“Personally I am getting tired of this trope of 'discrimination against whites and Asians.' First of all, instead of 'whites' it should explicitly read 'white gentiles' otherwise the phrase is lying by omission and people don’t see what is really going on.”
 

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Much of the German high command were participants in an assassination plot on 20 July 1944. I doubt DJT is hankering after that.
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Trump's background and concerns bear little resemblance to those of the bosses of fascist movements in inter-war Europe. The whole meme is silly.

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I asked you years ago why, if anyone wanted to get rid of JFK, they didn’t expose him with a sex scandal. You never gave a serious answer.

For example, why didn’t the Deep State/Establishment expose the affair with the East German woman which almost came out in 1963 but was covered up? JFK would have been humiliated, discredited and forced to resign as a laughing stock.
 

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I asked you years ago why, if anyone wanted to get rid of JFK, they didn’t expose him with a sex scandal.
 

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Pail Craig Roberts speaks highly of Ron Unz but disagrees that Israel killed JFK. He says, “I noted that Israel had no ability or cause to alter an official autopsy or ability to send Jack Ruby into a Dallas jail to shoot Oswald before he could talk.” Here is PCR’s interview on the assassination with Larry Sparano:
 

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Maybe because I am a horrible old neo-con or Joo or something, I think most of the positions that you ascribe to Steve are actually correct.

For example, now that all the JFK files are out, I STILL see no reason to say that Oswald did not act alone. If there was a conspiracy to kill JFK it was an awfully good one in that 60+ years have passed and no one has uncovered any evidence of it yet.

I highly recommend a visit to Dealey Plaza and the Texas Book Depository. It is all still there looking very much like it did in 1963. The terms used to describe it - the Plaza, the Grassy Knoll, etc. make it seem like Oswald was making impossibly lucky shots at some vast distance over the Texas plains. In fact the whole scene is quite compact. The Plaza is really a small on-ramp that sits at the edge of the downtown street grid, the entire Grassy Knoll would fit in your back yard and what Oswald did was akin to shooting fish in a barrel, especially for someone with Oswald's Marine training.

Please forgive me, but you sound like the prototypical conspiracy nut who believes that every single thing that you have ever been taught is false. You forgot to include the moon landings and the fact that the earth is not flat among the "false" things that Steve allegedly believes.

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"every aspect of culture peaked when you were a teenager"

While the data you provided indicates most people think this, that is not true in my case. I have always thought the peak of American culture was between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Vietnam war.

My teenage years were the seventies, an era of high crime, high inflation and the ending of a misguided war in Vietnam. I liked the glam rock artists I listened to like T Rex, Bowie and Roxy Music but did not think they were as good as the British invasion bands, sixties soul groups, or fifties rockabilly and blues artists.

We temporarily improved the high crime and high inflation situation of the seventies and stayed out of foreign wars for a short period but eventually moved back in that direction. The culture never improved and has continued to decline.

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... and 90% of them have no interest in Power, just Money.
 

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The only two choices available to women are not Madonna or whore as you seem to posit in your black and white view of the world.

Most modern women will not remain virgins until their honeymoon. Nor will they sleep with every man that they meet. The reality is (and TBH always has been - back in the more than a few 1st babies were born "a little early" in relation to the wedding date) somewhere in between. Yes there are women who are whores but not as many as you seem to think (unless we go by your extreme definition of what makes a woman a "whore").

Birth control, among other things, has put women on a more equal footing with men. In the olden days, men could have an encounter and go on their merry way, while women might have to literally live with the consequences for the next 18 years. But not anymore. Aside from pregnancy, modern culture also does not subject women to shame and dishonor if they are known to have had sex any more than men were shamed for doing so in the past (not at all). Naturally (and putting aside religious mumbo-jumbo that most people don't believe in anymore) when you reduce the "price" of some thing, you get more "buyers".

