Brian and the Boz

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Luke Ford

This 30 for 30 documentary shook me up. It’s about a kid (Brian Bosworth, better known as the Boz) who can never meet his father’s expectations who takes on a college coach (Barry Switzer) as his subtitute father figure, enjoys astonishing success as he takes on an alter ego (the Boz), but then it destroys him and destroys his relationship with his substitute father figure, destroys his relationship with his substitute family (the Oklahoma Sooners) as he writes a tell-all book filled with devastating criticisms of the people who loved him, and then his dreams of NFL success come to a quick and crushing halt because of shoulder problems and he has no home and no community to fall back on. He falls into a deep depression as everybody who loved him has grown to hate him.

Rick Reilly, the author of the Boz’s autobiography, says: “He took a shot at everybody he could except his dad, who was the one person he really wanted to lash out at.”

Brian tells his son: “It seemed like no matter how well I played, I never seemed to be able to do enough.”

Son: “Why was that?”

Brian: “I don’t know. I don’t know why I couldn’t make him happy. It was just something I couldn’t give him.”

“Look at all this stuff. There’s more to life than paper clippings, accolades, and rewards. If you can’t meet the expectations, it doesn’t mean that you are less of a man.”

Director: “Brian was never able to find peace with his relationship with his father. There was this space between them that neither of them knew how to mend and to move past.”

Brian’s dad dies in 2009. There never is a reconciliation.

“Brian is trying to show his kids the love he never got himself.”

Rick: “Brian was a terrific pro player as long as he lasted. He wasn’t big enough to play in the NFL but he got $11 million dollars. He went to number two on the New York Times bestseller list. They gave him gifts in Seattle. He was the toast of the town.”

Brian: “You can fall off that pedestal in a moment.”

Friend: “He realizes that what he was chasing for decades, he was never going to find contentment in that.”

“To get to where he is now, you have to hit rock bottom.”

Daughter: “After my grandfather’s death, he came to truth with his faith and what’s real and what’s deserving of his time and energy and love.”

Pat Tillman: “He’s morphed into a guy who’s filled with contrition.”

Barry Switzer: “You’ve always been a part of the program, Brian. We knew what you were.”

In the 90-minute program, that’s the sentence that moves me most: “You’ve always been a part of the program, Brian.” I guess that’s the sentence I most want to hear from some of my authority figures.

Brian says to Barry: “You and I have gone through a long relationship and I’ve always felt, I can’t let this man. I not only betrayed you, but then I lost your trust, I lost you as a coach, I lost you as a friend. It took me many years of work to get back into the good graces with you.”

That part makes my eyes well up.

Brian to Barry: “You replaced my father as my father figure.”

Barry: “I loved Brian Bosworth. That other kid who came along, Boz, I had a little problem with him.”

“You were never a disciplinary problem. You were never an alcohol problem. You were never a drug problem. You did everything we asked of you. The problem was you were always on stage for the media, doing the outlandish, saying the outlandish. Your mouth created more problems for you and for me than any actions you did.”

In 2003, Brian goes back to Oklahoma University and apologizes and is accepted back, to a degree, into that family.

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Why Can’t We Criticize Islam?

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Luke Ford

Dennis Prager writes: There is apparently no amount of mass murder, no number of innocents tortured or women raped, no amount of female degradation, no number of people enslaved, no number of Christians expelled from or murdered in the Middle East, no amount of Nazi-like Jew-hatred in its societies, no number of beheadings or even crucifixions, and no amount of terror that allows criticism of Islam.

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Why do Jews oppose wars against evil?

