I spent Rosh Hashanah wanting to say inappropriate things. I wanted to be cutting and cruel and sarcastic. I kept it all up bottled up inside except for once when I speculated that a bloke’s wedding might be a same-sex wedding. Other than that, I kept my urge to violate suppressed.
Other than furiously tamping myself down, perhaps I could have spent the days yearning to get close to God. Or I could have instead used my energy to free my neck. When my neck and face are free of unnecessary tension, I feel no need to act out. I think it would be more productive to free myself of unnecessary head-neck tension than to keep tamping down every other thing I want to say.
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I listen to a lot of 12-Step phone meetings and if everyone isn’t following the rules and keeping themselves muted when not sharing, then it ruins the experience for everyone. You often hear in the background people typing and banging around in the kitchen and doing other routine tasks and it just makes you feel like tuning out of the meeting.
On the road, one lousy driver can tie up traffic for thousands of people. One dumb move will cost thousands of hours for productive citizens.
An Australian study found that people with an IQ of 80-85 had twice as many fatal car accident as people with IQs above 105. I wish we could limit driver’s licenses to people with IQs above 100.
One toxic person (such as a Terrell Owens) can ruin a workplace, a meeting, a synagogue, a church, a club, a sports team. That’s why we need freedom of association. Different peoples have different norms. If a group doesn’t want to include Jews or blacks or homosexuals or communists or trannies, they should be allowed that choice.
REPORT: Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin have marked a relationship milestone, according to the Washington Post: they’ve been together for 20 years.
“Few people know this, but Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton celebrated their professional anniversary in September: it’s been 20 years since the two first started working side-by-side,” the paper reports.
They have a remarkably personal and close relationship.
Among Hillary Clinton’s released emails was one between the two, with Abedin writing, “Checked on you but you were sleeping.”
Clinton later responded, “I’m up now so come when you are able. Just knock on the door to the bedroom if it’s closed.”
The pair appeared at the New York City Pride Parade earlier this year.
Bill Clinton was nowhere to be found.
The Post notes Abedin’s almost fan-like admiration for Clinton.
During an interview with the “Call Your Girlfriend” podcast, Abedin recalled first seeing her boss:
“You know these things that happen in your life that just stick? That she walked by and she shook my hand and our eyes connected and I just remember having this moment where I thought, ‘Wow, this is amazing.’ … She would probably be so annoyed that I say this, but I remember thinking, ‘Oh my god, she’s so beautiful and she’s so little!’”
If the pair make it to the White House, Abedin says she would prefer to stay in the shadows.
“I prefer to be behind-the-scenes and stay behind-the-scenes,” she told the podcast.
“It does take a village to support Hillary Clinton. I am part of that village … I help keep the trains moving on time.”
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BLOOD AT THE ROOT
A Racial Cleansing in America
By Patrick Phillips
Illustrated. 302 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $26.95.
Patrick Phillips’s book, at its core, is about the lies told over and over again until they become the truth. Lies crafted to exonerate white residents, who deployed terror, lynching and the law to racially cleanse all black people from Forsyth County, Ga. Lies proffered to explain why, despite the civil rights movement and the area’s proximity to Atlanta, the county remained virtually all-white into the 1990s. “Blood at the Root,” whose title is taken from a stanza of “Strange Fruit,” the hauntingly painful song about lynching, is no redemption tale. By the end, it is clear that the white supremacy responsible for killing black bodies and stealing land and property remains, to this day, unbowed and unrepentant…
He takes us back to the moment in 1912 when a young white woman named Mae Crow is found in a ditch, bludgeoned and raped. Forsyth County’s whites immediately assumed that the perpetrators had to be black. Who else would do something so savage?
…“Blood at the Root” thus meticulously and elegantly reveals the power of white supremacy in its many guises — be it active, complicit or complacent; rural or suburban — to distort and destroy, not only lives and accomplishments, but historical memory, the law and basic human civility.
What are lessons from this book that we can all apply to our lives today?
During the early 21st century, Forsyth County has been one of the fastest-growing areas in the United States in terms of percentage of growth. The population growth was stimulated by the county’s proximity to Atlanta and its appeal as a commuter base for people working in the Atlanta area. The influx of high-earning professionals has increased the average income dramatically; in 2008 Forbes ranked the county as the 13th-wealthiest in the United States in terms of median household income…
The county population of about 10,000 was 90 percent majority white in the early 20th century, and residents still depended on agriculture. Its more than 1,000 “blacks” included 440 persons classified as mixed race on the census, indicating a continuing history of racial mixing.
Racial tensions became inflamed following two separate incidents in September 1912 in which black men were alleged to have raped white women. In the first case, a black preacher was assaulted by whites for suggesting the alleged victim may have been having a consensual relationship with a black man. The Sheriff gained support from the governor, who sent more than 20 National Guard troops to keep peace. The suspects in the first case were never tried, for lack of evidence.