Men were never expected to be virgins on their wedding night. Why should women be held to a different standard of purity? If women are supposed to emulate the Virgin Mary (BTW, I doubt that even she was REALLY a virgin) then why shouldn't men emulate Jesus who (as far as we know) NEVER had sex in his entire life. That way lies human extinction.

You go on and on about women but not a word about men. Doesn't it take two to tango?

America is like the elephant in the story of the blind men and the elephant. Your America, the America of St. Mary's, exists and so does Buzz's America and many other Americas. The tusk that you are feeling is real enough but is not the entire elephant any more than the trunk or the tail. Or as some guy once said, in my father's house there are many mansions. Don't assume that only you know the true path.

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It’s an easier sale. This is not that difficult.
 

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Some conservatives like to point to MLK as though he’d a have been a reasonable voice in 2014 or 2020. The more likely notion is that he would have sailed where the wind took him.
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References to snippets of his 1963 March on Washington speech are common. Trouble is, the only person in King's camarilla who objected to the race-patronage regime which emerged after 1968 was Bayard Rustin. Mr. Rustin landed a job on the research staff of the AFL-CIO in 1964 and disappeared from view a few years thereafter. Oratorical flights are not inter-office memos.

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Yes, it is not even a primitive deep fake. A proto deep fake would be something like the famous photo of Stalin with Yezhov edited out of the picture:

https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2018/04/nikolai-yezhov-pictured-right-of.jpg

But this was not any sort of "deep fake" at all, just a counterfeit use of a logo which is not the same category.

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An “innocent man” is a conclusion.
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Oh, shut up. Prosecutors can be remarkably otiose when it pleases them. (Jordan Neely had been arrested 44 times). A fair-minded prosecutor would not have pursued this case. Ditto Kyle Rittenhouse and George Zimmerman. We know what's going on here even if you pretend you do not.

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Time Wise is a professional Critical Race Theorist. Some people sell hot dogs or souvlaki. He makes his living by being a race agitator. Hey- it's a living.

Yoran does not make her living by being a race agitator. Her job is to present a case to a jury against an indicted alleged criminal in accordance with the laws of the State of New York and then the jury decides on guilt or innocence.

If you just see Jew or dyke or Democrat then you are missing a lot of nuance.

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It’s remarkable how few Americans even know about the USS Liberty
 

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Mr. Presley and his family were fairly ordinary people from West Tennessee who relied on others to be their guide in a world they neither knew nor understood. The others were Tom Parker and George Nichopolous, neither of whom were well-intentioned or capable. EP was a decent man, and to an astonishing degree given his line of work.

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“[Buchanan] simply does not possess a serious racial world-view, due to the fact he is not a serious thinker; not an analytic-synthetic mind & a man who had devoured too much material he just cannot digest.”

The one time we met, circa 2008, was at an event put on in DC by a young friend of Pat’s, who was a friendly acquaintance of mine. (It was during what was called, in certain circles, by immigration reformers “Immigration Weekend,” in which two major reform groups put on conferences, and took place every year in late September or early October. One of the groups was destroyed after the 2019 conference by internecine warfare. The other group still exists.)

I was sharing a small table with a big, friendly, middle-aged financial guy I’d never met before (or since). I mentioned, in a whisper to my neighbor, “They’re serving cheeseburgers!”

(“Cheeseburgers” could have served as a password among Buchanan’s friends and allies, so much did he love that particular dish.)

He discreetly pointed, such that no one else could see his finger, toward a table on the other side.
And there, he was, with his lovely bride.

I walked over, and stood and waited, until he saw from my name tag who I was.

“Nicholas Stix; I read your work.”

He bade me take a seat, and introduced me to his wife of over 40 years (though she looked much younger than him).

Amazingly, Pat Buchanan earned his keep for 60 years in the mainstream media. It had to become second nature for him to suppress most of his political instincts in his writing. Thus, what may seem like shallowness of principle was just political survival.

