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A recent trend has been Middle Eastern immigrants, mostly Muslims but also Armenians, objecting to the Establishment pushing the gay and trans agenda. Sometimes they do it admirably through the parents rights movements, sometimes despicably through street violence.
For mainstream newspapers pushing the Democratic Party line, this immigrant vs. LGBT stuff is tricky because it raises questions about inherent tensions in the Democrats’ Coalition of the Fringes grand strategy. On the other hand, a gay was murdered in a hate crime, a black gay! So the story is too On-Narrative to not push heavily.
But the stabber is a Muslim teen whose friends objected to the gay display as offensive to Islam. So that’s Off-Narrative.
The usual solution is to hope that readers assume, out of racist bigotry, that the Brooklyn stabber must have been Archie Bunker IV, and hope the public doesn’t pry too much into the facts.
Here’s how the Daily Mail (purveyor of masses of facts to the Awkward Squad), New York Times, and Washington Post handle the off-Narrative fact that the black gay vougueing to Beyonce music in a Brooklyn parking lot was stabbed to death by a Muslim.
Three days ago, the Daily Mail reported:
Dancer O’Shae Sibley is shown vogueing at Brooklyn gas station before being stabbed to death by ’17-year-old Muslim suspect’ in ‘anti-gay hate crime’ as Beyonce pays tribute
O’Shae Sibley was stabbed on Saturday at a Mobil gas station in Midwood
Police have identified a Muslim 17-year-old as their suspect but have not yet arrested him
By JEN SMITH, CHIEF REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 08:50 EDT, 2 August 2023 | UPDATED: 09:47 EDT, 2 August 2023
Surveillance footage captured dancer O’Shae Sibley vogueing in the parking lot of a Brooklyn gas station on Saturday, moments before being stabbed to death in what police now say was an anti-gay hate crime.
Sibley, 28, was attacked at the Mobil Gas Station after being confronted while dancing with his friends to a Beyonce song.
He was shirtless and wearing shorts, which offended a group of young, ‘Muslim‘ teens nearby.
One is said to have yelled at him to stop dancing, shouting: ‘I’m Muslim‘.
So, the Daily Mail puts the fact that the stabber is a Muslim in the headline half a week ago.
In the New York Times today, three days after the Daily Mail revelation, there is an article about the arrest of the Muslim teen. But the role of Islam is buried down in the 11th paragraph and then is immediately wished away:
Summy Ullah, a 32-year-old gas station attendant who witnessed the confrontation, said one of the men who approached Mr. Sibley and his friends had said: “I’m Muslim. I don’t want this here.”
At the news conference on Saturday, flanked by leaders from the city’s gay and Muslim communities, Mr. Adams emphasized that Mr. Sibley’s killing was not evidence of hatred directed at L.G.B.T.Q. people by Muslims in New York, and spoke about how both groups have been victims of hate. The two communities “stand united against fighting any form of hate in this city,” he said.
And in the Washington Post today, there’s a 19 paragraph article on the arrest of the Muslim youth that goes on and on about anti-gay hate crimes and yet never mentions a single thing about the killer being Muslim.
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Teenager Is Charged in Killing of Dancer at Brooklyn Gas Station
He faces a charge of second-degree murder, which has been charged as a hate crime, in the fatal stabbing of Mr. Sibley, a gay man, last week.
https://archive.li/YKGfE
This kind of thing never ends well.
Man I’m losing track.
Joggers, amateur home inspectors, youths, teens, street performers, Michael Jackson impersonators, free hug guys, Skittles-lovers, student-athletes, and now “dancers” who do something called “vogueing.”
Is anybody else who comments here old enough to remember when the English word for an adherent of Islam was “Moslem”? Why did it change? Did someone decide that the Black Muslims were right and everybody else was wrong? Who was that someone? Just askin’.
“A talented dancer and choreographer” who was hanging out at a gas station in the middle of the night in his underwear … as talented dancers and choreographers are wont to do.
“Talented dancer and choreographer” is the new “aspiring rapper.” Or rather, the new “talented Michael Jackson subway dance impressionist.”
Did his dancing and choreography pay the rent? There should be a journalistic standard that any mention of a profession must be an actual source of income sufficient to support the person, not a hobby. So waitress or food delivery person rather than actress or actor. Or petty criminal and welfare recipient rather than whatever.
One thing that is clear from the video is that Black people can’t just dial things back when they start to get confrontational. Maybe he shouldn’t have been stabbed, but it would have been trivially easy for him to have avoided getting stabbed.
Coalition of the fringes unfurl.
Fascinating thread about the economic situation in Canada, which is being aggravated by mass immigration. Almost like a left-wing critique of mass immigration.
The comments are also really worth reading if you want to understand our neighbor to the north.
I didn’t realize how bad the situation has become up there.
Aspiring rappers, squeegee men, honor students…
OT — Former State Supreme Court Justice proves 2020 Wisconsin ballots should not have been certified.
https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/gableman-report/
OT — Clint Eastwood is dead.
RIP. He was doing quality work well into his dotage.
But isn’t his arrest “Islamophobic”? That should be treated as a hate crime, too.
Why the McCarran-Walter Act was never applied to Mohammedans is beyond me. Islam is even worse than Communism, in the long run.
If true, you’re faster than Wikipedia. He’s still alive over there. Maybe they’re waiting for an encyclopedic source.
However, his love life is there for all to see. Clint is an honorary black.
“ALLAH WILLS IT, BIGOT”! Still, going to be funny (for a certain sense of humor) as TCOTF breaks down.
No its a hoax.
Years ago I called WGN radio and spoke with the host,one Steve King. I informed him that,sadly,Woody Allen had died. I guess it was a more innocent time,circa 1982, but he bought it. The killjoys soon clogged the lines,declaiming the Good News that the Wood man lived yet. Mores the pity for the children of the world!😉
I hope it’s not that dire in the Great White North (aka “America’s Hat”). But the thread is describing the consequences of having your country run as a profit-making enterprise for financial elites.
Forget loyalty to “blood and soil.” Maximizing value to “shareholder” (the elite owners) requires an immigration Ponzi scheme to keep asset values as high as possible in comparison to wages (an expense item from the perspective of the owners).
Not that I like muslims, but I do consider the Establishment by far more despicable.
Oh, isn’t that sly. Toujours it’s purely an economic matter, compliments of the left wing bunch.
Everyone knows what happened at NASA re VGER.
Today it’s about public dancers (homo or not); tomorrow it’s people taking their dog for a walk. Just wait.
Never heard of vogueing, though. Is that a separate category in Islam’s forbidden activities?
One side effect of the latest indictment against Trump is that he is accused of not having any good faith basis to believe that the “fortified” 2020 election was rigged. Like it or not, that requires the nation to relitigate whether the 2020 election was, in fact, suspicious as hell.
For example, does anyone think it’s totally normal that a leftist oligarch (Zuckerberg) was put in charge of counting the votes in the key swing districts in the key swing states? Is it relevant that Zuck was subsequently shown to be a deep state asset assisting with internet manipulatIon and information suppression? Or that the agency charged with investigating fraud (the FBI) has been subsequently shown to be totally corrupt and working at all times for Biden, and against Trump?
Nah, I’m sure everything was fine and that it’s just an invalid “conspiracy theory” to think the Democrats and deep state could ever team up to get their favored candidate into office?
What made me think of Zuck was the #2 item on the retired Justice’s list of illegal Wisconsin election “irregularities:”
How could immigration law be applied to a religion? That would require asking them to state their religion. That has been a no-no since 1789. How will the government deal with someone who has lied?
