SOMEONE SAW THIS OLD POST 2010

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

RE FLORE ET ZEPHYR DE LA MEURTHE DAUMIER

"FLORA AND Zephir (de la Meurthe.)
He sways slightly,
Foot barely touching the water:
Flora admires in silence
Says: Ah! credit that is beautiful!
Anacreon translated by Ratapoil, retired police colonel,

a member of society belles lettres at Chalons sur Marne

and the company's tenth day of December in Paris."

Thurston Robert Macaire Howell,

alias the Maverick Executive,

landing in a forest glade.

(The early ballet, Flore et Zephyr, was the origin of ballerinas going en pointe, as the technology of this ballet allowed them, and their partners, as the above image attests, to fly through the air on wires, and poise momentarily on the tips of their toes. Later dancers developed special shoes and techniques to achieve the effect without the wires.)

RE DIRECTORS CONDUCTORS ETC

My own view is that it would be best were the conductor invisible to the audience, similarly to how the director of a motion picture or television program is.

 

This is hardly to suggest that their role is lessened thereby, but rather if anything heightened.

 

Sensationalizing and over dramatizing conducting has had a deleterious effect on the whole culture of music.

 

The greatest conductor should be one whom the audience hardly notices, but to whom the orchestra, and if applicable, the cast, pays fairly close attention.

Watching von Karajan conduct on videos, where one sees close ups and large gestures, one might think at first that he is conducting for the amusement and edification of the viewing audience. But that does not seem to me to be the case at all. He is conducting very much just for the orchestra, and yet is being filmed along with the orchestra, close up, while doing it.

THE CHINA HANDS MORE LIKE CHINA DUPES CHINA STOOGES

I'm glancing at Kahn's book, not Lilley's.

Lilley's book looks even dumber than Kahn's, which looks dumb but frankly dumb.

So, Michael Pillsbury has a long, sad, pedigree, really...

Dumb and dumber.

DAWN OF THE GLOBAL THEATRE OF PANIC

See, for example, "The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria"

TWILIGHT OF THE AGE OF THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION MONOLOGUE COLD OPEN FIRST LINE

If they don't vote, we eat em!

AUTOMATION CANNIBALISM LOGIC DEMOCRACY NOW LIBERIA

If automation eliminates half of all jobs in the next 10 years, what does that imply for those billions already on the brink of starvation?

 

I will explain it, for the liberals in the audience:

 

It means widespread globalized starvation.

 

What does that mean?

 

From an environmentalist perspective, it means cannibalism as a logical liberal environmentalist alternative.

 

None of these starving people have either the energy or the assets for burials or other rituals for their several billions.

Minorities, especially civilizational ones, in all very poor countries will be summarily butchered by the majority, and, eventually, will be eaten, out of an urge for mere survival.

It is, after all, majority, and even in many cases democratic, rule.....

I call it Democracy Now

THE DEVILED EGG Question is it deviled because it is so sinfully good?

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

the menu deviled eggs Michael Lewis John Gutfreund

A quick note re today's culinary confectionery delight:


deviled eggs. Delicious. (My wife made them; thus her recipe, if any.)


I couldn't help recalling the last, almost, words, in The Big Short, where Gutfreund, wronged, but at lunch in Manhattan with Lewis, and ever so politely, at the end, offered him one.

GREAT STUFF APRIL FOOLS DAY POST 2017

Saturday, April 1, 2017

LINCOLN, ALSO JEFFERSON MADISON CLAY, WAS AND REMAINED A COLONIZATIONIST

'In fact colonizationism took precedence over emancipation.'  Gideon Welles on Lincoln, see Magness  Page, p 108, 109.

 

As I have pointed out here, his whole political career resonated with this colonization theme. 

 

Emancipation during the Civil War, without having first placed immediate colonization plans on a firm and agreed political footing, especially within his own party, was Lincoln's own special personal blunder, among other really big ones.

My suspicion is that the only way he might have gotten cooperation for such plans in our fragmented system, was to have threatened to halt the war, in its very midst, declare an armistice, treaty agreeing to secession, or something else,  unless an agreed, firmly established, and multi year plan for colonization were first hammered out by Congress and agreed by him.

The other huge point to make (Clausewitz or whatever):

Why even embark on a war which, even if you quote ' win ', you cannot then achieve the outcome (colonization) which you most intended to achieve? See George Julian's remark, Magness and Page, p 109, re if he had known colonization would not work whether his preliminary notice to the rebels would have given.  

