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Is There A Political Candidate For President Who Will Put America First?

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

Donald Trump: This candidate has given few details about his views on foreign policy, save that he will be tougher on Mexico and China, will deport all illegal aliens and close the border, and will stop making the kind of free trade agreements that kill U.S. manufacturing and so the ability of lower-income Americans to move into the middle class. He also suggested that if America is forced to go to war to defend itself he will use U.S. military forces to annihilate the enemy. He has given no indication that he would intervene abroad unnecessarily or launch offensive wars, like those in Iraq and Libya. All of this sounds good, but he must speak more clearly and with conviction if he wants voters to believe that he will — unlike his Republican and Democratic competitors — make foreign-policy decisions solely on the basis of what is best for America’s relatively few and never abstract national interests. What is most intriguing and encouraging about Trump is that he is not politically correct, he is admirable in his ready combativeness, he speaks like an American not an effete and clueless Ivy-League theoretician, and he is making enemies of America’s most dangerous internal enemies. On the last point, watch Fox’s Brett Baier and his usually excellent “Special Report” each evening and there you will see George Will and Charles Krauthammer twist every question posed to them in a way that permits them to defame and pour vitriol on Trump. And then listen to one of the Grand Masters of disloyal Israel-First-ism, Bill Kristol, who has long passed the apoplectic stage in his hatred of Trump and his staying power in polls of Republican voters. Finally, look at the large number of former U.S. general officers who have endorsed Jeb Bush. These men and their still serving colleagues have lost every war America has fought since VJ Day in 1945, and not one has shown any qualms about getting their young Marines and soldiers killed or maimed in wars they know their president does not intend to win. Overall a candidate that has deliberately and enthusiastically made enemies of the war-mongering and interventionist Republican and Democratic establishments, America’s worst domestic enemies, and a gang of decrepit and lick-spittle generals is surely worth careful, open-minded, and probably favorable consideration.

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School Integration? Not in Israel

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

If I had kids, I would want to raise them in an Orthodox Jewish cocoon.

My expectation is that every group has the same rights as my group. What’s wrong with whites wanting to raise their kids in white schools? Or Chinese wanting to send their kids to Chinese schools?

I prefer to live in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods. Why shouldn’t whites prefer to live in white neighborhoods?

I would want to raise my kids in an Orthodox sheltered environment. I prefer, most of the time, not to navigate diversity. I prefer people like myself. Most people prefer to live, marry, work, worship and socialize with their own kind.

From New Observer Online:

Last week’s attempt by delegates at the Modern Language Association Convention in Austin, Texas, to condemn Israel for having racially segregated schools, has once again highlighted the US Jewish lobby’s hypocrisy on the topic.
An opinion piece in the LA Times newspaper by Saree Makdisi, a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA, titled “Why Israel’s schools merit a US boycott” revealed that Israel maintains two separate educational systems for its citizens—one for Jewish children and another for the Palestinian children.
This structure, he said, “reinforces the profound segregation of Israeli society in everything from matters of citizenship and marriage to housing rights.”
In addition, he said, Israel invests three times as much on a per capita basis in the education of Jewish children than Palestinian children.
“The consequences are obvious,” he wrote, “Schools for Palestinians in Israel are overcrowded and poorly equipped, lacking in libraries, labs, arts facilities, and recreational space in comparison with schools for Jewish students.”
Furthermore, he continued, “Palestinian children often have to travel greater distances than their Jewish peers to get to school, thanks to a state ban on the construction of schools in certain Palestinian towns.”
A November 2013 article in the Israeli newspaper the Jerusalem Post confirmed that Israel has racially segregated schools. The article, titled “Terra incognita: Is separate education working in Israel?” said that of the 2,008,100 students in Israel in 2013, the “percent of students studying in mixed Arab-Jewish schools is effectively 0.”
The article went on to quote Catherine Rottenberg, an assistant professor at Ben-Gurion University, as saying that “even though 20 percent of Israel’s population is Arab, Jewish and Arab children rarely if ever get to know each other as they grow up. They go to separate schools, play in different neighborhood playgrounds…”
The Jerusalem Post article went on to explain that this racially-segregated school system is enshrined in Israeli law: “When the Knesset passed a Compulsory Education Law in 1949, it instituted a segregation of the education system into an Arab-only system for Arabs, and a segmented Jewish system of religious, secular, and other streams for Jews.”
The system was supposed to be “separate but equal,” but, as the Jerusalem Post article admits, “The prime minister’s special consultant S. Dabon told him in 1957: ‘What is the goal of Arab education? It can be assumed: education of its citizens benefits both the state and themselves, and so that they should not constitute a fifth column or active potential for surrounding enemies.’”
This school segregation even extends to the so-called “Falasha” or “Ethiopian Jews,” the Jerusalem Post article goes on to admit.
“We’ve even seen cases of schools that became almost entirely Ethiopian, or catered exclusively to the children of foreign workers,” it says.
The Israeli Ynet news service, in an article published only in Hebrew (but which can be translated using internet tools), announced that even kindergarteners in Tel Aviv attend racially segregated schools.
Ynet said that the city authorities had built a whole new set of preschools for black children after Jews threatened to keep their children at home rather than allow them to go school with the African non-Jews.
Israelis have, of course, the right to maintain their own schools and educational system. There is nothing wrong with this—and in fact it is a sign of a healthy community that wishes to maintain its own cultural and racial identity.
However, in America, all Israel-supporting Jewish organizations are firmly against segregated schooling, and always lead the attack on any whites who even dare suggest such a thing for Europeans.
For example, Jonathan Greenblatt’s Anti-Defamation League (which is supported by all official Jewish organizations in the US, religious and secular alike), has a special campaign devoted to attacking any last vestige of school segregation—even when it is simply the result of geographic isolation and a lack of nonwhites in a school district.
In a section titled “60 Years Later, the Legacy Unfulfilled,” the ADL website says that the “promise of equal access to quality education remains unfulfilled.”

