Archive for June, 2006
Joe, Me, and Ego
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 6/21/2006
Joe says:
Not spam.. Minor error. Working in OR out of your league does do squat for your ego: it keeps it intact. That’s what causes people unnecessarily to need a pat on the back.
Comment by joe rorke —
In your case, not mine.
Joe, I guess I’m just a girly man. I have fought a lot of battles alone and I don’t LIKE it. A lot of times I need moral support and I have learned to ASK for it.
You never need a pat on the back.
I do.
Joe Again?
Joe said, “It’s not exactly the same thing because I’ve lost all heart for discussing things military.”
Good Lord, if I sounded like I was discussing “military matters” I am getting pretentious in my old age.
“Discussing things militaryat my age means things like:
1) Mentioning how you were in World War II but you weren’t one of the Real Heroes like everybody around, merely a guy doing his part in making Eastern Europe safe for Communism and Western Europe safe for third world immigration or
2) Scientific talk about how national defense should be conducted or how Napolean could have won the Battle of Waterloo.
The examples I gave were
1) a squirrel having a bee-bee shot in front of its nose and
2) Geraldo Rivera.
Joe
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 6/21/2006
My comments are ***
It’s not exactly the same thing because I’ve lost all heart for discussing things military but my old pal Rocky Marciano
*** Did you actually KNOW Rocky Marciano?
*** I find that much more impressive than my contacts iwth politicians I happened ot be working with.
was interviewed in his dressing room one day and the reporter asked him, “Rock, are you ever scared when you go into the ring?” I was a Marciano fan right from the beginning. At the time of this interview Rocky was near the end of his career. If you know the Rock you know his record. Nevertheless, the Rock said as he glanced up from the comic book he was perusing, “I’m scared every time I go into the ring.” That’s from The Rock. I was an amateur boxer at the time.
*** Lord, what made you do that?
*** I cannot imagine going into a boxing ring.
*** The one thing that scared me to death was the possibility of going up against hard steel and hand-to-hand stuff.
I knew what he meant. It’s the same thing. If you know you could be killed or seriously damaged and you have a little bit of sense in your head you’re gonna be scared in a certain kind of way. You’d rather go home after the fight that night than end up in a box in a few days. Know what I mean?
*** I know what you mean, sort of. The idea of going home ina box never bothered me at all. But the idea of ending up like the “Superman” actor Reeves was my nightmare.
*** Boxing involves a lot more of the kind of threat that scares me than getting shot at does. You ALWAYS have SOME brain damage if you are on a serious amateur level.
Comment by joe rorke
Thank You, TIM, Thank You!
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 6/20/2006
I got the reply I begged for from Tim. Now I can go to bed.
Tim, bless him, said:
Not Spam
BW,
I listened to the whole thing. It was good show, you sounded BETTER than your recordings. More astute and made some of the typical Good BW Points. You stayed on message and anyone listening to the show for the first time would want to know more about you and your book. You did your job!
Your Host was great —but he is always good. He must be part Irish—maybe Scotch-Irish?? He talks fast and he seems in command. Most Southerners I have been around do not talk as fast as James. They usually talk slower like you. One of the biggest mistakes the Wasps make is in regards to Southern folks. They assume that if you talk slow you think slow. Big mistake and I am sure you have taken advantage on that in Washington on more than one occassion.
Ironically, the East Coast Wasps did the direct opposite with us Irish. They assumed because we talked fast they could slip stuff by us. Now the East Coast Wasps are going extinct. The Bushies of the world going extinct??? I will shed a tear for the Whales before weeping for the east coast wasps. Oh and one last thing, I have no problem with eating Whales. Kill’em and grill’em.
Comment by Tim
The Other Side Shoots Too
To show you how OLD some of the blather The Greatest Generation puts out is, let me give you an example from a COMIC BOOK I read at about age ten.
Even before MAD Magazine came out, there were funny books that were intended to be comical.
In this one, the hero was asked by his girl, after another heroic episode, “But weren’t you frightened?”
He repeated the line all of us by age ten had heard a thousand times from the World War Two Generation a hundred times before:
“My dear, every man who goes into combat is afraid. No matter how brave he may be, it is natural for him to face fear and to overcome it.”
This was such an old line he then added a comic twist:
“So you ask me if I was afraid?”
“No, I wasn’t a bit scared. I’m a Hero.”
It was hilarious. Which shows you how sick a kid can be at the age of ten from the bragging he hears. We were so sick of the endlessly repeated line by then that it was a real kick to hear somebody say what the WWII Generation had hinted the five years before:
“No, I weren’t skeert.”
I was watching Geraldo Reviera on a live broadcast from Iraq. In the middle of his crawling around, an Iraqi fired a long-range bullet straight at him.
The look on his face was a particular kind of blank look.
The funny thing is that I had shot a BB gun a couple of weeks before to scare off a squirrel, and the look on ITS face was much the same: kind of a paralysis with blank eyes.
Decades before I had gone thousands of miles to pretend to be a combat mercenary for intelligence purposes.
In combat a lot of shooting takes place. Some people will hold the gun over their heads and empty the clip. Some lie side by side and direct their fire. There are specialists in directing the fire pattern.
Naturally, you would kind of imagine that someone who came thousands of miles to get shot at would not be surprised if someone shot at him. I have no doubt that this was the case with every member of The Greatest Generation. But for me, and apparently for Rivera, there is a difference between the general hail of fire and explosives and shrapnel and the very rare case when someone actually fires straight at YOU.
Rivera continued his broadcast. When it happened to me the first time, I probably had that same look on my face and then continued what I was doing.
Heroic, right?
As soon as the shooting ended, I went into a total case of the shakes. I couldn’t control my limbs. I wonder if Rivera did the same thing once the broadcast was over?
