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REVIEW: The Ten Commandments: Still the Best Moral Code

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Luke Ford

I’m reading this 2015 book by Dennis Prager.

On page XIII, he writes: “If people lived by these Commandments, little else would be needed to make a world in which armies spent their time playing football; police would rarely be needed; the doors to our homes could be left unlocked; and women would walk anywhere at any time of day or night without fear of being sexually assaulted.”

I can foresee no time when a country won’t need an army, but all the rest of the characteristics of this utopia have been normal in homogeneous white and asian communities. In Tannum Sands, Australia, where I lived for a couple of years, people routinely left their homes unlocked when they went away on vacation.

On the other hand, I can’t think of any society that observed the Ten Commandments coming close to the achievements of Japan in creating safe society and yet few Japanese pay any attention to the Ten Commandments nor do they believe in monotheism.

Prager writes: “We live in a world filled with evil and moral confusion. There is only one way out: affirmation of a God Whose primary demand of us is that we treat our fellow human beings decently. Faith in any god who makes any other primary demand will ultimately fail to solve the problem of evil.”

I’m eager to find that Jewish or Christian country that comes close to Japan’s record of civility and law-abidingness.

How do the Japanese do it without monotheism, Bible, and Jews? If the Japanese excel all monotheist societies in goodness, then what does that say about the moral necessity of monotheism?

On page XVIII, Prager writes:

Imagine for a moment a world in which there was no murder or theft. In such a world, there would be no need for armies, or police, or weapons. Men and women and children could walk anywhere, at any time or day or night, without any fear of being killed or robbed. Imagine further a world in which no one coveted what belonged to their neighbor; a world in which children honored their mother and father and the family unit thrived; a world in which people obeyed the injunction not to lie.

Japan seems closer to this ideal than any other country. Also, as a group and wherever they are in the world, people of East Asian genes come closer to these ideals than do whites who in turn come closer to these ideals than do blacks (aka Rushton’s Rule of Threes). It seems to me that race is much more important here than religious teachings. If I wanted to find a community that by and large followed the ideals of Prager’s paragraph above, I would be better served by looking at racial composition than any other variable.

Eighty three percent of African-Americans are Christians (and 79% of American blacks say religion is very important) and yet they have the highest crime rate of any racial or religious group.

A third of Japanese-Americans don’t affiliate with any religion and another 25% are Buddhist (38% identify as Christian) and yet Japanese-Americans have a tiny crime rate. How do they do it?

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Is the KKK a “hate group?”

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the blog JewAmongYou:

If you ask people to give an example of a “hate group,” the first thing that will pop into many of their minds is “The KKK.” Even white nationalists sometimes like to pick on the KKK. Writing about a recent incident involving some Citadel students who wore costumes reminiscent of KKK outfits, a recent AFT article reports:

Washington (AFP) – A prestigious military college in the United States suspended eight students and launched an investigation after photos emerged of cadets posing in all-white outfits reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan, an official said.
Hillary Clinton also weighed in on The Citadel college, where the Confederate battle flag flies, tweeting: “Symbols of hate create more hate. It’s time for the Confederate flag to come down at The Citadel.”
The flag was the focus of renewed impassioned debate in June after a suspected white supremacist shot dead nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina — the same city where The Citadel is based.
The cadets were pictured dressed in white and with white pillow cases over their heads with two holes for the eyes, in haunting similarities to the infamous Ku Klux Klan, a white hate group.

Is the KKK a “hate group?”

The answer is clearly “No.” Firstly, the KKK is not even a group, let alone a “hate group.” According to kkk.bz:

The name Ku Klux Klan is in the public domain. This means anyone can use the name Ku Klux Klan. They can use it for good reasons or they can use it for bad reasons. There are around 200 different Klan groups in the nation. They are all locally based or at the most regionally based. Most of these groups remain local because they want to do things their own way. They all use the terminology and ceremony of the twenties and are fraternity styled. They are not politically focused and resemble a club. The average size of the Klan clubs are 6-15. There are a couple of regional Klan groups with an average membership of 50-75. Usually they are led by sincerely motivated individuals, however because they have no national affiliation, their growth, activities, and goals are limited.

