Outgoing Senator Fritz Hollings, with emphasis on the "outgoing," said that America's invasion of Iraq was for Israel. He said everybody in Washington knows that.
Well, I think every reasonably intelligent person knows he is telling the exact truth, but somebody else who was a Washington insider needs to say so.
As far as Capitol Hill is concerned, Bob Whitaker is not just "outgoing," he is outgone, bit I WAS big stuff.
I was small potatoes compared to Fritz Hollings when I as at my most powerful, and I am barely burnt out fritters by now, but Fritz is dead right, and he is also right that everybody up there knows it.
Fritz Hollings is showing some courage nobody will give him credit for.
When David Beasley sold out the Confederate flag and lost reelection for it, Harvard gave him the Hero of the Soviet Union, sorry I mean the John F Kennedy Award for Profiles in Courage Award for it. Then the John F. Kennedy Foundation gave him a job at Harvard until it came time to go back down to South Carolina and run for Senate.
If a one-term governor can get stuff like that for saying what the establishment wants said, what could a forty-year senator from South Carolina get for saying what Political Correctness wants said?
Fritz could have gotten three professorships, six Board of Directors jobs and nineteen honorary degrees for Incredible Courage if he had just kept his mouth shut.
Screw it, said Hollings, I am going to commit the worst heresy I can. I am going to jump on the Sacredest of the Sacred Cows, Israel Itself.
Let me repeat this: absolutely no one in Washington has the slightest doubt that what Hollings said is dead accurate. But nobody, and I mean NOBODY, has the guts to say it.
This is from an old political enemy: Thank you, Senator. I am honored that you are from my home state.
I would be deeply grateful if any reader would convey this from me to the Senator:
Earnest "Fritz" Hollings, I have been your opponent since I supported you for governor in 1958. But in the end, we are both patriots. In the end we are both devoted to the truth. We are both old fashioned South Carolinians who have this crazy to urge to tell the truth.
Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, I honor you.
August 18
I have sat through many a military strategy session or a spy training session or an interrogator's session where the Hero In Charge told us about how to Pursue the Objective.
Be ruthless, they say. Use emotional appeals, they say.
I have also spent my entire life trying to point out what to me is obvious. I am told that that is what makes me a genius.
I can live with being called a genius.
Someone once said, "The thing about you is that stuff leaps out at you that other people don't notice."
In all the sessions I had about Pursuing the Objective, it always occurred to me that the guy delivering the talk was an amateur. There are several million pros who could teach him what he was trying to say.
If you want to know what ruthless and unashamed use of emotion, subterfuge and ruthlessness are, any woman who loves somebody can teach the course. She doesn't care what she looks like. She doesn't care how she tricks people. She will cry, she will beg, she will blow your head off.
Colleen McCullough said once, in passing, that women have no mercy. She said that women have love, but that is a different thing. Her point was that women don't have what a man would understand as mercy.
Yes, that is an overstatement. But there is so much truth there that it is worth repeating.
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I complain about people forwarding me articles about the Latest Thing in politics. But I am delighted when people send me ideas or disagreements about my writing that:
1) THEY wrote;
2) They WORKED on
I don't even mind getting a forward if someone writes me an explanation of what they think I should see in it. Nobody likes to plow through a thousand words wondering what the hell this is about.
But much of my best thinking comes from e-mails from people who really thought something over that I wrote about and WORKED on a reply.
Once again, I don't want to plow through a thousand words of whatever is on your mind at the moment in your train-of-thought mode.
Write it, rewrite it, and make it short and make it clear. That's what I do for you. That's what I expect you to do for me.
August 17
Yesterday I told you about the Caricature Jew I met in Johannesburg. That article ended with this line:
"I enjoyed the hell out of him, and I think he got a kick out of it too."
"I am willing to bet that he is still saying to people, 'You think Goldfarb is hard to deal with? Well, let me tell you about this American goy ...'"
That makes it sound like I outbargained him.
No way. He got his money, he just felt like he had done a bad job of one deal, and The Deal is his big game in life.
But I am willing to bet he is telling cousin Irving that this American goy walked into his store and left him naked and poor. Let me tell you why he says that.
One thing Americans who are going to "exotic places" simply cannot understand is that we are exotic to them. When I see a University of California tee shirt on a Russian in Moscow, it is routine home stuff to me, but to him it is written in that funny alphabet Americans use and it is from the other side of the world.
I remember a line from a Russian novel, "I will go ANYWHERE. I will go to AMERICA if I have to!"
In Africa I was very often the first American the person I was talking to had ever met. They had heard about us, seen our movies, read our books, but here was an actual American, up front and personal.
I am not just talking about Africans in the bush. I am talking about educated city people who had been to Europe.
So I was the only American this Caricature Jew had ever met. I believe he told me that. So many people told me that I have forgotten.
Now if you meet the only Mongolian you ever saw in your life and you tell somebody about it, which would you prefer to say, "He was just like anybody else" or "You could see how Inscrutable and Oriental he was"?
The big reputation of Americans is go-getters and money-makers. I think the old gent would rather tell his cousin Irving that this American goy took him for everything he had. By now, he probably believes it.
August 16
The only Caricature Jew I ever met was in Johannesburg, South Africa.
A Caricature Jew is the one American Jews love to mimic. They sort of scrunch up to be a little old man, they take on a Yiddish accent, and say things that a Jewish stereotype would say. An American Jew will say this is his grandfather or something, but when I met their families, there was not a Caricature Jew in the bunch.
I think the Caricature Jew is just something Jews love to mimic. They heard it and from their parents and they do it. It's fun.
But some Jews do it so well that, when I met this guy, I thought I had seen him before.
I am willing to bet that, with all the Jews I have talked to, this goy is the only one who ever actually met a real, live Caricature Jew. To start with, how many Jews still have a YIDDISH accent? Lots of American Jews have a Russian accent. Israeli Jews might have a Hebrew accent. But how many Jews today are raised with Yiddish as their native tongue?
Hollywood missed a major bet with this old gent. He was an echte, as they say in Yiddish, the real thing. He looked and acted elderly, though it was hard to tell how old he really was. He was bent, he was thin.
We talked about Yiddish. Yiddish is basically seventeenth century German but it is written in the Hebrew alphabet. In South Africa, where I met him, Afrikaans was one of the two official languages, along with English. A lot of people there spoke only Afrikaans.
Afrikaans is seventeenth century Dutch. This man told me that his customers would often speak to him in Afrikaans and he would speak to them in Yiddish, and they understood each other very well. I tried it, and it worked. The only limitation was that my Afrikaans wasn't all that fluent.
But I never knew before how well I could understand Yiddish!
One episode occurred that was too good to be true. I never mention it to Jews because they probably would think I was just trying to one-up them.
This was the incident: I bought a few things from this gent and we were dealing, of course, in South African Rand.
Maybe he had gotten a little too relaxed bargaining with me. At the end of our little deal, he handed me my change. Then he said, "I think I may have sold you (something, I forget what) too cheap. You should give me a few Rand back."
He meant it. He actually tried to pick some of the Rand out of my hand! Never in my life, before or since, has anybody actually tried to take money out of my hand! Now that is what a Caricature Jew might do in one's wildest dreams.
No, he didn't get the money from me. But who would believe it when I say a Caricature Jew did such a caricature thing! He didn't mind that I wouldn't give him the money back, and I don't think he was all that greedy.
I just think that, to him, The Deal was the big thing, the thing he lived for. One line from the Caricature Jew routine Jews will give is, "Such a DEAL! Such a deal I'm givink you as you never saw before!"
His game was The Deal, and he had landed on Boardwalk with a hotel on it.
I enjoyed the hell out of him, and I think he got a kick out of it too.
I am willing to bet that he is still saying to people, "You think Goldfarb is hard to deal with? Well, let me tell you about this American goy ..."
August 15
The German word "Schwarz" means "black." The German word for "Negro" is "Neger." As an adjective, "Schwarz" becomes "schwarze." So "schwarze Neger" means "black Negro."
August 14
The story goes this way:
A bill on equal pay for men and women was being debated in French Parliament. One of the members was making a speech in favor of it. In the course of that speech he said, "There is really very little difference between men and women."
At this point the entire French Parliament, left and and right, stood up and shouted,
"VIVE LE DIFFERENCE!!!"
I despise liberals and respectable conservatives. I would be deeply worried about myself if they didn't call me a racist. I would also be worried if they didn't call me a sexist.
When I was appointed Director of an Oversight staff on Capitol Hill, my first hire was a woman who had previously held high positions as my Assistant Director. Back then none of the antidiscrimination laws Congress had applied to everybody else applied to Congress itself. A congressman could openly hire only white males to higher positions, and many did.
Nobody congratulated me on my socially progressive hiring of a woman to the number two spot. Everybody knew damned well that I was not socially progressive.
In fact, my male staff had a problem reporting to a woman as their superior.
I hired her because I needed a woman in that slot.
If you go to any successful political event, you will see the men walking around as the leadership and you will see women doing the work. This is sexism in action.
It also works.
If I want something done, I turn it over to a woman. There is nothing more realistic than a woman. Men have the attention span of a fly on LSD. Women do it.
I have heard endless legions of men say, "Women just don't get it."
They are perfectly right. There are many things that women just don't "get." That is what men are for.
Vive le difference!
When you say, "Women just don't get it" you are complaining about the thing that justifies the existence of men in any organization.
When the Great Man makes his Great Decision, he turns it over to his female Office Manager, what amateurs call his "secretary," to "handle the details."
When the Great Hunter came back from the hunt with the meat, he turned it over "to the women." When he sired a child, he left it to "the women" to make the new generation survive, which happens to be the whole point of human existence.
This is something women's libbers just don't get. They take the male view that what women are reduced to doing is just the details. To a real woman, raising the new generation is the point. While men think they are using her for that, a real woman thinks she is using men for that.
My Assistant Director was never satisfied until the job was done. She didn't sit around and talk theory like the men did. She stayed with the project, as the total realist she was, and got things done.
I hired her because I am a sexist.
It worked.
August 12, 2004
During World War II the United States had a top secret operation, now a matter of public record, called "Operation Underworld." It worked with the Mafia. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was, of course, very much in on it.
In the 1950s and 1960s J. Edgar Hoover insisted publicly that "The Mafia is a myth." He did that because he couldn't do anything about organized crime, so he declared it wasn't there.
New York City paid more than double for its garbage collection because it had to deal with the Mafia. Everybody knew that. This went on for decades, until Mayor Giuliani took over.
You may wonder about how people in Washington get their extra money. You can't do all that they do and live the way they live on a government salary and no expenses.
So almost every major political activist has some kind of group that raises money and pays him a salary and expenses. Staffers in congress do this routinely.
The left says it represents "the middle class." Meanwhile, back in the real world, liberal staffers set up some kind of "Save the Spotted Owl" group that gets its money from government and big foundation grants.
On the right, they set up groups that use direct mail to raise money. They find some issue that will excite the grass roots folks right now and set up a group on that issue.
