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There’s a lot to complain about in this deranged republic — if it even still is one — but the burdens of being a multimillionaire football player would not be at the top of my list. Personally, I find it a little peculiar that we have to play the national anthem before any sporting event. All it really shows is how insecure we are as a nation that we have to display our love of country in this obsessive manner. Same with congressmen and their stupid flag lapel pins, or the flag in front of Denny’s chain restaurants. Are eaters of the “lumberjack slam” so disoriented when they leave the place that they need to be reminded what country they’re in? “Oh, look hon, were in the USA after all….”

What burns my ass is seeing baseball players in camo uniforms, as if they were an extension of the US military. What’s up with that? Is San Diego suddenly a theater of war? And why do US soldiers need to wear camo uniforms when shopping for eyeglasses? There used to be a distinction between battle dress and what you wore the rest of the time, even during a world war. And why on earth is it necessary to fly Air Force fighter jets over the stadium before the Super Bowl? Who authorizes the spend for that? Who are we trying to scare?

Of course, this new gale of ill-feeling stirred up by our intemperate president, the Golden Golem of Greatness, is driven by the oceanic currents of racial animus that are drowning the country more ruinously than the recent spate of hurricanes. The #Take the Knee campaign was already there, and getting hotter, even before Mr. Trump chimed in. At least he didn’t issue the usual sort of vapid nostrum about “diversity” and all of us getting along. In his blunt, blundering way, he may force the nation to clarify exactly what the beef is.

Surely it’s not about the woes of professional athletes. They are representing the grievances of a different realm in black America, perhaps the places they came from, the city ghettos or the rural backwaters of Dixieland, or maybe even boring black suburbs like Prince George County, Maryland. And the lingering question, to be equally blunt, is: how much is non-black America keeping black America down?

I say non-black because there are plenty of other ethnic groups in the mix besides the dwindling majority of “white folks.” I daresay there is as much, perhaps more real animus between Asian-Americans and black Americans than between white and black. But Asian-Americans did not enslave black Africans, so they’re off-the-hook for that original sin.

Mostly what Asian newcomers do is demonstrate that it’s possible to succeed economically and educationally in this country even if you start out with a culture and language completely alien to American ways. This is especially noticeable in places of exacting achievement like Silicon Valley. If anything, Asians complain that they do so well in school that the universities have to tamp down their admission numbers to give other ethnic groups a chance.

There seems to be so much psychological displacement in the feelings between black and white America that it is next to impossible to sort out what to do next. White Dem-Progs (formerly “liberals”) appear to be so consumed with anxious consternation over the outcome of the long civil rights struggle that they are ready to commit a sort of hara-kiri to atone for their unforgivable cis-whiteness. To some extent, they have attempted to compensate by campaigning for an ever-growing list of other “marginalized” groups in the hopes of showing some positive results for social change — it’s just easier to get significant numbers of homosexuals into the corporate executive suites than to get blacks in there — but the Dem-Progs are still left with the grinding reality of a large, dysfunctional black underclass. They certainly can’t admit that their own contrived “remedies,” such as subsidizing out-of-wedlock births, has anything to do with it, or the devastating effect of “Multiculturalism” on some sort of unifying common culture based on values that everybody can agree on.

Similarly, black America displaces their oppositionality to whatever remains of a national common culture into the memes of “systemic racism and injustice.” It has evolved insidiously in their own culture since the 1960s, probably (I believe) as a reaction to the anxiety provoked by the civil rights legislation of 1964-65. It’s really about behavior, especially in school. Are you interested in speaking English? Believe me, that would help a lot in this society. Consider this: Ella Fitzgerald was not singing black or white back in the day. She was just singing.


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733 Responses to “#Take the Knee”

  1. Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 10:06 am #

    Good column. So politically incorrect, but otherwise so correct.

    I happen to like the flag and the national anthem, but you’re entitled to your opinion. I don’t much care for football, but many others obviosly do. Some may have noticed I don’t think our republic is going down the tubes, and I don’t see any long emergency coming, but I wonder if the NFL is in for some difficult times. Between CTE and players taking a knee, it’s not looking that good for the leagues fortunes.

    • DA September 25, 2017 at 10:10 am #

      WOW, are you ever barking up the right tree here today Jim! As a retired US vet myself, I can only say MY FEELINGS EXACTLY! You’ll no doubt get a lot of flak today from irate commenters both here and across the internet, but this desperately needed to be said. I stand up and applaud you for having the big brass cajones to say it!

      • FallenHero September 25, 2017 at 10:28 am #

        I have to applaud the one white guy who actually went out ( an army vet himself). I understand the dangers of jingoism, but this ‘protest’ by rich millionaire blacks reeks of political opportunism. Especially considering the pointlessness of the entire tradition they are rebelling against. I have no problem firing these guys.

        I find it ironic that when blacks do this sort of thing its ‘expressing grievances’ yet when similar white ideas are expressed (like not bringing down confederate statues’ “RACIST” is slung around repeatedly.

        • DA September 25, 2017 at 10:43 am #

          The NFL brought all this on themselves by adopting their silly and grossly obscene flag worship extravaganzas before every game. Of course they knew full well what they were doing, as the “America uber alles” crowd is their core demographic. Yes, the players exploitation of that is also cravenly and nakedly opportunistic, but as far as choosing a stage with which to be heard, they’ve quite obviously hit the mother lode and they’re smart enough to know it. Trump foolishly and ham handedly wading in only turned up their volume several orders of magnitude.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 10:54 am #

            Ratings are down 30%. My belief is that mothers are putting their very heavy foot down with their husbands and young children and forbidding it to be shown in their homes. My mother, much to my chagrin, refused to allow us to play tackle football. On that point, bless her heart. Violence is taught. Like the Navy Seals say, “Violence of Action,” is taught and learned.

          • DA September 25, 2017 at 11:59 am #

            Yep. My mom was the same. Great advice, as it turned out.

        • theboosh September 25, 2017 at 1:30 pm #

          Well, here’s another vet’s perspective (10 S.F. Btn Cambodia 73): Young & dumb then but I know now I was fighting for a country that does NOT force you to pray, to pledge allegiance, to stand (or kneel) for anthems, or kiss the ring of a dictator president or hero worship statues of slave owners. And you?

          • Anotherplayaguy September 25, 2017 at 3:20 pm #

            Starts in Little League where, before most games, the players go on the field and recite the Little League Creed — full of God and country. And camo uniforms. And the Stars Bangled Banner.
            We have militarized Everything.

          • boydconklin September 26, 2017 at 8:25 am #

            Delete the history books on the founding fathers because most were slavers. Take the next step delete the history books because of some other aggression some historical figure is charged with, continuing on the idea to some other micro aggression, why stop, delete the history books period. Go back far enough anywhere on the globe and we were all slaves and slavers, blacks don’t corner the market as slaves, today or historically.

        • sooty September 25, 2017 at 2:05 pm #

          It makes no difference and grants little immunity that the men protesting are millionaires. If they’re black, as soon as they get into a car–especially an expensive one–and head somewhere they’re not recognized as sports stars, they’re just seen as big black men and therefore categorically dangerous. And others (police, store owners, neighborhood residents) act accordingly.

          • DrGonzo September 25, 2017 at 5:17 pm #

            No kidding. I didn’t realize that once one becomes a multi-millionaire in this country, one forfeits one’s right to protest publicly against any perceived injustices.

            It would be helpful to know at exactly what level of wealth that right becomes invalidated, as I have well over $1 million in investable assets and may already be skirting that forbidden line. I participated in the March For Science, for example, but maybe that was stepping out of line, JHK?

            If it helps, I’m white.

        • Jigplate September 26, 2017 at 2:17 pm #

          I thought that saluting the flag was one of the “Bourgeois” values?

      • mghines September 25, 2017 at 10:42 am #

        Jim, I thought i was the only one who thought this. Why do we have to have the display of patriotism before sporting events. It is just entertainment. we dont do this before movies, or plays, or concerts. I think you may be right, we are insecure about what country we are in a feel guilty if we dont make some declaration of allegiance at every opportunity.
        Lets start a movement to stop the playing of the anthem, or flying military jets as an anointing on the superbowl and just play a game. You dont have to be american to enjoy sports. Take the patriotic displays out of sports.

        • Jeremy September 25, 2017 at 12:08 pm #

          The disgusting pre-game military show, including fighter jet fly-by’s, corps parachutists landing on the field, chants of USA! USA! USA! etc. etc. are simply hypernationalistic manifestations of the Nazification of the country. It’s been going on at least since Dubya.

          Criticism of the nation is not taken lightly, and is often rebuked with a “If you don’t like it, then leave!”

          So I did, with my wife and 10 year old son in tow four years ago.

          It’s now real entertainment to watch the armed madhouse from 5000 miles away. If only they knew how the rest of the world is laughing.
          Although not so funny having to deal with the airport immigration storm-troopers, and TSA, when coming over for an annual family visit.

          • My Point of View September 25, 2017 at 6:58 pm #

            “It’s been going on at least since Dubya.”

            True. Initially a response to the 9-11 attacks. Then KKKarl Rove picked up on it as a way to silence objectors to whatever crazy crap George Dumbya Bush pulled on us. He sent the troops into Iraq, as ill-advised as our debacle in Vietnam, then closed every public speech with “support the troops.” By closing that way it implied that whatever he said before it was something that could not be questioned, no matter how stupid. After all, you cannot fault a man who praises the troops and waves the flag. That and the flag lapel pins were all politically inspired to say “we’re the good guys and if you’re not with us you’re the enemy.”

          • GreenAlba September 26, 2017 at 8:27 am #

            Jeremy, it’s a delight to read your post from here in Scotland. Like many of my compatriots I am watching almost desperately what is going on in the US (and I can’t say what’s going on in Germany now is much comfort either). I’m not inclined to laugh, though. There’s no reasoning with dangerous emotion-driven people in the grip of an ‘idée fixe’ – just look at the posts of your resident fascist on this site.

            To take liberties with a famous feminist quote, it looks like ‘Trump is afraid that people will laugh at him; people are afraid that Trump will kill them’. That’s what the whole Kim/Trump willy-waving spectacle looks like from here. That millions of people could die because of a narcissistic ignoramus elected to high office in a country that used to be sane is impossible to take in.

            My good wishes are with the American people – the best of them are wonderful. I wish I could believe things will get better, but the ‘power down’ is likely to bring out the worst.

            I do wish more Americans could see that it’s perfectly possible to love your country without fetishizing a bit of patterned fabric and the razzmatazz that goes with it. Our countries and the people in them are so much more important than manipulative symbols pushed by the powers that be.

            I’d cringe these days if I had to sing ‘God save the Queen’ (really, what’s an agnostic who thinks royalty is ridiculous meant to do?). There are people in this country who have a hissy fit about a politician not mouthing the words, yet they don’t mind our national health service – one of the greatest humanitarian achievements in the world – being sold out to greedy private interests. Which one is more important in terms of loving your country, which if it means anything means caring for the people in it?

          • Sean Coleman September 26, 2017 at 4:22 pm #

            “There’s no reasoning with dangerous emotion-driven people in the grip of an ‘idée fixe’.”

            No there isn’t, but those in the grip of an ‘idée fixe’ are not the people you think but your own side. The delusion is so powerful that you don’t realize.

        • Q. Shtik September 25, 2017 at 12:21 pm #

          Why do we have to have the display of patriotism before sporting events. – mghines

          ===============

          For all the money involved, the advertising, the price of tickets, I think there is among the powers behind pro and college sports the feeling that there must be a great spectacle beyond the game itself.

          Speaking of doing away with the anthem, what about the pledge of allegiance at the start of every school day from K thru 12? They do still do that, I assume. Do away with that as well. And what about the reading of a passage from the Christian Bible every morning… Jews, Hindus, and Wiccans be damned. Have they put an end to that and I’m just too old to realize it. If not, they should.

          • Jeremy September 25, 2017 at 12:38 pm #

            Watch a grown man almost cry like a baby!
            Can you imagine how folks like this will react when Jim’s Hand Made World arrives?

            This is crazy funny!
            Burning football shirts, hats and jackets – made in China.
            Ha ha ha!!!

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSxeF68FRsk

          • sophia September 25, 2017 at 1:47 pm #

            Q, not sure about the pledge, but I think they stopped the prayer in about 1963.

          • DA September 25, 2017 at 3:19 pm #

            No bible recitations when I grew up either. Stopped the pledge sometime while I was in grade school. Fourth grade I’m thinking, so that would have been about 1967-68.

          • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 10:42 pm #

            Jerry, then you’ll kneel to Negan.

        • RIB September 25, 2017 at 1:22 pm #

          Hey, while we’re at it. let’s take religion out of churches,too

          • My Point of View September 25, 2017 at 6:52 pm #

            Rib, no, leave religion in churches, and the home, but get it the hell out of public schools and public places where it has no right to be shoved in our face.

            I’m okay with a pledge of allegiance in public schools, just take out the words “under god” which were inserted in the 1950s during the McCarthy-era commie witch hunts.

        • uncletommy September 25, 2017 at 4:31 pm #

          Speakingof KNEE, They Buried My Heart at Wounded Knee has led me speak from the heart. “Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious” – Oscar Wilde The development of the USA was a direct result of this kind of mentality and the aboriginal people of the US were its main victims. Canadian aboriginals were just the victims of self righteous, benign neglect. Flag waving is just part of what it is to be an American, in a pejorative sense

          • beantownbill. September 25, 2017 at 4:55 pm #

            After reading that book many years ago, the little respect I had for the government went,away. It was heartbreaking and what happened made me very angry.

          • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 10:44 pm #

            All countries are established by Conquest. Do you think the Sioux were peaceful? They were driven out of Eastern Woodlands by the Ojibwa and then drove other Indians out of the Dakotas. You owe everything you have and everything you are to the Conquest and the Conquerors.

            Grow up.

          • GreenAlba September 26, 2017 at 7:51 am #

            @Janos
            ‘All countries are established by Conquest. Do you think the Sioux were peaceful? They were driven out of Eastern Woodlands by the Ojibwa and then drove other Indians out of the Dakotas. You owe everything you have and everything you are to the Conquest and the Conquerors.

            Grow up.’

            And you owe everything you are to the DNA of your African ancestors – there’s probably a bit of neanderthal in there as well (they were the gentle ones who died out, so maybe not so much in your case!). Maybe after a few thousand years of global warming, Americans will get their melanin back and you’ll look just like your ancestors again 🙂 When you grow up you may be in a position to exhort others to do the same.

            What’s most disgusting among rabid nationalists in the US is that so many of them claim to adhere to a religion that specifically tells them that all people are created equal, a ‘self-evident truth’ that is even quoted in their constitution. I don’t hold to that religion any more, although I was brought up in it and stuck with it for decades. However, I’ve hung on to the best sentiments from within it, because they came from the best sentiments of which human beings are capable.

            But I get that civilisation isn’t your cup of tea and that you’d be happier with the law of the jungle that your ancestors worked so hard to leave behind them.

          • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 12:59 pm #

            Alb: You don’t contest my claim but just call me a Negro instead. So in other words, you admit you’re pushing bullshit lies about “peace” and how evil Whites are?

            And of course, calling me a nigga is just another lie, the kind one expects on the old Stormfront site. The higher IQ Races all have Neanderthal genes. The low IQ races have none. Interesting, eh? Just another nail in the coffin of Egalitarianism.

            The Celts? The original Celts were big Aryan White guys. Slavers and followers of a strict Caste System amongst themselves. Related to the Conquerors of India and of course, the Aryan Germans. Later it all get watered down into mere culture and language groups. That’s how weakling like you got associated with it. But since you called me a nigga is derision, you seem to still have some of the good stuff left in the mix, all confused of course.

      • noel bodie September 25, 2017 at 11:58 am #

        What’s up with baseball players in camo? Well in case you haven’t noticed we are festishizing our military. “thank you for your service” “our heros” etc. the more we do this the more vulnerable we become. 700 billion for the generals? Really? And at the same time demonizing a footballer for expressing his first amendment , Constitutional right of free expression and locking him out of his livelihood in a corporate monopoly of spectacle. The Supremes say it is constitutional for nameless/faceless billionaire Libertarians to spend as much as they want to influence elections without ever identifying the funding source under 1st Amendment, but let some brown footballer express his feelings in broad daylight on a Sunday afternoon and all hell breaks loose. It is fucking disgusting and no good will come of this attitude. Every libertarian vote in congress just continues to loosen the ties that bind a nation till we are all just free agents.

        • DA September 25, 2017 at 12:01 pm #

          Every libertarian vote in congress just continues to loosen the ties that bind a nation till we are all just free agents.

          Good point. No more “citizenship,” just “vested interests” or lack thereof.

        • outsider September 25, 2017 at 12:45 pm #

          noel,
          There are no libertarians in congress. The last one was Dr. Ron Paul.

          • John Howard September 25, 2017 at 1:12 pm #

            He’s referring to all the Koch bought Congressmen like Jeff Flake, Paul Ryan, etc.

            The Kochs spent $900 Million on 2016 election. And they’ve been so fraudulent, raising money from conservatives to protect marriage and then losing on purpose.

          • noel bodie September 25, 2017 at 4:41 pm #

            Outsider, I used to think that but on closer consideration It seems to me the GOP has become completely controlled by libertarian thinking. These are not conservatives but radicals.

        • Q. Shtik September 25, 2017 at 11:55 pm #

          “thank you for your service” “our heros” – noel bodie

          =============

          Last Nov I got dragged to an “Armistice Ball” by my wife and her chums. They love this stuff. I can’t dance my way out of a wet paper bag.

          At a lull in the dancing a woman who was running the event asked for anyone who had served in the military to raise their hand. I and several others raised our hands.

          We were called onto the floor to stand in a shoulder to shoulder type line as the woman pinned a boutonniere on each one of us. As she pinned mine on she said with a big smile and in all sincerity “thank you for your service.”

          This had never happened to me before. I was actually embarrassed. Little did she know I spent my three year Air Force stint in an accounting and finance office in Duluth, MN and the only danger I faced was getting a finger caught in the check signing machine.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 1:07 pm #

        What utter crap – as if America can survive if the White race is genocided. That’s silly Idealism – and of course, Evil. The people behind that initiative are against All nations and the very idea of a nation, except their own.

        • GreenAlba September 26, 2017 at 8:35 am #

          @Janos
          ‘What utter crap – as if America can survive if the White race is genocided.’

          I don’t think the English language is going to survive very long if people don’t know that ‘genocide’ is a noun and not a verb. I wonder if you can be ‘supremacized’ as well. Bless.

          • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 1:01 pm #

            The language is alive and therefore changing, Alb. Sorry if I’m not one of your twee little lepracohens.

            Then he says, “Bless”. The Celtic Twilight!

          • Q. Shtik September 26, 2017 at 1:42 pm #

            I don’t think the English language is going to survive very long if people don’t know that ‘genocide’ is a noun and not a verb. – GreenAlba

            ============

            Oh com’on, Green, get with it. Almost any noun can be made a verb. Have you ever heard of someone being ‘Borked?’

      • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 8:20 pm #

        Why did you join the Army again? To serve your country? It is to laugh!

        • Q. Shtik September 26, 2017 at 1:04 pm #

          To serve your country? [It is to laugh!] – Janos

          ==============

          I just want you to know that I detest this expression and others like it: e.g. ‘The soup was to die for.’

          I’m not sure who invented it (the Jews? seem to use it a lot) but it caught on. OMG how it grates on my ear.

          • Q. Shtik September 26, 2017 at 1:12 pm #

            Janos,

            Instead of the way you put it I might have said, “The implication, that you joined the Army to serve your country, is laughable.”

            Let’s see if THAT gets me banned.

    • draupnir September 25, 2017 at 10:25 am #

      Traditionally, taking the knee is done to God and one’s feudal lord, acknowledging their dominion over us. It’s kind of like a dog rolling over and exposing his belly. I think kneeling instead of standing for the anthem is a grave tactical error.

      • pequiste September 25, 2017 at 10:59 am #

        I agree completely with you regarding the accepted meaning of kneeling. The Africans in the “N”FL really missed a protest opportunity of disrespect, contempt, and hatred of the U.S.A. and instead participated in an act of obeisance and humility.

        When runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos provided their Black Power fist-in-black-glove straight-arm overhead salute at the 1968 Summer Olympics, the loathing for America was plain and palpable.

        If the current crop of Kaepernick kopycats really wanted to protest something overtly racist in the NFL, the Redskins team name and logo would be a great place to start. However, the Africans in the NFL could not give a rotten damn about systemic racism; they just care about their own “awful” treatment.

        They should rather make the ultimate protest, by first getting their DNA checked, finding out where they originate, quitting their cushy positions in the professional football league in the United States and moving themselves, and the whole family, including all the out-of-wedlock issue; baby-mommas and all, back to the mother continent of Africa. That would conclusively show Whitey in America just what they think of his bad treatment of Black folks.

        • messianicdruid September 25, 2017 at 11:22 am #

          As far as the “loathing of America” is concerned – I don’t think we are being concise. Patriotism is fine if our “paters” were worthy of emulation. Are they really protesting America, or the leadership of the United States? I get irritated when people fail to differentiate. Can’t we see that it is classic bait and switch.?

          When ungodly men lead the nation into sin – it is time to do much more than “take a knee” to set it right. And it is true this seems like a subservient gesture to me.

          • Bruce E September 25, 2017 at 1:41 pm #

            Maybe they should have washed Trump’s feet to drive the point home?

          • elysianfield September 25, 2017 at 5:00 pm #

            “Are they really protesting America, or the leadership of the United States? I get irritated when people fail to differentiate. ”

            Druid,
            I would be inclined to wager real money that if you polled the group, your results would render to “…you know, slavery and shit….”

            Do you really believe that a majority of these mouth-breathers can pinpoint the focal point of their angst? I would myself be surprised.

            Sin? Oh Christ, do you honestly think that they protest sin, or are more inclined to commit it? The majority of the players in the NFL are not necessarily politically sophisticated…most have never had their privilege questioned, nor their corporeal tastes mitigated through good council or careful thought.

            Yes, some of their ancestor’s were required to pick cotton…. They themselves? Only when opening a bottle of aspirin.

            I have nothing but enmity for the bastards that take a knee.

          • GreenAlba September 26, 2017 at 8:40 am #

            ‘Yes, some of their ancestor’s were required to pick cotton….’

            Not ‘required’. Forced. And killed. And treated worse than animals.

            ‘I have nothing but enmity for the bastards that take a knee.’

            Fetishizing a piece of patterned fabric and the militaristic razzmatazz that goes with it is not the sign of a grown-up mind. Not has it the slightest connection with love of one’s country or the people in it (which is what your country actually is).

          • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 10:53 am #

            “Fetishizing a piece of patterned fabric and the militaristic razzmatazz that goes with it is not the sign of a grown-up mind.*. Not has it the slightest connection with love of one’s country or the people in it (which is what your country actually is).”

            *Alba,
            Apparently it is. Religious, patriotic, and otherwise. Symbolism exists in all factors of life…and has obvious meaning in a culture.

            Has no connection whatever with love of country? The taking of the knee is an obvious sign of contempt. Contempt for what? Fill in the blank….

          • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 4:53 pm #

            “Not ‘required’. Forced. And killed. And treated worse than animals. ”

            Alba,
            How about required under threat of death and being treated worse than animals…and then killed an eaten…and then half eaten corpse sexually abused, and then re-animated and “required” to reprise old vaudeville routines…soft-shoe and Jim Crow, and then, and then….

            Alba, I hope your example and my response did not arouse you sexually….

            Enough breast-beating. Enough virtue-signaling. There were outrages, as there are today.

          • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 11:48 pm #

            Picking cotton in the hot son all year long, even in the snow? Or just when the cotton was ripe?

            Like all agricultural workers, they had lots of leisure – far more than the White slaves of the North.

          • K-Dog September 27, 2017 at 11:34 am #

            You are right about that, more free time. They also ate better than free whites did and on average they were only whipped once in three years.

            Janos, all your talk of cuks and collars. Thou doth protest too much, methinks. I think we have all figured out what trips your trigger. If I find an old dog collar you could use for when you get a black bull stuck on your mind I will save it for you.

        • earltwitty September 25, 2017 at 12:58 pm #

          Let me see, You shouldn’t protest if you’re a rich athlete, definitely not if you are an actor. Blacks shouldn’t protest because whites are the new minority. Alt-right definitely not. I guess Asians and Spanish people are the only legal protesters?
          Who has the rule book, anybody? Ancestry DNA?

          • elysianfield September 25, 2017 at 5:10 pm #

            Witty,
            No one questions their right to protest. There is no stricture, however, that requires that I have to like it, nor respect them for doing so.

            Yes, they have a right to protest,

            No, I do not like them doing so,

            Yes, I wish them Ill,

            In the parlance of the Ghetto…”I hope they momma die….”
            (Not really). Colin, et al; You can kiss my big black ass…and I say that with love….

        • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 1:12 pm #

          Interesting perspective – one that I didn’t think of. Alex Jones things the Elite have put the fear of God into the NFL with the head injury liability angle. If they want to live long and prosper, they have to bend the knee to their Leftist agenda.

          As far as the kneeling, maybe they are trying to show respect for America or at least people’s feelings despite their protest? I’m giving them a lot of credit here.

        • draupnir September 25, 2017 at 3:26 pm #

          I imagine a lot (if not most) of African American’s will find that they carry markers for places in Europe as well as Africa. They belong here every bit as much as any of us. They’re family..

          • elysianfield September 25, 2017 at 5:13 pm #

            Draupnir,
            Family? Then they should act like it….

          • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 8:23 pm #

            Bullshit. We are alien to them and they are alien to us. The answer is separation. We’ll never no peace or prosperity until we get away for them.

        • GreenAlba September 26, 2017 at 7:57 am #

          ‘They should rather make the ultimate protest, by first getting their DNA checked, finding out where they originate, quitting their cushy positions in the professional football league in the United States and moving themselves, and the whole family, including all the out-of-wedlock issue; baby-mommas and all, back to the mother continent of Africa.’

          You do know that everyone’s DNA originated in Africa, right? Yours too. Don’t let the door hit you on your way back home.

          • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 1:03 pm #

            Many races lived in Africa. It’s not just Blacks. Read up some time about how the Bantu treated other Blacks, and other races like the Bushmen, Pygmies, and of course, the Whites.

          • Q. Shtik September 26, 2017 at 1:26 pm #

            You do know that everyone’s DNA originated in Africa, right? Yours too. – GreenAlba

            =============

            My wife and I did a My Heritage DNA test. There were no percentages linked to Africa on either one.

            Are you saying that if every person on earth had their DNA tested they would ALL find some DNA originated from Africa? Obviously, this is not correct.

            I posted the exact results on this blog a month or so ago.

          • Sean Coleman September 26, 2017 at 4:33 pm #

            Q

            My Irish-American cousin wrote to my Irish mother some years ago after taking a dna test. The letter began,

            “Dear Margaret, it is true. The Irish really are the lost tribe of Israel.”

      • Bruce E September 25, 2017 at 1:39 pm #

        It’s good you notice this, but I think there might be something clever in using a specific kind of image to co-opt the Christian notion of “turn the other cheek” back onto our anti-Christian, alpha-dog, kneel-to-no-man American culture.

        Of course, it seems based on reactions to this kneeling, if it were indeed a nod to the likes of Jesus and Ghandi, the message went right over our heads. WOOOOOSH…

    • Walter B September 25, 2017 at 10:27 am #

      Good morning Gracie. No you do not see what is coming and it is probably best that way. Last Friday you wrote that you did not see your own death coming since it has not happened yet, and I understand and accept your perspective. I was fortunate as a young soldier to be quickly trained to realize my own mortality and be able to see past the fact and concentrate firmly on whatever task lay directly ahead. This attitude had not only allowed me to prepare over the course of my lifetime for what I know will come in the next, higher plane of existence, but also to be able to enjoy every single day of my life in the meanwhile as today may be the last. It is all a matter of what works for us individually which allows folks like me to appreciate how you view things as long as you are willing to return me the same courtesy. I understand as an elected public official that even if I were to know for a fact that a world ending nuclear war was going to break out tomorrow, there would be nothing gained but mass panic were the fact be made public. Far better to let the people enjoy their last day of life in peace by remaining silent. Some can know but most cannot and this is not a bad thing.

      • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 10:31 am #

        You completely misundrstood me, apparently. I never said I don’t see my own death coming, nor would I say that.

        I did say, in response to someone, that if they were told every day that they would die the next day, they should start to question that prediction at some point. Wouldn’t you?

        • Walter B September 25, 2017 at 10:49 am #

          If your point is all about date setting, which I think it is, then absolutely, date setting is foolish for we have not the capabilities to see such detail. Seeing what is coming is a different issue and I have always been in agreement with our host about the inevitability of fossil fuels one day running out. And yes I recall your statement a while back that we may have enough remaining to get us to the next source, which I also agree is possible. Looking ahead and planning is my way however for I do not like surprises. They are never good IMHO. Perhaps I am too much the boy scout.

        • shotho September 25, 2017 at 11:01 am #

          Yes, it’s called “crying wolf too many times.” I don’t necessarily agree with you, but like that you provide some kind of antidote to too much negativism. Life isn’t going to end just because Western cultures are ending.

          • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 11:26 am #

            Thank you Shotho.

            And Walter, as a former Boy Scout myself, I agree with you about being prepered. I fully expect our nation to continue pretty much as it is, with slow gradual improvement. But if the long emergency does come about, I’m about as ready as one can reasonably be.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 1:14 pm #

        The very, very modern idea that everything is for everyone is ruinous, the very essence of egalitarianism – which is Communism in the political sphere.

        Equal treatment of unequal people is Tyranny. And resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God.

        • sophia September 25, 2017 at 1:59 pm #

          Equality of opportunity and treatment is fair. Machinations to bring about equal results is not.

          • beantownbill. September 25, 2017 at 5:04 pm #

            Very good clarification.

        • GreenAlba September 26, 2017 at 8:02 am #

          ‘Equal treatment of unequal people is Tyranny. And resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God.’

          That rather depends on which god you worship, if you still depend on religious beliefs. If it’s the Christian one that I was brought up to worship and obey, he demands that you treat all human beings as your equals. Sorry you missed the memo, but, strictly speaking, you’re not even supposed to hit them back when they hit you – ‘turn the other cheek’ isn’t a quote from Das Kapital.

          Nor is ‘render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and render up to God that which is ‘God’s’.

          • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 1:06 pm #

            Nor is what? Caesar says punch and so we punch. Many Christians served in the Roman Legion with distinction. Later they conquered Germanic barbarians who wouldn’t convert – something I don’t agree with and don’t think Christ would have either. But there is no pacifist culture. Pacifists are parasites off real cultures.

    • DA September 25, 2017 at 10:30 am #

      The quality of play stinks these days too. What is inherently a team game when it’s played correctly, has gradually morphed into little more than a platform for obscenely overpaid prima donnas to pose and preen before their rapidly shrinking adoring public. I agree that the league has likely reached its high water mark in popularity and that it has nowhere to go but down from here. Good riddance!

      • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 11:18 am #

        I would not care were it not for the amount of taxpayer money and special treatment the NFL gets from the government.
        That was the whole reason for instituting the patriotism displays in the first place, IMO.
        Well I shouldn’t say it was the whole reason. The reasons a global 1/10 of one percent corporation would use the anthem and flag of the US as a cover are many.
        How many people will tell you, because the media tells them that it is a thing, that they don’t like football, but they watch the Superbowl for the commercials? Hmm.
        There was a major push to blur the lines between government, sports/politics/and entertainment.
        Aren’t the premier advertisers for these shows a global brand of beer and trucks assembled in Mexico? Hmm.
        How did the players and owners and management f these teams get so rich, relative to the fans? Was it from ticket sales? Or did the government have something (a lot) to do with it?
        When these teams and the products they sell are no longer American, should Americans be forced to underwrite them?
        Oh, look! Another one “takes a knee”?

        • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 1:17 pm #

          Yes, there is a silver or lining or two here. People are way too obsessed with this stuff and they would do well to step back – and do us a favor as well. And countless young men sustain permanent injuries in high school and college because of the Game. There are safer ways to challenge young men and toughen them up.

          • beantownbill. September 25, 2017 at 5:07 pm #

            For once I agree with you.

  2. newworld September 25, 2017 at 10:09 am #

    And in those small non-white utopian countries always being held up as an example for the flawed USA to follow these fools would be chased and killed by the mobs for not standing and being patriotic during its anthem.

    And no the white left is not about solving problems these days, they are playing out the American “Nibelungenlied” of woman scorned and burning it all down, because, just because.

    Or if you like, the American white left is like the camp commandant in “Seven Beauties” grossly overweight, deeply cynical and sexually frustrated as all the ideological constructs fall under the weight of reality.

    Look at the optics of today’s political theatre, all the post modern taboos are suspect, to the point that threats of violence remain to protect them. And who are the enforcers but yellow jaundiced eyed steroid raging black millionaire gladiators who threaten the soft bellied white conservatives who pay the NFL’s bills.

    What a joke.

    • DA September 25, 2017 at 10:31 am #

      Look at the optics of today’s political theatre, all the post modern taboos are suspect, to the point that threats of violence remain to protect them. And who are the enforcers but yellow jaundiced eyed steroid raging black millionaire gladiators who threaten the soft bellied white conservatives who pay the NFL’s bills.

      Well put!

      • pequiste September 25, 2017 at 11:01 am #

        Second that.

    • SpeedyBB September 27, 2017 at 4:16 pm #

      Sitting in mildly penurious comfort some eleven time zones away I cannot help but perceive of my erstwhile ‘homeland’ as astonishingly echoing Rome around 300A.D. – at least from the study I’ve done of that point in history.

      Bread and circuses, the Praetorians running the show ( = Deep State), silly, cynical if not insane Emperors on parade while the Senate dithers and gathers more wealth.

      The barbarians moving in, confidently (I’m pretty much with you on this, Janos, although I’ve chosen to live pretty much as far from the Lone Star State and its bush Baptists as humanly possible).

      Is there any major divergence from latter-day Rome (given the difference in technology and temperament, naturally)?

