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Data journalist Nate Silver tweeted in response:
I don’t agree at all with blaming the [Supreme Court abortion opion] leak for it, but yeah it’s sort of crazy that it’s not being treated as a bigger story (NYT homepage screenshot presented for posterity). There’s often more bias in which stories are deemed to be salient than how they’re written about.
The New York Times traditionally plays a major role in deciding what the rest of the news media treats as major news. E.g., Emmett Till is big news. In contrast, a black football player, Isimemen Etute, being acquitted even on manslaughter charges after he beat a white transvestite to death? Well, that’s a tough one for The Narrative to handle — who has more Diversity Pokemon Points? — so the NYT hasn’t gotten around to mentioning Etute’s name ever.
On Friday, a black Virginia Tech linebacker was acquitted of charges of 2nd degree murder or manslaughter for beating to death a white man pretending to be a woman with whom he'd had sex. When the media gets around to it, will The Narrative be:
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) May 29, 2022
A liberal trying to assassinate the a conservative Supreme Court justice? Okay, well, it’s front page news, but just barely, down at the bottom.
On the other hand, the Times‘ coverage tends to be factual, not fake news.
Armed Man Traveled to Justice Kavanaugh’s Home to Kill Him, Officials Say
The man, Nicholas John Roske, 26, said he was upset about the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and impending decisions on abortion and guns, a federal affidavit says.
By Maria Cramer and Jesus Jiménez
June 8, 2022
Updated 10:43 p.m. ETA man armed with a pistol, a knife and other weapons was arrested near the Maryland home of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh early Wednesday after he said he traveled from California to kill the Supreme Court justice, federal officials said.
Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, Calif., was charged with attempted murder after two U.S. deputy marshals saw him step out of a taxicab in front of the justice’s house in Chevy Chase, Md., early Wednesday morning, federal prosecutors said. Mr. Roske was dressed in black and carrying a suitcase and a backpack, according to a federal affidavit.
Inside the suitcase and backpack, the authorities later discovered a “black tactical chest rig and tactical knife,” a pistol with two magazines and ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, a screwdriver, a nail punch, a crowbar, a pistol light and duct tape, in addition to other items, according to the affidavit.
His plan was to break into the house, kill the justice and then kill himself, according to the affidavit.
Mr. Roske told the police that he was upset about the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and about a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion suggesting that the justices were poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that guarantees the right to an abortion. There have been protests outside Justice Kavanaugh’s home and the homes of the other justices since the leaked draft was published last month.
In addition to the abortion ruling, the justices could strike down a century-old New York State law that places strict limits on the carrying of handguns. Both decisions are expected to be issued this month.
“Roske indicated that he believed the justice that he intended to kill would side with Second Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws,” the affidavit said.
In other words, the would-be assassin was motivated to violence by exactly what the New York Times in recent weeks considers Major News.
… Mr. Roske told the police that he had begun thinking “about how to give his life a purpose” and decided to kill a Supreme Court justice after finding the justice’s address online, the affidavit stated.
… During the appearance, in which he represented by a public defender, Mr. Roske was asked if he understood what was happening and whether he was thinking clearly, The Associated Press reported. “I think I have a reasonable understanding, but I wouldn’t say I’m thinking clearly,” Mr. Roske responded. He said he was on medication but did not specify what, and noted that he was a college graduate, The A.P. reported.
Efforts to reach family members of Mr. Roske for comment on Wednesday were not immediately successful. Mr. Roske graduated from Simi Valley High School in 2014, Jake Finch, a spokeswoman for the Simi Valley Unified School District, said by phone. Mr. Roske had been on the school’s cross country team, Ms. Finch added.
So he sounds like the politically correct California jogger version of the young-white-man-with-a-manifesto shooters that the New York Times has run countless articles blaming on Tucker Carlson mentioning the Great Replacement Theory.
Here’s a crazed SPLC poll:
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Duct tape? Zip ties? Hammer and nail punch? It sounds like he maybe wanted to keep the Justice alive for quite a while before killing him.
Well, when some chubby neckbeard named Thomas DiMassimo rushed the stage with the intention of taking Trump out during his first campaign, the MSM treated him like a fine young idealistic lad. I believe he got one year probation.
“You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price! You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions!”
–Chuck Schumer
As it is, though, who even pays attention?Replies: @JimDandy
LOL. Remember when spree killer former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner went out with his guns and killed?
Remember how he felt about the populace having the right to have effective militia weapons?
Guys like this will be enforcing ANY government approved Gun Control and clearly will kill you when they feel like it.
And to think that acquiesing to their latest batch of gun control: age restrictions, background checks, etc. is supposed to get them to back off.
Lessee, here, now… guy from California who is supposedly upset about about the SCOTUS loosening gun control in New York travels across the country to shoot a justice with a pistol… but calls the cops and tells them what he is about to do (and that he is suicidal).
Does that sound plausible to you?
Or does it sound like the FBI manipulating another mentally-ill patsy just in time to affect the current political narrative?
Note that although the U. S. Marshall’s spotted Koske outside Kavanaugh’s home, the arrest was by the Montgomery County (Sheriffs deputies?) Police after he called 011.
The strange line “During a court hearing, he consented to remain in federal custody for now” tells me the feds want to keep him away from the prying eyes and ears of the local cops who might actually ask real questions.
https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-district-of-columbia-maryland-government-and-politics-179d18e7f933b3decbaddb542ceb0b29
Questions like “How much time have you spent recently in a Discord chat room, chatting with ‘Sandman’?”Replies: @Corn
The most questionable part is that he doesn't fit the profile of someone with a gun. How did he travel? I suppose he could have put the weapons in his checked luggage and procured the rest of the stuff locally.
On a separate note, is this really "attempted murder"? Apparently he saw the police outside, wandered away, stewed, and called the police on himself from down the street.Replies: @That Would Be Telling
For a guy to be bent out of shape about Roe being overturned is very beta-orbiter-tier. This guy is probably the type who would call himself a feminist………..in the misguided belief that it would get him some female companionship. According to the Times story he’s on some kind of behavioral medication (there’s that common denominator again!). I wonder if he’s also an incel.
But of course they don't, because their job is to be as harmful as possible, which they are pretty good at by now.
So instead they focus on trying to indict obvious and admitted facts as "conspiracy theories".Replies: @Harry Baldwin
https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1111607604348805120Replies: @No jack London
Roske? Wierd name. Jewish? This Roske is:
https://elenareads.com/2022/03/29/interview-melissa-roske/
Fritz Roske was a German general during WWII and unlikely to be Jewish.
https://www.feldgrau.com/WW2-German-Officer-DiplIngFritz-RoskeReplies: @Gordo
On the other hand, the Times‘ coverage tends to be factual, not fake news.
Okay.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1522230135562326016
a guess it’s a little late in the evening for a boomer (even on the west coast) so maybe it’s understandable that sailer completely spaced on his earlier theses regarding the decline in political assassinations and and so forth. seems to me that a hacktivist scotus is a much more reasonable (let us not say salutary) target for a schizoaffective rage expulsion than a classroom full of beaming toddlers singing “i got a name”
but hey that’s just me. any case, you gotta admit, men of unz, that, regarding easy mentally ill access to guns, mr roske has a point
Pretty sure Steve's theory was that political assassination declined because it's harder to kill politicians now, and would-be failed assassins get much less fame than successful ones. Shooting up an unprotected school or church or store is a quicker route to fame.
Nicholas Roske = Cork in asshole.
Or, minus the suicide part, Hefnerian.
I predict Kavanaugh will vote the other way when the abortion decision comes out officially. He may even resign from the court, to spare himself and his family from further unpleasantness. I don’t see him as much of a fighter. He’s just a slightly-right-of-center guy whose main goal in life is to get along and be liked. And if he resigns now, allowing Biden to replace him, he’ll be a hero to the people whose opinion he most cares about.
That’s my take, anyway, based on how I sized him up during his confirmation hearing.
Bush originally nominated Roberts to replace Sandra Day O’Connor, but when Rehnquist passed he “upgraded” the nomination from associate to chief justice because Roberts’ prospects for confirmation looked good.
Rehnquist had stubbornly refused to retire even though he was dying of thyroid cancer. He finally succumbed over Labor Day weekend and Roberts was confirmed in late September. If Rehnquist had hung on for another month or so, somebody else would have got the top job.
After Roberts’ confirmation, Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers for the associate slot. This was such a colossally stupid choice that it was widely assumed to be one of Karl Rove’s little tricks. Then Miers withdrew and Bush nominated Alito.Replies: @Stan Adams, @Art Deco, @Jim Don Bob
I don't wildly disagree on your 50,000 ft take on the man from the confirmation hearings. Though I certainly don't know him, and how people mature into their adult selves varies. And the confirmation hearing--with this slimy and odious leftist attack--might well have provoked both some reality and some FU hostility.
But mainly, the case is pretty clear. Roe was a complete joke. (It's a pig pile and as Blackmun wrote it it's actually a "doctor's rights" case. Just junk.) It's hard to see why Kavanaugh--why anyone who wasn't politically motivated on abortion--wouldn't sign on to a cleanly written opinion that just says "it's junk".Replies: @Anon, @Coemgen
Another part watched the Ketanji Brown Jackson process and realizes how deeply we're screwed with his likely replacement.
https://elenareads.com/2022/03/29/interview-melissa-roske/Replies: @Pixo
Roske is a Prussian surname and likely about as Jewish as other -ke surnames.
Fritz Roske was a German general during WWII and unlikely to be Jewish.
https://www.feldgrau.com/WW2-German-Officer-DiplIngFritz-Roske
OT
https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/race-on-campus/2022-05-31
Thoughts:
1. Colleges give entrance swim exams?
2. How cool that they teach you how to swim for free if you need it!
3. What a fun way to break the ice and meet new people when you show up at college for the first time!
But no, it’s racist and it’s probably also fat phobic, misogynistic (male gaze), ableist, neuroconvergent, transphobic (crotch bulge, top surgery scars), and who knows what else. Swim tests and the SAT: basically the same white male Nazi bullshit!
Blacks drown more per capita, so preventing that involves teaching more blacks to swim. But the spectacle of blacks disproportionately in remedial swim classes is so injurious to the woke soul that it is better just to let a hundred blacks drown than that one wokel should endure the sight of a disparate impact.
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*I'm generously assuming that they ever really did care in the first place and that it wasn't just a convenient cover story.Replies: @Muggles
And as Steve and Almost point out, it's a particularly useful policy for black men, because they tend toward higher muscle density--have in the net denser bodies and tend to sink and drown. (My HS swim partner was a well put together black guy, and yeah lifesaving his ass was a pain in the ass.)
Our schools would be much, much better--and a better experience for the students if there was much more practical training and less airy academics. (Of, course the toxic minoritarian lying that's taken over the social sciences is negative education. Makes people, dumber and less knowledgeable about the world.)
Areas that jump to mind:
-- basic money management, how everyone works, saving, staying out of debt
-- men and women (sexual dimorphism), marriage (its relation to civilization0, sex, family and the reality of what actually makes people happy--and miserable
-- driving, capability, reading the road, keeping you eyes on the road, having a conversation without looking at someone and staying off the damn phone!
-- firearms, safety and familiarity
-- swimming. lifesaving and basic rules of water safety
-- diet, health and how to not being a fat lard ass
-- phys ed--intro to all your typical sports, esp. ones (ex. tennis, racketball, golf, basketball, softball) adults tend continue to play
-- basic cooking skills
-- basic tool use
-- basic mechanical skills
-- basic home electrical
-- phys. ed--with how to on all your normal
-- outdoor skills (camping, hiking, paddling, climbing, archery, shooting, hunting)
HS would be much more useful and interesting to kids.Replies: @bomag, @Harry Baldwin, @kaganovitch, @Rohirrimborn
https://www.vocativ.com/culture/fun/fairly-recently-ymca-actually-required-swimmers-nude/index.html
So my guess is that perverts at the colleges wanted to get a good look at the freshmen and coeds by requiring swimming. Recall as well that some Ivy League Universities would take nude photographs of all incoming students. So there is (or was) a trove of files with naked photographs of pretty much every important government figure in modern American history.
This used to be more common - there were all sorts of urban legends about how some donor required it at Harvard because his/her son had drowned on the Titanic - completely untrue.
The timing was about right though. Somewhere around WWI it became common for colleges to want all of their students (mostly men in those days) to be able to swim. Maybe as part of readiness for military service? IDK the reasons why exactly but it was a common requirement which has mostly faded over the years.
