Rumpole and the Heavy Brigade
The Delgardo brothers, proprietors of The Paradise Rooms...framing their retarded brother Peter.
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Thursday, May 31, 2018
AMERICAN PROGRESSIVE RACISTS
All the Southern states (and Oklahoma) used devices to disenfranchise black voters during the Progressive Era.
Typically the progressive elements in those states pushed for disenfranchisement, often fighting against the conservatism of the Black Belt whites.
A major reason given was that whites routinely purchased black votes to control elections, and it was easier to disenfranchise blacks than to go after powerful white men.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
RE LAW MORALS LAW RELIGION RACE AND CIVILIZATION
See prior post: THE RULE OF LAW AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Also this prior post, excerpt:
Also this prior post, excerpt:
"Let's look at an example from the time of the Congress of Vienna, and look at Talleyrand, the most outspoken opponent of Russia and Prussia, and the first of his three arguments there: "...this era could only be ended and peace established by restoring law as the basis of international life; that the balance of Europe could not rest solely or mainly on power, but depended on mutual trust among states and nations arising from mutual respect for everyone's rights; and that all rights and titles to all kinds of possession and good, including those of individuals, nations, and states, were vitally connected with the rights of rulers to their thrones....", Schroeder, p. 530.
Thus the rule of law was finally counterposed to the divine right of kings, on the one hand, and to Jacobinism on the other.
But that is not the only point I want to make regarding this development." (end excerpt, prior post)
One gets the impression, nowadays, that the concept of the rule of law is, among Western intellectuals, a concept intellectually isolable, like a chemical element, and then fungibly distributable, or imposable, across and into all civilizations.
I am skeptical that that is the case. My skepticism relates to the relationships I have been discussing between law and other features of societies, such as customs, language, racial characteristics, traditions of various kinds, class structures, religious institutions and practices, and other things.
Certainly what Talleyrand had meant, in the squib above, at Vienna, by 'the rule of law' was not a concept which might be exported anywhere else but within Western Europe, and perhaps Russia, around 1815.
Certainly what Talleyrand had meant, in the squib above, at Vienna, by 'the rule of law' was not a concept which might be exported anywhere else but within Western Europe, and perhaps Russia, around 1815.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
THE RACE CARD CULTURE CARD RELIGION CARD CIVILIZATION CARD
Those who play the liberal race card need to get ready...
There have always been other higher trump cards, in the deck.
There have always been other higher trump cards, in the deck.
Sunday, July 23, 2017
SEVERAL THINGS THE WEST SHOULD HAVE LEARNED DURING THE COURSE OF THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION
and long before, throughout the course of history, really:
You don't enslave members of foreign civilizations and races, and then import them into where you want to live. Enslaving them where they are is fine.
You don't indenture them as servants within your own civilization, but it is fine to have them as servants while you are in theirs.
You don't accept too many, of any kind, race, religion, or ethnicity, as immigrants, ever.
One classic example of how this was considered best practice by a great power was Spain up to 1492. It had expelled the moors and the Jews by that date. That probably was considered by them a great success: 'Let them determine themselves somewhere else!'
Of course, a whig interpretation of history will find terrible problems with this course of events, but that is Whig history for you.
Of course, a whig interpretation of history will find terrible problems with this course of events, but that is Whig history for you.
Sunday, May 7, 2017
RE KRUGMAN nyt WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH EUROPE?
The same thing that's been the matter with us, here, since before 1776: lack of a firm sense anymore, for Western Civilization as a cultural value, based on religion, class distinctions (however you describe them) and accompanying social order, race as an underlying civilizational feature, and based on both local national and civilizational history, millenia of it really.
Krugman, on what he pejoratively calls French white nationalism: 'Let's stop dignifying this stuff by calling it populism.' I agree, but let's go on along this line of reasoning....
I am not going to use the term populism, either, because it has meaning, mostly historically, only as a pejorative term, usually used by the then upper class or the conservatives within it, that no longer exists, referring to a lower class movement or issue.
I am going to dignify it, so called French white nationalism, by something more important, assuming for a moment that this may be the impulse from which it springs, both in France, England, and elsewhere in Europe: Western Civilizationalism.
It is against what one might call EUism, a globalist openness to every civilization, color, and creed in the world so long as they are a heavy hitter, a tamping down of mere European nationalisms, Western religion, and western ways, everywhere, in favor of an overarching global paradigm. He nevertheless criticizes the EU for tamping down its small states, but what alternative is there to get to that great utopian goal he shares with the EU ideal?
It is against what one might call EUism, a globalist openness to every civilization, color, and creed in the world so long as they are a heavy hitter, a tamping down of mere European nationalisms, Western religion, and western ways, everywhere, in favor of an overarching global paradigm. He nevertheless criticizes the EU for tamping down its small states, but what alternative is there to get to that great utopian goal he shares with the EU ideal?