  3. Walter B September 25, 2017 at 10:12 am #

    I am not really sure how a collection of sports playing losers worked themselves into the massive scam that is the NFL today and am especially disgusted to see that somehow they purport themselves to be the “conscience the nation”. They are not. They are clowns and entertainers that do not deserve to have the attention that they receive. It is about time that the entertainment craving American public woke itself up to this reality. Oh boy, they play games for a few years and we are supposed to be impressed and bow down before them? Bullshit! Those of us that work hard for fifty years building things and systems that serve society years after our demise have these pussies beaten in spades. Every iron worker, every electrician, mason, carpenter and all the rest whose actually build America rather than simply entertain it, THEY are the heroes. Wake up America send these worthless scum bags back into the oblivion from which they came and take back your dignity and pride in being truly worth something!

    And to those poverty addicted “minorities” that cannot seem to rise above the level of stone age primitives, you should all take a lesson from the Asian immigrants who know how to utilize their own labors to improve their lot in life. Or you can just petition the Federal Reserve to print you all up a million bucks apiece and bail you all out like the banker-thieves. But that would not really work, would it? You would all return to poverty within the week for those who do not labor for value never understand what it was that they were actually working for nor do they ever appreciate it do they?

    • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 10:26 am #

      Good morning Walter. Also politically incorrect, and that’s good.

      • DA September 25, 2017 at 10:34 am #

        VERY NICE Walter!

        • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 11:38 am #

          NFL is big money. Its not just a game.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 11:50 am #

            Exactly. People don’t realize that illegal gambling was at the root of the NFL. It’s rigged. We had another Tom Brady miracle win yesterday. It’s almost boring now.

          • DA September 25, 2017 at 12:06 pm #

            I noticed that too. TOM TERRIFIC – ALL-AMERICAN AGELESS BOY!

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:59 pm #

            He’s such a dork.

    • outsider September 25, 2017 at 11:28 am #

      Walter B,
      Unfortunately you neglect the reality of big differences in IQ. That is why millions of blacks will remain in the underclass, while Asians, with higher IQ’s than whites, will continue to succeed. The one thing that blacks dominate in are certain sports due to their superior athletic DNA. IQ and DNA are destiny. I hate football, but know I belong to a tiny minority of men. As long as there is a demand for this brutal game, there will be plenty of young, highly motivated young black men to supply it, even though there will be fewer and fewer white parents willing to allow their young sons to get their brains scrambled and their bodies broken by playing it.

      • Walter B September 25, 2017 at 1:52 pm #

        Oh I neglected it alright to avoid being branded with the Scarlet “R”. A white guy like me cannot point out many things that are apparent if not certain, because just like Barney the Purple Dinosaur points out, “Everyone is special in his or her or it’s own way”, right? No one is stupid, lazy, evil, or otherwise not special, right Barney?

      • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 2:27 pm #

        Most Americans suspect that Blacks commit the majority of crime in this country. They are, in a word, correct. However, the government takes great strides to cover this up. From the federal on down to the city level, our rulers are loathe to release data on crime that includes racial breakdowns. Such data disrupts the preferred narratives about race in this country.
        However, there are a handful of cities that do let the public see the number, and, no matter the city, it is Blacks who are running riot. Philadelphia is one those few forthright cities, so we will start there. To begin, here are the demographics for the city in 2016, according to the US Census:
        and 25% Amerindian, be considered mestizos or White?
        Regardless, even the racial breakdowns I adjusted above very likely still overestimate the White share of arrestees and underestimate the share of mestizos.
        In short, Whites and Asians commit murders at a rate vastly under proportion to their share of the population. Hispanics are slightly under their share of the population. Blacks, meanwhile, are incredibly overrepresented.

        This was the case before America had a Black president and it was true after. It was true before the concept of “White privilege” entered the mainstream and it was true after. It was true before Black Lives Matter came into being, and it is true now.

        Black murder and violence is a constant in this American life. Gilbert Cavanaugh has shown that it is true in Minneapolis. Over a year ago, in the monograph The Color of Crime, American Renaissance noted it was true in New York and Chicago. And it is true in St. Louis as well — another city surprisingly willing to give citizens the racial numbers on crime. St. Louis is worth looking at closely because the Hispanic shar
        The government is constantly trying to integrate the races. Meanwhile Whites, whether or not they make it explicit, are forever trying to avoid non-Whites, especially Blacks. The government forces integration through busing, Section 8 housing in White suburbs, affirmative action, quotas, amnesty, and “refugee” resettlement. Whites in turn fight back by sending their children to private schools, moving to the suburbs, fleeing integrating neighborhoods, tolerating astronomically high rents, supporting the right to conceal and carry firearms, and upholding “stand your ground” and other generous self-defense laws. This is the simplest reason why the majority of Whites vote Republican. On all the issues that serve as proxies for dealing with and avoiding racial integration, Republicans help instead of hinder. While the GOP is far from being explicitly identitarian, the sudden arrival of Section 8 housing, or the ability to obtain a voucher so you can send your daughter to Catholic school can make or break an idyllic childhood.
        What is described here, has been going on for decades. Consider the Duke Lacrosse case as compared to the ignored millions of black on white rapes.
        Millions = 50,000 x 100 years or include prison rapes and get HOW MANY MILLIONS?
        We are governed and oppressed by a hostile elite that dances for joy at our demise. We need to band together, avoid violence, speak softly, acquire resources and constantly nibble like termites at the establishment. We must never give up, we can succeed if we chose to, If we believe we can.

        Asian IQ scores cluster around the mean; thus, the cognitive variation among Whites produces more geniuses, but also more morons.
        IQ studies are normed for every conceivable variable and have been confirmed on twins and trans-racial adoption studies, but the racial IQ gap persists, including on non-verbal tests such Raven’s Matrices, digit span, and mental chronometry.
        Also Blacks consider only the present; they learn little from the past; they don’t consider the future. But even so, non-brainwashed Blacks know that the 3rd world immigrants are not their friends, and likely to become the enemy.
        Blacks are the only race never to have civilized
        No modern creations exist in sub-Saharan Africa that were not brought there by Whites.
        Without continuous intervention, Blacks cannot even maintain what Whites gave them. Abos are in a similar fix.
        19 of the 20 poorest countries are sub-Saharan African.
        The reason for my slavery lesson at September 19, 2017 at 10:34 am #
        is because it would do a world of good for people, especially blacks in America, to be taught some basics about the history of world slavery, so that they can get rid of the grudge about it and perhaps begin to heal the wound of feeling that they got such contemptible treatment because they were black. Sure, that may have been what the whites told themselves at that time, but there have been many iterations of slavery and all races have been enslaved.
        Whites have been enslaved, and made into eunuchs and so on, many times. There were slave raids into old Europe and white people and children were brought down to the Mediterranean slave markets. The ancient Greeks were dependent upon slaves. Plato wrote sublime spiritual things, but had slaves and in no way was against it. The current racist backlash against whites needs to be stopped because it is just our turn lately. All sorts of bad things have been perpetrated by nearly everyone in history, and unless I miss my guess we’re soon going to find out how kind the (cruel) Chinese are.
        And in fact, blacks, at least in America, constantly test extremely high for self esteem.
        They are also very unlikely to commit suicide.
        There are no White Third-World nations, but all Black ones are.
        Highest National IQs:
        • 108 Singapore
        • 106 South Korea
        • 105 Japan
        • 105 China
        • 102 Italy
        • 101 Iceland
        • 101 Switzerland
        • 100 Austria
        • 100 Netherlands
        • 100 Norway
        Lowest National IQs:
        • 68 Somalia
        • 67 Guinea
        • 67 Haiti
        • 67 Liberia
        • 66 Gambia
        • 64 Cameroon
        • 64 Gabon
        • 64 Sierra Leone
        • 64 Mozambique
        • 59 Equatorial Guinea
        Blacks are proto-humans; modern man evolved by hybridizing with the large-brain Neanderthals:
        • Blacks = 2% Archaic admixture
        • Whites = 4% Neanderthal
        • Asians = 5% Neanderthal + Denisovan
        Genetic distance is a measure of the genetic divergence between populations. Blacks have a genetic distance of 0.23 from Whites and Asians, but only 0.17 from Erectus.
        That means Blacks are more genetically proximate to archaic man than to modern man.
        Blacks are the only race with no DNA from the large-brain Neanderthals. Civilizations didn’t begin until the Neanderthal hybridization created the larger brains in modern man:
        Brain Size by Race:
        • Black = 1267 cm³
        • White = 1347 cm³
        • Asian = 1364 cm³
        Brain Weight by Race:
        • Black = 1261 g
        • White = 1387 g
        • Asian = 1374 g
        Whites’ brains are faster, larger, denser, and more complex than Blacks’ brains:
        • 7% larger
        • 126 grams heavier
        • deeper fissuration in the frontal and occipital regions
        • more complex convolutions
        • larger frontal lobes
        • more pyramidal neurons
        • 16% thicker supra-grandular layer
        • one standard deviation more cerebrum
        • react faster on mental chronometry tests
        • 600 million more neurons
        –source unknown.

        • beantownbill. September 25, 2017 at 5:23 pm #

          IQ is mostly not based on the size of the human brain. What makes up so-called IQ (an artificially derived concept) is the number of connections between brain cells – IOW, the strength of the neural network. Many people with smaller brains have higher IQs than those with larger ones.

          Large brain size = high. IQ is a fallacy.

        • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 8:29 pm #

          Superb breakdown. The mixing of White and Hispanic statistics is maddening and criminal itself. Can you give any link about the Homo Erectus connection? I conjectured as much, based on the book “Homo Erectus Walks Among Us”, but has more been done since he ruined his career with it?

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 1:22 pm #

      Excessive Black clowning and preening is a huge problem. Zero sportsmanship and grossly offensive to White sensibilities. One got fined for stimulating a sex act after a tackle. Another one lifted his leg to simulate a male dog urinating. And of course the Touchdown Dance minstrel show.

      • beantownbill. September 25, 2017 at 5:25 pm #

        Uh, I watch football and I see white players posturing as well.

        • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 8:31 pm #

          Not as often or as much. C’mon, be fair. Let go of your hatred of Whites.

          • beantownbill. September 26, 2017 at 12:55 pm #

            I have no hatred of Whites; you jump to conclusions because you think I’m a liberal Jew (who are ok in my book, albeit a little naive). But you don’t know me at all; I’m no liberal. I prefer to think of myself as rational. I don’t think hatred is rational. In fact, that’s what has put humanity in the shape it’s in now.

            Since there are more Blacks in the NFL than Whites, of course there’s more Black showboating. Again you are jumping to conclusions – just because you see more Blacks posturing you think they have more tendencies to posture because they are black. To me, that is irrational thinking.

          • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 1:08 pm #

            Blacks showboat way more than others. Whites imitate them. Your ideology gets in the way of clear observation and clear analysis.

    • sophia September 25, 2017 at 2:09 pm #

      Hear, hear!

    • My Point of View September 25, 2017 at 7:19 pm #

      Thank you Walter. I’m one of those who admire accomplishments like the Golden Gate Bridge, Empire State Building, Hoover Dam, busy rail yards, Iowa-Class battleships, Grand Central Terminal and a thousand other great structures. One of my favorite old buildings is the Pentagon where I worked a few times as a civilian and found it a fascinating place. I was at my desk on 9-11 when the plane hit and was glad to be wrapped amid 350,000 cubic yards of concrete sitting on 17,000 telephone poles pounded into the swampland.

      I’ve spent a lot of time looking at photos on the Library of Congress website from the Great Depression of guys who built the dams for the TVA region. Captions noted some guys only had 2nd grade educations but hard skills that put those dams into place and stopped the annual flooding of Nashville and other areas in the region. Building this country was a job done by both black and white Americans which is something we can all be very proud of.

  4. seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 10:13 am #

    I think we are seeing the beginning of the end of the National Football League. Why on earth this country is so enamored with a game that turns your mind to mush is beyond me. I think they should remove the military and the flag and the national anthem from the games. The time has come to address the systemic racism in this country, and there is only one way to do it. Make serious examples out of any cop that kills a black man or woman or child under suspicious circumstances. Make it the equivalent of a hate crime or anti-trust crime, with treble the penalty. No more wink wink, nod nod look the other way. Face it. Head on. End it. Frankly I’m sick of talking about it. I cannot believe in 2017 America is still on this broken record.

    • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 10:25 am #

      An important part of that would be the definition of “suspicious circumstances”. The cops shouldn’t be above the law, but they are entitled to fair treatment under the law too.

      And of course it should apply to killing anyone, not just black men and women.

      • michics September 25, 2017 at 10:51 am #

        Part of the reason Cops get away unpunished is they have been given an escape clause. “I feared for my life” They can use this in almost all situations and the courts are siding with them.

      • Walter B September 25, 2017 at 11:08 am #

        Absolutely. Any event where an armed person kills an unarmed other person should be thoroughly investigated and dealt with fairly though it surely will never happen. I argue with my police family and friends that if even occasionally a wrongful shooting was admitted to (they certainly DO happen) then perhaps the public would not have such a strong case for “taking care of their own” (which certainly DOES happen). On the other side, any person that is accosted by any law enforcement officer had better think a little bit about how they behave. I was pulled over by a cop late at night in 1980 for what I had no clue. After sitting there for over 20 minutes waiting for something to happen, I opened my door, stepped out and turned to face the cop car behind mine. I was greeted by the sight of the cop kneeling behind his open door pointing his pistol at me and yelling “Get back in the car!” “Yes sir” I quickly replied and complied without word. In the end it turned out that he had stopped my similar vehicle to the one he was looking for and it all worked out without me getting shot. I am of the opinion that a little bit more thinking and a little less bravado might be the best way to reduce the number of wrongful deaths from such incidents.

    • James Howard Kunstler September 25, 2017 at 10:28 am #

      Seawolf says: “Make serious examples out of any cop that kills a black man or woman or child under suspicious circumstances.”
      Are you out of your mind? There is something called due process of law in this land. You don’t punish people on mere suspicion. — JHK

      • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 10:56 am #

        The last straw for me was when that cop shot and killed that little boy who had a toy gun. As they say on ESPN, C’MON MAN!

        • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 11:15 am #

          The last straw for me was when that cop shot and killed that little boy who had a toy gun

          Was he little or 6 feet tall?
          The toy was changed to make it look like a real gun.
          Family got the ghetto lottery.

          • Walter B September 25, 2017 at 11:28 am #

            The massive payouts at taxpayers expense is a real crime as well.

          • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 11:37 am #

            First of all, the kid was not killed, so let’s start with facts.

            The kid had a “toy” gun that looked exactly like a real gun. It’s not like he was playing in the sandbox with a water pistol. The event was tragic,and perhaps could have been handled better (I would say that almost any police shooting could have been handled better, and that is in no way a criticism of the cops), but it sems to havebeen a justifiable shooting. I might question the statement that the kid was shot while running away, but I trust that was properly invetigated.

            The fact is that the vast majority of police shootings are justified. And even the unjustified ones could have been prevented by the victim in most cases. That doesn’t make them acceptable, but it does suggest another path to reduce the numbers.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 11:46 am #

            Try these facts.
            en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice

          • Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter September 25, 2017 at 11:52 am #

            Heck, they can be 6 years old now.

          • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 11:53 am #

            That is a different kid. Unfrtunatley he did die. Also probably a justified shooting. Also, very sad and could have been so easily prevented.

            Once again, could have been handled better by the cops.

          • Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter September 25, 2017 at 11:56 am #

            Dang it, one of my cats hit the ENTER key before I finished! Sooo, here is one of a 6 year old black kid with a REAL gun prissing around Chicongo:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQlj9EeiRYI

            This is a good video to listen to in the background as Tommy S. reveals a lot of reality about life in a black culture.

            Plus, does seawolf really think that a cop is supposed to take the time to figure out whether a gun is real or not??? Didn’t John Dillinger break out of prison with a bar of soap carved to look like a gun???

            Squeeky Fromm
            Girl Reporter

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 11:57 am #

            Sounds to me you never saw a shooting you couldn’t justify.

          • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 12:08 pm #

            There have been lots of shootings that were not justified. In some cases the cops went to jail. In other cases, there was not enough evidence to convict them. Some of them were fired; some were not.

            But the fact remains that the vast majority of police shootings are justified. More importantly, many of the high profile ones that lead to protests also turn out to be justified. In the long run, that only hurts the cause of those protesting the shootings.

            People see these massive protests, and even riots, and then the facts wind up implicating the victim. Then when a truly bad shooting does happen, people are less likely to believe the complaints. Kind of like the boy who cried wolf.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:11 pm #

            Name one.

          • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 12:15 pm #

            Name one what?

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:25 pm #

            Justified shooting.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:26 pm #

            Oops I meant unjustified shooting.

          • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 12:31 pm #

            Offthe top of my head, Walter Scott. If you need more, let me know.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:40 pm #

            There was a video of him shooting a fleeing unarmed man. He pleaded guilty. This is not what I am asking for. Show me the due process working for blacks. A conviction by the courts.

          • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 12:43 pm #

            He was arrested, charged and plead guilty. What’s wrong wth that?

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:51 pm #

            Due process means the courts. Show me a court case where a cop killed a black man and was arrested and convicted by the courts and sent to jail. And don’t bring up the Katrina bridge shootings. They were found innocent by Louisiana courts and the Feds had to step in.

          • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 12:58 pm #

            Due proccess does involve the courts, but for the most part it refers to the rights of the defendent, in this case the cop. So it probably isn’t the term you want to use here.

            That said, the Walter Scott case did involve, as you say, “the courts”. That’s where he was indicted and that’s where he pled guilty. If he hasn’t already been sentenced, that is also where he will be sentenced.

            But since you ask for a jury conviction, I’ll suggest Peter Liang, the NYC cop indicted for manslaughter in an accidental shooting a few years ago.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 1:06 pm #

            Wrong again on two counts. The guys not doing any time.
            http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-liang-sentencing-20160419-story.html
            The perpetrator was Asian American. I am talking about a white cop killing a black man, arrested and convicted by the courts and now in jail.

          • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 1:41 pm #

            I’m not sure where you are going here. I have stated several times that cops do commit unjistified killings. You then stated that I never saw a shooting I couldn’t justify. I’m not even sure where that came from.

            You mentioned a kid killed by a cop, but linked to a story about a kid who was not killed. I pointed that error out.

            But then you asked for an unjustified one, even though I have stated that there are unjustified ones. I gave you such a case.

            Then you said, no you want an unjustified one that went ttrough the courts. I pointed out that that one did go through the courts.

            Then you wanted one that went throught the courts, but also had a conviction by a jury. I gave you that too.

            Then you said it had to be a white cop, not an Asian cop, (even though your original post said “any cop”) that was convicted by a jury and is in jail now. What’s next, he has to be a close relative of the judge too?

            But I’ll indulge you yet again: Robert Bates. White cop, black victim, convicted by jury, in jail. Good enough?

            Of course, this all started when you yourself suggested that due process should not be given to the cop. Both I and our host had to call you out on that one.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 2:25 pm #

            2nd degree manslaughter and 4 years. That’s the best you got? For taking another man’s life? Really?

          • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 3:09 pm #

            I correct your mistakes, and give you the facts for everything you ask for. You just keep asking for more. Like I said before, will you be insisting that the cop be the judge’s brother before you’re satisfied? I’m not sure where you are going with this or when it ends, but it’s getting kind of silly.

            The truth is that most police shootings are justified. Some are not. Some of the most recent protests were over justified shootings. That’s not good.

            Beyond that, we have due process that applies to everyone, and that requires evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. There are undoubtedly cases of unjustified shootings, but lacking adequate proof, the cop is not charged or is acquitted. That’s just the way our system works, and works that way on both sides. It’s not perfecr, but it’s better than the alternative.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 3:26 pm #

            I show you the paucity of convictions and you simply ignore the facts. When it comes to white policemen killing black men, police get away with murder all the time.
            Young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers in 2015, according to the findings of a Guardian study that recorded a final tally of 1,134 deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers this year.
            200 cases a year, every year. 2,000 a decade. 200,000 a century. And you bring me 2nd degree manslaughter and 4 years of prison time as an example of due process. You really should be ashamed of yourself.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 3:27 pm #

            20,000 a century.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 3:30 pm #

            And it’s not better than the alternative, which is to police the police better. There should be a new division in all police departments that investigates blacks being murdered by cops. Invariably there is systemic racism involved that could be sniffed out.

          • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 4:40 pm #

            First of all, you’re still not understanding due process. Due process is not a system to get people convicted; it is the sytem that insures the accused have every opportunity to defend themselves.

            I’m not ignoring any facts and you aren’t showing me any paucity of convictions. All you are doing is asking me for examples, and I keep providing what you ask for.

            We’re all aware that too many balck people are killed by cops. Too many white people are killed by cops too. Still, in the vast majority of these cases, the killing is justified. In most of the rest, there is insufficient evidence to convict the cop. By no stretch of the imagination do cops “get away with murder all the time”. That does sometimes happen, just as civilians get away with murder sometimes. That’s the unfortunate result of a less than perfect criminal justice system that bends over backward to protect the accused.

            It is also a result of class differences. In most cases, the cops have excellent defense attorneys. This has nothing to do with race; black cops have killed both black and white people.

            Blacks are indeed killed proportionally more than whites by police officers (though I believe more whites are still killed in total). There may even be some racism basis to this, but that is because the racism has resulted in a society where blacks are more likely to commit crimes. They are also more likely to be involved with police officers, for various reasons, possibly including institutional racism, but more likely just class differences.

            Nobody is suggesting that all police shootings should not be thoroughly investigated. I’m all for it. That is, by the way, a far better suggestion than “making serious examples of any cop that kills a black man…under suspicious circumstances”.

            At the end of the day, if we really want to reduce the number of police killiings, just stop committing crimes. And if you are detained, questioned or arrested by the police, behave yourself. As I said earlier, almost every police killing I can think of could have been prevented by the victim. That doesn’t make it okay, but it does make it preventable.

          • Graycenphil September 25, 2017 at 4:46 pm #

            “Young black men are 9 times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers”, by the way, is such a poor and misleading statistic That it should be classified as a lie.

            You are comparing young black men to the rest of the population, including babies, elderly women, teenage girls and old men. That is basically meanigless.

            What you want to do is compare young black men to young white men. If you can’t find the number, I will get it for you.

      • hmuller September 25, 2017 at 11:46 am #

        Seawolf thinks that Cleopatra with the help of Julius Caesar gave birth to Jesus Christ. Seawolf is an idiot.

        • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 11:55 am #

          No I said Caesarion’s story was repurposed by the Catholic Church so they could continue the Roman Empire under a religious guise.

          • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 2:30 pm #

            theroot.com
            13-year-old-boy-with-toy-gun-shot-by-baltimore-police-

            The Root Bwaaa…..the dead guy was a BIG 13 year old.

        • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 1:45 pm #

          Seagoof believes that hands up don’t shoot was real. Even though Eric Holder himself admitted that Darrin Wilson was innocent. And if you know Holder, you know how much he wanted to take him down. What did Mark Twain say? A lie is half way around the world before truth is even out of the starting blocks? Something like that.

          • sophia September 25, 2017 at 3:25 pm #

            Before the truth has got its pants on.

    • Anon1970 September 25, 2017 at 11:05 am #

      What about black men killing other black men? That’s most of the problem. YTD (as of 9/25), there have been 517 homicides in Chicago (from heyjackass.com). As of 9/18, 395 of the victims were black. Most of the perps have not been caught, but of the ones that were, 52 were black, 10 were police, 5 were Hispanic and 2 were whites/other. 8 were classified as self defense and 432 were unknown.

      In 2016, the city recorded a total of about 800 homicides up from 509 in 2015. The BLM protests in Chicago and other cities probably encouraged the police to be more careful in 2016 and to protect their own careers and lives. Less aggressive policing probably cost almost 300 residents their lives.

    • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 11:24 am #

      There is no “systemic racism” in a country where a black man was the highest official. Sorry. It just is not so.
      Neither is there a racial component to the police overreach issue. That also is simply not so.

      • sophia September 25, 2017 at 3:31 pm #

        That is correct. There are also very many blacks serving in high positions such as mayor. And more whites are shot by cops than blacks, correcting for their numbers in the population. Also, whites rarely shoot at cops.

        • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 3:39 pm #

          That is pure baloney.
          Young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers in 2015, according to the findings of a Guardian study that recorded a final tally of 1,134 deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers this year.

          • Sean Coleman September 25, 2017 at 4:38 pm #

            It could be different statistics measuring different things. Your Guardian article says nine times more likely than ‘other Americans’ but “four times the rate of young white men’.

            In this BBC article (sympathetic to BLM) it is claimed that the rate is three times.

            http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32740523

            The Independent (Britain) puts it at more than twice as high.

            I certainly don’t trust any of the above sources to be objective.

          • Sean Coleman September 25, 2017 at 4:45 pm #

            This article, on the other hand, argues that the rate is higher than would be expected from the black proportion of the population but less when compared with their estimated proportion of suspects “confronted in violent encounters or the Afro-American percentage of suspects who kill police officers.”

            https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17451000

            I haven’t read it.

          • elysianfield September 25, 2017 at 5:21 pm #

            “That is pure baloney.
            Young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers in 2015, according to the findings of a Guardian study that recorded a final tally of 1,134 deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers this year”

            Wolfie,
            9 times more likely? Why?

          • sophia September 25, 2017 at 9:26 pm #

            They commit more crimes Seawolf, and more violent ones, and most of the murders, and in most of the cases of these unarmed blacks getting shot, they had just committed crimes and were avoiding arrest and not cooperating. So, they were both dangerous, and acting erratically.

          • Doug September 26, 2017 at 3:45 pm #

            Because young blacks are committing serious crimes at 10 times the rate of whites. They are basically committing ALL the violent and other crimes. I see it every night on my TV screen. Surveillance cameras say what the newsreaders don’t.

            There have been some outrageous cases of police acting illegally, but the CDC database shows that police, when interacting with the public, police are twice as likely to shoot a white person compared to blacks. And the CDC has the largest and most definitive database for this kind of information, so, anyone claiming that blacks are being unfairly attacked by police is wrong. I know it feels that way, but it’s not factual. It’s lies.

            See for yourself: https://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_us.html

      • Doug September 26, 2017 at 3:42 pm #

        You’re right, so many lies and liars. The current NFL nonsense of disrespecting the National Anthem claiming systemic racism — or something like that –has it’s roots in a long string of misrepresentation and propaganda from MSM outlets and politician’s (most notably Obama) propagating this same incorrect information from about 3 years earlier.

        The entirely justified shooting of proven thug Michael Brown is the source of the bullshit “hands up, don’t shoot” protests and part of the Black Lives Matter nonsense. It’s all bullshit and both of these “movements” are based on lies.

        The lies came from Media propaganda race baiters and politicians that keep repeating these lies for years. That’s the Left’s modus operandi: keep repeating lies or falsehoods often enough and it begins to have the feeling of facts— even when it’s not true. As a result, there’s been frequent “hands up don’t shoot” protests for the past several years and as far away as in London but it’s all based on lies.

        The Black Lives Matter was based on widely perceived unfair shootings of black suspects by white cops. There have been some outrageous cases of police acting illegally, but the CDC database shows that police, when interacting with the public, police are twice as likely to shoot a white person compared to blacks. And the CDC has the largest and most definitive database for this kind of information, so, anyone claiming that blacks are being unfairly attacked by police is wrong. I know it feels that way, but it’s not factual. It’s lies. And no media outlet would ever report facts that correct these prevailing falsehoods, so the lies have taken on a life on their own. This suits the Left Wing media’s goal of attacking police and white people while hiding the despicable nature and huge numbers of black criminals and shocking levels of crime in black areas. They never expose the virtual war zone that police operate in when confronting black suspects.

        Then there’s the highly despicable Michael Brown case, where a young and fat black thug robbed and roughed-up a convenience store clerk just minutes before his attack on Officer Wilson in Ferguson. What’s really despicable here is that ABC News was running with the entirely made-up story that Michael was an angelic guy headed to college even days after video was widely available about his robbery and assault at the convenience store.

        Then protests erupted based on false reporting and black businesses in Ferguson are destroyed and black people are injured. If it were left to the black politicians, black race- baiters and protesters, they would surely pursue mob justice. But in civilized white America, we have rule of law and due process. Months later the Grand Jury declined to indict Wilson.

        The Ferguson riots became a media circus full of poseurs and race baiters. The whole story really fell apart but black people clung to the racist charges because that’s what they are taught.

        I read the transcript from the Grand Jury inquiry into the Michael Brown shooting. First of all, witnesses confirm that Michael was assaulting officer Wilson while he was seated in his car. (his 2nd assault in 20 minutes!) He was enraged and completely out of control. Michael was trying to gain control of Wilson’s gun by reaching into the car and wrestle away the gun. Can you imagine? Brown WAS insane or had a death wish. Then, most witnesses said that Michael at first was walking away then turned and charged at Wilson causing the gunshots that killed him. This charging was confirmed by forensic evidence. He might have had his hands up as Wilson commanded but he still was charging. So, the media lies and never corrects the record.

        So. fast forward 3 years, and idiot Kaepernick started to protest alleged racism at football games. Did anyone ask him to be more specific?? I doubt it. Now you have entire black-dominated NFL involved in this idiotic protesting — all based on false stories and fake news. The MSM must be proud.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 1:29 pm #

      Yes, there’s truth in that. I don’t like football either, but Men are willing to risk their health and lives in pursuit of victory, wealth, or just for the thrill of accomplishment and danger. Blacks find the life threatening sports bizarre and believe the largely Nordic Whites who engage in them to be crazy and dangerous. But I defend the rights of both groups to put their bodies on the line in pursuit of excellence as they understand it.

      But yes, the young boys injured for life in high school, boys who never had a chance of making money with it or even going beyond high school or lower level college play.

    • sophia September 25, 2017 at 3:15 pm #

      Seawolf, the stats tell a different story. A black person in the course of being arrested is more likely to be shot by a black cop than a white cop. Just because you hear something, does not make it true. when will you left wing lemmings stop opening your mouths like little baby birds begging for the worms of disinformation and gobbling them up? You are so naive! So trusting!

      And yet, there was a time when the left (of my youth) knew that the mainstream was not to be trusted, the the government lied. Now that they’re older they’ve gone soft in the head.

      • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 3:38 pm #

        Prove it. Show me that stat.

        • sophia September 25, 2017 at 9:21 pm #

          Posted below and it’s not the first time I have heard that. You don’t want to believe it…why?

          • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 9:32 am #

            You’re quoting David Duke and you’re asking me why I don’t believe you?

    • My Point of View September 25, 2017 at 7:23 pm #

      I watch less football every year, the game is getting boring and the 3+ hours of TV time is so full of stinking commercials that I just won’t watch it unless I record a game and fast forward through all the crap. Like baseball, I watch the highlight reels and call it a done deal.

  5. Cavepainter September 25, 2017 at 10:26 am #

    Guess I missed something; I thought the NFL today recruited mostly out of prisons.

    Being 80, I remember my two brothers, brother-in-law and uncle returning to civilian life following service in WWII embarrassed by necessity of piecing together daily wardrobe that included military uniform — they were anxious to be viewed as civilians rather than warriors though decorated for that service.

    And,…..Ella could actually sing.

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    • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 11:25 am #

      Oh yes, Ella.

  6. Phutatorius September 25, 2017 at 10:27 am #

    I was shocked last year when I attended a professional symphony orchestra concert to find that it opened with the national anthem. It wasn’t even a “pops” concert. I think the word for this sort of excess is jingoism.

    • elysianfield September 25, 2017 at 11:49 am #

      “I think the word for this sort of excess is jingoism.”

      Phuta,

      Sorry, but I have to disagree with you and, by extension, our Host. A cynical observation of patriotic symbols find the examples quoted merely benefitting the Corporates…that the great unwashed are being shamelessly manipulated for the good of dark objectives.

      What is one of the human responses to citizenship, if not pride in the country or tribe in which you belong? Who has not, in their youth, been a participant in a fly-over and not had the hair raise on the back of their necks…even in these jaded times, the crowd still roar….

      Who pays for the flyover? Your taxes at work…and I , not once, begrudged the cost.

      I can accept your argument regarding jingoism if you can give me a few examples of countries that do not have an anthem…that do not promote in their citizens a sense of pride.

      To deny citizenship, to deny jingoism, is the first step to Globalization….

      • sophia September 25, 2017 at 3:34 pm #

        I always take all the flag waving as tacit support for endless war.

      • Sean Coleman September 25, 2017 at 4:53 pm #

        I agree with you. I admire the way the Americans take their anthem and their flag seriously, in much the same way as I was pleased when I came to Ireland thirty years ago to see that a few people still made the sign of the cross when passing a church (as I had done in my childhood in London). I would not have thought this way about anthems and flags back in that time but I have changed my mind. If you Americans don’t have this then what is there to hold the country together?

        • Sean Coleman September 25, 2017 at 5:06 pm #

          “you Americans”

          I think you are French Canadian if I remember right.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 1:36 pm #

      I think it might be the “First Family” phenomena: as real family structure becomes weaker in America, we look more to symbolism from the White House. Once upon a time, a bachelor could become President. No chance now. Likewise perhaps, a America ceases to be a Nation, the people behind it will rev up the symbolism to calm people’s fears.

      • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 2:32 pm #

        Mayor Koch, NYC [or jew york city]..a ‘bachelor’—such gossip about that. And he lived in the Gay area.

        • James Howard Kunstler September 25, 2017 at 2:56 pm #

          I’vew just warned “Malthus” that if he comes on like this again — << Mayor Koch, NYC [or jew york city] >> — I’m going to kick him off. That goes for the rest of you too. –JHK

      • hmuller September 25, 2017 at 4:11 pm #

        I didn’t believe those stories about Michele Obama being a man with a full package. But she probably was a “beard”. At least according to those in Chicago who remember Bathhouse Barry O. Then there’s the curious case of Joan Rivers dying during minor surgery after she said some things about Obama best left unsaid.

  7. Lawfish September 25, 2017 at 10:31 am #

    Well said, Jim.

    What do you suppose would have happened to the court jester back in the day if he decided to use the time allotted to bowing to the king to stand up as a sign of solidarity in protest of the treatment of other non-royal citizens? A quick trip to the guillotine I would surmise.

    Those millionaire clowns being paid to play with a ball should get down on their knees every morning and thank God with all their hearts that they were born in this country and not Africa or the middle-east or some other third-world shit-hole. I don’t recall a lot of millionaire ball players in those areas.

    • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 11:32 am #

      Here is the woman driving Colin Kaepernick’s little protest:
      http://coed.com/2017/08/03/nessa-diab-photos-instagram-sexy-pictures-colin-kaeperkicks-girlfriend-hot-pics-kaepernick-gf/

      The face that launched a thousand ships. I probably shouldn’t say face, because that isn’t the part she spent serious money artificially enhancing.

