From Peak Stupidity‘s 2nd-to-latest post, Tampon Timmy and the Somalians:

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I really couldn’t imagine anything better than this from President Trump. (It’s a screenshot.). This is immigration patriot GOLD right here:
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Mass groups of foreigners like Afghans and Somalians, most especially your Moslem crowd, will generally ally with the ctrl-left, as the ctrl-left pushes for the destruction of traditional America, something these groups also desire. The groups will stick with the ctrl-left until the latter is no longer needed. Though Somalians abound in his State, they may wish now they’d have stayed far away from this guy Tim Walz, however. It’s not often that the New York Times, yes, THAT New York Times, along with the government of Minnesooota, don’tch’ know, will call out the wrongdoings of one of their very own lefties.

The problem is, as I see it, Tampon Tim and the Somalians have not just been up to the usual $10 million here, $50 million here grift, such as during the Kung Flu PanicFest. I mean, what’s $100 million total or so out of $4 TRILLION in CARES Act money? It’s 0.025%, is what it is. Nobody CARES. Now, with $1 Billion scammed of just the State of Minnesota’s money, the word “egregious” comes to mind, even in the minds of the NYT and the lefty government of Minnesota, you betcha’ it does.

This may have started as a personal thing for President Trump, the usual case, going back to those 2 West Virginia Nat’l Guardsman shot in the Federal Shithole, but that’s another post. Trump is pissed.

GET! HER! OUT!

Hey, it’s this many hours later already. Why come no more comments?

What a crazy time to be alive…

Trump called Somalis garbage- Well, he didn’t exactly do that, but he wasn’t far from it. And why shouldn’t he? They are in fact garbage. Their country is a famous shithole, and they’ve brought their shithole character to our country, specifically to a famously very White city and state, and what’s that city like now? It’s a shithole.

The double-tap on the “narco” (supposedly) boat- I cannot believe that people are actually discussing the second strike like it’s some kind of big deal. Why? If you are targeting a boat, and blowing it up, presumably killing everyone on board… what difference does it make that they hit it again when there were survivors? “It’s a war crime!” So, what? The first strike is totally cool, but to hit it again is totally bad and evil? Either it’s legal to hit it to begin with (I can’t imagine how it could be) or it’s not, and firing a second shot is wholly immaterial.

“We caught the Jan 6th pipe bomber!”- Is ANYONE buying this bullshit!? First of all, I realize that the “science” of gait analysis seems sketchy (although I’m told we use it to kill “terrorists”, I’m not sure I even believe in this concept anymore, especially after this Syria bullshit), but does anyone look at those videos of “the bomber”, and suspect that it’s a 25 yo black guy? Even a nerdy 25 yo black guy doesn’t move like that, and the chick previously accused by The Blaze, seems way more likely.
Besides that, even by saying “we caught him!”, how does that impact ALL of the other oddities about the whole story? The “cartoon grade” pipe bombs (they look like what a first year film student would use as a prop in his first short film), the fact that neither of them went off, the fact that they were put in plain sight, with zero thought to being remotely strategic, they sat their for 16 hours, with cops, secret service, and school children running around, then they find both in a 12 min period!? The FBI refused to find the guy (or girl) for years, solely because it might make the Capitol Riot seem less high profile?
I’m not buying any of it.

Gold & Silver skyrocketing- I know that many of us say this all the time, but I truly don’t know how much longer this stupid financial ponzi scheme can continue. I’m certain “they” or ((they)) really want to crash everything to get a CBDC launched, to put the final nail in the police-surveillance state coffin. Between cell phones, AI, CBDC, cameras everywhere… it’s going to be a coffin indeed. Uncle Ted was right, and it looks like we’ll have to live the way he did, to avoid state imposed mouse utopia.

Tyranny in the UK, Canada, Australia- If anybody cannot see the destruction of the White Race in full effect, they might as well move to Canada and get assisted suicide. Simultaneously flooding your country with low IQ tribal inbred mud people, and arresting you for complaining about it! Literally legalizing, and popularizing the killing of your White population with suicide machines! If the niggers don’t rape and kill you, the government will. We need a White Pride World Wide Revolution. ASAP!!

White on White War Ukraine- Once again, the jews managed to trick a couple of White nations to kill each other for no fucking reason. God only knows how many Whites have died. And is it all just so the jews can recapture Khazaria? The “Big Second Israel” that jew Zalenskyy bragged about?

Israel- Attacking everyone within reach, a government drowning in corruption, mass exodus (pun intended) of jews out to the countries they came from (we couldn’t even catch a break and get all the jews to move to and stay in the all jew country), a genocide they refuse to stop committing, a global pariah, AND literally celebrating their IDF committing homosexual rape of prisoners!?!? You just can’t hate these people (reptilian demons) enough!

Trump- other than kissing every jew ass in sight, I don’t know WTF this guy is doing. To say that he is “all over the map” paints a more rational picture than reality. If he has any kind of plan for anything, I can’t see it. Despite the shock & awe, deportation numbers are soft. He has to put the screws to them in ways that make them self deport. Rounding them up will take eternity.

It’s a wild, wild, wild, world.

I’ve always marveled at how people can come here, enjoy a 1000% improvement in their living conditions: Stable places, better housing, insanely higher wages, better access to food, water, appliances, functioning utilities, a largely workable legal system, police, fire, ambulances, emergency rooms, etc., etc., and while living off the largess of this nation, simultaneously plot to destroy it, and turn it into the same kind of backwards, third world shithole hellscape they escaped!

It’s like they are just too stupid, evil, backwards, and dysfunctional to understand the concept of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. “This society is awesome, let’s destroy it!”

I can understand them sponging off of it, that at least makes sense, but to actively work to destroy it!? And why? Because your politicians in your shithole country, convinced you that somehow, it’s the fault of the United States that your nation is a shithole? (This is a very common refrain, especially in Central and South America)
I realize that for many, it’s literally coded in their DNA to “shit where they eat”, pile garbage, steal anything they can… you could put them in a palace with unlimited wealth for life, and they will still live in third world squalor.

There’s a reason why we used to have (we still “have”, we just don’t enforce) laws against all these things that lead to urban decay. From littering to vagrancy, panhandling, public intoxication, loitering, laws against filling your yard with garbage, Hell, they used to condemn people’s houses for allowing pestilence to run rampant.

They probably still do bust White people for this shit, but because mud people choose to live like animals, apparently the only “humane thing” we could do was to let them come here and live like animals.

Nobody will say it, but you could actually fix this country, simply by enforcing the laws. Illegal immigration, looting, homelessness, drug use, vagrancy, pan handling, menacing, disorderly conduct (you could bust half the niggers in the country for this one daily).

It just takes the will!

Surveillance Nation USA.

Officials used credit purchases of bomb-making materials, cellphone tower data and a license plate reader to zero in on Cole, according to an FBI affidavit .

His bank account and credit card showed he bought materials in 2019 and 2020 consistent with those used to make the pipe bombs, according to court papers.

This included galvanized pipes and white kitchen-style timers, according to the affidavit. The purchases continued even after the devices were placed.

The two explosive devices found at the scenes were each roughly one foot long and packed with gunpowder and metal, according to two law enforcement officials.

He owns a 2017 Nissan Sentra with a Virginia license plate, the affidavit added. The vehicle drove past a license plate reader less than a half mile from where the person who placed the devices was first spotted on foot around 7:34 p.m. that night, the document says.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15357113/pipe-bombing-suspect-2020-election-STOLEN.html

What’s with criminals carrying cellphones while engaged in nefarious activities? Why use credit cards when cash payment is legal? License plate readers are the government Eye of Sauron it seems.

Why? If you are targeting a boat, and blowing it up, presumably killing everyone on board… what difference does it make that they hit it again when there were survivors?

There does seem to be something too Heminwayesque about it. The whole country has gone too Hemingwayesque, if I may extend my adjective and metaphor. Anyway, The Deer Hunter got here first.

Is Hegseth and Bradley in trouble for murder and will they serve any time?

This case of extrajudicial killing will go to the heart of what America stands for?

The kid who has been busted for a bit of marijuana and sees murders and traitors pardon by Presidential decree will be asking “is America a society worth believing in?”

If America is to survive this crisis in confidence in the project of a “kingless state” then such tradition as presidential pardons must be stripped from the individual…in fact the very notion of a president is an anathema to the idea of a “kingless” state for what has the president become in America but a king by another name.

“It’s a wild, wild, wild, world.“

You really said something there, brother.

Twenty-four years of drone strikes on weddings and picnics, including extrajudicial killings of American citizens, without a peep from the Media. Now it’s a war crime? Get the noose ready for Obama.

Oops! I didn’t mean that! Noose Bush! I meant noose ready for Bush!

It’s a great time for Americans who love vacationing in Japan, because 35 years of Japanese economic stagnation means the average Acme Corp guy whose job it is to rename the .ppt files to “Presentation v4 Draft Final”, makes literally twice the average local jap salary these days (~$30,000-$45,000 USD).

$30,000-$45,000 USD is an intentionally generous estimate, outside the Tokyo metro area, and considering average forex rates over the past few years, salaries of $15,000-$20,000 are probably more accurate.

Most Asians expect raw USD priced South Korean and Taiwanese incomes to begin exceeding that of Japan within 5 years, if they haven’t already. And I think mainland China is probably going to reach Japan’s level in like 15 years, with even some fairly conservative baseline assumptions.

Help improve their population numbers, the Japanese are becoming really welcoming of Western immigrants, Americans in particular. Asia is changing, it’s time for Americans to take advantage, move to Japan if you can!

The first strike is totally cool, but to hit it again is totally bad and evil? Either it’s legal to hit it to begin with (I can’t imagine how it could be) or it’s not, and firing a second shot is wholly immaterial.

“We” (i.e. the US gov’t) has been doing “targeted killings” for more than twenty years. There was some civil-lib-type grumbling about it during the Bush admin, but when the Obama admin not only continued but ramped it up, all opposition mysteriously vanished. It became officially Good ™ and Progressive™ to murder people by drone strike. Obama even casually joked about it in public to big laughs, showing how relaxed everyone was about it and how cool it was when a mulatto homosexual does weird stuff like that.

Mistakes Were Made™ occasionally of course, but it was the Dems doing them, so they meant well even if they killed a bunch of the wrong people, and no one [who matters] got too uptight about it.

Now the War Department finishes off a narco boat with two shots instead of one, and the same people who had just been guffawing and backslapping each other over Obama’s SkyNet Homicides suddenly lose their sh*t. Bad consciences looking for a scapegoat maybe? Or just the usual insane lib hypocrisy?

Whatever. If someone were really upholding exemplary ethical standards in peace and war, I might feel that a moral compromise had been made. But that Rubicon has been crossed, that ship has sailed, the moving finger has written and moved on. . . . I don’t care about narco boats or drone strikes back of Shitcanistan. I care about how’re we gonna get all these worthless Somalis out of here? And also the other global trash? Wogs start at the second world and go down from there. First World for First Worlders. If you’re not related by blood to someone who was here pre-1965, you probably don’t belong here.

“We caught the Jan 6th pipe bomber!” . . . I’m not buying any of it.

It is conceivable that the Biden FBI had a bead on the guy but when they realized that 1) he was one of their own, and 2) leaving the matter ‘open’ made Jan-6 seem much more ominous, they slow-rolled the investigation to stasis, until the Trump admin decided maybe to prosecute after all.

White on White War Ukraine- Once again, the jews managed to trick a couple of White nations to kill each other for no fucking reason. God only knows how many Whites have died. And is it all just so the jews can recapture Khazaria? The “Big Second Israel” that jew Zalenskyy bragged about?

AFAIK, Zelensky meant “second Israel” not as “a second Jewish supremacist state” but as “a heavily armed, embattled state, hostile to its neighbors”. Not that that’s better, just different.

I think the Ukraine war is mostly easily explainable. A couple of billionaires—well, really one billionaire and his successor—spent a lot of money obtaining control of the Ukrainian government for all the benefits that come with that. Unfortunately for them the benefits were curtailed by eastern Ukraine not wanting to play their game, and then Nuland, then Russia, then NATO and the MIC got involved, and now . . . well, it’s what you see.

(The two billionaires do happen to be Israeli, so there is a semitic angle, but it’s not the only angle.)

Despite the shock & awe, deportation numbers are soft. He has to put the screws to them in ways that make them self deport. Rounding them up will take eternity.

Yeah, faster would be better, but since they were coming into the US in Corps and Army strength a few months ago, Trump deserves some credit for reversing an outright invasion. The enemy isn’t wholly routed, but them withdrawing is better than them advancing. And that was the alternative that was on the menu thirteen months ago.

It’s like they are just too stupid, evil, backwards, and dysfunctional to understand the concept of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. “This society is awesome, let’s destroy it!”

[Insert frog and scorpion parable here.]

Most people are NPCs.

Most NPC scripts are Third World.

Unusually potent leaders can re-script their NPCs in an authoritarian state. The US is not yet authoritarian enough for this. The UK is though. Unfortunately the UK leaders are re-scripting toward the Third World instead of toward the First World. Probably because the UK’s leaders are themselves largely poz-brained NPCs.

It just takes the will!

Well, also not being shitlibs would help.

The will to go in the wrong direction is not in fact helpful.

My wife wants to vacation in Japan.

Everything I have told her about Japanese people I have known enforces her desire to go there.

We may have to go.

As usual, I wonder if “my” nation fought a war against the wrong enemy.

I made sushi rolls for dinner today. Wild Alaskan salmon and Hamachi tuna.

Do your part, the more Westerners go there the better they’ll adapt.

Some Japanese complained that tourists don’t understand the “eat and leave” culture of ramen, soba, and other Japanese fast food shops. They said that Western tourists, in particular, are used to long, leisurely meals filled with conversation.

Most ramen places in Japan are typically small and have limited space. Even a “hidden gem” can have a long queue and a waitlist for an hour. Therefore, an “eat and leave” policy is often implemented so that others can also have a chance to eat.

Japanese people love to eat in silence.

Foreigners need to be understanding, you would prolly lose your shit if you went to a drive thru in US and the person ahead of you wouldn’t move ahead because they were goofin around/yappin on the phone/not paying attention, the same principle.

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Mrs. SafeNow and I are awed by these sushi!!…..thank you for sharing these with us. Btw, we followed, with fun and success, several of the components of your Thanksgiving menu, which included brining the turkey, which we had never done before. The cleanup was extensive, and I took the opportunity to remind Mrs. SafeNow that she has never touched a dirty pot and never will. I’m pretty sure that when I first met her parents, I got some laughs telling them that, with me, once the potwasher at the college cafeteria, your daughter will never wash a pot in her life. Anyway, watch a few Japan walking tours on Youtube and see if the urge to see it in person persists.

A federal appeal court has ruled the President Trump can fire a number of Democrat appointees.

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SCOTUS has just ruled on a case involving Texas’ new electoral map.

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How Drinking and Driving Will Get You Disarmed in WA.

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William Kirk discusses chagnes coming to a copule of commonly use ATF forms which you are probably familiar with.

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Not my kind of place, but thanks for the interesting cultural info, Torna. I kind of like the Chinese people better, but China has rapidly, since ~20 years ago, become less of my kind of place.

We’re stickin’. That’s even after I checked out Uruguay last winter.

I can understand them sponging off of it, that at least makes sense, but to actively work to destroy it!? And why?

Though I said the Moslems, most especially, want to destroy the country, since Sharia Law and Total Islam is the goal, I don’t think the average strangely-foreign immigrant individual want to destroy it. (He’ll generally go left politically, because he wants even more free stuff.)

Their mentality is that they see nothing wrong with sticking to their own cultural ways, as there is no connection between those ways and changes for the worse in America. See, America has the Magic Dirt. Their homeland doesn’t. So, America is the place for them to maintain their culture and still be rich and successful due to the Magic Dirt.

“move to Japan if you can”

Japan is one of the few non-White countries I would not mind living in. As an Anglo White, I would find the Anglosphere countries United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand the most culturally compatible and could easily live in any of them. Most European countries would also be pleasant places to live, though a few countries in the east still have semi-authoritarian and corrupt governments.

When it comes to non-White countries, high IQ Asian countries that have come under Anglo influence such as American occupied Japan or South Korea or the former British colonies of Singapore or Hong Kong would be most easy to live in for an American. As someone who does accounting for the military, I could in theory work in our accounting office in Japan.