Someone sent me a forward called "Will they draft your daughters?" It talks about women being moved into combat roles and the pressure today (mostly from conservatives, though the article doesn't mention THAT) to renew the draft.
I smell gold. A "National Committee to Prevent the Drafting of Women" might just be a money-maker.
The person who sent this also asked me if this subject might be discussed in Whitaker Online. They could have sent me a forward on pornography and asked if that will be discussed in Whitaker Online.
Not bloody likely. I talked about things like that when there was still time to do something about it.
Being outraged too late is what respectable conservatives are for. That is the sort of thing people who give them money obsess over.
Whitaker Online says the things respectable conservatives do not say, the sort of things that the conservatives grassroots do not contribute for.
You know, stuff that's in the paper right now.
I was warning about the path that led to women in combat long ago, when conservatives were raising money on whatever it is that excited them at the time. I warned about offending people with the promotion of interracial sex. But all the conservatives said it was fine to offend people who did not want to see black-white coupling at the movies or on TV. The precedents they approved of then are now used to justify offending parents who do not want their children to see homosexual sex now.
So conservatives are making lots of money being shocked and astonished at the promotion of homosexual sex. They can raise money on this belated campaign against drafting women.
Meanwhile, Whitaker Online has serious work to do.
August 10
An old right-winger wrote me that the big question in politics is Socialism. A lot of old-timers are still stuck in that time warp.
This was my reply:
Maybe it is because I was an economics professor, but I don't take
economics as seriously as other people do.
I think white people tend towards capitalism for the same reason the
Chinese invent things and do nothing with them while we make
revolutions from gunpowder and the printing press.
We make the printing press work. We get gunpowder and we end up on
the moon. The free market is just something else that we make
work.
You are pointing at economic ideas while America is turning brown.
It doesn't matter what economic or political theory a brown country
says it believes in, a brown country will be a tyranny and it will
live in poverty the minute there are not enough white countries and
white people to pull it out.
Simplistic isn't it? Simplistic like supply and demand.
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Someone else wrote me that the Bible was the key to America's salvation. This often goes with quotes from the Old Testament about saving the People of Israel.
That use of God gives me the chills.
This was my reply:
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, His Only begotten Son, who was born of the
Virgin Mary, suffered unto Pontius Pilate, was crucified dead and
buried.
On the third day He arose from the grave and ascended into heaven
whence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the holy spirit, the catholic church, the communion of
saints and the life everlasting.
Amen.
The Amen means that that and that ALONE, is what I must try to
believe in. It is the ONLY religion I believe in, and mostly I
don't believe in that. I try to have faith the size of a mustard
seed, and it is not easy for me.
CS Lewis warned against "Christianity AND ..." The second you begin
to use God for a political theory, the Senior Demon Screwtape told
his nephew Wormwood in letters straight from Hell, you have diverted
it, done away with it.
He also pointed out to Wormwood that it made not the slightest bit
of difference what the "AND" referred to. It can be an obsession
with fighting poverty, but it can also be an obsession with fighting
evolution.
God is not a politician. Satan is not a politician.
Screwtape, the practicing professional in damning souls, said that
all that mattered was getting people off of concentrating on Christ
and salvation and making them think about "the Crisis" (He
specifically mentioned on great line, "Christianity and the
Crisis"). Get them thinking that True Religion is about social
policies like abortion or evolution or the poor.
To damn souls, said the successful old professional Screwtape, you
just need to get people off of seeing Christ as a means to
Salvation, and as a means to something else that they think is Good.
Anything else will do.
Screwtape told Wormwood that in order to damn people, you need to
make them think they have mastered salvation, and can now go on to
more relevant stuff
What the "relevant" stuff is makes no
difference at all.
Screwtape pointed out that the sin of gluttony has nothing to do
with overeating. Jesus Christ was not a dietitian. As an example,
Screwtape pointed to a very thin woman who was on the path to
damnation through gluttony. She was obsessed with eating very
little, and made unreasonable demands on people, especially
overworked waitresses, to cater to her exact diet.
Today's vegetarian fanatics will fit very nicely into the place
Screwtape has prepared for them. Gluttony is OBSESSION with food.
It doesn't matter what form the obsession takes.
An obsession with using God in politics is a fine wide road to
seeing Screwtape up front and personal. He doesn't care what the
politics happen to be, and the damned won't either when the time
comes. The obsessive pro-lifers and the socialists will be right
there together.
The only thing I use God for is salvation. Jesus said stick to the
Golden Rule and worry about your own soul. If the High Priest
demands more, I will let the High Priest follow his Law and his
scriptures where they lead him.
I am the grandson of a Methodist circuit rider. My first ancestor in America was the Reverend Alexander Whitaker, the son of a Cambridge professor. He was the first Anglican clergyman in America, arriving at Jamestown in 1609 "to convert the savage Indians."He baptized Pocahontas and wrote the first book in English in America.
His book, Whitaker's Good Newes From Virginia, is online and it is twenty thousand words long. It contains long quotes in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, all of which he had mastered. He was a very literate man, which becomes relevant below.
The Reverend Alexander Whitaker died in Jamestown before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
But as soon as the Methodist Church arrived in
America, my literate ancestors left the
Anglican Church and became Methodists.
John Wesley, the founder of the real Methodist Church, lived and
died a High Church Anglican. In his Anglican church, the Nicene
Creed was what adults use. The Apostles' Creed, which I recite
above, is what children recite in the Catholic, Orthodox, and
Anglican churches.
My literate ancestors knew that, and they chose to be Methodists.
Most Methodists were the coal miners, the frontiersmen, the people
the Established Church ignored. Many of them never heard of Christ
until Wesley came to them. My VERY literate ancestors joined his
church. We are the children's church, the catholic church.
We knew that, too.
Wesley went out to the people the High Priests would not touch. So
did Jesus.
And when Jesus spoke of the Kingdom, He never pointed to the High
Priest. He pointed to the children.
All this religion stuff embarrasses the mainline preachers. So
they got together recently and declared that Christianity is all
about helping poor people. This is a line that was old two thousand
years ago.
Some people tried that line out on Jesus. He replied, "The poor we
have always with us." He then explained that He was on this earth
about salvation. His concern was not about Liberation or abolishing
poverty. He was more worried about what greed did to the rich man's
soul than about social conditions.
Jesus did not just minister to the poor. He ate with the rich
tax-gatherers.
That embarrasses the High Priests of today exactly the same way it
embarrassed the High Priests who spoke to Jesus. For today's
leftists clergy the rich to are The Enemy. Today's mainline
clergy wants to be "relevant" to THIS world and stop talking about a
theoretical Other World they don't believe in anyway. The High
Priests love the Old Testament because it talks about history and
social conditions and other "relevant" things a lot.
For the old High Priests, Jesus was monomaniacal and just plain
silly. For the new High Priests, Jesus IS monomaniacal and just
plain silly.
What Jesus did not say was "read the scriptures to attain
salvation." What Jesus did not say was "Praise God" in the old
heathen way. He said LOVE God. The God of Jesus knows who He is.
He needs no reminders from down here.
God is not a dietitian. God is not a cosmologist. God is not
obsessed with THIS life. A person who thinks God is about the
six-day creation or taking care of one's body or changing social
conditions make great fuel for Screwtape.
Jews kept reminding Jesus that the Old Testament Messiah would come
to save the Jewish nation. Every time they brought that up Jesus
said, in every way he could, that "My Kingdom is not of this earth."
For those who want to show how "relevant" Christianity is, the Old
Testament Messiah is very useful. He came to save Family Values.
He came to save America.
And Screwtape says, "That will do just fine."
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An old friend of mine from our graduate days in economics at the University of Virginia wrote me some old quotes of mine he had used. He was the one who started teaching me how to write understandably. We were teacher and pupil to each other.
Back then the University of Virginia graduate economic department was a refuge for right-wingers who were too smart for academia to find any excuse to completely exclude. The liberals soon "cleaned out that nest of right-wingers" as they openly swore to do. But it was great while it lasted. We were known world-wide as one of the best graduate programs on earth until the leftists cleared us out
This was my reply to him, with the parts that might identify him cut out:
I was useful to you because there were two of you. One tended to drift off into the psychotic never-never land of libertarian theory, and the other was a brilliant mind from (his home state). The last one kept asking you, "Does what I am thinking about make any sense?"
What I kept telling you in different ways was,
"One test is worth more than a hundred expert opinions."
The god Odin gave an eye for KNOWLEDGE, not for WISDOM. He wanted
truth, not Truth. He was the only god like that in any religion.
That where WE come from.
Without me, you could have joined the Xs in their chase after some
sort of theoretical Objectivism that Ayn Rand twisted Western
thought into. Rand was a Russian Jew, her theories were just
Marxism in a mirror, like Marx's "objective labor time." They both
looked at our Odinist minds from the outside.
Marxism is a combination of Christianity and the Western quest for
knowledge and science looked at through a set of crazy glasses.
Everybody else looks into their navels or to an omniscient god or to
History to give them Wisdom, to give them the Truth. We look
straight at the world. At the University of Virginia I was a
hard-minded redneck who watched people drift away in their little
bubbles. They kept trying to make a theoretical system out of what
to Bob and (you as the brilliant mind from your home state) was
common sense.
And they drifted away.
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The official doctrine of the Catholic Church is
that life begins at conception. That means the life of fertilized
egg is as important as the life of any young person.
The official doctrine of the Catholic Church, emphatically restated
by the current pope, is that for a married couple to have sex for
any purpose but procreation is a sin.
In the real world, if a married Catholic man says to the priest in
confession, "I have sinned because I had sex with my wife four times
this week without any intent to procreate" the priest would reply,
"Stop bragging and let's back to your confession."
As I have said before, no one could have been a Catholic bishop and
not been aware of the wholesale rapes of little boys unless he was
not an idiot, and no Catholic bishop is an idiot. You don't get to
that job if you are not bright.
When the scandal finally became public, not one single Catholic
bishop was even reprimanded, no matter how many little boys he
helped to get raped.
But the pope is worried to death about a fertilized egg.
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August 8
People are always talking about Hitler's book-burning.
Today the only people who actually burn books are on the left. For example, if someone here sends a copy of David Duke's Jewish Supremacism to Canada, the government BURNS, yes I said BURNS, the book. Not only that, but the Canadian government sends a bill for the costs of burning the book to the intended Canadian recipient!
But to a liberal or a respectable conservative the burning of a book labeled "racist" is not "book burning," so no one is going to mention this to you but Ole Bob.
I wish to hell people would stop bitching TO ME about how bad things are.
A couple of middle-aged guys were bitching to me about how affirmative action had ruined their lives and careers. I warned about all that forty years ago. Everybody back said "Oh" and then went on about how busy they were.
Today I try to tell people what they should be doing and they tell me how busy they are. These guys are busy bitching.
Moan, sob, cry! God, I get sick of listening to it.
You asked for this for fifty years. You wanted to give away your country, you had no interest in politics. Now you get mugged in the street.
Who cares?
