But Nathanael Kapner is not a monk, although he dresses as an outlandish one and presents himself as one, which the eremetical monks did not do. I’m not talking about whether or not he is close to the Creator.

He is assuming an identity which he was not given, which is a flag for spiritual delusion

The recent modern eremitical monks–I’m not talking about the Desert Fathers– were given a blessing to enter that life, and laymen who entered it voluntarily as such, did not present themselves to be Brothers or Fathers, which Nathanael Kapner does by the title he assumes and the dress he affects.

The form of address and the outfits are things he has assigned to himself, which is the opposite pole of monasticism.

That’s USNS (US Naval Ship) Harvey Milk. She’s part of the Navy’s Military Sealift Command, so civilian crewed, albeit there are some squids aboard for comms, force protection, etc. Say what you will about the gent, he at least served, and in a somewhat risky job (diving officer on a salvage ship), which might weigh in the balance against that whole hebephilic statutory rape thing in later life.
The fleet oilers are crewed by DOD employees (CIVMARs), who would be well advised to keep shtum regarding any misgivings regarding the less than honorably discharged Lt (j.g.)’s proclivities, assuming they valued their jobs. Although, at least among the unlicensed, such mutterings would probably be in Tagalog.

It’s not quite as woke on the contractor operated MSC ships, crewed in the main by the various maritime unions, but the trend is certainly in that direction. That was made manifest to me about twenty years ago, when I had to gather my crew together and explain to that mass of incredulous souls that, under SECNAV’s new anti-human trafficking instructions, they were to no longer consort with prostitutes.

“The Trial” made me laugh out loud when on the subway. Might have been my state of mind thirty years ago.

I’ve read that Soros induces chaos deliberately so that his speculative positions on various currencies will pay off.

What was the plot?

The evil cynics certainly do do stupid things sometimes. Makes me wonder if they even think two weeks ahead. Last week Putin reassures the German government that Gazprom will fulfill all of its obligations once their turbine is unsanctioned and returned to them from Canada. On Monday the German government announces they will be sending a new raft of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. So on Monday Gazprom cuts flow in one of the Nordstream pipelines down to twenty percent of what was scheduled.

Maroons. What did they think would happen?

Kafka burned most of what he wrote (“many disgusting pages”) so all we have are the masterpieces. But half the manuscripts he kept were lost behind the Iron Curtain, a disaster. He’d given them to someone else for safekeeping. If we’re lucky they’ll come to light someday.

Great comic writer, yes.

I knew a Shakespearian scholar who was criticized in the English department because he gave an A+ as final grade to one of his undergraduates.

He defended it by saying, “He writes better than I do.”

Write mysteries. People who like them can’t get enough of them, and publishers are always looking for more.

Who are you getting your information from? The WaPo is far from perfect, but I trust it more than the Russian government or J. Random Internet Guy.

Unfortunately, because we don’t have a good faith media in this country, the truth has to be pieced together like a detective story.

For example, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense is pure propaganda. Hey, you can’t blame them. Their country is in a fight for its life and “information war” is part of the campaign. At present, that means convincing the voters in Western countries that more weapons and money will produce a return on investment in terms of “hurting Russia.” Everything they say (and they don’t care if it’s true or not) is to further that objective.

The WaPo and the rest of the MSM are reprising their patriotic role from WWII — i.e., publishing only what supports the (proxy) war effort. And guess what? The Ukrainian MOD officially counts as a “source,” so the MSM can just repeat whatever it says and still technically be doing “journalism.” (And since this is war, there is no looking at what the other side says because that would be “spreading Russian propaganda.”) The bottom line is that the MSM is The Voice of Ukraine. But that’s still a data point.

The Russians, either because they don’t care or know it’s futile, barely even try to do propaganda. They put out a daily “clobber list” of all the stuff and people they believe they blew up. It’s a bit overstated (maybe 25-30% too high) in the way that all armies are a little optimistic about their kills. But it’s not fraudulent like some of the Ukrainian claims.

There is thick Fog of War because both sides naturally don’t want to give out real time information on their casualties and troop movements. Apparently, the best way to get the facts on the ground is to aggregate information from the official sources as well as the Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels of individuals who have a track record of knowing the facts. If you want to go full war nerd the Military Summary channel is like a daily instant replay of all the combat, unit-by-unit and town-by-town.

As far as “pro-Russian” analysis to balance out the MSM party line, sources include The Duran https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDuran, History Legends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbu40cNwx2Q, Moon of Alabama https://www.moonofalabama.org/, Jackson Hinkle https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDivewithJacksonHinkle/community (Although he has apparently been shut down by YouTube censors and is looking for a new platform). If these people aren’t “respectable” or credentialed enough for you, then so be it.

