New York City has draconian fire codes that are enforced. It also has what is probably the best fire department in the world.

In the past dozen or so years the International Baccalaureate (IB) program as been selling itself to urban schools. The sales pitches usually show films and offer readings describing to best IB schools in Asia and Europe. Urban school boards and administrators eat it up, the don’t quite understand what IB is or what it’s teaching, they just know it’s good and will make their district look better. The schools will send their teachers to IB training and filter out the best students and then try to implement the IB program. After a few years the schools discover that very few students can pass the extensive IB exams and even fewer can graduate with an IB diploma. But the real success that comes from creating urban IB high schools is that even the pretense of academic excellence permits these schools to segregate the best behaved and earnest students from the violent teenage thugs that make many urban schools hell.

Over time the spread of these lesser IB schools will cheapen the brand and eventually the IB label will be meaningless but until the they may offer a refuge for some decent kids.

New York’s WNYC also had New York and Company with host Leonard Lopait which was a serious show about culture but most especially books. Lopait got metooed and the noon time time slot got replaced with some unbearable raspy voiced wokester of color.

Neighboring New Jersey just eliminated the Praxis test (the reiteration of the NTE test) for new teachers. The Praxis is a test for content knowledge in the specific area where a teacher would be certified, and is seen by the state’s Democrats as a considerable factor in the shortage of teachers in the state. So now there will be one less obstacle for semi-literate blacks and browns to become teachers.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2023/11/28/nj-teacher-shortage-certification-skills-exam-ends-bill/71732949007/

Urban public education is a jobs program for blacks and other minorities who could never get a job elsewhere. When New York State created a test to insure that unqualified teachers could not be hired but was attacked and overturned by the courts as discriminatory toward blacks and Hispanics. New Jersey’s governor Phil Murphy is trying to throw out the PRAXIS exam for teachers and why, because blacks and Hispanics can’t get a passing score. School boards in places like Newark an Paterson in New Jersey are made up of local black and Hispanic politicos whose primary function is to create jobs and keep the money flowing to their friends. Providing an education to the children in these places is their lowest priority.

How did they not name the school after George Floyd? It’s almost as if they murdered him again.

Iran will reveal its new nuclear arsenal that Iranian engineers developed with assistance from the Islamic Republic ‘s new ally Russia.

When Robert Moses was building his parkways New York City had only a small number of brown people. The people Moses was hoping to keep away were NYC’s working class Irish, Italians and Jews.
Likewise the Cross Bronx expressway was rammed through a neighborhood of White ethnics. Blacks and Puerto Rican’s moved in after the neighborhood was destroyed and housing prices declined. The subsequent violence brought about by the newer more diverse residents caused the remaining Whites to flee.

Will land acknowledgements ever spread to Tel Aviv University?

Wood chippers today have a lot of safety features to make them less dangerous to the user. For example there is a separate set of teeth moving much slower where branches are fed in. These slower moving teeth prevent arms and hands from being sucked in by the faster moving, and way more dangerous teeth inside. Back in the 1980s when I worked in landscaping the older wood chippers we used had no safety features and were terrifying. We threw branches in making sure that they were free of our hands before the whirring teeth sucked them in. Had one of those earlier chippers been used in Fargo, Frances McDormand would have shown up too late.

For what it’s worth regarding the connection between testosterone levels and the pitch of a man’s voice, Theodore Roosevelt had a fairly high pitch voice. Listen to some of the few sound recordings of TR you will be surprised.

Kamala Harris doesn’t need to stage a palace coup. All she needs to do is to wait.

Prior to the 1980s the words clip and magazine were interchangeable terms for the boxy device that feeds cartridges into a gun even among experts and many gun writers. It’s only since the politicization of guns in the past forty years that language tyrants on the right will denounce any poor soul who says clip to describe a magazine.

Good point. In most cases what is referred to as an illegal gun is only illegal because it was possessed by a prohibited person. To anyone else that gun is legal. The street thug with fifty arrests and three felony convictions is a prohibited person who is violating the law by even handling any gun under any circumstances.

Do they steal less if you call them Roma instead of Gypsies?

How many of those neighborhoods were Black neighborhoods when they were “devasted” by highway projects back during the Johnson administration?

As Barbie said, “math is hard”.

Don’t Hispanics also have a relatively low suicide rate which could add a few years to life expectancy?