Krugman doesn't want anything like Western Civilizationalism to keep rearing its head in either Europe or here.
He is an economic, cultural, and civilizational globalist. Almost all so called liberals are, under the skin.
Most liberal intellectual Jews are, too, and always have been: they were forced to it by Christianity over many centuries. They are mostly against something like Zionism, something only conservative Jews venerate, and which began with the neocon movement here.
He doesn't care what your color is, what your religion is, what your standard of living is, what your race is, what your political beliefs are: you are his audience.
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
DAVID BROOKS THE CRISIS OF WESTERN CIV ARTICLE APRIL 21
Why not just go almost line by line?
His first few lines, Will and Ariel Durant...
I read parts of it when a kid. This is a classic of the Whig Interpretation of History, which I have discussed recently here, the theory of confident and progressive Western history which Brooks likes, and which he laments is dying in America and elsewhere in the West. More on that issue later.
I read parts of it when a kid. This is a classic of the Whig Interpretation of History, which I have discussed recently here, the theory of confident and progressive Western history which Brooks likes, and which he laments is dying in America and elsewhere in the West. More on that issue later.
Next, he says this story of civilization came with certain values, such as reasoned discourse...
Well, what does reasoned discourse really mean; presumably a multitude of diverse and inconsistent things and disciplines, notoriously difficult to get a handle on, bleeds over into ethics, logic, mathematics, history, politics, you name it.
Well, what else did reasoned discourse itself also come with, one might ask? I will tell you: it came with a gnawing sense of skepticism about the powers of reason and perception themselves to see or understand reality in itself.
In other words it reiterated an ancient tradition from the Greek Fifth Century Enlightenment about the elusiveness of knowledge asserted the relativity of all values, traditions, factual truths, and religions.
Well, what does reasoned discourse really mean; presumably a multitude of diverse and inconsistent things and disciplines, notoriously difficult to get a handle on, bleeds over into ethics, logic, mathematics, history, politics, you name it.
Well, what else did reasoned discourse itself also come with, one might ask? I will tell you: it came with a gnawing sense of skepticism about the powers of reason and perception themselves to see or understand reality in itself.
In other words it reiterated an ancient tradition from the Greek Fifth Century Enlightenment about the elusiveness of knowledge asserted the relativity of all values, traditions, factual truths, and religions.
He claims Western Civ set a standard for great statesmanship.
What can he mean? Moral statesmanship, whatever that means? Does he mean ancient Greek and Roman statesmen, Pericles, Alcibiades, Cicero, the Gracchi, Caesar, the ones he likes; good practitioners of raison d'etat; balance of power expertise; Machiavelli, perhaps Bismarck, Richelieu, Hitler? He doesn't say. Wouldn't it also however have correspondingly set a standard for terrible statesmanship? Otherwise, how would one know what great was? So, let's just say that maybe the West set both kinds of standards and all degrees in between.
What can he mean? Moral statesmanship, whatever that means? Does he mean ancient Greek and Roman statesmen, Pericles, Alcibiades, Cicero, the Gracchi, Caesar, the ones he likes; good practitioners of raison d'etat; balance of power expertise; Machiavelli, perhaps Bismarck, Richelieu, Hitler? He doesn't say. Wouldn't it also however have correspondingly set a standard for terrible statesmanship? Otherwise, how would one know what great was? So, let's just say that maybe the West set both kinds of standards and all degrees in between.
He next mentions a town square, and religion, in passing.
Under Brooks' whig interpretation, the Reformation and Counter Reformation were milestones in this Whig narrative of the confident march toward the progress of today. Butterfield described it very well.
Under Brooks' whig interpretation, the Reformation and Counter Reformation were milestones in this Whig narrative of the confident march toward the progress of today. Butterfield described it very well.
Next, he mentions giving diverse people a sense of shared mission, common vocabulary, common goals.
This started out as an aspiration only intended within and among diverse peoples of only the West itself. Even other countries within the West were viewed by each as in a sense barbarians, even into the 19th Century; how much more so, denizens of other civilizations. but this sense of shared mission, common vocabulary and goals, eventually became, by the force of Western ideology itself sua sponte, the dream of some Western liberals in the 18th and 19th centuries to include all people of the world.
This started out as an aspiration only intended within and among diverse peoples of only the West itself. Even other countries within the West were viewed by each as in a sense barbarians, even into the 19th Century; how much more so, denizens of other civilizations. but this sense of shared mission, common vocabulary and goals, eventually became, by the force of Western ideology itself sua sponte, the dream of some Western liberals in the 18th and 19th centuries to include all people of the world.
It had seldom been part of the Western civ concept before that time, except perhaps in terms of early Christianity being spread as a Jewish mission to the gentiles, presumably ultimately to all the gentiles in the world regardless of race religion or civilization. The idea of course had become popular among all religions which sought to convert infidels in conquered lands rather than to kill, enslave, or exile them.
