* In Bonfire of the Vanities, Reverend Bacon, the Al Sharpton character, enlists the aid of Gay Rights groups to help stage protests against the NYPD and Sherman McCoy. Either this gay and black activist connection is a case of life imitating art, or this trend has been going on for a long time.
One city, one program, one payout. Over $837 million of that went to Nick Mosby’s Council district.
This is the direction that school districts and state colleges have been going for 30 years, accelerated in the past 15.
It represents a more rapid and intense federal transfer of wealth than ever. And nitwit minor celebrities like “Deray” making fat six figures “managing” “human capital.”
“Human capital”–that’s property, right? Like, you know, people as slaves?
* TPTB like to put a lot of blacks in school as it supports THE NARRATIVE. It brainwashes kids ata young age that blacks are intelligent and competent, when IRL they are the exact opposite.
One way they do this is by getting lots of black ‘doctors’ in school. Typically dumb and incompetent blacks get called ‘doctor’. It turns out blacks get bog standard BA degrees then do a PhD in education. These tend to be uber leftist, anti-White (((colleges))) where you simply write a Narrative essay. Kids don’t know that and assume ‘dr’ teaching them science actually has a science doctorate. BS.
Dance Moms is a prime example of this. Mother of the incompetent token black kid is ‘Dr Holly’. The other moms are alwats in awe of her, yet she doesn’t strike me as at all bright. Clearly just another smoke and mirrors to get impressionable White girls to worship blacks.
* BLM is just following in the path blazed by the Rainbow Coalition (although I guess that has gay overtones in its name) in shaking down various institutions and corporations in exchange for being exempt from criticism. My guess is DeRay was half hired because the morons in charge of the school system think an administrator of human capital could actually accomplish something and half because he’s not going to criticize the city from the inside.
If DeRay has the slightest bit of intellectual honesty and actually works at his job, he’ll come out of it hating the professional left and what it has wrought in once-great cities. I’m not holding my breath, though.
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* What a shocker that Siskel is way more upset about it than Ebert.
* Ebert was smarter and more self-aware than Siskel.
* Siskel comes off as unhinged, irrational, and completely emotional about it. While Ebert seems to be trying to be light about it, Siskel seems dead serious.
* I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. This “Jew + Catholic gang up on the WASPs” stuff used to be so normal—friendly banter among three diverse peoples, equal in dignity and self-confidence in late 20th century America.
Heaven help anyone who tried this today…
* That was my initial thought, too … Poor Siskel is probably suffering from his brain tumor.
But then I looked it up:
“Siskel was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor on May 8, 1998. … Siskel died from complications of another surgery at the age of 53 on February 20, 1999.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Siskel
But in this clip Ebert mentions the President is Irish (i.e., Reagan), so this was almost a decade before Siskel’s diagnosis or more.
* I remember the Roger Ebert separate interview. Roger said that on their show, before they went on the air, Gene would make a show of getting upset with Roger about some thing or the other. Roger had the insight to realize that this was a pretend put-on by Siskel, designed to raise his own emotional energy level for the show. Joan Rivers responded that Roger was a nice guy. I realized that Siskel was a manipulative asshole.
* Siskel’s favorite movie—I shit you not—was Saturday Night Fever. He even went so far as to buy Travolta’s disco suit from the movie. I lost all respect for the man when I heard that.
Either Siskel had a secret attraction to men or he had a weird longing to hang out at an Italian-ghetto version of 54, but either way, he let that cloud his judgment on what was a silly little movie.
It’s amazing that these two guys who essentially did product reviews got such cultural cache.
* Ebert seems to be more relaxed and chatty, but Siskel stays in character and is the better comic talent, IMHO.
It’s a type pairing as old as American TV and double act comedy. The angry, earnest, slightly dim guy and the relaxed, smart, smiling counterpart. Ed McMahon to Johnny Carson, Jerry Hubbard to Barth Gimble and the Smothers Brothers are three random examples.
* Ebert is more intelligent than Siskel but Siskel is very aware of his act and knows how to work it.
Ah, for the days when ethnic groups could just vent off steam about each other right in public. Makes for a better world.
