Almost fifty years ago I started working in retarded homes. Since our problem as non-medicals was behavior rather than treatment, the first thing we learned was the very practical difference between the Mildly Retarded and the Severely Retarded.

Severely Retarded were almost invariably very easy to deal with. They were children of upper income people who took good care of them but had to send them to our institution.

Theory would have screamed bloody murder at this statement, of course, but we had a day to day job to do, and it worked.

The mildly retarded were generally trash who had low IQs simply as a result of their place on the Bell Curve. They tended to be short, rude, cumbersome and all the other things that go with what is simply a bad set of genes.

Like the rules you pick up working in a prison, this one was little spoken of even then. My brother was a pediatric neurologist and I had already done plenty of research with him, so he leveled with me on this. from day one. Most workers have to learn it.

Most workers have to spend their first year or so mistreating severely retarded kids who would love to behave well and be given constant, patient instruction, and letting Mildly Retarded Trash cause mayhem.

Such is the cost of Social Progress.

By now they may separate the mildly from the severely more, so workers are no longer familiar with this particular difference. But they are surely screwing something else just as critical in the name of Marx … oops. I mean Political Correctness.

I wonder if ALL the new prison psychologists are still a joke? My doctor brother did his two years of Federal service in the Public Health Service as a doctor in Federal prisons, and a lot of his research in State facilities.

He was so popular with the inmates that when he left Atlanta, they gave him a framed (?) certificate officially naming him a Honorary Ex-Convict.

A warden told me I got along amazingly well with the inmates, too, though I am not sure that was intended entirely as flattery. He kind of hinted I should feel at home there.

Having to learn for oneself the different behavior patterns of severely and mildly retarded children was the most obvious sign of the Marx… I mean Politically Correct doctrine at retarded homes. I don’t know about now, but back then the most obvious sign when you worked in a prison was the New Psychologist.

They were the clowns of a Big House where there was very little entertainment. A New Psychologist or Psychiatrist was a private show for everybody.

Prisoners would find out a guy was recently out of school and joy would rain. They would vie for “how much sh** they could pack up his a** “ — Emily Post doesn’t have a lot of readers there.

Each one would tell the new psychologist a tale that made the Count of Monte Cristo look like a villain, and after five to eight years of unbroken indoctrination from Mommy Professor, the New Psychologist believed every single word of everything they said!

It took YEARS for each New Psychologist to learn that prisoners LIE!

I just wrote a piece shouting that we are samizdat.

This poor argument about the Mantra that led to that piece relates intimately to another poor argument against the Mantra.

This argument says the Mantra had “already been addressed.” That is the signal that the liberals give respectable conservatives that it is time to back off something that is hitting too hard and they can’t deal with. Believe me, I have been there. THAT is the signal.

So respectable conservatives backed off from “If guns are banned, only criminals will have guns” by calling it “the old argument” that “If guns are banned, only criminals will have guns.”

That is the signal for any good Buckley conservative to back off that argument if he wants to get fed.

I said that, as samizdat, we are under no obligation to deal with any proposals by the other side until we are allowed to discuss ours as free citizens.

Note the words, “under no obligation.”

What this means is that if they talk about slavery or Nazism, our position that they have no right to talk about what we mean to do until we are allowed to discuss issues freely This Nazi stuff is EXACTLY like the Soviets who declared all samizdat to be fronts for fascism.

Samizdat did NOT spend its time denying it was fascist.

This “That has already been answered gambit” relates to another gambit they try. They argue that some non-white countries have a lot of immigration, to our complaining about ALL and ONLY white countries being REQUIRED to allow immigration is invalid.

Our point is that we do not have to answer any POLICY questions until we are allowed to discuss the PROBLEM and thugs and Thought Police acting against our discussion ends.

Non-white countries have the RIGHT to determine their OWN immigration policy without the solid front banning any criticism that white countries face.

I have recommended the money approach to punishing those who enforced the Party Line. This is policy I CHOOSE to discuss. We have the right to discuss what we CHOOSE to discuss, because we are banned from it in public, just as colored countries may CHOOSE how many immigrants they want.

But when the only reason for talking about policy is to show we have no right to DISCUSS it, we have the right to ignore these Party demands.

The really hard part of the budget crisis in the white world is steadily making it worse. More and more people like me have sizable pensions and will be living on them for decades to come.

If we had not had the Green Fashion in the 60s and 70s and 80s and up to now, the normal increase in white population would have solved at least half of this problem. But as whites opened up their borders and closed down their maternity wards, those of us who were out of fashion were saying that it was fun to follow a guy with a guitar singing about Beloved Mother Nature and How Many Roads Must a Man Walk Down.