After all, Lincoln had won the war, before he was killed, yet no colonization plan, whatsoever, worthy of the name had ever been firmly put in place and agreed by Congress.

In fact, the opposite was where it stood when he died.

Further, the decision to recruit blacks as Union soldiers violated Lincoln's own principles, and made the whole project for colonization difficult to carry forward. By the end of the war, there were about 100,000 of these, who had been armed.

Lincoln expressed concern that these freed trained and armed ex slaves might then go back into the south and commence a race war there. One wonders why he didn't think of these things before that time.

Nevertheless the Civil War outcome was nothing whatever like what he had hoped for:

"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,-- that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifyling them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality." Abraham Lincoln, 4th Debate.

 

RE AUTOMATION HUMAN OBSOLESCENCE ANCIENT GREECE

See YaleCourses Lecture 5, The Rise of the Polis cont'd, and references to Victor Davis Hanson.

You had to have a family farm of a certain size for slavery to even be feasible.

Put another way, a dead slave did you no good.

RE CONDEMNATION BLIGHT

I once tried a case in the courthouse in Moorehaven. This is an incredible place. Twelve member jury, 2 alternates. Just like for a first degree murder trial.

 

My whole case was almost struck, at the beginning, because I had interpreted a procedural rule as not requiring an answer, even to requests for admission, because the deadline for discovery had passed. Perhaps a rather technical point. I may have been either right or wrong.

 

Finally, after hearing on his motion to exclude evidence from my case, I was given an hour or so to search, physically, the small law library there, for authority for why my case should not be held inadmissible on procedural grounds.

 

I eventually found authority there, somehow, and the judge, the Chief Judge in the Naples (one of the great resort towns in the world) Circuit, who nevertheless liked to try cases in the sticks of interior Moorehaven, to get away, and for a bit of sport with the trial  lawyers, eventually allowed my case to go forward...

 

The other side, later, in the second or third day, made the fatal mistake of arguing, through its appraiser expert witness, in effect, that the entire marshy, undeveloped, and quite remote, hamlet of Moorehaven would suffer terrible condemnation blight, including the subject property, a marshy undeveloped tract southeast of the sole blinking traffic light, due to this new, modern, state funded, expensive, arterial roadway and bridge, planned (and fully intended by then) to run right through and beyond Moorehaven, and requiring some modifications (read needed improvements), also, to the 'main' street through this tiny tiny place...

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RE BBC AUTOMATION MAY WORSEN WAGE INEQUALITY

Why not not candy coat it:

Automation, plus ragged globalization, may convert the lower half of all humans from wage labor to food source for the remainder.

For all you environmentalists:

What do you do with, say, 4 billion excess humans with no job and no food to eat, global resource scarcity, and political instability everywhere at once?

STRICT ENVIRONMENTALISM LEADS DIRECTLY TO CANNIBALISM UNDER CERTAIN ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

Show me why I am wrong.

POP MUSIC NOW DEAD AS A MACKEREL

WESTERN CIVIMPROVISATION

That is what it has been reduced to.

Long process.

You can kid yourself.

PARTY STRATEGY CONVERSATION

She gets it.
Right.
Seeyah.

RE CHRISTMAS

Easter was always more important in my family, for obvious reasons.

 

I like to refer to Sanders' account of Jesus' life, and mention Randall Collins' post on the subject.

 

I still have not read a satisfying account of the relationship of his birth and lineage to his life.

 

Accounts asserting his descent from King David are problematic,  unfounded and sensational; but still, how else, other than something like this, to account for his charismatic appeal to the common people during his lifetime, such that his martyrdom made such an impact on Palestine and places farther away, decades after his death, even into the time of Paul?

 

Certainly there was also some basis, true or false, for the Romans accusing him of claiming to be the rightful King of the Jews.

 

It may be that he descended instead from an out of power priesthood, (rather than from King David), say the Shiloh priesthood, as discussed in Who Wrote The Bible.

 

That makes sense, given other evidence, and would have provided a similar motive for his claims to speak with authority, and for his acts of opposition to the Temple authorities in Jerusalem.

THE MENU STUFFED PRIME RIB ROAST RISOTTO OR PAELLA JAMBALAYA IMPROV

That title sort of explains the idea.