      Yes, America, this is what the anthem protests started with. I am not joking.
      If you thought it had something to do with civil rights, you were wrong.
      It was some chick who wants to be famous, and some dude who wanted, really bad, to impress her. Despite his promising career prospects, she was way too hot for him.
      He had to be useful to her agenda in order to make up for that discepancy.

      • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 11:32 am #

        “Discrepancy”.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 6:15 pm #

        Ass enhancement?

  8. chuckyzfr1 September 25, 2017 at 10:35 am #

    As usual, Americans are collectively worried about the wrong things. Of course the politicians, to include the GGG, love to divert our attention from the myriad things that really matter, and redirect it to focus on the act of kneeling, and now linking arms, not coming out on the field, stretching, etc. during the National Anthem. Honestly who cares? Apparently some folks. Me personally, if an American Citizen, regardless of their status in life, wants to take a knee during the anthem to protest something, so be it. At least it’s not smashing store windows, burning and overturning cars, etc. and did anyone read the accounts of the behavior of the police in St. Louis the other day? Frankly, the police have gotten out of hand, imho. They have an unenviable job, but they chose it, and in a lot of places they aren’t living up to the social contract they have with us.

    • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 11:35 am #

      I think it’s partly that they are being deployed in places where the government already broke the social contract with the citizens.

      • DA September 25, 2017 at 12:13 pm #

        True that.

    • messianicdruid September 25, 2017 at 11:36 am #

      Keep going chuckyzfr1′ you are on a roll! More, more!

      • DA September 25, 2017 at 12:13 pm #

        Agreed.

    • elysianfield September 25, 2017 at 12:09 pm #

      “Honestly who cares? Apparently some folks. Me personally, if an American Citizen, regardless of their status in life, wants to take a knee during the anthem to protest something, so be it. ”

      Chucky,
      Who cares? I do. It is an affront to our country and culture. The fact that those clowns have a right to protest does not mean I have to like it, or to respect their motives….

      “Frankly, the police have gotten out of hand, imho”

      You have taken a pull on the jug of Kool Aid on this topic…you accept the Media’s spin. Law Enforcement is not out of control…there are, as usual, egregious incidents, a few, and these are to be expected when a majority of cops are…human. With the intensity of repetition the media is generating, it seems like untoward incidents are occurring every day, every hour, but statistically, the events, while outrageous, are insignificant in number.

      While the event currently in the news is being decried to the heavens, millions upon millions of police-citizen contacts have occurred….and do so every day. Where are the thousands of new outrages?

      Perspective, please.

      • chuckyzfr1 September 25, 2017 at 4:50 pm #

        You’re entitled to be outraged at protestors if you so choose.

        With regard to the police issue, I could just as easily accuse you of taking a pull on Fox News’s kool aid, if you actually do believe that there is no problem with our police, and the instances cited by the press just amount to anomalies.

        I’m one of the most suspicious consumers of news, but when you can watch endless cellphone video on YouTube of cops bristling with military gear, taunting citizens with insults, jeering at them, beating them, it should give you pause.

        Maybe the dozen or so stories people told about the behavior of the St. Louis cops were all fabricated, or cherry picked. But I don’t think so. A close friend of my wife’s, who is a cop in an urban area near us, bragged about how they just summarily shoot dogs that approach them on calls. It’s become so commonplace that it doesn’t make the news anymore. Utterly unconscionable imho.

        The plain fact for me personally is that I’m a member of the ruling elite class; white, reasonably affluent, college educated. Every single encounter I personally have had with the police has reflected this. Even when I’ve done something idiotic, like ride a 3-gear wheelie down the highway, they’ve always been professional and courteous to me. At the same time, if I turn a blind eye towards how the police treat my less fortunate fellow citizens, I can be sure that it’s just a matter of time until they morph into something that I will one day have to fear as well.

        • elysianfield September 25, 2017 at 5:36 pm #

          ” Every single encounter I personally have had with the police has reflected this. Even when I’ve done something idiotic, like ride a 3-gear wheelie down the highway, they’ve always been professional and courteous to me.

          Chucky,
          You prove my point…your experiences do not reflect your premise…you make an assumption that others are treated shabbily because of their race…but you have never been involved in an incident, nor observed one from the beginning. You have, I am sorry to say, no perspective other than that which you see on the Tee Vee.

          Premise; What if blacks are prone to obstructive behavior, argument, and refusal to accept lawful orders? What if it is a cultural thing? What if their feelings of victimization overcome their good common sense?

          My best advice to you would be to participate in a ride-along program at your nearest urban law enforcement agency.

          P.S. I don’t watch Fox news.

          • sophia September 25, 2017 at 9:32 pm #

            In a high crime area.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 6:16 pm #

      Taking the knee leads is one link in the chain of cause and effect that will lead to more smashing of windows and Whites.

  9. michics September 25, 2017 at 10:42 am #

    I agree with most of the previous comments this morning. And regarding the NFL, I too am tired of the whole organization. My opinion is that the players are employees of the team owners and chose to be there to entertain us. That’s the product the owners are selling. Entertainment! That being said Kappernick should have been fired by the 49er’s the first time he kneeled for bring unfavorable press on his employer. All the rest of the working stiffs surely would be if we did something like this to bring ill press to our company. If the 49er’s had done this we would not be talking about it year later. Would have been done and over with.
    In regards to the NFL in general they have been going in the wrong direction for years. A couple examples: Games used to over in 3 hours. Not it takes 3.5 to 4 do the continues reviews of plays. And the players are at fault as well. Watch how slow they move on the field anymore. They walk back to the huddle, walk from the huddle to the line, The get 45 seconds between plays and take every bit of it. The game can put you to sleep. Did anyone see the Bears player yesterday on a long run to the end zone slow to a walk so he could celebrate and got caught by a defensive player who knocked the ball lose ? It was ridiculous. That player should be benched. But no. If they did that then some people would say that was his right celebrate. No wonder attendance is down. And as for the rightous NASCAR, they have their problems as well. Way to many driver penalties and constant tweaking of the rules. Let them race!

    • Doug September 26, 2017 at 3:49 pm #

      Agree with you entirely. I’m going to only watch college ball. It’s more fun.

  10. dolph9 September 25, 2017 at 10:49 am #

    I’ve read the comments. As far as any so called difference between the noble, heroic working man in America and the overpaid athlete prima donnas, no such difference exists.

    It’s consistently been my experience that the working class men are the biggest supporters of sports, worship athletes, and consistently spend their paychecks driving to the games and buying up all the merchandise.

    In America, it’s the liberal, academic, nerdy, wimpy, despised “wusses and pussies” who ignore sports and treat them with the contempt they deserve.

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    • pequiste September 25, 2017 at 11:07 am #

      Your observation is spot on. I’ve noticed the same thing —I find it so very puzzling.

      • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 11:08 am #

        Spectator sports is about adrenaline. Doubt me? Go to a bar where the cheering happens.

      • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 11:27 am #

        It’s the same with Republicans who vote against their own interests. Consistently. They vote to take away healthcare. It’s unbelievable. Why can’t Republicans DO something, instead of UNDOING? I think it is utterly hilarious that a bunch of old white men can’t undo what a young black man did. Irony, thy name is Trump.

        • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 11:38 am #

          Again, I know way too many people who had some form of “health care” and LOST IT, due to the passage of Obamacare.
          Insurance is NOT “health care”.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 11:52 am #

            Please elaborate.

        • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 2:33 pm #

          Show me the due process working for blacks.

          OJ.
          George Zimmerman, the Black Latino…oops, White Latino.
          Bill Cosby.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 2:49 pm #

            We’re talking due process of white cops who “accidentally” shoot young black men. OJ was such a hit because for once blacks won one. Look at the chain above with Gracie poo. At the end 2nd degree manslaughter and 4 years of prison time was the best she could come up with. That is stunning.

    • janet September 25, 2017 at 11:27 am #

      “In America, it’s the liberal, academic, nerdy, wimpy, despised “wusses and pussies” who ignore sports and treat them with the contempt they deserve.” –dolph9

      Good point!

      Personally, I agree with Stevie Wonder, who got down on both knees to pray for America before he sang at a music festival.

      I would pray for the souls of the law enforcement officers who can arrive at a park and in less than three seconds shoot dead a Black child playing in that park… and then be acquitted.

      I pray for the souls of all law enforcement officers who enjoy impunity after killing unarmed Black people. Protesting that slaughter was the original intent of Colin’s silent nonviolent moment with one knee down.

      • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 11:39 am #

        Do you get your talking points out of a vending machine?

      • Q. Shtik September 25, 2017 at 5:28 pm #

        I would pray for the souls of the law enforcement officers who can arrive at a park and…

        I pray for the souls of all law enforcement officers who enjoy impunity after… – janet

        ==============

        I pray that Colin Kaepernick gets a haircut. He looks friggin’ ridiculous.

        • beantownbill. September 25, 2017 at 5:57 pm #

          You are funny, Q.

      • elysianfield September 25, 2017 at 5:52 pm #

        “I pray for the souls of all law enforcement officers who enjoy impunity after killing unarmed Black people.”

        Janet,
        You DO know that the California Penal Code, in the early ’70’s still allowed deadly force to stop a fleeing felon? Oakland, being a relatively progressive department, did not allow shooting at fleeing felons…lives had to be in potential danger before deadly force was to be used.

        But as some lust in their heart…I committed acts of retribution in mine…your prayers are accepted…thank you.

        “Protesting that slaughter was the original intent of Colin’s silent nonviolent moment with one knee down”

        Janet, it is entirely a racist act to attribute good deeds to Colin, as it would be to attribute hateful ones…you have no idea what he is/was thinking. You would weep if you could hear his inner thoughts…desires….

      • Doug September 26, 2017 at 3:50 pm #

        You’re so full of shit. Fuck off.

        • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 4:56 pm #

          Doug,
          How so? Develop that thought.

  11. volodya September 25, 2017 at 10:54 am #

    “Taking the knee” is just more virtue signaling. What does it actually accomplish? It gives the impression of something worthwhile without any actual substance. It’s the flip-side of the posturing you see among White campus snowflakes. In those bubbles of narcissism for the absurdly privileged does any of their ululating help any object of their exaggerated concern? Nope, and that’s the point. It’s the easy way out because they’re not willing to help. Incur hardship or expense or inconvenience? You must be joking. All the dirty work is for someone else. Gestures are as far as they’re willing to go. It’s all about “look at me, look at me.”.

    I don’t know why Trump bothers. He’s got bigger problems than the play-acting of concussed multi-millionaire football players and billionaire team bosses.

    • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 10:57 am #

      I seem to remember JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis saying “This is the damn problem with men’s singles tennis…”

    • Bruce E September 25, 2017 at 3:42 pm #

      Trump bothers because this is the “circuses” part of the plan. He’s very good at circuses.

      I have yet to see him show himself competent in the “bread” part of the plan, but he’s got the circuses down pat…

  12. K-Dog September 25, 2017 at 10:59 am #

    Rise above it.

    The infamous Nazi Salute was adopted by the party in the 1930s and was a ‘compulsory’ greeting for all Germans as a sign of demonstration of respect and loyalty to the Fuhrer.
    During the 1936 rally, in the presence of Hitler himself, one man, August Landmesser.
    refused to salute.

    August Landmesser joined the Nazi party in 1931, slowly working his way up. But just two years after joining, Landmesser met Irma Eckler, a Jewish woman and fell madly in love, swiftly proposing to her in 1935.

    Nothing remains secret in Nazi Germany, and word soon spread of Landmesser’s engagement to Eckler, his love for a Jewish woman led to his expulsion from the Nazi party.

    Eckler and Landmesser filed a marriage application in Hamburg, but it was denied under Nuremberg law- a set of rules enforcing Jewish exclusion and further limitation of Jewish rights.
    Landmesser and Eckler welcomed a little girl, Ingrid in October 1935.

    Less than a year later Landmesser crossed his arms during the famous 1936 rally, in what would become one of the most famous photos taken during the second World War.

    As Nazi Germany became more and more powerful, Landmesser saw the need to escape with his family. He attempted to defect to Denmark with his wife and child. However, were unfortunately stopped and detained at the border. Landmesser and his family were charged with “dishonouring the race” and “racial infamy.”

    Their story does not have a happy ending and it is a story not off-topic regarding this latest Trumpsh embarrassment.

    The famous photo

    We are in a situation now where some Americans do well and some do not because our economic system currently encourages disparity as never before. Many Americans are now being left behind the prosperity train at breakneck speed. Many happen to be black.

    If this causes some of their brothers with conscience to bend the Knee, good for them. Things are not hunky-dory. Everyone needs to be treated fairly and this is not happening.

    The large parts of America left behind by today’s economy

    Economic prosperity is concentrated in America’s elite zip codes, but economic stability outside of those communities is rapidly deteriorating.

    • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 11:04 am #

      Very germane and poignant. I thought I’d see Ali, but this is even better.

      • K-Dog September 25, 2017 at 11:10 am #

        Thanks

        • DA September 25, 2017 at 12:19 pm #

          Likewise. NICE WORK K-Dog! A big bowl of kibble and many ear scratches to you!

    • K-Dog September 25, 2017 at 11:08 am #

      The link to the photo worked but not the other. Here it is.

      https://www.axios.com/americas-fractured-economic-well-being-2488460340.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top-stories

      The raw form should work.

      It is good the photo link worked.

      I bet a lot of JHK readers only mouthed the words to the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ back in school and only pretend to sing the anthem when we are in a social situation which demands it now. Frankly I don’t even pretend, but since I;m a white American under my fur I’m entitled to an opinion so it is no big deal.

      It is good to be me.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 6:22 pm #

        Do you want to be a slave? I’m sure many minorities would be happy to oblige you. Ever see those pictures of White Cucks who put on chains and walk around as slaves to please Blacks and appease their guilty consciences? You could do this too!

    • Q. Shtik September 25, 2017 at 5:46 pm #

      Reminds me of Kim Jong-un putting someone (an Uncle, I think) to death for not clapping with enough enthusiasm at some speech or occasion.

      • elysianfield September 25, 2017 at 5:55 pm #

        Q
        Yes, the uncle was blown apart be anti-aircraft cannon. Little Kim has a sense of style.

  13. Zoltar September 25, 2017 at 11:02 am #

    I do not watch the NFL, and none of its players is among my heroes. They are certainly paid extravagantly – whether enough to compensate them for orthopedic and cerebral compromise is for each to decide for himself, I suppose. But, after seeing the way Kaepernick has been de facto blacklisted by NFL owners, I do think these guys deserve some respect for risking so much for a show of principle.
    The point isn’t whether guys who get paid more per game than I have been in my lifetime have much to complain about; it is that they have a huge forum for getting the public’s attention, in this sports-crazed society. Eric Garner couldn’t get the cops to pay attention when he told them they were choking him to death. Public revulsion over police using excessive force against black miscreants has failed to get the attention of police review boards or of our judicial system. But a comparative handful of big guys in shoulder pads, enabled by a loud-mouthed knucklehead in the Oval Office, are damn sure getting everyone’s attention.
    The problem is not unpatriotic football players, it is undisciplined police violence against blacks. I can imagine a more apposite solution than this brouhaha at NFL games, but I do not see one at hand. If America’s NFL gladiators can use their big stage to catalyze some change in American law enforcement, then good for them.

    • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 11:09 am #

      But, after seeing the way Kaepernick has been de facto blacklisted by NFL owners, I do think these guys deserve some respect for risking so much for a show of principle.
      What principle? That he hates himself? Or his Black daddy who abandoned him?

      • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 11:43 am #

        See my post about the girlfriend.

      • Zoltar September 25, 2017 at 12:15 pm #

        Do you actually have the vaguest idea what this discussion is about?

        Or would you rather talk about your feelings about your daddy?

      • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 3:55 pm #

        Exactly. He was fired. He paid for his stand against police brutality with his livelihood and everyone here in Houston, Texas thinks he’s a piece of shit. Everyone. Those exact words. “He’s a complete piece of shit.” He’s got more character in his little finger than they have in their whole body.

        • Q. Shtik September 25, 2017 at 5:57 pm #

          He was fired. – seawolf

          ===========

          He was not that good of a QB.

          • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 9:35 am #

            The absolute bedrock of conservatism is that only people who believe like they do will be allowed success. For everyone else, sabotage until they get the message: Change or get the fuck out.

      • ozone September 25, 2017 at 6:00 pm #

        Badkiss (malthuss),
        By immediate and many jerkings-of-the-knee (rather than the bending thereof) do you veer into the arena of Archetype, the infamous pedestal of “some other” over-posters on this site. I applaud!

        Go on wid yo bad se’f, honkey hero!
        (Just as much as McDonald’s, I’m luvin’ it. Camo’s ‘n’ fries mutha-fucka, yeeeaa!)

        • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 6:27 pm #

          Don’t be weird. You’re not good at it. You’re really a dork, albeit a hateful one. You’re good at that.

        • ozone September 25, 2017 at 9:34 pm #

          Huh, ain’t that funny?
          vladdie, the minion, mercenary and all-purpose archetype, had to go back and check on his misbegotten progeny, just so he could stick in his shit-smeared beak. Uberstate, thou stinketh of desperation to squelch the smallest of thy unbelievers and critics.

          Time grows short indeed! The clampdown cometh. (Even some of its most trusted troopers will be sickened by its brutality.)

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 6:25 pm #

      Zontar: The problem is Black criminality – against other Blacks and other races. Of course the Police hate these surly brutes! Sometimes they go too far – they’re only human….

  14. volodya September 25, 2017 at 11:03 am #

    Tony the Weiner got 21 months for sexting a kid. Hillary’s State Dept emails were found on his lap-top. You can’t make this shit up. How Hillary avoided the slammer is beyond me.

    • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 11:12 am #

      Did Weiner go to jail?

      The Clintons have done soooo many illegal things, no jail time for them, yet.

      • volodya September 25, 2017 at 11:23 am #

        I heard that he just got sentenced. I don’t know if they cuffed him and dragged him off.

        • outsider September 25, 2017 at 11:55 am #

          I understand that Weiner’s 15 month sentence won’t start until November. That may give him plenty of time to appeal.

          • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 2:35 pm #

            yes.

          • beantownbill. September 25, 2017 at 6:06 pm #

            Wiener got 21 months, and part of his plea deal was that he couldn’t appeal if his sentence was between 21-27 months.

    • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 11:50 am #

      Hillary is actually trying to use Weiner’s travails to get sympathy for herself.
      The allegation was made that this girl contacted Anthony in order to influence the election.
      Okay, lets look more closely at that. Yes, I believe this girl was put up to getting in touch with Anthony, but as far as to harm Hillary, whoever put her up to it would have had to know that Hillary had emails on Anthony’s computer.
      How would anyone outside of Huma know that?
      I do think there should be an investigation and charges against whoever misused this girl, but that will never happen.
      Hillary blithely blames both Weiner and Comey for her loss, without mentioning the fact of they wayward emails being at the root of it.
      What a piece of work.

      • volodya September 25, 2017 at 2:51 pm #

        Yeah, it was emails and the fact that she’s as phony as a three dollar bill and has never answered a question in her life and a veritable shit-load of other stuff that disqualified her for the presidency ten times over.

      • volodya September 26, 2017 at 11:46 am #

        And it’s ALWAYS about Hillary and always will be. I just don’t comprehend the people that hang around her.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 6:29 pm #

      He should bring her down with him. He should have been allowed to shamble off into the darkness which gave him birth. Bringing down Huma was the purpose for which he was created. Now that he has served his purpose, he should be released from his human identity.

  15. Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 11:04 am #

    This wasn’t stirred up by this president. It was stirred up by the previous one.
    Colin Kaepernick wasn’t reacting to any grievances, he was trying to impress his girlfriend, a member of BLM, which is the creation of the MSM, to help distract while America goes under.
    Distract from what?
    Distract from who it is that is pulling America under.

    Those military/patriotism displays were merely another example of a distraction. Since I don’t follow football (my interest in the sport began and ended with Broadway Joe), I was not aware that these excessive displays were a relatively new thing. Since 2009, in fact. Gee, what happened in 2009 that needed to be distracted from?
    Now that there is a new guy in the White House, and I mean really new, that particular distraction isn’t of any use, in fact, it is actually counter-productive to the agenda.
    What do our anthem and flag have to do with police overreach in America? Precious little.
    So when we see some smitten dummy staging his own little protest, and we see his employer allowing it, and a president falsely stating he (the dummy) had the right, and the MSM even inventing a new term for his ridiculous display of ego (taking a knee?), we have to take a closer look at what is really going on here.
    Some people are criticizing the current president for making a big deal over this, as in ignore it and it will go away, but this latest insult to the fans was planned before the president’s tweets.
    What he’s really doing is calling attention to the fact that this is really a media story, the vast majority of America either are unaware of what is going on in the NFL, don’t care, or are opposed to it.

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    • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 11:09 am #

      When a black man goes to court and when a cop who kills a black man goes to court, the judge sits in between two American flags. That flag is the symbol of the force of the state that black men feel is unfairly used against them. Blacks go to jail in numbers far greater than their per capita representation of the population and cops who kill blacks get off far more than they should.

      • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 11:13 am #

        Blacks go to jail in numbers far greater than their per capita representation of the population.
        Earth to SW, Black MEN get arrested because they are criminals.

        • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 11:32 am #

          Have you ben to court lately? The vast majority of people in there are in there on drug charges, almost always cannabis possession. Those are not criminals. Those are kids who now have a criminal record for smoking a plant wrapped with paper. That is not a crime. The crime is putting a person in jail for doing it.

          • messianicdruid September 25, 2017 at 12:27 pm #

            I went to a surplus auction a few years ago. It was the county law enforcement selling off all the stuff [ except the cash ] they had confiscated from drug laws.

            I made myself an official looking badge to wear that said ” To Protect and Collect”. Got a lot of funny looks but no one said a word.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:35 pm #

            That’s funny. But it’s true. Drug dealers are nothing but Robin Hoods in reverse. They collect the money from the poor, then the government legally collects the money from them.

      • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 11:59 am #

        Oh, FFS. Do you think Kaepernick really made that leap?
        It would have perhaps meant something if he had done some sort of protest on his own time, but hijacking the arena to draw attention to himself was the easiest thing he could have done, short of pushing a La-Z-Boy out there so he could recline in comfort.
        Did you ever notice, that the one parent Hillary left out when she made a display of mothers of sons “murdered” by racist white police, was Tina Hunter?
        Why did President Obama take a personal interest in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, but when it came to LaQuan McDonald, he studiously ignored it?
        Because it would destroy the narrative he’d had the MSM construct so carefully.

        • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:21 pm #

          WTF are you saying he’s stupid? The guy walks the walk. He does work in the community, he works with the under privileged, and gives away lots of mula. Don’t disparage him until you know his story. Notice how he’s not said a word. Not even a tweet. That’s a smart guy, a class act.

          • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 12:59 pm #

            Who, Kaepernick or Obama? Yes, Kaepernick is stupid. So’s Obama.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 3:15 pm #

            Oh please. The entire country is talking about what he did, what he started, and even the president is talking about him and you have the temerity to call him stupid. He’s brilliant and you know it.

        • sophia September 25, 2017 at 4:08 pm #

          Why? Because he had been breaking into cars as the police watched and slashed one of their tires with a knife and tried to get away from the police?

      • Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter September 25, 2017 at 12:05 pm #

        Know what? If I was a rich black millionaire, I would sure move to a black-run country where I would be safe from all the racial oppression! Somewhere like the black paradises of Haiti, or Nigeria, maybe. Heck, with all that money, I could even take a lot of black folks with me!

        And them all being nascient little pharoahs and princesses and builders of pyramids, could have the whole dang continent of Africa whipped into shape in no time!

        I mean, just look at the wonderful jobs they have done in Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, etc.!

        Squeeky Fromm
        Girl Reporter

        PS: This is meant to be taken seriously, and is not any kind of sarcasm or irony. I swear!

        • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:24 pm #

          What are the Republicans doing right now? They are doing their utmost best to UNDO what the black president did. Exactly what more do you need to see racism? A marching band. UNDOING what Obama did. Repeal and replace. For 7 freakin years I’ve heard it. Now they own the government and nada. A big fat goose egg.

          • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 1:05 pm #

            They didn’t undo a thing. Unless you count Jeff Sessions halting the DOJ practice of taking money from corporations and instead of giving it back to the people, handing it out to favored leftist causes.
            That was one Republican, not “Republicans”. They Republican branch of the Uniparty is just fine with the Democrat branch.
            That’s why the last election was supposed to be a Bush/Clinton contest, so no one, not even Bernie, could get in there and see what they’ve really been up to.
            There is racism in not allowing boys in girls’ locker rooms? I did not know that.

        • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 6:37 pm #

          That’s because Whites still exist and are oppressing them with their minds or vicious microaggressions. Once the Honkies are ALL gone, Blacks will shine like the Sun Kings they are. The Pyramids are actually Space Ships!

      • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 6:32 pm #

        So you think Blacks should only go to jail 13% of the time since that’s their percentage of the population? What an insane dummy you are. How about we only let them to be 13 percent of the NBA and NFL too?

        Equal treatment of unequal people is tyranny. Free Men aren’t equal. Equal Men aren’t free.

        • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 11:08 am #

          Janos,
          Well said.

    • hmuller September 25, 2017 at 11:16 am #

      I agree Beryl, there are far too many distractions going on, including all that maudlin, super-patriotic chest pounding. Where are we, the Nuremberg rallies? Meanwhile, who notices our Constitutional rights being stripped away by an authoritarian Orwellian system called Globalism (or if you prefer The New World Order).

      This doesn’t happen naturally or be accident. The Globalist engineers of public opinion play us like idiots with emotional ploys, false flag attacks, MSM propaganda, lies, and disinformation. They divide and pit Americans against each other over “identity politics”, like evil juveniles putting red and black ants into a jar and shaking it.

      Order out of chaos is their motto and their agenda.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 6:38 pm #

        No, Americans are already divided. Race is very real and Blacks don’t identify with White Nations and will never do so. We’re far too alien as are our Nations.

        • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 11:09 am #

          “No, Americans are already divided”

          Janos,
          Well over 400 posts Tuesday AM. Noses open….

    • messianicdruid September 25, 2017 at 11:55 am #

      “…we have to take a closer look at what is really going on here.”

      How? I have friends and relatives that would rather take a beating than read from the title of today’s entry to this comment. And to try to discuss it – forget it, way too many prejudices. Maybe I am part of the problem not being confrontational enough.

      But, absolutely, we all need to take a closer look.

  16. hmuller September 25, 2017 at 11:04 am #

    The Globalists hate Donald Trump because he stands in the way of their prison planet agenda. They keep raising stupid, trivial issues to discredit him. Unfortunately, Trump keeps rising to take the bait. If he were wiser, he would appear presidential and above the mud slinging, while sending an attack dog like Bannon to engage the opposition.

  17. JohnAZ September 25, 2017 at 11:14 am #

    The demise of Aaron Hernandez brings up a very uncomfortable possibility for the NFL and the entire sport of football. The most damaged people from the sport die and are autopsied in Massachusetts. 95% of them are severely damaged by the sub-concussive continuous battering that football provides, not the obvious concussions that the league is trying to control. In other words, what they are trying to accomplish to stop the carnage does little to stop the damage. Dr. Umalu in the movie Concussion provided evidence that a significant part of the damage happens before the players enter the NFL. Is this the cause of the violence demonstrated by the players towards their families and friends? Very similar behaviors are demonstrated by brain damaged veterans! The NFL has spent millions countering this potential game changer, and continues to do so. The big bucks paid to the players still draws boys to men into this sport, with considerable support from their families. A doctor in Concussion said it well when he said the enemy of the NFL is Mom, who will stop the child abuse of their sons and dry up the talent pool. Now that we seem to be developing a pretty good picture of the damage of CTE, we do not seem to have progressed much since the Roman gladiator games 2000years ago.

    Sidebar. The racial politics evident in the NFL currently might change if the athletes, especially Black athletes, start to realize how they are being used by the league much to their health detriment. Maybe their union should worry more about CTE and less about a nebulous Anthem issue. But the the Left would not have this avenue to split apart the USA.

    • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:18 pm #

      There’s no way around it. The NFL is now dying. The Catholic Church will get Sunday back.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 6:40 pm #

      Yeah these Black Muscle Men should become Rhodes Scholars instead. What a loss to the world that they became brain damaged. Think of the literature they could have written and the discoveries they could have made!

  18. pequiste September 25, 2017 at 11:16 am #

    The real game is not the NFL or college football. Those activities are just really kid’s pastimes metamorphosized into really big show bizness (and a most wonderful social integrator.)

    The game afoot is the constant blinding of the Lumpen to the reality of a Society whose foundation (economic, military, social, etc.) being eroded to the point of collapse.

    The goal of the great game is not a touchdown with a point after, or to win the Super Bowl, but for The Evil Power to conquer, by any and all means possible, the once invincible United States of America.

  19. FincaInTheMountains September 25, 2017 at 11:24 am #

    All leading European Heads of States are lacking children in their families, so the don’t give a flying what’s gonna happen after them

    France, despite being a member of the UN Security Council with the right of veto, proposed the abolition of this very right and conducted appropriate work among the members of the organization.

    Repetition of bloody conflicts like the Syrian one is only a matter of time, and the international community should have more effective tools to stop such tragedies.

    It seems that Macron does not understand that if the “atrocities” took place in the world when the five leading countries had a veto, then as soon as this right is eliminated, the number of atrocities will increase by orders of magnitude.

    In this connection, a logical question arises: what is behind this Macron initiative? The answer can only be one: the leaders of the Western world have long worked in many respects only for PR, absolutely not thinking about what will happen after them – after all, they have no children to think of their future.

    39-year-old French President Emmanuel Macron is childless. Like the British Prime Minister Theresa May, who is married, but childless. The same situation in the personal life of the first Minister of Scotland, Nikola Sturgeon. The same German Chancellor Angela Merkel was married twice, but she also does not have any children. The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, is single and childless. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Italy Paolo Gentiloni is married, but the family has no children. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Leven also has no children. There is no information about the children of the last two prime ministers of Luxembourg. Acting Prime Minister Xavier Bettel is an open gay who joined the homosexual marriage in 2015. It is not reported about the progeny of his predecessor Jean-Claude Juncker.

    That’s what the realities of the Western world are. Therefore, it is difficult to expect from a childless man of 39 years, the president of France, who spends on perfumery, makeup artists and other female rubbish more than 25 thousand euros per month something meaningful.

    Any serious reform of the UN will either be a consequence of World War III, or its beginning, to which today none of the traditional war arsonists are obviously ready.

    At the same time no one doubts that the world will have a new global reformatting. The only question is whether humanity will plunge into socio-historical degradation after this military-political collapse or preserve the remnants of rational culture and thinking.

    However, the fact that the Third World War will mean the end of the Bible project – there is no doubt.

    • messianicdruid September 25, 2017 at 12:10 pm #

      “Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and upon His Kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”

      This is only “the Bible project” worthy of notice.

  20. Gonga Din September 25, 2017 at 11:25 am #

    From a certain standpoint, your military is the ultimate team sport, and the mindset agressively inculcated in the military is of a kind with sports, especially among the members most intimately exposed to hostilities. So, to show the colors at sporting events is good subconscious programming for attracting a steady stream of new blood with the kind of desireable attitudes needed to keep the wheels turning.

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    • Gonga Din September 25, 2017 at 11:31 am #

      So, to continue, the flyovers are probably budgeted under recruoting.

      • DA September 25, 2017 at 12:27 pm #

        I think they are exactly that. To the degree that the Pentagon actually “budgets” for anything anyway. I worked operational unit level budgets my last 7 years in the USAF, and I can assure you that anything above the nickel and dime level at which the troops actually operate (and the budget pinch is exceedingly hard 24/7/365) is all considered so much gravy.

    • TiredOfTheTreadmill September 25, 2017 at 11:32 am #

      Spot on.

      • messianicdruid September 25, 2017 at 12:12 pm #

        There seems to be a surplus tank or aircraft in every little burg in the country that should be hauled off and melted down for tableware.

    • AKlein September 25, 2017 at 11:37 am #

      Regarding the purpose of sports and sporting events, refer to Noam Chomsky’s commentary on the topic.

    • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 11:41 am #

      Exactly. The legal forward pass was introduced in 1906, although its impact was initially limited due to the restrictions placed on its use. Other rule changes introduced that year included the reduction of the time of play from 70 to 60 minutes and the increase of the distance required for a first down from 5 to 10 yards (9.1 m). To reduce infighting and dirty play between teams, the neutral zone was created along the width of the football.[14] Scoring was also adjusted: field goals were lowered to three points in 1909[10] and touchdowns were raised to six points in 1912.[15] The field was also reduced to 100 yards (91 m) long, but two 10-yard-long end zones were created, and teams were given four downs instead of three to advance the ball 10 yards (9.1 m).[16] The roughing-the-passer penalty was implemented in 1914, and eligible players were first allowed to catch the ball anywhere on the field in 1918.
      Right before World War 1.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 6:42 pm #

      Yeah what’s the quote? Some great battle in WW1 was won on the playing fields of Eton.

  21. TiredOfTheTreadmill September 25, 2017 at 11:31 am #

    The whole military worship before sporting events is there to keep the herd mezmerized and unquestioning of the military expenditures requried to keep this blood sucking system from imploding. I was weary of the national anthem being played before such events during my own high school games in ’70s. Apparently certain segment of the herd really needs such reinforcement to avoid thinking too much.

    • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 11:34 am #

      I live in Houston and I see some men tear up when the national anthem is played. It’s disgusting. Government is force. Period. Conservatives worship at the altar of violence.

      • lsjogren September 25, 2017 at 12:02 pm #

        You sound like a libertarian. So you do not for example support social programs, since they involve the use of force to extract money from those better off economically in order to assist people unable to support themselves financially?

        I personally believe in social democracy, an economic system in which the government allows people to keep enough of their earnings to provide enough incentive to facilitate a prosperous market economy, but also extracts taxes to fund programs that address social goals that most of the citizenry believe are moral imperatives for a compassionate society.

        The extremes of course are socialism and libertarian, the first providing government of 100% economic authoritarianism, which leads to universal poverty and generally also government terrorism. Libertarianism has never been tried (at least in modern history), so the jury is out, but I think there is good reason that it has never appealed to more than a piddling percentage of the population.

