tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post214706075942927970..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: "X-Men: Days of Future Past"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82042672006895822292014-06-03T22:26:46.893-07:002014-06-03T22:26:46.893-07:00Gay cannot breed, so they have to recruit.
I ex...Gay cannot breed, so they have to recruit.<br /> I expect in the near future there will be a move to lower the age of consent. The United States is being filled up by immigrants, but legal and illegal. They have lower AOC. In our country, we do whatever Immigrants want.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20902311427343002982014-06-03T13:29:47.022-07:002014-06-03T13:29:47.022-07:00"You obvioulsy thought you were smarter than ..."You obvioulsy thought you were smarter than you were when you were 14."<br /><br />He's rather like the Guinness character in BRIDGE. He is so sure of himself. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76006115571333700232014-06-03T07:13:44.791-07:002014-06-03T07:13:44.791-07:00"Anonymous said...
Sadly, no. BRIDGE ON THE ..."Anonymous said...<br /><br />Sadly, no. BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is just a very obvious film.Hence, it didn't take much brains to see what Lean was going for. Try comparing it to Donne."<br /><br />Or Shakespeare, or Milton, or some other famous worthy that makes me sound erudite, and whose works are entirely non-sequitur in the context of a movie about WWII POWs.<br /><br />You obvioulsy thought you were smarter than you were when you were 14. Perhaps you still do. You may be surprised to learn that others do not share your estimation of your intellect.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71898402896599931752014-06-02T22:21:35.432-07:002014-06-02T22:21:35.432-07:00http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/06/why_sa...http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/06/why_sailer_scar.html<br /><br />Oooooooooh. You scare.<br /><br />Rotfl.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25297203516764898062014-06-02T21:44:11.328-07:002014-06-02T21:44:11.328-07:00It was the Sfardi Chief Rabbi who declared Ethiopi...It was the Sfardi Chief Rabbi who declared Ethiopian tribe as "kosher jews", and the B'nei Menashe tribe as "kosher jews".<br /><br />Hell, the Karai'im had a more difficult time than thesse two.<br /><br />The existence of Karai'ite Jews and of Samaritan-Hebrew speaking villages, is clear evidence of the continuity of the Israelites since the days of (well at least) Herod's Temple. <br /><br />Arguably, the Karait'es take you back to Solomon's Temple 3200 years ago.<br /><br />The Karaites are also doing well in Daly City, California.<br /><br />The Palestinians don't like to talk about those two groups.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19242736213821377642014-06-02T21:12:11.251-07:002014-06-02T21:12:11.251-07:00""If you shut them out entirely, they wi...<i>""If you shut them out entirely, they will just force their way in (think Ottomans, Mongols, etc)."</i><br /><br />But neither of these ever even made it to Western Europe. Eastern Europe, yes. Central Europe a bit. Defense in depth has its place.<br /><br />The Ottomans got stopped at the gates of Vienna and at Lepanto. The Mongols don't seem to have been so hot in places where they couldn't mass cavalry, like in heavily forested areas that didn't have large rivers that froze over. In any case, they couldn't even sustain the campaign in Central Europe in the face of their own internal politics. Could they have won if they stayed? Maybe, but they didn't even manage to ever come back. <br /><br /><br /><br />The Mongols are coming, let's surrender now, is hardly a winning or necessary strategy for the modern West.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12159612029604471172014-06-02T20:23:03.286-07:002014-06-02T20:23:03.286-07:00It seems to me that Spider-Man, and the various su...It seems to me that Spider-Man, and the various superheroes who teamed up for the Avengers movie, are better suited to blockbuster films, whereas the X-Men are better suited for serials (which today means TV).<br /><br />This is because the X-Men is inherently not about particular individuals, but about a group and its relationships. This makes it far better suited to a long-term format where multiple interacting stories play out. <br /><br />You can tell a story that revolves mainly around one person and their relationships in a movie. To tell a story with multiple foci requires several hours, and time to digest the varying parts.<br /><br />The Avengers, of course, it also a movie about a team, but there is one major difference: the individuals who make up the team are established heroes in their own right. It's like the Justice League; it is interesting to see how Superman and Batman interact, but their characters are not defined by one another.<br /><br />With the X-Men, though, each character is first established by their place in the team.<br /><br />So the dynamics are more complex, and more suited to a format such as TV than to the movies.Glaivesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16867323638154972101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68755900321218545692014-06-02T18:27:13.960-07:002014-06-02T18:27:13.960-07:00I think the original poster was being ironic, and ...<i>I think the original poster was being ironic, and meant just what you said. Physically powerful children need to be either: given stricter supervision and no undue political power over other children, or be physically isolated from their potential victims.</i><br /><br />Ah, I see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63084543553233913402014-06-02T17:24:39.907-07:002014-06-02T17:24:39.907-07:00http://gizmo.do/NFLCc6Z
This has to be a hoax.
