JHK’s Three-Act Play
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Hillary’s dumb riposte to Trump’s dumb slogan — make America great again! — was “…America never stopped being great.” I guess she’s been traveling around the strip-mall wastelands of Carolina failing to notice the carnage that lays upon this land like a mortal scrofula. America has been committing suicide by bad choices for decades.
We took the collateral winnings of World War II and poured it into a suburban sprawl alt-universe so depressing that our citizens are the most over-medicated people in the world. That alone might help to explain how Hillary and Trump lumber inevitably toward their respective nominations. The cheering “folks” marshaled out in the Piggly Wiggly parking lots are so buzzed on Klonopin and Zoloft that they can’t tell how these two odious celebrities epitomize the very forces behind their pharmaceutically-masked despair.
A nation sunk in such falsity is sure to suffer life-threatening blowback and it looks like the first thing to go will be the life of the political parties. Both Democrats and Republicans have gone full Whig, riding into the 2016 election on the garbage barge of history. Hillary went on hyper-gloat after last week’s South Carolina primary, where she stuffed her pander-bag with black votes reaped on empty promises to re-boot the Civil Rights era. It was painful to watch that get-me-outa-here smile stretched across her face as she hugged the last selfie-snapper and slouched toward the ordeal of Super-Tuesday.
I don’t care how many primary victories Trump racks up, the GOP poobahs will not support him going into the convention. They will crack the party up into warring factions before they let him hoist the gonfalon of Lincoln and the Gipper. Be warned: plans are already afoot to shove Trump aside, to derail him with some scandal easily excavated from a life spent greasing other pols and playing ball with the mob-riddled construction industry in New York, Jersey, and Nevada. Failing that, they’ll leave him with a gutted shell of the party apparatus and by-hook-or-crook get some other figure to make a well-funded run under a slightly altered banner: Paul Ryan, Bloomberg, Romney, just maybe Kasich. The Koch brothers will organize the money mojo. Failing that, there is always the mysterious magic of the Deep State for winning friends and influencing history.
This is not to endorse the old Republican establishment, just saying that they are increasingly desperate to derail this monster of their own creation, and will go to institutionally suicidal lengths to get it done. It will be more than another election cycle, if ever, before the right-of-center portion of the US political spectrum can realign itself into something resembling a party.
Or perhaps this is America’s true imperial moment, when all party politics surrenders to the pre-tsunami undertow of events. None of the idiot network commentators or Wash-Po or NY Times columnists seem to notice that the global economy is sinking into a coma, and in so doing is igniting cluster-bombs of default through the financial system. That so far insidious destruction should effloresce exactly around the time of the nominating conventions. The tide will have visibly gone miles out just as Hillary mounts the podium like some bad joke of a national mommy and Trump sits fretting in his Cleveland hotel room wondering how his rococo dreams of glory turned into a shit sandwich from room service. Yeats’s widening gyre is upon us. The biggest surprise of all yet-to-come is that television will fail to explain it. The second coming will not be the reappearance of the celebrity known as Jesus Christ, but rather of the event called the American Civil War.
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There seems to be a morose grandiosity dominating your outlook – almost Wagnerian. I agree with the general outline of decline – it’s been evident to anyone with eyes and ears for decades (I always felt that 1957 was America’s high-water mark) but I’m thinking things will unravel in a more gradual manner. I like Greer’s step-down theory.
Still, I’m a fool for purple prose so I gobble up everything you write.
I agree with you on Greer’s step down theory. In my working career, I have been through 3 economic “down turns”. After each one I took a significant pay cut then gradually worked my way back to roughly my pre-recession level. However, do to the theoretically non-existent inflation and debt incurred while I was unemployed, I never got back to the pre-recession standard of living. So I’m seeing the step down occurring on a micro level.
So true. Cheap books and articles on the Internet makes up for the material poverty. It can make for a rich spiritual and intellectual life. You just have to abandon the myth of Progress, as Greer calls it, and things become a lot better.
It’s taken me until my 50’s to understand that. Now I’m just trying to get into a position where I can go into “the third act” in some semblance of comfort without having to resort to being a greeter at Wallyworld.
Well said- not only a rich intellectual/spiritual life, but one of what might be called “localized physical activity” meaning the incorporation of daily exercise ~vs~ distant, more expensive recreation.
The future of comfortable living for the elderly will be health based; health is “money” going forward.
I don’t know about comfortable living. Exercise as part of living to grow food, make things we need, to take care of a homestead, for example, may be the key to having what we need to live, because the oil/industrial economy is circling the drain. Most food grown on earth relies on oil for it to happen – fertilizers, machinery, processing, transportation… when the world economy dies, which it will do because it’s based on fossil fuels, then the only people who will be sure to continue eating are those who are growing their own food. The industrial age produce luxuries and comforts, and when industry dies, all those things will rot with it. What’s left will be what’s in our hands to do. Oh, wait, what would that be? “World Made By Hand”. Yeah, pretty much. It’s a healthy lifestyle, very active, very physical. I’m looking forward to it. Well, actually, I’m already started.
Americans tend to confuse health care and health. Health care consists of expensive goods and services provided by physicians, pharmacists and other health care professionals. Occasionally, health care is life-saving, which is all to the good, because there is no health without life.
But much more often than they save lives, the costly tests and drugs save the health care industry from poverty; in fact, they provide the health care industry with enormous wealth. Wealth which constitutes a bloated and growing portion of our GDP.
Health, as opposed to health care, is something that a person earns for him or her self through good diet, physical exertion, and avoidance of toxins.
I can only speak for myself, but I want health, not health care. I know from experience that health care rarely provides health.
Good point. I often wonder what would happen if the sentiment you express here captured imaginations on a larger scale. A full rejection of the Myth of Progress (TM) would look to the business-as-usual types as a complete economic meltdown.
But perhaps we don’t let go of that myth suddenly or drastically, it’s not an all-or-nothing belief. It could be that we reject it slowly, step by step, maybe without fully realizing it and consciously choosing that rejection.
A slow decline over one or two generations, maybe longer. Both population and GDP per capita dropping by less than 1% every year, the measurements for a while masked by immigration and inflation/deflation confounding our analyses, and like peak oil we can only see it in the rear-view mirror 20-50 years after it has already happened. It may not feel like a collapse at all while it’s happening.
And it may already be happening, and perhaps has been happening for the greater part of the last 20 years or so, just as you describe.
1957? Looking back it is hard to believe people believed in the Domino Theory of Communism, and believed it so much they sent their sons and daughters to fight 2 wars. It is so ludicrous, so laughable. Anything pre-JFK would qualify, so any year between 1945 and 1963. America died in the Civil War. JFK was the exclamation point on the death certificate. The Global Mafia’s plans span centuries.
“1957? Looking back it is hard to believe people believed in the Domino Theory of Communism, and believed it so much they sent their sons and daughters to fight 2 wars.”
People (and many politicians) believed in the domino theory because the US deep state had decided to seize upon its moment of post-war supremacy to extend its de facto empire to the maximum extent possible, and the looming danger of Godless Communism was an easy sell — so that’s what the PTB sold.
It had (and has), for a very long time (long before the 50s), been one version after the other of the Great Game, and that decade was America’s moment to flex its bulked-up muscle, while the other players were recovering from WWII devastation.
Understood. But what did we have to fear from the Soviet Union? If Stalin didn’t take Europe, the possibility of an American invasion was nil. Why did we care if Asia was completely communist? I guess it’s like terrorist. You are 1000 times more likely to get killed in a traffic accident than a terrorist incident.
“But what did we have to fear from the Soviet Union?”
Competition. Empires don’t like it; it limits profits, especially if the competition is based (at least ostensibly) upon a system that limits the aggregation of personal wealth and power.
“If Stalin didn’t take Europe, the possibility of an American invasion was nil. Why did we care if Asia was completely communist?”
See above. The whole, long story is about striving for supremacy and domination. Everything else was and is a smokescreen devised to obfuscate reality for the masses.
Why would TPTB of that time (1945-1948) when we were the only country with nuclear bombs, go to the trouble to create a domino theory when all they had to do was nuke Moscow, morals aside (of which supposedly TPTB had none)?
There would be no profit in nuking Moscow.
Yes sir. Growing up as the brat of an Air Force officer I became acquainted with cigar-chomping General Curtis LeMay and the Pentagon’s espousal of “preventive war”, the newspeak ideology of “war to prevent war”, tentatively proposing to send a wave of B-36s over with surprise packages for Uncle Joe.
Harry Truman put the kybosh on “Operation Trojan” or whatever other name they proposed for it. Preventive atomic war did not appeal to the haberdasher from Kansas City.
I have also read that Stalin was poisoned because those around him feared he wanted a pre-emptive nuclear war with the West – which the USSR would have lost grievously (around 1950 or so). A dinner enhanced with tasteless, odorless Warfarin. Rat poison for Uncle.
In 1957 an aura of innocence prevailed. American food was fresh and hearty. Kids played outside. TV was a silly diversion and everyone knew it. There was a beautiful countryside, real cities and thousands of vibrant small towns. Factories belched prosperity from towering stacks and anyone willing to work could live well and raise a family.
The Beatniks provided a welcome cultural critique. The interstate and shopping mall were yet to mature. Little Richard was in the process of recording a song cycle on Specialty label that would prove to be the finest American Music of the century, and the Chevrolet automobile came standard with a pair of tits sculpted to the hood….sweet!
Happy Days!
Ditto, and never to return for our families.
I’m wid ya, Greg, on your entire description of the era (except maybe the Little Richard part). I completed my Junior year of HS in June ’57. I always thought of myself as having grown up in the sweet spot of American History.
Yeah it was. I grew up in the shit spot, the 1970’s and you know what, I couldn’t tell the difference at the time.
Megadtttos on your Little Richard caveat. I was a Chuck Berry kinda guy myself.
Yes, before Civil Rights. Before the destruction of our cities by Blacks. Whites ruled in their own country.
You have chosen well.
A dubious endorsement.
Your nasty racist comments are extremely tiresome.
The only reason whites ruled “in their own country” was because they stole it from the Native Americans. Then they brought black people here to be their slaves. There’s not much for “whites” to be proud of.
So go back to Europe, Helen. Oh that’s right, your spiritual brethren are giving that away to the Muslims. Maybe you could become an Indian like Elizabeth Warren? Fantasy is a classic female strategy for coping.
Those uncomfortable sensations my posts elicit in you? That’s your brain trying to start working again. Why not give in to it?
Wow. I thought you were being ironic so I thought, “This is the first time I’ve ever agreed with that guy.”
I thought you were referring to the fact that none of these idyllic recollections of 1957 included segregated school systems and black men lynched in trees, for example. As if white people ruled the country like it was theirs. And then I realized that you thought that was a good thing. Oops!
You’re right Soot: nothing is worse than Whites having their own societies. That would make them equal with other races, and I know you don’t believe in that.
Unless you were black or a “wetback”. Of course, even comparing the status of blacks and hispanics then to what we have today, maybe they too are nostalgic for the good ole days.
“Little Richard was in the process of recording a song cycle on Specialty label”
Yes, Little Richard…who can forget the poetry, the rich, cultural diversity of….”Lucille! You don’t “do” your sister will….
Little Richard was a bit to frenetic for my taste back in the late 50’s…much preferred the coasters, Johnny Otis, and anything doo-wop.
I understand your critique of the era, but it WAS the height of empire….
A good perspective on Donald Trump by Michael Meade. Link below.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-meade-dhl/donald-trump-the-myth-and_b_8789426.html
JHK has gone full psychotard, I guess like everyone else.
“Make America Great Again” is dumb, as if “Fighting for Us” (Us meaning Billary and Goldman Sachs), and “A Future to Believe In” (USSR style future)–are smart?
If there really is going to be another Civil War, I think Kunstler would fit nicely in the role of Tecumseh Sherman.
While eyes are focused on Hillary and Donald the political revolution led by Bernie gathers strength.
Tomorrow, in Super Tuesday Bernie will pick up more delegates.
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a Hindu and Iraq War veteran quit as VP of the DNC to give her endorsement of Bernie Sanders and his sane foreign policy. (Hillary doe not have any Hindu super delegates)
Bernie is building his cabinet. Joe Cirinccione of Ploughshares.org has joined Bernie’s foreign policy team.
Money wise, Bernie has four million donations and should take in $40 million dollars this month. Nothing will stop Bernie from taking the fight to Hillary all the way to the convention.
Bernie Sanders 2016 … He is just getting started.
I sure hope so. The defection of the DNC VP on national television should be a much-needed boost for Bernie after S.C.
In politics at the local and national level since 1946, 27 years in congress, and worth something less than half of million…
Bernie’s history shows the unmistakable signs of a true public servant, one who has refused to milk the system for his own benefit. We may never have the chance to vote for a viable candidate of this caliber again.
In politics at the local and national level since 1946,
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He became the mayor of Burlington, VT at age 5?
My bad. He started in the early 1980s. Thanks for catching this embarrassing gaffe. I think my point still stands, however.
Yes and we were there when as a Progressive he defeated Gordon Paquette and his Democratic machine. He was a great mayor, revitalizing the waterfront by keeping it for the public and not condo and hotel developers, and starting CEDO – Community and Economic Development Office which revitalized Burlington as well. He’s no socialist of the cliche type, it’d be more accurate to call him a Social Democrat.
I sure wish you were right about Bernie/Clinton. I fear the fix is truly and firmly in, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel. In fact, the tunnel itself is a delusion.
Elsewhere, others lament about stepwise decline vs sudden decline. My thought is, those steps are not even – some are larger than others. The next one looks to be huge… maybe the actuality is more like it takes a big drop to get things rolling, then it will be a series of smaller steps, punctuated by larger ones from time to time. Seems to me Rome fell step-wise after an initial invasion – their huge first step?
Enjoy the day. Even if Bernie wins, and survives that, there is not much he could do with a Congress full of Sith lords.
Craig
Some day (in the not too distant future) on Bernie’s tombstone, after Born and Died, will appear the words “Avg contribution, $27.”
Ha! But it would have to say “ $27 bucks.”
I wish Bernie would get off the talking points and go for Hillary’s corporate jugular.(Or is it her Achilles heel.)
It’s factual, not dirty politics, to call out how much money she’s raised from Big Pharm, big banks, Big Ag.
Why, for example, do so many African Americans trust her when her corporate codependency comes at their expense? For example, her connections with Big Ag and trade agreements have direct effects on the food supply, especially in food deserts like inner cities. All there is in these places is a corner bodega with processed food and a few onions and potatoes. It does horrible things to poor people’s health. What ho–Big Pharma to the rescue!
Take the gloves off, Bernie!
Gabbard first came to my attention when she destroyed Establishment shill Wolf Blitzer on CNN. She’s the first Democrat, to my knowledge, who publicly supported al Assad against the feckless Obama policy of yet another regime change. She very articulate and, excuse me, quite a looker. She’ll be 35 before the November election. Sanders could do worse that throw a Hail Mary and announce that, if he’s nominated, she’ll be his choice for VP.
Wow! Representative Tulsi Gabbard is very impressive.
Her positions on the issues are spot on and it seems to come from a principled evolution. As an Iraq War veteran she is immune to any “weak on defense” criticism.
She would make an excellent VP candidate for Bernie…
She has had the guts to follow her principles, especially against the endless Wars which Hillary on the other hand has promoted and even campaigned for and helped plan e.g. Libya….
Bernie Sanders’s chances of ascending to the Oval Office are only slightly better than the chance that a highly motivated crew of exceptionally bright hamsters will land on Mars this year and claim it in the name of the Earth.
The evil, corrupt, and ever efficient Clinton machine is well on it’s way to coronating Her Royal Gluteus Maximus Hillary as the Democrat nominee to become the new Queen Bee of America.
The fix is in…….and the Bernie folks will soon be feelin’ the burn as Bill & Hillary steal away with a nomination they did not earn.
All you naive Millenials are about to receive a real education on how the world really works from the 1960’s Hippies who now wear suits, drive BMW’s, and ruthlessly RUN the Democrat Party.
“I guess she’s been traveling around the strip-mall wastelands of Carolina failing to notice the carnage that lays upon this land like a mortal scrofula.”
Hillary, like the rest of the political elite, lives in a bubble and has no idea what is actually happening down on the ground and could care less.
If you haven’t yet, read this Peggy Noonan article about WHY Trump and Sanders are gaining. Her terms: the Protected (Hillary) versus the Unprotected (the rabble, basically us.)
Excerpts:
“Because they are protected they feel they can do pretty much anything, impose any reality. They’re insulated from many of the effects of their own decisions.”
“It was good for the protected. But the unprotected watched and saw. They realized the protected were not looking out for them, and they inferred that they were not looking out for the country, either.
The unprotected came to think they owed the establishment—another word for the protected—nothing, no particular loyalty, no old allegiance.”
“This is a terrible feature of our age—that we are governed by protected people who don’t seem to care that much about their unprotected fellow citizens.”
That might actually get the Media back to their old job: comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable. We can hope.
I like that expression “the protected class”. Thanks for the link.
When one is both rich, powerful and famous [adored by some] it is easier to deny reality.
Cognitive dissonance must keep its distance.
Very good thought. While it clearly applies to the political elite, certainly it applies to elements of the non-political world, too.
The world of finance where somehow debt equals money or something of value comes readily to mind.
“…We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality…”
Political elites; financial elites – they are all just a subset of the “empire” mentioned above.
I just wonder how long that observation will continue to hold. It’s certainly held up ever since it was made back in 2004.
If that bubble ever pops, things are going to get real messy. But, I think I would prefer a healthy dose of chaos compared to an infinite prolonging of this “extend and pretend” nonsense.
” I think I would prefer a healthy dose of chaos …”
Russ,
With all respect, I don’t think anyone would say that having seen “chaos” up close and personal.
+1 on “you don’t know war” if you are thinking chaos (or even a little civil war like in the Balkans 1990’s) is ever better for most people than extend & pretend. E&P means electric power/water/gas still works, grocery stores are open, gas stations are open, even if limited hours and shortages, the system is still there. Your paper/electronic money still has perceived value when you can get fuel/food with it pretty soon.
It’s the difference between Berlin 1921 and Moscow 1921. The number and disposition of corpses in these cities is the difference. In Moscow, dead humans were low-grade food for people. Berlin had enough order and Western Civ culture to not eat each other, even during a monetary crisis we find interesting 100 years later.
And what do we expect will happen if either H or D or ? slips into the badly out of round office? There remains this seriously broken congress grinding all into small pieces.
Oh, the situation will just keep worsening, as it has for decades. Perhaps a bit faster with an unapologetic warmonger and/or Wall St. whore in office, but nothing fundamental will change.
Our American fundamentals simply don’t change with the occupants of the Oval Office.
Scofula was also called “The touching evil”, because it was believed to be curable by the touch of the King. Perhaps Trump feels he can cure America’s scrofula with his touch…..
Some required reading here. First, Matt Taibbi’s description of how “America” (by which he means “the media”) made Trump inevitable. Long story short: Trump realized that the Media had made the Presidential race into a giant reality show, and he is MUCH better at it than the politicians are. Second, people love Trump because he shows contempt for the “presstitutes” who serve the elite.
Second, a story from the NYT on 27 February about how Mitch McConnell is “desperate” to stop Trump. Long story short: the DC Republicans are more opposed to Trump than any Democrat could ever be. Read that story. If you are a Bernie backer, you’ll feel like sending a contribution to Trump after doing so.
Third, this story about the decision to invade Libya and HRC’s involvement in it details WHY Trump will crush her if he is nominated. Completely oblivious to the repercussions, and making decisions to kill people in war time because of how it would look for her Presidential campaign. Trump is to her left on Iraq by calling W a liar.
I’d love to see Bernie win. I don’t think Bernie voters will go for Trump, but they will boycott. I think Trump voters would go for Bernie over Rubio.
Tl;dr: the elites have lost control of the narrative.
I have NO doubt Hitlery will be the next POTUS and i’m quite enjoying Trump making a mockery of the entire political process including the American Idol style debates.
As much as I detest politicians and Central Planning and Central Govt, I hope and pray Trump dials it up more and riles up the masses and politics.
And isnt the biggest problem actually the sympathizers and followers who cheer for the “Hitler making a mockery of the political process” ?
We are becoming a nation of Nero’s who celebrate the destruction of our country.
And more certain than death or taxes is the posting of faux racism at Custerfuck Nation with a madatory weekly assertion of ‘black’ DNA being violent.
Can’t you guys get a life!
oops – this was posted out of place. I’ll repost where it belongs. too bad we can’t delete.
got it.
ya and I’d delete mine if I could also.
They murder at seven times the White rate. Not seven percent more, seven TIMES more.
Think about it.
Sorry, I dont follow K-Dog.
Did you mean to reply to me or post a new topic?
What posting of faux racism, and assertion of black DNA?
Am I in need of a life?
Nothing about you GetAbike. I meant it to be at the end of the scroll. The Janos poser troll was making a new ‘black’comment under his other alias.
About your comment I agree we are like Nero sitting in his gilded palace fiddling while Rome burns. Or like in the Charlie’s Daniel’s band in a fiddling contest with the devil. Chicken in the bread pan kickin out dough.
Except unlike in that diddy we are not gonna win the match.
The “system” aka The Republic the Founders of this Nation founded has failed. Stick a fork in it cause it’s done. All that’s left is to ridicule the ridiculous and that’s what Donald Trump is doing.
When was the last time you’ve heard someone call a politician “a big liar” on stage? Rather all we hear are PC terms such as misspoke, mislead etc.
Politicians are scum, all of them as I detest central planning and government. So bravo to Trump for calling in the Clowns to the Circus.
All we can do is wait for the system to collapse and figure out what the sheeple want afterwards.
End of empire. It’s what people do.
Donald Trump is an excellent demonstration of the role of Mystical-Meteorological factor in US Politics.
Initially, he was recruited by Hillary Clinton for the role of Ross Perot 2.0 and a spoiler for Jeb Bush’s campaign. He didn’t like it a bit, but couldn’t refuse powerful and revengeful Bastinda, and so he tried his best to get out of the gig as soon as possible.
During the initial debates and campaign events, he blurted out whatever came to his mind, hoping that that would render him unelectable.
But when man assumes, God presumes. Much to his and others surprise, his popularity was growing by the hour, no matter what he said. So he got approached by the Other Clan and now he’s in it for real.
Go Trump!!
By the way, that means that somebody immensely more powerful than Clinton or Bush or anybody else, is on Mr.Trump’s side.
Go Trump!, Go!!!
That would be God.
That’s exactly what I thought. ‘More powerful than someone from the Bush or Clinton clans? My God, who could that be?’
Oh. OK.
OTOH it could mean the Black State.
Heads from both the Republican and Democrat establishment truly exploded when Trump started quoting George Washington and the importance of not getting involved in intangling alliances then explained that as president his greatest policy achievement and the most difficult “deal” of his life would be helping the Israelis and Palestinians find a peaceful solution in the Middle East.
He further explained that it would be necessary for the United States to “be a NEUTRAL Negotiator” in the deal. That going into a deal it “be wrong” to take sides”.
The the David Duke endorsement rolled in. I think I also saw a press conference with Dr. Evil and Darth Vader and The Emporer endorsing Trump.
Trump can mess with Mexicans and Muslims and New York City rats. Even Texas! But he CANNOT mess with Israel and AIPAC!
This AM on MSNBC, “Morning Joe” Scarborough was stating that Trump was finished because he did not immediately renounce David Duke and the KKK. Part of me still believes that Trump wants out of this, even if he goes down as a racist white supremacist. Otherwise, how could he be so politically tone deaf?
Maybe Fincain is correct and Trump is just Perot 2.0. He succeeded in getting Jeb out of the race, so is his job done? BTW, why would David Duke endorse Trump anyway? Rightly or wrongly, he has a lifetime sentence as a racist, no matter his positions today. If he wants Trump to win, best to lay low until after the election.
I’m 67 and have NEVER seen Teflon coating on a politician like that protecting Trump. Reagan’s coating, effective as it was, wasn’t even close to the covering on The Donald.
I hope that JHK will give this phenomenon even deeper analysis on this always-lively blog, because we all could use some of that magic, for different and more noble purposes, whatever the hell the secret is.
By the way, for an interesting exercise in cognitive dissonance, try saying the words “Trump” and “noble” one after the other.
It’s a last minute eruption of the Life Force of White Americans. Unconsciously, we know that Trump is the last chance for any kind of country for Whites in America. For those with clear sight, it’s obvious that ordinary Whites have been ruthlessly discriminated against for decades now – and that it is getting worse.
Rubio and Cruz are probably out as alternatives to Trump because both are likely to get us into war in the Middle East, and Cruz is just bat-shit (I would gladly vote for Hillary if that MF were the Republican nominee). Rubio’s politics are fairly extreme but he conceals it well by being a photogenic light-complexioned latino with a sense of personal decorum (same with Paul Ryan except for the latino part). People just don’t like Romney, so not him: He’s pretty much a cross between Thurston Howell III from “Gilligan’s Island” and Stan Smith from “American Dad!” So Bloomberg or Kasich are probably the best bets for a spoiler funded by the Republican establishment, in case their candidate actually wins.
I think the financial powers-that-be are keeping US financial market afloat “by hook or by crook” because they want Hillary to have her coronation before it all falls apart. If it does so before then, who knows what the electoral contest will look like, if there even is such a thing in that event!
Rubio’s politics are fairly extreme but he conceals it well by being a photogenic light-complexioned latino – venus
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For the benefit of Elrond and Doug, please explain why light-complexioned is a positive.
Things are moving pretty much like 2008… election year; markets off and obviously going to crash; plenty of warnings from all the mavens. So… expect the crash be4fore the election, but after the nominations are done.
Prediction: Hillary vs Trump; R’s run a second ticket with Jeb Bush. Maybe somebody convinces Bloomberg to run. Who knows the outcome; the survivor will enter the White House in the midst of the first, and very large, step onto what will suddenly be obviously a long decline or Emergency. That step will definitely be an Emergency.
What the ultimate impact will be will require long years of observation. I don’t have that many left… thank the FSM. For the shorter term, I plan on kicking back, popping some corn, and enjoying the show. It will be fun to see who and what sort of humor arises from this.
Craig
As much as I despise Trump, if he gets the delegates and they choose to support him, he should be the GOP nominee.
That’s how our Democracy works. Then the voters decide in November.
If Mitch “The Mumbler” McConnell and his pals come up with a backstage coup, that’s worse than Trump in a general election. It would point to the sort of breakdown JHK has long predicted.
Treason! The prez has a 4 yr term McConnel and co. Are subverting the Constitution. Let’s call it what it is…TREASON
McConnell is a walking advertisement for term limits. When Obama was first elected Mitch the human turtle said his goal was to make him a one term president. To hell with helping the machinery of government run. If that’s not treason, what is?
Treason never prospers, for when it does, NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON.
“As much as I despise Trump, if he gets the delegates and they choose to support him, he should be the GOP nominee.
“That’s how our Democracy works.”
Not true. Never has been true. And it isn’t even ostensibly required by any rules that can’t be rewritten at will by the party honchos.
*should* work, then. That’s how it should. Clearly it does not any longer. Point taken.
Well remember, the Founders loathed Democracy and for good reason. Democracy is rule by the mob and those who control the mob. That’s why the Dougs of the world love it so much. It delivers all power to them in the long term – and it doesn’t take that long.
America was supposed to be a Republic – a government of Laws, not Men. Voting was just part of it and only for the qualified.
One white penis, one vote.
“One man, one vote–and I’m the man.”
Robert Mugabe
President of Zimbabwe
BTW, this has probably been linked here by somebody else previously, but Donald Trump and the Politics of Resentment by John Michael Greer is worth a read, as is The Decline and Fall of Hillary Clinton by the same author.
Greer once said he wished he could live long enough to see the Asian/Hispanic Culture destined to arise on the West Coast. Yet he calls himself a Druid. The Druids weren’t an above it all type spiritual order. They were patriots who supported their people against enemies.
Mr Greer should have chosen a different spiritual path because a Druid is precisely what he isn’t.
Amen…
This is the excellent article Doug posted last night:
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/22/science/do-races-differ-not-really-genes-show.html?pagewanted=all&pagewanted=print
Bravo, Doug! Excellent link, and well worth reading in full. A few observations:
”Race is a social concept, not a scientific one,” said Dr. J. Craig Venter, head of the Celera Genomics Corporation in Rockville, Md.
This crucial point needs to be made over and over because racists will never stop pushing their irrational views. Venter is a guy who understands genetics well enough to have founded the company that actually sequenced the human genome. So, y’know, he kinda knows what he’s talking about.
By contrast with the tiny number of genes that make some people dark-skinned and doe-eyed, and others as pale as napkins, scientists say that traits like intelligence, artistic talent and social skills are likely to be shaped by thousands, if not tens of thousands, of the 80,000 or so genes in the human genome, all working in complex combinatorial fashion.
The idea that a faculty as complicated as human intelligence could be used to slice humanity into tranches of the more-worthy and less-worthy, on the basis of a single, synthetic measure such as IQ score, was demolished by Stephen Jay Gould in The Mismeasure of Man. When Alfred Binet did early work on intelligence testing, his aim was to identify children in need of further assistance or those working at a level higher than was being provided for in their classrooms, so that all could reach their fullest potential.
[B]ecause the founding population of emigres [from Africa] was small, it could only take so much genetic variation with it. As a result of that combination — a limited founder population and a short time since dispersal — humans are strikingly homogeneous, differing from one another only once in a thousand subunits of the genome.
”We are a small population grown large in the blink of an eye,” Dr. Lander said. ”We are a little village that’s grown all over the world, and we retain the genetic variation seen in that little village.”
Freud noted our propensity to defend our self-image by insisting on the overwhelming importance of minimal divergences from ourselves. He called it the narcissism of minor differences.
Great article, Doug. Thanks again. That said, it’s time for me to get over the “Someone is WRONG on the Internet!” syndrome, so I’m checking out of this argument from now on. People either already get it or they’re beyond help.
The GOP is reaping what it sewed — it created the Tea Party and now it is the servant of it. As much as the establishment GOP hates Trump, they will probably “hold their noses” and vote for him. If the GOP splits between the Establishment and the Tea Party, Hillary will waltz away with a landslide. And that, of course, would be awesome for Democrats.
They also made a Faustian bargain with the evangelicals and now, after 40 years of still not having a theocracy in the US, they are refusing to support the “establishment candidate” and are going to Trump and Cruz.
Not awesome for the country, though.
Hillary, MOTS — more of the same.
Hillary, WOSOBB — Wholly owned subsidiary of Big Business.
The GOP did not create the Tea Party, but they are getting what they deserve for their treatment of Ron Paul who has been right for the last 30 years, and it is still coming.
I am getting so sick of this presidential race. I knew this was going to happen when they started it a year and a half before the actual election. We’re not electing a king or queen that rules by command. The last I knew, it was Congress that formulates the laws.
I’m also sick of people talking about a “do-nothing” Congress. What can you expect from a Congress that is Republican and a President that is Democrat? The President we have will not compromise, so we’re stuck with him for another eleven months.
