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With the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 11-0, from the Chicago Sun-Times:
He ran for judge, lost, changed parties, took Irish name, won Cook County race
Phillip Spiwak lost a judge’s race as a Republican. But he won after changing parties to Democrat and changing his name to Shannon P. O’Malley.
Abigail Blachman | Injustice Watch
… Irish-sounding names have long given Cook County judicial candidates an electoral edge. It also might not have hurt that O’Malley’s first name is gender-neutral in a year when Democratic women won elections up and down the ballot. …
He won by nearly 2,300 votes over Republican Daniel Fitzgerald despite failing to get the recommendations of bar associations after declining to submit information about his qualifications. …
“Daniel Fitzgerald” is clearly lacking in sufficient Vitamin I for Cook County politics. I suggest he change his name to “Clancy X. MacFitzgerald.”
In 2010, Albert Klumpp did a study that found judicial candidates with Irish- and female-sounding names in Cook County had an advantage, particularly in primaries or retention votes. But Klumpp says it’s more likely that O’Malley won not because of switching names but because he switched parties.
Poor Albert Klumpp might have a much better job, such as Cook County Recorder of Deeds, if only he weren’t named “Albert Klumpp,” which sounds like the fat kid in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. So, maybe, Aloysius Kelly?
… Candidates in Cook County changing their names to Irish-sounding names happened often enough that the Illinois legislature passed a law requiring that a candidate’s old name also be listed on the ballot if the name change was made within three years before the election.
I’m reminded of the conversation in The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh between two Englishmen in 1940s Hollywood:
‘How are things at Megalo [Movie Studios]?’ asked Sir Ambrose.
‘Greatly disturbed. We are having trouble with Juanita del Pablo,’ [says Sir Francis Hinsley, a publicist at Megalo].
‘”Luscious, languid and lustful”?’
‘Those are not the correct epithets. She is—or rather was—”Surly, lustrous and sadistic.” I should know because I composed the phrase myself. It was a “smash-hit”, as they say, and set a new note in personal publicity.
‘Miss del Pablo has been a particular protégée of mine from the first. I remember the day she arrived. Poor Leo bought her for her eyes. She was called Baby Aaronson then—splendid eyes and a fine head of black hair. So Leo made her Spanish. He had most of her nose cut off and sent her to Mexico for six weeks to learn Flamenco singing. Then he handed her over to me. I named her. I made her an antifascist refugee. I said she hated men because of her treatment by Franco’s Moors. That was a new angle then. It caught on. …”
‘And now there’s been a change of policy at the top. We are only making healthy films this year to please the League of Decency. So poor Juanita has to start at the beginning again as an Irish colleen. … She’s working ten hours a day learning the brogue and to make it harder for the poor girl they’ve pulled all her teeth out. …
‘I’ve spent three days trying to find a name to please her. She’s turned everything down. Maureen—there are two here already; Deirdre—no one could pronounce it; Oonagh—sounds Chinese; Bridget—too common.
Off topic, but I just noticed that the basic idea for the famous scene in the Coens’ Hail, Caesar! of an English director trying to teach a cowboy actor a drawing room accent is from the 1965 movie adaptation of The Loved One with John Gielgud, as Sir Francis, trying to instruct Dusty Acres how to speak like James Bond.
The 1965 The Loved One, with a screenplay by Terry Southern that’s kind of a cross between Dr. Strangelove and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, is a notoriously Not Good movie, but I wonder how many more rudiments of good ideas could be mined from its bulk?
For example, as I pointed out a few years ago, Billy Wilder’s famous Sunset Boulevard started out as an adaptation of The Loved One (the 1948 novel, not its 1965 movie adaptation), but the studio couldn’t get Waugh to sell the rights, so Wilder switched to an original story with one scene in common, the man from the animal mortuary bit.
Waugh would likely have been better off selling the rights so Wilder could film the adaptation than 15 years later so Tony Richardson could shoot it.
English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
French
German
Hebrew
Hindi
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Vietnamese
In the same vein, we shall always remember Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu, aka Ashley Montagu, né Israel Ehrenberg.
All the Prime Ministers of Israel were born with different names than they had in office.Replies: @Harry Baldwin
As you pointed out recently, a former British intelligence officer and mediocre sailor had a great career as Patrick O’Brian.
And the choice of O’Malley was inspired since I believe that the MacLysaght tome on Irish Surnames describes the O’Malleys as “the Irish of the Irish.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_MacLysaght
Robert Maxwell “the bouncing Czech.”
Now thankfully long retired there was a Jewess who entered into a marriage of convenience for an Irish last name and took as her first name the name of an Irish whiskey.
It works in Cook County.
Here’s to Eileen O’Hara
For her life held no terror
Born a virgin
Died a virgin
No runs, no hits, no errors
Life aint easy for a boy named Sue.
Life apparently is easy for a boy named “Shannon.”
By the way, would Johnny Cash’s song be considered Transphobic these days? Or would it be considered progressive for the time? Should Trans people adopt this song as their anthem?
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Archie Bunker schools on urban American politics. “The balanced ticket.”
Archie Bunker on Jews.
You couldn't make a show like that now.Replies: @Trevor H.
Joe Kennedy knew what it was all about. Somebody asked him why his son only beat Dick Nixon by a mere 100,000 votes in 1960, he replied : “I’ll be damned if I had to pay for a landslide!”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Why-The-Irish-Are-Our-Overlords-141446393.html
Chicago has a slightly smaller Irish ancestry population percentage than the nation in large (which is around 10%). But it has a similar number of Poles--several times their percentage of the nation at large. (Probably as many Poles as NYC and way more than anywhere else, and roughly as Polish as any other big city in the US.) And of course the area--not so much Chicago proper--has the strong Germanic "background" of the upper Midwest.
And then the city ... isn't even white. Right now its just a bit less than 1/3 each white, black and Mexican--with the noise filling in the difference. (Which is why Illinois has become a reliable blue state disaster.)
And yet people are voting for politicians because they are Irish? Weird.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @prosa123, @Mike Zwick
Not your father’s “O’Malley.”
For her life held no terror
Born a virgin
Died a virgin
No runs, no hits, no errorsReplies: @Cortes
No rhymes?
“Irish-American” John Kerry.
Denis MacShane, aka, Denis Matyjaszek. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_MacShane
John Kerry’s real last name is Kohn. John Kerry appears to have no Irish ancestry at all.
That bastard John Kerry has a big hankering for wealthy ketchup widows, though!
Kohn as a surname in Massachusetts might not get the Leprechauns in a voting mood.
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-when-kerry-was-kohn-1.5279459
In other Irish-related news, it’s pretty interesting that someone murdered Whitey Bulger.
It’s interesting how tough sounding a lot of these ethnic types (especially in Boston and NYC) are in comparison to the average suburban person. I wonder how much vocal intonation reflects our inner personalities.
By the way, lots of Italians in South Boston.
I'll bet Mueller is breathing easier. Who had him transferred anyway?
That sounds like a member of the Bureau of Sabotage
OT: Midterm analysis shows women rapidly moving away from Trump, especially white educated women
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/opinion/sunday/trump-is-beginning-to-lose-his-grip.html
Gender polarization intensifies
I guess Macron needs to be imported then.
Like, I don't know, "stop having families."
