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From the Washington Post:
As Zika virus spreads, El Salvador asks women not to get pregnant until 2018
By Joshua Partlow January 22 at 7:22 PM
MEXICO CITY — The rapid spread of the Zika virus has prompted Latin American governments to urge women not to get pregnant for up to two years, an extraordinary precaution aimed at avoiding birth defects believed to be linked to the mosquito-borne illness.
What until recently was a seemingly routine public health problem for countries that are home to a certain type of mosquito has morphed into a potentially culture-shaping phenomenon in which the populations of several nations have been asked to delay procreation. The World Health Organization says at least 20 countries or territories in the region, including Barbados and Bolivia, Guadeloupe and Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Panama, have registered transmission of the virus. …
After more than 5,000 suspected Zika cases were reported last year and in the first weeks of 2016, El Salvador on Thursday took the most extreme stance so far: Deputy Health Minister Eduardo Espinoza urged women to refrain from getting pregnant before 2018.
Wow, this sounds like scary Children of Men stuff. (Note: Salvadoran public health officials may not be the most trustworthy final authorities on the scientific implications.)
Are there any insecticides that could blast these particular kinds of mosquitoes? DDT, for example? I’m all for maintaining a DDT ban in normal times, but this may not be a normal time.
By the way, Children of Men is a depressing sci-fi book by Baroness P.D. James about a worldwide outbreak of something that causes global sterility. The world is ending with a whimper as people just get older and older.
In 2006 it was made into an action thriller by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron starring Clive Owen, with amazing tracking shot cinematography by Emanuel Lubezki, about a fascist racist British government violently oppressing vibrant illegal immigrants nobly offering to gift a dying England with their life and youth. It looked cool, was critically acclaimed, and got three Oscar nominations.
Except, Cuaron kept James’ plot in which the sterility curse was global, so the movie version was quite possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.
But anyway, almost nobody seemed to notice how idiotic the movie version was fundamentally, so that is a telling example of how the 21st Century reflexive solution for any problem is Moar Immigration. Therefore, expect to hear soon why Zika justifies a rush for the U.S. border.
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Yeah, I remember watching this one as part of a seminar on “Migration and Cinema.” Everyone was quite impressed by it. No one seemed to notice that the film’s central conceit made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Indeed, when I brought up the fact that the film-makers never told us why global sterility would suddenly make everyone want to immigrate to the UK, I received crickets in response.
Population related:Was Soylent Green the last time that Hollywood made a movie about the dangers of overpopulation?Off-hand, I can’t think of any others…
Almost sounds like real life, doesn't it?
Or I am just dumb? I dunno, I don't generally lick windows or ride short buses.
OT, but Justin Raimondo reports that Marco Rubio was arrested in 1990 in a Miami Park after hours that was a notorious gay cruising area:
And it gets weirder. The guy Rubio was arrested with in 1990 was sued by Miami in 2007 for running a gay pornography studio out of one of his properties:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/42cvjr/something_very_interesting_some_friends_and_i/
I have spoken!Replies: @Anonymous
That one’s easy. Since Zika is not a problem in the USA, we are morally obligated to let pregnant non-Anglos into the USA.If we didn’t , it would be like 1939 all over again…
Whatever happened to Clive Owen? He was in a bunch of movies over a few years but hasn’t been in many that much recently. This doesn’t seem uncommon. For example, I had heard of Domnhall Gleeson, but I didn’t realize he was going to be in all these movies all of a sudden. I didn’t even know he was in Star Wars and The Revenant until I actually saw the movies.
Started out ok, but about 10 minutes into the movie they had a medieval castle scene with Morgan Freeman (aka God) as a medieval king in full medieval kingly drag.
Only Richard Simmons playing Othello would be more dissonant.
Regrettably, I have reached my NNT (Numinous Negro Threshold) with Morgan Freeman. I only have so much "suspension of disbelief" left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqKReYiMuRk
V for Vendetta was another movie that came out in 2006 featuring a fascist racist British government.
In “V for Vendetta,” as part of oppressing Muslim immigrants, the fascist racist British government has outlawed Old Masters paintings and taken them down from museums.
Huh?
The problem with the 'V for Vendetta' movie was that the guy wanted to make a statement about Bush and the war on terror, so he has a religious-right government that persecutes Muslims standing in for Alan Moore's fascist 'Norsefire' government in the 1980s comic book.
I like Clive Owen as an actor, but Children of Men was retarded. Can I still say retarded?
Yes, you can. What you can't say is that it should be shown at the Special Olympics. That will get you in a lot of trouble.
I thought Clive Owen was really good in most of the things I’d seen him in a decade ago. I figured he’d be the next James Bond.
But then I recently saw “King Arthur” from about 10 years ago and he was kind of inert in the lead. So, presumably, he’s a star who can be good in a movie crafted to emphasize his strengths and hide his weaknesses, but you can’t expect him to carry a wide variety of movies. Or something.
He's been starring in a show on Cinemax called The Knick . Steven Soderbergh directs all the episodes :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knick
It's set in a New York hospital circa 1900. It's somewhat interesting. Owen is fairly good in the role (with his period clothes and moustache, he looks oddly like Edgar Allan Poe; perhaps he should try to get a Poe biopic off the ground), although his Yank accent is only so-so.
The show is quite PC. A running sub-plot involves one of the characters becoming a pro-eugenics zealot.As you might expect, that character (Dr Everett Gallinger) is a blond WASP. There's even a scene where he sterilizes an explicitly Jewish boy (Gallinger actually asks him if he is a "Yid" before commencing the procedure).
But he'd be a good Bond, maybe a great one.
Sad that Bond will probably have to be black now. Worse, with a black Bond, all the villains will have to be crudely overdrawn cardboard racist caricatures forever more.Replies: @tbraton
Gene drive human predatory mosquitos to extinction. The technology is there, right now.
First man to do it wins the Nobel Prize.
He was in a series called The Knick recently which got good reviews.
Definitely worth watching. Especially for Owen's character.Replies: @Romanian
El Salvador has been a hopelessly over-populated land mass of limited self-sustainablity for quite some time, with only some moderate relief being supplied by a huge diaspora in the US and however many gangsters, guerillas, sympathizers and collateral damage victims the paramilitary death squads, gangs and guerillas have been able to eradicate.
If las Güanacas can manage to stay un-knocked up until 2018, why can’t they go a little more distance with that program? The place needs a major distancing from the influence in the government of the Roman Catholic Church. So sorry Pat Buchanan.
He’s not very suave or graceful. He’s big and looks like a bruiser. I think he’s better in tough guy roles.
RE: Clive Owen,
He’s been starring in a show on Cinemax called The Knick . Steven Soderbergh directs all the episodes :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knick
It’s set in a New York hospital circa 1900. It’s somewhat interesting. Owen is fairly good in the role (with his period clothes and moustache, he looks oddly like Edgar Allan Poe; perhaps he should try to get a Poe biopic off the ground), although his Yank accent is only so-so.
The show is quite PC. A running sub-plot involves one of the characters becoming a pro-eugenics zealot.As you might expect, that character (Dr Everett Gallinger) is a blond WASP. There’s even a scene where he sterilizes an explicitly Jewish boy (Gallinger actually asks him if he is a “Yid” before commencing the procedure).
Yeah, Clive Owen would be good as Bond. He is tall and dark and looks somewhat like Connery. I am not fond of Daniel Craig as Bond.
Daniel Craig looks Russian. He looks like the type of villain that Bond would be chasing/avoiding.Replies: @middle aged vet
Off topic slightly, but I wonder how many public policy decisions have caused more deaths than the decision to ban DDT (rather than say, careful regulation of its use). Since a big part of Black Lives Matter is revising history, how come Rachel Carson is immune? Banning one of the most effective tools against the Anopheles mosquito after it’s been eradicated from N. America and Europe, but still virulent in Africa? Doesn’t that meet the definition of genocide for the BLM crowd?
that’s like the liberal meme “GOP healthcare plan: don’t get sick”
Here’s Clive Owen talking about his role on the show:
I thought he was great in Croupier.
Interesting, given that El Salvador has the strictest abortion law in the Western Hemisphere. All abortions are always illegal and they have imprisoned women for having miscarriages. I see no alternative but for men to be prohibited from having sex in El Salvador until this virus is cured.
So, can we look forward to this virus getting a foothold in the USA with the next truckload of illegal immigrants, or is it “racist” to even ask the question?
My vague recollection of “Children of Men” is that the book itself was not too bad, but the movie was ridiculous.
The movie lost me in less than 5 minutes it was so bad. Despite Michael Caine.
