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Alert reader David Pinsen sends along this screenshot from the free wifi at a P.F. Chang’s restaurant:
So now we know which Chang was referred to by Gov. Jeb Bush when he presented Marco Rubio with a sword in 2006 and told him to use it to “Unleash Chang!”
Jeb explained to the Florida legislature:
“Chang is a mystical warrior. Chang is somebody who believes in conservative principles, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism, believes in moral values that underpin a free society.
“I rely on Chang with great regularity in my public life. He has been by my side and sometimes I let him down. But Chang, this mystical warrior, has never let me down.”
So, Jeb meant, “Unleash P.F. Chang’s delicious Asian flavors!”
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One wonders what would happen if you walked in and asked to use the restroom.
On South Park, Randy birthed a contender for World's Biggest Poop Ever after eating "mostly P.F. Chang's -- good stuff." This drew the ire of Bono (of U2 fame), the previous record-holder. The twist of the episode came when it was revealed that Bono was the record, i.e.: the world's biggest turd.
The more you know! ....---*Replies: @JimB, @SonOfStrom
Ron Unz, the ball is in your court.
Maybe if you kiss his hand and call him Godfather, Ron Unz could, I suppose do SOMETHING, on this, the day of his blogger's banning.
(From the headline, I really thought first that Steve had been banned in person due to someone recognizing him and knowing the iSteve content. That'd have been more of a cool thing and easier to raise hell about. I'd bet Panda Express would still serve him. Those people don't look like they read the internet.)
In case you are wondering where the hell Jeb got his “Unleash Chang” line …
“Unleash Chang” was George H.W. Bush’s joke he used while playing on the White House tennis court when he tried to summon up an unreturnable serve. Bush conflated the 1950s GOP slogan “unleash Chiang” with the name of the 1989 French Open winner, 5’7″ Michael Chang, a persistent baseliner without much of a power game. It’s a pretty funny joke, although it’s not clear if Jeb know’s it’s funny.
https://youtu.be/4fTl-2YzZMI
Ha, ha, ha…
Presumably, the next stage will be when iPhone XVI starts giving you an automatic electric shock when you attempt to visit a “bad-thought website”, and after the third time you do that, explodes, blowing off your hand…
It might instead auto-dial 911, and report that its owner was making eye contact with it for longer than 5 seconds, or upload all of its owners personal data to the SPLC hate tracker.
Ha, ha, ha…
What's funny about it? -- did you find it funny when that guy bashed people in the head with a heavy metal bicycle lock? -- when people trying to attend Trump events in 2016 were attacked and beaten? -- when violent leftists disrupt simple speaking events? -- it's all related.
Coloring the News by William McGowan was published in 2001 -- at that point, the media practice of pumping diversity on the one hand, while at the same time overtly lying about its consequences by omitting racial/ethnic info from crime stories, including descriptions of wanted violent criminals, was well established -- even then it had been going for years and years -- this kind of thing is the next chapter.
So I could understand finding it droll if it was some kind of oddity -- but it's not -- it's part of a long-standing pattern.Replies: @eah
THE only thing between us and the Gulag is the 2A. Never, ever forget that.
Is someone going to try to shorten the XVI by an inch?
Seven Receive Medical Attention After iPhone Explodes in Swiss Apple Store
iPhone Explodes in Hair Salon
Video shows iPhone exploding, catching fire in Las Vegas repair shop
NSFW, of course
I also noticed iSteve blocked at two separate Burger Kings as well as on the internal internet at my #WokeCapital employer which will remain unnamed. Strangely the unz.com TLD was not blocked at Burger King. Only the iSteve blog section…
Despite your blog being banned there, noticing occurred that night nevertheless. The waitress (who’d served us before -she’s an alumna of Jon Bon Jovi’s charity restaurant) mentioned that a party of 8 had stiffed her on the tip. “Were they…”, I started to ask, and before I finished she answered with the color describing their social construct.
Maybe when servers are replaced by those flying tray robots those people can have nice restaurants.
Maybe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWoHcSTqiy4Replies: @AndrewR, @Prof. Woland
I don’t even bother trying to go to unz.com or your other domains in certain places, but I was surprised recently to note that the Volokh Conspiracy (but not reason.com), certain comment threads at Slate Star Codex & Shtetl Optimized were listed as blocked for the same reason.
Really where do you guys find these things?Replies: @Mishra, @PiltdownMan
DDoS attacks on unz.com again tonight. Cloudflare warnings.
This is what happens when you allow freedom of speech.
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in regards to the banning, pretty sure it is nothing 'personal', per se; they are -as most such commercial establishments doing such stupid tricks are- probably subscribing to some sort of whitelist/blacklist service (or two), who compiles their list based on the broadest of criteria...
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probably a lot of herd mentality, too, as far as if one service bans a site, another will probably follow, 'just to be on the safe side'... pretty sure they are more worried about including some 'sketchy' site, more than worry about 'wrongly' excluding a few oddball, fringe sites of little consequence...
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if it is 'time' mag/rag who gets swept up because of an article on breast cancer or something, then they will get whitelisted before the electrons get cold from the blistering email from time lawyers... if it is Podunk unz, etc, then they will languish in inertnet limbo with little/no recourse...
And you try so hard to remain ‘wryly detached’ at all times about everything. Not to mention the book reviews.
As per usual, there is some pop-culture intersectionality going on here.
On South Park, Randy birthed a contender for World’s Biggest Poop Ever after eating “mostly P.F. Chang’s — good stuff.” This drew the ire of Bono (of U2 fame), the previous record-holder. The twist of the episode came when it was revealed that Bono was the record, i.e.: the world’s biggest turd.
The more you know! ….—*
http://southpark.cc.com/clips/7g6n1k/randy-takes-a-crap
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=85HEH3y45bM
“Veto Corleone.”
The first few seconds of this video must be seen.
2:45-3:10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i96VS_z8y7g
The 5 Families meet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D_zITtVJGA
Let’s have FREE TIBET and SAVE CHINESE DOGS AND CATS Protest at PF Chang’s.
LOL.
The first few seconds of this video must be seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVSAqV63CYkReplies: @JohnnyWalker123, @Luke
Vito Corleone
2:45-3:10.
The 5 Families meet.
The solution seems obvious to me – don’t tip server 104.24.27.109, port 80. Tit for tat. That’ll show her, him, errrr, it!
P. F. Chang’s flavors are neither delicious nor Asian.
PF Chang's sez - "You gotta give the people what they want" Ray Davies - The Kinks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=x0hWhCOx4U8Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
I’m not sure if you meant this sarcastically, Frank, but the message is telling Dave Pinson that he should contact unz.com to straighten it out by removing all “hate and racism”, so the content can fit through the PC filter somewhere. That is their intent and we sure don’t want that.
Maybe if you kiss his hand and call him Godfather, Ron Unz could, I suppose do SOMETHING, on this, the day of his blogger’s banning.
(From the headline, I really thought first that Steve had been banned in person due to someone recognizing him and knowing the iSteve content. That’d have been more of a cool thing and easier to raise hell about. I’d bet Panda Express would still serve him. Those people don’t look like they read the internet.)
You can use a vpn, or just use the Puffin browser app to get past these restrictions.
Also, it might be worth complaining. Although, who to isn’t clear in this instance.
I did that when my mobile phone operator, in the UK, labelled b3ta.com an “adult” site and blocked it. I told them it was actually a very juvenile site, and they have since unblocked it (I don’t know if my email was the reason).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centerbridge_Partnershttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Aronsonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Galloglyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blackstone_GroupAnd so ends this round of Meet Your Censors.
=^^=
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Yo, Steve. This is important. If Merkel is taking this kind of flak from her own party…
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/975715/germany-refugee-row-angela-merkel-blasted-horst-seehofer-eu-migration-policies
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/world/europe/germany-merkel-migrants-bavaria-seehofer.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&smtyp=cur
Of course, to the NYT, Seehofer is now “radical”, but what do you expect…
By the way, as of 2016, you weren’t blocked in China. (You probably aren’t blocked in a typical Flushing Dongbei joint, either, but…) I’ll probably be going back there in August, and I can check if that’s still true.
You’re banned in Target too, or at least my local north Georgia one.
Steve Sailer banned by P.F. Chang’s. “P.F. Changs” banned by Harvard.
I started getting this today:
It should only happen once per day if you allow cookies and are not doing private browser mode.
It will come and go depending on whether cloudflare believes the site may be under attack.
The whole site was down for a little while yesterday, so someone probably attacked it then and these measures are needed to prevent it from being attacked further.Replies: @3g4me, @gregor
I experienced you being banned at the American Airlines Admiral’s Club in Dallas on one visit, but not since then. Hope you aren’t on their No-Fly list.
Does this block apply to just Steve’s blog, or Unz Review as a whole?
lolwat?
It's just commentary on American legal matters.
The only explanation I can think of is that there are banning pages with "conspiracy" in the title. This is very much like the early days of web filters 20 years ago, when, for example, websites about the NE England town of Scunthorpe found themselves being blocked.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Jenner Ickham Errican
I thought the Volokh Conspiracy ban was even more egregious.
It’s just commentary on American legal matters.
