Did Assange Say Seth Rich Was Killed For Leaking To Wikileaks?

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: Did Assange really say that? Or was he saying that actual or potential sources are made antsy by Seth Rich’s murder? Assange might have been hinting that. Or he might have been saying that his actual and potential sources have been made antsy by Seth Rich’s unsolved murder.

COMMENTS:

* Yeah, but no amount of pay compensates for rolling the dice on having the federal government come after you with unlimited resources in order to appease its coalition of the fringes because you were impertinent enough to try saving your life.

The Border Patrol is shedding something like 25-50 agents a week and is down 3K agents and some stations are down 50% in manpower terms. This in spite of being a federal job where your line agent (needing only a high school diploma) makes near 100K -straight pay- and can retire after 20-25 years with a nice bit of money. All well and good until you’re facing federal civil rights violations and murder 2 when you shot a dope mule who tried to bean you with a softball sized rock because some AUSA wants to make a name for herself. Look at how Ramos and Compion got railroaded by Bush appointee Johnny Sutton in the name of “justice”.

There’s a lot of blithe assumptions here that getting hired at a PD/FD, especially a desirable one, is just a matter of putting in your application and being able to do a lot of pull ups. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get an interview as a California fire fighter, or a Malibu County Sheriff’s Deputy? I’m not even talking hired, but just to get a call back to interview? You better know someone or have an amazing resume or both, and impress the interview board when you show up. Assuming you pass the polygraph and the exam, there’s still an academy to go through, and then a probationary period so they can confirm you’re not a fuck up.

In other words, a lot of law enforcement knows the score, and are realizing that things are only going to get worst under Hillary.

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Did Peyton Manning’s Dramatic Decline Result From No Longer Doping?

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: Likely, the most difficult sports role in U.S. sports is NFL quarterback.

Do PEDs help there?

Probably …

There aren’t a lot of positive drug test results in the NFL so there’s not much evidence to go on.

But I wouldn’t be surprised if a certain quarterback’s physical decrepitness last year was due in part to him deciding he wouldn’t risk tarnishing his legacy by risking anymore getting caught by a PED test in his last season. At his retirement press conference he looked more like a middle manager on the 8am flight to DFW than the thick-necked superstar we were familiar with.

But even though he could barely throw the ball anymore last season, he went out on a winning note, which probably says more about the mental demands of being an NFL quarterback than anything else.

* “I would guess that there are more foreign-born white players in the NBA now than there are American whites.”

I haven’t done the count, but I’m almost certain it’s true.

“However, it would be interesting to have an Olympic team of White American Refugees, composed of boys from Duke, Gonzaga, and a few other outliers, and see what toughness, ball skills, and true teamwork could accomplish against dose supa affletes.”

They would lose, but put up a good fight. The list of best white American players in the NBA goes something like this:
Kevin Love
Gordon Hayward
J.J. Reddick
Ryan Anderson
Chandler Parsons
The Zellers and the Plumlees in some order

Then you get into the Cole Aldrich, Frank Kaminsky, Chase Budinger, Nick Collison, Sam Dekker, Meyers Leonard, Ryan Kelly types. All these guys except Reddick are 6-9 or taller. Who’s playing PG, 35-year-old Kirk Hinrich?

The best internationals, however, if they developed some cohesion, could and would win. Indeed, the Yugos, Spain, Greece, Argentina, Lithuania have all beaten the “Dream Team”. Australia came close yesterday, though of course the two main MVP contenders, Lebron and Curry, are not playing for Team USA.

The idea of an “American” (read: black) vs. “International” (read: white) NBA All-Star Game was raised years ago by Bill Simmons before he was cucked/emasculated by ESPN. Unlike the current All-Star Game, which is essentially a very high level AAU game with nothing at stake, it would generate tremendous interest. They could do pay-per-view and make millions.

The blacks would do everything to avoid the eternal shame of losing to whitey, and the latter would try their hardest to show organization and skill can defeat the inherent athletic and anthropomorphic advantages of West Africans in basketball.

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A Trump Landslide?