Brooks then explains how this crisis of Western Civ began. It only began several decades ago he says.
I may come back to that point directly at some point below in discussing other points here.
He blames this relatively sudden civilizational crisis on academia, an institution conveniently other than journalism.
He can't very well blame journalism, too, can he?
Journalism's mission, apparently, after all, is presumably not to try to weigh in on such issues with scholarly authority in the first place anyway. Although, isn't that rather what Brooks does here himself in blaming academia, or am I missing something?
Remember that Brooks himself assured us a while back that we had finally, for several decades now (coincidentally, the ostensible length of the evolving civilizational crisis he decries), reached the stage of a meritocracy here in America.
Presumably, however, the emerging meritocracy here would also have some things to do, at some points, with academic excellence and standards, and be somehow connected with a concept of Western civ as itself a meritocratic concept, no?
So, how according to Brooks, are we both finally a meritocracy founded on mainly academic excellence and expertise, and also in a sudden crisis of Western civ brought on by academic waywardness and incompetence? How?
Maybe that is enough for one post, call it chapter one of my remarks on Brooks The Crisis of Western civ.
Brooks then explains how this crisis of Western Civ began. It only began several decades ago he says.
I may come back to that point directly at some point below in discussing other points here.
He blames this relatively sudden civilizational crisis on academia, an institution conveniently other than journalism.
He can't very well blame journalism, too, can he?
Journalism's mission, apparently, after all, is presumably not to try to weigh in on such issues with scholarly authority in the first place anyway. Although, isn't that rather what Brooks does here himself in blaming academia, or am I missing something?
Remember that Brooks himself assured us a while back that we had finally, for several decades now (coincidentally, the ostensible length of the evolving civilizational crisis he decries), reached the stage of a meritocracy here in America.
Presumably, however, the emerging meritocracy here would also have some things to do, at some points, with academic excellence and standards, and be somehow connected with a concept of Western civ as itself a meritocratic concept, no?
So, how according to Brooks, are we both finally a meritocracy founded on mainly academic excellence and expertise, and also in a sudden crisis of Western civ brought on by academic waywardness and incompetence? How?
Maybe that is enough for one post, call it chapter one of my remarks on Brooks The Crisis of Western civ.
Monday, September 5, 2016
RE RACE AN ARTIFICIAL CATEGORY
A PROPOS DK CURRENT POST THE CONCEPT OF RACE ITSELF
Following up on this prior post and vexed group of issues, I have tried in various posts since this one to set the stage regarding how one might think about such things.
There are those who will say that 'civilization' is artificial, or that religious distinctions are artificial in light of other similarities across religious lines.
They might suggest that class distinctions, whether based on religion, or wealth, or tradition, or other things as well, are artificial. Fair enough. That is their view.
Racial differences are apparent, yet race differences are an artificial category of distinction in isolation from other differences and similarities. Race, culture, religion, and civilization tend to be more, or less, loosely related.
Racial differences are apparent, yet race differences are an artificial category of distinction in isolation from other differences and similarities. Race, culture, religion, and civilization tend to be more, or less, loosely related.
Sunday, April 16, 2017
RACE COLOR AND CIVILIZATION
"If slavery was accepted, there was a general feeling against enslaving Greeks, and most slaves were obtained, by war or raids, fron non-Greek countries. In this way the question of slavery was connected in the Greek mind, as in the American, with that of racial inferiority." Guthrie, III, p 156
There are several things about this passage, and about this account, to note.
One thing to note is that the Greeks tended to equate nationalism, or civilizationalism, not just city-statism, with race, although it seems that Greeks could and did enslave other Greeks, I guess. It was frowned upon.
Another thing to note is that the concept of race itself, for the ancient Greeks, had nothing to do with skin color, much less physical differences which modern people also consider racial characteristics.
Guthrie's comparison, between ancient Greeks amd modern Americans' views of the meaning of race, is troubling, because although as he means that slaves were also mostly foreigners among Americans, they were also identified, most crucially, by the skin color and physical features, criteria absent from the ancient Greeks' criteria:
"The complaint of the Old Oligarch is well known: slaves at Athens are an insolent lot who will not get out of your way in the street, and you are not allowed to strike them for the simple reason that there is nothing in their dress and general appearance to deistinguish them from free Athenians." Guthrie, III p. 156
Guthrie's comparison, between ancient Greeks amd modern Americans' views of the meaning of race, is troubling, because although as he means that slaves were also mostly foreigners among Americans, they were also identified, most crucially, by the skin color and physical features, criteria absent from the ancient Greeks' criteria:
"The complaint of the Old Oligarch is well known: slaves at Athens are an insolent lot who will not get out of your way in the street, and you are not allowed to strike them for the simple reason that there is nothing in their dress and general appearance to deistinguish them from free Athenians." Guthrie, III p. 156
For the Greeks, race was a civilizational criterion, since they considered even white non-Greeks as members of a different race, as barbarians. Non-Greek whites were a different race because they were barbarians, not because their skin color was different, or because their physical features differed from Greek ones.
