tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post7997182441831497529..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: The Mystery of Ronald ReaganUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24204791818764429142011-02-07T19:22:40.002-08:002011-02-07T19:22:40.002-08:00I would add one more factor to what Steve discusse...I would add one more factor to what Steve discussed: Reagan's being a man of his particular generation. Based on my own anecdotal experience, I have met a number of people who exhibit the kind of friendly yet detached mode of interaction characteristic of Reagan, and all such people come from the generation born 1900-20. I don't attribute the characteristic to their age as such, but to the culture they came from. <br /><br />People took a much stronger sense of their personal identities from roles they played in life -- employee, friend, brother, father -- that made them fulfill those roles but without much particular emotional attachment to them. Perhaps this characteristic was even stronger in an actor that in other people of the age, who exhibit much the same type of behavior.Dregshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17009348007997259851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90899483281901379012011-02-02T19:02:07.997-08:002011-02-02T19:02:07.997-08:00Silly lil' ole white youngins--looking for som...<i>Silly lil' ole white youngins--looking for something to fight for as if their whole lil' self-esteem rested on it.<br /><br />How about they look to some serious stuff. Talk about pampered youth.</i> <br /><br />Today it's Slick's turn to wonder whether he'll be gettin' any gran' chilluns:<br /> <br /> <br /><b>Is the honeymoon over already? Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky 'spending three months apart'</b> <br />By Daily Mail Reporter<br />Last updated at 3:46 PM on 2nd February 2011<br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1352898/Chelsea-Clinton-Marc-Mezvinsky-spending-months-apart.html" rel="nofollow">dailymail.co.uk</a> <br /><br /><i>Their lavish wedding last summer had the world captivated. <br /><br />But it seems that the honeymoon period is already over for Chelsea Clinton and her new husband.<br /><br />Marc Mezvinsky has quit his job as an investment banker in favour of a three-month break at the exclusive ski resort of Jackson Hole in Wyoming.<br /><br />But rather than accompanying her husband on the extended break, the Secretary of State's daughter will be remaining in New York instead.<br /><br />The nature of the couple's temporary separation remains something of a mystery...</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1415668126629821942011-02-01T18:36:04.967-08:002011-02-01T18:36:04.967-08:00"Breaking with her father, Barbara Bush voice..."Breaking with her father, Barbara Bush voices support for gay marriage." <br /><br /><br />I laughed aloud this morning when I heard this--as if somehow this person's opinion should carry weight with me or anyone else. <br /><br />What the heck is it with these 25-30 somethings? That airhead on Fox, Margaret Hoover, whose only claim to fame is her granddaddy (or is it great granddaddy?) says she thinks gay marriage is the civil rights fight of her generation. HAHAHAHA. My my, how the notion of civil rights has changed.<br /><br />Silly lil' ole white youngins--looking for something to fight for as if their whole lil' self-esteem rested on it.<br /><br />How about they look to some serious stuff. Talk about pampered youth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8525612908494121162011-02-01T14:40:29.051-08:002011-02-01T14:40:29.051-08:00And so it begins:
Breaking with her father, Ba...And so it begins:<br /> <br /> <br /><b>Breaking with her father, Barbara Bush voices support for gay marriage</b> <br />By Holly Bailey<br />Tue Feb 1, 9:41 am ET<br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110201/ts_yblog_theticket/breaking-with-her-father-barbara-bush-voices-support-for-gay-marriage" rel="nofollow">news.yahoo.com</a> <br /><br /><i>Barbara Bush, one of former President George W. Bush's twin daughters, is appearing in a new video voicing her support for same sex marriage.<br /><br />"I'm Barbara Bush, and I'm a New Yorker for marriage equality," she says in a 22-second video released Monday by the Human Rights Campaign, a group that lobbies for equal treatment for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders.<br /><br />"New York is about fairness and equality," she says in the video. "And everyone should have the right to marry the person that they love."<br /><br />The video ends with Bush, who is 29, imploring viewers to "join us."</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47487636581187170602011-01-30T18:29:38.157-08:002011-01-30T18:29:38.157-08:00Ronald Reagan seems like the kinda uninformed fron...<i>Ronald Reagan seems like the kinda uninformed frontman politician. </i> <br /><br />You seem like the kinda uninformed lefty who credulously repeats whatever garbage he's read in <i>Mother Jones</i> or <i>The New York Times</i>.Severnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20164110723431313992011-01-30T17:52:26.744-08:002011-01-30T17:52:26.744-08:00"Descartes said...
