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Other holidays besides Kwanzaa and Tupac Shakur’s Birthday that Kamala Harris and her Iyer grandmother celebrated in 1970s Montreal:

Martin Luther King’s Birthday
Day of the Dead
Indigenous People’s Day (Oct. 12)
Gay Pride Month
Hanukkah
St. Patrick’s Day
Opening Day of Deer Hunting Season

And now … the third iSteve fundraising drive of 2020.

I usually do fundraisers in April, August, and December. This year, I went with July, the second half of October, and late December.

Large or small, I find each donation to be a personal message of encouragement to keep doing what I’m doing. I more or less figured out the basic logic of the 21st Century, which hasn’t made me popular, but with your support I can keep on keeping on pointing out how the world works.

Here are eight ways for you to contribute:

First: You can use Paypal (non-tax deductible) by going to the page on my old blog here. Paypal accepts most credit cards. Contributions can be either one-time only, monthly, or annual. (Monthly is nice.)

Second: You can mail a non-tax deductible donation to:

Steve Sailer
P.O Box 4142
Valley Village, CA 91617

Third: You can make a tax deductible contribution via VDARE by clicking here.

Please don’t forget to click my name at the VDARE site so the money goes to me:

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VDARE has been kiboshed from use of Paypal for being, I dunno, EVIL. But you can give via credit cards, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin, check, money order, or stock.

Note: the VDARE site goes up and down on its own schedule, so if this link stops working, please let me know.

Fourth: if you have a Wells Fargo bank account, you can transfer money to me (with no fees) via Wells Fargo SurePay/Zelle. Just tell WF SurePay/Zelle to send the money to my ancient AOL email address steveslrAT aol.com — replace the AT with the usual @). (Non-tax deductible.) Please note, there is no 2.9% fee like with Paypal or Google Wallet, so this is good for large contributions.

Fifth: if you have a Chase bank account (or even other bank accounts), you can transfer money to me (with no fees) via Chase QuickPay/Zelle (FAQ). Just tell Chase QuickPay/Zelle to send the money to my ancient AOL email address (steveslrATaol.com — replace the AT with the usual @). If Chase asks for the name on my account, it’s StevenSailer with an n at the end of Steven. (Non-tax deductible.) There is no 2.9% fee like with Paypal or Google Wallet, so this is also good for large contributions.

Zelle might work with other banks too. Here’s a Zelle link for CitiBank. And Bank of America.

Zelle is really a good system: easy to use and the fees are nonexistent, unlike, say, Paypal.

Sixth: send money via the Paypal-like Google Wallet to my Gmail address (that’s isteveslrATgmail .com — replace the AT with a @). (Non-tax deductible.)

Seventh: You can use Bitcoin using Coinbase. Coinbase payments are not tax deductible. Below are links to two Coinbase pages of mine. This first is if you want to enter a U.S. dollar-denominated amount to pay me.

Pay With Bitcoin (denominated in U.S. Dollars)

This second is if you want to enter a Bitcoin-denominated amount. (Remember one Bitcoin is currently worth many U.S. dollars.)

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Eighth: At one reader’s request, I recently added Square as an 8th fundraising medium, although I’m vague on how it works. If you want to use Square, send me an email telling me how much to send you an invoice for. Or, if you know an easier way for us to use Square, please let me know.

Thanks.

 
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  1. Where does she stand on International Talk Like a Pirate Day?

    • LOL: dearieme
    • Replies: @R.G. Camara
    @Lurker

    Trick question. Wenches don't get to talk on Talk Like a Pirate Day!

    Yaaaaaar!

    , @Corvinus
    @Lurker

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mPIqVOBFis

    , @El Dato
    @Lurker

    Talk like a Goldman-Sachs Banker, more like. Sounding like the Compte de Money.

    OT: CACM writes about the Boeing MAX 737 incident (which, I would bet, will not be the last)

    CACM Boeing's 737 MAX - A Failure of Management

    This has been discussed to death in these pages and on this site, but it's nice to see it finally bubbles up into the ACM Flagship Magazine.

    , @Known Fact
    @Lurker

    Sadly in my household Talk Like a Pirate Day means "Arrrrr -- let's dump our best remaining player for three rookie-league nobodies -- Arrrrr, there be a plan!"

  2. 1970s-80s SNL would’ve been all over this like a cheap suit.

    They’d have Eddie Murphy or guest host Richard Pryor come out in a wig and just shoot a bunch of pre-taped holiday wishes. “I remember enjoying St. Patrick’s Day as a child with all my Irish relatives….I remember celebrating Columbus Day with all my Italian relatives…I remember deploring Columbus and celebrating Indigenous People’s day with all my Native American relatives, including Lizzie Warren….I remember celebrating Pride Day by getting on my knees for a tranny….”

    Similar to the old Dana Carvey-Tom-Brokaw-goes-on-vacation sketch:

    These days, as it is a full blown Democrat party organ, SNL will instead likely do another Orange Man bad, white people racist sketch and ignore this. And if anyone brings it up, make a sketch castigating that person as a KKK member.

    • LOL: Gary in Gramercy
    • Replies: @Gary in Gramercy
    @R.G. Camara

    You're absolutely right about Eddie Murphy: he'd be on The Kamala Beat every week, stomping her like a piñata (although the tranny joke might have cut a little close to the bone for his comfort). Of course, he's funny, and SNL long ago ceased to be about comedy.

    Replies: @R.G. Camara

  3. @Lurker
    Where does she stand on International Talk Like a Pirate Day?

    Replies: @R.G. Camara, @Corvinus, @El Dato, @Known Fact

    Trick question. Wenches don’t get to talk on Talk Like a Pirate Day!

    Yaaaaaar!

    • LOL: bruce county, HammerJack, MEH 0910, RadicalCenter
  4. Saint Hubbins Day……where we celebrate the Patron Saint of Quality Footwear.

  5. Are we sure her mother was high caste?

    • LOL: HammerJack, Kylie
    • Replies: @James J. O'Meara
    @songbird

    "They said you were high class, honey that was just a lie
    Called you all high class, that was just a lie"

    -- Hound Dog

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    , @gent
    @songbird

    The fact that she left India at all means she’s a fake Brahmin at best.

    , @Daniel H
    @songbird

    Are we sure her mother was high caste?

    We can't be sure, but - you better believe - if she is of Brahmin caste, she is damn sure and all the other Brahmins are too.

    Replies: @Anonymous

  6. Some of her least-favorite memories are of celebrating No Pants Day with Willie Brown.

  7. How about the one where Kali dances on a baby……..that I can believe.

  8. @songbird
    Are we sure her mother was high caste?

    Replies: @James J. O'Meara, @gent, @Daniel H

    “They said you were high class, honey that was just a lie
    Called you all high class, that was just a lie”

    — Hound Dog

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @James J. O'Meara

    Dammit, I was just about to write this! (and the 1st reply too)

    OK, thanks, Peter.

    Wait, let me fix it just a tad:

    They said you was high caste,
    but that was just a lie.
    You ain't never killed a heifer,
    and you ain't no friend of mine.

    Or, in line 3 "You ain't never ate a ribeye..." or "You ain't never been a Brahmin ...".

    Great tweets, Steve, and I guess I can put up with the page loading like crap again.

  9. I love the lower picture. Young White American men need to realize they won’t be fighting for “America” or “freedom” or whatever concept they’ve been fed. They’ll be fighting for a system that hates their guts.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @RichardTaylor

    "Young White American men need to realize they won’t be fighting for “America” or “freedom” or whatever concept they’ve been fed."

    I would say your browbeating and virtue signaling has enabled today's white male youth to realize you do not have their best interests at heart.

    Meanwhile, the "emasculate karenception"...

    https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-cellphone-jazz-musician-manhattan-hotel-20201228-oego2rpx25dejh4gl56ckvy64e-story.html

    Replies: @Daniel H, @bomag, @ATBOTL

  10. @R.G. Camara
    1970s-80s SNL would've been all over this like a cheap suit.

    They'd have Eddie Murphy or guest host Richard Pryor come out in a wig and just shoot a bunch of pre-taped holiday wishes. "I remember enjoying St. Patrick's Day as a child with all my Irish relatives....I remember celebrating Columbus Day with all my Italian relatives...I remember deploring Columbus and celebrating Indigenous People's day with all my Native American relatives, including Lizzie Warren....I remember celebrating Pride Day by getting on my knees for a tranny...."

    Similar to the old Dana Carvey-Tom-Brokaw-goes-on-vacation sketch:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tX6jdoruH8

    These days, as it is a full blown Democrat party organ, SNL will instead likely do another Orange Man bad, white people racist sketch and ignore this. And if anyone brings it up, make a sketch castigating that person as a KKK member.

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy

    You’re absolutely right about Eddie Murphy: he’d be on The Kamala Beat every week, stomping her like a piñata (although the tranny joke might have cut a little close to the bone for his comfort). Of course, he’s funny, and SNL long ago ceased to be about comedy.

    • Replies: @R.G. Camara
    @Gary in Gramercy

    1980s Eddie was so on point, its amazing. He could nail a sweet family story and then go filthy and the audience would go with him. He was firing on all cylinders and outclassed everyone on SNL during his time. Coming to America still holds up as one of the best comedies of the decade.

    Too bad he couldn't keep up the pace in the 90s, but hey, comedians on screen age out of being cool a lot faster than dramatic actors. Thankfully, he seems to be having a renaissance due to nostalgia.

    In Eddie's hands, Kamala's rep wouldn't last two sketches before she'd be resigning. He'd do a one-man sketch playing her, her Indian parents (complete with unapologetic Apu + Canadian accents), and then play a lascivious, pimp-like Willie Brown demanding Kamala pay up for his help boosting her.

    What Chevy Chase did to Gerald Ford would look like a genial take compared to 1980s Eddie on Kamala. They'd have to arrest him for murdering Heels up Harris on stage.

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy

  11. I am unable to reply to any commenters here.

    There is no “reply” button in the comment boxes

    Did I miss something?

    • Replies: @al gore rhythms
    @Alice in Wonderland

    I always have the same problem.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    , @Known Fact
    @Alice in Wonderland

    There's a new federally mandated cooling off period -- including background check -- before you can post a reply

  12. @Gary in Gramercy
    @R.G. Camara

    You're absolutely right about Eddie Murphy: he'd be on The Kamala Beat every week, stomping her like a piñata (although the tranny joke might have cut a little close to the bone for his comfort). Of course, he's funny, and SNL long ago ceased to be about comedy.

    Replies: @R.G. Camara

    1980s Eddie was so on point, its amazing. He could nail a sweet family story and then go filthy and the audience would go with him. He was firing on all cylinders and outclassed everyone on SNL during his time. Coming to America still holds up as one of the best comedies of the decade.

    Too bad he couldn’t keep up the pace in the 90s, but hey, comedians on screen age out of being cool a lot faster than dramatic actors. Thankfully, he seems to be having a renaissance due to nostalgia.

    In Eddie’s hands, Kamala’s rep wouldn’t last two sketches before she’d be resigning. He’d do a one-man sketch playing her, her Indian parents (complete with unapologetic Apu + Canadian accents), and then play a lascivious, pimp-like Willie Brown demanding Kamala pay up for his help boosting her.

    What Chevy Chase did to Gerald Ford would look like a genial take compared to 1980s Eddie on Kamala. They’d have to arrest him for murdering Heels up Harris on stage.

    • Replies: @Gary in Gramercy
    @R.G. Camara

    "In Eddie's hands, Kamala's rep wouldn't last two sketches before she'd be resigning."