...http://gizmo.do/NFLCc6Z<br /><br />This has to be a hoax. <br /><br />If not, WWTR?<br /><br />World War Trans-racial. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13388758741568745222014-06-02T17:21:33.638-07:002014-06-02T17:21:33.638-07:00http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rubin#Businesshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rubin#BusinessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2219971425919199312014-06-02T17:16:07.821-07:002014-06-02T17:16:07.821-07:00"BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is just a very obvi..."BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is just a very obvious film.Hence, it didn't take much brains to see what Lean was going for."<br /><br />It seems to have an obvious anti-war message, but it's a rather strange film, and in the end, I'm not sure who was in the right. <br />Of course, one cay say that it presents a very kind of obvious textbook version of 'ambiguity' for middlebrow audiences who want to feel a bit sophisticated, but I still think the character of Alec Guinness is fascinating. He's appalling for his admirable qualities. He has a certain logic and he follows it to its end, which is both logical and absurd. Rather reminds me of Strelnikov in Doctor Zhivago. A man of pure revolutionary logic who becomes blind to his inhumanity in the name of humanity. <br /><br />But I personally don't much care for BRIDGE. Japanese are presented as too comical and inept when they were far crueler with POWs and natives. It seems more like a Boy Scout outing than a prison camp. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24296598843702301232014-06-02T16:55:03.979-07:002014-06-02T16:55:03.979-07:00Anon @ 6/2/14, 2:53 PM:
Now that's how you ha...Anon @ 6/2/14, 2:53 PM:<br /><br />Now <i>that's</i> how you handle someone needling you, with humor and aplomb. Well played sir.Dennis Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03233729780363740881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86128368778528320552014-06-02T15:54:26.220-07:002014-06-02T15:54:26.220-07:00Imagine someone like Hama going over to fight agai...<i>Imagine someone like Hama going over to fight against people his fellow soldiers would be calling "gooks" and "slants", probably in his presence</i><br /><br />Most of the American soldiers in the Korean/Vietnam wars were more interested in fighting "gooks and slants" rather than fighting communism.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69929255416983970522014-06-02T15:13:54.422-07:002014-06-02T15:13:54.422-07:00"The Vietnamese are not "ethnically"..."The Vietnamese are not "ethnically" close to the Japanese; the two cultures are quite distinct. Add to that the fact that Hama is Japanese-American, and one can easily see that he would have had little to nothing in common with the Vietnamese on a cultural level."<br /><br />So I messed up ethnic and racial. Imagine someone like Hama going over to fight against people his fellow soldiers would be calling "gooks" and "slants", probably in his presence. You don't think he's going to have some pangs of "WTF am I doing here?" That was my point.<br /><br />Also consider that the Empire of Vietnam was one of the member states of the Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, which had an idealistic origin even if it was used by the Japanese military as justification for a power grab.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80286131787926011962014-06-02T15:02:57.411-07:002014-06-02T15:02:57.411-07:00RE: X-MEN in the comics,
I would recommend Grant ...RE: X-MEN in the comics,<br /><br />I would recommend Grant Morrison's run on the title. Some quite striking ideas. What really makes it stand out is GM's take on Magneto; he shows the Hitlerian politics behind the persecuted minority facade. Needless to say, the fanboys loathed what he did.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24073646216175382722014-06-02T14:53:26.651-07:002014-06-02T14:53:26.651-07:00Dennis Dale:"I was referring to your manifest...<br /><br />Dennis Dale:"I was referring to your manifesto. Can we see it before or after you shoot up the local YWCA?"<br /><br />Afraid that I'm more the serial killer type. Higher survival quotient. Mass Shooters tend to die messy deaths.I plan on plaguing humanity for a very long time.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dennis Dale:"I know. I was agreeing with you. Just saying you still have to go out and earn it; being born with a set of testicles doesn't mean you have balls.