In all the Love and Peace and Tolerance, anybody who pointed out that we would have to PAY for this crap was strictly not cool.

So we now have what any adult would have seen in my youth. The problem was, of course, there were no adults in the Greatest Generation and the Boomers it raised. They all wanted to be seen as really hep and Kids At Heart.

They succeeded. Nobody above the mental age of ten would have made the world they did.

So now we have what those of us who look down on Martin Luther the King said we would.

We have a mass of old whites who inherited a First World standard of living from the generations prior to the Weakest Generation. It never occurred to any of them that these “sacrifices” for the third world and Mother Earth would be borne by THEM.

It was fashionable to say that the problems predicted by a few like me would not happen and to actually believe since no one, least of all the membership of the NAACP, ever actually BELIEVED that non-whites would ever produce anything but a third world economy, that they would be safely dead before the bill came in.

So we have a huge population of voters with first-world expectations in retirement money sitting on top of a population that is only counting time before it becomes a third-world population.

Which is what WE said.

In fact, this reality has developed so much over the past two generations that even a few isolated PROFESSIONAL COMMENTATORS have mentioned it.

These old white people VOTE. And in real politics, that is all that matters.

They vote, like good Weakest Generation types, for anything Mommy Professor declares Politically Correct.

But only if that one thing is Politically Correct

All that bullshit about the Beloved Environment and Our Black Brethren is fine as long as it doesn’t affect OUR MONEY. AARP makes a practical tradeoff with Mommy Professor’s kids: Our giant vote supports your causes and you make sure we get a first world retirement level until your world accepts ITS third-world status.

For those of you who weren’t around in King James’ time, threescore and ten is the Biblical length of a man’s life, seventy big ones. This is being written on my birthday, March 31, so you can’t see it until what some have called my natural birthday or later.

From my long-ago reading of the Old Testament, it says that Methuselah lived almost a thousand years and others back then nearly as long. Then, and from what I remember this is not overstating the case, God got sick of us.

Jehovah simply refused to deal with us for so long a time and cut us down to 120 years max. As it happens, 120 seems about the absolute limit now which nobody quite reaches.

It is true that the average age of expiration on the human delivery box is much, much higher today, but that is because of earlier infant mortality and hard life of the average hunter-gatherer or peasant. Surprisingly, the maximum hasn’t changed that much since the sixth century and after, when the Old Testament was actually written.

It was not unusual for a classical Greek of the upper classes not only to live, but to be fully active into his nineties, but then, as now, that 100 is a long climb and a serious upper limit.

In the 1950s a person reaching 100 was sometimes on the news. Invariably the birthday boy or girl was sitting in an easy chair. It was clear sitting upright was only for special occasions.

BRIEF special occasions.

There is a guy in my apartment building who is 83 and still has the energy of a ten-year-old kid. It is very hard to tell the age of people when they get my age, but there are lots and lots of people older than I am, and while they can’t do what a teenager CAN do, they can do pretty well everything that a teenager WANTS to do.

With one exception.

In fact, all that football practice and running is miserable for most people. Today entertainment consists largely of sitting there at machines.

This is one of those quiet revolutions that everybody sees and THEREFORE nobody THINKS about it.

The budget cannot be balanced while the population has a soaring burden of retirees. Our budget crisis is largely a result of the Green No White Children Movement represented by the movie Soylent Green in the hippie years.

So we filling in with colored immigrants and huge nonwhite families and the economy has, for the first time in white American history, gone into stagnation and will be doing the usual colored downslide in the not-so-distant future.

Everybody SEES it happening, but, as in the case of the Mantra, no one NOTICES the obvious in action.

In the TV version of The Stand, the big, brave, slow guy said “I HATE being retarded.”

He had been born retarded, but, unlike most big blond men, he was a hero in the movie.

I really identified with him.

I HATE the fact that I not only have ADD (attention deficit disorder), I have DISABILITY LEVEL ADD. A lot of people have ADD, but mine is extreme.

But my disability does not allow me to signal it. I don’t carry a stick and wear black glasses or sit in a wheelchair. I just often look like an incompetent fool or do something that seems thoughtless and rude, and I have to explain it, which is very hard on a man’s ego.

Then they tell me they know how it feels, meaning that with some World War II Heroism I could overcome it. I have never heard anybody explain to a guy in a wheelchair that they know how it feels because their legs get tired a lot, or to a blind man that they know how it feels because they can’t read small print.