    I'd like to think you're right: Eddie Murphy is not someone I would want making fun of my own foibles on television. If you were talking about a normal human being -- one with a capacity for shame -- I would agree with you. But politicians who rise to this level are not normal.

    Bill Clinton set the modern standard in this area: any president before Clinton, having been discovered having a tawdry affair with an early 20's White House intern -- in the White House -- would have resigned immediately, if only out of shame and humiliation. Not only did Clinton not resign, he dug in his heels, lied brazenly to his Cabinet so that they would carry water for him, and lied with equal verve to the American people. (He lied to his wife, too, but she knew as much. She had her own reasons for wanting to blame her husband's eternal priapism on a "vast right-wing conspiracy.") He told the truth only when faced with the prospect of testifying before Kenneth Starr's grand jury, and after undeniable scientific evidence -- Miss Lewinsky's blue dress -- had emerged to impeach his own definition of the word "is."

    Clinton showed no shame about an affair in the White House with a young woman not much older than his daughter. Why would Kamala Harris demonstrate any shame at all about an affair (decades ago) with an older, powerful politician who effectively sponsored her in California politics, appointing her to state commissions, and introducing her to well-heeled donors who have funded her campaigns ever since? Without Willie Brown, she'd still be a government lawyer, always looking for an in-house corporate position that pays well without requiring a lot of work, i.e., a typical female diversity lawyer in a big corporation, a glorified HR rep with a law degree.

    Eddie Murphy could mock her mercilessly until the cows came home, and Kamala's defenders would cry "misogyny" until it was Eddie who apologized at a tearful press conference. See how she lies with the casual demeanor of one who does it all the time. I keep thinking of what Mary McCarthy said of Lillian Hellman (provoking an expensive lawsuit): "every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'"

    Replies: @Cortes, @danand

  13. @RichardTaylor
    I love the lower picture. Young White American men need to realize they won't be fighting for "America" or "freedom" or whatever concept they've been fed. They'll be fighting for a system that hates their guts.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    “Young White American men need to realize they won’t be fighting for “America” or “freedom” or whatever concept they’ve been fed.”

    I would say your browbeating and virtue signaling has enabled today’s white male youth to realize you do not have their best interests at heart.

    Meanwhile, the “emasculate karenception”…

    https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-cellphone-jazz-musician-manhattan-hotel-20201228-oego2rpx25dejh4gl56ckvy64e-story.html

    • LOL: Wade Hampton
    • Troll: RadicalCenter
    • Replies: @Daniel H
    @Corvinus

    This is very sad. It's so easy to pick on Karens, but they are ours/mine. I feel for her, though, likely, she would loathe me.

    If only Karen could defend her national patrimony as fiercely as some pricey accessory, but there are zero to few men in her life that she can look to to provide her with inspiration.

    , @bomag
    @Corvinus


    cellphone-jazz-musician-manhattan-hotel
     
    First it was TN Coates at an escalator, now this; the man-bites-dog stories keep rolling in.

    Meanwhile, stories from modal man world have the usual uncomfortable sameness.
    , @ATBOTL
    @Corvinus


    I would say your browbeating and virtue signaling has enabled today’s white male youth to realize you do not have their best interests at heart.
     
    Another unfathomably stupid line from our resident retard. The vast majority of white male youth today are well aware that the empire hates them.

    Replies: @Corvinus

  14. @Lurker
    Where does she stand on International Talk Like a Pirate Day?

    Replies: @R.G. Camara, @Corvinus, @El Dato, @Known Fact

    • Thanks: Lurker
  15. Now tell us about your Jamaican relatives during the 30 days of homosexual feasts and bonfires.

    Because they don’t play when it comes to batty boys.

    • Replies: @SaneClownPosse
    @Bragadocious

    Sure, ever hear "on the down low"?

    Those that protest the loudest.

  16. I seem to recall Obama having an Indonesian transvestite nanny. While that might even be a positive in 2020 Democratic circles it was buried as an issue in 2008 though if a Republican presidential candidate had such a person in their background they’d be a household name and been interviewed extensively by our media.

    • Replies: @Kronos
    @unit472


    I seem to recall Obama having an Indonesian transvestite nanny.
     
    That’s correct.

    https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Star-Making-Barack-Obama/dp/0062641832

    Before the spring of 1970 was out, and with a second child on the way, Ann hired an openly gay twenty-four-year-old, sometimes-cross-dressing man—Turdi by day, Evie by night—to be both cook and nanny. Neighbors thought little of it. “She was a nice person and always patient and caring in keeping young Barry,” one later recalled. Turdi often accompanied Barry to and from school. Later, Turdi, at age sixty-six, told the Associated Press: “I never let him see me wearing women’s clothes. But he did see me trying on his mother’s lipstick sometimes. That used to really crack him up.”19
     
    Though, the Farrakhan photo was a much more potentially explosive coverup.

    https://i.redd.it/5qgxnl9e9ti51.jpg

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy, @tyrone

  17. OT, but I have been fascinated with the speed and vigor of B/black capitalization implementation in American newspapers. I do have one question though. Do AP/ newsroom computers have a way of telling which form of capitalization is correct? In the crime section of my local paper today, it has a description of a Black woman wanted for assaulting a female security guard. She is described as wearing a black hoodie, having long black hair (possibly a wig according to the paper) and leaving in a black car. Every time black is used as an adjective for a thing, it uses the correct lowercase. When it describes the color of the woman, it is capitalized. Knowing my local paper’s proclivity for using incorrect grammar, you would thing they would mess it up. Plus I just thought it was funny that Black will be used in a lot of subject descriptions ( until that is banned by the AP style guide).

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Cranmer

    Pretty good software is the answer, I guess. Just work up a table of the few nouns that would have a capital-Black adjective in front. It'd be hard to make it foolproof, though ... "There was this cool old black jazz cat that I knew in the '30s...". This is why they pay those geeks the big bucks though.

  18. Opening Day of Deer Hunting Season

    Canada’s real national holiday.

    Lets take Kamala Deer Hunting – check out her skill set, ok, her other skill set, in no uncertain terms.

    • Replies: @Kronos
    @theMann

    I’d imagine she’d surprise us with gangsta weaponry seized/confiscated from various black men she incarcerated. She purchased them dirt cheap at a police auction with a special prosecutor discount.

    Think:

    Golden AKs

    https://ratedsworld.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/gold-ak47.jpg

    Diamond studded 1911s.

    https://images.gawker.com/18k3gfkrid5dmjpg/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_470.jpg

    Replies: @Joe Stalin

    , @Stan d Mute
    @theMann


    Opening Day of Deer Hunting Season

    Canada’s real national holiday.
     
    You ain’t from around here are you? As a Detrioter who grew up watching his southern neighbors in Windsor (they showed boobies on CTV!), I think I can reliably inform you that beer hunting is more American than canuck (they hunt moose more though so there’s that) and that Canada’s national obsession was “Hockey Night with Don Cherry” until Don was cancelled for the usual reason.
  19. For perfidious decorative blackamoor kamala, the most heartwarming thing about kwaaanzzaaa is that it was invented by the COINTELPRO agent who murdered the main SOCAL Panthers for that beady-eyed cocksucker Hoover and his felching henchcooze Tolson.

    https://www.blackagendareport.com/why-i-dont-do-kwaanza

    Polytheist thuggee fanatics love that tricky shit.

    • Replies: @SunBakedSuburb
    @anon

    "COINTELPRO agent"

    FBI informant/operative Ron Karenga emits a devilish laugh every time he sees solemn black faces light the black, red, and green candles in the Afrikkan menorah. He's a hall-of-famer when it comes to bestest black American conmen.

    "beady-eyed cocksucker Hoover and his felching henchcooze Tolson"

    Thanks. Following your example I will endeavor to use a James Ellroy voice in 60% of my comments.

  20. So it seems to me the bottom photo was taken by the gay neighbor the first day the lizard people moved in, when the former stopped by to drop off his famous upside down pineapple cake.

  21. @songbird
    Are we sure her mother was high caste?

    Replies: @James J. O'Meara, @gent, @Daniel H

    The fact that she left India at all means she’s a fake Brahmin at best.

  22. @songbird
    Are we sure her mother was high caste?

    Replies: @James J. O'Meara, @gent, @Daniel H

    Are we sure her mother was high caste?

    We can’t be sure, but – you better believe – if she is of Brahmin caste, she is damn sure and all the other Brahmins are too.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Daniel H


    Are we sure her mother was high caste?
     
    Like many Brahmin Tamils, Kamala's mother used her caste name "Iyer" as a surname. "Iyer" refers to Brahmin - originally from North India - who moved to Southern India long ago and have been living among Tamils and other Dravidian populations ever since. "Iyer" is the mother's surname listed on Kamala's published birth certificate.

    It appears that many Iyer still retain substantial genetic heritage from Northern Indian despite living among Tamils for centuries or perhaps even millenia.

    In recent years, government agencies in Tamil Nadu have been discouraging the use of caste names such as "Iyer" as surnames on official documents. Caste names apart, Tamils generally use patronymics rather than surnames.

  23. How about “talk with a fake African American accent” day?

    • Replies: @fish
    @Escher


    How about “talk with a fake African American accent” day?

     
    That is only celebrated in years where presidential elections are held! Hillary "I ain't in no ways tired!" Clinton used to celebrate that one too!

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin

  24. @Corvinus
    @RichardTaylor

    "Young White American men need to realize they won’t be fighting for “America” or “freedom” or whatever concept they’ve been fed."

    I would say your browbeating and virtue signaling has enabled today's white male youth to realize you do not have their best interests at heart.

    Meanwhile, the "emasculate karenception"...

    https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-cellphone-jazz-musician-manhattan-hotel-20201228-oego2rpx25dejh4gl56ckvy64e-story.html

    Replies: @Daniel H, @bomag, @ATBOTL

    This is very sad. It’s so easy to pick on Karens, but they are ours/mine. I feel for her, though, likely, she would loathe me.

    If only Karen could defend her national patrimony as fiercely as some pricey accessory, but there are zero to few men in her life that she can look to to provide her with inspiration.

  25. January 11 is the feast day of Saint Vitalis of Gaza, the patron saint of prostitutes.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalis_of_Gaza

    This should really be her big day. It’s on a Monday in 2021. Who wouldn’t want to blow off Monday?

    • Agree: Just another serf
    • LOL: Ron Mexico, bomag
    • Replies: @SaneClownPosse
    @Morton's toes

    Too close to MLK,Jr Day.

  26. Kamala is truly a repulsive woman. Among other things, it seems as if her skull is misshapen. But she will provide a much needed role model to the millions of young Indian girls who may dream of providing sexual favors to decrepit, old, corrupt Black politicians, in return for eventually being the President of the United States of America.

    These young Indian girls need not get started with a mayor of a large US city. There are possibilities for them with Black police chiefs (there are thousands), Black city council members, Black fire chiefs, Black public works directors, Black parks and recreation directors. The number of willing Black “public servants” is really unlimited. These young Indian women need to embrace Cardi B’s WAP message and the world is theirs.

    It’s a new world out there.

    • Thanks: Jim Bob Lassiter
    • Replies: @tyrone
    @Just another serf

    "Kamala is truly a repulsive woman. Among other things, it seems as if her skull is misshapen"….I think she should be examined for extra arms….PHOTOGRAPHIC proof!!!……and a non-chemical emetic would be handy.

  27. Anonymous[249] • Disclaimer says:
    @Daniel H
    @songbird

    Are we sure her mother was high caste?

    We can't be sure, but - you better believe - if she is of Brahmin caste, she is damn sure and all the other Brahmins are too.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Are we sure her mother was high caste?