For example, infamously d..."Descartes said...<br /><br />For example, infamously downplaying and blocking the case of the four raped American nuns in Guatemala, his government's role in the murder of Archbishop Romero, etc."<br /><br />Romero was murdered in 1980, while Carter was President.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90595643934081015042011-01-30T11:14:54.971-08:002011-01-30T11:14:54.971-08:00"I just thought about this: why wouldn't ..."I just thought about this: why wouldn't Ron Jr. admit he's gay? Because his mother is still alive! Which means that most of us WILL see him admit it at some not too distant point in the future. And he'll probably write a book about it too."<br /><br />1.) Nan and the former President seem to have produced two children who are, shall we say, biologically atypical. What's her name, the daughter, is a true space cadet.<br /><br />2.) I don't believe for a minute that Nan doesn't know. She hasn't led a sheltered life, after all. I am sure the President knew too.<br /><br />3.) I believe you are right--he'll write a book, go on morning talk shows where the likes of Matt Lauer and the lefties will embrace him with their love and understanding. <br /><br /> Gag. Puke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46685395032780534942011-01-29T22:14:17.360-08:002011-01-29T22:14:17.360-08:00I just thought about this: why wouldn't Ron Jr...I just thought about this: why wouldn't Ron Jr. admit he's gay? Because his mother is still alive! Which means that most of us WILL see him admit it at some not too distant point in the future. And he'll probably write a book about it too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42451979427656606082011-01-29T21:07:56.531-08:002011-01-29T21:07:56.531-08:00Ronald Reagan seems like the kinda uninformed fron...Ronald Reagan seems like the kinda uninformed frontman politician. He was very supportive of the religious right, establishing it as the primary republican driving force, yet his government waged a war against liberation theology and Latin American Catholicism that sought to end the string of American-established dictators. Oddly enough, his voter base often went down south to support the people he was tormenting. <br /><br />For example, infamously downplaying and blocking the case of the four raped American nuns in Guatemala, his government's role in the murder of Archbishop Romero, etc.Descartesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68269736415879357782011-01-29T21:02:53.703-08:002011-01-29T21:02:53.703-08:00Lucius Vorenus posted some interesting data concer...Lucius Vorenus posted some interesting data concerning the demographic collapse of white Americans. Perhaps he could find the corresponding data for Ashkenazi Jews globally. I suspect the trends are the same.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4850195253168624052011-01-29T18:13:40.874-08:002011-01-29T18:13:40.874-08:00"Now I see your problem regarding HBD: you ha..."Now I see your problem regarding HBD: you haven't the foggies notion what "stupid" means. Ah, "stupid is as stupid does...and says."<br /><br />Are you sure that I'm the one, grasshopper:<br /><br />Memory = mental action that indicates "G" = Intelligence quotient = high/low IQ. <br /><br />Or are all of these South Indian spelling champs just stupid?Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71767789592969629052011-01-29T15:47:38.934-08:002011-01-29T15:47:38.934-08:00Stoicism vs. emotionalism is cyclical. The Victor...Stoicism vs. emotionalism is cyclical. The Victorians were not obnoxiously therapeutic in the modern sense, but they were very emotional and their florid tone of their letters (both by men and women) can sometimes make shocking reading. The line "Better to have loved and lost than never love at all" was written by a straight man about a straight male friendship. In the twentieth century a more stoic style came in.James Kabalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02335302113772004687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31520814417971865882011-01-29T12:57:40.213-08:002011-01-29T12:57:40.213-08:00"He's got colic right now, which is why I..."He's got colic right now, which is why I only ever post in the middle of the night anymore."<br /><br />Poor baby. POOR DADDY! <br /><br />Buy a sling and walk the floor with him 12 hrs. during the daytime when he's not crying -- a good chance that then you won't have to walk the floor with him all night.<br /><br />Carrying settles babies. <br /><br />(Not the plastic, tub kind; the soft carriers that attach to your body, Snugglis, etc.)JSMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3201187490673607662011-01-29T12:47:16.662-08:002011-01-29T12:47:16.662-08:00"Lucius Vorenus said...