The center of the wider Delmonico end is carved out, all the way through, perhaps by a butcher who understands the cut, and used as a separate roast, more tender than the eye of round which I always hated, or else cut into steaks.

The remaining larger hollowed out area of the roast can be stuffed with all manner of kinds of things. You could even do say diced root veggies, turnips, potatoes, carrots, etc.  Or you could do a sort of leftover risotto, paella (without shells or chicken bones), pulao, polenta, or even leftover Moros y Christianos,  in there. I always lean toward using bacon fat, somehow, but suit yourself.

After stuffing, one could tie off both ends before roasting. You can do this stuffed roast boned or unboned.

PS You could make this whole stuffed roast a diner "surprise" by saving end cap beef rounds, of the removed central portion, replacing them after stuffing, and roasting with steel pins to hold the stuffing ends in place!

REFUGEES ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THEIR OWN CIVILIZATION SUCH AS IT IS

The course of history has turned against large scale immigration, and for very good reasons.

 

The Europeans who immigrated here, since the beginning, were just lucky.

LEOPARD BANNON CLINTON MAN DIALOGUE

We take plane names.
Yes.
They hacked our list.
We know.
How?
Take a guess.

FOR PART OF THE BIGGER PICTURE THIS BLOG TERMS SEARCH

Chalmers Johnson

THE MENU IMPROV ASPARAGUS VINAIGRETTE

I know this is out of the mainstream.

Why throw away the tough lower ends of asparagus?

You can cook them along with the more tender ends, then throw the tough ends into a small tall jar, so that they fill the jar, then pour in leftover vinegar from other pickle jars on hand.

 

Use this for the vinegar for salad, or anything else calling for vinegar.

A similar thing can be done with broccoli stalks, but it might be best to peel them, after cooking and before vinaigretting.

You can then cook them in a meat roast, and maybe they will be tender enough to eat.

 

 

MAINSTREAM MEDIA THE CRUMBS OF REALITY

Early in his career, Palmerston seemed to think that espionage would be rendered obsolete by the press: one might merely read another country's newspapers to learn whatever they were doing. They would be reporting important facts one needed to know.

 

When I said you don't need a security clearance, I did not mean that one could get a very clear view now of events, from the mainstream media alone, very far indeed from it.

BANNON HOW BOUT MCCARTHYITE PURGE OF CHINA LOVERS

Especially former China lover rats, like Pillsbury, traitor from Red to Blue Team.... He is, arguably, even more dangerous.

KENNAN KNOWN INSIDE LONG BEFORE PILLSBURY

"Out of all these ingredients there was brewed the curious view of China that seems to have animated American statesmanship during the war; the picture of a helpless, deserving nation, for whose virtues we alone, among the great powers, had understanding, whose interests we had to sponsor in the face of Japanese enmity and British callousness, and whose grateful support in the postwar period we could take for granted as a mainstay of the world position we hoped to occupy.  China was, in fact, and on this we insisted with a most extraordinary vehemence, to be one of the future great powers--- one of what F.D.R. called the 'four world policemen'"

"In this highly subjective picture of the Chinese, there was no room for a whole series of historical and psychological realities.  There was no room for the physical ruthlessness that had characterized Chinese political life generally in recent decades; for the formidable psychological and political powers of the Chinese people themselves; for the strong streak of xenophobia in their nature; for the lessons of the Boxer Rebellion; for the extraordinary exploitative talent shown by Chinese factions, at all times, in turning outside aid to domestic political advantage."

"It was this idealized view of the Chinese, rather than any illusions about the relationship between the National Government and the Chinese Communists, which was most damaging to our Far Eastern policy.  We did, to be sure, underrate the depth of the antagonism between these two elements.  Our memories of what had transpired in 1927 were certainly shorter (if they existed at all) than were those of Mao and Chiang and Stalin.  There also seems to me to have been a certain naivete, but nothing worse, in our efforts to bring about a political compromise between these two factions, and to induce Stalin to join us in this effort....".  Russia and The West Under Lenin And Stalin, p 374.

DEMOCRACY AND ENLIGHTENMENT THE IRONY THIS IS NOT SELF CORRECTION BABY

The great irony is that, as the Enlightenment unfolded, it told ever increasingly against the very liberties, anti clericalism, science, and above all democracy, with which it had begun.

 

Democracy is ultimately the last type of government an enlightened person should want.