The only explanation I can think of is that there are banning pages with “conspiracy” in the title. This is very much like the early days of web filters 20 years ago, when, for example, websites about the NE England town of Scunthorpe found themselves being blocked.
The last 24 hours I’ve been getting a full-screen message saying “Checking your browser before accessing unz.com”, then I get directed here after 5 or 10 seconds. Don’t know what that means, but I’m not feeling too good.
We've now turned it back off, and I'm hoping we won't need to use it too often. But it's nice to have it available as a backup.
Regarding the main subject of this comment-thread, I'm really surprised that those the censors hired by those "good-think" filter companies are apparently so discerning that they consider www.unz.com to be perfectly respectable but block www.unz.com/isteve/ as "bad-think." Perhaps the next step is for them to start blocking particular authors or specific articles.
Presumably, all that massive workload is contracted out to the cheapest Indians they can hire, whose understanding of American society (and maybe the English language) isn't so great...Replies: @Mishra, @JackOH
But PF Changs is making millions selling ultra-Americanized, sugary Chinese food. I would do the same in a heart beat. Remember this 1980s Chinese slogan – “To get rich is glorious” from Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping? As an aside – There must be some kind of central direction out of Mainland China. All the Chinese takeouts where I live have the same menu. With the same shrimp cultivated in Panama or Thailand. And what exactly is a “Giant Prawn”?
PF Chang’s sez – “You gotta give the people what they want” Ray Davies – The Kinks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=x0hWhCOx4U8
We saw a Vietnamese guy at one of these places get 4 stacked up plates of shrimp one after another (regular, shrimpy-shrimp), and you know those guys LUV that shrimp - there's no way the restaurant broke even with that dude.
* This relates to serious unzzy material, in fact - see The China to King Buffet pipeline.
OK, I didn't start this Chinese restaurant talk, so here goes again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLkTuWdKrqYReplies: @Clyde
I just started to get this when accessing unz.com. Anything to do with net neutrality?
Presumably, the next stage will be when iPhone XVI starts giving you an automatic electric shock when you attempt to visit a "bad-thought website", and after the third time you do that, explodes, blowing off your hand...Replies: @Mike Tre, @Anon, @pyrrhus, @istevefan, @JimB, @Digital Samizdat, @eah, @The preferred nomenclature is..., @Eagle Eye, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Rosamond Vincy
If it blows off your hand then they risk you not standing in line all night to buy the iphone XVII next year.
It might instead auto-dial 911, and report that its owner was making eye contact with it for longer than 5 seconds, or upload all of its owners personal data to the SPLC hate tracker.
I’m guessing if Pinsen searched other unz.com content…
NYT – “White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness”
Trigger Warning – the author is Emily Bazelon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/magazine/white-people-are-noticing-something-new-their-own-whiteness.html
"Unleash Chang" was George H.W. Bush's joke he used while playing on the White House tennis court when he tried to summon up an unreturnable serve. Bush conflated the 1950s GOP slogan "unleash Chiang" with the name of the 1989 French Open winner, 5'7" Michael Chang, a persistent baseliner without much of a power game. It's a pretty funny joke, although it's not clear if Jeb know's it's funny.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Anonym, @WGG, @Steve Sailer, @Forbes, @Deckin
The Michael Chang tennis angle makes this pretty funny.
Like Ted Kennedy, ¡Jeb! and his brothers are proof of regression toward the mean and are not funny. It’s not “white privilege,” but “old money privilege” the puts guys like them in charge.
The Zuckerbergs and Bezoses of our world are preparing the way for future generations of then-old-money mediocrities to run our descendants’ world — for their Chinese overlords.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fr9m2cmbYo&app=desktop
https://twitter.com/xisamariax/status/1008661342415347718?s=21
I did notice over the weekend that cloudflare started checking my domain every time I’d get on your site (on my mobile phone) for the first time of each specific day.
Also OT – sex discrepancies in mental health by religion. You would never guess the religion with the greatest male-female disparity. Smallish samples though.
https://anepigone.blogspot.com/2018/06/islams-clean-bill-of-mental-health.html
I turned off my VPN and checked, it is still true.
I get ban reports regularly. Various government agencies have blocked me. I know of one place I’m not allowed to mention that had a group there who read me every day. Then their IT blocked my site. I know this because one of the people there told me about it.
The next move in this process is to have the firewall services start listing sites like Unz as spam or offensive content. Most companies now buy a firewall with a subscription for filtering porn, gambling sites and so forth. Those filtering services are gatekeepers that will be overrun by loons in the coming years. In five years, the number of people able to reach Unz and similar sites will be reduced to a trickle.
But hey, at least we have our Constitution .
That, sir, is typical dissident right progressive, socialist claptrap. It is economic ignorance. It is one reason why the alt-right / dissident right / white identitarian movement will fail. The dissident right has too many adherents that love them some progressivism.
"Unleash Chang" was George H.W. Bush's joke he used while playing on the White House tennis court when he tried to summon up an unreturnable serve. Bush conflated the 1950s GOP slogan "unleash Chiang" with the name of the 1989 French Open winner, 5'7" Michael Chang, a persistent baseliner without much of a power game. It's a pretty funny joke, although it's not clear if Jeb know's it's funny.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Anonym, @WGG, @Steve Sailer, @Forbes, @Deckin
That’s pretty funny. Such a serve… wouldn’t be prudent at this juncture.
If Steve Sailer is banned at Chang’s, whatever that is, then that means Merkel can invite Sailer to Germany for a European holiday.
There is no doubt that Sailer’s good cheer and cordial companionship will help Merkel get through her defenestration from power.
Sailer can regale Merkel with the great puzzle of what to call Merkel’s treasonous move to allow Germany to be invaded by foreigners on a mass scale.
OFF TOPIC
Trumpy will go the way of treasonous rat Merkel if he keeps up his flirtation with amnesty for illegal alien invaders.
Trumpy Must Deport ALL Illegal Alien Invaders.
Trumpy Must Implement A Moratorium On All Legal Immigration.
Sailer Only Has To Holiday With This Merkel Woman, Not Work With Her:
https://twitter.com/DefendEvropa/status/1008688281465294849
Wear this as a badge of honor, until they send you to a gulag.
I’m getting a strange “Checking your browser” message I can access Unz.com (takes about 5 seconds, but it’s creepy).
My guess is this has to do with the fact that for the past couple of weeks Mr. Unz has featured access to David Irving’s books, particularly Hitler’s War. I suspect TPTB got wind of it and did what they always do. This is really, really creepy.
My paean to Ron:
https://youtu.be/0iAzMRKFX3c
I tried to get to this website this morning, a white screen comes up saying “Checking your browser before redirecting”, before taking me to unz.com. What is that all about?
If a restaurant blocked a site I was trying to access, I’d walk out, letting the waitress know why.
OFF TOPIC
Trump Must Deport ALL Illegal Alien Invaders
Trump Must Implement A Moratorium On All Legal Immigration
Look on the bright side. If Steve goes to the gulag, he can write stories about blood spurting up from the ground and white men being zapped to death by iPhones with death rays. He could create a White Holocaust out of whole cloth and give our people something to work with.
Presumably, the next stage will be when iPhone XVI starts giving you an automatic electric shock when you attempt to visit a "bad-thought website", and after the third time you do that, explodes, blowing off your hand...Replies: @Mike Tre, @Anon, @pyrrhus, @istevefan, @JimB, @Digital Samizdat, @eah, @The preferred nomenclature is..., @Eagle Eye, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Rosamond Vincy
This morning, and still now, my iPhone 6+, using Brave browsers, says “Checking your browser” and then “Error establishing database connection.” Perfectly fine on PC here at ‘work’. Related?
That is terrible but I thought restaurants automatically added a tip for parties of that size???
Another restaurant in the same mall, the local Houston's does that for parties of 6 or more, I think.Replies: @Anon
It is remarkable that two such mediocrities as Jeb! and the Harpy were thought to be the most likely persons to be the Republic’s 45th president.
Sailer Banned At Chang’s
Merkel About To Go
Sailer To Holiday With Merkel
Sailer And Merkel Plan On Many Hikes And Many Beers
Sailer Brushes Up On His German
Sailer Will Blog From Germany And The Alps
Sailer Won’t Work With Merkel Either; Sailer Will Holiday with Merkel:
One of the smartest Jewish Democrat’s perspectives on China:
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/06/17/schumer-i-think-what-trump-is-doing-on-china-is-right/
Some Australian perspectives on China. I haven’t seen this much threat awareness since the Cold War. Wow. I fear someone has awoken a sleeping koala and filled it with a terrible resolve.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/06/17/03/57/60-minutes-china-south-pacific-australia-sydney-expansion-investment-debt
China not happy!
https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/06/18/17/49/60-minutes-china-south-pacific-australia-embassy-fury-mega-wharf-investigation
You can find both part 1 and part 2 on the site. Both well worth watching.