On the Beach was a good movie; Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck starred, as I recall. I was forewarned about Children of Men as a movie and saved my time and money.Replies: @jay-w
Population related:Was Soylent Green the last time that Hollywood made a movie about the dangers of overpopulation?Off-hand, I can't think of any others...Replies: @anony-mouse, @Anonymous
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls050473915/
ZPG: came out in 1972, the year before Soylent Green.
Silent Running: Also 1972.And a really stupid film (Bruce Dern's character doesn't know that plants need sunlight?)
Logan's Run: That was about the perils of overpopulation?
Blade Runner: Well, LA certainly looked crowded in the film, but I don't recall any overt references to overpopulation.
Demolition Man: That was about overpopulation?
Fortress: 1992, totally forgot about that one
In Time: Haven't seen it. From the description, though, it doesn't really sound like a film about overpopulation
Pandorum: That was about overpopulation?
District 9: A stealth perils of overpopulation movie. The lumpengentsia focused on the PC Apartheid allegory stuff but completely overlooked the hidden Malthusian message.Replies: @BubbaJoe, @Reg Cæsar, @CAL, @Henry Bowman, @bomag
the u.s. soon to be enriched by waves of microcephalics.
I’ve never been much of an Owen fan, ever since the first time I saw him, when he was woefully miscast in “Sin City”.
But he’d be a good Bond, maybe a great one.
Sad that Bond will probably have to be black now. Worse, with a black Bond, all the villains will have to be crudely overdrawn cardboard racist caricatures forever more.
No, they can remain Russians. What with Cold War II started by the neocons, it's almost like the good old days.
It’s the same with Sam Worthington. He was in quite a few blockbusters in the late aughts, Avatar, Clash of the Titans, a Terminator movie. However, I don’t quite understand how he got those roles. And now he’s not much of a big deal.
Clive Owen excelled in Sin City.
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/42cvjr/something_very_interesting_some_friends_and_i/
https://mobile.twitter.com/JustinRaimondo/status/690996050702651392
Apparently Rubio was arrested when he was young late in the night at a park notorious for still in the closet gay sex among latino men. This reminds me of posts sailer and unz have made about the powers behind the scenes wanting politicians with baggage so they can control them. Mccain being a rat for the NVA, Hastert being a pedo, Bill Clinton being a rapist, etc.
No wonder the elites are pushing Rubio! And no wonder why he started pushing amnesty even though he ran against it.
Edit: Looks as if someone above beat me to it. Let’s get the word out on this!
Take a look at this family. That woman on the right has four kids and still looks...
http://communitytable.parade.com/151898/galinaespinoza/at-home-with-marco-rubio/Replies: @AndrewR, @5371, @Anonymous, @Neoconned
The premise of Children of Men is pretty much the same as V for Vendetta– that Britain is the lone country to have avoided complete societal breakdown by imposing an authoritarian, nativist government…one that refugees from the rest of the world still want to flee to. Like a lot of lefty fantasies, it manages to be self-flattering and self-flagellating at the same time.
Germany asks Germans not to make beer until 2118.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3411641/Germans-ban-ALCOHOL-want-prevent-sex-attacks-help-North-Africans-integrate-says-Muslim-group.html
Interesting list:
ZPG: came out in 1972, the year before Soylent Green.
Silent Running: Also 1972.And a really stupid film (Bruce Dern’s character doesn’t know that plants need sunlight?)
Logan’s Run: That was about the perils of overpopulation?
Blade Runner: Well, LA certainly looked crowded in the film, but I don’t recall any overt references to overpopulation.
Demolition Man: That was about overpopulation?
Fortress: 1992, totally forgot about that one
In Time: Haven’t seen it. From the description, though, it doesn’t really sound like a film about overpopulation
Pandorum: That was about overpopulation?
District 9: A stealth perils of overpopulation movie. The lumpengentsia focused on the PC Apartheid allegory stuff but completely overlooked the hidden Malthusian message.
https://theawkwardkayla.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/sacred-sperm.jpg
Logan's Run: Population had to be controlled because they lived in a sealed environment due to an unknown catastrophe.
Blade Runner: No because sections of the city were fairly empty.
Demolition Man: Actually they lived in a near utopia. No overpopulation.
Fortress: Just know you had to have a license to have a kid. Don't know the background.
Pandorum: Actually the background was people were sent to a new planet because overpopulation had resulted in increasingly deadly wars.Replies: @Name Withheld
https://twitter.com/JustinRaimondo/status/690412452945772546
And it gets weirder. The guy Rubio was arrested with in 1990 was sued by Miami in 2007 for running a gay pornography studio out of one of his properties:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/42cvjr/something_very_interesting_some_friends_and_i/Replies: @Thomas, @Leftist conservative, @SFG, @AndrewR
Maybe it’s a Miami thing or a Cuban thing or the lisp, but Marco does ping the gaydar kind of hard when you think about it that way.
https://twitter.com/mikiebarb/status/684122644250255364
Are those shoes a Cuban thing? Or is he just trying to look taller? Or does he just have trouble resisting a fabulous pair of shoes?Replies: @snorlax, @Blobby5, @Anonymous
There's a rumor in DC that Rubio is quite the ladies man. I doubt he's gay, metrosexual yeah.
Everything I’ve heard about Zika would suggest that it would be unlikely to get much of a foothold outside of the southeastern US (based on the range of its host, the Aedes mosquito). There’s always the potential for mutation, however.
Steve,
I believe the premise of children of Men is that most countries have descended in to anarchy and hence that refugees from Africa are trying to get in to the UK. The movie hints that the demoralization caused by infertility caused the anarchy. The wikipedia entry for ” children of men” says that the UK has the last functioning government in the world
The “no more children” thing made me think more of science fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End where the title has a double meaning. I don’t want to give away too much if you haven’t read it, but for reasons other than sterility, all the adults decide there’s not much point in having children anymore.
Children of Men sort of glosses over the violence that the African immigrants commit against the native English. In contrast, today CNN had a pretty even handed article on the pogroms that Muslim immigrants are committing against Jews in France. Article says that a record number of Jews have been driven out of France by the pogroms.
I wonder if Trump made a direct appeal to orthodox Jews in the
US, perhaps campaigning with his orthodox Jewish grandchildren could he gain the endorsement of some prominent rabbis?
Such an endorsement could expand the overton window for
Trump
never let a crisis go to waste….beside, almost certainly this virus was created by white men.
I have spoken!
Megalomania is a psychopathological condition characterized by fantasies of power, relevance, omnipotence, and by inflated self-esteem...
CHILDREN OF MEN was conceived to be what? Feast for Zizek?
If any movie was custom-made for a certain ideologue, COM was it.
Not the best way to make a movie: to flatter a public intellectual.
COM the movie didn’t so much adapt a story as use it as an excuse for a meta-satirical pomo statement on the state of the world as distorted by the media circus.
It might have worked had it been done with genuine seriousness or with lighthearted sense of fun, like the remake of ROBOCOP. But it tried to have it both ways.
Sometimes, it’s like an action movie. Sometimes, like a flaky new age movie with the theme of Hope. Sometimes, it’s satire. Sometimes, it’s like a documentary.
Cuaron was obviously mixing all manner of styles and sensibilities to convey the mumbo-jumbo state of our news, culture, and values in the 21st century, but a movie that is everything is really nothing. I feel the same way about Todd Hayne’s atrocious I’M NOT THERE.
https://twitter.com/JustinRaimondo/status/690412452945772546
And it gets weirder. The guy Rubio was arrested with in 1990 was sued by Miami in 2007 for running a gay pornography studio out of one of his properties:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/42cvjr/something_very_interesting_some_friends_and_i/Replies: @Thomas, @Leftist conservative, @SFG, @AndrewR
not all that surprised….rubio gives off a ‘light in the loafers’ vibe.
I have spoken!
> I have spoken!
Yeah there are a lot of insane people shouting on street corners who think they're God too. So original...Replies: @Leftist conservative
He’s been playing a very good role as an opium fiend doctor in NY circa 1890 in “The Knick”. It might seem like a downgrade, but the show is really good and has a great budget. He owns the role.
Everybody wanted to immigrate to UK in the movie because racist fascist UK was the only place on Earth which still had some sort of social order. Most of the world was destroyed by wars, nuclear damage and anarchy – so it wasn’t only sterility but complete breakdown of civilization. “The World Has Collapsed, Only Britain Soldiers On” was the title of a short propaganda film within the movie which shows global cities in flames and ruin, and there were some other references about wars and global disorder during the movie. Of course, after they destroyed their own antifascist countries all those poor people had no other choice but to immigrate and live under racist fascist British government. Obviously, the movie tried to show that there are some good points about fascism.
And naturally it is the African female immigrant and her White cuck orbiters who “saves” the day and ushers in the brave new fecund multicultural society.
