Archive for May, 2006
President Washington’s Genius
Once again, let us look at an overwhelming fact:
George Washington was not bright.
People who know they are not all that bright on an IQ test react in one of two ways:
1) They hire people who are even less IQ bright to make themselves feel good;
or
2) They hire very, very smart people to do what they know they can’t do.
I have wondered why people react in the 1) way.
If you are a boxing promoter, you hire people who could beat the hell out of you.
Any boxing promoter who only hires people he can whip in a fistfight would be sent to a rest home.
Washington hired people who could beat the hell out of him when it came to smarts.
Now I get to one of the absolutely unique things in American history.
Anybody with an understanding of human beings, which definitely does not include historians, would assume that a man who knew he was not bright would get himself a group of underlings were even less bright.
When Washington became president he had a Cabinet consisting of, I believe, four men.
I forget the other one, but three of them were Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson.
You cannot say that GW took on three men who were “intelligent.”
They were not just intelligent, they were damned near transcendental.
Nobody has EVER gotten three giant geniuses at one table that is anywhere near Washington’s first Cabinet.
You know, Old Dumb George.
George wasn’t all that bright.
So he HIRED genius.
Which, in my definition of the word, was genius squared.
How Washington Won the Revolution — Sort Of
When you see an entire hill disappear in an explosion, the reason it happened was because someone pushed the pluner that set off the blast.
You could, however, push the plunger all day long and get nothing but a squeak out of it unless certain preparations were made in the pre-plunger stage.
Washington watched while his army nearly starved and he despaired many, many times.
What confuses historians is that all that time he was also writing letters about what land he intended to buy after the war was over.
This is not confusing if you understand that GW was not looking at the Revolution as a Path of History or in terms of Glory or disaster. He just didn’t think that way.
GW saw that things could go two ways: 1) He could lose and be hanged or spend the rest of his life as a guerrilla fighter with all his property confiscated or 2) He could win.
There is no good way to plan getting hanged.
So he planned what needed planning. He wrote letters about land purchases, detailed instructions to Martha about hwat to do on his plantations while he was away, and he knew and remembered every detail about each of his holdings, down to the health of each of his slaves and which overseers should be gotten rid of.
The average historian cannot understand that. I can understand it, but I could never DO it.
I have been in situations where people were trying to kill me. In those cases I never wrote one single calm letter about hwat stock I planned to purchase if the market looked promising.
George Washington assassination plots were everywhere. The British Army could appear out of nowhere and wipe his tiny frozen army out at any moment. But Old Dumb George kept writing letters reminding Martha to get those damned overseers out of bed at dawn.
I am sure that most historians consider him Old Dumb George, a man who simply did not understand how serious things were.
I have heard some of them say so, but not in print.
Actually, the Revolution was over in July of 1776, so long as GW kept his army in one piece.
By July 1776 every single colony had chased its Royal Officials out.
There was no going back.
The Revolution was costing Britain a fortune every day it kept going. Britain couldn’t afford it forever.
So GW lost New York, but savedhis army.
GW lost the nation’s capitol, Philadelphis, and kept his army in being.
We lost Charleston. We lost Savannah, which was about there was of the pitiful little colony of Georgia.
It was exactly like Napolean when he took Moscow in 1812. By all the rules, he had won.
Dumb George didn’t understand why those rules mattered. Britain was bleeding, and possession is nine points of the law. They had all the places that constituted Victory.
GW just sat around and thought about it, and he realized that none of that mattered. He just kept bleeding Britain.
That, my friends, is GENIUS.
Every historian understands why Napolean’s conquest of Moscow in 1812 destroyed him.
But they cannot see that GW foresaw all that in the 1770′s.
The point is that Napolean was a high-IQ type. GW was a genius.
George Washington, the None-Too-Bright Genius
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 5/25/2006
Washington towers above the other Founding Fathers, but you almost never hear a quote from him.
If you do hear a quote from him, it was probably written for him by Hamilton or somebody. If you read biographies of GW you simply cannot conclude that his IQ would have tested above average.
I have studied and worked with testing a LOT. I worked with my doctor brother and we came up with testing methods he was especially invited to Walter Reed to talk about.
PLEASE don’t get bogged down into what IQ tests test. Analogy tests are better, becasue IQ tests were developed to tell the difference between the LEGAL, not medical, categories of idiot, imbecile, moron, subnormal and normal.
Mensa be damned, IQ tests are admissible in court, but they are NOT admissible to talk about how BRIGHT someone is. The analogy test is better for that.