Funny thing- just before accessing this website a few minutes ago I got a message with about a 5 second delay before it started to load… something along the lines of ‘checking your browser’ ‘cloudfare’ blah blah blah
OFF TOPIC
Treasonous Rats In The GOP Ruling Class Are Pushing For More Legal Immigration
Treasonous Rats In The GOP Ruling Class Are Pushing AMNESTY For Illegal Alien Invaders
"Unleash Chang" was George H.W. Bush's joke he used while playing on the White House tennis court when he tried to summon up an unreturnable serve. Bush conflated the 1950s GOP slogan "unleash Chiang" with the name of the 1989 French Open winner, 5'7" Michael Chang, a persistent baseliner without much of a power game. It's a pretty funny joke, although it's not clear if Jeb know's it's funny.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Anonym, @WGG, @Steve Sailer, @Forbes, @Deckin
Cripes, Jeb never ceases to depress. He strangled his father’s amusing inside joke in a desperate attempt at likability. Watching Jeb live his life is like watching that Aronofsky movie *The Wrestler*. It makes you feel sick and sad, and a little dirty.
Presumably, the next stage will be when iPhone XVI starts giving you an automatic electric shock when you attempt to visit a "bad-thought website", and after the third time you do that, explodes, blowing off your hand...Replies: @Mike Tre, @Anon, @pyrrhus, @istevefan, @JimB, @Digital Samizdat, @eah, @The preferred nomenclature is..., @Eagle Eye, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Rosamond Vincy
Good news, you’re not banned in Tucson, yet, Ron! But AmRen, Taki’s and Vox Day are banned in some places…
OT
Ron’s new Cloudflare stuff is blocking Send to Kindle apps by adding an interstitial.
Perhaps the cartoonist left the “E” off “Chang”?
Really where do you guys find these things?
OT:
Wow, good news there. SPLC not only paid 3+ million, but showed they are a big rich soft target.
Who else have they defamed?
IMO, PF Chang’s food is revolting, but my kids disagree….
The iPhone provides predictive search items in the search/URL bar based on a webpage’s content. For this page it recommends “bushidō.”
Bush-ido: the ancient warrior code comprising bank deregulation, offshoring, the carried interest loophole, etc.
OT: Courtesy of the House Freedom and Congressional Black Cauci, and presently being fawned over by Breitbart, I present Cuckservatism, the bill!
The bill would sell the USDA’s portfolio of farm loans and use the proceeds to fund infrastructure projects in “low-income urban communities.” Or in other words robbing red states to throw the purloined funds down assorted Detroit, Baltimore and Jersey City money pits.
I just started getting a website redirect, wait 5 seconds, before accessing Unz. Ron, are you on the radar?
Presumably, the next stage will be when iPhone XVI starts giving you an automatic electric shock when you attempt to visit a "bad-thought website", and after the third time you do that, explodes, blowing off your hand...Replies: @Mike Tre, @Anon, @pyrrhus, @istevefan, @JimB, @Digital Samizdat, @eah, @The preferred nomenclature is..., @Eagle Eye, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Rosamond Vincy
This Star Trek episode pioneered the concept of electric shock for bad thoughts. Is this clip our future?
Presumably, the next stage will be when iPhone XVI starts giving you an automatic electric shock when you attempt to visit a "bad-thought website", and after the third time you do that, explodes, blowing off your hand...Replies: @Mike Tre, @Anon, @pyrrhus, @istevefan, @JimB, @Digital Samizdat, @eah, @The preferred nomenclature is..., @Eagle Eye, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Rosamond Vincy
Go on, joke about it. China has already implemented a social credit scoring system which bans many ordinary citizens from opening bank accounts and buying high speed train tickets. Soon Amazon and the SPLC will compile wokeness scores, much like Experian credit scores, which will be made available to your employer and Kamala Harris’s future DOJ and would most certainly be based, at least in part, on an analysis of your web surfing habits. We are one black or Hispanic president away from a social credit scoring system for Americans.
Oh, wait, have I been too
obtuseLibertarian for you all?Replies: @JimBI was going to mock P.F. Chang’s over priced and mediocre “Asian” food, and say that you could do better for less at a local Chinese joint, but then I remembered that that’s no longer the case. I’ve noticed that in general, Chinese food has been getting worse while other types of Asian cuisine (Thai, Vietnames, Korean) have been getting more common and better. It must have something to do with modern Chinese immigrants arriving with more money and going into what seem like more prestigious industries…
Anyway, when I was a kid, you could get really good Chinese food from either high or low end restaurants, but things like sushi and pho where completely unheard of. Now, it seems like most larger cities have pretty decent options for non-Chinese Asian cuisine, but you just can’t find a high end Chinese place, and the low end ones are just awful.
OT: Deep State subhuman and former head of CIA compares the child separation policy to Auschwitz.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Former-NSA-director-compares-US-immigration-policy-to-Auschwitz-560162/amp
Leaving aside the gratuitous reference to Teh Ebil Notsees, how can anyone, let alone a former CIA director, imply that the CIA has never done far worse than what Trump is doing now? The chutzpah of these monsters never ceases to amaze.
Protection against malicious actors trying to crash the site.
How much of American cuisine is actually genuine?
wrong question. The correct question is: how much of America's food service offerings, are actually high-end "TV dinners"? (in the sense that the people who make it from scratch, are actually in a factory a few hours away, at the other end of a freezer-reefer truck route)
Answer: a lot of it.
Link is down but I found another source.
Wow, good news there. SPLC not only paid 3+ million, but showed they are a big rich soft target.
Who else have they defamed?
"Unleash Chang" was George H.W. Bush's joke he used while playing on the White House tennis court when he tried to summon up an unreturnable serve. Bush conflated the 1950s GOP slogan "unleash Chiang" with the name of the 1989 French Open winner, 5'7" Michael Chang, a persistent baseliner without much of a power game. It's a pretty funny joke, although it's not clear if Jeb know's it's funny.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Anonym, @WGG, @Steve Sailer, @Forbes, @Deckin
It’s a pretty funny joke by GHW Bush, although it’s not clear if Jeb knows it’s funny.
Much less poor Marco.
Given his age, perhaps Jeb is thinking of the spirit power behind I Ching that was a fad among hippies when he was young.Replies: @snorlax
Eating P.F. Chang’s is a good way to get “unblocked” if you’re having trouble on the toilet.
Seriously though, a VPN account is a solid investment. I pay about $50 a year for TorGuard and can pretty much access anything from anywhere.
( torproject.org )
The franchise owners offered a complimentary dinner, but we played it safe and never went there again.Replies: @Anonymous, @Rosamond Vincy
The high end Chinese places here (not chains and 90% immigrant customers) are not very good. It is the same very salty/carby food as low end immigrant-serving places, but in an upscale environment with better table service.
Yeah, that seems about right. I had in mind places like the old On Lock Sam in Stockton, CA, which was big on atmosphere but probably not actually any good.
Another factor on restaurant quality is the Food Network. Most restaurants today are probably better than 20 years ago because people are more aware of what they're eating, but Chinese places seem to be immune.Replies: @Escher
http://i.magaimg.net/img/3k8h.jpgReplies: @JackOH, @Achmed E. Newman, @Lot, @Stan Adams, @donut, @Brutusale
Yep, this is what I’ve been getting the last 24 hours. Also, I’ve had to re-enter my screen name and e-mail instead of highlighting and clicking. I’m not computer hip. Is this some seriously bad stuff?
http://i.magaimg.net/img/3k8h.jpgReplies: @JackOH, @Achmed E. Newman, @Lot, @Stan Adams, @donut, @Brutusale
Mr. Unz could explain much better how it works, I’m sure, but this is supposed to happen, Mr. Jones. It is Denial of Service attack protection. I’ve seen it on unz.com in the past, and I’m guessing this software is used when there is evidence of a DDOS attach occurring.
http://i.magaimg.net/img/3k8h.jpgReplies: @JackOH, @Achmed E. Newman, @Lot, @Stan Adams, @donut, @Brutusale
Ron hired a large tech company called cloudflare to stop denial of service attacks. This is that company making sure your attempt to connect to unz.com is not an attack.
It should only happen once per day if you allow cookies and are not doing private browser mode.
It will come and go depending on whether cloudflare believes the site may be under attack.
The whole site was down for a little while yesterday, so someone probably attacked it then and these measures are needed to prevent it from being attacked further.
Thank you for this simple, clear explanation. I've never gotten that particular screen trying to access Steve's site (although could not connect at all last evening) but have been getting it for months at the
New Observer site. Now I understand its purpose.
It's just commentary on American legal matters.
The only explanation I can think of is that there are banning pages with "conspiracy" in the title. This is very much like the early days of web filters 20 years ago, when, for example, websites about the NE England town of Scunthorpe found themselves being blocked.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Jenner Ickham Errican
Jimmy, that “Scunthorpe” example shows less sophistication, but also much less evil compared to what’s going on these days.
This is what happens when you allow freedom of speech.Replies: @Forbes, @art guerrilla, @Rosamond Vincy
Yeah, I got one of those warnings just now signing on to unz (noontime east coast). Was shut out yesterday (Sunday) PM due to apparent DDoS attack.
