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What is the Holistic Transformation Series?
Corporate Forces of Change – Three Forces that adversely affect Change
Business Transformation – Supporting the Human Element of Change
Fiscal Responsibility – Addressing the Real Cost Fears of Change
Technology Renaissance – The Realities of Modernization Changes
Value Based Development – Rapid Time to Market Deployment Model
The Corporate Forces of Change
There are three major forces at work when a company engages in a major revitalization initiative:
Business Transformation
The Holistic Transformation Series "Culture Change" will post details on the following concepts:
– Business Domain Mapping
– Employee Change Acceptance Guidance
– An Elastic Design for the Business Plan
– A Corporate Ubiquitous Language
Fiscal Responsibility
The Holistic Transformation Series "Cost Watch" will post details on the following concepts:
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– Code Quality through Development Standards
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These concepts require a new "Paradigm of Thought".
Changing the way you frame and perceive your current world requires an open mind to other possibilities.
If you feel that you already understand and are doing all of the above then this series is not for you. If y are open to new ideas and concepts then this series was created for you.
Open Your Mind to New Possibilities
… It is how Human Beings Evolve
Wisdom Pearl # 107 – Technical Insanity
Applying the Same Failing Process
… Over and Over Again Expecting Different Results
…… Is Einstein's Insanity Definition for Software Development
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Earlier this week, Manchester United were installed as Coral's 1/8 favourites to claim the Premier League crown after neighbours and reigning league champions City collected a fortunate point against Liverpool on Sunday. There appears to be an inevitability about United's surge to the title, though the record books suggest that Everton's 1-0 win over them last August was no fluke.
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H1B Extension status still pending and crossed the 180 days , Whether I am in any risk in the future travelling to USA. Please explain
If promptly filed, you have not accrued unlawful presence.
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If you are asking about the unlawful presence bars, you have not accrued any unlawful presence.
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You should have "explained" with some more detail. Do you mean to tell us your employer filed your H-1B extension application, it has now been pending for more than hundred and 80 days now and you wish to travel outside the US and ask if it's okay to come back? If you do, the only way you will be admitted back into the US is with a valid H1B visa stamp in your passport issued by anUS consulate overseas, for which you can only apply once USCIS has approved your employer's H-1B extension petition. Not before.
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my employer filed my extension in time and I have completed the 180 days beyond my valid i94 date which is nov3rd 2013. My Status is still pending with uscis and I am currently in us working for the same employer. My Concern is will this effect my future travels on valid visas or the green card processings.....even if the case is going to be in a negative side
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Assuming you were not in unlawful status at the time the petition and a change of status was filed You are not accruing unlawful presence during the pendency of the H-1B petition.
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Thanks for the Valuable information , Extension got approved till the year end.
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Arthritis Apple Cider Vinegar
Arthritis Apple Cider Vinegar Treatments for Relief
There are over 100 forms of arthritis and chances are as you get older you will experience some form of it. Arthritis affects a person's ability to move. Stiff and painful joints caused by inflammation are the roots of arthritis. Medicine is available to help you live easier with arthritis symptoms but natural remedies are often a better choice for your overall health.
Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) has so many uses that it is almost unbelievable that so many people don't know that it is more than just a way boost the taste of a salad. Apple cider vinegar has a high number of useful minerals that help the body along. These minerals include potassium, magnesium and iron, which can help replenish the body of these needed minerals. When the body is deficient of these minerals it can begin to breakdown cause diseases to occur.
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For arthritis, apple cider vinegar can mean relief of stiff joints. Some say that apple cider vinegar helps to eliminate the buildup of uric acid that can cause arthritis pain in your knees and hips. In fact, there are tons of testimonials on the Internet that rave about the positive benefits of an arthritis apple cider vinegar relationship.
Apple Cider Vinegar Tea
The simplest way to ingest apple cider vinegar is to make a tea. Many people drink it this way and it does help deal with the bitter taste. Two teaspoons is all that is needed. Add two teaspoons to 10-12 ounces cup of hot water and sweeten with maple syrup or agave. Those that claim the best results drink their apple cider vinegar twice a day, once in the morning and once before bedtime.
Not All ACV is Equal
If all your budget will allow is store bought ACV then by all means start with that. But, if you can spare a little extra, try the organic forms of apple cider vinegar. It may cost a little more but it will be well worth it for the added benefit of not having chemicals and pesticides added. These chemicals and pesticides can began to buildup in the joints and contribute to the arthritis pain in the first place. So, it is better to start with organic ACV if possible.
Apple cider vinegar is full of minerals like magnesium, phosphorus, calcium and potassium. Mineral deficiency may aggravate arthritis pain, so a diet containing more vital minerals is an important key to alleviating joint pain. The potassium in cider vinegar will be particularly effective mainly because it will work to protect agains} calcium build-up inside the joints which is linked to joint stiffness.
Apple cider vinegar is abundant in minerals such as magnesium, phosphorus, calcium as well as potassium. Mineral deficits may aggravate joint pain, and so an eating plan loaded with crucial minerals is an important step to alleviating the pain from joint disease. The potassium inside cider vinegar may be particularly valuable given that it actively works to protect against calcium build-up in the joints, which is linked to joint stiffness.
Arthritis Apple Cider Vinegar
Raw, unprocessed apple cider vinegar is also rich in valuable enzymes and acids that will enhance digestive system overall health. Taking a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar just before a meal is going to promote adequate food digestion as well as assimilation of vitamins and nutrients. This really is vitally important for anyone having arthritis, a common condition which usually is linked to weak digestive function which could result in deficiencies in minerals and other nutrients. These types of nutrients are crucial for joint health and wellbeing, so it is essential that the body be capable of absorbing and using them. Together with apple cider vinegar, this is made possible even though you have arthritis.
Health specialists suggest that joint pain and arthritis could possibly be associated with harmful toxins building up inside the joints, because metabolic waste is frequently stored in connective tissue. In addition, people with joint pain tend to avoid activities that might induce additional discomfort, plus the lack of activity will cause toxic compounds to build-up substantially more. The pectin in apple cider vinegar will help break down toxins and move them out of the system, while the acids in cider vinegar function to cleanse and purify the entire body.
All of the benefits of apple cider vinegar can only be achieved with vinegar that is organic, raw, unfiltered and also unprocessed. The apple cider vinegar should be ruddy-colored with a obvious amount of residue floating around in the container. This is actually the "mother, the natural accumulation associated with valuable nutrients and enzymes. Apple cider vinegar in any other form, such as pills, is definitely far inferior and much less effective.
Adding Apple Cider Vinegar to Your Diet
The simplest way to include apple cider vinegar into your diet is to mix 1-3 teaspoons in eight ounces of water three times per day, ideally right before. You can sweeten the drink with a small amount of honey if you'd prefer.
For those who suffer from joint pain, apple cider vinegar can also be used topically to relieve pain. You can make a relaxing foot or hand soak using one cup of apple cider vinegar with six cups of warm water. Or you can mix two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with one tablespoon of coconut or olive oil for a soothing ointment to rub directly on your joints.
Below are several of the most common and most effective methods for using apple cider vinegar to relieve arthritis pain and stiffness. Try them all until you find the one that works best for you.