MIT still has this requirement. If you are a swimmer it's not difficult but if you can't swim already it is an obstacle although they promise to teach you.
Swimming's a start.
Thoughts:
1. Colleges give entrance swim exams?
2. How cool that they teach you how to swim for free if you need it!
3. What a fun way to break the ice and meet new people when you show up at college for the first time!
But no, it’s racist and it’s probably also fat phobic, misogynistic (male gaze), ableist, neuroconvergent, transphobic (crotch bulge, top surgery scars), and who knows what else. Swim tests and the SAT: basically the same white male Nazi bullshit!Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Almost Missouri, @AnotherDad, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Jack D, @Bill Jones, @Anonymous, @Stan Adams
Black males drown a lot. I’m for mandatory swim lessons to reduce the Drowning Gap.
Profiling is overhyped and now partially discredited, but there definitely seems to be a profile for this sort of woke idiot who goes violent alone.
"You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price! You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions!"
--Chuck SchumerReplies: @HammerJack
Ahh, Chuck. If only you were a right winger, you could have the entire establishment on your back by now. You’d probably be on trial for seditious conspiracy.
As it is, though, who even pays attention?
That's my take, anyway, based on how I sized him up during his confirmation hearing.Replies: @Stan Adams, @ScarletNumber, @Bardon Kaldian, @Jonathan Mason, @dcthrowback, @AnotherDad, @bomag
Don’t forget that Roberts only became Chief Justice because William Rehnquist died during the period between his nomination and his confirmation. (This was in the midst of the Hurricane Katrina fiasco.)
Bush originally nominated Roberts to replace Sandra Day O’Connor, but when Rehnquist passed he “upgraded” the nomination from associate to chief justice because Roberts’ prospects for confirmation looked good.
Rehnquist had stubbornly refused to retire even though he was dying of thyroid cancer. He finally succumbed over Labor Day weekend and Roberts was confirmed in late September. If Rehnquist had hung on for another month or so, somebody else would have got the top job.
After Roberts’ confirmation, Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers for the associate slot. This was such a colossally stupid choice that it was widely assumed to be one of Karl Rove’s little tricks. Then Miers withdrew and Bush nominated Alito.
A couple of times I’ve composed 10,000-word walls of text and attempted to post them, only to realize that the original post was from several years ago.
As for the NYT, the front page of tomorrow’s (June 9) print edition is already online. A blurb about the assassination attempt appears at the very bottom:
https://i.ibb.co/Zh2SG2z/6-F931735-BC86-4-DBF-B3-C4-A032-A75-CED5-E.jpgReplies: @HammerJack, @J.Ross
By whom was it assumed? My recollection at the time was that the person who suggested her was Laura Bush.
Both the blawger William Dyer ("Beldar") and Thos. Sowell made the case for Miers. Miers wasn't some random hack. She'd been the managing partner of a Dallas firm with hundreds of lawyers and once upon a time had graduated at the top of her law school class. Dyer's take was that the court would benefit from some leaven in the form of a justice who was expert in areas of law they're not. Sowell pointed to various features which strongly suggested she was not a social climber, which he adduced was the problem with Anthony Kennedy. (You can complain that Miers had never been on the bench. Neither had Elena Kagan, Lewis Powell, or ... William Rehnquist).
OTOH, fat people float more readily than thin or muscular people.
Yeah, well, that’s just the sort of thing you’d expect the mother of Satan’s child to say, now isn’t it.
PS. Ron gave us the MORE tag for a reason.
Biden can deter justice murder by announcing that if this were to ever happen he’d replace the judge with another of the same age and party, for example Don Willet.
But as Reg Cæsar implies, that's not where we are.
That would work. Especially if he gave his word as a Biden.
The second-most violent political subset in America is young Republican women? Behind only young Democratic men? Have we raised a generation of Carvilles and Matalins?
Elsewhere, the winner of the popular vote questions electoral integrity:
O’Toole blames China for Conservative election results
That's my take, anyway, based on how I sized him up during his confirmation hearing.Replies: @Stan Adams, @ScarletNumber, @Bardon Kaldian, @Jonathan Mason, @dcthrowback, @AnotherDad, @bomag
My take is that he likes beer. I’m still trying to figure out who paid for his baseball tickets.
It’s one of the primary traits of the African Rock Fish
What planet do you live on? Not Delaware.
I can confirm this.
The right in this country has rolled over for a lot, but I don’t think they’d rollover for assassinations of their SCOTUS Justices. There’s nothing salutary about both parties going to the mattresses in America.
Bush originally nominated Roberts to replace Sandra Day O’Connor, but when Rehnquist passed he “upgraded” the nomination from associate to chief justice because Roberts’ prospects for confirmation looked good.
Rehnquist had stubbornly refused to retire even though he was dying of thyroid cancer. He finally succumbed over Labor Day weekend and Roberts was confirmed in late September. If Rehnquist had hung on for another month or so, somebody else would have got the top job.
After Roberts’ confirmation, Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers for the associate slot. This was such a colossally stupid choice that it was widely assumed to be one of Karl Rove’s little tricks. Then Miers withdrew and Bush nominated Alito.Replies: @Stan Adams, @Art Deco, @Jim Don Bob
By the way, I accidentally responded to the wrong comment. I was reading a thread from a few years ago and I mixed it up with this one. (That’s what I get for stumbling around iSteve in the middle of the night.)
A couple of times I’ve composed 10,000-word walls of text and attempted to post them, only to realize that the original post was from several years ago.
As for the NYT, the front page of tomorrow’s (June 9) print edition is already online. A blurb about the assassination attempt appears at the very bottom:
Remember the bizarre circumstances under which Justice Antonin Scalia died?
https://nypost.com/2016/02/15/scalia-found-dead-with-pillow-over-his-head-ranch-owner/
His head was UNDER A PILLOW when he was found dead.
His hands were FOLDED on top of the sheets.
NO AUTOPSY.
What really happened to Justice Scalia at that ranch in Texas? We have yet to get the TRUTH.
Based on Supreme Court decisions after his death, I'm pretty sure the message was received by some of them.
A couple of times I’ve composed 10,000-word walls of text and attempted to post them, only to realize that the original post was from several years ago.
As for the NYT, the front page of tomorrow’s (June 9) print edition is already online. A blurb about the assassination attempt appears at the very bottom:
https://i.ibb.co/Zh2SG2z/6-F931735-BC86-4-DBF-B3-C4-A032-A75-CED5-E.jpgReplies: @HammerJack, @J.Ross
Fine. Let’s just replace “The New York Times” with that. Can you imagine if someone from Central Casting had traveled cross-country to assassinate RBG? We wouldn’t hear about anything else for weeks.
Ruth Baader Meinhof would have been a better fitting moniker.
Speaking of which , somewhat OT, but the NYT has still not mentioned the 3 yoofs who beat to death White teenager Ethan Liming last week at LeBron James' IPromise Akron school over some lese majeste one of his friends committed at playground/basketball court. If on the other hand 3 White teens had beaten to death a Black teenager (or even touched his hair) it would be the second coming of Emmett Till and we would still be hearing about it in the year 2088.
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/akron-canton-news/family-of-akron-teen-found-beaten-to-death-plead-for-someone-to-come-forward
Read it and weep.Replies: @Anon
https://i33.servimg.com/u/f33/18/88/87/60/attack10.jpgReplies: @HammerJack
That's my take, anyway, based on how I sized him up during his confirmation hearing.Replies: @Stan Adams, @ScarletNumber, @Bardon Kaldian, @Jonathan Mason, @dcthrowback, @AnotherDad, @bomag
Now it’s too late for that.
Indeed he could, and in a civil polity that might even happen.
But as Reg Cæsar implies, that’s not where we are.
House Dems blocked a bill for increased security to protect Justices and their immediate family members. Apparently additional security is sensible, because this bill passed the Senate unanimously. (weeks ago.) Now this armed man is arrested, and we know that copycat violence is a common phenomenon. Kavanaugh has an urgent responsibility to protect his family. He therefore needs to hire private security. Children’s activities are wide-ranging, and so this will be very expensive. Elon…?
Contra to what you're saying, I suspect the US Marshalls have what they need at least for now to protect the targeted justices although perhaps you're right about the justices' families, and I suppose they'll have to pretend the others are at the same risk diluting their effort. So McConnell might have been grandstanding.
Or if clever, now the House has taken the bait, if they continue to block it or combine it with a gun grabbing bill I don't think it'll play well in November. On the other hand the GOPe has been palpably wanting more gun control forever and I doubt they want to control the Congress for 2023-4 when they won't have much ability to change things, certainly no guts to do what would be required, but will be expected to deliver results. So I'm not sure they'd be very hesitant to provide enough votes to get either a clean or combined bill past cloture (the modern without chests filibuster).
I've read their web site it down, but these Tweets are still up. And for now to round out their class act, Twitter informs us:Replies: @HammerJack
Does that sound plausible to you?
Or does it sound like the FBI manipulating another mentally-ill patsy just in time to affect the current political narrative?Replies: @Paul Jolliffe, @Hannah Katz, @Corn, @EdwardM, @Jack D, @SunBakedSuburb
I agree.
Note that although the U. S. Marshall’s spotted Koske outside Kavanaugh’s home, the arrest was by the Montgomery County (Sheriffs deputies?) Police after he called 011.
The strange line “During a court hearing, he consented to remain in federal custody for now” tells me the feds want to keep him away from the prying eyes and ears of the local cops who might actually ask real questions.
https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-district-of-columbia-maryland-government-and-politics-179d18e7f933b3decbaddb542ceb0b29
Questions like “How much time have you spent recently in a Discord chat room, chatting with ‘Sandman’?”
Biden’s boys beat up a pro-abortion girl in Los Angeles.
Admittedly, she does a convincing demonstration of why abortions should be legal. Imagine being the sorrowful mother of this miserable Orc:
Yeah, if the media really wanted to undo a harmful conspiracy theory, they could start with that one. It could save lives both in terms of preventing more tranny incel mass murders and in terms of saving beta guys from wasting their lives in counterproductive lefty virtue signaling.
But of course they don’t, because their job is to be as harmful as possible, which they are pretty good at by now.
So instead they focus on trying to indict obvious and admitted facts as “conspiracy theories”.
There's a chart going around that shows a spectrum of conspiracy theories from "Grounded in Reality" to "Detached From Reality." Interestingly, a number of the items put in or near that latter category are obvious truths: Deep State, George Soros, White Genocide [I would go with Replacement Theory], New World Order, Cultural Marxism, and COVID-19 Made in Lab. Perhaps the graph came from Biden's Ministry of Truth.https://understandingpropaganda.quora.com/https-en-wikipedia-org-wiki-List_of_conspiracy_theories-Comments-on-this-anyone?ch=1&oid=17368109&share=a82ecbe6&target_type=postReplies: @Mr. Anon
Thoughts:
1. Colleges give entrance swim exams?
2. How cool that they teach you how to swim for free if you need it!
3. What a fun way to break the ice and meet new people when you show up at college for the first time!
But no, it’s racist and it’s probably also fat phobic, misogynistic (male gaze), ableist, neuroconvergent, transphobic (crotch bulge, top surgery scars), and who knows what else. Swim tests and the SAT: basically the same white male Nazi bullshit!Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Almost Missouri, @AnotherDad, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Jack D, @Bill Jones, @Anonymous, @Stan Adams
If there are any liberals who still* care about liberalism’s putative purposes (helping the downtrodden, etc.), this is a good example of how leftism run amok harms liberals’ goals.
Blacks drown more per capita, so preventing that involves teaching more blacks to swim. But the spectacle of blacks disproportionately in remedial swim classes is so injurious to the woke soul that it is better just to let a hundred blacks drown than that one wokel should endure the sight of a disparate impact.
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*I’m generously assuming that they ever really did care in the first place and that it wasn’t just a convenient cover story.
A few years back in Houston, with a black mayor, launched a (short lived) advertised program for free swimming classes/lessons at municipal pools for "inner city" youths.
The public reason was exactly the main point, that blacks as a group have far less swimmers in their ethnic group. Houston is full of bayous (muddy sometimes deep streams, many concrete lined) and it floods often. There is also nearby ocean ports, beaches (Galveston) and large rivers (Trinity).
There are always drownings by people in those waters who can't swim. For some reason though they can't resist the water. Also "migrant" Mexicans often drown when with families or wade fishing.
So there isn't some Woke effort to disguise this problem. But as far as I know the inner city swimming push quietly died out. Young black males tend to be pretty lean, low fat, so their swimming ability may be affected. Still, many can and do swim.
