especially on the comic book side, the successful black super hero…
…gets to join and mix with the white super heroes as they do cool and important stuff.
They’re checking their Pee-mail .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvOhV8G1stA
Tucker cracks a preemptive smile as Steyn begins to describe Biden's gaffe.
Will anyone important get Wattsoned? Will anyone unimportant get doxxed?
Hey, who cut Mark off? I want to hear the rest.
Did it contribute to her being your ex-wife ?
“I also feel more like the level headed guy in the room after my morning reads on iSteve.”
Try reading the comments on one of UR’s Pat Buchanan articles. You’ll feel like the only sane person left on the planet.
I don't have cable; I don't have Netflix or Amazon Prime; I don't go to the movies. And I never feel that I'm missing out on anything worthwhile.
What age are you, if I may ask?
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Not sure if Jones has the latest scuttlebutt about Wakandan forces, what with their extreme secrecy and all, but if they're using A-6s, they're likely working with Iran. Isn't Iran still trying to keep their Tomcats airworthy?
Early 1970s: Grumman Aviation employees had bumper stickers on their cars touting the F-14 and the RIAF.
Late '70s and early '80s: Grumman aviation employees remove the cool Tomcat stickers. "Ayatollah Assaholah" bumper stickers appear. I still miss seeing the "Airborne: Death from Above" bumper stickers.
When I watched “Black Panther” I joked to my girlfriend that if the lip guy was caught in a Florida thunderstorm and ran for cover he would probably drown. She couldn’t stop laughing. Had to pause the flick.
Did you ask something?
Don't they find it next time they have to urinate?
“No! No way! You don’t understand, it was much bigger than that …”
Intellectual property lawyers are generally shakedown artists, and blacks are often shakedown artists. It’s like getting your peanut butter in their chocolate, but you better be paying royalties on that peanut-derived product.
What a pathetic hate hoax. Jussie is half Jewish and I’m embarrassed for him.
Anyway, interesting family: he’s got sisters named Jazz and Jurnee, brothers named JoJo, Jake, and Jocqui. I wonder if his Jewish father had any role in picking those names. They’re all kinda black. On the other hand, they’re also all plausible Anglicizations of various Hebrew names…I’m thinking I-zevel and Ya’ara for the girls, Yoshiahu, Ya’akov, Yehoyakhin and Yosef for the boys.
It certainly did advance the science of virology.
The founding myth of the Rainbow Nation.
You know… the Homocaust.
North of 30 and south of 40.
How do you manage to connect with people?
The Wakandans have monorails and maglev trains, but also, spears and ritual scaring? And you’re telling me that the origin of their society’s advanced science and engineering capabilities was a chance collision with an asteroid containing vibrainium. Seriously, Vi-BRAIN-ium? I can’t help feeling that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were satirizing African culture as they understood it. Perhaps, if the mythical asteroid contained IQ-ium this would be more apparent. At 52 years and counting could this be the longest running punking ever? One that has even outlived its creators.
Great film and come to think of it, a little like Mel Gibson’s excellent Apocalypto – in its “give him a head start” plot device – which seems to be a genre or trope of its own.
One or more Steve Sailer threads suggest that Mel (white, older, “right-wing”) is at some risk of turning into something like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Girl
Worst case 2020 scenario – the election of “Apocalypto” Louis Farrakhan?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6645049/Empire-star-Jussie-Smollett-hospitalized-Chicago-premeditated-homophobic-attack.html
They got me at ski masks part.
Why do they call them “ski masks” anyway? I don’t recall seeing many skiers wearing them. Plenty of islamic paramilitaries in the middle east wear them, and they don’t look like guys who hit the ski slopes.
Perhaps they should be called “mugger masks” or “rapist maks” or “serial killer masks” or “terrorist masks”.
Black HISTORY??
Being a contingent inheritor of the venerated, proliferated, literature-established and historically-validated language of English, confidently and arrogantly reading lines in a Afro-English accent written by someone else about being a fictional, indigenous female African genius engineer, industrial designer, programmer, warrior, is not quite the same as actually being a genius engineer or designer or programmer or warrior (in reality separate roles arising from differing inherent strengths and inclinations…
https://comicicons.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/shuri-letitia-wright/shuri-letitia-wright/#main
Do you find yourself regularly on the outside of conversations? TV and movies are a big part of people’s lives.