        • lsjogren September 25, 2017 at 12:03 pm #

          forgot the rest of the sentence: Libertarianism, which involves 0% economic authoritarianism (or, equivalently but in a less flattering light, 100% economic anarchism)

        • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:16 pm #

          Guilty.

          • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 2:17 pm #

            No, I havent look at what people go to jail for.
            I figured violent offenses, not weed.

        • TiredOfTheTreadmill September 25, 2017 at 12:18 pm #

          Modern, free-market-based Libertarianism (from the right in the US) is a religion, not a viable social or economic system. It is based on a few untested, economic theories by the Austrian cranks and Chicago school suck ups with no concept of human nature or actual human history earlier than industrialism. The prophets von Mises and Hayek are revered as deeply as Joseph Smith in Utah, with about the same reality coming from their “revelations.”

          It is interesting that old school libertarianism in Europe and the earlier US came from the left, where they understood that there is a social element involved in the idea. But leave it to Americans to do what they do best: take something and boil it down to money, and only money.

          • DA September 25, 2017 at 12:38 pm #

            Nailed it, my friend!

          • Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter September 25, 2017 at 12:46 pm #

            You, and DA might enjoy this:

            http://www.zompist.com/libertos.html

            Oh, no “might” about it. You will enjoy, and appreciate it!

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          • DA September 25, 2017 at 3:12 pm #

            Didn’t have time to read it all, but it was quite interesting. Thanks.

      • TiredOfTheTreadmill September 25, 2017 at 12:07 pm #

        Good point. Conservatives talk all loud and belligerent about government being evil when Obama was prez. Now, with yet another of their halfwits in office, gubbmint is good and so is authority, as long as their boy is dishing it out. What a pathetic lot. But what else should we expect from people when the ideology they cling to no matter what the evidence shows, far exceeds their capacity for discernment, subtlety, and complexity.

        Jim already presented the demise of the modern liberals above, so the goon sqaud here can spare me the “yeah, but those guys…” whine. I long ago accepted my role as a groupless outsider.

        • DA September 25, 2017 at 12:39 pm #

          I’m with you!

        • RIB September 25, 2017 at 4:48 pm #

          Liberals talk all loud and belligerent about government being evil since Trump became prez. . Now, with yet another of their crooks losing an electiion, , gubbmint is good and so is authority, as long as their boy Obama dished it out. What a pathetic lot. But what else should we expect from people when the ideology they cling to no matter what the evidence shows, far exceeds their capacity for discernment, subtlety, and complexity.

          • TiredOfTheTreadmill September 25, 2017 at 7:22 pm #

            Oh…you kicked my ass so hard…miss the second paragraph there? Liberals are as loathsome as the Trumpanzees these days.

            Although, the liberals are chasing some stupid Russian ghost instead of being armed welfare ranchers taking over bird sanctuaries while getting dildos mailed in from supporters.

        • ozone September 25, 2017 at 8:19 pm #

          “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” — Groucho Marx

          Yes, we of an actual [old-style] “liberal” bent no longer have any pull with anyone, anywhere… any longer (and haven’t had for a long, long time). Meh, that’s what happens when practicing laizzez faire; I’ve been used to this outcome since forever. It’s time for the hooting belligerents to take the stage, once again. The question is, will it be the final time… for us all?

      • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 12:08 pm #

        My father wasn’t the sort to tear up, but I think the anthem reminded him of the good men who lost their lives saving the world from the Nazis.
        That’s what it reminds me of, not those men, but it reminds me of the ideals we are founded on and the good we Americans still do today.
        We’re so evil, half the world wants to come here, right?
        Emotion isn’t disgusting, it’s what we humans run on.

        • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:16 pm #

          The Russians saved the world from the Nazis. We just did a little mopping up.

          • DA September 25, 2017 at 12:39 pm #

            Don’t say that very loudly. You’ll get strung up!

          • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 12:40 pm #

            So you think none of the good men could be Russians?
            And that opinion of yours is highly debatable, and it does not alter my point about the anthem and emotion one iota.
            Just because you are lacking in feeling it doesn’t mean that feelings are a bad thing.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:47 pm #

            Facts are facts, however inconvenient.

          • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 2:18 pm #

            Stalin was more evil than Adolph H.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 2:28 pm #

            It was and will always be, the most titanic battle between two giants ever.

          • RIB September 25, 2017 at 4:30 pm #

            Get any board wargame simulation, eliminate the thrust from the West and see how long it takes for the Soviets to get to Berlin.

          • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:14 pm #

            So would you proudly salute the Russian Flag if Communism came back into power?

          • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 10:19 am #

            Nobody ever talks about the Russian D-Day. 3 weeks after the American D-Day the Red Army encircled 300,000 Germans and achieved their greatest success of the war.

        • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:13 pm #

          Yes, so many good men died to enslave their brothers in Germany. A triumph for the nascent Global State and the Judeo-Masons. An utter defeat for Western Civilization and the White Race.

      • outsider September 25, 2017 at 12:10 pm #

        seawolf,
        And liberals don’t? Rob Reiner and Morgan Freeman recently put out a video saying that we are at war with Russia because they hacked the election for Trump. And Hillary was definitely the war candidate. In dysfunctional America ALL sides worship at the “alter of violence.”

        • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:57 pm #

          Both parties are now war parties. JFK insured that. Eisenhower nailed that one. That is why his death still matters.

      • beantownbill. September 25, 2017 at 6:53 pm #

        You’re missing the point. When the national anthem is played some people get emotional because they care about American society, however imperfect, since it consists of their friends, friends of their friends, their families,and so on. It is not an endorsement of the US government. People may despise the government but love the ideals for which it stands. For me, most of all I love liberty.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:11 pm #

        Disdain for Patriotism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

        • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 9:37 am #

          Boswell tells us that Samuel Johnson made this famous pronouncement that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel on the evening of April 7, 1775. He doesn’t provide any context for how the remark arose, so we don’t really know for sure what was on Johnson’s mind at the time.

          • Q. Shtik September 26, 2017 at 2:25 pm #

            He (Boswell) doesn’t provide any context for how the remark arose, so we don’t really know for sure what was on Johnson’s mind at the time. – seawolf

            ============

            And if Boswell had explained the context and told us what was on Johnson’s mind, why should we believe HIM? or assume that he had the story straight?

            Let’s face it sea, after nearly 250 years, EVERYTHING is suspect.

  22. mow September 25, 2017 at 11:34 am #

    I hope they go out on strike.

    And never come back.

    • outsider September 25, 2017 at 12:55 pm #

      Now you’re talkin’, mow. Me to, to that.

    • beantownbill. September 25, 2017 at 6:54 pm #

      The owners would just hire replacement players, like they’ve done before.

  23. AKlein September 25, 2017 at 11:34 am #

    Everybody wants to get in on the “virtue signalling” gambit. So the ball players bend their knees. Idiotic, yes. Trump and the ball players. Reminds me of so-called pro wrestling, with the good guys and the bad guys. Drivel. Meanwhile real injustice goes unacknowledged and unaddressed.

    • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 12:10 pm #

      That’s the whole idea. The anthem was useful, for a time, but when it outlived its usefulness, it had to go. Some people were taking the displays of patriotism seriously.
      So along comes a useful idiot…

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:17 pm #

      Over half the owners are Jewish I believe. Combine that with almost complete ownership of the media and there is Hell to pay. Once you understand that, many things fall into place – like the persecution of Tim Tebow, a White Christian.

  24. janet September 25, 2017 at 11:40 am #

    Tamir Rice, a twelve year old shot down in a park two seconds after police arrived, got no “due process” … but all the police who kill unarmed Black people get due process … and impunity. That is what taking the knee was protesting, with the intent of starting a conversation. It was successful. We are conversing…

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice

    • lsjogren September 25, 2017 at 11:52 am #

      I can easily believe that there are low income urban minorities who do not get acceptable due process in the legal system. To the extent that is true we should work toward policy changes that correct that.

      The solution, however, is NOT to strip away the due process rights of police officers. They are citizens and human beings too.

      • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 12:11 pm #

        Low income PEOPLE.

  25. SteveO September 25, 2017 at 11:41 am #

    “it’s just easier to get significant numbers of homosexuals into the corporate executive suites than to get blacks in there”

    That’s because they were always there, they were “closeted”. It’s a lot easier to hide a gay lover on the side than it is the color of your skin.

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    • lsjogren September 25, 2017 at 11:48 am #

      That’s also one reason Transgender issues will be far more difficult to resolve than gay and lesbian issues.

  26. lsjogren September 25, 2017 at 11:46 am #

    I get scared for our contry when I see the left trying so vociferously to whip up racial resentments in our country.

    Then I go out around town and I see white and black people going about their daily lives without any sign of animosity. I hope that is the case most places. I only hope that society evolves based on the common sense of ordinary people rather than the rants of the political fanatics and the extremists who get whipped up by them- predominately people among the urban left but also pockets of extremism on the far right in some rural areas.

    • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 12:12 pm #

      Thank you!
      This is a media story. The NFL is not the USA.

      • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 2:20 pm #

        The NFL is Black Privilege.

        • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 3:51 pm #

          Modern day gladiators. To those about to die, we genuflect you.

        • Q. Shtik September 25, 2017 at 8:14 pm #

          The NFL is Black Privilege. – malthuss

          ==============

          You must be joking. Blacks have been completely shut out of the positions of Long Snapper and Place Kicker. It’s an absolute travesty.

          • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 11:18 am #

            Funny.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:18 pm #

      Don’t be fooled. Yugoslavia seemed fine too – until it wasn’t. Be ready. You have your uniform!

  27. capt spaulding September 25, 2017 at 12:19 pm #

    Seems to me that none of this brouhaha would have developed if Trump could just keep his pie hole shut. He’s the kid who always has to poke the bees nest. Basically, his big mouth created this whole thing. Makes you wonder how well he will do with Kim. There should be no surprises, He remains the same carnival barker he has always been and he will never change. Right now, he’s the most dangerous man in the world.

    • Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter September 25, 2017 at 12:31 pm #

      Yeah! How dare Trump point out bad, unpatriotic stories about Democrats! So what if they’re true! The nerve of that Orange Golem!

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      • DA September 25, 2017 at 1:05 pm #

        Point is, he should have been more politically astute. He handed them a gift-wrapped agenda gratis.

    • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:32 pm #

      If anything the Kolin Kapernick story is fake news that he just made into real news.

  28. San Jose September 25, 2017 at 12:33 pm #

    The biggest mistake the San Francisco 49rs made was making Colin Kapernick the first string quarterback. Oh, how I wish we hadn’t traded Alex Smith to the KC Chiefs (now rated #1 in the NFL).

    My neighbor has season tickets to see the “Forty Whiners” (as I call them now). She can now sell her tickets for the same price it would take to buy two soft pretzels at the stadium snack stand. There recent game last Thursday showed the stands more than half empty. (But as it turned out, the game was exciting.)

    My cousin played football for the University of Utah (same as Alex Smith). His son is a gifted athlete (and an A student) and is the freshman quarterback for Torrey Pines High School in Sandy Eggo.
    He is already being recruited by various colleges. Just a few weeks ago, a top rated football program flew the family out for a game. Good grief–he’s just a freshman.

    My son went out for football as a freshman, but I’m glad he didn’t stick with it–every time he got hit, I’d go into panic mode. (He only weighed 115 pounds at the time.)

    Jen in San Jose
    Who always stands and SINGS the “Star Spangled Banner.”

    • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 12:48 pm #

      People singing together are people in harmony.
      Remember that old Coke commercial? That was supposed to represent liberal ideals at the time.

      • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:55 pm #

        Alex Smith never took anyone to the Super Bowl.

      • ozone September 25, 2017 at 8:36 pm #

        BO,
        “Supposed to”, yeah. But, no. In actuality it represented the NWO and the Globalist agenda. Nothing “liberal” about enslavement to the corporations, such as Chokey-Cola. Ask India about that benevolent job-creator.

    • sprawlcapital September 25, 2017 at 2:41 pm #

      Good people sometimes make mistakes, It was a mistake letting your son play football. (I’m letting you off the hook. The following paragraph does not apply to you, Jen.)

      High school football should be considered a form of child abuse. The perpetrators–school administrators, coaches, and parents–should serve time in maximum-security prisons.

      • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 3:35 pm #

        Agreed. Religion also falls into this camp. If I can’t vote or fight until I’m 18, I should not be forced as a child to go to church. Religion is child abuse. There is now proof football causes brain damage, and the younger you are the worst it is. Ban football. The Catholic Church has been proven to molest children sexually. That is abominable. Both would be strong arguments in a court of law. There is proven damage.

        • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:20 pm #

          Now tell them what’d your ideal Leftist State would do to Christians. Don’t hold back, little guy.

  29. 4014HAMPHEDGE September 25, 2017 at 12:41 pm #

    Fincain the Mountain Man mentions WWIII as “The End Of The Bible Project”. Unless Israel is the last to stand. Strategic think tanks have published “Middle East War Consequences” showing Israel in the role of administration to deal with surrounding foes (decimated). WWIII is covered in the Bible narrative.

    No discussion of current events in Middle East by hardened and often atheistic military authorities is conducted without considering details of Biblical Prophecy; Isaiah 17 is descriptive of current map and wannabe destroyers of Israel. After full blown effort to push the Jew into the sea, expect Israel’ expansion to Covenant Boundaries seen in Joshua Chapter 1. Weekly visit to is update on war prep in the Middle East. For PDRK doings, type in

    Taking to the top for Gracenphil, Bible believing simpletons like me know war, not peace, is the rule of the human story since The Beginning. Older hands with family in the OSS/CIA circa Suez Crisis heard comments on Mohammedanism (Not Mao/Stalin) being at the root of WWIII when it comes. The greatest fear expressed was Heaven help us if Mohammedanism gains technical parity with the West. Nobody went so far as to vocalize an Islamic Bomb being the worst nightmare of all.

    The institutional color seen om many Muslim flags is green. In Scripture the “Pale/green” horseman is called “Death”. PDRK collaboration with Iran tells us not to invest in Korean real estate north of the 38th Parallel. No respecter of Genesis Chapter 12 V3, fat kim has joined the long list of flash-in-the pan power players and nations we read about.

    The Long Emergency is in motion. Bible simpleton that I am, Daniel 4 reflects America in the modern age. “A Great Tree”. Nurturing and dreamed of shelter for many… Transportation is my bag, and knowing likely EMP/HAMP effects on computer controlled aviation and “Just-In-Time” motor transport distribution methodology, Daniel 4 V-15 narrative on the “Great Tree” preserved by bands of Iron and Brass certainly reminds of US railway matrix.

    Being near the railway in a smaller town seems better than remote hideout. Pre-positioned container equipment by the rails in metro outskirts and smaller places formerly with spur and boxcar platform is doable. Proprietor Kunstler’s often expressed call for rebuild of the railway system pretty well covers to what extent Dan 4 V-15 plays when the lights go out.

    Fat kim is an exporter of CBW technology, demonstrated by recent intercepted ships on their way to Syria with CBW manufacturing equipment. Recent President was a nice guy but absolutely lacking in nerve and skill needed to properly despatch Syrian threat.

    • DA September 25, 2017 at 1:11 pm #

      Well, that’s one take on things anyway.

  30. seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 12:44 pm #

    Before Trump’s comments 10 people kneeled. Yesterday, depending on how you count, 250 did. Nuf said? The most contagious disease is divisiveness, and Trump thou art its master.

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    • Beryl of Oyl September 25, 2017 at 12:51 pm #

      You don’t think that was planned before his comments?
      Trump is exposing the fact that this display is not the major thing the MSM would have us believe.
      That’s not division.

    • Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter September 25, 2017 at 12:52 pm #

      In other words, Trump just made another showing of how grossly out of touch Democrats are with America.

      All the “diversity is strength” propaganda, and here is the big fat flop reality of black Democrats refusing to even stand for the National Anthem, and white Democrats excusing them for it, Yeah, ROTFLMAO at “stronger together”!

      Somewhere, either in nursing homes or the graveyards, White Segregationists are saying, “We told you so!”

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      • RIB September 25, 2017 at 1:39 pm #

        Odd ; as a 65 year old man, I grew believing that “Unity Is Strength”. My how things have changed.

        • Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter September 25, 2017 at 2:11 pm #

          That is what the old people in my family say. Most of them believe that the reason is, people forsook God and the Bible and the simple truths therein, and instead listened to idiots from Harvard with all the latest “scientific studies” , or to devils like Hugh Hefner and Helen Gurley Brown, that having some immediate fun was the only thing that was important. And, to loose morals being portrayed on TV and film. All that, and the government got real big into welfare so that people’s bad choices didn’t bite them in the ass as badly as it did before the welfare state.

          A preacher at a revival said something that stuck with me ever since I was a teenager. He said that most people can’t wait to have a drunken orgy around the Golden Calf. He said that was the natural state of man, and that everything good and stable in life required just the opposite of that. That everything good required rules, and discipline.

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          • AKlein September 25, 2017 at 3:09 pm #

            Thus is the lesson of Moses at Mt Sinai – just how perfidious that people can be. Moses goes up the mountain to get the Commandments and comes down. What does he find? The people worshiping the golden calf. And to add insult, his own brother is the instigator! Moses proves that democracy ain’t what it’s cracked up to be. Good leadership is what’s important and what makes society work.

        • volodya September 25, 2017 at 2:27 pm #

          Yeah, things have changed. Now, if you’re educated and progressive and enlightened you’re supposed to believe things that nobody with functioning eyes could possibly believe. These progressives tell us they’re all about facts and evidence. Well, no they’re not. What they profess belief in, and you mentioned one, is so far at odds with reality that you can reasonably call the “believer” insane.

          • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 2:32 pm #

            Well said. All you have to do is go to church and look around at the congregation of kooks.

          • volodya September 25, 2017 at 2:40 pm #

            Just to elaborate, just look overseas. You want diversity? You have it in Spain, where Catalans are trying to have a referendum on secession. Diversity ain’t going so good there. You have diversity in Belgium where French speaking Walloon don’t get along worth a damn with Dutch speaking Flem. Not going so good there either. These are just two examples. There’s a ton more. In Sri Lanka they just got over a bloody civil war between Sinhalese and Tamil and you’ve got one now in Burma with fighting between Buddhist and Muslim. There’s isn’t “strength” in diversity. In diversity there’s fractiousness and maybe murder and mayhem. So the diversity hustlers might want to give a thought to this. If it comes to flying projectiles do they think they’ll end up unscathed? As you say maybe there’s more strength in the opposite of diversity ie commonality.

          • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:26 pm #

            Yet you think minorities are going to become White. Whose going to make them? And why should they join a dying culture that is so weak that it allowed them to come in to suck and steal?

        • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:24 pm #

          Fake unity is weakness obviously. If we could jettison Blacks and Liberals, Whites could be strong again. But obviously tied to people who hate us is like swimming with a concrete block.

      • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 2:23 pm #

        At DNC, didnt the shits ‘boo’ when the term ‘God’ was used?

        yes—got it,

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUJE9YfsbNQ

        • Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter September 25, 2017 at 2:34 pm #

          Yes they did. The dirty little secret of far too many Democrats – – – they hate the very idea of God and Christianity, they hate America, and they hate anything that is normal and good.

          IMO, Evan Sayet has a good take on the underlying mental dynamics:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGBkJT2L55k

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          • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 3:27 pm #

            For Asoka, check threads from a few years back.

      • sophia September 25, 2017 at 5:05 pm #

        But who is encouraging and priming them? I’m betting their skin is white. Let’s find the real perps. Most people, white and black, are obedient to their thought leaders.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:22 pm #

      Pressure from the Owners and espirit de corps among the players. In other words, pressure from them as well.

      How many players and teams didn’t kneel? The media presented the teams linking arms as if they were protesting. Then I realized that might not be true at all.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 8:44 pm #

        Nope, Tom Brady cucked too. As a big Trump guy, that’s disgusting. One would expect more from him.

  31. seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 1:16 pm #

    Fat Man ought to be worried about the Little Boy in Korea, in the nuclear parlance of the times. What I can’t believe is it took 8 months to hear his bullshit signature line, “You’re Fired.” There was a probably a collective orgasm in Alabama.

    • capt spaulding September 25, 2017 at 2:37 pm #

      Actually, seawolf, I have to rethink my last post. I just finished listening to Rush on the radio, and everything has been made clearer to me. I realize that I have been wasting my time reading all those books which do nothing but make me think, and give me headaches. All I have to do is stop reading all that pesky stuff, and listen to Rush. He explains what is going on, and tells me what I should think, thereby freeing me up to spend more time watching auto racing. All I can say is thank God for turning me on to the truth, as revealed on AM radio. As far as that little problem in North Korea, it’s easier to understand if you just think of it as a WWE wrestling event only with nukes instead of a folding chair over the head.

      • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 3:49 pm #

        When confronted with facts, they default to their fall back position “I don’t believe that.”
        “Obama was born in America.” “I don’t believe that.”
        “Trump has lost as much money as he’s made” “I don’t believe that.”
        “Trump bankrupted companies 6 times.” “Oh I don’t believe that.”
        “Las Vegas didn’t even want Trump.” “I don’t believe that.”
        “Trump, his minions, and his family regularly met with the Russians.” “I don’t believe that.”
        “What do you believe?” “Whatever Trump says. If it comes out of his mouth, it’s as good as gold.”

  32. RIB September 25, 2017 at 1:37 pm #

    Question for seawolf77: Since you think that the NFL is rigged and the Apollo lunar landings never happened, just what, in your opinion, IS on the level?

    • seawolf77 September 25, 2017 at 2:15 pm #

      Interesting question. I am writing a series of fictional books under a pen name to lay that out.

  33. RIB September 25, 2017 at 1:42 pm #

    For you political neophytes, all Trump is doing is soldifying his supporters by his rhetoric, the same way the Democrats are reinforcing the concept of victimization among their supporters. Back to Poly Sci 101 kiddies.

    • janet September 25, 2017 at 2:10 pm #

      POLLS SHOW TRUMP’S APPROVAL RATING ROSE ENOUGH THAT’S HE’S NO LONGER THE LEAST POPULAR PRESIDENT EVER

      Including his supporters Trump’s approval is in the 30 to 40 percent rage. He is an illegitimate president. He will be impeached. Hillary Clinton did win the popular vote by almost three million votes. Trump only won the electoral college with treasonous collusion with Russia. This is being inves

      Trump might distract some by attacking Black professional athletes, but Robert Mueller (a Republican) is not distracted.

      • DA September 25, 2017 at 2:18 pm #

        Your political naivete is touching janet. Your ceaseless repetition of the same old Dem talking points? Not so much.

        • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 2:25 pm #

          Janet is not ‘naive’ but fake…the one woman here that is insincere.

          • Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter September 25, 2017 at 2:38 pm #

            Sometimes I wonder if “Janet” is a rabid right-winger who plays a stupid Democrat/Liberal for laughs. It’s hard to tell sometimes. Me and my BFF once did a sort of leftwing-y parody website, and we could not keep up with the real life stupidity of the Left.

            Our most absurd pieces were barely distinguishable as parody.

            Squeeky Fromm
            Girl Reporter

          • capt spaulding September 25, 2017 at 2:39 pm #

            Janet is Asoka.

          • Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter September 25, 2017 at 2:52 pm #

            Who or what is “Asoka”???

            Squeeky Fromm
            Girl Reporter

          • DA September 25, 2017 at 2:58 pm #

            Asoka is a previous version of janet who held sway here for quite some time. Dem/Lib talking points ad nauseum.

          • DA September 25, 2017 at 2:59 pm #

            Janet is not ‘naive’ but fake

            Entirely possible.

          • Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter September 25, 2017 at 4:11 pm #

            To DA:

            Thanks for the answer. I have noticed the same kind of phenomenon on other websites, where there seems to be one or two people who pretty much just show up regularly and regurgitate the latest DNC talking points. They seldom deign to make an actual argument, and in fact, resist all efforts to get them to explain their positions.

            They just repeat the same canards, as if that constitutes an argument. And they will repeat the same nonsense over and over and over, several opinionated smears at a time.

            Another variation is the “Serial Lib Link Bomber” who bombs threads with links to liberal opinion articles, but still can not ever personally explain why they believe what they believe.

            For example, they will comment, “Trump is a white supremacist!”, and if you ask them to explain why they believe that, they will link you to a Michael Moore article, or some guest on MSNBC. But they can never actually seem to explain why they themselves believe it.

            It’s almost like somebody is paying them to show up, but not to actually think. Like a robo sales call or something.

            Squeeky Fromm
            Girl Reporter

          • DA September 25, 2017 at 4:52 pm #

            It’s almost like somebody is paying them to show up, but not to actually think. Like a robo sales call or something.

            You’ve got it!

          • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:31 pm #

            Yes, there’s nothing complex about the herd mind. Repeat something enough and they’ll believe it. That’s how you win elections and why Democracy per se is simply not a viable political system.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:29 pm #

        Possibly 10% of White Americans now accept Alt-Right ideas.

        • sophia September 25, 2017 at 9:51 pm #

          You’ll have to tell me sometime how national socialism works.

        • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 11:15 am #

          10% of white Americans are also gay. Hmmm?

          • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 1:14 pm #

            No, that’s another self serving lie you believe. Is there no end to them?

          • sophia September 26, 2017 at 8:01 pm #

            That’s a very old lie.

  34. Elrond Hubbard September 25, 2017 at 2:28 pm #

    Posted to my blog:

    The #TakeAKnee movement is only superficially about race, class, or the effrontery of well-remunerated football players. The reason why it provokes such passions is because it’s really about religion. Namely, the American civil religion: its rituals, its iconography, and especially who is or isn’t allowed to influence them.

    The basic mistake that affirmative atheists of the Richard Dawkins / Sam Harris variety make is that they think the driver of religion is its intellectual content. Let the Catholic church make claims about the body and blood of Christ and “No, no,” they’ll say, “you’re doing it wrong. Remember Copernicus, remember Galileo, that so-called blood is still chemically indistinguishable from wine, etc.”. But religion isn’t about what it says; it’s a mechanism for forming and maintaining identity. No two religions make exactly the same claims about humanity, God or gods, or the nature of existence; but they are as one in providing their adherents a way to understand who they are. On the one hand, think of Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland bitterly divided from one another, no matter that they don’t look any different. On the other, think of Malcolm X returning from Mecca with a new understanding after meeting blond, blue-eyed fellow Muslims for the first time.

    The American civil religion is no different. The USA has its own Last Supper, its own communion of saints and martyrs, its version of the Rapture, and its master narrative to which it requires that all others be subordinate. But the long-simmering conflict over the American identity is now surging toward a boiling point, as control of the narrative slips ever further from those who have long held it. (And to hold something is to deny it to others; that’s the definition of property.)

    More than fifty years after the March on Washington, there are still those who feel the need to rise up and demand that the nation “live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'” In response, there are those who say: “No, no, you’re doing it wrong. Asians learned to fit in; you need to learn to fit in too. Fix the way you talk. Act respectable.” And, unspoken but clear: “Stop making me feel threatened by you and your demands.”

    It’s not going to stop. African Americans, and other minorities as well, are part of America and have been from the beginning. They and their experience are part of the substance of the nation — just as they are, not as scolds and remonstrants would have them be. What they want is for that fact to be recognized.

    • Bruce E September 25, 2017 at 4:15 pm #

      Well said, Elrond. Taking a knee is also an interesting visual symbol — a voluntary humility, a prayerful pose, a metaphor for turning the other cheek, which is a metaphor for a complete rejection of the American refusal to ever turn the other cheek.

      I wondered above if they could drive the point home even further by washing Trump’s feet, or if that image would fly over the heads of those who pretend to read the Christian scriptures instead of making them truly affronted at the role played in such a theatrical move…

      • Elrond Hubbard September 25, 2017 at 8:46 pm #

        We’ll see if anyone takes a step like that, Bruce E. It would be edifying to see how many of the outwardly pious truly understand the difference between being Christ-like and being merely Christian.

        JHK rightly questions the militaristic spectacle and enforced jingoism of professional sports. Clearly, dropping to one knee for the national anthem is no less respectful a gesture than standing with hand on heart, and may be more so. In that sense, #TakeAKnee challenges neither the jingoism nor the piety of the event, yet it drives people to distraction nonetheless. “Get that sonofabitch off the field!” cried Trump. For what? Expressing respect for flag and country? Are they doing it wrong somehow?

        Yes, they are doing it wrong — while being manifestly non-white, they’re seizing the initiative. These athletes’ real misdemeanor is that they dare to usurp a heretofore white prerogative and assert, as Americans, a share of ownership in the symbolism of American public life. More power to them.

        Side note to Janos: spare me your bunk racial bigotries. Just stop. You should understand by now that the response of a decent, reasonable person to your kind of atavism isn’t conversation, but resistance.

        • Bruce E September 26, 2017 at 11:57 am #

          “These athletes’ real misdemeanor is that they dare to usurp a heretofore white prerogative and assert, as Americans, a share of ownership in the symbolism of American public life.”

          Spot-on. It’s also a rejection of “better to die on your feet rather than live on your knees” sort of symbolism. Not sure if that was their intention, or just how it strikes me.

          • messianicdruid September 28, 2017 at 5:30 pm #

            “…, what does a patriotic gesture mean if it isn’t voluntary? If Americans are cowered into standing for the anthem out of fear of being deemed unpatriotic, then the gesture itself no longer has any meaning. It merely becomes a ritual act of symbolic dogma, more appropriate for a society like Nazi Germany than the U.S. Republic. The fact so many Americans stand for the national anthem voluntarily is precisely what makes it a powerful gesture.”

            https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/09/27/dont-become-a-right-wing-snowflake/

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:34 pm #

      All people aren’t created equal. Blacks are gifted physically but not mentally. Stop your lying narrative and then there can be real conversation. Read Plato’s Myth of the Metals. Blacks are AT BEST a race of Sudras or workers, but second class ones. Mexicans are much more reliable, harder working, and need less supervision. Let’s send the Blacks to Mexico to replace the Mexicans who have come here. They will cause Mexico to collapse and with one stone we will have solved the Black problem and the illegal immigration problem.

      • Bruce E September 26, 2017 at 2:57 pm #

        Janos, if you refuse to hold certain truths to be self-evident, including “all men are created equal,” then you are choosing to not be a part of this thing we call the United States of America.

        “We hold these truths to be self evident,” is not an observation of the obviousness of the list of ideas that follow that phrase, but rather it is a deliberate choice made by those willing to be included in the “we” to not subject the axioms and foundations of their collective morality and principles of governance to the unrelenting and dispassionate eye of outside evidence.

        To state outright that all people are not created equal, and to further try to back your claim with evidence that supposedly supports your claim, is to reject the nation. It is your choice to place yourself outside the “we,” outside the nation. Once you do so, you are on your own. You are not only not an American, you are anti-American.

        Either change your choice, or embrace the choice and leave us. Shake the dust off your feet, and be on your way. I really don’t care where you go. Just go.

    • Q. Shtik September 25, 2017 at 9:23 pm #

      well-remunerated football players. – Elrond

      ============

      Why not well-paid? Not classy enough?

    • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 11:29 am #

      “It’s not going to stop. African Americans, and other minorities as well, are part of America and have been from the beginning. They and their experience are part of the substance of the nation — just as they are, not as scolds and remonstrants would have them be. What they want is for that fact to be recognized.”

      Elrond,
      Yes and you have recognized that our jails are disproportionate in their racial populations. And you believe it is only about skin color….
      Simple…elegant…incorrect.
      .

      • Elrond Hubbard September 26, 2017 at 1:29 pm #

        America’s criminal justice system is, apparently, a case of immaculate conception in our time. It can do no wrong! Or so I might conclude if I took my cues from the unanimity of opinion around here.

        Every other institution comes in for its share of abuse from JHK and his commentariat. The presidency is a joke; the Congress is feckless and corrupt, full of time servers waiting to cash in; the Fed is a conspiracy against the populace; the banks are a nest of swindlers; the military a bloated scandal of waste, fraud and abuse that couldn’t win a game of tiddlywinks; the universities are where free speech goes to die; the media hopelessly biased and blind to the real problems the country faces; and on and on.

        True, all of it. But the criminal justice system? Steady as she goes. Fair as fair can be and pure as the driven snow. Everyone who’s in prison deserves it, and everyone who deserves it is in prison. Let’s tick down the honour roll:

        – Citizens enjoy security in their persons, property and effects, as fair-minded and incorruptible cops enforce the law without fear or favour.

        Prosecutors and judges give each case its due weight, while sentences reflect the severity of the crime.

        – The prison rolls are a <a href="http://www.sentencingproject.org/issues/racial-disparity/"true and accurate reflection of the moral state of the nation.

        Yes, justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream in this, the best of all possible worlds. In these dark days, when so many institutions are failing us, how remarkable that the outcomes of law enforcement remain the one, unimpeachable sun in our sky, the very rock of ages. Maybe we should just let the police run everything. Do you like the sound of that?

        • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 3:56 pm #

          Elrond,
          Much of the dysfunction you list cannot be argued. The CJS…also has problems, but that does not mean it is racially motivated.

          How about a bit of cause and effect? Most cops are human. Humans can be educated and trained, their psych vetted to any degree you can name with a straight face. They can be highly religious, empathetic, and socially aware. However…some days, one of these saints will wake up with hemorrhoids, the knowledge that one of his kids has just been found to be using dope, his wife has not laid him in a month, car payment is late, and he thinks the youth pastor at his church is long stroking* his 14 year old daughter. He will not be having a good day. The first thing he then hears on shift, is…”why the fuck you stoppin’ me?” Minor abuses of power are going to occur.

          Do the math, Elrond….

          *abusing

          • Elrond Hubbard September 26, 2017 at 10:29 pm #

            “Minor abuses of power are going to occur.” Do you hear yourself? Such magic words! With them, all things are possible. All you need is the willingness to excuse abuse of power, and the willingness to allow the abuse to continue.

            Seriously, elysianfield, I want you to take a minute with this. Re-read your own words and understand that they are a defense of the indefensible, of state violence and corruption. You may smirk at me for straining at gnats and swallowing camels. You may be thinking in the back of your mind that you don’t actually approve of these things, you’re just making a point. The fact is, to speak as you have done is to approve of them. If you didn’t approve, you would be agreeing with me, not fighting me.

            For my part, I refuse to accept that police misconduct and systemic dysfunction are a cost of doing business. Nor will I apologize for paying attention to the real, unspoken motives that come to light when our poor hemorrhoidal saint behind a badge decides to take out his frustrations. That’s how matters got so f’ed up to begin with.