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I didn't know Steve was from Brooklyn.

Brooklynite and New York writer Pete Hamill (1935-2020) said his father used to say that the three most evil men of the 20th century were:

Hitler
Stalin, and
Walter O'Malley, who took the team out West when he failed to extort a new stadium out of the city of New York

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that my urban progressive Jewish neighbors drink their own Kool-Aid (adopt, marry Blacks
 

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National Review's decline can be attributed to a number of factors. One was that publication revenue streams began to implode and the recruitment pool with it. Another appears to have been cultural shifts among the young adult population. After 1999, there were, ceteris paribus, fewer people taking an interest in starboard opinion journalism as a career. A third appears to have been that Buckley bequeathed his publication to Richard Lowry. By all appearances, Lowry is a multi-directional placator with a limited if not nonexistent capacity to recruit people. The staff editors hired during the Lowry years were all duds with the exception of Charles C.W. Cooke. (Kevin Williamson is an occasionally interesting jack-wagon). Some engaging occasional contributors were recruited during the Lowry years, but not a one after about 2003. He also had a tendency to hire people who were divorced from ordinary life in some way or manifestly peculiar. The current publisher is Garrett Bewkes IV, a homosexual in a pseudogamous association. Jason Lee Steorts, who has been the managing editor for 20 years, is a homosexual or someone who wishes to be mistaken for one. Jay Nordlinger is a 60 year old bachelor into theatre. Their book review editor for years was Michael Potemra, who died unmarried and childless at the age of 53. The online edition was once edited by Kathryn Jean Lopez, a spinster blob now pushing 50. Kevin Williamson at age 52 remains childless (and looks like Anton LeVey). Rod Dreher has long seemed like someone held together with psychotropics; David French's career has been so peculiar you wonder if he was some sort of sleeper agent.
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If you look at the IRS 990 forms, you see several people (Lowry, Williamson, David French) were paid absurd salaries. The looting permitted by the board is not as obscene as that permitted by Commentary's board, but it's embarrassing nevertheless.

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Union Square has recently fallen on my priority list of must-see places to visit in the Bay Area.
 

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Jack, I have to say I’m shocked by your comment. It’s way below your usual standards.

“It was really not worth risking his life for an overpriced, easily replaced trinket.”
 

“At the very least he need [sic] more training in how to disarm someone.”
 

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After his son’s murder, he resigned his position and took a position as staff director for a lobby...
 

Odd, if not fun, fact: Nelson IV died with a lacrosse stick in his hands. Didn't help. He needed a Shield.

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I notice the Knoxville Horror didn’t make their lynching list... brutally raping, torturing and murdering a young white couple for no reason other than racial jealous and hatred.
 

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Or in other words, he is a vain, shallow blowhard. And a moron. And he will end up believing whatever was told to him by the last sycophantic advisor he talked to.

Careful, the MAGA cult here will take that as an endorsement of Harris. They can't conceive of independents not being happy with the final candidates being a NYC real estate con artist and an Affirmative Action dingbat.

They won't deny that Trump was a Democrat for most of his life and even campaigned for Hillary.

Of course that is never mentioned on Fox where they treat him as a conservative savior and Harris as a crafty Socialist even though she is rich and hangs out with millionaires.

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Every couple of years someone comes up with a new Emmitt Till Hoax.

Back in 2017, fake historian Timothy Tyson’s book, The Blood of Emmitt Till, was published. Its hoax was Tyson’s assertion that Carolyn Bryant (Donham), from whom Till had demanded sex and put his hands on, had recanted her courtroom testimony to Tyson in an interview. (Mrs. Donham’s family denied she’d ever recanted her trial testimony.)

Although Tyson is a Duke professor, he deposited the tape-recording of his interview with Mrs. Donham in the UNC Archives.

However, UNC made an official statement, declaring there was no recantation on the tape.