I always see the funny side of things.
My reaction was not altogether logical. I had come many, many lines to participate in combat. But my whole body went into convulsions when somebody shot at ME.
Hey, Whitaker, what in the hell did you EXPECT? If you get into combat, somebody is going to shoot at you.
It kind of goes with the territory, you know?
So I wasn’t skeert.
James
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 6/20/2006
Note what James said that his lovely young wife plans to do to honor me:
Dani has fallen in love with you. She has not stopped talking about you since Saturday night and wants to buy a dog and name it “B.W.,” in your honor. Do you have this effect on all women?
- James
Since the dog will be named for a man, I assume it will be male.
So there will be another son of a bitch named Bob Whitaker.
That seems appropriate.
Did I Do Good?
I just finished the show I announced below with James Edwards.
I could use a little input fomr you about how I did. If you didn’t listen, you can get it on his website soon.
James would be nice to me if I did so badly I cost him his FCC license.
I think I sounded tired, which may have meant I sounded drunk, which I wasn’t. But more than one person has said to me after other programs that I sounded tired or drunk.
One problem I have always had is that I ran with the top pros. The list is endless:
1) I practiced shooting when a kid with a guy who was phenomenal with a gun. He could flip a bottle in the air and shoot through the hole in the neck;
2) I learned languages around a man who routinely dictated in four languages and who could translate between two languags, both of which were foreign to him;
3) I was a nominal mercenary among the best in the business. They were combat mercs because they LOVED combat and they couldn’t get it in a regular army. A regular army career involves very little fighting;
4) in the present case, being on the radio, I worked for the Voice of America and did some shows under Cokie Roberts on National Public Radio.
These people WORK on their voice presentation in EXACTLY the same way a concert pianist WORKS on his music. Their instrument is their voice. I was, as always, an amateur in a professional world.
The upside of all this is that I learned from the best in each area. The downside, as you can easily imagine, was that I felt like a neophyte in every area. No crack shot, no linguistic phenomenon, no professional combat merc, and no professional broadcaster can do more than try to reassure me.
So working out of your league is a great learning experience, but it doesn’t do squat for your ego.
I am about half of everything. I am half a radio amateur. Naturally I was right there with the best of them.
I was among Nobel Prize winners in economics in grad school.
I have told you before that Capitol Hill is a giant breaucracy. One person who worked there will tell you about junkets and scandals. That means he gravitated to people who were into junkets and scandals. I was a fanatic, as you have probably guessed before now.
The people I knew on Capitol Hill, both left and right, were people I could reach from my office at 2 am. No sane person offered ANY of us a bribe after the first encounter. It happened to me twice, and both times I said something like,
“You know, we have rule here that you never write anything down that you don’t want to see on the front of the Washington Post tomorrow. We can end up in front of a committee being crossexamined about hwat you just said, and they will ask us, over and over, ‘You are a senior staffer. Didn’t that sound like he was getting ready to offer you a bribe?’”
“I could end up in prison, and you could end up in prison, no matter what you MEANT to say. So let’s get off the subject.”
The only scandals we ever got caught in was when we would try to do something for the cause, like supporting the contras or other anti-Communists. Reagan was never accused of trying to get a dime for himself, but the “contra scandal,” in which Ollie North was involved, was entirely a matter of funneling money to the anti-Communists.
So while others write about the good stuff, the underhand techniques and outright robbery, I dealt with people whose word was gold and who would fight for what they believed in tooth and tongue.
But we were NOT nice. We were playing for all the marbles, and the game was rough. But it was not dishonest.
A radio interview is known to be hardest, but it is all I can get besides the Fox interviews. You are sitting there alone in your home while you listen to ads and the interviewer gets back to you. I have done maybe fifty of them, so now I can tell when it gets back to me, but it’s not easy.
This time I had to have both my phones, one in each ear, to understand what was being said.
It ends abruptly. Then you are sitting all alone, while the station goes on with its busy program. You just talked to a whole city plus the internet, and you are hoping you made your interviewer look good. You need a friend to tell you how you did, the good points and the bad points.
I may have a friend or two here, someone who listened to the program. If not, listen to it later.
Old Bob needs moral support, and after half a century in politics, I don’t have a whole lot of morals of my own.
Pontifex Maximus
One of the Pope’s titles that people hear a lot is Pontifex Maximus. It was inherited from among the titles assumed by the Emperors.
What is interesting is something most people do not know about. Pontifex Maximus is NOT a Roman title, it is pre-Roman.
The Tarquins were Etruscan kings of Rome until the Romans threw them out around the sixth century B.C. The Romans swore they would never have a king again.
Romans hated the word “king” so much that when they returned to monarchy under the Caesars five hundred years later, they never called their monarchs “kings.”
Today an Emperor” is looked upon as a superior rank to kingship. A king is above a Duke and an emperor is above a king. It is considered the same thing, only moreso.
In fact, this was a ore point with Queen Victoria. By 1871, the King of Prussia had united Germany and was made the Kaiser, which meant “Caesar,” which meant he was now of imperial, not merely royal, rank.
Napolean III had been Emperor of France. The Czar of Russia also had a title which meant “Caesar.” Even BULGARIA’S monarch called himself an imperial Czar. None of this sat well with Victoria, who was the head of the most powerful empire on earth in the middle of the Pax Britannia. Here she was one rank down from other monarchs.
But there was no way in the world that the British would make their sovereign an Emperor. It smacked of Oriental despotism to them, and the British kingship was too rooted in tradition.
Prime Miniser Gladstone or D’Israeli, I forget which, received Victoria’s undying gratitude for solving this dilemma. He made Victoria Empress of India, and no one minded India having an Oriental title for its monarch.