- Apple Cider Vinegar and Cherry Juice
Cherries are rich in anthocyanins, which battle inflammation.
- Mix 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar into a glass of cherry juice.
- Drink 2 times daily to relieve arthritis pain.
- Include apple cider vinegar and cherries in your healthy diet to enhance energy and boost the immune system.
- Apple Cider Vinegar and Water
- Mix 1-3 teaspoons apple cider vinegar into 8 ounces water.
- Drink 3 times daily, preferably before meals.
- To improve flavor, add honey.
- You can also use this mixture as an external pain relief ointment.
- Apple Cider Vinegar Soak
- Mix 1 cup apple cider vinegar into 6 cups warm water.
- Submerge painful joints and soak for at least 30 minutes.
- Use this topical solution whenever you are in pain.
- Apple Cider Vinegar with Carrier Oils
- Mix 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar with 1 tablespoon coconut or olive oil.
- Massage directly into arthritic joints for a few minutes and leave on.
- Repeat regularly for pain relief.
- Apple Cider Vinegar Tonic
- Prepare a 10 oz. glass of peppermint tea.
- Mix in 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar, 1 teaspoon honey, and 1 teaspoon cinnamon.
- Drink once daily to relieve arthritis pain.
- Note: This tonic is anti-bacterial and anti-fungal, and it serves as an antacid.
- Apple Cider Vinegar Bath
- Run a hot bath and pour in 1-2 cups apple cider vinegar.
- Soak for 30-35 minutes, massaging the entire body.
- Start with the feet and work your way up each leg one at a time.
- Next, massage the torso, arms, and neck.
- Lightly stroke the face without pulling skin downward.
- After your bath, do a dry massage and remember to rub the ears.
- Do this regularly.
- Apple Cider Vinegar with Apple and Grape Juices
- Mix 1 part apple cider vinegar with 3 parts apple juice and 5 parts grape juice.
- Drink ½ cup per day.
- Apple Cider Vinegar Poultice
- Add 1 ½ cups water and ¼ cup apple cider vinegar to a pan.
- Heat until the liquid is comfortably hot to the touch.
- Soak a clean washcloth in the mixture and wring it out.
- Place the soaked cloth on the painful joint.
- Wrap it with a dry towel to retain heat.
- Leave on 10-15 minutes.
- When the cloth cools, re-soak it, wring it out, and re-apply.
- Repeat as needed.
- Apple Cider Vinegar and Honey for Arthritis
Apple cider vinegar and honey are great sources of potassium. They become alkaline when consumed and aid in the safe excretion of excess acids.
Method 1:
- Mix 2 teaspoon each of apple cider vinegar and honey into a glass of water.
- Drink 3 times daily.
- It will also dissolve the uric acid deposits that crystalize between joints and muscles.
- This method is great for rheumatoid arthritis.
Method 2:
- Mix a teaspoon each of apple cider vinegar and honey into a cup of warm water.
- Drink this daily in the morning to get rid of the arthritis.
- This will remove toxins built up in joints and connective tissue.
- Apple Cider Vinegar for Arthritis in the Hands
Osteoarthritis often occurs in the hands, and it is more common in women than men. Apple cider vinegar provides relief from pain and stiffness of the hands and fingers.
Method 1: Apple Cider Vinegar and Cayenne Pepper
Apple cider vinegar and cayenne pepper contain anti-inflammatory and alkalizing properties that reduce pain and stiffness in the hands.
- Mix small amounts of apple cider vinegar and cayenne pepper to make a paste.
- Apply to painful joints and leave on 15 minutes.
Method 2: Apple Cider Vinegar and Cayenne Pepper Hand Soak
- Mix ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper into 1 cup warm apple cider vinegar.
- Submerge hand and fingers and soak until pain is gone.
Method 3: Apple Cider Vinegar for Gout
- Mix 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar into a cup of water.
- Drink once daily.
- This method reduces inflammation, blocks uric acid production, and alkalizes to balance the pH.
- Apple Cider Vinegar for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Apple cider vinegar dissolves the acid crystals that cause the joint stiffness and inflammation associated with rheumatoid arthritis.
Method 1: Warm Apple Cider Vinegar Massage
- Warm ½ cup apple cider vinegar to a comfortable temperature.
- Apply to painful joints and rub gently for a few minutes.
Method 2: Apple Cider Vinegar with Castor Oil
Castor oil and apple cider vinegar reduce inflammation, restore damaged tissue and boost your immune system.
- Apply apple cider vinegar to painful joints.
- Once it is completely absorbed, massage the area with castor oil.
- Wrap the joint in a cotton cloth and cover it with plastic to avoid staining.
Tips & Warnings:
- Always use organic, raw, unfiltered, unpasteurized apple cider vinegar that contains the Mother. We recommend Bragg's.
- Ask your doctor if apple cider vinegar will interact with any medications you are taking.
- Apple cider vinegar can cause and/or exacerbate throat and stomach pain.
- Some people are allergic to apple cider vinegar.
- Apple cider vinegar should be diluted and drank through a straw, otherwise it can damage tooth enamel.
- Apple cider vinegar tablets are not more effective than liquid.
- The acidity of apple cider vinegar can lower potassium levels and decrease bone density, so avoid long-term use.
- All of the above methods should be repeated until your arthritis pain disappears.
- Take 2-4 teaspoons apple cider vinegar regularly to prevent future pain and stiffness.
- Apple cider vinegar can also be used as a salad dressing and added to fruit juices and teas.
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You need not spend a lot by purchasing scented liner papers or plug in air fresheners, just tuck or tape these softener sheets under existing drawing liners, inside your closet, under the chairs and behind the curtains.
Light up some scented candles
You can mask not too strong bad odors by burning scented candles. Being a temporary measure for the meantime, it is still highly suggested that you have to deal with the source of the odor to finally get rid of it.
Opt to steaming
Steam is a safe way to eradicate bacteria since it is chemical free. It is also an effective deodorizer.
Sprinkle baking soda to the fur of your kitty or pooch
If you are expecting some guests and find your pets a bit gamy, baking soda is an effective quick solution until bath time. Lightly rub the baking soda to his fur and brush it out.
Freshen up your freezer with a bowl of coffee grounds
This is one good way to get rid of the odor of the spoiled food you left inside the freezer. Just leave fresh or used coffee grounds inside the freezer overnight. If you opt for a flavored coffee, it would be better to mix into the grounded coffee some drops of vanilla.
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I respect Pat Buchanan, but I respectfully disagree with his endorsement of Mitt Romney and his reasons for that endorsement. While I'm somewhat disappointed by it, I'm certainly not surprised. His chosen role is as a sort of gateway between the faux Right and the far Right. It's a role he performs very well and for which he's uniquely suited. Unlike virtually every other supposedly "far right" politician on the landscape, he doesn't hide behind extreme individualism and libertarian fantasies. Beneath his carefully evasive and soft delivery, he's a White Nationalist. (Read the rest HERE.)