I don't think the White Woke (all of them) have taken up saving Blacks! from lack of swimming. That might actually help them. That's not the point of Woke.Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Steve Sailer, @Cool Daddy Jimbo
The fact that Supreme Court judges are called “Justice” — like “Justice Kavanaugh” — is an almost uniquely ironic anachronism.
Judges should be called “Regulator.” That is, after all, their primary function in the modern era: They regulate and interpret legislation, according to their whims and inclinations, and “justice” (and certainly natural law) has nothing to do with it.
https://twitter.com/TheSunTech/status/699193188192534532
https://nypost.com/2016/02/15/scalia-found-dead-with-pillow-over-his-head-ranch-owner/His head was UNDER A PILLOW when he was found dead.
His hands were FOLDED on top of the sheets.
NO AUTOPSY.
What really happened to Justice Scalia at that ranch in Texas? We have yet to get the TRUTH.Replies: @Art Deco, @tyrone, @That Would Be Telling
The truth is that a 79 year old overweight diabetic died of a heart attack.
(Garland should've been immediately disqualified for his OKC bombing hatchet job, but as we've seen w/ Kavanaugh and his efforts to cover up the Vince Foster obvious murder, the swamp takes care of its own. Kompromat everyone!)
July 2016, Bill Clinton meets AG Loretta Lynn in Sky Harbor "to say hello":
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/06/14/bill-clinton-and-loretta-lynch-meeting-phoenix-airport-details/703771002/
Hillary skates with a slap on the wrist from Comey and company.
They never thought she would lose, Lynn loses out on SC seat, Neil Gorsuch gets confirmed.Replies: @Art Deco
No autopsy.
Bush originally nominated Roberts to replace Sandra Day O’Connor, but when Rehnquist passed he “upgraded” the nomination from associate to chief justice because Roberts’ prospects for confirmation looked good.
Rehnquist had stubbornly refused to retire even though he was dying of thyroid cancer. He finally succumbed over Labor Day weekend and Roberts was confirmed in late September. If Rehnquist had hung on for another month or so, somebody else would have got the top job.
After Roberts’ confirmation, Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers for the associate slot. This was such a colossally stupid choice that it was widely assumed to be one of Karl Rove’s little tricks. Then Miers withdrew and Bush nominated Alito.Replies: @Stan Adams, @Art Deco, @Jim Don Bob
After Roberts’ confirmation, Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers for the associate slot. This was such a colossally stupid choice that it was widely assumed to be one of Karl Rove’s little tricks.
By whom was it assumed? My recollection at the time was that the person who suggested her was Laura Bush.
Both the blawger William Dyer (“Beldar”) and Thos. Sowell made the case for Miers. Miers wasn’t some random hack. She’d been the managing partner of a Dallas firm with hundreds of lawyers and once upon a time had graduated at the top of her law school class. Dyer’s take was that the court would benefit from some leaven in the form of a justice who was expert in areas of law they’re not. Sowell pointed to various features which strongly suggested she was not a social climber, which he adduced was the problem with Anthony Kennedy. (You can complain that Miers had never been on the bench. Neither had Elena Kagan, Lewis Powell, or … William Rehnquist).
Sounds like SJW/antifa/feminazi foreplay.
https://twitter.com/TheSunTech/status/699193188192534532
https://nypost.com/2016/02/15/scalia-found-dead-with-pillow-over-his-head-ranch-owner/His head was UNDER A PILLOW when he was found dead.
His hands were FOLDED on top of the sheets.
NO AUTOPSY.
What really happened to Justice Scalia at that ranch in Texas? We have yet to get the TRUTH.Replies: @Art Deco, @tyrone, @That Would Be Telling
Well, that’s how to do it ,wait till the target is in the middle of nowhere ……..you get a county judge writing the death certificate with out seeing the body …….Mark Middleton (remember him?) was found hanging from a tree and shot with a shotgun…..ruled suicide.
Simi Valley is a fairly conservative town.
As Anglin observed recently, almost every young man is an incel these days, so maybe that doesn’t mean very much. (The data is from 2018, pre-Covid, so it’s probably much worse now).
Nah, just drown a bunch of white guys. Much easier.
Except this would-be assassin supposedly backed down and gave himself up after seeing federal marshals outside the house. If there had been no guards, the headline would likely be along the lines of “Gun Violence Breaks Out at home of Right-Wing Supreme Court Justice.”
Pretty sure Steve’s theory was that political assassination declined because it’s harder to kill politicians now, and would-be failed assassins get much less fame than successful ones. Shooting up an unprotected school or church or store is a quicker route to fame.
Guy seems to be about as clueless about how to be an assassin as the folks on January 6 were about “overthrowing” the freakin’ government. No wonder we are the laughingstock of the world.
Can someone explain how banning abortion is going to benefit me?
This is a significant part of the story. Remember how the NYTimes blamed Sarah Palin for the shooting of Gabby Giffords? There is no way the NYTimes will even bring up Schumer’s ranting with regards to this story. It’s another example of how the NYTimes is simply left wing propaganda pretending to be a newspaper.
Let it through, Steve. She’s your congresscritter.
Thoughts:
1. Colleges give entrance swim exams?
2. How cool that they teach you how to swim for free if you need it!
3. What a fun way to break the ice and meet new people when you show up at college for the first time!
But no, it’s racist and it’s probably also fat phobic, misogynistic (male gaze), ableist, neuroconvergent, transphobic (crotch bulge, top surgery scars), and who knows what else. Swim tests and the SAT: basically the same white male Nazi bullshit!Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Almost Missouri, @AnotherDad, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Jack D, @Bill Jones, @Anonymous, @Stan Adams
Actually, on the big topic. This sort of “everyone should know how to swim” is a relic of the “mass uplife” coherent “one nation” American era, before … well, you know …
And as Steve and Almost point out, it’s a particularly useful policy for black men, because they tend toward higher muscle density–have in the net denser bodies and tend to sink and drown. (My HS swim partner was a well put together black guy, and yeah lifesaving his ass was a pain in the ass.)
Our schools would be much, much better–and a better experience for the students if there was much more practical training and less airy academics. (Of, course the toxic minoritarian lying that’s taken over the social sciences is negative education. Makes people, dumber and less knowledgeable about the world.)
Areas that jump to mind:
— basic money management, how everyone works, saving, staying out of debt
— men and women (sexual dimorphism), marriage (its relation to civilization0, sex, family and the reality of what actually makes people happy–and miserable
— driving, capability, reading the road, keeping you eyes on the road, having a conversation without looking at someone and staying off the damn phone!
— firearms, safety and familiarity
— swimming. lifesaving and basic rules of water safety
— diet, health and how to not being a fat lard ass
— phys ed–intro to all your typical sports, esp. ones (ex. tennis, racketball, golf, basketball, softball) adults tend continue to play
— basic cooking skills
— basic tool use
— basic mechanical skills
— basic home electrical
— phys. ed–with how to on all your normal
— outdoor skills (camping, hiking, paddling, climbing, archery, shooting, hunting)
HS would be much more useful and interesting to kids.
) sex is something to be watched as it is performed by pros. Same with sports.
) mechanical arts done by a shop
) food eaten outside the home; diet choices dictated by corporate advertising.Etc. Kind of a legal system writ large: be so afraid of making a mistake that you must leave it to the Priestly class to handle all matters.
It was a commonplace of the ancient world. The Talmud lists teaching your child to swim as the obligation of every father.Replies: @Muggles
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Jack D
A couple of times I’ve composed 10,000-word walls of text and attempted to post them, only to realize that the original post was from several years ago.
As for the NYT, the front page of tomorrow’s (June 9) print edition is already online. A blurb about the assassination attempt appears at the very bottom:
https://i.ibb.co/Zh2SG2z/6-F931735-BC86-4-DBF-B3-C4-A032-A75-CED5-E.jpgReplies: @HammerJack, @J.Ross
The top story at the Wall Street Journal was a Biden administration damage control hack job about a disgruntled employee at a baby formula manufacturer; the point of the hack job was to vindicate the federal regulator’s shutdown of the manufacturer’s factory. That took precedence over a Supreme Court Justice narrowly missing assassination. I wish we had a rule forbidding specifying which justice, then the leftists wouldn’t know how to react.
Is it normal to put a pillow over your head when getting a heart attack?
That's my take, anyway, based on how I sized him up during his confirmation hearing.Replies: @Stan Adams, @ScarletNumber, @Bardon Kaldian, @Jonathan Mason, @dcthrowback, @AnotherDad, @bomag
After a few beers.
That's my take, anyway, based on how I sized him up during his confirmation hearing.Replies: @Stan Adams, @ScarletNumber, @Bardon Kaldian, @Jonathan Mason, @dcthrowback, @AnotherDad, @bomag
He’s a tenured swamp creature who was the hatchet man in the Vince Foster murder coverup.
If RBG died under similar circumstances during Trump’s presidency, the Democrats and their media would have been screaming bloody murder if there were no subsequent autopsy and investigation into her death.
Scalia dies in sleep with pillow on head (lol) Feb 2016 in Texas. Obama nominated Merrick Garland in March. McConnell tells Obama to pound sand, they’ll take it up after the election for POTUS.
(Garland should’ve been immediately disqualified for his OKC bombing hatchet job, but as we’ve seen w/ Kavanaugh and his efforts to cover up the Vince Foster obvious murder, the swamp takes care of its own. Kompromat everyone!)
July 2016, Bill Clinton meets AG Loretta Lynn in Sky Harbor “to say hello”:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/06/14/bill-clinton-and-loretta-lynch-meeting-phoenix-airport-details/703771002/
Hillary skates with a slap on the wrist from Comey and company.
They never thought she would lose, Lynn loses out on SC seat, Neil Gorsuch gets confirmed.
“hacktivist” Kavanaugh?
Not that it can possibly move your mental needle, but one of the most obvious aspects of American politics during the post-War era, is that it is the leftists, the minoritarians who are the “hacktivists”. They have flat out made an ideology of imposing leftist and/or minoritarian policies through the courts when they fail to do soat the voting booth. You can plausibly quibble with this or that “conservative” ruling as an overreach. But the broad outline of what has gone on is crystal clear.
The US Constitution–as written–is basically federalist, republican self-government document with a bit of specific protections of basic liberties nailed on. It is silent on most of the issues of the day and leaves them up to the citizenry to sort out. Which means through their state legislatures for most things.
But “self-government” and “federalism” really annoy well … yep, the usual people. The super-state is the cudgel of minoritarians and leftists–how they will get what they want. They’ve had a sheaf of policies they wanted which actually were not all that popular with American citizens, so they have taken to just jamming them, anti-democraticall–in through the courts … then calling it “Our Democracy”.
We can debate the wisdom of particular policies all day and night. (Well actually we can’t even do that anymore.) But who has been “hacking” the Constitution is just clear as day.
Does that sound plausible to you?
Or does it sound like the FBI manipulating another mentally-ill patsy just in time to affect the current political narrative?Replies: @Paul Jolliffe, @Hannah Katz, @Corn, @EdwardM, @Jack D, @SunBakedSuburb
I can understand a Californian doing this, but Simi Valley? That is a city that has signs up on streets saying they support their police. A jury there acquitted some police officers of an alleged crime. I guess even good cities have nut cases.
That's my take, anyway, based on how I sized him up during his confirmation hearing.Replies: @Stan Adams, @ScarletNumber, @Bardon Kaldian, @Jonathan Mason, @dcthrowback, @AnotherDad, @bomag
Disagree–on the case.
I don’t wildly disagree on your 50,000 ft take on the man from the confirmation hearings. Though I certainly don’t know him, and how people mature into their adult selves varies. And the confirmation hearing–with this slimy and odious leftist attack–might well have provoked both some reality and some FU hostility.
But mainly, the case is pretty clear. Roe was a complete joke. (It’s a pig pile and as Blackmun wrote it it’s actually a “doctor’s rights” case. Just junk.) It’s hard to see why Kavanaugh–why anyone who wasn’t politically motivated on abortion–wouldn’t sign on to a cleanly written opinion that just says “it’s junk”.
It's too important a "wedge issue" for Democrats to use for dividing reasonable thinkers from unhinged emoters.