Tyson had already gotten the book deal, which was one of the reasons why he’d lied. He had two purposes in foisting his hoax on the world:

1. Defraud a publishing house out of hundreds of thousands of dollars; and
2. Get Mrs. Donham lynched.

Tyson had priors. Back in 2006, he was a member of the Gang of 88, Duke professors who supported the Duke Rape Hoax. Back then, Tyson and the other 87 sought to railroad three innocent young White men into prison, where racist black thugs would gang-rape and murder them, for a crime that had never been committed.

Three years ago, a black supremacist “civil rights lawyer,” Jill Collen Jefferson, promoted a version of the Till Hoax, also in order to get Mrs. Donham lynched.

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/journalist-william-huie-concealed-lynchers-in-emmett-till-case-and-got-away-with-it/

Since then, Mrs. Donham has died of natural causes at 88 (April 25, 2023).

Someone on this thread suggested that the current motivation is because it’s an election year.

The black supremacist Mississippi Free Press has published at least two Emmitt Till Hoaxes, and likely numerous more.

(Actually, there have been tens of thousands of lynchings since 1964, but they were almost all black-on-White.)

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How could the same kind of bullet completely blow someone’s head off and just make a tiny minuscule nick on someone else?!
...
Where Did the bullet go by the way? Where is the bullet with Trump’s blood?
 

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Don’t believe me, then prove me wrong, show me just a single example where the presidential winner has ever been a problem for them in the last hundred years.
 

Unfortunately for them, this assassin missed.

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laying bare their unrepentant sexism and rampant depravity while also restoring these women and girls to their rightful place at the center of the dynasty’s story: from Jacqueline Onassis and Marilyn Monroe to Carolyn Bessette, Martha Moxley, Mary Jo Kopechne, Rosemary Kennedy, and many others whose names aren’t nearly as well known but should be.
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This publisher's blurb includes this strange list. Jacqueline Onassis was never destroyed; Marilyn Monroe only met John and Robert Kennedy a couple of times near the end of her life of distress; Martha Moxley was killed by Michael Skakel or perhaps his brother Thomas, who are collateral relatives of Robert Kennedy's children but not connected to the rest of the Kennedy family. Carolyn Bessette fell victim to her husband's overestimate of his skills as a pilot, not any pattern of gross or vicious behavior on his part. Rosemary Kennedy was her father's victim, but just as much the victim of the purveyors of psychosurgery, Walter Freeman foremost among them. Mary Jo Kopechne does fill the bill, to be sure, but given this list you have to figure the thesis is somewhat padded.

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The left has plenty of crazies too.

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Oswald had more time than was thought to fire and missed more too. He was extremely familiar with his weapon from hunting, range firing and working the action while sitting about. It wasn't his marksmanship that Audie Murphy (who bears some similarities with Oswald such as being a bantam sized Texan from a broken home who spent time in an orphanage and shooting things for the pot), got medals for. Oswald did not have to climb up onto and across across a sloping roof. Oswald was completely protected by the angle and being out of the line of sight of the scores of bodyguard', it also meant he could brace his rifle against the window surround. There were misses and likely a deflection off a lightpost projection The shot that killed Kennedy was not on a moving target from Oswalds view because JFK's driver had virtually stopped, Jackie was scathing about the driver, who JFK had intervened to keep on although he was elderly for such a position. The Kennedy brothers (including the one killed in the war after volunteering for a hairbrained operation) were all extremely reckless, and so were their male children. RFK jr got a worm in his brain from eating raw pork.

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Oswald had an extensively weird, politically perilous, and well-traveled life before he shot JFK. The dude literally defected to the USSR, and then got to come back with his new Russian wife in tow. This was in the 1950s, when only the wealthy or business folks traveled that far. And he defected to the #1 enemy of the U.S. And then got to come back!

Then he comes back and tries to defect to Cuba, America's #2 enemy at the time. Again, normal poor and middle class people weren't just casually going to these places on vacation.