    Like many Brahmin Tamils, Kamala’s mother used her caste name “Iyer” as a surname. “Iyer” refers to Brahmin – originally from North India – who moved to Southern India long ago and have been living among Tamils and other Dravidian populations ever since. “Iyer” is the mother’s surname listed on Kamala’s published birth certificate.

    It appears that many Iyer still retain substantial genetic heritage from Northern Indian despite living among Tamils for centuries or perhaps even millenia.

    In recent years, government agencies in Tamil Nadu have been discouraging the use of caste names such as “Iyer” as surnames on official documents. Caste names apart, Tamils generally use patronymics rather than surnames.

  28. Kamala Harris reminds me of a Christmas joke:
    Three hoes go into a bar. A rake takes them out.

  29. • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Hippopotamusdrome


    OT
    Excess use of antibiotics due to COVID-19 triggers ‘super gonorrhea’
     
    Doctors used to stress that anti-biotics were to be used to treat bacterial infections, and that they did no good against viral infections. This is still the official position of the CDC:

    https://www.cdc.gov/patientsafety/features/be-antibiotics-aware.html

    The fact that they are being frequently prescribed to treat COVID tends to indicate that some of what passes for COVID is likely bacterial. Or that a lot of doctors aren't that smart.

    Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter, @Ray Huffman, @Fluesterwitz, @SunBakedSuburb

  30. Steve’s getting his licks in now because once she’s President it will be the same deep throat treatment he gave Obama and Schumer.

  31. But does she celebrate Confederate Memorial Day?

  32. Future president Kamala Harris, the brown Rorschach blot:

  33. Meanwhile, in California, another flagrantly racist statue is erased from our collective consciousness…

    https://nypost.com/2020/12/27/breonna-taylor-sculpture-smashed-by-vandals-in-california/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter

  34. It says something about Indians,at least those in her family,that having a girl child with a black(admittedly,lite skinned ) male made her daughter prettier than the mother.
    Those are some scarey looking broads. Nixon was right.

    • Agree: RadicalCenter
  35. @Hippopotamusdrome

    OT
    Excess use of antibiotics due to COVID-19 triggers ‘super gonorrhea’

    Doctors used to stress that anti-biotics were to be used to treat bacterial infections, and that they did no good against viral infections. This is still the official position of the CDC:

    https://www.cdc.gov/patientsafety/features/be-antibiotics-aware.html

    The fact that they are being frequently prescribed to treat COVID tends to indicate that some of what passes for COVID is likely bacterial. Or that a lot of doctors aren’t that smart.

    • Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter
    @Mr. Anon

    It appears that the medical establishments in Ecuador and Italy are currently advocating the bacterial theory of Covid-19.

    , @Ray Huffman
    @Mr. Anon

    Antibiotics are available OTCin most countries. It probably has little to do with doctors.

    , @Fluesterwitz
    @Mr. Anon

    The anti-biotics may be (over-) used against opportunistic bacterial infections.

    , @SunBakedSuburb
    @Mr. Anon

    The antibiotics treat pneumonia that can occur in severe COVID cases.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

  36. OT: Are there identifiable consequences yet, of the new accessibility of pornography?

    Is that somehow why both Weinstein and Louis CK preferred masturbating in front of their victims instead of other contact? Eg, is that the only way they can get a boner now?

    Are women complaining somewhere that porn addicts make terrible boyfriends because they can’t get it up anymore?

  37. @unit472
    I seem to recall Obama having an Indonesian transvestite nanny. While that might even be a positive in 2020 Democratic circles it was buried as an issue in 2008 though if a Republican presidential candidate had such a person in their background they'd be a household name and been interviewed extensively by our media.

    Replies: @Kronos

    I seem to recall Obama having an Indonesian transvestite nanny.

    That’s correct.

    Before the spring of 1970 was out, and with a second child on the way, Ann hired an openly gay twenty-four-year-old, sometimes-cross-dressing man—Turdi by day, Evie by night—to be both cook and nanny. Neighbors thought little of it. “She was a nice person and always patient and caring in keeping young Barry,” one later recalled. Turdi often accompanied Barry to and from school. Later, Turdi, at age sixty-six, told the Associated Press: “I never let him see me wearing women’s clothes. But he did see me trying on his mother’s lipstick sometimes. That used to really crack him up.”19

    Though, the Farrakhan photo was a much more potentially explosive coverup.

    • Replies: @Gary in Gramercy
    @Kronos

    Yet, by Himself's own measure, he was really "a liberal Jew from the North Shore [of Chicago's Lake Michigan]."

    Sure. Everybody in Lincolnwood, Skokie, Highland Park, Glencoe and Winnetka was just lining up for photo ops with Calypso Gene the Charmer.

    , @tyrone
    @Kronos

    We kinda knew he was the "fruit" of islam all along….thanks for posting that.

  38. @theMann
    Opening Day of Deer Hunting Season


    Canada's real national holiday.



    Lets take Kamala Deer Hunting - check out her skill set, ok, her other skill set, in no uncertain terms.

    Replies: @Kronos, @Stan d Mute

    I’d imagine she’d surprise us with gangsta weaponry seized/confiscated from various black men she incarcerated. She purchased them dirt cheap at a police auction with a special prosecutor discount.

    Think:

    Golden AKs

    Diamond studded 1911s.

    • Replies: @Joe Stalin
    @Kronos

    The Browning HiPower (top left) looks pretty snazzy; the prancing horse Ferrari horse griped 1911 is way over the top, unless it actually owned by a member of the Ferrari family.

    Replies: @Kronos

  39. @Lurker
    Where does she stand on International Talk Like a Pirate Day?

    Replies: @R.G. Camara, @Corvinus, @El Dato, @Known Fact

    Talk like a Goldman-Sachs Banker, more like. Sounding like the Compte de Money.

    OT: CACM writes about the Boeing MAX 737 incident (which, I would bet, will not be the last)

    CACM Boeing’s 737 MAX – A Failure of Management

    This has been discussed to death in these pages and on this site, but it’s nice to see it finally bubbles up into the ACM Flagship Magazine.

  40. I remember the day one of my colleagues, who was a White female born in South Africa and now in New York, referred to a black woman as ‘black’ (actually ‘bleck’), and the indignant woman said, “I am an African American!”

    Without missing a beat, my colleague replied, “Really? I’m more African than you!”

    She’s also far more African than Kamala.

  41. “Opening Day of Deer Hunting Season”….How should a half-Brahmin princess feel about ruminata.

  42. “Kinaras” with colorful lights
    Shine proudly for seven dark nights.
    They high-fivin’ theirselves:
    No Santa, no elves,
    No angels, no shepherds. No Whites.

    • LOL: Harry Baldwin
  43. Rabbi Abrahams mused on a whim
    Why menorahs of schwartze goyim
    Are first lit Boxing Day:
    “It’s to honor that Clay
    So well formed by our Lord Elohim.”

    • Replies: @Gary in Gramercy
    @Eustace Tilley (not)

    Yes, but did "that Clay" have the requisite "lean and hungry look"?

    Well played.

  44. @Mr. Anon
    @Hippopotamusdrome


    OT
    Excess use of antibiotics due to COVID-19 triggers ‘super gonorrhea’
     
    Doctors used to stress that anti-biotics were to be used to treat bacterial infections, and that they did no good against viral infections. This is still the official position of the CDC:

    https://www.cdc.gov/patientsafety/features/be-antibiotics-aware.html

    The fact that they are being frequently prescribed to treat COVID tends to indicate that some of what passes for COVID is likely bacterial. Or that a lot of doctors aren't that smart.

    Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter, @Ray Huffman, @Fluesterwitz, @SunBakedSuburb

    It appears that the medical establishments in Ecuador and Italy are currently advocating the bacterial theory of Covid-19.

  45. @Eustace Tilley (not)
    Rabbi Abrahams mused on a whim
    Why menorahs of schwartze goyim
    Are first lit Boxing Day:
    "It's to honor that Clay
    So well formed by our Lord Elohim."

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy

    Yes, but did “that Clay” have the requisite “lean and hungry look”?

    Well played.

  46. @Mr. Anon
    @Hippopotamusdrome


    OT
    Excess use of antibiotics due to COVID-19 triggers ‘super gonorrhea’
     
    Doctors used to stress that anti-biotics were to be used to treat bacterial infections, and that they did no good against viral infections. This is still the official position of the CDC:

    https://www.cdc.gov/patientsafety/features/be-antibiotics-aware.html

    The fact that they are being frequently prescribed to treat COVID tends to indicate that some of what passes for COVID is likely bacterial. Or that a lot of doctors aren't that smart.

    Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter, @Ray Huffman, @Fluesterwitz, @SunBakedSuburb

    Antibiotics are available OTCin most countries. It probably has little to do with doctors.

  47. At least some Indian journalists seem to be skeptical about Kamala Harris’ claims and are clearly not enamored of her.

    Fact Check: Are Some Of Kamala Harris’ Claims About Her Indian Grandfather False?

    https://swarajyamag.com/news-brief/fact-check-are-some-of-kamala-harris-claims-about-her-indian-grandfather-false

    In her 2009 interview with India Abroad (republished here by CNN), journalist Sandipan Deb (former Editorial Director of Swarajya) points out in his recent article in Mint, that Harris had claimed that her grandfather was “one of the original” Independence fighters of India.

    This was clearly an exaggeration, if not entirely untrue.

    “As for being an “original” freedom fighter, this is impossible, since [P V] Gopalan was born in 1911,” Deb writes in his piece on Harris.

    Two, in the same interview, Harris had claimed that her grandfather “held a post in India that was like the secretary of state position in this country [US]”.

    This, as Deb underlines in his article, is untrue.

    Harris’ grandfather, who had joined the bureaucracy as an Imperial Secretariat Service officer under the British Raj in India, had retired as a Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Rehabilitation.

    P V Gopalan’s international experience was limited to the role he had played as India’s representative in Zambia in the 1960s when the country was reeling under the pressure of the influx of refugees from Rhodesia.

    “His only international assignment seems to have been in the late 1960s, when he was posted in Zambia to help manage an influx of refugees from Rhodesia — now Zimbabwe — which had declared independence from Britain,” writes Deb.

    https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/india-shouldn-t-expect-anything-special-from-kamala-devi-harris-11597587352679.html

    … in a 2009 interview to India Abroad, when she was running for California attorney-general …
    Harris … mentioned her grandfather P.V. Gopalan as one of the most influential people in her life. She said Gopalan “actually held a post in India that was like the secretary of state position in this country. My grandfather was one of the original independence fighters in India.”

    This is puzzling. Gopalan joined the Imperial Secretariat Service and rose through the ranks, finally being empanelled as joint secretary in the ministry of labour, employment and rehabilitation. His only international assignment … he was posted in Zambia to help manage an influx of refugees from Rhodesia … This is hardly US secretary of state- level stuff.

    She may not even be the cleanest American politician around, if one goes by allegations levelled by investigative journalist Peter Schweizer in his Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite. From being fined for spending beyond legal limits during her campaign for San Francisco district attorneyship, to apparently suppressing evidence of child abuse in the Church (San Francisco is perhaps the only major US city not to pursue such cases), to refusing to investigate dietary supplement firms like Herbalife, which coincidentally was a client of her husband’s law firm (Herbalife finally settled with the Federal Trade Commission for a staggering $200 million), she seems to be just another dyed-in-the-wool politico.

  48. I like old Mr Harris’ “mean photo-face” pose. I’d say he likes cricket…Jayzuz…what a shit-show…

  49. Anon[130] • Disclaimer says:

    OT, completely, utterly OT.