* Ebert was the best movie reviewer of his time, possibly ever. When I was a kid I had a bible-sized compilation of Ebert movie reviews, and eventually I think I read the whole thing, many reviews more than once. The quality of Ebert’s writing was very high, but you had to read a lot of him to realize this. He does not show off with obscure words or obscure references like WF Buckley or Dennis Miller as extreme examples of these annoying techniques.
In terms of simply enjoying his prose, my favorite Ebert reviews were probably his rare “no stars” reviews, generally for movies that were both really bad and morally offensive.
Even now, when I feel like watching a movie, I just go to the online archive of Ebert reviews and read through a few 4-star reviews until I see one that seems to be worth reading.
For TV, however, Ebert is usually too quiet and low energy to sustain one’s attention, which you can see by watching clips of Ebert alone v. with Siskel. They had great chemistry and Siskel knew how to bring out the best in his partner.
* All in the Family was pretty great in its era, five years straight at #1, but it’s not watchable today. I’m not sure why.
* From the perspective of someone younger seeing shows from the 50s to early 80′s in reruns:
The best of the wacky sitcoms have aged pretty well: I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Mr. Ed, Bewitched, Green Acres, Dennis the Menace
The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents had big budgets and very talented writers and actors and completely transcend their era.
The Dick Van Dyke show had two of the best comedians at their prime and a lot of witty writing.
The Donna Reed Show, Little House on the Prairie and My Three Sons all had traditional, positive moral messages while still being entertaining.
In general I wish Americans, especially children, would watch older shows like these more, as they invariably depicted white Americans as a fundamentally good people, just the opposite of how we are now portrayed on television.
* There was an oddball (and offensively hilarious, since it is unusual to see popular media types put on the spot and out of character) interview of Siskel and Ebert by Howard Stern that might still be found somewhere. Stern was good at antagonizing his “guests” to elicit a rabid response and with Siskel and Ebert he was true to form.
In the interview, Stern starts off with friendly enough banter but soon begins interrogating Ebert about having a black girlfriend, questioning Ebert about his “jungle fever”. Then Stern remarks that he was shocked and surprised that Ebert had a black girlfriend, not because the woman was black, but because he thought Ebert was gay.
Ebert, visibly shocked, then weakly counters that he thought Stern was gay, and the interview deteriorates from that point on into pointed attacks back and forth.
Ebert soon cleverly shifts the subject to Howard Stern’s behavior and character, stating that “this is not the real Howard Stern that we are seeing with his abusive and derogatory manner.” Stern, being the narcissistic fellow that he is, takes the bait and the discussion becomes all about Howard Stern, leaving Siskel and Ebert to quickly vacate.
You can imagine the two media pundits Siskel and Ebert openly walking into what they think will be an easy and amusing time, only to be broadsided with abuse and calumny, all in the name of ratings and dubious taste.
* No less an unz.com luminary than the Derb has gone to the mat for the brilliant greatness of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. It is very much in the same vein as ON THE WATERFRONT — a film about working-class white people making consequential choices about their lives. The kind of people Hollywood doesn’t make films about anymore. The kind of people who are waking up this year, in case you haven’t been reading this blog.
* Siskel graduated as a philosophy major at Yale in 67, when Yale meant something besides being PC Central. He’s no dullard. And he’s likely the equal or superior to Ebert IQ wise too.
He was also a regular at Bulls games in late 70′s until his death. He was far more eclectic in his tastes than was Ebert.
World War T rages on (in Steve Sailer’s phrasing).
Los Angeles Times: “Ellie Lader, formerly Don, relieves wife Jacqueline’s sore back. Both are Marine Corps veterans and survivors of the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo.”
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Chaim Amalek writes: “The Daily News article states what we can see – the suspect is black. Gawker lifts the article, provides the same identifying information, but then strips out the suspect’s race. Possibly because, as we all know, race is just a social construct, and only racists notice race.”
A gloved human piece of crap shoved a bag of poop down a woman’s shorts as she walked along an Upper East Side street, cops said Wednesday.
The disgusting act was caught on surveillance video, and police say the man and his 27-year-old victim are apparent strangers.