Thoughts:
1. Colleges give entrance swim exams?
2. How cool that they teach you how to swim for free if you need it!
3. What a fun way to break the ice and meet new people when you show up at college for the first time!
But no, it’s racist and it’s probably also fat phobic, misogynistic (male gaze), ableist, neuroconvergent, transphobic (crotch bulge, top surgery scars), and who knows what else. Swim tests and the SAT: basically the same white male Nazi bullshit!Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Almost Missouri, @AnotherDad, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Jack D, @Bill Jones, @Anonymous, @Stan Adams
People used to swim in the nude before the invention of synthetic fabrics for swimming suits – I think the justification was that wool from available swimsuits at the time clogged the rudimentary filtering systems of pools. This persisted into the 1970s.
https://www.vocativ.com/culture/fun/fairly-recently-ymca-actually-required-swimmers-nude/index.html
So my guess is that perverts at the colleges wanted to get a good look at the freshmen and coeds by requiring swimming. Recall as well that some Ivy League Universities would take nude photographs of all incoming students. So there is (or was) a trove of files with naked photographs of pretty much every important government figure in modern American history.
I don't wildly disagree on your 50,000 ft take on the man from the confirmation hearings. Though I certainly don't know him, and how people mature into their adult selves varies. And the confirmation hearing--with this slimy and odious leftist attack--might well have provoked both some reality and some FU hostility.
But mainly, the case is pretty clear. Roe was a complete joke. (It's a pig pile and as Blackmun wrote it it's actually a "doctor's rights" case. Just junk.) It's hard to see why Kavanaugh--why anyone who wasn't politically motivated on abortion--wouldn't sign on to a cleanly written opinion that just says "it's junk".Replies: @Anon, @Coemgen
Me hope is that he realizes his country won’t benefit from millions more George Floyds.
Criminals, loonies, welfare cases--basically anyone who can not be productive and take care of themselves should not be having children. Any civilized society that wants to stay civilized is going to need to develop a eugenic policy to make up for the loss of the "natural selection" that used to take place. Just a fact.
But ... it's not Kavanaugh's job to figure that out. That's precisely what elected representatives are supposed to be doing. Kavanaugh's job is simply to apply the Constitution and mostly get out of the way.Replies: @Anon
RBG ?
Ruth Baader Meinhof would have been a better fitting moniker.
Prior to 2006, pretty much every position he held was temporary or terminable at will. He wasn’t a tenured anything.
While we’re at it, there were four discrete inquiries into Foster’s death. They all had the same conclusion: that he committed suicide. His family and his hometown doctor knew he was distressed and his doctor had prescribed anti-depressants. We have an idea from Gary Aldrich as to how Foster differed from the ordinary run of the Clinton-era White House staff. The mystery about Foster is not so much that he committed suicide, but that he had anything to do with the Clintons above and beyond the necessary minimum dealings you have to have with some other partner in your law firm.
Note how Hillary's Chief of Staff who at last count was still in the Clinton crime family orbit went to his office to do ... whatever and things like that. They speak of responding to a crisis vs. planning ahead of time. BTW, I also keep my keys in my non-dominant hand pants pocket.There was more than a little talk and some claimed photographic evidence he and Hillary had been lovers once upon a time. Relationships ending are said to be one cause of suicide.
(Garland should've been immediately disqualified for his OKC bombing hatchet job, but as we've seen w/ Kavanaugh and his efforts to cover up the Vince Foster obvious murder, the swamp takes care of its own. Kompromat everyone!)
July 2016, Bill Clinton meets AG Loretta Lynn in Sky Harbor "to say hello":
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/06/14/bill-clinton-and-loretta-lynch-meeting-phoenix-airport-details/703771002/
Hillary skates with a slap on the wrist from Comey and company.
They never thought she would lose, Lynn loses out on SC seat, Neil Gorsuch gets confirmed.Replies: @Art Deco
You would benefit from relying less on your imagination.
Does that sound plausible to you?
Or does it sound like the FBI manipulating another mentally-ill patsy just in time to affect the current political narrative?Replies: @Paul Jolliffe, @Hannah Katz, @Corn, @EdwardM, @Jack D, @SunBakedSuburb
I wonder how much crime would go down if the FBI was disbanded?
That's my take, anyway, based on how I sized him up during his confirmation hearing.Replies: @Stan Adams, @ScarletNumber, @Bardon Kaldian, @Jonathan Mason, @dcthrowback, @AnotherDad, @bomag
Part of him probably wants to.
Another part watched the Ketanji Brown Jackson process and realizes how deeply we’re screwed with his likely replacement.
And as Steve and Almost point out, it's a particularly useful policy for black men, because they tend toward higher muscle density--have in the net denser bodies and tend to sink and drown. (My HS swim partner was a well put together black guy, and yeah lifesaving his ass was a pain in the ass.)
Our schools would be much, much better--and a better experience for the students if there was much more practical training and less airy academics. (Of, course the toxic minoritarian lying that's taken over the social sciences is negative education. Makes people, dumber and less knowledgeable about the world.)
Areas that jump to mind:
-- basic money management, how everyone works, saving, staying out of debt
-- men and women (sexual dimorphism), marriage (its relation to civilization0, sex, family and the reality of what actually makes people happy--and miserable
-- driving, capability, reading the road, keeping you eyes on the road, having a conversation without looking at someone and staying off the damn phone!
-- firearms, safety and familiarity
-- swimming. lifesaving and basic rules of water safety
-- diet, health and how to not being a fat lard ass
-- phys ed--intro to all your typical sports, esp. ones (ex. tennis, racketball, golf, basketball, softball) adults tend continue to play
-- basic cooking skills
-- basic tool use
-- basic mechanical skills
-- basic home electrical
-- phys. ed--with how to on all your normal
-- outdoor skills (camping, hiking, paddling, climbing, archery, shooting, hunting)
HS would be much more useful and interesting to kids.Replies: @bomag, @Harry Baldwin, @kaganovitch, @Rohirrimborn
Excellent ideas.
But it reminds us how much modern life makes us helpless: “don’t try it yourself; leave it to an expert.”
Thus:
) money is left to accountants and investment managers
) sex is something to be watched as it is performed by pros. Same with sports.
) mechanical arts done by a shop
) food eaten outside the home; diet choices dictated by corporate advertising.
Etc.
Kind of a legal system writ large: be so afraid of making a mistake that you must leave it to the Priestly class to handle all matters.
Seriously, reading this, why would anyone not want “separate nations!”. We are already separate people.
I don’t tend to get bent out of shape on the routine “issues of the day”. For instance, I was annoyed when Obama made my family’s medical insurance cost an extra $600 a month. But if we ended up with some sort of “medicare for all” it wouldn’t be some sort of cosmic crisis in my life. Pay taxes and move on.
But to have civilization–any sort of Western civilization–we absolutely must have an end to minoritarianism and a return normal republican self-government and a self-confident nation, where the majority puts in place its norms unapologetically and enforces a border to keep invaders out and preserve the nation for its posterity.
“He said he was on medication but did not specify what”
Young hard-core lefties always seem to be heavily medicated. There’s some sort of relationship between heavy medication and/or mental illness and far leftwing politics in young adults, but I can only speculate what it is.
https://twitter.com/TheSunTech/status/699193188192534532
https://nypost.com/2016/02/15/scalia-found-dead-with-pillow-over-his-head-ranch-owner/His head was UNDER A PILLOW when he was found dead.
His hands were FOLDED on top of the sheets.
NO AUTOPSY.
What really happened to Justice Scalia at that ranch in Texas? We have yet to get the TRUTH.Replies: @Art Deco, @tyrone, @That Would Be Telling
When the Deep State emphasized that he found with a pillow over his head they made it very clear they were claiming to have assassinated him, whether or not Art Deco is right about him having a heart attack. Plus as I recall you’re right there was no autopsy, which would have been required to at least make a case he hadn’t been assassinated.
Based on Supreme Court decisions after his death, I’m pretty sure the message was received by some of them.
I lived in Arlington, VA when Vince Foster’s body was found, even drove past the National Park on my commute to work, and I agree that the best theory is that he killed himself. On the other hand, based on lots of forensics that were published locally, it was very clear his body was moved from wherever that happened to the park, and that the claimed way he shot himself was impossible.
Note how Hillary’s Chief of Staff who at last count was still in the Clinton crime family orbit went to his office to do … whatever and things like that. They speak of responding to a crisis vs. planning ahead of time. BTW, I also keep my keys in my non-dominant hand pants pocket.
There was more than a little talk and some claimed photographic evidence he and Hillary had been lovers once upon a time. Relationships ending are said to be one cause of suicide.
But of course they don't, because their job is to be as harmful as possible, which they are pretty good at by now.
So instead they focus on trying to indict obvious and admitted facts as "conspiracy theories".Replies: @Harry Baldwin
So instead they focus on trying to indict obvious and admitted facts as “conspiracy theories”.
There’s a chart going around that shows a spectrum of conspiracy theories from “Grounded in Reality” to “Detached From Reality.” Interestingly, a number of the items put in or near that latter category are obvious truths: Deep State, George Soros, White Genocide [I would go with Replacement Theory], New World Order, Cultural Marxism, and COVID-19 Made in Lab. Perhaps the graph came from Biden’s Ministry of Truth.
https://understandingpropaganda.quora.com/https-en-wikipedia-org-wiki-List_of_conspiracy_theories-Comments-on-this-anyone?ch=1&oid=17368109&share=a82ecbe6&target_type=post
The machinations of the "New World Order" aren't a conspiracy theory. They're laid out in their f**king press-releases.
The fact that George Soros seeks to subvert western civilization isn't a conspiracy theory. It's revealed by the campaign contributions he's given to district attorneys like Chesa Boudin, Larry Krasner, and George Gascon.
I don't tend to get bent out of shape on the routine "issues of the day". For instance, I was annoyed when Obama made my family's medical insurance cost an extra $600 a month. But if we ended up with some sort of "medicare for all" it wouldn't be some sort of cosmic crisis in my life. Pay taxes and move on.
But to have civilization--any sort of Western civilization--we absolutely must have an end to minoritarianism and a return normal republican self-government and a self-confident nation, where the majority puts in place its norms unapologetically and enforces a border to keep invaders out and preserve the nation for its posterity.Replies: @That Would Be Telling
You really sure a brutal minoritarian government like our’s that is treating an attempted assassination of one of the government’s highest officers as a nothingburger wouldn’t be making decisions on who gets what and how much care based on their politics?
You're precisely making my point. It's the government that is hostile to nation's people that is the critical issue.
What I'm saying is that if you fix that, the exact public policy mix that people vote in--whether it squares up with my preferences or not--is a much less important issue. I would rather have vouchers for schools and medical insurance and one simple tax protected pension savings program. But if we ended up with public schools, medical for all and social security--in an actual nation run by and for the nation's people--I can live with it. It isn't the policy mix or the exact tax rate that is critical to the future my kids inherit. It is having a self-governing nation.
“A man armed with a pistol, a knife and other weapons was arrested near the Maryland home of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh early Wednesday after he said he traveled from California to kill the Supreme Court justice, federal officials said.”
Taken together with Kyle Rittenhouse, this is a perfect example of why the constitution is outmoded and needs to be scrapped. Some 200 year old document written by Dead White Males simply can’t be allowed to endanger everyone’s safety. No one except government officials with the proper training should have the right to cross state lines.
Biden can deter justice murder by announcing that if this were to ever happen he’d replace the judge with another of the same age and party, for example Don Willet.
That would work. Especially if he gave his word as a Biden.
No, I’m not.
You’re precisely making my point. It’s the government that is hostile to nation’s people that is the critical issue.
What I’m saying is that if you fix that, the exact public policy mix that people vote in–whether it squares up with my preferences or not–is a much less important issue. I would rather have vouchers for schools and medical insurance and one simple tax protected pension savings program. But if we ended up with public schools, medical for all and social security–in an actual nation run by and for the nation’s people–I can live with it. It isn’t the policy mix or the exact tax rate that is critical to the future my kids inherit. It is having a self-governing nation.
And as Steve and Almost point out, it's a particularly useful policy for black men, because they tend toward higher muscle density--have in the net denser bodies and tend to sink and drown. (My HS swim partner was a well put together black guy, and yeah lifesaving his ass was a pain in the ass.)
Our schools would be much, much better--and a better experience for the students if there was much more practical training and less airy academics. (Of, course the toxic minoritarian lying that's taken over the social sciences is negative education. Makes people, dumber and less knowledgeable about the world.)
Areas that jump to mind:
-- basic money management, how everyone works, saving, staying out of debt
-- men and women (sexual dimorphism), marriage (its relation to civilization0, sex, family and the reality of what actually makes people happy--and miserable
-- driving, capability, reading the road, keeping you eyes on the road, having a conversation without looking at someone and staying off the damn phone!