Unintentional as it is Children of Men is an excellent metaphor for European population replacement.
Were the painters gay?
The problem with the ‘V for Vendetta’ movie was that the guy wanted to make a statement about Bush and the war on terror, so he has a religious-right government that persecutes Muslims standing in for Alan Moore’s fascist ‘Norsefire’ government in the 1980s comic book.
Is this a test run for the birthrate reducing bioweapon some of us have been predicting, half jokingly? The mindvirus version only caught on with White people and some Asians. If demography is a game of last man standing, then even relative resistance to the mindvirus will provide a reproductive edge for a fecund people when compared to the developed (and future developed) world.
The weird thing about Zika is that it is not a serious problem in South Asia and Africa. Something is different in Latin America – either people or mosquitoes.
Feel like Steve, this feels like a potential "Children of Men" scenario so the WaPo and other articles discussing "reproductive culture" are as beside the point as they would be if an asteroid were heading for earth.
Maybe that's a little alarmist, but I'll feel a lot better when they can pinpoint the microencephaly cause and especially when they can figure out what has suddenly changed to make Zika so catastrophic.
Anything similar in history with respect to mosquito-borne diseases?
One more question, will its increased virulence (if that's what it is) ultimately be its undoing as with ebola?
Oh no the sky is falling!
I think you guys must all be over 40 and single to be so pessimistic about everything.
All the people in my age cohort or younger are happily married with young children and don’t believe the crazy things you guys believe.
That tells you something right there
So it's a competition, and you've won? Congratulations. May the statistics be ever in your favor.
5,000 cases isn’t significant enough to make an impact on such a large population. That amount of birth defects could happen naturally.
Also, diseases like dengue occur mainly in poor areas where people can’t protect themselves from the elements. In other words, it matters greatly what social stratum one belongs to.
El Salvador Health Ministry = fail at knowledge of statistics
So 1/3rd of children born to infected people are microcephalic. That is fairly bad, no?
“…………about a fascist racist British government violently oppressing vibrant illegal immigrants nobly offering to gift a dying England with their life and youth.”
In addition to being self-evidently wrong, the belief that human beings are interchangeable is actually rather fundmentally anti-human. It was that very belief which motivated the Khymer Rouge. It is not just racial supremicism that can lead to mass-graves; radical egalitarianism can lead there too.
“Can I still say retarded?” You can, but it’s problematic.
It’s strongly implied that the global chaos in the film is the result of global sterility (at least, I can’t recall any other rationale being provided). We are not, however, told why global sterility engendered global chaos. And we are also not told why the UK is immune.
I have spoken!Replies: @Anonymous
> not all that surprised….rubio gives off a ‘light in the loafers’ vibe.
> I have spoken!
Yeah there are a lot of insane people shouting on street corners who think they’re God too. So original…
I have spoken!Replies: @grapesoda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalomania
Megalomania is a psychopathological condition characterized by fantasies of power, relevance, omnipotence, and by inflated self-esteem…
The rumours here in Brazil is that the Zika virus was introduced to the country by African tourists during the World Cup.
There’s a fair amount of ideological mismatch between Cuaron and James, who was Mrs. Thatcher’s favorite author.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/23/18/3081273700000578-3413566-The_Port_of_Calais_has_been_closed_after_hundreds_of_migrants_st-a-23_1453572800624.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/23/18/308005E300000578-3413566-It_followed_a_2_000_strong_protest_against_the_living_conditions-a-24_1453572800625.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/23/18/3081241200000578-3413566-A_group_is_believed_to_have_ripped_open_a_fence_in_order_to_get_-a-26_1453572800628.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/23/18/308126C200000578-3413566-The_incident_comes_hours_after_UK_Labour_leader_Jeremy_Corbyn_vi-a-27_1453572800629.jpgReplies: @Rob McX
Owen has a lumbering quality to him though, and he has a boxer’s mug. He doesn’t come across as very refined like Bond.
I’m not an epidemiologist, but agree it seems something is radically amiss in Latin America. And the microencephaly?????
Feel like Steve, this feels like a potential “Children of Men” scenario so the WaPo and other articles discussing “reproductive culture” are as beside the point as they would be if an asteroid were heading for earth.
Maybe that’s a little alarmist, but I’ll feel a lot better when they can pinpoint the microencephaly cause and especially when they can figure out what has suddenly changed to make Zika so catastrophic.
Anything similar in history with respect to mosquito-borne diseases?
One more question, will its increased virulence (if that’s what it is) ultimately be its undoing as with ebola?
>>I am not fond of Daniel Craig as Bond…
Daniel Craig looks Russian. He looks like the type of villain that Bond would be chasing/avoiding.
I last saw Clive in “Last Knights” (2015), a medieval knights of the roundtable epic.
Started out ok, but about 10 minutes into the movie they had a medieval castle scene with Morgan Freeman (aka God) as a medieval king in full medieval kingly drag.
Only Richard Simmons playing Othello would be more dissonant.
Regrettably, I have reached my NNT (Numinous Negro Threshold) with Morgan Freeman. I only have so much “suspension of disbelief” left.
There was a British lefty fantasy film in about 1987 that used to get played all the time on PBS back in the day. In the film, the British left is bashed by the conservatives and the country gets bailed out by the Soviets. Comical considering the USSR would fail in just a few short years.
Yes, it was sh*t.
In addition to being self-evidently wrong, the belief that human beings are interchangeable is actually rather fundmentally anti-human. It was that very belief which motivated the Khymer Rouge. It is not just racial supremicism that can lead to mass-graves; radical egalitarianism can lead there too.Replies: @Anonymous
Actually the Khmer Rouge was sort of a rural, nationalistic, populist revolt that attacked minorities, urban residents, professionals, intellectuals, people with ties to the former government and foreign countries, etc. They even forced Muslims to eat pork and attacked Muslims and imams. In other words, it was the sort of thing that some of the more right wing types around here might get excited about.
RE: Children of Men and immigration,
Well, according to WIKIPEDIA, the problem in the book is the exploitation of legal immigrants:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Men
Quite a different scenario from the one in the film. And it’s also one hell of a lot more logical.
Population related:Was Soylent Green the last time that Hollywood made a movie about the dangers of overpopulation?Off-hand, I can't think of any others...Replies: @anony-mouse, @Anonymous
Oh, I don’t know. It kind of makes sense in the perspective of western countries current nonsensical immigration policies. World-wide catastrophe dooms entire planet, first world country manages to hold it together as it slowly waits for the end. Third world populations want a meal ticket to go out in luxury so decide to migrate-invade for the spoils.
Almost sounds like real life, doesn’t it?
Or I am just dumb? I dunno, I don’t generally lick windows or ride short buses.
https://twitter.com/JustinRaimondo/status/690412452945772546
And it gets weirder. The guy Rubio was arrested with in 1990 was sued by Miami in 2007 for running a gay pornography studio out of one of his properties:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/42cvjr/something_very_interesting_some_friends_and_i/Replies: @Thomas, @Leftist conservative, @SFG, @AndrewR
Oh God. I think the LGBTCBY movement has become pretty silly with its safe spaces and misgendering, but why do I really care if the guy’s gay?
Besides, homosexuals are often a bit off. It might be because it could be caused by a pathogen as proposed by Greg Cochran. So if a non-homo candidate with roughly the same credentials was available, I wouldn't choose a homosexual. Of course, that's usually not the case. I'd take Pim Fortuyn over any of the current Western European leaders. So I guess it doesn't matter much to me either.Replies: @SFG
I think you guys must all be over 40 and single to be so pessimistic about everything.
All the people in my age cohort or younger are happily married with young children and don't believe the crazy things you guys believe.
That tells you something right thereReplies: @Big Bill, @bomag, @reiner Tor, @ben tillman, @Reg Cæsar, @TWS
Congratulations! Lovely and intelligent wife, beautiful children, safe neighborhood, good schools, high paying job, doubtless all four grandparents alive and kicking, no health problems, your life is perfect!
> I have spoken!
Yeah there are a lot of insane people shouting on street corners who think they're God too. So original...Replies: @Leftist conservative
Shiva (/ˈʃivə/; Sanskrit: Śiva, meaning “The Auspicious One”, also known as Mahadeva (“Great God”), is one of the three major deities of Hinduism.