I have known people who did that for awhile and then came back here. They tell me they liked it but the Japanese have odd customs and Americans can easily annoy them by unintentionally not following those customs. For example, I have heard it is considered rude to complain about the food in restaurants or sneeze in public. I was also told that in Japanese offices they move their older workers next to a window at work as a gentle way to tell them that they are getting a little senile and it is time for them to retire.

Japanese have odd customs and Americans can easily annoy them by unintentionally

Belief in the paranormal and psuedo-science in Japan is quite high, though I don’t have my books on hand to cite the actual statistics.

However going over the Japanese best-seller book lists will be fairly illuminating as to that regard, blood-type personality things, which it seems nearly every Japanese person who’s not a scientist buys into.

NAME THE MOVIE

“MeTV sequence” fearless as Fosdick;
THM who composed double crostics.
Charles McCarthy sis was leading woman;
“Uh-oh, better get Mako” as Po-han.
Marayat Andriane played the wench he
(Baron Dickie) knocked up (he played Frenchy).

NAME THE MOVIE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sand_Pebbles_(film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060934/

but does anyone look at those videos of “the bomber”, and suspect that it’s a 25 yo black guy?

Race will tell.

Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber
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The article I wrote in March 2021 predicting the J6 pipe bomber was likely African-American based on the Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes. Benzstradamus prediction fully confirmed 5 years later 😂

You beat Almost Missouri by 8 minutes. Here’s the complete breakdown:

1. “MeTV sequence” is anagram of Steve McQueen.
2. Thomas H. Middleton, well-known composer of double crostic puzzles for 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 and 𝑆𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤, was also an actor who played “Jennings” in the movie.
3. Candice Bergen, often styled as sister of her father’s puppet “son” Charlie McCarthy.
4. Mako played “Po-han.” “Uh-oh, better get Maaco” was the slogan for the Maaco car-painting shop.
5. Marayat Andriane, also known as Emmanuelle Arsan, who supposedly wrote the erotic novel “Emmanuelle.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Arsan#Film_and_TV_career
6. Richard Attenborough, called “Dickie,” became a Baron in 1993.

MEH 0910 and almost Missouri are obviously smarter than I am about movies that one had me stumped.

I started with knowing that the “sister” of Charlie McCarthy is Candice Bergen, and worked from there.

Thanks for the MAD Magazine panel!

https://www.thesandpebbles.com/mad_magazine/mad_sandpebbles.htm

https://www.thesandpebbles.com/mad_magazine/mad_sequence.htm

“Belief in the paranormal and pseudo-science in Japan is quite high.”

That seems to be true of many of the Chinese too. I once worked with a female Chinese immigrant who believed in feng shui, astrology, palm reading, lucky charms, and various obviously quack medical remedies. I did not follow her medical advice but I did accept a present from her, a little envelope with a lucky dollar in it blessed by her Buddhist priest. I still have it.

What’s with criminals carrying cellphones while engaged in nefarious activities? Why use credit cards when cash payment is legal? License plate readers are the government Eye of Sauron it seems.

They could have caught this guy the next day.

You’re welcome. Mort Drucker is one of my all-time favorite artists.

I’ve got more of these in the can. I’m glad some of you guys like them.

I dreamed this one up lying in bed last night:

Elton John thought gay marriage (two husbands, no wife)
Would, per Cockney slang, mean no more trouble and strife.
Just like Levon, whose “garridge” was just a garage,
Elton’s vision of marriage was just a mirage.

Yes, Mark, the Chinese people at least used to be very superstitious, especially with the numbers. You could get a SIM card for your phone on the street – before the CCP took control of the process in about ’09 – for a much better price if the phone # had many unlucky 4’s, and you’d pay extra for one with lots of extra 8’s. If you’re just gonna talk to Americans, nobody cares, but I guess if your business phone was full of 4’s, you’d be like the Mai Tag repair man…

In the meantime, the whole unlucky 13 thing here as been all but forgotten. Do you remember when airliners had no row 13, etc?

I still have it.

I hope it’s red, because that is lucky too! Red & Gold are the Chinese good colors, and at least they don’t go flipping them around like the American Regime Media did with Red and Blue. I STILL have to think about it!

Belief in the paranormal is not much of a thing, unless you count that burning money by the graves of the dead. Of course, it’s not real money – very practically minded of them…

•Thanks!

On the motorway, where the carburetours blast (WUT?):

Bye bye… (say “bye bye”)… What have they done?!!

Japan is one of the few non-White countries I would not mind living in. As an Anglo White, I would find the Anglosphere countries United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand the most culturally compatible and could easily live in any of them. Most European countries would also be pleasant places to live, though

The Japanese reciprocate this sentiment, while America/Canada/Britain is the preferred location for foreign deployment for Japanese, as you could take your family there, any sort of deployment at all was generally seen as extreme bad luck. Japanese like being tourists, but they don’t like living abroad so much, especially if they have families.

Three to five years outside the Japanese schooling system makes kids sink like a stone when thrown back into the “cram it and exam it” Japanese system, and they end up “Westernized” which makes them utterly miserable as the whole “nail that sticks up” thing.

Even if they were single it meant living in a place where there was no place to get comfort food, and dealing with workers who openly question orders and refuse to work the mandatory unpaid overtime common in Japan (even Western workers were expected to put in the pre and post work 45 minutes unpaid prep labor and clean up labor for the offices).

As for the lack of productivity in Japan, there’s lots of reasons for that. One is that there’s a lot of effort put into “appearing busy” in a Japanese office. At any given time, I can guarantee that there’s goldbricking going on that looks like work.

Another is that in Japan human resources aren’t very efficiently managed. They can figure out how to put together a car assembly line very well, but trying to reorganize office furniture layout or discuss customer retention is like a freaking Chinese Fire Drill behind closed doors.

Everything I have told her about Japanese people I have known enforces her desire to go there.

The lack of morbid obesity in Japan is so striking, that whenever you see a really fat person your eyes are drawn to them. There’s certainly no lack of junk food there, but two things are particularly telling.

The first is that the most popular soft drinks there are various unsweetened green and oolong teas. I can’t find exact numbers yet, but every vending machine basically has half it’s selection as drinks with no sugar, added or natural.

Second is that in general, they use less sugar there in making junk food. The doughnuts for example taste like white bread.

But he was B!lack and Antifa, so it was “Round up the usual suspects…”

Saw this interesting news recently:

‘We have lost a lot of time.’ Former NASA chief says US needs to start over with moon landing plans or risk losing to China
“We have stuck to a plan that does not make sense.”

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/we-have-lost-a-lot-of-time-former-nasa-chief-says-us-needs-to-start-over-with-moon-landing-plans-or-risk-losing-to-china

NASA started becoming a mediocre government department a decade or two ago after the end of the Shuttle program. Its main job becoming shoveling money to the likes of SpaceX and hitching rides on Russian rockets to the ISS. Now, there is a strange political problem of having to go to moon again before China does it, leading to absurd ideas.

This is the House hearing where Dr. Griffin speaks:

Lol. Similar, but I started a step back from that (eight minutes?). I guessed “McCarthy” was the ventriloquist dummy of my parents’ generation and not any of the sportsmen of that name. Looking him up, I learned his ventriloquist was Candace Bergen’s father, which meant it had to be a Candace Bergen movie. That narrowed it down from infinity titles to a dozen or so in the 1960s-1970s Desanex sweet spot. “Marayat Andriane” gave the cross-referencing clue. Cherchez la femme.

“the most popular soft drinks there are various unsweetened green and oolong teas”

There is a Japanese grocery store near where I live here in Indianapolis that has a large assortment of different brands of bottled and canned teas. I have been stopping and buying several at a time and trying them out. So far, my favorite is Ito En’s Oi Ocha unsweetened green tea.

I switched away from the sugar filled American soft drinks I grew up on a number of years ago over to bottled water or unsweetened tea. Not only did I lose weight but I also started having fewer cavities on my trips to the dentist.

“In the meantime, the whole unlucky 13 thing here as been all but forgotten. Do you remember when airliners had no row 13, etc?”

I’m pretty sure I have seen buildings (not really old ones) that do not have a 13th floor.

Now, there is a strange political problem of having to go to moon again before China does it, leading to absurd ideas.

How is China repeating something we did in 1969 “losing”? If there is scientific value in going back, we should do so. However, there is no reason to create a fake Space Race 2.0.

What is the value anyway? What requires a brief human presence, rather than focusing on landing equipment that can run for months or years?

PEACE 😇

My second search was the line “THM who composed double crostics” and found Thomas H. Middleton, who I has never heard of before (or ‘crostics’ for that matter). I cross-referenced him with Candice Bergen and came up with The Sand Pebbles. I didn’t even remember that Candice Bergen was in that movie.

Have you noticed the online “Right Wing” influencer network is desperately attempting to contain their audience with dedicated cudgels depending on how stupid they think you are. For the dumbest and lowest information, they call whatever they want you to dislike “woke”. For the boomercon, it’s “communist”. For the more esoteric it’s “Islamo-Soros”. They often apply these labels to the same people or ideas.

It’s unsurprising to see them constantly use terminology like “Woke Islam” or “Judeo-Christian,” and “MAGA Zionist.” But in some cases this is getting completely out of hand.

Things I’ve seen “brown coded” either implicitly or explicitly applied to lately:

– Rejecting Israeli influence
– Antisemitism as a whole
– Christianity
– Being attracted to women
– Demanding the release of the Epstein files

All of these things threaten one particular faction in “Conservative American” politics.

The contradictions across the spectrum are interesting. On one side you’re supposed to be stopping gay race communism. On the other, being GAE is cool and edgy. If you’re anti-“white”, that’s woke, everything you’re not supposed to like is brown, which is bad.

Each of these labels is deployed strategically to get you to hate precisely who “they” want you to hate, while neutering your more dangerous tendencies so you pose no threat to “them”.

The end state is someone who is racist, but only against “their” enemies, someone who has no racial or class consciousness of their own and instead identifies with “judeo-christian values” and the nebulous idea of “The West”.

You are allowed by “them” to have either Nationalism or Socialism, but never the two in combination.

“Who” does this benefit?

Thanks to you. I hadn’t actually listened to “Levon” in a long, long time. I’ll put it on my Spotify list. The Wings clip was fun, too.

I thought the Steve McQueen anagram would be easy. I even put quotes around it to indicate, “Hey, I’m not really talking about a sequence on MeTV.”

What is the value anyway?

None at all; except some imagined loss of manhood if China does it and U.S. can’t do it again after 60 years. This strictly political imperative is leading to such absurdities as threatening to switch supplier from SpaceX to Blue Origin as though it is like buying a faucet from Lowes instead of Home Depot. And the person making this ‘decision’ has this in his resume – “politician, attorney, and former television presenter and reality television personality”.

Hey, I was about to mention that too, but I wasn’t sure if my memory was serving me correctly. Note the Steely Dan song lyrics:

When Black Friday comes,
I’ll stand down by the door
and catch the gray men when they
dive from the fourteenth floor.

I suppose he (Fagan, Becker, possibly another writer) could have written 15th through 19th and still fit the meter and rhyme.

For YEARS, I’d thought in one verse he says “… gonna collect everything I own.” and it a later one “… collect everything I’m on” in reference to drugs, but I don’t know… That’d have been brilliant, but I’ve got this chronic Lyricosis… Great song!

I wonder if you couldn’t get size 13 shoes back then. “Just make it a 12 1/2, I DON’T feel lucky today.”

13 Is a lucky number for my wife and me.

(We like going against convention, so there is that.)

13 Is a prime number, and it is the number of closest-packed spheres in Bucky Fuller’s Synergetics. A single “atom” if you will, is surrounded perfectly by another 12. Total: 13.

For Christ’s sake, Jesus had 12 apostles surrounding him, total: 13.

Our months, “moonths,” number just more than 12 in each orbit around our star. So, we approach 13 every year.

I proposed to my wife at sundown on Friday the 13th, on purpose. Then I drove her to a blues concert being performed by my friend at a bar.

We danced, and she showed off her diamond ring.

She is a mathematician.

We like 13.

Much to unpack here.

“If you’re not related by blood to someone who was here pre-1965, you probably don’t belong here”

Doesn’t work that way. Besides, nativists in the early 1900s had a similar notion with those who came from Eastern and Southern Europe. So if you are logically consistent here, then your own ancestors would have been forced to leave. You must go back as well. Goodbye. Get out of my country.

“It is conceivable that the Biden FBI had a bead on the guy but when they realized that 1) he was one of their own”.

Nope. The black man was duped by the Alt Right into thinking the 2020 Election was stolen. He is on YOUR side.

“Most people are NPCs.”

What is the overall percentage? And how are you able to decidedly tell? What makes you the outlier?

See, if are you are going to draw an insanely wild conclusion, the least you can do is give an explanation.

“Most NPC scripts are Third World.”

So who writes these scripts? Is it Jews for their penchant for multiculturalism, as insisted by you and others here? Do tell.

“Unusually potent leaders can re-script their NPCs in an authoritarian state. The US is not yet authoritarian enough for this.”

But we are on that path. This we can agree upon given Trump’s leadership. Arguments point to an increase in presidential power, with some actions and rhetoric being described as authoritarian, such as challenging the judiciary, attempting to control the media, and directing the use of the Department of Justice for political aims.

“The UK is though. Unfortunately the UK leaders are re-scripting toward the Third World instead of toward the First World. Probably because the UK’s leaders are themselves largely poz-brained NPCs.”

So you’re inferring that your position is truth, and that anyone who dares to question it is essentially an NPC themselves. The fact of the matter is you are engaging in speculation. You know what, why don’t you offer up your position to Mr. Sailer on his Substack. See if he offers a pithy response. Wouldn’t Mr. Sailer, as a professed expert in pattern recognition skills, long ago made a similar observation? Or would he cagily dismiss your dubious claim?

“but when the Obama admin not only continued but ramped it up, all opposition mysteriously vanished”

Now you are outright lying here, hamsterwheel. This is but one of hundreds of articles proving their was ramped up opposition to his murderous drone policy.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dems-gop-turn-up-heat-on-obama-over-drones/

The sustained pressure from critics led the Obama administration to eventually announce stricter policy guidelines in a 2013 speech and issue a Presidential Policy Guidance (PPG) that aimed to introduce more “checks and balances” and greater transparency, though these measures were also criticized as insufficient.

“Whatever. If someone were really upholding exemplary ethical standards in peace and war, I might feel that a moral compromise had been made. But that Rubicon has been crossed, that ship has sailed, the moving finger has written and moved on.”

Wait, I thought you were a staunch advocate of law and order, the rule of law, and Christian values. Now you suggest that past ethical standards are irrevocably lost, what is done cannot be undone, so it s now acceptable for your side to employ any means necessary, regardless of federal legislation and international law, to take out your “enemy”? Bad consciences looking for a scapegoat maybe? Or just the usual insane Alt Right hypocrisy?

“I think the Ukraine war is mostly easily explainable”

Yes. People here fighting for their freedom, to ensure their sovereignty.

“The enemy isn’t wholly routed, but them withdrawing is better than them advancing.”

Just admit you would prefer that your “enemy”, the immigrants in our nation, should be shot on sight by ICE, rather than be rounded up and deported. It would be refreshingly honest on your part. rather than pretending you seek support the time consuming and expensive (final) solution.

Better yet, why don’t you join ICE yourself? They would welcome a new female recruit to be trained.

Maybe we watched the same broadcast.

no more trouble and strife.

For that, you need:

https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/744abd6e-d2bf-11ef-93ee-af3b89f73b0e/image/9854cc391cd8dc62393235e3e62cc5e8.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&w=400&h=400

I fell in love with my AI
Two humans — and their AI lovers — spill it all.

https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast

Hmm … I was thinking more around 1978-1982-ish.

Somali assimilation to WEIRD societies: SOLVED!

David Sun @arcticinstincts
Dec 2

POV: 2031, USA. You’re a nurse working at Dr. Sun’s WEIRDification clinic. Your Somali patient on a 30-day psychedelics + Eat Pray Love + Enya protocol, just tearfully renounced zero-sum nepotism.

Dr. Sun nods: “Lock it in”

You queue Caribbean Blue (10 hr loop) & press play🥲

Stephen Miller @StephenM
Nov 28

This is the great lie of mass migration. You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies. No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.

LOL! Great cartoon. And, I LUV Caribbean Blue! Enya rocks!