The first few seconds of this video must be seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVSAqV63CYkReplies: @JohnnyWalker123, @Luke
If we said he’s more Fredo than Vito I don’t think he’d get the joke…
Presumably, the next stage will be when iPhone XVI starts giving you an automatic electric shock when you attempt to visit a "bad-thought website", and after the third time you do that, explodes, blowing off your hand...Replies: @Mike Tre, @Anon, @pyrrhus, @istevefan, @JimB, @Digital Samizdat, @eah, @The preferred nomenclature is..., @Eagle Eye, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Rosamond Vincy
Someday, once Trump and Putin are both dead, we’ll all be lining up in front of a wallscreen, looking at images of Ron Unz while shouting obscenities at him full-blast for two minutes every day.
PF Chang's sez - "You gotta give the people what they want" Ray Davies - The Kinks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=x0hWhCOx4U8Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Thanks for the Kinks, Clyde.
That’s some oxymoron, there, Jumbo Shrimp. I’ve seen 10 – 12 kinds of chicken at the buffet places*, in various and sundry sugary/salty/fatty sauces. That chicken must be cheap as hell, is all I can say.
We saw a Vietnamese guy at one of these places get 4 stacked up plates of shrimp one after another (regular, shrimpy-shrimp), and you know those guys LUV that shrimp – there’s no way the restaurant broke even with that dude.
* This relates to serious unzzy material, in fact – see The China to King Buffet pipeline.
OK, I didn’t start this Chinese restaurant talk, so here goes again:
And "Twentieth Century Man", and I don't want to be one
"Unleash Chang" was George H.W. Bush's joke he used while playing on the White House tennis court when he tried to summon up an unreturnable serve. Bush conflated the 1950s GOP slogan "unleash Chiang" with the name of the 1989 French Open winner, 5'7" Michael Chang, a persistent baseliner without much of a power game. It's a pretty funny joke, although it's not clear if Jeb know's it's funny.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Anonym, @WGG, @Steve Sailer, @Forbes, @Deckin
IIRC, Michael Chang’s mother accompanied him to tournaments, and had a indiscreet habit of adjusting his clothing, i.e. reaching in his shorts to pull-up his underwear, which Michael found rather embarrassing.
A lot do. This one should.
Another restaurant in the same mall, the local Houston’s does that for parties of 6 or more, I think.
On South Park, Randy birthed a contender for World's Biggest Poop Ever after eating "mostly P.F. Chang's -- good stuff." This drew the ire of Bono (of U2 fame), the previous record-holder. The twist of the episode came when it was revealed that Bono was the record, i.e.: the world's biggest turd.
The more you know! ....---*Replies: @JimB, @SonOfStrom
For fun, the link.
http://southpark.cc.com/clips/7g6n1k/randy-takes-a-crap
This is why you should boycott, or at least raise hell at, places or services that don’t take cash. Cash is King, for more than one reason … more like 666 reasons. See “Chipotle – no credit, no debit, and hold the E. Coli”, along with Part 2 and Part 3.
Oh, wait, have I been too
obtuseLibertarian for you all?What does this quote mean?
The two establishment GOP picks don’t know who Chiang Kai-shek was. He was what, the second most important and well known Chinese figure of the 20th century?
Given his age, perhaps Jeb is thinking of the spirit power behind I Ching that was a fad among hippies when he was young.
Yeah, me too. Ditto for Mr. Jones above. Hmmm…. .
And the most influential Chinese figure being Anna Chennault?
Actually, this is just the industry-standard CloudFlare DDoS protection that we temporarily activated following an especially serious bot-wave yesterday that temporarily overloaded the website. This is actually the first time we’ve ever needed to use that, and it seemed to work reasonably well, although a couple of people complained that they’d lost comments.
We’ve now turned it back off, and I’m hoping we won’t need to use it too often. But it’s nice to have it available as a backup.
Regarding the main subject of this comment-thread, I’m really surprised that those the censors hired by those “good-think” filter companies are apparently so discerning that they consider https://www.unz.com to be perfectly respectable but block https://www.unz.com/isteve/ as “bad-think.” Perhaps the next step is for them to start blocking particular authors or specific articles.
Presumably, all that massive workload is contracted out to the cheapest Indians they can hire, whose understanding of American society (and maybe the English language) isn’t so great…
Given his age, perhaps Jeb is thinking of the spirit power behind I Ching that was a fad among hippies when he was young.Replies: @snorlax
To be fair, “unleash Chiang” is pretty obscure to anyone born after the Greatest Generation. Of course Jeb! could’ve just asked his father to explain the joke…
There were also a lot of elite tut tuts about Trump not knowing what the nuclear triad is, which is another Cold War era bit of trivia.Replies: @J.Ross
Speaking of asking, I’ve never thought to ask until now: Is “Jeb!” pronounced “Jebsclamation point?”
Holy Guaca Bowle!
Only the Hostess confection from whence “Twinkies” commenting handle is taken!
….and Barbecue…..can’t forget that!
Heh! I’ve gotten some mileage out of “please clap.”
Updated comedy power rankings
1. Boomer Right Wing Online Dissidents ™ on iSteve not knowing what DDOS is
2. Boomers on iSteve talking about drugs
Lmao
For what it’s worth, in the third world airport in NYC — that would be LaGuardia — you can access just fine. Nobody tell DeBlasio.
The next move in this process is to have the firewall services start listing sites like Unz as spam or offensive content. Most companies now buy a firewall with a subscription for filtering porn, gambling sites and so forth. Those filtering services are gatekeepers that will be overrun by loons in the coming years. In five years, the number of people able to reach Unz and similar sites will be reduced to a trickle.
But hey, at least we have our Constitution .Replies: @Pericles, @Liberty Mike
Probably overrun by loons already. However, the big trouble begins when everybody start blocking VPNs.
Chinese don’t have refined palates and a gourmet food tradition. Probably because nothing goes to waste. Most anything with calories is rendered into digestible goo through stir frying. Chewy bits are most likely part of a pig’s digestive tract. During famines, neighbors exchanged children to butcher and eat. In Chinese cuisine a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
The same thing can be said about American food if all one knows about is burgers, fries and deep dish pizza.
If she’s planning on getting out of the business, suggest that she take pics of every table she serves and post a years tippers by percentage, with photos for the most special groups. Also remind people that waiters do not even receive minimum wage.
1. Boomer Right Wing Online Dissidents (tm) on iSteve not knowing what DDOS is
2. Boomers on iSteve talking about drugs
LmaoReplies: @snorlax, @Marty
The zeroth would probably be the autists who need every joke explained to them in the Norm Macdonald thread.
Treasonous Rats In The GOP Ruling Class Are Pushing For More Legal Immigration
Treasonous Rats In The GOP Ruling Class Are Pushing AMNESTY For Illegal Alien Invaders
https://twitter.com/NeilMunroDC/status/1008605536114413568Replies: @International Jew
Their faces are just radiant with the glow of virtue-signaling.
Banned at PF Chang is nothing. Just wait till the next Dem gets into the White House. Job 1 will be to make sure nothing like Trump ever happens again. What’s now just corporate policy at Google, Facebook and Twitter will become law.
One odd thing about the restrooms in P.F. Chang’s are the Coca-Cola refill machines. What’s up with that?
It should be mandatory for black groups unfortunately.
Personal experience as waiter at Red Lobster.
Really where do you guys find these things?Replies: @Mishra, @PiltdownMan
Which reminds me: it ought to become a meme that “You got PF Chang’d” when your site is blocked –but is that how it should be spelled? “Changed” doesn’t work..
It's just commentary on American legal matters.
The only explanation I can think of is that there are banning pages with "conspiracy" in the title. This is very much like the early days of web filters 20 years ago, when, for example, websites about the NE England town of Scunthorpe found themselves being blocked.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Jenner Ickham Errican
Horp? Disgusting!
We've now turned it back off, and I'm hoping we won't need to use it too often. But it's nice to have it available as a backup.
Regarding the main subject of this comment-thread, I'm really surprised that those the censors hired by those "good-think" filter companies are apparently so discerning that they consider www.unz.com to be perfectly respectable but block www.unz.com/isteve/ as "bad-think." Perhaps the next step is for them to start blocking particular authors or specific articles.
Presumably, all that massive workload is contracted out to the cheapest Indians they can hire, whose understanding of American society (and maybe the English language) isn't so great...Replies: @Mishra, @JackOH
Given that Steve is far from the most “edgy” columnist or blogger on this site, I daresay it’s a testimony to his popularity more than anything else.
The Powers That Be don’t have to worry themselves about “hate speech” that nobody reads. But Steve’s a threat, because 1) he’s popular and 2) he makes a lot of sense.
That’s a combination they cannot afford to tolerate. It might be contagious.
Enough already with this talk. For the party that supposedly believes in conservative principles and moral values that underpin a free society, they have done a piss poor job of showing it. What exactly have you conserved, Jeb!? All they have done is attacked the real conservatives like Buchanan who, unlike GOPe, have actually been fighting the Culture War for decades.
Maybe Chang was by Trump’s side.
As a right-wing crank I often game out scenarios of what our coming dystopia will look like, and it often boils down to: How loyal will Google’s private army be when faced with us barbarians at the gates of Mountain View?
P.S. Unleash Chaing reminds me of Bush Sr., who popularized the phrase, which reminds me every awful thing that flows from him, most recently Laura Bush’s Op Ed. Barf.