Of those 200 KKK groups, there can be little doubt that many have hateful members. This is to be expected. Since the very term “KKK” is now synonymous with “Hate,” many angry and hateful people will naturally be drawn to such groups. They’ll say to themselves, “I was mugged by niggers. I was cheated by kikes. Those Mexicans stole my lawnmower again! I’m sick and tired of this; I’m gonna join THE KLAN!”

When you demonize a name, groups that call themselves by that name will attract a lot of demons. Charitable people are not encouraged to “join the KKK and make a difference.” For this reason alone, it’s prudent to be wary of people who affiliate themselves with the KKK.

What about the crimes of the past, such as the lynchings, committed by the KKK?

If we’re going to blame today’s KKK groups for crimes of the past, then we might as well blame today’s USA for its past crimes. While we’re at it, let’s hold the Democrat Party responsible for slavery and the Catholic Church culpable for the Inquisition.

The vast majority of crimes attributed to KKK organizations date from decades ago, typically from the turbulent “civil rights era.” It seems to me that more recent incidents are “second-generation” phenomena. In other words, the Left establishment has so built up the name “KKK” that crazy and violent individuals are attracted to it. This artificial bogeyman has taken on a life of its own. At the same time, Establishment pro-crime policies (such as subsidizing fatherless households, feeding black anger and entitlement, forced integration and the emasculation of whites) have enraged enough people that some of them seek out groups they consider to be the most extreme: The KKK and neo-Nazi groups.

Looking over kkk.bz, I didn’t find anything hateful. So it would appear that the official positions of that particular KKK group are not hateful.

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HOUSE DEMOCRATS MOVE TO CRIMINALIZE CRITICISM OF ISLAM

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Luke Ford

Robert Spencer writes:

December 17, 2015 ought henceforth to be a date which will live in infamy, as that was the day that some of the leading Democrats in the House of Representatives came out in favor of the destruction of the First Amendment. Sponsored by among others, Muslim Congressmen Keith Ellison and Andre Carson, as well as Eleanor Holmes Norton, Loretta Sanchez, Charles Rangel, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Joe Kennedy, Al Green, Judy Chu, Debbie Dingell, Niki Tsongas, John Conyers, José Serrano, Hank Johnson, and many others, House Resolution 569 condemns “violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards Muslims in the United States.” The Resolution has been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

That’s right: “violence, bigotry and hateful rhetoric.” The implications of those five words will fly by most people who read them, and the mainstream media, of course, will do nothing to elucidate them. But what H. Res. 569 does is conflate violence — attacks on innocent civilians, which have no justification under any circumstances – with “bigotry” and “hateful rhetoric,” which are identified on the basis of subjective judgments. The inclusion of condemnations of “bigotry” and “hateful rhetoric” in this Resolution, while appearing to be high-minded, take on an ominous character when one recalls the fact that for years, Ellison, Carson, and his allies (including groups such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR) have been smearing any and all honest examination of how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to incite hatred and violence as “bigotry” and “hateful rhetoric.” This Resolution is using the specter of violence against Muslims to try to quash legitimate research into the motives and goals of those who have vowed to destroy us, which will have the effect of allowing the jihad to advance unimpeded and unopposed.

That’s not what this H. Res. 569 would do, you say? It’s just about condemning “hate speech,” not free speech? That kind of sloppy reasoning may pass for thought on most campuses today, but there is really no excuse for it. Take, for example, the wife of Paris jihad murderer Samy Amimour – please. It was recently revealed that she happily boasted about his role in the murder of 130 Paris infidels: “I encouraged my husband to leave in order to terrorize the people of France who have so much blood on their hands […] I’m so proud of my husband and to boast about his virtue, ah la la, I am so happy.” Proud wifey added: “As long as you continue to offend Islam and Muslims, you will be potential targets, and not just cops and Jews but everyone.”

Now Samy Amimour’s wife sounds as if she would be very happy with H. Res. 569, and its sponsors would no doubt gladly avow that we should stop offending Islam and Muslims – that is, cut out the “bigotry” and “hateful rhetoric.” If we are going to be “potential targets” even if we’re not “cops” or “Jews,” as long as we “continue to offend Islam and Muslims,” then the obvious solution, according to the Western intelligentsia, is to stop doing anything that might offend Islam and Muslims – oh, and stop being cops and Jews. Barack “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam” says it. Hillary “We’re going to have that filmmaker arrested” Clinton says it. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, certain that anyone who speaks honestly about Islam and jihad is a continuing danger to the Church, says it.

