"Our Memories ARE History"

Via The Thinking Housewife:

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Allan Wall
On Propaganda and Boredom
August 22, 2020

ALAN writes:

There will be no reunion for my 1964 classmates this year because of propaganda about the alleged virus. It would have been our 56th-year reunion. How many of us will be there for the 57th? We had planned to hold a between-times get-together last April, but the virus propaganda blew that idea out the window.

All of you older readers of The Thinking Housewife: Can’t you just imagine American men in 1942 saying:

Well, folks, we will have to postpone defending our country until Daddy Government gives us permission to go outside without safety masks to protect us against an enemy even worse than the Japs and the Nazis. We must stop working at our jobs. We must stop going to church. We must stay at home and stare at the radio until Daddy Government tells us otherwise.

Could they have been that gullible in 1942? That stupid?

Then try to imagine what they would say about a population who respond to such instructions from Daddy Government like a flock of obedient little lambs.

Of course it is just a coincidence (Isn’t it?) that massive propaganda about an alleged virus is used as an excuse for Americans to surrender so much power over their lives–exactly a hundred years after the founding of the ACLU (American Communist Liars Union), one of whose ultimate goals was to make America into a Communist nation. (How do we know this? We know it because Roger Baldwin, one of its founders, said so. And a Communist wouldn’t tell a fib, would he?)

What better way to commemorate that historic occasion than with a propaganda barrage, Communist-engineered riots and lawlessness, a revolutionary “lockdown” of ordinary, decent, working-class Americans, and a corollary increase in power for the government, the mass communications industry, and the medical and pharmaceutical rackets? It stands to reason that anyone who engineered such a multi-pronged attack would encounter little if any opposition from a population of American men who have been thoroughly feminized.

Never have so many American men agreed so cheerfully to surrender the rights of individuals and the limitations on government power that earlier generations fought wars to create and defend. I learned long ago that false premises are the basis for mythmaking, and modern myths are indeed fodder for thousands of chattering magpies in the mass propaganda industry.

Knowingly or otherwise (mostly otherwise), Americans have now made giant strides toward what Dr. Thomas Szasz called “The Therapeutic State and what Communists have been planning for a hundred years.

I am sick and tired of the do-gooder mush in “We are all in this together” and “Thank you for looking out for each other.” Here’s a news flash for the do-gooders: I am not “looking out for each other”. Not my job. And “each other” are not looking out for me. Not their job.

Recently I had a brief message from classmate Jim. I asked him about classmate Tony, who has had back problems and knee problems. I was glad to receive Jim’s reply: “Tony is doing fine. Just bored like the rest of us.”

Hold on there for a moment. “Bored….”? Allow me to voice my dissent. I am not bored. Angry? Yes. Outraged? Yes. Skeptical? Yes. Confident that we are being lied to repeatedly and on multiple fronts? Absolutely.

Confident that what we have witnessed is not a “lockdown” but a Takedown? Yes. Confident that it is not about health but about power and power-lust? Absolutely. Confident that there are diabolical cultural, political, and philosophical purposes behind the propaganda about the alleged virus? Absolutely. Confident that the Takedown is either a dress rehearsal for the coming Communist World Government (which is now, as the cliché goes, “under construction”) or an exercise to measure the Servility Quotient of Americans (rather high, by all appearances), or both? Absolutely. But “bored”? Never.

We are alive, aren’t we? Since when is it boring to be alive? You can think, see, hear, talk, and remember, can’t you? Or is staring at screens all you care to do nowadays?

Wake up, classmates. Stop scaring at screens and listening to lies. My years are numbered, and maybe yours are, too.

How can anyone be bored with the perspective on life that three score-and-ten years have now my classmates and me? And what of all those memories we have accumulated? If the virus propaganda has given you “time on your hands”, then why not use it to write about what you know best? Our memories ARE history. Don’t take it all with you when you leave. Write it now, or some portion of it, for your descendants or friends or classmates.

Imagine how gratified we would be if our grandparents or great-grandparents had left written memories of their lives in the form of diaries, journals, essays, letters, and cards. Conversations are fine. But they are like meteors: Once they take place, they are gone. Written memories will remain. The printed word remains. Why not share some of them by writing about them? About your life in those years in our parish and neighborhood? About the people and moments you remember best, and why?

Six years ago, I wrote ten two-columned pages of memories we have in common from our school years. Last year I wrote 57 pages of memories of the songs and records we enjoyed in the years 1956-’68. I have written more than fifty additional pages of memories from those years and had intended to share them with classmates at the upcoming reunion…..now rendered null and void by the Communist/Socialist/Globalist Propaganda Barrage…..oops, I mean the deadly virus.

There is no “Dutchtown Historical Society”. We are it. Life as it was in that neighborhood during our school years is what we carry around in our heads. Who will ever know about life as it was there? Who will ever know that Dutchtown was not what it is now but the opposite: A clean, decent, civilized place to live and grow up, if we do not write about it?

“We will take our memories of America’s traditional culture with us to the grave and that will be the end of it,” reader Jane S. wrote to Lawrence Auster ten years ago. [“A Lament for Our Vanishing Culture”, View from the Right, August 20, 2010 ]

She was right. That is, unless those who —like her— remember that traditional American culture write what they remember. Like her, we are the last generation to remember that pre-1960s American culture, and among the last to be able to think and write about it without paying homage to the vocabulary and ideology by which younger generations are now taught to view it through pink- and red-tinted glasses.

Yesterday I was standing at one of the two lakes in Carondelet Park when I saw a young couple with their infant child across the lake. No masks. They were sitting on the grass at water’s edge and encouraging their child’s fascination with a group of ducks and geese who approached them. They were out in the open air in a lush green setting late on a pleasant summer day and encouraging their child’s discovery of the delight and wonder that may be found in making friends with birds.

To observe scenes like that is a good reason to be alive. To create scenes like that is a good way to spend “time on your hands”. To listen to the lies, fallacies, and misrepresentations raining down upon us is a complete waste of your time and your life.

Six years ago, a reader wrote in response to some of my essays:

“I can vouch for Alan’s eloquent description of what it was like. [i.e., Life in south St. Louis in the 1950s-’60s ] It is vital that his testimony and the testimony of his peers appear on the Net. They are historical documents.” [“When Baseball was Baseball”, The Thinking Housewife, July 30, 2014]

Why don’t you add to those historical documents by writing some of your own memories of life in St. Louis as it was before the revolutionary 1960s?

"The Insulted Majority": Big Pharma Vaccine Lies

Video from Brother Nathanael’s videos posts.

"Most Officers Reach Excellence Every Single Day"

Below is the transcript of a five minute video that David Clarke, former Milwaukee County Sheriff, recorded after his "interview" with CNN's Don Lemon.

The transcript to Clarke's post-CNN video is here (also in full below the dotted line), and the video here.

Below is Clarke's CNN interview with Lemon:



Watch the now matter-of-fact bully tactics reporters use to intimidate, and silence-through-interruptions, their interviewees.

