Saturday, April 27, 2013
Paleo Picnic
Yesterday at Kirby Cove with B. You cross the bridge, hang a left and hike down a steep mile and there you are, isolated and protected forest and beach, maybe a dozen other people, but with a front row view to this beautiful city. Chicken, avocado and cashews, fruit salad. And good company.
Since they're all White
none of this can be "raciss."
The Official European Joke | ploum.net:
This is one version of an old joke, but the point is the same in all of them. Different peoples have different gifts, and corresponding deficits. This is as obvious as sunrise in the morning.
But if you mixed this joke up and made it global, so that there'd be a recognition of deficits of People of Color, it would go from being amusingly true to being unpardonably criminal.
Which, of course, makes perfect sense, no? After all, as the Canuckistan Supreme Court, our highly evolved neighbors to the North, have recently informed us, just because a statement is true does not exempt it from being forbidden hate speech...
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The Official European Joke | ploum.net:
European paradise:
You are invited to an official lunch. You are welcomed by an Englishman. Food is prepared by a Frenchman and an Italian puts you in the mood and everything is organised by a German.
European hell:
You are invited to an official lunch. You are welcomed by a Frenchman. Food is prepared by an Englishman, German puts you in the mood but, don’t worry, everything is organised by an Italian.
This is one version of an old joke, but the point is the same in all of them. Different peoples have different gifts, and corresponding deficits. This is as obvious as sunrise in the morning.
[Reminds me of taking the train in 1975 from Italy to Germany. The Italian ride was full of families, food eaten in public, a less than sterling attitude toward litter, semi-interested staff, lots of noise. At the Swiss border, a change of crew and passengers, and a total change of attitude and environment. All cleaned up, everyone had to have their papers, fewer families, sit up straight with no feet on the seats, very quiet, etc. Cultural difference completely obvious.
It continues to astonish me how much "multiculturalists" deny the existence of culture when it threatens their egalitarian (anti-White) agenda. ]
But if you mixed this joke up and made it global, so that there'd be a recognition of deficits of People of Color, it would go from being amusingly true to being unpardonably criminal.
Which, of course, makes perfect sense, no? After all, as the Canuckistan Supreme Court, our highly evolved neighbors to the North, have recently informed us, just because a statement is true does not exempt it from being forbidden hate speech...
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Interesting idea
Part of the unusual constitution of the fantasied (1) post-American Northwest Republic forbids --constitutionally, mind you-- two kinds of professions which have "wreaked havoc on society": lawyers and clergymen.
Prohibiting lawyers seems only common sense :). The NW forbids anyone from receiving any kind of payment, in coin or in kind, for being an advocate for someone else in a legal matter. You can be an advocate --which is the word for lawyer in the Romance tongues-- but it has to be totally volunteer. The NW legal code is contained in a single book of about 200 pages, so such people would be possible. The NW constitution re-establishes the institution of the duel as an alternative to suing. One of the incidents which sets a legal duel in motion is the lethal insult of calling someone a "lawyer."
Same with clergymen. Being a priest or a minister is not forbidden, since freedom of religion is constitutionally guaranteed. You just can't make your living at it. No kind of payment or support for this service is allowed. (Mormon bishops already do this.) I guess the idea is to prevent the princely carryings-on of prelates and TV evangelists: if you have to earn your living otherwise, it cuts back on your time for empire building.
One of the assumptions in the NW novels is that the primary threat to the stability of the new order is religious dissension: differing kinds of Christians, and Nordic neo-pagans, fighting against one another in the National Assembly for power to make their faith the de facto State religion. The prohibition of priestcraft appears to be designed to reduce these energies so that they do not compete with or destabilize the State. This is the ironic situation in which the National Socialists act as the moderating influence in society!
The NW version of Nazism is not a copy of the German one. Whiteness, not German-ness, is the basis, so Ukrainians and Poles are as welcome as Italians, Norwegians or Irishmen. The idea of a fuhrer is discarded in favor of a one-term-only State President, elected every six years by the citizenry. But since the population of the NW, after initial ethnic cleansing, is entirely White and chooses to remain there, a lot of the nastier tactics of the 1930's and of the war for independence are no longer needed. For example, its version of the 2nd amendment is radical, forbidding any restriction on firearms and actually encouraging all its citizens and residents to be weaponized.