Totem Pole, Totem Pole.
All is Totem Pole.
This sort of stuff is just a reminder of the obvious point that different peoples–with different norms–belong in different nations.
There isn’t any obvious “right” set of norms here. I don’t want to see homos “vogueing”–whatever the hell that is–either. But I’m not for stabbing them for it either. Again, different norms.
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Muslims is particular–the historic enemy civilization of the West–obviously do not belong in the West. Letting them invade is just nuts. It’s literally “duh” territory.
But pointing out that religious incompatibility/hostility/non-integrability is in fact quite legitimate reason to exclude people from your nation … well oh boy don’t go there! So we have Muslim invaders shoved up our ass and are supposed to never mention the screamingly obvious insanity of it.
Me too! Finally, I’m on the same side as the queers and muzzies.
Stop fighting hate and let everyone’s hate breathe free!
Some similarities to the Howard Beach racial attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Beach_racial_attack
Canada takes in an enormous number of third world immigrants every year – something like one million – and the Trudeau administration is proud enough of this policy to ‘own’ it, something that the contemptible creep and sneak Tony Blair was unable to do.
If we continue the comparison, Canada with its boundless, vast open spaces is suffering from an acute housing shortage, due to the fact of the sheer number of immigrants dumped on the nation every year vastly outstripping the capacity of the construction industry in coping with it. The United Kingdom – incidentally ruled by a Party which pledged to ‘control'(!) immigration – receives, annually, a substantially higher per capita intake of immigrants. Yet, the south east of England where the vast majority of the immigrants want to live is, basically, one of the most over developed, intensively settled and land constrained spots on earth.
– And the fools wonder why housing is unaffordable in the UK.
You read my mind. Reading the story, I kept saying to myself that neither one of these people belong here.
There’s nothing wrong with “maximizing shareholder value”. The problem is the nation’s shareholders are supposed to be the actual citizens of the nation–not some select group of looters. A nation is supposed to be run in the long term interests of its people. The whole “ourselves and our posterity” thing the American Founders put so well.
As Reg pointed out in on a recent thread, even in direct economic terms immigration to an advanced nation (like the US or Canada) is quite valuable and but has been cavalierly and corruptly just been given away. Even if you treated nations as nothing more than profit making joint-stock companies, Western leaders for the past several decades would all be in jail for betraying their fiduciary duty.
And yes I agree with you, nations are much, much more than that.
I’m remembering Henry Kissinger’s crack about the Iran-Iraq war.
I doubt it.
Meant to be funny, but it’s true as well. Everybody has a right to hate whoever he wants to hate, and to say so publicly. You just can’t kill them, under normal circumstances.
I don’t think Madonna started it.
I believe the constitutional ban on religious tests is for federal office, not entry or naturalization.
Voging (Vogueing?) was a thing in the late 80s and early 90s, where you danced by rigidly striking poses. Something like The Robot.
Well, we live in hope, especially after his last movie, which was shockingly bad.
But lately society has been rewarding those who are confrontational and a certain kind of evil.
In these sweepstakes, hard to pick between teen Muslims and gay Blacks. Too bad they can’t both lose.
“Relitigate”? The election was never litigated to begin with. It was just megaphoned into being. People who protested were summarily executed.
Among the Establishment and the Chattering Class, in the UK at least, I think there was in the past the assumption that (1) they were, on an individual level, morally, spiritually and intellectually superior to others, particularly immigrants, and (2) their nation was, as a consequence of (1), culturally more advanced compared to other nations of the Commonwealth. So immigrants would not pose a threat to them, and neither would the ambient culture be threatened, since immigrants would adopt to our customs and culture, since they will recognise that it is superior to their own.
But many children with parents from India (remember I am talking about the UK here) have shown themselves to be cleverer than the children of the Chattering Class. And Indians are taking all the good jobs and buying all the expensive property. They are “taking over”, if you like, but to the chagrin of the Chattering Class, it is they too, not just the deplorables, who are being dispossessed.
And people who follow the religion of Islam do not want to adopt to our “way of life”, such as it is, especially when it involves Gay Pride events in schools. So the country will change, and those values that the Chattering Class advocate will not be preserved.
But the Chattering Class know it is too late to do anything about it. The wagon is not approaching the cliff, it has already fallen off.
Thanks.
At the time, the first Narrative line was that, yes, there is some election fraud, but not enough to matter.
It was quickly realized that admitting any fraud is problematic, so it was a quick switch to “the election was totally pure and unsullied.”
OT but what’s the situation like in the States?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12377291/Defence-chiefs-sacked-5-000-soldiers-drug-abuse-just-five-years-figures-show.html
Elsewhere the Good Hitchens contrasts the coverage of Jan 6th with the coverage of an actual armed coup.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-12376823/PETER-HITCHENS-Meet-liberals-condemn-Trumps-failed-putsch-happily-condone-real-one.html
It’s likely the same reason a lot of cities have changed their spelling – some “expert” says “well actually it’s pronounced like this”
If all you do is look at a map you see lots of land in Canada.
Of course a lot of that space on the map is mosquito infested tundra – completely frozen in the winter (8 months) and bog in the summer (4 months).
I live in Canada. There’s a good reason most of the population is huddled up against the southern border.
“Good, let the hate flow through you…”
Trudeau us also in trouble with the gay/ trans stuff and Muslims. They’re the only ones pushing back on LGBT indoctrination for kids. Which shows what spineless losers native white Canadians are.
Don’t issue settler’s visas or temporary residency permits to people from problem countries. Then allow a dispensation for people from confessional minorities within problem countries, if they wish to provide proofs which can be verified by consular officials.
While Steve justly cites the Daily Mail favorably for forthrightly stating the suspect is Muslim, event the Daily Mail uncritically accepts the narrative that the deceased had been “vogueing”.
Before this incident, I had not been completely clear on what vogueing is. Something homosexuals do, I supposed. Judging by this incident though, it seems to refer to sexual inverts in a possibly dangerous state of psychosis. Or more generally, it could be defined as the latest of Big Media’s scrolling list of excuses for threatening behavior from its favored classes.
Muslims and gays “standing together”? Presumably, not one in front of the other.
Car Wash, 1976
“Lindy Disses Duane”
This scene illustrates the inter-male dynamics which precipitated this current news story.
Note that the Black Muslim’s disapproval is that the semi-tranny gay guy is abasing HIMSELF as a man.
Note the gay guy has no hesitation about getting in the Black Muslim guy’s face and insulting him. In this scene, the gay guy feels, correctly, he has the crowd on his side, so is not worried. But he could be wrong.
“Gays” think they can excuse themselves from the Unwritten Law of Man World: If you provoke the wrong guy, he might beat you up. Right or wrong, that’s a fact.
(I have twice been on the receiving end of this from white urban tough kids as a naive wiseass bigmouth from the suburbs.)
Pretty sure this is the plot of a T.C. Boyle story.
If you go back a bit further they were called Mohammedans. I have a vague memory that the objection to that – perhaps a fabricated objection – was that they did not worship M in the way that Christians worshipped Christ. M was their prophet not their God.
To which I might reply that Buddhists don’t worship Buddha, his being a Teacher, not a God. Similarly Lutherans, Calvinists, …
I was in the Toronto airport last week and was astounded at the number of SE Asians not only as passenger, but also workers up to and including Customs. I am old enough to remember when Canada was a nice quiet Commonwealth country.
I’ve been thinking that since about September 12th, 2001. But the McCarran-Walter Act, like all pre-[anti-]Civil Rights law, is now effectively dead letter, overthrown by our de facto second constitution, enthroned in the cultural revolution of the 1960s.