Jack D., I have been working to change our foreign policy, but Victoria Nuland won’t return my calls. “Fuck the EU! I want Yats!”

Because Victoria likes murderous adventures in foreign policy, so many people do.

You are seriously relying on the Washington Post and the Atlantic Council for your insights? It’s no wonder you have no clue what’s actually going on.

In its official policies and statements the West is itself post-western and post-European, so if Russia fell over itself to be virtuous in the eyes of the West, what would it be? It would be just another post-national entity along with the rest of us.

On an alternate timeline we would have seen Yeltsin followed by Russia’s versions of Tony Blair, Obama, Justin Trudeau, Merkel and Dave Cameron. Moscow would have it’s Pride parades and McDonald’s would be there to sell rainbow themed meals.

Even with all that, NATO and the Pentagon would still need Russia as a threat and all that lovely money for democracy promotion would still have to slosh around all those NGOs of ours.

https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/return-industrial-warfare

The arsenal of democracy no longer exists. If NATO confronts Russia on the battlefield in Ukraine it is committing suicide.

The question might be moot. NATO is kind of a zombie for the foreseeable future regardless. They can kick Granada’s ass but that is close to the limit of its ability. Unless they wanna go nuclear.

I guess they can start flu epidemics.

Well, if math is racist, then AI will be too.

Who would want to tell their friends, family, or their date that they served on the USS Harvey Milk?

I guess it is NOTHING to someone who wasn’t putting their comrades in body bags. And here I thought I was cynical, jaded and crass after 6 visits to Afghanistan/Iraq.

Third-world population = third-world country = third-world military. There’s no way third-world America is going to remain a super power (outside of nukes). So the decline and fall of the American military is inevitable. Fools who join and fight today are like the U.S. soldiers in Vietnam who fought and died during the period of “Vietnamization”, dying for the vanity of politicians in a hopeless cause.

The military leadership plays the same dirty game other ruling trash groups are playing, keeping the top white and competent so the system keeps running while throwing the white peons under the bus. (The black professor who is given a class in black studies but is kept far, far away from the mathematics department because that’s money.) But it can’t go on too much longer, soon the demographic changes will force changes at the top and the result will be a hot mess of third-world incompetence. (Plus the New Americans would sensibly rather pocket the soon-to-be-diminishing money government goons extract from the white serfs than waste it on adventures for Israel and other overseas boutique fads of the ruling class.) Who will want to fight for that?

But the real issue is moral, if you’re white, especially if you’re a white Southerner or Midwesterner, don’t fight for a regime that hates you, regardless of who holds the Presidency. Don’t fight for a system that openly states that disempowering you, enslaving you, and then exterminating you are its highest moral goals. When will white idiots learn, if you can’t help yourselves then at least don’t help the bear.

That’s horrible.

Americans are raised to be fragile these days.

Or maybe they’ve been paying attention to all the wounded, mentally afflicted, and traumatized soldiers who’ve been returning home from our endless foreign wars.

A good discussion of the true costs of our foreign wars.

Watch a movie called “Born on the 4th of July” to gain more perspective on this issue. The 1989 film was directed by Oliver Stone, who (unlike the various draft-dodging presidents that we’ve had in recent years) actually served in a war.

Why die in a foreign war so some draft-dodger can get reelected in 2004?
Why die in a foreign war to enrich the war profiteers of Haliburton?
Why die in a foreign war to advance Israeli national security?

It’s not just this. No public person can say things which are actually true, but must remain unspoken because they’re unspeakable.

1. democracy generally sucks. It is better than totalitarian systems, it doesn’t kill millions, but it needs a homogeneous (racial, cultural, religious,..) basis to function. Otherwise it is a desperate struggle among various ethnicities with competing needs & abilities.

2. various collectives vastly differ re. their abilities for sustaining modern civilization. For instance, you cannot achieve anything functioning with Africans or American Indians. And even when they are capable, the profiles of collectives differ enormously- you can’t switch Danes for Japanese or vice versa.

3. Western civilization is in crisis, and that crisis is the result of its very success. Actually, all high technological societies fail to reproduce (Japan, South Korea,..). Only reproducing societies are failed societies, mainly in Africa, south Asia and Islam.

4. global approach is wrong, and only nationality, tradition, historical identity … matter. Without it, everything collapses, sooner or later. The same with liberalism, both in economy & as a world view.