Those whining guys today are the exact copies of the generation that caused all the disasters they whine about. They are busy. They got other things to think about, like crying about their fate. They are preparing the disaster for the next generation.
Don't blubber in my ear, buddy. There are still a few things I can do, and I don't want to waste the little time I have left with you clowns.
The white man has never committed a sin other races have not committed. It is the good things he has done that are unique.
August 5, 2004
In a courtroom, who is human?
The judge says to a repeat felon, "Willy, you have been before me five times." Willy knows the judge, his defense attorney knows the judge even better.
How about the prosecutor? He knows Willy, he works with the judge and the defense attorney all the time. He is trying to get something on his record to get him or his boss reelected.
What looks good? Well, a ninety percent conviction rate looks good. All the prosecutor needs to do is get Willy convicted of something. And he has very little time to do it. He needs to clear the docket. The judge needs to clear the docket. The defense attorney is in a hurry if Willy is pro bono and can't pay him. If Willy is pro bono he wants a quick deal, too.
But if the defendant has money the defense attorney is the one person in the court who has time. He will appeal until Judgment Day. So he can make a deal with the prosecutor that gets another conviction on the record and gets Willy back on the streets as soon as possible so the judge can say, "Willy you have been before me six times."
So what about the "members of he public" Willy may have killed and the ones he terrorizes?
They are "members of the public." They are not human.
A person who is wrongfully executed is a Victim of the System. The hundred "members of the public" who are innocent and get killed today by the Willys are not considered human by the judge. His job is Justice, and he believes it. To the judge, it is Willy who is human, not the people who pay his salary.
So you have just spent one clock minute seeing how American Justice works. That's all the time you've got. You've got other things to think about. The prosecutor knows that. The judge knows that. The entire legal system is based on the assumption that Willy and his defense attorney have all the time in the world, while "members of the public" have one minute.
That is why, to a judge, you are not human.
Woody Allen said, "Ninety percent of life is showing up." Willy shows up. The judge shows up. The prosecutor shows up as little as he can. He's a busy man. "Members of the public" have thirty seconds to listen to a television sound bite where the guy running for Attorney General says he got ninety percent convictions.
That's why, to the legal system, you are not human.
August 2, 2004
What does God want?
The minute you ask that question you answer it. God whatever the
Imam or the pope or the Chief Priest says he wants.
That is why every Christian theologian would give his right arm if
Jesus had not swept aside the Ten Commandments and the Law and all
that lovely complexity of contradictory statements in the Old
Testament and said forget those and do unto others as you would have
them do unto you.
The Golden Rule is simplistic and it opens the door to what every
theologian calls anarchy. The Golden Rule threatens to make a man's
conscience his theologian. It took the Church centuries to get back
to a good old Orthodoxy of the Jewish High Priest kind.
Jesus had also condemned the good old stonings and crucifixions, so
the Church had to go to burning alive.
Another serious troublemaker for the theologians was Saul Of Tarsus,
a.k.a., St. Paul. Every theologian, from the Temple priest who
condemned Jesus to today痴 Politically Correct priesthood at the
universities, says that the only way to avoid anarchy is to have a
rigid orthodoxy. Paul said if your Christian Brother wants to have
his service his way, go along with him. That was a tough nut to
crack, too, but all the Established Churches managed to crack it.
Cross yourself the wrong way and it痴 to the stake with you. Say
black instead of African-American and you池e ruined.
Theologians have the sense of humor of snake on ice. There is a
reason for that. A sense of humor is a sense of proportion, and no
one who tries to impose a rigid theology on fallible human beings
can tolerate a sense of proportion.
Jesus was strict, Jesus was rigid, but He demanded that the
righteous be without sin if they wanted to be rigid about the Law.
The campus theologians have to insist that minorities have no sense
of humor. The insist that every Indian goes to pieces when he sees
a team named the Braves. They say that every black man wakes up at
night worrying that somebody is using the N word or that some white
man doesn稚 want him to date his daughter. If minorities are really
like that, they don稚 need Political Correctness, they need Prozac.
Theologians cannot tolerate the idea that Jesus not only demanded
The Golden Rule, but that, to add insult to injury, He even had a
sense of humor. That idea does indeed make theologians wake up at
night in a cold sweat.
When they read the New Testament, anti-Christians hate Christ and
Christians love Christ.
But it is hard for any student of the Bible not to LIKE Peter. Peter was so human, so bumbling. To a fallible human being like me, Peter is the most sympathetic character in the scriptures .
When Jesus handed St. Peter the Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, he did it with something you never expect to see in the Bible, a JOKE!
Peter, of course, is Petra, the Greek word for "rock." Peter was anything but a rock. When he said he would stand by Jesus like a rock when Jesus was arrested, Jesus said, "Before the cock crows twice, you will have betrayed me thrice."
When Jesus went out to pray and wrestle with Satan in the Garden of Gethsemane, He took Peter with him. Poor old Peter kept falling asleep, and Jesus scolded him. But it is important to remember that Jesus knew that, of all his disciples, poor old Peter was most likely to be the one who would fall asleep, but it was still Peter Jesus wanted with Him in his hour of desperation. Peter asleep was a greater comfort to Him than anyone else awake.
And this was the man to whom Jesus said, "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church." If there was one thing Peter was not, it was a rock. It was ironic, it was funny, and it was so profoundly true: this was the "rock" upon which the church was built. We hopelessly fallible humans are the "rock" on which the church is built. And the church, with all its denominations and its failings, is still here.
We totally jellylike humans with all our failings turned out to be a firm foundation, God knows how.
I repeat, God knows how.
July 30, 2004
When you were young you didn't have the cheat sheet. What drove you nuts then is cute today.
It's the cheat sheet that makes all the difference.
July 29, 2004
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be reelected who was not a slaveholder. Until Lincoln only the two Adamses, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan did not own slaves, and none of them were reelected.
Until 1851, the presidency was pretty much a monopoly of slaveholders. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Jackson owners of slaves who served two terms as president. Harrison, Tyler, Polk and Taylor were owners of slaves who were not reelected, and Harrison and Taylor died in their first term.
When Lincoln was reelected in 1864, Union commander Ulysses S. Grant owned slaves while General Lee had freed his many years before the Civil War. Grant kept his slaves until slavery was outlawed by the Thirteenth Amendment in December of 1865. Grant served two terms as president, and he was the last slaveholder president.
July 23, 2004
July 21, 2004
In every army, the sergeants are the ones who make the rubber meet the road. Everything is just paperwork until the sergeants get hold of it.
I doubt that there has ever been a serious army that didn't have more generals than it needed.
Often there is not even a shortage of privates. At the beginning of the Civil War, so many men volunteered that most of them had to be turned away. This happens a lot, though usually there is a shortage of privates.
But every army always has a desperate lack of sergeants.
Sergeants are the backbone of every army, and not just the less important armies that wear uniforms. When you have to get the military into action, the more important armies have failed. War is hideously expensive in every way, and every war is a direct result of the failure of the thinkers and doers who should have prevented it. Those are the far more important armies.
Sergeants are the people who keep the forces in hand. Sergeants are the ones who make orders real. Nothing really happens until the orders get to the sergeants and they make it happen.
I desperately need sergeants for my book, Why Johnny Can't Think.
In the important armies, you say, "We need to get the book out." You do not have to tell the sergeants that they need to read the book, then put quotes for it news groups, contact their friends, find contacts.
I keep begging whitakeronline readers: "Please look at readbob.com"
People keep asking me what they can do. I say, "Please look at readbob.com"
They then ask me, "What can I do?"
I repeat: in the important armies, you say, "We need to get the book out." You do not have to tell the sergeants that they need to read the book, then put quotes for it news groups, contact their friends, find contacts.
We are trying to reach millions of young people, private schoolers, home schoolers, the millions of young people who are paying off their college debts and know they have been cheated. We could win over millions of young people rather than waiting for a bloody revolution in the future. We could be the important army.
But we need sergeants!
No officer tells the sergeant, "Now you go out and get your men together and you tell them to get their guns" That is what they do. They know how to do that better than I do.
Are there any sergeants out there?
July 20, 2004
July 19, 2004
I have been away from Bob's Blog because I've been ill. I cannot imagine anything less interesting than listening to an old man talk about his latest illness, but some people have been worried, which makes me know my work is worthwhile, so I'll put the whole thing here so they can read it.
The last thing I want to do when I've already lost a lot of time and effort being flat on my ass is to have to describe what I went through over and over.
So, once and for all, here goes.
I overdo my exercising, like I overdo everything else. I hate the obligatory time in the gym, so I run and power walk as hard as I can. Inevitably it hit me. On Thursday night my right leg was in agony, and the hip got worse and worse. My left leg just cramped.
By Friday I could only lie on my face on my bed in one position. I also had nausea and diarrhea and shortness of breath and all the fun stuff that goes with great pain.
Let me stop here. I was raised around the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation. They would say that that kind of pain never bothered them, I am just not man enough to deal with it.
This pain did all that to Ole Bob. I am 63 and I don't do competitive macho. It knocked the hell out of ME.
My sister and my nephew, who just came back for a while as a medical student in Moscow, came over and took care of me when they could. I thought I was down for the count because I have bad arthritis in my spine but it is where it shows no symptoms. A lot of people have that. But I thought that pain couldn't come from anything less than a spinal problem and that would have been permanent.
So I laid there face down, got up in agony when I had to, and just generally had a wonderful time. I called my doctor and finally got enough antinflammatories to get the hip and leg pain down to where I could get around again I can sit up and write a while before I go and throw up or lie down, but compared to being flat on my face, it's wonderful.
Basically I am as healthy as a horse and almost as smart. I am coming along fine now. Could we talk about something else?
July 16, 2004
July 14, 2004
Have you heard the one about the man who shot the tiger?
One of the tigers owned by Steve Sipek, the Tarzan actor, escaped. When he lunged at a game warden he was shot. Sipek has been screaming about how that tiger was his brother and he is at war with man who shot him.
Good publicity, BAD move.
You see, if you have a dog that gets off its leash or runs away, you are legally responsible, even if the dog is a tiny one. If you have a snake or a lion, this puts you in much greater legal, not to say moral, danger.
If I had a tiger, even if I had been vicious enough to declaw it (that is a horrendous procedure, you are taking off a part a cat's foot. It is never really a cat again), your legal danger is MUCH greater.
If you ever have such an animal escape, let me tell you what you DON'T Do, You don't get on national television and announce, "That tiger was my brother. That tiger was my responsibility. There is no way I can confuse anybody by blaming this on the keeper or somebody else. This was my brother."
Nobody can tell if a tiger is declawed when it lunges at you. The man who has the lawsuit is the man who was terrified and had to shoot the tiger. That man is also a public official, which could mean jail time for the person responsible for the animal.
Sipek should go to jail.
July 14 is the French equivalent of our July 4.
Today is Bastille Day, the beginning of the bloody, disastrous French Revolution that led to tyranny and the Reign of Terror and twenty years of bloodshed in Europe.