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Matt Parrott on Buchanan's Endorsement of Romney
I respect Pat Buchanan, but I respectfully disagree with his endorsement of Mitt Romney and his reasons for that endorsement. While I'm somewhat disappointed by it, I'm certainly not surprised. His chosen role is as a sort of gateway between the faux Right and the far Right. It's a role he performs very well and for which he's uniquely suited. Unlike virtually every other supposedly "far right" politician on the landscape, he doesn't hide behind extreme individualism and libertarian fantasies. Beneath his carefully evasive and soft delivery, he's a White Nationalist. (Read the rest HERE.)
Obama: Less to him than meets the eye?
On the anti-Obama side we have Obama as Marxist, which is fairly accurate, but he's not Mao or even Che. He's an academic, middle-class Marxist who doesn't like to get his hands dirty dealing with the icky lower classes, and he really doesn't have a grasp of any principle of actual Marxism. To him, like most of his ilk, Marxism is all about how rotten Western Civilization and the White Race are. He's got that down pat.
But though that Marxist thing is somewhat accurate, it doesn't really get at Obama's core. And I think the most significant thing about Obama is his intrinsic insignificance — that is, nothing about him really means anything. Suits don't get much emptier. He's not Superman, he's Superficialman.
Steve Sailer thinks Obama is more accidental than occidental, and what he says about him rings true. Read his theory of what Obama actually is HERE.
Benghazi again
Most of the press is utterly delighted with the hurricane, as it gives them the opportunity to avoid any reporting on the Benghazi disaster. I made the point a few days ago with THIS that Obama was far, far, more concerned about the death of the wannabe thug Trayvon Martin than he is about the death of Tyrone Woods. This cartoon says it better:
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries.
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
Racism, Racism, Racitty-Racism!
A lesson in racism
There is one obvious difference: Bob is white and enjoys white privilege. Tom is black and faces constant racial discrimination.
To demonstrate that awful reality we asked two volunteers to shadow Bob and Tom for one day and report their findings.
The outcome was shocking.
As Bob was driving to work Monday, a rude motorist cut in front of him. The motorist was obviously a jerk. Another motorist cut Tom off in traffic because he is black.
Bob had the unfortunate experience of being pulled over for exceeding the speed limit. The cop gave him a ticket for his offense. Tom was also speeding but was pulled over by a cop because he was 'driving while black.'
Bob was late for work. No one said anything, but the scowls from the boss were apparent. When Tom arrived late to work he was faced with a racist white employer who gave him that dirty look that says, "I hate you because you're black."
Bob had a few good sales that day, but lost one customer to a competitor. Tom also lost a white customer who obviously preferred to do business with a white salesman at another firm.
After work Bob met his wife at a restaurant for dinner. They had to wait nearly half an hour for a table due to a staff shortage. Tom and his wife faced the indignity of being forced to wait nearly fifteen minutes because the white staff really didn't want to serve Negros.
Upon arriving home that evening, Bob was disappointed to discover a bill from the plumber that was considerably higher than he was originally quoted. Bob decided to call the plumber the next business day and firmly plead his case. Tom received an overcharge from a plumber who, as he knew from years of similar experiences, was trying to rip off the black man.
Bob was also disappointed to receive a letter from a credit card company that had rejected his application. He determined to improve his credit score. Tom received a similar rejection letter and wondered how the lending institution knew he was black.
Bob scolded his young son for getting a "D" in English. Tom complained that institutional racism is so deeply embedded in the education system that his son could never do well, even with his black teacher and school principal.
Bob ended his day by watching a sitcom and then a movie on television. Tom watched a sitcom and was outraged that the black characters were portrayed as white people in dark skin. He was further enraged when watching a movie. Blacks were reduced to stereotypical roles of jive-talking ghetto dwellers.
Bob looked in the mirror as he was brushing his teeth and noticed a gray hair. Tom was brushing his teeth and noticed he was black.
Bob fell asleep that night grateful that he lived in a prosperous nation. Tom had trouble sleeping, his mind occupied with the never-ending legacy of racism in America that he faces everyday.
Reason #4 to vote for Mitt Romney
1. Vote for Romney
2. Vote for Obama
3. Vote third party
4. Don't vote
We'll discuss #1 last. As for #2, that would be senseless, idiotic, self-destructive, and any other adjective of that sort you can think of. There's talk out there among libertarians of the flaky variety that we need things to get really bad really fast so everybody will see how bad our system is and switch to libertarianism and the best way to get bad really fast is to stick with Obama. Tortured reasoning. I reject it.
#3 is, well, a useless gesture at this point. None of the candidates has any chance of coming near carrying a state. Most people who like Gary Johnson are, like me, going to vote for Romney as the best we can do. Nobody is going to pay any attention at all to Johnson's vote totals. Ron Paul had a big impact on people's thinking. Johnson will have none.
#4 another useless gesture, even more useless than #3, because non-voters will universally be described as apathetic.
That leaves #1. Only sensible option. Yes, Romney is a pain. Yes, he's a flaming liberal. But, as I reported elsewhere, none of his sons looks like Trayvon, and he doesn't think that way anyway. Romney's idea isn't "race and inheritance," but family, nation, and religion. Far from perfect, but utterly delightful when contrasted with the prospect of more of Barack.
Again, I find myself in agreement with Pat Buchanan, who says:
Romney for President
So wrote John Jay in Federalist No. 2, wherein he describes Americans as a "band of brethren united to each other by the strongest ties."
Monday, October 29, 2012
Guess what else happened fifty years ago.
Hey, we've all been hearing about the Cuban Missile Crisis, but we have another 50th anniversary. Here's an article from the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation about it:
The 50th Anniversary of the Integrating of Ole Miss:
A Landmark Toward Improved Race Relations
by Allan Brownfeld
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ALEXANDRIA, VA -- On the night of September 30, 1962, hundreds of federal marshals and thousands of Army and National Guard troops confronted a violent mob of segregationists on the campus of the University of Mississippi -- Ole Miss. Two people were killed and hundreds were wounded. The next morning, James Meredith enrolled in classes and Ole Miss was integrated.
In September 2012, that anniversary was celebrated with a program called "Opening the Closed Society." The program's name is a reference to the book, Mississippi: The Closed Society, written in 1964 by James W. Silver, an Ole Miss history professor. Professor Silver, who died in 1988, was hounded by white supremacists and left the university a year after the book was published.
Today, the president of the student body is a black woman and so is the homecoming queen. Writing in The New York Times, Kitty Dumas, a writer and communications consultant who is completing a memoir, reflected on her arrival as a student in 1982:
"The university was for so long synonymous with violence and racial hatred, and I, an African-American woman and a native Mississippian, am linked as is everything else here by the past, which regularly rises to meet us. I am who I am because 50 years ago... James H. Meredith braved a deadly riot of angry whites, described by historians as the last battle of the Civil War. The university's revolution from war to reconciliation in a span of 50 years is a human triumph. This is not to say that it has become a racial and social utopia; that was never anyone's goal, anyway. Nevertheless, Ole Miss is a modern-day history lesson in what is possible."