The point is that even the best “intelligence” test, the PERFECT intelligence test, would have classified GW as about average.
But Washington was a genius.
There is a CORRELATION between intelligence and genius. There is a CORRELATION between I and height.
But Napolean was still highly intelligent.
Genius is CORRELATED to tested intelligence. But GW was a genius.
You see, intelligence is largely a matter of how fast your mind works, among other things. So while a highly intelligent person will LEARN to read fast, a genius like GW will never read fast.
Charlemagne tried hard, but he never learned to read at all.
So while a high-IQ person could leap from mountaintop to mountaintop in an hour, old George could ponder and ponder and ponder and finally come up with something said high-IQ type would NEVER come to.
That is what GENIUS is: Thinking of something no one else would EVER think of.
When the fighting in Boston got under way, a lot of people tried to jockey their way into being the Commander in Chief of the inevitable new American Army. They spoke, they made conncetions, they did the whole thing.
There is no record that Washington ever said a thing as a member of hte House of Burgesses. He figured he couldn’t compete that way.
So he just showed up at each session with his uniform on, six feet two inches of Silent Dignity. That was genius.
No big speeches, those were for politicians. No jockeying. That just made the other jockeys hostile.
He just showed up in his uniform saying, “When you stop babbling and want to get serious, I’m here.”
Actually GW wasn’t much of a general.
I will now do a separate piece on how he won the Revolution.
Competitive Strange
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 5/24/2006
In response to my article on General Zhukov’s Coke, one regular commenter said that Zhukov did get caught drinking Coke and ended up being found frozen to death.
Then another commenter pointed out that the first commenter had the wrong frozen corpse, and went on to explain that she knew about THAT frozen corpse and it was not General Zhukov, but an entirely different person Stalin left to be found frozen to death she happened to know all about.
Now Ole Bob is not in the World Olympics as the Most Normal Person on Earth, but this kind of commenter exchange lets me know that I am not the Least.
Granted that commenters for Bob’s Blog are not your average person, but it comforts me to know that you can calmly discuss WHICH frozen corpse left out in the tundra is the RIGHT frozen corpse left out in the tundra.
In the world which calls itself normal, there are very few true connisseurs of frozen corpses.
I am proud to announce that a major portion of them are right here.
Funny AND True
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 5/24/2006
I am about to write a piece explaining that one cannot understand the true genius of George Washington unless you first realize, I mean really take into account, the fact that he was not very bright.
This reminds me once again that most of the really important realizations in my life have sounded like jokes.
One of my best insights was taken entirely as a joke by every commenter.
Everybody talks about how their heart bleeds for poor Mexico. I wrote an article pointing out that fact that I wish WE had a Great Northern Neighbor the way Mexico does.
What would our Great Northern Neighbor look like? It would be made up of beautiful Nordics who made us look colored.
What would our Great Northern Neighbor be like?
It would have ten times our per capita income. When one of hteir companies sent a branch office to our area they would Exploit us by paying us at least five times as much as we get right now.
A minimum wage job from up there would start at fifty grand a year.
I could live with that.
You know how the average Mexican lives? Our Great Northern Neighbor would see our presnt standard living the same way.
Do you know thw malnutrition and bad teeth and diseases the average Mexican takes for granted. Can you IMAGINE the kind of health the aveage Mexican would take for granted if the United States didn’t EXIST?
They would look at the diseases and old age we take for granted EXACTLY the same way. Medical breakthroughs would be pouring through like a flood.
But it sounded like a joke.
It wasn’t.
I would LOVE to have a Great Northern Neighbor I could sneak into and earn two hundred dollars an hour.
And they would think they were EXPLOITING me.
But I understand why you considered this a joke.
But if you looked at the world this way, what a difference it would make?
Instead of whipping outselves about how POOR Mexico is by our standards, we would look at a world where Mexico existed and we did not.
That is a wholey different, a wholey realistic, worldview.
So why does it sound funny?
Because humor consits of insights. Humor consists of looking at things in a shocking way.
You know the old joke about the man who walked into the doctor’s office with a bird on his head?
The doctor asks, “What can I do for you?”
The bird replies, “I want you to get this guy off my ass.”
The humor is the surprise of looking at the world from an entirely different point of view, the BIRD’S point of view.
To a man who thinks like I do, the way so-called smart people look at the world is a series of jokes.
Zhukov’s Coke
General Zhukov was a Soviet commander in World War II.
