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Ideas, not News Items

I was asked what my policies would be if I were president.

I mentioned several, one of which was that if the oil cartel didn’t stop cheating us, I’d sent in troops and take some oilfields.

Please note I did NOT say that if the oil cartel didn’t stop ganging up on France or Britain or anybody else I would threaten them. I would not even name any specific set of oilfields we’d take.

I would say, “I am the AMERICAN president. You are robbing AMERICANS. If you don’t get the price for US down to reasonable levels, I will see the cartel as an act of war, a combination against our national interests.”

“We (The People of the United States of America and OUR Posterity) need oil. We can buy it or take it. But if we have to take it you’ll pay the cost.”

The AMERICAN oil problem would end so fast it wou ld make your ears ring.

Naturally somebody pointed out that I was just one of neos out to pick onthe Arabs.

He reads the paper too much or listens to too many “sources” and doesn’t look at the Constitution and stuff like that.

But he also wrecks a discussion that is needed.

He wants me to defend myself, Bob Whitaaer, against being a NEO when what I have put on the table is something any real American has thought of from time to time.

He has fifty million news readers to shout “neo” at, but this is hte only place he will find somebody bring this idea out in the open.

And it is IDEA.

If his sources tell him that command of the US Armed Forces has been turned over to me, he needs to let ME know.

As a matter of fact, I think DISCUSSION of the POSSIBILITY of this action, if it got votes, would have OPEC in Washington clamoring for a deal if we won OR lost.

But before we could do this, we would have to deal with all the conspiracy freaks who are obsessed with labels and the latest poop (in BOTH senses of that word) about whatever is big on the Conspiracy Network right now.

West had it dead right: our challenge is not the antis, it’s debate with EACH OTHER.

Anything out of hte box gets aborted at birth.

And we are NOT going to win by reciting inside the box.

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The Seminar Responds Through Mark

When I bitched about “Comments (0)” here were are the responses:

Peter Paine:***

“We need Mark.”

Mark:

“Thanks for the vote of confidence!”

“It’s just that sometimes I don’t have anything unique or insightful or all that intelligent to say on a subject so instead of sounding dumb (which I do enough of anyway) I wait for greater minds than mine to respond. ”

This is exactly how a real seminar, not the dished-out crap that passes for them today, worked.

A seminar is where an old professor who has spent decades trying to pound half a gallon of information into pint-seized minds.

If it’s economics, there won’t be two sudens in a large lecture room who are there voluntarily.

So when he got his seminar, he had something he lovewd, but which a modern professor-bureaucrat cannot deal with: a roomful of students who were familar with his subject and were there on purpose.

Many, many times he would say, “I’ve been working on this” and go up to board and scracth out a diagram or an equation or something to mkae common sense look academic.

You gotta do SOMETHING with your hands.

He would end up saying, “I want you to give this some thought.”

Can you imagine a modern professor-bureucrat asking his students to do some THINKING?

But many times the students would spend the period between seminar sessions partying.

Naturallly this did not include Robert the Virtuous. But I must admit that, while I sat in my bare cell lost in Transcendental Thoughts, my mind did wander away from the subject the Prof had talked about.

The pre-class talk would begin calmly and then get a little feverish.

“Did something come up with anything?”

“I didn’t, I had a big macro test and a hundred test papers to correct.”

“Me, neither. I had two basic economics classes to teach and tach-up work on my thesis and…”

Finally some honest man would respond, “You gotta be kidding! I just woke up inthe drunk tank two hours ago.”

He was in no shape to think up excuses.

So a Peter would pipe up and say, “Where’s Mark? He can always come up with SOMETHING.”

He did.

But the point here one I doubt any of you who have been in college or grad school can even imagine.

Ole Prof demanded that you THINK about something. Can you IMAGINE a modern professor getting grumpy if you didn’ try to THINK of somethine HE hadn’t spoon-fed you?