Somehow, the Romans had a somewhat similar problem when they threw out the Etruscan kings. We have no idea what it was. But they needed a title for first among equals, and they searched around among the Etruscan titles that they might choose.
Certainly it could not be kingly title or even a title of nobility. Nobility was associated with kingship.
But there was one title which was of supreme importance but had no connection with nobility.
That office bore the Etruscan name of Chief Builder of Bridges. Probably it had a lot more connotations at the time, but we will never even know what the original title was, since Etruscan is a lost language. But Chief Bridge Bulder, Pontifex Maximus, held a meaning throughout the republic which we do not understnad today, and when Caesar was made dictator for like, one of his titles was Pontifex Maximus, Chief Bridge Builder.
After Caesar, the age of the emperors began iwth his nephew Augustus, and Pontifex Maximus stayed as one of the Imperial titles. When Constatntine moved he Roamn Empire to Byzantium, later Constantinople, he retained the title Pontifex Maximus, thought it soon said in Greek rather than in Latin.
But in the West, Rome became subject more and more to the Pope, who crowned his own Emperor in the person of Charlemagne, who didn’t want it. But it was the pope who assumed the title of Pontifex Maximus instead of giving it to the Emperor. I don’t know why,and I don’t know if any historians are interested in why the title went from Emperor to Pope in the West.
I wonder about the POLITICS of this.
The Pope became a monarch about this time. The Papal States were his until 1870, and they contituted about a third of Italy. Since the pope would not deign to call himself a mere king, maybe he felt he needed the secular title Pontifex Maximus.
For over a thousand years the Pope was both head of the Roman Church and a head of state. He freely used his religious power to put monarchs and their countries under the interdict and to excomunicate sovereigns for the specific purpose of protecting his own state.
This is not trivia. Like it or not, the Roman Catholic Church was THE Church in the formative yeras of Western Civilization. We still have public buildings in the Roman style, and not just beause of the Roman Republic.
I am not trying to bring back Etruscan religion. We only have a vague idea of what Etruscan religion WAS.
I am not trying to bring back Zoroastrianism. For in the first six centuries of the founding of hte Christian religion, Mohammed had not yet been born. The greatest single religion known to the Roman Empire was that of Persia. Zoroastrianism was its official religion all hte time Rome was fighting over going from pagan to Christian.
Even back when the Etruscans ruled, Greece was invaded by the Persians. The Persians did to the Greeks exactly what Christians wold do almost a thousand years later: They burned the “pagan” temples. Zoroastrians were fervent monotheists. Their sabbath was Sunday. They celebrated with bread and wine.
Christian theologians who are aware of Zoroastrianism nearly go nuts trying to trace everything to the Old Testament into Old Testament HISTORY.
Including our obsession with chastity, of which there is not a hint in the Old Testament. That obsession dominates much of our thought today. This is NOT a matter of religion today. Many atheists in Women’s Lib are as obsessed with chastity as the early Christians were.
My father used to say that even an atheist should know his Bible.
Even a Jew who wants to understand the Third Reich has to have some acquaintance with Mein Kampf.
History is critical. The fact that it is mixed up with religious doctrine is just a fact. To study where we are now, you have to know economic history, military history, and religious history. Ignore one and you simply cannot understand the whole.
This is HISTORY, NOT theology.
Please Listen In
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 6/20/2006
Bob:
Thanks for your blogs! It really meant a lot to me and Dani was just beside herself. Also, for all of your adoring fans on here, they’ll be able to listen to you on the radio, LIVE, tonight (Tuesday, June 20) beginning at 7:30 PM Central Standard Time.
You’ll be my guest on The Political Cesspool, which airs on AM 1380 WLRM in the Memphis area. Your readers can tune in live via the internet by visiting www.thepoliticalcesspool.org
So, there you have it! Tune in and listen to the man behind the blog tonight!
Please Listen In
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 6/20/2006
Bob:
Thanks for your blogs! It really meant a lot to me and Dani was just beside herself. Also, for all of your adoring fans on here, they’ll be able to listen to you on the radio, LIVE, tonight (Tuesday, June 20) beginning at 7:30 PM Central Standard Time.
You’ll be my guest on The Political Cesspool, which airs on AM 1380 WLRM in the Memphis area. Your readers can tune in live via the internet by visiting www.thepoliticalcesspool.org
So, there you have it! Tune in and listen to the man behind the blog tonight!
Good Start
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 6/20/2006
PG Wodehouse, the humor writer, was asked how he wrote. Wodehouse replied, ” I put a blank peice of paper into my typewriter. Then I stare at it until my forehead starts to bleed.”
Actually the way I write is to start with an idea and, very often, what I end up with is a digression into an entirely different subject. Then I realize what I am getting at in that digression and rewrite, cut and paste until I have a piece that has not the slightest relationship to what I sat down to write.
There is a lot of truth to what Wodehouse says. If you sit down to write on a blank page, it is like pushing a car. Once you get it going, everything is easier.
So I started the day by reading Steve’s blog. He went over my basic concepts and that got his car rolling. You cannot imagine how much WORK went into what he ended up with.
My last two pieces concerned women’s fashions. I needed to get started on a new topic. Reading Steve’s blog got me started. First I saw great work.
Then I saw how ***I*** could use Steve’s method myself. My ideas are so basic that it is almost impossible for you to repeat them without trailing off into something they make you think of. This is true of a restatement of any set of basic ideas, but, of course, I prefer my own.
It is true that writing requires discipline. But if you getting sarted with that blank piece of paper, throw discipline to the winds. A lot of people want to write somethig and get it over with. But if you are a serious writer and thinker, you’re going to have to rewrite, cut and paste the whole thing anyway, so let your fingers do the walking.