Language, customs, dress, and religion presumably identified someone, racially, as Greek or non-Greek, not skin color or physical features, but the slaves in Athens apparently dressed and looked like Greeks.
Friday, October 13, 2017
SECULAR LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE OR LEFT GLOBALISM DOT BOT
Guess wot?
If you are a globalist, then, deep down, under the skin, so to speak, you are a secular, countryless, heritageless, pastless, globalist dot bot.
It doesn't matter whether you are a Western liberal or a conservative.
It doesn't matter what your religion supposedly is, or was, or will be, or even on which side of that creed you see yourself as being.
It doesn't matter what (or how many, colors) your skin color is. You could be polka dot, or mottled, or albino.
It matters nothing what your sexual orientation or gender is, or frankly whether you have any. It means nothing, big picture, to pure globalization:better if you have none, frankly!
It doesn't matter what country or civilization you're associated with or are a part of, as a citizen or a refugee.
here are some prior post references explaining why:
"See: LET ME EXPLAIN THIS FURTHER RACE RELIGION CIVILIZATION
So, after reviewing the above posts, where to go from there? '...The implications for religion'.
If you are a globalist, then, deep down, under the skin, so to speak, you are a secular, countryless, heritageless, pastless, globalist dot bot.
It doesn't matter whether you are a Western liberal or a conservative.
It doesn't matter what your religion supposedly is, or was, or will be, or even on which side of that creed you see yourself as being.
It doesn't matter what (or how many, colors) your skin color is. You could be polka dot, or mottled, or albino.
It matters nothing what your sexual orientation or gender is, or frankly whether you have any. It means nothing, big picture, to pure globalization:better if you have none, frankly!
It doesn't matter what country or civilization you're associated with or are a part of, as a citizen or a refugee.
here are some prior post references explaining why:
"See: LET ME EXPLAIN THIS FURTHER RACE RELIGION CIVILIZATION
See also: Saturday, December 10, 2016
So, after reviewing the above posts, where to go from there? '...The implications for religion'.
Because religion, across the broad distinctions of world faiths, not of Protestant versus Catholic in the West, or of Shiite versus Sunni in Islam, or of types of various sects within Buddhism or Hinduism, has normally had at least a strong racial dimension, has been based on broad and general racial distinctions throughout the world, and also has been associated with societies in which religion and government have often been closely identified if not identical, the emergence of a globalist ideology which cuts across these distinctions renders religion itself an abomination.
For the globalist, all religions, including any sectarian creed within any particular religion, however so called moderate, are as contrary to globalism as the concepts of distinctions of race, of ethnicity, and the existence of the long detested nation state.
Distinctions of gender follow in train, of course. The thoroughgoing globalist must look past not only actual racial differences, but also declare gender ones contrary to idealized universal human rights.
He must, furthemore, declare all religions, of whatever kind or degree, contrary to human rights and to the rights of man.
The distinction of a separation of church and state is obsolete because both the church, any church, and the (nation) state, are obsolete for the thoroughgoing globalist, and frankly inimical to globalism."
For the globalist, all religions, including any sectarian creed within any particular religion, however so called moderate, are as contrary to globalism as the concepts of distinctions of race, of ethnicity, and the existence of the long detested nation state.
Distinctions of gender follow in train, of course. The thoroughgoing globalist must look past not only actual racial differences, but also declare gender ones contrary to idealized universal human rights.
He must, furthemore, declare all religions, of whatever kind or degree, contrary to human rights and to the rights of man.
The distinction of a separation of church and state is obsolete because both the church, any church, and the (nation) state, are obsolete for the thoroughgoing globalist, and frankly inimical to globalism."
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
LET ME EXPLAIN THIS FURTHER RACE RELIGION CIVILIZATION
See this prior post:
RACIST UNIRACIALISM UNIRELIGIONISM GLOBALISM MELTINGPOTISM
Also terms search: race , nation, religion, civilization
RACIST UNIRACIALISM UNIRELIGIONISM GLOBALISM MELTINGPOTISM
Also terms search: race , nation, religion, civilization
Where to begin? Once you challenge the very notion of racial differences being a natural, or neutral, even an inherently good thing, you come up against other related organizing principles for societies, such as religion, government, and civilization.
Separating church from state, fallout from The Reformation Fallacy, has turned out to be another thin wedge of a broader Western assault on social and political reality as it had always been.
Separating church from state, was then, eventually, only in the later 19th Century and only in the West, combined with a completely new, and quite radical, uniracialism, call it the racial and political brotherhood of man, so to speak, into a powerful new multidimensional globalist vision, quite apart from the economic globalism of Smithist laissez faire, already taking over in the West since the late 18th Century, which also played right into globalism.