Let me remind you once again that when Jefferson wrote the absurd words "all men are created equal," he was writing a document in WARTIME. The city in which he was writing the Declaration of Independence would be in enemy hands within months.
Most of the Declaration of Independence is based on a good, sound resounding lie. It blames everything on the King. Every man at the convention, including Jefferson, had been raised under British Law. Every man who signed the Declaration knew that the King could not have done any of those things without the support of Parliament.
So why did they just blame the King and leave Parliament out of it? Because this was a WAR document, written in the desperation of WARTIME. The colonies had many supporters in Parliament and they did not want to alienate them. Every historian knows that. No historian dares to mention that.
So why did Jefferson say, "all men are created equal?" Why did he refer to "Nature and Nature's God?' Because that was the way Rousseau had talked, and Rousseau was the philosopher French liberals followed. French liberals were Deists, and "Nature's God" was what they believed in.
Britain abandoned the American war when Parliament deserted the King. It was French liberals who eventually got France into the war on America's side. The wartime propaganda document called the Declaration of Independence was well targeted.
As for "all men are created equal" and "Nature and Nature's God," if you have any historical sense at all, those words look insane in an American declaration. No Founding Father of America ever believed that all men were created or that fairies were dancing on the end of his nose. But all war propaganda looks absurd to those outside of the war. What is really absurd is to think that all this crap represented anything Americans actually believed.
This is proved by the fact that when peace came and Americans had to adopt a real Constitution to be adopted by Americans, not one word of this "all mankind" crap was in it. There is no overlap whatsoever between the Declaration of Independence and he United States Constitution.
The French thinking that Jefferson appealed to led to the tyranny, invasions and massacres of the French Revolution, to the total defeat of a devastated France, and a restoration of the monarchy that revolution overthrew. That ` "all men are created equal" crap is insane and insane ideas lead to insane results.
That French nonsense became the motto of the abolitionists. And when Lincoln celebrated the slaughter at the Gettysburg address, he said that America was founded on the French idea that "all men are created equal," not on the Constitution.
Whenever Americans want a slaughter, they hark back to the French idea of revolution, and they get the massacres they want.
And that is what Bastille Day means to me.
July 13, 2004
All my life I have been a great advisor. I made a good living at it, but I was also good at it on a personal level.
I can't tell you how many times people have quoted things I said to them that helped them enormously and my immediate reaction was "Damn, that was great stuff. Why didn't **I** listen to me?"
My life has been a mess, and I cannot deny that I knew better.
About 1950 Walt Disney made a movie called "Alice in Wonderland." One song from that movie has haunted me ever since.
The refrain of that song was:
"I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it."
And that, ladies and gentleman, is Bob's biography in a nutshell.
If anyone says that homosexual teachers and scoutmasters try to influence children to be homosexuals, a thousand professors line up to declare that that is not true.
On the other hand, those same professors and the entire gay establishment declares that homosexuality is as legitimate a "life style" a heterosexuality. So what is to keep gays from influencing young people to accept their "lifestyle." From the declared homosexual viewpoint, there is nothing morally wrong with their doing that.
My business is politics, ALL politics, and the ballot-box variety is only one part of the study of real politics. I know church politics, I know academic politics. Every time a thousand professors line up to testify to anything Political Correctness wants to be true, they are ALWAYS not only wrong, but absurdly wrong.
When professors line up to declare almost unanimously that gay teaches and scoutmasters do not convert young people to their "legitimate gay lifestyle," I would guarantee you that is not true, because professors who line up to back a Politically Correct position are ALWAYS proven wrong later.
On the television show "Married With Children," Amanda Blake was openly lesbian. She worked with Christina Applegate when Christina was just reaching puberty. Like Rock Hudson, Christina keeps talking about affairs she has with the opposite sex, but I would bet money she is a lesbian due to the influence of Amanda Blake. Amanda considers her lifestyle as legitimate, so there is no moral reason she would not have influenced Christina in that direction.
And if you want your children to end up in a sterile homosexual "lifestyle," all you have to do is believe that thousand professors who line up to declare that things like that just don't happen.
Very dark-skinned "modern men" coming out of Africa would have promptly died out in the Ice Age climate of central, let along northern, Europe. But Political Correctness love this idea that the :modern men" who took over Northern Europe were black. So the "scientists" who push this nonsense will get their grants, their publications, all the goodies they live for. They will be the "experts," and the sillier they get the better for their careers.
Those who prove that man came out of Africa get grants and promotions and tenure. Their articles get published. The professors who produce what the academic establishment wants to hear then become the "recognized experts." They give each other's article that impressive sounding "peer review." The trouble is that all the peers became peers by having an acceptable outlook. This is not a conspiracy, this is just how any inbred system works.
I am invariably right.
July 12, 2004
A lady wrote me about my optimistic ideas about white survival, but she was still discouraged.
Here was a sentence in what she wrote me and my reply:
Whenever I see an infant carrier I steel myself before I look inside because so many times it is a mixed race child.
July 11, 2004
July 9, 2004
July 7, 2004
When George Washington got pneumonia in 1799 his university-trained doctors of medicine bled him. They took out a quart and half of his blood and he died. Today when the population is in physical danger from criminals, the university-trained doctors of philosophy demand that every honest endangered citizen be stripped of any means of self-defense.
Medicine was a primitive study in 1799. Social science admits it is a primitive study today. But the fact that thousands like Washington died from bleeding made no difference to MDs back then, and the fact that defenseless people are being killed on the streets right now makes no difference at all to today's PhDs.
I explain this in my latest book, Why Johnny Can't Think. I give example after example of statements that pass for truth in academia and in the liberal media they talk to, statements that are not only false, but are silly on their face.
My favorite is the 43-1 myth. For years professors said that for every person who defends his home with his gun, 43 people who try it have their gun taken away from them and are shot by the brave, cool, professional burglar.
Usually no one ever questions insane statements like that when professors make them. But finally career policemen started writing letters to the editor pointing out that they had known many cases of people defending their property with guns, but they had never even heard of an incident where the brave, cool, professional criminal had taken the gun away from an armed citizen, much less shot him with it.
Everything about today's social sciences stinks of the fallacies of all primitive fields of study. It is time for a wholesale firing of those professors, a revolution against them which is demanded in Why Johnny Can't Think: America's Professor-Priesthood.
This book is not another whine about leftist bias on campus. It is a demand for revolution.
July 6, 2004
This idea that every preacher knows True Science is an alien idea, a throwback. The word "modern" is a throwback, too. It says that we now KNOW because we are modern. Political Correctness is a throwback. It says we KNOW because what we say is proper. The 60s hippies were throwbacks when they tried to learn the truth by going "Out There" with LSD. The New Agers are a throwback when they sit on their butts and find Truth inside their own skulls.
Albert Einstein spent the last part of his life trying to refute Heisenberg's quantum theory, not because it wasn't true, but because it didn't FIT. Einstein said, "God does not play dice with the universe." Now there's some real scientific objectivism in action!
You can only learn what you do not think you already know. That is why every other society stagnates, but the West has kept advancing. You have to clean out the crap first, you have o learn ignorance, and then you can advance into the empty areas.
What do you do when you don't know all the facts yet but you still have to make decisions?
That is the art of ignorance.
July 5, 2004
People say that "being let go" is a euphemism for "being fired" and "he isn't working out" really means "he's screwing up." Maybe that's not the case. Maybe "being let go" and "not working out" just reflects the new reality of employment.
The group that calls itself "The Greatest Generation" went on endlessly about how hard they had it, but they had it much easier than young people going into the job market today. Back then you got a job and kept it for years and decades, being promoted if you could. You only got fired if you screwed up royally.
Today you get a job for exactly as long as you are useful, then they let you go. There is no job security, so you don't get "fired" from a job that is your lifelong property, you are "let go" the moment your usefulness ceases, whether you screw up or not.
Today very few people get let go because they screw up. They are let go because they are really "not working out." When you go in to see your boss he wonders why you are bothering him when you could do the thing yourself. If he has do it himself he may as well let you go.
It always astonished me when I made the most inexcusable mistakes and the boss took them in stride. I never got fired or let go, and I couldn't understand it. Now I think I do.
The boss wanted ME to DO things. I screwed up because I DID things, usually on my own or with a quick BRIEF note to him. I seldom saw my bosses.
Making appointments with my boss took time and attention he needed elsewhere, and that was exactly what he hired me to avoid. Naturally when someone takes on that kind of responsibility they will screw it up a lot. Back then one would say in today's parlance that "Whitaker is working out" because I was doing something for him NOW, not lying there inert until he told me what to do.
The group that calls itself The Greatest Generation got through life by just following orders. We have computers to do that now. Young people now have to show initiative or be let go.
In the polite traditional conversation of Japan, when the dialogue gets around to a man's wife, it goes something like this:
"How is the Flower of Your Household?"
"That pig is fine."
Obviously this is not supposed to reflect objective truth.
No society before white society ever made a distinction between religion and science. There is Accepted Belief, and that Accepted Belief has a purpose. The idea of truth for its own sake reflects a sort of monomaniacal fanaticism that is alien to any other civilization.
Odin or Woden, the old god of the Germans, gave an eye for truth. Not for Truth, the capitalized word, and not for Wisdom, but for simple truth, for some extra facts. The Father-God, Woden, was the one-eyed god because he gave one eye to know more FACTS.
Very unromantic, very German.
Meanwhile all the historians are trying to find the origins of Western science in something written in the Middle East, or at least something more romantic and exotic than the one-eyed Odin's fanatical pursuit of more facts.
But we are back where we started: the real origins of science and everything decent are based on the fact that there are some things that are true and some things that are not true. There are some things that are good and some things that are bad.
Very unromantic. Very German.
July 4, 2004
July 4, 1776 was WARTIME.
One thing historians never mention abut the
Declaration of Independence is that it was written in the midst of a
war in a city that would soon be occupied by enemy troops.
The Declaration of Independence was not an honest statement of what
Jefferson or anybody in America else believed. It was a war
document written for war purposes.
To start with, the Declaration blamed all of the colonists problems
on "The King." Every Signer of the Declaration had been raised
under English law. No intelligent colonist, and certainly no
Founding Father, thought the King could have done any of those
things without the support of Parliament.
Why didn't they mention Parliament? Because the Declaration of
Independence was a WAR document, not an abstract statement of
truth. The colonists' best friends and their best hope was the
pro-American minority in the British Parliament. So they did not
blame Parliament.
No sane human being ever believed that "all men are created equal."
So why does the Declaration say that? Because it was a WAR
document. "All men are created equal" and "Nature and Nature's God"
were appeals to French liberals who supported French intervention on
the side of the colonists in the WAR that was going on.
French liberals were Rousseau fans and deists, hence the reference
to "Nature and Nature's God" and the statement that "all men are
created equal."
While our Founding Fathers created a free country, those French
liberals led their country into the bloody disaster and tyranny of
the French Revolution. Crap like "all men are created equal" and
"Nature and Nature's God" led to that disaster.