I see pulling out of Afghanistan as a win win situation. First no more Americans need die defending what my nephew who served there described as a shithole. Second the loss will be on Biden’s watch and those of us on the right can enjoy the spectacle of a Biden foreign policy failure.

Jeff Bezos had better get some new PR people. He is rapidly becoming the new John D. Rockefeller and not the brilliant tycoon of Ron Chernow’s The Titan but instead the wizened and hated oligarch of a hundred years ago. The shaved head doesn’t help.

I would think that stealing a presidential election would be at the top of the list for things would trigger a civil war. Gun confiscation and forced vaccinations are already happening and other than the 2A guys and the anti-vaccers no one seems to care. Who knows, maybe most people won’t care about a stolen election.

I don’t know much about California’s past mistreatment of POC. But I do remember reading in Richard Henry Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast how the original Indians of California were treated as slaves by the Spanish and Mexicans. Perhaps the few descendants of those Indians that remain could receive reparations, that is from the Spanish and Mexican governments.

I vacationed in Cape Cod this summer. Every restaurant and store had help wanted signs, some promising $18 an hour. In the past when I visited, the summer help were usually very pretty girls from either Russia or Bulgaria. This summer each business seemed to be functioning fine with their White and Black American teenagers who were quite efficient and happy to be getting the higher wages. As a nationalist I hope this change is permanent but I will miss the Russian girls.

Why black women have the highest rates of obesity.

Nearby (to me) Paterson, New Jersey has Shotspotter and over the past several years it has been mentioned in the local press several times. Usually some young wannabe thug is showing off his gun and shoots in an alley or is shooting at another wannabe thug and the shots are recorded on Shotspotter. According to the stories I read, the police will show up at the exact location a short while later, sometimes even finding the shooter still standing around. One recent story mentioned that the shooter threw his gun under a set of porch steps and ran into a neighboring building. The shooter did not notice a police camera that recorded his hiding the gun and where he ran to.

As far as distinguishing between fireworks and gun shots, I once inquired on a knowledgeable and very reputable shooting forum about the ability to trick a gun shot detection system. The replies from the more knowledgeable people was that these systems are very sophisticated and are not to be tricked. (My question was could someone use ammunition loaded with blackpowder since it has a very different sound signature than smokeless powder to fool a gun shot detection system.)

Most men would make better looking women than these guys.

I guess the death of NASCAR will fall into the category of black on white crime.

“Black lives matter” is kind of like “the check is in the mail”. We all know what it really means.

It wasn’t so long ago that liberals were championing Grant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/opinion/14wilentz.html

The ruling added a another “protected” group of potential employees who can bring a law suit against their employer for discrimination. The safe route for employers might be to just hire from the only non-protected group left, white heterosexual Christian males.

Wait, doesn’t the State of Washington require a background check before transferring a gun from one individual to another? This must be the CHAZ loophole that we’ve heard about.

Let’s make it a a federal holiday, then blacks can have two federal holidays that only mostly white public employees will get off from work. However yaving another

Let’s make Juneteenth a federal holiday, then blacks can have two federal holidays that only mostly white public employees will get off from work. However having another three day weekend between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July would be rather nifty.

Perhaps the New York Times can start the 13/50 project.

A friend in the NYPD told me that there were a total of 4,000 cops on duty on New York on Monday night during the worst rioting. The NYPD has 36,000 officers and they only called in 4,000.

You will find unfortunately that when loaded ammunition get scarce, so does powder and primers.

I hope those kids get up early enough on Tuesday to make their Zoom meetings for school.

Do what the Israeli army does, use snipers with suppressed Ruger 10/22s to shoot the ring leaders in their legs. Works like a charm and no one hears the gunfire.

How do you explain the outlying suburban counties of New York City? Most of those counties, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester and Rockland are more like Los Angeles in their residential and commuting patterns. Only a minority of commuters commute into NYC. My county Bergen in New Jersey has nearly 9,000 cases and almost 900 deaths making this county alone worse than 39 states and most countries. Bergen is suburban and most people commute by car.

The firearms industry is quite small compared to others and doesn’t have that much money to throw around. Sturm Ruger is probably the largest firearms company is the nation today and it has much less than one billion dollars in market capital. The notion than the NRA is backed by the big bucks of the gun industry is a lie that has been spread by anti-gun groups for years. The strength of the NRA comes its five million dues paying members.