Daniel Craig looks Russian. He looks like the type of villain that Bond would be chasing/avoiding.Replies: @middle aged vet
Sean Connery had (has) obvious animal cunning and a patina of Scottish wealth, and is a gifted actor, but there is no way he was anything like an authentic James Bond. True, if I were directing Bond movies in the early 60s, I would have hired him, for obvious reasons,. Still, the fact is that it is hard to imagine that in the high-IQ casinos and arm-dealer circles and Somerset Maugham -type environments that Fleming’s libertine Bond thrived in, a mid-IQ oaf like Connery would have been more than an easily thwarted figure of fun. David Niven should have had the role in the early 60s, and at least one of the following Bonds nailed the role in a way Connery never would have been able to do (google Taki and Bond if you care to find out which one – although, if you care about this sort of thing, please remember, as the psalmist would have said, libertine is not a good word.) Connery became a famous Bond because he was a very good actor, and had the advantage of being directed (in the Bond role that he was simply not suited for by nature) by directors of near-genius. So he was, in the actor world, sort of like the kid whose Dad bought him a Mustang is in the high school world.
That's why in that god-awful train-wreck movie 'Casino Royalle' - the 1967 version -you see a 'milk float' prominently placed early on in the film. Sheer nastiness and snobbery, no other earthly reason.
Iran Fleming was not happy with having the very working-class and Scottish Connery as Bond. He described Connery as a 'f*cking truck-driver' and 'an over-developed stuntman'.Replies: @Anonymous
No one seems to be commenting on the number of diseases, e.g., Zika, Chagas Fever, HIV/AIDS, etc., etc. that would have remained restricted to relative backwaters of humanity until their vibrant spread via unrestricted and uncontrolled migration. (Did I just commit a micro-aggression?)
This is a perfect example of what I mean when I say that all anonymous comments are trolls.
My previous comment was largely sarcastic, of course. Both Connery and Moore were great as James Bond. Libertine is of course still not a good word.
Brilliant way for the GOP to win all future elections.
Give California back to Mexico.
Democrats will no longer have all those electoral votes.
And it will be hilarious to see all those Lib whites, yellows, blacks, Jews, homos, and Mexican be ruled by the Mexican government(that cannot even defeat drug gangs in the country). But they have no cause to complain.
After all, those groups always complain that US is ruled by evil white privilege. But if CA becomes a part of Mexico, it will be ruled by wonderful ‘browns’–though, I must say the Mexican elites are bit less brown than most of the population.
Furthermore, white Libs, Jews, homos, yellows, blacks, and browns in CA will forever be liberated from ‘racist white privilege’, especially that of evil GOP.
I think it’s a great plan. It’s win-win for both sides.
GOP will once again gain control of America.
As for all the ‘progressive’ and colorful folks in CA, they will forever be liberated from ‘white privilege’ that supposedly dominates so much of the country. They will be ruled by wise brown people.
As for the state of New York, it’d be great to just hand it over to Israel. Yeah, let it become part of Greater Israel. And the blacks, yellows, and browns there no longer need to fret about evil White Privilege. They will be ruled by wonderful Zionists who treat minorities real well. Just ask the Pallies.
Start the petition: Give California back to Mexico.
ZPG: came out in 1972, the year before Soylent Green.
Silent Running: Also 1972.And a really stupid film (Bruce Dern's character doesn't know that plants need sunlight?)
Logan's Run: That was about the perils of overpopulation?
Blade Runner: Well, LA certainly looked crowded in the film, but I don't recall any overt references to overpopulation.
Demolition Man: That was about overpopulation?
Fortress: 1992, totally forgot about that one
In Time: Haven't seen it. From the description, though, it doesn't really sound like a film about overpopulation
Pandorum: That was about overpopulation?
District 9: A stealth perils of overpopulation movie. The lumpengentsia focused on the PC Apartheid allegory stuff but completely overlooked the hidden Malthusian message.Replies: @BubbaJoe, @Reg Cæsar, @CAL, @Henry Bowman, @bomag
Pandorum is a great film, deserves more attention. Watch it and you’ll understand why it hasn’t.
ZPG: came out in 1972, the year before Soylent Green.
Silent Running: Also 1972.And a really stupid film (Bruce Dern's character doesn't know that plants need sunlight?)
Logan's Run: That was about the perils of overpopulation?
Blade Runner: Well, LA certainly looked crowded in the film, but I don't recall any overt references to overpopulation.
Demolition Man: That was about overpopulation?
Fortress: 1992, totally forgot about that one
In Time: Haven't seen it. From the description, though, it doesn't really sound like a film about overpopulation
Pandorum: That was about overpopulation?
District 9: A stealth perils of overpopulation movie. The lumpengentsia focused on the PC Apartheid allegory stuff but completely overlooked the hidden Malthusian message.Replies: @BubbaJoe, @Reg Cæsar, @CAL, @Henry Bowman, @bomag
There was the “Every Sperm is Sacred” farce in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life:
“Retarded” is blocked by Yahoo on its comments. Bloomberg too will not allow the word even if the use of the term is unrelated to a person, e.g. “economic growth was retarded by a drop in oil production”!
I wish Steve had Cinemax. I would like his reviews on the Knick. I watched it and I very much enjoyed the scenes about late 19th century medicine. But those were punctuated and overshadowed by the insertion of modern social justice memes at innapropriate times. The SJW angle really hamstrung the show.
Definitely worth watching. Especially for Owen’s character.
My vague recollection of "Children of Men" is that the book itself was not too bad, but the movie was ridiculous.Replies: @stillCARealist, @Diversity Heretic
Are you kidding? The book was superb. On my list of all-time greats. There’s scenes described in there that I think about on a regular basis.
The movie lost me in less than 5 minutes it was so bad. Despite Michael Caine.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3411641/Germans-ban-ALCOHOL-want-prevent-sex-attacks-help-North-Africans-integrate-says-Muslim-group.htmlReplies: @Yak-15
Sounds implausible even for an ignorant SJW. Most every MENA country makes its own beer.
Did anyone think to work on cloning technology?
ZPG: came out in 1972, the year before Soylent Green.
Silent Running: Also 1972.And a really stupid film (Bruce Dern's character doesn't know that plants need sunlight?)
Logan's Run: That was about the perils of overpopulation?
Blade Runner: Well, LA certainly looked crowded in the film, but I don't recall any overt references to overpopulation.
Demolition Man: That was about overpopulation?
Fortress: 1992, totally forgot about that one
In Time: Haven't seen it. From the description, though, it doesn't really sound like a film about overpopulation
Pandorum: That was about overpopulation?
District 9: A stealth perils of overpopulation movie. The lumpengentsia focused on the PC Apartheid allegory stuff but completely overlooked the hidden Malthusian message.Replies: @BubbaJoe, @Reg Cæsar, @CAL, @Henry Bowman, @bomag
Silent Running was about destroying the environment (i.e. all the plants are gone). Yes it was stupid when he didn’t know about plants and light. Of course having the ships out at Saturn didn’t make sense either.
Logan’s Run: Population had to be controlled because they lived in a sealed environment due to an unknown catastrophe.
Blade Runner: No because sections of the city were fairly empty.
Demolition Man: Actually they lived in a near utopia. No overpopulation.
Fortress: Just know you had to have a license to have a kid. Don’t know the background.
Pandorum: Actually the background was people were sent to a new planet because overpopulation had resulted in increasingly deadly wars.
Meanwhile, Cologne would make a lovely backdrop for Death Wish V: Children of Camels. Charles Bronson is no longer with us, but Bronson Pinchot would make a fine cuck prof whose adopted Viet daughter is fingerfornicated on the Cathedral steps on New Year’s Eve and again at Tet.
Pinchot, by the way, lives in a neglected Pennsylvania township that is 98.8% white. A very downscale Chappaqua.
Don’t worry — Franz Boas has assured us that their heads will change shapes when they cross the border.
Aren’t microcephalics too disabled to be a danger to others and too disabled to do even the most basic jobs? If so, the government won’t import them.
Off-topic, but the documentary film Spanish Lake, streaming on Netflix, is one of the most iSteve-y things ever:
http://www.spanishlakefilm.com/#buydvd
I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Weirdly it features a college classmate and acquaintance of mine, Raphael Bostic, in the role of social commentator. Raph was the super-nice Black dude in my House who unsurprisingly turned out to have been gay, and like everyone else in the film he comes across as civilized and moderate about the horrible fate of a once-ideal St. Louis-area community. It was nice to run across him after so many years.
I think you’re talking about A Very British Coup.
Yes, it was sh*t.
Judging by the title, I’m surprised the movie version isn’t about heroic gays who solve the sterility crisis by somehow managing to impregnate each other.
Well, according to WIKIPEDIA, the problem in the book is the exploitation of legal immigrants:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Men
Quite a different scenario from the one in the film. And it's also one hell of a lot more logical.Replies: @ivvenalis
Cuaron also changed the fertility problem from being male to female. The Last Fertile Human also went from being British to African. Both of these changes in addition to the ones elsewhere mentioned provide a great insight into the movie’s ideology.