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Do we know that Spiwak is parenthetical or is he just bracketing?
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This is not topical but tolerate it anyway: 95 unnamed "new wave" or contemporary pop stars: how many can you name? Of course I stopped when I got to Peter Murphy because there's nothing after that. [puffs a Galois directly under a no smoking sign, eyes conformists]
https://postimg.cc/f3zHzck7
And that could not make White women happier. By definition women only care about the top 5% violent men. A giant culling of betas would make them delighted.
The only solution is to destroy the female media ecosystem. Have it regulated to death with non stop psa and economic stats like Cuban med ia. Make it full commie and boring so it repels women like classical music does Black people.
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Birth tourism Canada style: no ‘birthright citizenship’, no problem.
https://twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/1064228933024038919
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/opinion/sunday/trump-is-beginning-to-lose-his-grip.html
Gender polarization intensifiesReplies: @El Dato, @J.Ross, @Whiskey
“especially white educated women”
I guess Macron needs to be imported then.
https://youtu.be/qaLwvkLYYLQReplies: @JohnnyWalker123
Archie Bunker on Jews.
You couldn’t make a show like that now.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1087347/quotes
And still, it's the goys who are racist.Replies: @Lagertha
Germany’s Third Reich of 1933-45 was nearly led by a man receiving salutes of ‘Heil, Schicklgruber!’ … The New York Times sez:
And there is the ‘other’ popular story, that Maria Schicklgruber had been working as a maid in the house of Baron Rothschild, said by some to be Adolf Hitler’s real grandfather … ahem! … the NY Times continues:
But Germany’s Führer as ‘Shicklgruber’ was immortalised by the Three Stooges:
"Heil Schickelgruber!"
"Heil Heidler!"
"Heil Hitler" has an efficient phonetic punch.
Many judges in Cleveland are named Sweeney, Russo or Celebrezze. A few years back, one guy changed his name from Goretzke to Sweeney in preparation for his judicial career. I don’t think he’s won an election yet but he’ll keep trying.
http://www.sweeneyforjudge.com
Lots of Celebrezzes in Ohio politics. I seem to remember one party finding a guy named Calabrese in the phone book and getting him to run, and he won. I think the guy was a plumber or something.
Young Kim should have run as “¡Jovena Chimichanga!”
“Saving the Irish the inhabitants of Tierra Del Fuego are the most degenerate race on the face of the Earth”
And what of “Beto” O’Rourke?
He seems to have been selected for us by Megalo Studios.
With Notre Dame 11 and 0 we actually didn’t have to listen to the idiotic commentators make the almost yearly statement “I don’t think any team will reach the bowl season with zero losses” which you usually hear after the first ND loss.
It gets there…
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/opinion/sunday/trump-is-beginning-to-lose-his-grip.html
Gender polarization intensifiesReplies: @El Dato, @J.Ross, @Whiskey
Because they believe the mainstream media. The best way to commit terrorism would be to gain a corner of the mainstream media and tell women to do something medically injurious but not obviously or immediately so.
Like, I don’t know, “stop having families.”
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Do we know that Spiwak is parenthetical or is he just bracketing?
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This is not topical but tolerate it anyway: 95 unnamed “new wave” or contemporary pop stars: how many can you name? Of course I stopped when I got to Peter Murphy because there’s nothing after that. [puffs a Galois directly under a no smoking sign, eyes conformists]
https://postimg.cc/f3zHzck7
We just returned from a bus tour of southwest Ireland. My grandfather’s name was Edward Ross … from somewhere in Ireland at God knows when.
On the tour, we saw “Ross Lake” and “Ross Castle”. I mentioned to the tour guide that my grandfather was a “Ross”. OUCH! He looked at me and said, “And YOU are a ROSS? … YOU ARE A ROSS!”
I later learned why I had suffered his displeasure. “Ross” was the surname of one of those faux aristocrats brought in to rule the Irish by whatever recent group of Scots or English had conquered the place.
And here I thought I was Irish. Come on! I had blond hair, green eyes, and (according to 23&Me) 5% Neanderthal and no sub-Saharan genes.
I suggest that NO ONE in Chicago should use the name “Ross” to fake an Irish heritage to win an election.
Separated by death and fed only by a fistful of bumps, the Ford brothers of Ontairio fight valiantly for a sane Canada one snort at a time.
Mr Dhanraj is a Canadian journaist and the resolution (which passed) rejects PC gender nonsense as unscientific. This follows a claim in the UK that mentally challenged children are being manipulated into requesting hormone blockers.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6401593/Whistleblower-teacher-makes-shocking-claim-autistic.html
Watch the video there. It is shocking. Adults are standing and giving their approval as a child is being sexually mutilated.
Rod Dreher picks up on this:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/transgender-totalitarianism/
and adds more, including the fact that there seems to be an active purge right of "trans-critical" feminists online. Actually he just reports that gendertrender.wordpress.com has just been deleted, after it reported details of the guy suing 16 women in Canada for refusing to wax his genitals. Apparently some fan has pulled the content from archive.org and reposted the whole site at http://gendertrender.co/. The article on the Canada guy is insane. Scroll down also to read the article on the Credit Suisse guy.
Apparently wordpress has also deleted genderidentitywatch.com.
Both of these sites had tons of actual information and I think attracted many readers and comments from people who have been directly harmed by transgenderism, most of them no doubt people who do not read sites like this.
It seems wordpress surreptitiously changed their terms of service several days ago for the precise purpose of deleting these sites. This is according to person behind GenderTrender:
https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/patriarchy/gender/wordpress-censors-gendertrender-gallus-mag-responds/
Twitter may be involved too, as this guy seems to be keeping a running log of feminists purged for "anti-trans" comments:
https://twitter.com/SamBarber1910/status/1063250389791883264Replies: @J.Ross
Meanwhile, in New York City, “Bill de Blasio” beats “Warren Wilhelm Jr.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/opinion/sunday/trump-is-beginning-to-lose-his-grip.html
Gender polarization intensifiesReplies: @El Dato, @J.Ross, @Whiskey
There is no end to the ways in which nice White ladies are the mortal enemy of White men. They get to have the Third World right here. Eat Pray Love. We get a Reginald Denny or Lee Rigby special.
And that could not make White women happier. By definition women only care about the top 5% violent men. A giant culling of betas would make them delighted.
The only solution is to destroy the female media ecosystem. Have it regulated to death with non stop psa and economic stats like Cuban med ia. Make it full commie and boring so it repels women like classical music does Black people.
I’ve no interest al all in the idiocies of Illinois machine politics, but I am very grateful indeed for this reminder of the sublime comedic levels of which Waugh the Master was capable.
But his genius was more than merely diverting. He saw far too much, far too quickly, and far too deeply. In the end, when the Church too fulfilled his worst apprehensions, he ceased hoping, and died.
But: “Franco’s Moors”. The Gramscian march was already well underway. Waugh wouldn’t have known to call it that, but he saw it at work and instantly recognised it for what it was. There is laughter, but it is filled with foreboding, a foreboding we now know was all too fully justified.
I always knew The Pogues were wrong!
Your refined and erudite comment gets a five star begorrah b’Jeez rating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4
Life apparently is easy for a boy named "Shannon."