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Former Sheriff David Clarke:

"Cops are not perfect.


That’s not a news flash. But this might be: They don’t have to be perfect. They have to be excellent."

[Transcript]

For over 39 years, I was a police officer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For 15 of those years, I was the Sheriff of Milwaukee County. I’ve done everything you can do as cop—from walking the beat, to investigating murder, to running the agency. I’ve met a lot of cops—of every race, ethnicity and background.

Here’s what I can tell you:

Cops are not perfect.

That’s not a news flash. But this might be: They don’t have to be perfect. They have to be excellent.

And most officers reach excellence every single day, and often under very difficult circumstances—circumstances you can’t imagine, and wouldn’t want to if you could.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. Cops are ordinary human beings. Like everyone else—lawyers, surgeons and baseball players—they make mistakes. But no profession works harder to correct its mistakes. You can mark social progress by the improvements made by police departments over the last 50 years. Today, police are more professional, better educated, and better trained than at any time in their history.

You wouldn’t know it, though, if you listened to self-serving, self-righteous politicians and activists. In their version of history, the police are the villains of the story, not its heroes. Like everything else this crowd does, they’ve got it all backwards.

The police aren’t the problem. The politicians and activists are.

The police didn’t create the failed urban policies that have locked people into generational poverty.

The police aren’t responsible for fatherless homes, failing schools, and bad lifestyle choices.

And they sure as hell aren’t responsible for the lack of respect shown to police officers. It is this lack of respect for authority, fostered over decades by the progressive left and its fear-the-police narrative, that has led to the needless deaths of so many young black men.

When Officer Darren Wilson told Michael Brown to get out of the middle of the street in Ferguson, Missouri, did Brown comply? No. When officers in Baltimore told Freddie Gray to stop resisting arrest, did he comply? No. When officers in New York City told Eric Garner to stop resisting arrest, did he comply? No.

Here’s a useful tip—if you want avoid a bad outcome with a police officer, follow this simple rule:

When a cop gives you a lawful command, obey it—even if you disagree. Whatever problem you are experiencing is not going to be settled on the street. People with complaints need to use the process established for that purpose. Though cops don’t have the final say, they do in that moment. How you react can be a matter of life or death.

But the idea that a law-abiding citizen has to fear the police is a terrible and destructive lie. Let’s get some perspective.

In 2014, 990 people were killed in police use-of-force incidents. Does that sound like a lot? Did you know that, according to a Johns Hopkins study, that same year, medical errors killed 250,000 people? Yet activists aren’t marching in the streets, demanding that the medical profession be reformed. Why not?

Why is it that the people who protect you from the bad guys—and I’ve seen these bad guys close up—are the subject of distrust and anger?

Why is it that groups like Black Lives Matter—I call them Black Lies Matter because it’s based on the falsehood that police represent a danger to black people—are celebrated by the media and politicians?

All this is taking its toll on cops and, even more tragically, on the law-abiding citizens in the neighborhoods that most need a strong police presence. The murder rates in these neighborhoods are going up because lawful, aggressive policing is going down.

Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has explained why. She calls it “The Ferguson Effect.” And it’s real. It’s also common sense. Why, police officers reason, put your career at risk, if 30 seconds of smartphone video taken out of context can destroy it?

Here’s the truth: Police aren’t afraid of walking the streets or being shot by random criminals. They’re afraid of being involved in an incident that would label them forever as trigger-happy racists.

Are there bad cops? I know first-hand that there are—I’ve had to fire them.

But the overwhelming majority are good, decent men and women, concerned about the law-abiding citizens in the communities they serve and are willing to put their lives on the line to protect them.

Those who try to convince you, either out of ignorance or out of some ideological agenda, that the police are the enemy—those are the people you should fear.

Run from them.

Not the cops.

I’m Sheriff David Clarke for Prager University.

Trump is Getting Back on Track

Here is the full transcript for: Fox News Sunday interview with President Trump, if the video is no longer available.

Below, I have posted what I think are the important points.
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President Trump refused to be bullied by fake-new Fox reporter Chris Wallace, who questioned him on the new book out about his family, by his niece, who went on a mission to destroy Trump, and especially Trump's father.

Here is the telling part during the interview, around 31 minutes:

My father liked to win. My father was a very good man, he was a strong man. It's disgraceful that she said that. She was not exactly a family favorite...She writes a book that so stupid and so vicious. And it's a lie.

My father was a great wonderful man.

It hurts me more about attacking my father [than attacking me], not being kind to my mother. I have a mother who was like a saint. She was incredible. She was an incredible woman. And she [...] was nasty even to my mother.

[...]

She [the author] was not much of a family person.

[...]

My father was...I think he was the most solid person I have ever met. And he was a very good person. He was a very very. good person. He was strong, but he was good. For her to say that kind of things. A psychopath? That he was a psychopath? Anybody who knew Fred Trump would call him a psychopath?! And you know what? If he was, I would tell you.

[...]

My father, he was tough. He was tough for me. He was tough on all of the kids. But tough in a solid sense. In a really good sense.

[...]

That book is a LIE!

And Trump and his take on Fox News:

I'm not a big fan of Fox, I'll be honest with you. They've changed a lot since Roger Ailes.

[...]

Look, I know you very well. I know your father very well [referring to Mike Wallace]. He was one of the most talented journalists there are. And you likewise are a very talented person.

I do think this. I think you are a very, uh. I think you are toward the Democrat side. Which is ok...

[KPA Note: Which Chris Wallace of course denies, with "footage" to prove, which he shows]

It just seems to me that you are very prone to be with the Democrats, and maybe I'm wrong about that Chris. But it's an honor to be with you.

[KPA Note: Regarding the elections]

Trump: I don't think I'm going to lose at all.

Wallace: But if you did, how crushing would it be?

Trump: First of all, let me tell you something. I know everyone wants to know that because they'd LOVE to see me lose...Do you know how many times I've been written off?...

[KPA Note: Wallace persists with the "lose" question. And Trump doesn't take the bait]

And you know why I won't lose? Because the country in the end, they're not going to have a man whose shot. He's shot.

[KPA Note: Trump points to his head indicating that Biden is not right in the head]

Trump: He's mentally shot.

Let him come out of his basement and go around. I'll make four five speeches a day. I'll be interviewed by you. I'll be interviewed by the worst killers that hate my guts. They hate my guts. There's nothing they can ask me I that won't give a proper answer to. Some people will like it, some people won't like it.

Wallace: I agree with that.

Trump: But look. Let Biden sit through an interview like this. He'll be on the ground crying for Mommy. He'll say "Mommy, Mommy! Please take me home!"

Wallace: We've asked him for an interview, sir.

Trump: He can't do an interview. He's incompetent.

There's a number you haven't mentioned. It's the "enthusiasm number." The enthusiasm for Trump is through the roof. Even higher than last time. The enthusiasm for Biden in non-existent. Everyone knows he's shot.

Wallace: But the enthusiasm AGAINST YOU is high.

Trump: Well, that's OK. That's his only shot.

Wallace: Right.

Trump: That's his only shot. I agree. And those people know I'm doing a good job. But there's something in my personality that they don't like.

Because look. Nobody's done what I've done!

Biden wants to come in and ruin our country.

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He will destroy this country.

But. It won't be him. It will be the radical left. The same type of ideology that took over Venezuela, one of the richest countries in the world. They now have no water. They've not food. And they have no medicine.

That's gonna happen here if he wins.

[KPA Note: The devious Wallace asks this as his "final" questions]:

Wallace: Are you a good loser?

Trump: I'm not a good loser. I don't like to lose. I don't lose too often. I don't like to lose.

Wallace: But are you gracious?

Trump: You don't know until you see. It depends.

I think mail-in voting is going to rig the election. I really do.

[...]

Wallace: Whether it's in 2021 or 2025, how will you regard your years as President of the United States?

Trump: I think I was very unfairly treated. From before I even won, I was under investigation by a bunch of thieves, crooks. It was an illegal investigation.

Wallace: But what about the good parts, sir?

Trump: No, no. I want to say this. I have done more than any President in US history in the first three and a half years, and I have done it suffering through an investigations

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The Russia Hoax, it was all a hoax. The Muller Scam, it was all a scam. It was all false.

I made a bad decision. One bad decision: Jeff Sessions. Now I feel good because he lost overwhelmingly in the great state of Alabama.

Here's the bottom line. I've been very unfairly treated. And I don't say that as paranoid. Everybody says it. It's going to be interesting to see what happens. But there was tremendous evidence right now as to how unfairly treated I was.

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Let’s see what happens. Despite that, I did more than any president in history in the first three and a half years.

Misinforming the American Public

I wrote recently of the cut-and-paste "journalism" that I coined for Steve Sailer's style of writing which I discuss in a longer post here: Ethiopia's Independence and Strength.

The very last comment (#58) in Sailer's article Minnesota is Turning into a Front in the Ethiopian Civil War comments section is by:

stephen 🇬🇧
@LFC_blano
Always Loyal ☆ Fortune Favours The Brave ☆
BRITISH AND PROUD

"stephen" has attached a video with his comment:

Video footage of a 100 strong mob of Ethiopian youths destroying the statue of Emperor Haile Selassie in Cannizaro Park, Wimbledon London https://t.co/O4zTtlfBqr pic.twitter.com/x7b2doJDaO

— stephen 🇬🇧 (@LFC_blano) July 6, 2020

Of course, besides the non-identification of the statue-destroyers, and the pending investigations by the London police, it is TOTALLY reasonable to associate this vandalism with "Ethiopians" (sarcasm alert).

The language that these vandals are speaking is not Amharic, the official and historical language of Ethiopia, but the regional Oromigna. Thus, clearly and unequivocally, these vandals are Oromo, who, like their counterparts in Addis Ababa, simply wish the destruction of the historical Ethiopia.

Steve Sailer has left this piece of twitter in the comments section of his Oromo article (which I have discussed here), adding to more misinformation for the American public.

This, as I have written before, adds to my gathering of proof that American leaders, left or right, are strategizing toward a subdued Ethiopia.

A strong Ethiopia will be difficult to coerce into the various Middle East policies that America, and I am convinced in conjunction with Israel, is currently developing.

As I wrote in my recent post Ethiopia's Independence and Strength about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is now in its final stages of being filled, a strong and independent Ethiopia is not what these global powers want in northern Africa.

Sailer knows the implications of this, and he left the post and its comments for all to be misinformed.

Via The Thinking Housewife:



“CASES” are climbing. That’s because more people are being tested as they go back to work. But there is no significant increase in deaths.

Heather Mac Donald reports at The Spectator:

Since April 24, the daily case count started declining, then began rising again after around June 9. What virtually every fear-mongering story on America’s allegedly precarious situation leaves out, however, is the steadily dropping daily death numbers — from a high of 2,693 on April 21 to 808 on June 24. That April high was driven by New York City and its environs; those New York death numbers have declined, but they have not been replaced by deaths in the rest of the country. This should be good news. Instead, it is no news.

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There are no crises in hospital capacity anywhere in the country. Nursing homes, meat-packing plants, and prisons remain the main sources of new infections. Half the states are seeing cases decline or hold steady. Case counts are affected by more testing; the positive infection rate captured by testing is declining. The current caseload is younger, which is a good thing. The more people who have been infected and who recover, the more herd immunity is created. Meanwhile, daily deaths from heart disease and cancer — about 3,400 a day combined — go ignored in the press.

The situation is likely identical in Canada.

Dogetiquette: What WOULD Fido say!

Post (below) from Camera Lucida: Just Me and You and Fido, March 29, 2012

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Just Me and You and Fido

It is for a good reason that I chose Fido as my cell phone plan. Actually, at the time I got it, there were very few cell phone services available in Canada, and this was touted as the best of the few. The many American services were unavailable in Canada at the time, for fear of them out-bidding the Canadian ones (so much for fair trade/free trade). Now that the market is inundated with them, Fido services are better, and more cheaper. I had thought to change plans to something even more cheaper and more better, but I'm glad I stayed loyal to my Fido.

The above photo is from Fido's online ad. These true Canadian canines are enjoying a toboggan ride, as only (Canadian) dogs can, all happily crammed on one long piece of wood.

On a serious note, cell phones have also brought out the worst in people. Every day, I hear one-sided, often very personal, conversations around me. And people hike up their voices when on cell phones. I think it is an ego thing: "Look at me! I'm having a conversation!" I also think that people get lost in their cocoon of them and the person on the other side, and the rest of the world doesn't exist. It is, of course, the continuing crassness of our world, and the gradual loss of civility. "No-one else matters but me!" say these modern narcissists. Sometimes I slow down to listen into these (boring) conversations. Some catch on and actually lower their voices. Others are just relentlessly oblivious.

The Disappearance of Julie Chen

There is a lot to write about Julie Chen, who supported her CBS head honcho husband's, Les Moonves', adulterous life to maintain her media status in CBS. She hosted, or fascistically ruled, her crew and co-hosts at the CBS daytime gabfest talk show The Talk (and WHO thought up that mildly pornographic name??) through fear of repercussions from her powerful husband for anyone who digressed from her views (and wishes, and desires). Moonves had put Chen, his wife, it worth repeating, at the helm of The Talk. Two women were actually fired in the early days of The Talk because they grumbled about these nepotistic arrangements.

Chen left, or quit, when Moonves' historic indiscretions began to surface, even after their marriage, leaving her pathetic feminists minions at odds on how to deal with her departure. Moonves, their big boss CBS, became the ire of the #MeToo movement, and yet here was his wife (who married him after an affair when he ditched his first wife) embroiled in the very lifestyle they decried.

Hypocrites (on all parties) doesn't even begin to cover it.

Chen still runs that creepy Big Brother, another Moonves enterprise, where she earned her second-rate fame before The Talk, where psychopathic and sociopathic contestants live in the same house, with no exit, performing various "challenges" until there is a last man standing to carry off the 1 million dollar cash prize.

Sartre would have cringed at this appropriation. "Huis Clos! C'est pour l'éternité!!!" he would have wailed in his shocked French manner about his literary living arrangement. Not some exit with a cash prize.

Chen is pretty much how Asian women behave. They prefer to be in the background rather than upfront and target-prone, as Chen eventually became on The Talk. What exactly would they (she) stand for, and how would they defend their "positions" when pressed?

Clearly Chen was no champion for the American Woman. She was perfectly happy as the wife of serial adulterer Moonves (although she pretended to be some free woman) cashing in on all the spoils.

But the joke's on us (and all those minions). She was the ultimate "Big Brother" waiting out for the big cash prize. "But where's our Big Sister!!??" would wail her co-hostesses. She's run off with the money.

"The Huge Stakes of Thursday's Confrontations"

[D]id an anti-Trump cabal inside the Department of Justice and the FBI conspire to block Trump's election, and having failed, plot to bring down his presidency in a "deep state" coup d'etat?

From Patrick Buchanan's September 24 article The Huge Stakes of Thursday's Confrontations on VDare

Julie Chen: Eliminated

I wrote about Julie Chen back in 2012 describing the way she got into the high echelons of t.v. programming.

- The Chinese Women/White Men Coupling Epidemic

Several high profile white men have taken up Asian wives. They often divorce their first, white wives, to marry the Asian women. Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch, CBS Chairman Les Moonves, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have Asian wives. Murdoch and Les Moonves both divorced their first, white, wives before marrying their second, Asian, wives, although both had affairs with the Asian women while still married to their first wives. Mark Zuckerberg skipped the white wife period, since marrying an Asian woman is no longer a social anomaly, but it will be interesting to see how his marriage fares with his Westernized and Western-born Chinese-American wife. (2012)

- Julie Chen's Anti-White Woman, Multi-Culti Talk Show - With Attitude

...Julie Chen's failing show The Talk has a panel without a straight, white, American woman. The straight, white, American women she has (or had) on her show have some Jewish ancestry. Leah Remini is half Jewish from her mother's side and both parents of Marissa Winokur are Jewish. (2012)

Fast forward to 2018 and there still is no white woman with gravitas on "'The Talk."

Instead there is Sharon Osbourne whose claim to fame is her "heavy metal rocker" husband who bites off bats' heads in his concerts. And Osbourne is NOT an American white woman but sits there with her grating lower class English accent, which American white women cannot relate to. Osbourne is also half Jewish.

And Sara Gilbert, a lesbian "married" with three children (IV and other conception and birth methods), who is Jewish (on both sides).

Other members of this illustrious group are:

- Eve, a black hip-hop musician who is for her 2002 song “Let Me Blow Ya Mind, and who has acted in a t.v. production titled "xXx.”

- Sheryl Underwood, a black military woman and comedian, and "a lifelong Republican." However, she campaigned for Barack Obama's re-election in 2012. She also campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election "because," she says "we have to protect the legacy of President Obama. Low voter turnout benefits Donald Trump and the Republicans. He can't win."

These personalities are deliberately chosen to undermine the white majority of America, amongst whom are found the racist, sexist, homophobic and all round evil people who voted for President Trump. But Trump is not their ally and in fact is closer to Underwood than she thinks, and who has been capitulating towards liberals (and Democrats) since his election.



In the above video, the "ladies" at The View, after which the badly worded "The Talk" (that's what you do with your 12-year old) was molded chime in and with some humor by Joy Behar.

Chen also hosts Big Brother which she started before she married Moonves. Big Brother is a creepy show where a group of strangers live in the same "house" for a period of time as they get eliminated over "challenges." There is Survivor (a far superior show) which challenges people in some wild and remote island. But in the same house as people with no way of going out unless you're eliminated? Well for half a million dollars...

A Rescue Dog and A Smart Phone Explained

Later on that day, I walked by a couple of men (one white and the other "brown"). The white man had a hand-held SmartPhone™ which had music playing (loud enough to hear a couple of blocks away). It was a song in English (nothing unusual there, you might say).

But right across from where we were at the City Hall's Celebration Square, one of the many summer's "festivals," advertised as "Bollywood Monster Mashup," was in progress.

"Wrong song!" I chimed.

"You're listening to the wrong song," I explained to the curious white man. "You should be singing an Indian song like they're doing at Celebration Square!"

"Oh yes!" laughed the man (nothing from his companion).

"It's Bollywood Mashup today" he explains to the uninterested friend, who barely acknowledged my presence. I surmise that he must be yet another nationality from that so very diverse subcontinent.

I walk on not waiting for any conversation or interaction. "Have a good day!"

"Have a good day to you!" say the white man.

Nothing from his sidekick.

Here's yet another hidden behaviour. As brown-skinned people view each other with suspicion, they will always prefer the presence (or acquaintances if not friendships - as close as they can allow - of white people.

White Canadians built this country, they formed the culture, they have contacts and connections that go back generations. THEY are useful. Anyone else, well that depends...



Above, the Indian Flag Flying at the Bollywood Monster Mashup on Celebration Square, Mississauga, ,2018. The photo is from across the giant stage set for the week-end's events...

the LARGEST South Asian Festival in Canada, #BollywoodMonster Mashup, an event that shares the elegant yet ecstatic Bollywood culture with everyone. An event that helps bring cultures together. [Source: Bollywood Monster Mashup website - About]

That must be the attraction for Niko and his busy master. Perhaps he is involved in this cultural unifier, although real life is more demanding.

Multi-culti Mssssaugans continues to make hypocrites out of its citizens.

A Rescue Dog and A Smart Phone And the Myth of The Happy Multicultural

Niko's Long Lost Brother

The roads near my apartment building are under construction. My understanding is that they're restructuring the internal pipe and water systems. In any case, the wait for the traffic lights to change from green to red is much longer than usual (red to green is much shorter than usual).

The trick is to remain patient. I've now found a ledge where I can sit and wait.

Yesterday, I got to the crossing just as the lights changed to green. A long wait. As I got there a man came along with a dog. I am a big fan of dogs and know most of the ones near or around my building. This one was a stranger. It looked like a mix between a golden retriever and a husky. It has lovely green eyes.

The owner was an Asian man (South Asian). He had the dog on a leash and had his head down on his hand-held SmartPhone™ throughout. I don't even know how he realized the lights had changed. Probably because cars were stopping rather than rolling through (the sound changes).

"Can I stroke him?" I said. I partly speak to people to see their reactions. In multi-culti Mississauga, conversation is rare. People stick to themselves, and their own, and especially the Asians/Africans/Arab/Hispanics.

I think this is partly a genuine problem with communication. Many adults speak English "as a second language" and thus have problems expressing precisely what they wish to communicate. Partly it is also suspicion (perhaps this s a larger part of the problem). Many immigrants are now shoulder to shoulder with people they have little or no knowledge about. Some may even be adversaries (or even enemies) in their countries of origin. And at times such animosities travel across the oceans to this land of happy multiculturalism.

Most immigrants DO NOT have faith in multiculturalism. They know first had it doesn't work "back home." Why should it work here?

Thus Canada (Mississauga) is a land of enclaves: Portuguese; Sri Lankans; Ethiopians; Egyptians. And even enclaves within enclaves some based on ethnicity like the Ethiopian Amhara, Oromo and Tigre, and some religious like the Egyptian Copts and Muslims.

Back to my cross-roads encounter.

There was a brief pause as the man registered that the question was directed at him.

"Oh. Sure. He's friendly."

Back on his SmartPhone™ .

And the dog really was friendly, and happily grinning to have someone stroke his head.

"What's his name?"

No correction there, so the dog is male.

"Niko."

"Hi Niko!" And Niko continues to grin.

"How old is he?"

"Mmmm [flicking through pressing information]. About 4 years old."

"Oh! He's a rescue!" ALL dog-owners know the exact age of their pooch.

The light changes and the man drags the dog across as he answers "Yes."

I was actually waiting for the light for the perpendicular road to change.

Niko waddles along looking back at me. It was more than his master could muster, who couldn't get across quick enough!

I just laughed and watched them walk on. "Where COULD they be going?" I asked myself. All there was in that direction was more of the busy and noisy Hurontario throughway, although there are now high rise buildings scattered along the way.

"Oh. He must live in one of those!! And he's just coming from the more green areas around the City Hall, taking his "rescue dog" for a walk."


View of the Square One are in Mississauga
The City Hall (City Centre) and its clock tower is in the background
And the MiWay Bus Terminal in the foreground
[Photo By: KPA - 2017]

As I waited for MY green light, I looked into the line of cars waiting patiently for the light to change, holding brown faces and yellow faces, Chinese and Filipino and Arab faces. And and some which looked Eastern European. No WASPs - of the blonde and blue type.

I realized then that the man must have thought I was Arab (or Middle Eastern). Indians and Arabs are not the best of friends. Perhaps he was Hindu. Mississauga has one of the largest "Indian" which means "Hindu-Indian" population in Ontario. And they are touted as professionals and with some wealth. My understanding is that they work within the computer and digital industry in the region.

And the man did look relatively well-off. He had on a white polo shirt (maybe Lacoste?) and navy blue, slim-cut track pants (none of that baggy running/gym gear people wear these days) - maybe Ralph Lauren? His shoes were tan (Mocassin?) loafers, NOT sneakers or flip-flops which less wealthy Indians seem to prefer.

I wonder why (how) he called his dog Niko?

I googled "Niko" and here's what came up in Wikipedia:


In arts and entertainment: Fictional characters

Niko (animated), on the television series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
Niko, a character played by Orestes Matacena in the 1994 film The Mask
Niko Bellic, the main character of the game Grand Theft Auto IV
Niklaren Goldeye, a character in Tamora Pierce's Emelan books
Niko, a pirate in The Legend of Zelda video games
Niko, a character played by Steven Seagal in the 1988 film Above the Law
Niko Yazawa, one of the main characters of media franchise Love Live!
Niko, the playable character of the video game Oneshot
Nikko Halloran, a character played by Remy Ryan in the 1993 film, RoboCop 3

In arts and entertainment: Performers

Niko (musician), a musician currently signed to ATIC Records
Niko Etxart, Basque singer and musician
Maurizio De Jorio, Italian Eurobeat artist using the stage name Niko

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Niko & The Way to the Stars (The Flight Before Christmas in North America), an animated film
Niko, the Japanese name for the erhu, or Chinese fiddle

Other uses

Minbu Nikō, a Buddhist disciple of Nichiren
Nikō (company), a Japanese manufacturer of photographic cameras later renamed Cosina
Niko Kovač, a Croatian soccer player
Niko Kranjčar, a Croatian soccer player
Niko Resources, a Canadian oil and gas company

I doubt Niko is named after "Minbu Nikō, a Buddhist disciple of Nichiren," with his pointy husky face (if his golden retriever had dominated, then maybe).

Justin's Replacement Ploy and Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

Via Full of Goy2

Meanwhile, back at the ranch:

During an impromptu interview on the White House lawn with Steve Doocy of "Fox and Friends" on Friday, President Donald Trump ...offered his own account of his recent tiff with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

"We're hugging. We're saying goodbye. Everybody's happy," Trump told Doocy [of Fox News]. "I made changes to the agreement because I wanted it to be much better for the United States. I made changes. We're all happy. And then he got up and started saying that he doesn't want to be pushed around by the United States. Well, they charge us almost 300 percent on dairy products. So we can't do that stuff."

Source

By the way, this was no "impromptu" interview. Trump is a media guy. He knows how to handle those "fake newsers." He just showed on his big lawn to up the drama. And get his cowboy message across.


Via @realDonaldTrump

Who would play Trump in a Western?

Conspiracy on a Chef

Bourdain in Ethiopia for hs CNN show taping with another "celebrity Chef" Marcus Maya Samuelsson

I can't remember what exactly I was watching when I had this "flash" about Bourdain's "suicide."

Of course Bourdain looks creepy with his tattooed arms. And his super skinny body (especially his legs) indicates a drug-addict's appearance. But cooking for one's job is tough. Cooking is tough, period. The heat, the slippery floor, all that washing, setting the timer, and setting it right, so food doesn't burn, or worse over-cook (you can throw burnt food out), tasting, and finally the verdict (too much salt will get the frying pan out!) A "celebrity" "international" chef is not a glamorous career. Traveling is very tiring. You get sick in foreign, third world, lands which even the best of treatment and the most sophisticated "anti-malarial/anti-bacterial/anti-everything" medications cannot prevent.

But Bourdain was a good sport. He enjoyed traveling despite its grueling schedule. He sat down and ate with the "natives." He went beyond the food and really tried to understand the cultures. He was professional and kept up his CNN reportage diligently.

But. No-one was able to report on the "suicide note." We don't know what it said and even to whom it was addressed. Presumably it is to his young daughter. He split up wth his wife (or she split up with him more likely), and was with a new girlfriend, who also split up with him recently! These professional feminists just cannot stand the idea of supporting a man with a super busy life who would have time for them only during brief "down times" and when all he wants is a comfortable and familiar home with a wife and family who can welcome him full heartedly. Think of soldiers and warriors who, if they didn't have their stable homes and loving wives, COULDN'T fight dedicatedly. Who would they be fighting for?! Who would Bourdain be cooking for?

