Washington Post: The 35-minute audio recording, as described in a Maryland courtroom Thursday, was horrifying.
“Hold her down,” a young man said.
The voice belonged to Cecil Burrows, 23, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail for his role in what prosecutors described as a gang rape of a nearly comatose woman in a townhouse in the Montgomery County community of Olney. Burrows not only recorded the rape, he called out instructions.
The Daily Caller just published an objective essay on the Alt-Right!
Hillary is correct, though, that this new movement from the right has emerged from the fringes of society. All effective counter-cultural movements do. This is where the deplorables all hang out. It is also where the ideas which are forbidden by the leftist establishment emerge, develop and organise. The alt-right does not have a single philosophy. Instead it is a multi-pronged intellectual attack upon the legitimacy of the ruling establishment in the West. This philosophical diversity is key to its strength.
There are several core tenets of alt-right thinking, however, which unify the different factions within the movement. Key to these is realism when it comes to race, gender, culture and beliefs. Despite the histrionics of the leftist establishment, these views have not been considered controversial historically. For everyone except postmodern Cultural Marxists, it is obvious that there are distinct differences between the races and between the sexes. Some cultures are obviously more successful at creating civilisation than others. If it is sexist that women bear the primary responsibility for raising progeny, then biology is sexist. If it is racist that East Asians have higher IQ’s, lower crime rates and higher incomes than Sub-Saharan Africans, then genetics is racist. Even if reality hurts your feelings, it’s still reality.
It has also been true throughout history that humans prefer their own tribe. Leftists today don’t mind ethnic nationalism, as long as it is not whites adopting it. Why is it that Black Lives Matter, a group associated with domestic terrorism who are clearly ethnic nationalists, are feted at the White House while white nationalists are profiled by the authorities and castigated in the media? Why is the demographic displacement of whites through mass immigration and the destruction of white cultures official government policy in Western countries? Why do we lambast this process as cultural genocide when it was done to indigenous peoples but celebrate it as diversity when it is done to whites?
Common across the component factions of the alt-right movement is also the belief that moral relativism and cultural universalism are destroying the West. Emerging over time from a distortion of the Christian principle of universal brotherhood, this practice by Westerners of denying themselves the right to in-group preference has emboldened our historical enemies and convinced them we are weak. Alt-right thinkers understand that all the aircraft carriers and ICBM’s in the world matter little if a society does not have the cultural confidence to assert its values and promote its identity to foreigners inside and outside its borders. Such a demoralized nation is not long for this world.
Many in the emerging right are former libertarians, and retain the views that the state is never to be trusted and that fascism and national socialism were movements of the left, not the right. The traditional right that these reactionary men and women would revive draws its ideas from such thinkers as Thomas Carlyle, Julius Evola, Bertrand de Jouvenel and Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn. They reject majoritarian democracy and advocate formal hierarchy, moral order and the aspiration to higher ideals that metaphysical faith provides societies. They abhor the debased materialism and worship of abstract ideals that characterises modernity. Critics might dismiss this as mere nostalgia; it is not. Instead it is a love for one’s people and the desire to see them be great again. It is more than a political slogan. It is the rekindling of beliefs which many in the West have forgotten.
The alt-right is edgier than conservatism. It is more aggressive and assertive. That’s the point. Right-thinking men and women of the West now have nothing to lose. It is in such circumstances that minds are quickened and hearts are steeled. They see an establishment which is corrupt, degenerate and morally bankrupt. They are not at all interested in conserving it.
Moses Apostaticus is a PhD Candidate (Education) at a major Australian university and is a known voice in the alt-right sphere.
Chaim Amalek writes: Stop saying things like “I wish television and music and the NBA were more friendly to White People”. Such blunt racial talk only marks you as “to be destroyed” by your enemies. Instead, do what we others do and use a special language that can’t so easily be attacked. I suggest you appropriate the language of that group that more than any other, has succeeded in advancing its agenda in America: Torah Yidden. Their word for things, people and places that are most like them and comforting (none of this “diversity” mishigas) is “heimishe”. It literally means “homey” in Yiddish but in fact means “culturally acceptable to Torah observant orthodox as it would have been 100 years ago in the Old Country”. Appropriate it! So now you can say to other goyim “I wish the NBA were more heimishe….I wish TV/celebrities/corporations/TV ads were more heimishe” and everyone in your target audience will know what you mean to say. And unlike you, Goy, your enemies will be at a loss for the right words with which to attack you.