He tried Coca-Cola in some parties with Americans and he LOVED it.
But Coca-Cola was a symbol of capitalism and it was banned in Stalin’s USSR.
So the Coca Cola company made up special batches of Coke for General Zhukov. During World War II, fifty years before the clear cola came on the market, they left out the caramel coloring so it was a clear liquid and put it in cases marked Vodka.
This was especially funny to me because I had spent many years in my active alcoholic stage trying to make people think that my rum with coke ( actually it was more rum with a splash of coke) was just Coca-Cola.
But Zhukov’s life depended on people’s believing he was drinking straight vodka.
I am sure Stalin knew what was going on, but he couldn’t spare Zhukov. So Zhukov got away with it.
I didn’t.
The fact that I smelled like a distillery and was staggering drunk, so nobody was fooled into thinking I was just drinking Coca-Cola.
But in that condition, I never noticed.
Weird Stuff for a Bible Belter
I talk below about the rigid Bible Belt laws I was raised with.
When I was a teenager I crossed a European border on a train for the first time.
Everybody was getting their passports ready. It was formal moment.
Then several people took out bottles of wine and opened them up.
This was one of hte many moments in my life when things seemed absolutely unreal.
In the Bible Belt, when you are about to face a uniformed government official, the LAST thing you do is pull out your bottle and a corkscrew.
If Europeans didn’t understand the American concept of law versus enforcement, this American didn’t understand the European concept of alcoholic beverages.
Here is what was going on:
If you crossed a border with a bottle of wine, that bottle could be taxed. But you could be DRINKING an OPENED bottle of wine and it was not taxed. Some people had frogotten to open their wine bottle until they hit the border, so they were making it untaxed.
Later on I’ll tell you about the chickens on African planes.
American Enforcement
I was raised in the Bible Belt, where alcoholic beverages were strictly controlled, at least on the books.
When you were on the train, the club car where you could buy drinks opened and closed as you crossed state or even county lines.
This is because the 21st amendment, which repealed Prohibition, has a provision that the state has the right to restrict alcohol. Even interstate transportation was not exempted, so if you were on a train in a local option state where each county had its own liquor laws, the club car could only serve drinks as it passed through counties where liquor-by-the-drinks was legal.
I wonder about jet planes today. Legally the tray that serves drinks should be opened and closed by the minutes and seconds of the corners of counties you’re passing over.
Apparently there are limits to the silliness even of liquor laws.
But very few.
Until a couple of decades ago there were only two states left that had statewide prohibition, Oklahoma and Mississippi.
Oklahoma had a serious prohibition law. Mississippi’s was fascinatingly different.
It also satisfied all parties.
Mississippi had official statewide alcohol prohibition. This made the Baptists happy as a matter of principle.
But one aspect of American law that is so confusing to outsiders is the enforcement aspect. For example, the US Constitution requires that each state give full faith and credit to the laws of every other state, but they don’t. Many states have refused to extradite criminals to other states.
The problem is htat while “full faith and credit” is in the Constitution, Congress has never passed an enforcement provision. So while a state is supposed to recognize all the acts of antoher state, there is no penalty ifthey don’t.
So they don’t.
Many states don’t recognize the wasy Nevada divorce laws. So you can have two legal spouses. If you divorce in Nevada, North Carolina does not recognize the divorce. The Supreme Court in a landmark case recognized this peculiarity.
If you divorce in Nevada and remarry in Nevada and move to North Carolina you are still married to wife umber one, while in Nevada you are married to wife number two.
So Mississippi did hte same thing with its liquor law. There was statewide prohibition, but only the country sheriff could ENFORCE it.
In Biloxi a sheriff was regularly elected who enforced no liquor law at all. So the country was as wet as New Orleans in a dry state.
But the state needed to collect taxes on liquor. A state which was officially dry obviusly couldn’t have a liquor tax. So they had a Black Market Tax, which taxed illegal goods, ie, liquor, beer, wine, etc.
In other words, Mississippi was a dry state onthe books, which made Baptists happy as a matter of principle, and it was a local option state in practice.
I wish I had been on a train during that period in the the Magnolia State. I wonder how they hadnled it when they crossed country lines?
Hitler Killed the Jews
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 5/22/2006
In 1945, Jews became the spoiled children of the world.
Jews were the symbol of everything anti-Nazism fought for. The emerging third world looked upon the Jews as fellow sufferers, looked down upon by the white gentiles.