    But I remember that Steve had said that he enjoyed the notorious Grantland piece on “Dr. V’s Magical Putter,” and this piece at Grubstreet today has a bit of that story’s mystery and left turns:

    “The Very Real, Totally Bizarre Bucatini Shortage of 2020”
    https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2020-bucatini-shortage-investigation.html

    (For those who missed it, Dr. V is here:

    https://grantland.com/features/a-mysterious-physicist-golf-club-dr-v/

    If you haven’t read it before, after the initial publication the editor added an initial paragraph that is in italics: Squint when you open the page, and scroll so that paragraph goes off the top of your display. It contains spoilers. The first words you should read are “Strange stories can find you at strange times.”)

  50. @Corvinus
    @RichardTaylor

    "Young White American men need to realize they won’t be fighting for “America” or “freedom” or whatever concept they’ve been fed."

    I would say your browbeating and virtue signaling has enabled today's white male youth to realize you do not have their best interests at heart.

    Meanwhile, the "emasculate karenception"...

    https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-cellphone-jazz-musician-manhattan-hotel-20201228-oego2rpx25dejh4gl56ckvy64e-story.html

    Replies: @Daniel H, @bomag, @ATBOTL

    cellphone-jazz-musician-manhattan-hotel

    First it was TN Coates at an escalator, now this; the man-bites-dog stories keep rolling in.

    Meanwhile, stories from modal man world have the usual uncomfortable sameness.

  51. OT:

    TECH GIANTS ARE GIVING CHINA A VITAL EDGE IN ESPIONAGE

    The embrace between China’s intelligence services and Chinese businesses has gotten tighter, U.S. officials say. In 2017, under Xi’s intensifying authoritarianism, Beijing promulgated a new national intelligence law that compels Chinese businesses to work with Chinese intelligence and security agencies whenever they are requested to do so — a move that codified “what was pretty much what was going on for many years before, though corruption had tempered it” previously, a former senior CIA official said.

    In the final years of the Obama administration, national security officials had directed U.S. spy agencies to step up their intelligence collection on the relationship between the Chinese state and China’s private industrial behemoths. By the advent of the Trump era, this effort had borne fruit, with the U.S. intelligence community piecing together voluminous evidence on coordination — including back-and-forth data transfers — between ostensibly private Chinese companies and that country’s intelligence services, according to current and former U.S. officials. There was evidence of close public-private cooperation occurring on “a daily basis,” according to a former Trump-era national security official. “Those commercial entities are the commercial wing of the party,” the source said. “They of course cooperate with intelligence services to achieve the party’s goals.”

    Beijing’s access to, and ability to sift through, troves of pilfered and otherwise obtained data “gives [China] vast opportunities to target people in foreign governments, private industries, and other sectors around the world — in order to collect additional information they want, such as research, technology, trade secrets, or classified information,” said William Evanina, the United States’ top counterintelligence official. “Chinese technology companies play a key role in processing this bulk data and making it useful for China’s intelligence services,” he said.

    • Replies: @anonymous
    @Anon7

    Who cares about China when this country will be changed forever by internal forces? Caring about China will lead to some extra military spending...that goes to bombing Iran.

    Replies: @Anon7

    , @Joe Stalin
    @Anon7

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkYG7Q4rIE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es-J_LKFfRI

    Replies: @SaneClownPosse

  52. @Corvinus
    @RichardTaylor

    "Young White American men need to realize they won’t be fighting for “America” or “freedom” or whatever concept they’ve been fed."

    I would say your browbeating and virtue signaling has enabled today's white male youth to realize you do not have their best interests at heart.

    Meanwhile, the "emasculate karenception"...

    https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-cellphone-jazz-musician-manhattan-hotel-20201228-oego2rpx25dejh4gl56ckvy64e-story.html

    Replies: @Daniel H, @bomag, @ATBOTL

    I would say your browbeating and virtue signaling has enabled today’s white male youth to realize you do not have their best interests at heart.

    Another unfathomably stupid line from our resident retard. The vast majority of white male youth today are well aware that the empire hates them.

    • Agree: Catdog
    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @ATBOTL

    "The vast majority of white male youth today are well aware that the empire hates them."

    LOL, no. You are projecting your own hopes that based lads are running amok, keeping inside their pent up Saxon anger until they unleash it at the appropriate time. Do they even have any idea what "empire" even entails, and who is responsible for helping to create it, amid their sportsball and video game exploits? Perhaps you should take your bullhorn and soap box in tow and go on a hamlet to hamlet speaking tour to indoctrinate, I mean educate, the white male youth of America.

  53. @Kronos
    @unit472


    I seem to recall Obama having an Indonesian transvestite nanny.
     
    That’s correct.

    https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Star-Making-Barack-Obama/dp/0062641832

    Before the spring of 1970 was out, and with a second child on the way, Ann hired an openly gay twenty-four-year-old, sometimes-cross-dressing man—Turdi by day, Evie by night—to be both cook and nanny. Neighbors thought little of it. “She was a nice person and always patient and caring in keeping young Barry,” one later recalled. Turdi often accompanied Barry to and from school. Later, Turdi, at age sixty-six, told the Associated Press: “I never let him see me wearing women’s clothes. But he did see me trying on his mother’s lipstick sometimes. That used to really crack him up.”19
     
    Though, the Farrakhan photo was a much more potentially explosive coverup.

    https://i.redd.it/5qgxnl9e9ti51.jpg

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy, @tyrone

    Yet, by Himself’s own measure, he was really “a liberal Jew from the North Shore [of Chicago’s Lake Michigan].”

    Sure. Everybody in Lincolnwood, Skokie, Highland Park, Glencoe and Winnetka was just lining up for photo ops with Calypso Gene the Charmer.

  54. @Alice in Wonderland
    I am unable to reply to any commenters here.

    There is no "reply" button in the comment boxes

    Did I miss something?

    Replies: @al gore rhythms, @Known Fact

    I always have the same problem.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @al gore rhythms

    Not always.

    ;-}

  55. @ATBOTL
    @Corvinus


    I would say your browbeating and virtue signaling has enabled today’s white male youth to realize you do not have their best interests at heart.
     
    Another unfathomably stupid line from our resident retard. The vast majority of white male youth today are well aware that the empire hates them.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    “The vast majority of white male youth today are well aware that the empire hates them.”

    LOL, no. You are projecting your own hopes that based lads are running amok, keeping inside their pent up Saxon anger until they unleash it at the appropriate time. Do they even have any idea what “empire” even entails, and who is responsible for helping to create it, amid their sportsball and video game exploits? Perhaps you should take your bullhorn and soap box in tow and go on a hamlet to hamlet speaking tour to indoctrinate, I mean educate, the white male youth of America.

  56. Each December my Dad, in his Monza,
    drove over to celebrate Kwanzaa.
    Remember the seventies?
    Oh, it was heavenly!
    I wasn’t swooning for Fonza-

    relli, but Rerun a-poppin’
    and lockin’ without ever stoppin’.
    So jolly and merry
    and sweeter than cherry
    parfait topped with Reddi-Whip toppin’!

    *

    Oh, f*** it, I shouldn’t have tried it!
    I’ll fess up. My ass off? I lied it.

    • Replies: @the one they call Desanex
    @the one they call Desanex

    The Chevrolet Monza
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/75_Chevy_Monza_2%2B2.jpg/280px-75_Chevy_Monza_2%2B2.jpg
    Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli
    https://imagesvc.meredithcorp.io/v3/mm/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.onecms.io%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F6%2F2020%2F05%2F23%2Fhenry-winkler.jpg
    Freddie “Rerun” Stubbs (Fred Berry)
    https://media1.tenor.com/images/be04b859336b143d133e6a7bcdcff418/tenor.gif?itemid=10039577

    , @Cortes
    @the one they call Desanex

    Sounds a bit like The Divine Comedy:

    https://youtu.be/D5SqO5xDcjY

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy

  57. @Alice in Wonderland
    I am unable to reply to any commenters here.

    There is no "reply" button in the comment boxes

    Did I miss something?

    Replies: @al gore rhythms, @Known Fact

    There’s a new federally mandated cooling off period — including background check — before you can post a reply

    • LOL: fish
  58. @Lurker
    Where does she stand on International Talk Like a Pirate Day?

    Replies: @R.G. Camara, @Corvinus, @El Dato, @Known Fact

    Sadly in my household Talk Like a Pirate Day means “Arrrrr — let’s dump our best remaining player for three rookie-league nobodies — Arrrrr, there be a plan!”

    • LOL: kaganovitch
  59. She never celebrated, “White Boy Day.”

    “He must have thought it was white boy day.” Drexl Spivey aka Gary Oldman in True Romance

  60. @Kronos
    @unit472


    I seem to recall Obama having an Indonesian transvestite nanny.
     
    That’s correct.

    https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Star-Making-Barack-Obama/dp/0062641832

    Before the spring of 1970 was out, and with a second child on the way, Ann hired an openly gay twenty-four-year-old, sometimes-cross-dressing man—Turdi by day, Evie by night—to be both cook and nanny. Neighbors thought little of it. “She was a nice person and always patient and caring in keeping young Barry,” one later recalled. Turdi often accompanied Barry to and from school. Later, Turdi, at age sixty-six, told the Associated Press: “I never let him see me wearing women’s clothes. But he did see me trying on his mother’s lipstick sometimes. That used to really crack him up.”19
     
    Though, the Farrakhan photo was a much more potentially explosive coverup.

    https://i.redd.it/5qgxnl9e9ti51.jpg

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy, @tyrone

    We kinda knew he was the “fruit” of islam all along….thanks for posting that.

  61. @Just another serf
    Kamala is truly a repulsive woman. Among other things, it seems as if her skull is misshapen. But she will provide a much needed role model to the millions of young Indian girls who may dream of providing sexual favors to decrepit, old, corrupt Black politicians, in return for eventually being the President of the United States of America.

    These young Indian girls need not get started with a mayor of a large US city. There are possibilities for them with Black police chiefs (there are thousands), Black city council members, Black fire chiefs, Black public works directors, Black parks and recreation directors. The number of willing Black “public servants” is really unlimited. These young Indian women need to embrace Cardi B’s WAP message and the world is theirs.

    It’s a new world out there.

    Replies: @tyrone

    “Kamala is truly a repulsive woman. Among other things, it seems as if her skull is misshapen”….I think she should be examined for extra arms….PHOTOGRAPHIC proof!!!……and a non-chemical emetic would be handy.

    • LOL: donut
  62. I’m disappointed that Ms. Kamala doesn’t seem to celebrate “Festivus” (for the rest of us), a sure sign of her own racial biasis. 🙁

    “I find your belief system fascinating”

  63. @Mr. Anon
    @Hippopotamusdrome


    OT
    Excess use of antibiotics due to COVID-19 triggers ‘super gonorrhea’
     
    Doctors used to stress that anti-biotics were to be used to treat bacterial infections, and that they did no good against viral infections. This is still the official position of the CDC:

    https://www.cdc.gov/patientsafety/features/be-antibiotics-aware.html

    The fact that they are being frequently prescribed to treat COVID tends to indicate that some of what passes for COVID is likely bacterial. Or that a lot of doctors aren't that smart.

    Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter, @Ray Huffman, @Fluesterwitz, @SunBakedSuburb

    The anti-biotics may be (over-) used against opportunistic bacterial infections.

  64. @Anon7
    OT:

    TECH GIANTS ARE GIVING CHINA A VITAL EDGE IN ESPIONAGE

    The embrace between China's intelligence services and Chinese businesses has gotten tighter, U.S. officials say. In 2017, under Xi's intensifying authoritarianism, Beijing promulgated a new national intelligence law that compels Chinese businesses to work with Chinese intelligence and security agencies whenever they are requested to do so -- a move that codified "what was pretty much what was going on for many years before, though corruption had tempered it" previously, a former senior CIA official said.