When I read all the comments on this blog, I’m reminded of the philosophy that I’m trying to live by: No matter what happens, the sun will come up today and go down tonight. Tomorrow, the same thing happens! Personally, I’m retired and I can pretty much do as I want. I live in a small town (~26,000) and I am within five minutes of whereever I want to go. Nobody bothers me and I try not to bother anybody! I have friends and family that I talk to. Whether Trump or Clinton gets into the White House is not going to change my life very much. Life will go on!
When I read the comments on this blog, or watch TV, or read stories on the Internet, I have come to the conclusion that we are living in the time of “Truth is lies and lies are truth.”. But no matter, life will go on.
Yes, I get frustrated by the ignorance of people in general. I have concluded that our financial system is completely fake. I have to laugh at some of the TV commercials “worrying about America’s debt”. What a bunch of con artists!
So, in the end, why do we get so upset about who’s going to be President, or is the stock market going to go up or down. Trust me. Tonight, the sun will go down and tomorrow, the sun will come up…and there’s not a damn thing any of us can do stop it!
“The last I knew, it was Congress that formulates the laws.”
Things have changed, the deep state makes their own rules. Number 1 of which is ‘don’t get caught’.
Very much my own thinking. Does one have to attain a reasonably long life before realizing this?
Well, yes, the sun and moon will continue, but the “life goes on” meme may be running out of time. Global warming will kill us; nuclear power plants popping will kill us; methane hydrates will kill us; sea level rise will kill a significant portion of us; the failure of agribusiness will starve lots of us; drought and nonpotable water will make a lot of us thirsty. Etc. There are many self-reinforcing feed back loops that have tipped and will kill us.
But, yes, the sun will rise and the sun will set. And the really sad thing is that we are taking a majority of species with us.
Life without us will continue. We will be the new reindeer, and worldwide, not limited to a single island.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Matthew_Island
Craig
Yup. Great times to be a jellyfish, squid or a bacterium. And never count out the cockroaches.
But, yeah, you’re right. Nature is not only taking an increasingly dim view of us, but almost anything that is a mammal seems to be in the cross-hairs.
This is one point where I really disagree with the Archdruid. I really like his articles, except the ones that berate people for saying something other than the collapse will be incremental and over a period a centuries.
The Caesars never had to worry about nuclear power plants going “ker-pow” because adequately planning for their shutdown will prove to be just too much bother for those precious “persons” we call corporations, did they?
The song for our times, Ladies and Gentlemen, is “When the Levee Breaks” by Led Zeppelin. Applies to a lot of things other than just water sloshing around.
Life goes on ? My philosophy is exactly the opposite of yours. “Life ends so try to accomplish something.”
Haha! Great post this week. And, I learned a new word — Gonfalon. Nice.
You’re right, television and the plenitude of talking heads won’t be able to explain any of it, and truthfully, haven’t been able to explain any of it. They pretend for the camera, but behind the scenes many of them have the WTF expression permanently imprinted on their faces before they put on their increasingly transparent masks for the audience as they go on not-so-rarefied air.
Unfortunately the gonfalon hoisted (foisted?) is more likely to be that of Vyacheslav von Plehve.
History repeats.
I read not one, but two ringing and stinging anti-endorsements of The Donald from representatives of the Deep State and the reprehensible evil bastards in charge: The Council on Foreign Relations and Economist magazine.
Check out their membership rosters if you doubt who these organisms represent.
If the Evil Ones think that calling Trump a carnival barker and worse will be Kryptonite to DJT then they are sadly mistaken. Just as when the Pope confronted Trump with a scandalous, indeed, vicious ad hominem attack to his person (“…he is not a Christian…”) these diatribes will further work to boost his standing in the eyes of the sick of the “Two-Party-System” politics and political correctness American electorate and propel him to the Republican nomination.
Will he win?
I’d like to see it but only The Shadow knows.
I agree with the first premise stated… I do not, however, believe that those who are sick of the “Two-Party-System” politics and political correctness American electorate really want The Donald. They/we are striking out in the only way that seems to have an opportunity.
Interesting comment above about Hillary enlisting Donald as a surrogate to derail Jeb!. True, in fact. And it gave so many a place to hang their hat to say, in effect, “We know this guy is a clown… he is not serious and cannot possibly be good for our country. Yet, he is better that what you all have given us.” And it is being said to both parties.
In a general election, if Trump runs, he wins. No matter that the establishment has Hillary AND Rubio/Kasich/Bloomberg to fall back on. Sadly, we, the unthinking American electorate, have do this to ourselves. It is not an act of sadism that we are seeing – it is masochism.
Craig
I predict the Oligarchs will win, and the medicated, fat, malnourished, stupid, distracted citizens will lose. Same shit, different day.
Not sure we will have a Revolution, or just widespread rioting and looting. Revolution implies a change in political leadership…
” The biggest surprise of all yet-to-come is that television will fail to explain it.“/
But it will be no surprise at all that nobody notices or cares. People want Star Wars and candy bars in non-biodegradable plastic wrappers. People don’t want explanations, people just want more stuff. In between texting and Facebook posts and Twitter that is what they are thinking about, getting more stuff. That is all there is left to think about after your phone steals your smarts and gives you your very own private false reality. There are no longer spare brain cells for contemplating anything else.
“Truth is lies and lies are truth.”. But no matter, life will go on.
And truth will not find clarity. Life will go on and so will death.
Obama saying Trump will never be president seems to echo comments about JFK not making it through his first term. He didn’t. The Deep State is failing. The F-35 is a great example of this. So is the Osprey. I think next they’ll do a Hovercraft Submarine. America is spending a fortune on weapon systems that do not work and were bad ideas in the first place. I think the 2 world wars had 3 purposes, the confiscation of all the gold, the petroleumification of the world, and the creation of the military industrial complex. Every time an enemy disappears, a new one is manufactured. In the end I have never met a communist or a terrorist or an alien for that matter, and probably never will.
Nice meeting you, too.
Meeting an real alien is probably more likely than meeting a real terrorist.
Were the various bombings, bomb threats and beheadings in –oh–Canada ‘terror’ or just mus business as usual?
Canada just had 2 incidents that let Canadian left media get in on the censorship ‘fun.’
In Vancouver “Syrian” “Refugees” got pepper sprayed their first night in Canada via a bicycle-drive-by:
http://www.vancouversun.com/he…
in Calgary two Muss attempt to shoot up a nightclub and are immediately pounced upon.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/…
Guess which incident was personally condemned by the Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, and media?
hahaha. so there Kpup, Bullshit Bill and Dour Doug.
Guess which incident few have heard of yet.
Tell that to the 9/11 families.
I’ve never been much on conspiracies however this never-ending lineup of “threats” has just about pushed me over the line. Whether intentional or not they function the same way. I’m a pretty average guy and from the Gulf of Tonkin to Iraq I was deeply suspicious of motives and misinformation about 30sec after the first “newscast”. These were not difficult things to see.
Well exactly. If they knew it was Oswald and Osama, why weren’t they able to stop it in the first place. Even a typical B&E takes longer than 30 minutes to solve. I mean the assassination of a president wrapped up in a weekend. It was the inertia of those “Happy Days,” that made it possible. Nobody suspected a rat. LBJ was a known murderer in Texas. He was called Lying Lyndon and Landslide Lyndon. His corruption was epic. How JFK ever let him on the ticket is beyond belief. How could one not suspect this man would try and kill you and not have made contingency plans for just such an event i.e. introduced a bill that would insure a thorough investigation instead of the banana republic coup de etat we got. Bobby must have felt like a fish in an aquarium after that day, because that’s what he was.
I agree 100% Knew the day of the event that LBJ had it done!
I was a campaign worker for Eugene McCarthy. He had a better chance to succeed than Bernie does.
Craig
“I agree 100% Knew the day of the event that LBJ had it done!”
Oh, gawd, yet another telepathic conspiracy theorist.
Here, read slowly and carefully:
Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy~by Vincent Bugliosi
This forum software is seriously fucked up.
Four Days in November
“This forum software is seriously fucked up.”
Doug,
The absence of an edit feature promotes Careful Reading before submission.
Oh, shit…error in capitalization again…should have re-read this before submission….
Who says he didn’t make it?
http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=47163#comments
“Why do Blacks behave in such similar ways? In Congo, Compton or Haiti?”
Doug—They don’t, except to the extent that they share similar cultural traits and histories, much as is the case with humans In London, Stockholm and Peoria.
No. Wrong again, Doug.
Compare murder and rape stats in Haiti, Africa, and USA cities that have large numbers of Blacks and Bingo, you see afro racial DNA at work. [kaos gene]
Why is Haiti the way it is and Iceland the way it is? Race.
And more certain than death or taxes is the posting of faux racism at Custerfuck Nation with a madatory weekly assertion of ‘black’ DNA being violent.
Can’t you guys get a life!
KD cant argue away facts. Like the profile of a killer.
As far as a discuss about Race, Doug and I are continuing from yesterday.
Why is Appalachia the way it is? I know: gotta be Race! What do the people who are in charge of everything–you know, the ones who are wrecking the whole goddamn planet–have in common? Oh yeah, they’re capital-dubya White. So, 5 million years from now, when octopod explorers make their way up on land and start examining the fossil record, they’ll say, “Hm. It seems the humans were doing alright until the pale-skinned ones came along.” 😉
Really, if it was a bunch of Black people that gathered at Davos every year and said, in effect, “I know–let’s burn every last gram of fossil fuels while trying to maintain everlasting exponential growth on a finite planet, and who gives a tinker’s cuss about the consequences? We’ll be skiing in a sealed arcology in Dubai when the skies turn green and all the povs choke on hydrogen sulfide!” you guys would all be saying, “See? SEE?!! We keep TELLING you people the Blacks are no good, but do you listen?!”
Reminds me of a quote from a pirate (unfortunately I can’t remember the exact words or the source) who said something along the lines of, “If I loot a ship, they call me a pirate and say I should be hanged; if someone loots a continent, they call him a king and bow at his feet.”
Of course, you guys will pretend that all Blacks are hoodie-wearing gangstas in Detroit while ignoring all the ones who live perfectly ordinary middle and upper class lives in all walks of life up to and including President of the United States. Meanwhile, you pretend that all White people are Beethoven and Einstein, while ignoring the existence of all those meth-addicted rednecks in Real Murika who provide the Gray (let’s face it, “Red” isn’t exactly their color) States with their abysmal stats on crime, teen pregnancy, etc., the ones going around in baggy baby clothes and baseball caps, the ones who heave themselves off of their Rascal scooters long enough to have clumsy fist-fights in Wal-Mart, and so on.
The human race is singular. There are the Franklin Roosevelts and the Frederick Douglasses, the Mary Seacoles and the Mary Curies…and then there are the fans of Jackass and Justin Bieber and Kanye West. If there is a Kaos Gene (band name!), a look at history or the way the world is currently being run says we’ve all got one. OTOH, we’ve got CRISPR Cas9 now…
@ Zarko Straadi:
Bravo!
Or, in Spanish, since the haters are worried about my being surrounded by brown-skinned neighbors from south of the border that crossed them:
¡Bravo!
Even poor White areas are far safer than Black areas. The most dangerous cities are always the Blackest. And in terms of IQ, Appalachian kids scored higher than middle class Black Atlanta kids.
Give up your Economics is everything Neo-Marxist illusions.
And also because Iceland had that nasty history of slavery.
Dunning-Kruger syndrome.??????
This whole exercise is getting rather boring, already. With the exception of Elrond, MD and a few others, the quality of discussion is rather dreadful, even compared to the average, anonymous Internet forum. [well, no one forces you to be here, unless you are a paid poster]
It’s too bad. Jim, for all his annoying quirks,[which are? Can yu list 5 quirks?]
is a very bright guy with important insights and a uniquely powerful and entertaining writing style. [was he wrong about Peak Oil, or just off in his timing?]
It’s sad that the comments section of his blog is dominated by such a despicable bunch of wannabe Nazis [oh, the ‘N’ word, that means we, the enemy are winning the discussion]
and laughably-confident know-nothings.[sheer projection]
If some of you guys were more serious than the clowns you seem to be, your screeds would probably justify a Civil Rights Division investigation.[during Black History Month, yet]
It isn’t easy to format posts here, with the primitive forum software, but you win the Worst Attempt of the Week, malthuss.
Only one piece of what passes for content in your post is worth a response:
“[was he wrong about Peak Oil, or just off in his timing?]”
He certainly wasn’t wrong. Those of us who have been paying attention have known for a long time that (a) “peak oil” means peak conventional oil. We’ve been bouncing around on that plateau since about 2005 and, retrospectively, the peak will perhaps be seen as 2009 or so.
In that period, unconventional sources of oil and gas (hydrofracking, tar sands, etc.) have been ramped up to cover the stall or decline in the production of conventional oil. That has only been possible because of the recent high price of oil and the credulity of the banksters.
The rate of depletion of these unconventional sources results in breathtakingly steep curves when you chart production for even three years after well completion.
Furthermore, it is more than likely that many of these sources have negative EROEI and certain that none of them have sufficient energy return to make up for the steady depletion of conventional oil (not even close).
Here’s a prediction for you (I won’t be here to say I told you so, but, if you’re young, make a note): by mid-century, world oil production will have fallen by approximately 50%.
2050 is 34 years away.
Thats 3 billion more people [well, by 2052] needing resources.
Thanks for your drubbing. It means so much to me.
D, encouraging this antediluvian obscurantist with any kind of response is akin to mud wrestling with pigs, it merely encourages them. Not worth the digital ink.
“If some of you guys were more serious than the clowns you seem to be, your screeds would probably justify a Civil Rights Division investigation”
Malthuss,
Been there, done that…in 1969.
Black History Month. According to Radish Blog, BHM was ‘negro history week’ until 1975 or 1976.
There are 3 pages at his blog that are too much history.
Previously his blog was the great, ‘unamusement park.’
Malth, don’t argue with ‘Doug’; he’s the smartest guy on this board. How do I know? He told us so about 1/2 dozen times last week.
brh
I am not sure i am ‘arguing’ but thanks for the pointer.
“Why do human populations in Africa with no history of contact with Neanderthals (whose ancestors left Africa 400-800,000 years ago), not exhibit the “Neanderthal genes” found in H. sapiens populations which did mix and interbreed with Neanderthals after emigrating from Africa about 100,000 years ago?”
Those who have Neanderthal bloodlines are not completely outta Africa.
DNA tests can show when your ancestors left Africa, too. And how likely you are to develop male pattern baldness or periodontal disease. They cannot, however, make a case for the existence of “race” as a biological reality
.—unless ‘Race’ is in that DNA. Like a double helix.
Recently I came across a very instructive video having to do with climate change; not the warming kind but the cooling kind – to the extent that the author was warning of consequences straight out of the Maunder Minimum. Anyone interested in facts must agree that cooling is the way of the future, however, consequences to the extend provided by mr adapt2030, perhaps not.
Instructive in that those who suddenly discover something new and shattering, like me upon discovering peak oil, financial theft, and political disintegration, the effect is the same… head for the hills ’cause it’s all comin’ down.
Well, probably not. While change everywhere is coming, it will usually be gradual enough that most will adapt. Sure, pockets of shit storming will pop up to scare the bejesus out of us from time to time but adapting is normal, it’s why were still here.
Who can predict what’s coming – no one. So let’s roll with the punches.
In the 1970s either TIME or Newsweek had a cover story about the ‘Coming Ice Age’ so it is not news to some.
Ice Ages come and go, as do interglacials.
All the hype over the big El Nino of 2016 also made me wonder ‘why so much news?’
Newsweek, 1977. “The Coming Ice Age”.
brh
“The coming Age Age” 1977 article has been thoroughly debunked.
It was written without referencing the “scientific consensus” it claimed promoted the theory. It was a piece of sensational hack journalism that shouldn’t have made it beyond editorial review.
Make no mistake gentlemen, AGW is real, it is happening.
There is zero disagreement among experts, among instruments, among observations. Put it in your “is really happening file”.
Nature is usually slow but politics can be very fast: the Muslim takeover of Europe is not proceeding at break neck speed. Obviously the Elite pushed up their time table. Perhaps they wanted lots of Muslim troops in Europe when the economy collapses?
Similar things here in America. Another Black Civil right era is being foisted on us from above. This one is likely to be far more bloody than the one before. Whites can’t give any more and don’t want to either.
” ’cause it’s all comin’ down.
Well, probably not. While change everywhere is coming, it will usually be gradual enough that most will adapt.
M111ark,
No. While changes in environment, economies, politics, job numbers, etc. can be gradual, the social disorder that will be engendered will be violent and immediate. You want to see Los Angeles burnt to the ground? Something as minor as the toilets not flushing would be an arguable beginning….
“Something as minor as the toilets not flushing . . .”
Nothing minor about that in a major urban area.
The fires would be competing with, e.g., cholera for Best Performance by a Leading Destroyer.
The Ghost Map
Is there anyone around here wondering why the FBI has taken so long with the ‘Classified Investigation’ of Hillary? Will that happen and issue in … ta da … Joe Biden?
I, too, am sick of the monomaniacal bent of the racist anti-Semites here. If one said the sky is blue, those assholes would state that the Blacks and the Jews made it so; that Black DNA somehow affected the sky’s color,or that the Jews plotted to make it blue to take over the world.
You guys are sick in the head. I believe it’s people like you who have made the world the sorry place it is. The topic this week is US politics, so either contribute cogently to that conversation or STFU.
Ergo, the Democrats, Israel, AIPAC, SPLC and ACLU are NEVER to blame?
Typical of your people’s thought processes: Take someone’s statement and then twist it to further your philosophy.
Everyone is culpable, kiddo. Everyone.
You guys are sick in the head.
No, that is you. period. not plural.
According to the latest CNN national poll it’s Trump 49%, Rubio 16%, and Cruz 15%. Even if you could fuse Rubio and Cruz in some kind of weird Star Trek transporter accident, they can’t come close to Trump. I sense an RFK moment approaching. The Powers That Be won’t go quietly into that good night. We have to hang the bastards from every lamppost on Wall Street!
Will we hearken back to those assassination filled days of yore? Undoubtedly the accused assassin will be a Muslim called Mohammed Turd Blossom. He will be a lone nut who frequents titty bars high on cocaine and crystal meth for extended lap dances where he recites the Koran to the hapless women gyrating on his lap.
I believe that if the Evil Ones want to end the D.J. Trump show it will not be by a “lone assailant” of the Sirhan Sirhan or James Earl Ray mold. Rather it will be an “unfortunate” aircraft “accident” as The Donald flies on his own branded wings across America.
And the in-flight movie at the time of the ” accident” will, of course, be a special short feature: The Zapruder film.
Paul Wellstone.
JFK Jr.
Ron Brown – Commerce Sec.
KAL 007 – MASINT/IMINT?
Lech Kaczynski – Poland
Omar Torrijos – Panama
Zia Al Haq – Pakistan
KAL 007 – U.S. Rep. Larry McDonald, MD, uber conservative, outspoken anti-communist, successor to founder Robert Welch as President of the John Birch Society
One of your best pieces ever, seawolf. Outstanding.
The emphasis of course on what you have written on is the word “LONE”.
We cannot emphasize that enough.
LONE!
I think there are some who have never heard the phrase, “Don’t shit where you eat”. …Or if they *have* heard it, they give no indication whatsoever that they understand it.
It is also a song!
Pretty vonderful visceral visuals (including The Donald, really) accompany this version by Ween:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCwk9lWwiI4
I think even JHK would enjoy it.
Mr Kunstler has it right, to the Oligarchs that fund it, the Republican Party is dispensable.
Such things that normally matter to mere mortals, things that they may have gotten through party membership like a cause or a sense of belonging or the esteem of their peers, all these things are passing irrelevancies to be exploited in aid of what REALLY matters to the Oligarch: MONEY. If the Republican Party stops helping the Oligarchs make money, it will be discarded.
And if the Republican Party starts to actively work against that one great interest of the Oligarch class, the Oligarchs will, as surely as we’re sitting here, do everything in their power to put the Party deep in its grave, no trick too dirty, no act too foul.
“Mysterious magic”, Mr Kunstler would know that none of it is “mysterious”. What it comes down to is money and guns, money to bribe people and guns to shoot them if they don’t stay bribed.
But money and guns are such crude, blunt instruments. The “deep state” has other tricks up its sleeve, those being intimidation, blackmail, framing people and charging them and dragging them through the justice system and bankrupting them in the process. There’s many ways to silence people or ruin lives. See, but all these techniques are so round-about. They take time and patience.
So are those guys above cutting to the chase and rubbing-out a pain in the ass? Such a great nation of “laws” and august institutions would be above bullets in foreheads wouldn’t it?
Bullets to the forehead is how we got to be a great nation. It’s like Steven Seagal said on that roof top in “Above the Law,” “Nobody would ever believe me if I told them, that bankers run the CIA.”
Oscar views down, for several years.
This year it was 30-33 million estimate.
I skipped it, as usual. I did watch it once and found it all too privileged.
But not YT privilege.
Nothing but massive White guilt tripping from minorities. The White “stars” take it with simpering grins on their faces. It doesn’t apply to them really, but only their unsaved brothers, be they higher ups in the industry or trailer park trash.
They are what the Elite wants them to be – beautiful cabbages.
Keep preaching Janos. I always enjoy it when Janos skewers the PC shibboleths and memes of our time.
What do his critics have to offer but discredited shaming language? The spells and arcane curses of the New Left; begotten of the Frankfurt School. Like zombies, the ritual curses come out like a tape recorder on Play. Oblivious to their crimestop programming or where they got the sacred curses from.
“Racist!” “Xenophobe!” “Hate Crime!” “Bigot!” “Sexist!” These words of power from the New Left worked for over 40 years. All to suffocate the last gasp of Euro-Scandanavian-Anglo Whites. BUT, hidden in those words are the White Blood cells of Western civilization. Hence, the great fear of our Zionist masters that the Truth in them should NEVER be allowed to rise and awaken us.
Here is the awakening, contained in Rudyard Kipling’s poem.
“The Wrath Of The Awakened Saxon.”
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
Keep preaching Janos …………. What do his critics have to offer but discredited shaming language? ……….. – “Racist!” “Xenophobe!” “Hate Crime!” “Bigot!” “Sexist!” – JimInFlorida
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The more dangerous shamers are those like Doug, an educated and intelligent man, an articulate man, a man who for whatever reason has painted himself into a corner of illogic and now must defend it for all he is worth or be forced by common sense to abandon an entire world view.
Doug is sharp enough not to merely shout “racist” “bigot” and “sexist.” He applies an intellectual veneer to his criticism. Take for, example, his oft-mentioned Dunning-Kruger accusation:
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and evaluate their own ability accurately.
In short the gist is this: If you don’t agree with Doug you, ipso facto, are a dunderhead with “a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize [your] own ineptitude and evaluate [your] own ability accurately.”
How convenient is THIS? If you hold such views as you do, you, by definition, suffer with Dunning-Kruger syndrome.
I think you nailed it Q.
Thanks. That’s among his best – and one of the ones kept out of the modern anthologies.
PEAK OSCARS
Sunk like a –well– rock. Chris Rock.
http://deadline.com/2016/02/oscars-tv-ratings-2106-viewers-chris-rock-abc-1201711309/
“Sunk like a –well– rock. Chris Rock.”
The Oscars are more transparently fixed even than our national elections, and there is no reason viewership ought not to be declining.
However, Chris Rock hit one outta the park.
AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE to the doings of today looks like this:
“We took the collateral winnings of World War II and poured it into a suburban sprawl alt-universe so depressing that our citizens are the most over-medicated people in the world.”-J H K.
I read that and remembered coming across this –
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/07/suicide-rates-rise-butte-montana-princeton-study
– imagining what Mr. Kunstler would say when he clapped eyes on that aerial photo of lovely Butte, Montana: “Well, there’s your problem right there!”
However, if I’m going to hand out prizes for articulating Collapse Era zeitgeist, today it has to go to this guy:
“__Has everyone lost their freaking minds?__”
“It’s getting weird and the market is having a tough time figuring out what to take seriously, what to ignore, what to laugh nervously about and what to just laugh at.
Are we really about to put up our very own American version of Silvio Berlusconi as the Presidential candidate of a formerly serious political party? Is the other party really having a competitive race with one candidate running on an overtly socialist agenda that is barely distinguishable from his opponent’s? Who doesn’t claim to be a socialist? Are central banks actually considering pushing interest rates more negative after getting basically no positive response from the initial push below the previously sacrosanct zero bound?
Has the Federal Reserve actually told banks to prepare for negative interest rates here in the US right after raising rates for the first time in years? Are serious economists actually have a debate about whether it is a good idea to just print up cash and pass it out? Is that really monetary policy? Are governments really talking about banning actual currency, the very money created by that government? Money that depends, oh by the way, solely on people’s trust that the government will stand behind the money they are about to outlaw? Has everyone lost their freaking minds?”-Joseph Calhoun, Alhambra Investment Partners.
Yes *folks*, this is what it has come to… Enjoy that.
😉
Cheers!
“Is the other party really having a competitive race with one candidate running on an ostensibly socialist agenda that is barely distinguishable from his opponent’s?”
Fixed it for you. ;^)
Okay, I’ll let Joseph know…
😉
Good. It’s important to be as accurate as possible, and I know Calhoun would want to be.
As for the question about our very own Berlusconi: It’s gonna be very close, unless the Republican maestros re-write the script between now and the convention.
It’s gonna be a tough re-write, though, since their best chance against Clinton is probably Kasich and I’m pretty sure Herr Trumpf would go indie if they engineered that.
At least we’ll get a few more months of entertainment before Killary begins chairing the Tuesday drone target list meetings.
Serious party? As in seriously corrupt? Seriously in the bag to Warmongers, both corporate and Zionists? Are you serious?
Unfortunately, you are. Thus one must ask, are you a serious person?
“Joseph Calhoun, Alhambra Investment Partners”
Any relation to Calhoun J. Calhoun?
Larry the Cable Guy and Jeff Foxworthy were at a mostly sold out show in Dodge City last night. During the bit where they solicit questions from the audience, one guy asked their opinion of Trump. To solid clapping and shouts of approval, Larry gave a robust defense of Trump. The interesting part was that his rejection of ‘Ivy leaguers’ included a time frame when the GOP was also in power (and as I recall, GWB received degrees from both Harvard and Yale). They hate Hillary, sure. But there is no particular affection for Republicans either.
The Republicans ignore the Larry the Cable Guy vote at their own peril. The days of giving lip service to cultural totems while electing politicians who subserviently regurgitate the Koch agenda are gone. These people are PISSED and that is why Trump resonates so. People overlook his misstatements, vulgarity, contradictory positions and checquered past because he is a perceived outsider who has tapped into this seething volcano of frustration. Engineer a convention coup to get a more tractable corporate shill atop the ticket and the eruption could be cataclysmic.
And the Dems aren’t much better. Watching the opposition devolve into hissing, spitting factions might provide great amusement, but a similar fate might await them if the Sanders contingent is given short shrift. Hillary bloviates about ‘taking on the banks.’ The only evidence against that is her entire career. I’d feel a lot better about her sincerity if she ponied up transcripts of those Goldman Sachs speeches (you know, the ones she made 250K for 45 minutes of valuable insights). Fat chance of THAT ever happening.
The Demagogue vs. the Grifter. The Republic is now officially on life support.
Good stuff, khow. I’m telling ya, you and seawolf are hitting ’em out of the park today.
@ patrickd;
“Most food grown on earth relies on oil for it to happen – fertilizers, machinery, processing, transportation… when the world economy dies, which it will do because it’s based on fossil fuels, then the only people who will be sure to continue eating are those who are growing their own food.”-pat.
It’s amazing how fragile the world’s food supply actually is. There are very small number of critical components & processes that keep the world’s population growing.
Consider industrial chemistry, which is extremely vulnerable to supply-chain disruption. About 2.3 Billion people depend on ammonium nitrate fertilizer to stay fed. Ammonium nitrate is made by the high-maintenance Haber-Bosch process. What makes it high-maintenance? Well, the process requires a reaction vessel and piping that can withstand 450-degrees Centigrade and 200 Atmospheres of pressure. So not only is it energy intensive, it’s tough on maintenance and material. That pretty much means that it’s not going to be around when 12000-mile supply chains are a thing of the past. Which also means… Well, you’ve gotten the picture by now.
Cheers!
@patrickd: “Most food grown on earth relies on oil for it to happen – fertilizers, machinery, processing, transportation…”
Somewhere, Jim wrote something like, “Modern agriculture is a process wherein we pour oil on the ground and bags of Cheetohs pop up.”
Truer words have seldom been written.
And what do CFR and Georgia Guidestones demand? A kill off? Hh?
Well done, Mister Darling, well done. In addition to running out of nitrogen-based fertilizers, if we insist on making them via a particularly high energy demand process, we can also lament the fact that phosphate mines and potassium sources also tend to become exhausted and played out. That is, if your source must be some sort of mineral deposit.
Did anyone forget that sometimes those little soil bacteria prefer their nutrients in an organic form, as opposed to inorganic?
Otherwise, they just shut down their own means of obtaining these materials themselves from the soil. Really, conservatives ought to be able to understand that argument.
Ah, but that would mean people working in harmony with themselves and the resources that Nature gave us.
And who wants that?
Has Trump employed a Food Tester yet? Maybe it’s that time. His buddy Putin can probably suggest someone competent. And he should switch planes at the last minute before flying so his enemies can’t blow him up at 30,000 feet. If they use the Cancer Gun, there’s nothing he can do. He’ll never see it or feel it. He’ll just conveniently have incurable cancer and it will be a coincidence.
There is only one reason to vote Trump. He offers the hope of being allies with President Putin and ending our country’s insane restart of Cold War 2.0 – which could become hot in a Hillary minute. In a field as weak as this one, that’s good enough for me.
Mr. Trump is very successful in promoting to American public a new and revolutionary concept of American Foreign policy, which he calls “making deals”, the recent example of which we saw recently by combined Soviet-American – oops, pardon my Russian – Russian American brokered peace in Syria.
That “one reason” is good enough for me.
A book has come out that accuses former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair of opening he floodgates for asylum seekers but to not discuss it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/12175813/Tony-Blair-accused-of-conspiracy-over-mass-immigration.html
Blair’s Immigration Minister Barbara Roche said, “Asylum seekers should be allowed to stay in Britain. Removal takes too long and it’s emotional.”
Doing a little checking on the background of Ms. Roche, it turns out she is YKW.
Big surprise there, right? Wasn’t a former Irish Immigration Minister also YKW? Letting some people have such a position is insane.
I remember reading that it was Labour policy to increase immigration for the purpose of creating an electorate which would favor them.
@ BeantownBill:
“I, too, am sick of the monomaniacal bent of the racist anti-Semites here. If one said the sky is blue, those assholes would state that the Blacks and the Jews made it so; that Black DNA somehow affected the sky’s color, or that the Jews plotted to make it blue to take over the world. . . The topic this week is US politics, so either contribute cogently to that conversation or STFU.”-bill.