Digress. Then read your digressions and see what you are trying to say and cut the crap out.
You do not have to PASTE everything you CUT. One thing I learned early as that the most useful end of the pencil.
Here is where the statement, “Writing is WORK” comes into play. You want to get it OVER with. You want to get it all into one piece. You have to get used to the fact that this is not going to happen if you have a really creative mind. Get a subject and ruthlessly chop out the rest. Don’t outrun the reader.
So we have just used one old rule: Writing if WORK.
We proceed to the second rule: You are not writing for yourself, you are writing for the READER. Over half of hte people who tell me they are going to write a book say they are going to write an autobiography. They honestly believe that what happened to them will be just as fascinating to everybody else.
Those books never get written.
And Lord be praised for THAT.
You are writing what others will be WILLING to read. You are writing what others will grasp, and no more.
So, get started by restating Bob’s ideas until your digression gets going. If you don’t use Bob’s, use some lesser mortal’s like Socrates. Then go with your digression and try out the rules above.
This will make you tired, but at least your forehead doesn’t have to bleed.
Steve
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 6/20/2006
Steve has an excellent site:
Hey Bob, if you have a minute between Bilderberger meetings could you please check out my blog at http://turningtide.ne1.net
I’ve been using several of your ideas and would appreciate your feedback. In particular, my last post deals with the religion of political correctness.
Please let me know what you think. I’d also like your opinion regarding the counter-Gramscian approach and its focus on the racial theories. I gather your focus is on the priesthood.
I look forward to your posting about it on your blog, commenting on mine or emailing me. Thanks Steve.
Comment by Steve
I delayed reading this blog until I got some rest fro this conference and eighteen hours of driving alone.
The sections dealing with my ideas are the sort of co-work I need badly. What Steve has done here is to take my general concepts and state them up front, briefly, clearly, to the point. He then expands with the specific issue of immigration.
The word here is specific. Instead of referring to “the ruling elite” vaguely, as I do, Steve has a list of what he considers those specific individuals to be.
Nobody will agree with his exact listing, but this is the fiirst time I have seen the attempt made to list anything except “The Jews,” “The rich,” and so forth.
Please read Steve’s blog. Then go thou and do likewize.
Shari
Dressing for women is getting to be a lost art from what you see these days. Sounds as if the young Mrs. Edwards has not lost
it.
Comment by Shari
MY REPLY:
Dani, Mrs. Edwards, is a Southern girl of the better sort.
Like other young Southern women, while the rest of the world has adjusted to Modern Thought, she has not lost a damned thing.
I was amazed that Hollywood called them Steel Magnolias. It is so accurate!
Shari did not say “A woman dressing for men is a lost art these days.” What she said was that a woman dressing TO SEND A MESSAGE is a lost art.
Shari is not very trendy. Considering what “trendy” means today, it is not something Shari aspires to.
The first thing every “trendy” woman will tell you is that women never dress for men. The trendy thing to say is that women dress for other women.
This is supposed to “defend” women against any suspicion that they are out to get men.
Well, this “women dress for other women” is true. It is true in the same sense that a male peacock does not have his feathers FOR other male peacocks. He wears them AGAINST other male peacocks. Female peacocks are colorless little birds, like us males who are not pimps.
Many women, and not just women’s libbers, would say that Dani put on that dress to send a signal to other WOMEN.
If Dani’s outfit sent a message to other women, the message was, “I am a woman with a triple w that men lust after. Tough luck if you’re NOT.”
My suspicion is that Dami was not interested in putting other women down that way. She is a young MARRIED woman. She has already GOTTEN her man.
I suspect that her motive was to show the world that her husband was a lucky man, and a man with excellent taste. If one is a beautiful woman, one wants to show the world. She sent a message: “James Edwards is a man I love who has fantastically good taste.”
I know that the worst thing you can say about a female today is that she is trying to please her man. So let me relieve her of at least part of this burden:
There was egotism involved, too. She is sexy. She wants to look sexy.
OK, we have explained that, as Shari says, Dani is a proudly out-of-date Southern female who wants to please her man and show off a bit.
But we are still left with the problem that drives women’s libbers, even the heterosexual ones, up the wall:
Who was Dani’s outfit AIMED at?
Did she really want to say to other women, “I am a woman with a triple w that men lust after. Tough luck if you’re NOT.”
That never occurred to her.
Dani wanted to get it right and she got it right.
For whom?
What Shari said was that a woman dressing to make that sort of statement is a lost art. Shari is SO right!
I am proud to say that if you ask one of us totally out-of-date Southerners “WHO did Dani dress FOR?” we would not have the foggiest idea of what you are talking about.
My feeling is that it is more insulting to say that a woman dresses for other women than that a woman dresses for men.
A real woman dresses RIGHT.
Complicated, isn’t it?
Dani, James’s Wife
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 6/19/2006
When a man my age gets told a stunning young girl thinks he’s attractive, he gets all giggly and irrational. So when James quoted his bride as saying that about Ole Bob, you would expect me to be all flabbergasted and talk about nothing else.
I am above all that. I discussed James first and barely mentioned that Dani, his new wife, told him I was attractive.
I will now deign to address this subject. James says:
Bob:
It was good to see you again at the conference this weekend! Too bad we didn’t have the time to get liquored up like we did in Charleston.
Dani has fallen in love with you. She has not stopped talking about you since Saturday night and wants to buy a dog and name it “B.W.,” in your honor. Do you have this effect on all women?
- James
Comment by James Edwards
MY REPLY:
Dani was at the Council of Conservative Citizens’ meeting in a dress that reminded me of what we used to call “evening dresses” in the 1950s. Women wore them on the most formal occassions. They were cut down in front.
Women were not ashamed to make it very, very clear that they were women with a triple w.