I want to get to the implications, for religion, in a subsequent post.
Sunday, April 9, 2017
THE RADICAL GLOBALIZER WANTS RACIAL CONVERGENCE AS MUCH AS ECONOMIC AND RELIGIOUS CONVERGENCE
He, already, sees these things, as essentially connected.
He is rather like the immediate abolitionists of the late 18th and 19th Centuries, which wrought so much havoc wherever they were in the West and the US.
That's a dirty little secret. Keep it just between us. It has been driven by liberal, religious, and utopian, ideologies, and mainly by big globalist business interests, as well as so called conservative Western religious interests, especially in the 20th century.
Low level Western adherents, liberal or conservative, don't really appreciate the full horrific implications of their ad hoc globalist views, zealots seldom do, but I can spell them out for you:
Every person in the world should have no religion, consider every other person in the world his brother, be dark tan in color, make about $400 a year, and be happy with this utopian state of affairs.
Every person in the world should have no religion, consider every other person in the world his brother, be dark tan in color, make about $400 a year, and be happy with this utopian state of affairs.
Sunday, April 30, 2017
MISHRA FROM EXCEPTIONALISM TO NIHILISM THE LIBERAL GLOBALIZATION TRAP
Our roots were always there, really.
The Age of the Democratic Revolution really set the ball rolling.
If you believe in the liberal unification of everything, you believe in nothing.
Don't kid yourself.
COMBINE ENLIGHTENED GLOBALISM WITH ENLIGHTENMENT SKEPTICISM (HUME)
THE IMPLICATIONS FOR RELIGION ETHNICITY GENDER CIVILIZATION
LET ME EXPLAIN THIS FURTHER RACE RELIGION CIVILIZATION
RE MARKETS CIVILIZATIONS RACES MINDS PERCEPTIONS EXPERTS PICKING WINNERS
GLOBALIST POLICIES HAVE BASICALLY SLOWLY BLOWN YOUR COUNTRY UP
RE BROOKS' EXODUS THEME IMMIGRATION REFUGEES TRANSHUMANCE SLAVERY JEWS GUEST WORKERS ISRAEL
THE GLOBALIZATION TRAP
The Age of the Democratic Revolution really set the ball rolling.
If you believe in the liberal unification of everything, you believe in nothing.
Don't kid yourself.
COMBINE ENLIGHTENED GLOBALISM WITH ENLIGHTENMENT SKEPTICISM (HUME)
THE IMPLICATIONS FOR RELIGION ETHNICITY GENDER CIVILIZATION
LET ME EXPLAIN THIS FURTHER RACE RELIGION CIVILIZATION
RE MARKETS CIVILIZATIONS RACES MINDS PERCEPTIONS EXPERTS PICKING WINNERS
GLOBALIST POLICIES HAVE BASICALLY SLOWLY BLOWN YOUR COUNTRY UP
RE BROOKS' EXODUS THEME IMMIGRATION REFUGEES TRANSHUMANCE SLAVERY JEWS GUEST WORKERS ISRAEL
THE GLOBALIZATION TRAP
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
POLITICS LAW AND PHILOSOPHY SUBSTANCE PROCEDURE SEPARATION OF POWERS FOIBLES
Let's just say a few more words about separation of powers, and a few other little things.
SOP gets broken down by what are called powers.
These, in turn, get classified, here, in some cases, in some states I don't know how many, as being distinguished by whether they are substantive or procedural, whatever you take those terms to mean, but they do have a history.
Thus the judiciary sometimes takes the stand that it does, or should, have more or less complete authority over procedural matters, as a very constitutional matter, whereas the legislature, or the executive, should rule over substantive matters, and/or over other matters as well, classified also in other ways not inconsistent with this fundamental substance procedure distinction itself.
That is where it seems to stands, it seems. The relationship between the branches itself has a history. The substance procedure distinction itself seems to me not to be original with the political or philosophical thinking of the founders. The role of the judiciary itself seems also to have grown over time, apart from how its power is and has been characterized vis a vis other branches.
That is why the Daubert versus Frye debate, in Florida and perhaps in other states, takes on a more important aspect. It represents a jurisprudential as well as a political debate about the relationship between the branches, based on differing conceptions of what the fundamental nature and scope of powers of the branches themselves, in relation to each other, really is or should be.
I don't really want to get into the philosophy underpinning separation of powers, or the substance procedure distinction, here, but rather merely to point out what may be at stake, for other, non philosophers, readers, in this discussion.
This is the sort of note Bobbitt might enjoy glancing at, so it is dedicated to him.
I don't really want to get into the philosophy underpinning separation of powers, or the substance procedure distinction, here, but rather merely to point out what may be at stake, for other, non philosophers, readers, in this discussion.