I find it amusing that there’s an apparently long-standing CFN tradition of various people of being ‘socks’. The question of who/what is (or is not) a sock isn’t profound.
The way I process the question is this: If there were ‘socks’ posting to sidetrack and disrupt our discussions (no need to post if you’re only spying) what would they post? Stuff that had *nothing* to do with the discussion – completely irrelevant bullshit.
What kind of irrelevant stuff would they choose to sidetrack the discussion with? Inflammatory stuff.
So who are the socks? The same cast of characters that hock-up gobs of racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic garbage all over the threads week-in-and-out. Or – antagonizing from the other end of the spectrum – they post material derisively antithetical to the central tenets of the community, heedless of any & all counter-argument. And somehow they *always* have time to post, all-day, everyday.
It’s no mystery who these nitwits are. What is baffling is that they aren’t banned. Well, I’m sure Mr. Kunstler has his reasons…
Cheers!
@MD: I find it more than a bit disturbing that Jim allows this crap to flow unchecked. And, as long as it does flow, I think confronting it is a moral imperative.
Of course, there’s a straightforward solution: adopt a modern forum plug-in that permits participants to “ignore” the hate brigade, leaving the forum open for civil and relevant discussion.
Want help, Jim?
Grow a pair.
You left out ‘Xenophobic.’
He left out “dumb as boxes of rocks,” too, but the original list was sufficiently complete to get the point across.
This is what decent White people are up against.
One funding site [Iforget which] banned ‘Gosenell’ movie funding.Kermit G,The mulatto serial killer of babies.
But Voila—–
A 20 year old dindu by the name of Armaj Marquin Craig pulled a gun in an attempt to rob another man with a valid CCW permit. This attempted robbery happened in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.
After an exchange of gunfire, the other man with the valid CCW permit fatally shot Armaj Marquin Craig once in the chest. This man with the valid CCW permit was not arrested, nor was he injured.
http://kstp.com/news/brooklyn-park-shooting-imperial-regent/4055977/
Colin Flaherty has a good video about this story on his Youtube channel.
The parents of Craig set up a gofundme.com with a goal of $2000. They claim this page is needed to help pay for the funeral costs of their dead dindu son.
I wonder if they are immigrants?
https://www.gofundme.com/geqyddhf
In Judaism, the Amalekites came to represent the archetypal enemy of the Jews. In the Jewish folklore the Amalekites are considered to be the symbol of evil. This concept has been used by some hassidic rabbis (particularly the Baal Shem Tov) to represent atheism or the rejection of God.Nur Masalha, Elliot Horowitz and Josef Stern suggest that Amalekites have come to represent an “eternally irreconcilable enemy” that wants to murder Jews, and that Jews in post-biblical times sometimes associate contemporary enemies with Haman or Amalekites, and that some Jews believe that pre-emptive violence is acceptable against such enemies
The Old Testament requires Jews to completely destroy the Amalekites, and the inability or unwillingness of Jews to fulfill this requirement is considered to be a grave sin.
Therefore, the last Amalek is considered to be Aman and the need to recognize the existence of Amalek in more recent times is perceived extremely painfully by the religious Jews.
Actually, perceived before World War II, as the “final solution of the Jewish question” of course forced to revise this statement, which caused a terrible rift among Jews, and this split is the iceberg, above water part of which were the battles between Jewish supporters of Israel in the Crimea and supporters of Israel in Israel.
But after the WWII and the establishment of the State of Israel as a result of enormous willpower of Joseph Stalin, the situation changed and the question of the existence of Amalek in our time is of great importance especially for the Eastern Christianity and the position that it would have to take in relation to the Black, White and Red Projects of the West, the struggle of which is about to take a literally apocalyptic turn.
Particularly acute this issue gives the historic meeting at the airport of Havana between the Patriarch of Moscow and the Pope of Rome and the quasi-religious significance that the US neocons give to support of Israel.
Forgive my ignorance but what did Uncle Joe have to do with Israel?
Didn’t you know that Stalin was Israel’s Founding Father?
USSR cast the first vote in UN in favor of the formation of Israel, not to discard weapons delivery that Stalin organised to Israel through Europe, France in particular.
Stalin turned against the Russian Jews because they began to lose interest in Russia once Israel was founded – and for their part, Jews didn’t like that Stalin wasn’t Jewish. They lost control of the Revolution when he seized power.
“Didn’t you know that Stalin was Israel’s Founding Father? ”
I don’t think you’ll have to do much research to determine that honor belongs to Theodore Herzl.
“USSR cast the first vote in UN in favor of the formation of Israel . . .”
Not true. You are referring to the recognition de jure of the government of Israel after its declaration of independence. The USSR was, indeed, the first state to do so. However, that was preceded by de facto recognition by the United States, Iran, Guatemala, Iceland, Nicaragua, Romania, and Uruguay. None of these actions had anything to do with a UN vote.
The first UN vote that is relevant to your argument would have been General Assembly Resolution 181, adopted on November 29, 1947 and entitled “United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.”
I don’t have time or energy to research the details of that vote, but General Assembly Rule 87 provides, inter alia:
So, if the USSR was the first to vote for the partition plan, it was a matter of happenstance.
The other relevant vote was for the admission of Israel as a member of the UN. That took place in the General Assembly on May 11, 1949 (General Assembly Resolution 273, following a related Security Council resolution).
Once again, given the General Assembly rules for voting, if the USSR was first to vote Yea, it was a matter of coincidence.
The weapons deliveries you refer to were almost all from Czechoslovakia and had nothing to do with Stalin. Indeed, a few years later, in a famous show trial, Rudolf Slánský and a dozen or so other Czech Jews were convicted of Zionism and Trotskyism and hanged in Prague, part of one of Stalin’s purges.
Accuracy matters and neatness counts.
Finc is Jewish and has trouble (lots) being objective when it comes to anything about Israel and the Jews. Ever meet anyone else like that?
Accuracy matters and neatness counts—
This from the same guy who shrugged off his inaccuracy about the number of Whites, worldwide.
You are a 1000 laughs.
And first Israel Army was almost 100% stuffed with Russian-Jewish battle-tested commanding officers.
Why else do you think Israelis are so good in the art of war?
Yes, do tell us how swimmingly Afghanistan went, please.
Stop using “jews” and “Israel” interchangeably and you might begin to understand what has happened.
Dispensationalism misidentified the players:
http://www.gods-kingdom-ministries.net/teachings/books/who-is-a-jew/
http://www.gods-kingdom-ministries.net/teachings/books/who-is-an-israelite/
It’s no mystery who these nitwits are. What is baffling is that they aren’t banned.
you’re engaging in “hate speech”
which i fully support, even if were directed against myself
under President Trump, you will be allowed to say your rotten antithetical opinion with no fear of reprisal
that alone should make anyone want to vote for him
you know you won’t be able to express what you really think – something guaranteed us by the Constitution – under the execrable continuation of anything from the democrat party
The ‘leftist loons w shit for brains’ here engage in more than a few Micro aggressions.
Thanks for noticing.
Unmitigated evil, IMO.
I am very surprised that there have been so few comments today about the Academy Awards show and especially that our host said not one word. Every week I am wrong on my guess as to what Jim will write about.
Well, let me mention something I noticed…….it concerns labels. “Shell shock” evolved into “post traumatic stress disorder” (PTSD), “queers” became “gays,” “drunks” became “substance abuse sufferers,” and “Negroes” became “African Americans.” In the early 1950s Christine Jorgensen made headlines for having a “sex change” from a man to a woman. One of last night’s Oscar nominated movies was said to involve “gender reassignment.” WOW, let me repeat that….. gender reassignment! The length we go to to avoid hurting feelings with our labels is astonishing.
“gender reassignment.”
It’s all part of neuro-linguistic programming, Mr. Q. Sounds like it’s working.
NLP. Do you know the history of the 2 that started NLP?
Gees, sleeze.
“gender reassignment.” Thats so aughts. The current term is gender confirmation surgery. Count on the The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be 10 years out of date.
“Part of me still believes that Trump wants out of this” == outsider
Initially, that may have been the case. But now The Donald is being carried by the Tide that is much bigger than him…
I always was and always will be of the opinion that Donald Trump got into this event in order to help his friends the Clintons fulfill their dubious destiny, Whether he blows it before the vote, bows out in the end game, or simply loses in the end is just a small detail. Yes I understand that there are many alternate ideas and theories and only time will answer these questions. Besides all that I think it is a really, really sad and even pathetic situation that the “choices” that America has been given in this political theater were so damned bad, that Donald Trump, actor, entertainer, entrepreneur, has been arguably the best choice offered for our consideration. Damn are we screwed!
It is sad to say, yet, the Oligarchy will get their way. And, whenever things don’t turn out the way they planned them, they make the necessary adjustments to ensure they do.
If the DeepState/American Oligarchy wants HRC, then HRC it will be.
There will be no American Revolution… Americans are too effete, ignorant, uneducated, anaesthetized, distracted by “bread & circuses”, drug and sugar addled, physically ill, and under the thumb of debt, low wages and the worries and stress of how to make ends meet.
Undoubtedly, the Political Correctness was imposed on the United States 24 years ago with Hillary Clinton, violating all gentlemen agreements in American politics and playing a Ross Perot 1.0 card, the man with identical to Bush sr. program except for his position on NAFTA – that was exactly 20% of Bush sr. electorate.
Republicans were so pissed off that immediately after the Clintons couple moved into the White House as a result of that political swindle, started all kinds of legal proceedings against them, culminating in the Senate clarifying the meaning of the words “sexual relationship” and the impeachment of the husband.
How’s that for a poetic justice if 24 years later the Wicked Witch of the West will be defeated by her own old dirty tricks!
Ilya Ehrenburg “DE Trust”, 1926. A short and funny story about the destruction of Europe by American Trust
Some quotes:
Just try to make it a little more deserted. (The wish of the customer)
Europe is immersed in vice, laziness and confusion. If we turn it into the wilderness, it would be an act of high humanity!
This insidious country deliberately destroyed itself in order not to feed our triple dear homeland!
They were willing to die. It emerged not out of politeness, but because of the limited human capacity.
Today I inspected the city of Nuremberg. Much curious and instructive scenery. Saw a couple of lovers at the balcony who continue to embrace each other in their death.
Gentlemen, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev and other rapists’ nests no longer exist! Russia is dead!!
Assuming that a person, even naked, but using eyeglasses should be literate, I handed him my document, which was published in all languages of the world: “This is a US passport.” But the naked man was looking not at the passport, but at can of pineapples.
Seeing that the man-beast was feeble and unarmed, I shot him.
At a meeting of the Chamber the inquisitive deputy Gavel, who wanted to ask the Minister about a particularly significant issue fell and began to jerk his feet. The speaker was outraged by the behavior of the deputy. He closed the meeting. But it was not his fault – he just died of exhaustion.
The coup in ethnography! Gentleman ate gentleman!
The negros have finally rebelled in Nice. They murdered two thousand eight hundred and sixteen men and, with the consent of the widows, moved to their villas, while declaring themselves full-fledged citizens.
Decent Parisians got confused – they have used to treat the unemployed as unscrupulous, but harmless animals.
Sounds like Raspail. But of Raspail while was against this fate, your man was for it.
Tell them about your mass murderer.
@MrDarling
“It’s no mystery who these nitwits are. What is baffling is that they aren’t banned. Well, I’m sure Mr. Kunstler has his reasons…”
Actually, JHK does not like these execrable postings at all. He actually despises them. But he believes in freedom of speech and one’s right to express an opposing viewpoint, no matter how heinous – after all, he is a journalist. He tolerates these people as long as they’re polite. As soon as one of them starts frothing at the mouth they’ll probably be gone.
“But he believes in freedom of speech and one’s right to express an opposing viewpoint, no matter how heinous – after all, he is a journalist.”
Well, there’s no right to free speech in a private forum. That said, since this is Jim’s private forum, it is entirely within his discretion to set, or not, the limits.
Nevertheless, an “ignore” function would immeasurably improve the quality of the experience for serious participants, while letting the hatemongers chat among themselves — unable to disrupt or derail the conversation.
Didn’t you call for a Civil rights Division criminal hate speech investigation?
brh
No, I didn’t. What I said was that, if you were more than a bunch of clowns — that is, actually capable of and likely to act on your despicable fantasies — a Civil Rights Division investigation would be appropriate.
The 1st Amendment and established case law protects your nasty pronouncements from legal intervention, unless they fall into a very narrow category:
“There are certain well-defined and limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise a Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous and the insulting or ‘fighting’ words – those which by their very utterances inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.”
That’s Justice Frank Murphy in the unanimous opinion of SCOTUS in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568, 572 (1942).
So, you fascists, Nazis, white supremacists and others of your ilk are safe from prosecution as long as you don’t cross over that “incite an immediate breach” line.
But, remember, we’re watching. ;^)
‘More than a bunch of clowns ..’
I know, I know, Doug
you’re the smartest guy on the board.
How do I know?
You told us so about a dozen times in the last few weeks.
What about lefty speech? Objectionable? Acceptable? or what’s to be expected in polite company?
and I’ll ask again, Who the hell are you, chairman Mao?
brh
Notice which ‘camp’ wants the ‘enemy’ banned?Notice which ‘camp’ wants honest discussion and tolerates hate directed their way?
Read T Bruces ‘The New Thought Police’ and know that these creeps are consistent. Here and elsewhere.
And when facts are offered that ‘they’ dislike, man can they spew hate and filth.
Facts offend the ignorant and biased.
Here is a case of incitement to violence by Leftist professors. Blacks and Leftist professors have become famous for this. Do you think the Civil Rights Division would be interested in this case? Or is it only interested in White perpetrators? Who was the Black Congress person who said Whites didn’t have civil rights?
http://www.amren.com/news/2016/02/fascist-american-universities-2016-notes-from-cal-state-los-angeles/
What about ‘Black Lives Matter?’–how many times have they crossed that line?
Donald Trump, actor, entertainer, entrepreneur, has been arguably the best choice offered for our consideration
what, not erudite enough for your refined tastes?
prefer traitorous politicians that are so nuanced, like obama, while they destroy the country?
that said, Dr. Carson is very well spoken, highly educated.
Mr. Kasich comes across as a very nice person, too.
Please keep it in mind that only Bolsheviks hang men for their opinions my friend. I did in fact say that he was the best choice of those given, did I not? Ben Carson is a wonderful man, very intelligent and a highly skilled, talented and motivated man. I love the guy, but not as a US president, IMHO once again. One of my personal flaws, if you will, is an inherent distrust of the mega-wealthy and I will stick by that having met more than a few and having worked for a number as well. .Though I have always admired the Pauls, the only man that I could personally get excited about having as a president right now would be Allen West. So hang me if you will.
Bullshit, Liberals hang men (as in lynch) for their opinions every day.
They didn’t in the old days, but you are right, they have been doing this for a long time now. I stand corrected.
http://www.dailystormer.com/edward-snowden-points-out-trump-the-only-non-goldman-sachs-candidate/
That should be and someday will be, Lord Edward Snowden.
Standing tough under stars and stripes
We can tell
This dream’s in sight
You’ve got to admit it
At this point in time that it’s clear
The future looks bright
On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well by seventy-six we’ll be A.O.K.
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
Get your ticket to that wheel in space
While there’s time
The fix is in
You’ll be a witness to that game of chance in the sky
You know we’ve got to win
Here at home we’ll play in the city
Powered by the sun
Perfect weather for a streamlined world
There’ll be spandex jackets one for everyone
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
(More leisure time for artists everywhere)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We’ll be clean when their work is done
We’ll be eternally free yes and eternally young
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
Thank you Donald Fagen for the above homage to 1957
What an empty vision. A just machine to make big decisions? Silly and weird. Eternally young? Sounds like the Kurzweil and Elite’s fantasy of being downloaded into robots.
As Emerson asked, What if we could talk to people on the other side of the world but had nothing to say?
It’s tongue in cheek you moron… Written in 1980 you nincompoop
Fagen- Steely Dans ‘Royal Scam’ was about PRs invading NYC.
Lindsay removed residency to get welfare and fly in they did.
By the millions.
THEY LEFT THEIR ISLAND HOME FOR MANHATTAN
SEE THE GLORY OF THE ROYAL SCAM
Greatest album cover ever – and truer today by dint of its genius.
Did not not know about the John Lindsay angle though.
The Royal Scam is ours worldwide; it is The Clusterfuck Planet.
Back Row notes that Massachusetts is a magnet for lazy PRs.
Long ago he noted, ‘a sign at PR airport that tells people to fly to Mass. for the best welfare.’
NYC would be much better without the Latino invasion.
Lindsay died broke, living in an apartment.
He helped ruin NYC.
Interesting. I’ll have to watch it on youtube. Why did they call it Royal? Literally or just in the sense of Huge or over the top?
There is a school of Conspiracy that claim we are ruled by the British Royal Family.
A good perspective on Donald Trump by Michael Meade.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-meade-dhl/donald-trump-the-myth-and_b_8789426.html
Good perspective- Huntington Post? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
Good point that the Republican establishment may run a 3rd party candidate.
I have been figuring that a Trump victory for the Republican nomination will essentially mean it is now the Trump party, or more specifically a populist rather than conservative party.
The conservatives are unlikely to be willing to tolerate that, and may well break away and form a new political party to represent the 10-15% of the electorate they could attract.
Even though Trump himself is a deeply flawed standard-bearer for a populist party, the hostile takeover of the Republican party and conversion of it into a populist party could make it potentially a sane alternative to the batshit crazy previous two major political parties. Hopefully populists will launch a takeover of the Democratic Party soon also.
Have you seen Trump’s Foreign Policy Guru, Sam Clovis? Here’s a pic. He has more chins than a Chinese phone book. Couldn’t Trump find someone more dashing and appropriate — like General Jack D. Ripper?
http://oskynews.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DSC_8306.jpg
Actually he only has one EXTRA chin but it’s a doozy.
Where are his eyes? Too many chins and not enough eyes. I think no eyes is why Trump chose him. They share that in common. The Deliverance Mean Banjo No Eyes Syndrome. Clovis makes up for having no eyes with an extra extra extra extra large chin.
“I never go into battle with loose change in my pocket!” I always wondered where that title “Loose Change” came from.
that said, Dr. Carson is very well spoken, highly educated.
Yes he is. I had to look up “fruit salad.”
Feb. 29, 2016: “What we have accomplished together today is something no one could have never imagined in their wildest dreams. Not only did we meet our goal of $40 million raised in the month of February — without asking a single millionaire or billionaire for money — but we have a chance to reach an updated goal of $45 million.” –Bernie Sanders (not the billionaire)
A political revolution is not “changing a leader” … It is a shift of leadership to the polis, not one but many, millions, of activist leaders.
While CFN discusses “2nd Amendment solutions,”, believes the “fix is in”, and denies a political revolution is possible ….
Today the polis, millions of small donors, put Bernie over $42 million.
Feel free to resume your regularly scheduled programming about the importance of guns, the inevitability of “the fix” and the repeatedly proclaimed “apathy” of the “sheeple … while we, the new polis, take the fight to Hillary. We may not win. But we will vote for Bernie, and not go down bloviating.about race theories and “da jooze”…
wpa-ccc,
What we have accomplished together today is something no one could have never imagined in their wildest dreams. Not only did we meet our goal of $40 million raised in the month of February — without asking a single millionaire or billionaire for money — but we have a chance to reach an updated goal of $45 million.” –Bernie Sanders (not the billionaire)
2 months into 2016, let’s see how its stacking up (the bodies, that is) in Chicago, City of Big Shoulders, hometown of Nelson Algren, Studs Terkel, Ernest Hemingway and Carl Sandburg.
Shot & Killed: 86
Shot and Wounded:400
Total Shot:486
Total Homicides: 102
Pretty impressive totals, you’ll have to admit.
You cannot blame this on Republicans, as there is not a Republican within 100 miles of Chi-town.
Please note, of the 102 murders, 10 were stabbed to death and 6 were beaten to death, proving among other things that gun control works.
Only one of these shootings was the work of CPD.
I’m afraid Chicago is racist as well: only 3 murder victims are white. (Come on Chicago, get those white numbers up there. You can do it!) 73 are black, 25 are Hispanic.
Stay tuned, records might be set this halcyon year of 2016. St Louis is a mincemeat factory, and they’re dropping like flies in Baltimore City.
My advice to whitey, avoid the city, stick to the rural areas unless you are very brave.
I’m not brave.
stats courtesy of heyjackass.com/
brh
Chicongo.
‘Heyjackass’–do you ‘follow’ gold? thats JWs site.
Oops–JWs site is ‘Golden Jackass.’ sorry.
Trump sure has commanded the stage the last several months. He says the things many Americans want to hear. Even I, usually immune to political gobbledegook, found myself paying attention to some of his rhetoric. I found myself wanting our country to be great and wished he could get us there.
But then I remembered what I have read from several sources: That when times get tough, when people lose faith, they will turn to a man on a white horse who will promise the people everything they want – but at a very high price. Luckily for me, I got my head back on straight. Trump is a very dangerous man. If he ever gets elected, our country will lose whatever liberty we have left. He’s too much a megalomaniac to not become dictatorial.
Bill, check out Peggy Noonan’s column in the WSJ weekend edition. She goes a long way toward explaining the Trump phenonema. She blames him on elites of both parties ignoring and belittling the concerns of ordinary American people, and insulating themselves and their families from the country they themselves created in the past 20 years.
brh
The title of one fiction there was —kid u not–‘Immigrants will save Social Security.’
the Trump [phenonema.] – BRH
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If you thought you could slip this one by me think again. 😉
Damned Q,
You nailed me, Dead Balls!
brh
I found myself wanting our country to be great and wished he could get us there.————
A question. I dont mean to sound rude but when USA was 90% White [circa 1970] with almost no illegals, was USA better?
And who is to blame for the Act of 1965?
And “The Great Society?”
and The Voting Rights Act?
and The Coinage Act?
and the full-blown Vietnam War?
That God damned Lyndon Johnson, that’s who!
Coinage act?
The Coinage Act of 1965.
Took the silver, as Constitutionally mandated, OUT of the coinage.
See remarks:
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=27108
Read the bald lies direct from the evil man’s mouth.This is exactly why people hate, loathe and despise politicians.
Ted Kennedy.
He assured us only about 6000 people total would show up here, that’s all.
brh
Don’t forget another deputy of the Devil L.B.J., in that and other treasons: Jacob Javits.
@ malthuss: “I dont mean to sound rude but when USA was 90% White [circa 1970] with almost no illegals, was USA better?”
When the top income tax bracket was 70% of income in excess of $100,000 — (exactly, e.g., 1970) — was America a better place?
Found this at Takis—-
The effort to turn Trump into the next Hitler has shown up from some people.
The Harvard professor Danielle Allen, a black woman with a Ph.D. in classics from Cambridge University (talk about “acting white”!), wrote a ridiculous piece the other day about Trump as our new Hitler.
She apparently didn’t absorb a sophisticated understanding of history and politics from her study of Greek and Roman literature; she could have done a much better job of citing classical models for trying to understand the Trump phenomenon, though that would have gone over the heads of semi-lettered black “intellectuals” like Ta-Nehisi Coates.
• Allen was born 1971. She’s an ethics something for some crap wing at Harvard. The ‘classics’ she read are likely class-icks.
Given her age she’s an AA wunderkind. If she’s read Augustine it was likely a snippet out of context in a (((textbook))). In other words: she’s the recipient of a ‘plaques for blacks’ PhD.
After all: the works of a bunch of dead old White men presented by living old White men cannot teach her about her experience of history! Ergo, she makes stuff up.
The real news is at –not BBC—
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3469100/Woman-black-burka-holding-child-s-severed-HEAD-shouting-Allahu-Akbar-shuts-metro-station-Moscow.html
@ BeantownBill:
RE | “Actually, JHK does not like these execrable postings at all. He actually despises them. But he believes in freedom of speech and one’s right to express an opposing viewpoint, no matter how heinous – after all, he is a journalist. He tolerates these people as long as they’re polite. As soon as one of them starts frothing at the mouth they’ll probably be gone.”-bill.
Quoting J H K:
“I’ve warned Janos not to publish vicious doggerel like this on my site. I am going to leave it up so you know what I’m referring to. But all of this race-baiting and jew-bashing disgusts and embarrasses me. This goes for all of you.”-J H K, 2/4/15.
I responded to you the way that I did because (citing the above) they’ve already crossed the line, are not polite, do “froth at the mouth” (reflexively and repeatedly posting about the same topic) and yet they’re still here. Why exactly? They don’t contribute to the conversation and are not respectful in even the most rudimentary way to other posters. They don’t seem to be comfortable here, so why not show them the door?
This isn’t about their views – they’re welcome to them as far as I’m concerned – but I’m not interested in seeing every female that attempts to post something here immediately insulted by our resident mental-health patient. I also think that it’s manifestly idiotic to post anti-Semitic rants on a site inspired and hosted by a Jewish man. And I don’t think it’s productive to have them crowding out decent, productive, on-topic posts with their irrelevant nonsense.
Again – and to be very clear – this is about upholding the standards set forth by our host. If they’re still here I can only surmise Mister Kunstler has his reasons, whatever they are…
Cheers!
This from the guy who thinks the Republican Party was “serious”. Who calls Muslim invaders, “refugees”. Who thinks our involvement in the Middle East is legitimate, and apparently more important than the integrity of our own borders.
In other words, he knows which side his bread is buttered on. We’ve got a social climber here!
” posts with their irrelevant nonsense. ”
MD,
I’ll admit to being a serial poster of “irrelevant nonsense”…obscure references and asides. Unfortunately, I am afflicted with the philosophy that does not allow me to concern myself with something that I cannot change. I read all the posts, on all the subjects, and do so with a detached amusement…not borne of ego or any sense of superiority, but rather intellectual curiosity.
Nihilism promotes peace of mind. ISIS? Peak Oil? National Politics? Social Issues? Environmental Issues? Paper or Plastic? I am never disappointed in evil or dysfunction, as I expect it as a constant.
Just as many read Playboy for the “articles”, I enjoy the site for the quality of writing and the polemic. After our host, Janos is probably the best writer on this site for his classical references and his ability to present obscure but apropos quotes and asides…he attacks me regularly…but an ad hominem attack from him is rare. Those of you who excoriate him for his views should attack him with reasoned argument…there is purity in that…perhaps even poetry.
Precisely a reason to spend one’s precious reading time at Greer’s and other’s sites that remain dedicated to actually encouraging productive discourse, not providing misguided cover for pseudo-intellectual filth, exactly my intent henceforth… dasvidaniya suckers.
In the absence of an “ignore” feature, it’s quite easy to merely quickly scroll past the ubiquitous ignoble “contributors” to those of established merit, if one must read comments, however the signal:noise being what it is here, confining time spent to exclusively perusing the host’s worthy weekly commentary seems a winning strategy.
Buh bye.
http://songlyricstranslation.com/hindi/mumma-lyrics-dasvidaniya-327/
See you in the City of Joy, young snark walker.
So, what are these elections are all about?
There are two fundamentally competing conceptual approaches in US on how to solve the American challenges in the 21st century:
According to first approach – the Clinton Plan, the United States for obtaining long-term strategic geopolitical advantage over competitors do not need to solve their own systemic problems, but to create even more serious problems to their geopolitical competitors. Roughly speaking, it is enough to ignite the rest of the world (in the XX century the global war was required for this), and to maintain the relative stability in the US.
If you look at US actions over the past 5 years, in line with this strategy, all the actions of the USA, from creating DAESH and the crisis in Ukraine and ending with attempts to bound its vassals via pacts of Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic partnerships are understandable.
And according to the second approach – the Bush plan, the United States need to concentrate on solving their own internal systemic problems and isolate the country as mush as possible from the external entanglements.
The Americans tried to carry out a simultaneous blitzkrieg on several fronts and against all their potential geopolitical rivals. In order to undermine the EU’s and Russia’s economies, putting an end to any potential continental cooperation, Maidan in Ukraine was launched. Prior to this, a direct coup attempt in Russia has been made in 2012, but it failed.
ISIL was created and developed as a battering ram, which could hurt Russia’s Muslim regions, as well as very vulnerable and strategically important Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region of China. In order to make things even harder for China, the Americans tried to tie the hands of potential Chinese partners in the region via Trans-Pacific Partnership. The “Umbrella Revolution” in Hong Kong has been the icing on the cake.
For Europe, in addition to the breakup with Russia, the Americans have prepared a double blow: the economic stranglehold of the Transatlantic partnership, which in fact would deprive the EU of economic sovereignty, and political stranglehold in the form of a wave of “refugees” from the Middle East, which is in fact was organized by the American NGOs, who managed to create a very complex logistics chain for smuggling “refugees” from the Middle East to the European Union.
Some of the US strikes hit the target, some were parried, but all of these attacks would be almost meaningless without the most important one – the attack by a FED “dollar vacuum cleaner”.
Materials from: http://politrussia.com/ekonomika/konets-amerikanskogo-blitskriga-875/
After the first wave of the global financial crisis, some American journalists and politicians have noticed that the US Federal Reserve is behaving strangely. Some American “turbo” patriots even thought that the Fed’s policy, which flooded with cheap dollars not only the US, but the global financial system, was treacherous in relation to the US national interest, because actually gave super cheap credit to the US competitors.
From the point of view of the straight logic US Federal Reserve really behaved unpatriotically, but life is always much more difficult than it seems to “turbo” patriots.
And the thing is that the Fed has been working on the “drug dealer” scheme, not on the one of Central Bank. Furthermore, its actions have been a key element of the US plan of “New American Century”.
For several years, the Federal Reserve was able to addict the whole world to cheap dollar liquidity. Against the background of objectively existing needs of the rest of the world in cheap loans, addiction went with a bang, and to a certain extent contributed to the relief of the painful symptoms (not the reasons!) of the first wave of the financial crisis. Even the Chinese companies have managed to make USD loans that amounted to nearly a trillion dollars.
And in 2015, the Americans decided it was time to make the entire planet suffer, and turned on the dollar vacuum cleaner. The rise of the US Federal Reserve rates, a sharp decrease in available dollar liquidity and, as a consequence, the sharp appreciation of the dollar against all other currencies had to induce the world economy, excluding the US, with deflationary shock, that is, the sharp depreciation of assets, local currency, stocks, bonds.
This shock was to provoke a credit crunch, and inability of foreign companies to pay dollar-denominated loans. Against this background, combined with the “iron” promise of the US FED to raise rates further, capital had to run to America.
The flight of capital from Europe was to helped by the war in Ukraine, the flight of capital from the Middle East – DAESH and capital flight from Russia and China should be helped by local Maidans and intra-elite crises.
One can not disagree with the fact that the plan was very beautiful, and the Americans have done a great and laborious work for its realization. The problem is that the plan could not avoid collision with reality in a few key points.
The most important problem of the plan was that on the penultimate stage of it all the interested parties cracked it open.
Even a short period of “strong dollar,” could have made it very painful to the rest of the world and Americans could buy cheaply the most delicious assets, and only then start the hyperinflation in the US in order to “burn” the unsustainable US debt.