            I’ll return to my refrain: it takes two to have a problem. You frame your imaginary cop as a flawed do-gooder; I finger him as a problem who needs to be rooted out and replaced with someone worthy of trust. I’m not saying that policing is an easy job. I’m saying that it comes with responsibilities — and I’m not alone in pointing out how often those responsibilities are shirked, while only the victims bear the consequences.

          • elysianfield September 27, 2017 at 10:49 am #

            “You may be thinking in the back of your mind that you don’t actually approve of these things, you’re just making a point. The fact is, to speak as you have done is to approve of them. If you didn’t approve, you would be agreeing with me, not fighting me.”

            Elrond,
            Human condition will always Trump your indignation. You refuse to understand that Law Enforcement is staffed with the imperfect. To understand this is not to accept it…rules and regulations broken have consequences. To not accept that humans are fallible leaves you with fantasies that will remain unrequited. Minor abuses of power are going to occur…and do occur…and always have occurred…you don’t have to accept it, just understand it.

            Agree with you? How? Unless you can accept that even saints are fallable, there can be no points in which we can agree.

            “If only the police were required to ride unicorns…they could shoot nobody, because they would have to hold the unicorn’s horn with both hands or fall off!!!!”

            Problem solved…you did it!

          • Elrond Hubbard September 27, 2017 at 2:52 pm #

            elysianfield: “You refuse to understand that Law Enforcement is staffed with the imperfect.”

            It’s adorable that you think I don’t understand that, but let’s put that aside. The real problem is what you say next:

            elysianfield: “To understand this is not to accept it…”

            Your attitude belies your statement. To actually not accept something entails doing something about it. If you don’t actually accept it, what measures for redress are you calling for? What politicians and/or officials are you writing to to demand action? What demonstrations are you going to? What campaigns do you donate to or participate in to defend those wrongly targeted by the criminal justice system? (Hint: there is no meaningful distinction between passive disapproval and approval. The math is the same in either case. “Do the math, Elrond” indeed.)

            elysianfield: “[R]ules and regulations broken have consequences.” [emphasis added]

            The problem — the very pith and core of what I have been saying — is how often rules and regulations broken do not have consequences. [Note the emphasis.] Are you getting my drift? Is it starting to sink in?

            The problem is impunity. The problem is cops who misuse their powers of state-sanctioned violence, and face no consequences. The problem is a criminal justice system with different rules for different populations. The problem is that the system piles endless punishment for misdemeanours on one side of the equation.

            You’re driving down the freeway. I pull up next to you and point out that one of your wheels is wobbling and in danger of coming off. You nod and tell me you noticed that already. I point out that it’s a danger to yourself and to others on the road. Impatiently, you tell me you understand. With increasing desperation, I warn you that it’s getting visibly worse. You yell back at me that you understand it’s a bad thing. Then you gun your engine and give me the finger to make clear that our conversation is over as you speed away. This is known as missing the point.

          • elysianfield September 27, 2017 at 7:32 pm #

            ” What demonstrations are you going to? What campaigns do you donate to or participate in to defend those wrongly targeted by the criminal justice system? (Hint: there is no meaningful distinction between passive disapproval and approval. ”

            Elrond,
            You suggest a proactive approach…OK. What is your solution? Do not pretend that some faraway politician you can send money to or influence in a demonstration will have viable answers.

            ” I finger him as a problem who needs to be rooted out and replaced with someone worthy of trust.”

            OK, Elrond, give us the hiring parameters. Who do we trust to replace the flawed do-gooder?

            Elrond, you seem to think that this issue has not been studied ad nauseum…but it has.

            I want your solutions. I am truly interested in what you have to say.

          • elysianfield September 28, 2017 at 11:15 am #

            Elrond,
            I am disappointed. I expected a few answers from you, perhaps something creative, but only silence. C’mon, you have dug a hole…let’s fill it;

            Better Supervision
            Technology…100% camera/audio coverage, 24/7
            Change in hiring…racially driven to mirror demographics
            Civilian Review Boards…star chambers,
            Internal Affairs
            Robots

            Don’t let this topic end with Friday’s new topic…You deny human foibles and the inevitability of abuses…what is your solution?

            Please.

          • Elrond Hubbard September 28, 2017 at 3:08 pm #

            Hey man, I’m busy, I have a life.

            You say I suggest a proactive approach, which is… I think it’s more accurate to say that I think the issue needs to be reframed. Yes, there is too much passivity in the face of problems in the criminal justice system. Too much willingness to accept outcomes as inevitable. But there is an attribution problem as well, e.g. the assumption that if large numbers of African Americans are incarcerated, then that plainly implies that more of them are criminals to begin with. That comes with viewing the world through the lens of currently existing institutions, without considering that it’s the institutions that produce the outcomes we see. You have to inspect the lens itself to see whether it’s distorting your view.

            I think human beings naturally tend to believe that good actions produce good outcomes, and therefore bad outcomes must be the consequence of bad actions. This is called the just-world hypothesis, and if we rely on it, it can distract us from taking responsibility for how the sausage really gets made. A ‘just world’ is something we have to achieve, not something we can just assume. The alternative is a kind of belief in magic, where magic means your wishes become reality without any cause and effect: it just happens. That’s what JHK’s “Too Much Magic” is about, in my view: it’s about embracing the consequences of our societal choices that we happen to like, while shirking the rest.

            Enough philosophizing. I’ll try to take your points one by one. First, regarding the flawed do-gooder, everyone has flaws. Of course bad people will slip in, and even good people will slip up. Once again, I emphasize: the necessary consequences do not get imposed, and they need to be.

            Better Supervision: Well, of course, but define better? (I’m not an HR professional.) This puts me in mind of the observation that there are two kinds of police forces: ones that protect the public, and ones that protect themselves from the public. Supervision should encourage the first kind of policing and discourage the latter.
            Technology…100% camera/audio coverage, 24/7: If I were a cop, I would hate the idea of being under constant surveillance. Anyone would — it’s totalitarian. That said, police have a unique responsibility: we entrust them with authority to use force, up to and including deadly force. For that reason, I come down in favour of body cameras insofar as they help curb excessive use of force.
            Change in hiring…racially driven to mirror demographics: Less worse than the alternative, in my view. Personally I would prefer a society that is colour-blind to begin with, but I don’t believe in fairy tales.
            Civilian Review Boards…star chambers: A star chamber, by definition, is a secret process. I favour voting by secret ballot. Everything else government-related should be public.
            Internal Affairs: Loyalty is a virtue, and nobody likes a rat. Except loyalty becomes a vice when it papers over serious wrongdoing.
            Robots: “Thank you for your cooperation. Have a nice day.” Life pro tip: Don’t go see a movie just because you win free tickets. That’s how Robocop 3 robbed me of 90 minutes I’ll never get back.

            Finally: Cops should be well-paid, so the job attracts high-quality people. It should be a middle- to upper-middle-class job in terms of income, but one that working-class people can readily target and regularly achieve. That’s because, first, social mobility is a good thing (people see there’s a reward for effort), and second, so that the police as an institution are connected to the people they are policing, not an alien occupying force.

            Hope that’s not too long-winded for you!

      • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 1:33 pm #

        Yet you deny the biological. Sure it’s cultural – because it’s biological first. No? Show me a culture where they don’t have sky high rates of criminality.

        That’s not to say they can’t do better. In their own cultures, criminality is dealt with by immediate torture and death for serious offences. This may be effective in lowering the crime rate.

        • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 4:02 pm #

          Janos,
          I do not categorically deny biological causes…there is an argument that is fraught with potential error. Even if the average IQ of a black is 85…that does not mean the individual you meet falls into that mean. He could be intelligent, and a better man then both of us. However, if a black man embraces the Ghetto culture, there is little pause for error…and at any IQ.

  35. Buck Stud September 25, 2017 at 3:05 pm #

    The problem with analyzing/judging police shootings in retrospect –and I do believe that some law enforcement response has been excessive, unjustified and that police departments in general have crossed over from para-military to a more military paradigmn (the very same ethos infecting pro baseball as JHK mentions)–is that shootings are “decontextualized”.

    In other words, we haven’t seen the myriad threats of violence, outright racial antagonism and verbal abuse that police officers routinely face without incident and which is generally negotiated peacefully before the straw that broke the camels back finally bends beyond repair a police officers better judgement.

    In very violent urban areas a police officer should probably undergo periodic rigorous psychological evaluations to determine fitness for duty. That probably wouldn’t fly with the police union or the officers because it potentially impacts making a living.

    But I still believe there is only a limited amount of time that an average police officer can negotiate the brutality,barbarism and racial animus of the ghetto before snapping in a hair trigger moment.

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    • malthuss September 25, 2017 at 3:26 pm #

      Yes, in one sad instance, a homeless woman was killed. She had a knife or a scissor. I forget which. I think it was a scissors..no, not even that,

      https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/05/lapd-m25.html

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:53 pm #

      Yes, quite so. Some of these guys were hired after coming back from Iraq or Afghanistan. They already have PTSD and it just keeps growing on the new battlefield.

      One old man was shot reaching for his cane. The officer saw a snake in the rope, to use the Vedantic metaphor. A young Black guy was ordered to show his registration. He went to get it and was shot as if he was reaching for a gun.

    • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 11:32 am #

      “But I still believe there is only a limited amount of time that an average police officer can negotiate the brutality,barbarism and racial animus of the ghetto before snapping in a hair trigger moment”

      Buck
      Very close to the truth…in the business it is called “burnout”, and it is a fact.

    • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 4:07 pm #

      “In very violent urban areas a police officer should probably undergo periodic rigorous psychological evaluations ”

      Buck,
      You do understand that psychological evaluations are one part common sense, and three parts snake oil? Hardly effective when dealing with someone smart enough to know what not to say…and having his rice-bowl broken as a consequence of a weak moment?

  36. sophia September 25, 2017 at 3:48 pm #

    Seawolf,

    I am guessing that when cops shoot someone, it almost always involves attempting to make an arrest or being in the wrong place and arousing suspicion. A “child playing the park” was not in the sandbox with a pail and spade but an adult sized kid waving a realistic looking gun around.” Preceded by a panicked call to the police by an onlooker.

    I don’t know the law for sure, but I don’t see how you would ever get first degree murder out of a situation like that, even if it was not handled as well as it could have been. First degree murder is like, you know, when you kill your spouse with malice aforethought for the insurance money.

  37. Epicur September 25, 2017 at 3:52 pm #

    It’s still a free country.
    They can kneel.
    I don’t have to watch their games or buy their crappy “souvenirs”.

    But what bugs me is that the Pension Benefit Guarantee Trust Fund will have to pick up the tab for their pensions after they bust the NFL and the players pension fund.

  38. Vlad the Impaler September 25, 2017 at 3:59 pm #

    Regarding all the over the top military displays at NFL football game, it always seemed to remind me of an American version of Leni Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will”

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:56 pm #

      Yes, but without the beauty or racial purity. Our soldiers fight and die for a Sodomite Empire. Germans fought and died that the White Race might live. Big difference there, Sport.

    • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 10:51 am #

      It’s exactly “Triumph of the Will,” which incidentally is illegal to view in Germany to this very day.

  39. bibliomaniac September 25, 2017 at 4:09 pm #

    The blowhard tweets about football players while 3.5 million Americans face disease and death in Puerto Rico. What is wrong with this country?

    • RIB September 25, 2017 at 4:43 pm #

      Ask the multi-millionaires who knelt how much they gave to Irma and Maria relief

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:56 pm #

      Puerto Rico wants to be an independent nation. They need to prove they can handle this on their own.

  40. wm5135 September 25, 2017 at 4:36 pm #

    Well what do you know Faultendrain first to comment again this post.

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  41. tucsonspur September 25, 2017 at 4:40 pm #

    Sorry Jim, it’s not “take a knee”, it’s take a pee!

    Football in a sense is militarism. It’s testosterone and competition. It’s controlled combat and violence, with inherent dangers. Millions upon millions love it. Women also love it. But not when bruised and battered by the drunken, big bet boyfriend who missed the spread by a point.

    Let the jets fly and the anthem blare. This is country and capitalism with all of its faults.

    I still haven’t seen a one sided coin. Trump should have spoken more wisely, carefully. The NFL could have expressed its opinions to the media, spoken for the players and to the players, and kept all of this off the field post Kap.

    Yeah, but who could silence the tatted LeBron, hoop shooter extraordinaire, millionaire, but one not so debonair?

    Who could stop the irrepressible, elegant display of the athlete?

    http://thebiglead.com/2017/09/24/odell-beckham-celebration-dog-peeing/

    So, I guess we’ll just call it pissball.

    • DA September 25, 2017 at 4:48 pm #

      LOL! Beats me to why they continue to worship that idiot ‘OBJ’. What a maroon!

      • beantownbill. September 25, 2017 at 7:23 pm #

        Because he’s so good at what he does.

        • DA September 26, 2017 at 7:25 am #

          Not really. One handed catches with oversized glue mitts have already become passe. He’s a shooting star. A few big years then nothing. His mouth and his attitude will be his undoing.

  42. FincaInTheMountains September 25, 2017 at 4:44 pm #

    The main news of Europe became the resuscitation of the history of the Fourth Crusade, seemingly buried under the eight centuries of propaganda.

    Apparently, many have the impression that I associate the Western Black Project with the Germans and Germany as the main anti-Christian force in Europe. In fact, this is not so – I associate the Western Black Project with the Carolingian Dynasty and the Teutonic Order, the first victim of which became Orthodox Germans subjects of Merovingians, descendants of Frank King Clovis, who was baptized in 498.

    Which made the Franks the only Orthodox nation in continental Europe at the time, but the Christianizers of Europe were not the Franks, but the Irish, who were baptized by St. Patrick 50 years earlier. And it happened because the Irish did not conquer Europe, but sent out missionaries who baptized different European Nations, including the Vikings, the great civilizers who created the great Western European civilization.

    And the anti-Normanists in Russia are actually obscurantists who deny the connection to the Western European culture, which in its basis was Orthodox, and the more they tear Russia’s connection with Western Europe in what it was really great, the more they become slaves of the West-European vileness.

    This is evident from the shameful story with Russian movies “Viking” and “Matilda”, and from the referendum scheduled for October 1 in Catalonia and to election in Germany that decides nothing.

    Meanwhile, preparations for a referendum in Catalonia show that if Nations like people have their own providential destiny, which can be understood from history, then this history and this fate began to emerge from the depths, despite centuries of lies.

    First of all, Catalonia, according to one of the legends, was created by the Alans, whom Maxim the Confessor himself baptized in the Caucasus and who quite possibly are the ancestors of those same Slavs who from unknown sources appeared on the Russian Plain in the 6th century.

    And the history of the Christianization of Gotlandia (Catalonia) is most directly connected with the year 862, when the Russian state was founded, and Saint Ansgar baptized the king of Jutland Horik II. And all the historiography of the Berlin Hegelians, which became the basis of both Russian liberalism and Russian obscurantism, collapses like a house of cards at a glance at the cross of St. Ansgar, as it is a Celtic cross.

    And in preparation for the referendum, a rather large role was played by the fact that Aragon was one of the victims of the Albigensian crusade, for which the Aragonese avenged in 1282 during the Sicilian Vespers, which was a joint operation of the Aragon, British and Byzantine intelligence services.

  43. elysianfield September 25, 2017 at 4:45 pm #

    Well, ladies and germs;

    The BBC site reports this day that Anthony Weiner, AKA “Carlos Danger” has been sentenced to two and a half years in the pokey for sex-texting girls he knew to be underage. Anthony burst into tears when he heard the sentence.

    The next time he will burst into tears is when he hears one of his cellies say;…Grab your ankles, punk”.

    There is a reason that they call it the “Pokey”.

    • DA September 25, 2017 at 4:50 pm #

      Tears of joy, probably. He’s gonna have fun in the can.

    • sophia September 25, 2017 at 5:25 pm #

      Do those things really happen in the white collar prisons?

      • DA September 25, 2017 at 6:16 pm #

        Probably not. Encounter/reflection groups and hug sessions more likely. The lucrative memoirs come later, of course.

      • capt spaulding September 25, 2017 at 8:49 pm #

        Well sophia, once those white collar boys get tossed in the can, it’s pretty hard to continue screwing the public, so they have to make do with what they’ve got available. Anthony Weiner should do well in there, “He’s shore got a purty mouth”.

      • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 11:38 am #

        “Do those things really happen in the white collar prisons?”

        Sophia,
        There is a hierarchy in prison populations…snitches, former cops and people who prey on children (called CHOMO’s) are at the lowest rung, and are always singled out for sonderbehandulung….

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 7:59 pm #

      Don’t be cruel. Did you ever touch any of those “kids” – as if a sixteen year old woman is a kid….

      Huma, the Muslim Operative, is the real criminal along with her Lesbo Boss, Hillary.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 8:53 pm #

        Sorry. Meant to say “Did he”.

  44. K-Dog September 25, 2017 at 4:54 pm #

    Refusing to go down on a knee today Trump instead soils his shorts. Saying that protesting police brutality has to be separate from his concept of American flag worship or some such. WTF? Trump has lost his wig!
    .
    .
    .

    ‘It depends what is, is?

    ‘I did not have sex with that woman..

    However, Trump is being presidential today!

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 9:10 pm #

      Very creepy post. Trump Derangement Syndrome getting worse.

  45. RIB September 25, 2017 at 4:56 pm #

    Now that the smoke has cleared, whose NFL jersey was the hottest seller in the past 24 hours? :

    http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-steelers-villanueva-jersey-20170925-story.html

    You liberals just don’t get it, do you?

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  46. FincaInTheMountains September 25, 2017 at 5:03 pm #

    I have a lot of geopolitical rumors from Pentagon chief General Mattis, who agreed to coordinate with the Russians in Syria and sent the legislators and the US law forbidding such coordination to hell, to the governor of the Belgorod region, the Russian Prime Minister and Putin’s successor. But before I do this, I have to specify the context of these very questionable rumors; otherwise they will be knowingly misunderstood.

    Washington Square is no longer there and the only source of New York rumors is now such a specific place as Union Square and classical music concerts. And this is quite another matter and where rumors end and my speculation begin I do not know.

    But what I’m quite sure about is in my assessment of Solovyov’s show.

    At one time, Ivan the Terrible in one of Kurbsky’s letters said that Russia is New Israel, and this alone tie Russia to the state of Israel, which is being torn apart by the antagonism between Jews for whom the Holocaust is the most important reality that created Israel, and those who do not care, and the Holocaust is a business.

    And on the Solovyev’s show have such a man – Yakov Kedmi, who is clearly a representative of the first type, and even of its radical wing, which remembers that Israel was created by the heir of Ivan the Terrible Joseph Stalin, and also believes that without the New Israel the state of Israel and the remnants of world Jewry will come an end.

    And strangely enough this point of view is confirmed by the attack on the referendum in Catalonia, simply by virtue of a visual demonstration of the process of revitalizing the history of the Middle Ages.

    Maybe I have a visual aberration, but all that I see in international politics lately is confirmation of my theory of color world projects and when such a great showman as Soloviev showers Yeltsin and Trump with dirt, I have big doubts that he does it by stupidity.

    After the collapse of the USSR, the theory of World Projects is somehow intuitively felt by all people of goodwill, and huge sums are spent in the media to prevent the transfer of these intuitions into a verbal form that can contribute to the articulation of the Russian national idea.

    Of course, it’s funny when the head of the Israeli special service Nativ tries to articulate it, but apparently, Yakov Kedmy, understanding where the main hole of the Russian Federation is, from the above considerations on the show Soloviev was doing just that.

  47. 100th Avatar September 25, 2017 at 5:04 pm #

    NFL is only 3.5 hours of light beer and light truck sales broken up with a few moments of sport. Not missing much.

    And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
    That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
    A home and a Country should leave us no more?
    Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
    No refuge could save the hireling and slave
    From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
    And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
    O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

    O say can you see?

    Nah, not really, because I’m hiding in a stadium tunnel.

  48. Ishabaka September 25, 2017 at 5:23 pm #

    An honest discussion of race and intelligence cannot be held in the USA, because it goes against the stories liberals and conservatives tell themselves:
    Liberals: if we just had enough government programs, they would catch up
    Conservatives: if they just got off their lazy asses, and studied in school, they would catch up.
    Ask yourself: at what future date, do I believe they will have caught up, and no longer require specials programs, considerations, and quotas?

  49. FincaInTheMountains September 25, 2017 at 5:33 pm #

    I heard it before that the final Jewish Holocaust was in the making, just didn’t realize it was that close.

    Enjoy your American circus with overpriced, overweight horses – sorry, football players.

  50. kahunabear September 25, 2017 at 6:56 pm #

    What burns my ass is when people use the word spend as a noun.

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  51. 100th Avatar September 25, 2017 at 7:09 pm #

    The author asks why it is there. The jingoism. The bellicosity. Because the NFL brought it there. The spectacle, the worship of power, might, courage, discipline, and violence. They brought the soldiers, planes, and anthems. They brought the camo, battle dress, salutes, and honor guard firing brigades. Quien es mas macho?
    I’m going to watch a week of Champion’s League, La Liga, and maybe some EPL. A sport where the smallest and humblest of men control the pitch.
    There will be no anthems, no planes, no soldiers, no lowbrow light beer ads every 3 minutes, no oppressed multimillionaire global sporting celebrities taking a knee.

    Only sport. Distilled to its essence.

    “After many years during which I saw many things, what I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport and learned (in football/soccer).” -Camus

    Instead of learning, appreciating, and parsing out these attributes, the NFL jams it down your throats like a $14 plate of stadium pizza logs. Messy and overcooked.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 8:05 pm #

      What’s this? Golf or Jai Alai? Polo is the Sport of King and should be taught to all. Kids could play on bikes.

  52. Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter September 25, 2017 at 8:29 pm #

    Well Hell just froze over! My BFF just turned off the Cowboys game and she has been a fan for over 20 years. The second they went to their knees, she flipped the channel. Says it will be a cold day in hell when she watches another NFL game!

    I took the plunge last year.

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 8:47 pm #

      Yes, Rush tuned out too. He confessed to feeling unspeakably sad this morning. Football overtook Baseball to become the National Sport if not Religion. Perhaps due to the influence of Texas, where it has always been tops.

  53. beantownbill. September 25, 2017 at 8:46 pm #

    Before it gets too late I’m adding my $.02.

    I’ve always watched sports, and I played baseball and basketball. I saw the great Celtics teams of the ’50s; I loved Bill Russell’s spirit. I saw the Boston Bruins in the late ’60s; I thought Bobby Orr was poetry on ice. I’ve always loved the Red Sox; Ted Williams was my idol because of his perfection at bat.

    I’m a Patriots fan. To me football is barbaric, what with CTE, torn acls, busted ribs, broken collarbones, broken fingers, ripped tendons, etc. Still,I like the sport. I guess, to be honest, it represents an outlet for any incipient violence I may harbor. Many NFLers are millionaires – not as much as MLB players or NBAers, though.

    Anti-sports people don’t realize that pro football players pay their agents up to 25% of their salaries and the government can take at least 40% in taxes. Many announced salaries are incentive-based to a certain degree, but aren’t realized because of injuries. The average NFL career is around 5 years, and second contracts are often not paid off in full because the teams are allowed to terminate contracts and not pay, unlike baseball.

    So when players’ careers are over at the young age of 27-34, what have they got? Damaged brains, bad knees and other joints, constant pain and addiction to pain meds, and no training for new careers. And a few million dollars to last them the rest of their lives.

    Yeah, it was their choice, but I’m not going into that. I just wanted to show it’s not just all a bowl of cherries.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 8:49 pm #

      Baseball is even worse: the influx of foreign Hispanic players over the last decade? Cheap labor. They play for less. Nothing is sacred to Capitalism, nothing except profit.

      • thwack September 25, 2017 at 10:05 pm #

        Boxing is even worse: the influx of foreign White fighters over the last decade? Cheap labor. They fight for less. Nothing is sacred to Capitalism, nothing except profit.

        There, fixed it for ya

        • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 11:20 pm #

          Blacks lost the Heavy Weight title. The Great White Hope arrived – again and again and again.

          Thwack longs for Quarry Bros again. But Nature never moves backwards.

    • Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter September 25, 2017 at 9:22 pm #

      Hopefully, a good boycott of the NFL will make those average careers even less, and cut big time into the contract pay.

      Every day Americans have all the power here. All they have to do is flip the channel on the NFL. Quit going to their games, and quit buying their merchandise.

      Whether they will or not, who knows.

      Squeeky Fromm
      Girl Reporter

      • akmofo September 25, 2017 at 10:27 pm #

        Why just flip the channel? TV, radio, newspapers, clusterfuck nation — it’s all one big echo chamber for staged fake news CIA propaganda. All nonsense, all day, every day.

    • Q. Shtik September 25, 2017 at 10:01 pm #

      So when players’ careers are over at the young age of 27-34, what have they got? – bean

      =============

      They should do the same thing as I recommend for washed-up black rappers: go into accounting.

  54. Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 9:08 pm #

    https://www.amren.com/news/2017/09/nasa-names-new-space-facility-katherine-johnson-hidden-figures/

    More pandering to the lower race. Btw, she was more White than Black, thus her modest abilities.

    • thwack September 25, 2017 at 9:19 pm #

      When they start hanging niggers, not only do I suspect she would get hung; but a whole lot of white people would get hung too.

      Just sayin

  55. thwack September 25, 2017 at 9:14 pm #

    I daresay there is as much, perhaps more real animus between Asian-Americans and black Americans than between white and black. But Asian-Americans did not enslave black Africans, so they’re off-the-hook for that original sin. —JHK

    ********************************

    Animus?

    Based on what?

    Racism?

    Asians know very well who is in charge of the system of racism white supremacy. They might not talk to YOU about it; but they all damn well know they are NOT white people.

    Black people didn’t enact the Chinese Exclusion Act?

    Black people didn’t round up the Japanese and put them in CONCENTRATION CAMPS during WW2?

    Black people didn’t drop 2 atomic bombs on Japanese civilians during WW2?

    Animus?

    Jim, I think you’re reading the book upside down?

    I know Asians that are still angry some Jew got the lead for the TV show Kung Fu.

    Another time a Chinese guy told me racism was the reason why Asian MEN could NOT be journalists or news presenters?

    Talking about slavery is a trick sophisticated white people used to avoid talking about racism.

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    • 100th Avatar September 25, 2017 at 9:34 pm #

      Enough of this BS. How many, billion, asians are there in the world? Between China, Japan and Southeast Asia? If they are indeed oppressed, it’s at the hands of another Asian.
      All people everywhere treat all people everywhere horribly, if it makes their lives better.

      Humanity is oppressive.
      As is life.

      • thwack September 25, 2017 at 10:01 pm #

        If they are indeed oppressed, it’s at the hands of another Asian.

        **********************

        OK, and who do they go run and tell?

        Thats right, WHITE PEOPLE; because thats who is in charge of deciding who is qualified to be abused and mistreated, on the bases of COLOR or anything else

        You really need to go talk to some actual Asians?

        One of my room mates was a Korean girl and she told me that one night she was in her car at a stop light, a car pulled up next to her and one of the white guys said:

        “you better drive that boat back to Vietnam”

        see?

        They know the difference between “animus” and racism white supremacy;

        and,

        and,

        the reason why its important to know the difference between the two

    • sophia September 25, 2017 at 10:48 pm #

      “Talking about slavery is a trick sophisticated white people used to avoid talking about racism.”

      Go to hell, Thwack. I wrote what I did with an open heart and for exactly the reason I stated, that I think a bit of historical perspective would be healing.

      I will tell you that in all walks of life white people have very little animosity toward blacks and only want to live in peace. And, I do not think that there is enough racism left for people to worry about. Go, live your lives. The playing field is level enough.

      And now I will take Skorenzy’s advice and never speak to you again.

      • thwack September 26, 2017 at 6:23 am #

        mmmmm…

        You’re so sexy when you get mad. Do you wanna hit me?

        I will be thinking of new and exciting ways to bring you to anger; again and again. I get high on your poison.

        *Be advised*

        • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 11:22 am #

          You two should get a room. A padded one.

    • thwack September 26, 2017 at 9:18 am #

      Here is a nice steaming hot cup of “animus” for ya

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066#/media/File:Instructions_to_japanese.png

  56. sophia September 25, 2017 at 9:18 pm #

    Scroll down a bit.

    https://davidduke.com/race-likely-shot-police-america-shocking-truth/

  57. janet September 25, 2017 at 9:39 pm #

    “They just repeat the same canards, as if that constitutes an argument.” — squeeky

    DA, you, Janet, etc. think I am presenting DNC “talking point” which is funny because I am referring to bipartisan investigations in congress, and a special counsel, Mueller, who is a life-long Republican.

    Mueller will be coming down with his indictments of Trump and the Trump campaign in October or November. Impeachment will follow shortly after that. If you follow the money, you will clearly see Trump’s criminal actions during the 2016 campaign. Mueller has done exactly that with a crack team of experienced investigators. He is also going to get them on state charges, not just federal charges…. because Trump cannot pardon anyone for crimes violating state laws.

    But it matters not whether you believe what I am saying. Soon you will see with your own eyes. And, yes, I will be here to say I told you so. It has nothing to do with Democratic talking points. It is reality. Trump the con man has committed criminal acts and he will pay for them by being voted out of office by two thirds of the House.

    • RIB September 26, 2017 at 5:09 am #

      Your predictions are about as accurate as Kuntsler’s economic predictions, Jansoka

    • DA September 26, 2017 at 7:20 am #

      And, yes, I will be here to say I told you so. It has nothing to do with Democratic talking points. It is reality.

      And I’ll still be here to ignore and/or ridicule you. Whatever happens to Trump will be whatever TPTB decide, and their station is far above the petty investigative powers of the special prosecutor, who is nothing at all, the congress, or even the Great Orange One himself. That is reality my little HRC troll.

    • DA September 26, 2017 at 10:34 am #

      From Dmitry Orlov’s latest this morning:

      “The fact that within social machines psychopaths rise to the top is easy to grasp: “If having some psychopathic tendencies is helpful for fitting in within a social machine, having more psychopathic tendencies is even more helpful. Consequently, within social machines, pure psychopaths rise through the ranks and concentrate at the top. It should be entirely unsurprising, then, that when we look at the upper echelons of business and government—the C-suite, the boards of directors, the executive branches, the legislatures and the courts—we find that they are pretty much stocked with total psychopaths.” [p. 195]

      Finally, let’s draw some conclusions, which should by now be perfectly obvious. All of the Hate Cults mentioned above are focused on national leaders. Nation-states are social machines par excellence. Social machines are run by psychopaths. Whatever it is they do, you can be absolutely sure that it’s nothing personal, entirely beyond your control, and nothing to get worked up about.

      My sincere and earnest hope is that once you digest and accept these facts, becoming emotional about some psychopathic figurehead or other will start to look silly to you, the spell will be broken, the political vitriol in your brain will eventually get metabolized to something less toxic (urine, probably) and you will stop wasting your energies and feel better. As far as all of the Cathedrals of Hate—please don’t go near any of them. Cults are bad; political hate cults doubly so.”

      https://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2017/09/public-loathing-as-deification.html

      Bottom line: if the oligarchic elite decide to get rid of Trump, rest assured it won’t be for reasons readily discernible to you or to me. It’ll be for reasons that serve their interests only. You can also be sure that whomever they choose next will serve their interests first and foremost too, and he or she will be no less psychopathic than any of our recent Puppets in Chief.

  58. Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter September 25, 2017 at 10:49 pm #

    RE: Above where somebody was looking for the black woman shot by the police who had scissors(?), maybe this is the story:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUeeEyh7aPM

    Squeeky Fromm
    Girl Reporter

    • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 11:09 am #

      No, that is another case.

  59. BackRowHeckler September 25, 2017 at 10:53 pm #

    One thing I haven’t seen mentioned here is that military displays at NFL and MLB games, flyovers, color guards and so on, are often, if not always, paid for by the DoD, mostly as public relations and recruiting tools. These professional sports franchises aren’t letting the US Armed Forces into their venues out of a sense of patriotism or out of the goodness of their hearts, no, they are being paid handsomely. This is an important revenue stream especially in baseball, where salaries are exhorbitant, and almost every penny raised goes into paying those salaries.

    brh

    • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 11:09 am #

      who is paying? how much? why?

  60. BackRowHeckler September 25, 2017 at 11:05 pm #

    What we need about now is another inspirational poem from Squeaky Fromm Girl Reporter, this time about ‘Taking a Knee’.

    Here is a suggestion for the first stanza, Squeaky.

    “I’m taking a knee in the land of the free
    This Honky anthem don’t mean nothing to me
    Kiss my black as you white M’erF=ckers
    I’ll see you bleed
    My name is Rashad; I play in the Negro Felon League.

    brh

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    • Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 11:14 pm #

      Very good, brh. Your perception of their sentiments is entirely accurate however crude the form in which you expressed them. After all, you are imitating their crudity. This is something Leftists simply cannot believe. To do so is to lose their Faith in Blackness and that would mean having to see the blackness of their own souls.

  61. Janos Skorenzy September 25, 2017 at 11:05 pm #

    https://dailystormer.is/feminist-activist-beaten-up-by-trannies-for-not-being-sufficiently-pro-tranny/

    It wasn’t a woman but a TERF – a Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminst who got what was coming to her. PC trannies have cucked, calling the righteous tranny and her supporters “males”, the ultimate insult. Righteous or Cis Trannies are going have to start a movement called Trannies Going Their Own Way or TGTOW.

    In the coming war between TERFs and TGTOWs, which side are You going to be on?

    • BackRowHeckler September 25, 2017 at 11:17 pm #

      I like my freak shows simple and easy to understand. This gender freak show — TERFs, cis this, this that, TGTOWs, is getting a little absurd in its complexity.

      brh

  62. Q. Shtik September 25, 2017 at 11:14 pm #

    My comment below was posted late last night at the tail end of JHK’s previous blog essay. It was probably not read by most of you so I’ve pasted a copy into today’s blog comment section.

    While on the blog this evening I had the Sunday night pro football game on TV in the background, muted… no idea who was playing or who won but when I looked up at the end I un-muted to hear the female reporter interviewing a few players from the winning team.

    One was this very polite black guy who was just overwhelmed with the wonderfulness of his team’s performance and all the various individual player’s performances. He even praised the coach’s play ‘collin’. As he spoke his head slowly and continuously made the ‘no’ motion as an emphasizer of the truth of what he was saying.