Dumas recalls, "Last year, on a different trip to Ole Miss, I was asked to share my memories in a videotaped interview. After the interview, a young white man, the student who had been behind the camera, approached me with an outstretched hand. 'I just want to thank you for what you did for us,' he said.... I was gratified by his realization that the changes had been for him, too.... At 50, I am part of a generation of African-Americans who were not Medgar Evers, James Meredith, Martin Luther King, Jr., or countless others....We did not take the beatings, feel the sting of hoses, endure a thousand and one indignities....We are old enough to have attended segregated schools by law, to have felt the tug of fear and angst before we could explain it. Yet we are young enough to have college educations we needed only to apply ourselves to achieve, to own iPhones on which we can read news of a president who looks like us. We have a front-row seat at American history, with a debt we can never repay no matter our achievements. We are like refugees not from another country, but from another time, carrying memories that propel us forward."
It is unfortunate that, despite dramatic improvements in race relations -- including the election of a black president -- charges of "racism" seem to proliferate, particularly in our current political campaign.
To show how race relations have changed
over the past 50 years, Mitt Romney was
rebuked by a culture writer for criticizing
policies of Barack Obama.
The culture critic Toure, for example, rebuked Mitt Romney for calling on the president to take his "campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago." Romney also said, "This is what an angry and desperate president looks like." This, of course, was typical overheated campaign rhetoric -- to be found on all sides. But Toure found a racial subtext: "You notice he said 'anger' twice. He's really trying to use racial coding and access some really deep stereotypes against the angry black man. This is part of the play book against Obama, the 'otherization' -- 'he's not like us.... This is 'niggerization.' You are not one of us, you are the scary black man who we've been trained to fear."
On MSNBC, Chris Mathews, interviewing Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on the party's criticism of Obama's welfare policy, declared: "When you start talking about work requirements, you know what game you're playing, and everybody knows what game you're playing. It's a race card."
If America is a "racist" society, and candidates are appealing to race to gain votes, why do public opinion polls show that the public prefers Obama as a person to Mitt Romney? Washington Post columnist Charles Land notes, "Most whites express admiration for his (Obama's) intellect and character -- not what you'd expect racists to say. The Pew Research Center's January 2012 survey found that large majorities of non-Hispanic whites call Obama a 'good communicator,' someone who 'stands up for his beliefs,' 'warm and friendly,' 'well informed'....Whites' views are less favorable now than they were when Obama took office, but they declined at the same rate as everyone else's."
Gallup has consistently found that about 20 percent of Americans would not vote for their own party's presidential candidate if he or she were a Mormon. In contrast, only 5 percent now say they would refuse to vote for an African-American.
It is time to recognize that we have undergone a dramatic change in race relations in recent years. As the demographics of our society changes, our country is no longer divided between white and black. There are increasing numbers of Hispanics, Asians, and others. Our society has shown an ability to make men and women of every background into Americans. In the 19th century, many doubted whether the Irish, Italian, and Eastern European immigrants could ever assimilate. Now they are simply referred to as "white." To belabor any tensions that exist at the present time is to ignore the larger, positive story.
The 50th anniversary of the integration of Ole Miss should provide an opportunity to recognize the dramatic strides we have made. Recently, one-time black radical, the poet LeRoi Jones, who changed his name to Amiri Baraka, recalled: "Newark, pre-1967, is a different place.... I used to get held by the police for going to a poetry reading. The police would take the script out of my hand. That's like living under some kind of fascism. This is another era. My son is a councilman in the South Ward. In a sense, that's what we always wanted, that he'd go away to school and not disappear into the suburbs with some degree. His brother is his chief of staff. His other brother is his chief of security."
If Amiri Baraka can recognize the progress we have made, there is no reason the rest of us cannot as well
Betcha don't know what became of James Meredith. Kind of interesting that he was a Republican. Make of that what you will. Wikipedia article HERE. But it leaves out his association with David Duke. That's discussed HERE. I don't entirely agree with the 'progress' theme of this article. Actual progress wouldn't involve so much race-rioting as we have these days. But some of these facts are worth knowing.
"First Time" parody
This napkin doodle offends dogs
Ex-army's been using a lot of my political cartoons lately, what with the election and all, but instead of inflicting another one on you today, here's one that just arrived over the e-mail transom from the great Dave Holle. (That link should have some good stuff soon.) Anyhow, this is an art form probably originated by Da Vinci when he was down at the corner bar and didn't have anything to draw on but paper napkins. This tradition continues with Dave, who did this:
No, not ready for publication as is, so I diddled with it in Photoshop, and this is the best I could do.
I'm sure somebody with more Photoshop skill could do better, but I wanted to get this on the blog to inspire as much anti-Obama electioneering as possible. More Dave Holle stuff HERE.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Racism Explains Everything
|Cartoon by BALOO
So the Obama lovers out there who see defeat coming are trying to figure out how to explain the defeat away as anything except the just plain pathetic awfulness of the Obama administration. And guess what the overwhelmingly most popular explanation will be. C'mon, you've heard the word often enough — racism — used to explain away everything from poor test scores to mass murder.
As a matter of fact, the Associated Press is on the Obama team, and has already conducted a poll designed to prove that it will be White racism that denies Obama a second term. Steve Sailer reports on it HERE.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Another Version of "Comparisons"
Génération Identitaire
We're not alone. The MAG (Median, Academia, Government) want us to think we are, and give us the impression that the concept of pride in being White or a member of Western Civilization is outmoded, stupid, and racist, and that only a few American rednecks believe in such nonsense, now that the Vibrant New South African government is completing its program of White genocide. But that's not so. There are a lot of people throughout the Western World who are thoroughly sick of the "hate whitey" theme of practically everything, but they have their own MAG, and, like us, feel kind of alone in their opposition to the Zeitgeist. But, as I say, we're not alone. The Greeks are catching on that oodles of African immigrants isn't what they need to get their economy straight. Germans are wondering if they really need all those Turks. Brits have had it up to here with their own idiotic immigration system. And now, in France, the Génération Identitaire is expressing itself. They have a website HERE that most web browsers will translate into English for you if you don't read French. So cheer yourself up. Watch the video, and maybe even achetez le t-shirt.
From "The Generation of National Identity"| - A Declaration of War
We are Generation Identitaire.
We are the generation who get killed for glancing at the wrong person,
for refusing someone a cigarette, |or having an "attitude" that annoys someone.
We are the generation of ethnic fracture,
total failure of coexistence,| and forced mixing of the races.
We are the generation doubly punished:| Condemned to pay into a social system
so generous with strangers it becomes| unsustainable for our own people.
Our generation are the victims of the May '68'ers| who wanted to liberate themselves
from tradition, from knowledge and authority in education.
But they only accomplished to| liberate themselves from their responsibilities.
We reject your history books to re-gather our memories.
We no longer believe that "Khader" could ever be our brother,
we have stopped believing in a "Global Village" and the "Family of Man".
We discovered that we have roots, |ancestry and therefore a future.
Our heritage is our land, our blood, our identity. | We are the heirs to our own future
We turned off the TV to march the streets.
We painted our slogans on the walls. Cried through loudspeakers
for "youth in power" and flew our Lambda flags high.
The Lambda, painted on proud Spartans' shields, is our symbol.
Don't you understand what this means ? |We will not back down, we will not give in.
We are sick and tired of your cowardice.
You are from the years of post-war prosperity,|retirement benefits, S.O.S Racism and
"diversity", sexual liberation and a bag of rice from Bernard Kouchner.
We are 25 percent unemployment,|social debt, multicultural collapse
and an explosion of anti-white racism.