So Dani was faced with the fact that she wanted to make it clear that James had married a wow woman and to dress respectably.
In Dani’s case, the top was cut down as in the “evening dresses,” but the length of the dress was what we today consider average.
In other words, she looked classy but at the same time she was stating, “I am a WOMAN, and a beautifully formed woman.”
So here we have a combination of tradition and a statement.
Dani was dealing with a complicated statement. She hit the target perfectly.
But how do you tell her so?
How does a professional with words like myself deal with this complex phenomenon?
I smiled at her and said what I was thinking, “You are SO pretty.”
So why would Dani, of all people, NEED me to say that?
Sure, Dani is perfectly aware of her looks.
But when a man is sitting in the audience, he likes to be RECOGNIZED. No matter how sure you are of what you have done, it always helps if someone SAYS so.
Dani made a statement with her dress. She is all woman, LOTS of female beauty, and she SAID so. With women, what they wear is a statement.
If any man reading this were looking at Dani, he would be thinking exactly what I said:
“You are SO pretty.”
But with all the Women’s Lib crap, a modern male would wonder if he shouldn’t talk about her intellectual attainments first, or something more Relevant.
Let me repeat: Dani very carefully chose her dress to make a statement. She is a beautiful girl and that outfit made it very, very clear that she knows it and she doesn’t mind SAYING so.
Forgive me, gang, but when I see a girl like that, my first thought is NOT, “But I wonder what her attitude toward the Treaty of Vienna was?”
This is the woman James married. She is not worried about her own brain power.
Dani wants a man she respects to cut the crap and tell her that the statement she made with her gown was exactly what she wanted it to be. So a man her husband respects said exactly what she wanted to hear.
Every woman is thinking, “Why the hell doesn’t he just SAY so?”
I SAID so.
James
James Edwards is man who just turned 25 and runs The Political Cesspool, where I was was one of his first guests while he was getting it revved up.
He has a station in Memphis, Tennessee which holds a regular FCC broadcasting license. He is the only holder of an FCC broadcasting license whose station has been put on the Southern Poverty Law Center Hate List.
When the Memphis newspaper called him on his cell phone to tell him he had been put on the SPLC Hate List, his immediate response was, “You have just made my day!”
I have held an FCC AMATEUR radio license for over fifty years and have done a tiny bit of broadcasting myself. It may be hard for others to appreciate James’s genius in being bale to hold a FEDERAL BROADCASTING license in total defiance of all the hate groups like SPLC.
I am in awe of the brat.
James has already made a very serious run for the state legislature.
You can listen to James on the Internet.
Directions are at
http://americacast.ezstream.com/broadcasts/index.cfm?fuseaction=usrbrd&broadcasterid=344&Org=acast
I have now introduced James to you again.
Next I will deal with a more important subject dealing with James Edwards.
He has just married a wildly lovely young lady named Dani, who he says is in love with Ole Bob.
That I will cover in the next comment.
I am a buddy of James. I think a lot of James.
So when it comes to a choice between the important of James and the significance of a lovely girl saying she likes me, I am Puritanical enough to mention James first.
It is merely a coincidence that, in a blog, the next article, which I will devote to the lovely young lady, comes first.
A Secret of Real Power is NOT Getting “Credit”
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 6/19/2006
1) At the Council of Conservative Citizens, one speaker did a truly brilliant piece on how today’s system is run by sociopaths.
A sociopath is a person who is incapable of true feelings of guilt. He has no loyalties.
Later this speaker told me he had read about that somewhere and it had gotten him to thinking on this point.
I remember that he was reading whitakeronline almost from the day I started it in 1998.
If you will look at Whitakeronline, I talked about this at enormous length starting about 1999, and every year I spoke about it at length in different contexts.
But the speech he made, the thinking he had done about this, taught me an enormous amount. He gave an example about an employer he knew whose business was going through a hard time. But that employee is NOT a sociopath. He says that he simply cannot fire his friends, workers who have made the business what it is on=ver the eyars.
This employer, like so many before him, will eventually be destroyed by his conscience. A sociopath will outcompete him by simply throwing out all his old employees and ovging his company to Mexico or bringing the Mexicans here.
He made a number of excellent observations and deductions about sociopathy which I will be telling you about later.
2) But let me proceed to the points that will be of use to you in this sequence.
Another person there is having his first experience in being a staffer. That is, the ideas be had been talking about to his chief went straightinto his chief’s speeches. When you are new to that, you have an experience which is so normal, and happened to me so long ago, that it was quite an experience to hear it about to fresh from a person who has just had it.
By nature, staffing is an invisible business and unromantic. You will hear endless talk from The Greatest Generation about their first combat experience or from people about their first love affair, but everybody I talk to who is staff has been a professional staffer for a long time, so I believe this is the first time I ever heard anyone who made me nostalgic about staff work.
He said that when his boss hit on HIS points, he was very happy,but he wanted to jump up and say, “That’s MY point!”
Now back to point 1), this truly brilliant speech on the fact that racial treason is part and partial of the whole disease of a sociopathic society. Was I upset that the speaker got started with my ideas, which I had repeated and analyzed so many times so long ago?
The fact is that if I worried about people “stealing” my ideas I would have been sitting and drooling in a rubber room before many of you were born.
3) one of our Blog commenters was talking about my discuussion of the drawback our present system of selecting political “commentators.”
The search for professional political commenters makes sure none of them are interesting. We have a professional political discussion comunity which is made up of liberals talking to each other and only allowing in conservatives who are “respectable.”
In other words, one cannot get PUBLIC exposure unless his every word can be predicted beforehand. They have no ideas, none at all. That is how you beomc a liberal or a respectable cosnervative.
But they have to find SOMETHING to say. So they have to “exploit” ideas from those of us outside the circle.