And then in Dallas he has this weird hobnobbing with Russian expatriates, anti-communists, and CIA contacts.

Quite frankly, the idea of Oswald being CIA, KGB, or a double agent is eminently plausible given his backstory. But it could also be he was just a true-believer in communism who wanted to make a big mark on history but was too socially awkward to get things going politically.

In any event, Oswald shot JFK.

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Camille Paglia said "As a superstitious Italian, I think the curse was on Ethel, whose daughter's wedding was horribly blighted by her cousin being killed en route". Ethel's family does seem a disaster magnet in a way the other families are not. The trouble is, before Ethel ever met his son, Joseph Kennedy had lost one of his children in a hyper-risky air mission and one of his children in a plane crash. Another had been left in utterly ruined condition by a botched lobotomy.
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You do see a pattern of gratuitous risk-taking. Joseph Jr. volunteering for an experimental air mission, JFK riding through Dallas in a convertible with the top down, Ethel's son bombing around in an ATV and putting his brother's gf in wheel-chair; JFK Jr flying a light plane on a hazy night even though he's not instrument rated; Ethel's kids being sufficiently reckless on ski slopes that the resort manager has a word with her about it, the day before her son gets himself killed smashing into a tree; Ethel's granddaughter and great-grandson ending up drowning when their canoe capsizes while they're chasing after a beach ball; Ethel losing a son and a grand-daughter to drug use;

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If you haven’t seen it, the 70s film Executive Action is worth watching. It is less of a serious attempt than Stone’s (itself having many shortcomings from things I’ve read, but still a good film), but it does lean in the direction of a Johnson involvement. It is only implied, not directly stated.
 

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Both US and China took an ideological reverse turn-- Nixon was the avowed anti-communist right-wing Republican, whose legacy became establishing rapproachment with Communist China. Hence the expression:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Nixon_could_go_to_China

After Khrushchev shifted towards deescalation with the West

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_coexistence

Mao began to accuse him of "rightist revisionism", with PRC holding of bulwark of Marxist orthodoxy. Only to himself make an aboutface and ally with the Capitalist bloc.

This was a meeting in Beijing in 1959 between Russians and Chinese

Chen Yi: Speaking of the effectiveness of efforts to pull Nehru to our side, our method will be more efficient, and yours is time-serving [opportunism- prisposoblenchestvo].

N.S. Khrushchev: Chen Yi is Minister of Foreign Affairs and he can weigh his words. He did not say it at random. We have existed for 42 years, and for 30 years we existed alone [as a socialist country] and adjusted to nothing, but carried out our principled communist policy.

Chen Yi (in great agitation and hastily): The Chinese people evoked pity for a long time and during many decades lived under oppression of British, American, French and other imperialists. The Soviet comrades should understand this. We are now undertaking certain measures to resolve the conflict with India peacefully, and just one fact testifies to this, that perhaps Vice President of India Radhakrishnan will come to us in mid-October. We also have a certain element of time-serving. You should understand our policy correctly. Our line is firmer and more correct.

N.S. Khrushchev: Look at this lefty. Watch it, comrade Chen Yi, if you turn left, you may end up going to the right. The oak is also firm, but it breaks. I believe that we should leave this issue aside, for we have a different understanding of it.

 

Chen Yi: But you also lay two political accusations at our door, by saying that both the aggravations of relations with India and the escape of Dalai Lama were our fault. I believe that you are still acting as time-servers.

N.S. Khrushchev: These are completely different matters. I drew your attention only to specific oversights and never hurled at you principled political accusations, and you put forth precisely a political accusation. If you consider us time-servers, comrade Chen Yi, then do not offer me your hand. I will not accept it.

Chen Yi: Neither will I. I must tell you I am not afraid of your fury.

N.S. Khrushchev: You should not spit from the height of your Marshal title. You do not have enough spit. We cannot be intimidated.
 