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Yeah, that seems about right. I had in mind places like the old On Lock Sam in Stockton, CA, which was big on atmosphere but probably not actually any good.
Another factor on restaurant quality is the Food Network. Most restaurants today are probably better than 20 years ago because people are more aware of what they’re eating, but Chinese places seem to be immune.
You no come here any more.
This is what happens when you allow freedom of speech.Replies: @Forbes, @art guerrilla, @Rosamond Vincy
yep, was getting that message for 10-15 seconds the last couple days I have tried to access the site, then sought instant gratification elsewhere… figured it must be putin-botz… what other explanation can there possibly be…
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in regards to the banning, pretty sure it is nothing ‘personal’, per se; they are -as most such commercial establishments doing such stupid tricks are- probably subscribing to some sort of whitelist/blacklist service (or two), who compiles their list based on the broadest of criteria…
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probably a lot of herd mentality, too, as far as if one service bans a site, another will probably follow, ‘just to be on the safe side’… pretty sure they are more worried about including some ‘sketchy’ site, more than worry about ‘wrongly’ excluding a few oddball, fringe sites of little consequence…
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if it is ‘time’ mag/rag who gets swept up because of an article on breast cancer or something, then they will get whitelisted before the electrons get cold from the blistering email from time lawyers… if it is Podunk unz, etc, then they will languish in inertnet limbo with little/no recourse…
I really hope that sad-sack Jeb! runs for President again. This level of cluelessness is just so entertaining. We can troll him with Chaing Kai-Shek references… and merchandise.
I always thought the right needed it’s own Che shirt.
https://goo.gl/images/1Fxh5U
Or this one:
https://goo.gl/images/Q2m8ga
Or this:
https://goo.gl/images/vDCtWXReplies: @Nathan
OT: BWH (one of the “Big 3” Harvard system hospitals along with Mass General and Beth Israel Deaconess) takes down portraits of 31 former department chairs for the crime of being male and (mostly) white.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-physician-relationships/brigham-and-women-s-takes-down-31-portraits-of-white-male-leaders-in-diversity-effort.html
OT: Trump says Space Force will be “separate but equal” to the Air Force.
Second-best troll this week after Austrian PM Sebastian Kurz saying that Austria, Italy and Germany should create an “axis of the willing” to control immigration.
Failed election thrower and disgrace to the FBI Peter Strzok has said through his lawyer that he will testify without immunity or pleading the Fifth. Apparently it's all wrapping up now that they've got a willing fall guy.
http://fantastic-plastic.com/ProjectOrionBattleshipPage.htm
"Orion Nuclear-Powered Orbital Battleship
In 1955, NACA (later to be known as NASA) was working on a nuclear-powered spaceship for trips to near-Earth orbit up to interstellar travel to neighboring star systems like Alpha Centauri. Nonetheless, the United States Air Force gotten involved in the Project Orion program which they’ve wanted it spacecraft to deliver satellites and crew members to orbiting space stations. However, one of the most radical, but little known USAF Project Orion proposals was the nuclear-powered orbital battleship that was proposed in the late-1950’s. While this system seems like something out of a science fiction novel or a movie, the massive nuclear-powered armed spaceship would orbit high above the Earth and if needed be, unleashes it nuclear payload on multiple targets.
https://www.defenceaviation.com/2013/04/usaf-nuclear-powered-doomsday-machines.html
http://fantastic-plastic.com/ProjectOrionBattleshipCatalogPage.htm
http://i.magaimg.net/img/3k8h.jpgReplies: @JackOH, @Achmed E. Newman, @Lot, @Stan Adams, @donut, @Brutusale
I’ve seen that message on other sites, but never on here.
68 Hyperborean > How much of American cuisine is actually genuine?
wrong question. The correct question is: how much of America’s food service offerings, are actually high-end “TV dinners”? (in the sense that the people who make it from scratch, are actually in a factory a few hours away, at the other end of a freezer-reefer truck route)
Answer: a lot of it.
It should only happen once per day if you allow cookies and are not doing private browser mode.
It will come and go depending on whether cloudflare believes the site may be under attack.
The whole site was down for a little while yesterday, so someone probably attacked it then and these measures are needed to prevent it from being attacked further.Replies: @3g4me, @gregor
@75 Lot: “Ron hired a large tech company called cloudflare to stop denial of service attacks. This is that company making sure your attempt to connect to unz.com is not an attack.”
Thank you for this simple, clear explanation. I’ve never gotten that particular screen trying to access Steve’s site (although could not connect at all last evening) but have been getting it for months at the
New Observer site. Now I understand its purpose.
Second-best troll this week after Austrian PM Sebastian Kurz saying that Austria, Italy and Germany should create an “axis of the willing” to control immigration.Replies: @J.Ross, @Joe Stalin, @Daniel Chieh, @Joe Stalin
We effectively have an illegally weaponized space force, it’s a section of the Air Force and started a long time ago, probably under Clinton. Counterpunch had a write-up during that period. Their express goal is to own the sky the way our navy once owned the sea. If this is serious it’s more of a frustration to a heavily messed up and disloyal branch than a new branch in its own right. In that case he will hopefully follow up by going after the federal judges and security agencies.
Failed election thrower and disgrace to the FBI Peter Strzok has said through his lawyer that he will testify without immunity or pleading the Fifth. Apparently it’s all wrapping up now that they’ve got a willing fall guy.
You gonna make a post about the wall to wall immigration news and Trump standing firm or are you only interested in posting current events when the eeyores who fill your tin cup get a chance to bray?
Oh, wait, have I been too
obtuseLibertarian for you all?Replies: @JimBCash may be king, but don’t get pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy for a broken tail light while on your way to make a down payment on a new house.
OT but an interesting look at upper-middle-class London life. The take-home is that you need oligarch money these days to avoid the diversity tax.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/04/the-gang-in-our-park-have-united-us-in-impotence/
The author is early-40s, with a single precious baby son, posh family. Hubby is Dominic Cummings, based Brexiteer and Cameron nemesis. And she’s afraid to take her baby to the park. Of course London is no longer a civilised city. Top operas and museums do not a civilisation make, people do. Give me a safe park and the local dramatic society.
That was April 15. Come May 5th …
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/after-decades-in-london-i-still-long-for-home-is-that-too-brexity/
Her family can probably afford a whole street of terraced Northumbrian houses. I wonder if she ever thinks about the poor Brits who haven’t got her escape options.
Second-best troll this week after Austrian PM Sebastian Kurz saying that Austria, Italy and Germany should create an “axis of the willing” to control immigration.Replies: @J.Ross, @Joe Stalin, @Daniel Chieh, @Joe Stalin
“Equal” hell. We need the US Space Force to build Project Orion battle ship now!
http://fantastic-plastic.com/ProjectOrionBattleshipPage.htm
We've now turned it back off, and I'm hoping we won't need to use it too often. But it's nice to have it available as a backup.
Regarding the main subject of this comment-thread, I'm really surprised that those the censors hired by those "good-think" filter companies are apparently so discerning that they consider www.unz.com to be perfectly respectable but block www.unz.com/isteve/ as "bad-think." Perhaps the next step is for them to start blocking particular authors or specific articles.
Presumably, all that massive workload is contracted out to the cheapest Indians they can hire, whose understanding of American society (and maybe the English language) isn't so great...Replies: @Mishra, @JackOH
Ron, thanks. That exploding iPhone thing, uh, er, you don’t want to be giving our masters, y’know. . . ideas.
Those people never tip. And they are demanding and nasty as well. But they endlessly complain that there are only takeout and order & pick up your own food places in certain neighborhoods.
Maybe when servers are replaced by those flying tray robots those people can have nice restaurants.
Maybe
My guess is this has to do with the fact that for the past couple of weeks Mr. Unz has featured access to David Irving's books, particularly Hitler's War. I suspect TPTB got wind of it and did what they always do. This is really, really creepy.Replies: @Anonym
My guess is this has to do with the fact that for the past couple of weeks Mr. Unz has featured access to David Irving’s books, particularly Hitler’s War. I suspect TPTB got wind of it and did what they always do. This is really, really creepy.
My paean to Ron:
This current obsession of illegal children being separated is one of the most efficient examples of groupthink and narrative pushing I’ve seen in a long while. (((They))) certainly are getting worried that the election might not be the romp that they wanted.
When I first read the title I was imagining that Steve was eating at Chang’s and a ruckus ensued when he was spotted by a zealous ThoughtCop.
"Unleash Chang" was George H.W. Bush's joke he used while playing on the White House tennis court when he tried to summon up an unreturnable serve. Bush conflated the 1950s GOP slogan "unleash Chiang" with the name of the 1989 French Open winner, 5'7" Michael Chang, a persistent baseliner without much of a power game. It's a pretty funny joke, although it's not clear if Jeb know's it's funny.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Anonym, @WGG, @Steve Sailer, @Forbes, @Deckin
Michael Chang’s parents were known to be among the worst tennis parents on the tour (and that’s saying a lot); G.H.W. Bush had another fairly funny malapropism on the tennis court. When he won, he would shout ‘Vic!’, short for victory. But somehow this morphed into ‘Vic Damone’ (the crooner). Whether this became ‘Damone’ I’m not sure, but Bush 1st was a interesting guy on the courts.
