Steve Sailer pokes behind the curtain; beware, Polonius!

The ordinary modes of human thinking are magical, religious, social, and personal. We want our wishes to come true; we want the universe to care about us; we want the approval of those around us; we want to get even with that s.o.b who insulted us at the last tribal council. For most people, wanting to know the cold truth about the world is way, way down the list. Scientific objectivity is a freakish, unnatural, and unpopular mode of thought, restricted to small cliques whom the generality of citizens regard with dislike and mistrust.

— John Derbyshire, We Are Doomed

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That’s the first positive thing I’ve ever heard about Facebook. I doubt that it’s true, of course (whose turn is it to play the victim?), but I keep my hopes up.

Steve Sailer does his usual inconvenient truth.

This is what worries the Establishment most about Trump: the terror that he might ask some common-sensical but verboten question like:

Why do we give Israel so much money?

Why don’t black guys try committing fewer crimes?

If we take in dumb immigrants, won’t they have dumb kids?

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My question is, how many black people were murdered in Chicago, Baltimore, or D.C. — all Democrat-ruled cities — during that same time period? Just for perspective.

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Glock for me. But your mileage may differ.

And Democrats want these people in charge of our health care.

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They all look alike to me….

(Judean People’s Front or People’s Front of Judea? We report, you decide.)

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I always figured they ran away with the hangers.

That last part is pure scientific fact. The phenomenon of the missing office spoons once proved so consternating to a group of Australian public health researchers, in fact, that they conducted a whole study on it.

Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts.

— Robert Gascoyne, Cecil, 3d Marquess of Salisbury

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It don’t mean shit. Small things on the periphery, chiefly those that inconvenience taxpayers, will shut down. The rest of it will go on as usual.

Trump can end the conflict by winning or caving. Which one do YOU think he’ll do?

Taki speaks for me.

Perhaps it sounds stuffy, but I am nostalgic for the good old days when manners were exquisite. You might think that this is a bit much, but not really. Things are so bad at present that even returning to the time of strict etiquette, I find, would be a blessing. Manners, you see, are as important as morals, and have very little to do with a man’s outer attributes—birth, rank, or education—but rather involve his inner qualities of character and behavior. At present, people take phony offense at anything and everything, yet rudeness is de rigueur and boorishness a virtue. It is hip to be discourteous, trendy to act primitive, and “in” to be coarse.

Eric Worrall elucidates the Narrative.

According to Wired contributor Daphne LePrince-Ringuet, the kind of anti climate policy protests which rocked France can be prevented with a few government handouts, and by convincing ordinary people of the good intentions of government.

The traditional handouts are bread and circuses.

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Now, apply this to what you see Donald Trump doing.

Over the past decade I’ve watched that dark side take hole in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. A region that once supported a thriving, prosperous middle class has been transformed into something that resembles a Third World banana republic, with an obscenely wealthy ruling class, a vast and growing underclass, and not much in between.

— Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us

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Among the videos “meant to enrage or provoke” that prompted Glaser’s censorious mission were what she describes as “several misleading animations that showed a fetus that looks like a sentient child in the uterus,” women explaining why they regretted their abortions, and videos of former abortionists explaining what takes place medically and surgically during an abortion procedure.

Such videos are, of course, every pro-abortion activist’s worst nightmare. Because they reveal the unmistakable details of what takes place in every abortion — details that Glaser rightly, albeit dismissively, describes as “gore” — they’re written off as “dangerous misinformation.” Lest unsuspecting viewers risk running across this “gore” and oppose abortion as a result, true believers like Glaser insist that this type of content should be drowned out by videos from news outlets and “credible reproductive health-care providers” whose mission is to airbrush away the reality of abortion.

There are a whole lot of things I’ve never done, and quite frankly I’m good with that.

The Other McCain peeks behind the curtain.

Glenn Reynolds has an excellent round-up of reaction to President Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria and reduce the force in Afghanistan by half, which was apparently the reason that General James “Mad Dog” Mattis resigned as Secretary of Defense.