    In the final years of the Obama administration, national security officials had directed U.S. spy agencies to step up their intelligence collection on the relationship between the Chinese state and China's private industrial behemoths. By the advent of the Trump era, this effort had borne fruit, with the U.S. intelligence community piecing together voluminous evidence on coordination -- including back-and-forth data transfers -- between ostensibly private Chinese companies and that country's intelligence services, according to current and former U.S. officials. There was evidence of close public-private cooperation occurring on "a daily basis," according to a former Trump-era national security official. "Those commercial entities are the commercial wing of the party," the source said. "They of course cooperate with intelligence services to achieve the party's goals."

    Beijing's access to, and ability to sift through, troves of pilfered and otherwise obtained data "gives [China] vast opportunities to target people in foreign governments, private industries, and other sectors around the world -- in order to collect additional information they want, such as research, technology, trade secrets, or classified information," said William Evanina, the United States' top counterintelligence official. "Chinese technology companies play a key role in processing this bulk data and making it useful for China's intelligence services," he said.
     

    Replies: @anonymous, @Joe Stalin

    Who cares about China when this country will be changed forever by internal forces? Caring about China will lead to some extra military spending…that goes to bombing Iran.

    • Replies: @Anon7
    @anonymous

    Because China has been at war with us for at least a generation; they're just more clever about it. They took American intellectual property, put it into practice with slave labor standards, and they outperformed the world.

    Fifteen percent of graduate students in STEM fields are Chinese. What would you say if, in 1940, fifteen percent of engineering and science grad students were German nationals? A bad idea, no?

    The "internal forces" you talk about are all influenced and enhanced by China. How else did Joe Biden win the Presidency of the United States?

    When they have more money, they'll have a bigger military, and then maybe you'll pay attention. But then it will be too late, of course.

  65. @anon
    For perfidious decorative blackamoor kamala, the most heartwarming thing about kwaaanzzaaa is that it was invented by the COINTELPRO agent who murdered the main SOCAL Panthers for that beady-eyed cocksucker Hoover and his felching henchcooze Tolson.

    https://www.blackagendareport.com/why-i-dont-do-kwaanza

    Polytheist thuggee fanatics love that tricky shit.

    Replies: @SunBakedSuburb

    “COINTELPRO agent”

    FBI informant/operative Ron Karenga emits a devilish laugh every time he sees solemn black faces light the black, red, and green candles in the Afrikkan menorah. He’s a hall-of-famer when it comes to bestest black American conmen.

    “beady-eyed cocksucker Hoover and his felching henchcooze Tolson”

    Thanks. Following your example I will endeavor to use a James Ellroy voice in 60% of my comments.

  66. @Mr. Anon
    @Hippopotamusdrome


    OT
    Excess use of antibiotics due to COVID-19 triggers ‘super gonorrhea’
     
    Doctors used to stress that anti-biotics were to be used to treat bacterial infections, and that they did no good against viral infections. This is still the official position of the CDC:

    https://www.cdc.gov/patientsafety/features/be-antibiotics-aware.html

    The fact that they are being frequently prescribed to treat COVID tends to indicate that some of what passes for COVID is likely bacterial. Or that a lot of doctors aren't that smart.

    Replies: @Jim Bob Lassiter, @Ray Huffman, @Fluesterwitz, @SunBakedSuburb

    The antibiotics treat pneumonia that can occur in severe COVID cases.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @SunBakedSuburb


    The antibiotics treat pneumonia that can occur in severe COVID cases.
     
    Saint Fauci himself (praise be unto him) even wrote that deaths during the Spanish Influenza were largely due to bacterial infections. It does give one reason to question the COVID narrative, at least in part. Yes, there are opportunistic bacterial infections that can take hold in the wake of a viral infection. That's probably especially true in hospitals. Maybe treating all those people in hospitals wasn't such a good idea, especially when there are suitable out-patient treatments that can work if the disease is caught early enough, which treatments have been systematically suppressed by a lot of public health agencies.

    I think it likely that we'll find, when all this is over (although if Bill Gates gets his way, it will never be over) that the medical and public health establishments have not covered themselves in glory, despite all the propaganda about "front-line healthcare heroes".
  67. Regarding transman vs trans-womyn

    My sister developed a handy way to remember: “trans” means “fake.” So a trans-man is a fake man.

    See? Woke is not so hard.

  68. @Escher
    How about “talk with a fake African American accent” day?

    Replies: @fish

    How about “talk with a fake African American accent” day?

    That is only celebrated in years where presidential elections are held! Hillary “I ain’t in no ways tired!” Clinton used to celebrate that one too!

    • Replies: @Harry Baldwin
    @fish

    And Obama, too! As Democratic senator Harry Reid put it during the 2008 presidential campaign, ‘[Barack Obama] speaks with no Negro dialect, unless he wants to have one.’

    Who can forget the former president dropping his "g's" and throwing around Southern slang when he spoke before black audiences? Campaigning the South, he talked about how much he "loves me some North Carolina," used words like "holler," and said it was time to get down to "bidness."

    Replies: @Dan Hayes, @Dissident

  69. @James J. O'Meara
    @songbird

    "They said you were high class, honey that was just a lie
    Called you all high class, that was just a lie"

    -- Hound Dog

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    Dammit, I was just about to write this! (and the 1st reply too)

    OK, thanks, Peter.

    Wait, let me fix it just a tad:

    They said you was high caste,
    but that was just a lie.
    You ain’t never killed a heifer,
    and you ain’t no friend of mine.

    Or, in line 3 “You ain’t never ate a ribeye…” or “You ain’t never been a Brahmin …”.

    Great tweets, Steve, and I guess I can put up with the page loading like crap again.

    • LOL: Escher, Charlotte
  70. @Cranmer
    OT, but I have been fascinated with the speed and vigor of B/black capitalization implementation in American newspapers. I do have one question though. Do AP/ newsroom computers have a way of telling which form of capitalization is correct? In the crime section of my local paper today, it has a description of a Black woman wanted for assaulting a female security guard. She is described as wearing a black hoodie, having long black hair (possibly a wig according to the paper) and leaving in a black car. Every time black is used as an adjective for a thing, it uses the correct lowercase. When it describes the color of the woman, it is capitalized. Knowing my local paper’s proclivity for using incorrect grammar, you would thing they would mess it up. Plus I just thought it was funny that Black will be used in a lot of subject descriptions ( until that is banned by the AP style guide).

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    Pretty good software is the answer, I guess. Just work up a table of the few nouns that would have a capital-Black adjective in front. It’d be hard to make it foolproof, though … “There was this cool old black jazz cat that I knew in the ’30s…”. This is why they pay those geeks the big bucks though.

  71. @al gore rhythms
    @Alice in Wonderland

    I always have the same problem.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    Not always.

    ;-}

  72. Has anyone mentioned Arbor Day yet? It’s the last Friday in April, and you should all plant trees then.

    Few know how significant trees are to our quality of life. Plant a tree on Arbor Day in 2021, Friday, April 30.

    I bet Future President Kamala Harris has never done this. By its very nature, it is a White thing!

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Thank you, Buzz. I used to be a member and get those 10 little trees in the mail each year. I'll tell you tree people some advice:

    1) Don't plant Sycamores! Yeah, you get quick shade. The seed balls will eat on your shingle roof, and they were too big for me to cut down myself after only 8 years!

    2) The best time to plant a tree is years ago.

    3) The 2nd best time to plant a tree is right now.

    4) Don't plant Sycamores!


    I bet Future President Kamala Harris has never done this.
     
    She doesn't live in a leafy suburb, by the very nature of "leafy suburb".

    Replies: @Anon

  73. @Kronos
    @theMann

    I’d imagine she’d surprise us with gangsta weaponry seized/confiscated from various black men she incarcerated. She purchased them dirt cheap at a police auction with a special prosecutor discount.

    Think:

    Golden AKs

    https://ratedsworld.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/gold-ak47.jpg

    Diamond studded 1911s.

    https://images.gawker.com/18k3gfkrid5dmjpg/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_470.jpg

    Replies: @Joe Stalin

    The Browning HiPower (top left) looks pretty snazzy; the prancing horse Ferrari horse griped 1911 is way over the top, unless it actually owned by a member of the Ferrari family.

    • Replies: @Kronos
    @Joe Stalin

    Not as over the top as Eric Holder’s personal 1911.

    https://www.all4shooters.com/en/shooting/pistols/cabot-guns-jones-1911-the-left-and-the-right-semi-automatic-pistol/cabotguns-leftright-obama.jpg?cid=1df.4lj

  74. @Anon7
    OT:

    TECH GIANTS ARE GIVING CHINA A VITAL EDGE IN ESPIONAGE

    The embrace between China's intelligence services and Chinese businesses has gotten tighter, U.S. officials say. In 2017, under Xi's intensifying authoritarianism, Beijing promulgated a new national intelligence law that compels Chinese businesses to work with Chinese intelligence and security agencies whenever they are requested to do so -- a move that codified "what was pretty much what was going on for many years before, though corruption had tempered it" previously, a former senior CIA official said.

    In the final years of the Obama administration, national security officials had directed U.S. spy agencies to step up their intelligence collection on the relationship between the Chinese state and China's private industrial behemoths. By the advent of the Trump era, this effort had borne fruit, with the U.S. intelligence community piecing together voluminous evidence on coordination -- including back-and-forth data transfers -- between ostensibly private Chinese companies and that country's intelligence services, according to current and former U.S. officials. There was evidence of close public-private cooperation occurring on "a daily basis," according to a former Trump-era national security official. "Those commercial entities are the commercial wing of the party," the source said. "They of course cooperate with intelligence services to achieve the party's goals."

    Beijing's access to, and ability to sift through, troves of pilfered and otherwise obtained data "gives [China] vast opportunities to target people in foreign governments, private industries, and other sectors around the world -- in order to collect additional information they want, such as research, technology, trade secrets, or classified information," said William Evanina, the United States' top counterintelligence official. "Chinese technology companies play a key role in processing this bulk data and making it useful for China's intelligence services," he said.
     

    Replies: @anonymous, @Joe Stalin

    • Replies: @SaneClownPosse
    @Joe Stalin

    North Korea has a YT channel.

  75. It is questionable whether KH is eligible to become VP.

    On Jan 6th, the matter deserves a public hearing.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Abolish_public_education

    There's no way any court will consider it, it would have to come from Congress.

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education

  76. Our Boxing Day celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. The whole family’d gather around across multiple generations, lace up the gloves and have a donnybrook, last man standing.

    Boxing Day is of course St Stephen’s Day. You’re supposed to dress up in straw and chase down and kill a wren.

    The Irish Used to Celebrate the Day After Christmas by Killing Wrens

    Lá an Dreoilín/Wren Day

    Are there wrens in Quebec? They might have to settle for a whisk[e]y jack.

    Whether this year you’re punching those you live with or over Zoom, happy Boxing Day!

    Make sure you punch up. No songbirds!

    • Replies: @Cortes
    @Reg Cæsar

    The hunting of wrens seems to have still gone on until the 1930s on the island in Connacht my dad’s parents were from. The straw men were (I believe) uninvited guests at weddings. No mention of these customs in the classic Island memoirs of O’Crohan or O’Sullivan - both of Great Blasket, in Kerry.