-- firearms, safety and familiarity
-- swimming. lifesaving and basic rules of water safety
-- diet, health and how to not being a fat lard ass
-- phys ed--intro to all your typical sports, esp. ones (ex. tennis, racketball, golf, basketball, softball) adults tend continue to play
-- basic cooking skills
-- basic tool use
-- basic mechanical skills
-- basic home electrical
-- phys. ed--with how to on all your normal
-- outdoor skills (camping, hiking, paddling, climbing, archery, shooting, hunting)
HS would be much more useful and interesting to kids.Replies: @bomag, @Harry Baldwin, @kaganovitch, @Rohirrimborn
Excellent list, and throw in a program teaching communication skills and public speaking, and Chris Rock’s lecture “How Not To Get Your A** Kicked By The Police.”
Can you imagine if someone from Central Casting had traveled cross-country to assassinate RBG? We wouldn’t hear about anything else for weeks.
Speaking of which , somewhat OT, but the NYT has still not mentioned the 3 yoofs who beat to death White teenager Ethan Liming last week at LeBron James’ IPromise Akron school over some lese majeste one of his friends committed at playground/basketball court. If on the other hand 3 White teens had beaten to death a Black teenager (or even touched his hair) it would be the second coming of Emmett Till and we would still be hearing about it in the year 2088.
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/akron-canton-news/family-of-akron-teen-found-beaten-to-death-plead-for-someone-to-come-forward
Read it and weep.
And as Steve and Almost point out, it's a particularly useful policy for black men, because they tend toward higher muscle density--have in the net denser bodies and tend to sink and drown. (My HS swim partner was a well put together black guy, and yeah lifesaving his ass was a pain in the ass.)
Our schools would be much, much better--and a better experience for the students if there was much more practical training and less airy academics. (Of, course the toxic minoritarian lying that's taken over the social sciences is negative education. Makes people, dumber and less knowledgeable about the world.)
Areas that jump to mind:
-- basic money management, how everyone works, saving, staying out of debt
-- men and women (sexual dimorphism), marriage (its relation to civilization0, sex, family and the reality of what actually makes people happy--and miserable
-- driving, capability, reading the road, keeping you eyes on the road, having a conversation without looking at someone and staying off the damn phone!
-- firearms, safety and familiarity
-- swimming. lifesaving and basic rules of water safety
-- diet, health and how to not being a fat lard ass
-- phys ed--intro to all your typical sports, esp. ones (ex. tennis, racketball, golf, basketball, softball) adults tend continue to play
-- basic cooking skills
-- basic tool use
-- basic mechanical skills
-- basic home electrical
-- phys. ed--with how to on all your normal
-- outdoor skills (camping, hiking, paddling, climbing, archery, shooting, hunting)
HS would be much more useful and interesting to kids.Replies: @bomag, @Harry Baldwin, @kaganovitch, @Rohirrimborn
Actually, on the big topic. This sort of “everyone should know how to swim” is a relic of the “mass uplife” coherent “one nation” American era, before … well, you know …
It was a commonplace of the ancient world. The Talmud lists teaching your child to swim as the obligation of every father.
Most sailors historically didn't swim either, though ocean swimming was always rare and is still very dangerous. Swimsuits didn't exist.
I don't know if the US Navy requires ship crews to know how to swim. More most probably not.
I suspect fishermen using smaller boats who lived near the sea would often learn to swim but recreational swimming is a modern sport. Yes, kids can do it in calm lakes not too cold but the water was always considered dangerous and "dirty". In pre-modern times until the last few centuries sewers all ran into nearby streams, rivers, lakes and finally the ocean.
Swimming isn't big in the Third World either for similar reasons.Replies: @prosa123, @Steve Sailer
Maybe I missed it, but they didn’t mention how the cop knew to pull him over or what he was arrested for in the first place.
What’s the odds that a ‘retired’ feeb was egging him on and another following him just like dozens of other times?
Does that sound plausible to you?
Or does it sound like the FBI manipulating another mentally-ill patsy just in time to affect the current political narrative?Replies: @Paul Jolliffe, @Hannah Katz, @Corn, @EdwardM, @Jack D, @SunBakedSuburb
Somewhat civically-aware college-educated beta male Californian, self-righteous and neurotic at the same time, with plenty of time on his hands. Yeah, it seems plausible.
The most questionable part is that he doesn’t fit the profile of someone with a gun. How did he travel? I suppose he could have put the weapons in his checked luggage and procured the rest of the stuff locally.
On a separate note, is this really “attempted murder”? Apparently he saw the police outside, wandered away, stewed, and called the police on himself from down the street.
Blacks drown more per capita, so preventing that involves teaching more blacks to swim. But the spectacle of blacks disproportionately in remedial swim classes is so injurious to the woke soul that it is better just to let a hundred blacks drown than that one wokel should endure the sight of a disparate impact.
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*I'm generously assuming that they ever really did care in the first place and that it wasn't just a convenient cover story.Replies: @Muggles
I get your “satirical” point but it is factually untrue.
A few years back in Houston, with a black mayor, launched a (short lived) advertised program for free swimming classes/lessons at municipal pools for “inner city” youths.
The public reason was exactly the main point, that blacks as a group have far less swimmers in their ethnic group. Houston is full of bayous (muddy sometimes deep streams, many concrete lined) and it floods often. There is also nearby ocean ports, beaches (Galveston) and large rivers (Trinity).
There are always drownings by people in those waters who can’t swim. For some reason though they can’t resist the water. Also “migrant” Mexicans often drown when with families or wade fishing.
So there isn’t some Woke effort to disguise this problem. But as far as I know the inner city swimming push quietly died out. Young black males tend to be pretty lean, low fat, so their swimming ability may be affected. Still, many can and do swim.
I don’t think the White Woke (all of them) have taken up saving Blacks! from lack of swimming. That might actually help them. That’s not the point of Woke.
It is all to do with learning how to breathe while moving through the water so that you breathe in with the face out of the water and breathe out with the face under the water.
It has nothing to do with having heavier muscles or bones.Replies: @Gordo, @SunBakedSuburb
I'll tell you what happened. The same thing that always happens. A bunch of good-hearted, pretty, blond lifeguards volunteered to teach the black kids how to swim. When they showed up at the pool they were assaulted and threatened with rape by the local youths and teens. They never came back.
Same thing happened locally. There was a "black" beach that was unpatrolled by lifeguards. After a few drownings the city built a lifeguard stand and sent a pretty blond lifeguard to man it. She left at lunch on the first day and never came back.
True enough, but I was hopeful that his treatment during his confirmation would open his eyes and make him adopt a new purpose in life to burn down the whole system with extreme prejudice, by any means at his disposal. Wouldn’t anyone react that way?
It was a commonplace of the ancient world. The Talmud lists teaching your child to swim as the obligation of every father.Replies: @Muggles
Maybe for the Jews (though I doubt that regardless of Talmud urging) since my readings have all said that the sailors on these ancient war triremes and oar driven warships couldn’t swim and of course drowned quickly if overboard.
Most sailors historically didn’t swim either, though ocean swimming was always rare and is still very dangerous. Swimsuits didn’t exist.
I don’t know if the US Navy requires ship crews to know how to swim. More most probably not.
I suspect fishermen using smaller boats who lived near the sea would often learn to swim but recreational swimming is a modern sport. Yes, kids can do it in calm lakes not too cold but the water was always considered dangerous and “dirty”. In pre-modern times until the last few centuries sewers all ran into nearby streams, rivers, lakes and finally the ocean.
Swimming isn’t big in the Third World either for similar reasons.
Swimming is part of basic training.
Let me expand on one point made here earlier.
Suppose Mr. California assassin was similarly arrested near the home of newly appointed Justice Kazzy McBlack Jackson (or whatever her name is)?
Can you imagine the headlines? Especially if the assassin had some political basis like supporting the Second Amendment or say, objecting to the Jan. 6 railroad trials.
Headlines would be screaming! Sleepy Joe would be dragged on TV mumbling about White Supremacist Dangers.
Instead this is barely given at bottom paragraph headline. My online Fake News feed has a short, dry fact free mention.
“Nothing to see here, please move along.”
“Don’t call us unless the bodies are still warm.”
A few years back in Houston, with a black mayor, launched a (short lived) advertised program for free swimming classes/lessons at municipal pools for "inner city" youths.
The public reason was exactly the main point, that blacks as a group have far less swimmers in their ethnic group. Houston is full of bayous (muddy sometimes deep streams, many concrete lined) and it floods often. There is also nearby ocean ports, beaches (Galveston) and large rivers (Trinity).
There are always drownings by people in those waters who can't swim. For some reason though they can't resist the water. Also "migrant" Mexicans often drown when with families or wade fishing.
So there isn't some Woke effort to disguise this problem. But as far as I know the inner city swimming push quietly died out. Young black males tend to be pretty lean, low fat, so their swimming ability may be affected. Still, many can and do swim.
I don't think the White Woke (all of them) have taken up saving Blacks! from lack of swimming. That might actually help them. That's not the point of Woke.Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Steve Sailer, @Cool Daddy Jimbo
There is no physical reason why black people cannot swim.
It is all to do with learning how to breathe while moving through the water so that you breathe in with the face out of the water and breathe out with the face under the water.
It has nothing to do with having heavier muscles or bones.
I don't wildly disagree on your 50,000 ft take on the man from the confirmation hearings. Though I certainly don't know him, and how people mature into their adult selves varies. And the confirmation hearing--with this slimy and odious leftist attack--might well have provoked both some reality and some FU hostility.
But mainly, the case is pretty clear. Roe was a complete joke. (It's a pig pile and as Blackmun wrote it it's actually a "doctor's rights" case. Just junk.) It's hard to see why Kavanaugh--why anyone who wasn't politically motivated on abortion--wouldn't sign on to a cleanly written opinion that just says "it's junk".Replies: @Anon, @Coemgen
And no “respected” authority will ever publicly discuss it as so.
It’s too important a “wedge issue” for Democrats to use for dividing reasonable thinkers from unhinged emoters.
As far as the NYT is concerned the sacrilegious act of murdering a transsexual by one who is even more sanctified can be described by the classic Caesarism “Et Tu Etute’ ? “.
Hmm…
One very sketchy LA Times columnist is calling for this bill and the gun grabbing bill to be combined to force the Republican to vote in favor of them together.
Contra to what you’re saying, I suspect the US Marshalls have what they need at least for now to protect the targeted justices although perhaps you’re right about the justices’ families, and I suppose they’ll have to pretend the others are at the same risk diluting their effort. So McConnell might have been grandstanding.
Or if clever, now the House has taken the bait, if they continue to block it or combine it with a gun grabbing bill I don’t think it’ll play well in November. On the other hand the GOPe has been palpably wanting more gun control forever and I doubt they want to control the Congress for 2023-4 when they won’t have much ability to change things, certainly no guts to do what would be required, but will be expected to deliver results. So I’m not sure they’d be very hesitant to provide enough votes to get either a clean or combined bill past cloture (the modern without chests filibuster).
Thoughts:
1. Colleges give entrance swim exams?
2. How cool that they teach you how to swim for free if you need it!
3. What a fun way to break the ice and meet new people when you show up at college for the first time!
But no, it’s racist and it’s probably also fat phobic, misogynistic (male gaze), ableist, neuroconvergent, transphobic (crotch bulge, top surgery scars), and who knows what else. Swim tests and the SAT: basically the same white male Nazi bullshit!Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Almost Missouri, @AnotherDad, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Jack D, @Bill Jones, @Anonymous, @Stan Adams
Usually it is not an ENTRANCE requirement but an EXIT requirement – no degree unless you pass the swim test.
This used to be more common – there were all sorts of urban legends about how some donor required it at Harvard because his/her son had drowned on the Titanic – completely untrue.
The timing was about right though. Somewhere around WWI it became common for colleges to want all of their students (mostly men in those days) to be able to swim. Maybe as part of readiness for military service? IDK the reasons why exactly but it was a common requirement which has mostly faded over the years.
MIT still has this requirement. If you are a swimmer it’s not difficult but if you can’t swim already it is an obstacle although they promise to teach you.
Top story on NYT home page right now – Jan 6 hearings.
Kav assassination attempt is off the front page. Old news.
Can you imagine if some WN had tried to assassinate RBG? This would have been the #1 story for a month. They would still be talking about it years later.
With a pillow on top of his face.
No autopsy.
Does that sound plausible to you?
Or does it sound like the FBI manipulating another mentally-ill patsy just in time to affect the current political narrative?Replies: @Paul Jolliffe, @Hannah Katz, @Corn, @EdwardM, @Jack D, @SunBakedSuburb
Feel free to invent your own facts. This is what really happened:
He was arrested BC the marshals saw him. He didn’t call the cops on himself. What is your source?
https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-district-of-columbia-maryland-government-and-politics-179d18e7f933b3decbaddb542ceb0b29
Roske was NOT arrested by the US Marshals.