Which, with people like me around, can be made to destroy the whole PURPOSE for which this tight little circle was created in the first place.
I realized point 3) before 1960. But whereas the usual reaction to this is to bemoan it, I was not analyzing reality in order to complain about it.
In my teens I already had plenty of foreknowledge of how bad things would be.
I needed no new moaning material.
So I looked at this reality and decided to USE it. So I became an expert at reducing ideas down to the level where even conservatives could use them. My ideas had to be “stolen” to be used and made mainstream.
In other words I was a political staffer before I ever saw a professional staffer.
What I found was not the road to fame. This is the road to POWER.
Almost by definition, a political commentator has no power at all. If he isn’t saying the predictable there is a line waiting around the block to say it. He is famous because he has no power.
By the same token, the president has lots of fame but almost no power. If that particular man does not get his political position right to win office, someone else will. But the position has long since been mapped out.
By people like me.
People are always using political positioning as Moaning Material.
But where does this “positioning” come from? Ther is one “position” and another “position,” both too extreme for him to take. So he navigates in the exact right place between these “positions” before somebody else does.
That is the key to election. But there is no POWER in it at all.
Obviously no famous politician or political writer ever MAKES the political positions he is navigtating between.
The Professional Moaners act as if this “positioning” was done between “positions” that came from nowhere. Like everything else, these positions were created.
By people like me.
If I become tracable I become famous.
AND powerless.
Break
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 6/14/2006
I just got back from a do and have an eight-hour drive to Louisville tomorrow.
I will deal with recent comments when I get back.
Tim
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 6/13/2006
Tim has a request,
BW,
When you get back from the Bilderberger meeting in Ottawa tell us the score. Do they want you and Duke running for office??? Pres and VP?? Don’t be shy. If the KingMakers knighted you guys –let us little people know. AFter all, we have supported you from day one. I will run the get out the vote phone banks. //;=}
Comment by Tim
MY REPLY:
As I explained before, me and Anonowitz are secretly Jews, and you know how groups schedule things. Every time the Bilderbergers call me, the Jewish Conspiracy is having a meeting at the same time, so I miss a lot.
The Illuminati pose a similar problem. The Council on Foreign Relations’ Inner Circle meetings are always built around the Big Guys’ itinerary and they don’t give a bit of attention to us little guys and OUR Conspiracy Itinerary.
As to running me for office, there is a serious problem with the Bilderbergers. I keep telling them I don’t really want to be president or vice president. I want to be an EX-president.
An ex-president gets an office, huge expenses and the salary of a cabinet member for life. He doesn’t have to DO a damned thing.
An ex-president can make more money on the lecture circuit than a president’s salary and he doesn’t have to say any more than Gerald Ford does.
Once again, you don’t have to a damned thing.
Then there’s the book deal. Each president gets a multimillion-dollar advance for a book the minute he leaves office.
Since I expect to complete my presidency inside of ten minutes, that book won’t be lot of work, either.
So far the Bilderbergers have refused to undersand my point of view. But if we work it out I’ll let you know.
When Reality is Other Peoples’ Fantasy
Posted by Bob in History, How Things Work on 6/12/2006
I wrote a piece about the Torricelli Amendment. That Amendment said that a field operative had to give the name of any informant who had a police to the CIA HQ in DC and get him celared or else stop using that informant.
That was AFTER the Cold War. But DURING the Cold War, you NEVER sent anything to CIA HQ DC.
But the response to the Torricelli Amendment is instructive about the decades before it.
Not one single field head of station (Yes, I am using the wrong terms, but screw it) sent in a single name to CIA HQ.
In recent times, there was a WOW! discovery. When the KGB files opened up, it turned out that McCarthy was a wimp. There were a LOT more KGB informers in the US Government than McCarthyism ever DREAMED of.
In the decades before those KGB files were opened up, we lived with that.
We DIED by that.
Instead of sending names to DC CIA HQ, it would have been simpler to send them straight to the KGB.
Better. The KGB would have lost them.
The KGB was pitiful, but that’s another story.
So here you are, trying to fight the Reds while you know all the officials who get all the money are either on their side or trust people who are on the other side.
Fun, huh?
Have you ever heard of the Church Commitee? Senator Church exposed the inner operations of the CIA.
Now the fact is that the CIA is a bureaucracy. Most of what it does is absurd.
But wht is not so easy to understand is that the CIA was a bureaucracy with a “TOP SECRET” stamp on it.
The only thing more hopeles than a bureaucracy is a bureaucracy that can hide everything it does behind TOP Secret. So Senator Church was able to uncover what, even by FEDERAL standards, was misbhavior beyond the level of lunacy.
Meanwhile there were those of us who were perfectly aware what the CIA was, but found some ways to make it do some useful things precisely because so much was covered up.
If you look at the records of the Church Committee, they never missed an opportunity to toss NAMES and INFORMERS into their legitimate list of grievances. The KGB got what it wanted, and a lot of people disappeared.
Anybody connected with the Church Committee staff did not have to make names public. They just told their buddies at a party in Georgetown and the guy or gal disappeared.
So are you going to make that connection to the media?
No way. That would be paranoia and McCarthyism. No editor would touch it.
Let’s step back a moment. This was the world we LIVED in.
I remember two lectures from two lawyers I got, years and thousands of miles apart. I remember observing that the two lectures were clones of each other.
They both said that, no matter how old I got, I must NEVER say what really happened. I was warned that leftists NEVER forget.
My boss was ranking Republican onthe House Select Intelligence Committee. I was in the direct line of clearance for ALL civilian employees of the Federeal Government.
Used correctly, these positions give you a certain access to files, including your own.
Mine is as clear as a whistle.