If I may add one prediction: unlike Trump, the next Democrat President will waste no time firing every last one of his predecessor’s appointments up and down the federal bureaucracy.
The more diverse we become, the more this will become a problem for both sides. In countries with proportional representation, they have a much stronger party system and the winning coalitions agree with each other up front which cabinet posts go to whom. But with a winner take all system, it is a lot more difficult to put the will of the voter into action.
1. Boomer Right Wing Online Dissidents (tm) on iSteve not knowing what DDOS is
2. Boomers on iSteve talking about drugs
LmaoReplies: @snorlax, @Marty
Actually, boomers may know more about drugs than you guys, but you know more about getting ripped off trying to buy them.
Presumably, the next stage will be when iPhone XVI starts giving you an automatic electric shock when you attempt to visit a "bad-thought website", and after the third time you do that, explodes, blowing off your hand...Replies: @Mike Tre, @Anon, @pyrrhus, @istevefan, @JimB, @Digital Samizdat, @eah, @The preferred nomenclature is..., @Eagle Eye, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Rosamond Vincy
Brimelow/vdare.com has been battling this kind of crass censorship for a long time.
Ha, ha, ha…
What’s funny about it? — did you find it funny when that guy bashed people in the head with a heavy metal bicycle lock? — when people trying to attend Trump events in 2016 were attacked and beaten? — when violent leftists disrupt simple speaking events? — it’s all related.
Coloring the News by William McGowan was published in 2001 — at that point, the media practice of pumping diversity on the one hand, while at the same time overtly lying about its consequences by omitting racial/ethnic info from crime stories, including descriptions of wanted violent criminals, was well established — even then it had been going for years and years — this kind of thing is the next chapter.
So I could understand finding it droll if it was some kind of oddity — but it’s not — it’s part of a long-standing pattern.
https://meraki.cisco.com/technologies/content-filtering
https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/insider-trading/CSCO.O
Off topic:
http://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/2018618-four-management-strategies-for-retaining-labor/
It still isn’t much of a sign of a truly tight labor market until the vast majority are willing to hire ex-cons. Restrictions on immigration would go a long way to making prison reform a success.
In other Chinese news:
https://www.axios.com/china-jd-warehouse-jobs-4-employees-shanghai-d19f5cf1-f35b-4024-8783-2ba79a573405.html
In the next 10 years I expect to see a megamerger between Google, Walmart and JD.com. The Waltons are aiming to sell their stake as the current generation passes on. I expect Brin and Page are aiming to enter politics at some point.
Here is one mistake that no Trump supporter can defend. We would have a wall and the babbling about Russians would already be forgotten if we had done this.
Presumably, the next stage will be when iPhone XVI starts giving you an automatic electric shock when you attempt to visit a "bad-thought website", and after the third time you do that, explodes, blowing off your hand...Replies: @Mike Tre, @Anon, @pyrrhus, @istevefan, @JimB, @Digital Samizdat, @eah, @The preferred nomenclature is..., @Eagle Eye, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Rosamond Vincy
I know that was supposed to be a joke. But I think this is the very near future. I’m currently reading the Gulag Archipelago and it seems to me that the Left here in the U.S. is all set to make Stalin and his henchmen look like pikers in comparison. I can only imagine the depths of depravity the likes of Kathy Griffin could dream up for the Sailers of the world.
THE only thing between us and the Gulag is the 2A. Never, ever forget that.
Second-best troll this week after Austrian PM Sebastian Kurz saying that Austria, Italy and Germany should create an “axis of the willing” to control immigration.Replies: @J.Ross, @Joe Stalin, @Daniel Chieh, @Joe Stalin
I’m really disappointed that it won’t be the UN Space Navy; what will happen to all of the cool nautical titles for Star Trek?
I hope other establishments follow suit
Hate cannot be tolerated
Right wing white prophet are evil
Look st the dealings with children at the border
Just evil
People of Color will remember this
You live on stolen land
I think you mean jailing and for some there will be assassination. Once Trump is gone the Great Leap Forward will seem like a friendly game of checkers compared to what is in store for the FUSA if they manage any kind of disarmament of the populace. Oh wait, they already have in the Blue states. Uh oh.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/report-agent-peter-strzok-escorted-from-fbi-building/
This article interested me – I am sending this message from a McDonald’s in Canada. Apparently you aren’t blocked here yet.
I just took a long road trip with my family and stopped at a Starbucks so we could all take a piss and stretch our legs. The line for the cammode was longer than the line for coffee.
The interesting thing is that this Starbucks was in an benighted town along highway 101 in the Salinas valley. Of the 10 or so people in line, all of them the best I could tell, were other travelers who knew that they could freely relieve themselves and then get back on the road. A couple of them also bought coffee.
So now, rather than going to the standard California rest stops where the toilets look like they are surplus prison models and the water faucets work 50% of the time, we can all take a dump while getting a Crappuccino.
On South Park, Randy birthed a contender for World's Biggest Poop Ever after eating "mostly P.F. Chang's -- good stuff." This drew the ire of Bono (of U2 fame), the previous record-holder. The twist of the episode came when it was revealed that Bono was the record, i.e.: the world's biggest turd.
The more you know! ....---*Replies: @JimB, @SonOfStrom
P.F Chang’s is also the setting for one of SP’s better Towlie bits:
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1008794383574028294
According to Max Boot in the linked column, ICE detention centers are Nazi concentration camps.
Perhaps David Irving can shoot a documentary in one of them, as an accurate modern-day recreation of Nazi concentration camps.
You’re not banned at Denny’s or Barnes & Noble.
There’s a reason that people don’t understand intelligence. The textbooks have too many errors in them.
A new paper looks at popular textbooks in Intro to Psychology, and has determined that “79.3% contained inaccurate statements, and almost all of them promoted non-mainstream theories over empirically supported theories of intelligence.”
The paper is available here:
http://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2018-07714-001.pdf
Will somebody please stand outside a P.F. Chang’s with a sign that says “Open hotspot available inside. Network name: PFChangsSucks Password:FeelsGood”
Second-best troll this week after Austrian PM Sebastian Kurz saying that Austria, Italy and Germany should create an “axis of the willing” to control immigration.Replies: @J.Ross, @Joe Stalin, @Daniel Chieh, @Joe Stalin
So, the time of the Project Orion Space Battleship has finally arrived!
“Orion Nuclear-Powered Orbital Battleship
In 1955, NACA (later to be known as NASA) was working on a nuclear-powered spaceship for trips to near-Earth orbit up to interstellar travel to neighboring star systems like Alpha Centauri. Nonetheless, the United States Air Force gotten involved in the Project Orion program which they’ve wanted it spacecraft to deliver satellites and crew members to orbiting space stations. However, one of the most radical, but little known USAF Project Orion proposals was the nuclear-powered orbital battleship that was proposed in the late-1950’s. While this system seems like something out of a science fiction novel or a movie, the massive nuclear-powered armed spaceship would orbit high above the Earth and if needed be, unleashes it nuclear payload on multiple targets.
https://www.defenceaviation.com/2013/04/usaf-nuclear-powered-doomsday-machines.html
http://fantastic-plastic.com/ProjectOrionBattleshipCatalogPage.htm
http://i.magaimg.net/img/3k8h.jpgReplies: @JackOH, @Achmed E. Newman, @Lot, @Stan Adams, @donut, @Brutusale
I have been getting that screen for various sites for months , only rarely though .
Had Bernie Sanders been elected President instead of Trump, my guess is that he would have had a similar problem staffing his government. There would not have been enough Bern Bros to fill every position so he would have had to turn to Democratic generics the way Trump used GOP generics, half of which were saboteurs.
The more diverse we become, the more this will become a problem for both sides. In countries with proportional representation, they have a much stronger party system and the winning coalitions agree with each other up front which cabinet posts go to whom. But with a winner take all system, it is a lot more difficult to put the will of the voter into action.
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Portland Gives $96,000 Blacks-Only Grant To Hip Hop Marijuana Shop
A $96,000 city grant distributed via Portland Oregon Opportunities Industrial Center will create the Green Hop Academy Program, an apprenticeship open for African American young people, ages 21 through 24, who are interested in working in the marijuana business.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/06/portland-gives-96000-blacks-only-grant-to-hip-hop-marijuana-shop/
Rapper XXXTentacion, whose video featured "hanging a white boy," experienced the consequences of a fatal gunshot attack. He didn't live to be the minimum age for the marijuana apprenticeship or get to buy the motorcycle that he was shopping for when he died.
http://www.tmz.com/2018/06/18/xxxtentacion-shot-dead-miami/
Portland, by the way, sent the first US-based team to the Stanley Cup final 102 years ago-- their Rosebuds. It's nice to know they're keeping the bud tradition alive.
http://www.wweek.com/resizer/xG5smyansjyFE5pL9Hd9f4dLGzM=/1200x0/filters:quality(100)/s3.amazonaws.com/wapopartners.com/wweek-wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/26170736/1680555019_98bff3e852_b.jpgReplies: @Clyde
Hey, at least they paid the bill.