    There was also footage of the earlier anthem protest and counter protest. I am conflicted on this issue. I favor free speech but does that really mean the NFL and the sponsors must provide a paid-for platform for the protesters? I say, take a knee in the parking lot before you climb behind the wheel of your Bentley for the drive home.

    • capt spaulding September 26, 2017 at 12:46 am #

      Free speech is everyone’s right, however that doesn’t mean that there isn’t sometimes a price to pay. Other people are free to react to your free speech in various ways, some of which can involve boycotts, bad press, etc. Say what you want to, but there can be good or bad reactions.

  63. pequiste September 26, 2017 at 12:50 am #

    The whole #Take-The-Knee show really needs some replacement theme music to help soothe pre-game tensions at N*FL venues.

    Since the Star Spangled Banner is obviously hurting the (thug) players’ feelings – reflecting White American toxicity coupled with police maltreatment plus not ever enough cash and all that competition from the fratricidal action in Chicago over the weekend – might I suggest two straight from Compton hits that will get them (from the most Baddass Blood to the Crankiest Crip) on their feet in a jiffy:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDJ26_UkJq8

    or perhaps something less Old Skool for the playas:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mwNbTL3pOs

  64. FincaInTheMountains September 26, 2017 at 4:04 am #

    Vladimir Putin invited the Jews, who face anti-Semitism in Europe, to come back to Russia.

    Putin: Let them come to us. In USSR they were leaving, now let them come back.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F_DBPoG5TY&t=149

    • FincaInTheMountains September 26, 2017 at 4:13 am #

      Hasidic are different too. Generally speaking, the Rebbe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebbe before his death called on the Jews to return to Russia, and now those who heard him are building the Russian banking system, in particular the Russian SWIFT.

    • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 11:16 am #

      How much hate do ‘the Jews’ face?

      • volodya September 26, 2017 at 11:50 am #

        What they face outside the Middle East is nothing like what they face inside.

        Imagine you’re a young Palestinian and that blue and white Israeli flag flying on the hill-top that mocks your manhood day-in and day-out.

  65. Kent Clizbe September 26, 2017 at 8:45 am #

    Great commentary.

    And you’re nearly there on the best terminology for the anti-Normals.

    “Dem-Progs” doesn’t really capture the essence of their beliefs and actions.

    “Politically Correct Progressives” or “PC-Progs” nails them perfectly.

    Their belief system can be summarized in 6 bullet points, and an action corollary.

    They do control the party formerly known as “Democrats,” but have nothing to do with Democracy.

    The PC-Prog belief system is laid out here:

    http://intelctweekly.blogspot.com/2014/07/politically-correct-progressive-belief.html

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  66. seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 9:26 am #

    Why would Trump take on the most popular sport in the world? They’re ratings are down.

    • pequiste September 26, 2017 at 10:04 am #

      Sorry to break it to you Wolfie; but the most popular sport in the world is Association football, otherwise known, in America, as soccer. Only in a society so arrogant, egocentric and generally ignorant as ours do we think the world revolves around U.S. and everything we do.

      Still, it is a child’s game where adult men and women in shorts are chasing after a ball.

      In other news; now the protest au-courant has seeped into the United States Congress:

      http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/congresswoman-takes-a-knee-on-the-house-floor-to-protest-donald-trumps-nfl-remarks/ar-AAstRdb?li=BBnb7Kz

      Maybe Congresswoman Lee should consider changing her name to provide some much-needed relational distance from that raysis Confederate general of the same familial identity designator.

      • volodya September 26, 2017 at 10:24 am #

        It would no doubt be a head-scratcher in the US that Malaysians parade through the streets – in MALAYSIA – after Liverpool games singing “You’ll never walk alone”, Liverpool’s anthem. And it would no doubt come as a surprise to Americans that this happens because the English Premier League is the most watched league in the world and not the NFL.

        You don’t have to be a rabid soccer fan to know picayune shit like this business about Malaysian Liverpool followers. Having said that, you can’t know everything about everywhere because the world is too big a place. But just a little bit of attention to what goes on outside US borders would be nice. Never mind Palin, that knucklehead Dan Quayle said that he’d heard that there are third world countries that don’t have driving ranges. Can’t have that kind of cluelessness at the top of US politics.

        If you’re wondering why US foreign policy is such a calamity and why the US mires itself in one unwinnable war after another, you might start with the general American cluelessness about the world and the general cluelessness in American policy-making elites, the guys that are supposed to know a thing or two. It’s pretty obvious they don’t.

  67. volodya September 26, 2017 at 10:04 am #

    JHK tells us what we’ve all seen ourselves, that Asians succeed in school and economically. Not to be persnickety but “Asian” also refers to people from the Indian subcontinent. Which shows to go ya one other thing, the darkies from the subcontinent prove that dark skin isn’t the biological impediment that the racial theorists say it is.

    • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 11:15 am #

      Race is not just skin color.
      Ask Janos, he thinks he knows DNA like Tesla knew X rays.

      • volodya September 26, 2017 at 11:37 am #

        Malthuss, you brought up an important point. On the one hand there’s a lot of ways of grouping people besides skin color.

        This is over-simplifying but one way might be classification by a characteristic like the gene for sickle cell anemia which some researchers say confers some resistance to malaria if it’s inherited from just one parent. There’s broad swathe of people with this gene ie along east Africa and up into the Mediterranean basin. So can we call this the “sickle cell” race?

        On the other hand there’s the notion that races as delineated by visual characteristics like skin color and eye shape aren’t things that exist in isolation. Go across Eurasia by car and you’ll see. There’s a gradual change in people’s faces as you drive from west to east, from what we generally think of as White or Caucasian on the English channel to East Asian on China’s Pacific coast. It’s not an abrupt change from one to the other.

        Then there’s the problem of genetic variation that isn’t visible to the naked eye. This is a real old and oft-repeated example and you’ve probably run into it many times and in many places. But there’s the neighboring tribes of Bushmen on the Kalahari that look pretty much the same but which are more genetically different from one another than French are from Japanese. So why are the neighboring tribes of Bushmen considered one race but French and Japanese considered two different races?

        The issue of race isn’t settled among geneticists. Some say that it’s a valid concept, that it’s useful to classify people as we traditionally do ie for determining someone’s susceptibility to various diseases. Other geneticists say otherwise.

        • messianicdruid September 26, 2017 at 1:41 pm #

          Do you believe the study of genetics makes one unbiased?

          • volodya September 26, 2017 at 2:00 pm #

            No.

        • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 1:47 pm #

          There are differences in the brain size and shape. And differences in the hormone levels. These are differences that make a difference.

          Maybe you’re right: traditionally a distinction was made between the Hottentots and the Bushmen. But you’re only bringing it up to dismiss the whole thing – with bad intent in other words. You think you know better, but you don’t. The Human Races differ from each other physically and psychologically as much as the breeds of dogs – or in the case of Blacks, as much as wolves differ from dogs.

          All real geneticists say it matters as pertains to IQ, physical ability, and of course medically. The ones who disagree are “court scientists” pushing the official narrative.

        • thwack September 26, 2017 at 2:34 pm #

          There’s broad swathe of people with this gene ie along east Africa and up into the Mediterranean basin. So can we call this the “sickle cell” race?

          *********************

          Yeah, and what about the Huntington’s Chorea race?

          And the I Can’t Roll My Tongue race?

          The Left Handed Race?

          • volodya September 26, 2017 at 6:50 pm #

            Maybe the moronic-not-worth-responding-to race?

        • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 7:26 pm #

          Go across Eurasia by car and you’ll see. There’s a gradual change in people’s faces as you drive from west to east, from what we generally think of as White or Caucasian on the English channel to East Asian on China’s Pacific coast…………

          Must be fascinating to see.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 2:08 pm #

        No. Wrong. I don’t think that. I even asked you a question above. Nor do I believe everything is known about it, by any means. But what I do know is how important it is. Nor can we wait for complete knowledge. What we do know must be used immediately or there is no future.

        Why the attitude? I simply advocate for the for pursuit of vital knowledge and the use of such knowledge that we already have. The latter is more important in fact as we will not be able to pursue this knowledge or anything else unless we preserve our very existence. Of course the Chinese are working on it and have no such scruples about being superior. This bodes very ill for us indeed….

    • Q. Shtik September 26, 2017 at 11:48 am #

      darkies from the subcontinent prove that dark skin isn’t the biological impediment that the racial theorists say it is. – volodya

      ===========

      I beg to differ, vol.

      Southern Indians are generally much darker than other Indians and are very much looked down upon by lighter-skinned/more northerly Indians. Also they are deemed to be less smart. When a child is born in India the universal desire is that the baby be light skinned. I know these things as absolute truths from personal experience that I am not going to divulge to you.

      • volodya September 26, 2017 at 11:55 am #

        I know what you’re saying. The caste system is alive and well in India. On this side of the pond it’s a different thing. The south Indian doesn’t have the same constraints as in India.

        • Q. Shtik September 26, 2017 at 2:53 pm #

          The caste system is alive and well in India. – vol

          =============

          Actually, some sort of caste system is alive and well EVERYWHERE.

        • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 4:19 pm #

          Volodya,
          Lighter colored skin is a positive trait in the Ghetto…Darker skin not as respected, nor desired.

          • thwack September 26, 2017 at 7:44 pm #

            Not always, because sometimes it means you might be a “trick baby”

            Just sayin

          • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 9:17 pm #

            “because sometimes it means you might be a “trick baby”

            Thwack,
            Heard many times on the street…”I knew your momma…I might be your daddy….”

            Being a “trick baby” means that you momma be walkin’…

            Just observin’

      • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 1:53 pm #

        Yet some brilliant mathematicians are from South India, black as coal. I can explain: the Aryan invaders found Civilizations in the Sub-Continent, walled cities in the Pakistan area far in advance of what they had. Yet degenerate: they didn’t put up much of a fight. Later they ran into heavier resistance, yet their culture kept advancing until India was a blend, both genetically and culturally.

        Did the Aboriginals build those cities? No. They are closely related to the Aborigines of Australia. The advanced cultures were created by the Tamil peoples, who are a very dark race of Caucasians, far darker than the Arabs. Well adapted for their home in other words. They’re mixed in with the Abos, but some pure types remain – sharp Caucasian features. I would tend to assume that they had their own caste system before the Aryan arrived to try and keep separate from the Abos they had conquered ages before.

        • thwack September 26, 2017 at 2:27 pm #

          a very dark race of Caucasians

          *******************************

          How dark do they need to be before they can be hung from trees?

          Not that it matters… Im just sayin

          • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 4:25 pm #

            Thwack.
            Not the color of the fruit but the degree of over-ripeness…the rotten should remain on the limb.

        • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 7:29 pm #

          Did you know that the DNA of the gypsies has been
          traced to a certain caste in India?

      • capt spaulding September 26, 2017 at 2:26 pm #

        Well Q, for better or worse, that attitude prevails in many countries throughout the world. From Yugoslavia where dark skinned gypsies are looked down on, to Mexico, where indians are looked down on, to many others. It’s a fact, just the way it is.

  68. elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 10:42 am #

    Well, ladies and germs;

    The BBC, this AM reports that Jerry Jones the Owner of the Dallas Cowboys last night “took a knee” during the National Anthem….

    Would he rather have taken the “fickle finger of fate”…good and hard, and repeatedly.

  69. sprawlcapital September 26, 2017 at 11:07 am #

    Race always brings a bountiful harvest of comments.

    We hear till we’re sick of it that we are all one country and diversity is our strength, until, that is, we look at things like where we live and shop.

    About 10 days ago, my wife and I were shopping at the Costco on the far western edge of a Des Moines suburb. I did what I call a Tour de Race, an informal and very non-scientific survey of how many non-white shoppers were in Costco on that very busy Saturday.

    My estimate: about 96 percent white. Of the other four percent, I would say most were Asian or Middle eastern. Very few African-Americans. That last group tends to stay in their inner-city neighborhoods, which whites avoid, showing what low regard whites have for the diversity they claim “is our strength”. White people tend to find housing in the outer suburbs.

    [I know, Thwack, these are not original thoughts, but I found it interesting to do an actual survey, on the ground.]

    • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 11:14 am #

      Whites have for the diversity they claim “is our strength”. —
      Who the f-ck is ‘They’?

      • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 11:19 am #

        I believe that antecedent is “white.”

    • volodya September 26, 2017 at 11:17 am #

      Yeah, these eyeball anecdotes are revealing aren’t they. Just one anecdote doesn’t give a picture of a wide area but then again Americans are fairly mobile so it isn’t hard for one person to get these eyeball surveys in places hundreds of miles apart. Imagine the average extended family dispersed hither and yon. Imagine going to visit family in the next state and going on a shopping expedition when you get there to pick up this or that food item for dinner. And then look around at who the shoppers are.

    • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 11:20 am #

      Race always get the highest number of comments. Sad.

      • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 11:53 am #

        Wolfie,
        Not sad…illuminating.

        • volodya September 26, 2017 at 12:04 pm #

          I don’t think it’s sad either. Like you said, illuminating. Like the north-south divide, the racial divide is something that sits at the center of things. It’s a fact of life. And it’s not like the US is unique in this. Look at Q’s comment on India. The caste system there isn’t going away.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 1:56 pm #

        People prefer their own. White Liberals who don’t are simply sickos. But in fact, White Liberals DO usually prefer their own White Liberal tribesmen. So the principle is conserved. It’s other Whites outside the Tribe whom they utterly loathe and seek to sacrifice to their Dark Gods.

        • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 7:30 pm #

          Ethno masochists.

  70. volodya September 26, 2017 at 11:08 am #

    Zerohedge sez that an angry Steve Bannon sez that a day of reckoning will come for Republicans. Yeah, but it came already, at least ONE day of reckoning, and that was the nomination of Trump.

    If Trump’s nomination wasn’t a rebuke to the usual conservative sermonizers sermonizing about “principled conservatism” and whose only evident principle it is to line the pockets of a clique of billionaires, then what was it?

    I think it was Trump himself who said that it’s called the REPUBLICAN Party and not the Conservative Party. In any case, Trump looks to me like a NYC liberal in his general orientation. Yeah, I know, the fucking WALL. To me the Wall was a metaphor for border enforcement.

    If, hypothetically, border enforcement ever happened, who would pay for it? Mexico, that’s who. The people that would pay for it are especially Mexico’s elite, narco and non-narco alike.

    With border enforcement Mexican elites would have to deal with economic distress and political oppression that the elites themselves inflicted on Mexicans and which they won’t be able to offload onto Americans. It’s either that or have to deal with insurrection.

    Only in the minds of modern-day liberals (progressives in current parlance) is there anything illiberal in enforcing borders and looking after your own citizens’ interests. Just between us girls that’s because modern-day liberals or progressives aren’t really “liberal” or “progressive”. They’re just play-acting in defending the same billionaire clique as Republicans.

    At the end of the day, the Republican base knew about Trump. Trump was no mystery. They voted for a NYC liberal because he said he’d fight for them which is more than the usual “principled conservatives” would do. Or any Democrat for that matter (Bernie was no Democrat).

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    • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 7:31 pm #

      Why do you read 0 hedge?

  71. seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 11:11 am #

    DOD paid $53,000,000 dollars to peddle their war porn at sporting events. I guess they feel they’re not getting their money’s worth. I love who prepared this study too: Flake and McCain, Trump’s foils.

    • DA September 26, 2017 at 12:21 pm #

      $53M? Wow! Albeit still a mere drop in their slop bucket. I know that 14 years ago when I retired, $23M was Cannon AFB’s (NM, F-16 at the time) annual discretionary ($$ they actually control, excludes capital construction projects, aircraft parts, etc.) operating budget, so there’s some perspective for you. Roughly two moderately sized fighters aircraft wings’ worth of budget (granted, in 2003 dollars) pissed away to buy public “good will,” which should be taken for granted.

      • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 12:32 pm #

        It is a relative pittance.

      • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 12:32 pm #

        On the other hand it’s like cigarette advertising to children no?

        • DA September 26, 2017 at 2:07 pm #

          Exactly.

      • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 4:33 pm #

        DA,
        So money for spectacle, art or other entertainment is pissed away? The baroque façade of many old buildings were more expensive to construct, but…are you not glad that it was done? The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel could have been painted with a roller…saved major bucks….

        No. When those fighters, in full AB, roll over a stadium, it alone is worth the price of admission…even Finc will admit it.

        • DA September 26, 2017 at 5:05 pm #

          Guess I had my fill of fighters. I’ve toasted marshmallows and counted the rings in the exhaust of an F4 Phantom back in the day during a full AB run on the engine trim pad down at Moody AFB GA. Now THAT was fun. For awhile anyway.

          • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 8:30 pm #

            J79. A great engine.

          • DA September 27, 2017 at 7:25 am #

            Managed to keep the “flying brick” in the air (mostly) at least. Now that was a tough aircraft to love for a maintenance man. Lot’s of job security though. Our manning was easily twice as high as when we switched over to the F-16. The WCS Weapons Control Systems – Radar) guys alone could fill an entire break room, and every last one of them would be out on the flightline all night long.

  72. uslabor September 26, 2017 at 11:25 am #

    Hey, Fuck You, Jim, remove my post? Fuck you, why don’t you write for David Duke…….oh that’s right, you’re Jewish.

    • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 4:35 pm #

      Awww, C’mon man….

  73. 100th Avatar September 26, 2017 at 11:45 am #

    No what’s a lot easier than overcoming bias and prejudice through hard work, responsibility, affirmative results, realignment of cultural prerogatives, forethought, planning, discipline, resoluteness, initiative, realistic ambitions, duty, and maturity?

    Blaming others and kneeling.

    • 100th Avatar September 26, 2017 at 11:46 am #

      That’s no, what.. not know

    • elysianfield September 26, 2017 at 11:55 am #

      Avatar,
      Well said.

    • volodya September 26, 2017 at 11:59 am #

      There is that. I think it was Jesse Jackson that said it’s not white racists that make 15 year old black girls get pregnant. As to the education issue, cannot remember who said it, might have been somebody black (who would know better) but when black parents start to give a damn, black kids will get educated.

      • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 7:33 pm #

        In a sense, Yt does…YT has the plantation system that feeds those they breed. White libs.

    • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 11:59 am #

      Have any idea how hard it is to become a starting quarterback in the NFL. There are 32 of them. There are more US Senators. Kapernick was very active in his community. He saw it first hand. He knew they had no visibility, but he did. He was a black starting quarterback, even rarer than a puddle in Phoenix. When Marlon Brando protested treatment of the American Indian, he did it on company time and he paid for it too. It’s how it’s done. Get over yourself and your need to impose your will.

      • 100th Avatar September 26, 2017 at 12:09 pm #

        Honest assessment of CK. A young, wealthy, successfull, white kid living the dream. Living in exclusive neighborhoods and collecting the dividends of white privilege. Problem is, he’s mulatto. No street cred.
        None.
        Got some tats.
        Not enough.
        He’s also suffering the rather juvenile search for identity, only amplified on account of him being an adoptee.

        He’s that freshman student that learns one thing and now knows everything.

        • 100th Avatar September 26, 2017 at 12:18 pm #

          Oh, and he grew the Afro too… and wore a Che t-shirt.
          He’s embarrassingly cliche

          • DA September 26, 2017 at 12:28 pm #

            Agreed. The Afro is just plain embarrassing. Had he just shown some restraint he’d have garnered a whole lot more support. And all of it coming out of liberal haven SF too, no less. VERY bad optics.

          • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 12:30 pm #

            Oh please now you’re going after his hair. No doubt you are garishly coifed with an extravagant comb over.

          • DA September 26, 2017 at 2:06 pm #

            LOL! Not ME for sure! Semi-chromus domus.

  74. 100th Avatar September 26, 2017 at 11:52 am #

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  75. volodya September 26, 2017 at 12:24 pm #

    Read just the first two paragraphs of Charles Blow’s article in the NY Times.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/opinion/columnists/trump-race-nfl-nba.html

    This is what I mean by preposterization of public discourse. It’s hideous.

    These guys hold themselves up as exemplars of good sense and sensibility and of moderation and enlightenment. They are idiots. Purveyors of idiocy are not long for this world especially if they believe in what they’re selling. They tout evolution and one of its central mechanisms, that being natural selection. Well, that same natural selection will work on them.

    • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 12:41 pm #

      Wikipedia begs to differ with Key’s position on slavery.
      Key purchased his first slave in 1800 or 1801 and owned six slaves in 1820.[15] Mostly in the 1830s, Key manumitted (set free) seven slaves, one of whom (Clem Johnson) continued to work for him for wages as his farm’s foreman, supervising several slaves.[16]

      Throughout his career Key also represented several slaves seeking their freedom in court (for free), as well as several masters seeking return of their runaway slaves.[17][18] Key, Judge William Leigh of Halifax, and bishop William Meade were administrators of the will of their friend John Randolph of Roanoke, who died without children and left a will directing his executors to free his more than four hundred slaves. Over the next decade, beginning in 1833, the administrators fought to enforce the will and provide the freed slaves land to support themselves.[19]

      Key publicly criticized slavery’s cruelties, so much that after his death a newspaper editorial stated “So actively hostile was he to the peculiar institution that he was called ‘The Nigger Lawyer’ …. because he often volunteered to defend the downtrodden sons and daughters of Africa. Mr. Key convinced me that slavery was wrong—radically wrong.”[20] In June 1842, Key attended the funeral of William Costin, a free, mixed race resident who had challenged Washington’s surety bond laws.

  76. sophia September 26, 2017 at 12:33 pm #

    Seawold,

    “You’re quoting David Duke and you’re asking me why I don’t believe you?”

    You’re right. I didn’t notice it was David Duke, I should look for more.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 2:00 pm #

      Be sure to include Mr Duke in your Will. He is a tireless worker for the survival of the White Race. Read his, “My Awakening” – a classic in the Movement.

      • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 2:33 pm #

        David Duke is a Hitler wannabe who thought he was hot shit on a silver platter but turned out to be cold buggers on a paper plate.

        • DA September 26, 2017 at 5:01 pm #

          Q, can we have a spell check on aisle 5? I think “buggers” should be actually “boogers.” LOL!

          • 100th Avatar September 26, 2017 at 9:40 pm #

            Seadolt has an anal fixation. He’s a closeted sodomite. A victim.

          • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 10:24 pm #

            Obviously 2 + 2 = anal sex. And I thought buggers came out of nostrils. Now there’s an image!

    • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 7:35 pm #

      what is this about? did you read the now disappeared comment?

  77. messianicdruid September 26, 2017 at 1:29 pm #

    seawolf77 says, “They are doing their utmost best to UNDO what the black president did. Exactly what more do you need to see racism?”

    Finally, a working definition – reversing the efforts of a racist is racist.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 2:02 pm #

      You say racist like it’s a bad thing. The problem with Obama’s racism is that we’re White. We need our own Racist in office who will represent US. The Whites in Congress represent their class, not their People.

      Fixt it for ya!

      • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 2:30 pm #

        Obamacare helped all people. It taxed the very rich to pay for itself. What is wrong with that picture? I can almost guarantee that no one on this site is mega rich. I’m talking north of 100 million liquid assets, 500 million total assets. So why would anybody want it repealed? Why do ordinary people vote for someone who will take something away from them? Republicans, GO DO SOMETHING. Don’t UNDO what others have done. We all know you’re just about tax cuts for the rich, but you sell yourself as tax cutters for all. You’re not and you know it.

        • messianicdruid September 26, 2017 at 4:46 pm #

          Several States now have only one insurer. How does that “help[ed] all people”?

        • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 6:59 pm #

          Obamacare was written by the insurance companies with the goal of making money for them and in the process, effecting a massive transfer of wealth from Whites to Non-Whites.

          I’m an American National Socialist who believes in Single Payer and the Nation State, one dedicated to the Founder/Builder Race of America.

          • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 7:20 pm #

            Ha! We agree on something. I want Medicare for all too. Get rid of the insurance companies, like they should have gotten rid of the tobacco companies.

        • sophia September 26, 2017 at 7:40 pm #

          Seawolf, the middle class are struggling to pay the premiums. Where have you been? People are paying double what they did just a couple of years ago, not to mention deductibles. It’s the middle class who are paying for the poor. How much the rich are paying I don’t know. I don’t know where you get that from.

          Someone needs to DO SOMETHING about the medical billing scams. Stop thinking of insurance. Even Obama said during his first campaign that the rising medical costs would bankrupt this country. This is the real problem.

        • capt spaulding September 27, 2017 at 3:03 pm #

          Like I’ve said before, I’ve had Canadians laugh right in my face when I tell them how much my medical insurance costs. That, and how much my prescriptions cost. Keep it up, America, you’re only out of step with the rest of the first world. The joy of Democracy is that if there are enough idiots, you can keep shooting yourself in the foot. The corporations are cheering you on. Them and their bought & paid for politicians. May you live in interesting times.

          • DA September 27, 2017 at 3:24 pm #

            As well they should. The US is a laughingstock now. Albeit one with lots of guns and bombs.

  78. Q. Shtik September 26, 2017 at 2:01 pm #

    George Dumbya Bush……….then closed every public speech with “support the troops.” – My Point of View

    ===========

    Cato the Elder, a Roman Senator, ended every speech and every conversation, no matter on what related or unrelated topic, even with the common man in the street, with Carthago delenda est…… “Carthage must be destroyed.” Eventually Carthage was destroyed.

    Repetition is very effective.

    • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 8:42 pm #

      Yes but not until Hannibal made them wish he hadn’t said it once.

    • 100th Avatar September 26, 2017 at 9:38 pm #

      No, the repetition wasn’t effective. The deflection was.
      You can hate the war, but you will support the troops.
      If you’re against the war you are against the troops.
      Soon every dummy from Delaware to Deluth had yellow ribbons everywhere; cars, homes, mailboxes, trees.
      Dumbya preyed on dummies.

      • Q. Shtik September 26, 2017 at 10:29 pm #

        Soon every dummy from Delaware to [Deluth] had yellow ribbons – Avatar

        ============

        It’s [Duluth]. I was stationed there 3 years. Complainers that they would like to be stationed somewhere more exciting called it
        DULL-uth.

        • DA September 27, 2017 at 7:17 am #

          LOL! Hawaii was “the rock” back in the day (1977-1980)

  79. ghostunit September 26, 2017 at 2:06 pm #

    Kunstler, how can you care more about Puerto Rico’s debt than their people when they are down by causes beyond their control (off the charts hurricane)?

    Funny how that was exactly what Trump did too, tweeting about Puerto Rico’s debt to Wall Street and such.

    Did you meet with Trump in a secret clubhouse for old white guys who don’t care about people?

    Exercise: try thinking the same thing, but replace Puerto Rico with, say, Israel

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    • 100th Avatar September 26, 2017 at 3:07 pm #

      I bet you could walk freely around Israel and never get stabbed or shot (by an Israeli). Civilization, well, it favors the civilized.

      • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 7:37 pm #

        Puerto Rico, I think its credit rating is bad. It took more than it gave. Like the USA.

        • 100th Avatar September 26, 2017 at 9:33 pm #

          Puerto Ricans make parades. And Rum. Well actually that’s an expatriate Cuban/Catalan family.
          Yep. They make parades.

  80. volodya September 26, 2017 at 2:30 pm #

    So while we’re debating baloney about who takes the knee, who doesn’t, is it an outrage or isn’t it, the Chinese are conducting for the first time live fire exercises in Africa near Djibouti at an energy chokepoint near the Horn of Africa.

    There’s a price to pay for incessant distraction. You stop noticing the ground shifting under your feet.

    • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 3:09 pm #

      Trump is the Distractor in Chief.

      • sophia September 26, 2017 at 7:49 pm #

        Be more suspicious. Who directs the media to lead the distraction?

        • volodya September 27, 2017 at 11:32 am #

          Exactly. And what’s their agenda.

    • 100th Avatar September 26, 2017 at 3:12 pm #

      You smart one indeed.
      However.
      There are pirates there and the Chinese have many ships, many ships and filled with many things.

      It’s just good business.
      Don’t let your heart be troubled
      May god be with you

      OneLongBlo

      • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 7:38 pm #

        USA pays to keep the seas [fairly] safe for China, Incorporated.

        • volodya September 27, 2017 at 11:35 am #

          The USA built up China’s industrial capacity at the expense of the US and its own workers and built up China’s military capacity. You’d think that no reasoning, reasonable people would be that dumb. You’d think it doesn’t get much dumber. But it does. Because as you said, the USA now keeps the world’s waters safe for China Inc. Bone-headed.

          • DA September 27, 2017 at 9:15 pm #

            Not really. USA=Global Capitalism. PAY ATTENTION!

      • onehunglo September 27, 2017 at 10:35 pm #

        ah 100th, imitation sincerest form of flattery!!!

        you very wise indeed!!

        Red China power rise due to you one Rockefeller, Kissinger and Bilderberg group….

        you general public dumbed down to point of average IQ of 80….

        that ok.

        let not you heart be troubled.

        may God be with you.

        -onehunglo

  81. Q. Shtik September 26, 2017 at 3:55 pm #

    just because you see more Blacks posturing you think they have more tendencies to posture because they are black. To me, that is irrational thinking. – Bean

    ===============

    That is a disingenuous statement, Bean. Of course Blacks have a tendency to posture more. It is obvious to anyone with eyes. It is part and parcel of Black culture: loud music, loud voices, garish clothing… an excessive neediness to be seen, heard and recognized. The opposite end of this spectrum would be Eli Manning… a man totally comfortable in his own skin who appears to buy his suits and ties from Robert Hall (if they even still exist).

    • beantownbill. September 26, 2017 at 5:33 pm #

      I ‘m talking about the NFL. Btw, I don’t think Robert Hall is still in business. We are dating ourselves, Q.

      • Q. Shtik September 26, 2017 at 10:21 pm #

        I‘m talking about the NFL. – Bean

        ===========

        So am I. Eli Manning is the Giants QB.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 7:01 pm #

      For that matter, how many East Asians have you seen or met that even approach Black levels of extraversion? It’s clear to those with eyes to see that the genotypes are profoundly different.

      • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 7:38 pm #

        there are a few yellow ‘wiggers’–check youtube.

        • thwack September 26, 2017 at 7:49 pm #

          Yiggers?

          • jim e September 26, 2017 at 9:43 pm #

            Last muggin’ I got was by a high yeller…

          • thwack September 26, 2017 at 10:09 pm #

            Just remember that sometimes the “rice” is brown.

            Tiger Woods!

        • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 8:07 pm #

          You’re straining the gnat and swallowing the camel today, just to be oppositional to Me, the Guru, the God within.

          • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 8:34 pm #

            We’re all flies picking gnat shit out of pepper.

      • thwack September 26, 2017 at 10:14 pm #

        For that matter, how many East Asians have you seen or met that even approach Black levels of extraversion? It’s clear to those with eyes to see that the genotypes are profoundly different.

        *********************

        slo yo roll white man; this bitch came 5 times while reading this announcement:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7J2Nnl7Ano

      • sophia September 27, 2017 at 12:02 pm #

        Janos, I remember a study was done some years back and they found that newborn Chinese babies were quieter and cried less than white US babies in the very first days of life in the hospital. ( I don’t actually recall if it was US babies including white and black.)

        • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 12:50 pm #

          Oh yes: such studies have been done and the same results found many times. Black babies are by far the most active and strongest – lifting their heads first, sitting up first, crawling first, and walking first, months before White babies who do all that before East Asian babies. Talk to people who work in day care and they can confirm some of this if their day care is multiracial.

          One woman I worked with was boasting (she was White of course) of how Blacks are so much more advanced as little children. I didn’t have the “heart” (she was a boss) to explain to her the principle that the least advanced mature the quickest since they aren’t going as far. Thus baby deer are walking within hours, etc. I don’t remember if Blacks talk first, but they seem to keep pace with White children mentally until 6 or 7, then really slow down and are surpassed.

  82. messianicdruid September 26, 2017 at 4:41 pm #

    Along with locking up the football parents, administrators and coaches they want to lock up climate skeptics:

    “It’s official: The last vestiges of common sense have now finally gone out the window. The Washington Times is reporting that climate alarmists are calling for those who do not buy into the catastrophic man-made global warming narrative to be jailed … for murder! That’s right folks; if you don’t accept the idea that humans are causing temperatures to soar at an alarming rate and destroying the planet, you’re a murderer – and must be punished as such.”

    https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-09-25-climate-alarmists-demand-imprisonment-of-climate-change-skeptics-want-to-charge-them-with-murder.html

    • malthuss September 26, 2017 at 7:44 pm #

      Libs are disgusting. Be it late abortion or this.

    • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 8:23 pm #

      Ever seen the Caine Mutiny? That’s us in about 5 or so years. Then you can bet your sweet ass it will be open season on everybody who opposed doing something about Climate Change and sent us all to hell.

      • sophia September 27, 2017 at 12:05 pm #

        Notice how what you care is what people profess to believe. But my friends who believe so strongly in climate change all have air conditioning, fly to far away places for their vacations, go on long motorcycle road trips for fun, never car pool, etc. I, who do not believe in it, remind my friends that we ought to car pool and go shopping together, even though it is a little less convenient. So who gives a shit what they say? They all pretend they want this and that pipe line or what have you to be blocked. I wonder what they’ll do if that means gas rationing. Under gas rationing, I would do just fine.

  83. malthuss September 26, 2017 at 7:43 pm #

    Our soldiers fight and die for a Sodomite Empire. ?????

    Germans fought and died that the White Race might live.

    No, Hitler was killing lots of Whites. What other race did he have to slaughter? How many did he kill? In his holocaust, Allied forces, Russians.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 26, 2017 at 7:50 pm #

      Bad Whites. Evil Whites, servants of Sauron.

      • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 8:20 pm #

        Tighten that bolt on your neck Janos. They both worshiped Dark Lords. On the scales of Justice Libra would just shrug.

  84. mattheus September 26, 2017 at 9:49 pm #

    “I daresay there is as much, perhaps more real animus between Asian-Americans and black Americans than between white and black.” Yes, after living in Philadelphia and seeing them endlessly snarl at each other in the subway, I was surprised to find this to be true. No love lost.

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  85. MrTibbs September 26, 2017 at 10:35 pm #

    Humanity is taking its final examination. We have come to an extraordinary moment where it doesn’t have to be you or me. There is enough for all. We need not operate competitively any longer. If we succeed, it will be because of youth, truth and love.”
    – Buckminster Fuller, 1968.