As for abortion and gay marriage, the are trillions of dollars of woke capital backing those causes.

Public libraries are a costly public amenity that don’t serve any real need anymore. At one time when books were expensive and some titles hard to find, they were important. Today books are cheap and many older titles can be had for free on the internet.

My local tax payer supported library might be a good representation of what a public library looks like these days. My wife uses the library to borrow CDs so she can copy the music. Most of the patrons there when I visit are seedy looking middle age men using the free internet, or Asian teenagers being tutored or doing homework. The children’s section spends more on puppet shows than on new books. As for the books on the shelves, many older books have been purged. For instance, I love rereading Neville Shute’s books but they are all gone as is the entire science fiction section. The mostly white subjects that once populated the biography section have disappeared. This purge includes other libraries within my county’s sharing network. At one time mine and those libraries had sizeable collection of shooting related books (which were a boon to a teenager interested in guns), but all of those titles have also vanished. The newer books that have replaced the victims of the purge seem to be celebrity bios, best sellers, and unreadable woke cat lady fiction.

Fortunately my library has been spared from incursions by the homeless and thank God there haven’t yet been any drag queens reading to young children.

In the past I believe many of the upper middle class throughout the US retained their regional accents despite education and wealth. I recall seeing a video of Marine Corps General Smedley Butler that was filmed in the 1930s. Butler who came from an old and established well to do Philadelphia Quaker family but he still spoke with a thick Philadelphia accent. Before Hollywood talkies, national radio networks and mass communication, most Americans, even local elites, probably lacked any self awareness of their regional accents.

Regional, even local, accents especially in the eastern US are part of the old America that is rapidly disappearing beneath the tidal wave of diversity.

In the past elite colleges would have simply cut the number of Whites to make way for more Asians. But today I would guess that the percentage of White Gentiles at the Ivy league schools is below twenty percent. To cut even more will get noticed. The only way now to allow more Asians would be to cut back on the number of Jews admitted or, God forbid, cut back on NAMs. Given that choice, theses schools will punish Asian students long before they begin restricting the number of Jews or NAMs.

If only there existed in some dusty library a highly detailed census of England, taken perhaps in the late 11th century, we might truly know just how diverse medieval England was.

In a nearby Walmart I had the experience while on the express lane of having a Black woman dump out a jar of change on the counter (mostly pennies) and the expecting the cashier to count out the correct amount. Luckily I had lots of time to spare.

Litter can be seen as the flora that grows in tragic dirt. When I visit and work in areas known for their diversity, the litter is everywhere, most noticeably the thousands of plastic bags stuck in chain link fences and trees. Like litter, poverty, low IQ and poor schools all seem to flourish in these places. When I travel through predominately White and Asian suburban towns, the litter disappears and I know that the magic dirt of these towns will also produce affluence, higher IQs and good schools. So perhaps we can stop Latino littering simply by moving them away from the tragic dirt.

I hear that pretty soon in the “Smartest country on the planet”” they’re going to get started on indoor plumbing and sewers.

I always irked by the New York Times referring to Donald Trump as Mr. Trump rather than as President Trump. Did they do the same for Barack Obama? I seem to remember reading that throughout the 1930s they referred to Adolf Hitler as Chancellor Hitler. Can’t they at least have as much respect for Trump as they did for Hitler.

Douglass appears blacker and blacker in every photo. 19th century photographs tended to make a person’s skin complexion darker than it would appear to the eye. Look at the many pictures of Lincoln. His skin tone is quite dark in every photo. Likewise Douglass, even though having a white father, looks almost entirely African in most photos, especially those that are reproduced in textbooks. Compare those photos with this early portrait of Douglass which shows a much lighter skin tone.

I guess it’s time to ban John Lennon too.

Unfortunately we measure the standard of living by how much stuff we have. Yes, by the standards today my parents standard of living was quite low back in the 1950s and 60s, they had a lot less stuff, but the quality of their lives and the lives of their children was quite high. They were able to buy a home in now very pricey suburban Bergen County, New Jersey and have four children. They participated in a number of church and community organizations that made their lives far richer than most people today. And all this was done with one blue collar wage earner in the house. My siblings and I attended wonderful schools and ourselves participated in all kinds of activities. People then and especially children also had hobbies which no one seems to have today.

I believe most married couples with children would gladly trade their lifestyle today for the lifestyle of the 1950s, I know I would.