*** Since I called Peter a Pain and he took me on by changing his name here to Pain, it occurred to me that Peter Paine would make a great name for a character in a stoty.

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Rorke

Never saw the movie. Thanks for telling me what it was about. Eastwood sure is a tough guy. He sure can put on a tough looking face. I never met a cop like Dirty Harry. He fought with his own department and won all the time. What a guy! Must have taken a lot of guts to make a movie like “The Unforgiven.” Or could it have something to do with filthy lucre? Doesn’t sound like the kind of guy I like to ride the dusty plains with.

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MY REPLY:

A cop like Dirty Harry would be in prison, as you know.

Respectable conservative worship and drool over uniforms.

You and I both know that in the 1930s a general or a cop could be like MacAthur or Patton.

Patton actually fought a real gun-battle with Mexican bandits.

But a general today is not just a bureaucrat, he must be a particularly pathetic, groveling bureaucrat.

If you are a cop who aspires to scrambled eggs on your cap, you have to be an Olympic-class groveler.

I don’t make the rules, I just stayed alive by seeing them.

Back to Eastwood.

No, it wasn’t filthy lucre that caused “The Unforgiven.” He had gotten lots of bad reviews for his money-making movies so he decided to make one the critics would rave about.

So what how would any reasonably intelligent person make the New York Jews rave?

This ain’t brain surgery, gang.

We are dealing with people who are as predictable as an atomic clock.

New York Jews HATE the whole Legend of the West. They KEEP trying to prove that everbody at the Alamo was an abject coward.

You know that gunfight Patton had as a young man? That’s why he wore those sixguns. The movie Patton had nothing about it.

Patton, all alone — in the REAl world — shot down the charging Mexicans one by one. When the Mexican leader dropped his gun, Patton waited for him to pick it back up, and THEN shot him down.

This does not happen in a Woodie Allen film.

So how do you make a movie the New York Jews and their Faithful Goy Companions will rave about?

You make every white gentile in the Old West a Woody Allen, but without Woodie Allen’s honestly about what a coward he was.

That’s what Eastwood was after. The critics went nuts over the film with all the unpredictability of an atomic clock telling the time.

Eastwood is rich beyond anything he could ever need. He does NOT give all that money to charity.

Eastwood is now the darling of Serious Cinematic Criticism.

Neither of these statements makes him a moral paragon.

He is not after the Title of Paragon.

Eastwood got exactly what he wanted.

Do I approve?

A more meaningful question is:

Does Eastwood give a rip whether I approve or not?

If and when he calls and says, “Bob, do you approve of me?” I will let you know.

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Dennis

NOT SPAM

Don’t forget, this is an industry which needs us to survive! Without us nasty racists, they are out of buisiness. No wonder they seem so keen to make any white person who speaks for his race a racist, and anyone else who doesn’t really support multi-racialism a ‘latent’ or ‘closet’ racist.

They need us to survive, just as the Jews need racists, so they can be Jews. They need their enemies.

And in a sense, I think some of us need them.

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MY REPLY:

That reminds me of Gandalf in LOTR.

What if I get my little army and topple the Dark Lord the way I want to?

We can do it.

While all the obvious forces are in full array marching against the Enemy, we can destroy the evil ones

Why? Because they will be looking at the chest-beaters. None of them could imagine anyone would be willing to forego all the glory and hit them in hte one place that would be their ruin.

The Dark Lord was destroyed in the very place and with the very Ring it never occurred to him anyone would be willing to have the moral courage to destroy.

H was confident that everyone would see that the Ring was beautiful and precious.

No one would destroy it simply because it was Evil.

Let eerybody else array themselvea against the Powers That B

We will destroy them because they are laughable.

Then what?

Gandalf said that his mission ended when the Dark Lord was destroyed, when the Third Age ended.

Could I live with that?

Put it another way:

With that, I could LIVE.

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Gee thanks, gang!

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