We are broken families, and young French soldiers dying in Afghanistan.
You won't buy us with a condescending look,
a state-paid job of misery and a pat on the shoulder.
We don't need your youth-policies. |Youth IS our policy.
Don't think this is simply a manifesto.|It is a declaration of war.
You are of yesterday, we are of tomorrow.
We are Generation Identitaire.|
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Beware of Blue Helmets
So I say arrest them, shred their passports, and send them back to Ruritania or Jolliginki or wherever. If we had an actual President, instead of a Prom King, that would be automatic. DailyKenn explains why we need to do that.
Welcome UN inspectors
How to avoid becoming an alcoholic: Decline that first 'harmless' drink.
How to avoid being policed by the United Nations: Refuse that innocuous inspection.
When I was little my dad took me to a rescue mission in downtown Indianapolis. Wondering why the leather-skinned men were dressed in tattered clothing, were dependent on charity for a single night's shelter, and seemed to the last one to be smitten with a mental fog, I asked my dad to explain.
He informed me these were alcoholics; street people who, at the time, were labeled with the less generous term, "bums." They had surrendered their families, livelihoods and lifestyles in deference for a constant flow of alcoholic beverages.
It seemed insane, even surreal.
But sitting at the side while dozens of drunkards mumbled through the obligatory hymns and slouched through a sermon by a fiery, red-faced, fundamentalist preacher, I had no choice but to absorb reality.
I considered.
If any one of these guys had refused their first drink he would not be here. He would be sitting at home, enjoying the evening with a wife a family; watching Leave It to Beaver or laughing at Jackie Gleason. He would be wearing decent clothing like my dad and the other churchmen. He would have a car and enough cash to buy food for himself and his family. He would have his right mind.
I made a decision that I would be that one guy who never imbibed in a first swig.
That was over fifty years ago. I've never chugged a beer, sipped wine, or tasted anything considered to be an alcoholic beverage. Overweight? Just a tad. But sober.
The presence of United Nations monitors assigned to oversee our elections is akin to a first drink. We are told they are harmless. So why not allow them to snoop? After all, they have no authority and, in the end, will generate a few reams of reports that no one will read.
What's the big deal?
Think Pandora's box.
The problem should be apparent. We are being imprinted. We are being taught to ignore the presence of de facto UN cops in our neighborhoods. We will grow accustomed to them and consider their increasing presence to be a normal part of our lives and infrastructure.
Let them have a look, they say. We have nothing to hide.
Today they will inspect our elections. In time they will be welcomed observers of our civil rights applications, our education structures, and our process of social justice. As they assure our voting is proper, they will assure our Affirmative Action policies meet international standards.
They will take note of affinity associations deemed 'hate groups' and assure their demise. They will look into our neighborhoods and recommend, then demand, they be appropriately integrated. They will eschew to evils of unfair privilege, observe jurors inflicted by prejudice, and take note of unequal distribution of punishment through incarceration.
They will enforce their ISO standards on every aspect of our lives and, in time, guarantee we meet international standards of social and economic Marxism.
But only if we take the first drink.
Barry & George
Pat Buchanan lived through the change, and was paying attention. He tells us about George and Barry and the changes they wrought HERE.
Friday, October 26, 2012
More Reaction to Benghazi
The Ideal Democratic Woman
|Sandra Fluke, the Ideal Woman according to Democrats
Why women are shifting to Romney
Moron. How could Obama be so obnoxious as to think his trashy pick-up lines would work?
And the phase, 'War on Women' is just that: A pick-up line.
Women understand that Obama isn't interested in them. He wants nothing more than to screw them over for their vote; to use them. They are offended!
Consequently, women voters are brushing off Obama.
1. Pick-up lines
Obama is the sleezy sot in the seedy saloon who sees every woman as the two-bit slut.
This was made evident by the Sandra Fluke narrative crafted by the marketing fops in the Obama camp. Obama thinks every women is a 'Sandra slut'.
How could anyone be more disgustingly offensive?
Women know that the phrase 'War on Women' is nothing more than their degrading pick-up line.
To Obama, the iconic woman is a delusional 30-year-old slut who is obsessed, not with her family or making a living, but with contraceptives. When you see photos ops of a crowd of Obama supporters, the nation's first black president views those women as nothing more than a crowd of cheap whores whose votes can be had for a pick-up line and the promise of free contraceptives.
2. Pandering
Obama's handlers underestimate the American character. They presume that we are a nation of selfish, egocentric leftists who want something for nothing. Obama's miscalculation will cost him the election.
3. Patronizing
Obama's over-zealous attention to women is obviously disingenuous. He attempts to think in terms of segregation. He fails to view us as Americans and chooses, instead, to isolate women as a class unto themselves. The fatal flaw is failing to realize that women are directly affected by the cost of gasoline, rising food costs, and the insanity of Obamacare mandates.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Whew! That was close....
|Cartoon by BALOO
Here's what "Washington Watcher" has to say about our narrow escape (so far) from the wretched Rubio:
Look On The Bright Side—We Dodged A Bullet When Romney Passed Over Rubio For VP
By Washington Watcher on October 24, 2012 at 9:38pm
Ever since being denied the VP nod, Rubio has been touring the country bashing both Obama and the Republican Party for not being sufficiently supportive of mass immigration. (If either were only the case!) Responding to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's assertion that "you can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate," Rubio agreed: "I think what he's saying, quite frankly, is true for both parties."
Needless to say, Rubio, like most Hispanic leaders, does not have aC"brown face." But if Republicans and conservatives did not have this silly illusion that trotting out a "Spanish surname" would somehow win them the Hispanic vote, Rubio would probably never gotten the nationwide support to mount a US Senate campaign. Certainly he would never have been immediately promoted to national GOP hero.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Trump pulls a fast one on the Barack, or, Trump Trumps Tramp!
"If Obama releases his college records and passport application records before 5PM on 31 October, Trump will cut a check for $5,000,000.00 to the charity of Obama's choice. So Obama's got a choice of either looking like Trump's little bitch (again) or making people wonder, with an election 2 weeks away, what's so damned incriminating in those records that he'll stiff orphaned, disabled, starving, homeless, inner-city, undocumented-immigrant, vegan lesbian whales with AIDS and cancer out of 5 million dollars just to keep it under wraps. Well played, billionaire with $5 haircut..."
And he adds this suggestion:
"Here's an additional thought- if Trump put the funds in escrow and set up a ChipIn campaign for this, that pot would be $10-15 mil by Monday morning."
What does Trump think Obama will pass on the five mill to keep under wraps? Some possibilities. Bad grades? I doubt it. Claiming special treatment and freebies as a foreign student? All too likely. You see, when Mr. Soetoro adopted Barack, Barack became an Indonesian citizen at the very least, and would a guy like Obama pass on any Affirmative Action goodies? Not very probable. This applies to his passport records, too, if he's identified as an Indonesian or Pakistani or Kenyan or God knows what on that. On the other hand, it could be something even worse. If it turns out that Obama's ineligible to be President because of his citizenship status, does that mean the wise Latina woman and the wise Ladino woman aren't officially on the Supreme Court? God, I hope so.
Read more about all this HERE, or just Google Trump in Google News.