 

Lippmann's agonized flopping back and forth on the intellectual deck, throughout his long career, is a locus classicus of this insoluble underlying problem.

I like to cite equally illustrious pundits for these purposes, ram the one up the other's ass:

Monday, December 11, 2017

RAIL TO RAIL LIBERAL IDEOLOGY SCHLESINGER ON LIPPMANN

"The Intellectual v. Politics"

 

Great, blow by blow, chronology of the travails of liberal philosophy in the 20th Century, through the actual career publications of its foremost American apologist.

 

Call them "The Writhings of Liberalism"...

ROSE BANNON INTERVIEW CAPITOL REPORT

Yeah, we're moving the White House to Jerusalem. That's what our base wants.

Congress too?


Tel Aviv........oh, the Supreme Court is moving to Tokyo, or Bombay, we're not sure yet.

SCHLESINGER THE CRISIS OF THE OLD ORDER FOREWORD 2002

"The great strength of a democracy lies in its capacity for self-correction."

 

Unfortunately, since the beginnings of the concept of democracy, in ancient Greece, this, of all things, has never been true.

 

Schlesinger, of all people, should very well have known this.

A system founded on principles of drift, impotence, and vascillation, punctuated by periods of paroxysmal excesses an crises, is hardly a self-correcting system.

 

Schlesinger likes to quote Tocqueville, so here:

 

"A democracy can only with great difficulty regulate the details of an important undertaking, persevere in a fixed design, and work out its execution in spite of serious obstacles."

 

THE MENU KINDS OF BURNED OIL POLYMERS GHEE WHIZ!

I have talked about whether to season cast iron.

 

Another great subject is ghee!

 

This is used extensively in Indian cooking.

 

This is twice cooked butter...

 

At best, it is already too cooked when it is rendered into ghee.

 

At worst, it is already polymerizing in the commercial ghee making process, before it is even later used, again, to make Indian dishes...

 

You might be better off cooking on Teflon with cotton seed oil.

RE PILLSBURY YOU DIDN'T NEED A SECURITY CLEARANCE TO SEE WE WERE BEING SCREWED

Even back in the 70s...

Certainly by the 80s, you had to be pretty dumb or dumber not to see it...

Many insiders knew it from the very beginning, say 1945....say Kindleberger, etc.

CLASSIC 2011 shake down economics

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

RE MARKET POWER AND TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND OTHER ISSUES CALL IT SOMETHING REAL CALL IT SHAKE DOWN ECONOMICS

Re Apple, China, and Samsung, etc., etc.:


Imaginary dual soliloquies:
American savvy, sassy, MNC executives: "Let's start producing, or continue producing, in Asia, or India, as the labor costs are so darn  low, and profitability is our main criterion."


Asian political leaders: "Let's give these idiotic American companies low labor costs for a little while, while we are taking everything useful regarding their products and techniques, and market information, from them. 


Then we will simply undersell them on foolish laissez faire world markets, and take over these foolish gringos' world, then enslave, and perhaps also kill, a great many of these idiots."

What is going on now, with the shift already far advanced in so called market power, 

we are seeing the emergence of powerful leverage in Asian economies against foreign companies and their weak regimes, and their products and markets.

I would call it, at this point, not merely not trickle down economics, 

or trickle away, 

or torrent away, 

but something more realistic, more somber, 

in line with Steingart's epithet, "attacker countries".

I would call it now 


dumb and dumber 


shake down economics.

Terms search: human conflict, leverage, trading places, dumb dumber, etc.

re FAILURE OF FDR RE EUROPE AND RUSSIA LEAD TO ECONOMIC NEED TO GLOBALIZE

Saturday, November 9, 2013

FAILURE OF FDR RE EUROPE AND RUSSIA LEAD TO ECONOMIC NEED TO GLOBALIZE

This really accelerated the decline of the West.

The Marshall Plan started out as a restoration program centered on the West, and later occupation and military arrangements, including Japan, as a defense against Soviet encroachments in the West and in Asia, but almost immediately turned willy nilly into a globalizing program under the Truman Doctrine.

Kennan in Memoirs points out his frustration, and makes the distinctions he promoted regarding aid to the West versus willy nilly economic aid to Truman doctrine anti communist claimants anywhere. Point well taken.