By the way, would Johnny Cash's song be considered Transphobic these days? Or would it be considered progressive for the time? Should Trans people adopt this song as their anthem?"Replies: @Clyde, @Tim
Not saying yea or nay but this looks like amphetamine nite for you when you drop tunes off your new album called Legend in my Mind.
When the LaRouchies did well in a primary a few decades ago it was attributed to their genuine non-ethnic names. I don’t suppose anyone would use WASP names now to get an advantage.
Plastic Paddy?
“Gorgeous George” Galloway, ?ethnic Irish? the epitome of the gift of the gab – check out his debate with Hitchens – at the US Senate (the couple of minutes around the ten minute mark are especially entertaining):
Thanks for that reminder! And even more insane was that he paid an additional indulgence to the Most Holy Secular Church by marrying a black lesbian for the PC original sin of being sired by and named after a German father (who was wounded as a U.S. Marine on Okinawa in WWII). I think Bill “the NYC mayor” formerly known as “Warren Wilhelm, Jr.” will soon “transition” to female so he can run for President. However, it might be too soon though as Vermont could not bring themselves to vote for a “transgendered” governor 2 weeks ago.
Maybe if I change my name to Jonquarius Malenka I can become mayor of Baltimore.
Florida’s senior senator is Irish.
(drum roll please)
Mark O’Rubio.
1986 Illinois Gubernatorial election, the one after the 1982 one with all the vote fraud convictions and the loooooong count. Same candidate, Adlai Stevenson III. He wound up on a Democrat ticket with a couple of LaRouchies so he ended up forming a new party. And lost the election.
The Irish: Jews with less money and more alcoholism
I remember being surprised more than a decade ago by the strongly anti-Irish attitudes of many Americans in online chat sites. A guy from Chicago, called Thomas777 was especially militant. I eventually came to learn why and I became sympathetic. This blog post reminded me of all that.
There was a Welsh girl with the surname of Jones,
She had jet black hair and eyes like coal stones,
So when she entered the movie biz,
And wanted to seem full of fizz,
She put Zeta between Jones, Catherine and Miss.
If Spiwak had a sense of humor, he would have changed his named to Richard Daley.
https://youtu.be/4PE6zQbKJzYReplies: @Buffalo Joe
Detective, Hopefully we have now run through all the political Kennedys.
(There ought to be a law.)
AWM, do yo know how to tell that some one is an alum of Notre Dame? You don’t, they will never stop telling you that they graduated from Notre Dame.
She had jet black hair and eyes like coal stones,
So when she entered the movie biz,
And wanted to seem full of fizz,
She put Zeta between Jones, Catherine and Miss.Replies: @Clyde
Yours… a few rungs above the doggerel attempted here.
Richard X. Daley.
On the South Side he could campaign as Richard X.
Richard XX Daley even. That would get him the Black AND Latino Vote: Richard Dos Echies Daley. Every discarded beer can along Archer Avenue would be like a free campaign ad.Replies: @Anonymous
The Irish come second, yet they seem to have more heft:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_County,_Illinois#Demographics
“Sizeable non-Hispanic white populations are those of German (11.4%), Irish (10.3%), Polish (9.7%), Italian (6.1%), and British (4.1%) descent.”
Ocasio-Cortez shows the limits of being Irish. Indeed the future of the Democratic Party leadership far and wide is in sight — no Whites need apply. To borrow a phrase.
Imagine, a sea of Maxine Waters, Ocasio-Cortez, and Stacy Abrams types as far as the eye can see, from the lowest deputy mayor of Podunkville, to the President (Goddess Empress Oprah of course).
That clearly is the future … how much legitimacy people like that will hold for the very White military, ambitious White men, and even fearful White men (its a short throw from being a worker drone to living by the freeway) is an open question. I would suggest …
Not much, with a lack of opportunity. Frontier societies with lots of new land to seize from non-competitive natives like the Indians have a lot slack in absorbing immigrants who dominate the centers of commerce and production. Other places resemble Indonesia and the Philippines.
It is a world on fire, everywhere.
Absolutely. I’m in a Chicago suburb and I have a ton of experience with the irish. They’re easily a standard deviation worse people than average white people. They’re corrupt, clannish, LAZY, lovers of bullshit, dishonest and stupid. They show a ton of preference for their fellow “irish”. I had no opinion of the irish until I ended up working for a very irish Chicago based company in a Chicago suburb. I was in shock for years. Italian behavior is in the same family. The negative stereotypes are too kind. If you aren’t in their group they’ll give you every reason to despise them.
Heck,
Richard XX Daley even. That would get him the Black AND Latino Vote: Richard Dos Echies Daley. Every discarded beer can along Archer Avenue would be like a free campaign ad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_County,_Illinois#Demographics
"Sizeable non-Hispanic white populations are those of German (11.4%), Irish (10.3%), Polish (9.7%), Italian (6.1%), and British (4.1%) descent."Replies: @Aidan Kehoe, @Clifford Brown, @The Alarmist
Theo, it always was a consistent thing in the US that the Irish tended to vote along ethnic lines, where the Germans tended to worry about superficial stuff like ideas or electoral promises. The only thing that ever unified German voters over there was rolling back prohibition. I thoroughly recommend EA Ross, ‘The Old World in the New’:
The German approach is the less effective approach for a multiethnic nation, though it clearly makes for a superior monoethnic nation. There’s actually an awful lot to be learned from the New World of 1800–1950 (in large part the US, but also Argentina, Canada, Brazil) in what to expect from the EU in the next few decades. If politicians of Irish background end up promising a moonshot which was then implemented, mostly by Germans, well, at least the species will have a second moonshot! 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_from_MinnesotaReplies: @Autochthon
The most astonishing name change for me was a Jew who chose the surname (Joel) Carmichael. This would have been fine if he really had wanted to act like a Scot, but he came from an avid Zionist family and was an avid Zionist himself. He wrote a book about how Jesus was in reality a good Jewish Zealot afterwards misinterpreted by bad Antisemites like Paul and John.
I was rather impressed by the volubility and conviction of the author, but perplexed by the fanaticism with which he pursued a rather improbable way of thinking – until I much later on noticed that he was a Jew and that these kinds of books are a fixed “genre” in Jewish literature: Jesus is either a good Pharisee (for orthodox readers) or a good anti-Roman Zealot (for the secular readers).
Changing your whole name is a bit excessive, although I guess he’s just following the lead of other prominent Dem. politicians (Tony Villar –> Antonio Villaraigosa, Warren Wilhelm –> Bill DeBlasio). The “classic” Cook County move was to just change your middle name to “Fitzgerald” e.g. Cook County judge John Fitzgerald Lyke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_County,_Illinois#Demographics
"Sizeable non-Hispanic white populations are those of German (11.4%), Irish (10.3%), Polish (9.7%), Italian (6.1%), and British (4.1%) descent."Replies: @Aidan Kehoe, @Clifford Brown, @The Alarmist
Many Irish in Chicago are closer to their immigrant roots and thus have retained their ethnic identity to some extent. Germans in Chicago are basically just Americans at this point.
I knew a lawyer named FitzGerald whose brother was elected a US Senator. He famously appointed another FitzGerald as federal prosecutor.