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

Scott Adams writes: If you have been following this blog since last year, you know I have been saying Trump was playing 3D chess against 2D opponents. And by that I meant Trump was using powerful persuasion techniques while the rest of the field was flailing away with facts, reason, policy details, and other things that don’t change anyone’s mind.

Then, in late spring, at about the time that Bernie Sanders’ flamed out, Clinton ascended to the 3D playing field and stayed there, thanks to help – I assume – from one or more weapons-grade behavioral psychologists who joined the cause. For the past few months both candidates have operated in the third dimension, where emotion and persuasion rule, and facts are irrelevant.

Recently, Clinton has been winning in the third dimension. She abandoned her 2D rational arguments about experience and policies and started hypnotizing voters into believing they have the power to predict the future if they try hard enough. And in that imaginary future, Donald Trump is incinerating the world with nuclear fire because he can’t take advice, or he’s a narcissist, or he’s unstable, or he’s Hitler Version 2.0. This approach is excellent persuasion, and it is working for Clinton….

My prediction from last year – that Trump would win the general election in a landslide – was based on his persuasion advantage. That advantage is largely gone now because Clinton has evidently hired some weapons-grade Master Persuaders and moved to a purely emotional appeal, specifically fear. And it is working.

If nothing changes, Clinton will win in November. But things rarely stay the same. Here are several ways Trump could still win from behind.

1. Voters discover that Clinton has been hiding a major health issue.

2. Wikileaks releases something damaging.

3. Trump over-performs at the first debate, showing the world that he is willing and able to master the issues.

4. Trump makes the case that the Clinton Foundation is really about selling influence to foreign concerns.

5. Trump gives a speech or interview that is so effective in its empathy that he no longer appears to be crazy and racist.

6. A new surprise revelation about Clinton that no one sees coming.

7. Terror attacks push everything else out of the headlines in the final months.

8. Someone assassinates Clinton because of Trump’s 2nd Amendment joke.

Trump still has several ways to win, and at least three of those paths are under his control. But to be fair, we have seen no evidence that Trump is likely to do anything different in terms of style. So don’t count on a personality change.

In terms of persuasion technique, Clinton now has world-class advisors, but Trump still has the advantage of his risk profile. Trump can take bigger risks and go places Clinton wouldn’t dare. So Trump’s persuasion can be stronger if he chooses to increase his risk. Clinton will be more constrained by political correctness.

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President Obama Lobbied For This Olympics To Be In Chicago

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* If you think that the Rio Olympics is an unmitigated disaster, just imagine what a total crap show a Chicago Olympic Games could have been. The cost over-runs alone would have been astronomical. Not to mention the total logistics and traffic nightmare along with the usual black criminality mixed in.

It’s said that losing the Olympic bid forced Daley, Jr. from seeking another term or two. If Chicago had won the bid, and he was still mayor, the ensuing fiasco would have made him become more of a complete stuttering, stumbling mess than he already otherwise was.

* Rio has a lot of problems, and they’re showing up at these Olympics, even if NBC isn’t in much of a mood to let us know.

Yet and still, the IOC still thought that all that was preferable to Chicago.

They had a point.

* All of these 426 murder victims will be quickly replaced, net-population wise, with more illegitimate babies born by mothers who have no clue as to how to support a child or raise a human being who will contribute to society’s well-being.

* I’ve lived most of my life in the Chicago area and after recently spending time downtown, including the lakefront, River North, the brand new riverwalk, nearby neighborhoods like Lincoln Park, Wrigleyville, Old Town, etc, it’s never seemed as safe, and as “white” to me. In the summer, Chicago is extremely fun and lively.

The violence is occurring a million miles away, in the no-go zones of the South side and the West side. I hardly know anyone who’s ever set foot in those areas.

* Do we know what the development plan was for the Chicago Olympics? Perhaps they were going to plow over the entire South Side. If so, there’d be a lot less crime in Chicago today, which would be whiter, and a lot more crime wherever the South Siders moved to.

* I watched one of this year’s officer-involved-shooting videos–I think it was Alton Sterling–with a Brazilian coworker. He watched, shrugged and said, “Stuff like this and worse happens all the time in Brazil. No one thinks it’s news.”