    In the New Republic, destructive competition is displaced with spontaneous cooperation, and it works under all forms of economic and political systems, and is as immutable as Earth is to Universe. And constructive competition provides for the only tolerable revolution by invention and design.
    – Charles Fuller, 2018.
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/nv8sko6hpqm6tir/New%20Republic%20rev123.pdf?dl=0

    • DA September 27, 2017 at 7:15 am #

      Humanity is taking its final examination.

      In 1968 that might have been true (it was late in the game, even then). Now, the results have long been in. We failed. Miserably.

    • Cavepainter September 27, 2017 at 10:55 am #

      Apparently you’ve read only the glossiest bio on Mr. Fuller. Fuller was an inordinate fibber who made up fantastical stories about himself, such as like the Biblical script of Saul’s transformation to Paul on way to Damascus. A lie no less than his claim of two years being a complete recluse. As equally distorted and inflated were his claims of great achievement, none of which proved all that original or functional.

      • onehunglo September 28, 2017 at 12:02 am #

        ah, cavepainter, you quick to judge the dead…..

        now please illuminate on you great achievements…..while you enjoy life.

        -onehunglo

  86. malthuss September 26, 2017 at 11:12 pm #

    I found this at you tube,

    I’m 40yo guy in college for masters in MIS after 15 years in the IT / IS industry… like 90% of the people in my classes are Indian. To discuss this, we have to first look at India’s situation. Due to over-population (1B people and growing), there’s too many people and not enough jobs.
    And, there’s too many people fighting for slots in the limited number of colleges. Kids spend years learning to take the entrance tests for colleges. And the colleges aren’t as good as the US colleges. And the Hindu religion that pushes a caste system has people constantly striving to increase their caste standing. So, what a lot of poor / middle-class indian parents have figured out.. just take a big-ass loan to out-source their kids to the US to get their educaiton.
    And like “Tiger Mom” dictating what her kids can do, the Indian family tells the kids what they can do. Do they want to go into art, or writing or history or social science or music… ? Tough. Since the family is taking a big-ass loan, the kid will have to go into a degree program that has a big pay-off. It used to be all medical degrees they pursued. But, now tech degrees are en vogue (IS, CompSci, Engineering.. STEM).

    The idea is .. 1) take a big-ass loan that has to get paid back in a few years 2) hope your kid graduates in like a year or two with their masters 3) hope they get a great job that starts paying them great money 4) hope they pay off that loan in time 5) hope them getting a degree in the states gives them a chance for residency or long-term visa status 6) hope they can get the rest of the family shipped over from India to live in the states In-sourcing. I talk to these kids, and a lot of them are miserable.

    They wanted to do something else with their lives, but their family told them what they were going to do. I also have these kids in project groups… since they’re new to the states, they’d rather go party now that they’re away from their strict familes then do any work (especially since they don’t care about the degree they’re getting).

    So, some folks feel this is a good thing that we’re getting India’s best and brightest in-sourced to the states. But.. we’re not. We’re getting the same slacker college kids that we already have over here.. kids that are phoning it in to get a degree.. but think they will magically graduate and be the CxO of a company in a year afterwards.
    When you toss some into a degree program they don’t want to take.. you end up creating a graduate that gets jobs that they don’t care about.. b/c they don’t give a s–it about any of it anyways. This is why the tech industry has been sucking out loud in the states recently. We have had this influx of indian migrant degree seekers for like 10-20 years now.. and they’re embedded in corporate america now. Some of them love their degree and their job. But, a lot of them hate their degree, only did it b/c they were told to by their family, and hate their job.. and they produce low-quality work… just like domestic grads that took a degree just for the money ..
    and hate their job and do poor work, too.
    this massive influx of Indian people in the tech industry.. but that doesn’t mean it’s quality workers. It’s lack-luster workers. Most are just in it for the money (b/c, again, their family only thinks about the money.. not what their kid really wants to do with their lives). So.. yeah.. if you’re a US citizen graduating in STEM.. you will be competing with H1-B immigrant degree seekers.
    And, yes.. most of the time they only “quality” they bring to the table is being able to take less pay then someone else. But, companies are paying for it in the long run with slacker workers producing poor work. And they start weeding out the slackers after a while. The other problem, though, is that Indians are very supportive of each other.. so, once you get an Indian worker in that has hiring power… s/he will simply hire more Indians (friends, family) to fill in vacancies until an entire tech department has been brown-washed. Companies look the other way on this, b/c they see it as simply meeting affrimative action quotas “omg.. we’re hiring an Indian .. and she’s a woman! A minority female! Jackpot!” [that is known as a ‘two fer’].

    The tech department meets all the affirmative action quotas which lets the other departments get away with white-washing (hiring all white people in HR, or accounting or business admin, etc). So, it’s sort of messed up. From a personal level, I really feel for the Indian kids I rub elbows with. They have hopes and aspirations.. but their family crushes them.

    From a business perspective, I don’t want my degree diluted down by kids that don’t give a shit about the degree they’re in. If they get hired and do a poor job, then it reflects poorly on everyone from that school with that degree. “Why would we hire another XYZ grad from ABC university? The last two we hired were lackluster. Give up on hiring from that school.” So, basically.. India has population explosion.. and they’ve found a way to out-source the ramifications of it by finding ways for other countries to education and deal with the spill-over.. but the spill-over stays here competing with us for jobs, too. I’m all for healthy competition.. but certain job segments are over-loaded with candidates… making it a hirer’s market… and everyone is fighting each other to the bottom of how much money they can live off of in order to get a job. And nobody in India is doing anything about the exploding population to put a cap on this going forward.. b/c India is more then happy to take over the world by out-sourcing their extra population.

    dictating the future of tech. But, they are far and few between. Of the 100% of Indian people I meet.. 80% don’t want to be in the degree they’re getting, 10% do but suck at it,…etc.

    • volodya September 27, 2017 at 12:51 pm #

      Welcome everyone to the REAL world of globalization…

  87. Q. Shtik September 26, 2017 at 11:31 pm #

    At 11:20 this morning Seawolf77 noted “Race always gets the highest number of comments. Sad”

    At this moment the number of comments attributed to some of the more prolific commenters is:

    Seawolf……….82
    Janos………….68
    Malthuss……..38
    Elysianfield….30
    Sophia………..23
    Volodya………22
    Q. Shtik………22

    I am fairly certain that all of seawolf’s comments concern race.

    • seawolf77 September 26, 2017 at 11:33 pm #

      Wow! I am sexually aroused.

    • janet September 27, 2017 at 10:33 pm #

      “Janet is Asoka.” — capt spaulding

      Asoka was top poster week after week. When Asoka was here did even one week go by when Asoka was not among the top 7 posters?

      I rest my case. I am not Asoka.

      Seawolf……….82
      Janos………….68
      Malthuss……..38
      Elysianfield….30
      Sophia………..23
      Volodya………22
      Q. Shtik………22

  88. jim e September 26, 2017 at 11:47 pm #

    From the heart of dixie… Go Roy!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlqQ1_vZVE

  89. BackRowHeckler September 26, 2017 at 11:50 pm #

    How ’bout the stupid sonsabitches — grown men — walking around in public wearing NFL jerseys, ballcaps, jackets etc? That sh=t is pretty expensive all by itself. It can cost a family of 4, mom, dad, buddy and sis over $1000 to attend an NFL game. That doesn’t include $75 parking and $9 bottles of water. What a grift! And its not only the players who you worship laughing at what a sucker you are, the owners and sports media are laughing too!

    Hey sports fans, how do you like having your nose rubbed in it by ‘Playas’ who hate you, your country, your heritage, and everything else about you?

    Meanwhile, Roger Goodell, president of the league, makes $1 million per week.

    Maybe on Sunday, instead of sitting on your ass for hours in front of the TV, stuffing you face with nachos and chicken wings, you can get out and do something constructive, and become a man once again. The world awaits.

    brh

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    • DA September 27, 2017 at 11:33 am #

      Goodell’s got a sweet gig, although he does have to listen to the pompous ass Jerry Jones in his ear all the time. Guess he’s his cross to bear. We should all be so lucky! Rich pricks!

    • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 12:54 pm #

      Yes, how can any grown man wear the name of another man on his back? Fan shit is kids stuff at best. In better civilizations, there are heroes both boys and men can share – but they aren’t athletes and no one wears their name on their back. Rather they try to become like them.

  90. Q. Shtik September 27, 2017 at 12:27 am #

    Here is an anecdote that I didn’t expect to be writing when today began:

    My wife is still on a high from her 50th HS Reunion that we attended this past Saturday. She was on the committee that put it together. Today she had a long lunch with an old chum, Karen K., who flew in from the San Fran area with one of her kids to attend the event.

    I met this woman briefly many years ago when she still lived with her husband in Central Jersey. They had just adopted their first child, a black boy. Within the next 3 years or so they adopted a 2nd black boy and then a black girl and moved to Calif.

    She described the town as racially mixed. My wife asked her if she and her husband being white while her children were black had caused any problems. “Well, no, not the kind of problems you might imagine.” She said that once the community had noticed that there was this white couple with 3 little black kids (the girl was the blackest and one of the boys was biracial) they began to drop off other black babies on their doorstep. This literally happened several times and the white couple had to go thru some trauma just to get the abandoned babies into the hands of the proper authorities (orphanages, I presume). I thought of Moses floating in a basket along the Nile.

    The kids grew up, all now in their mid to late 20s. One of the boys is on disability because he can learn but not retain what he has learned long enough to make use of it in a job. The girl is also afflicted with some sort of learning disorder and Karen is thinking of trying to get her on disability. That girl has 2 kids by a black guy she lives with who doesn’t want to marry her. I think Karen’s other boy is more or less normal and holds a job. The white father of this clan is 7 years younger than Karen and holds a fairly high-paid position. Karen and her husband love their children. Karen does not speak as though she has any regrets. The black son who flew east with Karen did not show his face at the reunion or cocktail meetup that took place the night before. He stayed in the hotel room where these reunion events took place.

    My wife returned from her long luncheon with her old HS pal in horror to relate this SAD tale to me. You may make of it what you will.

    • BackRowHeckler September 27, 2017 at 1:32 am #

      This woman, remarkable as she seems, will have to up her game to compete with the ultimate Earth Mother, Angelina Jolie.

      brh

    • tucsonspur September 27, 2017 at 3:00 am #

      Did Karen give a reason for adopting black kids rather than white? They sure took on a lot. Sound like good people with good intentions, however misguided some may think them to be.

      Blacks dumping kids and not committing to family. Sad for too long.

      • Q. Shtik September 27, 2017 at 10:25 am #

        Did Karen give a reason for adopting black kids rather than white? – tucsonspur

        =============

        I’ll paraphrase what my wife told me when I asked the same question:

        Karen got to age 41 and REALLY wanted kids but was unable to conceive. They looked into adoption but TPTB did not make it easy for people to pick and choose what baby they could get. They wound up with a black boy who was the offspring of already efft-up biological parents…drug addicts and whatever. Plus, Karen was/is Catholic and had a charitable heart.

        In quick succession they continued down that path and within maybe 3-4 years adopted 2 more black kids, all the fruit of undesirable backgrounds.

        Karen and her husband still consider themselves Catholics but they don’t attend the Catholic Church. Instead, they and a dozen or so other like-minded Catholics take turns hosting a Sunday service of their own in someone’s home. They have formed a little twig offshoot of Catholicism. I would like to know if they believe Mary was a mother, yet still a virgin and if the bread and wine are literally the body and blood of Christ. If the basic beliefs aren’t there what good is the whole ritual?

        • sophia September 27, 2017 at 12:16 pm #

          What about the tranny couple?

          • Q. Shtik September 27, 2017 at 3:19 pm #

            What about the tranny couple? – sophia

            ===========

            Sorry, not much of interest to report. Barbara K., of course, showed up (big face like a bowl of lumpy mashed potatoes, big dress, swollen feet crammed into a pair of kitten pumps, a wad of gum being chewed open-mouthed even while giving a speech) but her squeeze, Gina, the male to female immigrant tranny and long-haul truck driver, did not attend.

        • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 1:26 pm #

          You know a lot of strange people.

          What about the Jews? Still giving you a hard time down there? Did you ever go talk to the Rabbi about it? They just busted a bunch of them in Jersey for welfare fraud.

          • Q. Shtik September 27, 2017 at 2:46 pm #

            Did you ever go talk to the Rabbi about it? – Janos

            ===============

            I assume you mean the Jews walking on the streets rather than the sidewalks on Shabbos (the sabbath) or on religious holidays, like the recent Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)?

            Well, I had been waiting for an instance of this behavior to really incense me and then I would go talk to the Rabbi while I had a good head of steam up. But then I talked to a Jewish friend of my wife and she said I would not be the first to complain about this… and that the Rabbi had pleaded with his congregation more than once not to do this.

            I never got an understanding of WHY they would do this. It always struck me as an ‘in your face’… ‘we’re better than you’ display.

            My car is in the shop for repair so I was not able to be driving around town on Rosh Hashanah. I specifically wanted to see if there were any Jews in the streets. I asked my wife to keep her eyes peeled when she was out in her car but, no…no offenders this time.

        • volodya September 27, 2017 at 1:32 pm #

          What good is the whole ritual? Maybe nothing, maybe something but only insofar as it’s a re-enactment of the last supper without the hocus-pocus.

          The way I look at it, Christianity is Judaism modified to be palatable for Gentiles. Circumcision was dispensed with as a requirement for membership by the Christian community because what is it if not a disincentive? Same with the ban on eating pork. Everybody in Europe ate pork. Did Christians want to expand their membership or just stay a small and despised sect? You know, strength in numbers.

          Is the body and blood stuff essential or is the whole religion meaningless without it? What about the resurrection?

          What if you had a Christianity without these things or a Judaism without the kosher rules and the circumcision stuff?

          I have doubts that Jesus’ intent was to establish a whole new religion. I think he was more about getting the established religion of Judaism back on the rails.

          • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 5:05 pm #

            Towards the end Christ said, Soon they will drive you out of the Synagogues and consider killing you a good deed. So He knew, though perhaps he had hoped for other results in the beginning. But maybe not: Even before this He said the new wine (His teachings) must be put in new wineskins since they would burst the old wineskins (Judaism).

          • DA September 27, 2017 at 9:07 pm #

            Towards the end Christ said, Soon they will drive you out of the Synagogues and consider killing you a good deed. So He knew, though perhaps he had hoped for other results in the beginning. But maybe not: Even before this He said the new wine (His teachings) must be put in new wineskins since they would burst the old wineskins (Judaism).

            More grist for the mill. You’re a fascinating entity, Janos Skorenzy. I’ve got my eye on you!

    • DA September 27, 2017 at 7:09 am #

      Keep it up Q and Jim’s gonna be turning the blog over to you. Good work!

    • elysianfield September 27, 2017 at 11:07 am #

      Nature Vs Nurture?

      Abandoned babies…never saw this while working the street in the late ’60’s.

      31 Bitches!

  91. pequiste September 27, 2017 at 1:24 am #

    “You do know that everyone’s DNA originated in Africa, right? Yours too. Don’t let the door hit you on your way back home.” GreenAlba

    Perhaps Gondwanaland from back-in-the-day, but not within the last 10,000 years or so there Greenie. It is not and never was my home.

    As far as going back home — my suggestion was to the protesting football players in the NFL, and goes for anyone who hates where they live and/or the bad treatment they receive or perceive or the evil system they live under. The solution is provided by the late great Sam Kinnison.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA

    As for me, I’m not protesting anything to include that I live on Florida’s GOld Coast . Were I protesting something, I would make the activity worthwhile, powerful and meaningful ( and not at work either.) If I had millions of dollars from playing a kid’s game, I might even get with like-minded millionaires and consider building a school or a medical clinic. Disrespecting the American flag is so darn easy and cheap.

    And If I should choose to stay here then I shall remain, being subject to humidity, insects, immigrants, and hurricanes. SHould I desire to move I sure as hell won’t go to Africa — it’s a continent sized shithole ready to double in population over the next 30 years and is the real home of such biological wonders including Dracunculiasis, HIV and Ebola.

    • messianicdruid September 27, 2017 at 11:42 am #

      “You’re looking a simple formula here. Understand it. It’s been used all over the world for centuries. If there are 10 things people could really do to solve a horrendous chronic situation, highlight some other problem that won’t lead TO ANY SOLUTION. Focus on that. Enlist high-profile people to keep focusing on that.” John Rappaport

      Pied Pipers leading people away.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 1:02 pm #

      In some ultimate temporal and special sense that is true, but remember folks, Homo Erectus left Africa long ago. And No Albie, Homo Erectus wasn’t Negro, though of course he was no doubt dark skinned at first. But here’s the point: as our direct ancestor, we may have evolved from Erectus outside of Africa, at least in some places.

      Erectus got as far North as Central China, which may well mean He had fire. He certainly made good tools and weapons. May even had had boats or rafts. The Chinese still show a few of the signs of their Homo Erectus. In other words, there were many races of Homo Erectus. We may have been White before we were Human!

  92. BackRowHeckler September 27, 2017 at 1:45 am #

    Looks like that mass shooting in a church outside Nashville is already out of the news.

    If I recall correctly this is exactly the kind of story the media loves to flog until you get sick of hearing about it.

    Not this time.

    I wonder what’s different?

    brh

    • DA September 27, 2017 at 7:08 am #

      Mass shooting saturation. Events need to be bigger now to get attention. By design.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 1:02 pm #

        No it’s because the shooter was Black, clueless one.

        • DA September 27, 2017 at 3:21 pm #

          Oh yeah that’s right. Because he was black, of course! Why did you capitalize black by the way?

          • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 5:01 pm #

            I capitalize Black just like I do White – out of respect. Of course some don’t capitalize them but will capitalize what they consider to be proper proper nouns like Hispanic, or Causcasian, Negro, etc. That’s fine too. But we in the White Nationalist Community noticed many writers capitalizing Black but not capitalizing White – and we cried foul and made a point of capitalizing both.

            One high level newspaperman was asked about why Black crime got so little coverage compared to similar White crimes. He said it was an issue of man bite dog: Whites commit so few such crime and Blacks so many – so it was a matter of Interest and thus fit to print. Note the demonic intelligence at work: using an obvious but unpopular truth and a maxim of pop journalism to hide their own demonic agenda, of WHY they cover up Black Crime and the real nature of the Negro (do you like that better, Blacks don’t)?

            Of course since you actually believe such lies, you’re not even in the game.

          • DA September 27, 2017 at 8:46 pm #

            Of course since you actually believe such lies, you’re not even in the game.

            LOL! ALWAYS with the slights. You’re a real piece of work. I’ll bet you don’t go out much. No doubt someone (probably white, no less) would have tuned you up by now. No doubt, anyone of color would have just put a bullet in you and been done with it.

          • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 11:49 pm #

            Fantasizing about others hurting me. Can you not even be brave in your fantasies? And all because you can’t refute what I said. I’m right and you’re wrong – and that galls you.

  93. FincaInTheMountains September 27, 2017 at 4:20 am #

    Resurrection of Russian Academy of Science (RAS)

    I read the biography of the new president of the Russian Academy of Sciences and am very happy:

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Alexander_Sergeev_%282009%29_1.jpg

    First, the applied scientist: the fundamentalists in the course of the crisis of the reform of the RAS showed themselves in such a way that the fundamental science in RAS could be considered finished. And what you can say if the greatest Russian scientist of the 20th century, Alexander Friedman, is forgotten, and no one even understands the fundamental difference between Friedman’s cosmological model and the Big Bang theory.

    Secondly, he is an expert in nonlinear optics, and in such a field that the mathematics with which he dealt has a direct way to the fundamental problems of mathematics and physics. In particular, a phrase from an article about him in Wikipedia: “He studied new nonlinear wave effects in such processes, in particular, the self-channeling effect of radiation based on ionization nonlinearity” gives hope that he will stop all this Gauge Invariance Mafia cold.

    And the fact that Putin was asked about the idea of the film about Grigory Perelman, means that in Russian society there is still interest in fundamental science, and there is hope that from this spark a flame will kindle.

    Thirdly, he is an expert in such an area, which will be of decisive importance for the development of combat lasers and kinetic weapons.

    Namely, these systems will determine the military-strategic balance when/if the Americans will do away with their Gauge Invariance Mafia, since it does not allow creating the theory of “self-channeling” not only for lasers, but also for the electric arc in the electromagnetic gun (rail gun), and when there is no such theory, these guns will periodically explode, just as the shuttles exploded because of “self-channeling” in the ablation cover.

    And finally, he showed himself as a real man during the crisis of the reform of the RAS, and the balls of steel in this situation are the main organs of the scientist.

  94. Phutatorius September 27, 2017 at 9:46 am #

    Elysian – that was a civil and well-worded response. For the record, I am no supporter of globalization. I’m a veteran: USAF 1967-1971, no Vietnam service.

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    • elysianfield September 27, 2017 at 7:59 pm #

      Phutatorius,
      Thank you. Many Air Force “graduates” on the site…myself included.

      • DA September 27, 2017 at 8:42 pm #

        Where were you Phu? I was post-Vietnam myself, so no special distinguished service for me either (The Gulf War I was no big deal for me, although I was in the area). But you Vietnam era guys still had it all hanging out there on the line either way. My hat’s off!

        • Phutatorius September 27, 2017 at 8:46 pm #

          North American Air Defense. 32251F. A radar weenie. Not exactly voluntary service.

          • DA September 27, 2017 at 8:59 pm #

            No issues. Compulsory’s even more impressive IMO. Quite the times, weren’t they? I was still in grade school, but my after school sitter’s boys were both in HS. One was ROTC and pro-war like his dad, and the other was staunchly anti-war like his mom and three sisters. You can only imagine the arguments and fights I heard and saw. QUITE THE TIMES!

            Are you watching PBS’s The Vietnam War? Shame it took this long to tell that story.

  95. volodya September 27, 2017 at 11:30 am #

    Malthuss, I read zerohedge because they have zippy articles. I don’t believe everything there, some of it is flim-flam ie the end is tomorrow at noon and we can help you invest in gold.

    Why do you ask? Should I not read it? I also read realclearpolitics and other subheadings on that website.

    • malthuss September 27, 2017 at 2:31 pm #

      I wondered, thats all.
      Someone else told me that they stopped reading ZH, too many articles about doubtful investments, if I recall what she said.

      • DA September 27, 2017 at 9:02 pm #

        The comments there are hysterical, even by hysterical standards. Imagine Janos trolls unleashed infinitum.

  96. sophia September 27, 2017 at 11:57 am #

    Seawolf,

    “I don’t see people at Town Hall Meetings standing up stridently and claiming my premiums are doubling and trebling and it’s killing me. What I see are people screaming if you repeal Obamacare it will kill me. Now who would you believe? Who’s telling the truth?”

    Oh, Seawolf, are you just a troll? Where do you live? If you don’t personally know young families who are struggling since the huge increase in prices then you are certainly in a bubble. Must be nice.

    The answer is – both are true. Of course Obamacare helped a lot of people and I am one of them. But its still a miserable scam that is also hurting a lot of people. Obama betrayed us. He promised a single payer option and he DIDN’T FIGHT FOR IT. He sat on his hands while Sarah Palin made a stupid hash of end of life legalities in hospitals which had been in place for years and pretended it was about killing old people (death panels). He told us that he understood the real problem is the price gouging and he never addressed that at all, nor has anyone else.

    The thing is too big. The scam will eat up our nation all by itself without all the other financial problems, it alone could bring us down. An ever increasing share of GDP and still it bankrupts people and people can’t afford care.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 1:05 pm #

      Death panels are quite real and exist in Europe. Since the Left wants to take us in a European direction, what’s the mystery? But yes, she is an idiot for the most part.

      • Q. Shtik September 27, 2017 at 2:07 pm #

        Death panels – Janos

        ===========

        Having seen the way my mother and mother-in-law died in nursing homes (at ages 84 and 92, respectively) under identical circumstances (broken hips and Alzheimer’s) I actually favor ‘death panels.’ Nobody and nobody’s family should have to endure this.

        • seawolf77 September 27, 2017 at 2:49 pm #

          The government needs to take complete charge of healthcare, institute single payer, punish self destructive behavior with relational databases that monitor all unhealthy habits, implement death panels so that individuals cannot spend fortunes for weeks of poor quality life. Will that happen? Of course not. Healthcare is the plot to destroy America. When healthcare reaches 25% of our economy, it will all collapse. The petroyuan is already putting pressure on the dollar. It may not even last until it gets to 25%.

          • messianicdruid September 28, 2017 at 4:56 pm #

            “Exposing hypocrisy with incisive rational arguments and humor is the best way to push back against right-wing authoritarianism, just like it’s the best way to push back against left-wing authoritarianism. The authoritarian mindset is the enemy of freedom loving people everywhere irrespective of your specific views on health care, taxes, etc. There are far bigger things at risk to us as a people if we allow ourselves to be divided into two separate authoritarian gangs fighting for power.” …which is exactly what is happening.

            https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/09/27/dont-become-a-right-wing-snowflake/

        • DA September 27, 2017 at 3:16 pm #

          My mom’s going down the same route as we speak. She’s essentially an 82 year old corpse waiting to die. Can’t hear, can’t walk, increasingly can’t think straight. Sits and stares at the TV all day. Pitiful.

        • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 4:42 pm #

          Well ideally, such decisions would be up to the individuals and families. But of course, resources are not infinite and some limitations are there, and thus in decisions made, these must be taken into account by State actors in cases under their jurisdiction.

          My issue I guess is that I don’t trust the kind of State actors we have now. Look at the Baby Charlie Gard case. The British Government WOULD NOT LET HIM GO to be treated elsewhere. They owned him in their own minds. That is the end product of the Statist Mentality Elrond and Sea Wolf loves so much – and it is pernicious and evil. And they want all human life under State jurisdiction.

          • DA September 27, 2017 at 8:32 pm #

            Uncommonly civil post from you, Janos. My position, more or less, as well.

          • DA September 27, 2017 at 8:36 pm #

            Minus the needless slight on Seawolf, of course. Janos, needless and gratuitous slights on third parties are a sure sign of weak argumentation and/or weak confidence in said argumentation. Why do you continue to do it?

          • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 11:55 pm #

            Sea Wolf wants the prisons emptied of Blacks – until they are just 13% of the prison population.

            Sea Wolf belongs in a rubber room.

        • onehunglo September 27, 2017 at 10:48 pm #

          will the real Q. please stand up??

          -onehunglo

  97. janet September 27, 2017 at 12:01 pm #

    “The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are releasing the framework of a tax plan that substantially lowers most individual and corporate tax rates.”

    I don’t want lower taxes. I want competent leadership capable of working for the welfare of all, especially right now those in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico who are in need. Lower taxes just means higher national debt and less help in times of natural disaster.

    • DA September 27, 2017 at 3:13 pm #

      Competent leadership? You are asking for the moon, aren’t you?

    • DA September 27, 2017 at 8:24 pm #

      You’ve been quiet lately janet. Waiting on instructions from your handlers?

      • onehunglo September 27, 2017 at 10:50 pm #

        janet recognize she under you one state surveillance.

        -onehunglo

  98. messianicdruid September 27, 2017 at 2:32 pm #

    “The protests by black pro-football players by refusing to stand for the national anthem has come at an unfortunate time. It is playing into the hands of the military/security complex which is using President Trump’s loud voice challenging the “anti-americanism” to whip up patriotic fervor. It is amazing how people fall for it every time. The military/security complex and their presstitutes are creating public anger at those “attacking our country.” This anger will be turned from black football players to Russia.” Paul Craig Roberts

    Refuse to follow the Pied Pipers, and then walk off a cliff.

    • DA September 27, 2017 at 9:17 pm #

      But we’re ALL lemmings now! We’re BORN to walk off cliffs!

  99. Buck Stud September 27, 2017 at 3:08 pm #

    “Baseball is even worse: the influx of foreign Hispanic players over the last decade? Cheap labor. They play for less. Nothing is sacred to Capitalism, nothing except profit.”–Janos

    Not necessarily “cheap” but more effective players. I recall reading a pitching coach lament that American players, raised and steeped in the regimentation of American youth sports, all display the same physical mechanics as a result of rote, formulaic coaching.

    Alas, down in the Dominican Republic, for example, it really is ‘sandlot streetball’ and players develop creative mechanics as a result of non-coaching ironically enough and many of these mechanics actually result in ultra- high performance potential.

    It used to be that way in the good ol ‘USA before capitalism infected youth sports (I was taking to a friend whose son was told by his high school coach that he better focus on baseball only and oh, by the way, had better play on both the travelling Fall and Summer league team if he wants any chance at all to play on the regular spring high school team…all at a cost of five grand combined.)

    But we no longer see the creative windup of a Warren Spahn; all of that “superfluous” movement which once upon a time was considered a deceptive asset, has been trained out of American players via the youth/high school sports automaton industry.

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    • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 4:48 pm #

      The little Dominican Republic produces an abundance of baseball players while huge Mexico – where the sport is also big – does not. Read “Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It” to find out why. But there are plenty of Negroes here too. But those ones are cheaper. I didn’t say they weren’t good either, just cheaper than American players, Black, White, or Mestizo.

      Mestizos have good endurance and have good “workman” bodies. Not athletic in general.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 4:50 pm #

        There may be something to your point of course, but only as individual case by case thing. It’s not to be compared with the Macro phenomena of why these people are being brought here and why so many from the Black Latino lands as opposed to the Mestizo.

      • DA September 27, 2017 at 8:11 pm #

        So Janos, you seem to have an extensive and nuanced understanding of all this stuff. Is this just a personal passion of yours, or do you work in a profession that provides you so many unique insights that so many of us on this board apparently lack? Serious question.

        • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 11:41 pm #

          Race, Breeding, Good Blood, call it whatever, has been ignored by our People for millennia by and large. I’m just a small part of the reset. And nothing this big, great, or important is accomplished without fanaticism. Is it not insane that people focus on different types of peaches, breeds of dogs, or makes of cars, but pretend all people are the same?

          Just an ordinary guy with an independent mind (old gold filter commercial). Slightly above average verbal IQ, but nothing unusual. But I’ve undergone the Philosophical Discipline, the fire that unifies the mind and sears the soul. I’m the skinny guy who can put everything he has into a punch.

          The Jews don’t do ignore blood. You like the Jews, right? So now you look inside yourself and try to explain to yourself why you grant them this right but would deny it to Whites. People love to trash Whites. And truth be told, we are greatly held back by our own lower types. Yet if any of these critics hears us talking about improving our Race (eugenics), they go mad with rage. The malice and hypocrisy of you people is from hell itself.

          • elysianfield September 28, 2017 at 10:55 am #

            Janos,
            Very well said.

  100. FincaInTheMountains September 27, 2017 at 3:26 pm #

    Pushed off from the bottom or knocked from below?

    The howl on Russian television “Trump is bad, bad, bad!” partly due to the fact that part of this television is managed by Hillary Clinton – after all, most of the beneficiaries of privatization of Soviet property came to existence at a time when the White House was ruled by he President Clinton’s wife, and in all departments of the Russian Federation US advisers were running the show.

    And most of the property in Russia still belongs to them. And the Yeltsin-Putin economic group (Abramovich and Co.) managed to “squeeze” not more than 30% of the property during the last 20 years, and most of this squeezed property is in the status of state corporations, such as Rosneft or Gazprom. Well, let’s say Yeltsin-Putin group have created another 20% of new property during this time, and then their share in the Russian economy is approaching 50%.

    That is, only now Russia is approaching the point of balance in the economy and, in theory, in combination with the power of the state, Yeltsin-Putin group will soon begin to prevail, but we should not forget that the chicks of Chubais’s nest are also not complete suckers and some of them specifically rely on NATO military assistance in the war against the Russian people that they lead – remember how the head of the State Property Committee, Alfred Koch, mockingly said that all Russian nuclear warheads could be captured by a single NATO Airborne Division and I do not rule out that it was true at the time.

    Imagine how now they regret that they missed the moment, hoping for Yeltsin’s alcoholism?

    I would even suggest putting a monument to Yeltsin pissing on the wheel of the plane opposite the German embassy, but I’m afraid that it will be unpleasant for the Yeltsin’s family. But even more this will be unpleasant for the representatives of the Fourth Reich, since he pissed specifically on them, but they did not understand that and thought that it was a God’s dew.

    https://ruclip.com/video/V1A9nHuSPSg/when-yeltsins-drunk.html

    By the way, the embassy should be German rather than American, since Angela Merkel may have signed the Chancellor Act (http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-183232) , but it was she who almost made Hillary Clinton the president of the USA, and only interference from above prevented this catastrophe, quite comparable to the coming to power of Hitler, but taking into account nuclear weapons, even surpassing it.

    It’s not for nothing that Yeltsin’s daughter Tatyana lives in Austria, where there is much more hatred for Angela Merkel than in any other country in Europe, although the same Germans live there as in Germany.

    And if you do not have enough of the simple fact that the Euro-Association of Ukraine plan came from Germany and that US President Trump recently accused Angela Merkel of the situation which was created in Ukraine, then I will remind you that Gorbachev as foreign agent was turned over by Kohl from Anglo-Saxons and hung on Russia $140 billion of debt in the name of Germany.

    By the way, then Margaret Thatcher was so furious that she blew up her former agent (Gorbachev) in full, after which even Alzheimer’s Reagan understood what he had done, turning to Gorbachev with an appeal: Tear down this wall!. He understood all right, but it was already too late and in the elections of 1992, not his vice-president became the President, but the husband of Angela Merkel’s girlfriend.

    Meanwhile, the situation is very serious, since when the Russian general was killed last time, Russia sent troops to Georgia and seized US space communication stations, which allow controlling a whole constellation of satellites. And it may very well be that such successes of Russia in the electronic warfare as taking off-course 32 tomahawks in Syria and the immobilization of the destroyer Kohl off the coast of Crimea is connected with this.

    https://www.rt.com/news/404510-syria-russia-general-usa/

    But then Russia stood on one knee, and now it has a military advantage in nuclear missiles, and as far as I understand from some of the remarks of US Secretary of Defense Gen. Mattis, the unfolding of a sabotage war throughout Ukraine, which began with the explosion of an ammunition depot, it is a minimum which they firmly could count on.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-27/ukraine-ammunition-depot-explodes-forcing-thousands-to-evacuate/8993730

    But Trump has not yet seized power completely, and a raid on the Ukrainian Main Security Building (SBU), where the whole floor of American advisers still rule the show, can easily put him on the verge of impeachment again.

    • DA September 27, 2017 at 8:53 pm #

      WTF? Lost post again. Apparent WordPress doesn’t approve of Saker links either. The spooks must be blocking it.