  77. Kamala and Mom, of subcontinental Indian stock living in noted African-American hotbed of Montreal in the 1970s were more likely to have been fans of Guy Lafleur and poutine than the invented nonsense holiday called Kwanza. African-Americans have AGAIN, as with Obama, fallen for a lying politician who is genetically nothing like them. In fact, between Kamala’s mixed race Jamaican dad and Obama’s maternal family from Kansas, more likely both are descendants of slave holders than slaves. Calling either African-American is like calling JFK a Polish-American; ridiculous.

  78. Willie Brown always told me that if I wanted to succeed in San Francisco politics, I’d have to learn the difference between a transwoman and a transman because they are really touchy about that stuff.

    The only people who matter are the people who “count” the votes. They are like the men who ran the skim for the mafia in the Vegas casino counting rooms back in the 1970s

  79. @Bragadocious
    Now tell us about your Jamaican relatives during the 30 days of homosexual feasts and bonfires.

    Because they don't play when it comes to batty boys.

    Replies: @SaneClownPosse

    Sure, ever hear “on the down low”?

    Those that protest the loudest.

  80. @Morton's toes
    January 11 is the feast day of Saint Vitalis of Gaza, the patron saint of prostitutes.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalis_of_Gaza

    This should really be her big day. It's on a Monday in 2021. Who wouldn't want to blow off Monday?

    Replies: @SaneClownPosse

    Too close to MLK,Jr Day.

  81. @Joe Stalin
    @Anon7

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkYG7Q4rIE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es-J_LKFfRI

    Replies: @SaneClownPosse

    North Korea has a YT channel.

  82. @the one they call Desanex
    Each December my Dad, in his Monza,
    drove over to celebrate Kwanzaa.
    Remember the seventies?
    Oh, it was heavenly!
    I wasn’t swooning for Fonza-

    relli, but Rerun a-poppin’
    and lockin’ without ever stoppin’.
    So jolly and merry
    and sweeter than cherry
    parfait topped with Reddi-Whip toppin’!

    *

    Oh, f*** it, I shouldn’t have tried it!
    I’ll fess up. My ass off? I lied it.

    Replies: @the one they call Desanex, @Cortes

    The Chevrolet Monza

    Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli

    Freddie “Rerun” Stubbs (Fred Berry)

  83. @Abolish_public_education
    It is questionable whether KH is eligible to become VP.

    On Jan 6th, the matter deserves a public hearing.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    There’s no way any court will consider it, it would have to come from Congress.

    • Replies: @Abolish_public_education
    @J.Ross

    In Congress, on Jan 6th.

    It would be fun to watch Ted Cruz argue to give her a pass.

    Replies: @J.Ross

  84. @SunBakedSuburb
    @Mr. Anon

    The antibiotics treat pneumonia that can occur in severe COVID cases.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

    The antibiotics treat pneumonia that can occur in severe COVID cases.

    Saint Fauci himself (praise be unto him) even wrote that deaths during the Spanish Influenza were largely due to bacterial infections. It does give one reason to question the COVID narrative, at least in part. Yes, there are opportunistic bacterial infections that can take hold in the wake of a viral infection. That’s probably especially true in hospitals. Maybe treating all those people in hospitals wasn’t such a good idea, especially when there are suitable out-patient treatments that can work if the disease is caught early enough, which treatments have been systematically suppressed by a lot of public health agencies.

    I think it likely that we’ll find, when all this is over (although if Bill Gates gets his way, it will never be over) that the medical and public health establishments have not covered themselves in glory, despite all the propaganda about “front-line healthcare heroes”.

  85. Surely VP Elect Harris celebrated Life Day whilst on planet Kashyyk?

  86. @Buzz Mohawk
    Has anyone mentioned Arbor Day yet? It's the last Friday in April, and you should all plant trees then.

    Few know how significant trees are to our quality of life. Plant a tree on Arbor Day in 2021, Friday, April 30.

    I bet Future President Kamala Harris has never done this. By its very nature, it is a White thing!
    http://atlas-content-cdn.pixelsquid.com/stock-images/sugar-maple-tree-9GeYAa2-600.jpg

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    Thank you, Buzz. I used to be a member and get those 10 little trees in the mail each year. I’ll tell you tree people some advice:

    1) Don’t plant Sycamores! Yeah, you get quick shade. The seed balls will eat on your shingle roof, and they were too big for me to cut down myself after only 8 years!

    2) The best time to plant a tree is years ago.

    3) The 2nd best time to plant a tree is right now.

    4) Don’t plant Sycamores!

    I bet Future President Kamala Harris has never done this.

    She doesn’t live in a leafy suburb, by the very nature of “leafy suburb”.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Achmed E. Newman


    1) Don’t plant Sycamores! Yeah, you get quick shade. The seed balls will eat on your shingle roof, and they were too big for me to cut down myself after only 8 years!
     
    Also, box elders and Chinaberry trees. Both beautiful trees, but they grow really fast and the roots will bore under or through anything. Our Chinaberry trees were weeds, probably from the poop of birds. Then all of a sudden they were the biggest trees in our garden.

    We had a Franklin tree, that was officially our slowest growing tree. Unfortunately it died. In colonial times a botanist collected some Franklin tree seeds in Georgia and planted them at an arboretum. But the tree was never found in the wild again, nor are there other species in the genus. The Franklin tree is kind of the silkworm or society finch of trees: a mysterious domesticated species with no wild analog.

    Replies: @Boy the way Glenn Miller played

  87. @the one they call Desanex
    Each December my Dad, in his Monza,
    drove over to celebrate Kwanzaa.
    Remember the seventies?
    Oh, it was heavenly!
    I wasn’t swooning for Fonza-

    relli, but Rerun a-poppin’
    and lockin’ without ever stoppin’.
    So jolly and merry
    and sweeter than cherry
    parfait topped with Reddi-Whip toppin’!

    *

    Oh, f*** it, I shouldn’t have tried it!
    I’ll fess up. My ass off? I lied it.

    Replies: @the one they call Desanex, @Cortes

    Sounds a bit like The Divine Comedy:

    • Replies: @Gary in Gramercy
    @Cortes

    Ah, Neil Hannon: the love child resulting from a ménage a trois among Bryan Ferry, Morrissey and Jarvis Cocker. With Serge Gainsbourg for a godfather.

  88. Perfect for the Feast of the Holy Innocents. Sowell doesn’t tweet himself; these are posted by a fanboy.

  89. @Reg Cæsar

    Our Boxing Day celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. The whole family'd gather around across multiple generations, lace up the gloves and have a donnybrook, last man standing.

     

    Boxing Day is of course St Stephen's Day. You're supposed to dress up in straw and chase down and kill a wren.

    The Irish Used to Celebrate the Day After Christmas by Killing Wrens

    Lá an Dreoilín/Wren Day


    https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.2918503.1482832728!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_685/image.jpg


    Are there wrens in Quebec? They might have to settle for a whisk[e]y jack.


    https://twintreesvet.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Whiskey-Jack-Skier-IMG_9404-759x500.jpg

    Whether this year you’re punching those you live with or over Zoom, happy Boxing Day!
     
    Make sure you punch up. No songbirds!

    Replies: @Cortes

    The hunting of wrens seems to have still gone on until the 1930s on the island in Connacht my dad’s parents were from. The straw men were (I believe) uninvited guests at weddings. No mention of these customs in the classic Island memoirs of O’Crohan or O’Sullivan – both of Great Blasket, in Kerry.

  90. @R.G. Camara
    @Gary in Gramercy

    1980s Eddie was so on point, its amazing. He could nail a sweet family story and then go filthy and the audience would go with him. He was firing on all cylinders and outclassed everyone on SNL during his time. Coming to America still holds up as one of the best comedies of the decade.

    Too bad he couldn't keep up the pace in the 90s, but hey, comedians on screen age out of being cool a lot faster than dramatic actors. Thankfully, he seems to be having a renaissance due to nostalgia.

    In Eddie's hands, Kamala's rep wouldn't last two sketches before she'd be resigning. He'd do a one-man sketch playing her, her Indian parents (complete with unapologetic Apu + Canadian accents), and then play a lascivious, pimp-like Willie Brown demanding Kamala pay up for his help boosting her.

    What Chevy Chase did to Gerald Ford would look like a genial take compared to 1980s Eddie on Kamala. They'd have to arrest him for murdering Heels up Harris on stage.

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy

    “In Eddie’s hands, Kamala’s rep wouldn’t last two sketches before she’d be resigning.”

    I’d like to think you’re right: Eddie Murphy is not someone I would want making fun of my own foibles on television. If you were talking about a normal human being — one with a capacity for shame — I would agree with you. But politicians who rise to this level are not normal.

    Bill Clinton set the modern standard in this area: any president before Clinton, having been discovered having a tawdry affair with an early 20’s White House intern — in the White House — would have resigned immediately, if only out of shame and humiliation. Not only did Clinton not resign, he dug in his heels, lied brazenly to his Cabinet so that they would carry water for him, and lied with equal verve to the American people. (He lied to his wife, too, but she knew as much. She had her own reasons for wanting to blame her husband’s eternal priapism on a “vast right-wing conspiracy.”) He told the truth only when faced with the prospect of testifying before Kenneth Starr’s grand jury, and after undeniable scientific evidence — Miss Lewinsky’s blue dress — had emerged to impeach his own definition of the word “is.”

    Clinton showed no shame about an affair in the White House with a young woman not much older than his daughter. Why would Kamala Harris demonstrate any shame at all about an affair (decades ago) with an older, powerful politician who effectively sponsored her in California politics, appointing her to state commissions, and introducing her to well-heeled donors who have funded her campaigns ever since? Without Willie Brown, she’d still be a government lawyer, always looking for an in-house corporate position that pays well without requiring a lot of work, i.e., a typical female diversity lawyer in a big corporation, a glorified HR rep with a law degree.

    Eddie Murphy could mock her mercilessly until the cows came home, and Kamala’s defenders would cry “misogyny” until it was Eddie who apologized at a tearful press conference. See how she lies with the casual demeanor of one who does it all the time. I keep thinking of what Mary McCarthy said of Lillian Hellman (provoking an expensive lawsuit): “every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’”

    • Thanks: Harry Baldwin
    • Replies: @Cortes
    @Gary in Gramercy

    Beautifully expressed. Many thanks.

    One of the occasions when the cliche “couldn’t mark that neck with a blowtorch” is appropriate.

    , @danand
    @Gary in Gramercy

    “...emerged to impeach his own definition of the word “is.””

    Gary, great post. As with many I would would guess, to my mind, that Slick Willie could be elected president, with his known past, portended the beginning of the end of a United States that broadly valued virtue.

    A bit of a tie in with Steve’s preceding post on the Baldwin’s:

    Days before President Bill Clinton was to be impeached, Alec Baldwin said, "If we were in another country ... we would stone Henry Hyde (House Judiciary Committee Chairman) to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families, for what they're doing to this country.”

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Harry Baldwin

  91. @Gary in Gramercy
    @R.G. Camara

    "In Eddie's hands, Kamala's rep wouldn't last two sketches before she'd be resigning."

    I'd like to think you're right: Eddie Murphy is not someone I would want making fun of my own foibles on television. If you were talking about a normal human being -- one with a capacity for shame -- I would agree with you. But politicians who rise to this level are not normal.

    Bill Clinton set the modern standard in this area: any president before Clinton, having been discovered having a tawdry affair with an early 20's White House intern -- in the White House -- would have resigned immediately, if only out of shame and humiliation. Not only did Clinton not resign, he dug in his heels, lied brazenly to his Cabinet so that they would carry water for him, and lied with equal verve to the American people. (He lied to his wife, too, but she knew as much. She had her own reasons for wanting to blame her husband's eternal priapism on a "vast right-wing conspiracy.") He told the truth only when faced with the prospect of testifying before Kenneth Starr's grand jury, and after undeniable scientific evidence -- Miss Lewinsky's blue dress -- had emerged to impeach his own definition of the word "is."