5. economical approach to life is wrong. To push for constant growth at all costs is wrong. Better stagnation with your own kind, for some time, than growth with unassimilable foreigners imported.

6. peoples differ not only in their cognitive abilities, but also in their approach to life, ethics etc. There is no way to impose some global ethics, and UN should be divided into 5-10 different zones with minimum flow between the zones, because people moving into different zones create only trouble and war.

7. to achieve peaceful and prosperous societies, as far as it is possible, one should give up on all utopian projects. World is not “one” and shall never be.

Would it be a good thing or a bad thing to raise your arms and scream at a misbehaving emu?

It depends on whether you think that being gutted by their gigantic clawed feet counts as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. It’s a bit like people who do stupid shit in front of big red kangaroos, but by comparison yo an emu, the claws on ‘roo are fake and gay. (That said: a big red will also stand on his tail and get you in a Muay Thai clinch while he guts you, whereas an emu’s attack is more ‘standoff’).

The Lovely‘s parents had 2 semi-tamed (but not domesticated) emu on their property. They’re as cunning as a shithouse rat, and they respond very intelligently to the vocal ‘timbre’ of people who interact with them – which is why Emmanuel ‘understood’ that the woman in the video was exasperated but not a threat. so he continued to play the fool.

Like crows, emu know how to hold a grudge. Cassowary, on the other hand, are psychotic right from the off.

The Australian ‘bush’ pretty much spends its entire time trying to kill anyone who tries to enter. For that reason alone, I give the full-blood Abo considerable credit for ‘native intelligence’ – even if it’s really obvious that such intelligence as they possess is unhelpful in a modern society.

Was she really trying to reason with the emu? I couldn’t tell whether the whole thing was a send-up or not, including her voice.

Very clear picture of a new sexually transmissible disease by John Campbell.

And more uncomfortable topic, but right up Mr Sailer’s alley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f45S6vmQgA#searching

1300 excess NON COVID deaths per week in England and Wales. We speculate as to the causes.

When late Boomers started having kids in the 80’s, they really hammered the living crap out of the worst thing to come out of the sleazy 70’s, which was pederasty advocacy. The gay liberators basically treated it as a niche adjunct of gay rights into the early 80’s, but since then the pederasts have increasingly been marginalized (Gen X hates pedos even more than late Boomers do). Silent and early Boomers parents to a large degree basically let their kids fend for themselves and in the process failed to recognize just how many perverts “liberated” themselves in the 70’s and took advantage of a culture that was lax about protecting kids.

Louis Till murdered the woman he raped.

Yes. I think the Washington Post dismissed what the Russians have done so far as only “incremental” gains.

Not to worry, Another Dad, in fifty years the New York Times–sorry, The New York Times–won’t exist.

Agree about the cultural effects of the upcoming Greater Depression on our mandated public Conversations, Achmed.

Today an eight-pack of frankfurters was going for $11.99 at Key Food, and that was the least expensive brand on offer. And it’s only the first of July. There may have been some price gouging on account of the holiday, but still.

By December, I think a lot of people won’t have any attention left available for pronouns and all the rest of that chaff.

So, Every Hurricane Has A Still Eye At The Center.

Around twenty years ago my sister attended a liturgy at a Russian church in Paris. Afterwards one of the women said to her, When we saw what the Americans did to the Serbs, we knew we were next.

First things first. Bring the oligarchs to heel; give the country time to stabilize; and start planning for what was obviously going to come, the showdown with the West.

It would have been clear that in the United States they were going to be dealing with maniacs. A powerful senator calls Russia “nothing but a glorified gas station disguised as a country” (McCain). The Diplomat-in-Chief calls the Russian President “Hitler” (Hillary). Et cetera.

What kind of eggs did these freaks hatch out of.

I wish Nathanael Capner would stop presenting himself as a “Brother.” He probably did convert to Orthodox Christianity at some point, but he has been dismissed from at least one monastery and has never received a monastic tonsure. So he isn’t a monk. And anyway, male Orthodox monastics are called Father whether they are ordained priests or not, not “Brother.”

His monastic dress is at the very least, delusional; even regularly received monastics do not wear some of his trappings, which are associated with an episcopal rank.

The authorities of his diocese have published a letter saying these things, but of course they have no way to shut this pretense down. So on he goes.

There is a widespread misconception that monasteries are Safe Spaces for people who can’t handle life on its own terms. Not so.

When someone enters any monastery there is a period of observation and testing before the community will receive them, because monasteries won’t take just anyone, for the most obvious of reasons: They will have to live with this person for the rest of his or her life. It’s similar to marriage, or adoption. They try to exercise discernment. Someone who is just too difficult to live with will be shown the door.