No lawyers. No televangelists. And a populace armed like cowboys. You gotta give 'em credit for imagination.
(1) Not Ex Cathedra's fantasy; he would be barred from entry to the NW one.
Prohibiting lawyers seems only common sense :). The NW forbids anyone from receiving any kind of payment, in coin or in kind, for being an advocate for someone else in a legal matter. You can be an advocate --which is the word for lawyer in the Romance tongues-- but it has to be totally volunteer. The NW legal code is contained in a single book of about 200 pages, so such people would be possible. The NW constitution re-establishes the institution of the duel as an alternative to suing. One of the incidents which sets a legal duel in motion is the lethal insult of calling someone a "lawyer."
Same with clergymen. Being a priest or a minister is not forbidden, since freedom of religion is constitutionally guaranteed. You just can't make your living at it. No kind of payment or support for this service is allowed. (Mormon bishops already do this.) I guess the idea is to prevent the princely carryings-on of prelates and TV evangelists: if you have to earn your living otherwise, it cuts back on your time for empire building.
One of the assumptions in the NW novels is that the primary threat to the stability of the new order is religious dissension: differing kinds of Christians, and Nordic neo-pagans, fighting against one another in the National Assembly for power to make their faith the de facto State religion. The prohibition of priestcraft appears to be designed to reduce these energies so that they do not compete with or destabilize the State. This is the ironic situation in which the National Socialists act as the moderating influence in society!
The NW version of Nazism is not a copy of the German one. Whiteness, not German-ness, is the basis, so Ukrainians and Poles are as welcome as Italians, Norwegians or Irishmen. The idea of a fuhrer is discarded in favor of a one-term-only State President, elected every six years by the citizenry. But since the population of the NW, after initial ethnic cleansing, is entirely White and chooses to remain there, a lot of the nastier tactics of the 1930's and of the war for independence are no longer needed. For example, its version of the 2nd amendment is radical, forbidding any restriction on firearms and actually encouraging all its citizens and residents to be weaponized.
No lawyers. No televangelists. And a populace armed like cowboys. You gotta give 'em credit for imagination.
(1) Not Ex Cathedra's fantasy; he would be barred from entry to the NW one.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Another phrase
I am starting to wish I never hear again.
Holder Calls Amnesty a 'Civil Right' | Amnesty | Fox Nation:
Civil Right = What I Want
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Holder Calls Amnesty a 'Civil Right' | Amnesty | Fox Nation:
Civil Right = What I Want
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Beware
Once you start looking at different groups' typical aggregate impact on society, it's hard to be PC.
To use a typically biased and low-brow Ex Cathedra example, suppose there had been no Muslim emigration to America over the last 40 years.
How would our history and our present have been different?
And even more scarily: does their presence here, given their typical aggregate impact on society, outweigh in benefits what it has cost us?
What if our immigration policy had been conscious based on the self-interested question: What do these people (both individually and especially as groups) bring to our country that's likely to benefit us, both in this generation and in following generations? What problems are they likely to cause us?
Pardon me if it seems to me that our actual policy --where we even care to enforce it-- has been, What right do we have to keep you out?
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To use a typically biased and low-brow Ex Cathedra example, suppose there had been no Muslim emigration to America over the last 40 years.
How would our history and our present have been different?
And even more scarily: does their presence here, given their typical aggregate impact on society, outweigh in benefits what it has cost us?
What if our immigration policy had been conscious based on the self-interested question: What do these people (both individually and especially as groups) bring to our country that's likely to benefit us, both in this generation and in following generations? What problems are they likely to cause us?
Pardon me if it seems to me that our actual policy --where we even care to enforce it-- has been, What right do we have to keep you out?
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Just in case you were wondering
You ordain women in the Christian churches and this is what you will get. On a good day.
Katharine Jefferts Schori’s Cosmic Earth Day
The picture says much. What was Bergoglio's line? Feminism is machismo in skirts? Or in a Roman collar?