For Christ’s sake, Jesus had 12 apostles surrounding him, total: 13.

Yeah, and how’d that work out of him? He may have been better off with just the other 11.

Speaking of The Eleven, and math, this one’s in 11/8 time.

Oh, and I lost all electrical power in an airplane at night, in the clouds, on a Friday the 13th. I suppose that was really my LUCKY day!

But you go on, eat your fancy dinner, eat your pork and beans… I eat more fried chicken any man ever seen…. oh, yeeeeeahhhhh!!!

Candance Bergen is quite forgettable. Her dad’s puppet gave me a bigger woody.

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/openai-ceo-stoke-space-data-center/

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is thinking about expanding into the final frontier for data centers, and his efforts to follow through on that thought reportedly turned into talks with Stoke Space, a rocket startup headquartered just south of Seattle.

Gates and Zuckerberg are at the sitting and stewing time out episode of King of the Hill.

If you have a song stuck in your head there are two traditional remedies. Listen to:

1. Dead The Eleven; or
2. Warren Zevon Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.

The singular rhythm track unsticks your mental stuck state.

I’ll happily admit I have never heard of either song and probably never heard it on the radio, not my kind of “music”.

Yeah, the pipe bomber thing sounds fake as the Will Smith Oscar slap because it happened in the first place (they don’t have cameras or security in our capital?) and was followed by literal years of total incuriosity.

I don’t know if any of you know what c-rations are, the stuff in green cans we got before they were replaced by MRE’s (meals rejected by Ethiopians). One of the “meals” was beans and franks, known as beans and motherf***ers. Uncle Sam’s version of pork and beans. Still better than the green scrambled eggs.

I don’t remember her either, but her whiny yet short account of the filming is worth a look (and may partially explain why she isn’t remembered).
https://www.thesandpebbles.com/bergen/bergen.htm

Didn’t have a tv during those times. All I had was a plastic Sears clock radio for an alarm.

She is remembered as Terry Melcher’s girlfriend and top glamor guest at Roman Polanski Hollywood Hills parties back when Roman Polanski was still throwing parties. The guy who wrote Chaos included everything on Bergen he could find.

If you replace certain words from Miller’s obvious deflection, this is what you, res. Achmed, deep anonymous, etc. believe. Book it.

—This is the great lie of mass migration. You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies. No magic transformation occurs when Jews cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their Zionist intent.—

So, bitch, please spare us the sanctimony. Trump is smitten with Israel. Miller is at the helm desperately trying to save his tribe’s neck from being gas chambered by white nationalists. My vague impression is you are of the mindset that whites can’t have nice things because of those tricky Jews. What makes you think Miller is on your side?

But more importantly…

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/

—I shudder at the thought of what would have become of the Glossers had the same policies Stephen so coolly espouses— the travel ban, the radical decrease in refugees, the separation of children from their parents, and even talk of limiting citizenship for legal immigrants — been in effect when Wolf-Leib made his desperate bid for freedom. The Glossers came to the U.S. just a few years before the fear and prejudice of the “America first” nativists of the day closed U.S. borders to Jewish refugees. Had Wolf-Leib waited, his family likely would have been murdered by the Nazis along with all but seven of the 2,000 Jews who remained in Antopol. I would encourage Stephen to ask himself if the chanting, torch-bearing Nazis of Charlottesville, whose support his boss seems to court so cavalierly, do not envision a similar fate for him.—

SCOTUS declined to hear a case about Missouri’s 2A Preservation Act.

… how’d that work out of him? He may have been better off with just the other 11.

He became the icon of the world’s greatest religion, the foundation of your civilization and mine, no matter what you or I believe.

… I lost all electrical power in an airplane at night, in the clouds, on a Friday the 13th.

And you survived. Would you have if that had happened at another time? You don’t know.

The Universe (“God”) is more complex than your logic, or mine.

You are allowed by “them” to have either Nationalism or Socialism, but never the two in combination.

“Who” does this benefit?

Yes, the first question that must be answered is “Cui Bono?”

Thank you! I am glad you and Mrs. SafeNow enjoyed your Thanksgiving meal. I am honored to have given you some inspiration — and I am appropriately thankful for your comments and responses here.

(Your wife is lucky not to have had to wash all those pots! I hate doing that myself.)

MRE’s (meals rejected by Ethiopians)

LOL!… never heard that one before.

Green scrambled eggs? Did that come from Dr. Seuss or vice versa?

BTW, The Eleven doesn’t really kick in till 5 1/2 minutes into that video from Live Dead. I should have mentioned thqt.

Except for the part about the flight, this was said with the appropriate amount of facetiousness, Buzz. I am not superstitious. Like you, I too flout all that on purpose.

Re the airplane, I had some luck, so I meant that. Though I had no comms and no navigation – the handheld back-up I charged up as usual beforehand didn’t work and, in fact never worked again. However, the clouds weren’t too low to safely get under.

Re Jesus, yeah, it was pre-determined, of course. He also knew which one of the 12 was going to let him down.

The rest was from The Doors – just came into my head. Those lyrics sound pretty shady, but, as with any great tune with a great sound, the lyrics don’t matter. Now, I will follow Emil Richard’s advice.

They could have caught this guy the next day.

Indeed, but they didn’t want to, is the story I read about in quite a few on-line articles a few years back. The idea was to make it out like the J-6 protesters, rioters, and merry-makers were a really violent lot and wanted to blow stuff up. Someone was supposed to link this bomb to the J-6ers.

If the Chinese land a female astronaut and an African on the moon, NASA will lose their reason to exist.

C-rat scrambled eggs were un-eatable. I would never touch the spiced beef after a SF buddy told me he found a cow’s eyeball in his. He might have been making it up, but I didn’t want to take the chance.

Let’s not even discuss C-rat “coffee”.

As old prude said the scrambled eggs were gross, in a green can and looked green, and yes I always thought of green eggs and ham

Thanks for the reply.

You just reminded me of Jim Lovell, whose instrument panel shorted out over the ocean. He was able to follow the glowing algae trail back to his carrier.

Well, he is too dim to get the naming conventions right so what can one expect?

LOL here but also for your comment referencing Trespassticlees. That was great.

There are numerous Bono jokes ready and waiting. I heard that one particular Communist NGO wasn’t taking any US Government money during the Cold War – they were working pro Bono.

Three to five years outside the Japanese schooling system makes kids sink like a stone when thrown back into the “cram it and exam it” Japanese system, and they end up “Westernized” which makes them utterly miserable as the whole “nail that sticks up” thing.

Around 30 years ago, a Japanese widower with a 12-13 year old son decided to make a fresh start of it in the US. He bought a UPS franchise in the NJ town I was living in at the time. I had a side business that involved alot of shipping so I frequented his establishment often. Very reserved Japanese type guy but super efficient, pleasure to deal with. One day I’m in his place around 1 PM and his kid comes in with his backpack so his dad asks what he’s doing home so early and the kid says it’s some kind of holiday and school was dismissed early. (Dad was so scrupuloulsly polite that this conversation took place in English rather than Japanese) Dad refused to believe this (Do you take me for a fool? Who dismisses class in middle of the day? etc.) and it took me 5-10 minutes to persuade him that his son was being truthful.

Didn’t have a tv during those times. All I had was a plastic Sears clock radio for an alarm.

Yeah, right. This is just retconning. Everyone knows the clock radio was invented by 14 year old Ahmed Mohamed around ten years ago.

There are numerous Bono jokes ready and waiting.

Oy, don’t get Corpse Tooth started!

I was a passenger on a private plane when the electric failed during the daytime. Pilot attempted a landing first time and was watching smoke come off the tires his first attempt at landing, as he couldn’t reduce his speed. Fortunately, the intermittant corrected itself, he was able to lower the flaps, the aircraft radio came alive again and we landed… holy shit, could have bit the dust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7aWmtOhMjo

I think a main difference compared to North America, is a lot higher proportion of the population walk regularly. People in the main cities in Europe and Japan, are still often walking to shops, walking to work.

The developed countries in the world with the lowest obesity (which are Japan and France) at least include this as a more common lifestyle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate

In France and Japan, they have still Western, industrialized food supply, processed food technology and proportion of income to expend on food etc.

But the obesity rate can be 4-8 times lower than in the USA. Obesity rate is 8,4x higher in the USA than Japan. In Switzerland, it’s the one of the most chocolate obsessed countries in the world, while the obesity rate is 3x lower than in the USA.

What’s with criminals carrying cellphones while engaged in nefarious activities?

In a large fraction of the cases featured on Dateline, including recent ones, the alleged perpetrator is incriminated with evidence provided by cellphone location. Apparently, a lot of people, even to this day, don’t realize that their phones track their location. And apparently, a lot of people who commit the kind of crimes that are featured on Dateline don’t watch Dateline.

Most criminals aren’t masterminds*. The use of cellphones and the proliferation of video cameras has made the chances of getting away with a crime significantly smaller. Smart amoral people have realized this and gotten out of the crime racket, leaving the field to the less gifted. Fortunately for the criminally inclined, our degenerate society provides any number of perfectly legal, through immoral rackets to provide these people with a livelihood.

*On one episode of Dateline, the two perps, who were hired by a friend of theirs to murder his wife, left a Yelp review of a restaurant they ate at while on the long road trip to the scene of the crime.

“…Apparently, a lot of people, even to this day, don’t realize that their phones track their location. …”

Or they do realize it but their addiction to their cell phone out weighs this. Like a drug addict might know drugs are bad for them but keep using drugs anyway.

Update on the War on Terror:

Embarrassing: Canada Very Belatedly Removes Syria’s Ruling HTS From Terror List

“Following extensive review, the Government of Canada has removed Syria from Canada’s List of Foreign State Supporters of Terrorism under the State Immunity Act, as well as removed Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from the List of Terrorist Entities under the Canadian Criminal Code,” the ministry said.

The US was the first to act, having lifted a $10 million bounty on Sharaa within the months after he seized power, followed by a full US delisting.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/embarrassing-canada-very-belatedly-removes-syrian-leaders-hts-group-terror-list

For those of you playing the home version of “The War on Terror”, HTS is the Syrian chapter of what we used to call “Al Qaeda”.

So it appears that when terrorists take over a country they cease to be terrorists, and a “terrorist country” ceases to be a terrorist country when it is taken over by terrorists.

Yes, of course, the whole nomenclature is bogus. There is no such thing as “terrorists”, or as our former idiot President “W” called them “Terrists”. What they are is mercenary bands who fight for this or that sponsor. Obviously, WE (The US) was their sponsor.

Yeah, I think this may be closer to the mark.

Or they’re kinda aware that their phones track locations, but they don’t think it matters. Their mindset is like, “yeah, maybe I wuz in da area, but dat don’ mean I did it!”

Of course, they’re only giving that interview to the police because the cops already found them through their phone locations, meaning the police have narrowed down the infinite universe of suspects to this guy and maybe one other and they’re 90% of the way to an arrest, but it doesn’t occur to the perps like that. They think their denial is an absolute defense. He don’t feel guilty so he ain’t guilty! All dat lokashun sheeit jus’ white tricknology!

NASA started becoming a mediocre government department a decade or two ago after the end of the Shuttle program. Its main job becoming shoveling money to the likes of SpaceX and hitching rides on Russian rockets to the ISS. Now, there is a strange political problem of having to go to moon again before China does it, leading to absurd ideas.

The Shuttle program only ended in 2011, a mere decade and a half ago. And the money that NASA has shoveled to SpaceX resulted in a domestically owned launch capability that has drastically reduced launch costs and, since 2020, means that American astronauts can once again fly to the space station on American rockets.

This is the House hearing where Dr. Griffin speaks:

Mike Griffin is one of the reasons – one of the chief reasons perhaps – that NASA is now so lame. The SLS, an expensive white elephant that is grossly over budget and behind schedule, was his brainchild.

Whaddaya mean? I can quit checking this comment section any time I want to!

I had a colleague for a time who was an Army Reserve major and a graduate of West Point. He brought some MREs to an off-site meeting that he was hosting one time for our team to try. As a backpacker and such, I thought my MRE was okay. I imagine c-rations were worse, though.

That colleague also hosted us at West Point for another team meeting. As an alumnus, he was able to reserve meeting space and such. (Basically he was showing off.) He gave us a nice tour, and we stayed at a hotel next to campus were we were told Doug MacArthur’s mom stayed. My room was tiny.

He told me there at dinner that I was like an Air Force guy, whatever that meant.

I have a few months’ supply of freeze-dried meals stored in our basement, just in case…

I might as well take this opportunity to tell a sad story about a boyhood friend:

His name was Tom, and he was my schoolmate in rural New Jersey from the 3rd through the 6th grades. My family then moved to the Rocky Mountains.

Years later, I made my first return east, and I visited some of my pre-teen memories. I actually knocked then on Tom’s front door.

(That was pre-internet, pre- the ability to just look people up and just know everything, okay?)

A mature couple came to the door, and I explained to them that I was an old friend of Tom.

Now the sad part: They were not Tom’s parents or family, but they had bought their home from Tom’s family. They explained to me that Tom’s mom and dad had died in a runway collision between two 747s — the Tenerife airport disaster.

They said Tom did not handle it well. He dropped out of school and was living sadly somewhere to the south with friends or relatives. This is particularly sad to me because I knew Tom as a good student and a smart friend. He had been devastated by the sudden, disastrous loss of both parents.

The ripple effect of tragedy is more tragic than tragedy itself.

Occasionally on a jet flight, I will think to myself: “we are flying through the air, tens-of-thousands of feet high, many hundreds of miles per hour, inside what amounts to an aluminum soda can powered by turbines spinning at unimaginable speeds. Anything can happen, and it has. We could suddenly find ourselves plunging to our deaths — even with our complete knowledge in the moment!”

In the meantime, live your best life. You fucking deserve it, and don’t let anyone tell you that you don’t.

IT companies advertise for jobs – US citizens need not apply:

‘No US Citizens’: Meet the IT Firms Discriminating Against Americans

https://freebeacon.com/america/no-us-citizens-meet-the-it-firms-discriminating-against-americans/

How is this even legal? Answer: It isn’t.

H1-B visas exist because our “elites” despise us and want to replace us. They should be abolished.

True, SLS is a political project (‘Senate Launch System’) after Shuttle ended and NASA ended becoming a building maintenance worker of a house in the sky. That somehow morphed into a race to moon redux as soon as China wanted to send men to moon. But Congress didn’t want to spend the big bucks needed for a true moon project and went on dickering around with Constellation, Ares I, Ares II, Artemis . . . programs whose goals ended up putting a woman and a minority person on moon using leftover technology from shuttles. All the while not wanting to spend money on a lander. Finally, SpaceX sold them on a bogus plan to use their rocket as a lunar lander. Except, it has to make a dozen plus refueling trips. Anybody could see it as a dumb idea, but NASA decided to go with it to keep the project funded. Now, they have the SLS ready but not a clue on how to get a functioning lander. They are shopping Blue Origin to see if they can build a lander in a couple of years. You can’t even get a Chevy truck redesigned and built in a couple of years!

Just one look at the lander project from SpaceX will disabuse anyone what a horrible idea it is and that it will never have a chance of success.

Congress didn’t want to spend the big bucks needed for a true moon project and went on dickering around with Constellation, Ares I, Ares II, Artemis . . . programs whose goals ended up putting a woman and a minority person on moon using leftover technology from shuttles.

SLS, since redubbed “Artemis” is essentially just Ares V, which started (slowly and fitfully) under Constellation during the second term of the “W” administration. NASA has by now spent 20 years developing SLS, a rocket that costs too much and which nobody really wants.

The SpaceX Moon landing concept is indeed rather ridiculous. The real purpose of Starship is to launch Starlink satellites. They sold the idea of using it as a lander to get NASA to subsidize Starship development, although SpaceX is putting a lot it’s own money – about half – into it as well. Blue Origin has been working on a lander for a few years and is also putting a lot of its own money into development of a lander, also about half.

The whole thing has turned into a clusterf**k.

The whole thing has turned into a clusterf**k.

My only fear is will there be any stupid leader that will use this MacGyver technology to send humans to moon and end up in a tragedy just to outrun the Chinese.

CA’s unconstitutional pepper spray ban has finally been faced with a major challenge in court.

When DOJ Starts Suing Your State Over Voter Records.