Those changes make it *more* alt-right friendly, don't you think? If the men were impotent, the message would be that men need to stop slacking off and get back to work. But if the women are impotent, the indictment is of the barrenness of (white) women in the age of feminism. Same with the switch to a pregnant African woman: Black/brown women are making a future for their races whereas negligent white women are leaving theirs to wither and die. Without white women doing their duty, the now-redundant white male can only toil fruitlessly (Clive Owen) or kill pointlessly (the soldiers, the Fishes, etc).
Logan's Run: Population had to be controlled because they lived in a sealed environment due to an unknown catastrophe.
Blade Runner: No because sections of the city were fairly empty.
Demolition Man: Actually they lived in a near utopia. No overpopulation.
Fortress: Just know you had to have a license to have a kid. Don't know the background.
Pandorum: Actually the background was people were sent to a new planet because overpopulation had resulted in increasingly deadly wars.Replies: @Name Withheld
There was at least one Star Trek episode that had the theme of overpopulation “The Mark of Gideon”.
Check out the shoes he was caught wearing while campaigning in New Hampshire several days ago:
Are those shoes a Cuban thing? Or is he just trying to look taller? Or does he just have trouble resisting a fabulous pair of shoes?
You are a contemptible fool. Go crawl back into whatever sewer-pipe you crawled out of.
http://www.spanishlakefilm.com/#buydvd
I can't recommend it highly enough.
Weirdly it features a college classmate and acquaintance of mine, Raphael Bostic, in the role of social commentator. Raph was the super-nice Black dude in my House who unsurprisingly turned out to have been gay, and like everyone else in the film he comes across as civilized and moderate about the horrible fate of a once-ideal St. Louis-area community. It was nice to run across him after so many years.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Clyde
I had Spanish Lake checked out from the library because, as you said, it sounded so iStevey. Unfortunately I never got around to watching it as I was soending too much time here.
ZPG: came out in 1972, the year before Soylent Green.
Silent Running: Also 1972.And a really stupid film (Bruce Dern's character doesn't know that plants need sunlight?)
Logan's Run: That was about the perils of overpopulation?
Blade Runner: Well, LA certainly looked crowded in the film, but I don't recall any overt references to overpopulation.
Demolition Man: That was about overpopulation?
Fortress: 1992, totally forgot about that one
In Time: Haven't seen it. From the description, though, it doesn't really sound like a film about overpopulation
Pandorum: That was about overpopulation?
District 9: A stealth perils of overpopulation movie. The lumpengentsia focused on the PC Apartheid allegory stuff but completely overlooked the hidden Malthusian message.Replies: @BubbaJoe, @Reg Cæsar, @CAL, @Henry Bowman, @bomag
Elysium was a glimpse at our future if we do not secure the border, reduce legal immigration.
https://twitter.com/mikiebarb/status/684122644250255364
Are those shoes a Cuban thing? Or is he just trying to look taller? Or does he just have trouble resisting a fabulous pair of shoes?Replies: @snorlax, @Blobby5, @Anonymous
Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Go actually read some history books on the Khmer Rouge and who they targeted. It was absolutely like the sort of thing some of the hard right-wing populists fantasize about.
ZPG: came out in 1972, the year before Soylent Green.
Silent Running: Also 1972.And a really stupid film (Bruce Dern's character doesn't know that plants need sunlight?)
Logan's Run: That was about the perils of overpopulation?
Blade Runner: Well, LA certainly looked crowded in the film, but I don't recall any overt references to overpopulation.
Demolition Man: That was about overpopulation?
Fortress: 1992, totally forgot about that one
In Time: Haven't seen it. From the description, though, it doesn't really sound like a film about overpopulation
Pandorum: That was about overpopulation?
District 9: A stealth perils of overpopulation movie. The lumpengentsia focused on the PC Apartheid allegory stuff but completely overlooked the hidden Malthusian message.Replies: @BubbaJoe, @Reg Cæsar, @CAL, @Henry Bowman, @bomag
I’ll make another mention of Elysium which pretty much implies Earth was ruined from too many people; thus the posh people had to go elsewhere.
Also in this vein is Interstellar, which suggests a ruined Earth from trying to support too many people.
And to stretch it a bit more in this direction, the Mad Max movies are in this vein; not so much dystopian from direct overpopulation, but a world destroyed from clamoring to accommodate modern life with more and more population pressure. Likewise, include all the zombie apocalypse movies, and several other apocalypse movies such as The Road
Of course, the more people there are, the more pressure on the environment--but if that message is there, it is hidden.
Back in the '60s and '70s, it was not just socially acceptable, it was cool to worry about "the population problem." Thus the movies. It is now poor manners to talk about population; most all the people with a fertility rate above replacement are "people of color." So there can be no cool overpopulation movies. There can be cool "screw up the environment" movies.
Are Germans so amnesiac?
If Germany had gotten off Scot-free in WWII,I can understand the guilt.
But Germans paid a horrible price.
10 million dead.
Entire cities incinerated.
2-3 million women raped in the most horrible manner.
9 million expelled from former parts of Germany, 1 million dying in the process.
Huge loss of territory.
A nation divided. East under communist rule.
West under US occupation, even to this day.
Destruction of arts and treasures.
Darkened reputation around the world.
Huge reparations to Jews and other groups.
And then think of all the great things Germany has done for the world by offering generous loans, technical expertise, economic advice, etc. since the end of WWII.
Also, German contributions to humanity over the many centuries have been incalculable.
But for some reason, none of that matters.
It’s like Groundhog Day all over again, and Germans are 100% guilty and must atone over and over all over again.
I think you guys must all be over 40 and single to be so pessimistic about everything.
All the people in my age cohort or younger are happily married with young children and don't believe the crazy things you guys believe.
That tells you something right thereReplies: @Big Bill, @bomag, @reiner Tor, @ben tillman, @Reg Cæsar, @TWS
… don’t believe the crazy things you guys believe.
So it’s a competition, and you’ve won? Congratulations. May the statistics be ever in your favor.
And a certain anonymous gets excited by comparing his political enemies to one of the usual left-wing death cults from the recent past.
“I like Clive Owen as an actor, but Children of Men was retarded. Can I still say retarded?”
Yes, you can. What you can’t say is that it should be shown at the Special Olympics. That will get you in a lot of trouble.
I have nothing to say. I just wanted to say Hi. It’s been ages since I last talked to GOD. I know it’s YOU since you have been “verified.” You know what they say? “If you can’t trust Pay Pal, who can you trust?”
Apparently, the Zika virus is implicated with ‘microcephaly’ in new borns, a complaint that literally means ‘tiny head’ – and by implication tiny brain.
So now I know what has been afflicting the western Economist-whipped political class all these years.
My vague recollection of "Children of Men" is that the book itself was not too bad, but the movie was ridiculous.Replies: @stillCARealist, @Diversity Heretic
The novel Children of Men was good, if you’re into that kind of “all hope is lost” fiction. Neville Shute’s On the Beach was even better but do not read it if you even think that you’re suffering from depression–it’ll put you over the edge.
On the Beach was a good movie; Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck starred, as I recall. I was forewarned about Children of Men as a movie and saved my time and money.
"On the Beach" came out when I was about 12 years old. I think it was the first grown-up themed book that I ever read. .... And now I am an unredeemable pessimist.
But seriously, I wonder if that general sense of gloom that so many people felt in the late 50's -- the idea that the world could just end at any moment -- may have contributed to the cultural & moral breakdown that began in the 60's.
But he'd be a good Bond, maybe a great one.
Sad that Bond will probably have to be black now. Worse, with a black Bond, all the villains will have to be crudely overdrawn cardboard racist caricatures forever more.Replies: @tbraton
“Worse, with a black Bond, all the villains will have to be crudely overdrawn cardboard racist caricatures forever more.”
No, they can remain Russians. What with Cold War II started by the neocons, it’s almost like the good old days.
Amongst other things, Sean Connery worked as a milkman and a ‘coffin polisher’ before breaking into acting.
That’s why in that god-awful train-wreck movie ‘Casino Royalle’ – the 1967 version -you see a ‘milk float’ prominently placed early on in the film. Sheer nastiness and snobbery, no other earthly reason.
Iran Fleming was not happy with having the very working-class and Scottish Connery as Bond. He described Connery as a ‘f*cking truck-driver’ and ‘an over-developed stuntman’.
Anyway, my point is that in France, Sean Connery, for obvious reasons is generally referred to in film posters as 'James Bond' and not 'Sean Connery', apparently even when not appearing in a Bond movie.Replies: @Rob McX
The “rouge” in Khmer Rouge is french for “red”, like in “red scare”.
It’s a double whammy invasion and disease, it’s going to get lots worse as African development heats up, Africa’s new owners (Israeli, Chinese, Indian non whites) are going to displace hundreds of millions of currently or soon to be poor landless renters.