Presumably, the next stage will be when iPhone XVI starts giving you an automatic electric shock when you attempt to visit a "bad-thought website", and after the third time you do that, explodes, blowing off your hand...Replies: @Mike Tre, @Anon, @pyrrhus, @istevefan, @JimB, @Digital Samizdat, @eah, @The preferred nomenclature is..., @Eagle Eye, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Rosamond Vincy
So are they going to release a companion iPhone Marie-Antoinette?
Is someone going to try to shorten the XVI by an inch?
Next time don’t leave a tip and write on the receipt that you would have tipped if your favorite (non-porn) website hadn’t been blocked on the wifi. Your waiter or waitress can take it up with the manager.
Several years ago a cell phone provider I had very briefly (T-Mobile, iirc) had an app on the phone that blocked certain “hate” sites (Kausfiles or Parapundit, iirc), though it did provide a workaround. Shortly thereafter I switched providers. I wrote them an email claiming it was because of the stupid website ban, but really it was because I broke my phone.
>punishes an innocent and powerless party
>feeds the idea that conservatives are heartless hypocrites who don't tip
>depends on pre-Boomerreign literacy rates
Also this policy is probably not even coming from the manager or franchisee, it's probably corporate. It's the latest example of the rash of board room risk aversion mating with the Social Justice cult to produce monsters.
This is a terrible idea:
>punishes an innocent and powerless party
>feeds the idea that conservatives are heartless hypocrites who don’t tip
>depends on pre-Boomerreign literacy rates
Also this policy is probably not even coming from the manager or franchisee, it’s probably corporate. It’s the latest example of the rash of board room risk aversion mating with the Social Justice cult to produce monsters.
Presumably, the next stage will be when iPhone XVI starts giving you an automatic electric shock when you attempt to visit a "bad-thought website", and after the third time you do that, explodes, blowing off your hand...Replies: @Mike Tre, @Anon, @pyrrhus, @istevefan, @JimB, @Digital Samizdat, @eah, @The preferred nomenclature is..., @Eagle Eye, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Rosamond Vincy
But Iphones explode already for for no reason.
Seven Receive Medical Attention After iPhone Explodes in Swiss Apple Store
iPhone Explodes in Hair Salon
Video shows iPhone exploding, catching fire in Las Vegas repair shop
Sure, but Jeb picked it up from his Cold Warrior father, used the term a lot, made up his own explanation, and presumed to be presidential material himself.
There were also a lot of elite tut tuts about Trump not knowing what the nuclear triad is, which is another Cold War era bit of trivia.
Apple’s whole shite, garden-walled ecosystem is pozzed all to Hell; Christ, the hold music for their call-centers is gayer than Paul Lynde (who I adore, by the way; a man from an age when gay people knew we knew they were gay but neither they nor us said anything because we all minded our own damned business because “who cares…?” — his Halloween special and Hollywood Squares quips were the best!).
According to Max Boot in the linked column, ICE detention centers are Nazi concentration camps.
Perhaps David Irving can shoot a documentary in one of them, as an accurate modern-day recreation of Nazi concentration camps.Replies: @Antlitz Grollheim, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @YetAnotherAnon
Not to go all “Dems R Real Nazis” here, but they really are getting Streicheresque lately in the tenor of their hysteria
Soul food is genuinely American. It’s a little heavy on the butter but extremely tasty so I like patronizing soul food restaurants. And the chef/owner is usually somebody’s momma.
There were also a lot of elite tut tuts about Trump not knowing what the nuclear triad is, which is another Cold War era bit of trivia.Replies: @J.Ross
Trump was asked a gotcha question a lot of people would not be able to answer and Jeb stood up voluntarily to make a speech about an imaginary friend without any wink indicating that he got the original joke.
According to Max Boot in the linked column, ICE detention centers are Nazi concentration camps.
Perhaps David Irving can shoot a documentary in one of them, as an accurate modern-day recreation of Nazi concentration camps.Replies: @Antlitz Grollheim, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @YetAnotherAnon
Jennifer Rubin and Max Boot – isn’t there a place pledged to take them no matter what? I am thinking win-win here. Now how do we persuade Jenn and Max to emigrate?
Also, it might be worth complaining. Although, who to isn't clear in this instance.
I did that when my mobile phone operator, in the UK, labelled b3ta.com an "adult" site and blocked it. I told them it was actually a very juvenile site, and they have since unblocked it (I don't know if my email was the reason).Replies: @Olorin, @Anon
Complaining unlikely useful. PF Chang is owned by
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centerbridge_Partners
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Aronson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gallogly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blackstone_Group
And so ends this round of Meet Your Censors.
You’re also banned at Macy’s in New York City. (Or at least, you were months ago.) However, in this case the censorship net is much wider, since the category it was listed under (exactly as in the picture in OP) was “politics/news” (!!!???), which also included websites like Scott Alexander’s blog Slate Star Codex.
Is Salon.com banned? They once ran a couple of articles supporting pedophilia.
Ha, ha, ha…
What's funny about it? -- did you find it funny when that guy bashed people in the head with a heavy metal bicycle lock? -- when people trying to attend Trump events in 2016 were attacked and beaten? -- when violent leftists disrupt simple speaking events? -- it's all related.
Coloring the News by William McGowan was published in 2001 -- at that point, the media practice of pumping diversity on the one hand, while at the same time overtly lying about its consequences by omitting racial/ethnic info from crime stories, including descriptions of wanted violent criminals, was well established -- even then it had been going for years and years -- this kind of thing is the next chapter.
So I could understand finding it droll if it was some kind of oddity -- but it's not -- it's part of a long-standing pattern.Replies: @eah
Correct. Totalitarians don’t believe in shilly-shallying.
Sailer , you so funny , “banned at P. F. Chang’s ” . Take a moment :
or :
What does the future hold ?
https://www.unz.com/comments/all/?commenterfilter=donut
According to Max Boot in the linked column, ICE detention centers are Nazi concentration camps.
Perhaps David Irving can shoot a documentary in one of them, as an accurate modern-day recreation of Nazi concentration camps.Replies: @Antlitz Grollheim, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @YetAnotherAnon
I was reading “this time Trump has surely gone too far” all the way through the primaries and then the election campaign.
Portland Gives $96,000 Blacks-Only Grant To Hip Hop Marijuana Shop
A $96,000 city grant distributed via Portland Oregon Opportunities Industrial Center will create the Green Hop Academy Program, an apprenticeship open for African American young people, ages 21 through 24, who are interested in working in the marijuana business.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/06/portland-gives-96000-blacks-only-grant-to-hip-hop-marijuana-shop/Replies: @CCZ, @Reg Cæsar
Working in the [legal] marijuana business may be a safer career choice than being a Hip-Hop “artist.”
Rapper XXXTentacion, whose video featured “hanging a white boy,” experienced the consequences of a fatal gunshot attack. He didn’t live to be the minimum age for the marijuana apprenticeship or get to buy the motorcycle that he was shopping for when he died.
http://www.tmz.com/2018/06/18/xxxtentacion-shot-dead-miami/
The next move in this process is to have the firewall services start listing sites like Unz as spam or offensive content. Most companies now buy a firewall with a subscription for filtering porn, gambling sites and so forth. Those filtering services are gatekeepers that will be overrun by loons in the coming years. In five years, the number of people able to reach Unz and similar sites will be reduced to a trickle.
But hey, at least we have our Constitution .Replies: @Pericles, @Liberty Mike
Yet, you, by your own words, contend that an individual’s income belongs to the federal government and if an individual deducts his mortgage or childcare interest, the same constitutes a subsidy. The same ratiocination yields the conclusion that a tax cut constitutes a subsidy.
That, sir, is typical dissident right progressive, socialist claptrap. It is economic ignorance. It is one reason why the alt-right / dissident right / white identitarian movement will fail. The dissident right has too many adherents that love them some progressivism.
This is what happens when you allow freedom of speech.Replies: @Forbes, @art guerrilla, @Rosamond Vincy
Is that what those bouncing little dots meant? Thought it was a flashback.
http://i.magaimg.net/img/3k8h.jpgReplies: @JackOH, @Achmed E. Newman, @Lot, @Stan Adams, @donut, @Brutusale
Funny that I get the Cloudflare warning on my home Verizon account but not at Starbucks with its Google access.
Presumably, the next stage will be when iPhone XVI starts giving you an automatic electric shock when you attempt to visit a "bad-thought website", and after the third time you do that, explodes, blowing off your hand...Replies: @Mike Tre, @Anon, @pyrrhus, @istevefan, @JimB, @Digital Samizdat, @eah, @The preferred nomenclature is..., @Eagle Eye, @Hippopotamusdrome, @Rosamond Vincy
NSFW, of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWoHcSTqiy4Replies: @AndrewR, @Prof. Woland
Nothing to notice here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWoHcSTqiy4Replies: @AndrewR, @Prof. Woland
Right afterwards, they all went to Starbucks and used their bathroom for free.
The ex-hippies and the squares are both funny.
Exactly, and see my Part 2 link above (2nd paragraph) on that exact point, Jim.