Nevertheless, since the Russians had been allowed to place Eastern Europe off limits economically, Western European recovery perhaps implied not merely Marshall Plan aid there, and aid to Japan, but economic globalization elsewhere, not merely to oppose the spread of communism elsewhere, but to make up the economic deficit resulting from the economic loss of Eastern Europe. This is a point which, if true, Kennan, back then, in say 1947, was not alive to. Yet, so much he says about that period is very enlightening nevertheless.

The destruction of colonial empires, advocated by the US, only hastened the process of market capitalist globalization.

My own view is we should have defended those empires, not disbanded, or appropriated, them, and permanently resisted booming the underdeveloped world.

Call it Civilizational Mercantilism, rather than the now misleading term Imperialism.

THE PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON ACCOUNT COMPARE WITH PILLSBURY

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

PLAYING THREE SIDES ECONOMISTS' ACCOUNTS OF THE RISE OF CHINA SINCE 1980

Why not give another account, a darker account, perhaps the real account, of the sudden and otherwise inexplicable rise of industrial China, since say 1980...

 

It has to do with the dark side of Japanese economic development throughout Asia, and the concomitant hollowing out of the West.

 

This sudden economic miracle, PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON, has been described, by Thurow and others, as having been founded somehow on brilliant Chinese agrarian reforms and suddenly boosted agrarian productivity which then allowed a take off of industrialization through a sudden influx of freed up rural labor into Chinese cities..... that is the liberal economists' story, it seems. I haven't studied it closely, but that is what Thurow has said in a lecture I watched.

 

So, what do you think the true story might look like?

 

Think about it.

RE PILLSBURY FRIEDMAN LEBARD CHALMERS JOHNSON DEJA VU RE BERNSTEIN MUNRO CHINA

Remember The Coming War With Japan ?

I think I noted here in the past that Johnson pointed out that Japan had literally bought all available copies...

The Coming Conflict With China, Deja Vu

Fattening up The Rest was about the last thing The West should have done, if it wanted to survive.

Terms search, eg: fattening things up

CLASSIC 2010 POST CORPORATE DIRECTOR CEO SELECTION

Sunday, August 1, 2010

RE ACADEMIC-INDUSTRIAL SIMPLETONEX OLD DARLINGS

This is just 'business as usual' in this corrupt area of business regulation. Corporations pick these old darlings for a reason.

The title of the article makes it sound like there is some overarching strategic purpose for having members of foreign disciplines on corporate boards.

Were that actually the case, ala multidisciplinary input of a substantial kind
(were that possible in the status quo system of corporate structures),
or thinking outside the 'Maverick Executive' Box, that might be a good thing. Unfortunately, it has been merely a clever pretext.

The actual reasons are that these old darlings know often very little about the businesses that are actually run by the executives. The other actual reasons sometimes have to do with intercorporate or political back scratching, good ole boy/girl stuff, not 'good corporate governance', an oxymoron (the last thing they would want.)

Getting people like these is an executive decision, in order to have as little interference as possible with corporate executive shenanigans.

It is rather like selecting a mediator for a contested legal case who is unfamiliar with the subject matter field of the law, but who is nevertheless certified as a mediator of that kind of case by some supreme court or board;

selected (by the knowledgeable nonsettling side) for the express purpose of failing to settle the case, so that the fees can continue to accrue unabated, even though mediation was 'ordered' or 'tried'...

the old darling stumbles around the mediation discussions, spending a lot of time just getting up to speed on basic matters, not even the perhaps technical issues on which the dispute turns, and about that time, an impasse can conveniently be declared.

Executives' rationales for selecting academicians for such boards is rather like litigators selecting such mediators for contested cases. similar 'underlying principles' apply. TERM SEARCH: TEAM PLAY, experts, Rumpole, ETC.

Another, analogous, phenomenon is that of selecting a new CEO for a corporation who has no background in the core business or businesses of the company.

There can be many reasons for selecting such a person to head an organization; none of them really very good. That is history of American business organizational acumen and its competitive environment.

THIS IS THOORA BAIT.

THE AGONY OF DISORDER ROLLS ON

One can think of the Reformation, as a sort of beginning.

 

The Enlightenment, a false idol of order.

 

The Age of the Democratic Revolution, the contagion of liberty, then set in permanently.

MATTHEW SPENCER PETERSEN IS A LEGAL IDIOT

From his answers, one can see that he couldn't litigate, much less try, his way out of a paper bag.

 

Our country is filled with them.