This is such an outrage, because if Pakistan stands for amything, Pakistan stands for female sexual liberty and freedom from extra-judicial violence!
https://twitter.com/i_aliarif/status/1064190532006674433
Somewhere in one of my many “how to swear in X” books a Chinese fellow writes to foreigners DO NOT try to get laid in China (unless it’s a prostitute). This is not Japan. Do not even try.
My dad knew a guy who changed his name to Roberto Eduardo Leon and got a minority government contract and did very well. So well he bought a brand new Beech King Air cash despite not even having his multi or commercial/instrument ticket. He took the checkride in this thing (and passed).
Richard XX Daley even. That would get him the Black AND Latino Vote: Richard Dos Echies Daley. Every discarded beer can along Archer Avenue would be like a free campaign ad.Replies: @Anonymous
Mexicans in America may not drink American Coke, but they guzzle American beer with aplomb. Mexican beers in America are primarily bought by trendy Americans (though most are actually good, being brew by German or Czech descended and trained brewmeisters).
Why haven’t the Germans gained much relative political power in the US, despite their larger aggregate- emmigrant-to-the-US numbers than even the Irish? Eisenhower? And he even had an Anglicized last name -howser vs -hauser. Trump is a phenomena unto himself and is half Scot. Was it WW I and WW II? Are Germans too logical thinking to deal in politics?
German-American politicians are hard to come by.
It works in Cook County.Replies: @Alec Leamas
Bushmills Murphy – quite a lassy!
HATE HOAX
Somebody put a Nazi sticker on a New York subway and — wait, what? This is a news story? Have they caught all the homeless guys who masturbate right in front of female passengers? Anyway, King Solomon here didn’t figure that subways have cameras now, and pictures of his big Nazi shnozz are all over New York now. He’s probably verklempt.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-straphanger-caught-swastika-sticker-20181118-story.html
Don't mind me, I'm just trying to raise awareness.Replies: @Coemgen
Patrick O’Brien’s literary career was greatly aided by his talent as a novelist/historian and his wife’s talent as an editor…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXL99hMa48Y
It's interesting how tough sounding a lot of these ethnic types (especially in Boston and NYC) are in comparison to the average suburban person. I wonder how much vocal intonation reflects our inner personalities.
By the way, lots of Italians in South Boston.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0p2L0CNzdMReplies: @Anonymous
“In other Irish-related news, it’s pretty interesting that someone murdered Whitey Bulger.”
I’ll bet Mueller is breathing easier. Who had him transferred anyway?
Middle Initial “X,” for “Xavier,” as in “St. Francis Xavier,” goes better with given name “Francis.” An Irish favorite; however, there was also Massachusetts pol Francis X. Belotti.
On the tour, we saw "Ross Lake" and "Ross Castle". I mentioned to the tour guide that my grandfather was a "Ross". OUCH! He looked at me and said, "And YOU are a ROSS? ... YOU ARE A ROSS!"
I later learned why I had suffered his displeasure. "Ross" was the surname of one of those faux aristocrats brought in to rule the Irish by whatever recent group of Scots or English had conquered the place.
And here I thought I was Irish. Come on! I had blond hair, green eyes, and (according to 23&Me) 5% Neanderthal and no sub-Saharan genes.
I suggest that NO ONE in Chicago should use the name "Ross" to fake an Irish heritage to win an election.Replies: @Hibernian
The Kennedys were from new Ross.
It’s true they like their Bud Light, but in my experience Corona, XX, and Tecate are big favorites among Chicago area mestizos.
And I have literal “on the ground” experience for the basis of my anecdotes.
And Corona is terrible beer.
“Gorgeous George” Galloway, ?ethnic Irish? the epitome of the gift of the gab - check out his debate with Hitchens - at the US Senate (the couple of minutes around the ten minute mark are especially entertaining):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TRbMQ4t2NfoReplies: @Hibernian
Galloway is a Scottish county; Galway is an Irish county.
Try watching George vs the hapless Norm Coleman. Like the sign says above the door of the saloon where Laurel and Hardy dance in “Way Out West” it’s...
High Class Entertainment.Replies: @Hibernian
It sort of rhymes in Boston
German Americans have trended Republican since the Civil War and especially after WWI.
The ‘least effective’ group must be the Scandinavians of Minnesota, where perhaps 80% of recent senators have been Jewish, who are about 1% of the state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_from_Minnesota
The Scandinavian people are far and away the most suicidal race on the face of the Earth. Has anyone investigated why?Replies: @Reg Cæsar
The weird thing here is Chicago–while the Daley dynasty is well known–is not a very Irish-American city. It certainly isn’t Boston.
Chicago has a slightly smaller Irish ancestry population percentage than the nation in large (which is around 10%). But it has a similar number of Poles–several times their percentage of the nation at large. (Probably as many Poles as NYC and way more than anywhere else, and roughly as Polish as any other big city in the US.) And of course the area–not so much Chicago proper–has the strong Germanic “background” of the upper Midwest.
And then the city … isn’t even white. Right now its just a bit less than 1/3 each white, black and Mexican–with the noise filling in the difference. (Which is why Illinois has become a reliable blue state disaster.)
And yet people are voting for politicians because they are Irish? Weird.
Polish Catholics were so frustrated by Irish dominance of the American church that they broke off and started their own. But it's as orthodox as Mom, and is in communion with Rome.Replies: @Anonymous
New Britain trivia: the center of the Polish area is very close to the main Puerto Rican area, yet the two groups have always gotten along quite well with more than a bit of intermarriage.Replies: @Anon 2
The story is told of Ireland’s first same-sex wedding. Patrick Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick.
Chicago has a slightly smaller Irish ancestry population percentage than the nation in large (which is around 10%). But it has a similar number of Poles--several times their percentage of the nation at large. (Probably as many Poles as NYC and way more than anywhere else, and roughly as Polish as any other big city in the US.) And of course the area--not so much Chicago proper--has the strong Germanic "background" of the upper Midwest.
And then the city ... isn't even white. Right now its just a bit less than 1/3 each white, black and Mexican--with the noise filling in the difference. (Which is why Illinois has become a reliable blue state disaster.)
And yet people are voting for politicians because they are Irish? Weird.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @prosa123, @Mike Zwick
A similar handicap didn’t stop Bernardo O’Higgins.
Polish Catholics were so frustrated by Irish dominance of the American church that they broke off and started their own. But it’s as orthodox as Mom, and is in communion with Rome.
I knew some guys in high school who were busted for growing dope just outside the grotto area.Replies: @J.Ross, @Reg Cæsar
God save us more any more Kennedys–and Clintons, and Bushes.
(There ought to be a law.)
It’s amazing how many Jews change their name. I understand the desire to avoid discrimination and all, but it seems this has gone on for a long time. There’s a total lack of desire to pass on the ‘family name’.
All the Prime Ministers of Israel were born with different names than they had in office.
FitzGerald is definitely not a bog-Irish name.
So basically a man changed to his name to sound more white and less ethnic
And yuh guys deny white privikege
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C89a6scW80IReplies: @flyingtiger, @The Anti-Gnostic
Still one of the best satires on the Nazis. Only Jack Benny could do it better.
Polish Catholics were so frustrated by Irish dominance of the American church that they broke off and started their own. But it's as orthodox as Mom, and is in communion with Rome.Replies: @Anonymous
Poles are neither Orthodox nor Eastern Rite Catholic, they take great pride in being specifically Roman Catholic. Although they do lean toward iconography that most of us would call “Orthodox-Style” such as the famous painting of “Our Lady of Częstochowa”, a shrine to which is outside St. Louis.