Iktf, a black threatened to stab me last week.
Indeed. I have also seen that behavior in comment moderation on some sites. Over the top hateful comments are occasionally let through while reasoned and persuasive takedowns never see the light of day.
It should only happen once per day if you allow cookies and are not doing private browser mode.
It will come and go depending on whether cloudflare believes the site may be under attack.
The whole site was down for a little while yesterday, so someone probably attacked it then and these measures are needed to prevent it from being attacked further.Replies: @3g4me, @gregor
A couple years ago I used to do all my hate browsing in incognito/porn mode but I don’t even bother anymore.
Burger King is Canadian now. Steve may irritate the beaver.
Portland Gives $96,000 Blacks-Only Grant To Hip Hop Marijuana Shop
A $96,000 city grant distributed via Portland Oregon Opportunities Industrial Center will create the Green Hop Academy Program, an apprenticeship open for African American young people, ages 21 through 24, who are interested in working in the marijuana business.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/06/portland-gives-96000-blacks-only-grant-to-hip-hop-marijuana-shop/Replies: @CCZ, @Reg Cæsar
It might be in our interest to tranquilize young blacks with cannabis. Portland may be on to something.
Portland, by the way, sent the first US-based team to the Stanley Cup final 102 years ago– their Rosebuds. It’s nice to know they’re keeping the bud tradition alive.
The liquid equivalent of “night soil”?
“Me Chinese, me play joke, me put pee pee in your Coke.”
In a Yale Daily News article about June Chu, a dean who on Yelp slammed various New Haven demographics, commenter Cal_Bears astutely observed:
I noticed that about letters-to-the-editor a quarter-century ago. I imagined they got four letters, and printed the smart-sounding one that agreed with them, and the stupid one that disagreed. The other two went in the circular file.
And today I discover, to my utter amazement, that Peter “We will stop Trump” Stzrok is still on the FBI’s payroll!
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/report-agent-peter-strzok-escorted-from-fbi-building/
Mr. Sailer, time to get your share of SPLC fortune.
“No fewer than 60 organizations branded “hate groups” or otherwise attacked by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are considering legal action against the left-wing smear factory, a Christian legal nonprofit leader confirmed to PJ Media on Tuesday. He suggested that the $3 million settlement and apology the SPLC gave to Maajid Nawaz and his Quiliam Foundation on Monday would encourage further legal action.
“We haven’t filed anything against the SPLC, but I think a number of organizations have been considering filing lawsuits against the SPLC, because they have been doing to a lot of organizations exactly what they did to Maajid Nawaz that’s part of the settlement,” Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, told PJ Media on Tuesday.
Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit against the charity navigation organization GuideStar for defamation, after GuideStar adopted the SPLC’s “hate group” list. That lawsuit is ongoing.”
It’s a reference to the old schoolyard rhyme:
“Me Chinese, me play joke, me put pee pee in your Coke.”
In a Yale Daily News article about June Chu, a dean who on Yelp slammed various New Haven demographics, commenter Cal_Bears astutely observed:
If anything, I’d think it would be the reverse.
Also, it might be worth complaining. Although, who to isn't clear in this instance.
I did that when my mobile phone operator, in the UK, labelled b3ta.com an "adult" site and blocked it. I told them it was actually a very juvenile site, and they have since unblocked it (I don't know if my email was the reason).Replies: @Olorin, @Anon
That’s what I said about a blocked shotacon site…
=^^=
Trigger Warning - the author is Emily Bazelon.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/magazine/white-people-are-noticing-something-new-their-own-whiteness.htmlReplies: @Anon
I’ve been wondering when Steve will get to that one.
Seriously though, a VPN account is a solid investment. I pay about $50 a year for TorGuard and can pretty much access anything from anywhere.Replies: @Anon, @Escher
It’s pretty sleazy for them to use the name “Tor”
( torproject.org )
Another restaurant in the same mall, the local Houston's does that for parties of 6 or more, I think.Replies: @Anon
A charge, by definition, is not a gratuity.
The code word is Canadian.
Yeah, that seems about right. I had in mind places like the old On Lock Sam in Stockton, CA, which was big on atmosphere but probably not actually any good.
Another factor on restaurant quality is the Food Network. Most restaurants today are probably better than 20 years ago because people are more aware of what they're eating, but Chinese places seem to be immune.Replies: @Escher
You pay only 5 dolla, but expect high-crass food!
You no come here any more.
Seriously though, a VPN account is a solid investment. I pay about $50 a year for TorGuard and can pretty much access anything from anywhere.Replies: @Anon, @Escher
Once caught a nasty bug from the lady serving us at PF Chang’s. She was sniffling away through the entire dinner. With the money that she made living in an expensive part of the country, can’t say I blame her, but the manager should have seen her condition and stepped in.
The franchise owners offered a complimentary dinner, but we played it safe and never went there again.
Such blanket assertions are incorrect.
The same thing can be said about American food if all one knows about is burgers, fries and deep dish pizza.
Portland, by the way, sent the first US-based team to the Stanley Cup final 102 years ago-- their Rosebuds. It's nice to know they're keeping the bud tradition alive.
http://www.wweek.com/resizer/xG5smyansjyFE5pL9Hd9f4dLGzM=/1200x0/filters:quality(100)/s3.amazonaws.com/wapopartners.com/wweek-wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/26170736/1680555019_98bff3e852_b.jpgReplies: @Clyde
The whole rap-hip hop culture of the last 20 years has made marijuana much bigger in the black community. So black run marijuana stores is a natural. Better than crack I suppose.
We saw a Vietnamese guy at one of these places get 4 stacked up plates of shrimp one after another (regular, shrimpy-shrimp), and you know those guys LUV that shrimp - there's no way the restaurant broke even with that dude.
* This relates to serious unzzy material, in fact - see The China to King Buffet pipeline.
OK, I didn't start this Chinese restaurant talk, so here goes again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLkTuWdKrqYReplies: @Clyde
Ray Davies is one of the great poets (Watterloo Sunset) and lyrics writers of Rock and Roll /Pop Music. Such as “Walking on a Thin Line” with the line, “There’s no England now”.
And “Twentieth Century Man”, and I don’t want to be one
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Teesquare1st-Mens-Chiang-Kai-shek-T-Shirt/dp/B013BWA5VM
I always thought the right needed it's own Che shirt.Replies: @Rosamond Vincy
I like this one:
https://goo.gl/images/1Fxh5U
Or this one:
https://goo.gl/images/Q2m8ga
Or this:
https://goo.gl/images/vDCtWX
"No fewer than 60 organizations branded "hate groups" or otherwise attacked by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are considering legal action against the left-wing smear factory, a Christian legal nonprofit leader confirmed to PJ Media on Tuesday. He suggested that the $3 million settlement and apology the SPLC gave to Maajid Nawaz and his Quiliam Foundation on Monday would encourage further legal action.
"We haven't filed anything against the SPLC, but I think a number of organizations have been considering filing lawsuits against the SPLC, because they have been doing to a lot of organizations exactly what they did to Maajid Nawaz that's part of the settlement," Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, told PJ Media on Tuesday.
Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit against the charity navigation organization GuideStar for defamation, after GuideStar adopted the SPLC's "hate group" list. That lawsuit is ongoing."Replies: @Anonymous
Yes, by all means, go after $PLC with everything you’ve got, Steve!
The franchise owners offered a complimentary dinner, but we played it safe and never went there again.Replies: @Anonymous, @Rosamond Vincy
Do you know that you caught the bug from her? Could you prove it?
The franchise owners offered a complimentary dinner, but we played it safe and never went there again.Replies: @Anonymous, @Rosamond Vincy
Once had a truly horrible evening at a restaurant with my then-boyfriend. We concocted an elaborate revenge plan involving syrup of ipecac and getting someone from the NYT to review the place, but we never acted on it.
And to think, some people object to strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a system of government. What are the odds little Rubio pays off his credit cards by his sword swallowing?
Jeb Bush passes inner Chang to Rubio by giving him his sword.
That headline should have killed both their careers by now.
https://goo.gl/images/1Fxh5U
Or this one:
https://goo.gl/images/Q2m8ga
Or this:
https://goo.gl/images/vDCtWXReplies: @Nathan
Those are great, but I was thinking more something that would be an iconographic right-wing symbol.
https://goo.gl/images/kSw2Xu
It was intended to be an anti-right-wing poster, but many conservatives proudly displayed it.
There used to be this:
https://goo.gl/images/kSw2Xu
It was intended to be an anti-right-wing poster, but many conservatives proudly displayed it.
Really where do you guys find these things?Replies: @Mishra, @PiltdownMan
It’s a fair bet that anyone who is of Steve’s age who grew up in the UK or Europe knows the Tintin comic books quite well. And that’s one of the best known panels from what may be the best of the books.
Tintin has less of a following here in America, but it exists, just some people are familiar with P.G. Wodehouse (also a Steve enthusiasm.)
As for the artist, Herge, he is regarded by cartoonists as one of the all-time greats.
http://tinyurl.com/ydy4nrb4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_claire
It looks like he got to it in the NYT comments. Apparently the comments on that article closed after this one: