tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post6041862656871405591..comments2024-03-29T05:14:33.223-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: "Carlos"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83165706075363784162013-09-11T09:52:05.880-07:002013-09-11T09:52:05.880-07:00As a kid in the 1970s it seemed like terrorists we...As a kid in the 1970s it seemed like terrorists were an unstoppable force, the media played this up of course.<br /><br />From my pov it seemed like the tide turned in '76 with the Israeli raid on Entebbe and then in 1980 with the British breaking the Iranian embassy siege. After those defeats, the terrorist hijacking, hostage taking thing seemed to be in retreat. Then it was all down to bombing and little else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82015786972903551372013-09-10T23:34:56.070-07:002013-09-10T23:34:56.070-07:00Is "Carlos Danger" a linkage to all this...Is "Carlos Danger" a linkage to all this? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81323667331526038592013-09-10T14:55:13.970-07:002013-09-10T14:55:13.970-07:00Certainly wouldn't miss the tattoos. They used...<i>Certainly wouldn't miss the tattoos. They used to be a much better indicator of psychopaths, criminals and the mentally ill.</i><br /><br />And witches.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56767594276624561232013-09-10T13:58:57.177-07:002013-09-10T13:58:57.177-07:00On Steve's comment about the militarization of...On Steve's comment about the militarization of the police:<br />I was watching Argo a few days ago and was reading about the subject later. Supposedly one of the embassy employees smuggled out of Iran by the Canadian/CIA operation said he encountered more security flying into Toronto for the film's 2012 premiere than he did flying out of Tehran in 1980.Cornnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50206430361968593922013-09-10T13:01:32.853-07:002013-09-10T13:01:32.853-07:00"Jews now have the power to impose any narrat..."Jews now have the power to impose any narrative."<br /><br />Ever read the Bible?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31665836916821332122013-09-10T12:32:19.234-07:002013-09-10T12:32:19.234-07:00Andropov may have started his foray into terrorism...Andropov may have started his foray into terrorism with <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9628028/The-assassination-of-President-John-F-Kennedy-the-finger-points-to-the-KGB.html" rel="nofollow">ordering the assassination of Kennedy</a>.Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389602137217799305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4627965738048258962013-09-10T07:22:47.089-07:002013-09-10T07:22:47.089-07:00Anonymous said: "But people *did* have tattoo...Anonymous said: "But people *did* have tattoos in the 1970s.<br /><br />...found on a certain breed of middle aged man of a rather 'dodgy' predisposition ie the bearer had a 'shady' past of which, (out of politeness), you would not enquire about..."<br /><br />I wouldn't say dodgy, just working class. Or had been enlisted in the military. When I joined the Navy (mid 80's), we officer candidates were not allowed to have tattoos. Tattoos were a TED (typical enlisted dude) thing. I'd be surprised if that's still the case. Otis McWrongnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46758911422251336482013-09-10T07:21:27.893-07:002013-09-10T07:21:27.893-07:00"Carlos is a cold but propulsive 2010 French ..."Carlos is a cold but propulsive 2010 French miniseries..."<br /><br />Cold? What was it supposed to be? The feel-good hit of the year?Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66969055616874601362013-09-09T23:21:21.078-07:002013-09-09T23:21:21.078-07:00But people *did* have tattoos in the 1970s.
As I ...But people *did* have tattoos in the 1970s.<br /><br />As I remember they were mainly rather crudely done, blotchy and spready in green ink and found on a certain breed of middle aged man of a rather 'dodgy' predisposition ie the bearer had a 'shady' past of which, (out of politeness), you would not enquire about, and you usually met them whilst engaging a building contractor to do some work in your house.<br /> The meme that used to go around in those days was that 'respectable' people did not have tattoos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51891806386910935272013-09-09T22:03:11.418-07:002013-09-09T22:03:11.418-07:00Crime rates in the US (and the European countries ...Crime rates in the US (and the European countries now) are a function of how effective the police and prison system are in arresting and convicting and imprisoning Black, and in Europe Muslim, offenders.<br /><br />You can't disentangle crime from race, given that Black and Muslims (in Europe, not America it seems for now) offend at rates far higher than Whites. Let alone Asians (who have the lowest offending rates).<br /><br />America in the 1970s was significantly Whiter than today. With a far smaller illegal alien population. LA for example was mainly White at that time, something unthinkable now.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43650966799100487582013-09-09T18:17:36.598-07:002013-09-09T18:17:36.598-07:00The 96th street rule was valid for a long time, an...The 96th street rule was valid for a long time, and still is to some extent, but less so.<br /><br />On the east side it remains more valid than on the west. The key reason is that 96th is where the metro north (formerly the New York Central Rail Road) tracks come up above ground at Park Avenue. So, it’s not desirable to live along the elevated tracks. Park literally changes from hedge fund apartments to tenements in one block.<br /><br />Along 5th Ave, which faces the park (until 110th), it is different. First, above 96th you still have some very nice co-op buildings. The price will be dramatically lower than it would be in a comparable building lower down the avenue, but still in the millions. Second, you have some very fine cultural institutions on upper 5th, such as the Museum of the City of New York. Third, and perhaps most important, there is Mt. Sinai Hospital, which has gobs of money, owns much of the land, and rules the area with an iron fist. So, the UES above 96th is OK more or less from 5th to Madison (sketchier the farther north you go, but still OK).<br /><br />On the west side, it is the reverse. There is an atrocious housing project, for one thing. For years there was an insane asylum, which was eventually closed. But there are still a lot of crummy SRO hotels and “halfway houses” and treatment centers. The city is somewhat cynical about siting them there because the bureaucrats know that the hopelessly lib residents lack any kind of intellectual immune system to say “Wait, we really don’t need any more damned degenerates.” Instead, they tend to say, uneasily, “Um, yes, these are good people down on their luck and we are obligated to help, yeah, uh …”<br /><br />So, generally the UWS along the park above 96th is bad, and very nonwhite and druggy and crime ridden but away from the park, quite nice and expensive. So, West End is good as is Riverside. Broadway is fine for shopping, it starts to get sketchy around Amsterdam.<br /><br />Columbia is a huge help in that “good blocks” continue on the west west side until 123rd. Venturing east of Morningside Ave however can be suicidal. Broadway up there is lovely and very SWPL.<br /><br />Morningside Park is black. I assume that what the author of the NYT piece means by “upper Manhattan” is really the truly latin part above Columbia. She keeps it vague so that, you know …<br /><br />Once you get above Columbia the area is heavily Dominican, with some other Latin flavors mixed in. ’Twas not always so. Henry the K grew up up there. And, there is one rich area—Sugar Hill, or “Hamilton Terrace—with bougie blacks and gentrifying whites.<br /><br />My own story on this, was that in 2011, I was in Long Beach, came in on a boat, docked at that harbor by the aquarium, got off to walk around. There was a large family of Mexicans having a birthday party for a kid. He opened all this presents. Then they left, with all the ribbons and wrapping paper—plus all their food trash—on the lovely well kept grass. It was just like that scene from season 1 of Mad Men. Except no SWPL alive today would even think about doing that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85569239078048372592013-09-09T17:36:50.221-07:002013-09-09T17:36:50.221-07:00Haven't yet seen this French production, and a...Haven't yet seen this French production, and am in no way anxious to see it. Jeez, I've met actual <i>Maoists</i>(!) in France; I can easily imagine Ol' Careless finding many havens and lovers there. Not a fan of those folks ;)<br /><br />I've always felt that The Japanese Red Army, the Baader Meinhoff gangbangers and the Italians messing with Aldo M. were essentially a bunch of acid fatalities who, through loose logic, had embraced nihilism. In other words, college-capable kids with no purpose, no sense of self who were easily taken in by "cool" and "shocking," "disruptive" ideas. The wimpier ones afraid of fighting merely became academics or mainstream journalists ;)<br /><br />One of the JRA lunatics, when asked about the Lod massacre said, "Our intention was to kill as many as possible," or something very close to that, as I recall. <br /><br />There's no easy cure for that pathology. They gotta be put down.<br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />Kibernetikanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38135440082796990572013-09-09T16:17:18.518-07:002013-09-09T16:17:18.518-07:00"nobody had tatoos".
I watched the rema..."nobody had tatoos".<br /><br />I watched the remake of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101540/?ref_=sr_1" rel="nofollow">Cape Fear(1991)</a> recently. I distinctly remember that the scene with Di Nero revealing his tatoos was really effective at the time. Now, it's just meh.<br /><br />While, I'm on the subject, I moved out to California from the East Coast 10 years ago. My earliest memories of noting cultural differences were 1) Lewd Carl's Jr and Jack in the Box commercials, 2) no smoking in bars and 3) a girl with "doggy style" written in cursive jut above her ass (which of course I now know to be the location, if not the typical verbiage, of a tramp-stamp).JeremiahJohnbalayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74818016948188297322013-09-09T16:17:03.836-07:002013-09-09T16:17:03.836-07:00Ever since the mainstream anti-Israeli apartheid c...Ever since the mainstream anti-Israeli apartheid cause went primarily Islamic among the Palestinians themselves some 10-15 years ago, the natural alliance between the fashionable/cosmopolitan left and the downtrodden Palestinians disintegrated. <br /><br />Was nice when it lasted though. Canadian Observernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20770579355932091372013-09-09T14:30:16.801-07:002013-09-09T14:30:16.801-07:00"I had the same problem with Ramirez as the d...<i>"I had the same problem with Ramirez as the depiction of Andreas Baader in the Baader-Meinhof Complex movie:<br />why should anyone follow this kind of asshole?"</i><br /><br />I recently finished Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, and I had the same question throughout. The depressing answer is that guys dig jerks too. <br /><br />Glossyhttp://lazyglossophiliac.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18306575928858514252013-09-09T13:14:27.743-07:002013-09-09T13:14:27.743-07:00For anyone interested in cinematic treatments of 7...For anyone interested in cinematic treatments of 70's leftist terror, I recommend the biopic Chico, starring Eduardo Rozsa-Flores as a younger version of himself. <br /><br />The film wasn't great, but Rosza-Flores, knew Carlos during his stay in Hungary, was one of the more interesting figures to emerge from that milieu. <br /><br />After a stint in the Hungarian KGB, he worked as journalist, joined Opus Dei, fought as a volunteer in the Croatian War of Independence, and eventually died in a shoot out with Bolivian security forces in 2009. <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Rózsa-Flores<br /><br />The wikipedia entry fails to mention it, but he died as a Sufi Muslim who appears to have been sympathetic to pan-nationalism and the European New Right. He was likely either an adherent Guenonian Perennial Philosophy or an Evolian traditionalist. <br /><br />http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=85641<br /><br />-The Judean People's FrontAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88475082129831916232013-09-09T12:53:15.660-07:002013-09-09T12:53:15.660-07:00Police weren't militarized during the mid-cent...Police weren't militarized during the mid-century either, but they enjoyed a sustained falling crime rate after it had been rising from c. 1900 to 1933. Just like our 20-year run of falling crime rates, after the '60s-early '90s wave.<br /><br />So changes in training, technology, tactics, etc., are not responsible for changes in crime rates.<br /><br />Neither is incarceration. I just took another look at incarceration rates (earliest data are from 1925), and they don't track the crime rate, either in a leading or lagging fashion. I'd already seen that before.<br /><br />But now after reading a lot more (mostly from Peter Turchin) about the history of economic inequality and related aspects of the social-political mood, it just leaps out at you -- rising incarceration rates track rising inequality, and falling incarceration tracks falling inequality.<br /><br />Compare, say, a time series graph of incarceration rates per capita (google images), and the share of the national income going to the top 10% of earners. Both are kind of going up or plateau-ing into the late '30s, then both decline through the late '60s, then both start picking up around the early-mid 1970s, and both still remain pretty high or plateau-ing -- neither clearly in decline just yet.<br /><br />So, a greater inclination toward incarceration reflects the mood during rising-inequality times -- every man for himself, don't worry if it makes the poor poorer. Like not earning income while in prison, not to mention the income penalty even when he gets out because of the stigma of having been locked up.<br /><br />In periods of falling inequality, there's a taboo against policies that would make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Like having labor and management negotiate with each other rather than a militarized solution like you saw during the Robber Baron era up through the Battle of Blair Mountain.<br /><br />So when people break the law, try not to treat them in a way that worsen their prospects. Prison is seen as too heavy-handed for garden-variety criminals, though still reserved for the most dangerous. But you're not going to lock some guy up for small possession of drugs. Just have Andy Griffith give him a stern lecture, and trust that he'll be rehabilitated.<br /><br />Falling inequality goes with an attitude of rehabilitation. Rising inequality goes with an attitude of punishment.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20333018856916877422013-09-09T12:40:03.222-07:002013-09-09T12:40:03.222-07:00http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/09/zimmerman-ar...http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/09/zimmerman-arrested-for-allegedly-threatening-wife-with-gun/<br /><br />Zimmy really nuts?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12907837730813523542013-09-09T12:20:33.132-07:002013-09-09T12:20:33.132-07:00Narrative trumps news.