This is interesting. If you think the only ‘foreign’ foods you depend upon are Avocados, Bananas and Coffee, you may be surprised:

Between the lines: American food production relies on foreign businesses and capital.

Of the so-called Big Four meatpackers that control more than 80% of the market, two (JBS and National Beef) are subsidiaries of Brazilian companies. National Beef was sold to Brazil’s Marfrig during Trump’s first presidency.

Smithfield Foods, one of the world’s largest pork producers, is controlled by China’s WH Group.

Foreign giants dominate related industries, too: fertilizer makers like Canada’s Nutrien, seed makers like Germany’s Bayer and BASF, and farm equipment companies like Japan’s Kubota and Europe’s CNH.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-pushes-foreign-food-crackdown-as-grocery-prices-rise/ar-AA1RTe76

The Air Force is like the US military on luxury mode plus they don’t make their own beds.

We gaan?

>Roman Polanski parties
What could possibly go wrong?

“our elites despise us”

We may be in a pre-revolutionary period here. You always have had rent seeking behavior in this country where the wealthy used political influence to get government policies enacted that further enriched them but it has become much worse over the last forty years, with increasing inequality of wealth as the result.

You see things like medical spending going from six percent of GDP in 1960 to almost triple that now, military spending doubling in constant dollar terms since the fifties, Federal Reserve policies designed to produce wealth for a minority while leading to prices rising faster than wages for the majority, factories being off shored to countries with lower wages, immigrants being brought in on H-1B visas by corporations to replace natives while other immigrants are brought in to provide votes for politicians who promise them welfare benefits.

Anyone who is honest and who was alive in the eighties will tell you this is not really the same country it was then. There have been big demographic changes, big cultural changes and a lowering in the quality of our elected officials resulting in much more corruption at the highest levels. The nineties seemed to be a turning point as the two major parties moved closer together to form a Washington Uniparty controlled by the elites.

You see things like medical spending going from six percent of GDP in 1960 to almost triple that now

The US economy is trapped in an ideological straightjacket just like the Soviet Union. The optimal productive relations between labor and capital is an empirical question that is subject to change as the productive forces develop over time.

The Soviets created arbitrary output metrics like targeting gross weight for the production of furniture. You ended up with sofas with integrated lead weights as the solution to the value maximization problem.

Western GDP/capita is basically like Soviet furniture weight. Just like adding lead weights to sofas didn’t actually improve productivity of Soviet furniture industry, inflating GDP doesn’t actually mean anything in reality. Is charging $600 for a dose of insulin any different from attaching lead weights to furniture in order to boost output metrics?

The question that we have to ask, is valuing healthcare output with USD spent that different from valuing furniture output by weight?

“We may be in a pre-revolutionary period here. You always have had rent seeking behavior in this country where the wealthy used political influence to get government policies enacted that further enriched them but it has become much worse over the last forty years, with increasing inequality of wealth as the result.”

What government policy changes made in the last 40 years are you blaming here? Lower taxes on investment income? Obamacare? Lower tariffs? Deregulation? Energy efficiency standards? DEI propaganda?

Do realize that increasing inequality of wealth is what you expect in a stable libertarian society as talented and responsible families earn more money and save more of what they earn there by increasing their wealth faster than the wealth of families that are less talented and responsible? Do you want to raise taxes on successful people to prevent them from accumulating wealth?

Rising popularity of socialism in America is inevitable as the wealth gap increases. The problem is that socialists that come to power through elections in America will inevitably favor LatAm style immediate redistribution instead of Asian style Industrial Socialism.

My problem with this is you’re getting the really dumb type of socialism: welfare socialism in which state resources are directed not into productive state investment, instead allocating vast sums of money to economically inactive working age adults, people who pretend to have ADHD and Boomer Parasitism.

This is in contrast the model of Industrial Socialism which you see in semi-authoritarian Asia: massive spending on tangible, productive investments such as their huge high speed rail network, green energy dominance and well resourced scientific research.

Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan do this well, while India and Philippines not so much.

But all that the senior figures like Zohran Mamdani seem to want to talk about is welfare, they’re totally uninterested in having any sort of industrial strategy or any coherent vision for the economy.

“increasing inequality of wealth is what you expect in a stable libertarian society as talented and responsible families earn more money”

A country where federal government spending is close to a quarter of GDP can hardly be called “libertarian” and the people getting rich are increasingly only talented at using political influence to get government policies enacted that benefit them, something easier to do when the government gets larger and has increasing amounts of power.

James, I try to be a polite person but you are entering troll territory here by wasting my time making me explain the obvious. No, I’m not going to fill up this comment thread doing that or answering all your questions and watching you changing the subject when I say something you can’t respond to. I can think of a hundred other things I’d rather be doing.

“James, I try to be a polite person but you are entering troll territory here by wasting my time making me explain the obvious. …”

It certainly isn’t obvious why a libertarian society would be expected to have a more equal distribution of wealth. Ability and luck differ between people which naturally creates income and wealth disparities. Large government programs like food stamps, social security and progressive income taxes are designed to reduce these natural differences but libertarians oppose them. Why do you expect the changes (what exactly are they?) that you are proposing would help poor people more than rich people? As opposed to simply taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor?

My problem with this is you’re getting the really dumb type of socialism: welfare socialism in which state resources are directed not into productive state investment, instead allocating vast sums of money to economically inactive working age adults, people who pretend to have ADHD and Boomer Parasitism.

Lol, welcome to Sweden! We also have a large selection of useless migrants, both negro and kebab.

“Rising popularity of socialism in America is inevitable as the wealth gap increases.”

Average people are more willing to accept people becoming wealthy if they did so by providing goods or services to customers. In an earlier era of America such people were often even admired. What people have disliked in the past are those who gained wealth through personal dishonesty or by using political connections to get government policies enacted that benefit themselves at the expense of others. Such zero sum games do not increase societal wealth. It is just a redistribution of it.

The fastest economic growth rate in American history was the period from 1865 to 1915, a period where federal government spending averaged five percent of GDP. There was high levels of wealth inequality but the lives of average people were getting better. Average life expectancies had hovered in the thirties all through history but in this fifty year period average American life expectancy increased by 15 years, 40 to 55.

We have had increasingly high levels of wealth inequality in recent decades but this time it is not accompanied by rapid increases in life expectancy. Angus Deaton has found that average life expectancy has actually declined over the last twenty five years among the White working class. Overall American life expectancy decreased three straight years from 2015 to 2017. Then it decreased again in 2020 and 2021 when government bureaucrats stupidly provided secret government funding for dangerous research that resulted in an epidemic after a lab accident. These government bureaucrats then dishonestly tried to cover up what they had done. One of them, Fauci, escaped going to prison only because the corrupt Joe Biden pardoned him.

Some Europeans settled old scores 80 years ago therefore we have to corrupt our society with millions of people from absolute shit hole countries?

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/is-the-nyt-becoming-realist-on-immigration

Is the NYT Becoming Realist on Immigration?
Yet another Times article sounds like what I was writing for VDARE 25 years ago.
Steve Sailer
Dec 08, 2025 ∙ Paid

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/us/politics/biden-immigration-trump.html
https://archive.is/bHjBj

How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration
The Democratic president and his top advisers rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return Donald Trump to the White House.
By Christopher Flavelle
Dec. 7, 2025

H1-B visas exist because our “elites” despise us and want to replace us. They should be abolished.

I absolutely agree our elites should be abolished. Thank you for saying what we all think.

Joe Biden and his inner circle were basically Replacement Level Democratic politicians: they weren’t very bright, but they also weren’t as crazy as many Democrats during the Great Awokening. That they badly flubbed immigration policy suggests that in 2021 virtually every elite Democrat, other than the handful of lower-ranking specialists who actually understood the realities of immigration, would have made similar mistakes for similar ideological/emotional reasons.

Flubbed, my scrawny White ass! Steve Sailer knows better. He’s not that dumb, and not only that, he was involved with VDare for 2 decades – did he not read anybody else’s articles?

It is NOT flubbing to make an app to let strange foreigners from all over the world make asylum claims on it from south of the border, Panama, China, Haiti, wherever, such that they are let into and around the country (through the TSA line onto airline flights) with a piece of paper that says they are to appear at a hearing in a year.

No, Joe Biden wasn’t very bright. (Still isn’t) However, Mr. Sailer has himself believing that there are NO brighter people behind the scenes, that might for some reason want to flood the Western countries and destroy the White Middle Class. No, he’d be SHOCKED, SHOCKED. Round up the usual

Flubbed… get the fuck outta here!

This is in contrast the model of Industrial Socialism which you see in semi-authoritarian Asia: massive spending on tangible, productive investments such as their huge high speed rail network, green energy dominance and well resourced scientific research.

Industrial Socialism, Industrial Policy, Industrial Strategy, it’s all Totalitarian Commie un-American crap! Yes, we DO have some of that, but that’s not what America was about and that’s not what’s good for America.

Socialism of any kind, not just the stupidity of doing Socialism in a land flooded with Somalians, is dysgenic. That goes even for the Sweden of old, during ABBA’s time, the 1970s and ’80s. Irresponsibility is encouraged by Socialism, meaning irresponsible people become more numerous, whether culturally or genetically.

There is no non-dumb Socialism.

“that Latinos get more racist about immigration”

Some do. In fact, all groups have members who feel that way. This political cartoon from the 1890s (Looking Backward) is tried and true to this day.

https://www.posterazzi.com/immigration-cartoon-1893-nlooking-backward-american-cartoon-1893-on-european-immigrants-rapid-assimilation-dislike-of-new-poor-arrivals-poster-print-by-granger-collection-item-vargrc0117692/?srsltid=AfmBOopttd-vV5qKIElWtp-UKHgF_wOj-t3AUUusIIjLY6pCTnYMjUYx

“and demand the opening of the borders to overwhelm white voters demographically”

Not necessarily.

“After all, most Hispanic ethnic activists that Biden insiders know are racist anti-whites”

There is that slogan again—“anti-white”. You would think someone as verbose as yourself would relish the opportunity to clearly define the term and offer specific examples, rather than run away from this request time after time. Maybe you can get your errand boy Hail to take a crack at it. For instance, would John Derbyshire and JD Vance, by virtue of marrying outside of their race, be guilty of “race treason”? Asking for a friend…

“ordinary Latino voters, who tend to find whiteness not hateful, but aspirational.”

Says who?

“I absolutely agree our elites should be abolished.”

So how would you propose a realistic plan to accomplish this goal? Otherwise, saying something like this without a course of action is like punching at waterfalls.

“Some Europeans settled old scores 80 years ago”

What are exactly these “old scores” you refer to? How were they “settled”? Besides, I thought in-group tendencies as exhibited by the Poles, Slavs, and Italians were in-born, and insisted by nativists to be dysgenic. You know, HbD stuff.

“therefore we have to corrupt our society with millions of people from absolute shit hole countries?”

Wasn’t our society “corrupted” by the inclusion of (checks notes) low life immigrants from certain parts of Europe? Again, that was this reference made by nativists toward Eastern/Southern Europeans long ago. How did this attitude change? Are you suggesting that the nativists back then were wrong in their assessment? Do tell.

What government policy changes made in the last 40 years are you blaming here?

The cumulative effect of leaving the immigration spigot open. In each of the past 40 (more like 60) years, a policy choice of continuing to wave in hordes of foreigners was made.

There are now more than 100mm people here that would not be here if different policy choices were made. These people compete mostly at the working and in some cases middle class level for jobs. They drive on freeways and interstates that were not designed for 350mm people. They want access to universities which they and their kin did nothing to build. They expect social security and other retirement benefits. Many live in arid regions and consume scarce water.

Whenever immigration is debated we hear endlessly how they wanted better lives for them and their offspring. We never hear what the people who were already here were supposed get out of it. Well now we see – their country has been made worse on purpose.

Do realize that increasing inequality of wealth is what you expect in a stable libertarian society

There is nothing “stable” about continuing to add foreigners – many of which are totally unassimilable such as the Somali garbage – to a country that is mostly full. The frontier closed over 120 years ago. We fought and won our part of WW2 with a population less than half of today’s (about 140mm as of 1945). The last thing we needed then and the last thing we need now is MORE FOREIGNERS.

You touched on a really important point-

One political paradigm I’ve been hearing about for a few years now; That as the political pendulum swings back and forth, especially with the presidency (Congress has become irrelevant except for the the first year or maybe two of each new president) “The Left” does the things that “The Right” can’t do, and then “The Right” does the things that “The Left” can’t do.

In the end, we get everything that “They” want, it’s just a matter of which side’s partisan base flips out about it.

Bush could invade Iraq, the left freaks out, but his base supports him. Obama introduces “Obamacare”, and his side loves it, the Right freaks outs.

The Left went apeshit over “war crimes, GitMo, Abugraib (sp?)”, but then Obama gets in, drone strikes like crazy… and then you’ve got the Left, and the Right okay with it.

It’s “good cop, bad cop”, with the roles reversing every 4-8 years, but all of it takes us in the direction that “they” (The Deep State, Big Govt, The Globalists, etc.) want to go.

The corrupt FBI spends some years going after The Left, and the Right cheers, then they go after The Right, and The Left cheers. What neither side can see is that they are coming after ALL OF US, and just keep playing us off each other, to make it seem “okay”.

If you look at every major change in this country, it’s always in this paradigm, no exceptions.

Sailer apparently is desperate to appear respectable and therefore non-threatening to the System.

Chair Force

Your quote “that Latinos get more racist about immigration” is not in AEN’s comment. Could you please specify where it comes from?

It’s “almost as if”* the Intelligence and asset management factions run the globe for the cryptocracy.
*Steveism

Rocket show – Musk’s feint. Travel to the ruins on Mars or to Iapetus the artificial Saturnian moon require cube formations.

I would never touch the spiced beef after a SF buddy told me he found a cow’s eyeball in his. He might have been making it up, but I didn’t want to take the chance.

Now you guys are just being xenophobic. People in California will pay good money for cow’s eyeballs.

AI Overview
“While specific San Diego taco stands serving literal “eyeball tacos” (tacos de ojos) aren’t prominently advertised, you’ll find them at authentic Tijuana-style spots known for cabeza (beef head meat), like Tacos El Gordo (often mentioned for excellent traditional options) or other hidden gems where they might offer these traditional offal tacos alongside other cuts like cheek, tongue, and tripe. Check places focusing on Tacos de Cabeza or Tacos de Surtido (assorted meats) in areas like Barrio Logan or near the border, as these traditional items are common in authentic Mexican cuisine but less so at mainstream spots.
Where to Look for Tacos de Cabeza (which might include eyes):
Tacos El Gordo: Famous for authentic Tijuana style, they’re a solid bet for traditional cabeza, though eyes aren’t guaranteed; it’s worth asking.”

Apparently, they’ve metastasized to Nevada.
https://tacoselgordobc.com/

“Her dad’s puppet gave me a bigger woody.”

I hadn’t seen that term for it until now, but yes, obviously.

LOL. In the case of Woody’s woody, I imagine it’s rather small (better suited to an incestuous pedophile.)

“If your woody looks like this, consult a physician.”

Sailer apparently is desperate to appear respectable…

Respectable to whom?

He should be able to Notice that The Times They Are a Changin’. For a man who has been so quick to adopt SoCal slang on the fly (the kind I remember from my early childhood there — man, he’s “lit!”) he is acting incredibly inept now. Like, he’s missing the trend-train, ya know?

Why?

Maybe he and Nick Fuentes should get a room.

I figured as much.

I’ve gotten that shit all my life. Since childhood, even. People think I have a silver spoon in my mouth — when actually I just know where that spoon goes on the table and they don’t.

That Army major colleague, by the way, was a fatso who was having difficulty passing whatever laughable joke passed for a fitness test in his particular — LOL — supposed “non-luxury” world.

or other hidden gems where they might offer these traditional offal tacos

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means,”

Granted the meskins eat beef parts that us white boys normally don’t but we’re talking about what Uncle Sam gives you in c-rats that maybe are questionable as to origin.

Hey – just be glad that was a cow’s eyeball you found in your taco.

https://letterboxd.com/film/el-pozolero/
“Man with a talent for making the bodies disappear finds a niche in a drug cartel.”

Yes, it was ripped from the headlines.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/one-man-dissolved-dozens-of-bodies-and-dumped-them-in-this-mass-grave-in-mexico/#:~:text=Leer%20en%20Espa%C3%B1ol.,and%20being%20convicted%20of%20crimes.