Things have gotten so bad now that one may say that “If there is hope, it lies in the … Muslims.”
Those whose memories stretch back to the 2000s may recall that this was the explanation we were given as to how the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan.
Is anybody else who comments here old enough to remember when the English word for an adherent of Islam was “Moslem”?
Yes. I also remember when “Shia” was “Shi’ite”, “Beijing” was “Peking” and “Mumbai” was “Bombay”.
Why did it change?
Same reason that “Kiev” changed to “Kyiv”: pretentious, self-unaware clowns who hold the media megaphone want to pretend that they’re on the bleeding edge of every trend, even though the dumb fucks were sure in 2016 Trump had no chance of ever becoming president. That’s why.
A “Muslim” teen. That’s nice. From what country? Iran? Syria? Somalia? Indonesia? Is it Kevin Barrett’s son?
“I’m muslim. I don’t want that here” Unmentioned is the real conflict: The War of Self-Entitlement being waged between these groups.
Guess what Uni, you don’t belong “here” in the first place. And frankly, neither does the homosexual negro.
A few interesting things from the video:
1. O’Shae is wearing nothing but a very revealing thong (not even shoes), strutting around the gas station parking lot when the video first starts;
2. the stabber (red shorts) actually turns around and goes back into the gas station when he first sees this, and then spends most of the rest of the video in the background recording the confrontation on his phone but not participating;
3. it’s only when the groups begin to disperse that the stabber and O’Shea are left alone and appear to interact for the first time, but the discussion between them looks pretty civil and then O’Shae walks back to the car to leave;
4. at that point, the stabber apparently yells some kind of slur, because O’Shae and two others come back toward him;
5. the kid is backing up in retreat the whole time they approach, and, even though the stabbing is mostly off-camera, you can see that O’Shea was clearly the aggressor and was attacking the kid.
I doubt NY will show the kid any leniency, but other than whatever he yelled to get them to come back, the kid really wasn’t being aggressive or much involved at all in the whole confrontation and was clearly trying to escape when he stabbed O’Shea.
I didn’t realize how bad the situation has become up there.
Dude, check out some of the Canada threads on /pol/ sometime. Ontario now has a per capita GDP on par with Alabama.
How could immigration law be applied to a religion?
Because even the most liberal interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment does not protect any rights of any person who is a foreigner living abroad.
I gather that it was/is a way that homosexuals advertised themselves to prospective sexual partners.
Madonna’s 1990 music video put a media-friendly “fashion/style” wrapper on it, but even by the end of that video, the wrapper was literally unraveling.
To steal a phrase, much of our largest news outlets reporting is geared around which facts the public shouldn’t know, lest it reflect unfavorably upon the left and its shibboleths.
Even the more honest figures at major publications like Thomas Edsall lard up their columns with quotes and figures that favor the left’s favored narrative at the outset before a few dissenting or contrary points of view are sprinkled in towards the end.
OT: An excellent article on how Jesse Jackson remade the Democratic Party.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/how-jesse-jackson-remade-the-democratic-party/
Does he have a gofundme
Love means nothing unless it means hating that which threatens the object of your love.
The euphemisms they come up with for black thugs is intrigueing. I wonder if they give an award for best one at the end of the year?
One has to go back to the ’90’s to understand “vogueing”…see Madonna’s song.
If all you do is look at a map you see lots of land in Canada.
Of course a lot of that space on the map is mosquito infested tundra – completely frozen in the winter (8 months) and bog in the summer (4 months).
And much of the rest is in the Canadian shield, which is pretty nearly bare rock unsuitable for many economic activities.
A curious factor has arisen in UK politics of late, that is the wholesale rejection of the Conservative Party in its former rock solid political heartland of the south east of England, in particular what are termed the ‘Home Counties’.
Basically, the Home Counties consist of that part of England bordering the periphery of Greater London, and stretching 50 to 100 miles or so from the center of London. Within its environs are to be found some of the most affluent and exclusive neighborhoods in the UK, and the traditional power base of the Conservatives. Also to be found in the Home Counties is gorgeous, verdant English countryside, of the type that inspired poets.
Due to the enormous population growth afflicting the UK in the last two decades, which is purely political motivated and driven solely and wholly by uncontrolled mainly third world immigration, housing accomodation in the UK, particularly in London has become scarce in the extreme and as a consequence utterly unaffordable.
The only solution is to build on the beautiful Home Counties countryside – the Tories keep trying to initiate it, but at every attempt they are stymied by a *massive* by election defeat, usually to the blatantly immigrationist Liberal Democrats, ironically enough. The informed and intelligent voters of the Home Counties just won’t have it. This has the Tories shit scared and quaking in their boots. They don’t know what to do, but as always, duplicity wins out, and expect a whole load of lies to be told, and the ‘greenfield’ housing development to come to pass.
Of course, there’s no real choice. Beautiful meadows, woods, fields and copses filled with the mellifluous calls of English songbirds – or yet another boatload of wogs.
Of course, the bastards at The Economist will take the wogs until the last splinter of wood vanishes from England. Forever.
These bastards must be stopped.
Like Peking and Beijing, I guess. It always was supposed to be pronounced Bay-Jing, but most methods of transliteration are hopelessly stupid, clumsy and unworkable to all but linguists.
But people still call Pekingese dogs “Peekinese” not Beijingese, AFAIK. 🙂 However, it may be just a matter of time before you will be fined for not saying Beijingese.
But what excuse do they have for changing the spelling of Kiev (this has worked fine for eons) into Kyiv? God save us from the intelligentsia.
OT — Long, good piece on the Chinese economy from Ellis Items.
1. Ho-Fung Hung:
It would be wrong to think that external factors have radically altered China’s prospects. Rather, the country’s gradual decline started more than a decade ago. Those who closely analyzed the data, beyond the buzzing business districts and flashy building developments, detected this economic malaise as early as 2008. Back then, I wrote that China was entering a typical over-accumulation crisis. Its booming export sector had raked in a huge amount of foreign reserves since the mid-1990s. In its closed financial system, exporters must surrender their foreign earnings to the central bank, which creates equivalent RMB to mop up the foreign currencies. This led to the rapid expansion of RMB liquidity in the economy, mostly in the form of bank loans. Because the banking system is tightly controlled by the party-state – with state-owned or state-connected enterprises serving as the fiefdoms and cash cows of elite families – the state sector enjoyed privileged access to state bank loans, which were used to fuel an investment spree. The result was rising employment, a temporary and localized economic boom, and a windfall for the elite. But this dynamic also left behind redundant and unprofitable construction projects: empty apartments, underused airports, excessive coal plants and steel mills. That, in turn, resulted in falling profits, slowing growth and worsening indebtedness across the main sectors of the economy.
Throughout the 2010s, the party-state periodically undertook new lending in an attempt to arrest the slowdown. But many enterprises simply took advantage of easy bank loans to refinance their existing debt without adding new spending or investment to the economy. These companies eventually became loan addicts; and as with any addiction, increasing doses were needed to generate diminishing effects. Over time, the economy lost its dynamism as zombie enterprises were kept alive through debt alone: a classic case of the ‘balance-sheet recession’ that roiled Japan after its boom ended in the early 1990s. Yet just as these woes became increasingly clear to insiders in the early 2010s, they were censored in official media, which amplified Lin’s upbeat assessment. Meanwhile in the Western world, a web of Wall Street bankers and corporate executives had reason to suppress more skeptical analyses, as they continued to profit off luring investors into China. The illusion of limitless high-speed growth thus ruled the day at the very moment when the economy entered its most serious crisis since the outset of the market reform era………
“Muslim” is the English transliteration of the Arabic word for a followers if Islam. “Moslem” reflects the Persian pronunciation. For centuries Persians and Turks were the dominant thinkers and rulers in Islam, and western terminology followed their example. The switch to “Muslim” in part traces to emphasizing the Arabic roots of Islam and partly, probably, to Saudi Arabias oil wealth and its use to promote Islam.