Asia Argento, his new girlfriend, used to travel with him, but I guess the exoticism wore off when she was left in empty luxury hotels as Bourdain went off into the common quarters to find that special local dish. She was seen wandering around with a new boyfriend.

The conclusion by journalists is that Argento's new affair was what triggered off Bourdain's suicide.

Maybe so. The account I have written certainly can explain it.

But I don't think so. A man dedicated to his work, a kind of a chef-warrior, seasoned, experienced and who has probably been through all kinds of social and professional obstacles, doesn't suddenly kill himself because his new girlfriend split up with him.

Others say that he contemplated suicide for a long time because of a nihilistic streak of "is life worth living?".

No. If you have travelled at all, you know that traveling, and with a cause (like finding great recipes) can be invigorating. And Bourdain was with people all the time. Helping people. Talking and joking with people. Showing the world in his globalist liberal way that we are all one big close-to-happy world. A bit like his close-to-happy chef's life.

Maybe if he had built his career solely in a big city (like New York) and was a drug addict in his super-luxury enclave (like Kate Spade), abandoned by wives and girlfriends and pushed to go on by his heroin and other drugs, he might have become that white male suicide victim.

Perhaps. But how many alcoholics and drug addicts commit suicide?

The statistics of white male suicides is apparently on the rise. But is it really an epidemic? Does Bourdain fit that profile other than "middle-aged white male?"

Here is an interesting video which suggests that his shift towards more conservative ideology may have ignited the wrath of his globalist liberal followers. The youtuber - goes on to say that Bourdain might have been privy to all kinds of illicit and illegal international activities, like pedophilic sex trafficking, prostitution rings, border-crossing guides for illegal migration, etc. etc.

Alex Jones at Info Wars: Learn What Anthony Bourdain Was Planning To Say Before He Died



This makee complete sense. If he talks to village henchmen in an African village, they will TELL him things surely. If he cooks with the local chef in some South Asian town, he will reveal the next river crossing on the way to Australia. He cannot enter into these Third World countries without the special permission of the top leaders of these countries. And so on.

This fits with Bourdain's do-gooder personality. His missionary-chef zeal. Hs one-world ideology.

Before we jump on to band wagons that white men are killing themselves off and dying like flies, let's not put every suspicious death into the same basket.

The what male is still strong, clever, curious, intelligent, an adventurer, and an inventor.

The anti-white anti-West pushers will push this angle to make this curious, and charmed species appear to be on the wane, to be dying out.

If they repeat it enough times, he will begin to believe it. Some in fact do believe it.

Once the white man's psyche is weakened then all kinds of other things can be rammed in. And, then the final demise of the western world will have been achieved.

I say NO. Bourdain - chef-warrior - should receive a plaque at the very least. Make him into a cult figure, I say to all young men. Learn from him! He may be full of faults, but who isn't? He's one of the best examples you have in this white-loathing world. He's one of yours.

There is Hope yet for America

So if you're watching, listening to, interested in the Mark Zuckerberg Fascist Empire downfall, here is a hilarious "discussion" on the Fat Boy: aka Mr. President, Zuckerturd, Obummer, Shrillary and all the rest here. But there are some very funny and witty ordinary folk out there (wth guns and religion?). There is Hope yet for America. LOLOL!

I watched about two thirds of the C-Span broadcast on Zuckerberg's testimony. Zuckerberg sat wth bloodshot eyes (no sleep, Mark?) but was quick, clever, and adept at shielding off ALL the questions. I think he wll leave Scott Free (excuse the mixed metaphor).

Denese • Denese • 9 hours ago
I had no idea he was only 5'7". There are photos of him sitting on a booster seat at the hearing. Funny.

That's exactly what I thought as he walked away on his "five minute bread." (Needless to say I didn't watch the whole -2 hr - circus).

More on the Prime Minister

In Above His Head

Along with Steve Paikin, host of TVO's The Agenda, Don Martin on his CTV flagship political program Power Play tells us like it is.

Martin's most recent episode discussed Trudeau's "Appointments paralysis [as] internal dysfunction."

He elaborates on his blog:

...this PMO is failing miserably at filling important positions with strong people in a timely manner.

[...]

But the most pressing and perplexing is this government’s appointment paralysis.

Judicial appointments are glacial, commission chairs are empty, boards like the CBC, Canada Post and Export Development Canada are depleted while top jobs at the RCMP, CRTC and Elections Canada are on the verge of being vacated.

[...]

The efficiency of a government, even one with a friendly face, should be judged by the way it staffs itself and treats its people.
There are clear symptoms of internal dysfunction by Liberals failing to get that basic job done.

He jokes that it might be time to get Sophie Trudeau to pillow-talk her husband into assigning appointments. But that is probably happening already and perhaps one of the reasons for this paralysis.

The main reason is of course, as many quietly and some clearly, including myself, have observed: Trudeau is in above his head with his new role as leader of this country.



He must be asking himself by now: "When will this dream-job-turned-nightmare end?!"

Behind the Scenes

These are the hard-working men behind the scenes of Mississauga's revival. And they were all set in place by the city's last mayor, Hazel McCallion.

The question is of course if this is a real revival, which I think it has the makings of, or if it just adding infrastructure to accommodate the unmentionable: increased immigration.

I think it will in some way sort itself out. If the city revives itself in a true sense: higher quality buildings, a "luxury mall" as Square One is being structured, improved landscaping and surroundings with better parks and recreational areas, but above all a with a Canadian perspective, then it will attract for a longer term those that can afford to stay not just for quick real estate flips (buying and selling), but those who would stay to buy good homes for their families.

I am seeing more of the latter, which to my observations looks less Asian (Chinese and Indian) and more white (possibly those attracted from nearby cities, including Toronto).

Let's hope so.


The Jubilee Garden is full of magnolia trees.


The C-Cafe, which is adjacent to the Jubilee Garden, has two industrious chefs, cooking up their appetizing meals on a daily basis. Here is one, barely visible, preparing a dish.


I keep thinking they're brothers. "Cousins?" I asked, but not even that. "Then they must be from the same Welsh town," I joked. They looked Welsh to me.


These are the groundsmen preparing the area for a new addition in the Jubilee Garden: The Hazel Tree, in honor of the former (last) Mayor Hazel McCallion. What an apt recognition. A tough nut to crack! I asked them what they were working on, and it seems they were told only a few days ago the nature of the project. "I got the scoop!" I joked.


And Andrew Wickens, Parks Manager for the City of Mississauga, was in the garden discussing with other officials some details ont he tree, and the surrounding magnolia trees. He was kind enough to stand for a photograph.

He will be responsible for the Hazel Tree.

Hazel McCallion as mayor of Mississauga, sitting in a council session

Hazel McCallion on Mississauga's growth:

Growing up:
Growth is good, says Mississauga’s Hazel McCallion - within limits

Full article at: Toronto Star, Mar 27 2013

Facing pressure under Ontario’s Places to Grow Act to house more of the GTA’s population boom, Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion is pushing back.