So the humiliation is increased when, trying to explain why I made a particular gaffe that may have sounded rude, like not remembering their name.

This is documented ADD that is at a level where, unlike the more general cases, gets me a disability check for it. The requirements for this are rigid and well documented.

The forensic psychiatrists who tested me had, like the others, been sent the official record of my work. One of them said, “I could have sworn from your tests that you could not have done this.”

My smartass reply was, “Half of it hasn’t been declassified yet.” That was true, though far less than half. But it felt very good NOT to have to explain myself for once.

So, while I prefer to be known for pure brilliance, the fact is that part of my strength and reducing things to essentials is due to overcoming a disability. A lot of top athletes used to be people who had had relatively mild cases of Polio. Once they fought their way back from THAT, going on to do the disciplined work it took to rise to athletic superiority was easy.

So don’t get upset if I forget your name. I am also incompetent at thinking of examples of things. BoardAd has learned to simply take my word for weaknesses and he just goes in and takes care of whatever I need without making me explain it.

There is no doubt in my mind that this Disability level ADD is part of what has given me strength other people do not have. It is hard to cow somebody who has had to fight it out in public all alone when he has had to regularly overcome a disability that made me so often look like a fool.

I regularly couldn’t remember an example or a name or a fact or where I was in the discussion. In fact, I was bad at the very things everybody who speaks in public has nightmares about.

Yes, it is hard not to think of the quote, “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”

The man who said that died in a madhouse.

My disability was not discovered until I was in my fifties. I had spent my whole life thinking I was especially dumb in many ways and in my childhood being cussed at for my lack of discipline and my wandering mind.

So I understand the bullying you have gone through on a very personal level, and I think you pick up on that.

Oddly enough, the very thing that made me feel like an intellectual jelly roll all my life made me as hard as steel compared to those not so handicapped.

So if I forget the name that goes with a comment I admire, try to remember that that goes with the territory that made me reduce things to insights that you want to read.

It also explains why I delegate so well, and why my ambition is to have you charge in and do my job.

People who have been subjected to a lot of cruelty tend to like ironic humor. The irony of all this is that all the hundreds of people who lectured me about how one can overcome one’s mental failings with mental discipline were bitching at the best example of doing just that they would ever meet.

I very seldom try to link BUGS with current issues. But Porch Talk is not connected with what just happened. I went from Porch Talk to using what I learned listening to the hardnest and most practical kind of current politics.

Porch Talk can be good advise in almost anything.

One example is my lone and successful initiative to get congress to stop the IRS from unilaterally imposing race quotas on private schools. The reason it is current is because Obama announced his intention to get a lot of his environmentalist programs that congress wouldn’t pass through by having regulatory agencies impose them.

Our most effective argument against this, as usual, was a basic. A regulatory agency only exists because congress cannot do everything. Article 1 of the Constitution says that “ALL legislative authority is invested in Congress.”

John Ashbrook asked each of the one in five minority that did not want to repeal those IRS regs, “Why don’t you introduce those regulations in congress?” It was very effective, like the Mantra, because it dealt with a point no one had considered in many years: regulatory agencies issue regs to CARRY OUT the mission given them in the legislation which created them.

When John died and Mrs. Ashbrook and Bob Dornan were left to debate the renewal of the ban on such IRS regs. From a four to one majority, they damned near lost. They were pitiful. As usual, they ended up compromising.

I wish you could have seen their floundering attempts to defend what John and I had beaten the crap out of the opposition on.

It wasn’t just the issue, it was the ARGUMENTS we had that got that four to one majority. I watched it on C-Span, and even I was impressed by how critical it is TO GET YOUR POINTS RIGHT.

What they desperately needed was me. I have seldom felt so helpless, as I had moved on into the Administration. But even I did not fully realize until that moment how absolutely critical it is to MAKE YOUR POINT AND MAKE IT RIGHT.

Both Dornan and Mrs. Ashbrook were totally devoted to what they were doing, but they didn’t have the intellectual discipline John and I had developed, and I watched them lose a lot for that reason.

Most people are not really aware that regulatory agencies are given only the powers congress hasn’t the TIME to regulate. They’re not legislative bodies.

Read any agency ruling and you will find, first of all, reference to the legislation that gave the agency the right to make that regulation.

But I doubt seriously anyone among the respectable conservatives will MAKE that point, much less ram it down the opposition’s throat the way they would have to in order to rein in the Obama Power Grab.