That displaced mob is slated to fix the US, EU and South American debt problems with millions more socialist debt voters.
There’s a predictable schedule, it been modeled.
Yes, I’m aware that they were communists. Did you know that the Nazis were socialists?
Don’t get mad at me. I’m not saying anything that anyone can’t discover for himself by reading about the Khmer Rouge. Get mad at Pol Pot for jacking your style.
Ahh. Much better.
It has always been standard stock for the slightly conservative to be tarred with the Hitler-Nazi-Fascist label, and the only penance was to convert to left-liberal-progressive and have the sins washed away. Meanwhile, the Left has no compunction to atone for any public policy plan that results in an embarrassing pile of bodies; it just meant we had to all become even more pure and try harder the next time.
Even though the sentiment on this blog is the defense of the individual against an oppressive Socialized state, we now have to stand for the actions of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge, and their plans for the centralized State to seize all power and remake society along Utopian lines.Replies: @Clyde
That's why in that god-awful train-wreck movie 'Casino Royalle' - the 1967 version -you see a 'milk float' prominently placed early on in the film. Sheer nastiness and snobbery, no other earthly reason.
Iran Fleming was not happy with having the very working-class and Scottish Connery as Bond. He described Connery as a 'f*cking truck-driver' and 'an over-developed stuntman'.Replies: @Anonymous
‘Connerie’ is a rude word in French. Emanating from the root ‘con’ – wholly cognate with the so-called English ‘c’ word, connerie can be roughly translated by comparing it to the general and colloquial usage of the English (UK) term ‘bollocks’ – which of course means the male and not female genitalia. In England, of course, ‘bollocks’ means nonsense, contemptible, down-right ridiculous nonsense – such as found in The Economist editorial pages, for instance.
Anyway, my point is that in France, Sean Connery, for obvious reasons is generally referred to in film posters as ‘James Bond’ and not ‘Sean Connery’, apparently even when not appearing in a Bond movie.
Definitely worth watching. Especially for Owen's character.Replies: @Romanian
“I can make it painless and perfect”. Kind of like what politicians are promising.
He probably was hustling or gay for pay. Attractive teenage Cubans can probably clean up in gay hustling markets.
There’s a rumor in DC that Rubio is quite the ladies man. I doubt he’s gay, metrosexual yeah.
No need to resort to SF for immigration/over-population dystopias. Just check out these pictures of immigrants storming the port in Calais in the last 48 hours:
Anyway, my point is that in France, Sean Connery, for obvious reasons is generally referred to in film posters as 'James Bond' and not 'Sean Connery', apparently even when not appearing in a Bond movie.Replies: @Rob McX
Con and connerie aren’t nearly as offensive in French as their cognate c–t is in English. It’s an example of a word weakening as people lose sight of its original meaning. It’s a bit like bugger in English. Nowadays in its extended colloquial meanings it’s no more offensive than damn.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/23/18/3081273700000578-3413566-The_Port_of_Calais_has_been_closed_after_hundreds_of_migrants_st-a-23_1453572800624.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/23/18/308005E300000578-3413566-It_followed_a_2_000_strong_protest_against_the_living_conditions-a-24_1453572800625.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/23/18/3081241200000578-3413566-A_group_is_believed_to_have_ripped_open_a_fence_in_order_to_get_-a-26_1453572800628.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/23/18/308126C200000578-3413566-The_incident_comes_hours_after_UK_Labour_leader_Jeremy_Corbyn_vi-a-27_1453572800629.jpgReplies: @Rob McX
Sorry, the “” was an error.
They were radical egalitarians. That, plus their lineage, makes them left-wing See how Noam Chomsky covered for them. As Moldbug was fond of saying, “The Left is a club, they recognize each other.” Ponder why leftists were thrilled when Huey “Share Our Wealth” Long was assassinated by a Lone Nut who had been a medical student in Vienna.
Honorable mention: Tribbles
Clive does get to have some fun.
That policy would make a hell of a lot more sense in a movie about a fascist racist British gov’t trying to save what it can from the onslaught of the art- and culture-destroying Islamic fundamentalists.
Makes sense. They’d have to make it out to be a good thing if they made the doctor Jewish and the boy a blond Anglo-Saxon. In fact, didn’t they make a movie like that? The Boys From Brazil, if I’m remembering the title correctly.
Yeah. Premise being, “how dare you be the only ones to save yourselves via naughtily effective facism!”
Revised premise being, “okay, we accept that naughtily effective fascism is naughtily effective, but, how do we trump that? Oh, I know! We’ll make it so only a pregnant negro can save the horrid, fascist whites!”
That’s what I keep telling the Israelis, but do they ever listen?
Yep, for as long as I’ve been here, all the right-wing types have been telling me how great the Khmer Rouge were. Funny how nobody on the right ever uses the Khmer Rouge to bash the left, how the left seems embarrassed about the whole thing and rarely brings it up, etc.
So much so, that we shouldn’t bother ourselves over whether the Khmer Rouge were leftist or rightist, am I right? “Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia,” what’s that? (P.S., can you recommend some books about the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia that don’t mention the fact that they’re about the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia?)
So, what the Nazis did was exactly the sort of thing that socialists fantasize about?
Well, if he is a homosexual, he apparently doesn’t want anyone to know. In which case, he’s the perfect target for blackmail, for everyone from the Chinese to the Russians to the Israelis to the globalists. Closeted homosexuals are the worst kind of security risk.
As soon as I saw the headline I thought, “Damn! More excuses to allow in illegals and “refugees” from that hellhole. I can see it now. Temporary protected status for Zika virus refugees. And Temporary protected status is code for, “they never go home”
On the Beach was a good movie; Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck starred, as I recall. I was forewarned about Children of Men as a movie and saved my time and money.Replies: @jay-w
Heh!! Maybe that’s my problem then 🙂
“On the Beach” came out when I was about 12 years old. I think it was the first grown-up themed book that I ever read. …. And now I am an unredeemable pessimist.
But seriously, I wonder if that general sense of gloom that so many people felt in the late 50’s — the idea that the world could just end at any moment — may have contributed to the cultural & moral breakdown that began in the 60’s.
https://twitter.com/JustinRaimondo/status/690412452945772546
And it gets weirder. The guy Rubio was arrested with in 1990 was sued by Miami in 2007 for running a gay pornography studio out of one of his properties:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/42cvjr/something_very_interesting_some_friends_and_i/Replies: @Thomas, @Leftist conservative, @SFG, @AndrewR
I have little doubt that a 20 year old baby faced adorable twink Rubio would have had his pick of the wealthy gay johns. Or are they called juans in Miami?
On the contrary: They sound like ideal clients for the Welfare State. Guaranteed job security for legions of social workers and bureaucrats.
Zika virus: Three “Britons” infected, say health officials
Three “Britons” have contracted Zika virus – which may cause severe birth defects – after travelling to South and Central America, officials have said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35391712
Okay, let me go through the stages: anger; denial; acceptance.
Ahh. Much better.
It has always been standard stock for the slightly conservative to be tarred with the Hitler-Nazi-Fascist label, and the only penance was to convert to left-liberal-progressive and have the sins washed away. Meanwhile, the Left has no compunction to atone for any public policy plan that results in an embarrassing pile of bodies; it just meant we had to all become even more pure and try harder the next time.
Even though the sentiment on this blog is the defense of the individual against an oppressive Socialized state, we now have to stand for the actions of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge, and their plans for the centralized State to seize all power and remake society along Utopian lines.
Hastert was a bad speaker and possibly at least somewhat of a sexual predator, but I dont think it’s fair to characterize a twenty-something young man into teenaged young men as a “pedo” even if their relationship was not one of social equals. I think it’s probable that the relationship was harmless and that the alleged victim was able to extort Hastert after the fact due to the illegal nature of the relationship.
As unz has speculated, the elite love politicians with this sort of background bc they can control them via blackmail. It would explain why the same things happen regardless of who is in power and which party is supposedly ruling.
https://twitter.com/mikiebarb/status/684122644250255364
Are those shoes a Cuban thing? Or is he just trying to look taller? Or does he just have trouble resisting a fabulous pair of shoes?Replies: @snorlax, @Blobby5, @Anonymous
Are those what are referred to as ‘puerto Rican fence climbers?’
https://twitter.com/mikiebarb/status/684122644250255364
Are those shoes a Cuban thing? Or is he just trying to look taller? Or does he just have trouble resisting a fabulous pair of shoes?Replies: @snorlax, @Blobby5, @Anonymous
Never underestimate the power of a woman trapped inside a man’s body.
I think, at least on the surface, Elysium, Interstellar, and the Mad Max movies are “environmental” rather than “population” movies. It’s not that there are too many of us; it’s that we’ve screwed up the environment–and now it can’t support us.