Eight years have passed since the day Mexican authorities detained a man named Santiago Meza López. At that time, President Felipe Calderón’s administration began referring to Meza as El Pozolero (“The Stewmaker”), a reference to the fact that he was believed to have dissolved some 300 people in caustic soda.

SCOTUS has agreed to hear a case dealing with the Birthright Citizenship question.

William Kirk discusses the challenge to the 14th Amendment’s application to chidlren of illegal aliens who have been granted citizenship.

https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/1998140361500508670
https://twitter.com/HarmeetKDhillon/status/1998098693866811515
https://twitter.com/JohnRLottJr/status/1998051981093744688
https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1997082095349649785
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1998105321294770397
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1998044939637121420

“The cumulative effect of leaving the immigration spigot open. In each of the past 40 (more like 60) years, a policy choice of continuing to wave in hordes of foreigners was made.”

I would agree that this has been bad. However as you note the policy change was made 60 years ago with the Hart-Celler Act of 1965. As I understood it Mark G was complaining about policy changes made in the last 40 years. Mark G would rather not talk about immigration because he can’t blame it on the Federal Reserve.

“There is nothing “stable” about continuing to add foreigners – many of which are totally unassimilable such as the Somali garbage – to a country that is mostly full. …”

Even if you got rid of immigration you would expect wealth inequality to be increasing because the effects of higher savings rates are cumulative. Immigration that increases diversity also increases inequality of course.

It’s funny, but since this is yet another post taken from the New York Times, I figured you meant “The New York Times, they are a’changin’…”. That’s what Steve Sailer was getting at, that they are coming around to his view of the stupidity (NOT) of the immigration invasion surge implemented during the time of Dark Brandon.

Respectable to whom?

You”ve got a good point there.

I don’t know. I tend to think Mr. Sailer is basically writing the truth as he sees it. He is just too nice a guy to believe that there are people who are not so much stupid as evil. That “Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity” line is one that could be easily reversed.

“… he is acting incredibly inept now. …”

He seems to be doing pretty well all things considered. I just paid $75 for his substack, first time I ever gave him money. I wonder how many paying subscribers he has.

As for the issue in contention I see no reason to get into a pointless malice versus stupidity argument. It is just a distraction from the more important point that the Biden administration policies were bad and should not be repeated.

Mark G would rather not talk about immigration because he can’t blame it on the Federal Reserve.

Hell, I can: MOAR toilet paper sales! MOAR GOP growth! … allowing MOAR money printing. Deficits don’t matter! (till they do… which is… like, now.)

He most definitely wants to be seen as High Brow and not one of those conspiracy theorists.

As for the issue in contention I see no reason to get into a pointless malice versus stupidity argument.

Malice vs. stupidity is far from a pointless argument. It informs what action/strategy should be employed to counter. It’s like if you find a child playing with matches in your house you explain/demonstrate to him that this can cause a fire and burn down your house. Whereas if you find a pyro/arsonist i.e. someone that wants to burn down your home playing with matches in your house, you take other measures.

NAME THE MOVIE

To be frank, a crap film, but where’s the harm at?
None dared to mention the star Jewess’ arm tat.
Ward and Frank were Bert and Ernie playing;
Nubile ho bad mixed-up Ma portraying.
Metallic Tom? Shh, barely minor role.
Zits crawler isn’t there when credits scroll.

He most definitely wants to be seen as High Brow and not one of those conspiracy theorists.

Pretty much everything done by government, big business, or oligarchs at any level in the U.S. is conspiracy by definition. How often does it happen that a group of oligarchs, businessmen, or politicians get together publicly and announce to the public a transparent plan to do something thoroughly positive in terms of the common good, and then follow through? Never! It’s always the reverse.

And for what it’s worth, Steve is middle brow himself.

Whereas if you find a pyro/arsonist i.e. someone that wants to burn down your home playing with matches in your house, you take other measures.

It’s pretty clear that we’re dealing with arsonists. That much has been clear to anyone who wants to know for 50 years or more. Why can’t some people call an arsonist an arsonist?

“Respectable to whom?”

You’re a smart guy. I thought it was obvious. I think Sailer wants to be regarded as respectable by the gatekeepers of the MSM. He once wrote for National Review and also for UPI. I don’t like speculating about another’s beliefs, but it sure appears that Sailer refuses to see evil where it lurks, believing that if he could just explain things better, his enemies would see the error of their ways.

In fact, he probably is uncomfortable characterizing his enemies as enemies.

I absolutely agree our elites should be abolished. Thank you for saying what we all think.

I’m not saying that. I very purposefully did not say that. Just as I very purposefully wrote the sentence in that ambiguous way.

I mean, after all, what would we do without our corrupt psychopathic elite overlords?

arctotherium @arctotherium42
16h

Effect of immigration on PISA scores. Central Europe hardest hit.

Dec 8, 2025 · 10:47 PM UTC

I remember having to dissect a cow’s eyeball in biology class. We all had one to work on, presumably from a slaughterhouse. I was 13 or 14.

Funny but I don’t remember being repulsed, though I’ve always been squeamish faced with blood. I was in a pub where someone got stabbed, checked on him (not great), went back inside to call an ambulance and passed out immediately after making the call. It all ended well, though – the girl I was with shoved a brandy under my nose when I came round.

Plausible deniability, bitchez!

It’s the pronouns. Proper pronoun usage has been vilified by The Regime, so whaddya’, whaddya’?

… believing that if he could just explain things better, his enemies would see the error of their ways.

Exactamundo!

In fact, he probably is uncomfortable characterizing his enemies as enemies.

They aren’t enemies – they’re just people who haven’t seen his graphs with the circles and arrows yet.

Bones @FrailSkeleton
Dec 7

Strange women standing in harbors distributing poetry is no basis for a system of government

Dec 7, 2025 · 6:38 PM UTC

Tenerife was the biggest airline disaster in terms of loss of life there’s ever been. Hopefully, it’ll stay that way… were one of those big 380 guppies to go down… don’t want to think about it.

That is indeed a sad thing about your boyhood friend Tom.

IAWL?

I brined a turkey for the first time and it came out quite moist and not at all salty.

Yep. The cops solve more crimes because of the criminal’s stupidity than they do by their relentless diverse brilliant crime solving as portrayed on TV shows such as NCIS.

Take the bus to Home Depot, pay cash, wear dark glasses and a hat, don’t wear the jogger shoes, and leave the phone at home. He’d still be at home jerking off in the basement if he’d done that.

I haven’t seen Steve Sailer write about this recent story – DC Police Chief Resigns As ‘Massive Scandal’ Over Crime Stats Heats Up.

His common sense has told himself and us that tallies of murders are accurate stats because it’s hard to ignore dead bodies. Yeah, but…

Miller told reporters that when the results of the investigation are finally that, “It will stun you,” adding, “Even though D.C. had the worst crime in America–honestly measured–it dramatically understated how bad it was.”

Miller said that DOJ investigators have uncovered evidence that crime data was manipulated to the point that some murders and homicides were falsely reported as accidents.

Shout out to Nick Stix here, as he’ll probably be vindicated re NYC too.

We also have a large selection of useless migrants, both negro and kebab.

Kebab! Lol!

Though if I had to pick one, it would be negro. The kebabs are civilizationly murderous.

“we are flying through the air, tens-of-thousands of feet high, many hundreds of miles per hour, inside what amounts to an aluminum soda can powered by turbines spinning at unimaginable speeds”

On a recent flight we were doing a steady 38,000 feet and a ground speed of 630 mph. I suddenly realised that at that height we’d only need another 40-odd mph and we’d be at Mach 1 which I’m pretty sure a 777 isn’t designed to do.

There was actually a British officer in the 19th century who evaluated the presense of Indians in British Africa, and he concluded that the Indians were a reliable source of problems, one of the biggest being that they would introduce vices (or grievances, since as we now know Indians only hire Indians) to the Africans, but that Africans without Indians and under consistent leadership were hygienic, pretty much moral, and good people.

Second City Cop Blog has been following this to an extent but really lately there have been like four or five different big mess-ups that were immediately tied to this moron, like when he directly commanded police to not assist feds (and the patrolman had the wits to request clarification and get it on record), so it looks like this guy was just massively incompetant.

On a recent flight we were doing a steady 38,000 feet and a ground speed of 630 mph. I suddenly realised that at that height we’d only need another 40-odd mph and we’d be at Mach 1 which I’m pretty sure a 777 isn’t designed to do.

The jet stream can run 100+ mph. Odds are your air speed was much lower than ground speed.

PEACE 😇

C.T., do you disagree that he brined a turkey? Do you concede that he did but disagree that it was the first time? Do you concede both of these but disagree that it came out moist? Not salty? Inquiring minds ….

Strange women standing in harbors distributing poetry is no basis for a system of government

Is there anybody here under the age of 60 who gets this joke?

Monty Python & the Holy Grail is now 50 years ago.

50 years ago.

“the girl I was with shoved a brandy under my nose when I came round. ”

Now this is the definition of high brow! I bet Sailer could be roused with nothing more than a marachino cherry.

Malice vs. stupidity is far from a pointless argument. It informs what action/strategy should be employed to counter.

This is true. Another closely related distinction is between dishonesty and stupidity. Oftentimes I’ll see someone being criticized for being stupid and I’ll realize, “This whole line of criticism is silly because it’s based on the premise that this guy is saying what he really thinks – when he’s obviously just pushing some lying line of propaganda for political reasons.”

It also gets complicated because below the top line malicious schemers are legions of mid wit rationalizing propagandists, and below them are moron NPCs who truly believe the party line no matter how stupid it may be.

So it’s sometimes a blurry line between malice, dishonesty, and stupidity depending on who is talking.

Before you put the turkey in the oven, rub under the skin with a mixture of butter and herbs. You can use olive oil instead of butter if you prefer.

what would we do without our corrupt psychopathic elite overlords?

We’d have to get used to a different set of corrupt psychopathic elites — the Iron Law of Oligarchy isn’t an “iron law” for nothing.

Three guesses as to the hue of this fellow:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/videos-show-former-robbins-police-chief-beating-man-who-filed-complaint-against-him/ar-AA1RF3l0

Videos show former Robbins police chief beating man who filed complaint against him.

I stopped reading SCC a long time ago, when it was clear he was a “cops can do no wrong” and “my lavish pension is constitutional because it was written into the IL constitution 15 minutes ago”. I imagine incidents like this have him suffering a vertigo of cognitive dissonance.

Yes.

Correctamundo, my brother! Here’s the breakdown:

SOLUTION TO “NAME THE MOVIE”
𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘞𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 (1946)

1. “frank, a crap” is anagram of Frank Capra.
2. “None dared” anagram of Donna Reed; “Jewess’ arm tat” = James Stewart.
3. Ward Bond as Bert, Frank Faylen as Ernie.
4. “Bad nubile ho” = Beulah Bondi, as Ma.
5. “Metallic Tom? Shh” = Thomas Mitchell; “barely minor role” = Lionel Barrymore.
6. “Zits crawler” = Carl Switzer (“Alfalfa” in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘴) played an uncredited role.

Like the number of red hairs on a heifer qualifying it to imminentize the eschaton, the salinity of the brining solution must pass a certain threshold. The accusation is that he was merely bathing his turkey.

So if say I’m putting a handcuffed black guy in the back of the cruiser and he spits in my face and laughs and says he has AIDS (in the way back times), it’s not okay to clean his teeth with a five cell maglite?

Only time I ever got queasy was in a chicken processing plant in July. I’ve lanced abscess’s on cattle and horses, slaughtered cattle, hogs, goats, lamb, deer, antelope, elk, none of it bothers me but that chicken place smell was bad.

Chicken processing plants are awful. I used to have to go in and out of one, and the smell is a mixture of blood, shit, and spoiled meat all mixed together and fermented, which is what it is. I wanted to shower after walking out of the place.

Dishonest is a member of the set of {malicious things}.

Who are the obese ones in the US? Compare just the white obesity rate in the US to those other countries and the gap probably isn’t as wide. Europe and Japan aren’t blessed with negroes and mestizos.

See – you’re illustrating a point I’ve made many times here: Different races of people require different sets of rules to live by. Western European descended people can live in a high trust society with a reactive model for law enforcement.

Negroes, otoh, are a low trust race of bipeds that require intense local authority and a proactive LE model.

When you put both groups in close proximity, neither model truly works and then we have situations like the one you present. I could really dive deeper into this but I’ve done it enough and don’t really care to.

Anyway, your hypothetical doesn’t really reflect what happened in the article I posted. But in general – the police are supposed to deescalate situations, not escalate them. Sadly, that includes interactions with the average Dindu. If they don’t like it, they can always quit and get a real job. But they don’t, and most cops now just look the other way IRT negro dysfunction and instead harass normies running late for work or to pick up their kids from school. Real blood thirsty shit like that.

Kag,

I was going to say “nothing more than a Lowenbrau” but I already used that joke fairly recently. It kinda still works though.

Like the number of red hairs on a heifer qualifying it to imminentize the eschaton, the salinity of the brining solution must pass a certain threshold.

Leaving aside the immanentizing of the Eschaton, there is no such number. On the contrary, two contiguous hairs of another color are disqualifying but there is no required number of red hairs.

but that Africans without Indians and under consistent leadership were hygienic, pretty much moral, and good people.

The career of Master Sergeant Samuel Kanyon Doe will confirm just how right he was.

Similar to the hospice room for the old lady.

Again I was being a smart ass and talking about something that happened a long time ago. I agree as a cop you try to de-escalate the situation and it can get frustrating dealing with the dindus. I’m certainly not excusing the behavior of that cop in the video and I apologize if I gave that impression. And I sure as hell would not want to be a cop in this day and age. Also a disclaimer I wasn’t the cop who cleaned the perps teeth, but I know people LOL.

I know you like to joke and some here don’t get your sense of humor, but that comment hits a little too close to home if you get my drift. Hospice and “nursing homes” are depressing places at their best.

SCOTUS heard argument about whether Trump can fire members of the FTC.

DOJ has announced the formation of a Second Amendment department in the Civil Rights division.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1998495419685359802
https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/1998569895358009344
https://twitter.com/JohnRLottJr/status/1998472666769236451
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1998467705301586060

Gallows humor. Hey, at least I show up to help. Lots of dirty laundry and adult diapers.

I enjoy walking as much or more than the next guy. Unfortunately someone thought it would be clever to seed every American city with criminal throwbacks, making the urban walking lifestyle nearly impossible for Americans.

On long cruises (like over Atlantic or Pacific), 777 usually flies at 0.9 Mach, which is 594 mph. You had a 36-mph tailwind. 777 uses High-bypass Turbofan engines for (fuel) efficiency and hence can’t go supersonic. Concords had turbojets and afterburners to cross the sound barrier.

It’s actually worse than that. To get you to your destination efficiently, commercial airliners crawl right out to the ragged edge of their performance envelope where critical airspeed and air (non-)density frontiers hem them so closely that small variations can spell disaster (the “coffin corner”). Skirting the edge of catastrophe keeps fares low though.

Anyone remember Steve writing glowingly about Frisco, Texas several years ago, comparing it favorably against more famous San Francisco for narrowing the black-white academic gap and generally being a middle American success story?

San Francisco is the opposite of Frisco, Tex., a sprawling Dallas exurb that has grown from 33,000 to 188,000 in this century. In contrast to highly gay San Francisco, Frisco, the weekday home to the Dallas Cowboys, has been called “the Best Place to Raise an Athlete.”

Ironically, while everybody in San Francisco hates when you call it by its unloved nickname “Frisco,” Republican-voting Frisco is much better at narrowing racial divides than is liberal San Francisco. Frisco has a white-black gap of only 1.4 years.

Frisco is San Francisco’s friendlier, less dysfunctional right-wing opposite. … San Francisco is an adult Disneyland with the lowest percentage of children of any city, while Frisco specializes in raising the next generation.

Frisco, which barely existed in 1990, now has 56,000 public school students, 48 percent white, 24 percent Asian, 14 percent Hispanic, and 11 percent black. This exurb 25 miles north of Dallas has, among school districts large enough to have reliable data, the nation’s highest black and Hispanic test scores. …

In contrast to San Francisco, Frisco leads the country’s medium-size school districts in test scores for both blacks and Hispanics, with both averaging 2.1 grade levels above their respective groups’ national means. Frisco’s Asians are at +1.4 and whites at +1.3 versus their national racial averages.