OT — German physicists react to Fat Man.
Transcript of Surreptitiously Taped Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hall (August 6-7, 1945)
I. Preamble.
1. This report covers the first reactions of the guests to the news that an atomic bomb had been perfected and used by the Allies.
2. The guests were completely staggered by the news. At first they refused to believe it and felt that it was bluff on our part, to induce the Japanese to surrender. After hearing the official announcement they realized that it was a fact. Their first reaction, which I believe was genuine, was an expression of horror that we should have used this invention for destruction.
[ . . . ]
II. 6th August, 1945.
1. Shortly before dinner on the 6th August I informed Professor HAHN that an announcement had been made by the B.B.C. that an atomic bomb had been dropped. HAHN was completely shattered by the news and said that he felt personally responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, as it was his original discovery which had made the bomb possible. He told me that he had originally contemplated suicide when he realized the terrible potentialities of his discovery and he felt that now these had been realized and he was to blame. With the help of considerable alcoholic stimulant he was calmed down and we went down to dinner where he announced the news to the assembled guests.
2. As was to be expected, the announcement was greeted with incredulity. The following is a transcription of the conversation during dinner.
[ . . . ]
HEISENBERG: I don’t believe a word of the whole thing. They must have spent the whole of their £500,000,000 in separating isotopes; and then it’s possible.
WEIZSÄCKER: If it’s easy and the Allies know it’s easy, then they know that we will soon find out how to do it if we go on working.
HAHN: I didn’t think it would be possible for another twenty years.
WEIZSÄCKER: I don’t think it has anything to do with uranium.
[ . . . ]
DIEBNER: We always thought we would need two years for one bomb.
HAHN: If they have really got it, they have been very clever in keeping it secret.
WIRTZ: I’m glad we didn’t have it.
WEIZSÄCKER: That’s another matter. How surprised BENZER(?) would have been. They always looked upon it as a conjuring trick.
WIRTZ: DOEPEL, BENZER(?) and Company.
HAHN: DOEPEL was the first to discover the increase in neutrons.
HARTECK: Who is to blame?
(?) VOICE: HAHN is to blame.
WEIZSÄCKER: I think it’s dreadful of the Americans to have done it. I think it is madness on their part.
HEISENBERG: One can’t say that. One could equally well say “That’s the quickest way of ending the war.”
HAHN: That’s what consoles me
https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=2320&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
I like ‘motorist’, it paints a certain mental picture.
In the video I saw, the black gay seemed to be going after the Muslim kid. Self defense.
“Let’s not argue about who killed who! Let’s all come together as one, and vilify whitey the way we’re supposed to!”
(Is there some group which hasn’t been “victims of hate”?)
Canada has (acknowledged) immigration of about 450,000 people per year, and a population of only 40 million. That is (acknowledged) immigration of over 1.1% of it’s population per year – equivalent to the US admitting 3.6 million legal immigrants per year – about 3x our current rate.
To put it bluntly, that is batcrap crazy. Canada only has about 360,000 births per year, so Canada is importing immigrants (~90% non-white) faster than it is having new children of its own.
There is absolutely no case for that rate of immigration. None whatsoever. There is no “labor shortage” that would ever justify such a massive rate of immigration. It is pure population replacement. The oligarch billionaires want serfs, and the politicians want to replace the voters with those more to their liking.
The article I found quotes Sean Fraser, just recently the Liberal Party’s immigration minister, saying:
Got that? Developers are telling him they need more (cheap) labor? When in all of fucking history have developers ever said they want less labor? Never.
Developers have another reason, besides cheap labor, for wanting more people: the demand side. They want more people in the market to drive up demand for their product. That drives up both prices and volume. Construction prices and demand are heavily driven by population growth. Without population growth the only market for their product is mostly just replacement or renovation of older housing stock. Mass immigration doesn’t increase their profits by a few percent. It increases them 2-3-10 fold – or more.
And the alternative to these “liberals”? Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who makes no promises about how much he will reduce immigration (because he won’t), had this to say:
Got that? “Commonsense” immigration reform, where immigration #’s are decided by:
1) Billionaire businessmen who claim labor shortages and want to hold wages down.
2) “Charities” funded by those same billionaire businessmen, or by the taxpayers, who pay some small fraction of the cost of bringing someone there, then dump the future cost on…the taxpayers.
3) Existing immigrants just bringing in more of their family.
The Western world has gone mad. Thanks for the link. I’ve long thought Canada’s immigration policies were insane. It’s comforting to know the shit may soon hit the fan, before the population replacement is totally irreversible.
I do, and I comment accordingly. If you search any comment I’ve written here and any blog post of mine, any instance of “Muslim” rather than “Moslem” is a typo.
Yes, Peking, been there, wore the MAGA hat.
Never heard? Generation old term for prancing around like a fag.
This reminds me of the time the mayor of NYC or the governor of NY said something to the effect of “Anyone who doesn’t support abortion rights isn’t welcome in New York and should leave!” and my immediate thought was “Okay, so when are the Pakistanis, ardent Catholic Latinos and Orthodox Jews going to be asked to leave? You certainly won’t be exiling many straight white men.”.
They keep thinking the face of hate has blue eyes and a North West European name. As Steve has noted many times the more North West European and the less recent the immigrant ancestry a person in America has, the less ethnocentric and live and let live they are. We all understand this emotionally but intellectually we’re not allowed to understand it.
OT — Why do we suck now?
https://gaiusbaltar.substack.com/p/why-is-the-west-so-weak-and-russia
You would think so, but I believe some courts – perhaps the Court – has ruled otherwise.
Keep in mind that would be the same Court that ruled, in 1982, that states have to provide taxpayer-funded public education to the children of illegal aliens.
The best the US could probably get away with doing is banning immigration from countries that are Muslim-majority. And even that might not pass the Court, if it decided that the government was using country-of-origin as a proxy for religion.
A hundred years or so ago we could have easily barred Muslims from immigrating. But that was back when this country was still reasonably sane.
So it’s another “brownoid commits violence, White men at fault” claim. White men have super mind control powers that induce nonwhites to commit violence and terrorism. Nonwhites have no agency, they are mere thralls of the devious White puppetmaster with unparalleled psychic powers.
I knew Canada had invasion problems of its won, but I hadn’t known the numbers were THAT high until reading this, Johnny. I take it this was a commenter, but this u/Rain_Coast fellow was somewhat I would have wanted to read more from until this contradiction:
versus:
WTF?!
1) Yes, you can put the blame on the pols., but you can’t come to them to fix it. You’ve got to deal with the invading peoples in question, name-calling or not.
2) Which is it? Is it racist to criticize immigration or not?* The guy started out very good with the facts, but it turned out he’s a dumbass.
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* The answer shouldn’t matter anyway, if you’re serious about this problem.
Not very well, which is why it should be tied to race. Middle Eastern countries shouldn’t be barred from immigration because of Islam, they should be barred because their inhabitants aren’t White. A lot of conservatives don’t want to admit that, but a Muslim ban is to keep browns out. They should stop trying to satisfy the jackals who won’t them dead and make a full-throated case for racial exclusion. But they won’t do that as long as jews are funding the GOP.