In the second case, one of five black suspects was lynched by a mob of 4,000 who stormed the Cumming jail after arrests, shot him, and hanged his body on the town square. The woman rape victim died two weeks after being attacked. Charges against two of the four persons left in the second case were dropped after a plea bargain. But two young black men under 18 were quickly convicted by all-white juries and executed by hanging. Whites afterward harassed and intimidated blacks in Forsyth and neighboring counties, forcing most of them out of the region within weeks. By the late 20th century, residents were still almost all white.
During the 1950s, with the introduction of the poultry industry, the county had steady economic growth but was still all white and mostly rural. Georgia State Route 400 opened in 1971 and was eventually extended through the county and northward; it stimulated population growth as the county became a bedroom community for people working in Atlanta, which had expanding work opportunities.
By 1980, the county population was 27,500, growing to 40,000 in 1987. While some blacks worked in the county in new industries, none lived there. The county gained more than 30 new industries from 1980 and unemployment was low. Such growth resulted in the median income, formerly low, “rising faster than in any other county in Georgia.”[9] A small civil rights march in the county seat of Cumming in January 1987 was attacked by people throwing rocks, dirt and bottles. A week later another, much larger march took place, with civil rights activists going from Atlanta to Cumming protected by police and National Guard, and thousands of protesters joining a counter-demonstration. Local people said conditions had been improving for minorities, but whites appeared to be reacting out of fear.[9]
Forsyth County continued to be developed for subdivisions, industry and related businesses. In 2008 it had been ranked among the top ten fastest-growing counties of the United States for several years. Many new subdivisions have been constructed, several around top-quality golf courses. The county’s proximity to Atlanta and the Blue Ridge mountains, and bordering 37,000-acre (150 km2) Lake Sidney Lanier, has attracted many new residents. More than 60% of the current population either lived elsewhere in 1987 or had not yet been born.
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I doubt you would find an MSM headline about people calling out Jews for anti-Gentile prejudice or leftists for anti-white prejudice.
This headline and article just take it for granted that Trump commits the gigantic moral sins of bigotry and racism. Of course, in Christianity and Judaism, there is no such as sin as “racism” or “bigotry.” If these were sins, you would expect to find them condemned in the Bible or in the teachings of prominent religious thinkers down through the ages. Instead, we only find these sins getting noted and condemned beginning in the 1960s (with a few invocations going back to the 1920s).
A group of more than 75 evangelical leaders have declared that despite poll numbers showing evangelical support for Donald Trump, they do not.
The list, posted Thursday on a change.org petition, includes a multiracial group of African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans and whites.
“We cannot ignore this bigotry, set it aside, just focus on other issues, or forget the things Mr. Trump has consistently said and done,” the declaration reads. “No matter what other issues we also care about, we have to make it publicly clear that Mr. Trump’s racial and religious bigotry and treatment of women is morally unacceptable to us as evangelical Christians.”
The authors make clear that this denouncement of Trump is not a show of support for Hillary Clinton.
But they point to what they call the rise of white nationalism, “xenophobic appeals to religious intolerance” and demonizing of minority groups — immigrants, Mexicans and Muslims — as examples of why they refuse to support the Republican nominee. This could throw into question Trump’s lockdown of the evangelical vote.
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Build institutions? Win elections and popular support?
I thought AmNats of white or any variety are supposed to complain about the ADL and call people cucks. Who knew that the boring, decades-long business of building institutions and winning popular support on the issues was even an option?
And that first line item? Do the hard work of joining the system, making compromises and enemies, but also allies and incremental process? I thought that all you need to create change is post rare pepes on reddit!
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Express: A report from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) found there was an increase in hate speech and racist violence in the UK from 2009 to March 2016.
Blaming the press, ECRI Chair Christian Ahlund, said: “It is no coincidence that racist violence is on the rise in the UK at the same time as we see worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in the newspapers, online and even among politicians.”
The report makes a whopping 23 recommendations to Theresa May’s Government for changes to criminal law, the freedom of the press, crime reporting and equality law.
And despite the report not analysing coverage of the historic Brexit vote, Mr Ahlund saw fit to comment on the UK’s decision to leave the EU.
In a sweeping statement, he said: “The Brexit referendum seems to have led to a further rise in ‘anti-foreigner’ sentiment, making it even more important that the British authorities take the steps outlined in our report as a matter of priority.”
The report lays into the British press and urges the government to “give more rigorous training” to reporters.
In the 83-page report, the Commission said: “ECRI considers that, in light of the fact that Muslims are increasingly under the spotlight as a result of recent ISIS-related terrorist acts around the world, fuelling prejudice against Muslims shows a reckless disregard, not only for the dignit
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* Strategy tip, gay men always come off as queeny when they interrupt.