Ace headlines it, “Trump Has Succeeded Where George W. Bush Failed: He Has Turned the Anti-War Left Into Passionate Neocon Warhawks and Intervention-Adventurers,” and cites Dave Reaboi’s observation: “The left has no foreign enemies and wages no foreign wars. They only have domestic enemies and domestic wars. When they’re pretending they care about a foreign war, that only means they are contriving justification for waging the real war on their domestic enemies.”

One of the most common hobbies of ‘activist’ is the ‘demonstration’, during which a greater or lesser number of rude and ugly people wander the streets shouting and whining and waving signs and inconvenience ordinary people.

If you should happen to encounter one such, ask a participant what they are demonstrating. If you even receive an answer, it will be in the form of ‘demonstrating for [whatever]’. Respond, ‘I didn’t ask you what you were demonstrating for, but rather what you were demonstrating. If I demonstrate a pen, I show how it is used. If I demonstrate a washing machine, I show how it is used. So what actual use are you demonstrating?’

It ought to be fun.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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The events of the last 72 hours may be bringing the Trump Doctrine into sharper focus. Is there a “Trump Doctrine”? Trump would say it means “America First,” but his move to withdraw American forces of Syria and, it was reported late Thursday night, perhaps a large drawdown of American forces in Afghanistan, suggest he really means it.

What a shock. A President who puts America first.

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We can blame Mickey Mouse for the long wait. In 1998, Disney was one of the loudest in a choir of corporate voices advocating for longer copyright protections. At the time, all works published before January 1, 1978, were entitled to copyright protection for 75 years; all author’s works published on or after that date were under copyright for the lifetime of the creator, plus 50 years. Steamboat Willie, featuring Mickey Mouse’s first appearance on screen, in 1928, was set to enter the public domain in 2004. At the urging of Disney and others, Congress passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, named for the late singer, songwriter and California representative, adding 20 years to the copyright term. Mickey would be protected until 2024—and no copyrighted work would enter the public domain again until 2019, creating a bizarre 20-year hiatus between the release of works from 1922 and those from 1923.

This is how our political process becomes corrupted. The Social Justice Warriors running Disney these days don’t hesitate to use their monetary muscle to screw the public.

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President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to shut down the government over funding for his border wall. But as the question of money for his campaign proposal once again roils Congress, one man thinks he may have found a solution: Crowd-funding.

Steve Sailer reads the zeitgeist.

The prestige of the intersectional is pushing respectable opinion in anti-science directions, as seen in the resurgent prestige of astrology and witchcraft. Granted, perhaps it doesn’t matter all that much what lowbrows who like horoscopes and spells are into, but it probably does matter that actual sciences such as genetics, which had been the glamour field of the new century, are starting to be castigated by the prestige press as deplorable “race science.”

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Critics of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke worry his recently announced resignation will leave his department governed by a less-publicized technocrat.

Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt could likely lead the Department of the Interior (DOI) after Zinke departs at the end of the year. Bernhardt is known to be hard-working and has years of experience navigating the DOI’s bureaucracy as a federal employee.

Democrats and critics worry Bernhardt will be just as or more efficient than Zinke at implementing President Donald Trump’s agenda without attracting as much media and watchdog scrutiny.

Be careful what you wish for….

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

“I early learned that the root cause of panics was Democrats.’ — Whittaker Chambers, WITNESS

“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, ‘social justice.’”
— Thomas Sowell

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Another in the long line of attempts to convince people that DNA isn’t as important as how you feel.

Funny how people who are All About Science when it comes to ‘climate change’ are all about ignoring it when it comes to how people are actually related.

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It would certainly put Trump in perspective.

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How is this news? COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP. Hellooo!

Of course, Amnesty would describe a Boy Scout summer camp as like a concentration camp, so that would explain at least some of the lack of interest.

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For one thing, prole and even middle class black women do not like halfies with the good hair. “Do not like” does not come close to capturing the level of resentment there. In fact, it is probably even worse to be, like Harris, an exotic-ish halfie with the good hair than if she were just a corn fed Halle Barry type. Now at least Harris is married to a nerdy white guy instead of “taking” a high status black male, but on the other hand he is an investment banking nerdy white guy, so I’m sure there are photos of Harris living it up on jet skis or whatever, in a bikini with her golden brown skin and straight hair.