Leftists looked to Jews as leaders of the Communist movement. Jew bragged about the complete preponderanceof Jewish names in Commuist leadership all over the world.
When the first Knesset met, they tried to distribute themselves on the standard left-to-right continuum, but not one single jew would sit on the right.
Then the pictures poured inof Jews inthe Death Camps. Eisenhower granted leave to members of the Greatest Generation to visit the Death Camps. All of htem came back with testimoney about The Death Camps in Germany.
It came out a couple of decades later that none of the Death Camps were in Germany. They were all safely behind the IronCurtain where nobody could examine them.
None of which ever kept a single member of The Greatest Generation, icluding Andy Rooney, from declaring he had SEEN the Death Camps in Germany.
But there is a fatal problem here.
In all the world, there is no group that is less able to HANDLE the status of Official Spoiled Children than the Jews.
The problem is that today’s Christianity has degenerated into pure self-hatred, while Judaism is now 99% self-pity.
Judaism was always based on Five Thousand Years of Suffering. As Henry Kissinger pointed out, “Any group that has been persecuted for five thousand years is doing something WRONG.”
But Judaism has always been based on the psychotic assumption that everybody is crazy but Jews. Every nation on earth has persecuted Jews, and every nation on earth, except the Jews, has always been wromg.
If I walk up to you and say, “Everybody’s crazy but me,” you would try to put as much distance between yourself and this nut as you could.
“Everybody’s crazy but me” is the CLASSIC line of a psychotic.
But “Everybody’s crazy but me” is the BASIS of Judaism.
So Jews were the world’s love children in 1945.
Now who loves the Jews?
Easstern Europe hates Jews in the old way. The French amabssador in the US referred to Israel as “that sh—y little country.” And the anti-Semitic Arabs have just BEGUN to arrive in France.
Those Arabs, who like Jews just a little less than Adolf did, are courtesy of the Jews. After World War II, Jews decieded they would GET white gentiles, once and for all. So they called anybody who opposed third world immigration into Europe Nazis.
So in came the Moslems. Tens of millions of Moslems.
Jews had long since decided to get their revenge on white gentiles through Bolshevism. So they backed the Communists who took over Eastern Europe.
Who loves Jews more, Eastern Europeans or Moslems?
It’s a close contest.
If Jews are so smart, why are they digging their own grave?
Maturity Without Senility
Posted by Bob in Bob, How Things Work on 5/22/2006
At first I was hurt that Peter had taken me wrong about my joking that he was a Pain.
In fact, I thought that when he took Pain as his new name, he was in on the joke. So I thought he would find another jab entertaining. So when he told me he thought I was insulting him, I was stunned.
The something finally occurred to me.
Here is a senstive young man fighting the same battle alone that I did. If I had found someone like Ole Bob, I would have been very happy.
But what would I have done if Ole Bob turned around and insulted the hell out of me, not once but twice?
My reaction would probably have been to go ape.
Peter’s reaction was to be deeply disappointed and say so.
Peter is definitely not the sort of person who takes abuse lying down.
The simple fact is that Peter considered Ole Bob too damned valuable to dump.
It took me two days to realize that I have been handed one hell of a compliment.
It took me two days to realize this after fifty years of experience. Half a century ago I would never have caught on.
Another hundred years or so and I could be really SMART.
Confusing Rooting
In the 1790s Americans who had supported the French Revolution were revolted by Robespierre’s Terror. They were appalled when Napolean used the Revolution to set up his own monarchy.
Many Americans loved England, despite all she had done to us. But most of us hated her guts.
So with Britain and France in the midst of a twenty-year struggle, which side did you back?
A statement began to be made that has been repeated by healthy Amerians down through the ages:
“It’s just too bad that BOTH sides can’t lose.”
During World War II neutral Ireland hated the Brits but it loved the Americans. The prevailing sentiment was that they hoped the Americans would win and the Brits would lose.
Since the Brits and the Americans were on the same side, this was a wish that would be a little hard to grant.
But as good Catholics, I am sure some of the Irish hoped for this miracle.
I am sure a bit of good Irish whiskey made the whole thing seem plausible.
In the Middle East, both sides are despicable for the average American.
I sonder if you have ever noticed a fundamental difference between complaints about news coverage in America and in the Middle East?
In America, we all complain that we do not get enough attention. In the Middle East,t he ideal is to be ignored.
Nobody in the meida ever reports what the Israeiles were doing this week,and Israel likes that just fine.