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Baltimore, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the new racial politics

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Luke Ford

Fred Siegel writes: In the summer of 1966, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach warned that there would be riots by angry, poor minority residents in “30 or 40” American cities if Congress didn’t pass President Lyndon Johnson’s Model Cities antipoverty legislation. In the late 1960s, New York mayor John Lindsay used the fear of such rioting to expand welfare rolls dramatically at a time when the black male unemployment rate was about 4 percent. And in the 1980s, Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry articulated an explicitly racial version of collective bargaining—a threat that, without ample federal funds, urban activists would unleash wave after wave of racial violence. “I know for a fact,” Barry explained, “that white people get scared of the [Black] Panthers, and they might give money to somebody a little more moderate.”

This brand of thinking, which I have called the riot ideology, influenced urban politics for a generation, from the 1960s through the 1980s. Perhaps its model city was Baltimore, which, in 1968, was consumed by race riots so intense that the Baltimore police, 500 Maryland state troopers, and 6,000 National Guardsmen were unable to quell them. The “insurrection” was halted only when nearly 5,000 federal troops requested by Maryland governor Spiro Agnew arrived.

In the years since 1968, Baltimore has proved remarkably adept at procuring state and federal funds and constructed revitalization projects such as the justly famed Camden Yards and a convention center. But Baltimore never really recovered from the riots, and the lawlessness never fully subsided. What began as a grand bargain to avert further racial violence after 1968 descended over the decades into a series of squalid shakedowns. Antipoverty programs that had once promised to repair social and family breakdown became by the 1990s self-justifying and self-perpetuating.

In the wake of the 2014 riots in Ferguson, Missouri, and the 2015 West Baltimore riots, a new riot ideology has taken hold, one similarly intoxicated with violence and willing to excuse it but with a different goal. The first version of the riot ideology assumed that not only cities but also whites could be reformed; the new version assumes that America is inherently racist beyond redemption and that the black inner city needs to segregate itself from the larger society (with the exception of federal welfare funds, which should continue to flow in). This new racial politics is not only coalescing around activists claiming to speak for urban blacks—represented publically by groups like Black Lives Matter—but is also expressed in the writings of best-selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates. And Baltimore is once again center stage.

The West Baltimore rioters of 2015 didn’t call for more LBJ-style antipoverty projects but for less policing. In a “keep off our turf” version of belligerent multiculturalism, the rioters see police as both to blame for black criminality and as an embodiment of bourgeois white values. The old riot ideology referred to mostly white urban police forces as occupying armies; the new version sees even Baltimore’s integrated police force, under the leadership of the city’s black mayor and (until recently) a black police chief, as an occupying army. Withdrawing the police from black neighborhoods is the only acceptable solution.

In his memoir The Beautiful Struggle, Coates described how his father, a former Black Panther and full-time conspiracy theorist, drove his son around West Baltimore “telling me again the story of the black folk’s slide to ruin. He would drive down North Avenue and survey the carry-outs, the wig shops, the liquor stores and note that not one was owned by anyone black.” Whites had “plundered” what belonged to blacks, his father explained, as they had done with once-great African kingdoms. Coates, who lived in fear of black street toughs as a teen, sees the police as a greater threat to black well-being than the drug “crews” and gangs roaming the streets of West Baltimore today. His vision, in part, is to free gang-ridden areas from the malign grip of white standards and aggressive policing. Coates has adopted his father’s view that “our condition, the worst of this country’s condition—poor, diseased, illiterate, crippled dumb—was not just a tumor to be burrowed out but proof that the whole body was a tumor, that America was not a victim of a great rot but the rot itself.” Not even a hurricane of violence, says the new riot ideology, justifies a vigorous police presence in black localities…

Baltimore is a city of many Freddie Grays. The 25-year-old Sandtown resident, a petty drug dealer who had been arrested 18 times, might have seemed like a flawed martyr. His death appeared to be the result of police negligence—he wasn’t fastened into a seat belt for the 45-minute ride to the police station and suffered a severe spinal-cord injury—rather than intentional malice. But in a city where one in ten residents is a drug addict, and in a state where ex-felons can vote, Gray represented a significant constituency. Showing, she said, that “no one is above the law,” state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby brought murder charges against the police less than two weeks after Gray’s death. “To the people of Baltimore and the demonstrators across America: I heard your call for ‘No justice, no peace,’ ” she said. “Your peace is sincerely needed as I work to deliver justice on behalf of this young man.”