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Luke Ford

Dennis Prager writes:

One of the deepest disappointments in my life has been Jews’ opposition to wars against evil. I had always assumed that, as the victims of so much evil throughout history, and as heirs to the great moral teachings of the Bible and Judaism, Jews, of all people, would support fighting on behalf of victims of the greatest evils.
Take fighting Communism, for example. Along with Nazism, Communism was the most genocidal movement in human history; it actually enslaved and murdered considerably more people than Nazism. Yet, most Jews didn’t support anti-Communism in general nor anti-Communist wars in particular. Even worse, Jews were disproportionately pro-Communist. In Stalin’s time, the Yiddish press was the most pro-Communist press in the Western world. And among those in the West who gave Stalin the secrets to the atomic bomb, nearly every one was a Jew.
How could that be? How could so many people who see themselves as bearers of a great moral legacy, or who simply see themselves as highly moral, have either been supportive of the greatest mass murder machine ever devised; or, as was more often the case, opposed fighting the greatest mass murder machine ever devised?
On what moral grounds did Jews oppose supplying the South Vietnamese government with arms to help save itself from being taken over by Communist North Vietnam? Most American Jews not only opposed fighting the Communist regime of North Vietnam, they even opposed merely supplying the South Vietnamese government with military hardware so that it could defend itself when, in violation of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, North Vietnam attacked South Vietnam. And in those very same accords, America had promised to replace every South Vietnamese bullet and tank lost in defending itself.
After all, American Jews hadn’t opposed the Korean War, in which nearly 37,000 Americans and more than two million Koreans died. That war was a mirror of the Vietnam War. The southern half of the Korean peninsula — just like the southern half of Vietnam — was pro-West and anti-Communist; and the Communist North, backed by China and the Soviet Union, sought — in both Korea and Vietnam — to forcefully impose Communism on the south.
Nothing has changed today. Most American Jews vigorously supported President Barack Obama’s plan to remove all American troops from Iraq. The consequences, which everyone who opposed this plan knew would happen, were that Iraq would go from relative stability to mayhem and bloodbath. Why hasn’t this mattered to most American Jews?

Contrary to what Dennis Prager alleges, Judaism has been strangely silent about the need for Jews to lobby their non-Jewish host nations to fight wars against evil. There’s also nothing in Jewish history to suggest that this has been a historical practice of Jews.

Instead, Jews, like all other groups, push for policies that are in their self-interest.

American support for Israel is not good for America and it is not good for Israel. It was a major reason Al Qaeda attacked the US on 9/11. If America gave less foreign aid and if its military was less involved in the world and instead protected its own borders, America and the world would be better off. Israel would have more room to take care of its enemies. Win win for Israel and America. Our relationship is too close for our own good (our meaning America, Israel, Jews, the world).

Ken Kurson: “Luke, do not interpret the fact that I haven’t deleted your comment [above], unfriended you, and stalked you down and pounded the shit out of you for that stupid comment as anything other than a lifelong commitment to free speech.”

Luke: Please correct me if I am wrong, but this cartoon seems indicative of a certain type of bitter Jewish humor that goes back to the Torah ala Israelites saying they were better off in Egypt where they had leaks. Many Jews I know today say, “He’s worse than Hitler” or “This is worse than Auschwitz” as a reflex. The Ashkenazi discussion style uses a lot of vicious hyperbole. Jews are rarely criminally violent, but they are routinely verbally violent. Is this cartoon any worse than Israelis calling each other “Nazi”?

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What A Shame

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Luke Ford

Who knows, given a proper education and encouragement, that suspect might otherwise have found cures for AIDS or ways to make solar power more economical.

REPORT: DALLAS – A man shot and killed the person who tried to rob his wife outside a popular Dallas grocery store.

It happened Tuesday night at the Aldi store on Forest Lane and Webb Chapel Road.

According to police reports, the elderly couple was walking to their car when a man approached them.

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Who Inspires These Lone Islamic Gunmen?

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Luke Ford

I don’t want anything for my group that I don’t want for other groups. If blacks and Muslims want to build up black and Muslim communities and keep out everyone else, I’m fine with that. Let them build their own countries. Let them build their own schools.

Different groups have different interests. Jewish interests often clash with Muslim interests, for example. Black interests often clash with Latino and Asian and White interests. It is natural for different groups of people, different races and religions, to fight. The more diversity you have in your country, the more conflict.