And the Mayor has other plans for NYC: Favelas
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/08/nyc-may-house-95000-migrants-in-central-park-and-other-parks/
“Keep in mind that would be the same Court that ruled, in 1982 …”
Thomas is the most senior member of the current Court and he was appointed in 1991. So in a way it is a different Court.
Gloria and Mike’s grandson?
Keep in mind that would be the same Court that ruled, in 1982, that states have to provide taxpayer-funded public education to the children of illegal aliens.
Those aliens were living in the U.S. The Fourteenth Amendment reads thus:
Notice that it says “person” in this section and not “citizen.” Of course, the original intent of that was obviously only to secure the rights of citizens, but a plausible interpretation (though an specious, textualist one) would hold it to apply to any person residing in the US regardless of legal status.
By no reasonable stretch of the imagination, though, could constitutional rights rights be interpreted as applying to noncitizens residing abroad.
The best the US could probably get away with doing is banning immigration from countries that are Muslim-majority. And even that might not pass the Court, if it decided that the government was using country-of-origin as a proxy for religion.
A hundred years or so ago we could have easily barred Muslims from immigrating. But that was back when this country was still reasonably sane.
Prior to Trump’s SCOTUS pics, I would have agreed. SCOTUS was coming close to abandoning any pretense of the rule of law and declaring itself a second branch of the legislature. But things are different now.
Is there any precedent under which federal government has discriminated (negatively) based on the religion of a person? I know there have been instances of positive discrimination.
e.g. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1158
Islam is a religion, but it is not only a religion. It is just as much a political creed, a dangerous one, and could be treated exactly like Communism.
Likewise, banning political parties is undemocratic. But any revival of the NSDAP is banned in Germany– as it was also a criminal gang. There is little difference, if you think about it, between MS-13 and the Democratic Party. The former may even have dealt in slavery, Indian removal, and the bombing of civilians at times.
banning immigration from countries that are Muslim-majority
Even that failed spectacularly when enacted through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769
Even respected conservatives/Republicans were aghast, though it was not religious discrimination, at least explicitly.
Follow up to this: BALTAR IS RIGHT. tldr, a successful conspiracy of the incompetant against they who speak to plants. We must wear the outer garment of the law.
This song was a huge hit for Madonna, going double platinum.* It was written by a white guy,one Shep Pettibone. He is some kind of mega DJ song remixer.
Shep: Hey Madonna,I’ve finished the Vogue song!
Madonna: That’s great,WE’VE finished the Vogue song!
Shep:We? But I-oh.
Yes,Madonna shared credit on the song.
I recall when it came out,Madonna took some flack for ” appropriting” black culture. The song is steeped in “whiteness,” as it references a bunch of stars of yore like Gene Kelly,Fred Astaire,Joltin’ Joe,etc. I didn’t see Hattie McDaniel up in there!
” I don’t know nothing’ bout no Vogue!”
*I don’t know why this was such a big hit,I think it tapped into a ” strain” of culture that women found very appealing. 😮
But do government programs like free public education have anything to do with “equal protection of the laws”? I’m barred from attending classes at the local high school, because I’m 47. Am I being denied “equal protection”? There are about a million other government programs I don’t qualify for, either.
As it was, the extremely liberal 1982 Court ruled only just barely in favor of the illegals, by 5-4. IIRC, they didn’t even come up with any overall doctrine supporting their decision. It was cobbled together from 3-4 concurring opinions.
I mostly agree, but the current Court seems to be mostly untested on the issue of immigration, and when it has been tested it has not always ruled in favor of the conservative position. If it ever was tested again on the issue of education I fear, even with all of its “conservatives,” it would rule even more strongly in favor of the illegals. This insane notion that we are somehow obligated to provide public benefits to people we are allegedly trying to rid from our country has far deeper roots that it had 40 years ago.
Not a good metric (though looks correct in this case). See Richard Lynn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn
https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2023/07/eulogy-for-richard-lynn-1930-2023/
The talk and history at the Wikipedia page are both interesting and entertaining. I guess in The Current Year being canceled extends to acknowledgement of death.
Yes, and the so-called Muslim ban only applied to seven countries, of the 50 or so Muslim-majority countries in the world. It applied to about 12% of the global Muslim population.
It didn’t apply to Saudi Arabia, despite the fact that most of the 9/11 terrorists came from there. It didn’t apply to Pakistan (origin of the San Bernardino terrorists, and the country that sheltered Bin Laden for a decade).
And going back still further they were called Mahometans.
https://www.feelingeurope.eu/Pages/Mohammedans.html
There is a rumor online, that everytime you see the “hoax” death of a celebrity, the person did actually die that day, the next time you see that celebrity, it will be either a clone made from his cells, with his memory uploaded through computer, or someone else wearing a very expensive mask.
Imagine a US with no blacks, Muslims, and Mestizos/Amerindians. But in 20-years they’ll be the majority.
As the singer sang, “Try That in a Somali Town” …
I spent several months in Vancouver on a job. Beautiful, low crime city. The people were great, the black population was close to zero. As near as 2019 I was still thinking about applying for permanent residency. Unfortunately it seems the Great White North is second only to Ukraine in becoming a feudal, digital prison, globohomo vassal state.
Same word with a trivial difference in spelling
“a dangerous one”
Pauline Christianity is much too pacified to defeat the current Adversary and its army of corporate, financial, and government archons. The West is entirely captured: the countervailing force will have to be generated in the East. That includes Islam. Another reason to become allied with the East: robes. A god worthy of worship would never require men to wear pants.
No. That’s what minoritarians want you to believe, but it’s utter nonsense.
The 1st Amendment:
This in no way shape or form prohibits Congress from picking and choosing whom–if anyone at all–to allow to settle in the US–which is properly an entirely a prerogative of the American people. Basically, immigration is a completely political question. (And which the default is properly “no one”, then exceptions made for the rare individuals who would both be compatible, not cause trouble and add value.)
This bizarre idea that a religious compatibility screen is illegal is, objectively, laughable–both as a matter of Constitutional law and basic practicality. It is entirely a product of Jewish minoritarianism/anti-nationalism–including this “immigration is a right!” idea–that has been installed as part of minoritarian replacement constitution. The coup against America.
India has the third largest population of Muslims in the world. Banning immigration from India would be a great move because you avoid discrimination by religion, and you get to stop more Indians from immigrating from the second largest country on earth soon to be the first.
“But people still call Pekingese dogs “Peekinese” not Beijingese, AFAIK.”
I always thought you pronounced the hard g, as in “Peking Geese”. I figured it referred to the kind of meat you were getting if you ordered Peking Duck in a low end Chinese restaurant. Nice change from the Kung Pao Kitten.
Clint is in the quantum celebrity state. Nobody knows if he’s alive or dead until someone looks him and flips the state.
That Reddit thread was eye-opening as to Canadian economics, but the hundreds of replies were also interesting. Dozens of Reddit liberals acknowledging that immigration was a problem but hoping they’re not -and hoping they won’t think of themselves- as racist.
Also that thread reinforces my belief that it’s meaningless to be called “fascist” anymore. Some of those Reddiots in that thread clearly define anyone to the right of center-left as fascist.
Meh. I think we should bar all immigrants, regardless of race, creed of color — but if it comes down to it, I’d rather have Turks than Hindus, for example. I’ve really nothing in particular against Muslims.
…the whole thing leads me somewhere I don’t want to go, since I don’t want anyone coming here, but I’ll point out that Mexicans and Central Americans are actually relatively tolerable since they have a pretty good idea of what America is, and generally want to join it. You just have to get used to the idea of people being somewhat shorter and browner than they used to be.