* The moderator asks Kaine a question and lets him talk about anything he wants. She asks Pence a question, but interrupts him to make sure he is answering what she asks. Additionally she lets Kaine interrupt Pence continuously. It’s like two on one. I hope the low info voters can see this.
* Yes Kaine is very aggressive, even shrill, more of an attack dog. Pence is far more likable, coming across as folksy. He’s also significantly better looking. Kaine’s LSAT score was likely much better than Pence’s. He’s the smart verbally acute nerd, like Ted Cruz in that respect. So far, I bet Pence is connecting more with the undecided voters.
* The moderator is biased, lets Kaine interrupt, but that’s okay because Kaine does not look like someone you want to be president. They like to say Trump doesn’t have the temperment, Kaine looked like a volcano erupting/interrupting.
This is the first time I’ve really listened to Pence and he did great. He was prepared, he didn’t take bait and gave good information to the audience.
* God, this female moderator is a WORLD CLASS LOSER! Can you imagine if she was a teacher in a school? or a cop on the beat? or a soldier in the US army? She can’t do shit tonight. The MSM needs to be flogged big time for setting her up to be such a laughing stock! What a shit show this is tonight. Pence is dignifies and Kaine is fracking psychotic!
* Pence ran the table.
I knew he was good. But I had no idea he was this good. Pence CRUSHED Kaine. Kaine came across as the shrill minion of a shrill candidate. Pence demonstrated poise, confidence and passion. Pence – game, set, match.
* Pence’ demeanor, knowledge, and polite manner made him the winner far and away. Kaine had a bunch of canned, memorized lines.
Then too, remember: tv is a visual and auditory medium and Pence looked composed and sounded great while Kaine caused a lot of cognitive dissonance with his arched eyebrow, weird smile coupled with attacks. Kaine looked like a clown. He’s not an attractive man at all.
Who’d you like to be your big brother, your dad, your uncle, your boss? Your husband. Kaine or Pence.
Easy answer.
* Thought it was worth noting that, just as Pence described the Clinton crime foundation, and was describing the specifics of the corrupt practices of Secretary Clinton in office, that NBC chose to put up a graphic with a paragraph of text on it to distract the viewer.
* Trump should have run his whole campaign on one simple message: stop letting in so many low quality immigrants. He had the megaphone, why didn’t he use it and show the absurdity of the Davos view on immigration. This campaign lasted like 15 months, he never really attempted to make a sustained case against mass low quality immigration. I think he could have pulled it off with the help of Stephen Miller. Too bad; Adios America!
* Great job by Pence tonight, looked great, sounded great, came across as very likable and unflappable. I really hope Trump learns from him. This is how you do it. Bat away or ignore the attacks, don’t lose your cool, speak in complete sentences, don’t get bogged down in the trenches. Maybe this is wishful thinking, but I think we will see a more Pence-like Trump in the next debate.
Kaine came across as gay, rehearsed, overly aggressive, shrill, and overall very unlikable.
* Pence won. He is excellent.
Trump made a good choice. Further proof that he knows what he is doing, and that schmoes like me do not. (I complained about his choice when he made it. I now eat my words.)
* Me too. I thought Pence was a bad VP choice, and still think either Coulter or Sessions or Giuliani would have been better, but Pence has proven himself thus far to be a good addition/follower.
I just worry about TPTB taking out Trump and installing Cuck Pence. Pence follows orders well, so his boss needs to be Trump and not Soros.
Anyway, the Pence performance showed a lot of people that Trump’s administration won’t be impulsive showmanship/braggadocio without a plan, but an good, knowledgeable;e organization with strongman showman as the leader. In other words, just like Trump’s mega-successful business empire.
MAGA, brothers!
* I believe we are witnessing the beginning of a paradigm shift in the way the American electorate goes about vesting authority in its chosen leader.
I know all of us here at iSteve are familiar with the historical anecdote that was the Nixon-Kennedy presidential debate, and how those who heard the debate on radio thought that Nixon won while those who saw it on TV thought that Kennedy won. Kennedy went on to win the election, and the debate (which was the first televised debate of its kid, if I recall correctly) was held to signal the birth of the television age. I was no longer enough to simply argue with your opponent. If you wanted to succeed in the new age, you had to succeed especially with age’s characteristic media.
Something similar could be seen happening tonight. Many who watched the Pence-Kaine debate in the heat of the moment will immediately conclude that Kaine won. His terrier-like demeanor and full-auto talking points seemed to succeed on a superficial level. But that, however, is only according to the old paradigm. The last paradigm shift occurred between auditory and visual media. The basis of the current paradigm shift is time.
To anyone who thinks that Pence did poorly tonight, I would make the suggestion to chill out, give it some time, and then watch the entire debate again in a few days. In fact, you can also do that with the first Trump-Clinton debate, which saw Trump’s performance widely panned. I guarantee that you will see an entirely different debate and an entirely different Trump, one in which he emerges as the clear victor.