So Capner is vagrantes, that is, Wandering Around And Not Accountable To Anyone. And printing up his own business cards. His weird dress and demeanor undermines his message, whatever it is.

Agree, Franz.

The generational planets are Pluto and Neptune. The traits associated with the boomers mark the cohort born between roughly 1937/38 and 1956/57: Pluto in Leo. Then followed Pluto in Virgo, which is quite different; those people born 1957/58 on have much more in common with generation x.

The elites love this Dave Chappelle thing. Yeah, let the proles scream and holler about a comic making fun of all this transgender stuff. Soros and Zuckerberg are laughing over their champaigne.

If Chappelle started making jokes about illegal immigrants flooding in over the border, if he made wisecracks about how we are set to import an unlimited number of Afghani Taliban/pederasts/wife beaters, he’d be shut down in a second and the controversy would get no air time.

Keep you eye on the prize. The big deal is the ongoing invasion over th southern border. If that continues for much longer, if we are lucky we’ll end up like Mexico or Guatemala, and if we’re unlucky we’ll end up like Pakistan or Bangladesh. And whether or not Dave Chappelle did or did not make fun of transgenders will mean nothing

Napoleon was the most famous and praised loser in all of French history. 18 years of wars ranging all over Europe from Russia to Sicily 2 generations of dead Frenchmen and for what?

Napoleon lost, France lost after 18 years of a European wide war. One group that really won the Napoleonic wars. Armament manufacturers and military suppliers. Only good thing that came out of the Napoleonic wars was the invention of canned food. Which really is a great benefit to mankind. Plus margarine and processed cheese. Oh, and his first wife did a lot of horticultural research and development.

Cute uniforms too.

In another place and time he would have been a trigger puller for the NKVD. Now he’s a “soft on crime” DA.

It’s too late, HA. You let the cat out of the bag.

HA is on Ignore for me Physicist Dave, so I didn’t see any of that.

Please do continue to post and re-post it because this guy really is a maniac and everyone who reads his comments or responds to him ought to be aware of that, including newcomers, now, and down the line.

Previously, I only thought he was a shill for the pharmaceutical companies.

“Psychopath” isn’t hyperbole.

I’m surprised Steve Sailer let that through. It crossed a line.

yet Kathy Boudin had previously plotted to bomb and kills hundreds of Americans back in 1970 and may have succeeded if her fellow conspirators did not blow themselves up while making the bombs. The bombs that detonated in the Greenwich Village townhouse were intended for a dance that night at an Army base in New Jersey. Boudin was in the townhouse and she somehow survived the blast and fled. She was clearly legally responsible for helping to build bombs in 1970, with the intent to kill and maim innocent Americans. Kathy Boudin had no qualms about setting off bombs to kills hundreds of people. She clearly was in favor of killing innocent people, and only failed due to incompetence.

Keep digging, Jack D.

Thanks, Wilkey.

…… getting massive sums of weapons and money for free from foreign countries…….not so fast andrew, they will be expected to repay all that with interest after the hostilities end. this will lead to the firesale of ukrainian land and resources, strip mining the ukrainian economy and more austerity for the unfortunate ukrainian citizens. if they were smart they would lose this war and tell nato to stick the bill up their ass.

Thanks for the explanation. If what you describe is the motive behind world politics, then that just proves that all nations are just mafia’s with flags, something I’ve known for decades. It’s just a bunch of gangs out to secure some turf where they can do what they want with their captive slaves, the citizenry. Governments aren’t there to protect the citizenry, but to abuse them.

Why people think of gov’t in any other way is mystifying. That they vote to glorify the gangs just shows that propaganda works on weak minds.

Here is our Ms. Shepherd.

National reporter focusing on health and science

Ok, so a science background?

Education: University of California at Los Angeles, BA in English; Columbia University, MS in journalism

Woops, nope!

She looks as pompous as you’d expect for a know-nothing writing for a massively influential newspaper.

Anyway, this is yet another one of those “we’re going to tell you something completely contrary to your lived experience in order to humiliate you into submission” articles. Of course it’s total nonsense, but that’s what they do. The thing is, gals like Ms. Shepherd are so marinated in this kind of thing, and such true believers, that they don’t even realize they are pure propaganda tools.

Biden’s Major was sent back to Delaware, where he is still biting Secret Service agents from time to time and making them mad. “I don’t see why the taxpayers should have to foot the bill for my medical treatment, he should pay for it.” That was last summer.

John Lennon said that the lyrics were practically lifted straight from an old poster advertising the benefit for Mr. Kite.