He did call the cops on himself.
And 48 hours later, we don’t know who paid for his flight, nor his arsenal, nor even how (or if) he flew with all of that gear to California.
https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-district-of-columbia-maryland-government-and-politics-179d18e7f933b3decbaddb542ceb0b29
(But, since the Texas Secretary of State’s office still hasn’t told us whether Salvador Ramos had a valid driver’s license or a bank account, I guess we’ll just have to wait on this one too . . .)Replies: @Ron Mexico
We’re in a literal war. Violence against our leaders and institutions (like pro-life clinics) is only increasing. And really all I hear from conservatives is pleas for the Democrats to tone down their rhetoric?
Why would they, when it’s working for them? Their political violence got Trump out of office, and it might save Roe.
Violence can’t be defeated by voting. Violence can only be defeated by better funded, better organized violence.
Would be nice if some of these college football boosters could fund some patriotic warriors instead of black football stars for once.
Speaking of which , somewhat OT, but the NYT has still not mentioned the 3 yoofs who beat to death White teenager Ethan Liming last week at LeBron James' IPromise Akron school over some lese majeste one of his friends committed at playground/basketball court. If on the other hand 3 White teens had beaten to death a Black teenager (or even touched his hair) it would be the second coming of Emmett Till and we would still be hearing about it in the year 2088.
https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/akron-canton-news/family-of-akron-teen-found-beaten-to-death-plead-for-someone-to-come-forward
Read it and weep.Replies: @Anon
Sometimes I feel sorry blacks. Then I remember that white children whose parents can’t afford private school have been forced to be around these knuckleheads for 60 years and all sympathy vanishes. School integration is a crime against humanity.
Fritz Roske was a German general during WWII and unlikely to be Jewish.
https://www.feldgrau.com/WW2-German-Officer-DiplIngFritz-RoskeReplies: @Gordo
Ya never know, look at Milch.
It is all to do with learning how to breathe while moving through the water so that you breathe in with the face out of the water and breathe out with the face under the water.
It has nothing to do with having heavier muscles or bones.Replies: @Gordo, @SunBakedSuburb
Heavier bones you sink first, more body fat you sink last, so black men go down first, yellow women last.
Likely blacks panic faster and harder than whits when challenged by the existential life/death struggle of being helpless in open water.
Perhaps this psychological pathway is linked to other characteristics as poor impulse control and aggression.Replies: @Alden, @kaganovitch
Perhaps Island and coastal dwellers have evolved the ability to swim.
Being able to swim, meaning that you can make controlled movements through the water, control your breathing, and not swallow water, compared to being able to beat the best in the world in Olympic swimming events are very different things.
Most sailors historically didn't swim either, though ocean swimming was always rare and is still very dangerous. Swimsuits didn't exist.
I don't know if the US Navy requires ship crews to know how to swim. More most probably not.
I suspect fishermen using smaller boats who lived near the sea would often learn to swim but recreational swimming is a modern sport. Yes, kids can do it in calm lakes not too cold but the water was always considered dangerous and "dirty". In pre-modern times until the last few centuries sewers all ran into nearby streams, rivers, lakes and finally the ocean.
Swimming isn't big in the Third World either for similar reasons.Replies: @prosa123, @Steve Sailer
I don’t know if the US Navy requires ship crews to know how to swim. More most probably not.
Swimming is part of basic training.
There is a lot more along that line e.g., this great “just asking questions” tweet
Does that sound plausible to you?
Or does it sound like the FBI manipulating another mentally-ill patsy just in time to affect the current political narrative?Replies: @Paul Jolliffe, @Hannah Katz, @Corn, @EdwardM, @Jack D, @SunBakedSuburb
“Or does it sound like the FBI manipulating another mentally-ill patsy just in time to affect the current political narrative?”
It’s doesn’t jibe with regime narrative. This is a case of another hollow young white man whose void was filled by the dark messaging that began in the winter of 2020: Your existence is a lie; redemption can be delivered through self-hatred and worship of the sacred colour. By the way, you might be a girl.
But the Feds, as in the DOJ and FBI, are at war with the American majority. No doubt about that.
Nate Silver makes me laugh.
Yah think?
Thoughts:
1. Colleges give entrance swim exams?
2. How cool that they teach you how to swim for free if you need it!
3. What a fun way to break the ice and meet new people when you show up at college for the first time!
But no, it’s racist and it’s probably also fat phobic, misogynistic (male gaze), ableist, neuroconvergent, transphobic (crotch bulge, top surgery scars), and who knows what else. Swim tests and the SAT: basically the same white male Nazi bullshit!Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Almost Missouri, @AnotherDad, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Jack D, @Bill Jones, @Anonymous, @Stan Adams
Mens sana in corpore sano?
Swimming’s a start.
The most questionable part is that he doesn't fit the profile of someone with a gun. How did he travel? I suppose he could have put the weapons in his checked luggage and procured the rest of the stuff locally.
On a separate note, is this really "attempted murder"? Apparently he saw the police outside, wandered away, stewed, and called the police on himself from down the street.Replies: @That Would Be Telling
I’ve been wondering about that myself. Perhaps a charge that is intended to fail in court?
Drowning is invariably triggered by panic.
Likely blacks panic faster and harder than whits when challenged by the existential life/death struggle of being helpless in open water.
Perhaps this psychological pathway is linked to other characteristics as poor impulse control and aggression.
Not invariably. Sometimes its preceded by a blow to the head, sometimes even by the wrong choice of footwear.
Last time I tried the MORE tag seemed incompatible with Blockquote.
It is all to do with learning how to breathe while moving through the water so that you breathe in with the face out of the water and breathe out with the face under the water.
It has nothing to do with having heavier muscles or bones.Replies: @Gordo, @SunBakedSuburb
After boot and two weeks before I went on to MOS training, I was shanghaied into giving swimming instruction to five black recruits to get them ready for basic training. My branch decide it was too white and had to reach out to blacks. No white recruit would’ve ever been allowed through the gates if they weren’t advanced swimmers.
“It has nothing to do with having heavier muscles or bones.”
True: I’m essentially an albino ape and was bigger than most the black guys in the pool. The primary objective was getting them to let go of their fear of deep water aka drowning. These guys were from Philly and Alabama — urban and rural. Water sports was not a feature of their culture.
“But Roske was only apprehended after he called 911 in Montgomery County, Maryland, and said he was having suicidal thoughts and planned to kill Kavanaugh, having found the justice’s address online. Roske was still on the phone when Montgomery County police arrived on the scene, according to the affidavit.”
https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-district-of-columbia-maryland-government-and-politics-179d18e7f933b3decbaddb542ceb0b29
Brace yourself, Jack -you’re wrong.
Roske was NOT arrested by the US Marshals.
He did call the cops on himself.
And 48 hours later, we don’t know who paid for his flight, nor his arsenal, nor even how (or if) he flew with all of that gear to California.
https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-district-of-columbia-maryland-government-and-politics-179d18e7f933b3decbaddb542ceb0b29
(But, since the Texas Secretary of State’s office still hasn’t told us whether Salvador Ramos had a valid driver’s license or a bank account, I guess we’ll just have to wait on this one too . . .)
and Vegas, 9/11, McVeigh, Oswald...
Most sailors historically didn't swim either, though ocean swimming was always rare and is still very dangerous. Swimsuits didn't exist.
I don't know if the US Navy requires ship crews to know how to swim. More most probably not.
I suspect fishermen using smaller boats who lived near the sea would often learn to swim but recreational swimming is a modern sport. Yes, kids can do it in calm lakes not too cold but the water was always considered dangerous and "dirty". In pre-modern times until the last few centuries sewers all ran into nearby streams, rivers, lakes and finally the ocean.
Swimming isn't big in the Third World either for similar reasons.Replies: @prosa123, @Steve Sailer
Benjamin Franklin, on his first visit to England in his early 20s, was employed as a swimming instructor by rich men for their children. Swimming may have been more common in the Colonies than in the Mother Country, so a good breaststroke was a valuable asset in England.
A few years back in Houston, with a black mayor, launched a (short lived) advertised program for free swimming classes/lessons at municipal pools for "inner city" youths.
The public reason was exactly the main point, that blacks as a group have far less swimmers in their ethnic group. Houston is full of bayous (muddy sometimes deep streams, many concrete lined) and it floods often. There is also nearby ocean ports, beaches (Galveston) and large rivers (Trinity).
There are always drownings by people in those waters who can't swim. For some reason though they can't resist the water. Also "migrant" Mexicans often drown when with families or wade fishing.
So there isn't some Woke effort to disguise this problem. But as far as I know the inner city swimming push quietly died out. Young black males tend to be pretty lean, low fat, so their swimming ability may be affected. Still, many can and do swim.
I don't think the White Woke (all of them) have taken up saving Blacks! from lack of swimming. That might actually help them. That's not the point of Woke.Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Steve Sailer, @Cool Daddy Jimbo
If you were looking for something Woke to put on your resume or Diversity Statement, teaching inner city blacks to swim would be a rare Good Thing. Does anybody do that.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/race-identity-faith/2021-05-31/st-louis-nonprofit-urges-black-families-to-teach-their-children-to-swim-to-save-lives
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/well/family/black-children-swimming.html
https://abc30.com/amp/echo-aquatics-black-kids-swim-fresno-children-of-color-swimming/11663029/
Now, on an even more important note, regarding tonight’s hearings, since you claim to be a law and order and rule of law type of guy.
—Remember that this is a *bipartisan* Congressional committee that exists in its current form—with two Republican members (Cheney, Kinzinger) and one Republican co-heading its investigative team (Riggleman)—because House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy *decided* it would be this way.
House Democrats wanted a nonpartisan commission; Republicans said no. Democrats then agreed to a bipartisan committee with 5 Republican members, so long as none of them were witnesses in the case; Republicans said no. Democrats said that the non-witnesses McCarthy selected could still serve on the committee; Republicans said no. Democrats then issued an open call for Republicans to serve on the Committee; McCarthy replied by ordering his caucus members—under threat of punishment—not to join the Committee. Two joined anyway and were punished.
Republicans thereafter launched a propaganda campaign to spread disinformation about the Committee: they falsely claimed the Committee was partisan rather than bipartisan; falsely claimed they’d been given no opportunity to join it; falsely claimed it was a partisan exercise.
In fact, we *know* the Committee isn’t a partisan exercise because the Democratic Party wanted a *nonpartisan commission* rather than a partisan committee, and it was the *Republican Party* that insisted the January 6 investigation be run by a congressional committee instead.
Where Democrats and Republicans diverged was on the matter of whether the Congressional committee investigating January 6 should be *corrupt*—that is, whether its members/investigators could also be witnesses in the case. Democrats said no; Republicans *demanded* corruption.
There’s no mystery in this divergence of opinion: Republican leadership quite transparently wants and needs the investigation of January 6 to be both run by Congress and *corrupt* because it knows—as does the nation—that the chief author of January 6 is the leader of the GOP.
Given that all of the GOP leaders now decrying the J6 investigation originally admitted the attack was illegal and treacherous and required investigation, we can say with certainty that there’s one reason and one reason *only* most Republicans won’t participate in this probe: As he did publicly during the 2016 election cycle, Trump has threatened to bolt the GOP and take approximately 30% to 40% of Republicans with him if party leaders do not do whatever he demands of them.
But for this literal deal-with-a-devil, the Republican Party could *jettison* Trump and the 10 to 20 GOP House members and 2 to 4 GOP senators who aided him in orchestrating the events of January 6. Nearly all these people are in districts or states the GOP would hold anyway.
So when it was revealed that the GOP was creating “war rooms” to spread disinformation about tonight’s hearing and its 5 successors as they unfold throughout June, everyone in politics understood that nothing that’ll come from the GOP this month on J6 is honest or patriotic.Replies: @Je Suis Omar Mateen
As it is, though, who even pays attention?Replies: @JimDandy
You and me and a small group of others. That was a threat AND a dogwhistle. And apparently it was heard by at least one dog.
OK, your point about Kavanaugh’s children being in play has been more than validated by the doxxing outfit Ruth Sent Us I’ve heard of before. Here’s the two Tweets they sent out that Twitchy highlights today:
Nobody on that side is going to sincerely say “thoughts and prayers” except to Satan. And the above words are followed by an animated GIF where Kavanaugh says good things about beer a couple of times in I assume his interminable hearings. This Tweet immediately following in their timeline:
McConnell did get a bill unanimously passed by the Senate…. But they’re trying to fortify their threats of physical violence by claiming no one nominally on their side is going to protect them.