This is the sort of note Bobbitt might enjoy glancing at, so it is dedicated to him.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
THE MENU TATTOO IDEAS
"shoulder roast"
"chuck roast"
"bottom round"
"flank steak"
"Boston butt"
"eye of round"
"brisket"
"top round"
"rib roast"
"short ribs"
"chuck roast"
"bottom round"
"flank steak"
"Boston butt"
"eye of round"
"brisket"
"top round"
"rib roast"
"short ribs"
RE ROSEANNE BARR CF CHIMPANZEE POLITICS BOOK
"Bob Iger of ABC called Valerie Jarrett to let her know that “ABC does not tolerate comments like those” made by Roseanne Barr. Gee, he never called President Donald J. Trump to apologize for the HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC. Maybe I just didn’t get the call?" DT
If Trump and chimps have human rights (Boston University position) , where's the beef?
Barr was apparently paying Jarrett a compliment!
You see, Barr is a chimp too.....
Bottom line: ABC is defaming and firing certain chimps apparently.
Honey: You should keep my book; in your profession you have even more use for it than I....
If Trump and chimps have human rights (Boston University position) , where's the beef?
Barr was apparently paying Jarrett a compliment!
You see, Barr is a chimp too.....
Bottom line: ABC is defaming and firing certain chimps apparently.
Honey: You should keep my book; in your profession you have even more use for it than I....
THE MENU re KRUGMAN EATING THE IRISH A MODEST PROPOSAL THE MYSTERY MEAT
For America's poor (40% of the population and climbing),
re global income convergence, a modest proposal:
"A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout." Swift
Re NYT story 1475 immigrant children missing, a modest economists' proposal:
Krugman: cf Eating the Irish, The Mystery Meat; why not Eating the Mexicans?
It saves on a wall!
Environmentalism!
This post dedicated to Vladimir Putin, re Chinese invaders along the border. (Logan violation.)
Re NYT story 1475 immigrant children missing, a modest economists' proposal:
Krugman: cf Eating the Irish, The Mystery Meat; why not Eating the Mexicans?
It saves on a wall!
Environmentalism!
This post dedicated to Vladimir Putin, re Chinese invaders along the border. (Logan violation.)
DK TRUMP AS HITLER
"...In the year or so after taking power in January 1933, the Nazis achieved the Gleichschaltung--that is, the coordination, or bringing into line--of the key bureaucracies of the German state. They did so by installing new leadership, firing some dissident bureaucrats, installing some Nazis in key positions, and intimidating the rest of the holdovers. This is happening, as Osnos shows, at State, Interior, the EPA and elsewhere, and the McCabe matter tells me that there is an attempt to make it happen in Justice, perhaps the most important department of all...." DK
So, assuming DK is right, what might this mean?
Stay tuned.
Postscript: Just a couple of observations:
Hitler did what DK accuses him of under color of German democratic law. That is one huge observation.
Here is another: Hitler turned various erstwhile liberal Weimar bureaucracies to his purposes, just as Trump and his predecessors have done here.
Here is a third: Hitler actually had an elaborate political cultural military and economic program for Germany. Trump, believe me, has none for America, and neither have either his Democratic or Republican predecessors. They have had no program.
Postscript: Just a couple of observations:
Hitler did what DK accuses him of under color of German democratic law. That is one huge observation.
Here is another: Hitler turned various erstwhile liberal Weimar bureaucracies to his purposes, just as Trump and his predecessors have done here.
Here is a third: Hitler actually had an elaborate political cultural military and economic program for Germany. Trump, believe me, has none for America, and neither have either his Democratic or Republican predecessors. They have had no program.
PUTIN UNISEX WASHINGTON BATHROOM DIALOGUE
Putin: Where's the men's' room?
Washington Diplomat: We don't have those anymore.
Putin: I will just go on the ground outside.
Washington Diplomat: I understand. Like Siberia.
Putin: Siberia is better.
Putin: Siberia is better.
NYT BALLS TO THE WALL GLOBALIZATION
Thomas L Friedman, Dr Globalization, going out swinging...
VOTE FOR ANY DEMOCRAT
You won't see him doing a globalization mea culpa, either, baby!
Brooks and Friedman, Globalization Brothers In Arms.
He's going down for the count!
PS: It's not, actually, really, about Trump at all, or domestic politics, even, at all. That is all done, baby.
It's Balls To The Wall Globalization that the pundits cannot hide any longer, regardless who sits in the White House.
VOTE FOR ANY DEMOCRAT
You won't see him doing a globalization mea culpa, either, baby!
Brooks and Friedman, Globalization Brothers In Arms.
He's going down for the count!
PS: It's not, actually, really, about Trump at all, or domestic politics, even, at all. That is all done, baby.
It's Balls To The Wall Globalization that the pundits cannot hide any longer, regardless who sits in the White House.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
WP HEATHER LONG A JOB IS NOT ENOUGH
Remember what I have described as convergence?
That, among other things like wage substitution, is what has been happening to lower income people here.