The most important condition of this plan was the so-called decoupling – Isolation of American financial markets from external shocks. In other words, on the background of the general world-wide collapse they had to grow.
Materials from: http://politrussia.com/ekonomika/konets-amerikanskogo-blitskriga-875/
Up to a trillion dollars in a year fled from China, and the Russian ruble collapsed, but neither Russia nor China are going to sink into chaos, despite the negative forecasts of George Soros, who is credited by the evil tongues with the authorship of “dollar vacuum cleaner” plan.
Even the European Union, in spite of the refugee crisis continues to resist the entropy and refuses to sign the enslaving agreement on the transatlantic partnership.
The main failure of the US financial blitzkrieg is that derailing just global markets, instead of the US did not work – now they are falling together. And it’s not what was planned.
In these circumstances, it becomes noticeable illogical at a first glance propaganda campaign in the US, aimed at promoting to the masses the idea of banning cash that supposedly only used by addicts, terrorists and communists.
For starters it is proposed to abolish a hundred dollar bill, which has already been written almost all over the leading US media, from the “Washington Post” to “Time” magazine. Lawrence Summers, influential former US Treasurer, supports the ban.
The ban on large bills (the EU is now actively discussing a ban on a 500 euros banknote) – a sure sign of preparation to not just rates reduction, but the introduction of negative interest rates, which aim to ensure that businesses and citizens spend money today, not trying to keep anything for tomorrow.
The good news is that the Americans failed to disconnect their economy from rest of the world, and therefore, in the fire of hyperinflation, we will all burn together.
Check the various covers of, ‘The Economist’ for clues as to what will happen.
I trust the decoders. Even the big terror attack in France was foretold.
Summers is from which group? Hmmm.
Let me take a little guess at what our choices might be here. (All from the list of approved villains, of course.)
1.) Niggers
2.) Moozlums
3.) Libtards
4.) Lefties
5.) Commies
6.) Jooz
Well, I dunno; I can’t guess which is the most deserving of a heapin’ helpin’ of derision, disdain, torture and lynching…. today. Why don’t you just tell us and skip the cute nudging and nodding, eh?
(Not that I don’t think we’d all be better off if Unka Larry dug himself a nice deep hole and climbed in, pulling that hole in after him.)
And who is to blame for the Act of 1965?
The time to address the duplicity and/or inadequacy of that act was then, not now. Now is too late. But common “Whites” were too busy sucking the Big Tit and chasing The Carrot as the carpet was pulled from beneath them. There’s no more carpet to put back (it was incinerated), and there never was a floor beneath it. Despite what Trump espouses, the Free Fall that’s not so Free will continue unabated. All, except a very few, will be equal in poverty and equally impoverished.
What percent of Americans already live in poverty?
And when will the fall happen? And how [beyond the inflation of the money supply].
“… when USA was 90% White [circa 1970] with almost no illegals, was USA better?”
No. Just compare the 1970 and 2015 university enrollment, employment, and CEO/management figures for Black women. It is much better today.
We took the collateral winnings of World War II and poured it into a suburban sprawl alt-universe so depressing that our citizens are the most over-medicated people in the world…. The cheering “folks” marshaled out in the Piggly Wiggly parking lots are so buzzed on Klonopin and Zoloft that they can’t tell how these two odious celebrities epitomize the very forces behind their pharmaceutically-masked despair.
This is a real gem. A reason to check-in here every week.
I wish people would get off their meds and begin to use that gray matter sloshing around in their heads. Start looking at things the way they exist and not how they interpret them.
On a radio program, some self-appointed expert was stating that the United States has the obligation, vis-à-vis the Disney H1B employee swap, to take in foreign workers, particularly from places like India. What prevents people to see things the way they are? We have people that have so overtaxed their subcontinent (the lands of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh), that have overpopulated these lands to the tune of 4&1/2 billion people, that we people of the United States, with a rather stable birth rate must allow them to continue success of overpopulation by allowing them to spread into the United States rather than have them meet nature’s cure for unbridled voracity. It’s unnatural. It’s lunacy. We also must accept low-skilled workers from the overpopulated nations of Mexico and Central America that refuse to incorporate any type of responsible family planning or system of governance. On top of that, we need to make sure these peoples and their cultures are exalted and put on stage in TV and films at the expense of the “natives”. It’s almost too absurd to contemplate. We must reward overpopulation, allow them it to spread to new realms, and then exalt it. I’m not sure what drugs you need to be on to not see this as artificially supporting unsustainable human propagation practices at the expense of cultures that do. Could you imagine an overpopulated US bleeding off “workers” because that’s what we call humanity, into lands down south or India, and then demanding that they appear in films and TV and allowed to displace the prevailing culture and norms? It would be called invasion, exploitation and the audacity of it would make the sensible amongst us cringe.
Now this is the way to articulately and intelligently discuss this issue. Perfect. Even if I don’t agree with all of it or any of it, and I’m not saying I don’t, it’s so laconic yet robust in its effect, I must tip my hat to you for a job well-done. Thanks. I couldn’t have said it better myself, and now I don’t have to.
I agree wholeheartedly with Frankiti’s comment and with your praise of the way he makes his point.
Exactly. And such alien incursion lead to feelings of racism. Remove the aliens, and racism subsides. Xenophobia is natural, but isn’t experienced until the alien arrives. Pretty simple. Xenophilia on the other hand, is utterly unnatural and a psychological disease.
The problem is the opposite. People attempt to assuage the guilt from their latent feelings of racism by blindly accepting the notion that the United States must take on the burden of supporting peoples that overpopulate their corner of the earth.
They can’t assess the situation and move beyond it being a plight of brown people to what it truly is, a problem of humanity. Too much humanity.
Yeah, that’s the psychological situation now, but who instilled these vile doctrines into their heads to begin with? Who told them all men were the same? That we didn’t have the right to our own country? Who forbade people’s natural feelings of racism?
Whites aren’t the problem since we don’t exceed 2 children anymore for the most part. In fact, our population was possibly falling before the borders were opened. Our birthrate is certainly below replacement level now.
“…that refuse to incorporate any type of responsible family planning or system of governance.”
It does not matter where you live. The only responsible course of action from 1950 on, when global population was around 3 billion, would have been to have NO CHILDREN.
If you had one or more children after 1950, then you are as guilty as the people in Bangladesh you blame for overpopulation. Except that your kids have used 17 times more of the world’s resources and have contributed 17 times more to pollute and contaminate our air and water.
Take some responsibility, Frankiti, instead of whining about others.
The only responsible course of action from 1950 on, when global population was around 3 billion, would have been to have NO CHILDREN. – wpa
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^A totally ridiculous proposition^ that you gave no thought to.
If no children were born in the US (or worse, in the world) from 1950 to now, the youngest person would be 65. (See the movie Children of Men.) Picture a workforce of people aged 65 – 100+. Then, say, people realize things have gone too far and try to turn on the baby spigot again. How many 65 year old women do you know capable of having a baby?
Obviously “no children” is not the answer. The answer is “fewer old people.” How to get rid of our excess of old people (excluding myself, of course) is the moral dilemma of our time.
WPA is the reason for a Eugenics movement. People are a burden, but stupid people are a bane.
“…that refuse to incorporate any type of responsible family planning or system of governance.”
It does not matter where you live. The only responsible course of action from 1950 on, when global population was around 3 billion, would have been to have NO CHILDREN.
If you had one or more children after 1950, then you are as guilty as the people in Bangladesh you blame for overpopulation. Except that your kids have used 17 times more of the world’s resources and have contributed 17 times more to pollute and contaminate our air and water.
Take some responsibility, Frankiti, instead of whining about others…
This may be an interesting summer in many ways and for many people, not the least of which for young European women and girls in Sweden, Germany, Norway and France. Up until now now they’ve enjoyed a certain freedom in their home countries, freedom of movement and to dress the way they wanted, secure in the knowledge they’d be relatively safe from sexual attack. Now, with hundreds of thousands of predatory Muslim men prowling the towns and cities across western Europe, safety and security for these girls can no longer be taken for granted.
Any of you have young daughters? Can you imagine what parents of teenage and 20 year old girls in Germany are feeling? The fear and worry? This is how civilizations die, and Europe is dying, right here, right now. Why would EU elites turn their backs on their own European people, and favor aliens from Asia and Africa? Its a question that needs an answer. Another question, what happened to the ‘Sisterhood’? Many of the Prime Ministers, Police Commissioners, Defense Ministers and prosecutors in these WEuropean countries are women. We were led to believe, at least I was anyway, that when women took over it would be halcyon days, the world would be made anew, a new era of peace, love and understanding would be upon us. What happened?
brh
To those of you who watched the Oscars, did you enjoy being lectured to on Global Warming, Homosexuality and Racism from this vapid Hollywood scum?
brh
From a spoilt hollywood brat that partied off the coast of Brazil during the World Cup from an oil sheikh’s yacht no less
Going full Whig.. indeed.. pass me the Zoloft please. lol
Spot on as usual, Jim.
Sadly, it takes 50 years of living, or more, before most folks figure out that our “servants” in Washing, DC (District of Criminals and Corruption) have rigged the game.
So far the tattooed youngsters haven’t looked up from their I-phones long enough to realize that they are going to be living in their parents basement for a long time. Or worse yet, living in a tent down by the river.
Move your job to Mexico? No problem. As long as you are willing to help un-bolt the machines from the factory floor and travel to Mexico to train your replacement. You may even get a week or two of un-employment compensation, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
I think it’s all exemplified by the tortured smile pasted on Hillary’s face at her last rally that said, “get me out of here”, ..after she promised to revisit the Civil Rights Era . She air-kissed the last supporter and cootchie-cooed the last baby… while her body language screamed….SUCKERS.
No. Just compare the 1970 and 2015 university enrollment, employment, and CEO/management figures for Black women.
hm, black women in management. hahahaha, i’m chuckling at the struggle to actually imagine such a thing that isn’t the direct result of
affirmative discrimination lol
i’m sure there’s one or two real ones out there, i’ll give you that
university enrollment up, waaaaaaaay up!
yeah, everyone’s a jeenius and qualifies, even if they can’t even spell or know who Thomas Jefferson is or know the basics of math, science etc.
yeah wpa, your side’s done a swell job making things better!
even race ‘relations’ have gotten so much better
plus, the First Amendment is in fine shape too, tx to all your tolerance for speech that doesn’t agree with what you believe
guess all those Trump supporters are living in an imaginary world then!
have you taken in any refugees yet?
Yeah, if you want to witness Lib Utopia, where every lefty program and socialist initiative in past 60 years has been instituted full bore, take a look at Chicago and Detroit. Take a look at the results.
There’s your past, and your future, folks.
How do you like it, ladies and gentlemen?
brh
Everyone going to college just makes it into a continuation of high school. But it gives them more time to condition people and then of course, there’s the money.
To the extent community colleges are vocationally based, to that extent they are free from this criticism.
My son has opted to start a vocational program early as a junior in HS. The HS offers a Vet Tech class (in substitution for a typical HS class) in partnership with the local community college. He’ll graduate HS and then finish the program off in the CC.
He lives in a small rural town of about 1,500 people that happens to have a regional animal hospital near it. Most folks out there own multiple animals.
Both the hospital and CC are close by and he can live at home for as long as he needs to. In the context of this blog and what’s going on in the world, I figure it’s a decent way to start his life as an adult.
Sounds like a viable plan. Good on him for his commonsense and on you for supporting him in it.
Best thing I’ve heard all day, J Dean.
brh
Yep. I did things a bit backwards. I did eight years active duty in the U.S. Navy during the 1980’s. THEN I went to a bonafide old legacy university. Between the G.I. Bill and all the money piled up in savings from being on a ship, I enrolled. I was into my senior year before tapping Mom and Dad to help me finish.
I did well enough and graduated with a B/A in Public Admin. I would have done better if I didn’t argue with certain professors about political, social, and economic issues. But, I was more disturbed by the passivity of my fellow students. Very likely, they had NO basis of knowledge to work from. Even if they did, they only knew what the mainstream media and Hollyweird kulture inculcated in them.
That was 20 years ago. God help any White Male going to college now! If I was getting an Honorable Discharge today, I’d go into the trades and forgo college. That piece of paper was barely worth the effort when I graduated and it would be a liability now. I want my money back.
I just love it!! – Reading the headlines in MSM
HURRICANE DONALD
Super Scary Tuesday…
GOP Panics As Trump Victory Looms….
The Ugly Underbelly Of The Party Rules…
RACIST, SEXIST, VIOLENT
This Train is bound for glory – THIS train!
So General Hayden came out and said it in an interview with Bill Mayer. In carefully worded phrases, he said that a President Trump could face rebellion from the US military. This Hayden fella is former CIA director, former head of the NSA.
Now, this was in direct reference to future President Trump giving a hypothetical order to kill families of terrorists. An unlawful order, said the General, isn’t going to get followed.
Aside from wondering why all of a sudden this persnicketyness about killing, this is wonderful.
But there’s a problem, that being the line between “lawful” and “unlawful”. In matters of war, “law” looks like a dicey proposition. I mean, the business is to kill and destroy and yeah, I know, there’s supposed to be rules. But the business IS killing and destroying which by their very nature are inconsistent with a civilized behavior (at least my understanding of it) which is what “law” is supposed to be all about.
That’s not to say that killing and destroying are sometimes very necessary (could anyone contemplate the survival of Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan?)
Oh, and trying to not get killed. Nice to be victorious but it’s also nice to be around to enjoy the victory parade. The point being (in a very roundabout way) is that sometimes, for the very legitimate motive of staying alive, or for defeating a terribly evil adversary, the rules get bent. Which is to say that the line between lawful and unlawful can start to look blurry.
But back to Hayden. Maybe this blurriness gets blurrier if you don’t like the order and especially if it comes from a President you don’t like. So you defy the order. You justify it by saying “it’s unlawful”.
This is keeping with the times and it’s not like there isn’t precedent, defiance and disrespect towards a legitimately elected President being all the rage nowadays in Washington.
Heard an interview yesterday with the same Gen. Hayden, USAF, NSA, CIA, with Marco Werman of NPR.
He said (to paraphrase) he was completely and philosophically against waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques” and in the next segment stated that those same techniques yielded a rich supply of information that saved many lives and hurt the enemy.
What’s it going to be – playing nice or victory at any price?
Ethical quandry? No!
“In war there is no substitute for victory.”
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
Yes, most people lie to themselves by pretending that such techniques don’t work. Thus they collapse the ethical argument as a way of avoiding having to make an imperfect ethical choice. Americans are like those prissy middle class women who like to say “perfect”. They want their ethical choices to be clear cut and easy. Perfect virtue for perfect people.
Thus the rise of Trump as a counter point. All that rises must converge. Parallel lines meet at the horizon, the only infinity our senses can know. Trump is there, waiting for us, the Measure of all things, the Balancer, the One who brings things to an End that a new Beginning can begin.
“. . . and in the next segment stated that those same techniques yielded a rich supply of information that saved many lives and hurt the enemy.”
Of course, since we know, and have long known, that’s a load of bullshit . . .
PROHIBITION AGAINST USE OF FORCE
The use of force, mental torture, threats, insults, or exposure to unpleasant and inhumane treatment of any kind is prohibited by law and is neither authorized nor. condoned by the US Government. Experience indicates that the use of force is not necessary to gain the cooperation of sources for interrogation. Therefore, the use of force is a poor technique, as it yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to say whatever he thinks the interrogator wants to hear. However, the use of force is not to be confused with psychological ploys, verbal trickery, or other nonviolent and noncoercive ruses used by the interrogator in questioning hesitant or uncooperative sources.
The psychological techniques and principles outlined should neither be confused with, nor construed to be synonymous with, unauthorized techniques such as brainwashing, mental torture, or any other form of mental coercion to include drugs. These techniques and principles are intended to serve as guides in obtaining the willing cooperation of a source. The absence of threats in interrogation is intentional, as their enforcement and use normally constitute violations of international law and may result in prosecution under the UCMJ.
Additionally, the inability to carry out a threat of violence or force renders an interrogator ineffective should the source challenge the threat. Consequently, from both legal and moral viewpoints, the restrictions established by international law, agreements, and customs render threats of force, violence, and deprivation useless as interrogation techniques.
~US Army Field Manual 34-52, Chapter 1
Also:
Does Torture Work?
Doug,
Look, this isn’t that hard at all.
Say I have some info that is very important for someone to have; and they’re willing, nay, downright *eager* to torture it out of me. (Sort of like vladdie would likely be, as one might figure from his skeevy postings.) Let’s just say the torture is very severe……ya know, like waterboarding, where I think they’re ultimately going to kill me. After a bit of this, I’m thinking, “They’re going to kill me anyway, I’ll send these rat-fuckers on a goose-chase so wild, they’ll never forget it!” Then, I would proceed to do just that, and if I lived long enough, send them on another one.
It just doesn’t take that much imagination to think this one through. You’re in an intellectual duel with the unarmed…
You are just bitter because Trump is triumphing, even in MA!
Look, typically skilled Inquisitors will know quite a bit already. If the subject give them bullshit, they’ll likely know it. Read some books on Criminal science to get a more complete picture. Maybe it will help you if you are ever in that situation.
And no, I’m not eager to torture. I’m an empath. I simply refuse to collapse the moral paradox to make it easy to solve. As many have said, Americans are incapable of tragedy. They always wanted happy endings – now they insist that they be easy. Just like you hate to debate or explain, but always want some kind of unspoken understanding with anyone you talk to. I admit that such a thing is real and it is nice. But to always insist on it is really uncivil and down right cultic.
So you agree with intentional targeting of non-combatants in war… You agree with killing the infant children of those you think are your enemy? (Before they become your trading partners: Germany, Japan, Vietnam, etc.)
Yes, supposedly, generals and supreme court justices are to remain apolitical when carrying out their jobs. If you are one of these people and you hated your commander and chief, you have two options, resign or die. Maybe Scalia wanted to go now? He picked a great time and a beautiful resort location. Instead of a coup, Hayden says everyone will just resign from the work. There’s always someone waiting in the wings to take their places. It’s not like these people are going to lose their prestige and pensions. Instead of the roadblock being the House and Senate, the block will be from the Pentagon and Supreme Courts. It sounds to me like we will have a repeat of the last 8 years irregardless who is signing letters in the Oval office.
http://eaglerising.com/31014/nation-of-islam-leader-slams-hillary-clinton-as-wicked-woman-and-satan/
The Brutha gets it. Buck don’t.
For some people, many people maybe, this is not only Super Tuesday, but it will also be Super Bluesday. The Republican Establishment is going to be singing the Blues. I love it. It was time to shake the Banana Tree, and the Orangutang Trump was just the simian to do it.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B91kldJCIAAdumB.jpg
Bill Maher challenged Trump to prove Trump’s mother is not an orangutan get. Trump sued Maher for $5 million. Then Trump discovered his mother is an orangutan and dropped the lawsuit. It does explain Trump’s tiny hands and impulse to bang his daughter.
But it doesn’t explain Hillary’s impulse to bang Bill up the ass. What does? “Momma’s got a Big Dong — Daddy never sleeps at night.”
Pequiste, yes I would agree, there is no substitute for victory. The fate of conquered peoples is seldom good.
So you wonder about this Hayden fellow and his sudden conversion on the road to Damascus with all these moral ponderings about what can be and can’t be done in war.
Tell me, can you imagine an officer, responding to the question, “how do you intend to win the war?” and saying “kill Japs, kill Japs, keep on killing Japs”, the way an admiral did in WW2 – with Hayden running the show? I mean, good lord, with Reverend Hayden in charge, such a man would get drummed out of the service.
How do you fight a war these days with a lawyer having veto power at planning sessions? Can you imagine Hitler or Tojo being defeated this way? I can’t. Stalin would have beat Hitler, turned and faced and beat Japan and would have been master of a massive Eurasian Empire, from Atlantic to Pacific.
But we digress. I don’t think the issue here is “lawful” orders to the military. One smells an agenda behind the saintly General Hayden’s words, that is, Donald Trump isn’t a card carrying member of the American Oligarchy, doesn’t pay his dues, doesn’t follow the rules. And so, if I was Donald Trump, I would take the General’s ethical “concerns” as a threat: don’t get too comfortable in the White House, your stay could be brief.
Volodya, war is stupid. I don’t believe you are stupid, but your pro-war, pro-savage behavior in war goes against the values of western civilized culture.
Do you agree with the intentional targeting of non-combatants in war…
Do you agree with killing the infant children of those you think are your enemy? (Before they become your trading partners: Germany, Japan, Vietnam, etc.)
What distinguishes western civilization from so-called “barbarians”?
Yesterday, a reporter joked that Obama recommended to the voters, so-called Obama democrats, to vote for Trump.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-derailed-by-obamas-endorsement
But a huge number of the Obama democrats who hate Hillary Clinton took this joke at face value and now are wondering for whom they should vote for – Trump, or Sanders?
Personally, I’d recommend them to vote for both. Yes, I know it’s probably illegal, but Americans are clever guys, and probably could pull it off.
@ Volodya:
RE | “But there’s a problem, that being the line between “lawful” and “unlawful”. In matters of war, “law” looks like a dicey proposition. I mean, the business is to kill and destroy and yeah, I know, there’s supposed to be rules. But the business IS killing and destroying which by their very nature are inconsistent with a civilized behavior (at least my understanding of it) which is what “law” is supposed to be all about.”-v.
The rules and guidelines existed because they worked. Those that forget why they existed lose their wars. Violence is a form of communication that requires a certain eloquence to be effective – and by ‘effective’ I mean _decisive_. Civilians speak the language of violence like a gaggle of toddlers. Our problem as a nation (the USA) was that we have civilians & careerist military politicians (like the aforementioned general) running the show, and the results are in.
War is as much about convincing the enemy as killing them. If you fight ‘no quarter given’ then expect none. Surrender becomes out of the question. The enemy never lays down arms, never surrenders, every fight is a fight to the death (and beyond, through suicide attacks) and you just made a lot more work for yourself – congratulations, you’re an idiot.
Secondly, the use of torture is of limited utility and a lot like nuclear energy – a mediocre way to accomplish something that there are a plethora of other ways to do – and that if/when it backfires wreaks so much havoc that it rolls back all the small gains you may have made. There’s a reason why even the UCMJ prohibits “compelled testimony” (Article 31). It’s not worth it. If you over-use torture – as we have – then congratulations once again, you’re a bigger idiot.
Torture & terror are not decisive. Drug cartels have used both extravagantly, and sent videos of their torture-killings to next-of-kin, but nothing lasting was ever won by the practice. At this point it’s simply a matter of habit, while also being a huge waste of time.
Regarding the general’s remarks about the possibility of mutiny – he’s right. That possibility exists. But then again, the actual powers that be have worked very hard to create these conditions – unintentionally of course – so I find it rather difficult to want them to be deprived of the ‘reward’ they so richly deserve.
Nothing that I have written is idle conjecture, I have a real-life story to back up each and every thing. That’s why I got out. I no longer see the point in donating my time to people who really have no use for it – mainly because they’re too stupid to know what to do with it until I’m on the way out the door.
Cheers!
@MD: This reminds me so much of a “counseling session” I had with my Air Force squadron commander, during our mind-fuckingly stupid misadventure in Vietnam (they were trying to decide what to do with a guy who thought it was a matter of duty to criticize the premises and practices of our disaster-of-the-day).
Jim (his real name), was a light colonel who had turned down promotion to full bird and was getting the hell out of Dodge. It was a few months after My Lai and the full horror of what was going on was dawning on even the most devoted lifers — most of whom, of course, weren’t spending 13 months in the paddies.
Lt. Col. Jim (behind closed doors, of course), told me that he was ashamed to be a part of a military that would engage in such vile practices, especially since it was clear that they were guaranteed to lead to failure.
“If we saturation bomb their homes and fields, how can we expect them to do anything but fight to the last man standing? If we poison their land and water, how can they make any choice other than to try to drive us away, no matter how long it takes? I signed up to defend my country, and whatever this is, it’s not that.”
He got out, as quietly as possible, and went back to the family farm to raise horses and try to forget a decades-long career.
@ Doug:
“I signed up to defend my country, and whatever this is, it’s not that.” | He got out, as quietly as possible, and went back to the family farm to raise horses and try to forget a decades-long career.”-d.
Well, at least Brown & Root made a ‘killing’ provisioning and building in Vietnam. Then they became Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) and that became a wholly-own subsidiary of Halliburton, and Halliburton begat… etc., etc.
For anyone with a backbone and a moral and/or ethical bone in their body, it’s not a hard choice. A lot of people think that you’re crazy to get out. On the other hand, we think that they’re crazy to stay in. They may learn, they may not, and they may not get the chance to.
MD: “They may learn, they may not, and they may not get the chance to.”
To minimize the chances that they will learn the “wrong things,” we celebrate all of them, each and every one, as “heroes” — on multiple national holidays, a flood of films and TV shows every year, at nearly every baseball and football game . . .
It’s pretty seductive stuff and hard to resist, especially now that we have an “all-volunteer”
Ooops,
. . . now that we have and “all-volunteer” (a combination of trusting patriots, economic conscripts and sociopaths) “professional” military.
it’s a lot easier to convince most of these youngsters that they are fighting for freedom, justice and to protect the homeland than it was in my day.
@ Janos & The CFN Community:
RE | “This from the guy who thinks the Republican Party was “serious”. Who calls Muslim invaders, “refugees”. Who thinks our involvement in the Middle East is legitimate, and apparently more important than the integrity of our own borders.”-j.
I write this for the sake of clarity and to dispel disinformation disseminated by the ‘Janos’. The paragraph above is a perfect example of why it’s a waste of time to communicate with or around ‘Janos’. For the sake of onlookers I will now itemize [*]:
1. I never mentioned Janos by name, I did include a quote that named ‘him’ but only as an example of what not to do. Janos, being the highly reactive, thin-skinned cry-baby that ‘he’ is immediately went into retort-mode… “If the shoe fits” as the saying goes. But there was __no reason__ that he couldn’t have ignored the whole thing, and yet (as we all know) ‘he’ can’t help it… How incredibly idiotic. ‘He’ brings it upon ‘himself’.
2. I never said that I thought that either one of the political parties was “serious” – I used a quote because it described the general zeitgeist (as mentioned) – that’s a big difference. In point of fact I have consistently expressed scorn for the entire campaign charade. But how would he know? I’ve observed ‘him’ consistently misquote others – either because ‘he’ can’t keep track or he’d rather lie.
3. I never/ever said that the US’s involvement in the Middle-East was “legitimate” – this is another one of ‘his’ mistakes. The only time I used the word “legitimate” was in reference to killing enemy (Taliban) combatants that were trying to kill me and mine. I never have or will feel bad about those situations.
4. I have and will continue to use the term “refugee” in the European immigration/incursion context because it is accurate. Some of them are. They are also unwanted and should not be invited & welcomed. I have also (and repeatedly) stated support for a strong domestic border policy.
Since the whole scenario is beyond ‘his’ experience, and in keeping with ‘his’ unique Crazy-Lady communication style [**], ‘he’ always pushes for the most dramatic word or phrasing. ‘He’ is of course in no position to demand anything from anyone, and is therefore cordially invited to go fuck ‘himself’.
The person doing business as ‘Janos’ has garnered enough of my attention for one lifetime, and should not therefore expect follow-up communication from me.
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[*] ‘Janos’ I don’t expect you to understand, how could you?
[**] Much like another one of CFN’s pests, oddly enough. Funny how that out-of-context “legitimate” popped up again…
😉
Words have power. Let us learn at least that much from Alinsky and Co. The word refugee invites sympathy from the weak – and White Euro-Americans are SO weak in the regard, we dare not leave the enemy this weapon uncontested.
You said the Republican Party was serious – unbelievable. Now you are trying to backtrack – unsuccessfully.
Thank you for your clarification on your war experiences and outlook. Evidently you have changed your position because of them. So many veterans refuse to do so, often out of loyalty to those who were left behind or perhaps because they come from a military family that could not accept such a change. In any case, I’ll try to bear this mind.
Your fantasy about me being a woman is bizarre. I hope you don’t cling to this kind of thing too much or often.
@ Volodya:
“One smells an agenda behind the saintly General Hayden’s words, that is, Donald Trump isn’t a card carrying member of the American Oligarchy, doesn’t pay his dues, doesn’t follow the rules. And so, if I was Donald Trump, I would take the General’s ethical “concerns” as a threat: don’t get too comfortable in the White House, your stay could be brief.’-v.
I agree that the general’s words are *troubling*. . . Someone with his career didn’t get to where they are by speaking out of turn. Like their Chinese and Russian counterparts, they’re mouthpieces and cat’s-paws for more powerful players & their factions.
I think the surge in the market today was driven by wall construction and razor wire companies. 😉
I don’t know if JHK takes requests?
But, if so, I’d like JHK to commemorate the upcoming 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26th (April 26, 1986), which precipitated the collapse of the Soviet Union and dethroned the gods of Socialism (Pripyat as a Socialist Utopia), and Technology.
“Play Misty For Me”.
Thank you.
… most of [whom], of course, weren’t spending 13 months in the paddies. – Doug
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^This^ portion of a sentence that I have chosen to copy brings to mind something I have been meaning to mention for a while (and it has absolutely nothing to do with Doug) to whit: I will lay $100 that neither my brother-in-law, Peter, nor Donald Trump, has uttered the word whom in conversation in there entire lives.
Make of that what you will.
^in there entire lives.^
Q is defeated once again by spellcheck.
How many times until you learn the difference between there, they’re, and their? Is English your first language? This is not rocket science and you are not stupid.
“. . . neither my brother-in-law . . . has uttered the word whom in conversation in there entire lives.”
They would, no doubt, be members of a large majority. I’m afraid the objective case, in this case, is nearly archaic.
And, for wpa: Most of us are defeated fairly regularly by spellcheck, especially with homophones, which our fingers tend to type faster than our indwelling editors can correct.
especially with homophones, – Doug
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That’s scurrilous! I’m hetero and you know it.
We did very well tonight, wpa–ccc. It’s all thanks to you.
We started off the night winning Vermont, then we won Oklahoma and Colorado, and moments ago they called Minnesota for us as well. FOUR big victories for our political revolution tonight.
No one thought we would get this far. You proved them wrong. Working people are coming together and voting for Bernie in states across the country. They are contributing small amounts of money so we can compete with the millionaires and billionaires bankrolling Hillary Clinton’s campaign and her largest super PACs.
As of tonight, Killary has about 50% more pledged delegates than Sanders and the overall delegate count is:
Clinton: 984
Sanders: 347
I’m afraid it’s all over but the concession — and Bernie’s plea for his supporters to go all out for $hillary. Like Clinton in 2008, he’ll probably resist doing so for as long as possible.
You are not providing the numbers for earned delegates. You are sneakily assigning the super delegates to Hillary, when they are free to vote for either of the candidates.
To be very clear about Doug’s deception: Democratic “superdelegates” who are free to support any candidate regardless of the popular vote.
Doug has given Hillary 457 super delegates. Subtract those from his numbers and the race tightens. Big states are still outstanding.