Mosby’s husband, a city councilman representing West Baltimore who has mayoral ambitions, gently described his rioting constituents as engaged in “a cry for help.” The rioting and looting had “nothing to do with West Baltimore or this particular corner in Baltimore,” Nick Mosby told a reporter. But Leland Vittert of Fox News stood with Mosby outside a West Baltimore liquor store as it was being looted, and the councilman refused to criticize the thieves. Looting, Mosby said, is “young folks of the community showing decades-old anger, frustration, for a system that’s failed them. I mean, it’s bigger than Freddie Gray. This is about the social economics of poor urban America.” It’s also about drugs and the unprecedented mass theft of opiates by many of the city’s gangs. According to the Associated Press, federal drug-enforcement agents said that Baltimore gangs targeted 32 of the city’s pharmacies during the riot, stealing roughly 300,000 doses of opiates such as oxycodone. “The ones doing the violence,” said a 55-year-old West Baltimore woman, were “eating Percocet like candy and they’re not thinking about consequences.”

“Justice for Freddie Gray” produced a withdrawal of law and order. The “army of occupation” retreated, murders surged, and thugs roamed the streets largely unhindered. The protest culture of the sixties ruled the day but without the hope once engendered, albeit mistakenly, by the incidents of that era. Great Society–inspired social programs failed to reduce poverty but succeeded in creating self-serving political machines that blame white conspiracies for the degradation of West Baltimore and other urban areas.

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New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on Students, Baring an Ethnic Divide Between Whites & Asians

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Luke Ford

Kyle Spencer, New York Times, December 25, 2015:

This fall, David Aderhold, the superintendent of a high-achieving school district near Princeton, N.J., sent parents an alarming 16-page letter.

The school district, he said, was facing a crisis. Its students were overburdened and stressed out, juggling too much work and too many demands.

{snip}

With his letter, Dr. Aderhold inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into a national discussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools, and whether it has gone too far.

At follow-up meetings, he urged parents to join him in advocating a holistic, “whole child” approach to schooling that respects “social-emotional development” and “deep and meaningful learning” over academics alone. The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, Calif., where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed to two clusters of suicides in the last six years.

But instead of bringing families together, Dr. Aderhold’s letter revealed a fissure in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines. On one side are white parents like Catherine Foley, a former president of the Parent Teacher Student Association at her daughter’s middle school, who has come to see the district’s increasingly pressured atmosphere as antithetical to learning.

“My son was in fourth grade and told me, ‘I’m not going to amount to anything because I have nothing to put on my résumé,’ ” Ms. Foley said.

On the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade, who said Dr. Aderhold’s reforms would amount to a “dumbing down” of his children’s education.

“What is happening here reflects a national anti-intellectual trend that will not prepare our children for the future,” Mr. Jia said.

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The district has become increasingly popular with immigrant families from China, India and Korea. This year, 65 percent of its students are Asian-American, compared with 44 percent in 2007. Many of them are the first in their families born in the United States.

They have had a growing influence on the district. Asian-American parents are enthusiastic supporters of the competitive instrumental music program. They have been huge supporters of the district’s advanced mathematics program, which once began in the fourth grade but will now start in the sixth. The change to the program, in which 90 percent of the participating students are Asian-American, is one of Dr. Aderhold’s reforms.

Asian-American students have been avid participants in a state program that permits them to take summer classes off campus for high school credit, allowing them to maximize the number of honors and Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practice that Dr. Aderhold is limiting this school year.

With many Asian-American children attending supplemental instructional programs, there is a perception among some white families that the elementary school curriculum is being sped up to accommodate them.