Here’s a hypothetical question I ask people I know in northern New Jersey and southern New York ; who would you rather have move in and take over your neighborhood: Latin American immigrants, Blacks, Muslims or Hasidic Jews? Most respondents chose Muslims or the Latin American immigrants. No one with any familiarity with Hasidics choses Hasidics. Most can imagine befriending and interacting positively with Muslims or Hispanics or even Blacks. No one has any kind of interaction with Hasidics that they would call positive.

Despite the visceral response that Hasidics generate, suburban Whites have also been cowed into silence because any criticism or steps to prevent them from taking over only seems to bring lawsuits from groups like the ADL and condemnation from local media and the political establishment. When the Hasidics start to move in, your best bet is to be among the first to sell while prices are still high.

How many career State Department people have read Frazer’s Flashman much less the Flashman series? They should. It’s a good antidote to whatever fever causes bureaucrats and soldiers to go off on reckless overseas adventures.

What white person watches Empire?

It’s already happening with American history, at least that American history that is understood by school children. Look at the minstrel show called Hamilton. Thanks to the popularity of this Broadway show, most young people are now convinced that Alexander Hamilton was mixed race and a champion of non-white immigration.

After my 23 and me DNA test I am advising my daughters to put down Neanderthal as their ethnicity on any future applications.

Anyone else remember 35 years ago when William Shawcross referred to the murder of a couple of million Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge as a holocaust? The usual suspects freaked out because there was only one holocaust and to compare the deaths of several million European Jews to the deaths of several million Cambodians was unconscionable.

The hipster white parents of Brooklyn are already fleeing for the suburbs. I’ve seen theses strange creators in the stores and supermarkets of northern New Jersey, especially in the town where there are excellent schools. Unfortunately they are bringing their politics with them as well and our once solidly Republican section of the state is turning blue.

Nothing of the sort happened. She was quite nice and seemed to take a genuine interest in what a geeky 21 year old had to say.

Memory is unreliable and if you’re seeking the assistance of the memories of others, you’re out of luck.

Way back in June of 1981 I attended a housewarming party of a very wealthy young woman whose mother had purchased her an apartment in Manhattan. She was a student at NYU and her mother didn’t like the idea of her living in the dorms. She was the girl friend of one of my best friends and we all were good friends. In addition to her boyfriend’s friends, and her friends from school, she invited some of her neighbors she had befriended. During the party I spent about 20 minutes making small talk to one neighbor, a female lawyer in her mid to late twenties whom I remember worked as an assistant DA in Manhattan. Our small talk took us out to the balcony and she told me about several of the cases she had tried.

Many years later when Sonia Sotomayor was appointed to the Supreme Court I realized that she was the young lawyer I made small talk with at that party. Yet, not a single one of my friends who was at that party even remembers the party.

My only proof is my memory, which after 37 years is probably less reliable than I would like to think. While I remember the party clearly,I never spoke about it until after Sotomayor’s appointment. I never wrote anything down and none of the others who were there even remember the party. If I were to accuse Sotomayor of some impropriety there is no evidence that could prove her innocence.

If my memory serves me right, I believe that Cuomo’s son the current governor of New York was reputed to be the originator of that slogan.

Ten years ago when this war started and after reading about the events in the NYT, I was curious about Georgia’s geography so I went to Google maps (or GOOGLE Earth, which one I don’t exactly recall) only to see a blank map of Georgia. I returned several times during the fighting and saw the same thing. When the war was over I checked again and all of Georgia’s features were restored. Does anyone else remember this?

I noticed something similar, in my local supermarkets. Forty years ago I worked part-time in a supermarket while commuting to college. Almost all of my fellow part-time coworkers were college students. We worked at the checkouts, stocked shelves, unloaded trucks and cleaned. The few full time people were managers or skilled trades like butchers. We all belonged to a union and received benefits, even as part-timers. It was common to see people reading books in the breakroom. None of the part-timers viewed this job as a career, yet we all worked hard and took some pride in our work. It was an intelligent bunch. One of our part-time employees was a student at Dartmouth who spent his summers stocking shelves.

Today the same supermarkets are filled with low IQ employees that see working there as the final step in their careers. There are no college students working part-time and most of the workers come across as plain stupid. Service at these stores sucks with many of the cashiers more interested in their phones or conversing with other employees than doing their job. Many perishable food items are out of date (something that would have triggered the wrath of my manager forty years ago) or shelves are empty because it’s not their job to restock it.