How do you manage to connect with people?
Besides, I pick up enough pop-culture trivia through osmosis to bullshit my way through the occasional conversation about the latest overrated TV show.
As Elise Wiesel has been quoted as saying,
In literature, Rebbe, certain things are true though they didn’t happen, while others are not, even if they did.
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Historically irrelevant, but the movie was mildly entertaining — not as good as “Logan” or “Winter Soldier,” but not the worst of the Marvel movies. The most engaging characters were the female scientist and warrior, and, of course, Andy Serkis as a villain.
Despite the trashing some here are giving it, it was, strangely, sort of “Alt-Right,” making a case that an advanced country could not allow itself to be over-run by the riff-raff.
Also, it is far better if black kids model themselves on the black good guys in this film than many of the black celebrities that are commonly put forward by pop culture.
So, on the whole, I’d say the movie may have had a somewhat positive effect on American culture. We’ve done worse.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/01/29/jussie-smollett-hospitalized-in-alleged-hate-crime-attack/
Supposedly the attackers said “this is MAGA country”. I guess I can believe a 2am drunken dustup at the Subway but that statement just rings so false.
The New York Times is on board with this one, claiming that the Chicago Police Department is the source of the details. I don’t click on NYT stories so I only saw the headline and subhead in my news aggregator. But I presume way down in the story they admit that the perp/victim was the actual source, and they probably don’t mention at all that his claims are completely uncorroborated.
I expect this one will go hot-potato style, once it’s served its purpose.
I agree - remarkable. I too would have guessed any of the countries you mentioned to hold that distinction, not Lesotho.
Right. I knew Nepal had lowlands, but I didn’t know they were as low as that. Turns out a couple of their rivers are Ganges tributaries. So is the Lesotho claim accurate? Well, Wikipedia says so. Its lowest elevation is nearly a mile high.
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Well, it is the same attitude the US is now taking towards China, specifically in the attacks on Huawei. One of the claims is that Huawei had an explicit bonus plan for any employee who managed to steal ideas from the West!
I worked in Silicon Valley back in its heyday when we invented physical things, instead of just figuring out clever ways to market social media. “Intellectual property” was not that big of a thing in the Valley back then: you figured that by the time your competitors copied your latest thing and brought it to market, you had a later latest thing — if you were any good.
Now, amazon thinks they can patent idiotic stuff like “One-click” ordering!
Of course, schoolboys used to learn (back when we studied history) that the US did to Britain in the early days of the Industrial Revolution exactly the same thing that China is now doing to the US.
Rising powers get better and better at making stuff and do not care where or how they learn to make it better. Fading powers try to hoard their old ideas, thinking that they can live off old glories forever, without actually getting better at what they do.
Reminds me to tell my kids to brush up on their Mandarin.
Somewhat belatedly, I realize that this is its own iSteve post already. As you were, ladies and gents.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/homophobic-racist-trump-supporters-attempt-to-lynch-gay-black-tv-star-in-downtown-chicago/
What's the point? That with free energy and post-scarcity, what people really want to do is wear bones in their nose and beat each other up for status?
Also worth noting that while at the end they decide to improve the lives of the backwards denizens of the US, they don't bother with the Congo. I get the implied slam on white americans, but it's pretty strange when you think about it.
I also noticed that Wakanda reflected the real-life matriarchal system of Africa where the women do all the heavy lifting and the men do nothing but fight. This in reflected in the all-female bodyguard of the king and the king’s sister doing all the genius science stuff.
No doubt there could be a little bit of both.
Oi! Don’t throw bloody spears at me!
I see what you did there.
In truth, other men's DNA and feces got into Freddy's bloodstream via his nether regions and overwhelmed his immune system. AIDS/HIV is a myth.
When sodomites hid their deathstyle for fear of imprisonment and capital punishment, they restrained their behaviors, which benefitted their health.
HIV is not sepsis, buddy.
ISPs have been cracking down on even quick torrent downloads lately. At least for US content, european TV is still safe.
Probably because the big ISPs keep buying content companies so aren’t passive common carriers anymore. 20+ years of data liberation coming to an end!
animals were harmedblacks were involved in the creation of this comic.Joos were involved in the comic book business? Say it ain’t so Joe. Next thing, you’ll tell me that they made the Andy Hardy movies too.