*"<br /><br />Oh, yes. The gulf between men yawns wide. Afraid that I am no Napoleon. Heck, I'm not even a Lord Byron.<br /><br /> Dennis Dale:"Or brains. As Sgt Hulka would say: lighten up, Francis.<br />You take it all too seriously young man."<br /><br /><br />Odd. I always though that my problem is that I am not serious enough. Well, everything's relative, I suppose.<br /><br /><br /> Dennis Dale:"But I think I will check out that CS Lewis story--in all seriousness."<br /><br />THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH? It's part of Lewis' SPACE TRILOGY. The writing is pretty terrible, but it is interesting to see Lewis graft his Christian concerns on to familiar SF tropes.<br /><br />Dennis Dale:"*hey, that's good; I hope you're writing this down"<br /><br />No need. Good memory for odd turns of phrase.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2497995097005180142014-06-02T14:42:42.419-07:002014-06-02T14:42:42.419-07:00Mr Anon:"Sure, it was about a sled. I'm s...<br /><br />Mr Anon:"Sure, it was about a sled. I'm sure you picked right up on that."<br /><br />The Sled. Bernstein's speech about the girl. The shots from below, making the characters look like titans, etc. The only thing that I didn't really appreciate at the time was the deep-focus photography.<br /><br /><br /><br />Mr Anon:"Yeah, it was about a bridge. You were a real prodigy."<br /><br />Sadly, no. BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is just a very obvious film.Hence, it didn't take much brains to see what Lean was going for. Try comparing it to Donne. The chasm between great literature and film is very wide and deep.A boy can get KWAI; he can't get Donne.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1415172443173193122014-06-02T10:48:13.402-07:002014-06-02T10:48:13.402-07:00Um....isn't it possible that Wertham actually ...<i>Um....isn't it possible that Wertham actually believed in all this vice stuff (he went after Batman for the homosexual content, after all) and was genuinely upset at the EC comics with the guy holding the dripping head? The guy seems to have been of the old liberal good-government school, now long since buried under diversity and World War T.</i><br /><br />Wertham was a true believer in all his stuff. He was most definitely from the moralistic Moscow School rather than the nihilist Frankfurt School. My point stands, that he was definitely selective in his targeting. It is very possible that TPTP either bribed or blackmailed him (over his commie past) into going after Gaines/EC first and foremost. Wertham never said a bloody thing about the Catechetical Guild and its Catholic falangism, violent art and stories*, paranoid conspiracy mongering, and hidden anti-Semitism.<br /><br />* Although its depictions of communist atrocities in Eastern Europe were factual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56370230961375711832014-06-02T09:23:20.459-07:002014-06-02T09:23:20.459-07:00"If you shut them out entirely, they will jus..."If you shut them out entirely, they will just force their way in (think Ottomans, Mongols, etc)."<br /><br />I don't think we have a problem with the Ottomans and Mongols. Hordes of sword and spear-wielding horsemen are not the issue. Internal rot, rule by bankers and the destruction of a healthy nationalism are the issues. Although I still fail to see how letting in a few hardworking Huns and Mongols would have prevented Ghengis Khan or Alexander the Great from conquering and slaughtering everything in their path. Only instantaneous, complete, abject and prostrate surrender would suffice, if that. Big Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46045187239439567532014-06-02T09:20:18.540-07:002014-06-02T09:20:18.540-07:00Most comic books are now homo-fascist. Most comic books are now homo-fascist. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35410838355991126562014-06-02T07:16:14.759-07:002014-06-02T07:16:14.759-07:00Gunnar, it's like the episodes of True Blood t...Gunnar, it's like the episodes of True Blood that Alan Ball writes. It's a lock that he'll have at least one scene with a loving focus one the guys' asses.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18232611756993730152014-06-02T05:29:30.413-07:002014-06-02T05:29:30.413-07:00"I mean, if you can't trust Bryan Singer,...<i>"I mean, if you can't trust Bryan Singer, boys, who can you trust?"