This Democratic race is not over. Do not expect any concession speech anytime soon. Bernie has just begun to fight and has the ability to go all the way to the convention… where anything can happen, including Hillary being given the nomination. At that point, expect a concession speech. Doug is announcing a death prematurely.
Subtract those from HER numbers and the race tightens.
Actual pledged delegate count:
486 … Clinton
321 … Sanders
Go Bernie!
It ain’t over until Bernie accepts Hillary’s concession or until Bernie says it’s over.
Doug: “As of tonight, Killary has about 50% more pledged delegates than Sanders. . .”
wpa: “You are not providing the numbers for earned delegates.”
Well, not for people who failed elementary school arithmetic, I guess.
wpa: “486 … Clinton
321 … Sanders”
Elementary Math (multi-digit multiplication – Grade 4): 321 * 1.5 = 481.5
Sorry about forgetting to bold your ID, wpa.
Hillary may turn out to be unelectable due to criminal indictments. The convention can still select Bernie. The brute math is secondary. It is still way too early to call.
Ooooo, wpasoka just electrocuted himself on the dreaded 3rd rail… That would be the belief that there’s one code of law/justice for all strata of US citizens. Poor deluded child. Won’t you give today so he need not post tomorrow?
John McAfee, the anti-virus program pioneer and gadfly U.S. presidential candidate, claimed that unlocking the Apple iPhone of Syed Farook, one of the shooters who carried out a deadly attack in San Bernardino, California, late last year, is a “trivial” exercise and explained how it should take the FBI just 30 minutes to complete it.
McAfee, who is among 12 candidates vying for the Libertarian Party nomination to run for president this year, spoke to Russia Today about the continuing debate over the FBI’s attempt to force Apple Inc. to unlock the iPhone 5C used by the terrorist by creating a specific version of iOS to bypass security. The federal agency and the company will appear before Congress to debate the issue Tuesday.
However, McAfee indicated he believes unlocking the iPhone is a “trivial” matter and that the FBI knows this, adding that if it doesn’t, then “we are in deep trouble.” And he said that if the FBI is indeed aware of how trivial it is to unlock the iPhone, then it is deceiving the public by “asking for a universal key” to access Apple’s smartphones.
According to McAfee, this is how the FBI could unlock Farook’s iPhone.
“You need a hardware engineer and a software engineer. The hardware engineer takes the phone apart, and copies the instruction set [the phone’s mobile operating system and installed applications] and the memory. You then run a program called a disassembler, which takes the 1s and 0s and gives you readable instructions,” McAfee said.
“Then the [software engineer] sits down and reads through it. What he is looking for is the first access to the keypad, because that is the first thing you do when you input your [personal identification number]. When he sees that, he reads the instructions for where in memory the secret code is stored.”
McAfee previously wrote he would be able to decrypt the San Bernardino iPhone free of charge so that Apple wouldn’t have to put a backdoor into one of its products. At the time, he said it would take three weeks, but he has now suggested he offered that time frame just as a precaution so he basically wouldn’t have to eat his words later.
The trivial nature of unlocking an iPhone does not serve as an indictment of Apple, McAfee said, as “any computer can be [cracked], and it is a half hour job.”
John McAfee had better go back to running for president. It’s hopeless, of course, but not as hopeless as his idiotic explanation of how he’d crack the iPhone, which shows he doesn’t have the slightest idea how the IOS works.
McAfee: “Then the [software engineer] sits down and reads through it. What he is looking for is the first access to the keypad, because that is the first thing you do when you input your [personal identification number]. When he sees that, he reads the instructions for where in memory the secret code is stored.”
There is no location in memory where the “secret code” is stored in plain text. A B-minus student programmer in your local high school would know better than to do that.
If anyone really wants a longer and more detailed explanation, I’ll try to muster the energy, but the short version is: Whatever his previous (somewhat dubious) accomplishments, McAffee is a security architecture moron.
http://www.wired.com/2012/12/ff-john-mcafees-last-stand/
BTW, Jim, this is one of the best CFN entries in a while — really well done. I just wanted to get that in before becoming distracted again by the forces of evil.
‘Unmitigated evil?’
What mitigation could there be for evil?
Well Doug, it could be mitigated by being ‘necessary’…
LOL
Cheers!
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aZytjN6r-Vc/Vs5dHo4fDGI/AAAAAAAAAbc/XW5Mkc72Bx0/s1600/Cthulhu%2B2016.jpg
Cthulhu 2016! Why settle for the lesser evil?
Regarding this whole issue of “torture;” it does not make me proud or happy to say that in the conduct of operations both military or civilian, it may sometimes be necessary to utilize extra-ordinary or extreme measures to acquire information or change someone’s mind.
Like the Godfather said – he was going to ‘make him an offer he couldn’t refuse.”
We live in times that can only be described as bizarre and psychotic – and weekly, JHK puts a Rorschach test to it and CFNers run through the gamut of the signs and symptoms in response.
Let me just pose to any of you a hypothetical situation: If there was an imminent, powerful, chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear terrorist attack that was going to happen in your town or city in a couple of hours; resulting casualties would be in the tens or hundreds of thousands, of innocent men, women and children; and member(s) of the terror cell or rogue nation special forces were captured prior to the event, and they had an encrypted and locked Apple phone and would possibly be able to stop the destruction by getting the terrorist to surrender the secret code and stop the bomb from going off — would you employ torture, as a last ditch effort to prevent a catastrophe?
Don’t answer but just think it through…..
I don’t think for an instant that General Hayden is not making a political statement, and not an honest philosophical one, when he suggests Donald Trump lacking ethics and wrong because Trump says he would engage in torture of terrorists and enemies because “…they deserve it.” They, and murderers of all persuasions, certainly deserve “IT.”
Gen. Hayden was 41 years in the USAF and probably knows personally that napalm sticks to kids. During his tenure with The Company how many times did he disavow knowledge of termination-with-extreme-prejudice of some undesirable? It’s not an ethical question in those arenas. It is an unavoidable part of the business. And a dirty business it is. That is why it is played by spooks, and many heroes only have star without a name on the CIA Memorial Wall at Langley.
Geneva Conventions are fine but not everyone is signed on.
Yzlamik jihadis don’t care a whit for any of it. They understand one thing only.
Whatever is necessary to keep it from blowing up is key.
“The love of fairplay is a spectator’s virtue, not a principal’s.”
George Bernard Shaw
Wow…Kunstler made me get out my Strunk & White to check the Yeats possessive form of the noun! I had to be 100% sure.
Anyway…
It’s the supersize me Tuesday night after this blog post, all the votes (for today) are in, and it took just a few minutes for Tom Delay to get in on the fray and completely eliminate Trump as a contender for the throne based solely on the delegate numbers. Trump wanted to be treated fairly by the party and they’re definitely playing by their rules. Rubio is a sacrificial lamb. Cruz is going down swinging and reciting phrases from long dead Democrats and investigation committees from the ’70s…. It all makes for great television…not for a great nation.
Hillary had her obligatory Muslim woman and several shades of African Americans standing behind her vivid monochrome outfit #2…Spring may bring out the Yellow #3 or Fuschia #4 but I recommend the Palace Blue #5 because it brings out her eyes and will make her look more energetic. Her whole political life just seems like a sleepwalk going along with the establishment complaint, one of the tag lines for the long emergency. More and more of our tax dollars will be spent on her exacting revenge for what the government has done to her family by exposing their personal problems (sexual liaisons and various side deals gone bad) and making them a public political matter for the history books and newspapers (when there were still newspapers to sell).
The Democrats will never allow another Republican to become president again.
You forgot about the token White guy. Thus your implication that Hillary’s a racist is just wrong. Why did she choose a White man instead of a women? She already she has them. Her choice reflects political genius. NOW White men will vote for her!
“Apple is looking to Congress for protection from the FBI…which wants to coerce Apple to rewrite its code so that the Feds can more easily retrieve the encrypted data from an iPhone.”
We’re doomed!
Trump already has more delegate votes than all other candidates combined, and it is such a complete victory of Trump, and such a complete defeat of Republican establishment, that they have left nothing else to do, but like Hillary to begin to forge the election results, and are willing to openly throw democracy in the trash, just not to let Trump into the White House.
Especially on the eve of elections, Republicans establishment dropped masks and said that they are willing to encourage their voters to vote for Hillary Clinton, which is, of course, totally unacceptable. And they openly say that they would go to this unprecedented violation of democratic principles due to the fact that Trump is ready not to give a shit about the interests of Saudi Arabia and other Wahhabi bastards, but to consider the interests of Russia and even make friends with its President.
But the most important thing is that Trump, Cruz, whom in November Trump openly offered a place of Vice president in his administration, Carson and Jebb Bush are on the same team and help each other. In particular Jeb Bush in October reduced funding of his election campaign, and the money that he was paid by the federal election commission, he spent on negative ads against Rubio in New Hampshire and fact that Jebb Bush after Nevada withdrew his candidacy means that he is confident of victory of either Trump or Cruise over Clintonite Rubio.
Hillary still celebrates the victory, but her lackeys have a rather sour look
Sanders won four states: Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Vermont and divided Massachusetts with a difference of only two percentage points.
This victory is a Pyrrhic victory for Hillary, since it destroys the myth of her invincibility, which her lackeys buzzed all over in recent days. But it’s not only that. In those states where Sanders won, turnout was high and the elections were closed, that is, the Democrats could not vote for a Republican.
And in those states where Hillary won, elections were open and the turnout was low.
It seems that Obama democrats went to vote for Trump.
Military NATO Parade in Estonia, Baltic. Moscow’s shaking in its boots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ZBTmKWQFk
Same on the Red Square
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DylEslsVEyg
Is Putin getting ready to make a move on the Baltic States, bring them back into the mold, so to speak?
Dude, the gay friendly, fully unionized Dutch Army, backbone of NATO, hair down to their asses and heads down looking into their I phones, will have something to say about that.
brh
So Gays are sissies?
David Duke and the KKK …
You never hear about the guy — I didn’t even know he was still alive — except every 4 years during the presidential elections his named is dredged up from oblivion by the esteemed NY media as a sort of bogeyman to discredit the leading Republican candidate. This tactic is getting kind of old. Is it still effective?
brh
“This tactic is getting kind of old. Is it still effective?”
BRH,
According to what I’m hearing on the street (NOT the punditry), it matters not a whit.
I saw a pic of Hitlery and DD. Since I saw it online, I am not sure if it is fake.
Any thoughts?
Evidently not, thank God. Maybe a few people are waking up to the idea that Whites have the right to advocate and organize on their own behalf just like anyone else. But I think most are just desperate for change, change that will be for us this time. And the race hustlers are obviously bot Anti-American and Anti-White. They’ve lost any respect they ever had from the White masses.
Have you decided to cast your vote for Trump? As Dr Duke says, to vote for anyone else at this point is treason to our heritage.
Mark McKinnen (sp?) (some kind of Republican operative) on NPR this morning, trying for a cogent analysis of the Trump phenomena uttered the fateful words, “Look, democracy is messy…”
We’ve heard that somewhere before; it’s on digital video fer cryeye. “…Wherefore art thou, Rummy-o?” (Don’t forget to dip your middle finger in the dye after casting your soon-to-be-disappeared ballot.)
…President Trump could face rebellion from the US military
LOL, how detached from reality are these people?
Military folks love Trump. Probably in excess of 80% hate the pussified military with (unqualified) women Army Rangers etc. and will vote for the Donald.
Everything these jeeniuses say about Trump is like JHK predictions….just the opposite is true.
America is very, very tired of erudite weaklings with their endless half-measures and fine print lies.
They want simple respect and enforcement of the law, they want someone that won’t sell them out, they want to exercise their right to Free Speech and the Right to Associate Freely without being ruined financially and socially.
It’s that simple.
Current delegate count:
Trump 285
All the rest …less than that combined.
“….fine print lies.”
Not fine print, but yesterday The Grey Lady (whore,) in virulent opinion page piece called Mr Trump “…a shady, bombastic, liar….”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/opinion/the-party-of-trump-and-the-path-forward-for-democrats.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
Isn’t that the standard description for a practising politician?
As of this morning (3/2), it’s Trump 316 everyone else 365.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/republican_delegate_count.html
Not surprisingly, none of the “also rans” are getting out. It looks like the Republican establishment believes they can steal the nomination from Trump in a contested convention. It would result in the death of the Republican party as we know it, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing.
Too bad Bernie Sanders wouldn’t be able to drive a stake in the heart of the Democratic party.
“Military folks love Trump.”
Military folks respect Trump. They love America. They are faithful to the oath they take to uphold the Constitution not the Commander in Chief. They will not obey unconstitutional orders from Trump.
Sure they would, just as they would from Obama. Hopefully Trump wont ask them to do anything like that. Obama has forced hundreds of officers out of the service by asking them if they would fire on American Citizens.
We took the collateral winnings of World War II and poured it into a suburban sprawl alt-universe so depressing that our citizens are the most over-medicated people in the world.
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With this post JHK returns to the subject that prompted me to buy his excellent books on the shape (or shapelessness) of our cities back in 1996: The Geography of Nowhere and Home From Nowhere.
How can a nation be great, as Hillary claims, when it treats its land with such contempt?
The politicians who visited Iowa prior to the February caucuses had not a clue that a land destruction tragedy of historic proportions had taken place here over the past 60 years. Since the start of Interstate Highway construction, entire square miles of the best farmland in the world have been converted to chip-board, styrofoam “development”.
Not even Bernie Sanders talked about the insanity of America’s automobile- dependent, urban sprawl-based way of life.
From Des Moines, Iowa, the sprawl capital of the world.
Sprawlcapital,
As far as I can tell, this ‘automobile-dependent, urban sprawl based way of life’, is promoted by both parties, Dem and Rep alike. Its all they seem to know. Here in Ct our Democratic Governor looks to more Casinos as a panacea for our economic and social troubles, and the Republicans talk about growth, by which they invariably mean shopping malls, suburban housing developments, and fast food chain restaurants.
brh
brh–
In the immortal words of Q (see below), you nailed it.
In yr area [or a few 100 from] there has been yet one more
‘fake hate’ crime.
Hillery tweeted about the racism at SUNY Albany.
A White woman was attacked by a Black or 3 and now the 3 attackers have been arrested.
They are reported as ‘Black’ but 2 do not look Black to me,
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/nyregion/racism-charges-in-bus-incident-and-their-unraveling-upset-u-of-albany.html?_r=1
…… has absolutely nothing to do with Doug) [to whit]: – Q. Shtik
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Ya’ll had your chance to nail me but you missed it………it’s ‘to wit.’
You make so many mistakes it becomes boring to correct you.
Trump is hiding his mafia connections and illegal activities for which Trump evaded paying taxes. Like Al Capone, it will be the IRS that takes Trump down.
Trump flies around in a hundred million dollar airplane and pays no taxes. He may have gotten refunds, but he refuses to release his tax returns to cover up the details.
@Q: It’s “Y’all, not Ya’ll.
When forming contractions, we place the apostrophe in the position of the omitted letters. ;^)
I did not know that.
That’s what happens when somebody from Central Joisey tries talkin’ all southern and twangy.
And I failed to continue the quotation marks.
In addition to “ignore” functions, modern forum plug-ins allow editing. ;^)
Actual pledged delegate count:
486 … Clinton
321 … Sanders
Go Bernie!
It ain’t over until Bernie accepts Hillary’s concession or until Bernie says it’s over.
One indictment from the FBI investigation of Hillary could take Hillary out of the race. President Sanders beats Trump easily.
Mr Darling, I guess the point I was trying to make got buried in the to’s and fro’s about observing, or not observing, rules of warfare.
What I was getting at was that General Hayden seemingly hinted – that is to say he seemingly obscured his real point – that there’s a contingent in the military, just like there’s a contingent in the Republican Party and in the American public at large, that can’t abide the thought of a President Donald Trump. And the business of the unlawfulness of certain kinds of orders is a convenient smokescreen. Or an alibi, if you like, to box in and neutralize a President Trump if there’s no will or way to remove him altogether from office. .
Now, I know that there’s 300 million guns in the United States. I also know that there’s millions of former military, and millions with combat experience. The thing is that, at present, all this knowledge and ability and experience are disaggregated and as such it doesn’t pose much of a threat to political power centers.
Not so the existing military which has a communications, command and control structure, with armed and trained and disciplined troops. As Mao said, power comes from the barrel of a gun and there’s a lot of guns there and all of it is up and running. Is it too much of a stretch to say that politicians and political parties rule at the sufferance of generals and admirals? “Sufferance” means absence of objection. What if there was strong objection?
Hayden is connected, accomplished, well regarded, articulate, a really good public face. He comes across as an archetypal 1950’s Father Knows Best dad, you know, like Robert Young, calm, reasonable, not a kook IOW.
But even if he’s retired from the military, even if he said what he said in the context of flogging a book, it stretches credulity (at least it stretches mine) to think that he said what he said by accident or alternatively, just to stir up shit.
Did he send a message above and beyond the issue of the lawful use of force?
As you say, the General’s words are “troubling”. Even a former four star general has to measure his words carefully. Did he measure them carefully enough?
Volodya |
“As you say, the General’s words are “troubling”. Even a former four star general has to measure his words carefully. Did he measure them carefully enough?”
The general went from the uniformed military to the CIA – Pentagon to State Department – so he’s positioned as a switch-hitter, trouble-shooter and liaison within the deep-state’s network.
Was he ‘signaling’? Odds are yes. Was he way off-kilter in what he said? No. More than 70% of the military’s Republican, and a significant portion of that are Old School Repubs (West Point, Citadel grads especially). The *enlisted* folks tilt in the direction of Trump. So could there be a “contingent in the military” that might be making other plans? Yeah, you betcha. Making plans and preparing to execute is what military people do by force of habit.
That might be to same contingent that fussed for the last eight years. They are all hat and no cattle.
Regarding Trump:
“There is only one reason to vote Trump. He offers the hope of being allies with President Putin and ending our country’s insane restart of Cold War 2.0 – which could become hot in a Hillary minute. In a field as weak as this one, that’s good enough for me.”-outsider.
I concur. Hillary has been involved in one foreign policy disaster after another. The root cause is that she listens to her advisors [*], which at this juncture are neocons and nobody’s gotten around to rooting them out and rendering them yet, and they won’t be satisfied until their “crozzled hearts” rest for all eternity in a line of torched cars parked on the beltway.
Looking for a silver lining in a Trump win? This is it. Having said that, this is also why the odds are stacked against it happening.
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[*] because she apparently does not give a rat’s *ss about the entire topic.
Nothing about stopping the invasion of America from the South? Your priorities are whack. It’s this inability to mind our own business and solve our problems here at home that gets us into these ridiculous foreign wars in the first place.
That’s why the People (oh yeah, them) are voting for Trump. You are as out of touch as the people you criticize. That’s the root of my criticism of you, apart from all of the hyperbole.
Result 1: All of Sander’s clueless millennial fanbase will rally around Clinton as will the Rubato establishment types resulting in the coronation of the heir, Hillary.
Result 2: GOP brokers convention, denies Trump, puts forth the Rubato or similar empty head and empty suit and spurned Republicans show their anger by voting for Hillary resulting in her taking what has always been hers.
The party system is theater for the public. Everyone gets worked up into a lather… when we all know the house always wins, pick red or pick black you still lose
http://www.infowars.com/report-rubio-very-extroverted-homosexual-during-college-years/
Speaking of lather, Rubio was spotted at “foam” parties in the 90’s. Any gays here who can confirm this?
GREECE | The Height of Irony
So, remember all that high-drama last Summer when the Greeks were getting their last-best chance to vote themselves out of the EU?
And remember how – after all the grand-standing – the resistance fell apart in the voting booths? Well, this is how the Greeks get rewarded for loyalty:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3471157/Hundreds-trapped-Greece-s-Macedonian-border-revealed-131-000-migrants-crossed-Mediterranean-year-total-six-months-2015.html
“Sacrificed”…
@ Volodya, RE Trump:
I have to admit that I like the way oligarchic cluelessness is on track for a collision-course with pitch-fork brigade insanity…
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/02/29/the-great-corporate-earnings-fraud/#more-115760
Best Quote:
“The establishment is aghast that Donald Trump is storming towards the presidency. They are blind to the fact their unconcealed felonious actions rise to the level of treason in the eyes of average hard working Americans. The fabric of this country is being torn asunder by a contemptible class of corporate fascists, ego maniacal bankers, shadowy billionaires, and media titans. They have reaped billions of profits since 2009 as the Fed and politicians in D.C. rolled out “solutions” designed to enrich them. They are confident their failures will be shifted to the American people again. The American people may have a different opinion this time. Pitchforks and torches are being readied.”
Whatever the outcome of the election, he’s already succeeded in focusing anger and reframing public perception. That’s not a bad thing.
@ Doug:
“it’s a lot easier to convince most of these youngsters that they are fighting for freedom, justice and to protect the homeland than it was in my day.”-d.
It might have a lot to do with a modern-day lack of job-market alternatives. Ever see “Winter’s Bone”? Do you remember the scene where the High School kids are lined up down the hall and around the corner to interview with the Army recruiter? Apparently the Army gets the bulk of it’s enlistments from the four-state area that Missouri’s part of.
MD: “It might have a lot to do with a modern-day lack of job-market alternatives.”
Yup. Exactly. Thus my reference to economic conscripts.
“Do you remember the scene where the High School kids are lined up down the hall and around the corner to interview with the Army recruiter?”
Gut-wrenching. Makes me want to cry thinking about it.
“Come on fathers, and don’t hesitate
To send your sons off before it’s too late.
You can be the first ones in your block
To have your boy come home in a box.”
Or, today, to have your daughter be the first one on the block to blow a village meeting or a wedding party into pieces that can be piled, unsorted, into trench graves — from an air-conditioned cubicle at Creech.
Trump is the only one not for War with Russia. And according to Snowden, the only one not owned by Goldman-Sachs. Maybe the two facts are connected?
Doug, I think you know your duty is clear. Check your pride, hold your nose, and give Trump the vote your principles demand.
“Doug, I think you know your duty is clear. Check your pride, hold your nose, and give Trump the vote your principles demand.”
Sorry, just cannot vote for the mean-spirited, egomaniacal clown.
However, given a choice between facing a firing squad and voting for either Killary or Trumpf, there’s a small chance I’d pick Trumpf — and I’d definitely wave away the blindfold and stare defiantly at the rifles before voting for Clinton. ;^)
And I’d vote for Sergei Lavrov, for almost any office, rather than John Kerry.
“I don’t know if Hillary is going to be allowed to run.” –Donald Trump
She may be arrested or incarcerated. Fortunately her delegates can go for Bernie at the convention. Bernie defeats con artist Trump.
watching cnn here in brazil, really laffable how they try to tar Mr. Trump.
now they’re rolling out mitt romney tomorrow, boy THAT’LL inspire the voters.
just breathtaking to see the disconnect between the reality of the monumentally misgoverned nation – which the populace feels everyday awash in insane immigration etc ad nauseum – and these know-nothing political jeeniuses aghast that Mr. Trump (aka ‘The People’) will win the nomination.
of course, other than THAT , they always support democracy
unless it’s the voice of White people
If they knock Trump out of the ballpark by dredging up something unsavory from his past, at least we won’t have Malaria in the White House as first lady. I look and I wonder if she saved any eye makeup for anyone else. Donald must have a monopoly on Revlon.
Meanwhile, while all this circus before our eyes goes on, Noam Chomsky is quoted as saying the rise of Trump can be attributed, in part, to the breakdown of civilization. Speaking of Celebrity and Noam Chomsky, some of the best men are Jewish. This breakdown largely part of our own doing and we won’t do anything about it. But, nothing lasts forever, save one. Speaking of which and celebrity, even David Bowie’s last album has a song about heaven. Talented, but I don’t think he was Jewish.
The social critic and poet James Russel Lowell said, Life runs on and the road grows strange (sometimes too strange to bear) with faces new and milestones into headstones turn, ‘neath everyone a friend.
The world seems very dark and darker still now with full blown World War III almost upon humanity seven months ago, and still now as many say the mid-east is already in WWIII. But there is another old adage that says, it’s always darkest before the dawn.
And of course, none of our “best men” had anything to do with the coming disaster. Oh, Barb.
Tell us about your tattoos. Someone said they contain clues about how to save the Earth that even you don’t fully understand. As for Civilization – to hell with it! The Earth abides. The Lion will lie down with the Lamb, and the Jew with the Gentile. Just provide a new lamb every day…..
sure, and the Left/chomsky had nothing to do with the breakdown of civilisation, right
you know, they’re so intelligent and all
blue-collar folks are a lot smarter than so-called intellectuals
they jeeniuses have gotten Mr. Trump wrong at every single turn
they’re the same jeeniuses that’ve turned europe into a cesspool and hope to do the same to the US
“Stop these interventionist regime-change wars”
–Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned as VP of the DNC to become a declared Bernie Sanders supporter
“Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned as VP of the DNC to become a declared Bernie Sanders supporter”
I guess Tulsi isn’t aware of Sanders’ decades-long support for our interventionist wars and the MIC that profits from them, huh?
Chris Christie has a 27% approval rating in NJ.
FREE CHRIS CHRISTIE!
http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/02/the-sad-embarrassing-spectacle-of-chris
http://www.infowars.com/huckabee-trump-phenomenon-is-a-peaceful-overthrow-of-the-government/
That’s right, Hucky. Seriously though, this is a good way to think about it. As he says further, ballots rather than bullets.
something just occurred to me. someone recently suggested that before anyone was allowed to vote, they should be required to pass tests involving things like American history and government. a requirement such as this would disqualify much of mr. trump’s support. working class people (in general) don’t have the time, knowledge, or inclination for such things.
A certain Rolling Stones song has been playing in my head all day. “And Goodbye, Rubio Bluesday…..” Who will be Ruby this time around?
Trump is a genius. No other mortal could take on the world the way he has. Not even Hitler. He’s ten times the man Hitler could have ever hoped to be and he has a beautiful wife and beautiful children. The entire Global Elite has lined up against him and he’s winning. Since I generally lean anti-establishment, I have to say, I respect what he’s accomplished.
And no one has yet gotten Jim’s pun in the title. Going Full Whig is a reference to Trump’s alleged hairpiece. And The Nation is going Full Trump.
Yes, hard to believe a liberal with New York values is doing so well. All it takes is hoodwinking the sheeple with lies they want to hear.
It worked, and it still works, for Obama. It’s a tried & true strategy. In fact, I’d say it’s mandatory to attaining and holding power.
The question is, was Obama lying when he said Trump will not be the POTUS, or does Barry know something we don’t?
I suggest Trump buy some old clunkers and hire a trustworthy mechanic to fix them up and keep them running like they do in Cuba. He shouldn’t drive in an automobile that’s drive by wire capable after what happened again last night.
That’s really an excellent point. And yes, everyone missed the Whig/Wig thing but you.
You have a position in my future administration as wandering ombudsman. In Old Persia, they were known as they Eyes of the King.
Was Hiroshima bombed because of its Christian populace?
I read that recently.
News to me. Where did you read this?
Trump is a false flag operation sponsored by Hillary to infiltrate and splinter the Republican Party… And it’s working so well Mitt Romney is concerned.
“Here WPA, try this.”
(aging grey haired hippie passes 3ft tall bong to WPA at Bernie Sanders rally)
Thoughtfully, WPA takes a deep hit from this bong, stoked with fine, righteous Oaxacan Red.
Suddenly candidate Sander’s signature speech about ‘Wall Street Profiteers’ seems funny, hilarious even. WPA cannot stop giggling.
I just met a Comrade named Bernie Sanders
And suddenly his line
Seems so correct and fine
to me
Bernie Sanders
Say it soft and there’s rice fields flowing
Say it loud and there’s people’s war growing
Bernie Sanders, Comrade
I’ll never stop loving Comrade Sanders.
brh
I’d call this Full Whig too. Nice, brh. You let your hair down with this post. I didn’t know you had it in you.
from another blog—-
cks were drifting a bit today, consolidating the big gains from the first day of March yesterday.
The ADP jobs number was better than expected this morning, which caused some to reflect on the coming Non-Farm Payrolls Report, and the likely actions of the Fed at their March FOMC meeting.
In other news, the ex-CEO and fabled ‘father of US shale oil,’ one of Oklahoma City’s leading citizens, and NBA team co-owner Aubrey McCendon died last night in a fiery car crash. Police are investigating. There were no other cars involved, and no skid marks on the road. Mr. McCendon went off the road in his car at a very high rate of speed. They said he ‘drove straight into a wall.’
Mr. Mcclendon had been indicted yesterday by the Justice Department with conspiracy in rigging the prices of oil leases and using loans to benefit his personal stakes in wells from the company.
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Was it another Mercedes? Imagine having that job — operating the controls that send this guy’s car into the wall at breakneck speed. I wonder if he/she gets a bonus? I wonder of he/she is a Gamer or was a Gamer in their youth, and now they can Game for real? “Ain’t nothin’ like the real thing, baby…”
Poor Adelson, he’s going to have to power-down his Rubato and stuff it back in its box…. even after learning to say the right things: “I stand with Israel” “No to internet gambling” “No more native american casinos” “Bomb Iran”… poor thing.
‘poor billionaire’ is an oxy–what?
It’s yawl. Since it’s not an official word and instead slang speech, you can spell it any way you damn well please. I like yawl, so yawl it will be from here on out. Got it, yawl?
“I like yawl, so yawl it will be from here on out. Got it, yawl?”
“It’s yawl.”
That’s a very fancy yawl. I like them, but I prefer something a bit less ‘high-maintenance’…
Here’s my to-do list as the president:
End all our phony wars; bring all the soldiers home and close all the bases, including those in Europe. Since Russia can already wipe us out, we don’t have to fear their actions in Europe or elsewhere. We can maintain or improve the quality of our military and still significantly cut military expenditures.
Make free trade really free – institute tariffs to even out the playing field.
Eliminate the income tax and replace it with a consumption tax that is not regressive.
Institute public works programs, such as for infrastructure improvement, and eliminate entitlement programs, except for those who physically can’t work.
Encourage home-schooling and eliminate mandatory public education gradually. Allow student loans to be eliminated as a result of bankruptcy.
End the central bank, go on the gold or silver standard and work towards a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget.
Enforce the 2nd amendment.
Work towards instituting term limits.
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Many more changes need to be made, but I can’t go into them no mystery who these nitwits are. What is baffling is that they aren’t banned. Well, I’m sure Mr. Kunstler has his reasons…
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I don’t know what happened exactly, but disregard the last 2 lines of the above posting. Suffice it to say I don’t want to take anymore bandwidth up for now. I do know that each of my points would need much discussion and revisions, but I’d welcome any constructive comments. There are so many more points to be made.
Not bad, but what do you mean “enforce the 2nd Amendment”? And nothing about defending our borders and ending illegal immigration?
Mr Kunstler does have his “reasons” – the First Amendment for one. So many comment sections have been destroyed throughout the land. One of my favorites, yahoo, was recently all but destroyed.