Of course, the more people there are, the more pressure on the environment–but if that message is there, it is hidden.
Back in the ’60s and ’70s, it was not just socially acceptable, it was cool to worry about “the population problem.” Thus the movies. It is now poor manners to talk about population; most all the people with a fertility rate above replacement are “people of color.” So there can be no cool overpopulation movies. There can be cool “screw up the environment” movies.
So Marco Antonio Rubio García was molested by an older man in a park 25 years ago. What does that have to do with anything today?
Take a look at this family. That woman on the right has four kids and still looks…
http://communitytable.parade.com/151898/galinaespinoza/at-home-with-marco-rubio/
You're right that he's married and has a family. But what's also true is that there have been bisexuality rumors about him in Miami and Florida for years.Replies: @Clyde
I dunno, I thought the book was pretty bad. No one even tried to figure out what caused the sterility. You weren’t supposed to, because thinking things out is uncool.
Then the crisis is over, and that’s that.
But yeah, the movie compounded the book’s general crappiness. Everyone was color coded, literally.
Good = colored. Or white people with dreads.
Bad = white, or normal looking.
And of course the black midwife was the bestest of all.
But don’t overrate the source material.
Take a look at this family. That woman on the right has four kids and still looks...
http://communitytable.parade.com/151898/galinaespinoza/at-home-with-marco-rubio/Replies: @AndrewR, @5371, @Anonymous, @Neoconned
God, he looks flaming in that pic.
First man to do it wins the Nobel Prize.Replies: @Anonymous
There is a lot of media hype surrounding DNA editing technology, especially CRISPR. It’s potentially very useful in the future, but there are a lot of “bugs” (heh) to work out. Sometimes the intended changes don’t establish themselves in the DNA at all. In other cases, many unintended mutations develop. You could unintentionally produce a breed of super-mosquitos resistant to all of our insecticides with that method. It should also be mentioned that the experimentation has been carried out on embryos with far fewer cells than an adult mosquito. You’d have to get to the eggs to have a chance. But again, all work with this technology has occurred under strict laboratory conditions. It’s not like you can spray a CRISPR fumigation mist and voila!
Take a look at this family. That woman on the right has four kids and still looks...
http://communitytable.parade.com/151898/galinaespinoza/at-home-with-marco-rubio/Replies: @AndrewR, @5371, @Anonymous, @Neoconned
You spelt “prostituted himself” wrong.
Agreed. No security risk at all in a homosexual politician posing as a heterosexual politician and becoming president. The homosexuals in his past would never blackmail him, what with homosexuals being such paragons of honor and propriety and all.
I am quite aware of whom the Khmer Rouge targeted. They were – as I said – radical egalitarians. Not at all like anyone here (other than perhaps you). You are an idiot.
Take a look at this family. That woman on the right has four kids and still looks...
http://communitytable.parade.com/151898/galinaespinoza/at-home-with-marco-rubio/Replies: @AndrewR, @5371, @Anonymous, @Neoconned
He wasn’t molested – he was arrested. He was 20 years old at the time, and he was arrested along with a friend of his, who incidentally just happened to be sued in 2007 by the city of Miami for producing gay pornography in one of his properties.
You’re right that he’s married and has a family. But what’s also true is that there have been bisexuality rumors about him in Miami and Florida for years.
Maybe he was just smoking some Cubans…..
Take a look at this family. That woman on the right has four kids and still looks...
http://communitytable.parade.com/151898/galinaespinoza/at-home-with-marco-rubio/Replies: @AndrewR, @5371, @Anonymous, @Neoconned
Blackmail.
I think you guys must all be over 40 and single to be so pessimistic about everything.
All the people in my age cohort or younger are happily married with young children and don't believe the crazy things you guys believe.
That tells you something right thereReplies: @Big Bill, @bomag, @reiner Tor, @ben tillman, @Reg Cæsar, @TWS
Congratulations! That’s wonderful news! I’m so happy! Keep being perfect!
Hastert had sexual relationships with teenage boys in high school. We dont know how young they actually were or how many, but we do know he used his position of authority to bang underage boys.
As unz has speculated, the elite love politicians with this sort of background bc they can control them via blackmail. It would explain why the same things happen regardless of who is in power and which party is supposedly ruling.
It might crush his chances, so I guess you do care. This might be the thing which is used by his handlers to control him.
Besides, homosexuals are often a bit off. It might be because it could be caused by a pathogen as proposed by Greg Cochran. So if a non-homo candidate with roughly the same credentials was available, I wouldn’t choose a homosexual. Of course, that’s usually not the case. I’d take Pim Fortuyn over any of the current Western European leaders. So I guess it doesn’t matter much to me either.
I also suspect, now that the stigma's decreasing, there are going to be a lot more lesbian Republicans.
Why? I have it on dvd, but never watched it. Spoilers are welcome.
Besides, homosexuals are often a bit off. It might be because it could be caused by a pathogen as proposed by Greg Cochran. So if a non-homo candidate with roughly the same credentials was available, I wouldn't choose a homosexual. Of course, that's usually not the case. I'd take Pim Fortuyn over any of the current Western European leaders. So I guess it doesn't matter much to me either.Replies: @SFG
You have a good point. Personally, I think more likely it’s the feminine traits in a man that look ‘off’.
I also suspect, now that the stigma’s decreasing, there are going to be a lot more lesbian Republicans.
There was 1 million infected in Brazil. Assuming it was a random 1 million, that gives 15000 live births..
So 1/3rd of children born to infected people are microcephalic. That is fairly bad, no?
No wonder Rubio was so eager to kiss Sheldon Adelson’s cock ring.
Funniest comment in quite a while.
Steve,
I don’t know anything about Cuaron or his politics, but I think the movie works better if you take it not as a progressive endorsement of Western cuckoldry but as a Neil Blomkamp-style stealth-conservative indictment of it.
Whites don’t breed anymore. We live in quasi-police states that serve an ultra-wealthy, nihilistic elite that couldn’t care less about our cultures or ancestors. The rest of us are either drones dying slowly of anomie and booze or hired attack dogs for the elite. Patriotism is no longer a swelling feeling of pride and purpose rooted in blood and soil so much as rah-rah propaganda to anesthetize the drones and agitate the dogs to “get some.” And as whites succumb to decadence, childlessness, and purposelessness, cut off from both the past and the future, not only are we impotent in the face of replacement by more fecund races, but it seems the only possible/acceptable way we can get back that transcendent feeling of purpose is to give up on ourselves entirely and devote ourselves to the advancement of our replacements.
If you grant that Clive Owen’s character is meant to be pitied rather than admired for his cuckoldry, then the message of the movie becomes: Isn’t this a shitty way to live? and, Why are we doing this to ourselves?
In the current storm in the North East one casualty was a baby named Messiah. First person I have ever heard of being given this name. Beam me up!
Those changes make it *more* alt-right friendly, don’t you think? If the men were impotent, the message would be that men need to stop slacking off and get back to work. But if the women are impotent, the indictment is of the barrenness of (white) women in the age of feminism. Same with the switch to a pregnant African woman: Black/brown women are making a future for their races whereas negligent white women are leaving theirs to wither and die. Without white women doing their duty, the now-redundant white male can only toil fruitlessly (Clive Owen) or kill pointlessly (the soldiers, the Fishes, etc).
http://www.spanishlakefilm.com/#buydvd
I can't recommend it highly enough.
Weirdly it features a college classmate and acquaintance of mine, Raphael Bostic, in the role of social commentator. Raph was the super-nice Black dude in my House who unsurprisingly turned out to have been gay, and like everyone else in the film he comes across as civilized and moderate about the horrible fate of a once-ideal St. Louis-area community. It was nice to run across him after so many years.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Clyde
http://www.housingwire.com/articles/32538-raphael-bostic-elected-to-freddie-mac-board-of-governors
I don't know anything about Cuaron or his politics, but I think the movie works better if you take it not as a progressive endorsement of Western cuckoldry but as a Neil Blomkamp-style stealth-conservative indictment of it.
Whites don't breed anymore. We live in quasi-police states that serve an ultra-wealthy, nihilistic elite that couldn't care less about our cultures or ancestors. The rest of us are either drones dying slowly of anomie and booze or hired attack dogs for the elite. Patriotism is no longer a swelling feeling of pride and purpose rooted in blood and soil so much as rah-rah propaganda to anesthetize the drones and agitate the dogs to "get some." And as whites succumb to decadence, childlessness, and purposelessness, cut off from both the past and the future, not only are we impotent in the face of replacement by more fecund races, but it seems the only possible/acceptable way we can get back that transcendent feeling of purpose is to give up on ourselves entirely and devote ourselves to the advancement of our replacements.