Truth: In other word..."Lucius Vorenus said...<br /><br />Truth: In other words, Regan's [sic] son believes he was stupid."<br /><br />Perhaps Reagan just didn't like his son. Reading comprehension is obviously not one of "Truth"'s strong suits (nor indeed apparently is spelling), as obviously, Ron Jr. did not say or imply that his father was stupid. But "Truth" Is quick to see in others what he cannot avoid seeing in himself.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72951233359302130952011-01-29T11:16:02.175-08:002011-01-29T11:16:02.175-08:00Truth,
Now I see your problem regarding HBD: yo...Truth, <br /><br />Now I see your problem regarding HBD: you haven't the foggies notion what "stupid" means. Ah, "stupid is as stupid does...and says."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70614055882973524642011-01-29T11:14:45.338-08:002011-01-29T11:14:45.338-08:00"I went to college with a guy who went to hig..."I went to college with a guy who went to high school with Ron who said that he was gay."<br /><br /><br />I don't know how anyone who listens to him speak would ever dobut it.<br /><br />(Oh, yeah, I forgot that gays claim that most gays are really masculine behaving in speech and mannerisms and that we breeders can't tell. Yeah, sure.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5826337080817894302011-01-29T08:56:38.796-08:002011-01-29T08:56:38.796-08:00Anonymous Lucius Vorenus said...
our line damned s...<i>Anonymous Lucius Vorenus said...<br />our line damned sure isn't going to end with you, so get the hell out there and make me some God-damned grandchildren. NOW!!!" . . . If nothing else, he should have been all over Ron's & Patti's moral educations, to make dadgum certain that they didn't cross over to the Dark Side. . . Because - at the end of the day - a man who hasn't ensured his own children's moral education is a man who has failed the single most important test of his entire life.</i><br /><br />You mention you're a new parent. I wish you the best of luck in getting your children to turn out exactly the way you want them. They have ideas of their own.<br /><br />In 15 or 20 years you might not find yourself inclined to judge people on the basis of how their kids turned out.Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7702005450860362422011-01-29T02:29:48.468-08:002011-01-29T02:29:48.468-08:00"'Occasionally,' Mr. Reagan writes, &...<i>"'Occasionally,' Mr. Reagan writes, 'he seemed to need reminding about basic aspects of my life — like birthdays, who my friends were or how I was doing in school. I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I’d walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I’d disappeared into the wings of his mind’s stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.' <br /><br />In other words, Regan's[sic] son believes he was stupid."</i><br /><br />Priceless.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70304933452251749072011-01-29T02:05:07.787-08:002011-01-29T02:05:07.787-08:00And how many offspring have you produced there, Lu...<i>And how many offspring have you produced there, Luke?</i> <br /><br />T, I just recently got into the bidness, for the first time.<br /><br />He's got colic right now, which is why I only ever post in the middle of the night anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40861673661830661622011-01-29T02:02:35.831-08:002011-01-29T02:02:35.831-08:00none of the above: I rather suspect this is a symp...<b>none of the above:</b> <i>I rather suspect this is a symptom of being able to be a "great" man, in the sense of having a huge impact on the world.</i> <br /><br /><b>Truth:</b> <i>In other words, Regan's</i> [sic] <i> son believes he was stupid.</i> <br /><br />Assuming you meant Reagan's son, [and not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Regan" rel="nofollow">Don Regan</a>'s son], I am getting the sense that maybe precisely the opposite was true - that maybe early on, Reagan realized that all of his children were utterly mediocre, and that - if he himself were to achieve anything of greatness - his children would simply have to be left to fend for themselves.