I was never an anti-Communist. Nobody can ever accuse me of doing those awful things.
But there are thousands of others out there who are waiting for the other shoe to fall, while the Greatest Generation brags and brags and brags and brags.
George Wallace
Posted by Bob in History, How Things Work on 6/12/2006
Here is a Stormfront exchange on George Wallace that leads to a point about me:
Quote:
Originally Posted by vajo jr
I’ll never forget seeing him in a black church, sitting on his wheel chair, and crying like a baby for forgiveness, for treating the negroes so bad; what a freaking disgrace to the white race.
MY REPLY ON SF:
Here’s the story.
In 1957 Governor Orville Faubus was the hero of Arkansas for defying integration and making Eisenhower call in Federal troops.
Everybody who cheered him then switched sides and he ended up as a postman, and lucky to get the job.
Wallace, like Faubus, did not have much money, and he was in a wheel chair. He knew his former backers would desert him.
If you are an old paraplegic and have to go crying to the other side, the question is whether one should blame you or the New Southerners who left you in that position?
And remeber, Wallace handled millions of dollars in campaign funds.
There was a guy named David Duke who handled large amounts of campaign funds and DIDN’T back down. They spent tens of millions of dollars to catch him on about three thousand dollars of that money and he ended up in a maximum security prison.
Our “supporters” forget us or find something to condemn us for. Our enemies NEVER forget.
It’s like the novel 1984. The minute we are out of the limelight, the enemy starts forcing us to repudidate our views publically for their own purposes.
— ADDITION FOR BLOGGERS:
The Soviet Empire collapsed and all its former supporters here switched overnight from being pro-Soviet to being environmentalists and open-border freaks (There is a book on this latter point called “Importing Revolution”).
But the left never forgets. When 9/11 happened, they began to make public statements about evil people — like me — who had supported the group that carried out the New York attack when they were fighting the Soviet invaders of Afghanistan.
There were repeated attempts to blame 9/11 on anti-Communists.
Do I need to add the following two points:
1) When leftists complained about our support of rebellion against the Soviet invaders and tried to blame 9/11 on us, not one single respectable conervative ever called them on it;
2) Since the commentators didn’t make the connection, no one understood it, ad if they had, everybody on our side would have forgotten it anyway.
3) So the left was left free to go after anti-Communists and no one would have lifted a finger to support us, any more than they helped Wallace or Faubus.
So while The Greatest Generation is in its seventh decade of senile bragging about it gave a third of the world to the Communists, the sloggers who really won the Cold War have had to carefully wipe their records clean of some of the best and bravest fighting ever done, over DECADESwhen they could, and deny them when they couldn’t.
All my life I have anticipated the time when I wold have to “admit” that I never did a thing in the Cold War, and/or declare that I renounced my evil ways and had Found the Lord, that final refuge of scoundrels looking for an excuse.
So I find Wallace blubbering in his wheelchair a little easier to understand than those who have not spent decades dreading the political realities no one remembers now.
Africans? Asians? There Aren’t Any!
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 6/11/2006
Some things are so obvious it’s hard to talk about them.
Find me an American Indian who wants to live like an Indian and I’ll find you a diamond that weighs a ton.
Find me an African who wants to be just like an 1800 African and I’ll hand you Bigfoot.
But at the top of the list, find me an Asian who wants to live like the average Asian when their Great Civilization was the top of the world and I”ll give you Mars on a paper plate.
Get serious!
Dave
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 6/11/2006
Dave says,
With men in general this business of “violence” constitutes their greatest confusion of mind, being far too impressed as they are with violence.
The issue is influence and command. This means the offensive can never be ceded in pursuance of a result. This has nothing whatsoever to do with violence.
Comment by Dave
MY REPLY:
Thank you, Dave!
There are two groups:
1) Those who win and
2) Those who lose.
You can write your arm off about how you lost but you were heroic when you did it.
But category 1) is ALWAYS the one that counts.
Tim
Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 6/11/2006
Tim says,
The only flaw I see in David Duke is identical to the flaw I see in Jared Taylor. They both seem like nice men —except they always stress NON-Violence. David Duke has something on Jared Taylor my book. First, he has been to Jail. And second, he is friends with BW. If he was not friends with BW, I would not trust him. Especially, since he stresses “non-violence” all the time. Even while this govt. converts former army bases to concentration camps.
Everything in History is generally solved with some kind of violence or threats thereof. I would love it–if our enemy anounced that they would NOT get violent. The only reason I pay attn.to BW is because he is brilliant. I have learned alot from reading his blog. But more importantly, he stated he was NOT a pacifist. I trust him more for that comment and because of that—-I still post.That post alone told me David Duke had to be ok. Or BW would not be around him.
MY REPLY:
Mahatma Ghandi, that man of nonviolent resistance, tried to explain dozens if not hundreds of times that he was NOT, repeat NOT, a pacifist.
He would give out little hints like, “Goddammit, I am NOT a friggin’ PACIFIST!” and phrased only a little more lightly.
Right now, we are winning the battle to prove that the violent thugs are on the other side.
I do not know Jared Taylor nor am I ever likely to. But David and I take the same approach Mahatma Ghandi did: You do what WORKS.
David has risked his life many, many times.
Tim, let me remind you of something. You know all those guys who are always telling everybody else on Stormfront that they are a bunch of wimps, because the writer is ready to revolt and fight and do all the macho stuff right now?
You definintely don’t to mixed in with that bunch. They sicken you the way they do me, and they are a good example to keep in mind when you find all this Dream of Peace talk a bit nauseating.
It’s the old story: You don’t pull a gun out until you are sure you are READY and WILLING to USE it.
If David made the slightest hint that he would be willing to use violence he could win, the media would use it endlessly. So why the HELL would he let out the slightest quotable hint of such a thing?