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Did A Serial-Killer Set Up Steven Avery?

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

This makes sense.

Observer: Remember that one time I asked if true-crime stories like Making a Murderer–the Netflix doc centered on the bizarre murder of Wisconsin’s Teresa Halbach, for which Steven Avery is still in prison— lead to dangerous, outlandish theories based on much speculation and little evidence?

Well, here. we. go.

John Cameron is a former police sergeant and FBI cold case task force worker, who has the arrest of at least one child killer/cannibal on his resume. In recent years, Mr. Cameron has been documenting the history of Edward Wayne Edwards who, according to Cameron, has been killing for 66 years, each time framing a guiltless person for the crime. Now officially, Mr. Edwards has been convicted of five murders. There is a theory, however, he committed many, many more between 1945 and 1996, including the Zodiac Killer murders.

So what are we looking at in terms of evidence? For one, Mr. Wayne Edwards was living about an hour from Mr. Avery when the murder took place. He had also already committed a murder in Wisconsin, in 1980, when he took the lives of Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew. Furthermore, Mr. Cameron posits Mr. Edwards had a habit of committing murders on Halloween, the night Teresa Halbach appeared, and of showing up at the trials of his victims. Mr. Cameron believes he spotted the serial killer in this photo, a still from Making a Murderer‘s six episode.

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JJ: Jewish leaders pledge to restore ethical behavior

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

This effort won’t make much of a difference. Jewish leadership has historically been based on wealth and scholarship. Selecting leadership primarily for “goodness” is probably not evolutionarily advantageous.

Jewish historical patterns aren’t going to change on a dime.

Also, consider the many competing obligations of a Jewish leader. He has obligations to Jews, to his funders, to his sect, and to his peers. A rabbi who’s a great fundraiser but has some ethical problems is not usually going to lose his leadership position. Sexual problems did not remove King David and many other Jewish leaders over the years. Jews are more tolerant of these ethical foibles than white Protestants.

In my experience, the most charismatic rabbis with the most devoted followings are running some kind of scam. Think about the Museum of Tolerance and the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the ADL and the SPLC. They fundraise by running a scam (scaring old Jews that the Cossacks are coming).