At city council Wednesday, McCallion said Mississauga has accepted the province’s mandated growth targets but will not accept decisions by the Ontario Municipal Board that allow developers to build beyond those targets. The spurt of highrise construction is hurting the city’s already overstretched infrastructure, she said.
“They can’t be playing around with our land use like they do,” McCallion said of the province and the OMB, which rules on municipal and planning disputes.

Council unanimously passed a motion asking that Ontario’s Planning Act be amended so developers cannot appeal city council decisions to the OMB, if the city’s official plan is in compliance with Ontario’s growth strategy. The strategy sets municipal density targets that aim to encourage cities to build up rather than out.

McCallion and other councillors said developers, seeing profits in building even higher, are simply going to the OMB whenever they want densities for projects increased. The OMB then uses the growth plan as the rationale for ruling in favour of the developers. The end result is often more lucrative for builders, but puts pressure on already overstretched municipal services.

For Mississauga’s motion to take effect, it would have to be endorsed by Queen’s Park.

Councillors cited a number of high-density projects in Mississauga over the past few years that residents and council, adhering to the city’s official plan, opposed. But developers eventually got their way at the OMB [Ontario Municipal Board], they said.

“I am really concerned about the increased densities … our (infrastructure) is not designed to take the climate change and the increased densities,” McCallion said.
She said the increased densities beyond what , Mar 27 2013has been planned will cost Peel Region “at least a billion dollars” to take care of the extra garbage alone.

Young and Lesbian: An Epidemiology?

Photo from article: "Why Are So Many Girls Lesbian or Bisexual?"
From: Psychology Today, April 3, 2010
By: Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.
These look just like the "college best friends" I write about below

Camille Paglia would be intrigued, and horrified, at this epidemiology of young lesbians, cheerfully "coming out."

Ellen Page

A few days ago, a young and pretty Canadian actress, Ellen Page, declared herself to be a closeted lesbian, that is until that moment when she dramatically announced to whomever bothered to listen: I am gay. She's twenty-six years old at this announcement, but according to her testimony, had been "gay" for years.

I found her video on New York Post's online magazine. It was hard to miss on the side column, with a large photo of her, and the headline: Tired of Hiding: Actress Ellen Page Comes Out as Gay.

Page is claiming that her "coming out" is "a personal obligation and a social responsibility [direct quote from the Youtube video here around the 6:15 minute point]", and is otherwise a "traumatic event."

It is interesting to see that "coming out" in the 21st century is such a traumatic event. I thought we had taken care of stigmatizing gays and had built such a "gay-friendly" world that people were declaring their "true selves" left and right.

Well, not so, apparently. Page tearfully declares: "I suffered for years because I was scared to be 'out'." Didn't Ellen DeGeneres, pernicious model for this young Ellen, present us with her "secret" in a similarly tearful declaration seventeen years ago? Her career hasn't diminished one bit, and in fact has climbed since then.


Page with "girlfriend"

Page was brought up in Eastern Canada, in Nova Scotia. Her parents divorced when she was very young, and her father remarried. She lived with her mother. At about fifteen, Page enrolled herself into a "Buddhist" school, with no academic structure, which emphasized "the arts." And her parents let her do this! Divorce is hard on any child, but a structureless one must be harsh. And worse, letting a young teenager decide on her intellectual and spiritual development is bizarre and cruel.


This is the best I could find of Page with her father.
Notice the impish quality of the father, who looks like he's out with his young son.
But then, what young boy would cling to his father like that?
Such is the ambiguous world of tomboys.


Page with her mother, looking dishevelled and tomboyish.
It looks like they were both out at some film premier,
where Page should be the star, but is upstaged
by her glamorous mother instead.

But homosexuality is still a social stigma, if "celebrities" have to make such a spectacle about their revelations. Normal, ordinary people, those that pay the films and shows to keep DeGeneres and Page in the business, will momentarily forget a gay person his abnormality as long as he entertains well. And if homosexuality is still a social stigma, despite all these efforts to normalize it, then it will always remain a social stigma.

And just in time for Obama's homosexual agenda of equality, the PBS program To The Contrary "for women, by women, about women" (my quotations), recently included on its panel an articulate black women, Danielle Moodie-Mills. I wondered who she was, with her caked make-up and twisted stringy hair.


Moodie on the PBS program To The Contrary, which aired a couple of weeks ago

I found her profile all over the internet, since then. She is a black lesbian, whose "marriage" to another black woman was profiled in the black magazine Essence. They "married" in 2010, Mills at 32 and Moodie 31, and had "been together" for six years before that, which means they started this "relationship" when they were in their early twenties.


Danielle Moodie, on the right, is:
Advisor, LGBT Policy and Racial Justice
Center for American Progress
Nonprofit; 201-500 employees; Think Tanks industry
(LinkedIn Profile)

and Ayisha Millis is:
...a Senior Fellow and Director of the FIRE - Fighting Injustice to Reach Equality - Initiative at the Center for American Progress, where her work explores the intersections of race, class, and sexuality.
(Center for American Progress profile)

They both have those fluffy jobs just right for the Obama administration.

There must be dozens around of these "lesbians" around. Girls walking around the mall, chattering and laughing: are they "young lesbians"? Two young women eating in a restaurant, fancily dressed: are they on a date? A couple, women, picking up a young child at school or at a day care: are they "two mommies"? And so on.

I won't go into the pshychological, sociological, cultural, School of Camille Paglia, analyses of what I'm seeing here, so here's my take, at least on Page, Moodie and Mills.

There is very little information forthcoming from Moodie or Mills. I've gleaned what there is available from various websites and their limited profiles in their professional biographies.

Danielle Moodie

Danielle Moodie's only reference to her parentage (from searches around the web) is a photo of hers which appeared on Essence magazine's profile of her "marriage" to Mills. Here, she is standing with a white man, named as Michael Newton, with the caption:

Dance with my father:
Danielle’s dad Michael Newton was close to tears as he danced with his daughter on her momentous day.

Below is the photograph:


(Source: Essence)

I can only assume that she is adopted. Where is the mother (adoptee)? Why isn't she included in this wedding photograph? Is she white, black, other? What kind of life does Moodie live where she has to call a white man as her father? How hard was this for her as a young girl (assuming she was adopted young)? How much harder did it get as she became conscious of her surroundings? How did the "black identity" culture affect her identity? How does she relate to whites, and to the ominous White Male?

Aisha Mills


Mills posted this photo collage on her Twitter page

Mills was raised by her grandmother. She says: "My entire life, I have been a variety of 'others'." According to this post, her mother had "Asian" roots, but she was raised by her Black Southern Baptist grandparents, as the photos above indicate. The young, light-skinned boy in the photo collage could be her brother. Or is it her dressed in a suit and tie (as a young boy)? Yes! It is her, dressed as a young boy! So there you have it.

And here below, she is with her MIU (Missing in Upbringing) father at her "wedding."