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Williams lost five prime years to war, but nobody flew jets in WW11 except a dozen German pilots, and Williams was a pilot trainer in WW11 and never left the states.

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I could respond to that but I do not have time to engage in conversations with multiple Catholic religious fanatics here. Just Twinkie is more than enough.
 

Vivek Ramaswamy has said we should end further military assistance to the Ukraine and redirect the money saved to strengthen border control on our southern border. I think that is a great idea. I know, though, you and Twinkie support sending more money to the corrupt dictator Zelensky so that would not be appealing to you two.
 

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Right. Introduce the designated hitter in 1969 and Mantle was good for 2 to 4 more productive seasons.

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"Jerry West has gone to his reward."

West was one of the opponents of the Vietnam war in the sixties. Helping to turn him into someone who opposed us becoming involved in such foreign wars was the loss of his brother in the Korean war.

He had a frustrating career, being unfortunate to play in the same era as the dominating Bill Russell led Boston Celtics. His team continually lost to them but he did manage to win a championship before retiring. If they had the three point shot back then, he might have won more than one.

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https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/jerry-west-university-west-virginia-39073925.jpg?w=768

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Of course, referring to whether "The Holocaust" happened is ambiguous. Does "it" mean "Jews were put in camps and many died" or that "Hitler ordered extermination of the Jews so they were sent to extermination camps where exactly 6 million were gassed in fake showers."

I assume Steve is using the first definition when he repeats the stock talking point that "The Holocaust is the most well documented event in human history."

Regardless, it doesn't take genius to figure out why he doesn't want to be known as a "Holocaust denier."

Steve will often be intellectually dishonest and incurious when it comes to politically inconvenient issues. I've seen it many times. That's just the way of the world when you have to say things in public using your real name. I guess I can't blame him.

At least the excuse of "I'm an old man set in my ways" doesn't imply that he actually knows anything -- only that "this is my position and I'm sticking to it." Calling revisionists "morons" will score points with all the right people.

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"It is hard to imagine a superstar basketball player calling for resistance to the US government during a press conference. But that is what Walton did in the spring of 1975, when he appeared with his friends Jack and Micki Scott at San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church, the congregation pastored by the radical Black minister Cecil Williams. The Scotts had just resurfaced after going underground to avoid harassment from the FBI for harboring members of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), including Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. After Walton apologized to the Scotts for agreeing to be interviewed by the FBI, he called upon Americans to undertake “the practice of noncooperation with the existing government because of the inherent evil of that government.” When Walton appeared with the Scotts at Glide Memorial, the Patty Hearst/SLA story was obscuring his own work as an activist himself. The press depicted Walton as a dupe of the Scotts. "

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-walton-activism/

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The above is the drivel you could expect from Nation magazine.
[...]
About this time, in a Sport magazine article, Walton was quoted as saying something like, “A black guy would be entitled to walk up behind me and shoot me or any white person dead.”
 

Bill Walton Was Once a Trailblazing Radical
The basketball great is now better known for his tie-dyed shirts and enthusiastic sports commentary, but in the 1970s, he was a polarizing anti-government activist.
DAVE ZIRIN and FRANK GURIDY
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
[...]
After his arrest at UCLA, he told sportswriter Billy Libby, “The Blacks have gotten a raw deal for a long time. A lot of my teammates are Black, and I really admire the way they’ve risen above their raw deal. They’re my friends and I feel for them. I know I’ve gotten twice as much as I deserve because I’m white.” He also told the startled sportswriter: “If a Black man gunned me down right now, I’d figure it was all right because of what whites have done to Blacks.”
 