{snip}

At a packed meeting of the school district’s Board of Education held shortly before the winter break, a middle school cafeteria was filled with parents, with Asian-Americans sitting on one side and white families on the other. Some parents and students described rampant cheating, grade fixation and days so stressful that some students could not wait for them to end. But other parents, primarily Asian-American ones, described a different picture, one in which their values were being ignored.

Helen Yin, the mother of an eighth grader and a kindergartner, told the crowd that Dr. Aderhold was attempting to hold her and her children back. At one point, a visibly upset Ms. Yin, who moved from Chengdu, China, to pursue a master’s degree in chemistry, shouted to the room filled with parents, “Who can I trust?”

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Men, Marriage & Migration

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* I’ve noticed that married white men with children are unconcerned with immigration and demographic change.

Unmarried white men with no children are the most concerned with immigration.

What’s up with that?

* More time on their hands.

* It could be that these men are so busy with their jobs and their families that they have minimal to no time to even consider the demographic changes taking place in our country.

* The first group is comprised of winners. The second group is compromised of losers. No great mystery.

* The Idaho ranchers should try to connect the dots a bit on immigration. The problem isn’t that these Latin American indentured servants are fleeing. The problem is that there is such a large Latin American community in this nation, due to our broken enforcement system, that these indentured servants can easily walk away from the shepherding gig and blend into the greater Latino culture that unfortunately exists in the USA.

This is why there was that story a few years back where that Israeli manpower firm was bringing in Thai workers to work on American farms. The Thais would be easier to keep on the farm because, unlike Mexicans, there is not a large community of Thais or Thai speakers. So the Thais would have a much harder time stepping out than Mexicans and other Spanish speakers.

Ironically the Syrian shepherd would be what the Idaho ranchers really desire. They have to forget about Latin Americans. It is just too easy for Latinos to blend into the larger Latino community. The Syrian might be more controllable unless and until the Feds bring in a million or so Syrians.

* There are all sorts of externalities associated with bringing in new workers, particularly low skill workers.

So the problem comes down to the usual issue with privatizing profits and socializing losses. Their fellow citizens end up dealing with all the externalities and don’t get any benefit.

* Before Caesar Chavez and his UFW got it abolished, American farmers had the Bracero Program. Farmers could tell a Mexican labor contractor they needed workers to harvest their crop. The Mexican contractor would be given temporary work visas and bring the workers to the farm. The Mexican labor contractor managed the workers and, since the work was temporary and moved from farm to farm, the workers did not bring their families. At the end of the season the workers were bused back to Mexico with their earnings and everyone benefited.

Chavez grasped that seasonal agricultural work would never pay enough to raise a family on unless his union could control the supply of farm labor. Keeping Mexican farm labor from doing this work was critical to his unionization efforts. In the event he did end the Bracero Program but got an even worse situation. The permanent relocation of hundreds of thousands of Mexican farm workers to California that undermined his unionization efforts and left farm workers impoverished.

* What always kind of troubled me about Brokeback Mountain was how lame and PC the response of the stand-up comedians were.

It seems that stand-ups missed a great opportunity to point out the entire premise of movie was simply ridiculous and in that in all likelihood in reality the rancher played by Randy Quad would have been just thrilled at the chance to hire two obviously gay cowboys to look after his flock. At least they would be screwing each other and not the sheep for a change.

One could imagine the sheep rancher stroking his chin as he looked up from the latest Village People album thinking out load, “If only I could find a couple of cowboys like this here fella”.

You see come round up time as the sheep are being loaded on to trucks to be taken to the slaughter house, the Randy Quad character could be proud that having employed the gay cowboys, he at least would be spared the spectacle of lambs bleating passionately as they are being betrayed and torn away from their former lovers.

Instead in the movie, we have the rancher, Joe Aguirre played by Quad, being ambivalent about hiring what he suspected in the first place were two gays.

Joe Aguirre: You pair of deuces lookin’ for work, I suggest you get your scrawny asses in here pronto.

Joe Aguirre: You boys sure found a way to make the time pass up there. Twist, you guys wasn’t gettin’ paid to leave the dogs babysittin’ the sheep while you stem the rose.

The comedic parody could have had Joe Aguirre handing the “gay caballeros” a couple of tubes of lube with the suggestion that as long as the both of them keep their eyes on the sheep at all times everything would be alright with him.