<br /><br /><b>David:</b> <i>Gays, Jews, and women cannot figure out straight gentile men. They remain forever "weird." Where is the nagging, where are the tears, where is the arguing, where is the plotzing, where is the drama, where is the Love?</i> <br /><br />Here, though - and, again, with the accompanying <a href="http://isteve.blogspot.com/2011/01/marty-peretz.html" rel="nofollow">Marty Peretz thread</a> in mind - I think that Reagan probably could have inserted a little bit more of a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?safe=off&&q=rosenzweig+spengler+site:www.atimes.com" rel="nofollow">Rosenzweigian</a> imperative into his children's lives; something along the lines of, "Look, we've got 5000 years of recorded history in this race, and our line damned sure isn't going to end with you, so get the hell out there and make me some God-damned grandchildren. NOW!!!"<br /><br />If nothing else, he should have been all over Ron's & Patti's moral educations, to make dadgum certain that they didn't cross over to the Dark Side [as, indeed, they were so tragically to do].<br /><br />Because - at the end of the day - a man who hasn't ensured his own children's moral education is a man who has failed the single most important test of his entire life.Lucius Vorenusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4337546426108657142011-01-29T01:30:11.506-08:002011-01-29T01:30:11.506-08:00I went to college with a guy who went to high scho...I went to college with a guy who went to high school with Ron who said that he was gay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69188300887488456902011-01-28T22:05:19.586-08:002011-01-28T22:05:19.586-08:00One other thing about Reagan, he wasn't just a...One other thing about Reagan, he wasn't just a liberal, he was the Warren Beatty-style activist. What Jamie Galbraith said of Reagan to the deficit reduction commission is quite true...<br /><i>I am offering this statement on behalf of Americans for Democratic Action, an organization co-founded in 1949 by (among others) Eleanor Roosevelt, John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur M. Schlesinger, jr., and Ronald Reagan...</i><br />http://www.angrybearblog.com/2010/07/professor-jamie-galbraiths-testimony-to.htmlbeowulfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1004120478533195402011-01-28T21:54:20.573-08:002011-01-28T21:54:20.573-08:00Truman is the most human of all our presidents and...<i>Truman is the most human of all our presidents and the most prototypically American.</i><br />Agree strongly. Truman was kept busy cleaning up the messes FDR left him (Soviet spies all over the govt for one) which he did quietly and competently. What' more, he was ahead, sometimes decades ahead, of Congress in his judgment. This would be a better country if three of the laws he fought for had passed, the full employment act (a watered down "employment act" passed instead), national health insurance, universal military training. <br />Naturally, Ronald Reagan endorsed him.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJDhS4oUm0Mbeowulfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53336992971444714592011-01-28T20:52:11.434-08:002011-01-28T20:52:11.434-08:00"For that matter, never once did I hear any o..."For that matter, never once did I hear any other conservative cry out about the plunge in Caucasian fertility rates"<br /><br />And how many offspring have you produced there, Luke?Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55661909430934630102011-01-28T20:50:30.106-08:002011-01-28T20:50:30.106-08:00"The author says that...he often seemed to be..."The author says that...he often seemed to be “wandering somewhere in his own head.” <br /><br />“Occasionally,” Mr. Reagan writes, “he seemed to need reminding about basic aspects of my life — like birthdays, who my friends were or how I was doing in school. I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I’d walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I’d disappeared into the wings of his mind’s stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.” <br /><br />In other words, Regan's son believes he was stupid.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.com