In the Middle East all attnetion is on what the Iranians are doing or what the Palestinians are doing or what the Iraqi resisitance is doing.
And it turns your stomach.
This time, both sides deserve to lose, and both sides are likely to lose.
Questioning? Minds?
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 5/22/2006
There is a lot of disagreement about how much efffect heredity has versus environment.
The post-World War II period, when the Greatest Generation went to college to get indoctrinated on the GI Bill, was the halycon period of pure environment versus heredity.
I was there. Any mention of heredity was instantly branded Nazism. But that period wore itself out as more and more discoveries about genetics surfaced.
In the period 1945-1955, though, one could say without fear of contradiction on campus that there was no such thing as genetics when it came to human intelligence.
Nobody SAYS that today, but it is the unspoken assumption in every classroom, and no student ever challenges it.
The argument today is whether heredity makes 50 or 90% of the difference in determining who will commit crime or one’s choice of toothpaste. Identical twins reunited separated at birth almost always use the same one and usually commit the same crimes at the same ages.
But you will sit in social science and science classes for a thousand hours and never hear one single word about hte effect of hereidty on human action.
But if the disagreement is about how much of human action is causd by heredity and how much by nurture, surly htose questioning young minds that are supposed to be so revolutionary would ask why this is never mentioned in ANY class.
In the 1960s, when Mommy Professor’s Young Revolutionaries were out there demanding that the whole economy be made Marxist and everything be turned over to “the intellectuals,” meaning Mommy Professor, those so-called “radicals” were the most obedient people imaginable.
No “young radical” EVER asked why heredity was never discussed. They attacked anybody physically who asked about it.
Those were the Questioning Young Minds Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather always praised to the skies.
But the iron lock on all discussion of what REALLY determines the human future is as solidly in place today as it was in 1955.
And no young “mind” questions it.
Political Correctness and Treason
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 5/22/2006
You’ve heard anti-whites introcude themselves this way:
“First of, let me introduce myself. I am English, white, have blue eyes, …”
Readers need to understand this particular psychosis. It reminds me of the Communists who used to begin by bragging that they were born and raised in Middle America.
Why is it a virtue to declare that one is not merely anti-American or anti-white, but that one is also a genuine, dyed-in-the-wool, total traitor?
The reason is that, for Mommy Professor, the ultimate virtue for an American or a white gentile is to hate his own people. For white gentiles who belong to the cult of Political Correctness self-hatred IS virtue. Self-destruction is the ultimate Good.
But, unlike Christian monks, the religion of Political Correctness does not demand PERSONAL self-torture and locking oneSELF away in sterility and self-mortification.
Political Correctness sees salvation as the destruction of one’s own country and one’s own race.
So monks begin by explaining they are not homosexuals. They are lustful and are committing genetic suicide nad are therefore to be admired.
And Political Correctness has one start by saying he is blond and blue-eyed and he would be pro-white except for his Virtue.
To me anyone who thinks self-destruction is a virtue is simply a sicko.
But you may need this explanation of why they brag about it.
Peter Took Me Seriously!
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 5/22/2006
Peter thought my joke about him was an insult!
I can’t BELIEVE it!
No, Peter, I was kidding you, you know how I kid myself.
Y9u remember when I “exposed” myself and LibAnon as closet Jews?
Neither LibAnon nor I are Jews.
I am sorry you took it wrong. It was intended as an inside-the-family kidding.
I don’t know what to do when I kid somebody close to me and they take it seriously.
I apologize.
Elizabeth
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session, Comment Responses on 5/21/2006
No, Elizabeth, there will be no Mexican War.
Jews and nonwhites only make war on women and children.
They mix with our women and they brainwash and bus our children.
A group of coloreds will gang up on one unarmed white man, but NEVER on an armed one. If he’s carrying, he’s not a suburbanite type.
In Georgetown, DC, I once chased a whole group of hippies off who were assaulting a member of the Nazi Party who was along and in uniform and whose car had stopped. Two of us were too many for fifty or a hundred Love Generation types to take on.
Don’t flatter them by calling it a WAR. Their idea of war is bedding a white woman or busing a child.
The only “war” they will ever fight is one in which we are not allowed to shoot.
Elizabeth says:
Given recent events, I can’t help but wonder if the Second Mexican-American
War is imminent.
There are reports — not yet in the national media, of course — that the
Mexican Army is on their side of the border, assisting drug dealers and
other border sneakers.
Now our National Guard is going down there, to parts of our side of the border.