    Clinton showed no shame about an affair in the White House with a young woman not much older than his daughter. Why would Kamala Harris demonstrate any shame at all about an affair (decades ago) with an older, powerful politician who effectively sponsored her in California politics, appointing her to state commissions, and introducing her to well-heeled donors who have funded her campaigns ever since? Without Willie Brown, she'd still be a government lawyer, always looking for an in-house corporate position that pays well without requiring a lot of work, i.e., a typical female diversity lawyer in a big corporation, a glorified HR rep with a law degree.

    Eddie Murphy could mock her mercilessly until the cows came home, and Kamala's defenders would cry "misogyny" until it was Eddie who apologized at a tearful press conference. See how she lies with the casual demeanor of one who does it all the time. I keep thinking of what Mary McCarthy said of Lillian Hellman (provoking an expensive lawsuit): "every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'"

    Replies: @Cortes, @danand

    Beautifully expressed. Many thanks.

    One of the occasions when the cliche “couldn’t mark that neck with a blowtorch” is appropriate.

  92. @Joe Stalin
    @Kronos

    The Browning HiPower (top left) looks pretty snazzy; the prancing horse Ferrari horse griped 1911 is way over the top, unless it actually owned by a member of the Ferrari family.

    Replies: @Kronos

  93. @J.Ross
    @Abolish_public_education

    There's no way any court will consider it, it would have to come from Congress.

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education

    In Congress, on Jan 6th.

    It would be fun to watch Ted Cruz argue to give her a pass.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Abolish_public_education

    I want to believe.
    By the way, the Democrats have done all kinds of last-minute aggressive electoral challenges, with the biggest being Donald Frederickovich Trumponovski, but I'm sure CNN and NPR have memory-holed that: plus I don't think any of those went anywhere. This one at least has merit but we know what most Republican congresscritters think about merit. Still the threshold is good for procedural chaos: at the right point you don't need a majority, just a pair.

  94. Thanks, Steve, for the merciless mockery of that mediocrity. Well done.

    But I hate to think that we are losing focus on the horrible plague that is SARS-CoV-2. To put things in perspective, perhaps we can reflect on the Black Death in Westphalia in the late 16th century. This gave rise to some of the most sublime music ever written. From Philipp Nicolai’s biography in Bach-cantatas.com

    “…While he was pastor in Westphalia, the plague took 1300 of [Nicolai’s] parishioners, mostly in the latter half of 1597, 170 in one week. To comfort his parishioners, he wrote a series of meditations which he called Freudenspiegel (Mirror of Joy), and to this he appended two hymns, both of which have become world-famous…”

    I believe that Bach borrowed the tunes and lyric for his “Wachet Auf, Rueft Uns Die Stimme”

    But Covid has given us “Wet Ass Pussy” while killing 5 out of a thousand, mostly people who would have died of something else anyway.

    Somebody needs to explain to me the Whig theory of history.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Wade Hampton

    It's the Kali Yuga and the wheels are falling off but there's still enough momentum in the juggernaut to destroy everything true.

  95. Are there (heavily gaslit) non-black women whose black baby’s daddy left them to seek fresh, naive tail who are all “I am the Parent of a Proud Black Child. I will teach him all about his Proud Black Culture.”? I kinda expect it from white women, because they’ve been poisoned with propaganda for generations now, but would a Brahmin do it? Keep in mind, she is the sort of Brahmin who has kids with a black.

    I think it is possible that Harris’ mom was trying to raise her two halfsies with black culture, and did not know that blacks don’t celebrate kwanza. I’ll bet there are a bunch of mulattoes raised by white moms, in white neighborhoods, with white peer groups who do kwanza to feel Authentically Black. I find it hard to believe that her multigenerational Indian family was super into kwanza, but they did raise a mud shark daughter…

    What is up with raising adoptees or kids of absentee fathers with ‘their’ culture. Firstly, it is very racially essentialist. It is so essentialist that if one of us said black culture was a natural expression of their different natures, we would be cancelled forever. Secondly, if the birth mother or sneaky fucker father wanted the kid raised in that culture, they woulda done it. The very fact that the kid was put up for adoption or abandoned by a parent is strong evidence that that culture is defective by civilized standards. By naturalistic standards, it is brood parasitism, which is not something we should encourage.

    Back to Harris, her lies about other childhood activities, raising money for Israel comes to mind, makes it more likely that the kwanza story is also bs.

  96. Anon[126] • Disclaimer says:
    @Achmed E. Newman
    @Buzz Mohawk

    Thank you, Buzz. I used to be a member and get those 10 little trees in the mail each year. I'll tell you tree people some advice:

    1) Don't plant Sycamores! Yeah, you get quick shade. The seed balls will eat on your shingle roof, and they were too big for me to cut down myself after only 8 years!

    2) The best time to plant a tree is years ago.

    3) The 2nd best time to plant a tree is right now.

    4) Don't plant Sycamores!


    I bet Future President Kamala Harris has never done this.
     
    She doesn't live in a leafy suburb, by the very nature of "leafy suburb".

    Replies: @Anon

    1) Don’t plant Sycamores! Yeah, you get quick shade. The seed balls will eat on your shingle roof, and they were too big for me to cut down myself after only 8 years!

    Also, box elders and Chinaberry trees. Both beautiful trees, but they grow really fast and the roots will bore under or through anything. Our Chinaberry trees were weeds, probably from the poop of birds. Then all of a sudden they were the biggest trees in our garden.

    We had a Franklin tree, that was officially our slowest growing tree. Unfortunately it died. In colonial times a botanist collected some Franklin tree seeds in Georgia and planted them at an arboretum. But the tree was never found in the wild again, nor are there other species in the genus. The Franklin tree is kind of the silkworm or society finch of trees: a mysterious domesticated species with no wild analog.

    • Replies: @Boy the way Glenn Miller played
    @Anon


    Also, box elders and Chinaberry trees. Both beautiful trees, but they grow really fast and the roots will bore under or through anything.
     
    Stay away from Tree of Heaven as well. I hate those f'ers. Stay away from Ginko trees also, unless you buy a male cultivar.
  97. “The whole family would gather around across multiple generations and thank banks for being where the money is.”

    So, basically, the Sailer brood were thanking Henry Potter for being there, and holding onto their savings? Hm…interesting. Beginning to better understand why It’s a Wonderful Life rates highly on the holiday list. Ironic spoiler alert: Mr. Potter and his county bank aren’t the heroes of the story. Perhaps these several bank holidays that dot the calendar serve a nefarious purpose; namely, to periodically close so that a panic or a run does not spontaneously occur among the depositors (as they sometimes appeared to do during the Great Depression).

    For centuries, December 26 was known in the West as St. Stephen’s Day, named after the first Christian Martyr. The holiday is referenced in the carol “Good King Wencheslas”. But you wouldn’t expect a Brahim to know about St. Stephen or Good King Wencheslas. But perhaps they do know something about banking.

  98. @Cortes
    @the one they call Desanex

    Sounds a bit like The Divine Comedy:

    https://youtu.be/D5SqO5xDcjY

    Replies: @Gary in Gramercy

    Ah, Neil Hannon: the love child resulting from a ménage a trois among Bryan Ferry, Morrissey and Jarvis Cocker. With Serge Gainsbourg for a godfather.

    • LOL: Cortes
  99. @fish
    @Escher


    How about “talk with a fake African American accent” day?

     
    That is only celebrated in years where presidential elections are held! Hillary "I ain't in no ways tired!" Clinton used to celebrate that one too!

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin

    And Obama, too! As Democratic senator Harry Reid put it during the 2008 presidential campaign, ‘[Barack Obama] speaks with no Negro dialect, unless he wants to have one.’

    Who can forget the former president dropping his “g’s” and throwing around Southern slang when he spoke before black audiences? Campaigning the South, he talked about how much he “loves me some North Carolina,” used words like “holler,” and said it was time to get down to “bidness.”

    • Replies: @Dan Hayes
    @Harry Baldwin

    Hillary did it better in Brooklyn addressing her camp followers as “youse” 😎

    , @Dissident
    @Harry Baldwin


    How about “talk with a fake African American accent” day?

    That is only celebrated in years where presidential elections are held! Hillary “I ain’t in no ways tired!” Clinton used to celebrate that one too!
     

    And Obama, too! As Democratic senator Harry Reid put it during the 2008 presidential campaign, ‘[Barack Obama] speaks with no Negro dialect, unless he wants to have one.'
     

     
    Couldn't Al Gore be added to this list? I distinctly recall hearing, at some point during the run-up to the 2000 Presidential election, audio of Gore speaking in which it sounded as if he were doing an impersonation of a black preacher.

    To say nothing of Bill Clinton...
  100. @Gary in Gramercy
    @R.G. Camara

    "In Eddie's hands, Kamala's rep wouldn't last two sketches before she'd be resigning."

    I'd like to think you're right: Eddie Murphy is not someone I would want making fun of my own foibles on television. If you were talking about a normal human being -- one with a capacity for shame -- I would agree with you. But politicians who rise to this level are not normal.

    Bill Clinton set the modern standard in this area: any president before Clinton, having been discovered having a tawdry affair with an early 20's White House intern -- in the White House -- would have resigned immediately, if only out of shame and humiliation. Not only did Clinton not resign, he dug in his heels, lied brazenly to his Cabinet so that they would carry water for him, and lied with equal verve to the American people. (He lied to his wife, too, but she knew as much. She had her own reasons for wanting to blame her husband's eternal priapism on a "vast right-wing conspiracy.") He told the truth only when faced with the prospect of testifying before Kenneth Starr's grand jury, and after undeniable scientific evidence -- Miss Lewinsky's blue dress -- had emerged to impeach his own definition of the word "is."

    Clinton showed no shame about an affair in the White House with a young woman not much older than his daughter. Why would Kamala Harris demonstrate any shame at all about an affair (decades ago) with an older, powerful politician who effectively sponsored her in California politics, appointing her to state commissions, and introducing her to well-heeled donors who have funded her campaigns ever since? Without Willie Brown, she'd still be a government lawyer, always looking for an in-house corporate position that pays well without requiring a lot of work, i.e., a typical female diversity lawyer in a big corporation, a glorified HR rep with a law degree.

    Eddie Murphy could mock her mercilessly until the cows came home, and Kamala's defenders would cry "misogyny" until it was Eddie who apologized at a tearful press conference. See how she lies with the casual demeanor of one who does it all the time. I keep thinking of what Mary McCarthy said of Lillian Hellman (provoking an expensive lawsuit): "every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'"

    Replies: @Cortes, @danand

    “…emerged to impeach his own definition of the word “is.””

    Gary, great post. As with many I would would guess, to my mind, that Slick Willie could be elected president, with his known past, portended the beginning of the end of a United States that broadly valued virtue.

    A bit of a tie in with Steve’s preceding post on the Baldwin’s:

    Days before President Bill Clinton was to be impeached, Alec Baldwin said, “If we were in another country … we would stone Henry Hyde (House Judiciary Committee Chairman) to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families, for what they’re doing to this country.”

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @danand

    Has there ever been any cause which did not move perverted and drug-addled Hollywood celebrities to call for violence and murder?

    , @Harry Baldwin
    @danand

    I've come to despise George Will, but in the '90s I recall him making an astute remark about Bill Clinton: "He may not be our worst president, but he is the worst man ever to be president."