The races assimilate in only the most superficial of ways. Japanese-Americans have life results very similar to Japanese and African-Americans have similar results to Africans.

VDARE writes:

In January 1993, a Pakistani applicant for political asylum (and, simultaneously, for amnesty as an illegal immigrant) opens fire on employees entering CIA headquarters, killing two and wounding three!…In December 1993, a Jamaican immigrant (admitted as a student but stayed, illegal status automatically regularized after marriage to a U.S. citizen) opens fire on commuters on New York’s Long Island Rail Road, killing six and wounding 19!!! WHAT’S GOING ON??!!?

The case of Colin Ferguson, arrested in the Long Island Rail Road shootings, is particularly instructive. With a little help from President Clinton, talking the very next day at a lunch for journalists, it was rapidly converted into another argument for gun control.

The Pakistani immigrant was a man named Mir Amal Kansi. Kansi was eventually executed. But Pakistan is full of people who hate America for either Muslim or Pakistani nationalist reasons. Some of those are that the highest levels of Pakistan’s government. We saw that in 2011 when CIA interrogators discovered that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad, Pakistan, about a mile from the Pakistani Military Academy. [What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden , By Carlotta Gall, New York Times, March 19, 2014]

Kansi may have “acted alone.” But there was a whole culture behind him. And some of them were egging him on.

But if there was a whole culture of Communism behind Oswald, and a whole culture of Islam and the nation of Pakistan behind Kansi, who or what is the whole culture behind Colin Ferguson, the proliferating Immigrant Mass Murders, and the “Disgruntled Minority Massacre” phenomenon I identified recently?

Colin Ferguson was not Muslim. But he was black, an immigrant from Jamaica. He shot up a train full of unarmed white people on the Long Island Railroad because he hated white people. He certainly acted alone—he was, in some sense, insane, although apparently fit to stand trial in New York.

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High Rents Vs More Kids

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Luke Ford

Are my peers choosing not to breed by picking high rents in safe areas over lower rents in more dangerous places that, still, would leave them with enough money with which to woo and marry and breed with a fertile woman? Chabad Jews are willing to live in the darker parts of town to afford their kids. The Lubavitcher Rebbe opposed white flight (for Jews from their historic neighborhoods).

I think this unfairly puts the onus on white men (actually, men in general) while not looking at some of the unfortunate choices young white women make.

David: “I have noticed that. Certain ethnic/religious groups will live in the s— areas of town and pop out a shed load of kids. Funny part is that the two groups that spring to mind are Jews and Muslims.”

Chaim: “In pure economic terms, I think there is something to this argument. But I don’t think it is anyone’s plan, it is instead a consequence of certain decisions. But I also think it takes two here, and women are the ultimate gatekeepers of their sexuality (at least when they are young).”

Alex: “Also jews and muslims have communal support that whites don’t. Whites aren’t accustomed to governing themselves independent of surrounding circumstances. At least in the west that seems to be the case.”

Chaim Amalek: “Alex, that is true of religious Jews, but not so much others. The old model of “real” Americans as lone wolves striking out for the wilderness on their own has always been somewhat false (lone wolves are the losers of the animal kingdom, are they not?) and it certainly does not work now. What White America needs is a consciously self-interested form of communal action. In other words, Socialism. Socialism of the family and of the immediate community, which is what orthodox Jews have. Mormons are a great example of what I mean. Whatever it is that the Mormons are doing and whatever you wish to call it, do that. Also parts of Hassidic life (only parts of it) are worth emulating. ACLU/Woody Allen liberalism is not. Step One: The recognition that all groups are in competition with all other groups to one degree or another. Step Zero is recognizing that there are groups.”

Alex Trivunovic: “All socialism is national, since it needs homogeneity in order to work. This is never openly stated. The technical term is ‘corporatism’ i think. For Mormons that is. A corpus (body) that acts essentially as a tribe or political party for it’s members in return for solidarity and loyalty. Sometimes unquestioning and self sacrificing loyalty.”