Reason #3 to vote for Mitt Romney
|Illustration from HERE.
Romney supporters don't threaten to riot and murder people. Obama supporters do. See HERE. And HERE. If Romney wins, they will riot because of anger. If Obama wins, they will riot because of joy. They will attack Whites, as Tom Sowell says here, without regard to whether they're 'liberal' or not. If they can get past the Secret Service, they'll attack Joe Biden. They will riot in two weeks no matter what happens.
Video from HERE.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
A Terrifying Mutation!
Tweedlerep for President!
Tweedlerep agreed
to have an
election, for
Tweedledem said
Tweedlerep had
far too fair a
Well, enough of that. But the tweedle part is somewhat accurate, especially given last night's strange attempt to argue about a foreign policy that they both seem to agree on in every particular. I get it. They both love overthrowing Arab dictators, blowing Bedouin up with drones, and kissing up to Bibi. I get it. Except for a mile disagreement about bayonets, you can't wedge a... well, a bayonet, in between their two positions.
Despite all this, I'll cast my ballot for Tweedlerep, for reasons already given HERE and HERE, but I'm not going to argue with those of you who just can't bring themselves to do it. And one of you is L. Neil Smith, who says:
The Doldrums
by L. Neil Smith
by L. Neil Smith
The doldrums is a strip of land and water near the equator where the trade winds, east and west, cancel each other out. Vessels that found themselves there without wind to fill their sails, were said to be "becalmed in the doldrums". A similar nautical expression is "adrift in the horse latitudes". I'm not sure whether they're the same thing.
It's an altogether appropriate metaphor for the political position that we eternally homeless libertarians find ourselves in at this precise moment. We have reached that point in the election cycle— hardly for the first time—where we are compelled to choose between voting for the lesser of two or three or four evils and not voting at all.
The available choices have been very carefully narrowed down for us to an individual whose real name none us of knows, and another we know all to well. One—at least to judge by his past mentors and various offhand remarks he's made over the years—is a communist partisan who has already come very close (with copious help from the previous administration) to wrecking the biggest and strongest economy on the planet.
The fact that he may be a Muslim is the only good thing about him, as he seems inclined in foreign policy to end the preference given for the past sixty-four years to the police state called Israel and to deal more open-handedly with vastly greater populations in the middle east. However he mixes his message by sending killer drones into that same area, seemingly at random, killing the same pregnant widows and ten-year-old goatherds that the previous administration did by other means.
At the same time, the other major candidate has said or done nothing to distinguish himself, policywise, from the incumbent and, in his own way is as much of an enigma as the sitting President. It should be apparent to everyone by now that elections in this country are far from free, that they are pantomimes with scripted outcomes whose only purpose is to legitimize rule by and for the corporate elites.
Most of the time, the elites have been content to let the country be ruled by hired hands. From time to time, however, when feeding this parasitic class has upset the delicate balance, they have felt it necessary to send in one of their own to clean up the mess. The first time this occurred—and I was aware of it—was when Nelson Rockefeller was sent in as Gerald Ford's Vice President after Nixon had made a tangled mess of the economy and all the President could come up with was a big red button that said "WIN", for "Whip Inflation Now".
In those days, inflation could be blamed on greedy capitalists hiking prices so high that nobody could afford whatever they had to sell. Or even more absurdly, inflation was the fault of consumers, for being willing to pay those high prices—for bread or milk, or other frivolities.
The problem is that, today, many more people understand clearly that the birthplace of inflation is the printing presses run by the Treasury Department, and, even more diabolically, the distribution of empty, baseless, fraudulent credit—"air currency"—to favored institutions.
The past two administrations have permitted so much of that kind of criminality that today, the once healthiest nation on the planet is on the brink of economic collapse. So the elites have sent in another pitcher or quarterback or whatever sports metaphor you may prefer, and instead of being a hired hand, he is one of their own. We can judge their power from the outcome of this election. If Obama can defeat Romney, that means they're not as strong as they have been in the past.
For those of us who align themselves with neither group, the Usurpers or the Old Guard, this is a barren season. The one candidate who speaks anything like our language wasn't going to win anyway. But when he reveals his plan to tax us in a whole new way, as I heard him do again, very recently, on a Denver radio talk show, he seals his fate.
That candidate, of course, is the former Republican governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson, running under the Libertarian Party banner. Yet Libertarianism is the political expression of the Zero Aggression Principle, which holds that nobody has a right to initiate force against another human being for any reason. No libertarian candidate should be talking about a new tax scheme. He should be conveying our solemn commitment, as individuals, as party members, as Americans, and as human beings to end the ancient evil of tax-slavery forever. As it is, this candidate simply presents himself as a peculiar kind of Republican, and I would no more vote for him than I would for Obama or Romney.
Anyone who knows me or my writing understands why the Green Party candidate is out of the question. It would be fun to attend a news conference given by the Greens and ask her where she stands on the United Nations, Agenda 21, and their award-winningly insane goal to eliminate nine tenths of the human race for the sake of lovely Mother Gaia.
So here we sit in the doldrums, at a moment that ought to be filled with excitement and anticipation, and what have we got, instead?
My ballot has arrived in the mail, and I have not opened it nor marked it yet. It's possible I won't. One candidate—no libertarian, but an individual who understands that it is the function of the Bill of Rights to limit the State; it is not the function of the State to limit the Bill of Rights—was cheated out of his party's nomination. I'd have voted for him gladly, but that choice was illegally denied me.
I wonder who he's going to vote for.
L. Neil Smith is the Publisher and Senior Columnist of L. Neil Smith's THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE, as well as the author of 33 freedom-oriented books, the most recent of which is DOWN WITH POWER: Libertarian Policy in a Time of Crisis:
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DOWN WITH POWER was selected as the Freedom Book Club Book-of-the-Month for August 2012
We all owe Steve Sailer a lot for first, finding out about such bizarre phenomena as "Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy," and then for writing about them in his uniquely benign snarky manner. So here's yet another thing I (and therefore you) would most likely never have heard of if it weren't for Steve Sailer. Learn all about it HERE.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Welfare and Corruption
|Cartoon by BALOO
You need a really powerful moral code to avoid such corruption, and when the corruption spreads beyond a certain point, no moral code can stop it. Let me illustrate: Everybody in a certain town pays taxes that provide unemployment insurance for everybody. For years, nobody collects unemployment insurance unless they lose their job because of circumstances beyond their control. That's the whole theory of unemployment insurance. People will use it if and only if they need it. Then, one day, a guy loses his job the usual way, signs up for unemployment, and instead of rushing out to look for another job, decides to take a few days off to relax first. Other people notice this. They do the same thing. Eventually, everybody takes longer off, until they almost all take as long off as the insurance lasts, and then look for a job. Politicians notice this, decide that jobs are "harder to find" for some reason, and decide to extend the limit on the insurance, and guess what happens. Next, people start goofing off and trying to lose their jobs now and then, because, hell, they've been paying for unemployment insurance, and why should they pay for a bunch of lazy bastards and never get any of it themselves?
Some places, like, say, Scandinavia, have a very powerful work ethic, and people take longer to get corrupt that way, but it happens eventually. Other places, like most of the Third World, the corruption takes place instantaneously.