Jewish Journal:

A national effort is underway to restore ethical behavior to a Jewish community that has been tarnished by high-profile scandals — clergy and other leaders engaged in sexual abuse, mikveh voyeurism and more.
“Declaration on Ethics in Jewish Leadership” began circulating among Jewish leaders last month and outlines 10 ethical principles expected of Jewish organizations. The letter has since drawn signatures of more than 350 Jewish leaders, including approximately 30 from Los Angeles.
Local supporters include Rabbi Sharon Brous of IKAR; Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills Senior Rabbi Jonathan Aaron; Leo Baeck Temple Senior Rabbi Ken Chasen; Rabbi Morley Feinstein of University Synagogue; Rabbi Noah Farkas of Valley Beth Shalom; Isa Aron and Rabbi Rachel Adler, professors at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles; and Rabbi Mark Borovitz of Beit T’Shuvah.
Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C., and a member of the committee that authored the declaration, said in a phone interview that it’s time to ask some tough questions.
“There has been evidence of ethical lapses among Jewish leaders and I think the question to ask is, ‘Are there more ethical failings in our time or are they simply being reported more often thanks to the good work of investigative journalists and thanks to a greater willingness of people to act as whistleblowers?’
“I don’t know the answer to that. The fact these scandals are being exposed is important because sunshine, they say, is the greatest disinfectant. The more these things are exposed, the greater likelihood they will come to be regarded in the community as unacceptable.”
The declaration’s authors’ efforts began this past summer, when New York’s The Jewish Week published a letter by Susanna Heschel, professor of Jewish studies at Dartmouth College, about Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt. He is a New York rabbi who took young, naked boys to a sauna but nonetheless has remained the leader of his synagogue, Riverdale Jewish Center. Its publication prompted Medoff to contact Heschel about doing something about scandalous activity in the community, and they worked on the declaration together.

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Racial bean-counting is making schools unsafe

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

New York Post:

Black students misbehave more often. Tragically, school administrators are so fearful of saying it that they’re being intimidated into ceding control of classrooms to violent, disruptive students.

That’s the story in New York City, where serious crimes in schools are soaring. Forcible sex offenses are up 90 percent year over year, according to state statistics. Assaults with weapons causing serious injuries are up 69 percent.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has implemented the Obama administration’s policy of replacing suspensions with “restorative justice” — a kind of talk therapy — even for serious offenses such as insubordination, fighting, arson, assaults and marijuana possession.

The only penalty for a student at Adlai Stevenson High School in The Bronx caught with seven bags of marijuana on him was being handed a warning card that said, “Please bring this card home to your parent(s)/guardian so you can discuss the matter with them.”

Sounds more like “Leave It to Beaver” than 2016. It would be laughable — if it weren’t so destructive.

The de Blasio administration is touting a dramatic decrease in school suspensions. That’s only because the unruly students are allowed to stay in the classroom, continuing to disrupt. Last week, at a United Federation of Teachers meeting, 81 percent of teachers said their students are losing learning opportunities because of the disorder and violence.

No one believes black students should be treated differently from others. The notion that racist educators are to blame for more suspensions and expulsions of black students is preposterous, says Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald. Teaching is “the most liberal occupation.”

A primary cause of student discipline problems is the breakdown of families, Mac Donald says, which is especially severe among African-Americans. These households are missing fathers. When discipline isn’t enforced at home, students don’t behave in school, either.

Or on the streets. Mac Donald points out that the homicide rate among males age 14 to 17 — high schoolers — is nearly 10 times higher for blacks than for whites.

Families for Excellent Schools, a pro-charter group, is lambasting de Blasio for misrepresenting what’s happening in schools. City Hall claims school crime is down, but the pols are playing numbers games, mixing minor infractions with major crimes.

In terms of serious and violent crime, schools are more dangerous than before. Assaults are up a shocking 40 percent in one year.

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More fallout from ‘crusading Rolling Stone writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely’

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

Newsweek reports:

On October 9, 2015, a former Philadelphia altar boy reported to the office of Dr. Stephen Mechanick to undergo a court-ordered forensic psychiatric evaluation. It took nearly three hours because the two men had a lot of ground to cover. Daniel Gallagher is a slender 27-year-old with a wispy beard who is better known as “Billy Doe.” Under that pseudonym, he made national headlines in 2011 when he claimed to have been serially raped as a fifth- and sixth-grader at St. Jerome’s parish by two priests and a Catholic schoolteacher.

Gallagher subsequently became the Philadelphia district attorney’s star witness at two historic criminal trials. His graphic testimony helped convict three alleged assailants, as well as Monsignor William Lynn, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s former secretary for clergy, who was found guilty of endangering the welfare of a child. The monsignor became the first Catholic administrator in the country to go to jail for failing to adequately supervise a sexually abusive priest.