Chaim: “Syrian Jews. I think it is more about having a sense of belonging to a group and favoring members over outsiders. Also pooling resources, living together, sharing meals, and all that follows from that. No miscegenating with others, not even Ashkenazi jews like the Hassids. No converts allowed.”

“Alex, sometimes under the same roof. The high birth rate thing is more to do with the Hassids, who are not Syrian Jews by a long shot. There, they created a self contained world where girls are socialized to accept and expect that they will marry young (that is KEY), and have as many children as they possibly can.”

“So marry YOUNG, detach yourself from popular culture, recognize that humanity is broken down into many groups, figure out which one you belong to, and favor its members over outsiders. That’s most of it.”

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Is Seahawks QB Russell Wilson Not Black Enough?

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Luke Ford

Russell Wilson, a polite Christian, is the only black quarterback right now I’d feel comfortable building my franchise around. I would not worry that he’s going to go out and do stupid things and get arrested.

Barack Obama and George W. Bush both lost their first runs for political office because they were not strong enough in their district’s dominant in-group identity (black for Obama and white Christian for Bush). They never forgot this lesson.

From Bleacher Report:

There is also an element of race that needs to be discussed. My feeling on this—and it’s backed up by several interviews with Seahawks players—is that some of the black players think Wilson isn’t black enough.

This, again, was similar to the situation with McNabb. And this, again, will be denied by Seattle people. But there is an element of this.

This is an issue that extends outside of football, into African-American society—though it’s gotten better recently. Well-spoken blacks are seen by some other blacks as not completely black. Some of this is at play.

Runningback Marshawn Lynch reacted to the trade with a tweet, “Damn, they got my nigga.”

The Washington Post reports:

Charles Barkley weighed in on a report that the Seattle Seahawks’ locker room is divided because quarterback Russell Wilson isn’t “black enough,” saying that blacks are “brainwashed to think, if you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough.”

The NBA analyst, as always, was never anything other than outspoken on a topic that has roiled the Super Bowl champions since the trade of Percy Harvin sparked rumors about divisions within the team.

“We as black people are never going to be successful, not because of you white people, but because of other black people. When you are black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people,” Barkley said in a CBS Philly radio interview on “Afternoons with Anthony Gargano and Rob Ellis.”

Barkley wasn’t finished.

“For some reason we are brainwashed to think, if you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don’t break the law, you’re not a good black person. It’s a dirty, dark secret in the black community.

“There are a lot of black people who are unintelligent, who don’t have success. It’s best to knock a successful black person down because they’re intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school, and they’re successful. It’s just typical BS that goes on when you’re black, man.”

Barkley and all the other mainstream commentators on this don’t get it. Every group has to look at the world in a way that it finishes first. Let’s imagine blacks looked at the world the same way whites did. Then blacks would go around feeling bad because they didn’t have the cognitive skills, on average, to compete with whites and to out-earn whites and to out-perform whites in business and academia and organization.

So blacks, like all other groups, look at the world in the way where they finish first by valuing things that blacks are great at such as sports, rap, jazz, other parts of pop culture, thuggery, trash talk, womanizing, baby making, and other improvisational skills.

Here’s an article on the Dallas Cowboys offensive line: “Callahan said the characteristic that connects Dallas’ offensive linemen is their intelligence…” Three of the Cowboys starting five offensive line players are white. Blacks dominate the speed positions in the NFL while whites hold their own at the positions that require strength and IQ.

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Breaking The Family Trance

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Luke Ford

When you think you’ve changed through therapy and workshops, go home for the holidays and see what happens when your family pushes your buttons.

Therapist Jerry Wise: “All of us grow up in families in which we are hypnotically induced to accept the norms of our family.”

“The deepest trance you’ll be in is in your family trance.”

“It’s not something we notice because it is a trance, but once it is broken, you see you were really in a trance.”

“Kids are highly suggestible because they are so dependent upon family.”