      Anyway, do you read Vineyard of the Saker Finca?

      • onehunglo September 27, 2017 at 10:52 pm #

        you fail to recognize you role in predator-prey relationship.

        -onehunglo

  101. Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 5:48 pm #

    Newspapers and the Media in general are purport to tell us what’s happening. But Editors want to present what’s “interesting (man bites dog) or what fits the PC narrative. Thus they present Whites committing violence against Blacks. Naïve or demented people like Sea Wolf assume that they are telling us what’s really going on and thus believe that Whites commit just as much or more violent crime against Blacks as Blacks do against Whites. It’s like believing that people biting dogs is a real and serious problem – and being outraged when you tell them it’s the opposite, that dogs biting people is the real problem.

    • DA September 27, 2017 at 8:23 pm #

      And yet you’re apparently blind to the crimes of the mostly white rich. Interesting. Trust fund baby?

      • Janos Skorenzy September 27, 2017 at 11:27 pm #

        I’m a National Socialist. I would deal harshly with White Traitors no matter how rich or how poor.

  102. MrTibbs September 27, 2017 at 9:08 pm #

    RECORD
    …….tax collection, spending, poverty, crime, and corruption, in the old republic.
    https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/feds-collect-record-taxes-through-august-still-run-6737b-deficit

    -T
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/nv8sko6hpqm6tir/New%20Republic%20rev123.pdf?dl=0

  103. DA September 27, 2017 at 9:48 pm #

    Janos’s Great White Race’s legacy:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi6uRT7PxTQ

    There is whisky in the water
    And there is death upon the vine
    There is fear in the eyes of your father
    And there is “Yours” and there is “Mine”
    There is a desert veiled in pavement
    And there’s a city of seven hills
    And all our debris flows to the ocean
    To meet again, I hope it will

    How could something so fair
    Be so cruel
    When this black sun revolved
    Around you!

    There is an answer in a question
    And there is hope within despair
    And there is beauty in a failure,
    And there are depths beyond compare
    There is a role of a lifetime
    And there’s a song yet to be sung
    And there’s a dumpster in the driveway
    Of all the plans that came undone

    How could something so fair
    Be so cruel
    When this black sun revolved
    Around you!
    How could something so fair
    Be so cruel
    When this black sun revolved
    Around you!

    There is whisky in the water
    And there is death upon the vine
    And there is grace within forgiveness
    But it’s so hard for me to find

    How could something so fair
    Be so cruel
    When this black sun revolved
    Around you!
    How could something so fair
    Be so cruel
    When this black sun revolved
    Around you!

    https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tu6hpgz5fyzfthaue6dc5zuyl2y?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics

  104. janet September 27, 2017 at 10:49 pm #

    “You’ve been quiet recently, Janet” –DA

    My feelings were hurt by capt. Spaulding saying “Janet is Asoka.”

    Asoka was top poster week after week. When Asoka was here did even one week go by when Asoka was not among the top 7 posters?

    I rest my case. I am not Asoka.

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    • onehunglo September 27, 2017 at 10:53 pm #

      we know who you are, where you live, and the orders you are given.

      -onehunglo

  105. FincaInTheMountains September 28, 2017 at 12:40 am #

    The Saker:


    This is unprecedented on many levels.

    First, the Russians clearly believe that this attempt to kill or capture a platoon of the Russian military police was planned by the United States.

    The fact that they are making this accusation officially shows the degree of irritation felt by the Russians about the duplicity of the Americans. Second, this is the first time, at least to my knowledge, that Russian Spetsnaz forces had to be sent in to rescue a surrounded Russian subunit. All Spetsnaz operators survived, but three of them were wounded in the operation (the Russians are not saying how badly). The close air support by very low flying SU-25 aircraft was obviously coordinated by Spetsnaz forward air controllers and probably saved the day. In other words, this was a close call and things could have ended much more badly (just imagine what the Takfiri crazies would have done, on video, to any captured Russian serviceman!).

    Finally, a US-organized attack on what was supposed to be a “de-confliction” zone combined with an attempt to capture Russian soldiers raises the bar for American duplicity to a totally new level.

    The Black Project goes for the the risk of a nuclear war counting on the repetition of 1991 scenario, and only Putin separates us from this catastrophe.

  106. FincaInTheMountains September 28, 2017 at 1:27 am #

    You will not grasp her with your mind
    Or cover with a common label,
    For Russia is one of a kind –
    Believe in her, if you are able…

    Fyodor Tyutchev

    Euphoria from military successes is a dangerous feeling and brains will be needed when the hangover comes: Ukraine is destroyed and ruined and Russia will be needed to rebuild it, whose economy might not be able to pull such a burden.

    All of us were written off and the bet was made on the coming generation, meanwhile the youth grew up on the Japanese cartoons and American thrillers, and they read through Dostoevsky through Volgin’s glasses.

    Russia has never been able to turn military victories into economic successes and I’m afraid young people will find it hard to resist the temptation with the thought that in time they will be written off in the same way as the previous generation, since they bear the brunt of the defeats, but they are not the beneficiary of the Russian victories.

    All the hope is that Russia can not be understood with the mind.

  107. Janos Skorenzy September 28, 2017 at 1:45 am #

    When will women learn that getting a Dylan Roof bowl cut doesn’t help them become great leaders? It didn’t help Merkel, did it?

    https://dailystormer.is/female-co-leader-of-afd-quits-party-for-being-too-extreme/

    • FincaInTheMountains September 28, 2017 at 1:51 am #

      Ha, American Nazis have been put on Ice!

      .is (dot is) is the top-level domain for Iceland. The country code is derived from the first two letters of Ísland, which is the Icelandic word for Iceland. Registration of .is domains is open to all persons and companies without any special restriction. … As of October 2016 .is domains can be registered for five years.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 28, 2017 at 2:34 am #

        Shades of Bobby Fischer, a Jew who would not countenance Jewish hatred of non-Jewish humanity. A real Mensch. They are so rare, are they not? Iceland gave this great man refuge.

  108. Janos Skorenzy September 28, 2017 at 2:28 am #

    Good look at the mental illness called Liberalism. It’s basically a rationalization for their own narcissism. This explains many of our posters, does it not?

    A man who claims to “love” all women equally is a man incapable of “loving” any particular woman at all—and a man whose “love” no particular woman wants. The same goes for any woman who claims to “love” all men. To love someone is to love him for what sets him apart from others. We want to be loved and valued for what makes us unique.

    And this inherently means that we want others to be seen, to that degree, as inferior because they lack certain qualities we possess—even if this isn’t the conscious focus of our desire. Without the risk that we could fail to demonstrate these qualities and thus become like those others—unworthy of the love we’ve achieved—love loses its substance and becomes something more equivalent to pity; which, unlike love, is something no one ever feels a sense of self-esteem for obtaining.

    Unlike those who merely pity us, those who love us become part of our very identity itself. This is precisely because our identity exists in a social context to distinguish us from other groups of people around us, even if it may classify us with others—and those who love us do so because of what distinguishes us from those others. Love is thus inherently tied to identity, at its core.

    Oxytocin, known as the “love hormone” or “trust molecule,” is released during hugging, sex, and other forms of intimate physical contact and promotes bonding and a sense of closeness. Studies have discovered that mice which are genetically engineered to be incapable of responding to oxytocin lose the ability to distinguish between mice from their own group and outsiders. Guess what science discovered in 2010? Here’s an interesting study title: “Oxytocin promotes human ethnocentrism. After an injection of oxytocin, participants became less likely to sacrifice the life of an individual in order to save the lives of a group in the classical trolley problem—if and only if that individual was a member of the same race. Yet, participants remained perfectly happy to continue sacrificing the lives of foreigners. As Cracked’s summary of the situation explained: “oxytocin did boost feelings of love; it’s just that those feelings were limited strictly to a person’s own group. And it’s not that it made them hate outsiders. It’s just that if they perceived that the situation was “us vs. them,” well, a stronger feeling of love toward “us” is bad news for “them.”

    A more recent study found that boosting oxytocin makes people more willing to lie if doing so would benefit their group. The organizer of the study explained that oxytocin is causing a shift “from self-interest to group-interest.” It turns out things like hugging, sex, and even pregnancy literally help turn us into racists. The authors of these studies conclude that oxytocin—the very biochemical engine of human bonding itself—might not be so great, after all. But the rest of us might not want to jump to conclusions that are, as Nietzsche would put it, so life-negating.

    Liberals like to portray nation-states as being based on “arbitrary lines in the sand,” and style themselves as “citizens of the world” rather than citizens of a nation. Why should we arbitrarily restrict our compassion for humanity to people who just so happened to have been born on this particular landmass instead of some other? To ask the question while framing it in these terms is to pre-load the obvious answer: of course we shouldn’t. Why would anyone do that?

    In defense of the Brexit vote, Theresa May stated, “if you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere.” But a 2016 survey conducted by GlobeScan found that 43% of the citizens of the United States “strongly” or “somewhat agree” with the statement, “I see myself more as a global citizen than a citizen of my country,” while 56% somewhat or strongly disagreed. (Those numbers are 47% and 52% respectively for the UK, where the Brexit vote took place.)

    However, a 2015 study found that ”the more individuals perceive themselves as “citizens of the world,” the less likely they are to contribute to collective public goods and the more likely to hitch a “free ride” on the contributions of other citizens.” This is an excellent demonstration of the core thesis of this essay: love of all is love of none. The “global citizen,” on average, does not donate just as much to his neighbors and then go on to donate more to global charities as well.

    He simply loves his neighbor less. And this pretense to “global citizenship” is merely a way to frame his lack of love for his neighbor in self-congratulating terms. Such individuals will have a difficult time facing the fact that to substantively demonstrate any real love or loyalty in the world simply means to deprive others of those very things. To truly commit in any meaningful way to a romantic partner simply means to deprive other people of that opportunity. Even to love a particular novel or movie or TV show or comic book or video game is to pay less attention to the efforts of all others working so hard to create these forms of creative content, and to that degree deprive others of equal validation for their work. And only someone who truly loves nothing at all could ever even imagine that loving everything—or everyone—equally is even an abstract possibility.

    “Global citizens” may state in surveys that they want their nation to do more to reduce global inequality. But conservatives, constantly stereotyped by liberals as fetishizing the ideal of the wealthy capitalist fat cat boss, are in fact more likely to give out of their own pockets. (Furthermore, “Seventeen of the most generous states, in relative terms, voted for Romney in 2012, while 15 of the 17 least generous ones picked Obama for re-election.”)

    Those who have the most to give their companions and partners will be the most selective as to who they choose to grant those roles—because they have the most to lose. And only those who have little to give in return will have any interest in spreading the lie that love of all is possible: these are the people who would benefit most if those with much to give refused to “discriminate” (since they are the ones who those with much to give have the most reason to discriminate against); and this lie, if believed, would encourage those with much to give not to discriminate against anyone. But the plain fact of the matter is that real love and loyalty quite simply are inherently discriminatory, by their very nature.

    • Janos Skorenzy September 28, 2017 at 2:29 am #

      https://www.counter-currents.com/2017/09/love-of-all-is-love-of-none/

    • Buck Stud September 28, 2017 at 2:55 am #

      Well Janos I guess us liberals just don’t get it.

      Maybe we should ask a deprived woman how hard it is to not be your first choice.

      • malthuss September 28, 2017 at 11:14 am #

        Agreed. Liberals are good at ignoring reality.

        IF you are 50+ y o a, you have seen the population of USA [assuming you are in the USA] double.
        Good luck with the Eco tactics.

        Population of Kenya is expected to double, in 18 years.

        See those funny grids in the sky? Whats that about?
        You tube, Dane Wiggington.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 28, 2017 at 1:30 pm #

        Well, you folks do band together to create your own society or nation within the Nation, based on a feeling of being better than the “brutals” (Zardoz), “Vandals” (Skull & Bones), or Goyim (Talmud and Skull & Bones). Yours is a Religion of Human Sacrifice were the brutals are sacrificed to the Dark Gods to maintain the balance and as an act of supposed goodness, but in reality glorification, since you don’t identify with the victims at all.

        You folks have a Chosen mentality and are basically the same as the secular Jews. And of course, are allied with them.

        • messianicdruid September 28, 2017 at 4:10 pm #

          Why do you limit it to secular?

          • Janos Skorenzy September 28, 2017 at 8:58 pm #

            Well religious Jews often hate other people so much that they can’t ally with them. That seems to be changing though, due to the influence of Chabad Lubavitch. Jared Kushner is a devout Chabad but totally involved in the world. The hate is still there, but it is carefully hidden.

    • thwack September 28, 2017 at 1:45 pm #

      if and only if that individual was a member of the same race.

      (or had a fat wallet or bit tits…)

  109. Buck Stud September 28, 2017 at 2:40 am #

    “Thirdly, he is an expert in such an area, which will be of decisive importance for the development of combat lasers and kinetic weapons.”–Fincal

    Do you really want to live in a world where Robotic Weaponry is disguised as Nature? A world where “florid foliage” is actually a Robotic Bush Dragon springing to kill without conscience or the burdening human failing of PTSD?

    It’s coming; I can feel it. Spiraling Ba Qua energy is very powerful in the current Universe. Images of future robotic weaponry emerge from the painting prophets’ brush effortless and seemingly with a strange alien influence: Where is it coming from? from Nature–who really knows her after all?

    How the spirals ultimately unite and which ones prevail, well as the wise man stated, ‘just don’t ask me about the future’.

    At the end of the day, I’ll put my money on coiled talisman over the robot. The robot will jump tall buildings in a single bound; the latter, magnetically connected to the spinning center.

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  110. DA September 28, 2017 at 6:39 am #

    The Great White Race, southern and east coast US varieties, continues to lose its ever-loving mind in its determined slog toward mass extinction. Former AL Supreme Judge Roy Moore is sure to be a delight to listen to in the US Senate (hey, at least ‘Bamans have great college football!), rightfully doubling down on the now apparently “moderate” John McCain’s soon demise, whose brain has fittingly began to rot after so many years of spewing conservative nonsense, and of course the Great 20th Century Cold War delusional relic, “the Russians are coming/did it” has found new legs in the “minds” (for lack of a better word) in what passes for the 21st century “left.” In actuality, there simply IS NO political “left” or “right” anymore – hasn’t been for decades – only the great pustulent malignant mass of the middle of the road clinically insane. America – land of the “free” (as long as it makes someone who’s already rich richer) and the home of the clinically insane.

    http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/28/roy-moore-republicans-democrats-2018-nightmare-243222

    http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/amp12476712/wisconsin-voter-hacking/

  111. thwack September 28, 2017 at 8:56 am #

    “But we no longer see the creative windup of a Warren Spahn; all of that “superfluous” movement which once upon a time was considered a deceptive asset, has been trained out of American players via the youth/high school sports automaton industry.”

    *******************

    I’ll hafta look up Warren Spahn; but I think I get what you are describing?

    Louis Tiant brought me here.

  112. thwack September 28, 2017 at 9:08 am #

    So Janos, you seem to have an extensive and nuanced understanding of all this stuff. Is this just a personal passion of yours, or do you work in a profession that provides you so many unique insights that so many of us on this board apparently lack? Serious question.

    ************************

    DA,

    I think Janos needs his own blog/website because he seems to be well schooled in the existing large body of racial psuedo science. I thought I knew most of it (i.e, that extra bone in my foot…) but Janos always seems to have one more example I ain’t heard of yet (maybe he makes this stuff up on his lunch hour?)

    Anyway, its both educational and entertaining so I want to take the opportunity to encourage him to set up his own site.

    Sure, he gets wacky sometimes, but his narrative is generally coherent; and thats saying a lot considering most web based commentary.

  113. janet September 28, 2017 at 10:00 am #

    “if you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere.” Theresa May via Janos

    Janos, you suffer from Either/Or Black/White Manichean thought.

    Embrace Both/And.

    No soy de aquí ni soy de allá,
    El ser feliz es el colór de mi identidad.

    • sprawlcapital September 28, 2017 at 11:31 am #

      Embrace Both/And.
      ====================
      This gets complicated, from a legal standpoint.

      If I am a citizen of the world, why should I bother paying US income tax? For that matter, why should I obey any laws of any government entity in the US, whether local, state, or federal?

    • Janos Skorenzy September 28, 2017 at 1:36 pm #

      Yeah, just tell your wife that you love her as much as you love all women! And treat your children just as good as you treat other children – unlike Gandhi who treated his children worse than others out of fear of being partial.

  114. messianicdruid September 28, 2017 at 11:32 am #

    Volodya saith, “The way I look at it, Christianity is Judaism modified to be palatable for Gentiles.”

    You are comparing two religions [ at least ] which have been “modified to be palatable” to the carnal mind. Jesus was correcting the errors that had crept into Phariseeism and fulfilling promises of a kingdom, which is a form of government, not a religion. IOW it was not given to converts to modify the teachings to suit themselves or anyone else.

    Revelation 22:18-19
    “I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

    Deuteronomy 4:2
    “You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

    Deuteronomy 12:32
    “Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it.

    Proverbs 30:6
    Do not add to His words Or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar.

    Revelation 12:17
    “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

    Revelation 22:7
    “Behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of prophecy in this book.”

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  115. pequiste September 28, 2017 at 11:59 am #

    As I finally focused this morning there was a news item that struck me as a bolt of lightning:

    http://americanmilitarynews.com/2017/09/picture-of-man-kneeling-during-taps-at-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier-is-sparking-outrage-following-nfl-protests/?utm_source=quayle&utm_campaign=alt&utm_medium=facebook

    The seeping pollution of the take-the-knee protest has just gone over the line. If it was really about racial injustice in the Urban areas, or suspect police actions or hurt feelings in the NFL; fine. To disrespect the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier is just plain disgusting and needs an appropriate response.

    The individual who did this should get a beat down. A damn good beating would raise the level of discourse by indicating that there exists in the real world of concrete actuality: Consequences. With the consequence of showing utter contempt for a non-political sacred ceremonial American place for all Americans, being a grave error and requiring the most severe response. A beating to be remembered, by some Marine veterans would fit the bill nicely, In South Africa or other African and Black Caribbean nations, a “necklacing” or summary execution would be the prescribed corrective for dishonoring the president or flag. The perpetraitor, in this case, would be lucky to get a few bones broken and some permanent scars as a reminder that respect has to be given to be received. Contempt for certain institutions gets the opposite treatment.

    Secondly, the N*FL , which did nothing to discourage this behaviour in the first place, from their anti-heroes, requires a “third and long” Blitz that would effectively shut them down: a total national boycott of their gladiatorial games by all patriotic Americans of all political persuasions. Hit ’em where it hurts – the pocketbook. AND NOT ANOTHER FUCKING DIME FOR ANY PUBLIC SUBSIDIES FROM ANY GOVERNMENT JURISDICTION FOR STADIUMS OR OTHER SUCH SCAMS.

    Thirdly, and the most difficult: the thing that JHK always wonders about – a formal, frank, and honest national discussion about the Race in America situation and how to ameliorate the problem before a total Race/Civil War breaks out. We don’t need one more Haitian or Somalian in this country – we already have tens of millions of Blacks who haven’t, and aren’t, adjusting to Society at all as it is.

    • thwack September 28, 2017 at 2:02 pm #

      The individual who did this should get a beat down.

      *********************

      What color was he?

      Because if he was black, he’s already getting a beat down on a daily basis; you think Janos is the only racist in the country?

      Racist are like terrorists, they blend in and cloak themselves with civilians, so they can get in position to harm nonwhite people, do maximum damage, and then make their escape.

      Ya know what Peq?

      fuck you,

      yo dead soldiers,

      yo dead UNKNOWN soldiers

      Madonna,

      the queen of England,

      them gay ass socks with the little belt on em,

      what ever pets you have,

      leap year,

      your fucking DNA; both mitochondrial and nuclear

      and

      and

      last but not least, whatever fucking dreams you have.

      Disrespect Tomb of The Unknown Soldier?

      Be glad niggas don’t dig up that grave and stomp all them bones?

      The practice of racism must result in loss for all instead of profit for any.

      • Janos Skorenzy September 28, 2017 at 3:05 pm #

        Now we’re supposed to consider you an American after that spiel? You deserve a helicopter ride and to be dropped into the African surf with a small torn parachute or large umbrella a la the Penguin.

        • thwack September 28, 2017 at 6:39 pm #

          Now we’re supposed to consider you an American after that spiel?

          **********************

          Nigga pahleeez,

          Im in the universe; I share a common ancestor with Klingons and Romulans… besides, you hate Americans anyway because they refuse to practice racism.

          You can’t be a racist AND an American at the same time; please choose one or the other and then STFU.

          MmKay?

          • Janos Skorenzy September 28, 2017 at 9:34 pm #

            One can only be an American if one is a racist. The decline of racism and the decline of America went hand in hand.

      • pequiste September 28, 2017 at 3:55 pm #

        Well, that must have been cathartic Thwack.

        Taken in the spirit in which it was delivered – from a real person. .

        First a couple of questions: How many “unknown soldiers” fought with the Union to vanquish the C.S.A. and end the “Peculiar Institution?” A bunch I suspect.

        Do you think that those “unknowns” deserve to be disparaged and disrespected?

        The known and unknown soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen who fought in the Second World War; do they deserved to be dishonored? Were not a few Black and Red and Yellow amidst all the White warriors? They all helped win the victory over an ideology that would have enslaved the ENTIRE WORLD.

        What would Gen Benjamin O. Davis say about the disrespecting of the Unknown Soldier? What would Gen Benjamin O. Davis Jr. say? Gen. Daniel “Chappy” James?

        You know it was the military under President Truman that first ended institutional segregation by Executive Order #8802.

        That military members are tasked to go and destroy things and kill people is the nature of the profession of arms. The making of war is the realm of the politicians.Looking at the abominable politicians we have put in power in this country, it is no wonder the place is as fucked up as it is. The military is only responsible for the fighting of them.

        And I will say that your ending comment “The practice of racism must result in loss for all instead of profit for any.” is as good a place as any to start a FRANK and honest debate of the state of the Nation regarding the races. All of them.

        • messianicdruid September 28, 2017 at 4:24 pm #

          thwack, can you name one thing about America that you love?

        • thwack September 28, 2017 at 6:27 pm #

          Please spare me the lecture Pequiste, I practically grew up in the military. My dad was a lifer; went to Korea once and Vietnam twice, jumped out of perfectly good planes, the whole 9…

          Ive been to The Tomb in DC twice; once as a child and once as an adult. The U.S military is an excellent platform for organization and I would gladly encourage and support ANY nonwhite person joining it.

          But me?

          Im fighting the coldest war against people like “Janos” because its people like him who are the true enemy; the true enemy of all mankind.

          If this country self destructs, its going to be because of people like him. But first, he’s gonna have to defeat me.

          What am I unwilling to do to defeat racists like Janos?

          You will know before I do.

          Not that it matters, Im Just sayin

          • Janos Skorenzy September 28, 2017 at 9:32 pm #

            Yes, one journalist called the inter-generational Black Jihad against White America – the millions of assaults, rapes, and murders – the longest war of all, the Dirty War.

            We cannot make them stop hating us. The Human heart has sovereignty and they have given us a thumb’s down. We either get away from them or die in torment. Of course Thwack will say we didn’t try – an obvious lie. Or that we didn’t try hard enough! – an invitation to work ourselves to death for a race of murderous ingrates and parasites. Whites who want to do this are welcome to it. But we choose otherwise. And let none of the White hypocrites try to come with us before recanting their beliefs. Any whisper of such things in the White Republic will be considered treason.

      • elysianfield September 28, 2017 at 7:07 pm #

        Thwack,

        Ahh, Devil, you have shown yourself…to be even more repulsive in thought than earlier believed. You will be judged for those comments.

        I can feel your hatred…you are pushing the envelope…your self control is now almost non-existent…SAY IT…fuck whitey…kill him….

  116. capt spaulding September 28, 2017 at 3:01 pm #

    So here I am, rolling my cigarettes & listening to Rush Limbaugh, when he pops up with an ad for Mahindra tractors. This isn’t a name I’m familiar with, not like John Deere, or Allis Chalmers. Sounds like it’s made somewhere like India. Rush is earnestly pimping this tractor just like he does with all of his products, and it occurs to me that he might be a little hypocritical, pushing a tractor made in India. There are lots of John Deere employees making tractors, and of course there’s a chance they could be affected by sales of equipment from another country. After all, isn’t one of the main goals of the Trump presidency to create more jobs for Americans? One might think that Rush, being one of the biggest supporters of Trump, would be a little embarrassed to be caught pimping this particular tractor. However he shows no sign of embarrassment, and goes right back to his familiar diatribe against opponents of the Republicans. Am I the only one who sees the disconnect between what he sells and what he says? Seems to me that the whole right wing is counting on the native stupidity of the red state folks to keep this charade going. The Republicans have ALWAYS been the party of the wealthy, and the Democrats have almost caught up with them. You and me, folks, are in real danger regarding the future. Your kids are going to wind up picking shit with the chickens unless you do something about this bullshit. I could say much more, but I hate long posts, so I’m gonna sign off. “Confusion to the enemy.”

    • Janos Skorenzy September 28, 2017 at 3:14 pm #

      Good point. He’s for his class which he conflates with what’s good for America as if they’re the same.

      Btw, Trump didn’t start the NFL crisis. It’s been coming for a long time and even Cappy’s protest was slowly growing. The wound had to be lanced and Trump has done so. The NFL Managers, Owners, and Black players have stumbled into a trap. They simply can’t win this fight.

  117. Janos Skorenzy September 28, 2017 at 3:10 pm #

    Judge Roy Moore: The Constitution doesn’t grant us our rights – it recognizes them a priori and vows to protect them. How? By limiting the powers of Government. Where do our rights come from? From God.

    The Judge pulled a gun out of his pocket while on stage just before the election. Ecce Homo! Behold the Man! Could he be the One to pick up Trump’s mantle?

  118. messianicdruid September 28, 2017 at 4:42 pm #

    “The making of war is the realm of the politicians.Looking at the abominable politicians we have put in power in this country, it is no wonder the place is as fucked up as it is. The military is only responsible for the fighting of them.”

    The politicians, the people and members of the military are all citizens of this country and are ALL responsible for our employees, delegates and contractors. No free rides.

  119. janet September 28, 2017 at 5:53 pm #

    “If I am a citizen of the world, why should I bother paying US income tax?”

    This is what is wrong… citizenship is reduced to paying taxes. But even at that most reductionist level you can be a city resident who pays municipal taxes AND a county resident paying county taxes AND a state resident paying state taxes AND a patriot who pays national taxes AND a global citizen who thinks globally when addressing national problems, state problems, county problems, city problems, neighborhood problems, HOA problems, etc.

    Being a world citizen doesn’t mean you ONLY owe allegiance to the global community and it doesn’t mean paying global taxes. BOTH/AND instead of either/or.

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  120. FincaInTheMountains September 28, 2017 at 6:12 pm #

    Russian Paradoxes: Jewish President of Ukraine Poroshenko (Waltzman) – Ukrainian Nazi-in-Chief

    Poroshenko is ready to share his experience in fighting the separatism with Spanish authorities.

    Poroshenko got into the very shamelessness of European politics, compared to which the elections in Germany and the Islamization of Europe are ripples on the water or a fight in the children’s sandbox.

    The Catalan referendum, which is the emergence of the question about the cultural consequences of the Albigensian Crusade, which in fact was a part of the Fourth Crusade.

    In reality the well-publicized refusal of Simon de Montfort to participate in the assault on Zara and accordingly in the Fourth Crusade is a pure bullshit, an attempt to conceal the crime and its organizer from the Court of History, just like the denial of Hillary Clinton’s involvement in the bombings of Serbia and Libya, as well as the creation of ISIS.

    This is another ideological diversion of the Roman Catholic Satanism, a product of the era of porno-cracy in Western Europe, which withdrew its best warlord from the Eastern Front to the Western, and while the Dandolo’s crusaders desecrated churches of Constantinople, Simon de Montfort was preparing the physical extermination of the Orthodox Languedoc, and the King of Aragon, now Catalonia, tried to prevent this.

  121. janet September 28, 2017 at 6:15 pm #

    “To disrespect the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier is just plain disgusting” — pequiste

    You, pequiste, do not decide what is appropriate and you are not the one who decides consequences.

    Listen up, pequiste… taking a knee does not disrespect anyone. Kneeling is traditionally a position for prayer, reflection, contemplation. Who are you to decide it is a form of protest that requires a “beat down”? Your attitude is un-American. Protest, especially silent non-violent protest, is as American as apple pie. Such protest has improved America.

    • elysianfield September 28, 2017 at 7:15 pm #

      ” Kneeling is traditionally a position for prayer, reflection, contemplation, oral sex.”

      Oh yeah, I see the symbolism….

    • messianicdruid September 28, 2017 at 8:51 pm #

      Ok Janet, let’s see if we can find some agreement.

      I don’t care about patriotic gestures or protests at a sporting event. To me it is just like a Ford commercial.

      I draw the line at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier while Taps is being played. Some things ARE sacred. No protests, period.

      • pequiste September 28, 2017 at 9:18 pm #

        Messi, thank you for providing the proper perspective. A dwindling number of places, people, and things are, and must remain, sacred.

        WHen the whole world has been turned profane, either Christ will return or we shall assuredly engage in nuclear cosmocide.

        Len says it best:

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

  122. elysianfield September 28, 2017 at 7:20 pm #

    Well ladies and germs;

    The BBC this PM reported on their site, that High School athletes are now taking the knee, emulating their NFL heroes…I am shocked, SHOCKED that mindless youth would see value, and virtue, in such a disreputable act…who would have thought?

  123. messianicdruid September 28, 2017 at 8:44 pm #

    During a US Senate investigation of Department of Defense paid ads covering 2011-2014, Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain issued the following:

    “…DOD paid for patriotic tributes at professional football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and soccer games. These paid tributes included on-field color guard, enlistment and reenlistment ceremonies, performances of the national anthem, full-field flag details, ceremonial first pitches? and puck drops. The National Guard paid teams for the ‘opportunity’ to sponsor military appreciation nights and to recognize its birthday. It paid the Buffalo Bills to sponsor its Salute to the Service game. DOD even paid teams for the ‘opportunity’ to perform surprise welcome home promotions for troops returning from deployments and to recognize wounded warriors. While well intentioned, we wonder just how many of these displays included a disclaimer that these events were in fact sponsored by the DOD at taxpayer expense. Even with that disclosure, it is hard to understand how a team accepting taxpayer funds to sponsor a military appreciation game, or to recognize wounded warriors or returning troops, can be construed as anything other than paid patriotism.”

    Paid Patriotism, who’d a thunk.

  124. Janos Skorenzy September 28, 2017 at 9:00 pm #

    Friar Tuck, speaking strong:

    TUCKER CARLSON: did you hear that? ‘No American gets to tell another American how to express their love for this country.’ If only that were true. But it is not true, not even close. It is disingenuous nonsense.

    The same people lecturing you about free speech would be the very first to call for your job if you dare to stray from the approved script of the acceptable public discourse they so assiduously maintain. They’re the word police. They demand control over what you think or say. They could care less about free expression, or individual conscience, much less the First Amendment.

    Stop insulting us with this lying. And if you don’t believe it, consider what would have happened if the flag had been different. Imagine what would have happened if athletes had been protesting the Mexican flag, which, if anything, is a more potent symbol of inequity and institutional racism than our own.

    Imagine player taking a knee in protest as the Mexican anthem played. Would they be lauded as heroes on CNN? Are you kidding?

    They’d be denounced as bigots and fired if they persisted.

    American elites are more comfortable attacking their own country than others for the simple reason that they love it less. That’s the story here. Of course, the president’s tweets have been incendiary and ham-handed — they almost always are.

    But how remarkable is it that our ruling class –the most privileged group in human history, whose job it is to run this country– is willing to dismiss our national symbols as evil and illegitimate. And that is supposed to be so entirely acceptable, good, and unremarkable, that the mere act of criticizing it is a sign of bigotry.

    No country can continue with elites this corrupt and stupid. And normal people recognize that

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    • FincaInTheMountains September 28, 2017 at 10:47 pm #

      American elites are more comfortable attacking their own country than others for the simple reason that they love it less.

      American elites are more comfortable attacking their own country than others for the simple reason that they are working for and being paid by the Fourth Reich.

  125. FincaInTheMountains September 28, 2017 at 10:59 pm #

    Until the 13th century Rus represented the Viking Empire, which included England, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Northern Germany, Southern France, half of Italy, America and the Russian principalities.

    And this empire was Orthodox.

    And now guess who destroyed it?

  126. FincaInTheMountains September 28, 2017 at 11:32 pm #

    Unfortunately, things went too far in Syria and now for the attempt of Clintonoids to kidnap platoon of Russian military police and the death of the Russian General are paying with their lives American Special Forces stationed on the former “ISIS” bases.

  127. FincaInTheMountains September 29, 2017 at 7:24 am #

    The Republican Rebellion Against its Establishment

    Trump understands the soul of the American people and is smarter than all intellectuals who laugh at his stupidity: In Alabama, a candidate from Steve Bannon claimed that his rival, being a friend of Trump, sabotages his presidency, as he is part of the establishment.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-gets-sacked-alabama-090007938.html

  128. FincaInTheMountains September 29, 2017 at 7:30 am #

    The “National Interest” gives five reasons why neither Russia nor China can sink the American aircraft carrier, after which they give the sixth reason according to which the aircraft carrier can be sunk only with a nuclear warhead.

    Americans can not believe that if it comes to the need to sink a dozen US aircraft carriers, then they will be sunk exactly by nuclear-tipped missile.

    http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/5-reasons-russia-china-might-not-be-able-sink-us-aircraft-22471?page=2

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  129. FincaInTheMountains September 29, 2017 at 7:33 am #

    How Russia will retaliate against U.S. in military observation flights row

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-retaliate-against-u-military-observation-flights-dispute-102833221.html

  130. joe44850 October 2, 2017 at 6:17 pm #

    Wow, this is an excellent piece. It is amazing how lucid and topically-onpoint one can be when political-correctness is evacuated to make room for the dialectic.

    Here is something no liberal would ever be caught dead saying but serves as an unspoken attestation to the truth: “Are you interested in speaking English? Believe me, that would help a lot in this society. Consider this: Ella Fitzgerald was not singing black or white back in the day. She was just singing”.

    As an aside, this Eisenhower-Republican is now called a liberal snowflake. Not sure how that has happened…I haven’t changed my worldview much in the past 25 years, but somehow I went from right to left while standing still.

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