After that, well…no subsaharan Africans, that much should be obvious. I think the further people are from Western Europe, the more alien they are — but ‘Christian’ Romanians can be just as bad as ‘Muslim’ Turks, if not worse. I don’t want Moroccans — but I don’t want Hmong either. It’s got little to do with religion.
As the saying goes:
The media used to tell you what happened and you had to decide what you thought about it.
Now they tell you what to think about something, and you have to decide if it happened.
As I recall, some States had deemed slaves, or blacks in general, not to be citizens, e.g., “bondsmen”. So the Fourteenth Amendment said “persons” rather than “citizens” to make it clear that it was giving blacks equal rights and those States couldn’t weasel out by saying, “Oh, but they’re not Citizens!”.
OTOH, it also says, “within its jurisdiction”, so therefore it obviously doesn’t apply to foreigners, but as FOB* Hawaiian judge Derrick Kahala Watson showed, what 14A actually says has nothing to do with the many uses that the legal Left puts it to.
The Fourteenth Amendment has been bent out of all recognition by the twentieth century’s legal innovations, and so has been reduced to a handmaid of whatever perversity the legal Left dreams up.
In the 21st century, the Supreme Court, led by Justice Thomas has halted a few of the Left’s misuses of 14A, and Thomas has signaled a willingness to roll back more of the abuses. But it takes five Justices to do that, and the three communist Justices will never cooperate, Roberts is unreliable, and the three Trump appointees have so far not proven themselves. Besides Thomas, only Alito is stalwart.
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*Friend Of Barack
Elections are supposed to be up to the legislatures and the governors to set up and run appropriately. Judges don’t really like wading into election disputes. They don’t have a bunch of populist constituents to back them up and don’t command an army. Bush-Gore-Florida is the first time I can remember people hanging on a court decision to see who wins an election. The US was not formerly a banana republic so this is kind of new territory.
Then how do you account for the saying, ‘better the Turk than the Frank’ being so prevalent among Greeks of the late Middle Ages? For their part, as early as the Second Crusade, ‘the Franks’ avowed their preference for the Turks rather than the Greeks.
While Islam hardly belongs in the West, this Islamophobia is something dreamed up and pushed on us by Zionists. There’s nothing in particular wrong with Islam. To say it’s ‘the historic enemy civilization of the West’ amounts to little more than saying it’s the one that happens to be next door.
Unitarians worship an absolute unit.
Who cares if the election was rigged…Ashley Babbit was a retard lesbian murdered by a nonwhite LEGAL IMMIGRANT…
When the elections are this close it means next 4 election cycles the Democrats win decisively for racial reasons…
I defy any of Steve’s readers to tell me that Trump doesn’t hate the NATIVE BORN WHITE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS….Trump serves the Jews and nobody else…
OT:
August 6, 1945:
Some do, but that’s paganism, not Buddhism, which is more a philosophical school.
Let’s hope people don’t wish you dead based on the quality of your filmography.
Mariah Carey lately has been taking all the credit for “All I Want for Christmas is You”, despite the rather obvious fact that, barely out of her teens, she was very much the junior partner to her Brazilian producer. It wouldn’t matter, except that AIW4XiU is about the only post-1970 Christmas song one could imagine hearing on the radio before 1960, when they still knew how to create standards.
Not only did the spelling change, but the pronunciation of Muslim has gone from “muz-” to “mooz-” to “mooss-” over the years. It makes me want to go back to Mussulman, or even Saracen.
Closer to home, what’s with the pronunciation of result, ultimate, multiple, etc? When did the U change from that of cull and lull to that of pull and full? You hear this a lot on business podcasts, videos, lectures, etc. IIRC (it’s been a few weeks), Mark Rober on YouTube is as bad on this sound as JJ McCullough is with his hyper-Canuck out-and-about thing.
Is this a West Coast thing, a “generational” change, or what?
Musselmen they used to be called I believe.
And any interaction between Musselmen and black rent boys might bear close examination.
“Did the nycpd and new york post conspire to stage a hate crime murder hoax?”
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2023/07/did-nycpd-and-new-york-post-conspire-to.html
Sort of. He’s not exactly–that epitome of eugenics–Desmond Hatchett. Eastwood actually supported–his numerous kids. (As far as we know and excepting the early adoptee.)
He’s really just the classic rich, high-status “alpha” who appeals to women. But like another notable alpha with children from multiple women–Trump–while Eastwood has a lot of affairs and a lot of kids, the actually “yield” from the women is pretty low.
Going by wikipedia, Eastwood had two kids with his first wife and two from the stewardess. But just one from the Roxanne Tunis (the dancer and Rawhide stuntwoman), one from Frances Fisher, just one from Dina, his newscaster 2nd wife, and zero from Sandra Locke. And as far as I can tell, none of them had children with anyone else. So for these six women he is known to have been with for a number of years–seven kids. TFR–1.17. Not South Korea, but something like Singapore.
Eastwood’s a very well put together guy, but he has taken some pretty attractive women and not done much with them. For instance, he married the–quite fetching–newscaster gal when she was 29 and in 19 years with her … one kid. Meeting lots of media folks and various movers and shakers, she should have been able to find a high quality husband and had three. Same with Trump. Only one kid from all-American girl Marla Maples. Only one kid from all-Slovenian girl Melania. That’s a waste of scarce resources.
“ You would think so, but I believe some courts – perhaps the Court – has ruled otherwise.”
Foreigners do not directly have any immigration or visa rights. However, a loophole that sounds semi reasonable has now swallowed the rule: US citizens have rights related to entry of foreigners. For example, the sound doctrine of consular nonreviewability has an exemption when the foreigner is related to an American who wants to import his wife or child.
We can hope the Supreme Court will close the loophole, but Roberts and all three of Trump’s justices are suspect.
Ironically the best were appointed by the pro-migration Bushes: Thomas and Alito.
In some of my old books they are called musselmen.
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Musselman
IME Asians in Toronto and New York (and elsewhere) act as though it’s their country now and we are the interlopers. We whose families built these nations from scratch.
It’s particularly grating when they are staffing the immigration checkpoints and act as though your passport or driver’s license is extremely suspect.
Yeah, it’s Hiroshima Day–now “Oppenheimer Day”.
Truth is the US slaughtered lots of Japanese civilians well before the nuclear bombings.
In Germany the US could at least pretend it was bombing an oil refinery or a steel mill or a ball bearing plant or a railyard, and kind of sort of try to do so, although the reality, anyone within a mile or so was effectively the target. And even then there were these firebombing raids Hamburg and notoriously the British bombing of Dresden.
But in Japan, there was a lot of “workshop industry”. War production not just in recognizable factories, but in small workshops spread throughout essentially wooden cities. If the US was going to attack war production, then it was really just goinging to be bombing and burning Japanese cities. And that is what the US did once they had the B-29. The March Tokyo firebombing raid was equally or more deadly than the nuclear attacks. And that was one night. And we kept it up.
Nuclear weapons have been a big benefit to mankind in suppressing the possibility of a repeated of the sort of mass global slaughter of the War. And the insane arms race spending–and mandatory service–of major powers to be ready for such a war. It’s a bit like a teenager getting the keys to the car. Now you need to grow up and act responsibly. Something that all the major powers should have done–but failed to do in 1914 and 1939.
War obviously continues. But the great powers have managed to confine themselves to bullying small fry and side show skirmishing and avoid escalating to all the chips on the table war.
Is this legit? If so, it’s somewhere between incredible and horrifying.
Canada used to be something like the USA without so many of its worst vices. No more, apparently. Of course, the USA is worse now too.
Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei are SE Asian countries in Commonwealth.
What will news report when Elvis and Jim Morrison die?
O’Shae Sibley = Is as-hole. Bye!
If William Barr (Trump’s Attorney General) believes there is no fraud, should he be trusted or suspected to be a deep stater or a Democrat/Biden supporter? Is Facilitate Increased In-Person and Absentee Voting, presumably in locales with lower propensity of voting, illegal or an irregularity?
It’s good to see the old jokes every once in a while.
One I’ve come to loathe is “advancement” for “advance”. Or the misplacing of “below” as in “the below graph” instead of “the graph below”.
One I’ve started to chuckle at is the American Redundant Preposition (though it might better be called a postposition).
Thus, it used to be that a sailor would moor, now he moors up; a driver would park, now he parks up. “Up” seems to be the favourite though I’ve also spotted “out” and “in”. Is “down” used in the same way?
Thirteen million Jews aren’t that powerful.
Islam means “submission”. Yours. No ally is worth that. No one who demands that is an ally.
Are you one of those officers with a mirror on a stick, checking to see that the kilted are indeed going regimental?
YAA: Be careful, man. You’re going to call the wrath of John Johnson down on yourself.
After 9/11 I heard some TV commentator proclaim that “the destruction of the World Trade Center is one of the greatest war crimes in the history of humanity!”
During World War II it would have been just another drop of blood in the River Styx.
I read that when it was crossposted to Larry Johnson’s Sonar21.com page.
Unnecessarily complicated and pointless.
The US has more than enough people. (Our population has more than doubled during my lifetime and the joint is noticeably more crowded.)
The correct, straightforward and easily “saleable” immigration fix is “Enough!!!” “We have enough people and do not need to be importing anymore. Rather we need to preserve opportunities, jobs, housing … and space–for our own children and grandchildren.”
Furthermore if we are running in fear of “discrimination!” then we’ve already lost.
“Discrimination” is a good thing. Identifying and choosing particular people, things, ideas that are beneficial over those that are not–discrimination–is the most important human skill. And “discrimination” used to be understood that way–a positive quality, a sign of good sense and good taste.
Conservatives can not win, by trying to play within the minoritarians’ anti-civilizational rule-book. Either we throw out the minoritarians and their toxic ideology and then can work to recover and preserve our civilization …. or we die.
He’d still have to be Archie Stivck, III., if anything. He could be Meathead the 3rd, in a long line of Meatheads to come from that crowd… the Reiners and that “cup of coffee a day” broad …
;-}
LOL yep. Two world wars, a literal speck. Millions and millions dead and the West disappears into the twilight.
The economy is expanding to meet the needs of expanding economy.
LOL! (Sort of.)
No, when you are referring to the mutt, I don’t think you say that hard G, but let’s wait on some prominent member of the Westminster Kennel Club to show up here and tear a strip off my hide.
Rebecca Grant of Air Force Magazine (now Air & Space Forces Magazine; does that make her “establishment”?) suggests that it was in the interests of several different and antagonistic sides to
blow upexaggerate the impact of Dresden:Thet beilieve in at most one God andd address their prayers to Whom It May Concern.
The initial consonant, written P in the old system and B in the new, is actually an unaspirated, voiceless bilabial plosive. It’s essentially the P of French. In English, P is aspirated and unvoiced, and B voiced and unaspirated. The aspirated and unaspirated are written P and B in pinyin, P’ and P in the earlier system.
The middle consonant is just as weird to us. Something like the soft Slavic D, as in the Russian gde. The final consonant, mercifully, is the same as English. Of course, both vowels take tones. So four of the five phonemes are unpronounceable to English speakers.
I tell people I say “Peking” because I can never get the tones right! (The local university agrees.)
Ironically, the most unique phoneme in English, our R, is only heard in one other major language. That happens to be Mandarin Chinese, specifically in the Peking dialect.
“Park up” is completely new to me. What’s annoying is the redundancies, e.g., continue on.
Edwin Newman was a newsman who was kind of our own Lynne Truss back in the 1970s. He complained about different than; it was supposed to be different from. (Though than fits better when followed by a clause: “Steve looks happier than he did last week.”)
I’ve been following British popular culture since the Beatles and Bond. I don’t remember ever noticing different to before the last few years. Is this a new development, or a class or dialect thing that has spread to the whole land?
Canada has been an immigration disaster since 1967, when the country was 98.4% white. At that time the country had about 28,000 Negroes. This would have been about 280,000 on an American scale, not the 40,100,000 you actually have.
Just over 50% of Canada’s population lives on just 1% of its territory. Imagine half of all Americans living in just South Carolina for way of comparison. Canada like Australia is a huge country but false, in the sense that all that land constitutes useful living space. Canada is like a super-Alaska, which is also mostly empty. New Zealand has more arable land then Australia despite being only 5% its size.
Must point out that one of the reasons Canada, (and to a lesser degree Australia) opened its doors to nonwhite’s was precisely because of our membership in the so-called “commonwealth” (Where’s the ‘common’?) The brown and black country members complained about not being allowed to immigrate here and called us “racist”. It was thought by the idiots in power that allowing Indians and Jamaicans into the country would make us popular in the commonwealth. (that and a quarter would buy a hapless white Canadian a cup of coffee).
Whatever their faults, Muslims in fact do not worship mohammed. Calling them mohammedans was always inaccurate and petulant.
Well. I hope you are one of those linguists who really do understand what transliteration should be about.
So you can tell the difference between English attemps to roll the R VS Slavic R? Boy, you are way ahead of me on these matters.
Seems to me the real issue is not how the natives say a word (obviously they’ve got it correct) but how we say their proper names over here in our day to day conversations. It is pretentious to try and copy the natives when we simply can’t do it right, so we have to fall back on Cologne, Warsaw, Paris, Kiev (Key-ev), Moscow, Russia, etc. What say you…
That is most interesting, from the photo, that they’d cater to English speakers in this way; are they not aware that “Beijing” is at least a half hearted attempt on our part to get it right. Or do they think we buy the old transliteration.
Mind you, it may just be a matter of time before their universities will be everywhere here and this will be irrelevant. 🙂
“Right” in English would be Peking. Or Peiping or Pekin. Pekin, Illinois was named for the city (similar latitude, I think). Their high school’s mascot was for many years the Chink.
Peking is based on the Cantonese pronunciation. It’s fine as an exonym. And only the most important cities rate an exonym, so they should be proud. I love how my native city and state is Nova Iorque in Portuguese. So do Brazilians, as they have one of their own
It was a riposte to the term “Nazarite” for Christian; viz Moslems and Jews do not acknowledge the divinity of Christ, so they mockingly called Christians Nazarites, i.e. worshipers of the Nazarene, Jesus. The correct Arabic pronunciation of “Muslim” means “[a person who] submits [to God]” and since Christians did not acknowledge Islamic faith as proper submission to God, they too found workarounds for it. It’s all so zany and tiresome.
Or a slow day in Dresden
But We’ll always have Paris.
The potential for violence is a subtext for all male interaction.It’s the reason so much outrageous behavior originates on the distaff side.
Oh yes. They promote Muslims as The Other – perhaps in case other candidates are put forward?
My Dad was born in Saskatchewan in 1923. The family moved to Ontario a few years later. He told me that the first time he saw a black man was in a department store in Toronto. He and his sister were so amazed that they followed him around the store in wonderment.
Is this legit?
I would guess so. The Post is one of Canada’s major papers.
Canada used to be something like the USA without so many of its worst vices. No more, apparently. Of course, the USA is worse now too.