Christian narrative remin...Narrative trumps news. <br /><br />Christian narrative reminded countless generations of the killing of Jesus, so the killing of that one Man counted for more than the killing of millions of innocents by Christians. As long as Christians felt justified in their Faith in Christ, the Fact of their destruction of countless lives didn't matter. <br /><br />News is about here today, gone tomorrow. <br />Narrative sticks and carries on forever regardless of the news. <br /><br />It's like there's so much news of black robbery, rape, mayhem, and murder in America, South Africa, and even Europe, but as long as the narrative focuses on slavery, Selma, Apartheid, holiness of MLK and Mandela, all those news don't matter except on the day it's reported. <br /><br />Human psychology is essentially 'religious-like', gospelish, and iconic. It prefers 'sacred images' , good v bad storytelling, and'holy' righteous emotions' over hard cold facts.<br /><br />So, Anne Frank and MLK, as holy-fied icons, have more power than the statistics about communist mass murder(as no Ukraine girl was Anne Frankized) or black brutality. <br /><br />Indeed, so much of the Liberal news is more about propping up holy-fied iconic images of magic negroes and homos and Jews. Just check the TIME story about MLK as THE Founding Father. <br /><br />Libs esp hated the Willie Horton story cuz it was conservatism using icon-ism and demonization in a manner that libs feel they have monopoly claim on. When libs iconize Jews, homos, and negroes and demonize white cons, that is called progress. But the reverse is called fear/hate mongering. <br />If the Bush campaign had only mentioned crime stats, libs would have been ok with that. <br />But cons used iconization to give sacred status to the victims and to demonize a black rapist-thug. <br />Conservatives may deal with the news but mustn't mess with the narrative. Jews really hated Gibson's PASSION for reviving the power of the narrative for the Christian Right. <br />Sainthood trumps statistics. <br /><br />Even so, a narrative, however old or sacred, can be toppled overnight with the change of elites. <br />Russians had worshiped Jesus for centuries, but almost overnight communist rule made millions of Russians smash churches and revere Stalin as the new god. But then, the communist narrative, which seemed invincible, vanished overnight in the early 90s. <br /><br />So, the power isn't so much with the narrative itself as with the CONTROL of the narrative. If the control changes, any narrative, no matter how powerful, can be toppled and replaced with something else. <br />Just look at the sudden rise of homo narrative. Jews now have the power to impose any narrative. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80826566369233177952013-09-09T11:59:10.201-07:002013-09-09T11:59:10.201-07:00The strange thing about the Japanese Red Army was ...The strange thing about the Japanese Red Army was that they initiated the Suicide Bombing craze in the Middle East, with the Lod Airport massacre.<br /><br />The Japanese Red Army even <a href="http://www.pacificwrecks.com/history/doll/" rel="nofollow">carried dolls</a> into their actions, just like Kamikaze pilots before them. The dolls originally were a Samurai traditions. <br /><br />Strange to think that 9/11, and the extremists blowing themselves up in a Baghdad markets - would probably not have happened without Samurai-influenced traditions. Mishima and Osama are not too far apart.MalcolmYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87007007786467418822013-09-09T10:33:20.642-07:002013-09-09T10:33:20.642-07:00Too bad about the no closed-captioning. I won'...Too bad about the no closed-captioning. I won't be able to watch it. <br /><br />Anyway, I don't think you will ever be able to convince the Left that the Soviet Union had anything to do with terrorism. They will insist that it was all a spontaneous movement of the "oppressed".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32957867001785785892013-09-09T09:36:08.946-07:002013-09-09T09:36:08.946-07:00Esia Morales character in the movie Gotcha! seemed...Esia Morales character in the movie Gotcha! seemed aware of this image of the Hispanic leftist terrorist and played it up to in a bid to help him score with European women. Abba's song "Fernando" may have been the inspiration.Marc Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15526121114466617234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61377261476339016932013-09-09T09:29:35.991-07:002013-09-09T09:29:35.991-07:00What's the percent of the genome that is ident...What's the percent of the genome that is identical to all now living humans? <br /><br />Is the number 99.9% outdated?<br />This article quotes suggestions of 99% or 99-99,5%. <br />http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-09-03-dna-differences_N.htm<br /><br />I've heard that discoveries regarding copy number variation also has lowered the shared percentage of the genome.Lampshelfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26053992993502695402013-09-09T08:47:29.829-07:002013-09-09T08:47:29.829-07:00http://nypost.com/2013/09/09/diary-bombshell-rfks-...http://nypost.com/2013/09/09/diary-bombshell-rfks-secret-slams-against-al-sharpton-jesse-jackson-and-gov-cuomo/<br /><br />Public talk = lies.<br /><br />“Nothing in that diary was ever meant for publication. I have nothing but respect for Governor Cuomo, Rev. Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, all of whom have distinguished themselves as extraordinary national leaders over the past decade.”<br /><br />Rotfl.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79807501414274496802013-09-09T07:56:35.184-07:002013-09-09T07:56:35.184-07:00- President Enrique Pena Nieto proposed sweeping c...- President Enrique Pena Nieto proposed sweeping changes to Mexico's social programs Sunday, laying out a plan for the country's first nationwide pensions and unemployment insurance to be financed in part by cutting tax loopholes for big business.<br />A beginning of a welfare state in Mexico, hopefully this will be eventaully pushed in Central America. If this happens, being poor means the state will take care of them more, the poor and they don't have to come to the good ole USA as much, think if this happen back when Reagan was President millions less Mexicans.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com