The “suggestion” might have include pointing to a wall diagram of exactly what he had in mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_position#Penetrating_from_behind

I think only Artie Lange actually came remotely close to pointing out how laughable the plot of BBM was.

* According to the garbage historian Stephen Ambrose, Lewis and Clark were the only members of their expedition that never needed to be treated for VD. There are advantages to shrinking one’s circle of compassion.

* Mall riots: In South Africa this sort of thing is given the pithier euphemism – ‘affirmative shopping’.

* With the internet, why do shopping malls still exist? Given your measurements, a computer program can…

Because women.

We can see the obvious engineering solution because as the ones who actually work for a living, efficiency matters to us. But a computer model showing the fit doesn’t “feel” the same. Women want to try things on in person, browse by touching, etc. I know it sounds insane, but it’s how they are.

* If Obama had a son, he’d be “shopping” in Louisville.

* And do you know why it’s called ‘boxing day’?

It’s got nothing to do with pugilism or the sport of ‘boxing’ – as I naively thought when I was a 7 year old. I held a fantasy then about ‘charity boxing matches’ being held as a weird festive celebration on the 26th in times past.

No. Apparently it dates right back to medieval England, and the tradition of a ‘Christmas box. Now, a Christmas box referred originally to a gift of a small sum of money – in coins of course – given to a trusted tradesman, roundsman, servant etc who diligently served a good middle class household all year long, by way of ‘thank you’.
The tradition persisted right well into the 20th century. As a boy, in the 1970s, I well remember the ‘dustmen’ – or garbage collectors as you would call them in the States, knocking on every door in the street and more or less demanding their ‘Christmas box’ ie a small gratuity. Rumor always had it that non-payers would have garbage ‘accidently’ strewn across their front yard for the entirety of the following year.
Because of this, local councils, the ultimate employers of dustmen banned the practice, threatening dustmen who participated in the practice with dire punishment.

* “Swept up.” I like that one. Teens/youths/juveniles are forever being swept up and caught in situations where bullets begin to fly, gunfire erupts and looting/violence breaks out. Is this the fault of “bad malls”?

Then again, much agency does a 70ish IQ black kid really have? I’ve avoided individuals among large groups of whites, but I always avoid entire group of blacks.

And how the hell would Percocet be conducive to rioting?

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Recovering From Under-Earning

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Luke Ford

In talk 176, Andrew says: “My mother was a schizophrenic and in and out of mental hospitals. My dad went back to Romania. I went to a Jewish school known as the yeshiva. I was walking around in a state of PTSD. The rabbis kept on hitting me and telling me that I was lazy. Other than that, it was a great childhood.”

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Laughing My Way Into Poverty And Social Death

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Luke Ford

All of my life, with few exceptions, I have considered work a joke and I just can’t stop myself from making inappropriate jokes. Few of my bosses have appreciated this.

(I worked in radio news for three years and never made an inappropriate joke on the air. I never got fired from KAHI/KHYL. I quit in 1987 to concentrate on my schooling.)

Almost everything at work seems like a joke to me. I can’t stop.

Almost all of my bosses have hated this. They have kept complaining over the years, “Everything is a joke to you. Will you be laughing when I fire you?”

I’m best suited for working for myself.

My favorite topics for jokes are Muslims, homosexuals, pederasts and anything remotely sexual.

I was telling a coworker a while ago that he should take his three boys to Neverland.

Friend: “You have a problem, but it’s still funny.”

The only way I find to get through prosaic tasks is by wondering aloud which groups I would vote off the island in which order.

It just takes more willpower than I’ve got these days to suppress the phrase “queer with AIDS,” as in, “Sure, if I were a queer with AIDS, I’d be glad to help you with that.”

Friend: “If you would just treat your mouth like your penis, maybe you could finally restrain your inappropriate words.”

I said to this latino guy at work, “How’s your sister?” And he got all ticked off like I was about to suggest something immoral.

Note to self: Never ask your boss if his mother was able to find sparks with his step-dad.

I just put on my CPAP, got under the covers and then started snorting and spitting when I imagined myself saying to my latin friend, “Do you have any pictures of your sisters? I’m sure they’re very pretty just like you.”