When the WAR was over and independence was won, Americans wrote an
objective document for THEMSELVES. It was called the Constitution
of the United States of America. The Constitution did not say a
word about "all mankind." The Constitution of the United States
declares what the only purpose of the United States of America was
to be.
The Constitution of the United States did not say one word about
"all mankind." The Constitution of the United States did not say
one word about freeing Iraq or saving Israel or the rights of
illegal aliens. In fact, the Constitution said exactly the
opposite. It declared that the only people for whom the United
States would exist would be:
"We the People of the United States...for OURSELVES and OUR
Posterity,...."
The French Revolution was a bloody disaster. The crap about all
mankind on which the French Revolution was based led France to
conquer Europe in the name Equality. It had nothing to do with
American thought.
But New England abolitionists thought like French liberals. In the
Gettysburg Address, Lincoln substituted "all men are created equal"
for the Preamble of the real Constitution. Leftists today love that
"all mankind" crap. They used it to give a third of the world to
Stalin and his allies after World War II. They use it today to
legalize illegal aliens and fight Israel's wars in Iraq today.
This is not a quibble over words. This is a debate about the
purpose of America.
July 3, 2004
Someone posted the following on Stormfront. He is right:
"Sales of Why Johnny Can't Think (Amazon.com Sales Rank: 794) has zoomed past some of our enemies' books such as:"
A long list follows, including one book by Alan Dershowitz
From nowhere, we're making a start!
At the end of his list, he adds:
He's right about that, too.
Please go to readbob.com and help me out.
I gave them my Serious, Lecture Look and said. "Yes, mealie-meal is produced by putting corn kernels into a machine that removes the husk of the corn kernel and puts out the white interior. This white interior is then pulverized to make mealie-meal."
Each time I said this, they were impressed. One Englishman said, "You've really done your homework, haven't you?"
I managed to keep a straight face.
"Mealie-meal" is grits.
July 2, 2004
The largest desert on earth is not the Sahara. The largest desert on earth is Antarctica, where ninety percent of the fresh water on this planet is. It has a desert level of rainfall, but all the water that falls remains there as ice.
Today would have been Independence Day, but they had to wait until July 4 to proclaim Independence because they had trouble with the South Carolina delegation.
Everybody always has trouble with the South Carolina delegation.
Marlon Brando just died. He was a fanatical enemy of the white race. That is because he was from Minnesota.
Everybody is sobbing and crying because the third world is invading all the white enclaves. All my life the white enclaves like Minnesota and New England and Sweden were the worst enemies the white race had.
If people would stop sobbing "All is LOST!" and look around them some, they might find that a threatened white minority has a better chance of survival than a place where white enclaves are our screaming enemies.
July 1, 2004
I am a lousy diplomat. That's why I was a staffer and ghosted books.
My forte is plain talk. People say they like that, but in the real world they hate it and they don't care what a politician does as long as he remembers their name and says what they want to hear.
Then they bitch about the politicians they elect.
The e-mail I sent out below is an example of what one should not do if he has spent a lifetime fighting side by side with people and doing things for their cause and finally needs help he has earned.
I have X in the place of each name. Two of them are national columnists and you would recognize at least one of the other names immediately. But I have been on the road for a month, and gotten nothing for it. I am exhausted and pissed, and that is what my Blog is for.
My WOL readers have been just as bad.
June 30, 2004
A lady from out west has been assigned to the Deep South in her job. She doesn't like it. She says we are a different country.
I thanked her for saying that, which was not the response she expected.
She's nice, so I didn't say to her what I usually tell Yankees who criticize the South:
"Keep in mind that WE didn't fight a war to keep YOU."
She also said I should stop calling myself old. She was being nice. Here is my reply:
June 29, 2004
A leader in the Confederate flag battle wrote me for advice.
Here is my first piece of advice:
Use the Vietnam analogy. America lost the Vietnam War and the left and their pet media declared it an Evil War. As a result the men who had fought it were treated like lepers.
We all recognize that now as a national disgrace. Southerners never even thought of doing such a thing to our Confederate soldiers. The Civil War ruined us, but we treated our soldiers like the heroes they were and we treated the flags they carried with reverence.
If New Southers had their way, not only would Confederate flags be relegated to museums and labeled as a sign of shame, but the Confederate Monuments would be destroyed.
If you lose a war, history always says you were Evil. So Hitler was Evil and Stalin was a War Hero. If you lose a war, you are supposed to live in shame and spit on the men who fought your war.
We are not like that. We despise that attitude. We will honor our fighters as publicly as possible and damn the people who want us to treat our heroes the way the liberals treated those who fought in Vietnam.
June 28, 2004
The Modular Man is coming. By the middle of this century human parts will be developed in labs. If person has bad lungs, it will be easier just to put in new ones than to try to repair the old.
Parts of the brain will also be replaced. So where will the "Christians" and the sociologists who call themselves "bioethicists" going to be when that happens? Their propaganda campaign against cloning and embryo research is based on the idea that science is "crossing the line" into making new humans.
That is good fodder to make idiots put money in the collection plate or give a professor a good living right now, and that is all t6he preachers and professors care about.
But the simple fact is that the "line" they are talking about is not just going to be crossed, it is going to be stomped on and totally destroyed by the footprints of people who are not going to live with brain damage or heart disease or spend their lives in a wheel chair just to satisfy the preachers.
I just got back from a reunion with the mountaineer half of my family, the Snyders.
The Bible-thumpers have taken it over.
When I was at the Council of Conservative Citizens, I watched the dedicated and inarticulate people who had founded CCC being steadily replaced by the preachers. The attendance at the conference was, of course, way down.
In both Pigeon Forge and at the Snyder family reunion, I rode around the Tennessee and North Carolina mountain area and watched the handiwork of these self-styled "Christians." There is a big building in Hendersonville, North Carolina, set up by these "Christians" and dedicated to interracial adoptions.
The anti-white left could not penetrate those mountains, but these "Christians" can, so the Christians are pushing third world adoptions to penetrate white enclaves. I saw many a white woman pushing her little black or Oriental child around. This gives the Bible-thumpers big brownie points with the liberals who control the media.
I was talking to one of the South Carolina Bible-thumpers who have taken over the Snyder reunions and asked him about Beasley's blaspheme and the Baptist lack of reaction to it. He got a look on his face that I have seen before many, many times on the faces of Communist Party members and Catholic and Presbyterian theologues. It said, "This man has stepped over the Party Line."
He acted like I hadn't said it.
June 27, 2004
On the night before He was arrested, Jesus spent the night praying to be released from the terror of crucifixion that he faced. He needed a friend to share His burden, so he took Peter with Him.
Peter fell asleep. Jesus was terribly disappointed. He was hurt that in the time when He had to wrestle with Satan and his final commitment, not even His most faithful follower would stay with Him.
But Jesus did not even consider wavering because He was disappointed in Peter.
We are all hurt by how stupid and slavish our people are. Why can't they stand up and fight back while our borders are violated, our women are violated, all decency is violated?
It is inexcusable. It is cowardly. These people are not worth our concern.
All of this is true. None of this matters.
We will fight the fight and we will win for our people, despite our people.
Not because they have earned it, but because it is right.
June 25,2004
June 24, 2004
Long after his workers have gone home, the small businessman is still slaving away to please the hardest bosses of all: his customers.
If a reader writes me, I reply fast. It is such a relief to get something somebody wrote personally to me instead of that endless stream of forwards of articles somebody else wrote that I am supposed to read.
And it is especially fine to get a comment by someone who has actually read my stuff. I put a lot of work into this, and if I didn't think it was worth reading, I wouldn't write it.
Sine I do answer so promptly and I keep up the dialogue, one reader asked if he had offended me somehow. He also wrote about Beasley's defeat inthe South Carolina Republican primary and Bush's chances on in 2004. This gave me a chance to vent on a couple of things, so I quote my reply below:
June 23, 2004
Those of us who will admit it have watched lots of horror movies and mystery movies. In those movies, we sit in the audience and wonder when the people in the movie are going to realize that everybody who goes into that particular house or movie studio or whatever gets killed. But people keep going in.
As a ridiculously overeducated redneck from Pontiac, South Carolina, I have exactly the same feeling when I watch science documentaries or political debates: "When are those clowns going to realize the obvious?"
I was just watching a documentary on Raymond Dart's theory that man evolved as a "killer ape." Dart said that man began to use weapons to kill animals, and the more intelligent weapons-makers survived.
This offended the Ghandi School of Political Correctness which says that man is a peaceful animal. So they found that men had used their tools as scavengers, which proved men were just scavengers, not predators. Those tools allowed men to get the brain of dead animals, which were left because animals couldn't use their teeth to get through the skull. Also those tools allowed men to get to the nutritious bone marrow which animals couldn't get to.
Whew! That took care of the killer ape bit!
The I watched other documentaries which exposed the old idea that hyenas were only scavengers, not hunters. Scientists discovered that hyenas do hunt, but they also scavenge. In fact, the scientists explained, ALL hunters are also scavengers.
So, like someone waiting for the horror movie characters to add two and two, I wait for the documentaries to add two and two. The killer ape was also a scavenger.
This doesn't end the puzzle of man's origins, but when the documentaries miss obvious stuff like this, it sure makes the movie seem longer.
By the way, in Washington the top "secretary" is not a secretary. She is Office Manager and she has a salary to match the title.
All the time, it turns out I was "cultivating" this office manager. Like any competent person, she liked to be treated like one of the team. So she liked me for it.
I just didn't realize I was being so shrewd!
And she likes being treated like a human, too.
I can live with that.
June 22, 2004
I believe this is the anniversary of the day that Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. By a strange coincidence, it is also the anniversary of the day that the entire political left in America switched from demanding American neutrality to demanding that America get into World War II.
Within a few days of Hitler's attack on the USSR, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany.
KGB files that were opened when the USSR collapsed showed that Communist infiltration into the Roosevelt State Department went deeper than even Senator McCarthy suspected. But, as Joe Sobran pointed out, even the parts of the Roosevelt State Department who were not Communists never made single statement that Stalin would not have approved of.
One of the unsung heroes of the American left was the daughter of the American ambassador to Berlin in the early 1930s. She was a fanatical Stalinist and her letters on the subject are a matter of record.
In the early 1930s, the only major power that Hitler threatened was the USSR. It was a major accomplishment to change the situation so that the West destroyed Hitler and gave a third of the world to Stalin and Mao.
The daughter of the American ambassador had a role in that process. She gave sex to German officers for information and planted information where needed.
When you are worshipping The Greatest Generation for this wonderful achievement, don't forget this woman, who had more to do with Saving the World than any hundred Medal of Honor winners in World War II.
June 21, 2004
Socialism is defined as "government ownership of the means of production and distribution." But that is not what people debate when they discuss the merits of socialism
The whole point of socialism is to turn the economy over to bureaucrats. It doesn't matter who owns the shares, what socialists want is for professors to run the economy. So what we really argue about when the word "socialism" comes up is not who OWNS industry but who RUNS it.