I agree, she has that Gretchen Whitmer, psychotic Bond villian, look to her.

Where does Steve get his info on the clash of civilizations that is occurring in Ukraine? It’s as if he ripped copy from the teletype machine at the following outlets: Time Magazine, Newsweek Magazine, US News and World Report, 60 Minutes, CNN, CNN+, The Sean Hannity Show, The Daily Bugle, The Daily Planet, The McLaughlin Group, Huffington Post, CBS Sunday Morning w/Jane Pauley, and several other dying or dead Cold War outlets that Bill Gates uses to push safe and and effective vaccines.

“Putin should have pumped a lot of gas to Western Europe for big money and then offered to pay Ukraine for Crimea and the border region.”

An idea, but if you think that Zelensky could have accepted such an offer without being removed by the same people who put him there (“Zelensky under arrest, facing treason charges over ‘Russian cash for land deal’, armed forces on full alert” – Reuters) then I have a couple of bridges over the Dneiper to sell you. The US State Department wanted this war and did not want a compromise peace.

/playing stupid about how we got here is not good for a person’s character/

Agree.

/pay Ukraine for Crimea and the border region/

–wouldn’t have worked. The hatred of Russia is visceral, irrational, and the Russian government has given up trying to reason with the West. Surprising it took this long for them to conclude that it’s useless.

And not everything is for sale, you know. There’s a principle at stake here! Rossiya delenda est.

Steve Sailer wrote:

The Russians tried to take Kiev and got beat decisively and gave up and retreated.

Steve, where on earth are you getting your news???

The Russians had that tank column sitting outside Kiev for weeks, just taunting the Kievan forces. Any competent military would have wiped out that column, But the Ukrainain military… a few mild sorties.

Putin never invaded Kiev. Russia had air dominance, but launched almost no bombing attacks against Kiev — Western media was continually reporting from Kiev, so we know.

Putin didn’t even bomb out the rail network servicing Kiev. Or the power system. Or communications.

Putin never engaged in any of the actions that would have been involved if, as you say, the Russians had “tried to take Kiev”!

And when and where was this battle where, you claim, the Russians “got beat decisively”????

I mean, we know when and where the Battle of the Bulge or the Battles of Flanders or the Battle of Gettysburg was fought, how many died, what the configuration of forces was, etc.

But where can we find the equivalent information for the supposed Battle of Kiev? Where is the battlefield with the bomb craters and the dead bodies and all the rest?

There was no Battle of Kiev.

Putin merely used the suburbs of Kiev as a parking lot for a while.

Steve, this is your blog, you are a smart guy, and I do not mean to be rude, but where are you getting this fantasy?

Do Collier and Horowitz say why?

Can’t agree that the wife got everyone killed. He’d never flown at night and was not rated to fly on instruments only. He should have said No.

It was his bad judgement that got everyone killed.

Jackie Kennedy took care to keep her children away from the rest of the family as much as possible.

Anthony and Peter Schaeffer.

The Times considers itself to be Holy Writ.

Psychotic states are not amenable to talk therapy.

The internet is still up and running in Ukraine but there is no mention of this atrocity on social media coming out of Bucha between the date the Russians left, and April 2 according to the Saker.

Agree with you there, Ghost of Bull Moose. The waiter “retreated”, she called it “funny.” Servers in restaurants are easy targets.

Sometimes dissociated people will unconsciously refer to themselves as “we”. The verbs always agree.

Ron Unz proposed that admission to Harvard be awarded by lottery, restricted to the 50,000 high school graduates each year who score 1600 on their SATs. And skip the tuition because the endowment is so large.

Jussie will create a social justice non profit Foundation. Foundation A. Another newly created foundation Foundation B will be created Foundation B will do the fundraising and hustling for government grants. The money will then be granted to Jussie’s Foundation A.

That’s how it works. BLM donations gladly given by major corporations go to the DNC.

Foundations are incredibly corrupt and mostly used against Whites.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assert that Jussie got some innocent people killed because of his narcissistic antics, and everyone who promoted hate crime hoaxes and defended their creators–and made Jussie feel immune to consequences while he was doing what he did–has blood on their hands. Despite Dave Chapelle’s narrative that black people all knew Jussie was lying, a lot of really dumb, really violent black people were really, really pissed about the cracker attack on Jussie. In how many instances was this the enabling factor that pushed black criminals to really fuck up some white person?

At the height of the outrage over what Donald Trump’s American did to poor Jussie, a black Chicagoland factory worker named Gary Martin coincidentally decided to make a statement with his gun.