Audacious Epigone adds:

Because of gerrymandering and the stubborn refusal of non-blacks to live around blacks if they can help it, the Democrat bench has few authentically black blacks on deck for the national batter’s box. This contrasts sharply to the congressional level, where many heavily black urban districts send authentically black blacks to DC. Emmanuel Cleaver can’t win a statewide election in Missouri just as assuredly as he can’t lose a reelection bid in Missouri’s 5th.

When the prep-school halfrican Obama tried to challenge the authentically black Bobby Rush for a congressional seat in 2000, he got crushed because southside blacks wouldn’t vote for a mulatto from Harvard over a former Black Panther. But when Obama ran against Hillary Clinton in 2008, he utterly dominated the black vote, 85%-15%, because he was the blackest thing on offer.

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We have the technology.

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Alternative: Make threatening phone calls at odd hours, throw bricks through their windows, steal packages off of their porch. crucify a pet on the front door, key their cars (if present) and slash their tires.

I guarantee that they will welcome the return of loneliness as if it were Santa Claus.

Moral: Don’t assume that somebody who is by xirself is lonely. Maybe s/he likes it that way.

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Trump doing what he does best: Pushing back.

Traditional school systems have a programme of social normalisation, in which children of the same age, regardless of condition or mental ability, are thrown together in the hope that the abnormal can learn to get along with their chronological peers simply through the process of ‘rubbing off’ or imitation. This programme usually bites the dirt along with the child, who is subject to bullying, ostracism and isolation. Parents who are essentially normal, who survived the school system themselves, are often at a loss to deal with the fact that not only is their child dysfunctional but the school itself seems to be out of whack.

— h2g2

One of the most persistent criticisms of homeschooling is that homeschooled children aren’t ‘socialized’ properly, i.e. trained to Play Well With Others. Since most existing schools are the equivalent of primitive tribes in their social structure and activities, I’d say that’s a feature, not a bug. If the supposed supervising adults associated with my high school had known half of what went on when the adults were not in the room, they would have been scared shitless.

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She appears to have realized that there is no future for a Republican in California, and that she needs some sort of reasonable-sounding pretext for bailing out.

For reference, here is a picture of an actual black man:

Bonus: The real Spartacus

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Asian-American parents and civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against New York City officials Thursday over a plan that would increase admissions for black and Hispanic students to elite schools in the city.

This diversity & inclusion stuff is all very well and good when cruising the underclass for votes, but let’s not get carried away.

Black and Hispanic students make up 68 percent of the city’s population with 9 percent receiving offers to attend specialized high schools.

That’s because black and Hispanic students can’t be bothered to go to class or study, which is why they don’t qualify.

Asian-American students, however, make up 62 percent of the population at the city’s elite high schools,

Asian-American students have parents that make sure they study and get good grades. Tiger Mothers and all that.

The plan promoted by Mayor Bill de Blasio would set aside 20 percent of seats at each of the elite high schools for students coming from low socioeconomic backgrounds, according to WaPo.

The implication being that they will be admitted despite having not qualified through the entrance exam, i.e. affirmative-action admissions.

“Furthermore, this costly expansion (estimated at $550,000) is just another futile effort by de Blasio to mask his failures to improve K-8 education in black and Hispanic communities: under his watch, math and English proficiency rates among black and Latino students from grades 3 through 8 are less than 50% of performance levels among Asian and Caucasian American students,” the AACE press statement said.

How crass of them to bring that up.

“Our schools are academically stronger when they reflect the diversity of our City,” New York City’s Department of Education (NYCDOE) spokesman Will Mantell told TheDCNF.

Evidence to support this common Lefty fairy tale is never produced, of course. In reality, diversity will very obviously make the schools academically weaker by putting young proto-thugs in the same classrooms as actual students.

I can never tell.