In my previous post, Sex and the Alexander Technique – Part 1, I provided an overview of what was available on this topic 20 years ago.
Slim pickings, to say the least!
Fortunately for all of us, the situation is a far better today.
To start with, we have a very popular episode at the Alexander Technique Podcast which I did with Alexander Technique teacher Constance Clare-Newman on the topic a few years ago. You can listen to it here:
In 2010, The Frisky (sic!) featured an interview with Alexander Technique teacher Rachel Bernsen titled: Frisky Q & A: For Better Sex, Look to the Alexander Technique that received a good deal of attention.
Also in 2010, Alexander Technique teacher Penny O’Connor write a piece titled “Sex and the Alexander Technique” in her blog.
In 2011, Alexander Technique teacher Paige McKinney explored the question “So what about the Alexander Technique and Sex?” in her blog.
Finally, Alexander Technique Chloe Stallibrass, conducted a study titled “Sexuality and the Alexander technique: a study based on a survey of teachers and students at an Alexander training centre in London,” summer 1990.
Knightley has made the most of what she has simply by staying thin. Because she’s thin, her eyes are large, her cheekbones are prominent, and her jawline is well-defined. And that’s often what beauty boils down to.
Roughly 75% of people — both men and women — would look good if they were the right weight. That means carving themselves down to perfection.
From the blog Just Not Said: For a long time, I thought Hillary Clinton a normal person who had been corrupted by her proximity to her sociopathic husband and by having been given so much power. (Power does have a corrupting influence.)
She didn’t seem to have a full complement of sociopathic traits. She lacks the glib salesman’s charm that characterizes so many sociopaths. When Barack Obama characterized her in 2008 as being “likable enough,” that was in fact being generous. Her strident, grating personality does not cast a spell.
It also seemed less likely that Hillary was a sociopath simply because she was married to one. Sociopaths are rarely drawn to each other as spouses: they usually prefer someone they can dominate and manipulate, not an “equal.” But, that marriage appears more and more to be a rare case of two partners in crime.
And ever since Hillary ran for Senator in 2000, she has more or less escaped Bill’s shadow. This has put her own personal qualities in high relief. And it’s hard to escape the conclusion that she, too, is a sociopath.
Dishonesty is one of the main hallmarks of sociopathy.
Hillary has lied, in some way, about practically every aspect of her life that has come to public notice. The bribe she got via the cattle futures trading (which, in all fairness was for her husband, and merely funneled through her) was something she claimed she achieved through having studied the Wall Street Journal. (If she was so good at it, why would this famously money hungry woman suddenly quit trading?) She lied about Travelgate when she claimed that the longtime White House employees had committed embezzlement, which was not true. (Hillary wanted to install her friends in the job.)
Hillary has lied about Benghazi (claiming it was a spontaneous reaction to an internet video), her email setup (which she initially claimed was in accordance with all regulations), and countless other episodes. But these are the types of lies which non sociopaths might utter, if their backs were against the wall and their political survival were dependent on it.
What’s far more telling, personality-wise, is that Hillary lies even when she doesn’t have to. All of the small lies she’s told about her own life have had no impact on policy. But while they seem to matter little, they do speak volumes about Hillary.
Hillary has claimed that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mt. Everest. But she was born in 1947, six years before that event, when Edmund was only an obscure beekeeper in New Zealand.
Hillary has claimed that all four of her grandparents were immigrants. Only one of them was.
Hillary has said that she tried to join the Marines in 1975, but was turned down. While this claim hasn’t been definitively debunked, it seems highly, highly unlikely.
Hillary has famously claimed that as Secretary of State, she once landed in Bosnia under sniper fire, and had to run for cover on the tarmac. No such thing occurred. Here is a CBS clip debunking Hillary’s account, with footage of her actual arrival.
(These last two lies are a little reminiscent of a male sociopath who claims to have been a Navy SEAL, or to have worked for the CIA, when he hasn’t. These types of lies are generally referred to as “stolen valor.”)