I knew some guys in high school who were busted for growing dope just outside the grotto area.
http://www.pncc.org/Replies: @Anonymous
OT – Let the bribery commence:
https://nypost.com/2018/11/17/the-obamas-are-becoming-a-billion-dollar-brand/
Haulin’ ass. Gettin’ paid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHPuY88Ry4
Life apparently is easy for a boy named "Shannon."
By the way, would Johnny Cash's song be considered Transphobic these days? Or would it be considered progressive for the time? Should Trans people adopt this song as their anthem?"Replies: @Clyde, @Tim
AWESOME post. . . but it’s not “every time I win.” It’s every time I “when”.
German-American identity is barely meaningful today as there’s been little German immigration in generations. I suspect that the typical person who identifies as German-American is someone who is a hodgepodge of ethnic groups, but whose great-great-great-grandfather on the paternal line was a German immigrant named Schmidt and therefore is surnamed Schmidt.
I knew some guys in high school who were busted for growing dope just outside the grotto area.Replies: @J.Ross, @Reg Cæsar
He meant orthodox in the popular meaning and not Orthodox as a term of art: RC as strictly as possible, Latin mass, and so on. This has been my experience as well.
Chicago has a slightly smaller Irish ancestry population percentage than the nation in large (which is around 10%). But it has a similar number of Poles--several times their percentage of the nation at large. (Probably as many Poles as NYC and way more than anywhere else, and roughly as Polish as any other big city in the US.) And of course the area--not so much Chicago proper--has the strong Germanic "background" of the upper Midwest.
And then the city ... isn't even white. Right now its just a bit less than 1/3 each white, black and Mexican--with the noise filling in the difference. (Which is why Illinois has become a reliable blue state disaster.)
And yet people are voting for politicians because they are Irish? Weird.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @prosa123, @Mike Zwick
“Chicago has a slightly smaller Irish ancestry population percentage than the nation in large (which is around 10%). But it has a similar number of Poles–several times their percentage of the nation at large. (Probably as many Poles as NYC and way more than anywhere else, and roughly as Polish as any other big city in the US.) ”
More likely more people of Polish ancestry in Chicago than in NYC. Outside of the relatively small Greenpoint district NYC has never had any significant (non-Jewish) Polish neighborhoods. Wallington, not far away in northern New Jersey is heavily Polish, though it’s a small town, and a bit beyond the border of the NYC metro area there’s long been a big Polish population in the city of New Britain, Connecticut.
New Britain trivia: the center of the Polish area is very close to the main Puerto Rican area, yet the two groups have always gotten along quite well with more than a bit of intermarriage.
only 0.3% of the total population, they appear to be overrepresented in Congress.
Just off the top of my head,
Senate: Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). There was also Sen. Barbara Mikulski, but
she retired in 2017. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is a Catholic and has
a Polish maiden name (Rutnik) so that's another possibility.
House of Representatives:
1. Jackie Walorski (R-IN)
2. Dan Lipinski (D-IL)
3. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
4. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
5. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) was just elected to Congress. He was
actually born in Poland.
Bob Stefanowski came close to winning the race for governor of Connecticut,
and may run again. And, according to the talk show host Bill Cunningham,
Corey Lewandowski still talks to Trump at least once a week.Replies: @Hibernian, @Anon 2
And yuh guys deny white privikegeReplies: @Mike Tre, @Coemgen, @Reg Cæsar, @Steve in Greensboro
Irish people aren’t even white, bro.
Germans were split among Catholics, Lutherans, Reformed, Evangelicals (Prussian Union), and Jews. Additionally, two wars against your homeland will cause assimilation to accelerate.
And – not unlike Defoe, Wheatley, Wyndham, Le Carre… – not unduly hindered by the background in the “security” services. What’s a tame review worth?
I think German Americans don’t really see themselves as an ethnic group any more given all the assimilation and intermarriage. We are just generic white people at this point.
Galloway isn’t a county.
Try watching George vs the hapless Norm Coleman. Like the sign says above the door of the saloon where Laurel and Hardy dance in “Way Out West” it’s…
High Class Entertainment.
Actually, I’m a huge fan of “Patrick O’Brien”…I think they’re the best novels of the last 50 years, and they are centered in a fascinating era, the Age of Fighting Sail…He published his first novel, The Catalans, when he was 15, so it was never a secret that he could write.
Get your kid or nephews/nieces to work with their tablets (so much more unwieldly and awkward than a Corona or similar) , have them pound away for a couple of months and make me smile...
I do make it a general principle that I don’t vote for people who have changed their names…
Archie Bunker on Jews.
You couldn't make a show like that now.Replies: @Trevor H.
Decades later Sarah Silverman is trafficking in the same material: Don’t be anti-jewish, goys, or we will inflict negroes upon you.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1087347/quotes
And still, it’s the goys who are racist.
And yuh guys deny white privikegeReplies: @Mike Tre, @Coemgen, @Reg Cæsar, @Steve in Greensboro
For you to speak of “Irish privilege” shows how truly ignorant and insensitive you truly are.
And yuh guys deny white privikegeReplies: @Mike Tre, @Coemgen, @Reg Cæsar, @Steve in Greensboro
That sounds like a really, really bad college beer bash.
https://twitter.com/Travisdhanraj/status/1063964935435169792
Mr Dhanraj is a Canadian journaist and the resolution (which passed) rejects PC gender nonsense as unscientific. This follows a claim in the UK that mentally challenged children are being manipulated into requesting hormone blockers.Replies: @SporadicMyrmidon, @Redneck farmer
I suspect this is the UK claim you mention:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6401593/Whistleblower-teacher-makes-shocking-claim-autistic.html
Watch the video there. It is shocking. Adults are standing and giving their approval as a child is being sexually mutilated.
Rod Dreher picks up on this:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/transgender-totalitarianism/
and adds more, including the fact that there seems to be an active purge right of “trans-critical” feminists online. Actually he just reports that gendertrender.wordpress.com has just been deleted, after it reported details of the guy suing 16 women in Canada for refusing to wax his genitals. Apparently some fan has pulled the content from archive.org and reposted the whole site at http://gendertrender.co/. The article on the Canada guy is insane. Scroll down also to read the article on the Credit Suisse guy.
Apparently wordpress has also deleted genderidentitywatch.com.
Both of these sites had tons of actual information and I think attracted many readers and comments from people who have been directly harmed by transgenderism, most of them no doubt people who do not read sites like this.
It seems wordpress surreptitiously changed their terms of service several days ago for the precise purpose of deleting these sites. This is according to person behind GenderTrender:
https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/patriarchy/gender/wordpress-censors-gendertrender-gallus-mag-responds/
Twitter may be involved too, as this guy seems to be keeping a running log of feminists purged for “anti-trans” comments:
Similarly, Gavin McInnes's black-friendly, Zionist, definitely-not-Nazi "Proud Boys" have been labeled an extremist group by the same FBI that can find no reason to say anything bad about Antifa.
Hopefully people take the hint.
Are you kidding?