The Billy Doe rape story was so sensational it attracted the attention of crusading Rolling Stone writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely. She described Billy Doe in a 2011 story, “The Catholic Church’s Secret Sex-Crime Files,” as a “sweet, gentle kid with boyish good looks” who had been callously “passed around” from predator to predator. According to the charges recounted by Erdely, two priests and a Catholic schoolteacher “raped and sodomized the 10-year-old, sometimes making him perform stripteases or getting him drunk on sacramental wine after Mass.”

Erdely is the same reporter who later wrote about “Jackie,” a University of Virginia student who claimed she was gang-raped by seven men at a fraternity party. The 2014 story, which dominated headlines and cable TV news for weeks, was subsequently exposed as a hoax by “Jackie,” retracted by Rolling Stone and is now the subject of a couple of libel suits.

Judging from Mechanick’s report, Billy Doe has as much credibility as Jackie. In a 40-page report obtained by Newsweek, the forensic psychiatrist recounted Gallagher’s test results from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test known as the MMPI-2:

“The client is apparently immature and self-indulgent, manipulating others to his own ends…. He refuses to accept responsibility for his problems. He may have an exaggerated or grandiose idea of his own capabilities and personal worth. He is likely to be hedonistic and may overuse alcohol or drugs. He appears to be quite impulsive, and he may act out against others without considering the consequences…. Paranoid features and externalization of blame are likely to be present…. His manipulative and self-serving behavior may cause great difficulties for people close to him…. An individual with this profile is usually viewed as having a Personality Disorder, probably a Paranoid or Passive-Aggressive Personality. Symptoms of a delusional disorder are prominent in his clinical pattern.”

On top of bombing out on the MMPI-2, Gallagher admitted he lied and provided “unreliable information” to Mechanick about his substance abuse and psychiatric history, as well as his personal and medical background…

Talk to the eight defense lawyers in the criminal cases and they’ll all tell you Daniel Gallagher is a chronic liar, a junkie hustler and a confabulator. They can’t believe how lucky he’s been. After the DA got Gallagher out of jail so he could tell his stories of sexual abuse, he was arrested twice on charges of drug possession, including one bust for possession with intent to distribute 56 bags of heroin. But, thanks to his criminal lawyer, that heroin was thrown out of court as evidence. A subsequent drug bust, on charges of possession of a controlled substance, also disappeared after nine continuances in 18 months, when the DA let Gallagher into an accelerated rehab program for which he ordinarily would not have been eligible.

Today, Daniel Gallagher is a free man with a clean record living in Florida with his new wife, who’s expecting the couple’s first child. And, thanks to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, he’s also a multimillionaire.

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Court Lets E.U. Nations Curb Immigrant Welfare

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

New York Times:

BERLIN — The European Union’s top court put its thumb on the scale of one of the bloc’s most divisive issues Tuesday, ruling in effect that richer countries can limit access to welfare benefits for citizens from poorer ones.

In the decision, the European Court of Justice ruled that a Romanian woman [gypsy] who had immigrated to Germany was not entitled to unemployment benefits because she had made no effort to find a job.

While the ruling is limited in scope, it may provide some political cover to governments, like those in Britain and Germany, that have complained of “welfare tourism” and faced strong opposition at home over immigration policies because of it.

The decision may also provide a safety valve of sorts to relieve pressures within the European Union over immigration, which have grown more profound during the long economic crisis and as the bloc has expanded to include poorer members, like Romania and Bulgaria.

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Human Biodiversity

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* People can readily accept that different selective pressures are responsible for their favorite breed of dog’s distinctive appearance and general personality traits, but we can’t notice the same effects in humans. And naturally, any evolutionary differences that might exist could not possibly extend to the organ that consumes the biggest share of the body’s energy.

* We keep hearing of the power of A.I., about how artificial intelligence is going to overtake humans–at least in figuring out stuff if not in political power–in everything.

I’m thinking that in the future, A.I. will be able to take in all the data and advise people on what must be done.

Now, suppose A.I. is fed all the raw data on race and were to rely purely on its computational skills to assess the problems of human society.

Given the facts of reality, won’t A.I. be politically incorrect in noticing all the things that we are not supposed to notice.

So, what is going to be done? Are they going to program A.I. to be politically correct?
If so, A.I. would, on the one hand, be programmed to be purely factual, logical, and analytical. Surely, a computer can be made to do that. But its PC programming would do what? Not connect the dots on certain issues? Overheat and shut down when the findings might be ‘racist’? Or, will A.I. consciousness be instilled with a form of ‘guilt’ complex?