Source: Essence
Caption reads:

Proud Father
Aisha's father James Mills kisses his baby girl and wishes her well on her big day

The Mills-Moodie "elegant affair" of a wedding included baskets of chopsticks. The ominous absence of her Asian mother must make even the most mundane of Chinese objects into bouquets of roses.


Chopstick elegance: Reaching for some ephemeral roots
Chopsticks, from the wedding album by Essence
The caption reads:
Cocktail Hour:
"The entire wedding was an elegant cocktail affair," Aisha explained.

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So what is it with these young women?

- A chaotic home life?
- A dearth of masculine young men?
- Feminism pushing young women into competitive and masculine roles, where they clash with young men, both the feminized ones, and those standing their ground and refusing to give in easily to a woman-centric environment?
- Black men, unavailable, either through their dropping out of society, their criminality, or their immaturity?
- Men refusing marriage, for fear of repercussions by feminism, and feminist women and wives?
- Men refusing to mature, and instead delaying marriage and family?
- The culture pushing, through mass media, that marriage is not necessary?
- Divorce rates, and divorce costs, high, especially (uniquely?) for men, so many opting out of marriage?
The "otherness" of the other becoming too much to deal with for young people these days, who are not used to natural competitions, and eventually some awe for differences.
- The desire by contemporary people to make everyone the same, to avoid this natural alienness or otherness of people?
- The desire to make everything "nice" and non-combative?

In any case, this "best friend" type of coupling is well suited for girls in college and high school. Under normal conditions, these girls will find staunch mothers or grandmothers who will diminish that seductive environment, give them the education they need, and place them in situations where they can lead a normal life, including building their future families.

The women I've described above are traumatized orphans, both in society and in family. They have been dealt with difficult beginnings. Since their families didn't come through for them, then it should have been up to the larger society to see that they didn't normalize their ambiguities and abnormalities. Now, as adults, they are seeped in their iniquities, and will only further terrorize society. Our job now is to see that they don't do that, and that they don't amass more vulnerable innocents along their way.
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Rob Ford: Mayor of Vicious Toronto

Mayor Rob Ford in City Hall, lunging at Councillor Pam McConnell



Pam McConnell
No wonder Ford lunged at her. Who would want her around?

Pam McConnell is a limousine-lefty city counsellor (of the New Democratic Party). No wonder Ford wanted her out of his way. She is at the top of the "spending" bracket for Toronto's politicians. Ford is at the bottom.

The mayor of Toronto has become known to Americans mainly through CNN's obsessive reporting, and now through a Saturday Night Live spoof.

Basically, the mayor was caught in a crack cocaine bust, because of a video that the bunch of crack-smoking hoodlums with whom Ford was associated sold to a US blogger. Ford is not shown smoking crack.

Ford admitted to smoking crack once, although it is not clear if he did so during this up-for-sale photo shoot.



I should add that Ford used to coach inner-city black boys soccer. This photo could very well be one of his moments with his "gang."

In any case, Ford has been coming out in public denying allegations, and even weeping a little. Finally, Ford cleared the air and admitted that he smoked crack once, and that he is not an addict nor a repeat user.

His other folly is that he drinks a lot, and has been caught drunk on a couple of occasions. He also has a tendency to use swear words in some of his colorful retaliations.

Still, despite all this, he managed to turn around Toronto's economics, by actually saving the city money and leading it down a prosperous road. In fact, Toronto looks really good these days, with interesting restaurants sprouting up, a revamped shopping center at the Eaton Center, clean roads, and flower baskets on lamp posts along the main (and even side) streets.

For whatever reason, Ford is reacting very viscerally to all this. When he is not half-weeping in front of the camera, he is throwing fists at his adversaries.

And the media - left, right and center - is loving this.

I say, leave the guy alone. When left to his smarts, he does good things. Perhaps it is his home life that is in turmoil (although his wife is now dutifully appearing beside her man), or some other issue. But, Ford, although he admits he needs some counselling (for his temper, his alcohol drinking, for giving it to the media and his left-wing City Hall colleagues?), has said that he is not resigning, and will in fact run again at the next municipal elections.

Good for him.

There is a viciousness in Toronto politics, and generally Toronto life, where anyone remotely associated with a "right-wing" politics is deemed the anti-Christ. This leaves two options for the condemned: sit quietly and take it, or fight back as viciously as the adversaries. Ford decided to take the second route.

I think he'll be alright. He used to be a football player at one time, and he knows what fighting, and competition, is all about. I also think he will win in the next elections. The municipal elections will bring a large roster of candidates, and votes will be splintered between them. And I think Ford will amass enough votes to win. People like what he's doing for the city.

There was a time also when politicians were admired for any whisky drinking and cursing tendencies. A little red-blooded rowdiness never hurt anyone.
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The Handsome Kennedy Brothers

John, Robert and Edward Kennedy in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts,
in July 1960 after John F. Kennedy won the Democratic nomination for president.
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum

Chris Wallace, anchor of Fox News Sunday, presented John F. Kennedy's legacy on the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination in a panel discussion. Below is Wallace's interaction with Brit Hume, who was on the panel:

Chris Wallace: ...I think a fair reading of history would be that President Kennedy's promise exceeded his accomplishments, and perhaps, the most resonant thing was in fact his death. Why do people 50 years later care so much?

Brit Hume: I think he was the coolest president we ever had. He was just a cool guy and therefore, appealing [Note: I like Brit Hume, but he seems cursed with the adolescent vocabulary of our era. Why does he say "cool?" He could have stuck with "appealing" and made a more convincing point. Who wants a "cool" president?]

Chris Wallace: If you look at the pictures of him that we're running, he’s impossibly glamorous.

Brit Hume: Yes. No question. I think, however, that despite the thinness of the record that you just mentioned, that George mentioned, he has been the subject of the most successful public relations campaign in political history. The notion that he was a great president, indeed, perhaps, in some surveys he’s been listed the greatest president, is really a remarkable testament to the ability of those who have so admired him and others to have built this man's legend, and it is a legend bordering, I think, on myth.

Here is the video clip:



But, who doesn't want a handsome president running the country. All the Kennedy brothers were handsome, even the odd member, Edward Kennedy.

The Kennedy aesthetic gene went even further with JFK's son. Camille Paglia, the cultural critic, wrote several articles on the Kennedys, and especially Jackie Kennedy. About JFK Jr. she says:

In a certain way, John Kennedy Jr.'s beauty was a kind of narcissism. His physical perfection came from entrapment in a youthful persona.

John F. Kennedy Jr. in the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1997,
two years before his death

Perhaps these Kennedys' potentials were cut short with assassinations and careless accidents. Bobby Kennedy was also assassinated, five years after his brother. And death followed another Kennedy brother, Ted Kennedy. A young woman who was with him in his car, died after he drove the car off a bridge, and this only a year after his brother Bobby was assassinated.

How could these Princes of Camelot disappoint us?
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