It doesn't really matter if government owns shares on the New York Stock Exchange as long as the government doesn't use those shares to run it. Switzerland used to get a lot of its government revenue from Swissair, but it left the running of that airline to the managers and only judged the managers by how much money they made, like any other stockholder.
But if the professors are to tell everybody what to do, that means that the market can't. Either supply and demand runs things or professors run things. That is why liberals are always denouncing "commercialism." They want professors to decide what audiences watch, not the audiences themselves.
So the real argument over socialism is not about "the ownership of the means of means of production and distribution." If a system is run by the market, professors have as little use for it if it is government-owned Swissair as if it is privately owned.
Professors no longer insist on socialism because they have discovered they can run thing through bureaucrats and lawyers no matter who owns things.
Socialism is just like all forms of leftism. It is a means by which professors could rule the world, and professors teach it in college. Leftists are people who never outgrew their college education, or people who have an inferiority complex because they didn't get one (See my latest book, "Why Johnny Can't Think." which is subtly advertised in the flashing red letters at the top of this page).
June 20, 2004
A belated Happy Solstice. I thought it was on the 21st or 22d.
The people who do the thinking and the people who get published are two different groups. Those who do things and those who take credit are two different groups.
I HATE to say this, because it sounds like something some Cynical Tough Guy would say, and there is nothing dumber than a Cynical Real Man type.
This is a big world, and getting published is a business and thinking is a full time job. They are separate professions, like writing and being a writer's agent.
When a writer publishes a book, other people get most of the profits. This does not take a Cynical Real Man to figure out, it is a simple matter of economics in a large society.
I am after power and I always have been. That means that I formulate my ideas and I let other people publish them and get credit for them. You can have power or fame or money, but not all three. I chose power.
The president has very little power. He carries out policies that were determined long before he ran for office. Lincoln could have been Seward. Roosevelt could have been shot in 1932 and things would have changed little.
I want something done and I find a way to get that idea out in public. I find an agent, which means I put the idea in such a way that somebody can make use of it. When the time comes, they do. That is power.
When you send me an article that "says something like what I said," you are sending me a long-winded tenth repeat of something I planted twenty years ago. It is not an inspiring thing for me to read.
Xavier had the same problem with brown priests that American Catholics will have with female priests after their church backs down on that, too.
I wrote this to a retired Methodist minister.
Please, have mercy on an a old man! My latest book, "Why Johnny
Can't Think, America's Professor-Priesthood," does NOT "show there
is leftist bias on campus."
I recently got some clippings from two different female relatives
that "say what you said," that there is a leftist bias on college
campuses."
No, I did NOT "say that there is a leftist bias on campus." No,
Einstein did NOT "say that the speed of light is real fast," No,
Isaac Newton did NOT "say there is something called gravity."
What would Einstein have done if someone had said "I think light
moves real slow. You got to prove light moves fast." He would have
called the loony bin. What would Isaac Newton have done if somebody
said, "There ain't no such thing as gravity." He would have acted
like the guy didn't exist and then hit him in the face if the fellow
got in his way.
I do not try to prove that light moves real fast, or that gravity
exists or that college campuses have a fanatical leftist bias. If
you actually open the pages of "Why Johnny Can't Think," you will
find that I say that that is the kind of thing dumbass respectable
conservatives dedicate books to, not intelligent people.
Every sane person knows that light moves fast. Every sane person
knows there is such a thing as gravity. Every sane person know that
colleges are fanatically biased to the left.
PLEASE don't insult me by saying I am trying to prove any of those
things. Please don't send me forwards and news paper clippings to
show how morons are trying to prove these things.
No intelligent person will spend one minute "saying what you said,
that there is a leftist bias on college campuses."
If you waste time debating that, you are too much of a fool to get
any real point made.
If you want to see how to cover that whole argument in two minutes,
you will want to READ "Why Johnny Can't Think."
June 19, 2004
Russia has all the oil we can buy. If we spent half the money revving up Russian oil production that we spend in the Middle East, we would have plenty of oil in just a few years. America doesn't need to be in the Middle East.
Bu Israel does.
Nobody wants to make a decision about getting our troops out of Iraq, so they are pointing at the date when the new interim Iraqi government takes charge as some kind of Hallelujah Day.
Throughout the Vietnam War South Vietnam had a government of its own. American troops got out when they ran. Throughout the Korean War South Korea had a government of its own. The fighting stopped when Eisenhower threatened to use the atomic bomb on China. That was in 1953.
Nobody had the guts to make a decision about American troops in Korea, so they're still there. The Soviet Union collapsed many years, but American troops are still in Germany.
There will never be a Hallelujah Day that will save Americans from having to have the moral courage to make a decision.
Somebody in California wrote me about how they didn't care about race. Then they whined about how blacks were taking all their money and jobs, poor baby!
Here is my reply:
I gave examples below of how hate kills the hater. After Hitler, Jews hated white gentiles in Europe so much that they threw themselves into the task of taking Europe away from white gentiles.
They succeeded. By the middle of this century Western Europe will have a Moslem majority that hates Jews as much as Hitler did.
Hate kills the hater. The first time a New Englander talked to a Southern audience was about 1660, when a Massachusetts preacher spoke in Jamestown, Virginia. He denounced ever leader Jamestown ever had, including my own ancestor, the Reverend Alexander Whitaker.
Puritans hated themselves and everybody else. Very few Puritans were not going to Hell, and everybody else was. Every infant who died went straight to the Pit.
New England hated the South when New Englanders were making fortunes in the slave trade. Then they said they hated the South because they loved the poor little black folks. New England hated the West. Every New England state opposed the admission of Western states to the Union, and New England fought every step of America's expansion west.
Today, there is no New England. The hatred is still there in leftism and Political Correctness, but it is spoken out by Kennedys and Barney Franks, Irishmen and Jews old New Englanders hated (surprise! surprise!) and banned from their stores and their workplaces ("Irish Need Not Apply").
Tom Fleming wrote a front page article for National Review years ago called "What Killed the Yankee Culture?" New England's hate killed old New England. They shriveled up and died while the South populated the West. They died in a wave of sour old maids of both sexes.
The British Empire could have still been a great world power if Churchill had not hated Germany so much. Churchill took Stalin's side to destroy Germany ("I would join with the Devil Himself to defeat Hitler") and destroyed Britain's economy and manpower to defeat Germany. After the two great European powers were destroyed by Churchill's hatred of Germany, only Stalin and Roosevelt were left to rule the world and dismantle Europe's Empires, including the one that belonged to that damp, impoverished little island Churchill lived on.
If voting is a right and the fourteenth amendment guaranteed equal rights to black people, there would be no fifteenth amendment. Ask yourself, why is there a fifteenth amendment?
Then ask others why there is a fifteenth amendment.
June 18, 2004
I wrote this in the "science" newsgroup in Stormfront.ORG, a white racist web location:
One reader asked me how I could be so optimistic about a future in which whites are a threatened minority when the Afrikaners have made no resistance at all to black violence when they lost power in and are now a whiny subject people.
Here is my reply:
To start with, we South Carolinians DID toss out the black majority backed by Federal troops under Reconstruction after we lost power in he Civil War.
We South Carolinians did not follow our leaders like lambs to the slaughter. Afrikaners VOTED to turn their country over to the blacks! I was there, warning them. They are followers. Their Calvinist Leaders told them to give in, so they did. Now their Calvinist Leaders are getting Nobel Prizes, Board of Directors jobs, and getting the hell out of South Africa. Their followers are getting what all blind followers get in the end.
Preachers and politicians will always sell you out the minute they smell a profit in it.
Afrikaners now see themselves as Damsels in Distress, pure as the driven snow types who trusted in promises and were betrayed.
You can either learn from this that All Is Lost, or you can learn that we must dump our trust in leaders right now.
And, to be frank, they sound a lot like you, "Oh, God, it's all HOPELESS! You can't prove to me there's any hope. All us tough, practical types can do is surrender!"
For me, the Boers (even the ones who live in Johannesburg call themselves that) present white optimists like me the same problem that the Chernobyl disaster did for the American nuclear power industry. It is simply not the same thing, but that is very hard to explain.
I am optimistic about the prospects of white racists becoming spokesmen for white people in America. That is because, in the next generation, non-whites leaders are going to become more and more restive in their role as Tonto to the liberal Lone Ranger, the faithful nonwhite companions of Kennedy and Company.
As long as non-whites are just automatic votes for Democrats, no one will pay them much attention except dumbass conservatives who think they can "appeal" to minorities.
So in a generation we will have accepted the idea that the rules are made by Hispanic spokesmen, Oriental spokesmen, and spokesmen for the relatively diminishing black minority. In that reality, there will be no place for "non-racial" spokesmen, whether they call themselves conservatives or liberals or vegetarians.
We will be forced to think racially. Mixed populations will be out in the cold. White enclaves will be white RACIST enclaves.
If you are after white supremacy, this outlook is awful. If you want white survival, this outlook is excellent.
I say Michael Moore is straight out of the 60s because of his baseball-cap image. He tries to look like "one of the folks" while his only friends are the media and Hollywood elite.
Jane Fonda, the darling of the 60s, shouted that she loved Communists and was "a friend of the working class." She never had a serious talk with a working person in her life. Real working people despised Jane Fonda, but that never caused Hollywood or the media to ask her about all that "working class" crap.
Moore has his baseball cap and is a fat, unshaven slob, which is the media's idea of a working man. All this is straight 60s crap, and as out of date as a dinosaur.
I don't like looking at Michael Moore because he is so goddam UGLY!
He is trying to look like Just Folks with his beard growth and his baseball hat. He is straight out of the 60s.
The TV series **MASH** is repeated endlessly. But you never see the original movie version of **MASH**.
That is because the movie is so horribly dated, It is pure 1960s stuff. Let me give you an example.
Eliot Gould was one of the big stars of the original movie version of **MASH**. Remember Eliot Gould?
Neither does anybody else.
Gould was Barbra Streisand first husband. He was big stuff in the 1960s.
In the movie, Gould comes in as the new doctor in the **MASH** unit. The other doctors ask him his name. He won't answer them.
So the other doctors are very upset. They keep worrying about his name, the way a Jewish Mother would worry if a boy wouldn't talk to her. Gould sits there smiling mysteriously while the other doctors are very worried about his name.
This was big stuff for the spoiled children of the 1960s. He really had those army officers who were doctors going.
I told you this was dated. Can you imagine anybody but a 60s spoiled child really believing that a group of doctors dealing in combat medicine would waste two minutes worrying about a clown who wouldn't tell them his name?
The 60s believed it. They thought Gould was great. they thought he was Realistic. They imagined it was how they would put those silly doctors in their place.
June 17, 2004
I wrote this in Stormfront.ORG, a racialist group:
June 16, 2004
A black reader wrote me bitching about special subsidies and tax breaks for big corporations.
This was my reply:
The same rules holds when it comes to the public versus big business or big liberal lobbies.
As long as the biggest thing on your mind is whether a politician remembers your name or has a nice image, that is all you will get.