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Katharine Jefferts Schori’s Cosmic Earth Day
The picture says much. What was Bergoglio's line? Feminism is machismo in skirts? Or in a Roman collar?
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Proof that Republicans R not Raciss
but can be utter and complete morons.
Look at the dope-smoking Rasta whom John Boehner's daughter is marrying...
Even at age 35, this girl clearly has Daddy issues. Talk about marrying down so you can enrage your parents. (And she doesn't even have the evobio excuse that he's hot or rich.)
And we are unfortunately now so civilized that Dad can't run him off with a rifle and a horsewhip.
Dominic Lakhan: The Jamaican-born fiancé of John Boehner's daughter - who has been arrested for possessing marijuana | Mail Online:
If the Speaker ever wanted to cry, now would be a good time.
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Look at the dope-smoking Rasta whom John Boehner's daughter is marrying...
Even at age 35, this girl clearly has Daddy issues. Talk about marrying down so you can enrage your parents. (And she doesn't even have the evobio excuse that he's hot or rich.)
And we are unfortunately now so civilized that Dad can't run him off with a rifle and a horsewhip.
Dominic Lakhan: The Jamaican-born fiancé of John Boehner's daughter - who has been arrested for possessing marijuana | Mail Online:
If the Speaker ever wanted to cry, now would be a good time.
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Combox mobocracy
I was tempted, and I fell. Mea culpa
I commented on a story in a liberal Catholic paper. The National Catholic Reporter. Where it's still 1968.
A gay man who got civilly married was removed from his volunteer ministries at his parish. Not forbidden communion or excommunicated, just told he can't have a public role there anymore. The local bishop is now Simon Legree.
I pointed out in my comment out that Roman Catholicism is not whatever you want it to be, but has a clear and public shape. Too many lefty Catholics live in the the Church of Wishful Thinking and then whine when The Real Church appears in view.
Well. I was treated to a lesson in Jim Crow and slavery. Yes, Jim Crow and slavery and other "White Southern" crimes that Jesus didn't like. Etc. A little gang of liberal Catholics treated me, well, worse than the bishop they were so angry at for his incivility.
There's a conservative rhetorical form called Godwin's Law, that as an online argument grows longer and more heated, the likelihood of the conservative opponent being compared to Hitler grows exponentially. The reductio ad Hitlerum. I'd suggest a corollary about Confederate Slavery and Jim Crow.
As for the scores of other comments on the story, well, kinda like a madhouse. Not so different from comboxes everywhere. And especially at that paper.
Someday, when sanity is restored and universal suffrage is an antique idea that we shake our heads over --Can you believe they used to let every moron over 18 actually vote?!-- the recent institution of the online comment can serve as an easy Exhibit A on why.
I commented on a story in a liberal Catholic paper. The National Catholic Reporter. Where it's still 1968.
A gay man who got civilly married was removed from his volunteer ministries at his parish. Not forbidden communion or excommunicated, just told he can't have a public role there anymore. The local bishop is now Simon Legree.
I pointed out in my comment out that Roman Catholicism is not whatever you want it to be, but has a clear and public shape. Too many lefty Catholics live in the the Church of Wishful Thinking and then whine when The Real Church appears in view.
Well. I was treated to a lesson in Jim Crow and slavery. Yes, Jim Crow and slavery and other "White Southern" crimes that Jesus didn't like. Etc. A little gang of liberal Catholics treated me, well, worse than the bishop they were so angry at for his incivility.
There's a conservative rhetorical form called Godwin's Law, that as an online argument grows longer and more heated, the likelihood of the conservative opponent being compared to Hitler grows exponentially. The reductio ad Hitlerum. I'd suggest a corollary about Confederate Slavery and Jim Crow.
As for the scores of other comments on the story, well, kinda like a madhouse. Not so different from comboxes everywhere. And especially at that paper.
Someday, when sanity is restored and universal suffrage is an antique idea that we shake our heads over --Can you believe they used to let every moron over 18 actually vote?!-- the recent institution of the online comment can serve as an easy Exhibit A on why.
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