They can even have a low paying job and still not make it.
That trend will only continue to accelerate.
More and more people will be making less and less in relation to what is required to live, even as what is required to live has tended to fall along with purchasing power.
A large number of people are without jobs, because jobs require a social and economic system promoting employment at a certain wage level, and our system has long ago abandoned that objective even as an ideal.
Terms search: inflation deflation, red herring, convergence, Piketty, Ferguson
That, among other things like wage substitution, is what has been happening to lower income people here.
They can even have a low paying job and still not make it.
That trend will only continue to accelerate.
More and more people will be making less and less in relation to what is required to live, even as what is required to live has tended to fall along with purchasing power.
A large number of people are without jobs, because jobs require a social and economic system promoting employment at a certain wage level, and our system has long ago abandoned that objective even as an ideal.
Terms search: inflation deflation, red herring, convergence, Piketty, Ferguson
MAKING PUTIN MAKING WORLD CUP LGBT FRIENDLY
The West is nothing now but a laughing stock.
I am with the Saudi Prince re women driving.
It was an innocent mistake at the time.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
PUTIN UNISEX BATHROOM DIALOGUE
Russian Home Secretary: Comrade Putin, the intellectuals now want unisex bathrooms.
Putin: I know. Start building unisex bathrooms in some fringe facilities here. Anyone who uses one will then be sent to Siberia! Also designate all bathrooms in Siberia as Unisex.
Russian Home Secretary: Comrade, you may recall that we eliminated bathrooms in Siberia. We said they could use the ground, of which there is plenty.
Russian Home Secretary: Comrade, you may recall that we eliminated bathrooms in Siberia. We said they could use the ground, of which there is plenty.
THE STRANGE FAILURE OF DAVID BROOKS
This Mr Globalization told you we have been a meritocracy at the top now, especially our educated elite, for the past 30 or more years. Remember? No?
Very very few of his readers remember anything about yesterday, much less what Brooks may have said 5 or 10 years ago!
Now this.
Do you believe David Brooks now?
If you can remember that far back, Did you believe him back then? Why?
He is not the kind of guy to do a Michael Pillsbury or a David Leonhardt mea culpa. He knows the score.
He needs someone else to blame, preferably a stable of blame candidates, and, believe me, baby, it's not gonna be him!
Brooks says flaw in boomer leadership...
Professor Kaiser says flaw in the entire boomer generation. Sort of generational original sin, visited differently, on each generation, in cyclical rotation....
Different species of Whig red herrings.
I didn't read the article, reached my monthly free limit...
Doesn't matter.
He says the flaw, singular, otherwise boomer leadership would be perfect, presumably.
He can pick out this one key tragic flaw, rather like D'Attili used to glance at an old violin and divine its maker.
Brooks says flaw in boomer leadership...
Professor Kaiser says flaw in the entire boomer generation. Sort of generational original sin, visited differently, on each generation, in cyclical rotation....
Different species of Whig red herrings.
I didn't read the article, reached my monthly free limit...
Doesn't matter.
He says the flaw, singular, otherwise boomer leadership would be perfect, presumably.
He can pick out this one key tragic flaw, rather like D'Attili used to glance at an old violin and divine its maker.
BANKRUPTCY TRUMP THE FRESH STOP!
It is known, colloquially, as a Fresh Start!
Who deserves one?
Germany didn't get one, after WWI!
It got a Fresh Stop!
Does S&H cyclicality give to all Americans a so called fresh start, every 80 or so years forever?
As President, what does that option now look like?
I will let you all speculate on that.
Who deserves one?
Germany didn't get one, after WWI!
It got a Fresh Stop!
Does S&H cyclicality give to all Americans a so called fresh start, every 80 or so years forever?
As President, what does that option now look like?
I will let you all speculate on that.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
RE WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD
See David Kaiser's latest post.
Were I a betting man, I would think that the Donald had some chance, given his gross media exposure all these years;
but what do I know?
The Donald, a flesh and blood 'Thurston Robert Macaire Howell', now, late in the game,
just wanting to 'give back' to the great system that made it all possible(eye water).....something like that.
SMELL THE COFFEE GAME OVER BABY
HUNTINGTON
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
THE CLASH
P 86, the 200 year blip of Western hegemony almost over.
When you look around for causes, he acts at some points like it was Western decline merely as a dumb, blind, natural result or process of Asian resurgence.
At other points, he equivocates, saying we should still try weakly to limit transfer of technology and know how, but admits that globalization has already made that effort largely passee, back in 1996, or 1993, when the article came out.
People who knew anything knew that this was going on since WWII really, and had started even before that, as his passage at p 86 shows.
NEANDERTHAL TRIALOGUE
(rough translation)
(Neanderthals remain stationary.)
N1: Go.
N2: No.
N3: Come.
N2: No.
N3: Go.
N2: No.
(Neanderthals remain stationary.)