When I hit age 40 in 1982, two men, separately, sat me down and gave me advice.
One was my doctor brother, the other was my friend, the Republican Chief Counsel for Republicans on a House Committee my boss sat on.
How many men turning 40 do you know who older men would sit down with and give advice to on their fortieth birthday?
They did it because they knew I would LISTEN.
The House Counsel said to me, "Bob, you are a fighter, and I admire that. But remember, everybody understands and sympathizes with an Angry Young Man, but nobody has any respect for an Angry Middle Aged Man."
I modified my behavior accordingly.
Andrew Young was one of the up-and-coming Angry Young Black Men of the 1960s. But he never got beyond a seat in the Georgia House of Representatives. His hair is white, his face is lined, and he is STILL The Angry Young Black Man.
Charlie Rangel (?) is just as radical as Young, but he laughs all the time. Young's face would crack if he smiled. He is always Outraged. And he is going nowhere.
Rangel is moving from black spokesman to national leadership in the Democratic Party. Democrats want him to stay black. Liberals love black folks, but they want them to stay in their place.
Al Sharpton is as radical as you can get. But he laughs and jokes between his bursts of anger and calls to revolution.
Whites are exactly the same way. Nobody has any use for the white haired old men who still think they're Hippies and Yippies from the 1960s.
If you're going to get ahead, you damned well learn to laugh as well as show your righteous resentment.
June 15, 2004
There are blacks who wake up in the middle of the night worrying that somebody somewhere is using the N word and that a lot of whites don't want them to marry their daughters.
Those people need help, but it isn't political help they need.
Maybe Prozac and a nice rest home would do them good.
In the Crown versus Joseph Pierce, 1986, a British court sentenced Pierce to a year in prison for "inciting racial violence." The court admitted what Pierce said was true, and that it was the blacks who reacted by committing violence.
But, said the court, Pierce was to blame because:
"The truth is no excuse."
The whole point of free speech is to let people speak unpleasant truths. If you punish people for that, free speech is a joke.
I often compliment large black women on the bright colors they are wearing.
This makes them feel good, which is gives me pleasure, but that is not why I do it. I am constitutionally incapable of lying to someone to make them feel good.
Well-chosen bright colors look great against a background of very, very dark and especially black skin. The women I compliment have carefully chosen the bright color best suited for them and others to enjoy.
I appreciate that, and I say so.
Yuppies and Women's Libbers would consider those bright colors large black women wear as a sign that those women are "veddy, veddy lower clahss" or " violating of the Dignity of Black Women" or whatever the latest bitch is that they got from the Yuppie Independent Thought Factory this week.
So where bright colors are most needed, they are absent.
Working in an office is boring enough. Some bright colors would help a LOT there. But women there wear the uniform prescribed by the Yuppie Independent Thought Factory. They all wear the same dark, severely cut business outfits that make them look like monks doing penance.
The only similarity between me and Jesus Christ is that I will probably end up getting lynched too.
But I try to be good Christian, and one reason I think I am succeeding is because I am the exact opposite of professional preachers.
I don't think there is anybody any more who thinks liberal professional preachers regard their religious pretense as anything more than a useful pose for pushing their political agenda.
But a lot of people think professional conservative preachers actually believe.
When conservative preachers find something their congregations want to believe, or when they need to say something to pacify liberals, they drag a quote out of the Old Testament to back up whatever they need to say.
If a conservative preacher is desperate enough, he will even quote Jesus, though they hate to do that and conservative preachers almost never quote Jesus.
My situation is entirely different. I will work something out, boil my belief down to its essence, and then suddenly remember that Jesus said the same thing better two thousand years ago.
For example, I denounce the professors, who are almost universally evil people.
And yes, Virginia, I DO know the difference between "evil" and "honestly mistaken." I meant evil.
Then I realize that Jesus said the was thing, but better, about the Learned Doctors of His own time, the priests and scribes and Pharisees. They were almost all evil men. I meant evil, and Jesus called them that.
June 14, 2004
In the June 13 Blog I mentioned the fact that I got a lot of satisfaction out of buying that fan for the workers at Krystals. As usual with me, I got a good laugh out of it, too.
I just walked in with the fan still in the case and handed that and the receipt to the lady there, told her about it, and walked out. One young guy there, sweating and SO grateful he would be getting cool again, said the first thing that entered his mind. He said, "You are man's best friend!"
I grinned as I walked to my car. It sounds like the sort of thing I would accidentally say when trying to be nice in a hurry.
I hope he knew I had a sense of humor and laughed at it too instead of being embarrassed when he realized what he had said..
He had called me a dog.
June 13, 2004
Her first response was that she was seeing somebody. OF COURSE she has a boyfriend. I would be ashamed of the young men of the State of South Carolina if she didn't.
As she got off the elevator on her floor, she said, "You haven't told me where you are."
While I was in Pigeon Forge in the last stages of exhaustion, I went into a Krystals. Krystals is a fast-food place whose specialty is a tiny delicious little hamburger that I haven't had in years, so I went in to get a couple.
The air conditioning was broken, and I felt a blast of hear from behind the counter where the cooking took place. The staff was staggering around red-faced and sweating.
I asked them why they didn't have a fan and they said the company bureaucracy just wasn't getting around to getting them one while the AC was off, though they had begged them to.
Ole Bob worked on a brick plant and played football in the South Carolina heat. I HATE the idea of people having to work hot.
I went straight to the store, bought them a sizable fan, came back and gave it to an older, responsible-looking lady working there with the receipt that had the store's name on it in case it didn't work, and left.
They were SO grateful, and I knew exactly how they felt, because I have worked in the heat myself.
I drove off feeling GREAT. I have never gotten so much joy out of spending 35ドル plus tax in my life.
One thing I have never heard mentioned is that inconsiderate people, people who don't "Do unto others as you have them do unto you," miss some of the greatest joys in life.
June 12, 2004
Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free at last! I
just attended my third convention in three or four weeks, the
Council of Conservative Citizens in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. After a
lifetime of setting up and attending conventions, I hope this was my
last one.
They're still convening. I got there for the first speech, then I
went out into the hall and met the attendees, those how were not
officials or speakers. God, they will never know how I admire them!
How do they work, raise families, stay active locally in a cause
that is dangerous to be in, and then drive hundreds of miles just to
listen?
The leaders who knew who I was charged by me and nodded and told me
how busy, busy, busy they were. The only person who went up to my
room and sat and talked with me was San Francis, my old colleague
from Capitol Hill in the 1970s. Like all the people I stayed in
touch with and kept working with, he is hard core. He had a very
nice and lucrative job with the Washington Times but he just
wouldn't stop telling the truth about race issues, so they fired him
Sam was standing there, meeting people and being available for an
emergency, which is what any old pro at a convention does. He talked
to me a long time because we have a lot to talk about, but he did it
for another reason: He would rather die than run by Bob Whitaker at
a convention and tell me he was busy, busy, busy.
Sam and I have organized more conventions than either of us care to
remember, and if you run by an old pro and say how busy, busy, busy
you are, you might as well have the word "AMATEUR" tattooed on your
forehead.
The National Alliance crowd came in and huddled together talking to
each other. Jared Taylor, whom I admire greatly he tears them to
pieces when they let him on talk shows -- charged by.
I went to lunch alone. I went to supper alone. Then I figured I
could do that at home, so I came on back.
I don't think any other human being has ever been so happy to be
snubbed. I had traveled to New York on Amtrak for the three-day-long
Talkers Magazine New Media Convention, and, with delays, spent
almost two days on the train. Immediately I had to prepare for the
David Duke get-together in New Orleans. I wrote and rewrote my
speech several times, and then deliver one off the cuff that was
very different fro the written one. Dave was pressed for time, and I
was the only speaker who did not use more than his allotted time. I
had half an hour and finished in eleven minutes.
My Methodist circuit rider grandfather used to say, "If you can't
say it in fifteen minutes, you don't know what you are talking
about."
I came back from New Orleans with what I thought was a bad cold.
Then I thought it was flu. Then it really got serious. A nurse told
me it was serious, they didn't know what it was, but it had been
going around where she was God knows where she was calling from
and I needed to call my doctor brother immediately and get
antibiotics for it.
Both cold and flu are viruses, and you don't use antibiotics on a
virus. My brother prescribed an antibiotic, and I was finally
fighting it off when I learned from Charles Lindsbegh that they were
holding a C of CC convention starting two days later at Pigeon
Forge. C of C is a group I admire, so I decided to drive up. The
fact I was going up helped them because it was advertised on
Stormfront in promoting the convention, so the drive was worthwhile
for me.
But I was TIRED! I am ecstatic to be home. If I got snubbed some and
left, I couldn't be happier about it.
God bless the CofCC. If I had my fondest wish, there would be a
hundred groups like the Council of Conservative Citizens and I would
consider it an honor to be snubbed by every one of them. They are
fighting to save my race, and I am at their service.
June 9, 2004
This really happened.
One thing we always used to do when we went to Myrtle Beach was to get up early and go out and watch the sun rise over the ocean. It's beautiful!
A bunch of my crowd went out to California. During their time there they spent some days at the beach. So as part of their beach ritual they got up early and sat on the beach waiting for the sunrise over the ocean.
On the WEST coast!
The finally realized that the sun was coming up behind them and had a good laugh at themselves.
No harm done.
Now let me tell you about a similar incident. Nobody else who watches the news has a memory, and this happened a couple of years ago as a lead story in international news, so I am the only person who remembers it.
When the latest Iraq War was about to start, networks spent huge amounts of money stationing reporters on the borders of Iraq to interview all the refugees who would be pouring out of Iraq. After all, there are always huge streams of refugees in war, right? That is as routine and predictable as the sun rising over the ocean, right?
So the invasion began and a large part of the reporters sat there on the borders away from the invasion forces and waited for refugees, exactly the same way my crowd waited for the sun to rise over the ocean in California.
Just like my crowd waiting for the sun to rise over the West Coast beach, those reporters waited and waited and waited.
No refugees.
My crowd in California had the same problem, but there is one gigantic difference between them and those dumbass reporters. My crowd figured out what they were doing wrong and laughed at themselves. The reporters never figured it out.
So let me explain the situation here:
The sun comes up over the ocean on the Atlantic side, but it never rises over the ocean on Pacific side.
There are refugees in every war those reporters, but they NEVER run away from Americans.
During the Vietnam War, the press was on the side of the Communists. So they always talked about the poor Vietnamese who were forced to become refugees. But they never even noticed that none of those refugees ever ran away from Americans to find nice, safe Communist territory. It was all America's fault there were refugees, so nobody mentioned which way those refugees were going.
The media never even NOTICED which way the refugees were going.
So there they sat on the Iraqi border for weeks waiting for the flood of refugees running away from the American invaders.
And those idiots STILL haven't figured out what happened.
June 7, 2004
A reader liked what I said about the failings of the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation. He referred to my "cold shower logic." I LOVE that term! That is EXACTLY what I am trying to do!