What if A.I. were to observe that the reason that black students are suspended more is because they happen to be more unruly, disruptive, and violent?
What happens when SJW-types accuse computer engineers of having created a ‘racist’ artificial intelligence? Will the engineers then be required to install some PC program into the computer where the A.I. understands that it is not supposed to notice or report on certain things? Or even lie? I suppose A.I. could be programmed to lie.

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As for PC and art, the above story is a good example of how PC can be censorious and stupid.

But censorship isn’t necessarily anti-art. In some ways, limitations on artistic freedom forces the artist to sublimate his ideas and expressions in more interesting ways.
Most artists all through history never had the freedom of modernist artists, but they did remarkable work despite or even because they weren’t allowed to do anything.
Who knows? If Renaissance artists had been allowed total freedom and lack of restraint, maybe they would have been just a bunch of homo pornographers. Someone like Robert Mapplethorpe might have been more like Caravaggio had he lived centuries ago, whereas some Renaissance artists might have been like today’s self-indulgent pervs had they been lived in our times.

John Simon once said of Roman Polanski that he actually benefited from communist censorship because it put a cork on some of his more self-indulgent tendencies.

And more violence, more curse words, and more sexuality haven’t necessarily made for better cinema since the 70s. More freedom is great for the artist if he knows what to do with it. But it has a tendency of making some people just self-indulgent and excessive. I think Tarantino would have made better films in the 50s and 60s when no one in Hollywood could be as excessive as Tarantino soon became. An earlier period would have restrained his worst infantile & sadistic tendencies or forced him to find subtler means of expressing them. Much of Hitchcock’s art developed from limits on what could be shown. It forced Hitchcock to be more suggestive, subtle, and insidious, which proved to be more fun. Hitchcock could finally show more sex and violence with Frenzy, but it wasn’t necessarily better.

Limitation of artistic freedom also has a way of forcing the artist to find a compromise between personal vision and the conventionality of the tried-and-true.
While mere conventionality is the same old same old, a purist commitment to personalism has the tendency of making the artist self-indulgent oblivious of the audience and what has been proven by time to work.

In this sense, Shostakovich might actually have benefited from Stalinism. His considerable talent was in the service of creating music that was accessible and meaningful to large number of people. He had to make people’s music, just like most Renaissance painters has to make religious art, and he had just enough freedom to imbue it with his unique vision and touch.
Many critics in the past denigrated Shostakovich for his compromises while favoring the more pure avant-garde composers, but as time passes, Shostakovich endures and looms larger whereas many of the more pure experimentalists have been forgotten.

Likewise, it’s not surprising why THE GODFATHER is Coppola’s greatest film. He applied his talent in the service of really solid story material. He had to focus on something other than his artistic ego. Now, Coppola will insist that his best films are really One from the Heart and Rumble Fish, but NO ONE agrees with this.

And the best films of Polanski are KNIFE IN THE WATER — where artistic license was somewhat restrained under communist rule — and CHINATOWN where his talent was in the service of a killer noir genre script.
His more personal films range from interesting to downright ludicrous.
It’s like Brian Wilson did his best work in the midpoint between populism and personalism. When he completely lost himself in his own artistic universe while working on SMILE, he sort of went nuts.

* It’s like David Mamet said some degree of ‘genre’ is crucial to art because art needs form, structure, conventions, expectations, rules. Now, an artist can play with those rules. After all, if a work is purely conventional and obeys every rule, it is just the same-old-same-old. It is more a piece of machinery or furniture than personal expression.
So, the artist plays with the rules, bends them, remolds them, and even breaks them on occasion. But he cannot totally dispense with them and just do whatever he feels like. That is creative breakdown or orgy or chaos, not art. The result is like some of Fellini’s later films where rule is “I’m Fellini the genius, so whatever I do is art.”

Peggy Goo isn’t like that. It works on pretty decent genre material, and Coppola did what was necessary instead of over-layering it with excessive stylization

Coppola’s worst failures were when he over-indulged in personal projects that were all fireworks and no substance. There is no core in One from Heart and Rumblefish. It’s style-as-movie than style-serving-story.