At my last job, my boss would fire me 3-5 times a day for inappropriate humor.

I’m asking a representative sample of different groups, “Do you have any pictures of your sister?” and I will be charting their reactions. Which group do you think would react most negatively to such a question and what does that mean?

So I was in the sauna last night getting mentored by my rabbi…

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Cops On Roids

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments:

* I remember Star Trek: The Next Generation had an episode where there was a brief throwaway when a character was forced to view warriors through the ages, and the one from 21st-Century Earth (which was the then-future) had steroids in his suit that he snuffed periodically.

Pretty prescient? Or did they just assume that, just as every warrior in history used mind-altering substances to go into battle (spoiler: most of them were drunk), the guys at Star Trek thought the army would just weaponize the tradition and give guys stuff that would scientifically make them fight better?

Anyway, U.S. cops are asked to do way more these days than any cops in the past. Lots of stress.

Policing in the U.S. once took one of two roles: either you were a small-town constable who knew everyone and therefore had little crime to take care of, or, you were in a big city with lots of crime, but you were at least allowed free range to bash skulls in of anyone you thought was bad and never got in trouble for it.

Nowadays, cops have the problem of being handicapped because they don’t know the communities and they are supposed to both delay any action that a normal human would (like bashing a skull of a dirtbag) and then be able to respond quickly enough to defend yourself and innocents when the dirtbag pushes it and gets to the point of killing.

All this on a 12 hour shift.

* It’s not only cops. There’s plenty of ordinary people on steroids. Surely about 90% of people who lift weights do steroids, though they won’t admit it. Roid rage is a real problem today.
In a previous job, I had a weight -lifting boss who was abusing steroids and he was a real pain in the neck to deal with. He would have uncontrollable fits of anger when you merely disagreed with him. He would shout and curse like a teenager throwing a temper tantrum. A sight pathetic to behold on a mature man. Like most steroid abusers, he was in love with himself, with his own ripped body. I guess 20 years down the line he will discover his inner woman and turn into a granny tranny like Bruce Jenner.

*( Steroids as “judgment-altering substances” is pretty funny. There’s not much science behind the roid rage stuff. There was a big study on anabolic steroids and aggression in Swedish men. The interesting thing there is the higher correlation between other drugs and steroid use. In other words, users of steroids are going to be using other things too, which probably are the source of aggressive behavior.

My guess is outfits like Blackwater hand out greenies like chewing gum. Maybe that’s true with cops too. Athletes and body builders like greenies as a pre-workout/pre-game supplement. MLB testing for amphetamines has probably done more to fix baseball than steroid testing. There’s a long tradition of using amphetamines in pro-sports for obvious reasons.

From what I gather, football players are now using Adderall as they can get scripts and a waiver from the NFL, claiming a medical need.

* Anabolic steroids should just be legal. They have many advantages with responsible use.

We live in a gynocentric society, and making testosterone shots illegal while handing out estrogen pills like M&M’s is a straightforward sign of that. Masculine countries, like most E.E. and Middle East countries, have no controls on it. Anomalously, the U.K. also has legal over-the-counter steroids, and wow, their society is not torn about by an epidemic of ‘roid abuse.

* I watched the transformation from the old bloated sometimes drunk cops of my youth in the 80s to the jacked up roid users common today. Steroids became widespread and were still legal when they started to change. The boys who used them are two of the three types of boys who later become cops — the insecure ones and the ones who like smacking people around. The more demanding physicals also encourage it. Now, they justify it by believing it might save their life, which may be true. The same goes for prison guards, who are usually either too big to pass the cop physical or too crazy to pas the psych. I can see positive and negative consequences.

* The series A Football life just rebroadcast an hour show on the life of Lyle Alzado. Steroids made him great for 16 years.

* A very good piece on this is “A Football Life, Lyle Alzado”. No discussion on PED is complete unless all the contestants have seen this video. It’s on NFL.com. Rags-to-riches-to dead, brought to you by PED. There is always a piper to be paid. Lyle only damaged other football players, who always wind up damaged and thrown away in exchange for cash and prizes anyway. Football-Fodder.