Hillary has also famously claimed to have been “dead broke” when she left the White House in 2001.
These are all “sport lies,” a specialty of sociopaths, who will use any occasion to falsely burnish their resume.
Hillary’s lying predates her political career. There are conflicting reports about whether she was technically fired from her job as a young 27-year-old lawyer on the Watergate Committee for her unethical behavior. But her boss at the time, lifelong Democrat Jerry Zeifman, has been quite public about his opinion of her dishonesty.
Another characteristic of sociopaths is that when they lie, they do so straightforwardly, with no hint of shame or embarrassment. Can you think of just one occasion when Hillary came across sheepish, rather than brassy?
Washington Post: In ways that are both blunt and subtle, attentive viewers of the show now understand “Transparent” as a broader, epic story about the American Jewish experience — particularly as it is lived by a family with an on-again, off-again dependence on faith. Thanks to Ali’s barely formed thesis proposal, “Transparent” has provided profound but easily connected dots along the notion of Jewish escape, flashing back to scenes of the previous generation’s tumultuous yet fortuitous flight from Berlin in the 1930s and the capture of Maura’s uncle, Tante Gittel (born Gershon), a young trans woman.
These scenes were not presented in the name of narrative tidiness or obligations to Holocaust references; they all but announced that “Transparent” is now working less like a dramedy (that word becomes increasingly useless here) and more like an 800-page novel about something bigger than all of us. Season 3 continues to reveal key moments from the past, particularly from Maura’s childhood, but also that of Maura’s ex-wife, Shelly (Judith Light)…
It’s no secret that a lot of these premium-cable and streaming shows are in some way about characters who are Jewish, or at least Jewish-ish, often because these shows are produced and written by people who are simply following the best advice, producing and writing what they know. To have watched some the best half-hour shows of the past 15 or 20 years — anything since “Seinfeld” — is to have become at least conversant in Jewish upbringing, culture and kvetching. We don’t discuss it much in TV criticism, mainly because it sends the worst of our anonymous commenters into the rush-hour lane of anti-Semitism, where the only off-ramp is marked “Hollywood — Controlled by Jews.”
First of all, so what if it is? And secondly, from this goyish, Catholic-schooled viewer’s estimation, “Transparent” is well on its way to becoming a definitive and classic work on the subject of Jewishness as “otherness.” When Maura, from memory, offers the kaddish for a recently departed character, “Transparent” once more reaches a state of sublimity, a feat it somehow accomplishes in just about every episode. There’s more to talk about here than the mystery of gender and relationships. “Transparent” is the best show we have right now about personal identity — of any and all human kinds.
Washington Post: “They are sisters and daughters of the enemies who attacked Pearl Harbor. They married the soldiers who occupied their defeated country and came to the United States. And then? They disappeared into America.”
Women have fewer tribal and national loyalties than men.
Is every black male shot by police "trying to turn their life around"???
What does that tell you about their choices prior to being shot? pic.twitter.com/xh712NZSY5— Paul Kersey (@sbpdl) September 22, 2016
I did a Google search on “aspiring rapper” and found:
First result. Urban Dictionary:
North American euphemism for a member of the urban criminal class. This unusual occupation is usually mentioned in conjunction with the subject either being slain or being taken into custody for a violent or property-related crime. A relative of the subject usually points out that the subjects demise or incarceration comes at an extremely inopportune moment, ocurring just as they subject was “turning they(sic) life around.”
Special K Icey Eight had a checkered past, but his mother insisted he was a “good boy” who was just turning his life around, when the aspiring rapper was gunned down by a homeowner after breaking into the house via the kitchen window.
Aspiring rapper killed after music video about guns turns into bloodbath, with five shot and one killed in Chicago park
Attack happened as rapper ‘Foreign Lyfe’ was filming video in Foster Park
Aspiring rapper Damond Dawson, aka ‘Thugga,’ was killed
A girl, 19, was hit twice in the groin and three other men also wounded
Foreign Lyfe’s song is titled ‘Two Techs and a 50 Shot,’ a reference to guns
Dawson’s aunt said he was a ‘a good guy’ and not involved in gang life
Third result.