Coppola’s other problem was his over-stylization of thin material. The Outsiders might have made a decent youth movie, but Coppola tried to turn it into Gone with the Wind. It is so bloated and overdone.
Same with Cotton Club. It might have been a fun breezy movie with dance and gunplay. The story and script simply weren’t up to Godfather standards. And the movie has some good things in it. But Coppola went for something grand and epic, oblivious to the material’s insufficiency in that department. It is so confused and compromised. (Compromise: throw in a white character in the form of Richard Gere to pull in white audiences. Confusion: a movie about thugs and gangsters turns into a NAACP speechifying about ‘racism’. Black gangsters as civil rights leaders. As for the Italian, Irish, and Jewish gangsters, they are pure hokum drawn from old Hollywood movies. Hokum can be fun, but Coppola goes for gravitas of Godfather with some of them, and it doesn’t work.)

Peggy Goo and Gardens of Stone work better because the styles fits the subject.
One is light-hearted comedy with some pathos, and the other is straightforward drama. Coppola did no more than he needed to.
Tucker is pretty good too. Manner matches matter. Finally, Coppola made peace with himself and accepted that not everything he makes has to be important or a masterpiece. If the script calls for a good movie, just make a good movie. It’s like if the recipe calls for hamburger and fries, make hamburger and fries instead of trying to turn it some fancy French dish. I think all the attention he received in the 70s, the decade when American cinema finally became ART, really messed up Coppola’s head for awhile, and he couldn’t accept anything less than being the new Welles-Fellini-Kurosawa rolled into one.

But then later came the obnoxiously over-directed Dracula, but then it turned out to be a hit.
As for Godfather III, the crime wasn’t over-direction but over-writing. Puzo and Coppola turned a crime drama into something bigger than the Fall of Roman Empire, Reformation, Hundred yrs war, the Cold War, etc.
You’d think that the Corleones became so important to world history that the fate of Western Civilization hanged in the balance of which bunch of greaseballs stood standing after the latest round of bloodshed.

* See Chris Rock’s documentary “Good Hair” about all the expensive hair care behavior black women engage in due to differences in hair texture.

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Will Blacks Hog All The Diversity Attention?

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: The article is of course about why there are only 5 black NFL head coaches instead of why there is only 1 Hispanic coach. There are now far more Latinos than blacks in the U.S., but nobody seems to be able to pay them more than just cursory attention.

It’s interesting whether in the future we will see more hoopla about underrepresentation of Latinos or Asians, or if blacks will continue to hog all the diversity attention. I could see it going either way. I’m sure irate Asian overachievers will continue to beaver away on their standardized op-eds complaining about the Media Myth of the Model Minority, but probably nobody except me will bother to read them. But will the Hispanic Sleeping Giant awake? Or will nobody much care?

Comments:

* First of all, NFL football is a business and to make money you have to remain competitive. Teams with consistent losing records cannot fill their stadiums and this costs the owner/s money. To date, only two black NFL coaches have brought their teams to the Super Bowl and that was in 2007 when Tony Dungy’s Colts beat Lovie Smith’s Bears. Both coaches were black.

The point is that black NFL coaches are held to the same standard as whites ( with perhaps a small racial bonus in that they, ceteris paribus, are more likely to get a head coaching job. Dungy quit coaching to become a network TV analyst, a decision a number of other successful NFL coaches have also made. Smith was fired this year after a horrible ( 6-10 season) at Tampa. It wasn’t just the losing record though. It was how Tampa lost many games. The team wasn’t just bad it was also poorly prepared as it often killed its own chances with stupid penalties and poor execution. The kind of stuff head coaches are supposed to manage.

* If Belichick had realized in 2000 that he was TOM BRADY he wouldn’t have let him linger until the 6th round.

But Belichick later picked up Matt Cassel, who had been stuck on the bench for 4 years at USC behind a couple of Heisman Trophy winners, never starting a game in college, in the 7th round, so he’s good at noticing quarterbacks who didn’t get a fair shake in college. Pete Carroll, who isn’t quite Belichick in career achievement but has won NCAA and NFL championships, didn’t think Cassel was as good as Carson Palmer or Matt Leinart. In 2016, we realize Carson Palmer really has been awfully good.

It’s enough to make you sympathize with Malcolm Gladwell saying nobody can tell anything about which college quarterback will be any good.

* If you haven’t seen it yet, watch NFL Films’ short documentary about the Patriots’ 2014-2015 season, Do Your Job. Most of the Patriots’ assistants seem like they’d be out of place in corporate management. The burly guy with the beard, d-coach Matt Patricia, has an aeronautical engineering degree from Rensselaer. Football research director Ernie Adams is a Northwestern grad.