Well, that’s all over. It’s just another South Asian colony now.

Info Battle Maiden @info_maiden
Dec 7

Frisco, TX elementary schools are 70% indian. This is what happens when you import endless visa invaders, and provide FHA-backed diversity loans. This is treason.

Dec 7, 2025 · 4:31 PM UTC

https://twitter.com/info_maiden/status/1997705537098862805

“Best place to raise an athlete”? Goodbye Friday night lights; hello Diwali lights.

Happened fast.

Most commercial aircraft don’t have the extra power to shoot through the high end of that up there in cruise. There’s a big clacking noise that goes on if you’re too fast in a descent. As for the low end buffeting, if you’re that close due to lack of attention, you simply ask for lower. You’ll get it.

A123’s explanation to YAA is OK, but to put it clearly, the wing does not care what your groundspeed is. That airplane you were in, YetAnotherAnon, the 777 cruises up there at about 0.84M, which is about 490 kt = 550 mph, varying slightly depending on the outside air temp. You would have had a 70 kt tailwind component (not anything special – I’ve seen just over 200 kt wind up there), but that’s immaterial.

The envelope the commercial airliners fly in is safe enough. Problems are with pilots or maintenance. Experience does matter. D.I.E. is not so good.

Now, I met a guy who flew the U-2 – not long ago either, maybe 3 years. Now THAT plane flies in a coffin corner. He’s at an indicated airspeed of 110 kt up there at 60,000 ft.

That’s a different story, Mr. Ross. I thought you might have meant that SCC discussed this Washington, FS story, but then this chief is not a guy. Guess the race and sex, and you win… nothing.

The nineties seemed to be a turning point as the two major parties moved closer together to form a Washington Uniparty controlled by the elites.

IMHO, this is a very real and very important thing. Once you really see “The Uniparty,” you can’t unsee it.

Adam Smith observed that anytime a group of nominally competing companies gather together they will inevitably conspire to rig the market against the public interest. The USG is now basically one big trade association for elite patronage networks to carve up the public wealth.

Imagine that a bunch of companies had to go through the exercise of “democracy” to get their money at the other end. If they were conspiring in a smoke filled room they would eventually converge on exactly the system we now have – i.e., an agreement to carve up the market by agreeing to run candidates on “both sides” that support their pre-agreed division of spoils.

The candidates themselves would of course be kept on board by getting a piece of the action. And mechanisms would be developed to get the all-important “democratic” ratification for those candidates. Principally, by dividing them into “red” and “blue” teams that hate one another based on things that are of no consequence to the real control group. (Like crime or identity politics).

The result is going to be a “two party” system that agrees on everything important: i.e., massive debt financing; massive spending on crony corporate contracts; Zionist supremacy; permanent wars; Deep State secrecy and surveillance. You can’t vote for “the other guy” because there is no “other guy.” It’s just Uniparty all the way down.

It doesn’t matter how much of this process is conscious or deliberate by the actors. Convergent interests just compel it into existence. Likewise, internal disputes by the control group about how to allocate the loot are dealt with internally rather than as part of the performative “democratic” ritual.

Is charging $600 for a dose of insulin any different from attaching lead weights to furniture in order to boost output metrics?

Our government-mandated cartelized medical system is run on the same basis as the “cost plus” contracts used for military suppliers. And with the same outcome — bloated “costs” (and corporate profits) that have no relation to the true value provided.

People bitching about “socialized” medicine don’t realize we’ve already had it for decades.

Do you have any reference? From what I know, modern large civilian airliners are extremely stable and impossible to destroy in cruise except by material failure due to fatigue etc.,

Not great, but not terrible.

SO THEN I PULLED OUT MY OVERSIZED FLASHLIGHT

Adulthood is realizing that populist dictators are almost always the good guy, and the absolute lowest a person can sink to, lower than a pædophile, is a completely respected in-good-graces Western democratic officeholder.

Dishonest is a member of the set of {malicious things}.

Well, there are many nuanced levels of “dishonesty:” from obvious and expected partisan hackery, to strategic posturing, to ideological bias, to rhetorical sophistry, to deliberately misrepresenting facts. etc.

I don’t know if each of these count as “malice.” If they all do, then we are living in a very malicious world.

“Malice vs. stupidity is far from a pointless argument. It informs what action/strategy should be employed to counter. It’s like if you find a child playing with matches in your house you explain/demonstrate to him that this can cause a fire and burn down your house. Whereas if you find a pyro/arsonist i.e. someone that wants to burn down your home playing with matches in your house, you take other measures.”

I wasn’t intending to claim it is always pointless. For example the legal system regularly has to decide whether shootings are accidental or deliberate. Just that it is pointless (or perhaps counterproductive) in this instance. There were many people involved and most of the details of what went on are unknown to us. A situation likely to generate more heat than light.

In general the way to build a winning coalition is to concentrate on areas of agreement. And not start sniping at people like Sailer for avoiding divisive topics.

“Hell, I can: MOAR toilet paper sales! MOAR GOP growth! … allowing MOAR money printing. Deficits don’t matter! (till they do… which is… like, now.)”

So do you think the best way to fight the open borders crowd is to advocate for the elimination of the Federal Reserve System?

Three questions/observations about that video:

1.) Why didn’t the chief realize that there was video surveillance in that interrogation room? It’s his station, after all. Did he plan on wiping the hard drive, but then forgot to do it?

2.) Did he brutalize that guy because that guy was also Black, and he figured he could get away with it? Would a White who came to the station to lodge a complaint against the chief have gotten the same treatment?

3.) That other cop sure isn’t getting involved and doesn’t act like he’s even entertaining the idea. Blue Gang, eh?

Luigi almost got away with it.

Yes. I just heard from a friend of a friend who had to shut one down in cruise – fuel was pouring out the back of the one engine of this 757. They landed without incident, but you have to come in faster due to the lower flap setting required for the case of a single-engine go-around. (Yes, that is something done hopefully only in the simulator, but the plane will do it.)

I have been in 2 airliners that have had to shut engines down (1 of 2 each time) in flight. One of them was the 757-300, the narrow-body flying train (it looks like from the outside) with 230 passengers and it was 9 crew, completely full. It flew slightly crooked, of course, but fine, and also came in hot to the diversion runway in Montana. (This one was down to 2 quarts of oil out of 8, maybe? That total sounds low, but it’s not a piston engine. The oil had been leaking out.)

When I lived in South London I’d check the street for “youths” each time I turned a corner after dark, and a six-mile walk home at 2 am after a party felt like quite an adventure.

Occasionally when it all got too much my girlfriend and I would get on a train going south, wait until no more lights outside, then get off at the next station and enjoy a beer in some village pub, happy to be completely safe (at least until the walk back home from our London station).

This is a gray area, Hypno and Emil, or semantics, I suppose. I see a lot of what’s being done by Globalists and such as being done out of greed. Excessive greed may not be a good character trait, but generally a normal amount of it is not a bad thing – see Adam Smith again. However, greed at the expense of ANY care for one’s fellow man or the nation in general is… kind of evil at that point.

At some level, say the level of a Chairman Mao or Stalin, stupidity combined with nearly absolute power is basically evil too.

Let’s just say we don’t freaking LIKE these people.

The envelope the commercial airliners fly in is safe enough.

Yes, since airliners aren’t falling out of the sky. My point (as a non-pilot) is that given the large graphical space described in an airliner’s performance envelope diagram, you might assume that the airliner you are aboard would sit somewhere near the middle of that graphical space, but in reality most of your journey will be out on the graphical frontier, where the air is thin, the speed is high, and the cash burn is low. (Thin air resistance = lower fuel burn. High speed = lower wage burn. Arrived at destination terminal in one piece = successfully surfed the frontier.)

In other words, next time Buzz or YAA is aboard an airliner (“soda can”), they can consider that out of the airplane’s entire possible performance envelope, the pilot will, by airline policy, keep the plane as much as possible in the ~1% pocket where the air is thinnest and the speed is highest, and the passengers are happiest with the result (lower cost, earlier arrival).

P.S. After writing the previous comment, I considered appending “Cue reply from AEN” to it, but decided it was superfluous. You came through, man!

Yeah, whoever thought it was clever to seed American cities apparently repeated the experiment in British cities.

Turns out the results are the same. Who could have foreseen this?

The experiment is now being continued on continental European cities.

Next up: East Asian cities.

Also where a black kid stabbed a white kid to death. College friend of mine, his dad/grandad owned lots of farm land around Frisco back in the early 70s I assume Tommy sold quite a bit to developers. His maternal grandparents ranch was north Dallas they got rich selling that land. Sad thing is Tommy died too young as happens to a lot of rich kids who develop bad habits. His sister married Cloyce Box ( former nfl player and part of the Texas Mafia) son. His place outside Frisco was used for the loñg shots in the tv show Dallas.

If you want to talk about air fare then you need to examine the union contracts of commercial airline pilots. They are outrageous. My best friend from hs is a captain for United, so I hear first hand.

United has ~ 14,000 pilots, getting paid something like $250 – $500 per flight hour. They are guaranteed 70 flight hours per month, regardless of whether they fly or not. During Kovid, they got pull pay to sit at home. Often times, they bid for “standby,” which allows them to sit at home with full pay for up to a month. They only work if they get called. Do the math. That’s just the pilots; we’re not even talking about the rest of the unionized workforce airlines employ. So when you wonder why your free meal and your complimentary bag of peanuts are gone, but you have to pay to check a bag, well this gives you some idea.

And this is all for what amounts to a government run, luxury industry.

No, I don’t. Your logic is peccable, James. I just said that the FED’s ability to create money is one more incentive for those who push for MOAR Americans, how about a round Billion?! The best way to fight the open borders crowd is not far from the way President Trump-47 has been doing it. He understands better than Steve Sailer the difference between making mistakes and working hard to destroy.

So, yeah, about stupidity vs evil, how about we DO use the example of exactly what Mr. Sailer was writing about in his post? (I meant to bring it up, but Mr. K’s example was illustrative enough, I thought.)

If you just claim “mistakes were made”, so we just have to learn from this and make sure the other squad of the UniParty gets it, now that they’ve seen our graphs with the circles and arrows and seen the stories of the raped and dead people and noticed, “Man, those Somalians, I mean, $4 Billion – what is it up to now? – is a lot of money, oh, dear!”, you’re gonna be surprised next time the ctrl-left takes power. “HOW could they make this same mistake again? Oh, dear.”

If you understand that this has been supported, pushed for, and implemented by evil people bent on destroying the nation, you may decide we’re gonna have to crush those people, one way or another. (Politically is obviously the least objectionable way.) Otherwise, it WILL continue until the destruction is complete.

I honestly don’t think these people are capable of considering the consequences of their actions. Give them some authority, and it just exacerbates that trait.

Of course I was cued up, man. ;-}

Both you and Buzz make commercial aviation sound more worrisome than is should be, and I’ve heard plenty of times, “You’re going 500 mph is a thin aluminum tube!”, from people, including my Dad in fact. True that is, but yeah, so?

Ever thought about going to Med School? I could have gone through it (though the amount of memorization is hell), and it’s not like I’m squeamish about blood and all kinds of tissue.*. I just think of all the ways the ways the human body can fail, and it’s simply amazing we can even sit here and write stuff on the UR without some chemicals getting too high, too low, ductwork getting clogged, electrical signals going to the wrong destinations, you name it. The rest of you may be writing from the hospital bed or some kind of pod, fed by tubes and hooked to wires, and that’d STILL be amazing!

I didn’t want to be a doctor because I don’t like thinking about all that.

Anyway, you are right that’s why planes are flown where they are. Of course, you fly the optimum route and altitude for fuel burn, stay as high as you can for as long as possible, though turbulence is considered too when altitudes are chose by dispatchers and/or pilots.

Optimization of all factors is done in many endeavors – when I think of people saying “that car is so solid – it’s over-engineered”, I say they’re using terminology wrong. One can make something really solid, stronger than it has to be, running cooler than it has to, etc, but that’s actually doing less engineering. The engineers, per wishes of marketing people, Supply & Demand laws, and the US Gov’t (unfortunately) design for the optimum lightest possible, cheapest possible material and manufacturing methods, etc, that CAN meet the requirements.

That takes a lot of work. It’s easier to overbuild something, rather than overengineer it. If you overbuild it, though, only the well-off can afford it or to run it. If you fly lower just because “middle of the envelope”, you’ll have to charge more for those extra bags… for Mike, haha!

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* I’ve used a Skil saw to cut up pieces of frozen amputated legs one time to help a guy on a research project, outside right out next to the road, and then there was my Med School friend’s cadaver.

And not start sniping at people like Sailer for avoiding divisive topics.

Then Sailer shouldn’t bring up and mischaracterize those topics. If he merely “avoided” the topic under question (as you oddly claim), no one could specifically take him to task for his weird, unprompted, counterfactual anti-Noticing take: Biden and the Democrats “flubbed” immigration by making “mistakes”.

Now if Sailer is obtusely continuing with that dishonest line, it is germane to ask why, as in “What is his (current) motivation to do so?” Do you agree?

and then there was my Med School friend’s cadaver

Don’t mean to pry, but what killed your med school friend?

Mike, during the Kung Flu PanicFest, the airline execs got the Feral Gov’t to feed their companies some of that sweet, sweet CARES ACT CASH. They cut back flying, but of those flights that operated, they were flying at 5-10% capacity by my estimate in the late Spring and through the Summer of ’20, with it very slooooowly going up to maybe half full by that Fall. I agree with you that, after quite a few fat years, they should not have been bailed out. (Then, I don’t agree with bail-outs for ANYONE, business, gov, org, period, unless it’s by an actual charity.)

The rest, before then, and since then, is simple Supply & Demand. Go back 15 years*, and the regional pilots especially were getting crap wages, working 5, 6 legs a day, even with LOTS of experience. The big airlines paid better, but they could get pilots very easily, at a time that they didn’t need many either.

Things changed. The big supply of ex-military pilots dropped way off. The amount of flying was still rising steadily. By about ’14, the regional airlines got a little bit nicer to pilots. (Part of that was FAA required via the new duty/rest rules put into place a number of years after the Colgan crash in Buffalo in ’09.)

The PanicFest aftermath meant that the newer less-experienced pilots that’d been hired at the regionals were way behind on getting hours to become Captain. Captain pay on the regionals was raised 60% or so in Summer/Fall of ’22 just to keep these people from jumping ship and causing more planes to have to be flown to the desert. The major airline pilots were not going to be seen getting not much more pay than the regional guys, so they got big raises in ’22-’23.

Yes, your friend has the numbers about right. That top pay is for some high-seniority Captain (you kinda have to be) on a widebody. All the first officers (~ half the pilots) would be near that low end. It’s called “reserve”, not “standby”, but it’s not always good being on the hook and not knowing if you can do anything (depends on how far away you live). Pilots can pick up more hours at 1 1/2 pay or double when things are busy.

No, it’s not government run, but it’s too connected for me. That’s why there was NO pushback from the companies or the unions either, BTW, against the stupid face mask business and the (ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to force all employees to get the jab. (New hires got the worst of it – up to them ultimately though.)

Finally, will this last? Just as the crappy contracts of 2-3 decades ago had a duration, and then could only be updated, for, say, inflation, after a lot of pressure, they can’t be changed easily the other way. Here’s how it works in this business, Mike: When times get tougher, the airlines go Chapter 11 bankrupt – it’s just part of the business model (probably in the Appendix of some MBA textbook, haha!) That’s when they can, beside blowing off payments due the little guys – say, maintenance shops, jet bridge rental, etc. – they can abrogate union contracts at that time.

You go whisper in your United friend’s ear one time, “All glory Your big-ass paycheck is fleeting.”

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* Some here might recall that pretty early in my time on this blog, JackD insisted that airline pilots were getting crap wages, but he was off by about 1/2 a decade. Yet he continued to argue, cause, JackD. (It’s a common problem for many of us, I gotta say)

I honestly don’t think these people are capable of considering the consequences of their actions.

Speaking of ignoring consequences, a basketball team from Philly was in Florida for a tournament when 6 of the “teens” decided to shoplift $2200 from a Dick’s sporting goods store.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15367101/Philadelphia-teens-theft-football-championship-game-Florida-Dicks-Sporting-Goods.html

Very odd that this appears only in the UK.