“The five victims fatally shot were [4 white and 1 white-hispanic] male workers at the Henry Pratt plant: a 32-year-old human resources manager, a 37-year-old plant manager, a 46-year-old mold operator, a 55-year-old stock room attendant and forklift operator, and a 21-year-old student of Northern Illinois University on his first day as a human resources intern.

A sixth plant employee sustained gunshot wounds during the shooting, and was hospitalized with non life-threatening injuries.

The six injured police officers ranged in age from 23 to 59. Four of them sustained gunshot wounds, one was injured by shrapnel, and one had a non-gunshot injury sustained while responding to the shooting.”

Winston Churchill personally initiated this policy. He ordered the first bombing run on a German city, a sneak nighttime attack on Hamburg, the very day after he became Prime Minister. Then came the Lindemann plan, whereby civilian targeting became official. It was a German-Jewish émigré, Professor Frederick Lindemann, Churchill’s friend and scientific advisor, who proposed German working class houses be targeted in preference to military objectives. The war cabinet approved the plan and put it into action on March 28, 1942, when 234 aircraft attacked Lubeck. It had no military or industrial importance. Its medieval houses and cathedral were obliterated by what “Bomber:” Harris termed “a first class success” of the RAF. Two months later a thousand aircraft dropped high explosive and incendiaries on the medieval town of Cologne. The devastation was total, as has been the misrepresentation of what happened there ever since.

The RAF raids began the deliberate mass murder of civilians on a scale unprecedented in the annals of warfare. At first reluctant, the USAF joined in the merry mayhem and has never since stopped. As a state’s ability to defend itself rests on its industrial and agricultural productivity and the morale of its servicemen, in the relentless logic of modern total war, a winning strategy must including killing industrial and agricultural workers, and demoralizing frontline soldiers by slaughtering their families and destroying their homes.

This is the truly horrific -but always unspoken- legacy of “the good war.”

Paraphrase: The alt-right are socially conservative and anti-war, hypocritically.

No. We are socially conservative, and anti-war.

“Fuck yeah, a major land war in Europe.”

No Fuck yeah about it. We saw this coming, that unless the neocons and neoliberals didn’t put the brakes on their evil and delusional desire to control the entire world, there would be a war.

We couldn’t stop Congress because Congress doesn’t listen to us, we couldn’t even get a clean election for the first man in decades who talked about ending “these endless, pointless wars.”

The warmongers won’t stop until they are stopped, simply. What is your suggestion, for how they are to be stopped. — I mean, if you even see this as a problem.

Oh and where were you in the day, IHTG? Were you protesting the wars of George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, and Barack Obama? Because they caused the deaths of millions of people and wrecked multiple countries.

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By the way, the Adjusting the Monocle image is weak and you would do well to retire it, Hogan’s Heroes isn’t in production anymore.

I don’t find this clip funny and do not see how it relates to current events. Churchill was a drunken, corrupt buffoon who did nothing for his people or The Empire. Churchill lost WWII, we can debate who won (possibly no one), but it certainly was not the British.

I guess that stuff was funny 40 years ago, but it doesn’t stand up. I guess Germans were to British comedians what southerners are to Jewish movie makers. An endless supply of butts for the same joke.

Steve seems pretty honest and may very well have taken the positions he did because he believed in them.

Totally agreed.

Newly released documents show that the federal government paid hundreds of news organizations to promote the Covid vaccines. You aren’t going to get objective journalism when the government is giving the media money to promote a certain narrative.

My, what a surprise!

Almost everybody took the money. Almost everybody lied about the vaccines (knowingly or unknowingly). Almost everybody refused to report anything negative about the vaccines — because they were paid to close their eyes.

It’s not just that they “refused to report anything negative about the vaccines” – they censored & banned all those who tried to tell the truth about their bad experiences.

Agreed about the causality issue. The problem is, the correlation should be enough to make interventional studies happen (if only informally, say in a single hospital). That those studies either don’t seem to be happening or are shouted down when they appear is telling.

no one is saying that Vitamin D levels are not important.
…
if yours are low, do what you can to boost them
…
take a Vitamin D tablet and assume you’re going to sail through COVID

This motte and bailey game is the usual sensible response (though the usual suspects seem to focus heavily on the last part). Then you have statements like this from Harvard.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/preventing-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus
“There is no evidence that taking high-dose vitamin D protects you against getting infected with this coronavirus. In addition, if you are infected, it does not prevent a more severe illness.”