I’ve heard some interesting things about just who’s been crossing the border.
I defy anyone to look at a group of silent, identically-dressed brown men and
determine their nations of origin.
Comment by Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 5/21/2006
As I waded through 68 pieces of spam to get three commenters’ words, I was awakened by Elizabeth’s putting in NOT SPAM!
It helped a lot.
Moving Towards Pearl Harbor
Since Stormfront seems to exist mostly for tlaking about Jews and the Middle East, I’ll mkae some comments on that.
History repeats itself with tiresome regularity.
We are right now awaiting the Pearl Harbor that will allow us to go into full scale war against Iran.
In other words, we are about in 1938.
In 1938 Roosevelt and Churchill were trying desperately to get a total war against Nazi Germany going. If you will read the media right now you will see that their comments about Iran are almost exactly the same as they were about Hitler in 1938.
Iraq was a pushover. Iran will be a hell of a fight. This may be the first time the US has actually declared war since 1941.
However, no amount of SFers joining the tens of millions of critics of Bush is going to make any difference.
Just get our position on the record and go on to OUR fight.
That’s my advice, but I have been overwhelmed here.
So they need to take the same steps they did in the late 1930s when they wanted to make the world safe for Communism by stamping out fascism.
The world will not be safe for Israel as long as Iran is not bombed out and occupied.
I know htat.
What am I not screaming about it?
The only point to be made here that isn’t being made more and more by all the anti-Bushites is the historical context.
And the historical context does not fit into news about Bush’s stinky feet and the latest mean-Israel story.
I am not pounindg on it because it won’t do any good right now.
If I have to fight on the real issues all by myself, my time is even more valuable, and there isn’t a lot of it left.
Have I Ever Met Any Non-Whites?
Writing is WORK, so I hope you don’t mind my repeating exchanges from Stormfront that I feel might interest you.
Here’s one:
When I was working on Capitol Hill, one elevator operator was a black woman with whom I exchanged jokes all the time.
Once I told her the air conditioner was set too high. What I needed, I told her, was one of those old funeral home church fans they used to have in our churches. She said she’d get me one.
The next week I was rusing my congressman to the airport with another staff member. She was on duty and she handed me the fan. I thanked her and we shared a few reminiscences from Down South.
As we let the elevator, the other staffer said, “I thought you people down there HATED blacks.”
I replied, “If you’re from where I’m from and you hated blacks, you would have gone NUTS.”
The congressman laughed. He knew Southerners.
Yes, the blacks I associated with everywhere knew my views on race.
Calling someone’s else’s opinion “Hate” is a tactic. It justifies bigotry. It justifies using force to suppress opposing points of view. It has nothing to do with the truth.
I was in Africa and I squatted against the wall in black African houses and shared their grits.
They told other whites that I was “very African,” which is something they usually say only about the Boere.
That doesn’t mean they liked me or didn’t, any more than they love die Boere. It did indicate fairly strongly that I was not unfamiliar with blacks.
As a Reagan appointee, I worked with black Senior Executive Service (SES) the equivalent of generals in the civil service.
I worked in the kilns with blacks on brick plants.
One of the blacks SES showed me a clipping he carried in his pocket abouthis grandfather having himself carried to the poll to vote in 1944 in Mississippi. Since we were both Southerners, the idea of carrying a clipping about your grandfather in your wallet didn’t seem odd.
Another black SES was the only person there who, like me, would SQUAT by a seated person for a quick conversation. If you’re fairly athletic, it’s much easier than finding a chair for two minutes and more polite than hovering, at least to us. Only Southerners and Westerners SQUAT.
Like all old men I could keep this up for pages.
What was your question again?
[QUOTE=Supreme Within]I’d like to honestly ask, how many have you been in contact with?
It seems to me that many WNs have been saying the same thing about blacks (and other races) that has been reiterated over and over, and I don’t get any other proof other than statistics, that can be taken well out of their contextual bases. And when I hear things about people interacting with Black people, it is always negative.
Some might ask me how many WNs I have met or have been interacting with in some way (internet), and while it is in few amount (3), only one person treated me with some decent respect. If any WN wishes to know about my experiences, I will simply post here if you wish.
I think that many WNs don’t actually know on a first-hand basis about blacks, and would rather hand out statistics about violence, and other negativity about blacks. I would like to know who’s really been in contact with someone real rather than statistics or what knowledge you have based on an availability heuristic.[/QUOTE]
41-1
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 5/19/2006
I just went through 41 pieces of spam to get one real comment.