“A parent’s feelings become the reality for children.”

“As we get older, we can try to have our own reality, but that is hard if you are still under the trance of a dysfunctional family.”

“A family trance is the emotional paradigm we grew up with. These givens are the glasses through which we see the world.”

“It’s possible to break your family trance but it is not an easy thing to do alone. Fish don’t see the water. It’s not easy to see your water.”

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I wish America would adopt an immigration policy akin to Saudi Arabia’s

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Luke Ford

From Wikipedia: “Saudi Arabia has mandated six-year cap on the residency of foreigners in the country, as part of its programme to control the local job market, and any Hajji or illegal over stayers are met with a mandatory prison sentence followed by swift deportation.”

Report: “There is nothing more satisfying to a disgruntled population struggling with high unemployment than raiding and rounding up illegal immigrants. Governments are compelled to appear in charge at difficult times, and a struggling society happily watches hundreds of illegal immigrants being deported. Out of the crisis, there emerges a sense of momentary quasi-nationalism that may soon evaporate amid news of clashes and death. Illegal immigrants are the “stranger” par excellence, and are always good scapegoats, an enemy within who can be blamed for all sorts of ills, from petty crime to taking jobs from locals.”

Saudi Arabia does not want Jewish visitors. Perhaps America should similarly shun Muslim visitors? Have Muslims done as much good for America as they have done harm? What benefit have they been that would outweigh the damage of 9/11?

From WikiTravel: “Saudi Arabia has some of the most restrictive travel policies in the world, and advance visas are required for all foreigners desiring to enter. The only significant exception is citizens of the Gulf Cooperation Council nations. Also exempt from visa requirements are foreigners transiting through airports for less than eighteen hours, but many other entry requirements, such as the dress code and restrictions on unaccompanied females, still apply. Nationals of Israel and those with evidence of visiting Israel will be denied visas, although merely being Jewish in and of itself is not a disqualifying factor. (There are, however, anecdotal reports of would-be visitors who tick the “Jewish” or “Atheist” boxes on their visa application having trouble.) Saudis prefer not to grant visas to unaccompanied women, but work permits are common in some fields — esp. nurses, teachers, maids — and possible for anyone if your sponsor has enough connections.”

I admire Saudi Arabia’s restrictive policies towards visitors and immigrants and wish that Western nations emulate them. I like it that Saudi Arabia identifies as a Muslim state. I like it that Israel identifies as the Jewish state. America should identify as a white Christian nation.

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Why Was Barry Freundel Presiding Over Kesher Israel In DC?

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Luke Ford

Because the previous rabbi, Philip Rabinowitz, was stabbed and bludgeoned to death. More than 30 years later, the crime is still unsolved. There’s a $25,000 reward for information leading to a criminal conviction.

Chaim: “In the 80s, DC was very very violent, and it spilled out to all the region. But since then an influx of white twinx asians and similar has done much to help pacify the place. Read up on this. Nothing stolen. And he was not the sort of man to let strangers into his home. Sounds like it was someone he knew and that it was personal.”

The Forward reports this past week: “In his 26-year tenure at the synagogue, Freundel was praised often as an intellectual rabbi, a scholar of Jewish law and an expert on Jewish ethics. Freundel was the brain, all agreed, but not necessarily the heart. Some described him as aloof and lacking warmth, qualities that may have made the community’s break with him easier.
That contrasted with Freundel’s predecessor, Rabbi Philip Rabinowitz, whom Freundel succeeded in 1987. During his 34 years as the congregation’s spiritual leader, Rabinowitz brought to Kesher more of an Old World Eastern European pastoral style that focused on building the community and he excelled in human relations. His tragic and unsolved murder left the Modern Orthodox community shocked, and led the way to Freundel’s era at Kesher’s helm.”

Daniel: “If the previous rabbi had had a spycam in his house, the crime might have been solved.”

After R. Rabinowitz was murdered, Rod Glogower served for a few years and then Barry Freundel.

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