Yahoo news is dreadful.
replace it with a consumption tax that is not regressive. – Bean
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How do you make it “not regressive?”
Trump and Hillary be friends now for a long time. Trump has given money to the Clintons and invited them to his wedding. They move in the same circles. Trump’s candidacy is a false flag operation sponsored by Hillary to infiltrate and splinter the Republican Party… And it’s working so well Mitt Romney is concerned. Cleveland will be the demise of Trump. The GOP establishment is amassing its forces right now and I’m not talking about elected or selected delegates. Cleveland will be a closed-door back room take down of Trump. Dirty politics and second amendment solutions. Trump doesn’t know who he is up against.
If anybody is working for Hillary, Mitt Romney is.
War in Syria, Armageddon and Election Campaign in US
The main fighting in Syria is not far from the hill of Megiddo, where, according to the Apocalypse, Armageddon will be fought – the final battle between the Good and the Evil that will affect the lives of everyone living on the planet Earth.
And attached to this battle is truly apocalyptic nature of apocalyptic religious sect The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), which is trying to prove its commitment to Good by burning people alive on camera and by cutting their heads off (including children) and by making selling women to brothels and their husbands and children for body parts one of the main resource of their economy.
The war in Syria is the main theme of this election campaign(obvious or not), the inevitable winner of which was declared Hillary Clinton, who has long ago announced Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia to be the main defenders of the true Islam, and in the beginning of her election campaign declared that she will force all Churches in the United States fulfill their obligations as a non-profit organizations that provide religious and ceremonial services, to marry homosexuals, without discriminating on grounds of sexual orientation.
Another reason to leave 501C3 churchianity, with their GI bibles.
Know this one, Jim? It’s less well known, but it’s superb – and equally relevant. And equally suppressed.
The Stranger within my gate,
He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk–
I cannot feel his mind.
I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,
But not the soul behind.
The men of my own stock,
They may do ill or well,
But they tell the lies I am wanted to,
They are used to the lies I tell;
And we do not need interpreters
When we go to buy or sell.
The Stranger within my gates,
He may be evil or good,
But I cannot tell what powers control–
What reasons sway his mood;
Nor when the Gods of his far-off land
Shall repossess his blood.
The men of my own stock,
Bitter bad they may be,
But, at least, they hear the things I hear,
And see the things I see;
And whatever I think of them and their likes
They think of the likes of me.
This was my father’s belief
And this is also mine:
Let the corn be all one sheaf–
And the grapes be all one vine,
Ere our children’s teeth are set on edge
By bitter bread and wine.
– Rudyard Kipling, The Stranger
You nailed it.
Teddy Roosevelt was a big fan of that poem.
Kipling, The Master.
brh
It’s true, Trump’s run for the POTUS was initially a False Flag Operation, but once The Donald got a taste and he started to gather momentum and popularity, he went rogue. The Clintons are furious. He has scuttled their plans and they no doubt will seek revenge. They will not allow him to be the POTUS — that was never the plan. He played them. It’s just a matter of which method they use to neutralize him. The JFK method or The Vince Foster Method or The Paul Wellstone/Ron Brown Method or The Litvinenko Method or maybe an entirely new method that hasn’t been used before.
The Jimmy Hoffa method or its modern equivalent: Gitmo.
Don’t forget the Saddam Hussein method or the Manuel Noriega metho, either.
I love this blog site and the very thoughtful comments. Very impressive!
JHK ends his post by suggesting that a Civil War is coming. Maybe, but voters now in a revolutionary mood, can vent their frustration by voting for the only real outsider in the race with bold ideas to shake things up. Voters are correct, EVERYTHING is broken in the US (and more so abroad). Crisis is now inevitable, even a revolution. But it’s China who will be lucky to avoid revolution this decade. Revolution in America can still be done at the ballot box.
Check out my blog “Time For A New American Revolution..” http://gulfcoastcommentary.blogspot.com/2015/12/our-bloated-failing-central-planning.html
I agree with JHK that the election will be in the middle of a huge economic/financial crisis and only one candidate will be viewed as being strong enough to deal with it.
Collapse is entirely possible, probably outside of the US, then hitting the US too. It might not even be survivable. The world might not be able to support 7 billion people. See Fast Collapse or Slow? http://gulfcoastcommentary.blogspot.com/2015/08/fast-collapse-or-slow-i-think-fast.html
Ban public unions? So you oppose democracy in the workplace? Do you want to eliminate the gains unions have made, like the 8 hour work day, 40 hour work week, safe working conditions, 5 day work week?
like the 8 hour work day, 40 hour work week, safe working conditions, 5 day work week? – wpa
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If you mention “the 8 hour work day” and the “40 hour work week,” doesn’t that make mentioning the “5 day work week” superfluous?
“How do you make it “not regressive?”
Tax all spending, including every stock trade.
Make it progressively flat. Don’ tax below $50,000. Tax 50 to 250 at a higher Bush rate. Tax income above $250,000 at a higher Reagan rate, above a million at a higher Eisenhower rate.
And tax Foundations at 100%.
The question was: how do you make a consumption tax not regressive? You have gone off, once again, into income based taxes.
Mitt Romney is a man of constant sorrow.
FOP vs Dapper Dan
“Trump has gone rogue.” –cold
No, he is right on script. Today the jackass is braying he is feeling disrespected… right on cue… and he is threatening to go independent, jus as he agreed to do to assure a Hillary win. Thanks, littlehands. Soon he can go back to dreaming about banging his daughter.
Welcome to the Donald Trump university of psychopathy. Losers are suing me , you know why because they are losers. Winners take all now we take Manhatten and then Berlin. Don’t even think about losing.
they are all losers,so never think about that ,it creates self doubt and winners don’t go there. Wow how freeing I can say anything and they will love me more, I Am a truth teller I am the Donald the ultimate Psychopath. America will be great again ,because you will be great just like your President. If you want to be a winner vote for me. It’s all about winning, Screw the 1 percent ,tear up the trade deals and build the wall.
Our host is hip to the fraudulent con man who is the full Whig. It is sad to see how many on CFN have been hoodwinked into believing in Trump. Especially after so many years of insisting there is not a dime’s worth of difference and insisting they would not play the blue/red game. Too many have no principles.
Interesting news from the BBC this AM…
Federal prosecutors have indicated that a former aide to Hillary Clinton has been given “immunity” in respect to his actions regarding “servergate”. Hillary has stated that she is “happy” that the aide is co-operating with the FBI. Hilarity will ensue….
Immunity means you can tell the truth with no legal consequences. The former aide can now tell the truth about Hillary…
Wpac,
Noooo. Immunity means you HAVE to tell the truth. Immunity is granted to someone who has usually been either indicted, or at least threatened with grievous punishment, and who has valuable information against a targeted individual. Prosecutors use this weapon often in major cases…and it rarely disappoints. I would predict, on this information alone, that Hillary Clinton will not be the Democratic Nominee….I will rest easier tonight….
Mr Darling,
Yeah, the Republican Establishment is aghast that Lincoln was right, that you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
I would say that the great object of ridicule (no less by Republican elites as by Democrats), that object being that dreaded Republican “base”, is a bit ahead of the curve as compared to their Democrat counterparts.
While Bernie has made some inroads with Democrat supporters that cottoned onto the fact of their being monumentally screwed, there’s less in the way of support for Bernie than there is for non-establishment Republicans.
Oh well, give it time, a Shillary administration will be an object lesson to those who remain as yet resolutely “fooled”.
Here’s a problem though, time seems like a limitless resource when you’re young. But you will have noticed if you are of a certain age, that time is never on your side because events come barreling at you through the fog like Mack trucks running red lights.
It’s a big question, how long will it take for those Democrat voting blocks to “awaken”? When does it become too late? There’s those out-of-control Mack-truck events coming.
So what has this Republican Establishment been touting? Just this, a “conservatism” that massively enriches the Oligarchy.
But this conservatism is cleverly couched in terms of a question: what is an American? If you believe certain things, if you profess belief, you’re an American. It’s just that those same beliefs happen to massively advantage the Oligarchs and massively screw the ordinary schmuck.
Tell me Mr Darling, are you an American? Never mind your place of birth. There’s so much more to it than that.
As Pat Buchanan would tell you, the returns are in. Pat and Ross Perot sounded the warnings. And they got slapped aside, dismissed as cranks, sneered at as men of a bygone age, unwilling to embrace “change”.
Well, Pat and Ross were right. A large part of the Republican base has realized it.
Does being an American mean embracing your own impoverishment through the export of millions of jobs and the importation of millions of outsiders to compete for what few opportunities remain? Does it mean leaving the southern door open? Republican thinkers will tell you (I heard it myself), they’re in favor of open borders. Why? Cheap labor they say. A simple thing really. They are out to screw their country and their fellow Americans, no more, no less.
So does being an “American” work for you? If it means your diminishment, your impoverishment, misery for your kids, why the fuck would you want it? What’s the point?
People like Joe Klein or the Huff Post dismiss Republican voters as know-nothings. To those great intellects who pretend to do work for a living, this Trump thing looks alternatively clownish or mean or racist or nativist. But I give this Republican “base” a lot more credit, they’re not having any of it. If the Republican Party isn’t working for them, if it’s working AGAINST them, they’re going to wreck the fucking thing and to hell with it.
“there’s less in the way of support for Bernie than there is for non-establishment Republicans.” — Volodya
Volodya I am enjoying our dialogue, but you cannot get away with making false statements.
No Republican (nor Hillary) can match the FIVE MILLION small donors who support Bernie Sanders. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders has MORE demonstrable support than non-establishment Republicans.
No Republican (nor Hillary) can match the FIVE MILLION small donors who support Bernie Sanders………
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……….whose average donation — wait for it — is $27. It was $27 last fall, it is $27 now, and it will always be $27.
“Trump has gone rogue.” –cold
No, he is right on script. Today the jackass is braying he is feeling disrespected… right on cue… and he is threatening to go independent, jus as he agreed to do to assure a Hillary win.
Establishment Republicans are not ready to go full Whig. Trump has yet to feel the effect of Republican realpolitik.
Little-hands is now helping Hillary. Soon he can go back to dreaming about banging his daughter.
Mr Darling,
Both Democrats and Republicans were administrators, enablers and facilitators of the great American screwing of the last generation.
As for Black and Hispanic voters, when it comes time to get fucked, they’re at the head of the line. Why they side so loyally with Democrats beyond me. Even more mysterious is why they vote for Shillary.
Mitt gave a speech. He says that Trump’s economic policies would result in recession. What a joke. Unlike establishment Democrat and Republican Oligarch policies which result in wrack and ruin. As Pat Buchanan says, the returns are in. Look around, you can see for yourself.
Export jobs Mitt? Seriously? Bad for American workers? Really Mitt? Go fuck yourself Mitt, we’ll keep our own counsel on this.
The Democrats have had so many electoral losses these past five years that they are one presidential election defeat away from going the way of the Whigs first. Trump will win. And if Barack Obama is more like Millard Fillmore than Abraham Lincoln, as JHK once said, then Trump will be like Franklin Pierce AND James Buchanan and do more damage in four years than both put together over eight years. Hope for a new progressive party to replace the Dems . . . soon.
“The JFK method or The Vince Foster Method” — Cold
How about drowning in cage live on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer? That hasn’t been tried, has it?
But jokes aside, neither Trump nor Obama will survive for too long Hillary’s inauguration, neither will their families.
“Collapse is entirely possible, probably outside of the US, then hitting the US too. It might not even be survivable” — Doug
The only thing man-made that would not be survivable is a nuclear war. Someone, please, tell that Hillary.
Last night on Fox, Karl Rove spoke out against Trump, but couldn’t, or wouldn’t, say whether or not he would vote for him.
Beware the Republican establishment mushy marshmallow, the pusillanimous pastry, the cherubic croissant, the éclair of eggheads.
Beware the Republican establishment eunuch. This cupcake, this conniving canoli surely must have been castrated. With charisma somewhere between a crumb bun and a cheese Danish, this bespectacled bloviating baguette, this bland, boring blanc-mange, this Boston cream pie of a man is more stale than a month old bagel.
Just heard Romney. Maybe I’ll slice into this scurrilous scumbag in a suit later. Into 47 pieces.
Yeah he looks disgusting, possibly an manifestation of his inner reality. But careful, unlike most Americans, this pig is a boar. You must know this quote:
We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
There’s nothing flabby about this mind or will. And it’s not a boast but a Will to Power. And he didn’t get to this level by being flabby. Yeah they may have been surprised by Trump, at how fast this has developed. On the other hand, they have been expecting something like this for a long time. They are ready to pull the plug on civil society if need by. Or, if you will, to pull the magician’s cape away from their carefully created consensus reality.
Point well made. He didn’t get here by curling into a ball and rolling.
Beware the Republican establishment mushy marshmallow, the pusillanimous pastry, the cherubic croissant, the éclair of eggheads.
Beware the Republican establishment eunuch. This cupcake, this conniving canoli surely must have been castrated. With charisma somewhere between a crumb bun and a cheese Danish, this bespectacled bloviating baguette, this bland, boring blanc-mange, this Boston cream pie of a man is more stale than a month old bagel.
Just heard Romney. Maybe I’ll slice into this scurrilous scumbag in a suit later.
Good job Tucson, I love alliteration.
Thanks, Q. And thanks for your posts, which I’ve really enjoyed.
Europe begins to die, it’s arteries blocked because of the bad “diet” it is on.
As William Pierce said of White South Africans, they have chosen security and prosperity over freedom therefore they will get neither.
http://www.dailystormer.com/europe-schengen-zone-completely-thrown-out-in-favor-of-wartime-measures/
“Are you backing Trump?” – Janos
I probably will, Vlad.
Not that I thing he’s the greatest candidate, I don’t.
For me, its a way, the only way, to show the elite the middle finger, to say a hardy FU to the big business elite, media elite, big govt., big academy, Hollywood, big tech, the c-cksuckers who in the past 25 years sold us down the river, shipped our jobs overseas, flooded the country with third worlders, in short shoved it up our ass and when we complained dismissed us as racists, luddites, neanderthals and mocked our concerns, at the same time walling themselves away from the world they themselves created by living in gated communities and sending their own children to exclusive private schools. Some times the truth seeps out and reality is crystalized, like when we learn big pol operative like John Podesta has villas in Italy and Switzerland, or that billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Mr. Gun Control, is surrounded at all times by 17 armed security agents. So to the elites I mention above, F-ck all of ya’, you haven’t loyalty toward us, don’t expect any loyalty from us. That goes for the Republican Part too, who are just as happy to keep the borders wide open for the cheap labor it provides as the Dems are for the cheap votes. You can all go to hell as far I’m concerned.
brh
Beautifully articulated. I second that motion. Pass me The Whig so I can take a swig.
” So to the elites I mention above, F-ck all of ya’, you haven’t loyalty toward us, don’t expect any loyalty from us. That goes for the Republican Part too, who are just as happy to keep the borders wide open for the cheap labor it provides as the Dems are for the cheap votes. You can all go to hell as far I’m concerned.”
brh,
Sounds like a serious case of broken trust to me. I agree with your reponse. Hell, when Cheney said, “Deficits don’t matter”, he might just as well have said, “Trust doesn’t matter, facts don’t matter, voting doesn’t matter, thinking doesn’t matter… The only thing that matters is firepower and the will to use it.” He didn’t *say* or write these things, but I’m sure he was thinking them while ensconced in his undisclosed location. The neocons have ridden their war-horse “Hubris” into the teeth of an awakening horde. They haven’t brought enough cavalry and have made a truly consequential miscalculation. If they manage a victory, it will certainly be a Pyrrhic one… of historic proportions.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-trumpster-sends-the-gopneocon-establishment-to-the-dumpster/
“He didn’t *say* or write these things, but I’m sure he was thinking them while ensconced in his undisclosed location.”-oz.
Mr. Cheney was and is very much a man who believes that Power is it’s own justification… He has that in common with most Satanists.
On behalf of the Don, I ask for your vote.
I heard Darth Cheney doesn’t have a heart beat. It’s a pump, a constant whirl.
Isn’t it about time for the Dalai Lama to issue a critical statement about Trump for good measure? Surely his handlers are advising him that the rest of his Elite pals expect it, so if he wants to remain in good standing, he needs to take a shot at The Donald. They stab The Donald with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the beast. Glenn Frey’s death was symbolic. Welcome to the Hotel Trump Tower.
Behind the ISIL looms Middle Eastern ODESSA and Martin Bormann NSDAP money which have been invested in oil exploration – just type in Google “Getty nazi”, Getty is the name of the person who found Middle Eastern oil with the help of the Nazis, which not only made it possible to legalize NSDAP money, but also tied the US tightly to the greater Middle East, making the Americans puppets in someone else’s game.
The current orgy of Nazi heirs certainly is a result of weathering off the moral lessons of the Second World War, and the decisive blow was dealt to these lessons by well-meaning intellectual liberals who are directly related to the American neocons, at whose instigation they equated the winners of Nazism to its adherents.
And it raises questions about the responsibility of those executing Nazi criminals on Purim, who refused to openly admit that they are Amalek, despite their relatively successful attempt to finally resolve the Jewish question – the original purpose of Amalek.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODESSA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalek
Meet the Russian version of The Donald:
http://i1.wp.com/svobodomislie.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/o-VLADIMIR-ZHIRINOVSKY-facebook1.jpg
Vladimir Zhirinovsky became very prominent during the 90s in Russia, ran for the presidency, but did not make it. Now is a well-known member of Russian Parliament and leader of political party.
Known for constantly blurting out outrageous statements.
Meet the Russian version of The Donald:
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He’s even got the small square pie-hole.
Zhirinovsky is often viewed as “a showman of Russian politics, blending populist and nationalist rhetoric, anti-Western invective and a brash, confrontational style”. According to Reuters, “Although nominally part of the Russian opposition, he is widely seen as a servant of Kremlin policy, used to float radical opinions to test public reaction.”
The curtain of Oz has been carelessly yanked down by the likes of Rubato and Mittens. Their overlords are calling in favors. Trump seriously jeopardizes the hegemony of the monied elite in this country. The more they trot out these milquetoasts, these eunuchs, like Kasich, Romney, and Rubio, the more exposure to the rigged system and the more backlash they receive as the hoi polloi, the unwashed, run into the arms of the orange haired whistle blower. The jig is up, can we all at least give Trump credit for proving what we have always known? It’s all fraud, every last vote.
Yes!
Can we count on your vote then?
Did an orthodox guy in Israel kill a baby and get a few months in jail?
RE | “The jig is up, can we all at least give Trump credit for proving what we have always known? It’s all fraud, every last vote.”-frankiti.
Yes, I am prepared to extend him that amount of credit.
Cheers!
Is ‘Jig’ hate speech?
Depends on the context: If a cop says “The jig is up” to a criminal caught in the act, that’s fine. But if a roofer says it about a Black roofer, it’s not.
Y’know, it occurs to me that there is food, water, clean air, and housing shortages, but we never look at a another shortage, a root cause to many of the others, a money shortage. Imagine if one person hoarded billions of gallon of fresh water, fuel, oil, electricity, or pounds of food? A sign that our society is so monumentally f*cked-up is that we find it perfectly acceptable to allow people to game and rig the system so that one human can acquire billions upon billions of dollars. Even if acquired honestly and fairly, when do we call a glutton a glutton? Imagine a bee hive that allowed a worker bee to hoard nectar as others starved and the hive failed? It’s absurd, and most of us have been inculcated to believe that it is acceptable, it is a right, and it is in our best interest. Fools separated from their money and their wits.
“Even if acquired honestly and fairly, when do we call a glutton a glutton?”-frankiti.
And I agree… But as soon as you breathe these words someone will pop out of the woodwork to savage you for saying them… That’s how deep the rabbit-hole is. Even when you take their chains off _for_ them and cast them aside, they go cursing and scuttling back to them.
“Absurd”? Yes, but *absurd* is what we’ve got to work with.
I’m a coin glutton, I save all my change. I have small barrels of coin. I haven’t bothered sorting them yet. Plenty of time for that later. Did you know it costs about 9 cents to mint a nickel? It’s like 1964 all over again. And the pennies -zinc vs. copper. Yup.
Do you ever find any silver- dimes, half dollars, etc?
Thanks, wpa. And thanks for your posts, which I’ve really enjoyed.
@ Volodya:
Thank you for your thoughts about The Election, ‘Drumpf’ et al… They are appreciated. I enjoy the show, and I also enjoy a good protest vote, but as I’ve mentioned we’re no longer in a place where this leader or that can come along and make it all better again. That is a truck-load of horse-shit & wishful thinking.
Hillary or ‘The Donald’? They’re symptoms of the same disease: Systemic Collapse.
@ Doug:
“I guess Tulsi isn’t aware of Sanders’ decades-long support for our interventionist wars and the MIC that profits from them, huh?”-doug.
Tulsi is aware of an awful lot. You’ve seen this I take it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0gN1ySEh3c
You’ve got to hand it to her: She’s a political maverick. She’s also a combat veteran. I’m not sure which windmills she’s tilting at in the halls of Congress or *w h y*, but I do wish her ‘good-luck!’
First: We have two “Dougs” here. The forum software shouldn’t allow this, but it does. So, henceforth, I shall be the creaky Uncle Doug, to lessen confusion.
I am totally behind Tulsi and I thought her exchange with the inveterate warmongering, chickenhawk asshole, Blitzer, was a marvel of clarity and of speaking truth to a despicable minion of power.
However, Sanders is a supporter of arming “moderate” terrorists in Syria, has strongly advocated additional support for KSA, including support for involvement of their ground forces in Syria (that would be a big bloody laugh) and has praised Obama’s drone wars in the region and vowed to continue them. He’s a clever pol, and he couches his warmongering in kinder, gentler terms, but it’s still warmongering, lies and bullshit:
“And we all know, no argument, the secretary is absolutely right, Assad is a butcher of his own people, man using chemical weapons against his own people. This is beyond disgusting. But I think in terms of our priorities in the region, our first priority must be the destruction of ISIS. Our second priority must be getting rid of Assad through some political settlement, working with Iran, working with Russia.”
He’s another liberal interventionist, regime-change fan, through and through. If Tulsi is supporting him because she wants to end the US-sponsored mess in the ME and CA, she’s misinformed or confused.
@ Doug:
Just read your blog post at:
gulfcoastcommentary.blogspot.com/2015/08/fast-collapse-or-slow-i-think-fast.html
Liked the assessment. Covered the key points while striking a tone suitable for an audience as large ‘the global English-language public’. One small critique: Editing. Didn’t see any misspells but there were missing words. Once again this is a mere quibble, we all do it, easily & discreetly fixed.
On the matter of the speed of collapse: this is a critical question. If it takes decades of slow rot under authoritarian regimes, then that requires a different response than if global civilization ‘reverse hockey-sticks’ (like the right side of most collapse curves), and things spiral out of control quicker than disintegrating emergency systems can contain. . . Well, we’ve already shown the world that we can lose an entire metropolitan area for weeks at a time, with little in the way of coordinated response to show for it (New Orleans)
Cheers!
EDIT: “for an audience as large AS ‘the global…” See what I mean? That kind of stuff just creeps up!
And I swear sometimes it’s after you hit the subuttom.
it’s after you hit the subuttom.
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Definition of ‘subuttom:’
noun
A theoretical place far lower than the bottom of a well.
This is the kind of day, having watched the performances of Romney and Trump, that I feel fully vindicated in my oft-stated position that I have not voted (for a couple of decades) and will not, as time goes forward, be voting ever again. Politics, politicians and political pundits all disgust me.
I feel exactly the same way, and haven’t voted in a presidential election in 48 years.
The issue is too important not to vote – the future of America is at stake. Perhaps you guys are too concerned about your legacy of consistency? And you know what we say about consistency around here.
Don needs your vote. Chris has sacrificed everything to join him. Surely you can pull a lever. Just pretend your at the casino playing the slots.
Perhaps more apropo, I never play slots, but I do love to roll the dice.
Any tax must be simple and fair. It’s outrageous that the tax code is over 12,000 pages long and has spawned a multi-billion dollar tax preparation industry. A consumption tax instead of an income tax is the only simple and fair way. My answer to Q is that I’d let far more knowledgeable tax experts figure out how to make the tax non- regressive, and if it can’t be done, I’d still implement a consumption tax.
Remember, I proposed other reforms, and said there were a lot more that I didn’t mention. The net effect of all these would be to significantly lower the cost of living, such that most, if not all, individuals could afford such a tax.
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Before we can talk about immigration reform, we need to have a conversation about immigration itself. Immigration means people from other areas move into your own region. Obviously, there’s a significant probability their world-view, politics, culture, values, and the way they do things, etc. will be different from yours.
So before we decide on immigration policies, I think we have to answer the following questions:
Do we have sufficient physical and economical resources to accommodate these people?
What will be the effect on our physical environment.?
Are these immigrants willing and able to assimilate? If not, will they tolerate us; do we want to put up with having an alien population, not part of our society, in our midst?
These and other questions must be answered prior to setting an immigration policy.
The latest from Chris Hedges:
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College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage neoliberal assault on the working poor. Now they are being made to pay. Their duplicity—embodied in politicians such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama—succeeded for decades. These elites, many from East Coast Ivy League schools, spoke the language of values—civility, inclusivity, a condemnation of overt racism and bigotry, a concern for the middle class—while thrusting a knife into the back of the underclass for their corporate masters. This game has ended.
There are tens of millions of Americans, especially lower-class whites, rightfully enraged at what has been done to them, their families and their communities. They have risen up to reject the neoliberal policies and political correctness imposed on them by college-educated elites from both political parties: Lower-class whites are embracing an American fascism.
These Americans want a kind of freedom—a freedom to hate. They want the freedom to use words like “nigger,” “kike,” “spic,” “chink,” “raghead” and “fag.” They want the freedom to idealize violence and the gun culture. They want the freedom to have enemies, to physically assault Muslims, undocumented workers, African-Americans, homosexuals and anyone who dares criticize their cryptofascism. They want the freedom to celebrate historical movements and figures that the college-educated elites condemn, including the Ku Klux Klan and the Confederacy. They want the freedom to ridicule and dismiss intellectuals, ideas, science and culture. They want the freedom to silence those who have been telling them how to behave. And they want the freedom to revel in hypermasculinity, racism, sexism and white patriarchy. These are the core sentiments of fascism. These sentiments are engendered by the collapse of the liberal state.
The Democrats are playing a very dangerous game by anointing Hillary Clinton as their presidential candidate. She epitomizes the double-dealing of the college-educated elites, those who speak the feel-your-pain language of ordinary men and women, who hold up the bible of political correctness, while selling out the poor and the working class to corporate power.
The Republicans, energized by America’s reality-star version of Il Duce, Donald Trump, have been pulling in voters, especially new voters, while the Democrats are well below the voter turnouts for 2008. In the voting Tuesday, 5.6 million votes were cast for the Democrats while 8.3 million went to the Republicans. Those numbers were virtually reversed in 2008—8.2 million for the Democrats and about 5 million for the Republicans.
More
Diebold.
What matters is who counts the votes.
Excellent post. Hedges discusses exactly the things I’ve been thinking about. I don’t know if we can equate Trumpism with fascism, but given Donald’s personality, we should at least be concerned. We have to be very aware and beware of 1932 repeating itself.
Trump is wildly pro-Jewish. The hate is all on you folks this time. Surely you can’t even begin to deny that.
What hate? I don’t understand your statement. I don’t hate Trump, and I can’t speak for anyone else.
What hate? Oh rubbish, as if you don’t know the whole Jewish media and political establishment is trying to destroy Trump.
Not buying it. If you disagree with them, come and out and say so. If not, you either agree or might just as well agree since you wont disagree.
“. . . given Donald’s personality, we should at least be concerned.”
I think it’s the mass response to his hateful and loony behavior that concerns me most. How many Americans are really ready to form a personality cult around this wannabe fascist clown?
And, as Chris asks, if we get another term or two of Clintonian betrayal, how many more will be willing to pledge allegiance to the next, scarier, clown in the next cycle?
It seems to me that following a strong leader is an inbred human trait, so I’m not surprised or dismayed at all about Trump’s popularity. Concerned, yes.
Part of me is so sick and tired, I want to see a drastic change, but not enough to vote.
Our choices this election year are pretty bleak.
“Part of me is so sick and tired, I want to see a drastic change, but not enough to vote. ”
Bill,
You can have drastic change if you vote…vote with your feet and get the hell out of Dodge. What you cannot change you might be able to avoid…our host’s example….
Don’t have the energy/wherewithal/motivation to drag yourself out of the cess-pool? That’s another issue entirely.
Before those questions: Do we need these people? If not, why are we bringing them in? That pretty much cancels out your questions, except in the case of individual exceptions like geniuses, spouses, etc. Because we obviously don’t need anybody.
The age of immigration is over. It has all but ruined the West. The Third World has had its revenge on the West and more. Now we either fight or die.
What was the fate of collaborators after the Vichy regime fell? What will be the fate of collaborators this time? The American Loyalists had to leave America for Canada.
“Now we either fight or die.”
Well, Janos, I think you should head on “over there” so “we don’t have to fight ’em here.” Do it now, man!
Which particular “Third Worlders” will you be going to kill first? ISIS, maybe? You could pick up weapons in Turkey and Raqqa is on all the maps.
In fact, Russia has fought them over there. Now they’re all headed to Europe and if they can, to America. Needless to say you are wildly in favor of this. Dim people can’t wait to become Dhimmis.
Janos: “Now we either fight or die.”
Stop giving us the runaround and tell us where you’re going to be fighting “them” — and when you will be picking up arms.
unkadoug,
You write as though you’re not addressing a paid operative of a honey trap and/or someone who would prefer to order others to do their dirty work *for* them. (Just another petty apparatchik licking his master’s hand for a crust while sniffing out “enemies of the state”.) 😉
So in other words, you in favor of Whites just bowing down to their new Muslim Masters in Europe? I ask, and not for the first time, what the hell is wrong with you?
” individual exceptions like geniuses, spouses, etc. Because we obviously don’t need anybody. ”
“I told the man I was a genius,”
“He said we have all the geniuses we can use…. ”
Working at the carwash blues….
http://bbs.dailystormer.com/t/un-orders-europe-to-keep-their-borders-open/8837/18
Doug’s city states will be ruled from Brussels, both politically and culturally. They will be policed by Blue Beanies to maintain uniformity of skin color and ideas, much as like any other franchise. As Ahab said, my means are sane, my goals utterly mad. And like Ahab, Doug seeks to kill his own white whale – the White Race.
Perhaps like Bill Clinton, he is a disciple of Caroll Quigley. In his magnum opus, “Between Tragedy and Hope”, he said that he hoped that some personal freedom could be maintained, but admitted it was likely to be mostly illusion, any real freedom to be vanishingly small.
You have to read ahead and not backwards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eNf9ZbXuA
“. . . Doug seeks to kill his own white whale – the White Race.”
Nah, I’ve already told you: I just want to take us all undercover, by making us indistinguishable from everyone else.
