Billy Joel’s ‘Only The Good Die Young’

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Joel claims he wrote the song about a real girl he tried to bed when he was a teenager.

* First four verses: I want to get in your pants, Virginia, please discard your silly religious strictures keeping you from my throbbing shmekel.

Fifth verse: You know, your Mother really ought to knock it off with her concern for your well-being by advising you to stay away from my throbbing shmekel and in fact if she really believed she’d be praying for me instead of worrying about your well-being.

Sixth verse: I want to get in your pants, Virginia, please discard your silly religious strictures keeping you from my throbbing shmekel.

Come out Virginia, don’t let ’em wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Aw but sooner or later it comes down to faith
Oh I might as well be the one

Well, they showed you a statue, told you to pray
They built you a temple and locked you away
Aw, but they never told you the price that you pay
For things that you might have done
Only the good die young
That’s what I said
Only the good die young
Only the good die young

You might have heard I run with a dangerous crowd
We ain’t too pretty we ain’t too proud
We might be laughing a bit too loud
Aw but that never hurt no one

So come on Virginia show me a sign
Send up a signal and I’ll throw you the line
The stained-glass curtain you’re hiding behind
Never let’s in the sun
Darlin’ only the good die young
Woah
I tell ya
Only the good die young
Only the good die young

You got a nice white dress and a party on your confirmation
You got a brand new soul
Mmm, and a cross of gold
But Virginia they didn’t give you quite enough information
You didn’t count on me
When you were counting on your rosary
(Oh woah woah)

They say there’s a heaven for those who will wait
Some say it’s better but I say it ain’t
I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
The sinners are much more fun

You know that only the good die young
I tell ya
Only the good die young
Only the good die young

Well your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation
Aw she never cared for me
But did she ever say a prayer for me? oh woah woah

Come out come out come out Virginia don’t let ’em wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
Oh sooner or later it comes down to faith
Oh I might as well be the one
You know that only the good die young

I’m telling you baby
You know that only the good die young
Only the good die young
Only the good
Only the good die young

* Every grasping, rent-seeking immigrant is entitled to a white woman. Amidst all the obfuscatory grievance babble, the crux of the matter is laughably transparent. White betas had better just shut up and pay taxes — the elite’s pets need to eat, after all.

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Why The Jews? The Reasons For Anti-Semitism

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Postville. Sholom Rubashkin.

You have a functioning high trust community of generally solid citizens and decent people. Some Jew comes in and turns it into a globo pigsty full of Mexicans and Somalis precisely because he is not a member of the actual community, but only his own separate tribe, and hence feels absolutely zero loyalty to it, its people, its culture, its “communityness” and doesn’t care about trashing it for a buck.

Yes, you have crooked, screw-my-neighbors-for-a-buck gentile businessmen too. But you also have–the vast majority–those who are part of the community, feel loyalty to their fellow citizens and want their business endeavor to contribute and make their community–including the families their children will marry– more prosperous. Win-win. Not win-lose.

Forget the Jews, just do game theory. An endogamous middle man minority is not good for you. You–your own people–want to be your own middle men. You want those skills (and the genetic selection for those skills), that money, to circulate in your community–not owned by people who are outside it. You want your cute daughter to be able to marry the bankers son–and have banker baby grandkids. You want the people who are successful and running things to actually be your family, relatives, friends, neighbors–your people.

And most of all it’s just a f– of a lot more pleasant to live in a community where everyone is on the same page, plays for the same team, trusts each other …. is loyal.

Yes, if you’re say, oh … South Africa? and your population is so incompetent that it doesn’t have the IQ and skills to profitabally run it’s own affairs, then you may be better off if some middle man minority is there providing the skills you are just unable to figure out for yourselves.

Essentially “do you want a middle man minority” is the same issue is “were you better off under colonialism”. For white gentiles the answer to this is so obviously “no” it’s a joke.

And we have the history. England and France booted out their Jews. Poland took them in. Obviously Britain and France were then crippled right? No, they took over being their own middle men. Developed their own skills. Developed their own economies. Consolidated as coherent nations with strong national identities. And made a continuing world shattering series of discoveries in what we call “modern science”, technology, industry and became world bestriding collossuses. While the Poles got to enjoy being tax-farmed by a bunch of guys in funny hats. Oy vey! Whose history would you rather have?