I’ve read their web site it down, but these Tweets are still up. And for now to round out their class act, Twitter informs us:
And the Establishment has their back, by and large.
Well put. Now national borders, well that’s another story. Come and go as you please.
That is how my parents met. Lifeguards / swim instructors at Brennan Pools, Detroit. I’m sure some of the swimmees were black. My uncle was a PE teacher in Detroit, he’s told me about how swimming was part of the curriculum, late 60s.
Roske was NOT arrested by the US Marshals.
He did call the cops on himself.
And 48 hours later, we don’t know who paid for his flight, nor his arsenal, nor even how (or if) he flew with all of that gear to California.
https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-district-of-columbia-maryland-government-and-politics-179d18e7f933b3decbaddb542ceb0b29
(But, since the Texas Secretary of State’s office still hasn’t told us whether Salvador Ramos had a valid driver’s license or a bank account, I guess we’ll just have to wait on this one too . . .)Replies: @Ron Mexico
“I guess we’ll just have to wait on this one too . . .”
and Vegas, 9/11, McVeigh, Oswald…
How about being for swim lessons for everyone?
Anyways, the media regardless of ideology, as well as alternative news sites and bloggers, decide as to what is and what is not news. You are guilty of it yourself. The fact of the matter is that the NYT put this story on the front page. They continue to report it.
Now, you say you are concerned about law and order and the rule of law, so will you set aside your tim cup narrative and actually delve into what happened on January 6 since you have at least read up on it, in light of nationally televised hearings on the matter?
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-false-and-exaggerated-claimsReplies: @Corvinus
Yeah you have to divide your quote around the More tag, or just put all of it after the tag.
I've read their web site it down, but these Tweets are still up. And for now to round out their class act, Twitter informs us:Replies: @HammerJack
They are clearly and unequivocally evil, which will not surprise anyone here.
And the Establishment has their back, by and large.
https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1111607604348805120Replies: @No jack London
Bring back the town Whore House like in the 1880-1910 Era. In the John Steinbeck novel “East of Eden” movie version. James Dean’s mother ran one.
https://i33.servimg.com/u/f33/18/88/87/60/attack10.jpgReplies: @HammerJack
Dude, that’s epic. I had idly thought of pasting something up and now I’m glad I didn’t even try.
I considered doing a "real" mockup of the NYT front page with a desktop-publishing program, but in the end I just crapped this out with MS Paint during lunch.
Thoughts:
1. Colleges give entrance swim exams?
2. How cool that they teach you how to swim for free if you need it!
3. What a fun way to break the ice and meet new people when you show up at college for the first time!
But no, it’s racist and it’s probably also fat phobic, misogynistic (male gaze), ableist, neuroconvergent, transphobic (crotch bulge, top surgery scars), and who knows what else. Swim tests and the SAT: basically the same white male Nazi bullshit!Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Almost Missouri, @AnotherDad, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Jack D, @Bill Jones, @Anonymous, @Stan Adams
Most students prefer heated pools.
If it was up to me, there would be no more George Floyds.
Criminals, loonies, welfare cases–basically anyone who can not be productive and take care of themselves should not be having children. Any civilized society that wants to stay civilized is going to need to develop a eugenic policy to make up for the loss of the “natural selection” that used to take place. Just a fact.
But … it’s not Kavanaugh’s job to figure that out. That’s precisely what elected representatives are supposed to be doing. Kavanaugh’s job is simply to apply the Constitution and mostly get out of the way.
Criminals, loonies, welfare cases--basically anyone who can not be productive and take care of themselves should not be having children. Any civilized society that wants to stay civilized is going to need to develop a eugenic policy to make up for the loss of the "natural selection" that used to take place. Just a fact.
But ... it's not Kavanaugh's job to figure that out. That's precisely what elected representatives are supposed to be doing. Kavanaugh's job is simply to apply the Constitution and mostly get out of the way.Replies: @Anon
That sounds nice in theory. In practice our elected representatives are a bunch of morons. The pro life movement has no plan to deal with the dysgenic mess it’s about to make other than scream “racist” and “Nazi eugenicist” at anyone who points it out. I guess they imagine sky daddy will save them.
I recommend not obsessing about the stupid things the Pro Life "Movement' or 2nd Amendment, Constitutionalist, Libertarians say or do. They are what they are - they are mostly cults.
Instead contact $ billionaires like Musk, Bill Gates, the richest hedge fund manager in Illinois now wasting $45 million trying to elect A Black GOP Governor of Illinois. Not a chance.
Have them give huge amounts of $ anonymously to sterilize drug addicts, gang bangers, low IW welfare mothers, the 3rd world. It will probably have to be anonymous given like Irish Americans that gave to NORAID back in the day.
J Ryan
TPC The Political Cesspool
Don't Write Off the Liberals Amren's best article
https://www.amren.com/news/2016/09/dont-write-off-the-liberals/
If you have a complaint about the lack of an autopsy, you should address it to Mrs. Scalia.
While in England, Benjamin Franklin is believed to have practiced his breaststroking with his landlady, Margaret Stevenson.
Of course blacks are being taught to swim. It’s not as rare as you think. Just takes some noticing.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/race-identity-faith/2021-05-31/st-louis-nonprofit-urges-black-families-to-teach-their-children-to-swim-to-save-lives
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/well/family/black-children-swimming.html
https://abc30.com/amp/echo-aquatics-black-kids-swim-fresno-children-of-color-swimming/11663029/
Now, on an even more important note, regarding tonight’s hearings, since you claim to be a law and order and rule of law type of guy.
—Remember that this is a *bipartisan* Congressional committee that exists in its current form—with two Republican members (Cheney, Kinzinger) and one Republican co-heading its investigative team (Riggleman)—because House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy *decided* it would be this way.
House Democrats wanted a nonpartisan commission; Republicans said no. Democrats then agreed to a bipartisan committee with 5 Republican members, so long as none of them were witnesses in the case; Republicans said no. Democrats said that the non-witnesses McCarthy selected could still serve on the committee; Republicans said no. Democrats then issued an open call for Republicans to serve on the Committee; McCarthy replied by ordering his caucus members—under threat of punishment—not to join the Committee. Two joined anyway and were punished.
Republicans thereafter launched a propaganda campaign to spread disinformation about the Committee: they falsely claimed the Committee was partisan rather than bipartisan; falsely claimed they’d been given no opportunity to join it; falsely claimed it was a partisan exercise.
In fact, we *know* the Committee isn’t a partisan exercise because the Democratic Party wanted a *nonpartisan commission* rather than a partisan committee, and it was the *Republican Party* that insisted the January 6 investigation be run by a congressional committee instead.
Where Democrats and Republicans diverged was on the matter of whether the Congressional committee investigating January 6 should be *corrupt*—that is, whether its members/investigators could also be witnesses in the case. Democrats said no; Republicans *demanded* corruption.
There’s no mystery in this divergence of opinion: Republican leadership quite transparently wants and needs the investigation of January 6 to be both run by Congress and *corrupt* because it knows—as does the nation—that the chief author of January 6 is the leader of the GOP.
Given that all of the GOP leaders now decrying the J6 investigation originally admitted the attack was illegal and treacherous and required investigation, we can say with certainty that there’s one reason and one reason *only* most Republicans won’t participate in this probe: As he did publicly during the 2016 election cycle, Trump has threatened to bolt the GOP and take approximately 30% to 40% of Republicans with him if party leaders do not do whatever he demands of them.
But for this literal deal-with-a-devil, the Republican Party could *jettison* Trump and the 10 to 20 GOP House members and 2 to 4 GOP senators who aided him in orchestrating the events of January 6. Nearly all these people are in districts or states the GOP would hold anyway.
So when it was revealed that the GOP was creating “war rooms” to spread disinformation about tonight’s hearing and its 5 successors as they unfold throughout June, everyone in politics understood that nothing that’ll come from the GOP this month on J6 is honest or patriotic.
Shades of John Hinckley. Who’s the lipstick lesbian actress he’s trying to impress?
Paige Thompson
Here sweetheart, this’ll get you started:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-false-and-exaggerated-claims
Thanks.
I considered doing a “real” mockup of the NYT front page with a desktop-publishing program, but in the end I just crapped this out with MS Paint during lunch.
Note that although the U. S. Marshall’s spotted Koske outside Kavanaugh’s home, the arrest was by the Montgomery County (Sheriffs deputies?) Police after he called 011.
The strange line “During a court hearing, he consented to remain in federal custody for now” tells me the feds want to keep him away from the prying eyes and ears of the local cops who might actually ask real questions.
https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-district-of-columbia-maryland-government-and-politics-179d18e7f933b3decbaddb542ceb0b29
Questions like “How much time have you spent recently in a Discord chat room, chatting with ‘Sandman’?”Replies: @Corn
No sirree, doesn’t sound suspicious at all
Not much new here. Witness the coverage of the murder of five (white) people in Texas by a Hispanic a few days ago.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-false-and-exaggerated-claimsReplies: @Corvinus
Glenn wrote that in early 2021. Much has happened since then. Try harder next time, ma’am.
Thoughts:
1. Colleges give entrance swim exams?
2. How cool that they teach you how to swim for free if you need it!
3. What a fun way to break the ice and meet new people when you show up at college for the first time!
But no, it’s racist and it’s probably also fat phobic, misogynistic (male gaze), ableist, neuroconvergent, transphobic (crotch bulge, top surgery scars), and who knows what else. Swim tests and the SAT: basically the same white male Nazi bullshit!Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Almost Missouri, @AnotherDad, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Jack D, @Bill Jones, @Anonymous, @Stan Adams
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/race-identity-faith/2021-05-31/st-louis-nonprofit-urges-black-families-to-teach-their-children-to-swim-to-save-lives
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/well/family/black-children-swimming.html
https://abc30.com/amp/echo-aquatics-black-kids-swim-fresno-children-of-color-swimming/11663029/
Now, on an even more important note, regarding tonight’s hearings, since you claim to be a law and order and rule of law type of guy.
—Remember that this is a *bipartisan* Congressional committee that exists in its current form—with two Republican members (Cheney, Kinzinger) and one Republican co-heading its investigative team (Riggleman)—because House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy *decided* it would be this way.
House Democrats wanted a nonpartisan commission; Republicans said no. Democrats then agreed to a bipartisan committee with 5 Republican members, so long as none of them were witnesses in the case; Republicans said no. Democrats said that the non-witnesses McCarthy selected could still serve on the committee; Republicans said no. Democrats then issued an open call for Republicans to serve on the Committee; McCarthy replied by ordering his caucus members—under threat of punishment—not to join the Committee. Two joined anyway and were punished.
Republicans thereafter launched a propaganda campaign to spread disinformation about the Committee: they falsely claimed the Committee was partisan rather than bipartisan; falsely claimed they’d been given no opportunity to join it; falsely claimed it was a partisan exercise.
In fact, we *know* the Committee isn’t a partisan exercise because the Democratic Party wanted a *nonpartisan commission* rather than a partisan committee, and it was the *Republican Party* that insisted the January 6 investigation be run by a congressional committee instead.
Where Democrats and Republicans diverged was on the matter of whether the Congressional committee investigating January 6 should be *corrupt*—that is, whether its members/investigators could also be witnesses in the case. Democrats said no; Republicans *demanded* corruption.
There’s no mystery in this divergence of opinion: Republican leadership quite transparently wants and needs the investigation of January 6 to be both run by Congress and *corrupt* because it knows—as does the nation—that the chief author of January 6 is the leader of the GOP.
Given that all of the GOP leaders now decrying the J6 investigation originally admitted the attack was illegal and treacherous and required investigation, we can say with certainty that there’s one reason and one reason *only* most Republicans won’t participate in this probe: As he did publicly during the 2016 election cycle, Trump has threatened to bolt the GOP and take approximately 30% to 40% of Republicans with him if party leaders do not do whatever he demands of them.
But for this literal deal-with-a-devil, the Republican Party could *jettison* Trump and the 10 to 20 GOP House members and 2 to 4 GOP senators who aided him in orchestrating the events of January 6. Nearly all these people are in districts or states the GOP would hold anyway.
So when it was revealed that the GOP was creating “war rooms” to spread disinformation about tonight’s hearing and its 5 successors as they unfold throughout June, everyone in politics understood that nothing that’ll come from the GOP this month on J6 is honest or patriotic.Replies: @Je Suis Omar Mateen
Lol Corvi believes in unarmed insurrections lol. It was The Magatards Last Stand, not a revolution, lol.