 

I know one, in charge of tort litigation for a large local government, never even tried a case, never intends to. I don't think he even did a bench trial. He's been there 20 or 30 years.

Terms search: Frye, Daubert, evidence, Ehrhardt, procedure, statutory

THE REALLY IMPORTANT JUDGMENT VERDICT OF HISTORY NOW WRITTEN IN CHINESE

From Tyler forward...

It has very little, whatsoever, to do, either with negro slavery, either way, or with Lincoln's Emancipation, either way...

This is just a small thing, really, big picture, I have been trying to explain, low these many years.

See Pillsbury's Confession

I told you so, long before I read his confession.

Americans have thought the Chinese would be grateful!

VIETNAM

Reading Pillsbury's account, it becomes even more insignificant, and yet pathetic, a conflict, than it had seemed already.

THE HUNDRED-YEAR MARATHON READS FOR ME LIKE AN INTERMINABLE WALL OF SHAME

A bi partisan wall, or rather perhaps, shall we say, a spoils system wall, where, nevertheless, each administration resembled its predecessor, as well as its successor, from beginning to end.

QUESTION: WOULD YOU CONSIDER PILLSBURY A WHISTLEBLOWER OR NOT?

Question 2: Why, or why not?

Question 3: Can one blow the whistle on yourself?

Yes or no.

Question 4: Why?

Question 5: What is a whistleblower?

SOME HERE THINK WE CAN CUT A SQUARE DEAL WITH CHINA EVENTUALLY IN THE LAST DITCH

That will not turn out to be the case.

 

What they have planned for us is something far less, even, than The Morgenthau Plan, the Plan we should have implemented on them first, the Plan Morgenthau  had intended for Germany.

Merely Morgenthauing us is no longer an option, given various somehow surprising and sudden geopolitical realities. Back in 1945 Western Enlightenment liberals still were in dreamland, thinking always of relentless progress, and that there would always be plenty of planet to go around!

It will make Hitler seem like a gentleman and a scholar.
  

THE MENU FOWL STUFFING IMPROV

You can make good stuffing from stuff already cooked!

 

Throw into a metal bowl, the equivalent of 1 or 2 (depending on cavity size and other ingredients below) pieces of bread or toast or pita or lavash, or a chunk of corn bread, or some rice, polenta, white beans, or even mashed potatoes! Or some combination of them. It needs to be a little wet when all mushed together as below, but not quite runny. 

 

I would not make stuffing from leftover pasta unless you really know what you are doing, since it is very drying, and will harden too much without sufficient moisture inside the cavity.

 

Add to this, and mush up together, say, bacon or bacon fat, diced sausage, leftover mushrooms, salad, cooked green vegetables, diced bell peppers and or onions, add garlic, provencal seasonings, or sage, to taste.

 

After the fowl is roasted, dig this stuffing out, and have it on the side with the pan juice, or gravy if you make that.

LEOPARD MAN KALI BWANA DIALOGUE excerpt

“I am taking you from the Leopard Men.”
“Who are you?” “I am Bobolo.” “Where are you taking me?” “To my village.” “Then you will take me to my own people?” “Maybe so after a while.”

UBER WAYWA LEOPARD MAN CROCODILE MAN LEVEL HACKING

Black African tribal pygmy cannibals are fully as human, or as bestial, depending on your view.

OLD CELLO QUESTIONS

We have discussed, in the past, the mortized, sharpened and pointed linings running into the corner blocks.

 

Enough said... a German style.....although copied, apparently, by del Jesu, of all makers!

 

So, then, when the German maker builds this old cello, he fails to undercut the sides of the f holes, although that was a style, or his style...He flutes the lower wings, an unGerman flourish in the early 19th Century....so what?

 

He, or someone else, then, or later, places pins near the top and bottom of the back, to throw everyone, off of, or onto, the scent...

Retail, mostly privileged, customers, dilletantes, though very savvy and highly knowledgeable, surely would have smelled a rat, back in the beginning of the 19th Century, without those telltale pins!

KULIKOWSKY LECTURE ROME'S ACCIDENTAL FALL ALARIC TRUMP THE GAUL

Trump is the inside outsider, or the outside insider, as was Alaric...

 

Rome had, by the fourth century, become multi ethnic, or meta multi ethnic...or, shall we say rather, multicultural.