I have extreme attnetion deficit disorder.
So if I ever cut out your comment, please repeat it. I haven’t disallowed any comment in months, so if you don’t see yours, PLEASE repeat it.
In fact, it wouldn’t be a bad idea if you put NOT SPAM at the top so I can edit it out and not miss your post.
Don’t Overreact
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 5/18/2006
Some people will misinterpret the article below:
“P is for Peter, P Is for Pain.”
They will say, “Bob, you are telling a senstive young man that everybody hates him.”
That is NOT what I am saying.
Most people don’t know Peter that well.
“Race Does not Exist” — Another PC Myth Goes Down
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session, How Things Work on 5/18/2006
The Wall Street Journal is America’s most fanatically anti-white national publication. They want third world immigration desperately.
The official WSJ position has for decades been that an amendment to the US Constitution should be passed that simply says:
“There shall be no borders.”
But even WSJ has to sometimes report the truth:
http://www.racesci.org/in_media/genetic_markers.htm
Race Linked to Genetic Markers
CHRISTOPHER WINDHAM
Wall Street Journal, 02/01/2005
In the latest study to wade into the question of whether race is a biologically based
category or a socially constructed label, scientists at Stanford University claim to have
found that 326 genetic ‘markers’ — segments of DNA — can be used to cluster people into
four groups, with each group corresponding to common racial categories: white,
African-American, East Asian and Hispanic.
For more than a decade some geneticists and anthropologists have argued that race isn’t
biologically real and therefore shouldn’t be used in medical research and clinical practice.
The argument is based on the fact that, for
thousands of years, humans have been marrying and having children with people of different ancestry, with the result that everyone’s genes come from the same big, humanwide pool.
The mapping of the human genome and growing interest in race-based pharmaceuticals have stirred the debate in recent years.
The study, published in the February issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, involved 3,636 people enrolled in a large trial on the genetics of hypertension. To see
whether genetic markers correspond to the standard racial categories, the scientists first analyzed the volunteers’ DNA, identifying which genetic markers they carried. They then used
a computer program to cluster people based on genetic similarities; those who shared genetic markers were grouped together. Finally, the scientists compared those groupings with the volunteers’ self-identified race. The result: people who considered themselves white had
been grouped by the computer, based on their genetic markers, in one cluster, while people who consider themselves African-American had been grouped in a second, different cluster.
The same held for Hispanics and East Asians. Only five people had DNA that matched an ethnic group different than the racial or ethnic box they checked at the outset of the tudy.
“People have argued that race and ethnicity are purely social categories,” says Neil Risch, the study’s lead author, who is director of the Center for Human Genetics at the University
of California, San Francisco. “We’ve shown that socially defined ethnic categories correspond with genetic categories.” The findings are convincing because of the large number of genetic markers — 326 — used to cluster the participants, he says.
The study of the relationship between race and genetics largely is viewed in the medical community as a way to better understand why some ethnic groups suffer and die
disproportionately from certain illnesses than others. It also could help physicians predict which patients might respond better to certain drugs, geneticists say.
But using random genetic markers to show links to ancient geographic ancestry doesn’t reveal much about how such markers might be predictive in disease, says geneticist J. Craig Venter,
who led the private effort to sequence the human genome and is part of the J. Craig Venter Institute. The markers aren’t actually genes, but merely segments of DNA whose function is unknown.
P is for Peter, P is for Pain
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 5/17/2006
Peter is confusing an old political writer with a whole bunch of facts, and for me that is a pain in the Nether Regions.
And I’m NOT talking theology here.
Keep it up. Pain is about ten thousand percent better than silence.
To begin with, in response to my referring to Old Norse speakers, Peter made a common-sense correction:
“I imagine that any native Old Norse speakers are older than even you are, Bob.”
Actually, Peter, the last time I was in Iceland, a LONG time ago, Old Norse was alive and well there. When a new word came in, they woud try to introduce an Old Norse word for it, rather than letting the English word take over.
I understand that the overwhelming majority of the sagas and eddas the Church didn’t burn are still untranslated, but htey are working on it. Everybody else is learning Hebrew and heiroglyphics.
The people who wrote me, unanimously, about my making the difference between knowldge and wisdom were all fluent in Old Norse, from profession to hobby. I would take their word over a Dutchman writing in German.