Perhaps we could have a discussion of the difference between “no evidence” and “no evidence which is 100.0% certain”? Because the correlational trials we are discussing are certainly evidence in favor. It is just they are not definitive. (FWIW, the lying “no evidence” trope is in the top 10 for Current Year quirks which infuriate me, and Covid has given it a bullet in my ranking)

testing your serum Vitamin D levels is, for most people, pricey and complicated.

I know. Our society has billions of dollars for vaccines (and Covid tests) and tens of thousands of dollars to put critical patients on ventilators when things have hit the fan, but God forbid we spend pennies per day on vitamin D supplements.
https://www.iherb.com/pr/now-foods-vitamin-d-3-125-mcg-5-000-iu-240-softgels/22335
Or $47 (less on sale, coming up in a month or two) on a vitamin D level lab test.
https://www.lifeextension.com/lab-testing/itemlc081950/vitamin-d-25-hydroxy-blood-test

That vitamin D test is easily available in almost all states. A simple trip to LabCorp for a blood draw and a few days later you get your results.

That lab test is also available in packages. Which are more expensive, but can lessen the per test cost considerably. For example, this fairly comprehensive suite for $299 (expensive, except when you start comparing it to things like prescription drugs, doctor visits, and hospital stays).
https://www.lifeextension.com/lab-testing/itemlc322582/male-panel-blood-test

Why is it our medical establishment can’t seem to deliver affordable vitamin D tests in care settings?

Consumer Unit, why are you discussing Old Product? You must become excited for Next Product. Are you not consuming Ukraine?

/put Western fans of Russian Orthodox Christianity in an awkward spot/

Why would it? It isn’t a religious war.

The only people who can fix this are the American people.

Easy to say, hard to do.

Unless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, be isolated from the rest of the world in abject poverty, and live in darkness you need to step up to the plate.

“Now National Dairy Goat Week, that’s a beautiful thing. Who couldn’t support it? Who doesn’t support goats? And if you don’t, what is your problem in life? You don’t like goats?”

I saw a guy on another website get accused of having sex with goats. His response? “Wait. What did the goats say? Lyin’ ass goats.”

“A lot of freelance journalism has seasonal themes”

Black History Month isn’t seasonal, it’s an ideological imposition, and so is Women’s History Month, which we’re in right now, and I’m a woman, and it’s annoying to me, and nobody asked my permission. At least with Women’s History Month it mostly takes the form for me of being hectored by my ATM at the local bank branch. Black History Month is more obtrusive.

Now National Dairy Goat Week, that’s a beautiful thing. Who couldn’t support it? Who doesn’t support goats? And if you don’t, what is your problem in life? You don’t like goats?

Aspiration to a contemplative life “marked by embodiment and emotion”, fortified by “napping”–

–Will get you reamed out if you try it as a novice in a contemplative monastery. It’s delusional, it’s common to beginners, and it’s nipped in the bud when the elders see it.

You’re being way too generous to Trudeau.

The clampdown has nothing to do with “opportunity costs” but with the fact that the one thing the neoliberal global elite truly can’t tolerate is a revolt of the white working class.

The truckers are the closest thing to John Galt that we’ve seen go on strike so far. I think this is a good thing, and I have increased our supplies here at the Mohawk Ranch accordingly, in expectation of what might happen in the Formerly-Good Ol’ USA.

My father was similarly biased against strikes as bourgeois Steve, but for more direct reasons: Factory workers in his Long Beach plant went on strike one time in the 1960s, and he and his fellow engineers and managers ran the machines and the line by themselves — successfully, BTW.

But that was a union, and Dad didn’t like unions. Are those Canadian truckers in a union? I doubt it. Are American truckers in a union? I doubt it. So, these are skilled guys who get our stuff where it needs to be, and they are as pissed off as I am.

Good.

We are basically moving backwards on every important social and economic metric.

Economically:
– Workforce participation is way down.
– Budget deficits are way up.
– Trade deficits are way up.
– Consumer debt is way up.
– Inflation is way up.
– Housing costs are way up.

Socially:
– Birthrates are way down.
– Suicides rates are way up.
– Overdose rates are way up.
– Marriage rates are way down.
– Violent crime rates are way up.
– Vehicular accidents are way up.

And even environmentally, we are facing a bevy of concerns that Leftists profess to care about, even as they import more legal and illegal immigrants each year (2-3 million) than live in entire states.

And yet the Democrats aren’t doing jack shit to try to fix any of it. They seem to actually enjoy making all of it worse. District attorneys in one Dem city after another release suspects and even refuse to charge them even as crime and violence soars.