Good news!
Assitant Attorney General Harmeet Dillon announces the end of “disparate impact,” which is the legal philosophical tool enabling woke nonsense and effectively banning meritocracy. After activist parasites quit following this news, the DoJ is hiring at jobs dot gov.
President Trump announced a moratorium on third world immigration, singling out the same three nationalities I had previously deemed the “Three Nevers” — Afghan, Somali, amd Haitian.
Now that their senile guy isn’t in office, journalists can report both real and fake doom stories, an opportunity to air important stories which had been muzzled for political convenience. Notice the trick they pull in the quoted section below:

The Overmatch brief is a comprehensive review of U.S. military power prepared by the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment and delivered most recently to top White House officials in the last year. It catalogs China’s ability to destroy American fighter planes, large ships and satellites, and identifies the U.S. military’s supply chain choke points. Its details have not been previously reported.

The picture it paints is consistent and disturbing. Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, said last November that in the Pentagon’s war games against China, “we lose every time.” When a senior Biden national security official received the Overmatch brief in 2021 [cough, cough], he turned pale as he realized that “every trick we had up our sleeve, the Chinese had redundancy after redundancy,” according to one official who was present.

The assessment shows something more worrying than the potential outcome of a war over Taiwan. It shows the Pentagon’s over-reliance on expensive, vulnerable weapons as adversaries field cheap, technologically advanced ones. And it traces a decades-long decline in America’s ability to win a long war with a major power.

War games can be wrong; analysts sometimes overstate adversaries’ abilities. Yet this larger point should not be ignored. Nearly four decades after victory in the Cold War, the U.S. military is ill prepared for today’s global threats and revolutionary technologies.

So, good news! The too-natty suits, bluster, and the potting of Venezuelans had me worried, but Hegseth is acknowledging and dealing with the legacy of the neocons, which is new American weakness. Like with the economy, if we face the problem we can fix the problem.

https://archive.is/do8vH

It’s become normal that American journalistic censorship can be circumvented using the British desire to look down on Americans. I got used to seeing daily … Mail outrage headlines about American crime during the lockdown. They’re as ubiquitous on 4chan as twitter screencaps (and far more legitimate, since “literally who on twitter said X” by definition is spam).

That was the initial story but the establishment (if truthful) now says they had him on all kinds of surveillance. Now, had he watched Boyz in tha Hood and had the idea to pay a black guy, especially a homeless black guy, to commit a crime in a blue metropole, then he’d probably be free.

Both you and Buzz make commercial aviation sound more worrisome than is should be…

Well I didn’t mean to do that.

If anyone loves airplanes it’s me. I’m just periodically amazed at how impressive the parameters of jet airliners are, and I don’t think the general dumb public appreciates what is achieved day in and day out.

Day in and day out. Failures and disasters are extremely rare.

And when I say “soda can,” I am just describing an aluminum cylinder when I bet the general public again doesn’t even know how an airliner’s fuselage is built. Hell, I find soda cans amazing too.

And jet turbines. One classmate from my hometown worked on blade design for GE. (In college, same place where I went, he double majored in engineering and fine art. Unusual but somehow appropriate.) The rotational speeds and temperatures are astounding, day in and day out without cracking, melting or flying apart.

The equipment is great, but the thing is, as you all know, that we might start feeling a little less confident that there won’t be human error. When it happens, as it did at Tenerife on the ground, well, you know, it can be kind of bad, and the chances of screw ups are getting higher for all the reasons we here know. And we also see evidence that human error might be coming into play with regard to aircraft design and/or construction (or business practices) as well. (Boeing.)

Honestly, though, I love flying, and I don’t worry about it. I’m more likely to get hit head-on by some pot smoker or phone addict on the road.

In general the way to build a winning coalition is to concentrate on areas of agreement. And not start sniping at people like Sailer for avoiding divisive topics.

I would respectfully disagree. Steve didn’t just “avoid” a divisive topic. He affirmatively asserted that the Biden Administration and the Democrats wanted common sense border controls and just negligently “flubbed” doing so. In effect: “Whoopsie-daisey, oh well, they’ve probably learned how to do it now and will do better next time.”

Given what Steve knows, this is an affirmative lie to his readers. As a self-proclaimed public intellectual and supposed “high-IQ smart guy,” he deserves to be fully called out for his dishonesty. This is especially true as he trades on his once-upon-a-time image as a pro-America immigration skeptic.

In fact. Steve was also totally silent on Biden’s engineered invasion between 2020 and 2024 — both as to it’s existence and any supposed motives behind it. I made note of that at the time.

I know everyone thinks Steve is a “nice guy” who deserves a pass on all his awful political takes. But his brand of ambiguous “plausible deniability” doesn’t really count as an “area of agreement ” on much of anything anyway. At this point, I have no clue what Steve really “agrees” with at all — aside from selling paid Substack subscriptions. He’s now a pro-regime Boomer liberal (if he was ever anything different to begin with).

He might be entitled to more deference if he actually “showed his work” for why he takes such bad positions, and then evolved his thinking based on new facts. But he does none of that.

Sreve retired as a skeptic so he’s no longer responsible for skepticism.

Don’t worry. However much they’re overpaying the crews, they’re making it up on maintenance.

https://simpleflying.com/us-airlines-central-america-maintenance-retrofits/

Why US Airlines Send Their Aircraft To Central America For Maintenance & Retrofits
A new trend has emerged in the 21st century of outsourcing maintenance work to foreign countries.
This new tactic allows the airline to save significant money on labor costs and perform the work during downtime.
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The union also gave examples of how these foreign companies operate to a lower standard, such as:

Lack of drug and alcohol testing for employees.
A lack of security and background checks for individuals working on aircraft.
The absence of unannounced facility inspections by the FAA.
Relaxed requirements for certification qualifications.

“The rest, before then, and since then, is simple Supply & Demand. ”

I don’t agree. Any industry that tangled up with unions and the G is way beyond simple supply and demand.

“and the regional pilots especially were getting crap wages, working 5, 6 legs a day, even with LOTS of experience. The big airlines paid better, but they could get pilots very easily, at a time that they didn’t need many either.”

Yes, I know this. My friend paid his dues working small freight outfits and puddle jumpers for 15 plus years before he got his opportunity with United. At any rate. Not sure why I should care. Real tradesmen work long hours in dangerous (and much more essential, frankly) for less money and not in a climate controlled workspace. Air travel is a luxury. $500 per flight hour and guaranteed pay even for hours not worked sails way past supply and demand. My ticket price is subsidizing some pilot sitting at home or working a second job.

” It’s called “reserve”, not “standby”, but it’s not always good being on the hook and not knowing if you can do anything ”

Thanks for the petty lecture and again, why should I care? The RESERVE pilots typically bid for that and they are getting paid. And oh no, they have to actually be on stand by? They can’t go play golf or engage in some other form of pilot grade grab assery? Well clutch my pretty white pearls! Almost as bad a Michelle Obama having to wait behind a white lady to get her nails done! Almost.

“No, it’s not government run, ”

Again disagree. The FAA, NTSB, TSA, ALL have a say in how the airlines do business. If the DOT can mandate a truck driver may only drive 60 hours before a 36 hour reset, they they are effectively making company policy for every carrier in the country.

“I’m more likely to get hit head-on by some pot smoker or phone addict on the road.”

Or maybe not. An amusing episode from the coming AIpocalypse:

https://www.fox4news.com/news/waymo-standoff-san-francisco-goes-viral

A trio of driverless Waymo cars involved in what’s being described as a “standoff” created a scene in San Francisco.
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Waymo officials said that while making a multi-point turn on a dead-end street, two driverless cars made “minor contact at low speed.”
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A third Waymo, traveling downhill, is unable to get through.
Then a man comes out of his garage, dubbing the white cars stuck in the middle of the street as a “Waymo standoff.”
“I’m just trying to get out of here,” the man said

LOL wonderful!!!

First of all, ditto to everything Buzz said (except the razor blade guy thing).

I wasn’t trying to worry anyone, but to amaze everyone, or rather to remind everyone how amazing flight is. As measured by air density, your average airliner flight is—what?—a trip 2/3 of the way to space? You think you’re just flyin’ to Phoenix, but you’re more in space than on earth! That aluminum bird with giant wings is skimming over more atmosphere than it’s plowing through or under! Everything is optimized for scant air, high speed, and sub-zero temperature. Any one of those conditions would be lethal on earth, but there’s an entire industry that functions mostly in that life-vacuity, and functions well, with tolerances than most industries never achieve! And any of us can ride one of those fantastic machines that runs so well our main thought is, “Where’s my peanuts?”

Australia:

Revenge attacks against White Australians carried out by Lebanese thugs were 100 times worse than the original Cronulla riot, and cops thwarted planned drive-by shooting and grenade attacks, the then-police commander says.

Assistant Commissioner Mark Goodwin spoke out on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the December 11, 2005, events at Cronulla, and told A Current Affair that in the decades since the violent retaliation carried out by Middle Eastern men has been minimised by the media, academia and the official narrative.

https://www.noticer.news/cronulla-riots-lebanese-revenge-attacks-worse/

Keep in mind as they say “retaliation” that the Cronulla riots were themselves a reaction to alien behavior.

“A trio of driverless Waymo cars involved in what’s being described as a “standoff” created a scene in San Francisco.
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Waymo officials said that while making a multi-point turn on a dead-end street, two driverless cars made “minor contact at low speed.””

There are way mo of these things than anyone wants or needs.

They can’t go play golf or engage in some other form of pilot grade grab assery

“pilot grade grab assery” is a keeper.

I would guess it was “in retrospect, we had him on all kinds of surveillance”. They could probably backtrace him and/or scan through the films once they knew who it was and what he looked like. Or maybe they just did some wishful thinking. Fully agreed on the black guy. There seem to be plenty of unsolved crime like that in New York and elsewhere. Like, how is the Seth Rich case coming along?

Indeed. Thank you!

Honestly, I don’t think either the powers that be, or the science fiction nerds that are now a part of the powers that be, have the wisdom to see how careless they really are being.

I am left to agree with Achmed E. Newman that some of those people are truly evil, or at least that they have bad intentions.

Not necessarily evil, the science fiction nerds, and I will include Elon Musk in that set, strike me as guys who grew up reading some of the same fiction my friends and I did. The difference is that they lack the common sense to discern what is human and what is abstract.

In other words, they are stupid. High IQ and stupid, like fast sprinters who can’t climb mountains and can’t find their way around topo maps of said mountains. Fast but stupid. Real fucking nerds who love science fiction, a genre that most of us left behind after adolescence.

First off, but out of order, I just put the right term in, “reserve” for the record. It’s not a lecture, and there’s no need to get sensitive about a small correction. I know you know a whole lot about trucking. If you tell me “It’s not called OTR or P&D, it’s called THIS.”, I’d take your word for it or any other correction. (I have a friend who retired from doing both these types of driving.)

Re the unions: I’ve not been much of a union man my whole life due to happenings in my family many years ago. I won’t go into a treatise on unions and the airline business, but at least these unions don’t have guys buried under football stadiums. Other than the collective bargaining, many of the pilots do very useful things on union committees regarding schedule or safety things that are win/win deals, i.e. good for the companies too.

You talk about the tradesmen. I respect all REAL work, and I realize it’s often tough. (Done only my own work, and the type I hate most is plumbing with that pex crap and working on things upside down in crawls spaces.) I brought up Supply & Demand, because that’s what it’s about. You complain that these guys make a killing right now, Mike, so why are YOU not piloting a plane? Why aren’t these carpenters, plumbers, electricians, etc. piloting plane, as it’s such a skate job? You’ve all probably got good reasons.

It could be a long road, is why, and for some years, there was no certainty of making your lost years of flying for $8 an hour in the icing or through the T-storms with no radar pay off, EVER. Some people stuck with it, and some didn’t. I can’t blame those that didn’t. For those who really lucked out in their times, more power too them – life’s not fair, my Dad told me, though we never really know…

Right now, the piloting business is great! Along with that, times suck for employment of any other kind, it seems to me. For someone who takes to flying, as I told a friend’s son, about 5 to 10 years ago would have been the VERY BEST time to get heavily into flying, but failing having a time machine, start now, as it’s still a good field. I can’t guarantee the employment prospects 5 years from now. Pay will probably still be good, even if the sweet contracts in place now are trashed. However, advancement could get harder again, as the supply will catch up with the demand. It’s a matter of time.

Yes, this business is highly regulated. There are people that still say, but, but it was deregulated by Congress when Jimmy Carter was Pres.(?). That was only that airlines could at least make their own damn routes and fares without PERMISSION from the Feral Gov’t. The rest is regulated like hell, but not government run. Mandates that effect operations, yes. As I wrote, these woke Globalist* CEO’s got cozy with Big Gov especially during the PanicFest, so now they are more beholden.

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* Long ago, I was complaining to a friend about the “Globalist %@%#!” who published (then, still) the seat-back magazines on one of the big airlines. “Well, you know, they fly people around the globe for a living, so, yeah, they’re bound to be Globalists.” Good point.

Now, because I’m sure you and others may not agree with the phrasing that the airlines are not government run*, let me tell you something more interesting about “work slowdowns”.

There have been nearly 2 decades of relations between those unions and companies almost free of animosity. From what I recall, that’s probably the longest stretch in history. The airlines have been making money since the mid-’00s, with only a very few bankruptcy exceptions (Spirit, anyone?) But, let’s just think for a moment on what one of those (illegal, BTW) work slowdowns that used to happen entailed.

These slowdowns entailed following all the rules. That’s it. That’s all it takes.

Minor discrepancies with the airplane such as a knob coming off due to its set screw needing tightening are, even if it were sitting right-side-up and would stay put, are wait for it .. not to be fixed by anyone but maintenance personnel. This is not a union thing mostly, as one would think but FAA rules. The FAA would write someone up for bringing, say, a 50 thousandths Allen driver that probably fits those set screws to help keep things moving at the outstation. Calling the contract mechanic would result in a 1/2 hour delay at very best – probably an hour (the call out time is most of it, but paperwork and phone calls would comprise much of the rest.)

A piece of cabin trim that any non-mechanically-declined crewmember could just fit back into place is not to be fit there by anyone but approved, certified maintenance personnel. Uh-oh, better call Saul…’s Flying Service.

A real mechanical discrepancy that could become a problem, that’s always to be handled properly.

Drunk, but not “visibly intoxicated” (per FARs) passengers, passenger complaints, drama among flight attendants, seating, these can all be handled expeditiously with common sense.

Your friend, if he’s honest, Mike, will admit that pilots are a selfish lot. They are more prone to caring about keeping to the schedule on their last day of a trip. However, generally, they do want things to go as planned. Some stupid little things can be handled expeditiously at the hub. Things can keep rolling, keeping the passengers from missing their connections and having their days or complete trips ruined and in still be done in keeping with the spirit of the law.

If the crewmembers were to follow the LETTER of the law, at all times, there’d be a slowdown, whether intended or not. that would screw the whole system in the ass. That’s what an actual Government-run airline business would look like. And no pilots would be at fault, and should, in fact, be PRAISED for following the FARs to the letter.

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* BTW the TSA is anathema to most people in the business. Even with the special breaks, at least cuts in the lines, whatever, that deal slows down the whole show. At smaller airports, where gate and ticket counter agents are cross-trained, they have to go back “inside” multiple times a day. They have to go through the stupid line every time. Not too long ago, 10 years back, maybe, crewmembers could be let out the back door behind ticket counters to go straight to the planes.

Very poetic, Mr. Missouri! Thanks. And now, speaking of “This silver bird takes me… cross the sky…”, here’s my pick for best male vocalist in all of pop music, EVER, at least the smoothest voice:

Way up here above this timeless sea
I realize just what it is you mean to me.
You give me somethin’ when I thought that everything we had was dyin’…

It is only a matter of time before one runs over a kid in a school zone and it won’t even need be fatal the fuss is going to be hilarious.

Yeah, nothing says “the government did it” like the bereaved doing an interview on national TV and telling everyone to just move on.

Recent New York Times headlines:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/us/waymo-san-francisco-kit-kat.html

Nov. 15

Waymo Was Thriving in San Francisco. Then One of Its Driverless Cars Killed a Cat.