N1: Go.
N2: No.
N3: Come.
N2: No.
N3: Go.
N2: No.
LION TRACTATUS LOGIC PICTURE THEORY TRIALOGUE
(lions remain stationary)
(rough translation)
Lioness A: Not her.
Lion B: Not.
Lioness C: Me.
Lion B: Not.
If a lion could talk we could not understand him.....
Wittgenstein
This differs from Neanderthal trialogue.
(rough translation)
Lioness A: Not her.
Lion B: Not.
Lioness C: Me.
Lion B: Not.
If a lion could talk we could not understand him.....
Wittgenstein
This differs from Neanderthal trialogue.
NYT WILSON WHIG DOSTOYEVSKY JUDICIAL VICTIM
Dostoyevsky himself had been victim to an overzealous judicial system. In 1849, he was sentenced to death for participating in the Petrashevsky Circle, an intellectual society influenced by the French utopian socialists.
Dostoyevski was not a victim of an overzealous judicial system. Nonsense. He was a member of a violent revolutionary group...
Dostoyevski was not a victim of an overzealous judicial system. Nonsense. He was a member of a violent revolutionary group...
Monday, May 28, 2018
NEWTON GRAVITY CAUSATION HERETIC THEOLOGY
Dmitri Levitin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t97cHnKskn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t97cHnKskn4
ALL SOULS OXFORD EXAMINATION FELLOWSHIPS
Past questions:
- "'If a man could say nothing against a character but what he could prove, history could not be written' (Samuel Johnson). Discuss."
- "Should the Orange Prize for Fiction be open to both men and women?"
- "Does the moral character of an orgy change when the participants wear Nazi uniforms?"
The Orange Prize question above is too easy.
Here is one of mine: Should the Orange Prize for Fiction be open to transsexual women?
NYT THE NORTH'S JIM CROW DUMB DUMBER JOURNALISM
Northern whites never ever intended for blacks to be freed to inhabit the North.
That is why the North fought the Civil War.
For no other reason.
Their intentions were thwarted by the false promises and the actions of their own Republican elected officials.
That is why the North fought the Civil War.
For no other reason.
Their intentions were thwarted by the false promises and the actions of their own Republican elected officials.
Friday, November 25, 2011
RE THE PALEO DIET AND THE PALEO MENTALITY
No doubt there are some,
who have made a connection,
between dietary inferences from ostensible genetic nature,
with an archaeological pedigree,
and intellectual inferences along similar lines.
it is not a new thing to do so.
MY OWN VIEW IS THAT THERE MAY WELL BE SOMETHING TO GENETIC PREDISPOSITIONS,
BUT I AM SKEPTICAL NOT ONLY OF PALEO DIET INFERENCES,
BUT ALSO OF PALEO INTELLECTUAL ONES AS WELL.
who have made a connection,
between dietary inferences from ostensible genetic nature,
with an archaeological pedigree,
and intellectual inferences along similar lines.
it is not a new thing to do so.
MY OWN VIEW IS THAT THERE MAY WELL BE SOMETHING TO GENETIC PREDISPOSITIONS,
BUT I AM SKEPTICAL NOT ONLY OF PALEO DIET INFERENCES,
BUT ALSO OF PALEO INTELLECTUAL ONES AS WELL.
THE MENU TRUMP XI GOBI DESERT OUTWARD BOUND DIALOGUE
Xi (Coming out of the desert, finally, on all fours):
Water!
OB Social Psychology Outward Bound Official (Philip Mirvis) : Where is he?
Xi: I ate him.......
... Come, my friends.
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are --
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tennyson
Water!
OB Social Psychology Outward Bound Official (Philip Mirvis) : Where is he?
Xi: I ate him.......
... Come, my friends.
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are --
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tennyson
Sunday, May 27, 2018
OPENID ON BLOGGER UPDATE
- OpenID: Blogger previously allowed users to comment on blogs using an existing third party OpenID identity provider and has also acted as an OpenID identity provider when interacting with other systems on the internet. Due to the low usage of this feature, Blogger will no longer support OpenID as a provider or for making comments, and all comments that previously used OpenID will be anonymized. New comments can be posted either from a Google account or labeled as “Anonymous” on blogs that allow it.
RUSSIA 144 MILLION LESS THAN 1% ARE SO CALLED BLACK
Smart to keep it that way...
What would happen if Moyo got her way?
Perhaps 50 million poor Africans get imported into Russia.
LOL
What would happen if Moyo got her way?
Perhaps 50 million poor Africans get imported into Russia.
LOL
Saturday, May 26, 2018
TIME MOYO MS MORE GLOBALIZATION PLEASE
Same old nonsense, but aggressive re global policy targeting so called optimal, very large scale, migration levels.
She wants a lot of unhindered migration of perhaps billions of poor unemployed people of color into rich countries, regardless of cultural, linguistic, or religious backgrounds.
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