“They” will never “get us” then. ;^)
Do you want dispense with all the hundred of varieties of peaches? Apples? Dogs? Cats? So why do you want to do that to human beings?
As Mr Spock says, the beauty of the universe is in its infinite diversity. And that means respecting natural separation and the various adaptations to local conditions. Stop being ugly. Stop being a monster.
Moreover, you are ignoring the Law of Conservation of Hatred. People into “love” and “diversity” and “social justice” have as much or more hatred than normal people. They just hate their own people instead of the stranger. Now what is the evolutionary advantage of that? Zero.
Why more hatred though? Isn’t that a contradiction to the Law? By no means: there is a fresh impulse of energy added to the system. To wit: We always hate those whom we have wronged. Favoring aliens over your own people is wrong and therefore the subsequent guilt is turned into hatred and added to the basic hatred of the “other” – in this case your own brothers whom you have “othered”.
Trump is part of the New Swirled Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eNf9ZbXuA
@ ‘Creaky’UncleDoug:
Thanks for the double-‘Doug’ disambiguation. About this:
“The Democrats are playing a very dangerous game by anointing Hillary Clinton as their presidential candidate. She epitomizes the double-dealing of the college-educated elites, those who speak the feel-your-pain language of ordinary men and women, who hold up the bible of political correctness, while selling out the poor and the working class to corporate power.”-CH.
Well, that’s precisely what she is, no? Her candidacy represents the DLC’s cluelessness about the zeitgeist and our postion and direction on the historical timeline. Obviously they have nothing but contempt for the rank-and-file wage earner. Win, lose or draw they still lose because she’s a strategic-level ‘no-go’.
Okay, over to a light topic for a tic: City states – they’re already well-represented aren’t they? Singapore, the Gulf States, Brunei, The Bahamas, Bermuda are clearly city-states, and Costa Rica might as well be (San Jose is the only city worthy of the name and all other towns are clearly its functional satellites). Being a city-state is clearly do-able even in the waning days of globalization, it all depends on playing your cards right (just like every other thing in life, seemingly).
In regards to post-Collapse scenarios; usually it’s the b-list cities and backwater nations that remain the most intact. The collapse of Rome didn’t harm the veritable cow-towns of the Po River Valley in N. Italy much, and when the Lombards showed up they knew a good thing when they saw it and changed nothing except who the taxes were paid to… Not dumb, that particular bunch of barbarians,
In our time it seems highly likely that Montevideo – capital and principal city of Uruguay – would spend much of a global Collapse watching it on TV. They’ve made suitable investments in renewable power generation (hydro-electric and wind) and they are well south of what will become the ‘equatorial death-zone’… Whatever stragglers and wreckage makes it as far as them will probably easy to handle.
Not that I’m packing up and moving to Uruguay tomorrow (no need, heh-heh). I’m simply using them as an example.
😉
How it’s being done
Within a framework of “privatization” Ukrainian Junta is planning to sell 1,000,000 hectares of prime agricultural land (about 2,500,000 acres) at a basement-bargain price of $500 a hectare or about $200 per acre.
The similar land in Europe is going anywhere between $15,000 to $30,000 a hectare ($6,000 – $12,000 per acre)
I am not saying that looting Ukraine of means of food production was a primary goal of Maidan coup, but it definitely makes a nice icing on the cake.
“Win, lose or draw they still lose because she’s a strategic-level ‘no-go’.”
You betcha. Just imagine the mood and tendencies of today’s Trump supporters after a term or two of Hillary further enabling the corporatocracy to make their lives more insecure, while appearing to them to treat their fellow untermenschen of different appearance and/or culture more favorably.
What if the next Trump is more articulate and less clownish, accompanied everywhere by a color guard with a sea of American flags (in some states, honor guards will fire salutes when he — it must be “he” — arrives), beginning every rally with the singing of “God Bless America,” led each time by a famous C&W singer?
“I am not saying that looting Ukraine of means of food production was a primary goal of Maidan coup, but it definitely makes a nice icing on the cake.”
Oh, I think it’s quite a lot higher on the list then mere icing.
“Prime agricultural land” in Ukraine means some of the very best wheat-producing farmland on planet Earth, and the Owners are not unaware of developing resource scarcities.
Better to be “all in” on something – I.O.W. make your Stand right where you are, there’s no where else to go. Fella by here says “you Europeans should go home”.
I’m living within a long walk of where I was born. Do you think okies can buy land in Uruguay?
“The Republicans, energized by America’s reality-star version of Il Duce, Donald Trump, have been pulling in voters, especially new voters, while the Democrats are well below the voter turnouts for 2008.” == creakyuncledoug
The Super Tuesday primaries showed that Obama Democrats are jumping ship and voting Trump (Republican). Hillary won only states with “closed” primaries, when cross-party voting is not allowed, with very low turnout.
That means that even if she won’t be taken out of elections by a special unit armed with rifles loaded with silver bullets, she could only count on voter fraud to win the general.
My advice to commander of that unit: smelt those bullets from JFK silver half-dollars to double their witch-destructive force.
I hope it is clear to everyone by now that Kennedies were publicly executed by the same people who threw Nixon out of the office in 1974 because of his reluctance to stop the policy of Detente and now are behind the election campaign of Hillary Clinton.
The same people whom President Eisenhower dubbed “Military Industrial Complex”, but now are mostly the Financiers of the New York “Pirates” group making money off the bloated Pentagon budgets.
The Rockefellers, Bloombergs and such
“I hope it is clear to everyone by now that Kennedies were publicly executed by the same people who threw Nixon out of the office in 1974 . . .”
Nah. Read Vincent Bugliosi.
What a tangled we weave when first we seek to find tangled webs . . . every-fucking-where.
Bugliosi’s one to talk. His case against Manson was one giant conspiracy theory that made no sense at all. He played on the public’s emotions and shot Occam’s Razor The Bird as zealously as The Donald’s shooting The Bird at The Establishment.
“Bugliosi’s one to talk. His case against Manson was one giant conspiracy theory that made no sense at all.”
1. Ah, a subscriber to the “other murders were done to free Beausoleil” theory, no doubt. Let’s remember that, talented as he was Capote spent a lifetime mixing fiction with reality and that he described in Cold Blood, his most famous work, as a “nonfiction novel.”
2. In any event, regardless of Bugliosi’s characterization of motive in the Manson trial, rejecting his exhaustive work on the Kennedy assassination on that basis is a perfect example of the ad hominem argument — you remember that famous logical fallacy, right?
I’d love to get over to Havana when it opens up. Say what you want about the commies, but evidently Hemingway’s place is just as he left it in ’61 — even the valuable art from his Paris days hangs on the wall at the finca, unlooted and unstolen. The boat — manufactured at the long gone Wheeler Shipyard in Brooklyn in the early 30s — remains, propped up on the property.
When I was at Guantanamo I used to wonder what it was like on the other side of the wire. Sometimes we’d have to go on patrol around the perimeter with Marines if they were short handed. Also, every morning a gate would open and Cuban people from the village would come to work on the base.
CFNers, a recent poster here, ‘Doug’, check out his site GulfCoastCommentary Blogspot. Its quite good.
brh
You were in Gitmo? I didn’t know you were a terrorist. Cool. Shit, everyone’s represented in this comment section.
They didn’t have terrorists there yet.
Where we used to play racquet ball is about where the cells are now.
It was a cool place. Most of Cuba is tropical, but SE Cuba is more like desert. Summer or winter, every day was about 75dF, and sunny. The waters were always warm enough to swim in no matter what season. Fishing was good, beer at the PX was 10 cents. Looking back now I wish I had stayed longer.
brh
Sounds awesome. Think of what a great resort destination that will make once Cuba and America become good friends again.
Were there any Code Reds while you were stationed there, or was it mostly rest & relaxation?
My Pop was in the Navy during WWII. He was stationed in Hawaii. He wasn’t sent off to war because he was a star athlete, so instead of sacrificing his life for his country, he boxed and played basketball for the entertainment of the officers on rest & relaxation leave. He told me stories of the weeding out process when you went into the Navy. They made everyone jump off a platform from 100 ft. into what seemed like a too shallow swimming pool below. Some of the guys missed and ended up spattered on the concrete. Imagine being the next one to jump after they got done cleaning up one of those guys.
It was mostly a big party back in the day, CNH, ostensibly cruising the Caribbean and gulf of Mexico in search of Russian subs (and there were quite a few coming in and out of Havana, and around the Panama Canal) I don’t remember any Code Reds, except a few times drinking to oblivion and seeing red blood stains on my face the next morning, probably from falling down in the street.
brh
CNH,
It already *is* a great resort destination; Americans have simply been disallowed to know it! US dollars are an unofficial currency there. (There’s this intertube thingy now…)
I’m not too sure that injecting US-style piggery into the whole equation is such a fine idea. The Mafia used to have it’s hollow fangs into the jugular of Cuban commerce, keeping a hierarchy of extractive immiseration cranking along. The [viva la] Revolution wasn’t about taking over “the action” in case you hadn’t heard. (This is why I have no sympathy for the former oligarchs in Miami, whining about losing their wealth and status. Fortunately, they’re nearly all expired. Time has come for its due.) Well, there’s a new “mob” in charge of the US now. What do they want from other countries? Same ol’ shit: somethin’ for nothin’….. or else.
ozone, I know. I typed what I did with tongue in cheek.
BRH,
I’m sure you’re aware that the US was/is the only country with a trade/travel embargo on Cuba. It’s easy enough to get there* from Mexico or Canada *right now*. This is another of those things that doesn’t take a great deal of imagination to achieve. I’m getting the impression that Americans [in general] are lazy-minded and are perfectly fine to be in perpetual ignorance, as long as it’s comfortable. The La-Z-boy was aptly named.
What are you waiting for? Go, do!
*Have I been there? …Who wants to know? 😉
I’m with Q and Bean — I don’t vote and I don’t plan on that changing anytime soon or ever.
I don’t hate Trump. I like his middle finger to his Establishment Comrades, but he will always be of and for them, regardless of the rhetoric.
I’ve stated for quite some time now that the best choice for president is a fruit or vegetable of your choice. Mine would be an eggplant that we could make baba ghannouj with when it’s finished its term. A vegetable or fruit can do no harm and when it’s fulfilled its obligation as a figurehead, it can be eaten. The same cannot be said for a human. Even though the POTUS these days is pretty much a Frontman and/or Figurehead, a particularly active Frontman/Figurehead can do only harm, never good, and when it’s done we can’t eat him or her, or certainly wouldn’t want to consume him or her, but he or she can sell off America via its Foundation — something a fruit or vegetable could not do.
Sorry to be so long winded, but….
I wish to contend that the ‘Indian Wars’ are continuing; sequel after sequel, different only regards the population being forced off the landscape into impoundment, and always for the same purpose of removing resistance to plundering resources on or underlying the landscape.
We’re now experiencing the third iteration, Native Americans the first, of course, ending up on ‘reservations’ by application of armed force. The second iterations was the erasing of what Thomas Jefferson had envisioned; a national economy comprised of independent, land owning ‘yeoman farmers’ serviced on local basis by small villages of merchants and craftsmen (not that different from what you argue will be the last hedge to be taken by human kind against extinction).
That second ‘Indian War’ was effected not by armed might (not so much at least) but instead by oppressive price practices imposed by railroad barons in tandem with banking schemes designed to the same purpose – freeing up land by small family farm bankruptcy or abandonment to ultimately become owned by industrial Ag cartels bearing no interest in sustaining soil health but instead maximizing profit through high-tech crop production that eventuates drained aquafers and desertification.
Whereas we have national monuments dedicated to the first ‘Indian War’ (such as the Little Big Horn Battle Field) all that stands to monumentalize the second iteration are the old, collapsing ‘Grange’ buildings yet seen across rural America — last vestige of ‘The Farmers Revolt’ of the late 19th and 20th Centuries in fight-back organizing effort by the ‘small family’ farmers. Those ‘Granges’ will crumble into undistinguishable dust – un memorialized — not that different from how the societal consequence has been ‘disappeared’ (“down the memory hole” in Noam Chomsky’s phrase) from America’s conscience.
Different too between the first and second of these two wars to de-population rural and wilderness landscape is the nature of confinement. Whereas both confinements resulted in loss of independent subsistence upon the land, the famers were driven into the industrializing cities as cheaper labor to help undermine unionizing by tenured workers wanting safer working conditions as well as livable wage (not different from wage floor undercutting by offshoring of jobs or un-enforcement of immigration laws allowing floods of illegal immigrant workers).
Recent events in Oregon highlight the third ‘Indian War’ (unfolding more slowly Jim, not unlike the ‘long’ of your book). The locus is misleading, ‘corporatocracy’ is global as are the ramifications — so ignore the indentured media’s coloring it as a bunch of ‘White guy’ racist aiming to take over ‘public lands’ for their exclusive benefit.
True understanding is dependent upon recognizing that ‘nation’ no longer applies because all national sovereignties have been subsumed by global finance controlled by the trans-national corporatocracy. Governments now are essentially proxies for corporatocracy – that is, colonial administrators (or, apparatchiks).
Labeling it with whatever ‘ism’ doesn’t matter, the point is control of all resources and distribution. Most particularly, no one living self-sufficiently on the land, replaced by hirelings whose self-interest has bound them to the global corporatocracy. With population concentrated in exurbia (over 90% of Americans are confined there in perpetual dependency) political weight will always leverage justification of opening up ‘bottled up’ resources in public (sic) lands.
The resonating excuse for such plundering will be economic growth (jobs, essential services and supply) to meet demand of perpetually growing population effected by national borders and immigration policies having been abolished.
Funny huh, how PC and the Leftist’s meme of “one world after all” so serves the purpose. Coincidence? Propaganda strategy remains no less important than application of military, so just as the US media and military have long been in co-opted service to global corporatocracy, look for all public land (sic) agencies to become more transparently in the service of managing as benefit this New World Order. I’m speaking of the US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Parks, etc.
“. . . look for all public land (sic) agencies to become more transparently in the service of managing as benefit this New World Order. I’m speaking of the US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Parks, etc.”
Not to detract from your well-crafted post, in any way, but the fact that these agencies are, and have long been, captive to the extractors (whether welfare-rancher morons who were dumb enough to endanger their privilege of feeding at the public trough by taking over Malheur, Georgia Pacific, the oil giants, or . . .) has been apparent to those of us paying attention for decades.
CreakyUncleDoug,
An interesting bit from Hedges, what we get from him is a thundering denunciation of the working class, some of it exceedingly off the mark. Never mind for now the hazards of broad-brushing such a large group of people, Hedges claims the working class wants the freedom to hate. So what, if that’s the case, the lower class just wants to exercise the same freedom as Hedges.
I wonder, what else would Hedges expect given the hate that’s been piled on the working class? Hedges sez the working class wants the freedom to dismiss and ridicule intellectuals. What of it? What does the working class get besides dismissal and ridicule?
The tall foreheads deploy terms like “white”, “rural”, “less educated”, “fearful” in describing the working class. But is this what they literally mean? No, what they mean, and what that same working class hears, is white, fat, stupid, racist, none of which is meant as a compliment.
These so called intellectuals are too smarty-pantsy by half, maybe they think that their dog-whistles can’t be heard or understood by others not of their own caste.
Is the freedom to hate a privilege accorded only to the college educated elite? Does book lernin’ go into how to hate? Does a college degree give knowledge and judgment in this regard?
The infernal gall of it, the ruin of tens of millions is justified by saying well, they had it coming, they’re all lazy and ignorant and you can wave away their gripes because they’re all racists anyway. But the working class see it differently, they apparently think they have legitimate interests. Their college educated adversaries apparently think otherwise.
Freedom to hate? Well, if hate is such a widely traded currency, why not, why shouldn’t the white working class have this freedom?
Yes, there is no nation or civilization apart from the founding race. Those who want Western Civilization without Whites, want the scent without the flower. Ditto Chinese Civilization without the Chinese and so forth.
Creaky is the very embodiment of the hostile, deracinated elite – a “green” (red) one who wants to maintain control even as industrial civilization power downs and supposedly decentralizes. Thus his agenda and Global Elite’s agenda coincide perfectly.
“An interesting bit from Hedges, what we get from him is a thundering denunciation of the working class . . .”
Reading comprehension is essential to knowing what people are actually writing.
Work on it.
For that matter, you wouldn’t even have to read the particular piece to know your leading assertion is nonsense — you’d only need the tiniest clue about who Hedges is.
Take your own advice, read what is written.
Hello Volodya & Creaky Uncle?
I’m pretty sure that this is an exchange that doesn’t have to happen. Volodya, consider this sentence from the article in question:
“The Democrats are playing a very dangerous game by anointing Hillary Clinton as their presidential candidate.”-ch.
Clearly, Hedges has described the electoral environment in detail (with all his biases intact) as a set-up for this point in particular: that the DLC has __only itself__ and it cluelessness to blame for themes they’re in. He’s placing the blame solidly on the political elite for not making better choices, past & present.
By the way V., I also do not like the tone that Mr. Hedges assumes while describing people outside the narrow slice of intelligentsia he favors. Basically, he lost me for good with one passage in ‘War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning’.
Of the several ‘types’ of soldiers he interviewed in the Balkans he had it out for soldiers that carried their rifles slung downward and to the side. I finished the book – mainly because I made a commitment to – but with the strong impression that Hedges was the sort of snarky journo who travels to conflict zones to interview combatants & non-intellectuals with a barely concealed sneer, and with no demonstrated ability to place himself in their shoes, even for a moment.
All that aside, he’s no dummy – but I don’t like him either.
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[*] – as if they were ‘phallic extensions’, instead of the safest way to carry a loaded high-powered firearm while walking, jogging, dodging & running while on patrol, and also as if the bearer of that weapon wasn’t always painfully aware that if that weapon goes off it’s a big deal for one of three reasons: 1 – Accidental discharge = immediate loss of standing, a negative report, and possible charges of criminally negligent conduct, 2 – if fired intentionally and the shot misses that may be the first/last/only chance to neutralize a threat and save their own life or someone else’s, 3 – If fired intentionally and the intended target is hit, then that’s another thing that gets added to the load of everything else that has to be lived with… a *best case* scenario, b t w.
Maybe sounding a little off note, but actually not for showing how our representational democracy has bypassed the citizenry; when and where was the referendum upon which the citizenry approved having our immigration laws ignored, or having to ‘press (1)’ for English, or permission given for undeclared wars, or for………?
@elysianfiled:
Myf history:
When Nixon was running for president in1968, he stated he had a plan for ending the Vietnam war, but he wouldn’t tell us what it was until he got elected. He was either lying, or if not, he was a major shit. The naive young me thought people would see through what he was doing and never elect him. Imagine my shook when he won the election! I vowed never to vote again because I had no faith in the American electorate to do the right thing.
In the 1970’s I began reading Alvin Toffler and came to believe America was heading for a critical point in its history. I was optimistic that we would continue to exist, but only after we experienced very rough times. Therefore, I decided to live the very good life, because who knew when rough times would commence. I’d metaphorically eat the dessert first. And I have.
Of course, actions have consequences, and the result is, at almost 71 years of age I must continue to work. My business is very local, so I can’t just pick up and leave. Also, my family is situated near me and won’t move. I’ve decided to remain here for the duration. I know being here might kill me if TSHTF, but I’ve already lived much of my life, so I’m ok with that. I don’t have any regrets and am happy (well, there was this girl in high school I had a crush on and never got it to work out, but other than that….).
Bill, Boston’s been there for 385 years, and I’m willing to bet it’ll be there at least 385 more.
Its hard to leave your hometown … start over somewhere else away from family and friends. I’ve tried it a few times and always came back. You mentioned you have grandkids; how you just going to take off and leave them behind?
brh
Bill,
I life lived with few regrets is a gift beyond measure.
Does book [lernin’] go into how to hate? – volodya
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To make the bracketed word above sound really ‘hick’ it needs to be spelled [larnin’].
Good point. Larnin’ sounds hickier…
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/folks_are_dumb_where_i_come_from_they_ain-t_had/161063.html
no lernin’. It all depends if the hick is northern or southern. Wasilla strong!
Why do anarchists like Zone always march with Communists like Creaks? They are great comrades in the tearing down phase of the first Revolution – and they are always purged in the second Revolution that brings the Communists to power.
The punks just wont larn’.
Again, note Creaks talking one minute about revolution and the next about civil rights suits. He simply wants the Triumph of his faction, the Leftist faction which already has a lot of power in the Federal Government.
Buck,
You could count my entire lifetime output of art on less than two hands. The link below will take you to one of them. You will notice that this painting and the charcoal that I posted a few weeks ago (Spanish girl with big boobs) come under the heading “Chiaroscuro.” For the sake of anonymity I covered my signature in the lower right corner with a rectangular gray piece of paper. Off to the lower left of this painting is my old vanity license plate.
Where have you been this week? Still carving those doors?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_7OjMl7zAyZVmFYQkVzQnhMcVY3NjRTS3I5Mlc1LXM4ckww/view?usp=sharing
Q,
I could not link up to your images without signing into a Google account?
Yes, still carving on doors. One of them will be done by Palm Sunday and apparently will be “blessed’ by the archdiocese. All of the “form development’ is resolved and I’m patiently using ‘slicing’ cuts to clean and tidy up without losing the character which the more rugged passages instill. It sure beats sanding which is pretty much a no-no on oak anyway. In fact, abrasives can never match the charmed imbuation of faceted ambiance that a surface ‘straight-from-the-chisel presents.
Speaking of which, I see that “The Donald’ is cutting against the grain again. Or more precisely, the GOP establishment is seeking to take a chain saw to the roots and branches of the Trump phenomenon. The problem with that incredibly ill-advised strategy is a large swath of the GOP electorate will not lift a finger to go vote for ‘Little Marco” or “Lying Ted”.
I mean really, a disenfranchised Trump supporter is going to go vote for Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, or even more absurd, Mitt Romney?
Donald Trump is crack cocaine injected into the collective vein of the GOP. No turning back now in other words, lest he crack the party wide apart and render it nothing more than a junkie in a stupor crawling on hands and knees to the front door of long-term Betty Ford Center stay.
How do you like it now, gentlemen?
They made everyone jump off a platform from 100 ft. into what seemed like a too shallow swimming pool below. Some of the guys missed and ended up spattered on the concrete
hyperbole much??
get real
Your ironic black is showing Mr. Pot. Are you calling my father a liar? What a coward you are. He’s dead — he can’t defend himself against your scurrilous accusations. You have no respect for Veterans.
Cold,
You are well liked here. Nobody wants to impugn the memory of your father. I’m sure he was a fine fellow. It’s great he got to serve his tour of duty as an athlete entertaining officers in Hawaii. That alone makes for a great “war” story. To quote George C. Scott portraying Patton from the movie by the same name, addressing his troops in the iconic opening scene with the giant American flag behind him, telling them that someday, when their grandchildren ask them what they did in the great World War II, they won’t have to answer, “Well, I shoveled shit in Louisiana.”
I’m a vet and there are many, many other vets here at CFN. Is there at least one vet here who will speak up and say they believe in the veracity of the swimming pool story? I don’t.
My father wasn’t one to lie. He was a no-nonsense kind of guy. We’re very different people in many ways. Not that I would lie, but I’m definitely not no nonsense. I like nonsense.
Maybe I got the height wrong, but the guys who hit the concrete and were carted off is not a lie. Out of 200 guys, if that happens to 2 or 3 and you’re in line and see it, It has an impact on you, you would think. It would have had an impact on me. I may have suddenly become a conscientious objector. I asked him if he was scared to jump after witnessing that. He said he didn’t remember being scared — that he had no choice in the matter and had to do it and did it.
He also had no choice in entertaining the officers. They got wind of him being a star athlete and ordered him to play basketball and box. So he did.
I saw him box once. He beat the shit out of some 20 year old punk who was riding his ass in a pick-up basketball game at the local high school. The prick then punched my father in the back of the head. Big mistake. My father squared off on him with several combinations and then knocked him flat on his ass. My father was 46 when that happened and I was seven. I was never prouder of him. I just wish he did it more.
That’s a great story! My late dad was a John Wayne type, too. We’re both lucky guys. Not every kid can say that.
Last Republican Debates
Trump, after a crushing victory during the Super Tuesday, when he won 8 out of 12 states, relaxed, and became an easy prey to the most astonishing, brutal and dirty form of attack that occurred so far in the course of this election campaign.
Moderators impetuously played up to his rivals Senators Rubio and Cruz, united in these televised debates against Trump. This endangers not only the unity, but also the very existence of the Bush clan as the main opponent of the War Party, personified by Hillary Clinton, as if the Republican establishment will be able to deal with Trump, Cruz will be the next, and a rival to Hillary Clinton in general would be Senator Rubio, as it was conceived by her three years ago, when Obama booted Hillary from the State Department.
This election will determine the fate of the world in such a way that everybody will get affected. Half of all significant events in the world right now is either to influence the election campaign in US, or are its result.
But the most striking is that Trump, who has become a focal point of voter dissatisfaction with the US political system, so frightened the establishment of the Republican Party that they are now not only announced intention to rob Trump of his victory by organizing “brokered” Convention of the Republican Party, but openly stated that in case of failure, they will support Hillary Clinton.
At the same time they claim that they want to steal Trump victory because in the general election Trump is less likely to win against Hillary than Clintonite Rubio.
In general, the hysteria and panic.
However, they beat up on Trump yesterday pretty badly, so it became clear that they block the arrest and removal from elections Hillary Clinton, whose last published emails expose her as a person who consciously leaked to ISIL Islamists the location of US Ambassador to Libya Stevens.
In general, the masks are off and establishment of both parties are openly in favor of Islamist, anti-Christian dictatorship in the United States, but the American people are struggling with them like a lion, and the outcome of the fight is unknown.
Most Americans after 911 deeply and sincerely hate Islamists have understood everything, and all these intrigues could backfire in the opposite direction.
Otherwise, it will be bad for everyone.
http://regnum.ru/news/polit/2092521.html
http://grrrgraphics.com/images/trump_hero_rgb_ben_garrison.jpg
‘Black History Month’ ended about a week ago.
Now we find out March is ‘Women’s History Month’.
Next month we celebrate ‘Earth Day’, right around Easter, no doubt in the near future will be supplanting Easter as a day of spring Worship.
We used to be free of this sort of partisan political propaganda here in the US. Lessons seem to have been learned, however, and learned well, from Joseph Goebbels, and the Soviet agit/prop dept out of Moscow known as Pravda.
brh
What was once ‘Negro History Week’ has grown into something of Kwanzaa like proportions.
Hmmmm.
CFNers, top this.
In Norderstadt, Schlesweig, Holdstein, at an indoor waterpark, two 14 year old German girls were brutally raped by a gang of Afghan ‘migrants’, raped!, not just ‘assaulted’. The answer: from now on swimming privileges will be segregated, women and men not permitted in the pool at the same time.
This is the price Germans are paying for ‘Cultural Enrichment’.
In Sweden, it is de facto law that migrant depredations are not to be discussed or reported on. Just the same, mostly on social media, hellacious stories of rape, chaos and mayhem are coming out of Sweden. Is it possible here, in the US, similar laws might be passed, rendering a site like CFNation illegal?
brh
In Canada, some of the posters here would be arrested [Holohoaxers etc].
One gets the feeling that these EU chaps — this European Elite in Brussels — doesn’t much care about the fate of young German girls. Of course their own daughters are safely ensconced in private women’s academies in Switzerland, protected by armed campus security details. Rest assured these privileged young daughters of EU Commissioners aren’t swimming in public pools — as nice as they may be — with young male Afghan immigrants.
brh
here
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=diveristy+officer+had+sex+change+and+loses+job
Mr Darling, you’re right, that exchange didn’t have to happen. In my estimation you’re a straight shooter and what you say bears listening to.
But let me explain. The way I look at it, words have meaning, either literally, with the meaning that we ascribe with plain, everyday usage, or NOT literally, well, you know where I’m going with this so I won’t belabor it.
So there’s the issue of what Hedges actually wrote with respect to lower class whites. He sez and I quote: Lower class whites are embracing an American fascism.
Now I don’t know how YOU read this but, other than Janos, I think most of us would take that sentence alone as a scathing indictment. OK, you could argue for multiple meanings for “fascism”. But in Hedges’ case, you don’t have to guess what he thinks. And besides, anyone with a modicum of book larnin’ would also have some pretty solid opinions of what “fascism” is about.
In any case, to make his meaning clear, Hedges elaborates. He uses some strong terminology. You read the piece so you know what he wrote. He uses words like “freedom”. Well, what can you say, in this cultural milieu the term “freedom” resonates, and, if America isn’t about freedom, then what is it about? But then Hedges uses the word “hate”. He puts them together in a way you wouldn’t expect. Hedges sez: these Americans want a kind of freedom, a freedom to hate. They want the freedom to use words like “nigger”, “kike” ….
You know what he said so I won’t repeat.
Again, in our cultural milieu, “hate” is a very strong word. “Hate” is something that America’s predominant religion – Christianity – discourages and for excellent reasons. And most lower class whites know all this. It doesn’t have to be explained.
I know the other stuff that he wrote especially about the college educated elites that threw the American working class under the bus. But what he wrote about the college educated elite applied to a much smaller group of people, and if he wants to apply a broad brush, it’s much easier with a small group than with a large group.
With regards to the matter of hate, my comment on Hedges essay was just a long-winded way of saying that what goes around comes around. Like you I don’t like the barely concealed sneer, in fact, in this essay he didn’t bother to conceal it.
Sneer or no, nothing wrong with calling it as you see it. If you’re wrong then, as someone said long ago, there’s no disinfectant like fresh air and light. No denying Hedges’ gift for analysis or clarity of expression. Whether you like what he says or not, his writing is a gas and always worth the time.
This is how Hedges sees things so good for him. But if what he said about lower class whites isn’t a denunciation then, to paraphrase a recently departed judge, words cease to have meaning.
Second paragraph of Hedges’ post:
“There are tens of millions of Americans, especially lower-class whites, rightfully enraged at what has been done to them, their families and their communities. They have risen up to reject the neoliberal policies and political correctness imposed on them by college-educated elites from both political parties: Lower-class whites are embracing an American fascism.”
He then goes on to describe and analyze the reactionary (please consider the meaning and context of that word) response of that group in the context of this moment in American politics and to compare it to to some historical precedents.
And the examples of the desire for freedom to hate are so obvious, and so completely surround us (as much in these threads as almost anywhere else on the Interwebs, save Stormfront) that to question, much less object to, Hedges’ calling them out can only arise from astonishing ignorance or guilty and defiant denial.
@volodya “But if what he said about lower class whites isn’t a denunciation then, to paraphrase a recently departed judge, words cease to have meaning.”
Not unlike that recently-departed judge, some of you would be well served by expanding, rather than narrowing, your understanding of the meaning of words and of assembly of words into sentences, paragraphs, essays, etc.
You have totally misread, misunderstood and misjudged Hedges.