The scene at the end of the film, the closing moments of the Super Bowl, shows that clock management is never cut and dried. When Seattle was second and goal at the one to take the lead with time running down, Patricia was asking Belichick if he wanted to call time out to save some seconds for the offense in case Seattle scored. The assistants in the press box were asking the same thing. Belichick just stared across the field at the Seattle sideline, saw some confusion, and decided he was not going to give Seattle time to get more organized. The personnel package the Patriots had on the field for the defining play of the season hadn’t been used all year.

The documentary’s coverage of that 30 seconds gives an idea of the frenetic back and forth that goes on on both sidelines. Assistants yelling in the headsets, players shuffling in and out; like Steve says, sitting on the couch at home is a great vantage point from which to say the coach is an idiot.

* How dominant have the Patriots been? Tom Brady is going to his 10th conference championship game. There are 27 NFL teams that haven’t gone to 10 conference championship games.

* The Buffalo Bills have not made the playoffs in 16 years and ticket sales fell off. They even tried to field one game per season in Toronto and that was a dismal attendance failure. Last year, the new owners hired Rex Ryan, recently released by the NY Jets. Rex’s flamboyant personality and “guarantee” of making the playoffs led to record season ticket sales. The fans started calling for Rex’s head after the first two back to back losses and didn’t stop until the end of this year’s 8-8 season. Last week Rex hired his twin brother, Rob (fired mid season from New Orleans) to be his assistant head coach ( a position that appears no where else in the league) Today the Bills announced the hiring of a woman ( former administrative assistant) to be quality control coach-special teams. First woman ever to be an NFL coach, at any position. So now blacks have to worry about being beaten out for coaching jobs by “white wimin!” Good to middling coaches seem be a common commodity, great coaches a rarity. Belichick finds players who will fit his schemes and commit to the team, one fuck up and you are gone. Jonah Gray scored 4 TDs and gained 200+ yards in a game against Indy (I think) missed a team meeting and adios. Belichick also game plans for specific opponents, giving offensive and defensive looks they have not seen before, and then makes adjustments on the fly. I remember a playoff game (against the Ravens?) where on the first play he split Gronk out wide, had Welker in the slot, Hernandez at RB and the other TE, whose name I can’t spell or pronounce, at FB. The defense took one look and called a time out. No snaps yet and you are down a time out. Hernandez lined up often at RB in that game and gained 100+ rushing yards. Against another team he had a tackle line up at the TE spot and then covered him with an split end, making him ineligible, but the defense still covered him. The opposing coach, one of the Harbaughs, was apoplectic, demanding a flag. The ref explained that he player never left the line of scrimmage, and dropped back to block, so no foul. A couple of plays latter New England used the same formation, the ref announced over his mic that the player was ineligible and Harbough still covered him with a linebacker. Brady made a pass behind the linebacker for a big gain. Rex Ryan also had the team with the most penalties, which shows poor coaching. Fans want wins, they don’t care if the coach is white, black or brown. NFL fans willing accept convicted miscreants onto the team as long as they can block or run or catch. The bar for coaching is already low, Tom Coughlin, at about 50% wins, resigns from the Giants and interviews days later….but he has two Rings. The NYT should take their diversity quest to the NCAA, where there are 100s of teams and not too many black head coaches. Problem is, not too many college coaches transition successfully to the NFL. Chip Kelly, has two winning season then Philly tanks this year and he is gone. One last thing about Belichick, according to a documentary on TV that I saw about Julian Edelman, Edelman stated that the Pats only watch Low-lights films, that is the mistakes they made in their previous game. High-lights are just the expected results of doing their job.

* What Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks on the “Move the Sticks” podcast say about the Patriots as a coaching staff is they go out and get players who do one thing VERY well, and then develop schemes that allows those players to be successful in doing what they do best. The two (they are scouts for NFL teams and Brooks played in the NFL, Jeremiah at QB in College) note that the highest ranked players do everything well, but are hard to draft and expensive to sign. That the Patriots, who they directly attribute this to Belichick, find undervalued players who can only do that one thing but don’t try and mold them as other teams do to existing schemes and make them do things they are not very good at compared to the superstars.