</i><br /><br />Speaking of which, you know what's bogus? Bryan Singer found a reason to show the audience Hugh Jackman's bare ass. Did we get to see Jennifer Lawrence's bare ass? Rhetorical.<br /><br />Disclaimer: There's no compelling reason to show anyone's bare ass in a superhero movie targeted at teens/kids, but Singer's "directorial fingerprints" area all over this one.Gunnarvoncowtown von Cowtownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01729934326580470595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79730646569871860352014-06-02T04:20:55.422-07:002014-06-02T04:20:55.422-07:00"You do realize that he was only the chief sp..."You do realize that he was only the chief spiritual leader of Israeli Sephardic and Mizrahi religious Jews. Religious Ashkenazi Jews in Israel wouldn't necessarily take his pronouncements as authoritative. There is no pope-like controlling authority in Judaism. Secular Jews everywhere would ignore him completely, assuming non-Israeli secular Jews had even heard of him in the first place."<br /><br />My (secular) Israeli ex-girlfriend used to mock the guy, saying he had told everyone they couldn't blow their nose on Saturday. She was also, ironically, the one who told me to lay off the Germans, and tried to get me to buy a German refrigerator.<br /><br />Anyone still reading this thread will appreciate this: she actually did play the dual loyalty card and tried to get me to vote for McCain because it would be better for Israel; I declined, figuring he was a hothead who would get us into WW3. <br /><br />"That was all part of the "Jewish-American civil war" of the early 1950s. It included McCarthyism, the Rosenberg trials, even comics censorship. And there were unrelated issues ... Max Gaines, founder of EC Comics, had many friends in high places. His son Bill, lost such support when he changed EC's direction from lowbrow Christian conservative to secular libertarian. Wertham was easily bribed into targeting EC Comics rather than (say) Catechetical Guild - a Catholic outfit which should have outraged a left-wing Jew like Wertham."<br /><br />Um....isn't it possible that Wertham actually believed in all this vice stuff (he went after Batman for the homosexual content, after all) and was genuinely upset at the EC comics with the guy holding the dripping head? The guy seems to have been of the old liberal good-government school, now long since buried under diversity and World War T.SFGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16831288879100687552014-06-02T00:38:26.312-07:002014-06-02T00:38:26.312-07:00Interestingly, one of the more prominent mid-20th ...<i>Interestingly, one of the more prominent mid-20th century anti-comics crusaders, Fredric Wertham, was a German-Jewish psychiatrist.</i><br /><br /><i>With Wertham and the Comics Code, the publishers really needed to get on the good side of the parents and the Military-Industrial Complex</i><br /><br />That was all part of the "Jewish-American civil war" of the early 1950s. It included McCarthyism, the Rosenberg trials, even comics censorship. And there were unrelated issues ... Max Gaines, founder of EC Comics, had many friends in high places. His son Bill, lost such support when he changed EC's direction from lowbrow Christian conservative to secular libertarian. Wertham was easily bribed into targeting EC Comics rather than (say) Catechetical Guild - a Catholic outfit which should have outraged a left-wing Jew like Wertham.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8143252092344567972014-06-02T00:04:34.876-07:002014-06-02T00:04:34.876-07:00Sometime in middle school there was a student who ...<i><b>Sometime in middle school there was a student who was at least 2 years older, a foot taller, and 100 pounds heavier than his grademates. How did the rulers of that school protect other students from him? By making him the class president, football team quarterback, scout troop leader, grand pooh-bah, etc.</b></i><br /><br /><i>Not something that one would want to adopt as policy in dealing with members of a self-proclaimed separate race with super-powers, I think.</i><br /><br />I think the original poster was being ironic, and meant just what you said. Physically powerful children need to be either: given stricter supervision and no undue political power over other children, or be physically isolated from their potential victims.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com