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You Can Be Anti-Slavery And A Racist

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Luke Ford

The New York Times teaches us today:

Peter Burnett was the first governor of the State of California, ascending to the post on December 20, 1849. But his ignominious legacy is hardly known today.
Mr. Burnett came from Missouri via Oregon, settling near Sacramento amid the Gold Rush. Just as he had done in Oregon, Mr. Burnett pushed to exclude blacks from the state. While he seemed to couch his argument in antislavery terms, he was merely “disguising” his “equal opportunity racism,” said William Deverell, a historian and the director of the Huntington-U.S.C. Institute on California and the West.
“He was not particularly unusual at all at the time,” Mr. Deverell said. “That’s when the really vicious attacks on Native Americans started coming and gave way to genocidal violence. He was early opponent of the Chinese, which leads to the exclusion act. He really shows you can be antislavery and a racist to the core without any difficulty whatsoever.”
Though he is included in fourth grade state history, Mr. Burnett’s name has largely been erased from the public sphere. His name was on a San Francisco preschool as well as an elementary school in Long Beach, but was recently taken down and replaced at both schools after reports of his views and statements resurfaced.
“He talked in this undeniably ugly way about people, so we should talk about how we’ve honored him,” Mr. Deverell said. “These are not issues that are reserved for other parts of the United States without resonance in California.”

If it wasn’t for disgusting racists like this governor, California today instead of being about 35% white, would only be 10% white.

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Judge Kosinski Retires

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* A clerkship with Judge Kozinski is really hard to get, but it is a serious boost to people who want to go on to clerk for the Supreme Court. He really did have an “in” with Kennedy and O’Connor. Of course, he also only hires people who are plausible selections, but with only 37 slots in a year, there are far more plausible candidates than available positions, so he very much does give people a serious advantage. Or did, rather. The pool of candidates for a Kozinski clerkship are the top 3-5 people at maybe ten law schools, and the top 1 person at maybe ten more.

But the down-side is that he really is a slave-driver in terms of work. The clerks claim the hours are something like 10 AM to 6 PM, a two hour break for dinner, and then 8 to 1 AM. Weekend hours were closer to noon to 8. That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but not much of one — he really does demand a lot. One former Kozinski clerk who went on to be a BigLaw partner told me that he worked harder during his clerkship than as an associate at a big firm.

A lot of working for Kozinski is doing tasks not strictly necessary for the judge to decide cases and write good opinions. A lot of it is make-work — forcing his clerks to do things that don’t add much to the decision process. And to fulfill odd requests, like driving to his home to deliver his favorite stapler at 11 at night. And also they spend a lot of time BSing about about things, going out drinking together, and doing things like snowboarding trips. If he just had his clerks do work that was useful in deciding cases and sent them home when those tasks were done, they would work half days.

Also, he’s a yeller. If you make a typo or grammatical error or miss a case he yells and screams. He’s actually a lot like Steve Jobs in that sense — he gives intermittent reinforcement, yelling and screaming one minute and hugging and kissing the next.

Most of the people who graduate at the very top of a very good law school tend to be both very smart and also psychologically pretty durable. They don’t mind being abused and tend not to get overly upset about things. I think Heidi is probably a bit unusual inasmuch as she is both very high IQ and also less psychologically robust than his average clerk. So the weird naked pics upset her a lot, while a lot of steely-eyed lawyer babes who work for him would have just laughed it off. Or called him a pervert — which would have made him laugh.

To those who say that Kozinski shouldn’t have retired, here’s something worth thinking about. Kozinski spent a lot of time socializing with his clerks — they went out together, partied, played poker, went snowboarding, etc. He likes having ambitious high-IQ people as his semi-vassals. Some poeple enjoyed their clerkships with him, but a lot put up with the demands because of the benefits (including an edge at the Supreme Court).

He’s actually a bit less of a “feeder” now than he was before — Kennedy (for whom he clerked) was his biggest contact, but he also fed a lot to O’Connor. (I think Heidi was technically an O’Connor clerk, but she got loaned out to Kennedy when he was first on the Court.) Kennedy is very sensitive to elite opinion, and the other Justices have some sensitivity as well. If Kozinski had weathered the storm, I strongly suspect that he would have dried up as a feeder judge — and this would have led to him having weaker applicants, which he wouldn’t appreciate.

Since shooting the breeze with the super-elite clerks who were likely to go on to a Supreme Court clerkship was a big part of the fun for him, I think he knew that being an appellate judge was going to be a lot less interesting going forward, even if he weathered the storm. Plus, he isn’t taking Senior Status — he’s retiring. Which means that he gets his full pay AND he can supplement his income with consulting/advocacy work.

* Kozinski would seem to be roughly in the top 1000 most talented men in America. I’m open to arguments that he only makes the top 10,000 or he’s in the top 100, but he would seem to be in the top 25 or so in the law, and the law has always been a really big deal in the U.S.

* One of the problems with fatties like Bond is that they turn to food for comfort so when she became anxious that Kozinski was NOT looking at her in “that way”, she got fatter and even less attractive which only caused Kozinski to ignore her feminine charms even more. In her mind’s eye, she sees herself as the irresistible bodice rippee of her novels, while in reality, men see a fattie whose bodice they are not eager to rip at all.