I knew some guys in high school who were busted for growing dope just outside the grotto area.Replies: @J.Ross, @Reg Cæsar
I was talking about the Polish National Catholic Church.
http://www.pncc.org/
All the Prime Ministers of Israel were born with different names than they had in office.Replies: @Harry Baldwin
And then there’s lawyer Jimmy McGill, who changed his name to Saul Goodman because the homeboys want to be represented by “a pipe-hitting member of the Tribe.”
Jesus, Steve…could you just give your respect…you know what Iam talikn about – why are you tryin’ to make me look like the bad guy…or anyone else???? I feel betrayed. I said I was done.
I know you love your posters. However, I am a zero woman, posting on a screen. I do have good taste in music.
I just realized that Pathfinder and My Life As A Dog are not “available.” I have it, so…whatever – you are invited for Thanksgiving dinner….but what????
Shit ton of guilties.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1087347/quotes
And still, it's the goys who are racist.Replies: @Lagertha
She showed her real fear, years ago. It is sickening that the age-old jewey thing is “buying people off” but, when Sarah Silverman basically said it, well, duh. It’s not like she shows well in SD.
http://www.pncc.org/Replies: @Anonymous
As a kid I used to read the Yellow Pages in Chicago, on visits, and marvel at the sheer number of different churches there were. (There were not nearly as many in any other town that I knew of) I remember reading that there were one or two “Polish National Catholic Churches” but despite my mother’s side of the family being all Polish, they had no idea what that was. Most of them went to St. Francis de Sales, St. Florian’s or the almost-a-cathedral St. Michaels in the Bush.
Looking at their website it looks like the PNCC is an “Old Catholic” affiliated organization, with a breakaway from the RCC at Utrecht, and therefore they are not in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, unlike the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches, whose raison d’etre seems to be Orthodox style worship and overall look but being in communion with Rome. If someone more theologically trained than myself can comment, if you actually know this stuff formally, please comment.
Jeff Duntemann, a IT and electronics hobby crank writer and SF author, is in an Old Catholic parish, and writes about Old Catholicism. There was also a claim that a man whose son claimed that he was the real D.B.Cooper (after he died) had gotten himself ordained in one of these Old Catholic denominations, whose ordination process was far less rigorous than the RCC proper. (I think the man’s claim to his father being D.B. Cooper was finally ruled out.)
Generally though, most people involved with Catholicism want to be part of something that calls itself “The One True Church” with at least some claim to really being that: if you are not stuck up on that idea, you just join a mainline or fundangelical Protestant church, so these latter day reformationists have not got much traction at all. What I don’t understand is why Eastern Rite Catholicism isn’t more popular than it is in the US, because they have cooler churches by far, the priests can marry and have regular lives, and they are still “In Communion with Rome”, e.g, their sacraments are just as good at St. Peter’s gate as the Roman ones.
I mean, if the Pope says you’re in, you’re in, but Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, the Bishop of Canterbury, or those broads named Ellen have no keys so their say-so means nothing if you believe in that Petrine stuff in Matthew 16:19, er, right?
Democrats: No Irish Need Apply.
What will this guy change his name to now that Cortez has announced the revolution?
Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Effort To Primary Members Of Her Own Party In 2020
“The group said they want Democratic members of Congress to be representative of their diverse communities and support liberal policies like Medicare for all, abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement department, implementing a “Green New Deal,”* and rejecting corporate PAC donations. On the campaign trail, Ocasio-Cortez talked about forming a “corporate-free caucus” as a means to push for reform.** That type of group, if it forms, could turn out to be the left’s counterpart to the Freedom Caucus, which pushed Republican leadership to the right.
The group has invited members to nominate candidates and districts to target in the next election cycle, prioritizing women and diversity.”***
https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/17/ocasio-cortez-endorses-primary-democrats/
*Green New Deal = unworkable, economy killing 100% renewable nonsense (which is exactly what she protested outside of Nancy Pelosi’s office for). Many of these types also oppose nuclear energy, so we are talking about spending trillions on Chinese solar panels and putting the people of West Virginia in the poor house. Gee, wouldn’t reducing immigration go a long way towards lowering the country’s carbon footprint without also bankrupting the country? But who then would mow the Ruling Class’s lawns and take care of their kids on the cheap? Yeah, Climate Change is important, and apparently something these people think even will end the world, but it’s not THAT important.
**Wasn’t this kind of rhetoric against Venezuela’s oil company common before Chavez came to power? Just say’n. All it took for Venezuela to collapse into despotism was one Chavez + a mass of stupid voters at the bottom. Maybe all it would take in an empire with mounting instabilities is one Cortez…and Americans are getting “stupider” all the time.
***Ironically, this is what I advocated stupid right wingers and MAGA types do themselves; in other words, target safe districts and/or otherwise uncontested positions (even at the state and local level) for primarying, thus establishing a broad base of power to push for reform. However, traditional conservatives and internet dissidents aren’t that smart or well organized, apparently to the degree that someone like Cortez can out-think them.
“It seems wordpress surreptitiously changed their terms of service several days ago for the precise purpose of deleting these sites.”
Uh, why aren’t Red States working on public alternatives to these sites? Seems logical.
Somebody put a Nazi sticker on a New York subway and -- wait, what? This is a news story? Have they caught all the homeless guys who masturbate right in front of female passengers? Anyway, King Solomon here didn't figure that subways have cameras now, and pictures of his big Nazi shnozz are all over New York now. He's probably verklempt.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-metro-straphanger-caught-swastika-sticker-20181118-story.htmlReplies: @Trevor H.
And each and every one of these (others are referenced in the story) counts as a “hate crime” proving how the president is literally a Nazi.
Don’t mind me, I’m just trying to raise awareness.
That is, in a room full of extroverts he's the extrovert.
Also, he calls himself a Nationalist.
"literally" a Zina.
Reality check time:
Get your kid or nephews/nieces to work with their tablets (so much more unwieldly and awkward than a Corona or similar) , have them pound away for a couple of months and make me smile…
And didn’t YHWH change to G-D for commercial reasons?
Then there is the case of ethnic misidentify:
I suppose I should just accept the brats in the lawn of good English and get back to shuffleboard, it's all so hopeless.
Did the “Old Catholics” break off in 1870 when the Pope had himself declared infallible?
https://twitter.com/Travisdhanraj/status/1063964935435169792
Mr Dhanraj is a Canadian journaist and the resolution (which passed) rejects PC gender nonsense as unscientific. This follows a claim in the UK that mentally challenged children are being manipulated into requesting hormone blockers.Replies: @SporadicMyrmidon, @Redneck farmer
Dhanraj, wasn’t one of them was aide-de-camp of the French general who died defending Quebec when Wolfe took it?
Too busy keeping the competent part of the country running.
Largely but not entirely true. And the paternal line often has a lot of influence. I grew up in a heavily German American town and have half German half Irish cousins.
Try watching George vs the hapless Norm Coleman. Like the sign says above the door of the saloon where Laurel and Hardy dance in “Way Out West” it’s...
High Class Entertainment.Replies: @Hibernian
Sorry, I misremembered from a map I once saw. It’s a region comprising two historical counties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galloway
Try arguing Matthew 16:19 or anything pro-Catholic with a Fundamentalist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_County,_Illinois#Demographics
"Sizeable non-Hispanic white populations are those of German (11.4%), Irish (10.3%), Polish (9.7%), Italian (6.1%), and British (4.1%) descent."Replies: @Aidan Kehoe, @Clifford Brown, @The Alarmist
I wondered how a pollack could lose in Chicago.