    I too was baffled by Slick Willie's ability to Blythely carry on despite the most salacious details of his sordid activities being splashed all over the news. Quite a contrast to Britain's John Profumo, who, after resigning in disgrace over his affair with a Soviet-connected prostitute, spent the rest of his life doing volunteer charitable work. The concept of disgrace seems to have no meaning in the United States at this point.

    That's an extraordinary statement by Alec Baldwin. In which other country does he imagine that that would be considered an appropriate response? Perhaps Uganda under Idi Amin. It's remarkable that Baldwin is able to function as well as he does with such a warped mind.

    Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi

  101. @Harry Baldwin
    @fish

    And Obama, too! As Democratic senator Harry Reid put it during the 2008 presidential campaign, ‘[Barack Obama] speaks with no Negro dialect, unless he wants to have one.’

    Who can forget the former president dropping his "g's" and throwing around Southern slang when he spoke before black audiences? Campaigning the South, he talked about how much he "loves me some North Carolina," used words like "holler," and said it was time to get down to "bidness."

    Replies: @Dan Hayes, @Dissident

    Hillary did it better in Brooklyn addressing her camp followers as “youse” 😎

  102. @danand
    @Gary in Gramercy

    “...emerged to impeach his own definition of the word “is.””

    Gary, great post. As with many I would would guess, to my mind, that Slick Willie could be elected president, with his known past, portended the beginning of the end of a United States that broadly valued virtue.

    A bit of a tie in with Steve’s preceding post on the Baldwin’s:

    Days before President Bill Clinton was to be impeached, Alec Baldwin said, "If we were in another country ... we would stone Henry Hyde (House Judiciary Committee Chairman) to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families, for what they're doing to this country.”

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Harry Baldwin

    Has there ever been any cause which did not move perverted and drug-addled Hollywood celebrities to call for violence and murder?

  103. @danand
    @Gary in Gramercy

    “...emerged to impeach his own definition of the word “is.””

    Gary, great post. As with many I would would guess, to my mind, that Slick Willie could be elected president, with his known past, portended the beginning of the end of a United States that broadly valued virtue.

    A bit of a tie in with Steve’s preceding post on the Baldwin’s:

    Days before President Bill Clinton was to be impeached, Alec Baldwin said, "If we were in another country ... we would stone Henry Hyde (House Judiciary Committee Chairman) to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families, for what they're doing to this country.”

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Harry Baldwin

    I’ve come to despise George Will, but in the ’90s I recall him making an astute remark about Bill Clinton: “He may not be our worst president, but he is the worst man ever to be president.”

    I too was baffled by Slick Willie’s ability to Blythely carry on despite the most salacious details of his sordid activities being splashed all over the news. Quite a contrast to Britain’s John Profumo, who, after resigning in disgrace over his affair with a Soviet-connected prostitute, spent the rest of his life doing volunteer charitable work. The concept of disgrace seems to have no meaning in the United States at this point.

    That’s an extraordinary statement by Alec Baldwin. In which other country does he imagine that that would be considered an appropriate response? Perhaps Uganda under Idi Amin. It’s remarkable that Baldwin is able to function as well as he does with such a warped mind.

    • Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi
    @Harry Baldwin

    In many ways, with his boisterous, off the cuff, obnoxious attitude, state of mind etc., Alec Baldwin is a natural Trump supporter. After all, he grew up in Long Island, Trump from Queens. They're NYers, they're natural allies. Or at least, one would think. Scratch the records thru back in the day, and its a safe bet that Trump and Baldwin hung out a bit here and there, and they probably got along splendidly. At least for a while.

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education

  104. @Harry Baldwin
    @fish

    And Obama, too! As Democratic senator Harry Reid put it during the 2008 presidential campaign, ‘[Barack Obama] speaks with no Negro dialect, unless he wants to have one.’

    Who can forget the former president dropping his "g's" and throwing around Southern slang when he spoke before black audiences? Campaigning the South, he talked about how much he "loves me some North Carolina," used words like "holler," and said it was time to get down to "bidness."

    Replies: @Dan Hayes, @Dissident

    How about “talk with a fake African American accent” day?

    That is only celebrated in years where presidential elections are held! Hillary “I ain’t in no ways tired!” Clinton used to celebrate that one too!

    And Obama, too! As Democratic senator Harry Reid put it during the 2008 presidential campaign, ‘[Barack Obama] speaks with no Negro dialect, unless he wants to have one.’

    Couldn’t Al Gore be added to this list? I distinctly recall hearing, at some point during the run-up to the 2000 Presidential election, audio of Gore speaking in which it sounded as if he were doing an impersonation of a black preacher.

    To say nothing of Bill Clinton…

  105. @Harry Baldwin
    @danand

    I've come to despise George Will, but in the '90s I recall him making an astute remark about Bill Clinton: "He may not be our worst president, but he is the worst man ever to be president."

    I too was baffled by Slick Willie's ability to Blythely carry on despite the most salacious details of his sordid activities being splashed all over the news. Quite a contrast to Britain's John Profumo, who, after resigning in disgrace over his affair with a Soviet-connected prostitute, spent the rest of his life doing volunteer charitable work. The concept of disgrace seems to have no meaning in the United States at this point.

    That's an extraordinary statement by Alec Baldwin. In which other country does he imagine that that would be considered an appropriate response? Perhaps Uganda under Idi Amin. It's remarkable that Baldwin is able to function as well as he does with such a warped mind.

    Replies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi

    In many ways, with his boisterous, off the cuff, obnoxious attitude, state of mind etc., Alec Baldwin is a natural Trump supporter. After all, he grew up in Long Island, Trump from Queens. They’re NYers, they’re natural allies. Or at least, one would think. Scratch the records thru back in the day, and its a safe bet that Trump and Baldwin hung out a bit here and there, and they probably got along splendidly. At least for a while.

    • Replies: @Abolish_public_education
    @Yojimbo/Zatoichi

    I don’t follow celebrity tiffs.

    Whenever I hear Trump blast some prominent politician, entertainment figure, etc — as punchy and funny as he makes it sound — I figure it’s just a publicity stunt.

    For instance, he hosted a WH wedding for a celebrity, on-air, left-wing couple who he regularly says negative things.

    After Trump leaves office, he’ll go back to partying with guys like Baldwin.

  106. @Yojimbo/Zatoichi
    @Harry Baldwin

    In many ways, with his boisterous, off the cuff, obnoxious attitude, state of mind etc., Alec Baldwin is a natural Trump supporter. After all, he grew up in Long Island, Trump from Queens. They're NYers, they're natural allies. Or at least, one would think. Scratch the records thru back in the day, and its a safe bet that Trump and Baldwin hung out a bit here and there, and they probably got along splendidly. At least for a while.

    Replies: @Abolish_public_education

    I don’t follow celebrity tiffs.

    Whenever I hear Trump blast some prominent politician, entertainment figure, etc — as punchy and funny as he makes it sound — I figure it’s just a publicity stunt.

    For instance, he hosted a WH wedding for a celebrity, on-air, left-wing couple who he regularly says negative things.

    After Trump leaves office, he’ll go back to partying with guys like Baldwin.

  107. Speaking of holidays, celebrations, and trying to be funny…

    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/cancel-new-years-eve-forever

    We have a new President, who is merely the devil we know and not the actual devil.

    Sam Hyde was right — some folks think Trump is the ol’ Cloven Hooves himself. Maybe he’s Dracula too, or the Kraken.

  108. I’m surprised that Kamala hasn’t turned on her mother and grandparents and called them racist.

    In this way at least, she is better than Barack Obama.

  109. @theMann
    Opening Day of Deer Hunting Season


    Canada's real national holiday.



    Lets take Kamala Deer Hunting - check out her skill set, ok, her other skill set, in no uncertain terms.

    Replies: @Kronos, @Stan d Mute

    Opening Day of Deer Hunting Season

    Canada’s real national holiday.

    You ain’t from around here are you? As a Detrioter who grew up watching his southern neighbors in Windsor (they showed boobies on CTV!), I think I can reliably inform you that beer hunting is more American than canuck (they hunt moose more though so there’s that) and that Canada’s national obsession was “Hockey Night with Don Cherry” until Don was cancelled for the usual reason.

  110. @Wade Hampton
    Thanks, Steve, for the merciless mockery of that mediocrity. Well done.

    But I hate to think that we are losing focus on the horrible plague that is SARS-CoV-2. To put things in perspective, perhaps we can reflect on the Black Death in Westphalia in the late 16th century. This gave rise to some of the most sublime music ever written. From Philipp Nicolai's biography in Bach-cantatas.com

    "...While he was pastor in Westphalia, the plague took 1300 of [Nicolai's] parishioners, mostly in the latter half of 1597, 170 in one week. To comfort his parishioners, he wrote a series of meditations which he called Freudenspiegel (Mirror of Joy), and to this he appended two hymns, both of which have become world-famous..."
     
    I believe that Bach borrowed the tunes and lyric for his "Wachet Auf, Rueft Uns Die Stimme"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCp5Q5xG9uc

    But Covid has given us "Wet Ass Pussy" while killing 5 out of a thousand, mostly people who would have died of something else anyway.

    Somebody needs to explain to me the Whig theory of history.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    It’s the Kali Yuga and the wheels are falling off but there’s still enough momentum in the juggernaut to destroy everything true.

  111. @Abolish_public_education
    @J.Ross

    In Congress, on Jan 6th.

    It would be fun to watch Ted Cruz argue to give her a pass.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    I want to believe.
    By the way, the Democrats have done all kinds of last-minute aggressive electoral challenges, with the biggest being Donald Frederickovich Trumponovski, but I’m sure CNN and NPR have memory-holed that: plus I don’t think any of those went anywhere. This one at least has merit but we know what most Republican congresscritters think about merit. Still the threshold is good for procedural chaos: at the right point you don’t need a majority, just a pair.

  112. @Anon
    @Achmed E. Newman


    1) Don’t plant Sycamores! Yeah, you get quick shade. The seed balls will eat on your shingle roof, and they were too big for me to cut down myself after only 8 years!
     
    Also, box elders and Chinaberry trees. Both beautiful trees, but they grow really fast and the roots will bore under or through anything. Our Chinaberry trees were weeds, probably from the poop of birds. Then all of a sudden they were the biggest trees in our garden.

    We had a Franklin tree, that was officially our slowest growing tree. Unfortunately it died. In colonial times a botanist collected some Franklin tree seeds in Georgia and planted them at an arboretum. But the tree was never found in the wild again, nor are there other species in the genus. The Franklin tree is kind of the silkworm or society finch of trees: a mysterious domesticated species with no wild analog.

    Replies: @Boy the way Glenn Miller played

    Also, box elders and Chinaberry trees. Both beautiful trees, but they grow really fast and the roots will bore under or through anything.

    Stay away from Tree of Heaven as well. I hate those f’ers. Stay away from Ginko trees also, unless you buy a male cultivar.

  113. @anonymous
    @Anon7

    Who cares about China when this country will be changed forever by internal forces? Caring about China will lead to some extra military spending...that goes to bombing Iran.

    Replies: @Anon7

    Because China has been at war with us for at least a generation; they’re just more clever about it. They took American intellectual property, put it into practice with slave labor standards, and they outperformed the world.

    Fifteen percent of graduate students in STEM fields are Chinese. What would you say if, in 1940, fifteen percent of engineering and science grad students were German nationals? A bad idea, no?

    The “internal forces” you talk about are all influenced and enhanced by China. How else did Joe Biden win the Presidency of the United States?

    When they have more money, they’ll have a bigger military, and then maybe you’ll pay attention. But then it will be too late, of course.

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