The tragedy of our police on PED is, on the way to a cop’s death-by-Roids, the oft-lethal attitude, the anger, the approach on every citizen in the simplest of interactions as combative and adversarial. And that friends, gets people dead. Cops already aren’t the brightest of folks, when you add in the steroids, when you equip these bovine nitwits with the best killing gear the American taxpayer can buy, you have what we have, cops killing a lot of citizens in everyday transactions that oughtn’t have been.

* What happens is that your pituitary gland is constantly monitoring the level of various substances and hormones in your blood stream and sending chemical signals to various organs to stimulate or depress their activity in order to regulate the level of these substances. When the level of androgens in your blood stream rises the pituitary glands secretes hormones to depress testicular activity. The pituitary gland doesn’t know that the source of excess androgen level is exogenous. What would normally happen if androgen levels in the blood stream rose above what the pituitary wants it to be is that the hormones secreted by the pituitary gland would depress the level of testicular activity returning androgen levels to normal. Then the pituitary gland would cut back on hormones to depress testicular activity. If androgen levels were lower than normal the pituitary gland secretes hormones to raise the level of testicular activity.

If androgens are being supplied exogenously the androgen level does not fall and the pituitary gland simply produces more hormone to shut down the testicles. So that’s why atrophy of the testicles occurs.

* Virtually all police that I see are visibly using PEDs. Most gym goers these days are using something. I would never have believed this until I worked out for a couple of years with an ex football player. He was friends with virtually the entire staff and clientele and they were all open about drug use around him. The biggest surprise to me was women I assumed they weren’t using.

Basically if someone has a “gym” look they are almost certainly using something. Even people that look like they never work out are often on some kind of PED.

* A large part of the bodybuilder cop phenomenon is obvious. Police officers have been stripped of those old use of force standbys, the sap and the nightstick. This was justified by all the damage done to civilian skulls and the attendant law suits. As far back as the sixties federal studies found that cops were far too quick to use nightsticks on people’s noggins. Saps (Blackjacks) had an even worse image and can kill. Mace and Tazzers have proven less than perfect substitutes.

My point is that when police are expected to physically grapple with others, they are going to to “arm up” in order to prevail. This is particularly so when faced with minority offenders who are physically fit and have no basic internalized respect for authority.

A man with a stick will prevail over one or more opponents if sufficiently trained. You don’t have to be really big. You do need to keep up practice, which used to be the pride of the old city cops. Ever wonder why those old Irish cops were constantly flipping and twirling their sticks? Now you know.

Another problem is that our civil rights obsessed legal environment keeps PD’s from having realistic height requirements. We keep hiring small and female cops, then wonder why they try to muscle up.

Finally if we want cops to overpower people with their bare hands, we need to train and constantly retrain them with the best, most effective martial arts regimen. To remain a cop you should gain and retain at least a brown belt in jujitsu if you are forced to grapple with your hands.

* Low to moderate use of steroids probably isn’t a big problem for easy-going “gentle giant” types but it probably is more an issue for violent criminals, impulsive males with ADHD, and cross-wired autogynephiliacs and bisexuals.

* There’s reasonable circumstantial evidence that Jenner juiced like crazy between finishing 10th in the 1972 Olympics at 180 pounds and 1st in 1976 at 220 pounds. But I don’t have a causal link between that and subsequent feelings of gender dysphoria other than that it sounds like it could have done a number on his head.

* I’ve seen all these morbidly obese female cops in Chicago; not just overweight but obese. No way they ever legitimately passed any physical test. Every one on the job blocks a slot from being filled by a real cop. It’s just a form of welfare for preferred groups.

* There’s a gold seam of potential correlations looking at the cultural trends which are downstream of drug use.

When a drug gives the body what it would otherwise produce naturally, then eventually the body will no longer be able to produce the original substance. You can see how pot smokers of the sixties turned depressive in the seventies.

What does this mean for amphetamines, coffee, cocaine, ecstasy, viagra, ritalin etc?

* Every time a cop shoots someone, he should immediately be tested for steroids.

* Yes, it would be a good idea to have an automatic blood test for all types of drugs and alcohol within X hours of any police shooting. (I don’t know what X should be.) With the shooting by a federal agent in my neighborhood in 2010 I had a suspicion that they might have been dragging their feet to sober up — the shooting took place in the parking lot behind a popular bar — although that is pure speculation.

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