OLD CORNER BLOCK

Sunday, August 15, 2010

OLD CELLO OLD CORNER BLOCK

CELLO CORNER BLOCK

Sunday, August 15, 2010

OLD CELLO LINING MORTIZED INTO CORNER BLOCK

THE INVISIBLE HAND

Friday, November 26, 2010

RE LEONHARDT ON GEITHNER THE LAISSEZ FAIRE CASANOVA CHINA HAND

Geithner: Old China hand.

I especially liked the image of the nation going PRC flag color.

That says it all.

That's economics for ya. All our Walmart stuff are made behind China's borders, and further behind their territorial waters, now so very in dispute.

See prior posts re Casanova Hand, laissez faire, lazy fare, etc.

IS BANNON ROBESPIERRE DANTON OR MARAT?

You tell me.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Honey

BANNON'S FULL ROSE INTERVIEW 25 MINUTES IN

Here you see American populist, conservative, economic nationalist, Christian, stooges of Breitbart, in the proper Bannonical Orthodox Jewish political light...

THIS IS HARD FOR AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS TO COMPREHEND

The founding ideas of America are hostile to every religious creed, especially a state religion, and to every distinct ethnic group in the world.

 

Founding Americans also repudiated, for good measure, Western European Civilization itself.

 

Founding Americans stood with all men everywhere, for all time.

HOLIDAY CHEER CHINESE ART

I recommend everyone read Pillsbury's Introduction "Wishful Thinking".

 

Cai, great stuff. Not our ridiculous Nutcracker.

 

Why not rub our own noses in it, in our own Capitol?

GOOGLE DUMB DUMBER CHINA AI CENTER ETC ETC

One might have thought that they would have finally begun to understand...but no. Why no Google AI Center, then, in Japan?

Why not, then, Google AI Centers, also, in say Moscow, and how about say, Tehran, and Cairo, for good measure?

I ORDERED KURT ANDERSEN'S HOW AMERICA WENT HAYWIRE

At least he has a long enough time frame to be partly right.

 

500 years is about my own estimation...

 

Maybe he will also start with the Reformation, the first big going haywire event for me too.

Say, maybe he's just copied my blog!

It really is a rather larger story: how Western Civilization went haywire....not primarily America, the American Rebellion only a sort of sad side show, really, big picture.

Mehmet II knocked down the walls of Constantinople, and then besieged Europe because Luther's Reformation distracted the Hapsburgs,  just a few decades meanwhile before the Spanish finally finished driving the Moors and Jews from Spain.

So, bottom line, Muslims then poured into Southeastern Europe, just about the time that their Muslim brethren had just been finally driven from Spain.

The Sultan continued to beleaguer Southeastern Europe until the mid 18th Century, and remnants of Muslims have caused problems ever since, throughout the Balkan Peninsula until today.

THEY LOVE THIS OLD CELLO IMAGE

Funny, no one ever comments on it, one way or another.....

 

Monday, August 23, 2010

OLD CELLO VENTRAL PIN PLUG ABOVE LARGE PATCH CENTER OF CORNERS

SOMEONE SAW A REF WHY NOT POST THE QUOTE?

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The Maverick Executive 1974 re assiduous mavericks

"The most serious problem...his intolerance of other people's values...his values are the ones subscribed to by most senior executives, ... a caricature of a generic affliction of executives...."

while:

"his subordinates......in the last 20 years these shibboleths of the work ethic have suffered such erosion that job performance and moral standards have deteriorated....."

FATTENING THINGS UP IN ASIA

Chinese Premier to Nixon, 1971: "You have let her fatten herself (Japan)."

 

Putin to Trump, 2017 (almost 50 years later): "You have let her fatten herself (China)."



Remember Stalin's Nonaggression pact with Japan?

Think about it.

RAIL TO RAIL LIBERAL IDEOLOGY SCHLESINGER ON LIPPMANN

"The Intellectual v. Politics"

 

Great, blow by blow, chronology of the travails of liberal philosophy in the 20th Century, through the actual career publications of its foremost American apologist.

 

Call them "The Writhings of Liberalism"...

RE GERMAN LINKEDIN CHINESE POLITICAL ESPIONAGE OYSTER

So, did Putin and Xi cut a deal:

 

Russia screws up US politics, and China screws up German?

Very easy for each to do.

After all:
TOCQUEVILLE, DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA

"A democracy can only with great difficulty regulate the details of an important undertaking, persevere in a fixed design, and work out its execution in spite of serious obstacles."