We have a hell of a lot of people corrupted that way right here in the USA, and, no, they're not all Black or Hispanic. I'm related to some of them. So is Jim Goad. He relates his feelings about the freeloaders and layabouts and who they tend to vote for in....
Just as 2011 was the year that no one would shut the hell up about the "99%," this year's election season has birthed another obnoxious quotient that refuses to die—the "47%" of Americans that Mitt Romney reputedly mouth-raped at a fundraiser by claiming that they "are dependent upon government" and "believe that they are victims."
Barack Obama's dutiful cliff-divers, rickshaw drivers, and shoeshine boys seized upon this quote as evidence that Romney is out of touch with average Americans—no argument there, but so is Obama—and that it would drive a fatal wooden spike in the bloodsucking Mormon plutocrat's campaign.
What surprised me about many of those who felt targeted by Romney's comment is that not only didn't they shy away from the insult, they embraced it as a matter of pride—a misguided pride, a defensive pride, a dumb pride, sure—but of pride nonetheless. (Read the rest HERE.)
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Watch your step, China!
You can see more of Girls und Panzer at Crunchyroll.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Whiteness: Defects of the Virtues
Well, my particular group is the White race, and it has a lot of good points. The modern world and most of its technology was pretty much invented by the White race, starting more or less with the Renaissance. A lot of the generally-accepted ideas of ethics and morality was largely developed by the White race, starting with the Ancient Greeks and spreading around all over the place.
But virtues have their defects. The White race tends to be individualistic and democratic in nature, and most of us Whites make the mistake of thinking that everybody really wants to be like us, so we try to extend our individualism and democracy to other groups, most of whom don't want anything to do with them. That's one example of White pathology, and Matt Parrott has some more. He says:
Lawrence of Suburbia:
Coping with White Pathology
The White race is uniquely disposed to pathological responses to interaction with racial outgroups because of its relatively strong will to power. This genetic predisposition has fueled a great deal of our progress and is a vital aspect of our racial character, but it introduces unique and potentially fatal vulnerabilities.
Within a random sample of White males, a greater number of them than any other advanced race will be averse to socially submissive behavior. The number of natural leaders outspans the available leadership roles in contemporary society, leading to a variety of racially unique coping mechanisms.
The first coping mechanism is primordial democracy. From the earliest recorded histories of White populations, we find a prevalence of superficially egalitarian social orders. The Germanic 'thing' assemblies, the Hellenic experiments in democracy, the Roman Senate, and the development of the American Republic were all products of this social dynamic. The driving force behind this phenomenon is that a distributed power arrangement is the only stable power arrangement when so many of the tribe's males strive to be the alpha male. (Read the rest, and see some nice illustrations, Here.)
Friday, October 19, 2012
Reason # 2 to vote for Mitt
|Cartoon by BALOO
White Girl Bleed a Lot
The Raging Success of American Racial Policy
October 15, 2012
Because of race. Race almost everything in America, but silently, very silently. The unendingly bad relations between blacks and whites determine even things that ostensibly do not involve race. Race determines admission to universities, what tests can be given to students in high school, who has to pass exams for promotions in police departments whether they can read or not, how many of what groups you have to hire. It determines what can be taught in the schools, what standards are required of teachers, what mode of dress must be permitted to students, even whether standard English may be required.
It is everywhere. Beneath the debate of outlawing guns lies race. Conservatives want guns to protect themselves against blacks, but can't say so. Liberals want to eliminate guns so as to disarm blacks, of whom they are afraid but cannot say so. If you think this is not true, tell me who people fear when they buy guns. Are liberals worried about being shot by white, forty-five-year-old duck hunters? Do conservatives expect to find Jewish violinists crawling through their windows at night? Then whom do they fear? (Read the rest HERE.)
Thursday, October 18, 2012
He had a dream....
And so do we!
Many thanks to NICHOLAS STIX!
The Debate Again
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The Candy-Coated Debate
Self-Defense hints for Blacks
Kinsmen, not Klansmen, are killing blacks
by DailyKenn.com
1,500 is a nice round number.
That's the number of homicides committed by the Ku Klux Klan since its inception according to the Tuskegee Institute.
The problem with nice, round numbers: They're almost always bogus; tell-take indications of estimations at best, exaggerations at worst.
If one were to subtract the exaggeration factor, remove those who were killed in self-defense, eliminate murders by rogue Klansmen who acted outside the auspices of the larger groups, and discount goofballs like D.C. Stephenson, you would derive a number mush less than the rounded 1,500. Divide that number (whatever it is) by 1/3 to account for whites allegedly killed by klansters, and you get an honest number of blacks murdered by official Klan edicts.
15 is a nice round number.
But lets set aside my low-ball exaggeration and assume the upper shift is accurate -- just for sake of argument.
A cursive peek at the less-then-reliable data provided by Wikipedia reveals that, over the three waves of Klan activities, there has been a total of 6,556,000 members.
That is, there was 1.5 murders for every 6,556 klansmen. Or, for comparison purposes, a murder rate of .0229%
Let's compare.
In 2011 there were 706,585 residents in Detroit, MI. That same year there were 344 homicides. The murder rate in Detroit, then, was .0487%.
Is that more than twice the murder rate of the KKK? Are we to conclude that blacks in Detroit are more than two time more likely to be killed by their kinsmen than by Klansmen.
Not so fast.
The Detroit stats represent only one year whereas the Klan killing were spread over decades that spanned the century from the conclusion of the Civil War to the advent of the Civil Rights movement. Multiply 344 times 100 to get a more accurate reading.
To be dead-on accurate, pardon the pun, we'd need to compare black-on-black homicides to Klan-ordered black murders ove the same 100-year time frame; that's data we don't have. But relying on what statistics are available, we can draw reasonably accurate assumptive calculations:
The percentile chances of a black person being killed by a Klansman is .0229%. The percentile chances of a black person being killed by a kinsman is 4.087%.
Be mindful. The nice-round stated Klan homicide statistic of 1,500 is almost certainly an over exaggeration to the upside. The murder rate in Detroit is matter of public record.
And, indeed, not all homicides in Detroit were black. Likewise, about one third of the victims attributed to Klan homicides were white folks.
Let's dig deeper.
In 2010 there were about 9 million black males between ages 18 and 49 living in the USA; about 3 percent of the population. 5,942 of those were murdered; nearly all by members of the same demography. By percentile the murder rate among young black males is .066%, or about three times the rate of blacks allegedly killed by Klanmen over a one-hundred year span. If we account for 15 percent of black homicide victims killed by non-blacks, the number drops insignificantly to .056%.
Note, also, that white-on-black homicides are almost non-existent. I know of no reports of the KKK instigating a black murder in over 50 years, though such may exist. The number of black-on-black homicides, however, is a matter of routine headlines in major American cities and cited annually in government crime reports.