Not a bad idea. Best thing it would force all those federal employees White House advisors federal judges FBI agents and other enemies of White America to live in black criminal Washington DC instead of the MD and VA suburbs.
Likely blacks panic faster and harder than whits when challenged by the existential life/death struggle of being helpless in open water.
Perhaps this psychological pathway is linked to other characteristics as poor impulse control and aggression.Replies: @Alden, @kaganovitch
Blacks tend to panic at the sight of bees, other flying insects. Frogs, toads tiny lizards and 8 inch long baby garter snakes.
Hey Steve, it’s the “Great Replacement,” not the “Great Replacement Theory.”
There's a chart going around that shows a spectrum of conspiracy theories from "Grounded in Reality" to "Detached From Reality." Interestingly, a number of the items put in or near that latter category are obvious truths: Deep State, George Soros, White Genocide [I would go with Replacement Theory], New World Order, Cultural Marxism, and COVID-19 Made in Lab. Perhaps the graph came from Biden's Ministry of Truth.https://understandingpropaganda.quora.com/https-en-wikipedia-org-wiki-List_of_conspiracy_theories-Comments-on-this-anyone?ch=1&oid=17368109&share=a82ecbe6&target_type=postReplies: @Mr. Anon
That chart was obviously made by the kind of s**t-lib neck-beard wanker who chides “That’s been fact-checked!”. (You have to imagine them pushing up their horn-rimmed problem-glasses with Cheetoh-stained fingers as they do so).
The machinations of the “New World Order” aren’t a conspiracy theory. They’re laid out in their f**king press-releases.
The fact that George Soros seeks to subvert western civilization isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s revealed by the campaign contributions he’s given to district attorneys like Chesa Boudin, Larry Krasner, and George Gascon.
Likely blacks panic faster and harder than whits when challenged by the existential life/death struggle of being helpless in open water.
Perhaps this psychological pathway is linked to other characteristics as poor impulse control and aggression.Replies: @Alden, @kaganovitch
Drowning is invariably triggered by panic.
Not invariably. Sometimes its preceded by a blow to the head, sometimes even by the wrong choice of footwear.
Shades of John Hinckley. Who’s the lipstick lesbian actress he’s trying to impress?
Paige Thompson
And as Steve and Almost point out, it's a particularly useful policy for black men, because they tend toward higher muscle density--have in the net denser bodies and tend to sink and drown. (My HS swim partner was a well put together black guy, and yeah lifesaving his ass was a pain in the ass.)
Our schools would be much, much better--and a better experience for the students if there was much more practical training and less airy academics. (Of, course the toxic minoritarian lying that's taken over the social sciences is negative education. Makes people, dumber and less knowledgeable about the world.)
Areas that jump to mind:
-- basic money management, how everyone works, saving, staying out of debt
-- men and women (sexual dimorphism), marriage (its relation to civilization0, sex, family and the reality of what actually makes people happy--and miserable
-- driving, capability, reading the road, keeping you eyes on the road, having a conversation without looking at someone and staying off the damn phone!
-- firearms, safety and familiarity
-- swimming. lifesaving and basic rules of water safety
-- diet, health and how to not being a fat lard ass
-- phys ed--intro to all your typical sports, esp. ones (ex. tennis, racketball, golf, basketball, softball) adults tend continue to play
-- basic cooking skills
-- basic tool use
-- basic mechanical skills
-- basic home electrical
-- phys. ed--with how to on all your normal
-- outdoor skills (camping, hiking, paddling, climbing, archery, shooting, hunting)
HS would be much more useful and interesting to kids.Replies: @bomag, @Harry Baldwin, @kaganovitch, @Rohirrimborn
Robert Heinlein expressed this thought succinctly:
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
I have done only maybe half the things on Heinlein's list (making religious allowances - I've butchered a lamb but not a hog) and I think I am ahead of most of my peers in that regard. It's just not possible to be the master of all things in the modern world. And a man has got to know his limitations - I wouldn't dream of planning an invasion or conning a ship that is bigger than a Sunfish. There are guys whose job it is to do stuff like that, who have spent years studying it, just like I have spent years mastering my trade and I would not be any better at their job than they would be at mine.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @J.Ross
A few years back in Houston, with a black mayor, launched a (short lived) advertised program for free swimming classes/lessons at municipal pools for "inner city" youths.
The public reason was exactly the main point, that blacks as a group have far less swimmers in their ethnic group. Houston is full of bayous (muddy sometimes deep streams, many concrete lined) and it floods often. There is also nearby ocean ports, beaches (Galveston) and large rivers (Trinity).
There are always drownings by people in those waters who can't swim. For some reason though they can't resist the water. Also "migrant" Mexicans often drown when with families or wade fishing.
So there isn't some Woke effort to disguise this problem. But as far as I know the inner city swimming push quietly died out. Young black males tend to be pretty lean, low fat, so their swimming ability may be affected. Still, many can and do swim.
I don't think the White Woke (all of them) have taken up saving Blacks! from lack of swimming. That might actually help them. That's not the point of Woke.Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @Steve Sailer, @Cool Daddy Jimbo
“But as far as I know the inner city swimming push quietly died out.”
I’ll tell you what happened. The same thing that always happens. A bunch of good-hearted, pretty, blond lifeguards volunteered to teach the black kids how to swim. When they showed up at the pool they were assaulted and threatened with rape by the local youths and teens. They never came back.
Same thing happened locally. There was a “black” beach that was unpatrolled by lifeguards. After a few drownings the city built a lifeguard stand and sent a pretty blond lifeguard to man it. She left at lunch on the first day and never came back.
Oh dear.
Politics certainly makes for strange bed fellows and strange seemingly contradictory positions by over enthusiastic “activist”.
This Leftist is concerned that the US Supreme Court is promoting too much 2nd Amendment gun rights so he goes and gets a lot of guns to go try to kill one of the Supreme Court Justices with a Gun and lots of bullet clips.
Sure that makes sense same as idiot Lib Leftist Hollywood types like Michael Moore taking the side of 8th Century islamic extremists because Trump and Trump supporters want to limit Islamic extremist immigration.
Here’s a Farstar Comic we did with that subject:
https://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/mike-the-moor/
J Ryan
The Political Cesspool
Are you implying “Mrs Scalia” has the power to shut down an investigation and, the media?
This is true Disclaimer.
I recommend not obsessing about the stupid things the Pro Life “Movement’ or 2nd Amendment, Constitutionalist, Libertarians say or do. They are what they are – they are mostly cults.
Instead contact $ billionaires like Musk, Bill Gates, the richest hedge fund manager in Illinois now wasting $45 million trying to elect A Black GOP Governor of Illinois. Not a chance.
Have them give huge amounts of $ anonymously to sterilize drug addicts, gang bangers, low IW welfare mothers, the 3rd world. It will probably have to be anonymous given like Irish Americans that gave to NORAID back in the day.
J Ryan
TPC The Political Cesspool
Don’t Write Off the Liberals Amren’s best article
https://www.amren.com/news/2016/09/dont-write-off-the-liberals/
No, I’m stating outright that Mrs. Scalia did not want an autopsy, so no autopsy was done. If she’d wanted one, the body could have been shipped to El Paso or shipped home for one to be performed. He died in the desert zone in west Texas, the sort of place where the coroner and the justice of the peace are laymen. The nearest town is 20 miles away and has a population of about 4,000; the next nearest is 66 miles away and has a population of 6,000.
Yeah, so?
Yeah, a bunch of cute kids and their grandpa butchered by a cartel-villain worthy of Better Call Saul who escaped from a prison bus. Like something out of a movie, but it has been given moderate, diluted coverage because the butcher was Mexican.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Jack D
It’s hard enough keeping Cheetos dust out of the keyboard, and he expects this?
It’s her husband. You seem to think the local coroner or JP should have insisted on one anyway.
My assertion is that the "media" would have been screaming bloody murder and, there would have been investigations into her death, if RBG had died during the Trump admin under similar circumstances to the way Scalia died during the Obama admin.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Jack D
Heinlein overstates his case as usual. The essence of civilization IS specialization. I am never going to be able to facet a diamond or paint a portrait or or hit a fastball out of the park or do a root canal. I am glad that there are specialists who can do these things because if they didn’t, I sure couldn’t.
I have done only maybe half the things on Heinlein’s list (making religious allowances – I’ve butchered a lamb but not a hog) and I think I am ahead of most of my peers in that regard. It’s just not possible to be the master of all things in the modern world. And a man has got to know his limitations – I wouldn’t dream of planning an invasion or conning a ship that is bigger than a Sunfish. There are guys whose job it is to do stuff like that, who have spent years studying it, just like I have spent years mastering my trade and I would not be any better at their job than they would be at mine.
I have done only maybe half the things on Heinlein's list (making religious allowances - I've butchered a lamb but not a hog) and I think I am ahead of most of my peers in that regard. It's just not possible to be the master of all things in the modern world. And a man has got to know his limitations - I wouldn't dream of planning an invasion or conning a ship that is bigger than a Sunfish. There are guys whose job it is to do stuff like that, who have spent years studying it, just like I have spent years mastering my trade and I would not be any better at their job than they would be at mine.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @J.Ross
My impression is that Heinlein was only really good at one thing: writing science fiction novels. He was good enough to be a strong loser at a lot of other things he did like running for office or running a gold mine.
The other thing he would have been good at is being a staffer. If his health had been good and he’d stayed in the navy, I bet he would have made it during WWII to chief of staff for Chief of Naval Operations Ernest King, his first skipper back in the 1920s.
But it was precisely Heinlein’s extremely wide range of interests that kept him from being a success at any one thing until he got into writing sci-fi, where his tendency to get bored with his last obsession and semi-change his mind was an advantage. If he’d less easily bored, he could have started a cult like L. Ron Hubbard or Ayn Rand, but that was beneath him because there were so many more interesting topics to take on.
Bush originally nominated Roberts to replace Sandra Day O’Connor, but when Rehnquist passed he “upgraded” the nomination from associate to chief justice because Roberts’ prospects for confirmation looked good.
Rehnquist had stubbornly refused to retire even though he was dying of thyroid cancer. He finally succumbed over Labor Day weekend and Roberts was confirmed in late September. If Rehnquist had hung on for another month or so, somebody else would have got the top job.
After Roberts’ confirmation, Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers for the associate slot. This was such a colossally stupid choice that it was widely assumed to be one of Karl Rove’s little tricks. Then Miers withdrew and Bush nominated Alito.Replies: @Stan Adams, @Art Deco, @Jim Don Bob
I used to live one block over from Rehnquist. I’d take my kids there trick or treating and he’d answer the door himself. I’m guessing no candy at Kavanaugh’s ever again.
Even back then (2006-ish) I was surprised by the relative lack of security.
I have done only maybe half the things on Heinlein's list (making religious allowances - I've butchered a lamb but not a hog) and I think I am ahead of most of my peers in that regard. It's just not possible to be the master of all things in the modern world. And a man has got to know his limitations - I wouldn't dream of planning an invasion or conning a ship that is bigger than a Sunfish. There are guys whose job it is to do stuff like that, who have spent years studying it, just like I have spent years mastering my trade and I would not be any better at their job than they would be at mine.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @J.Ross
Except that almost all of this list, or near-analogs of it, could and should be fulfilled with a good summer camp. It used to be normal for white kids to go through supervised training activities for things they’d never do again and it’s self-explanatorily good for society, even if as an adult the only knot you tie is your shoelace.
He invented the water bed, what more do you want?
Not long after he joined the court, John Roberts came to speak to my university. I was walking to class and he rode right past me in a golf cart. If I’d stuck my arm out I could have tapped him on the shoulder.
Even back then (2006-ish) I was surprised by the relative lack of security.
Our conspiracy-theory-debunker-in-chief couldn’t answer that one. I wonder why.
You are putting words in my mouth.
My assertion is that the “media” would have been screaming bloody murder and, there would have been investigations into her death, if RBG had died during the Trump admin under similar circumstances to the way Scalia died during the Obama admin.
He was literally breaking the law in order to do what he claims a Supreme Court Justice would be enabling him to do.
Black people who live in the Caribbean have no trouble swimming.
Perhaps Island and coastal dwellers have evolved the ability to swim.
Being able to swim, meaning that you can make controlled movements through the water, control your breathing, and not swallow water, compared to being able to beat the best in the world in Olympic swimming events are very different things.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/01/the-real-reason-washington-ignored-kavanaughs-would-be-killer-00043679