So while the average IQ of Americans may not have changed much in the past thirty to forty years, the IQs of workers in low paying jobs has noticeably declined and with that the quality of the service and the friendliness we receive in places like a supermarket has also declined.

For the life of me I can’t understand why Nike, a sneaker company is as big as it is. Look at most of their products. Their business model seems to be selling brightly colored clown shoes to Black teenagers. And yet they make billions.

One bit of evidence that supports your mutt analogy is the gradual disappearance of blue eyes in large swaths of the U.S. Look at old photographs and notice how most white Americans in those black and white images have light washed out eyes indicating that they had blue irises. Compare that with what you see in places like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut or Pennsylvania. There are still lots of white people in those states, just not so many blue eyes anymore.

Sure let’s bring on the quotas. For whites it’s got to be better than the current system. For instance this ten day old press release from Princeton claims that 53.4 percent of their newly admitted class of 2022 are people of color.

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/03/28/princeton-offers-admission-55-percent-class-2022-applicants

If using the term negro is a microagression, what is wishing for someone’s funeral?

Perhaps it needs to be said but without Black and Hispanic crime in the U.S. and Muslim crime in the UK both places would be crime free. But no one can say this without being punished by the PC scolds in the liberal institutions or in social media and the and in the case of the UK by the law.

I was long time subscriber to the New York Times print edition and spent at least two hours a day reading the paper. Later I read it daily on line. Over time I read it less and less. Now I will glance at their home page every other or third day. What I see or read scares me.

Looking at the New York Times now is like running into a friend that was once your closest friend that had drifted away. Instead of a happy reunion, it’s a disturbing experience. Your once close friend now babnles on about

Teachers in urban school systems in New Jersey’s cities are only making $90,000 after about 25 years. Suburban school districts in NJ pay much better and a teacher can earn that much after 10 years, in an urban district the same teacher with the same ten years on the job will be earning about $55,000 a year.

Where are all the female refugees that we supposed to have sex with?

How did this professor of history’s great great grandfather arrive at Ellis Island in 1850 when the immigration station at that location didn’t open until open until 1892? He can’t even be bothered looking up an easily googled fact.

Deport all of the illegals in Houston and you won’t need to rebuild so many homes.

This is the case in all fifty states since the Supreme Court’s 1982 Plyler v Doe decision. No public school anywhere may inquire as to the immigration status of a child and all illegal children are entitled to a free education. Having worked in a public school with lots of illegals I can tell you that they’re easy to spot since they never hand in the financial forms that determine eligibility for free lunches. Funny, we know they are and yet can do nothing about it.

The desecration if a bust of Lincoln doesn’t surprise me at all. One of the stranger beliefs current among Blacks in the U.S. today is that Abraham Lincoln was a slave owner. I have heard it again and again from Black teenagers, how Lincoln owned slaves. When I heard this, I explained to them how Lincoln spent most of his adult life in Illinois where owning slaves was not legal and moreover there is no evidence whatsoever to prove their claim, nonetheless they are unconvinced. To most Blacks today, totally ignorant of history, Lincoln is just another dead white guy from the past, a time when all whites owned black slaves.

I could never understand why we don’t do aerial spraying of Afghanistan’s opium fields with Roundup. I’m sure we could easily attach aerial sprayers to helicopter gunships. When the Afghans replant next year, we re-spray.

After teaching in a northeastern urban school district for some years, I had the realization that most Black kids had no continuous day to day contact with any adult males, Black or White, except their male teachers. Only about one in ten come from a home with two parents. The others live with either their mothers or grandmothers (even grandfathers seem to be absent.) So having Black teachers especially male Black teachers might have a positive effect. Unfortunately many of the Black male teachers I have worked with exhibit the same personal traits as other Black men such as fathering out of wedlock children, and having less than admirable work habits, so they may not be much of a positive role model. Only white male and females teachers seem to have stable family lives and are capable of showing up every day.

The most competent Black male teachers move quickly into administrative positions and are used primarily as disciplinarians since they are often the only adults that the worst behaved students will respond to. Of course overtime all these problems of what to do with Black student will diminish as school systems like the one I taught at are swamped with Mexican students.

Of course, if America disappears then so too does Israel. Without the U.S., Israel wouldn’t have access to the sophisticated and deadly and free weapons that keep Israel’s enemies at bay.