For the record, I have no affiliation with the Klan nor have I ever. What's more I don't personally know any Klansmen nor, to my knowledge, have I ever even met a Klansman The above is neither to endorse the Klan nor to discredit young black males. It is merely to engage in the revolutionary act of telling the truth; something few others in the media are willing to do. And the truth is: Kinsmen, not Klansmen, are killing blacks.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Hillary falls on her distaff for Obama, sort of
But, come to think of it, what exactly does "accepting responsibility" mean in a case like this. I guess it doesn't mean resignation and a confession of incompetence, no siree. Does it mean she's going to personally pay compensation to anybody? Seems not. Nobody crawls to Canterbury any more. In short, it doesn't mean a damn thing except that we all ought to vote for Obama anyway, because he's so cool, and despite the fact that it's all his responsibility, it's not his responsibility. It's hers. But that doesn't mean anything, like i said. So let's get back to talking about Big Bird and how White Romney is.
For an analysis of the attack and the cover-up, and why it all happened, who better to turn to than PAT BUCHANAN?
Monday, October 15, 2012
A Touching Time Travel Story from Japan
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Interesting Trivia
"Who is that actor, anyway."
Wife: "Edward Everett Hale, I think."
"No, wait — isn't it Edward Everett Horton?"
"That sounds familiar, too — Which is it?"
So I went to Google, and here's the trivia: Edward Everett Horton was a character actor you've all seen, probably most prominently as the looney bin manager in Arsenic and Old Lace. He also was the narrator for "Fractured Fairy Tales" in the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" show, if you're old enough to remember that. That's him in the picture. Well, his grandfather was Edward Everett Hale, the author of "The Man Without a Country." Bear with me. His great uncle was just plain Edward Everett. And he had another great uncle who was Nathan Hale. Some family, eh? Gives the Adams bunch a run for their money.
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Theravada Buddhism
Pre-sectarian Buddhism
Saṃsāra • Nibbāṇa
The Buddha sometimes described the practice (patipatti) of his teaching as the gradual training (Pali: anupubbasikkhā) because the eightfold path involves a process of mind-body transformation that unfolds over a sometimes lengthy period.
Just as the ocean has a gradual shelf, a gradual slope, a gradual inclination, with a sudden drop-off only after a long stretch, in the same way this discipline of Dhamma (dhamma-vinaya) has a gradual training (anupubbasikkhā), a gradual performance (anupubbakiriyā) , a gradual progression (anupubbapatipadā), with a penetration to gnosis only after a long stretch.—Udana, 5.5
The emphasis on gradual training may be understood by the fact that just as the human habits which give rise to suffering have been built up over a long period of time those same habits similarly take a long time to undo requiring a sustained effort achievable only with a genuine commitment to training.
The gradual approach to teaching and training was a hallmark of the Buddha's method of instruction. Whenever he felt that a person to whom the Dhamma had not yet been revealed was in a suitably receptive frame of mind he would deliver a 'graduated discourse' (Pali: ānupubbī-kathā) [1] — which took a certain form.
- Generosity (dāna)
- Virtue (sīla)
- Heaven (sagga)
- Danger of sensual pleasure (kāmānaṃ ādīnava)
- Renunciation (nekkhamma)
- The Four Noble Truths (cattāri ariya-saccāni)[2]
See also
- ↑ Variously translated "Gradual discourse" (Walshe 1995, p. 215); "gradual instruction," (Nyanatiloka, 1980), entry for "ānupubbī-kathā" at http://www.budsas.org/ebud/bud-dict/dic3_a.htm; "progressive instruction," Ñāṇamoli & Bodhi (2001), p. 485. and "step-by-step talk" (Thanissaro 1998).
- ↑ See, for instance, Bullitt (2005).
- Bullitt, John T. (2005). Dhamma. Retrieved 2007-11-08 from "Access to Insight" at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/index.html.
- Ñāṇamoli, Bhikkhu (trans.) & Bodhi, Bhikkhu (ed.) (2001). The Middle-Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikāya. Boston: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0-86171-072-X.
- Nyanatiloka (1980). Buddhist Dictionary: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society. ISBN 955-24-0019-8. Retrieved 2007-11-10 from "BuddhaSasana" at http://www.budsas.org/ebud/bud-dict/dic_idx.htm.
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (1998). Kutthi Sutta: The Leper (Ud. 5.3). Retrieved 2007-11-12 from "Access to Insight" at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/ud.5.03.than.html.
- Walshe, Maurice (1995). The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Dīgha Nikāya. Boston: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0-86171-103-3.
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Error in the transcription of the English pronunciation?[edit]
I think that there is an error in the transcription of the English pronunciation of this word (the IPA transcription).
1) Why do I think that there is an error?
Answer: In the transcription the second vowl is shown as \e\, while in reality it certaily is not such, it is something closer to \ə\. Also, the stress is indicated as if falling on the second syllable, namely \Lev"er\, which is not correct both for the British and for the American English. And also the symbol for the stress itself is wrong, it must be not double quotes ( " ), but a sigle quote ( ' ). Plus, the transcription must begin with a lower-case letter \l\, not with an upper-case \L\.
Finally, the article only shows the transcription of the American English pronunciation without any clarification that it is only valid for American English and is not for British English. Thus the reader is misled to believe that there is only one possible transcription of the pronunciation, which is incorrect.
2) How should the error be corrected?
Answer: The following needs to be done:
2.2) The transcription of the American English pronunciation must be changed to show the correct second vowl and to show the stress correctly falling on the first syllable (and not on the second syllable, as it is now). Explanation: in a transcription of the pronunciation using IPA the stress is denoted by a single quote symbol ( ' ) inserted in front of the stressed syllable and not behind it, namely \'lɛvə(r)\.
2.2) The existing transcription of the American English pronunciation must be clearly labelled as such.
2.3) A new transcription for the British English pronunciation must be inserted and must be labelled as such, something similar to \'livə(r)\
3) How could my allegations be varified? E.g. how do I know that there are different transcriptions for the American English and British English pronunciations and how do I know that the stress is indeed on the first syllable?
Answer: For one possible proof of the above you may want to listen to the audio files in the article.
4) Why have I taken the trouble to point out the above-listed errors, but have not edited the page?
Answer: I am not a linguist, and I am not even a native English speaker. Hence, I would like to ask someone more knowledgeable to correct the errors, having before that validated the above statements.
Plamka 12:53, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
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rfc-sense. French: the morning ritual, extremely elaborated in Versailles. I have no idea what it means. I propose it be deleted unless someone can clean it up, as it might be just totally wrong. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:10, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure that's the levee (or levée in French). Ƿidsiþ 15:29, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- What does morning ritual mean? I thought it was a euphemism for defecating. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:40, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
- 1) it's what every one of us does after sleep = to get up, both the time and the routine. 2) At Versailles there were 2 kinds of circumstances: le petit lever and le grand lever. the differences were about who was invited, I don't remember the subtleties, if of interest I will look it up. lever is the infinitive used as a substantive see le lever et le coucher, le boire et le manger, le venir et le partir, le rire, le parler, etc. usually concerning the basics of daily life. levée is something else: the lifting of sth (la levée des scellés, de l'immunitée, du corps etc.), or a river bank (is higher than the river) constructed, used for convenient access, boats and likes. From the same verb also levage (action of lever), levant (the "lever" of the sun) and levantin (from the levant); and extended to éléver (higher), élévation (a geographic term for high spot, or to an higher position or honour), élevage (raising of youngs, generally of animals). any questions? Hope&Act3! 21:39, 4 June 2010 (UTC)