You were talking about how violence determines history.
Did you happen to notice how much violence was involved in the collapse of the entire Soviet Empire?
Suddenly everybody realized that the whole system was a sillyass way for a bunch of white people to live. When the time came for the Soviets to get Yeltsin, their WILL collapsed.
Serious causes and serious laoyalties like those in Europe during the two world wars result in unprecdented slaughter.
But the British under a Labor Government in 1948 had no will to keep India. So Ghandi used nonviolent resistance. He put them in a position where THEY had to use violence, and they did not have the WILL to do so.
If Ghandi had put violent masses of Indian revolutionaries into the streets, India might still be a colony today. “Our boys are dying over there!” the Brits would scream. They might have reelected Churchill, and nobody was more ruthless.
I proposed that, if I were president, I would break up OPEC FOR THE UNITED STATES ONLY. I pointed out that we need only point out the fact that a cartel that retards OUR economy is an act of aggression. I would give them a date certain when we would go take the oil we needed from one of the states that is joining in a conspiracy against the United States, which is the only country of which I am president and the only country for which I am responsible.
Note the caps. PLEASE note the caps. I would NOT break up OPEC. They would be welcome to keep OPEC against Europe and Japan and anybody but US.
In all the industrial world, only the US would get oil at reasonable prices.
Do you really think there would be the slightest violence involved?
As long as we banned reexport of their oil, and boy, would I ever! — OPEC would come to US to close the deal.
They could make it up by raising oil prices for Europe and Japan, which would put my country at a slight competitive edge in the world economy.
No violence at all.
The neos would scream that I was not a Macho Man. I am willing to threaten violence against OPEC, but I am not willing to go to war for the Principle of breaking up this cartel for All Mankind.
I’m perfectly willing to be a wimp if it WORKS.
Inside of History
One can never deal with real history until this becomes part of his gut:
“History is not about the past. It is about OTHER PEOPLE’S PRESENT.”
I love to read history books written in the 30s and 40s. It is hard to believe today, but real, serious history books dominated the market back then. If you want to know why, look what happened to the sequel to Gone With the Wind.
Margaret Mitchell died before she could write a sequel, even if she wanted to, but the book is still so popular that a major publisher kept trying to get a sequel written in the 1990s. But the reason that book was so popular was the reason they couldn’t produce Volume II: It dealt with a desperate, serious time in American history.
GWTW dealt with a people today’s generation is taught to regard as aliens.
So to avoid all the Political Incorrectness, they had the new book about IRELAND. Scarlett went to Ireland and Brett Butler was dead.
No blacks, no problem.
And no book.
Today’s histories always spend a lot of time trying to show how Jefferson or Franklin or whoever the book is supposed to be about really had completely Modern Opinions.
This is what one calls a Just-So Story. The term Just-So Story used to mean fairy tales for childen, where the good had to prevail and everybody lived happily ever after. Today’s history books always describe how historical figures were really pointing the way to Modern Correct Thought.
In other words modern history is written for modern children, average age forty or so.
Modern history is written about the PAST, not other people’s PRESENT. It is written about how they led to the Only True Faith of Political Correctness.
You will see these words: “He was a man of HIS time.” Clearly the writer is writing about his own time. That is not what history is about.
There are three reasons to study history, and the third is now forgotten:
1) You study history to find out how another person’s PRESENT was;
2) The fact tht you are in the present and have to strain to see how his present looked is only useful if yu see point 3):
3) There will be OTHER presents.
Newspapers are there to describe current thought and current events.
To a real historian, the present is just where he happens to be.
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Posted by Bob in Comment Responses on 6/21/2006
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My martial arts instructor once told me to never ask a talented person to show you how to do the thing they’re talented at, because often they don’t know exactly how they manage their feats of genius.
That’s what talent is, a natural propensity or ease in doing something. A classmate of mine who was also a dance major, tried to teach me a few dance steps once. She was talented. So her instruction consisted of telling me: c’mon, it’s easy- just use your body. So I still can’t dance.
I think the trick amounts to finding out the one thing you were born to do. It’s a very hard trick if you’re naturally competent at many things.
And of course our shcools would never teach such heresies as heredity is destiny.
I wish I could say something useful about your podcast Bob, but the site seems to be down.
Maybe you offended somebody.
Comment by Antonio Fini
MY REPLY:
Offended somebody?
Me?
You and Joe make me furious. You both actually TRAINED for fighting. I went into the shooting not only without basic training, but as a presumed expert and leader.
Everything I ever did was not chosen by me and I always was expected to be an expert when I got there.
I wrote about education and was a professor, so I was appointed of Oversight on Education and Labor for House of Representatives. I hadn’t even HEARD of most of the issues I was suddenly an expert on. I was suddenly an international aviation negotiator. I could tell the difference between a DC-3 and 747 and that was about it.
When I was head of a staff on the Ed and Labor Committee, my boss was also ranking Republican on the House Sellect Internal Security Committee — I’m not even sure I got the name right. Since he knew all about my intelligence background, he used me a lot on that.
I tried to explain to him tha my knowledge of intelligence policy was on the level of my expertise that Joe described as “things military,” that is, I could sympathize with the squirrel that I shot the bee-bee right in front of, I had beena lot of places pretending to be a soldier, but he was asking a private about generalship. It scared the hell out of me when he called me about Ed and Labor, but it REALLY scared me when he wanted to discuss security issues.
Seriously, I think he kept calling me in because nobody else really knew much about either subject either, and I was loyal and had common sense.
All my life I have envied people who started in an occupation and STAYED there.
In fact, maybe I fit into the modern world better than most people do. Nowadays almost any field you are in changes so much in a decade you have to keep hopping around and learning the way I did.
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