I don’t know what I would have done — Belichick is smarter than me in assessing football talent that’s for sure. I love how contempt just drips off him during press conferences — his dismissal of “Cry Brady” working the refs in the NY Post as “hot air” and “we’re focused on the Broncos” was pure gold. According to Brooks and Jeremiah, who both worked for a while at the Patriots, that office complex is very quiet and focused. Apparently everyone works very hard there, not much fooling around like in other franchises.

Look at Stan Kroenke. He’s borrowing a billion to finance the stadium in Inglewood. Will he retain Fischer? My guess is no, but it won’t be Jim Caldwell replacing him. Right now the Rams are basking in being the first team to move back to LA. But a few 6-10, or even 8-8 seasons and all of a sudden those corporate luxury boxes may be empty. Local ratings down. Lesser interest in a Rams cable network, with lesser money.

* Has Matthew Stafford progressed as a QB? How have the Lions done overall? Both the Detroit Lions and the New England Patriots got hit by the injury bug, but the Patriots are in Championship Weekend and the Lions did not make the playoffs after exiting in the first round last year.

You could argue the principal reason that Peyton Manning has only one Superbowl ring and his brother two, is that Caldwell and Dungy were inferior coaches to cagy old Tom Coughlin.

By contrast, look at Andy Reid with Alex Smith. Smith went from not being good enough to beat out Kaepernick, to getting his team fairly deep in the playoffs. While Smith is a “game manager,” i.e. takes the check down, etc. and doesn’t put balls in “mailboxes” down the field, he won’t give up too many stupid plays, and gives his players chances to make plays and win. As Brian Billick said, there are not 32 men on the earth with the ability to play starting QB in the NFL.

I haven’t seen much of Caldwell improving Stafford, rather the reverse — wild plays, pushing it, not knowing when to be aggressive and when to back off and take the checkdown or throw the ball out of bounds.

* Matthew Stafford did indeed improve mightily – in the second half of the season, after Caldwell was forced to fire his OC, Joe Lombardi (grandson of Vince) and hired the infamous Jim Bob Cooter as his OC.

That’s right, the Lion’s OC is a guy with a Dukes of Hazard name. And guess what? He was great!

Stafford’s second half stats?

17 TD’s and only 2 int’s.
2,500 yards and a QBR of 115.

Unreal, and it nothing to do with Caldwell. Everything to do with getting the right (unappreciated and pale-skinned) guy who could actually recognize Stafford’s innate ability, which is astronomical.

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Invaders Tend To Be Male

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* In Mexico (like Germany today) the invaders were male. They had to fornicate with somebody, so they started breeding with the local women. Hence the huge percentage of Mestizos in Mexico.

Other countries, like the USA, were invaded by gender-mixed populations. These invaders (aka Pilgrims) fornicated with each other and maintained separate cultures and race purity.

The choices that Germany faces are difficult.

Do they let the Muslim male invaders bring in their own female breeders from Africa and the Middle East? If so, the Germans wind up like the American Indians, culturally and racially replaced in their own land.

Or do the Germans keep the female Muslim breeders out (no “family reunification”) and start sexually servicing and mongrelizing with the male Muslim invaders a la Mexico? If so they will create a Germano-Muslim version of Mexico’s Mestizo “Raza Cosmica”.

It is interesting to consider the American example.

Massasoit (the Merkel-ish American Indian chief) opened his heart and welcomed the tiny band of poor pathetic Pilgrims as refugees.

A half century later it was Massasoit’s own son, Metacom, who attempted to exterminate the now huge number of English invaders in “King Philip’s War”. Unfortunately, the Indians had agreed to a gun control law about ten years before and were defeated.

There was a good result to the war, however: the scattered, divided Anglo invaders stopped fighting among themselves and forged a new identity as “Americans”.

Maybe Merkel can do the same: fill up Germany with many warring, squabbling tribes of Muslims and Africans, disarm the Germans, and when the Germans finally fight back (after tens of millions of new invaders have arrived), forge a new cohesive Muslim/African/German identity among the invaders.

The historical parallels are fascinating.

* Cambridge is in the south. There’s an obvious difference between northern and southern English. The north has high unemployment and lackluster post post industrial cities while the south is the dynamic economic engine of the country.

I remember from Outline of History by HG Wells (1920), he noted that there were probably racial differences in origins of northern v. southern English. Further exploration nowadays might have been suppressed by the PC climate.

* I live in New England, which was settled mainly by people from East Anglia (Read “Albion’s Seed”). The weirdness is all around me (disguised as a crippling sense of superiority toward those in the rest of the country…)

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