Here’s another angle on it: thoughtful Irish blogger describes the different reactions in men vs women. When men see a vast column of alien brown men, they think “Oh shit”. Women see something completely different. They see a bunch of needy dears, Projects! that will enable to them to move up in the social justice hierarchy, moral signaling every step of the way. And of course unconsciously, they see a bunch of hot, hunky, well dressed (thanks Soros) barbarians who want them. And do women want to be wanted? Oh I think you know. White men aren’t allowed to want women so openly, but barbarians can with no penalty. How they long to mother and teach these poor boy men! To clasp them to their heaving bosoms. It’s no contest. By the rules set up by the feminized pc state, White men will lose.
http://bbs.dailystormer.com/t/women-and-the-moslem-invasion/10189
Now Creaks automatically will take the side of the women, because they “care” and more importantly, because it leads to revolution, egalitarianism, and the mono-colored world. Most men will take the side of the men because, let’s face it, Civilization is a male endeavor. And if you value what you have, you go with the masculine value sphere. And another name for that is Nationalism, and another name for that is Fascism. But call it what you will: Republicanism, Monarchism, the Tories, National Socialism, whatever preserves civilization in the broadest possible terms. Not the Whigs or Capitalists, because they use up social capital and end civilization in the long term.
Remember, If you are arguing what is good for America, that Creaks doesn’t believe in or want the good of America. So how can you even have a real conversation with him? You don’t share the same premises. It would be like talking about football with someone who plays along but always steers the conversation towards head injuries and brain damage. You find out after a while they hate football and want it banned. The head injuries is just their line of attack. Btw, I’m not like this. I’ve never had any interest in football and inform people up front. But Creaks? Oh quite a different story, have no doubt.
“. . . because, let’s face it, Civilization is a male endeavor.”
Wow, look! Janos is a Freudian.
Well, maybe he would be if he were real.
“Btw, I’m not like this. I’ve never had any interest in football and inform people up front.”
So, the head injuries were the result of other pursuits, eh? Or, perhaps, the damage is due to the sheer frustration of not being “allowed to want women so openly. . .”
You obviously weren’t part of my generation and subculture, Janos; we didn’t suffer that frustration — men or women.
So why do wish to tear down the work of your generation? Or by you generation, do you mean only rabid ’60’s radicals? The ones who taught the Blacks to chant “Burn, Baby, burn” and enabled the break down of the Black family – and later everyone’s family?
Well done. Great Cthulu has taught you well. You will be rewarded when he rises.
Your ironic black is showing Mr. Pot. Are you calling my father a liar? What a coward you are. He’s dead — he can’t defend himself against your scurrilous accusations. You have no respect for Veterans.
what the hell???
merely pointing out that that story is wildly embellished. like the Navy was really going to let potential recruits kill themselves diving into the cement.
try some critical thought
didn’t say anything about the dead, you did.
but since you brought it up, being dead doesn’t mean you’re somehow unassailable.
You are not a Trump supporter. Trump supports and respects our Veterans and he would not condone you attacking my father and his legacy.
Legacy of what?
His legacy of calling his children every name in, and out of, The Book. He had so many derogatory names for us. His favorite of all, though, was Jockstrap. In fact, Jockstrap itself was pretty much benign when he called you it. It was the baseline insult and it meant he was only mildly perturbed with you. If he was outright annoyed with you, you were a Dirty Jockstrap, and you may or may not receive a beating — it just depended on what kind of day it was at the office. When he was really pissed, and you knew a beating was forthcoming, you were a Damn Dirty Jockstrap. He would holler, and I swear the walls would tremble and crack (they were plaster walls back then) when he did, “get over here you Damn Dirty Jockstrap!!!!!” Sometimes I wouldn’t come and I’d make him chase me. The stakes were high and it was a high risk/reward venture. The payoff was sometimes he just didn’t have it in him to chase me for any length of time and he would give up on it and forget it. Other times, he wouldn’t give up and when he caught me, often with the aid of my traitor brothers and sisters, the beating would be ten times worse than had I come to him straight away. That legacy — and so many more. And yes, I was always getting trouble and I was a Damn Dirty Jockstrap in perpetuity, so in that sense, his legacy lives on in me. You are what your father calls you.
Cold,
In retrospect, would you rather your father had called you “Damn Dirty Jockstrap” or….long distance? Did you benefit in life from his presence?
Indeed I did benefit from his presence. Without him, I may have thought too highly of myself. I may have been Donald Trump, God Forbid. Instead, I am only a Man.
The Rise of Hate Search
By EVAN SOLTAS and SETH STEPHENS-DAVIDOWITZDEC. 12, 2015
HOURS after the massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., on Dec. 2, and minutes after the media first reported that at least one of the shooters had a Muslim-sounding name, a disturbing number of Californians had decided what they wanted to do with Muslims: kill them.
The top Google search in California with the word “Muslims” in it was “kill Muslims.” And the rest of America searched for the phrase “kill Muslims” with about the same frequency that they searched for “martini recipe,” “migraine symptoms” and “Cowboys roster.”
People often have vicious thoughts. Sometimes they share them on Google. Do these thoughts matter?
Yes. Using weekly data from 2004 to 2013, we found a direct correlation between anti-Muslim searches and anti-Muslim hate crimes.
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Yeah, tell them about hate facts: like the fact that Muslims are involved in most of the wars now going on in the world.
Another hate fact: Not all Muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslim.
You are the Red Queen’s husband – Lord Gaga.
a ‘disturbing’ number of muslims want to impose sharia law and kill infidels
does that make your brow ‘furrow’ with concern?
liberals are always so ‘concerned’ but don’t do jack shit to fix things
we’ll build a Wall while you continue being ‘concerned’
hyperbole much??
get real
“we’ll build a Wall while you continue being ‘concerned’”
No, Unterscharführer fodase — I know it’s going to break your your hard-but-hopeful little heart, but neither you nor we are going to build a wall.
Here’s a little solace for you.
(Sorry, Jim)
Tell me about your tattoos Janos. I don’t have any tattoos. I don’t need a tattoo. Neither do I have a smart phone. I could have many. I have never had a smart phone nor will I ever. And hopefully I will not have a president named Trump. It’s not looking good in that department. Since I’m on that subject. why won’t any of the major media cover anything about the primaries?!??! I mean seriously!! They just won’t. I haven’t seen anything!!!
But I will say the news hasn’t covered anything about the unimportant things going on, like oh this small unimportant thing, this past week Tepco admits Fukishima was in full melt down but it lied and refused to tell the public, or this… Pennsylvania passed a law that it is illegal to film police officers ( wonder why), you know, just unimportant, inconsequential SHIT!! OMG the media sucks, but let’s all check in and see if Erin Burnett wears clothes tonite!! I am grateful to THE DONALD for something, for torpedoing the Fing BUSH dynasty. I guess your right J.S. to hell with civilization, with someone like Rush Limbaugh in it, I don’t think its’ worth saving!!! Whatever you do humanity, keep the world safe for the likes of Rush Limbaugh. And too bad we can’t Thelma and Louise certain people from this planet. Like Grover Norquist. Can Thelma and Louise be a verb?!?! Sense of humor, Priceless.
Thelma and Louise. Of course. Such teams of gal pals will save civilization. They didn’t have tattoos, so why should you? You do know that don’t really exist, right? Women often have trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality. Read the Irish blogger posted above, Millennial Woes, to find out why women shouldn’t have the vote.
Psychopaths are highly gifted because they live a life entirely without regret. Nice.
Yes, it’s all here for Women in a sing package, tied up in a bow: moral signaling, mothering, and of course sex with bad boy barbarians. And like Pandora, how can they resist opening it up?
They get two forms of superiority: moral and mothering. And they get the thrill of inferiority or submission from the sex. The “package” looks great from the outside. The roller coaster is great fun on the way down, but only if you know it has breaks. Women don’t think about things like that though. They will open it, they must. Not to do so would be to deny their nature. That’s why we should never let them have to make such a choice, but always be there ready to knock the apple out of their sweaty little hands.
Three metaphors, count ’em, three. Have I master the canon? Not compared to many of the old masters, some of whom still live. But how many can aim it like I can? Use the canon like a cannon? Few. Otherwise we wouldn’t be in the situation we’re in. They have failed us, they have dropped the baton. Fear not though, we have picked it up and now are gaining speed.
Oz, to pick up an earlier thread,
I knew it had been possible for Americans to travel to Cuba, but doesn’t a visit there trigger some sort of State Dept. criminal investigation when you get back? i knew a guy on one of my ships who was an amateur ham radio operator; one day NIS showed up and we never saw him again. Later I got a letter and he told me he once had sent one of those cards to Havana stating he received a signal. That’s all it took, he was out, consorting with the enemy.
A few years ago a book came out — I forget the name of it — by some Univ. of Vermont professor; he went to Cuba but it wasn’t easy (this was in about ’05) and even tho he was a sympathetic lefty he was harassed and shadowed by Cuban secret police every step of the way to the extent he cut his visit short.
It may be possible to get in there, and you’ve evidently done it, but I think I’ll wait for things to get a little more friendly.
brh
Also Oz, Is it too early to plant peas?
70dF on Wed.
brh
Not too sure about planting peas so early. I’m finding the ground beneath the mulch frozen solid. Me? I’d wait til at least the first week of April. *However*, with the highly unpredictable nature of the weather lately, I guess anything could happen and you could be good to go this week! Remember last year was cold and wet for the entire spring and ‘warm-weather’ crops were stunted. I’d try going with all the cold-weather crops until June, before starting on the more tender crops. Let me know how you do with ‘taters, if you’re going to plant them. (I have discovered they like a much richer soil than I can provide them with, so far. I may try making some planting beds with lots of organic material for them this year that I can use next year.)
My initial supposition about the larn’-ed perfesser is that he was: 1.) engaged in some provocational bullshit 2.) Was a victim of his own “conventional-think” 3.) Was determined to “make a story” out of something quite mundane.
Fidels brother died very recently and The Times did a sympathetic piece about ‘Cubas Leader [bwaaa] death in the Family.’
Jim: The latest Eyesore of the Month constitutes a strong argument in favor of my proposal that starchitects not be permitted to build anything larger than they can keep in their garages or basements.
Suggestions for where we should keep the starchitects, themselves, are still welcome.
Creakyuncledoug…interesting name…was creepyuncledoug spoken for? Many on the site, no doubt, had a creepy uncle in the closet somewhere….
CreakyUncle,
Perhaps they should “be kept in a secure location, made to appear periodically to give the royal wave to the crowd, and eventually stuffed, mounted and put on display in a museum of collapse history.”-DO.
you people that reference hitler whenever you don’t agree with anyone…
way to impress no one with that substantive argument.
walls work, whether you like it or not.
as far as the navy story about letting guys dive 100 feet and if they missed, oh well they died splattered
it’s a great story
Fodase,
Army paratroopers in-training die also, on occasion. The Navy incident referenced is plausible…consider jumping off a carrier or other ship’s superstructure into the water if your ship is sinking…training.
Elysian,
I responded to Cold upstream regarding the swimming pool story.
Unfortunately, training deaths are not uncommon in the military. I’ve had the unpleasant task of NOK duty (Notification of Next of Kin) for them. When you show up in dress uniform on Mom’s front porch representing Uncle Sam, you better be prepared to assure her that the accident happened despite the abundant safeguards and precautions taken by the military. “Shit happens to a couple of troops every time we do this” ain’t gonna cut it!
I’ve also participated in training where we jumped (feet first) into a swimming pool from a highly elevated platform. While it might have seemed like it was a hundred feet in the air when up there looking down, with nothing to hold onto, I’m certain it wasn’t anything close to that. (I’m not speaking of modern day SEAL, Coast Guard rescue trng, etc.)
And I assure you concrete wasn’t anywhere within “reach” for even the most inept participants, UNLESS you happened to fall off the ladder on the climb up. Even then, it wasn’t a matter of “Out of 200 guys that happens to 2 or 3”, mop up and keep the line moving. Just one fatality as described in the original story would be a BFD likely resulting in an immediate suspension of that event (at that site) until it could be reviewed by higher level officers than those on the scene and more likely than not, a thorough investigation of the accident before resumption of that training phase.
Again, as I said in my first post responding to this, there are many, many vets here at CFN. Is there at least one vet (from any era) who will speak up and say they believe in the veracity of the swimming pool story as originally described? (Admittedly, Saturday evening is not the optimal time to make this query.)
Sticks-of-TNT
@ Volodya:
Regarding the issue of Mr. Hedges, I view everything he writes as coming from the very unique and privileged (without ‘meaning’ to be) standpoint of pre-Collapse/post-Industrial intelligentsia. I picture his normal environment as an episode of ‘Girls’ – only with effeminate, narcissistic, middle-aged men of indeterminate sexuality in place of actual females. . . So maybe that helps.
SUBJECT CHANGE:
I came across this amusing little passage about __City-States__ in one of Orlov’s books, have a chuckle:
“But in the early twenty-first century fossil fuel resource depletion has made the industrial nation-state inefficient and uncompetitive. It is now gasping for air and fighting for its life. Unfortunately, its death agony may turn out to be quite agonizing for many innocent bystanders. The current political arrangement, outdated though it is, is unlikely to voluntarily devolve into an artisanal, anarchic set of intensely local polities, along the lines of the prosperous medieval city-states like Hamburg, Florence and Novgorod, which it displaced some centuries ago. At best, it will need a gentle nudge in the right direction. In a truly beautiful outcome, national leaders, gently dissuaded from attempting to lead, will be kept in a secure location, made to appear periodically to give the royal wave to the crowd, and eventually stuffed, mounted and put on display in a museum of collapse history. At worst, the dying nation-state will opt for maximum destructive power in a futile effort to buy time.”-D. Orlov.
Cheers!
@MD: “I picture [Hedges’] normal environment as an episode of ‘Girls’ – only with effeminate, narcissistic, middle-aged men of indeterminate sexuality in place of actual females. . .”
I’m not really sure how a bright and well-read person could come to such an utterly wrong-headed view of Hedges.
= = = = = =
“I have spent most of my adult life in war. I began two decades ago covering wars in Central America, where I spent five years, then the Middle East, where I spent seven, and the Balkans where I covered the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. My life has been marred, let me say deformed, by the organized industrial violence that year after year was an intimate part of my existence. I have watched young men bleed to death on lonely Central American dirt roads and cobblestone squares in Sarajevo. I have looked into the eyes of mothers, kneeing over the lifeless and mutilated bodies of their children. I have stood in warehouses with rows of corpses, including children, and breathed death into my lungs. I carry within me the ghosts of those I worked with, my comrades, now gone.”
~Hedges in a 2004 review in the NY Review of Books
= = = = =
More bad news.
Trentavious White, aka ‘Bankroll’, noted Hip Hop Artist, was gunned down outside his Atlanta recording studio earlier this evening. ‘Bankroll’ is known for his rap hit ‘Hot Boy’ which went to number one on the urban charts.last summer. Atlanta police have yet to name a suspect in this murder.
brh
No news on the 18 or 19 year old Black Gynecologist in Florida?
Mister [kid u not] Love.
Love is back in jail.
@ Sticks-of-TNT:
RE | “Again, as I said in my first post responding to this, there are many, many vets here at CFN. Is there at least one vet (from any era) who will speak up and say they believe in the veracity of the swimming pool story as originally described? (Admittedly, Saturday evening is not the optimal time to make this query.)”
Since this is a repeat appeal, I’ll speak up only to say that; 1 – the story is set in the WW2 era, when safety standards were not what they are now, 2 – I’m an Army not a Navy vet, so I’m not in the relevant ‘scuttle-butt’ loop, 3 – There’s no telling how much a dad might embellish his war stories when talking to a young son, 4 – it’s not easy telling the difference between a 40′ vertical drop and a 100′ drop when you’re facing the surface or tarmac, but even a 30-40 drop will jack a person up pretty bad. This I know from experience doing timed Australian rappels from a UH-60 at a digitally verified 100′ over tarmac, and also from helo-casting @ 50′ over water, so its not impossible that the dad in question was more interested in communicating the sense of stress he felt, and the severity of the weeding-out process.
Lastly, it seems like we’re talking about something that a dad would tell his kids at ‘story-time’. I’m thinking that the dad might have been more interested in having quality-time with his boy, than being perfectly accurate? Anyway, it’s not a matter of life and limb, so does it really matter that much?
😉
Just a few stray thoughts on the topic…
Cheers!
Sanders continues to win states, and delegates… and fewer than half the states have voted.
All the way to the convention! Taking the fight to Hillary…
Go Bernie!
Trump, the short-fingered vulgarian, is literally a loser. Today he lost Kansas. Today he lost Maine. Trump demanded a birth certificate of Obama but has not produced a penis certificate to prove his claims. He could just lower his trousers during the next debate if what he claims is true.
Meanwhile, the short-fingered vulgarian continues to lose voters, to lose states, to lose delegates. He has not yet begun to feel the force of Republican establishment realpolitik.
I think Hillary has a larger Dong (not Doug) than Trump. That’s why I think you should want Trump to be the Republican nominee. If he gets the nomination, which seems dubious at this point considering my comment below, he and Hillary can have a Dick-Off and Hillary will annihilate him. Her Dong’s so long she has to wrap it around her waist twice and tie it off like an oversized belt. If Cruz gets the nomination, it’s clear that in a match-up with Hillary, he’s the one with the Vagina. He reminds me of Pat from SNL. You just can’t tell. Except you can.
SNL viewer. Describes you well.
Not really. That’s a very old skit. It goes way back. I haven’t watched SNL in ages and quite frankly I think it sucks these days, the little I have seen of it.
What describes you? The Birth of a Nation?
There’s a new version of ‘Birth of a Nation’
A black production of the Nat Turner Rebellion.
I haven’t seen it, and probably won’t.
review stated whitey gets wiped out, and the audience cheers.
brh
“Trump, the short-fingered vulgarian, is literally a loser. Today he lost Kansas. Today he lost Maine.”
And picked up 47 delegates while $hillary picked up 55.
True believers gonna believe.
Here WPA, take a hit of this primo Acapulco Brass.
Come see Uncle John’s Band
By the Riverside
We got some things to talk about
Here beside the rising tide.
brh
The Caucus States allow for the Republican Establishment’s Dirty Tricks. The process allows for coercion by a few strategically placed operatives. They euphemistically call it a Ground Game, but it’s flat out duplicitous coercion. It’s Anti-Democratic.
This System has so many built-in safeguards to prevent a Maverick Populist Candidate, not beholden to the Establishment, from ever ascending too high or getting too far. They cut this one close, but with the Koch Brothers and Karl Rove combined, Trump will be smothered in his Play Pen. They let him crawl and even stand up and walk, but they will not let him run.
They first had to prove Cruz has momentum by coercing the Caucus votes and outcome and then the voting machines will be rigged in the traditional voting states with victories to Cruz, despite all the polls indicating the contrary, and ultimately the Republican nomination. Cruz will not beat Hillary Clinton. It looks like Hillary will be the next POTUS. And Conservatives have proven, once again, they are morally bankrupt in that they would choose what to me looks like a classic pedophile for their Commander In Chief.
How do you like it now, Gentlemen?
The new Republican 2016 Election motto, now that it’s squarely behind Cruze, is:
Green Acres Is The Place To Be
I wonder of anyone will GET that?
Cold,
Changing subjects……… on March 4 at 6:17pm I posted a link to a painting I did 50 years ago and asked Buck to take a look at it. I was hoping for his artist’s critique. He responded back “I could not link up to your images without signing into a Google account?”
Please let me know if YOU are able to view this painting.
Q.
I’m sure none of us could. Tried several times.
What two know, the pig know
This time around, unlike 1930s, the bankster-gangster focus with deflation did work.
Not because the banksters are not the same as the used to be – now they are even more predatory.
But due to overproduction of banksters, the split between their various factions and the hot desire to eat each other
And for this it was necessary to get allies among the elites of major nations, and at the same time to share with them the secrets of financial magic which are not such incomprehensible after all. And, as the Germans say, what two know, the pig know.
Surely, the banksters – dollar globalists and associated with them “neo-cons”, were warned in advance that their bluff to scare the rest of the world will not succeed.
But you never know what if it still works? – The more chances to stay in power by scaring the whole world with deflationary shock. But … No luck this time.
None of the major players ran to take to the New York Stock Exchange their strategic assets. And the Saudis, too, did not run, but only marked the willingness to play along.
Chinese tycoons also gave only half – dollars taken out of the country have not come to American stock market. Instead, the Chinese began to buy up anything that is not nailed to the floor – everywhere, but especially in Europe. Therefore, did not believe in a bluff and dollar strength.
Capital outflows from China in this case have become an indicator of the weakness of the “Chimerica”, where Chinese arms and backs are serving the appetites of insatiable American stomach.
US attempt to make everyone feel pain and solve their problems at the expense of the rest of the world has only led to the fact that the US are feeling pain themselves – from unemployment to deficit of pension funds to erratic behavior of the stock markets.
http://oohoo.livejournal.com/199500.html
This time around, unlike 1930s, the bankster-gangster focus with deflation did work
should read as
This time around, unlike 1930s, the bankster-gangster focus with deflation did NOT work
The Great Water Truce
Tantrums that neocons throw over “bastard” Trump, who did not leave a dry spot on the establishment of the Republican Party and its protégés is the most pleasant reading of the current.
That includes the actual call by Neocons to vote for Hillary as the last bet of the Pirates (Rockefeller’s) wing of financial oligarchy.
However, it appears they came for Hillary too, regarding the fraud and likely payoffs to the organizers of the primaries in the black areas.
Almost immediately after the Super Tuesday investigation of illegal use of Hillary’s personal E-mail server was given a decisive push in the form of immunity to protect a key witness – Server Administrator. It is unlikely that the authorities will bring the matter to court, but the wet dream of Clintons couple to get back to the White House, now is turning to more realistic one not get jailed.
Thus, the global failure in implementing one of three key financial technologies has resulted in a sharp decline in the influence of the Pirates clan and their political appointees – the Neocons and the Clintonites.
This means an inevitable increase in power of their rivals – the Money Changers – (London ‘Rothschild’ wing). The probability that Trump got the backing of this wing of banksters – is very high. Not only because of his Scottish and Dutch roots, but also due to the eccentric style of doing things in a very difficult business environment of New York, where is impossible to get anything done without the shadowy political support.
This estimate implies the need for all the major players to maintain at least the current level of trade and prices of their products, the need to coordinate efforts to prevent further collapse. Price wars for the redistribution of market shares can no longer continue as meaningless and too risky pressure on each other in local conflicts.
The landmark agreement on Syria between Obama and Putin and the meeting of the Ministers of Energy of Russia and Saudi Arabia signaled beginning of the “Great Water Truce” in view of approaching of the “great financial drought.”
http://oohoo.livejournal.com/199500.html
Q. Shtik, Buck is right. You have to sign in with Google to see it. I know you’ve used Imgur before. Put your image on Imgur so we can see if you were/are a better artist than Hitler and W and Jim.
I take it then that you were unable to “sign in with Google?”
I just tried it while logged into my Google account and it says you need to give me permission. Google is not the way to go for this. Just put the damn image on Imgur. Why won’t you do that?
I have tried in vain. I am technically challenged. The other image posted a while back on Imgur was done by my s-i-l. He and my daughter live in NYC. I only see them now and then.
it says you need to give me permission. – Cold
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OK, I give you my permission.
Thanks. Yeah, if only it were that easy.
In case y’all missed it, here’s what David Stockman had to say about Romney.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/mitt-romney-is-the-real-super-fraud-heres-the-proof-chapter-and-verse/
Rubio, as well as Cruz, is of Cuban origin, whose family fled from Castro, but if Cruz keeps his anti-Castro nature behind the scenes, then Rubio sticks it out to show.
And the Hispanics believe Castro to be an all-out Latin American Hero, and no one except in Florida considers Rubio a Latino. And after he decided to run a public dick-measuring contest with Trump on FOX5 – with Trump!!! – who for twenty years organized beauty contests and in plane view of the whole world drove all-American bitch Megyn Kelly face down on the table, to think that Latinos will vote for Rubio …
But the most important thing is that yesterday’s elections were closed, that is, the Democrats could not vote for Republican candidates.
And Republican turnout was significantly lower than on Tuesday, which means that such a landslide victory to Trump during the Super Tuesday was brought by Democrats and independent voters.
BRH, it’s time for The Death of a Nation. I think JHK is just the person to write the script.
Those who got disappointed by last television debates in Trump just went and voted for Cruz, whom Republican establishment hates perhaps even more than Trump.
Cruz is a professional politician and attorney of the highest class, the one who supervised the famous recount in Florida in 2000, who knows the names of the leaders of the Republican Party, who have sold their supporter votes to Hillary Clinton.
And he knows how to nail them for that.
CreakyUncleDoug, again, seriously, you should take your own advice.
But, frankly, from this day forward, what you say or don’t say, doesn’t concern me. You can blame me. See, it’s a personal failing of mine. My patience is worn out. There’s some people that, for various reasons, test my patience. And you have made that list. And, frankly, I lack the patience to explain.
You can respond to my posts all you want. But I’m afraid the discussion will sound a trifle one sided.
Fodase,
Army paratroopers in-training die also, on occasion.
i have nothing but all the respect in the world for the military folks
disclaimer: military brat, father M5A abrams tank (i think that was the name) design, 2 tours in vietnam, green beret/special forces/101st airborne paratrooper, 28+ years, CENTAG (worked with son of von stauffenberg who tried to kill hitler with the bomb under the table) etc.
i LOVE military folks….hell, i AM a military product 100%, AFRTS, everything…
i also love to embellish an already-good story, like anyone else
MASSIVE SALUTE to your dad in the Navy
I was 4 years in ROTC at St Joe’s College and so became “an officer and a gentleman” on graduation day. In the summer between my junior and senior years I went to “summer camp” at Lockbourne AFB in Ohio. Among the oft-repeated tales I told my kids from that experience (with only minor embellishment) were the ones about survival training in the mountains (kept awake for 3 straight days) and a ricocheting 45 slug during pistol training. I didn’t tell them about the marching chant that went:
See that girl
Dressed in pink
She’s the one that
Made my finger stink
I am truly, deeply ashamed to share a species with most of the posters here.
Each time I check back in, I become more convinced that we, collectively, are a nasty fucking piece of work and that the biosphere as a whole will be better off without us.
So, I think it’s time to stop checking in.
Listen, man, could you be a little fucking more specific? It feels like everybody’s nerves are tight up like violin strings.
“I am truly, deeply ashamed to share a species with most of the posters here.”
Which species are you sharing…goats, chickens…sheep? Thanks for offering, but we don’t all “swing” that way… #creepy
Here’s are Creaky’s people, the younger generation his generation begot: Sub-normals who don’t know which sex they are, grotesquely silly young women desperate to be offended in order to get the moral highground, and masked goons intent on violence and shutting down discourse.
http://www.dailystormer.com/libertarian-female-has-urine-poured-on-her-by-antifa-for-saying-only-two-genders/
JHK get over it. TRUMP is a movement and cannot be stopped. The middle class is not buying in any more and he represents their views and thoughts. It is a DONE DEAL Trump will be President no matter how hard you and other Libtards feel
Recent events showed that the collective soul of the American people is capable of such powerful movement, that desire for change is not the campaign slogan anymore, but a political reality with unpredictable consequences.
‘Bankroll’s’ killer still at large.
Atlanta officials fear a Hip Hop war, like the Biggie Small — Tupac, East Coast West Coast bloody disaster in LA, in the 90s, when the LAPD had to take sides and provided soldiers and weapons to both crews.
‘Bankroll’ is toes up, and it could be the spark that sets off Urban conflict all across the United States.
Hyenas are loose, lurking in that darkness at the edge of town, prowling, hungry, ready to make their move.
brh
The Democrats will Whig out first . . . and party like it’s 1852.
http://bit.ly/1QYyo5k
It may have started today.
Brooklyn, NY
March 6, 2016
“2 shot over a pair of sneakers.”
It was ‘Air Jordans,’ bought in a ‘Footlocker’ store inside a Brooklyn Mall.
Those Air Jordans, new model, have just hit the market, a sought after commodity in certain demographics across the country. Expect some furious gunplay in Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, St Louis, LA, New Orleans, Milwaukee and Cleveland in the upcoming weeks, over these ‘Air Jordans’.
brh
“Rubio, as well as Cruz, is of Cuban origin, whose family fled from Castro, but if Cruz keeps his anti-Castro nature behind the scenes, then Rubio sticks it out to show.”
I believe Rubio’s father fought with Castro and left the island before Castro took over.
Doug, there you go again… counting unpledged delegates to conceal the truth. The pledged delegate count Saturday was 57to 52.
Believers gonna believe, but your belief that Bernie cannot win is premature and does not take into account the evidence that Bernie’s campaign is very much alive.
Party up at Kesey’s farm. Ramrod and Cassady just brought in a load of primo Acapulco Gold.
The ‘Dead’ are playing.
Sugar Magnolia blossoms blooming
Head’s all empty and I don’t care
Saw my baby down by the river
Knew she’d have to come up soon for air
Sweet blossom come on under the willow
We can have high times if you abide
We can discover the wonders of nature
Rolling in the rushes down by the riverside
She’s got everything delightful
She’s got everything I need
Takes the wheel when I’m seeing double
Pays my ticket when I speed
Sugar Magnolia
Ringing that blue bell
Caught up in sunlight
Come on out singing
I walk you in sunshine
Come on baby, come along
brh
Marlin, Love the Dead, way to early for peas, there is still frost in the ground. After this week maybe. Sap is going gangbusters.
He’ll steal your woman, then he’ll rob your head, I was always partial to the red.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyPYM5uUViI
Ya’ gotta love the pedal steel. I’ve got a ’63 Hawaiian lap steel. Ain’t worth a shit without an amp.
Where do you think are the best airports in Europe?
Why, in Russia, of course:
http://www.aci.aero/Airport-Service-Quality/ASQ-Awards/Current-Winners/Best-Airport-By-Region/Europe
Pulkovo (Moscow)
Sochi (Black Sea, Sochi)
Sheremetyevo (Moscow)
Residents of Syrian city of Raqqa rebelled against ISIL
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — About 200 terrorists have taken the side of the residents of Syrian city of Raqqa, who have been rebelling against Daesh jihadist group, a source told Sputnik.
On Sunday, residents of the occupied Raqqa clashed with the Daesh militants and flown Syria’s flags in five neighborhoods of the city. The residents took to the streets in two neighborhoods, killing a number of Daesh militants.
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160307/1035881970/raqqa-daesh-militants-residents.html
Congratulations to all ladies with International Women’s day – March 8!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTgWX_62paE
So, do you think Ukraine is ready for the Europe?
The new ambassador of Ukraine in the United Kingdom Natalia Garibalenko during the ceremony of presentation of credentials:
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/pavel_shipilin/51193823/233741/233741_original.jpg
During reception at Buckingham Palace, Natalia managed to shock Elizabeth II with absolutely wild dress
We all love American Presidents so much, that we need more of ’em at the same time.
Obama says first family staying in Washington after he leaves the White House
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-obamas-staying-in-washington-20160303-story.html
Given the importance of Obama as a head of new wing of Financial Oligarchy – The Financial Control (FinControl) – he might be playing not just a ceremonial role.