So, to your point that Rio may still be preferable to Chicago for the IOC, perhaps that is because the police violence necessary to maintain order for an event like the Olympics is unremarkable in Brazil, while it is impermissible in the US.

* Let’s see, there’s been two boxers charged with attempted rape (how one boxer can ‘rape’ two maids is beyond me) one of the torch bearers was shot at, and of course, lots of ruffian-on-tourist action. So far, not the train wreck I was expecting. But they still haven’t had the rowing, sailing or triathlon in that, um, ”water” so who knows. The high dive has been interesting, seems they either couldn’t afford enough chlorine or they don’t know what they’re doing with it.

* When Chicago hosted the World Cup in 1994 the murder rate was twice what it is today. The overall crime rate was higher as well. One of the big news stories from that was about a German radio show that was doing a live remote from the Chicago Loop during the World Cup Games. At least half of the questions from German callers who called in asked if the hosts of the show had armed guards protecting them or if the hosts feared for their lives because of how violent the city was. The feel good part of the piece that aired on local Chicago news programs was that the radio hosts extolled how safe they felt and how Germans in the city were surprised by how much they enjoyed the city. I think that the Olympics in Chicago probably would have been the same. A lot of hype about shootings and attendees to the Olympics not seeing much crime at all. The only exception would have been events that might have been held in places like Garfield Park. But even there the problem might be robberies, not murders. Most of the shootings in the city are from a gang war that has been going on since most of the high rise public housing projects were demolished. This has also increased the crime rate in smaller Illinois cities that some of the residents were sent to. When you hear about a Grandfather who was shot on his front porch or a 6 year old girl being shot, it usually is from a gang banger who is a bad shot.

* Chicago got the Gay Games in 2006. Didn’t that satisfy them?

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JJ: For her directorial debut, Natalie Portman mines her inner Israeli and what it means to be Jewish

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

Aside from considerations of faith, what it means to be Jewish/black/Muslim/Japanese is the same — to perpetuate the genes of your people and assist them in perpetuating themselves. As the preamble to the U.S. Constitution states: “For ourselves and for our posterity.” That’s the purpose of life.

No people and no country has a right to exist. Every people, every country, have to establish themselves against fierce competition and defend themselves and when opportunity presents itself, go on the attack to strengthen themselves. If your country and people do not become as strong as possible, they are reducing their chances to survive.

From the Jewish Journal:

“I realized how much Judaism for me was connected to yearning — to wanting what you don’t have — which is maybe why Israel is so complicated emotionally for Jews: It’s built into the emotional structure of our religion to yearn for a homeland we don’t have,” Portman wrote in the Times.
“So then, if we have it, what do we yearn for? We say ‘next year in Jerusalem’ as if we are still in exile. But maybe Jerusalem as an idea is never attainable — so we can keep longing for it, even when we have it.”
Portman’s eloquence on Israel is decidedly uncharacteristic of most of Jewish Hollywood. In good times and bad, Israel is a subject Jewish celebrities tend to avoid, lest they be seen as too tribal, or worse, unsympathetic to the Palestinian cause. But Portman is an exception, and, over the years, she has become a kind of a de facto defender of Israel (when I use this label with her, she laughs), especially in the face of public misconception or outright hostility toward Israel or the Jews. When a video surfaced in February 2011 of Dior chief fashion designer John Galliano spouting anti-Semitic comments in a Paris bar, Portman, then the face of a Dior fragrance, was quick to condemn him.
“I am deeply shocked and disgusted by the video of John Galliano’s comments,” she said in a statement at the time. “In light of this video, and as an individual who is proud to be Jewish, I will not be associated with Mr. Galliano in any way. I hope at the very least, these terrible comments remind us to reflect and act upon combating these still-existing prejudices that are the opposite of all that is beautiful.”
Galliano was subsequently suspended from Dior. Four years later, when The Hollywood Reporter questioned her about the incident, she said she could forgive him, but not his comments. In the same story, she was equally unforgiving of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom she condemned for “racist comments,” which she said she was “very much against.”

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