Once again, keep in mind that EVERYBODY sees knowledge as a lower form than Wisdom. I cannot imagine how your writer, who obviously has a high opinion of Norse thinking, would not have been influenced by this.
Remember what Wagner did to Odin in the Romantic Age. He declared that Odin lost an eye for love of Freya!
Whatever the High Motivation is in the age a writer is writing will be what he tries to turn it into.
So my default setting is onthe people who USE the language.
And what is the POINT here?
Do we really want Odin to be one more Chinaman sitting around waiting for Wisdom while children starve around him?
Human is not a Race
Posted by Bob in Musings about Life on 5/17/2006
The genetic urge is an urge to perpetuate OUR KIND, people who LOOK LIKE US.
Take a look at this “no borders” crap and then take a look at nature. A bird or a monkey will allow a different kind of bird or monkey to cross its borders with no problem. But if an INTERBREEDABLE type comes on its ground, there’s a fight.
This is EXACTLY what the Wordist always told us that nature did NOT do.
Nothing is more of a violation of nature than the idea of Humanity.
The sea change article Elizabeth talked about, by Rushton and Jensen, shows why this won’t work. It was published mainline, which is one hell of a breakthrough, and it shows how a race is a FAMILY. People tend to marry people who look like them, even when they cross the sea.
The battle which produced us was a battle between interbreedable groups.
You can talk your throat raw and make whites defenseless, but Hispanics are going to fight for Hispanis, blacks for black. You would be astonished if am Oriental did not take an insult to orientals far more personally than he would an attack on Australian aborigines.
When someone says something negative about Jews, what group do you expect to lead the charge against them?
Jews, of course.
Only whites are not supposed to react this way.
Nobody, but NOBODY takes this “mankind” crap seriously unless they’re talking about white people.
In all of nature, the battles are between INTERBREEDABLE groups.
Get up to date.
The time is past when a Marx could say that all human class distinctions are artificial results of economics. Now we know that class is alive and well in every social animal.
The days of the sweet little chimpanzee munching on his grass and puzzsling over the violence of man are OVER. We have seen them tear monkeys to pieces and eat the,
GET OVER THE OUTDATED CRAP.
Leave Humanity in the past where it belongs, and join us in the new millennium.
Peter
When I first wrote this for The Odinist, I got lots of responses from Old Norse speakers who thanked me for FINALLY understanding that knowledge is not wisdom.
I have a feeling that you got hold of there was a somewhat interpretative version.
Nobodyis ever comfortable with Odin seeking mere knowledge. Richard Wagner’s opera said at the outset that Odin gave an eye for love of Freya. It was the romatic age.
One becomes more and like one’s enemies in any long-term war. It would have been easy for the word visindum to be substituted for knowledge. Who would want Christ to represent Wisdom while Odin was just looking for lowly information, all oc which JHWH already possessed?
I am the opposite. Wjo cares about Odin if he is just one more Chinaman seeking Wisdom?
Else Chsitensen was Danish, and a large part of her Odinist Fellowwhip was in Scandinavia.
You are the first person who has ever said that Odin sought Wisdom rather than knowledge.
Chances are that what you are quoting was a later adaptation, not as bad as Wagner, but pretty bad.
“Odin hung on the World Tree, Yggsradil, and lost an eye for KNOWLEDGE, not Wisdom.”
Peter says,
FYI only. This doesn’t take away form your point:
En undir theiri rót er til hrímthursa horfir, thar er Mímis brunnr, er spekdh ok manvit er í folgit, ok heitir sá Mímir er á brunninn. Hann er fullr vísindum fyrir thví at hann drekkr ór brunninum ag horninu Gjallarhorni. Thar kom Alfödhr ok beiddisk eins drykkr af brunninum, en hann fekk eigi fyrr en hann lagdhi auga sitt at vedhi.
Which means:
And under the root which to the rimethurses stretcheth is Mimir’s spring wherein insight and good sense are hidden. And it is named for Mimir whose spring it is. He is full of wisdom, for he drinketh from the spring out of the horn Yellinghorn. Thither came All-Father and bade one drink of the well, but he got it not until he had left an eye on loan.
Thus wisdom is defined as “insight and good sense (man-wit).”
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NOT SPAM
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 5/24/2006
The last time I looked, I had to remove 50 spams to get two comments.
Some commenters do not put in NOT SPAM.
Some commenters put in NOT SPAM on the same line as the message
I need for you to put:
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and then to leave several lines after that before you begin your message.
If you don’t do that, don’t be upset if I miss your statement.
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