The REAL problem with when the Judge showed her “porn” (not actual porn – just a picture where people were sitting naked on a sofa amid others who were clothed, not engaged in any sex act) is that the Judge did NOT consider her to be a sex object. If she had been thin and attractive, he wouldn’t have done it. Fat people (esp. women) are often invisible to people of the opposite sex – he was treating her as “one of the guys” because he would no more mate with her than he would with an actual guy or a cow. This must have been very painful to Bond who like any fat person has the same inner desires as anyone else. Even if she did not want to have an actual sexual relationship with the judge, she wanted to be seen as ELIGIBLE to have one and not some repulsive creature that could never have made the list that the judge kept.

* Contrary to what you might think, successful romance writers are not messed-up women. They are hardnosed careerists who quite cynically write to market. They don’t write novels, they produce product, and they will mock your artistic pretensions while laughing all the way to the bank. They are completely unromantic, but they know how to manipulate the tropes of romance like an expert.

Don’t kid yourselves about these women. They are businesswomen first, writers second. Heidi Bond is not some random romance writer. She’s a bestselling author in the field.

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NYT: ‘Actually, Egypt Is a Terrible Ally’

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Luke Ford

From the New York Times Op/Ed:

When Vice President Mike Pence visits Egypt on Wednesday, he will follow in the footsteps of countless American officials who have stopped in Cairo to laud the “strategic partnership” between the United States and Egypt.

This has become a vacuous and badly outdated talking point — the kind we both drafted during our years in the government. Mr. Pence shouldn’t pay lip service to it.

American and Egyptian interests are increasingly divergent and the relationship now has far less common purpose than it once did. Mr. Pence should make clear to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt’s president, that the two countries need a reset, beginning with a major reduction in American military assistance.

In addition to saving American taxpayers’ money, this would send an important message to other recipients of American aid that our support is not unconditional. It would also help to rein in an arrangement that has distorted Egyptian-American relations.

I’m just glad the Times did not say these terrible things about America’s greatest ally — Israel.

There was a time when both countries derived important mutual benefits, including reliable Egyptian support for the United States’ interests in the Middle East. But over the past decade, the United States has poured more than $13 billion in security assistance into Egypt with little to show for it except more jobs for a defense industry exporting materiél that is ill-suited to Egypt’s defense needs and that allow the Egyptian military to sustain a patronage system that distorts the economy and fuels corruption.

For too long, the United States has allowed the Egyptian government to treat security assistance as an entitlement owed for making peace with Israel. The United States has not held Egypt accountable for how this money is spent and whether it serves broader American objectives in the region, giving Egypt a free ride on American generosity. The Obama administration took initial steps to make military assistance less generous and limit the weapons systems Egypt could buy with American funds. The Trump administration has withheld or reprogrammed more than $200 million in military assistance.

This is a start. More needs to be done.

In light of Egypt’s declining strategic importance and its problematic behavior, Washington should sharply reduce its annual military assistance by $500 million to $800 million to align our resources with our priorities. A cut in Egypt’s aid would free up badly needed funds. And a move to start reducing security aid to Egypt to a level that is more in line with the actual value the United States derives from the relationship would be broadly popular in Congress, which has grown frustrated with Cairo.

I’m glad the Times is not calling for reducing Israel’s aid “to a level that is more in line with the actual value the United States derives from the relationship.”

How can anyone question Israel’s strategic importance to America? Unlike Egypt, Israel never engages in problematic behavior. I’m glad the Times is not arguing for disabusing Jerusalem “of the notion that assistance is an entitlement might help to restore some leverage to extract concessions from” Jerusalem.

Instead of acknowledging that Egypt’s importance has diminished, President Trump has doubled down on the relationship, promising to be a “loyal friend” to Egypt and lavishing Mr. Sisi with praise. The White House has gone silent on the Egyptian government’s abhorrent human rights abuses, which fuel radicalization, increasing the global threat from terrorism. In so closely tying the United States to the Sisi government and its repressive practices, the administration is all but ensuring that millions of marginalized Egyptian youth will view the United States with hostility.

America is getting a bad deal in Egypt. That’s ironic for a president who prides himself as a negotiator. Mr. Pence’s visit is an opportunity to turn a new page with Egypt, and make the United States’ commitment to the country commensurate with what Washington receives in return. If the Trump administration does this, it will take a small but important step toward restoring America’s tarnished credibility and reputation in the region.

As all right-thinking people understand, the end of the Cold War in no way diminishes Israel’s strategic importance. American remains Israel’s loyal friend and we lavish it with praise. Nobody in the Islamic world is likely to have negative feelings about America due to its support for Israel.

America is getting a great deal in Israel. That’s not ironic for a president who prides himself as a negotiator. Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is a small but important step toward restoring America’s tarnished credibility and reputation in the region. Nothing makes the Middle East happier than staunch American support for the Jewish state.

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