The Hillary campaign has shown itself to be ruthlessly efficient when it comes to controlling the narrative, but that basically amounts to controlling the room, to managing expectations and responses in the present. But this election is no longer about how people feel in the present. The electorate is wriggling out of the narrative and tuning out the megaphone. They are casting their eyes about hoping to alight on something that isn’t the present. Like all hubristic regimes, the Clinton machine has become a victim of its own solipsism. It can no longer perceive the fact that it isn’t loved and admired but only tolerated, and that only for so long as no alternative appears.
Well that alternative has appeared in the person of Donald J. Trump. The only way that Clinton and Kaine can still control the room is by telling such obvious lies that they wouldn’t stand up at all under critical scrutiny. That scrutiny takes a process of time to eventuate—it is not a momentary thing—but it is eventuating and people are trusting it.They are looking to the analysis and the quiet, stubborn facts more than to the media megaphone. This si the paradigm shift.
And that is why, when Trump/Pence goes on to win this election by a handy margin, the media will be utterly flabbergasted at how such a thing could have happened. The age is changing. TV is no longer the dominant medium, and narrative control is no longer the political skill par excellence. What will take their place is the rigorous rule of idea-less fact-men, of which Donald Trump is a herald.
* Pence has to for PR purposes. Look there never will be a open and honest discussion on Russia in the American MSM. They simply won’t allow it. Any pol who tries to will be labeled a fool and threat.
Look ever since Putin took back the Crimea every MSM outlet has been demonizing Russia. Every computer hack is blamed on the Russians, every blow up in Syria is blamed on the Russians.
I only saw this level of agit prop by our MSM twice before – prior to Operation Desert Storm and the invasion in 2003.
All that’s missing is a forward deployment of 4-5 Army divisions in Poland. Which will probably happen under Hillary.
* The tweet of the night goes to Trump:
“@Jnelson52722: @realDonaldTrump @Susiesentinel Kaine looks like an evil crook out of the Batman movies”
* Nate Silver published a piece entitled, “No, the polls aren’t biased,” or something like that. He did a good job of making sound arguments, while glossing over relevant areas where his argument was weak. E.g., he basically waved away the idea that pollsters could be fudging their polls, because their livelihood depends on delivering accurate forecasting. He spent a little more time than I did writing that sentence, but not much. Two questions naturally arise. First, how is “accuracy” determined? Something tells me it’s determined by how accurate the polls are a short time before the election, not how accurate they are throughout the campaign. If so, that would leave pollsters pretty much the entire time to use their polls as propaganda without regard to their accuracy, as tools to manipulate the outcome (all evidence shows that people tend to vote for who they think will win), only to right the ship just before the election, so as to deliver “accurate forecasting.” Second, the media has made it absurdly plain that they value their credibility far less than they do their ability to manipulate the outcome in favor of Illary, despite the fact that their livelihood ostensibly depends on their credibility. They have obviously decided that Trumpenfuhrer gives them a pass, “just this once”; what makes pollsters any different.
* Pence is much more handsome and masculine. This doesn’t lend itself to feminine activities like studying. I would say Trump has the same problem. Bookishness and manly men don’t go together. Manly men learn by doing or doing and then checking books to figure out details. Trump clearly has a very high IQ and is able to deal with complexities very few people could handle. But you could never imagine him sitting down with a novel or some trendy non-fiction. It is hard from a man to quote Harold Bloom or make reference to a novel he’s recently read and still come across as masculine. It unmanly.
* Trump being an egomaniac is definitely a double edged sword. Only someone with as big an ego as Trump could pull off the unconventional campaign he has run and would be fine with being considered the modern Hitler for espousing views on immigration that are the norm in every non-white country (as well as Eastern European white ones). At the same time, his ego drives him to talk too much about himself, get stuck in too many low level fights and to not prepare.
* It’s not hard to get Trump talking about his life instead of the issues.
* Hillary isn’t running a tight ship at all. She is running a leaky old Liberty ship, but the media is providing massive convoy escort to get her over the finish line. She campaigns once in a blue moon to a tiny, handpicked crowd, then takes a couple days off. She is only getting away with this because of the massive support being provided by the MSM. They’ve already admitted collaborating with her on the Miss Universe story.
* The firefox add-on VideoDownloadHelper will allow you to download the video, then reupload it if the original gets taken down. Don’t worry, youtube doesn’t do anything to your account if you just have a single video taken down.
If youtube gets really aggro taking it down, then there are various grey-market free video hosting sites, some of which are run by Kim Dotcom. Then there is liveleak.
In other words, the video is not going to disappear.
Kim is half-Finnish, and an example of how Finns and possibly Estonians are the only ethnic group as good at computer programming as the Ashkenazi.
"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