There was also a claim that a man whose son claimed that he was the real D.B.Cooper (after he died) had gotten himself ordained in one of these Old Catholic denominations, whose ordination process was far less rigorous than the RCC proper. (I think the man’s claim to his father being D.B. Cooper was finally ruled out.)
My favorite D.B. Cooper candidate is a university librarian and avid private pilot named Barbara Dayton (1926 – 2002), who had been born Bobby Dayton and in the late 1960’s underwent one of the first transgender procedures. Years after the hijacking Dayton bragged to several people that she had temporarily reverted to her former male identity to carry out the crime, knowing that as a woman she’d never be a suspect. Dayton stopped this boasting after someone reminded her that the statute of limitations had not expired.
The real Cooper must have familiar with aviation, had had at least some skydiving experience, and knew the geography of the Puget Sound region. Dayton qualified on each one of these. She had a known resentment of the commercial aviation industry due to her inability to get a job in the field and also had the sort of bold, risk-taking personality that the hijacker surely had. Lastly, there’s some reason to believe that Dayton would have resembled the hijacker’s description in a man’s clothing and haircut.
To be sure, there are a few issues that may weaken the case for Dayton. At 5’8′ Dayton was four inches shorter than the lowest estimate of Cooper’s height. However, no one took notice of Cooper while he was standing up, and estimating a seated person’s height is difficult. The hijacker’s use of the term “negotiable American currency” in the ransom note tends to suggest that he was not an American, more likely Canadian due to the lack of any accent, but that’s far from definitive. Dan Cooper (the actual name the hijacker had used (the “D.B.” was a journalist’s error) was the name of an adventurous pilot in a French-language comic book series from Belgium. The comics had never been translated into English or sold in the United States, though they were sold in small numbers in the French-speaking parts of Canada. It’s highly unlikely that Dayton would have ever heard of these comics. Still, the use of the name could just be coincidence.
Virgin rhymes with virgin. All too well, in fact.
New Britain trivia: the center of the Polish area is very close to the main Puerto Rican area, yet the two groups have always gotten along quite well with more than a bit of intermarriage.Replies: @Anon 2
Interestingly, considering that the (non-Jewish) Polish-Americans constitute
only 0.3% of the total population, they appear to be overrepresented in Congress.
Just off the top of my head,
Senate: Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). There was also Sen. Barbara Mikulski, but
she retired in 2017. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is a Catholic and has
a Polish maiden name (Rutnik) so that’s another possibility.
House of Representatives:
1. Jackie Walorski (R-IN)
2. Dan Lipinski (D-IL)
3. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
4. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
5. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) was just elected to Congress. He was
actually born in Poland.
Bob Stefanowski came close to winning the race for governor of Connecticut,
and may run again. And, according to the talk show host Bill Cunningham,
Corey Lewandowski still talks to Trump at least once a week.
Remember that Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are populous industrial states. I think this statistic is way off.Replies: @Anon 2
Representatives
1. Jackie Walorski (R-IN)
2. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) southwest Chicago etc
3. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
4. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
5. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ)
6. Paul Tonko (D-NY)
7. Todd Rokita (R-IN)
Of course, this list could easily be doubled if we included
everyone whose ancestors came from the geographical territory
of Poland, like Sen. Bernie Sanders. Using this extended definition
of "Polish-Americans," their congressional representation would
be enormous, on a per capita basis perhaps approaching the Irish-American
numbers.
Don't mind me, I'm just trying to raise awareness.Replies: @Coemgen
President Trump is more a social Nationalist.
That is, in a room full of extroverts he’s the extrovert.
Also, he calls himself a Nationalist.
“literally” a Zina.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C89a6scW80IReplies: @flyingtiger, @The Anti-Gnostic
Yes. This has been well known since Shirer’s book.
“Heil Schickelgruber!”
“Heil Heidler!”
“Heil Hitler” has an efficient phonetic punch.
Steve might remember this: Back in the 1980s, the vote for governor and other offices in Illinois were, in the primaries, separate. Adlai Stevenson III received the most votes for governor in the Democratic primary. However, two candidates favored by the Dem establishment lost to followers of Lyndon LaRouche.
Various reasons were given, such as low turnout due to bad weather, to Republicans mischievously voting in the Democratic primary.
A major factor which was given, which I agree with, is that the voters went by last names. The Dem establishment candidates were Sangmeister and Puchinski. They lost to LaRouche candidates with Anglo-Saxon last names.
Immigrants from Latin rite countries were just massively more numerous in American history. I’ve been led to understand that the Easterners lose a lot of kids in the US to the Latin rite through intermarriage and assimilation- “Bridget loves Bogdan“. I’ve been to an Eastern Rite service exactly once in my life, though, so don’t take me for an expert.
Because most Germans married descendants of other immigrants, and German-Irish, German-Italian, German-Polish, etc always call themselves Irish, Italian, Polish. Also because of anglicization most German surnames are not that distinctive, though there are a few exceptions.
My favorite was a comedian who took a name redolent of the Scottish moors : George Burns (nee “Nathan Birnbaum”)
Reading a review about that movie about Gary Hart reminded me that there was an issue over his correct surname, which was supposedly “Hartpence” (a name straight out of Dickens).
Yes, they did.
President Trump’s sister is named Maryanne Barry. She could win the Washington DC mayoralty in a landslide if she wanted the job.
A professor of linguistics once told me FitzGerald is a Norman name, as in those French-speaking Vikings who conquered and occupied England, starting with their victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Chicago has a slightly smaller Irish ancestry population percentage than the nation in large (which is around 10%). But it has a similar number of Poles--several times their percentage of the nation at large. (Probably as many Poles as NYC and way more than anywhere else, and roughly as Polish as any other big city in the US.) And of course the area--not so much Chicago proper--has the strong Germanic "background" of the upper Midwest.
And then the city ... isn't even white. Right now its just a bit less than 1/3 each white, black and Mexican--with the noise filling in the difference. (Which is why Illinois has become a reliable blue state disaster.)
And yet people are voting for politicians because they are Irish? Weird.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @prosa123, @Mike Zwick
Cook County is 7.9% Irish. The white population of Cook County is 10.3%.
Would that be Betty’s grandpa?
And yuh guys deny white privikegeReplies: @Mike Tre, @Coemgen, @Reg Cæsar, @Steve in Greensboro
No punctuation, misspellings and muddle headedness. Our Tiny has been at the Olde English 800 early again today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_from_MinnesotaReplies: @Autochthon
They just elected a Somali, ignoring the Derb’s One True Adminition about immigration, no matter what else about which reasonable persons may disagree: “No Somalis!”
The Scandinavian people are far and away the most suicidal race on the face of the Earth. Has anyone investigated why?
Still, Somalis are hardly worse than the many other minorities in her city. And Ilhan Omar will have to work pretty damned hard to wreak even a fraction of the damage Boulder's Patricia Schroeder did over the years. I predict she'll be a placeholder, and little more than window dressing.
Also, if they're in office, they probably won't be having children in any hurry. So there's that.
Non-Hispanic whites are 43.9% of Cook County per Wikipedia.
black lesbians are still shutting me down.
steve is a black lesbian on the inside.