New trial begins for 2 charged in aspiring rapper’s death
SOMERVILLE – Opening arguments were heard Wednesday morning in Somerset County Superior Court before Judge Robert B. Reed in the retrial of two brothers charged in the 2013 fatal shooting of an aspiring rapper at a Franklin Township barber shop.
On May 16, after six days of deliberations, the jury reached an impasse on murder charges against Zaire Cromedy, 23, of New Brunswick, and Antwan Cromedy, 31, of Bound Brook, in the Dec. 29, 2013, killing of New Brunswick resident Eric Andrews, Jr., 28, a hip-hop artist who performed under the moniker “E-9.”
Fourth result.
Aspiring Rapper Dead After Double Shooting in Harbor City
Dickerson’s family said she was an aspiring rapper who worked three jobs to support her music career.
Other results:
* Aspiring rapper, mother found dead inside Gwinnett apartment
* Record company president guilty in aspiring rapper’s death – KCTV5
* Man charged in slaying of aspiring Cleveland rapper
Shouldn’t “Aspiring Rapper” Just be “Expiring Rapper?”
Michael Brown was an aspiring rapper.
DeAndre Joshua, whose body was found in Ferguson on November 24, 2014, was also an aspiring rapper.
If you Google “Aspiring Rapper Killed,” you get more than 337,000 results.
Including this one. [Man arrested in murder of aspiring D.C. rapper during music video filming, WJLA.com, 4-3-15]:Prince George’s County Police have arrested a 21-year-old Northeast Washington man on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of an aspiring D.C. rapper.
Sources told ABC 7 News that Lafonzo Iracks was taken into custody in D.C. early Friday.
Twenty-one-year-old Keaway Lafonz Ivy, who went by the rap name Kealo, was shot and killed while filming a music video Wednesday night. Sources said Iracks was part of a group of people involved with the video.
Police officers found Ivy suffering from an a gunshot wound in the 400 block of Eastern Avenue in Seat Pleasant around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
Police had offered a $25,000 reward for information in the case. It was not immediately known if a reward tip led to the arrest.
And you wonder why the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are funding an initiative to highlight positive stories of young men of color…
Vox Day notes: SJWs never stop harassing.
From Blogger’s content policy: “Hate Speech: Our products are platforms for free expression. But we don’t support content that promotes or condones violence against individuals or groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, nationality, veteran status, or sexual orientation/gender identity, or whose primary purpose is inciting hatred on the basis of these core characteristics. This can be a delicate balancing act, but if the primary purpose is to attack a protected group, the content crosses the line.”
What is a protected group?
* Roger Kimball writes: An hour or two ago, I posted through Twitter a link to “The Mulish Stupidity of Clinton-Obama Counterterrorism,” Andrew McCarthy’s incisive essay on the subject named in his title. A reader sent me a notice that when she clicked on the link, up popped a notice that the essay, by one of America’s most distinguished journalists in one of America’s most distinguished (indeed venerable) journals of opinion, was blocked as being “potentially harmful or associated with a violation of Twitter’s Terms of Service.” The possible torts listed mention sites that could steal your passwords or other personal information, install malicious software on your computer, or — bland generality — violate those “terms of service.” I had a look at those terms but could find nothing that covered what I suspect is the relevant interdiction, namely expressing a heterodox political opinion in forthright and robust terms. Perhaps there is something else which I do not immediately understand that’s at play here, but prima facie it looks to me like blatant political suppression of free expression. Am I wrong?
* If a party knowingly creates in writing a false claim of material fact which could be damaging to its target’s reputation, that’s libel.
* National Review really does have some evil advertising crap that tries to lock up your browser and tells the victim to call some (specified) phone number to have their Internet service or computer unlocked.
* I got the same message when my still ongoing shadowban started. It might be Twitter and not an attempted hack.
One theory about how the new class of shadowban works is that Twitter falsely applies one or more filters that limit the reach of a user’s tweets. The result is that other accounts treat the shadowbanned account as if they’d blocked it.
One such filter is used on potentially hacked accounts to prevent spamming. I don’t discount the possibility of Twitter admins faking hacks to apply the spam filter and censor problem accounts while maintaining plausible deniability.
* Vox, No, it’s Twitter. And they require your mail/phone/rectal exam to unlock your account again
They did it to me several times until I deleted the account.