The original internal concept name for Black Panther inside Marvel was “Coal Tiger”. Actually, between me and you, Stan called him “the schvartze with the cat outfit” – “Jack, so then the schvartze with the cat outfit punches the big shvartze with the spear…”, but don’t tell anyone.
How do you manage to connect with people?
There are lots of things to talk about – an entire universe of ideas, events, and personalities.
Besides, I pick up enough pop-culture trivia through osmosis to bullshit my way through the occasional conversation about the latest overrated TV show.
Maybe not. Mormons still worship MORONi, right?
Anon117 , That is too funny.
Captain Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around The World.
Oh wait. Nobody ever made a movie of that.
An interesting aside: in the mid 1970s there was an avionics tech who had saved and patched enough scrapped modules from the Intruder's computer system that he had the whole thing running at home. One of the first real "home computers" along with the mini (still can't find what they had-a PDP-8? -11? DG Nova? HP 2xxx/3xxx? ) the Osmonds (yeah, the Mormon singing family) had.
Well, it only seats two and the ejection seats complicate the issue maintenance-wise. One of these winding up in civilian hands, impossible, I think. Travolta? They were never up for foreign purchase, they went to the bone yards or sunk for reefs. Even if they gave you one for free, ready to go, I imagine it would cost millions a year if you flew it with any frequency. The tasks were numerous based on hours and days and when it came to oxygen and ejection and cabin air conditioning alone14 planes kept my shop of 5 guys on each shift plenty busy 12 on, 12 off. But no civilian could afford the parts and labor and like you said, fuel. I don’t remember the rates of consumption/hour, but I caught a ferry flight from NAS Oceana, Va., in the right-seat to swap an old tanker A-6 for another refurbished A-6 at Whidbey Island. He took the airplane with two 2000lb drop tanks and the main bag held 16,000 lbs, 20K total. Along the way, being my first, he did the usual stunts trying to get me to puke, to know avail, and not for long because the thing was so shitty on gas we had to stop at NAS Fallon for gas to get the rest of the way to Whidbey Island, he was down to a thousand pounds by then. Reverse the order for the flight with the replacement. Who could afford that?
Nowadays, it’s all so controlled up there, they don’t get to play much outside of training. Spontaneous playtime in military aircraft is restricted and punished now.
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Not sure if Jones has the latest scuttlebutt about Wakandan forces, what with their extreme secrecy and all, but if they're using A-6s, they're likely working with Iran. Isn't Iran still trying to keep their Tomcats airworthy?
Early 1970s: Grumman Aviation employees had bumper stickers on their cars touting the F-14 and the RIAF.
Late '70s and early '80s: Grumman aviation employees remove the cool Tomcat stickers. "Ayatollah Assaholah" bumper stickers appear. I still miss seeing the "Airborne: Death from Above" bumper stickers.
The head on view of the A6 with the double windshield was made into cat’s eyes (Panther’s) for squadron patches. I don’t ever remember my squadron’s nickname ever being associated with the Panthers of Burn Baby Burn, for instance. It was a tail insignia and a symbol of pouncing, not race.Although burn, baby burn IS the ugly purpose of such aircraft, but it was all a lark to us..
I remember the F-14 patches from Grumman, it showed a tomcat, a cat that is, leaning against the plane with a six-shooter in hand, blowing the smoke off the end of the barrel, shit eating grin and a caption that said “Anytime, Baby!” We sailed with VF84 and VF-41.
If Iran has the chops to get an F-14 in the air at this stage of the game, Allah Be Blessed. They never had the Phoenix Missile system, IIRC, few parts and I imagine no tech support from Grumman after the Shah, other than Ollie North’s corruptions late eighties. As for mechanical talent, they’re shit-hot if they can even get one in the air, let alone fight. We’re talking 45 year old planes. Forty-Five years. Can’t believe it. Jesus!
Despite the trashing some here are giving it, it was, strangely, sort of "Alt-Right," making a case that an advanced country could not allow itself to be over-run by the riff-raff.
Also, it is far better if black kids model themselves on the black good guys in this film than many of the black celebrities that are commonly put forward by pop culture.
So, on the whole, I'd say the movie may have had a somewhat positive effect on American culture. We've done worse.
Logan, that was the one with the baby-Wolverine, right? What Godawful scheisse. Turned it off after the baby Wolverine reveal.