Or Eddie Murphy in the Nutty Professor movies:
A quibble: The sentence should read “as a private attorney” because being called to the bench does not end one’s being a member of the bar (better still, “in private practice,” since lawyer and attorney are not synonyms; many spouses of deployed sailors or children of senile parents are attorneys, and the use of that term as a pompous stand-in for lawyer is an annoying, recent phenomenon).
I suppose I should just accept the brats in the lawn of good English and get back to shuffleboard, it’s all so hopeless.
They may not be in full communion, but theirs is one of the few churches listed in the back of our seasonal hymnbook whose members are eligible to take communion in an RC church. As long as they obey their own church’s practice as well.
The Scandinavian people are far and away the most suicidal race on the face of the Earth. Has anyone investigated why?Replies: @Reg Cæsar
That was the university’s district. You never know who’ll be elected in a college town.
Still, Somalis are hardly worse than the many other minorities in her city. And Ilhan Omar will have to work pretty damned hard to wreak even a fraction of the damage Boulder’s Patricia Schroeder did over the years. I predict she’ll be a placeholder, and little more than window dressing.
Also, if they’re in office, they probably won’t be having children in any hurry. So there’s that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6401593/Whistleblower-teacher-makes-shocking-claim-autistic.html
Watch the video there. It is shocking. Adults are standing and giving their approval as a child is being sexually mutilated.
Rod Dreher picks up on this:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/transgender-totalitarianism/
and adds more, including the fact that there seems to be an active purge right of "trans-critical" feminists online. Actually he just reports that gendertrender.wordpress.com has just been deleted, after it reported details of the guy suing 16 women in Canada for refusing to wax his genitals. Apparently some fan has pulled the content from archive.org and reposted the whole site at http://gendertrender.co/. The article on the Canada guy is insane. Scroll down also to read the article on the Credit Suisse guy.
Apparently wordpress has also deleted genderidentitywatch.com.
Both of these sites had tons of actual information and I think attracted many readers and comments from people who have been directly harmed by transgenderism, most of them no doubt people who do not read sites like this.
It seems wordpress surreptitiously changed their terms of service several days ago for the precise purpose of deleting these sites. This is according to person behind GenderTrender:
https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/patriarchy/gender/wordpress-censors-gendertrender-gallus-mag-responds/
Twitter may be involved too, as this guy seems to be keeping a running log of feminists purged for "anti-trans" comments:
https://twitter.com/SamBarber1910/status/1063250389791883264Replies: @J.Ross
I avoided posting about Murphy but that’s been happening for a few days now, “feminist censorship advocate censored by folks more sex-obsessed than her.”
Similarly, Gavin McInnes’s black-friendly, Zionist, definitely-not-Nazi “Proud Boys” have been labeled an extremist group by the same FBI that can find no reason to say anything bad about Antifa.
Hopefully people take the hint.
I have some, and sometimes considerable, respect for Irish people actually living in Ireland, and plenty of generic American whites have “Irish” last names but don’t make a big deal out of Irishness seem perfectly OK to me, but my experience with Irish-Americans who make a big deal about being Irish is that most of them are worthless twats. I gather people in Ireland would largely agree with that.
I’ll bet it was really enjoyable for your co-workers to work with you.
only 0.3% of the total population, they appear to be overrepresented in Congress.
Just off the top of my head,
Senate: Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). There was also Sen. Barbara Mikulski, but
she retired in 2017. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is a Catholic and has
a Polish maiden name (Rutnik) so that's another possibility.
House of Representatives:
1. Jackie Walorski (R-IN)
2. Dan Lipinski (D-IL)
3. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
4. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
5. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) was just elected to Congress. He was
actually born in Poland.
Bob Stefanowski came close to winning the race for governor of Connecticut,
and may run again. And, according to the talk show host Bill Cunningham,
Corey Lewandowski still talks to Trump at least once a week.Replies: @Hibernian, @Anon 2
“…(non-Jewish) Polish-Americans constitute only 0.3% of the total population…”
Remember that Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are populous industrial states. I think this statistic is way off.
10 million Americans have Polish ancestry. However, since so many
americanized their names or changed them through marriage (like
Martha Stewart), I'd surmise that perhaps only about a half or 1.5%
of Americans have Polish-sounding names.Replies: @Simple Psuedonym
Remember that Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are populous industrial states. I think this statistic is way off.Replies: @Anon 2
Correction: It’s a typo. It should be 3%, not o.3%, assuming that about
10 million Americans have Polish ancestry. However, since so many
americanized their names or changed them through marriage (like
Martha Stewart), I’d surmise that perhaps only about a half or 1.5%
of Americans have Polish-sounding names.
That bastard John Kerry has a big hankering for wealthy ketchup widows, though!
Kohn as a surname in Massachusetts might not get the Leprechauns in a voting mood.
https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-when-kerry-was-kohn-1.5279459Replies: @Simple Psuedonym
His Patrician demeanor is from the Forbes.
10 million Americans have Polish ancestry. However, since so many
americanized their names or changed them through marriage (like
Martha Stewart), I'd surmise that perhaps only about a half or 1.5%
of Americans have Polish-sounding names.Replies: @Simple Psuedonym
Barry O’Bama is from Bridgeport.
If he were from Chicago's Bridgeport, he wouldn't have said "Cominskey" [sic].
LAZY, stupid ad hominem is the response I’d expect from someone disagreeing with me about this. Thanks for the support.
only 0.3% of the total population, they appear to be overrepresented in Congress.
Just off the top of my head,
Senate: Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). There was also Sen. Barbara Mikulski, but
she retired in 2017. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is a Catholic and has
a Polish maiden name (Rutnik) so that's another possibility.
House of Representatives:
1. Jackie Walorski (R-IN)
2. Dan Lipinski (D-IL)
3. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
4. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
5. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) was just elected to Congress. He was
actually born in Poland.
Bob Stefanowski came close to winning the race for governor of Connecticut,
and may run again. And, according to the talk show host Bill Cunningham,
Corey Lewandowski still talks to Trump at least once a week.Replies: @Hibernian, @Anon 2
Here’s a new expanded list of the Polish-Americans in the House of
Representatives
1. Jackie Walorski (R-IN)
2. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) southwest Chicago etc
3. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
4. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
5. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ)
6. Paul Tonko (D-NY)
7. Todd Rokita (R-IN)
Of course, this list could easily be doubled if we included
everyone whose ancestors came from the geographical territory
of Poland, like Sen. Bernie Sanders. Using this extended definition
of “Polish-Americans,” their congressional representation would
be enormous, on a per capita basis perhaps approaching the Irish-American
numbers.
“O’Bama is from Bridgeport.”
If he were from Chicago’s Bridgeport, he wouldn’t have said “Cominskey” [sic].
I am sorry! I meant that the Irish make up 10.3% of Cook County’s white population.
Blagoevich Fitzgerald.
Gerald Fitzpatrick married Patrick Fitzgerald.
There have to be less reprehensible irish somewhere. The ones we have here in Chicago and other big cities in the US are such worthless turds they’d never be able to exist on their own.
Did you hear about the first gay marriage in Ireland?
Gerald Fitzpatrick married Patrick Fitzgerald.
Rather mild considering my handle. Also, I have Italian relatives. You know what that means.