Back during the ’70’s, the chattering classes here called Toronto “The City That Works”, to contrast it with our own urban hellscapes like the South Bronx. Others described it as “New York run by the Swiss”.
That’s all gone with the wind, now.
The recent one I hate is “gifted” for “gave” or “given.” It’s worse than people pronouncing the t in often. Who started this shit?
Only thing is, I’ve been reading about the Coming Chinese Economic Collapse for 15 years now.
Remember the Ghost Cities that were going to bankrupt them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Wilhelm_Gustloff
These were mostly civilian refugees from East Prussia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hannibal
That information would be more interesting if we knew the relationship between gurus, esedi gurus, and akce.
I’d tend to think Circassian girls were top dollar (harem favourites in Ottoman Turkey) but maybe Roma gypsy women have charms that are certainly lacking in their males.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-gang-25k-argos-store-27465203
“It’s worse than people pronouncing the t in often. Who started this shit?”
So you say “offen”? Do get mad at people who don’t call the book place a “liberry”?
Yes certainly but I like the detail in that piece.
Barr also professes to believe that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. There is no indication he seriously investigated any of these questions. Too inconvenient.
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Here’s a suggestion: Barr auditioned, successfully, to be re-instated to the position of Attorney-General in order to head off a general purge of the department which might have been in the offing due to Andrew Weissmann’s scamming around. He’s a protector of crooked institutions.
The NY Daily News says he’s a Christian
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-cops-charge-teen-who-killed-gay-dancer-brooklyn-oshae-sibley-hate-crime-20230805-w274d7wfunf3jkxvn4mg65juuy-story.html
“For example, does anyone think it’s totally normal that a leftist oligarch (Zuckerberg) was put in charge of counting the votes in the key swing districts in the key swing states?”
Patently false.
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/943242106/how-private-money-from-facebooks-ceo-saved-the-2020-election
Trnmp told aides privately that he lost.
His lawyers were excoriated in open court fir frivolous lawsuits.
Investigations in Arizona and Wisconsin showed no widespread voter fraud as claimed.
Fox paid billions to Dominion for their lies about its voting machines.
Sydney Powell has yet to provide evidence that the U.S. Army seized servers in Germany that changed voters from Trump to Biden.
Yet you blindly insist the Election of 2020 was rigged. We know it was not the case.
Why do you still outright lie? Who pays you?
To be fair, I’ve never seen anyone dancing at a gas station, so I don’t know how I might react
A three-year-old boy named Hans Gudegast survived that sinking.
In the ‘60s, he moved to Hollywood and won a starring role on a TV show called The Rat Patrol. He played a German tank commander during the campaign in North Africa.
In the ‘70s he changed his name to Eric Braeden. He did an episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker. He played a werewolf (!) stalking passengers on a cruise ship.
In the ‘80s he became a fixture on The Young and the Restless.
In the ‘90s he played John Jacob Astor in James Cameron’s Titanic.
“Islam is a religion, but it is not only a religion. It is just as much a political creed, a dangerous one, and could be treated exactly like Communism”
Under what constitutional authority, case law, and court decisions are you able to cite that would lend support your contention that immigration law be applied to a religion?
I mean, you’ve thought this carefully through, right?
Opposite example: Roman Polanski. Awful human, awesome director.
This koan baffles me. Therefore, consult Levi.
I have actually taken every course offered by Wayne State University of Detroit, Michigan (look up “Dearborn”) regarding Islam, and I am telling you and everyone that if you have not read the first hundred pages of Catastrophic Failure then you know nothing about Islam.
“Trnmp told aides privately that he lost.”
And so now you suddenly consider Trump to be a reliable determiner of facts.
It’s a de facto muslim ban because there are not many refugees from saudi arabia. One muslim stabs somebody as a hate crime against gays and now all muslims are responsbile. Many more people are harmed by latino gangs and drug traffickers than by muslim immigrants ,in america. Stop lying. Alqaeda and the saudi regime were enemies. We sided with the regime and were attacked for that.[military bases in their homeland as one reason. San bernadino as the result of hate directed at the couple because they are muslims. Boston bombers was retaliation for all the bombs we droppped in muslim countries.Pakistan govt and people ar enot the same,So what they sheltered OBL!
I’ve had hundreds of Muslim students and most of them were named Mohammed, so there’s that.
Yeah, so we keep hearing. However, only a few thousand are actually required, as long as they control the levers of power.
I have never encountered the “u” phenomenon you mention in Texas or elsewhere.
There is no need for any such authority. A sovereign can exclude anyone from its territory for any reason or no reason at all.
You’re a moron. Everything you wrote could be true, and the election could still be (and was) rigged. They cheated in lots of other ways, as has been amply proven and — in some cases — admitted self-congratutorily. See the Time article.
Breaking headline: Guy who has never in his life held a position of power talks like he knows how power operates. Film at eleven.
New Zealand has more arable land than Australia?
I don’t think so.
These factoids are so easy to look up.
You should try it some time.
“I have actually taken every course offered by Wayne State University of Detroit, Michigan (look up “Dearborn”) regarding Islam”
Pics or it never happened–Steve Sailer
“and I am telling you and everyone that if you have not read the first hundred pages of Catastrophic Failure then you know nothing about Islam.”
The book is authored by a Deep State operative. I thought we cannot trust anyone from the intelligence arm of the federal government? But I am curious as to what was your impression of his account of Islam. Do tell.
It was Clint Eastwood’s ex-mistress Roxanne Tunis who died.
https://radaronline.com/p/clint-eastwoods-mistress-dies-mother-of-dirty-harrys-illegitimate-daughter-kimber-passes-away-at-age-93-pair-had-torrid-14-year-affair/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_life_of_Clint_Eastwood
“And so now you suddenly consider Trump to be a reliable determiner of facts.”
70+ million said differently, chump.
“Breaking headline: Guy who has never in his life held a position of power talks like he knows how power operates. Film at eleven.”
Don’t be too hard on yourself. Some day, you will be head french frier at Burger King.
They both lost. One’s dead, the other is headed to a long prison term.
Indeed. See ‘Judeo-Christian values.’ Just thinking about the sheer mendacity of that is enough to jump my blood pressure about 20 pints.
…the irony of it is that the phrase was originally intended to be inclusive. About a hundred years ago it was what well-intentioned American gentiles said when they wanted to let Jews in.
Now it’s used to keep Muslims out.
And you would know. Right, Corvinus?
I have noticed our Fran at times trying to turn the discussion towards how awful Muslims are, and several proponents of “Eurabia” theories are Jews.
“And you would know. Right, Corvinus?”
I would. My nephew was in that position. It’s called a summer job. What’s your excuse for remaining unemployed?
Any readers interested in learning how to Vogue, Jacquess Whitfield has a YouTube video on how to do it.
This has been going on a long time.
The Western image of Arabs and Muslims used to be positive, if perhaps misconceived: Grass: a Nation’s Battle for Life is a good example.
Lawrence of Arabia, Rudolph Valentino…Arabs were cool, if exotic. Knights of the Desert…you can go right back to Sir Walter Scott on that one (The Talisman.)
Then you get the creation of Israel, and the Zionists start nibbling. By now…would you want your daughter to go out with an Arab?
I will never again attempt to debate the erudite. We must know our place. 🙂
The Chink. Can you imagine if today someone pulled something like that.
You’re speaking of the Anglosphere. The Iberian peninsula had no such delusions, and saw both Muslims and Jews as two sides of the same anti-Christian coin.
No, Zionists do not ‘start nibbling’. Segments of the Arab population begin behaving in ways which damage the image of Arabs-in-general.
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