The video shows the woman walking outside an apartment building on E. 74th St. near First Ave. at about 6 p.m. Monday. The man follows her, then crouches for a second and reaches into her waistband, grabbing her buttocks as he slams the feces into her shorts, cops said. Police said they had not determined the source of the excrement.
The man pushes her into a nearby driveway as she struggles to get away and figure out what he did to her. The sicko then stretches his arms, pulls off a glove and flings it into the street before running away.
Felix Martinez, 46, said the horrified woman ran into the parking garage where he works.
“She couldn’t speak. ” he said. “She was shaking. She couldn’t even call 911. She tried twice.”
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Daily Mail: A Scottish woman has been crowned Miss Hitler 2016 in a sick beauty pageant organised by neo-Nazi youth movement National Action.
The sick competition saw a woman with the disturbing pseudonym ‘A-Bus-Full-Of-Retards’ named the winner, after attracting entries from across the UK.
In a disturbing interview on the group’s website, the woman says: ‘I am an NA activist living in Scotland and dedicated member of our organisation.’
The female poses in pictures on the fascist group’s website wearing a kilt and a t-shirt with the National Action insignia on it.
The brunette’s face is half-covered with a black scarf with a skull on it, and in several images she is doing the Nazi salute.
In other parts of the interview she adds: ‘I didn’t want to believe that the Jews are the enemy as I was brought up to believe that they are very similar to Christians.
‘Eventually the Jewish propaganda became too obvious to ignore and so I became involved with NA.’
And sickeningly, she says she would most like to kill German Chancellor Angela Merkel, adding: ‘I would put Angela Merkel (without any protection) in one of her camps and let her pet refugees do the rest.’
The woman says her boyfriend is the ‘best gift life has given’ her and without him she would be a ‘very lonely Nazi’.
She also said her relationships with friends had suffered due to her views.
She said: ‘There are some people who I used to be friends with but because of their openly antifascist views, I no longer speak to. It makes me sad sometimes as I used to really enjoy their company.’
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I had a GF who was hot and smart, but her best quality was her quality of being intensely present. It would disconcerted some people but I loved it. I never had to explain myself to her because she could truly listen.
The gift of my addiction is that it shows me how disconnected I am from God, others, and my true self.
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LA TIMES: An openly gay YouTube star who said that he was brutally assaulted by three men in West Hollywood was charged Wednesday with filing a false police report.
A photo posted by LGBT+ Lifestyle YouTuber ✖️ (@calummcswiggan) on
Los Angeles County prosecutors allege that Calum McSwiggan, known by thousands of fans for his YouTube channel on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, knowingly lied when he told sheriff’s deputies that he was beaten early Monday.
McSwiggan, a resident of London who was visiting Southern California, was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. If convicted, he faces up to 364 days in county jail.
The charge marks the latest chapter in a drama that has played out on the online star’s social media platforms — and with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department publicly releasing a statement and photo that rebutted McSwiggan’s allegations.
McSwiggan wrote in an Instagram post that after visiting a gay club, three men attacked him. He said he suffered three broken teeth and required six stitches in his forehead.
“The authorities should have been there to help and protect me but instead they treated me like a second-class citizen,” McSwiggan wrote in his post, which showed him in a hospital with bandages affixed to his forehead.
“I’ve never felt so terrified to be a gay man in the public eye.”
The Sheriff’s Department confirmed that deputies responded early Monday to McSwiggan’s report of assault after leaving a West Hollywood nightclub. But deputies at the scene “were unable to substantiate the assault,” according to a statement.
Deputies then placed McSwiggan, 26, under arrest about 2:30 a.m. Monday after he allegedly vandalized a car along Santa Monica Boulevard near Robertson Boulevard, in the heart of the city’s LGBT nightlife district.
McSwiggan was booked on a count of vandalism with property damage greater than $400 and held on $20,000 bail, according to jail records.
Before being placed in his jail cell, deputies had McSwiggan stand for a booking photo, which appears to show no obvious injuries.
Once inside a solo jail cell, McSwiggan “was then observed injuring himself with the handle and receiver to a payphone,” sheriff’s officials said in a statement.
He was taken to the hospital for treatment. McSwiggan was released from custody just before 9:15 p.m. Monday with a citation to appear in court.
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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