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"It is hard to imagine a superstar basketball player calling for resistance to the US government during a press conference. But that is what Walton did in the spring of 1975, when he appeared with his friends Jack and Micki Scott at San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church, the congregation pastored by the radical Black minister Cecil Williams. The Scotts had just resurfaced after going underground to avoid harassment from the FBI for harboring members of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), including Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. After Walton apologized to the Scotts for agreeing to be interviewed by the FBI, he called upon Americans to undertake “the practice of noncooperation with the existing government because of the inherent evil of that government.” When Walton appeared with the Scotts at Glide Memorial, the Patty Hearst/SLA story was obscuring his own work as an activist himself. The press depicted Walton as a dupe of the Scotts. "

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-walton-activism/

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On other RIP notes...

May 22, child actor Darryl Hickman, who appeared in John Ford's the Grapes of Wrath, and the Men of Boys Town, among other films, passed at the age of 93.

And documentarian Morgan Spurlock a few days ago. Suppose the memo there is: remember to avoid McDonald's whenever possible.

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I disagree. It’s not that it’s the women’s fault or the men’s fault, but that the blame is to be shared. While I agree that the society’s male-female relationships have been subject to enormous distorting effects from the larger culture, that does not remove the individual agency. We are not animals. We have the power to reason, to endure, to anticipate future consequences of our present actions, and to overcome our animal instinct.
 

I always find it both amusing and distressing that many young men today bemoan their female peers as “whores” and “sluts” all the while they themselves seek easy sexual gratification. There are still women who are virtuous and loyal. But such women have to be earned by likewise virtue and sacrifice from the men.
 

The problem with today’s (young) male-female relationship is that it’s always “You sacrifice first.”
 

In more prosaic terms, it means men should seek women who are chaste and honorably court them over time and ascertain their goodness, instead of seeking the fastest way to sex.
 

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People choose to be Zionists;
 

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Illegal immigration always becomes an issue during the end of boom times because the boom times create a market for the low paid labor of immigrants (legal and illegal) and when the recession begins, those immigrants generally do not go home.

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They liked it just fine when we were sending them equipment during WWII. They yap on and on endlessly about how they won the Great Patriotic War but they never mention that they couldn't have done it without American aid.

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That's really bad. Under total politicization, with rogue judges like Cheri Pham running amok, we could in short order be a vast country without a single honest judge.

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There were lots of deficiencies in the Southern way of life.
 

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Jan Stephenson ?

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"...But only the late 49ers quarterback John Brodie ever won a senior tour event...."

"Late"? Long John is still with us at 88 years of ago. Steve, perhaps a better phrase might be "former 49ers quarterback".

You scared me.

My heroes are dropping like flies, Let's not accelerate the process.

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There have been documentaries about that theory. They might have done it together. But it seems very clear from the evidence and OJ's behavior that he was at least one of the killers.

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To sum up Dear's thesis: The jury acquitted OJ because he had an airtight alibi that put him at the pad in Brentwood for only a few minutes, not nearly long enough to carry out the grisly acts, especially the drawn out death-battle with Ron Goldman.

To the average observer, the fact that he was there means he did it. Why would he stop by for a few minutes and not tell anyone what he saw? But as is often the case, when one hears a logical theory, the facts fall into place.

What if the real killer was someone close to OJ? What if that person confided the crime to OJ, who then decided to check it out for himself? Then it would be logical for OJ to allow himself to be prosecuted, knowing he would be acquitted, and thus "take the fall" for someone he loves.

Dear presents evidence that OJ's son Jason-- then 24 years old-- who was close to Nicole and the family, had a history of violence against women, including once cutting off a girlfriend's hair with a knife. Dear also claims he was bipolar but was off his medication at the time of the murders.

I'd like to see Ron's take on this. I think it would rank right up there with Duesberg's book on AIDS, or the polio/DDT theory, and even 9/11, as phenomenal hoaxes that had us all fooled for a long time.

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I think the Trayvon Martin case was more of a bellwether than the OJ case. The reason is that in the OJ trial the news media seemed to be neutral, while in the Trayvon Martin case they were attempting to manipulate what the public saw to form public opinion against Zimmerman.

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