Republicans haven’t rolled out any serious proposals, either. They’re just sitting there watching while the Democratic Party self destructs and brings the entire nation down with it. In fact several Republicans even decided that now would be a super good time to roll out yet another amnesty proposal.

We are watching our society self-destruct for no very good fucking reason. It is truly bizarre.

David Leonhardt, the head of the New York Times’ Upshot data journalism section, has been conducting a worthy campaign to get NYT subscribers to realize that Fighting Covid Forever comes with some unfortunate trade-offs, especially in this mild omicron era.

The lockdowns, social distancing, and mask mandates were insane and stupid ideas right from the get-go.

Ask yourself what would a saner America have done – say the America of Dwight D. Eisenhower? Well we know what they did. They didn’t freak-the-f**k out and tell everyone to cower in their homes. They didn’t do so because it would have been unthinkable. And they didn’t do it because you can’t work from home over a Western Electric 500 rotary telephone. The fact that the go-to mitigation strategy of everybody acting like Howard Hughes was implemented only because it was enabled by today’s telecommunications technology and not by any medical advance indicates what a bulls**t idea it was in the first place.

If the history of this era isn’t classified as a corporate secret and locked up in a vault in Geneva by the NWO oligarchs like in Rollerball, I expect people will eventually look back on the whole COVID episode as a mash-up of Orson Welle’s War of the Worlds broadcast and the Salem Witch Trials. They will wonder at whatever possessed people to behave so stupidly.

I’m tempted to agree, but I ask myself, Would the NYT publish a black woman who didn’t bitch and moan about white people, one who said she’d always been treated fairly and was content to live in a country created by such nice people? I think the answer is not yes. So perhaps, just perhaps, we shouldn’t judge all black people by the whiners in the mainstream press and the hucksters in politics?

Well why don’t we try that, Ripple E., about fifty thousand of us all at the same time sending in opinions about how fantastic it is to be white, it’s our great good fortune and we wouldn’t have it any other way and even in our current lowered condition we are commanding the heights and finding gold in the paydirt because That’s Who We Are, adversity adds to our innate vigor and rigor, and so on and so forth.

Repeat from time to time, fifty thousand of us, simultaneously. Give these preachy complaining bores at the NYT a well-deserved nervous breakdown. Who’s in?

News of Cannon Hinnant’s murder was suppressed. As so many others.

Some context: It was June 2020. George Floyd had just been murdered. Black people like myself were consumed with rage and were openly airing our grief.

why weren’t you outraged by the murder of Cannon Hinnant, an actual innocent?

From someone’s link above, I got to a 30 page pdf about VN USMC JAG cases in ’69-70. One of the few fragging deaths occurred the night after a platoon sergeant simply chewed out a sleeping sentry. Sentenced to life, he was released in 1980. Discipline had declined so badly, they decided to administratively discharge troublemakers, druggies, and even deserters, because they didn’t have enough Jags to court martial them all.

Well thank you darling, that was kindly.

By the time police arrive to deal with mentally ill persons, the situation is usually completely out of hand.

Family members apartment house managers bus drivers librarians convenience store owners parking lot security guards their fellow friends and deranged derelicts have already tried to deal with the situation.

And called the police because only 2 big strong White or black men or 4 women or petit Asian or Hispanic men can deal with the situation.

Police are now and always have been trained to deal with bar fights traffic confrontations domestic fights parking fights customers against clerks that kind of thing.

The only thing that can peacefully subdue a mentally person in full freak out mode is a great big shot of tranquilizer.

De escalation speaking quietly politely asking them to sit down on the curb “ while we talk about it” really doesn’t work.

And the main thing to remember is that the police are called because the mentally ill person is committing a crime. Trespassing , banging on residence doors and windows in the middle of the night , trying to break into cars, picking fights with passersby , exposing themselves , verbal and physical confrontations on public transit. Ruining public transit for everybody else. Making playgrounds and parks unusable for everybody else.

Psychiatrists after years of medical school internship and 5 years of residency don’t even attempt to calm down a mentally person in full freak out mode. They call the psychiatric techs big strong men capable of wrestling the patient into a position where they hold still long enough for a 4th or 5th psych tech to give them an injection of a strong tranquilizer. Four techs one for each arm and leg and a fifth to give the injection.

Don’t blame the police for the ruling of the Satanic Supreme Court in O’Connor vs Donaldson 1975. Don’t blame Ronald Regean either as he was not an elected official but a private citizen at the time. And don’t blame the police for the fact that the billions of federal money designated to set up residences and mental health clinics for the newly released patients just disappeared.

Naive gullible brainwashed author who believes the media.

It’s simple. Whatever is in the media; the opposite is true.