The self-driving taxis have become ubiquitous in the city, but an uproar ensued when one ran over a beloved feline.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/waymo-kit-kat-san-francisco.html

Dec. 5

How Kit Kat Was Killed: Video Shows What a Robot Taxi Couldn’t See

Surveillance video shows a woman crouching beside a Waymo self-driving taxi, trying to lure a beloved neighborhood cat to safety. A second later, the car drove off.

Like, how is the Seth Rich case coming along?

Damn. I had almost forgotten about that one. As you probably know the FBI is still resisting a court order to turn over the contents of his laptop based on “privacy” (despite the fact that he’s dead). Of course the real reason is that it would show he was the source of the “hacked” DNC emails that the Deep State framed Russia (and Trump) for.

Julian Assange effectively admitted that Seth was the source of the emails given to Wikileaks. And that means the Deep State (or the DNC Mafia) is presumably responsible for Seth Rich’s murder.

A phone call from our favorite cross-eyed pajeet would suffice to get the laptop released. Or, one would think that it would be within Tulsi’s jurisdiction as DNI to get the laptop as part of her Russiagate investigation. Trump should care since it would show the malice of the frame job against him in 2016. Heck, it might even implicate Hillary or Comey. What’s the downside to the Trump administration?

But of course nothing is done. It could be pure incompetence or stupidity. But I tend to believe that — like the Epstein files or the J6 set up — Trump can’t or won’t reveal anything that would go against the Deep State as an institution.

It’s just another reminder of who’s really in charge.

Now, had he watched Boyz in tha Hood and had the idea to pay a black guy, especially a homeless black guy, to commit a crime in a blue metropole, then he’d probably be free. [e.a.]

Sure, but the Black homeless guy would’ve just taken the money to buy drugs. Might as well just keep the money.

Phase 1. Give homeless Black guy money, tell him “kill that guy”.
Phase 2. ?
Phase 3. ¡Viva la Revolución!

Or…

Phase 1. Keep money

“…Now, had he watched Boyz in tha Hood and had the idea to pay a black guy, especially a homeless black guy, to commit a crime in a blue metropole, then he’d probably be free.”

I suspect he would rather be famous. Anyway I don’t think paying homeless black guys to do something is a reliable way of getting it done.

Or, yes, WORSE, a cat. It is San Francisco we’re talking about. I’d like to see a cat scratch those Waymo’s cameras out.

I stopped on my bicycle for a Mama cat last week. The kittens had started to follow her across but then decided after seeing me and a car, “screw this”, and turned around. The Mom was still in the road trying to figure it out. The lady in the car stopped behind me loved it.

“I just put the right term in, “reserve” for the record. It’s not a lecture, and there’s no need to get sensitive about a small correction. ”

Straw man – I’m not sensitive at all. Regardless of your intent such small corrections come off as one uping. for the sake of conversation there is such little difference between stand by and reserve that it was a waste of your time to bother.

” I brought up Supply & Demand, because that’s what it’s about.”

Nah. When the latest union contract negotiates a 15% wage increase for its members and the company has to raise the prices of its product or service in order to not go into the red, it has nothing to do with supply and demand. When the cost of diesel jumps up 50 cents per gallon or the new year brings in some new tax on fuel that gets passed along to the customer, it has nothing to do with supply and demand. The cost of a gallon of paint has almost doubled in the last 10 years. Funny though, every big box hardware store looks fully stocked on paint, so I’m not seeing a shortage. The “lumber shortage” of 2020 was a completely fabricated event, so that the industry could jack up their prices.

” You complain that these guys make a killing right now, Mike, so why are YOU not piloting a plane? Why aren’t these carpenters, plumbers, electricians, etc. piloting plane, as it’s such a skate job? You’ve all probably got good reasons. ”

AEN, you’re very sensitive right now, as illustrated by your succession of straw men. But white collar types always try to validate the hardness of their jobs with shit like this. I’ve heard lawyers, judges, teachers, and now pilots, talk about the rigors of their jobs and I just laugh. A pilot can work 70 hours a month, make 20 grand doing it, and complain about how tough his job is? Please. Try working a shovel for 70 hours… a WEEK, day after day, year after year, in the cold, heat, rain, snow, and wind.

And stop shoveling this shit about getting a better job. The fact is, like Judge Smails said, the world needs ditch diggers, but it doesn’t need white collar assholes telling them they should just become a pilot. I’m sure white collar assholes like their paved roads, finished basements, and indoor plumbing. You can thank a ditch digger for all of those things.

What do we need air travel for again? That’s right, actually nothing. It’s pretty much right up there with Hollywood actors and HR departments.

The trick is to get him to kill someone first, then give him the money.

A pilot can work 70 hours a month, make 20 grand doing it, and complain about how tough his job is?

Who? Is your friend at United complaining? I doubt if any of them are complaining. You’re the one who’s doing the complaining.

Please. Try working a shovel for 70 hours… a WEEK, day after day, year after year, in the cold, heat, rain, snow, and wind.

Why don’t people who work that shovel for 70 hours become pilots instead? You never did answer that. (Not, it’s not because it’s a harder job, by any means.)

Supply & Demand for pilots means when the demand goes up and supply is down, as it was for the last dozen years, prices (wages) go up. When the supply exceeds demand, a whole lot of commercial aviation history, the prices (wages) go down*, especially at the low end of the scale.

The fact is, like Judge Smails said, the world needs ditch diggers, but it doesn’t need white collar assholes telling them they should just become a pilot. I’m sure white collar assholes like their paved roads, finished basements, and indoor plumbing. You can thank a ditch digger for all of those things.

No shit. You’re not answering anything here. Speaking of strawmen, where in anything I wrote does it say white collar assholes don’t like their paved roads, etc?

Look, if you want to be a pilot, why don’t you just DO IT, and quit your pissing & moaning about it?

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* Keeping inflation in mind, which has been huge lately.

The trick is to get him to kill someone first, then give him the money.

Even a crackhead homeless Black guy ain’t gonna fall for that. I’ve tried, it doesn’t work. They start yelling “Five-oh! Five-oh! Nigga-ass five-oh over here!” and people scurry away. 🙁

Carry a drop .38. Best to keep away from the beasties. But you already know that.

A third opinion has been issued by a three-judge Fifth Circuit panel in US v. George Peterson, a criminal case about possession of an unregistered suppressor under the NFA.

William Kirk discusses two bills and compares how they will be treated this legislative session so that you can better understand the never-ending war that is underway against your 2A rights here in WA.

The Perfect Second Amendment Playbook for the DOJ.

https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/1998883099032301735
https://twitter.com/MorosKostas/status/1998798211218288803
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1998935784343167281
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1998860292604727777
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1998830092961632617

“I think a main difference compared to North America, is a lot higher proportion of the population walk regularly. People in the main cities in Europe and Japan, are still often walking to shops, walking to work.”

This was largely also true of American cities until the sixties, when I was a child. Many people liked those walkable big cities. Because of political correctness, the main reason this changed is not often discussed. An exception to this is James Howard Kunstler, whose writings are well worth reading.

The change was urban liberal politicians pushing through soft on Black crime policies. A second factor was replacing forced segregation with forced integration, particularly forced school busing. A third factor was opening up the country to large scale third world immigration. All these factors came together to make big cities unsafe, followed by White flight to the suburbs.

The suburbs many people now live in have fewer places to walk, though this could be sonewhat avoided when planning new suburban developments, as discussed by Kunstler and other new urbanism advocates. Big cities could be made safe again. I consider the change in exercise patterns to be a big cause of increasing obesity. The other big change leading to more obesity is the government advocating a switch from the higher fat diet common in my childhood to a low fat diet. Eating lots of sugar and simple carbs is less healthy and more likely to lead to obesity than eating a high fat diet. Monounsaturated and omega three fats, both found in abundance in the traditional Mediterranean diet, are particularly healthy.

I’d add Albanian to your “nevers” list. Very beautiful country, but so is Afghanistan.

When I was a youth pilot jobs (with the RAF which was where most pilots started) weren’t open unless you had good vision. Glasses were a disqualifier – as was hay fever, as was colourblindness.

Don’t forget the fake parts being fitted !

https://archive.ph/OpVFs

This spring, engineers at TAP Air Portugal’s maintenance subsidiary huddled around an aircraft engine that had come in for repair. The exposed CFM56 turbine looked like just another routine job for a shop that handles more than 100 engines a year. Only this time, there was cause for alarm.

Workers noticed that a replacement part, a damper to reduce vibration, showed signs of wear, when the accompanying paperwork identified the component as fresh from the production line. On June 21, TAP pointed out the discrepancy to Safran SA, the French aerospace company that makes CFM engines together with General Electric Co.

Safran quickly determined that the paperwork had been forged. The signature wasn’t that of a company employee, and the reference and purchase order numbers on the part also didn’t add up.

To date, Safran and GE have uncovered more than 90 other certificates that had similarly been falsified, all linked to the same parts distributor in London: AOG Technics Ltd., a little-known outfit started eight years ago by a young entrepreneur named Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala.

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2025/12/02/849473.htm

The director of a company at the center of a probe into the sale of counterfeit plane parts pleaded guilty to a charge of fraudulent trading.

AOG Technics Ltd.’s director, Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Monday wearing a blue suit and tie, speaking only to confirm his name and enter his plea. He was charged by the Serious Fraud Office earlier this year.

A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for February 23 2026. The fraudulent trading charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment.

Interestingly the Companies House website declares Venezuelan Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala to be “British”.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09444470/officers

When you allow millions of people from low-trust societies into a high-trust society, you end up having to create (fifty years on, after a lot of fraud) low trust institutions. Now, company officers have to hand over passport details or similar i-d, starting pretty much now.

Fake parts can kill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnair_Flight_394

“Who? ”

You:

“but it’s not always good being on the hook and not knowing if you can do anything (depends on how far away you live).”

“Why don’t people who work that shovel for 70 hours become pilots instead? You never did answer that.”

This is Corvanus level rhetoric. Why doesn’t anyone become anything? Why are we here? What does it all mean? Don’t be silly.

“You’re not answering anything here. ”

I’m making a point. I won’t dignify your rhetorical questions with answers.

“Look, if you want to be a pilot, why don’t you just DO IT, and quit your pissing & moaning about it?”

WTF are you talking about? You’re just making shit up now.

I wanted to be a Navy helicopter pilot but sadly I wear glasses (or did before cataract surgery) and my vision sucked so they made me a supply corps officer instead.

The vision requirements for US military aviation – ALL the branches fly – used to be very strict. Things have changed for 2 reasons: 1) Supply & Demand of pilots and 2) new technology, specifically Lazik eye surgery. The latter didn’t used to be allowed when it was new.* As for the former, 20/20 corrected vision is OK for most of the flying, from what I’ve heard and read.

As for the airlines, distance vision corrected to 20/20 and the carrying of near-vision spectacles for the male-over-40 set (those prone to it, or anyone) is OK. The color test has recently gotten MORE difficult. I am pretty sure that is due to the crash at Reagan airport early in the year. (All one can do is guess as what prompted this, as the helo CVR info is something that apparently only the NYT or whoever is privy to.)

You’d be surprised what conditions pilots can have and still get a Class I, but then, it’s about acute problems, ones that could just appear in a hurry. Epilepsy – BIG no-no, of course. You can’t really check anyone’s heart other than resting EKG for electrical problems. Some big dude could be ready to keel over, but unless he’s had some problem already… NO weight limit.

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* Unfortunately, guy I knew years ago who flew general aviation, had the hours and wanted to fly for the airlines had surgery that introduced astigmatism such that he could only get the 3rd class medical. That sucked for him, as he got the surgery to correct something that wouldn’t let have let him pass the 1st class either.

The color test has recently gotten MORE difficult. I am pretty sure that is due to the crash at Reagan airport early in the year.

Yo, Achmed. What does color have to do with the crash? I read that they were both wearing NVGs and that the DEI chick Captain probably mistook a plane on the runway for the one descending and then ignored repeated instructions to turn left. She was also well above the 200 foot limit for these flights.

Color deficiencies AEN – not blindness – prohibit people from entering all kinds of jobs in the military, to include tankers. I know that, because I have a red/green deficiency and that test booklet with the numbers hidden in small circles gets me every time. It limited my access to specialties in the Marines, to include almost all specialties in aviation support/maintenance.

There are people with true color blindness, as in they see only black white and shades of grey, and it’s ackshually called achromatopsia, or sometimes monochromacy. I can see colors, but I confuse the shit out of some of them.

Jim, Red/Green color deficiency (thank you, Mike) has to do with the recognition of navigation lights (just as on a boat, red on port side, green on starboard, and white aft or aft outboard on wings). Can colors even been seen in the night vision goggles? I have no idea. However, when accidents happen the FAA takes reports from the NTSB and goes hog wild with the recommendations!

I don’t mean that it’s all bad. Most is good, and the new rules are, as is often the case, “written in blood”. However, I’ve seen stuff that has nothing to do with anything, if you know how things really work, that still get encoded into law based on some perceived relationship to an airline accident.

Now, is this why the change occurred for sure? I don’t know. It was just recently.

The DIE student and her instructor, if searching at all, were seeing planes coming in to land on Rwy 1. My feeling is that they were not really familiar with the airport layout and therefore didn’t really picture what “lining up for runway 33” meant. Besides that, if you don’t positively see the traffic, you DON’T say you do.

Thank you for the correction, Mike. “Colorblind” is kind of colloquial, and I didn’t even know some people can’t see ANY color. You are right about the difficulty – even for someone who cannot imagine how anyone (not you) could not tell a (traffic signal) green light from a red light, the numbers made out of pebbles in those pictures are not so easy.

I”m sorry that held you back from some jobs.

When guys like Vox Day refer to everything being fake and gay, they’re probably closer to the truth than they know.

Anyway I don’t think paying homeless black guys to do something is a reliable way of getting it done.

Words to live by.

I didn’t explain one step in my logic. If the CVR told that the helo pilots popped off the NVGs or whatever and saw that CRJ last minute, the nav lights would be a quick way to see the orientation/heading of that plane … or else not and get confused…

It may have been way too late either way, but, again… they’ll try to correct whatever just might have changed the course of events, or even wouldn’t have …

Interestingly the Companies House website declares Venezuelan Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala to be “British”.

What could be more British than Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala? The Yralas are, doubtless, well represented in the Domesday book.

“Kash Patel, Bob DiNero, y’all holler!
It’s that time of year,” said Creflo Dollar.
“Look sharp, from a standpoint sartorial,
For Fabulous Moolah’s Memorial
Yearly Fish-Fry and Money-Pit Waller.”

Rumor: are the people doing AI stupid or did they deliberately effect a big “mistake” to strangle the price of silver?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-12-10/cme-black-friday-blackout-was-human-error

Anonymous claims:

they pulled the plug on triply redundant 100% uptime requirement systems to try and stop silver taking off the day after thanksgiving
their excuse was that the people transitioning the cooling system over to winter mode fucked up and drained the coolant improperly, they downgraded a sev1 incident before upgrading it back
all the whole while never thinking it important to manually switch over to a backup system
I mean I always switch my cooling for my servers on thanksgiving day, its when it gets cold out after all and you need to drain the coolant from an over heating system, its fine I do this with my vehicles when they overheat and they cool right off so I can use them again

Eight years ago, Steve did a hit-and-run post on this “data scientist” who used Wikipedia data to quantify the best and worst generals in history. Unfortunately, his work had an embarrassing per-capita-like omission: he scored for absolute quantity rather than performance per battle.

Fortunately, his data files are still at his Google Drive, and sorta still at Github. Using his “all_battle_strength” file I re-ran his numbers (as best as I can follow his method) on a per-battle basis and got wildly different results, results that conform more to traditional historical appraisals of generals. Napoleon, rather than being a once-in-a-galaxy outlier, now appears as merely a much-better-than-average general. Robert E. Lee now appears not as an incompetent bumbler, but as a competent general doing his best with a losing hand.

Generals who get better write-ups in the Wikipedia source data do better, of course. And the “Wins Above Replacement” method tends to favor generals commanding small but high morale forces over generals commanding large but poor morale forces.

The Wikipedia dataset also has problems. For example, the highest-scoring well known commander, Trajan, probably has that high score because Wiki doesn’t know the number of soldiers he had or faced in his three recorded battles, which the WAR method reads as 0% winning against 100%. Trajan may have been outnumbered in reality, but not so drastically.

Anyway, below the MORE tag is the revised list of the ~700 generals who fought in three or more battles in order of infantry “WAR” score.