If you grant that Clive Owen's character is meant to be pitied rather than admired for his cuckoldry, then the message of the movie becomes: Isn't this a shitty way to live? and, Why are we doing this to ourselves?Replies: @Clyde
And as whites succumb to decadence, childlessness, and purposelessness, cut off from both the past and the future, not only are we impotent in the face of replacement by more fecund races
In the current storm in the North East one casualty was a baby named Messiah. First person I have ever heard of being given this name. Beam me up!
You're right that he's married and has a family. But what's also true is that there have been bisexuality rumors about him in Miami and Florida for years.Replies: @Clyde
One of Rubio’s properties?
Ahh. Much better.
It has always been standard stock for the slightly conservative to be tarred with the Hitler-Nazi-Fascist label, and the only penance was to convert to left-liberal-progressive and have the sins washed away. Meanwhile, the Left has no compunction to atone for any public policy plan that results in an embarrassing pile of bodies; it just meant we had to all become even more pure and try harder the next time.
Even though the sentiment on this blog is the defense of the individual against an oppressive Socialized state, we now have to stand for the actions of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge, and their plans for the centralized State to seize all power and remake society along Utopian lines.Replies: @Clyde
You gave the best reply to lefty anonymous who is not half as smart as he thinks.
No, the toes aren’t quite pointy enough (to fit in chain link fence). But they do have Cuban heels.
Pandorum is better than the low rankings it’s gotten over the years. Forget spoilers, just go into it with low expectations, so it can exceed them. If you already own, it why not watch it?
I think you guys must all be over 40 and single to be so pessimistic about everything.
All the people in my age cohort or younger are happily married with young children and don't believe the crazy things you guys believe.
That tells you something right thereReplies: @Big Bill, @bomag, @reiner Tor, @ben tillman, @Reg Cæsar, @TWS
It tells us you’re a stupid person who makes stupid arguments.
I think you guys must all be over 40 and single to be so pessimistic about everything.
All the people in my age cohort or younger are happily married with young children and don't believe the crazy things you guys believe.
That tells you something right thereReplies: @Big Bill, @bomag, @reiner Tor, @ben tillman, @Reg Cæsar, @TWS
Pauline Kael didn’t know anyone who voted for Richard Nixon, either. Just as representative as your “cohort”, don’t you think?
The Children of Men would have been much stronger if it hadn’t jettisoned so much of the novel’s Christianity; this First Thing’s review makes the point well: http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2008/11/sacramone-children-of-men
US to get Zika by mandatory public policy, bullish for drug companies.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/25/health/who-zika-virus-americas/
“The CDC also recommended that women who have recently traveled to these places during their pregnancy be screened and monitored for the virus.”
There’s a test, we can screen all immigrants, aliens, carriers, foreign travelers if it’s not too late, before our domestic mosquito population gets infected.
EboLA inset host(s) still not identified.
Then there’s this the “California Flu” from Ukraine and a US flu research lab maybe?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-25/20-dead-200-hospitalized-after-reports-us-lab-leaks-deadly-virus-ukraine?page=3#comment-7093137
Spanish Flu part deux?
Bullish Merk
Will be interesting to see what effect, if any, just asking the women of Latin America to not get pregnant will have. Wouldn’t it be something if a significant number of women did this and a side-effect was them discovering the link between having too many children and entrenched, cyclical poverty. I read somewhere that for an undeveloped nation to “gain traction” a requirement is that they get their birth-rate below 2.4.
Most of the comments seem to be anti _Children of Men_. I liked it, myself. Great performances by Clive Owen and Michael Caine, I thought. If I stopped seeing movies because of all the improbable things that happen and the built-in contradictions…well, I wouldn’t see very many movies.
Not a lefty, and I may not be smart, but I’ve actually read about the Khmer Rouge, unlike my interlocutors here.
Dumbest damn movie I ever saw and I was not impressed by the ‘long shot’. ‘Ronin’ had better and the new Daredevil while it probably was not a single take had a fight scene that was edited so well that it looked like a single take. Which is nearly as difficult and it was also more entertaining.
Deeply stupid movie trying to be profound.
I think you guys must all be over 40 and single to be so pessimistic about everything.
All the people in my age cohort or younger are happily married with young children and don't believe the crazy things you guys believe.
That tells you something right thereReplies: @Big Bill, @bomag, @reiner Tor, @ben tillman, @Reg Cæsar, @TWS
Yeah, that’s why the white death rate is rising due to suicides, overdoses, and violence. Because everything is just fine. What cohort are you in? Guys born in 1930 Twin Falls or Flint Michigan? Trustfund babies born, well any time?
The pointy ones were called “Puerto Rican cockroach killers” because they were able to get in tight corners where the roaches ran.
When you come on here like an anonymous lefty bomb thrower you just might get treated like one. So you read your books and I still agree with those who replied to you. Now if you used a name here, maybe people would know where you are coming from so you would not have gotten the treatment.
Spreading Reddit rumors as if they are real news stories is bullshit. It would humor me if Rubio was exposed as being a little light in the loafers but let’s not slander the man from lousy reporting. His friend one Angel Barrios indeed owned a house he was renting out that was used for gay porn, that in no way shape or form makes either Angel Barrios gay or by osmosis Rubio. Anybody rented out a house they own? You don’t know what is going behind closed doors, you just want your rent paid. Marco was indeed a frisky eighteen year old out after curfew up to getting high, getting laid, something or another, it seems to be the normal behavior for lively eighteen year olds the whole world over.
There is poor reporting going on regarding the Zika virus, what else is new. It is carried by a mosquito, Aedes mosquito, otherwise known as the Asian Tiger mosquito and this new arrival to the Americas is really really bad news for the areas it thrives in, the sub tropics.
Why? It spreads disease far easier than other varieties of mosquito because it feeds during the day, you can’t hide from it at night under a mosquito net, and it feeds multiple times on multiple hosts, meaning it spreads diseases far easier than our northern mosquito that goes to egg laying after one feeding. Humans are an outbreak, there are seven billion of us. What does nature do to control outbreaks. Come with new diseases. Come up with easier ways to spread them because the species that is an outbreak is very crowded together. Africa is never ever getting to four billion people by the year 2200 as is projected by some. That’s crazy talk. Before we run of food to feed them there will be disease outbreaks and mosquito born diseases are one very effective means of spreading disease. Go to wiki and look at the number of diseases that the asian tiger mosquito can transmit. The list is long and it is growing.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/25/health/who-zika-virus-americas/
"The CDC also recommended that women who have recently traveled to these places during their pregnancy be screened and monitored for the virus."
There's a test, we can screen all immigrants, aliens, carriers, foreign travelers if it's not too late, before our domestic mosquito population gets infected.
EboLA inset host(s) still not identified.
Then there's this the "California Flu" from Ukraine and a US flu research lab maybe?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-25/20-dead-200-hospitalized-after-reports-us-lab-leaks-deadly-virus-ukraine?page=3#comment-7093137
Spanish Flu part deux?
Bullish MerkReplies: @Brutusale
Google Ken Alibek. I shudder to think of the pathogens produced by the old Soviet bioweapons program waiting to be captured and released by terrorist organizations.
Exhibit A: Shep Smith.
All the up-and-comers should study the great ones, am I right?
The one where he goes after the Russians, in the hallway? That was pretty good.
re: V is for Vendetta .
Despite the writers best attempts the Right Wing regime in that movie still looks better than most any current regime in Europe. Homogeneous, Safe streets unless you are out illegally late at night, lots of people having children , clean orderly well funded pensioner homes , people hanging out an enjoying each others company , private parties with firearms (a security guard) and TV that while propaganda is still better than a lot of stuff on the BBC.
The regime isn’t nice granted but its effective and the presence of many young people says it works.
Honestly if you ignore V’s statement about arts which might be lies (he’s very unreliable) and a few of the over the top bits like unnecessary scanning of people’s houses the “fascist” regime there isn’t bad. if what they say is about the US in the setting is remotely true (its a failing state locked into perpetual Middle Easter and civil wars with regular famine) its a pretty good government in fact.
Assuming this wasn’t on purpose, a sly way way to get the audience to think, a reasonable assertion in a Warshawski Brothers movie it would have been trivial to make Northfire the good guys
As to the Zika virus, rumors are spreading that it was genetically engineered to stop mosquitoes. I’m not sure about that though I suspect a lot of people are going to be thinking its a test run of something nasty.
Let’s Kill All the Mosquitoes
Which predator species would have to find new food sources? Frogs? Birds?
Only 10% of mosquito species prey on humans and only 10% of those carry disease. Wiping out all that prey on humans might have consequences, but there is very little risk in replacing one mosquito species with another.
continuing…