Most people enjoy gold coins and thinking about the old real silver coins that used to make that special ring when they hit the table. If you want to get an idea of the size of those coins in the Old West or when Scrooge treasured them, here's the way to do it.
The following figures are not exact, and there is an endless history about every number I give you, but this is to give you a ballpark estimate of just how big those coins were and how they felt.
Get yourself a dime, a quarter, and a half dollar.
A silver dollar weighed almost exactly an ounce. So your quarter is still the same size as a quarter of an ounce of silver.
By a great coincidence, gold weighs exactly twice as much as silver. When I say exactly, I mean a cubic foot of gold weighs 1205 pounds and cubic foot of silver weighs 605 pounds.
So look at that quarter coin. If it were silver, it would weigh a quarter of an ounce. If it were gold, it would weigh half an ounce. The price of gold that was set on gold back then was twenty dollars an ounce. That quarter would have been a ten-dollar gold piece.
So those who have never seen a one-dollar gold piece are in for a surprise. It is a tenth the size of a quarter! The old one-dollar gold piece made a dime look HUGE.
If you watch the movie "Scrooge" you will old Scrooge looking at his "gold sovereigns," They are gold British one-pound coins that he keeps on a red satin slide-out that he keeps locked up except when he slides them out to look at them. All this was supposed to have taken place in 1860, when the coins were the way I am describing here.
What will surprise you is how tiny those "gold sovereigns" are. When I read that grandiose title in history books, I envisioned those "gold sovereign" coins as huge and ringing loudly when they hit the table
A "gold sovereign" was worth just under 5ドル back then (when the dollar was worth at least twenty of today's dollars). So the gold sovereign weighed about an quarter of an ounce, as much as a silver quarter, but it was twice as heavy as silver so a gold sovereign was half the size of a quarter. In other words, it was just slightly larger than a dime.
For people my age, the big thing we remember about metal coins is a cowboy in a movie buying a drink and tossing his silver coin on the counter. It rang when it hit. The pay of a cowboy was about $ 20 a month, but they were SILVER dollars, worth at least twenty of our dollars apiece, and he got h is place to sleep on the ground and his beans and beef free on the trail. By the standards of the European working class back then he lived like a king.
And when he hit town, he DID have some coins to ring on the bar top.
In social science discussions, you will often hear the term "counter-intuitive."
The term "counter-intuitive" is summed up in the phrase used by every con man since the Garden of Eden:
"Things are not as they appear."
Actually things are almost always exactly as they appear. If they were not, every animal on earth that has eyes would have lost those eyes long ago due to survival of the fittest.
By the time the Roman doctor Galen wrote up his theory of medicine in Roman times, people had long since noticed that a person who lost blood weakened and a person who lost too much blood died. The problem was that anybody could tell you that.
Galen came up with a theory about "balancing the four humors in the body." Galen said the way to treat diseases was to drain blood out of the body. Let's see some illiterate peasant come up with THAT!
Galen's theory caught on big time. It became official policy taught in every university for almost two thousand years. When George Washington got pneumonia, his doctors killed him by draining over a quart of blood from his body.
Bleeding never worked, but the important thing was that it was something a peasant wouldn't come up with. It was Intellectual, you see.
All frauds and all primitive sciences come up with "counterintuitive solutions." Every historian readily admits that today's social sciences are primitive, but no historian has ever applied the experience of every other primitive science to today's history.
So social science today is one solid mass of "counter-intuitive" ideas. Just as primitive medicine bled people to cure them, modern social science says that if honest citizens are threatened by career violent criminals, you should disarm the honest citizens. The way to a better education, says the social scientist, is to bus children into the nastiest ghettoes you can find. It multicultures them. And punishment is no way to deal with crime, they tell us.
And so forth.
It's the same old crap as medical bleeding, and it works every bit as well.
I seem to have spent half my life trying to explain that Jews are just people, for God's sake. Jerry Falwell makes them semi-gods. Anti-Semites make them devils. Jerry Falwell is just as dangerous as any anti-Senite, because if you make anybody an angel, you are going to make devils of them when they disappoint you.
Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, Jews are just a group of people who are doing something evil and stupid. That's my problem.
June 5, 2004
I have been conducting interrogations at every level, from prisons to Capitol Hill, for decades. So I speak with some expertise.Every professional theologian I have ever met is a psychopath, a.k.a.. sociopath, a person totally incapable of feeling genuine guilt, like Ted Bundy. After a lifetime of practice, an intelligent psychopath is far better at faking guilt than any normal person.A ballpark estimate is that there are five million psychopaths in the United States.One Catholic professor has been the official theologian for National Review magazine for decades. Their official historian is Dr. Jaffe, who says America is based on the words "All men are created equal."I had lunch with National Review many years ago after he had written a book in which he used the term "WASP," meaning White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. His book was about how virtuous the Catholic ethnics were as opposed to the WASPs. I pointed out to him that I had worked in a lot of campaigns and other movements in Catholic ethnic areas, and they were just like Southern Protestants in the characteristics he cited..I pointed out that he had coined the word "WASP" because he didn't dare use the word "Yankee," which would be accurate and contrast Southern and ethnic virtues with the failures and moral weaknesses of Yankees. He had insulted half of the White Anglo-Saxon population of America in doing this..Like a good psychopath, he answered, "Yes." Morally speaking, talking to him was exactly like talking to a robot.
My question did not trigger this particular religious psychopath's programming. If I had shown that he had insulted blacks or Jews, his lip would have trembled and his apology would have been public, as his "looking like guilt" programming dictated. As a psychopath with a lifetime's programming, he would have responded to that stimulus with the proper reaction. But my point about white Southern Protestants did not hit his switch. So he just responded with a robotic "Yes."
Pat Buchanan really got into the kook category in the 2000 campaign when he announced hat world had to be created in six days because he didn't want to be kin to a monkey. This has nothing to do with the argument over evolution. It is just plain childish. The idea of grown man saying that is bad, the idea of serious candidate for national office saying that puts him beyond the pale. That was the day Pat Buchanan put himself in a category with the Vegetarian Party.
Nobody in he media noticed this because they wanted to blame Buchanan's poll collapse on his limited opposition to immigration. But that when he became totally discredited. Buchanan always ends up being a harmless religious nut.
The whole right is going that way. They demand that everybody be kept on life support until the body actually begins to stink, the family's wishes be damned. They fanatically demand the rights of mindless embryos over sick people, they want as much agony as possible for a person who is dying. The actual support for any of this among sane people who have conscience is nil. The Spanish Inquisition has more real, serious apologists than this crap, but it is rigid conservative doctrine.
It isn't liberals who are now discrediting conservatives. It is this pseudo-Pro-Life silliness.
I am ashamed to call myself a conservative today. I am anti-liberal, but I am not an idiot or a nut or a sadist.
There was a minimum of five million Jews in the Roman Empire. Most of them spoke only Greek and their scriptures were in Greek. That infrastructure became the Christian Church.
The entire Christian doctrine about Jews is based on the idea that almost all Roman Jews were in Israel, spoke Aramaic, and had their scriptures in Hebrew. Then, says the official doctrine, the Jews were driven out of Israel in the first century AD when the Temple was destroyed and have been wanderers ever since, waiting for the Return to the Holy Land of their Fathers.
Meanwhile back on earth a tenth of the Roman Jews were in Israel. They were not driven out. There was no Diaspora.
None of this bothers the psychopaths who make up most of the professional Christian clergy.
The most damning thing anybody can say about a grown man is, "Wait and catch him in a good mood."
June 4, 2004
I was talking below about my surprising discovery that there IS justice in the world, and I cited the fact that Jewish leaders filled up Europe with third world immigrants as part of their -- let me repeat -- OPENLY declared program to rid the earth of white people. Many Jews oppose it, but that is the program of the Jewish leadership under the code words "multicultural" and "melting pot."
But the hatred of these Jewish leaders for whites turned around and bit them on the ass, the way hate so often does. As a direct result of this Jewish policy of hatred, by mid-century Europe will have a Moslem majority that hates Jews and Israel more than Hitler did.
The same thing happened to New England. Tom Fleming wrote a lead article in National Review some years ago entitled, "The Death of the Yankee Culture." The old Yankee leadership and culture is so dead now that nobody even knows there was one. But if you listened to Jim Bacchus' portrayal of Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island, you get a taste of what was America's ruling class for at least two generations after the Civil War.
The Union Club in New York City was where that elite ruled from, recalling their great victory in the Civil War and their total control of America after destroying the Southern power. But their only basis of power became hatred of the South and of white people in general.
The Southern slave-based society is "Gone With the Wind," but we all know what it was. The Yankee ruling class is just plain GONE.
All that is left of the identity of the old Union Club today is the hate song, "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and Lincoln and clichés. It had no identity except being the anti-South. No wonder it ended up calling America a melting pot.
The Southern population multiplied and populated America from coast to coast. From the center of Ohio to the Keys and the West Coast, the Southern population multiplied and settled. The huge states of Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey only settled the northern parts of the Midwest.
So where the hell are the descendants of the so-called Puritan Fathers of New England?
The descendants of old New Englanders don't even make up a majority of tiny little New England today. A society built on self-hatred is not likely to produce a lot of descendants in the long run. New England was known for producing school marms and other old maids.
New England dedicated itself to self-hatred, sin, and the Old Testament. New England opposed every step of America's westward expansion. New England only political drives were to oppose expansion, attack slavery once they stopped bringing in slaves themselves, and high tariffs to make the South give them money and pay the entire Federal budget.
And all that was BEFORE the Civil War. It got worse afterwards. Tariffs skyrocketed, and discriminatory rail rates were applied, UNTIL 1951!!! -- to destroy all Southern industry.
Meanwhile, New England died out. While the Southern and Middle state population expanded over the continent, New England shriveled up.
That is why so many people think America was settled by immigrants. Tiny little New England could not even populate itself, much less spread across America. New England is now mostly Poles, Irish and so forth. Outside of New England, the overwhelming majority of the white population in America is descended from Americans who got here before 1700!
New England based its life on hatred. As with the Jewish leadership, they are dying away because hatred is a sick basis for a society.
I just had a conversation with a fine gentleman who shares some common occupational background with me. It was a good talk, but I want to remind people of the basics:
1) General Background
2) Deniability.
If this doesn't anything to you, you are in the majority that doesn't need to hear it.
As in their efforts to make America a colored country in the name of "the melting pot," Jewish leaders want an end to the very existence of Indo-Europeans. They say so. In fact, they shout it.
June 3, 2004
A man who is really successful with women has to have a feminine side. My awkwardness with women came from the fact that I felt that they were lovely and attractive I had nothing to offer. A man who is successful with women must feel that he is attractive, or he will be unable to exploit his attractiveness to them.
To be extremely successful with women, a man must see men as sexually attractive.
But a man who sees men as sexually attractive has something feminine about him. The men who are enormously successful with women, in other words, are part female. This is not a new idea. It is pretty well accepted, in fact.
But there is a natural consequence of the fact that men who are successful with women have a feminine side that has not been discussed. Men who are very successful with women have a strong female side. They will have lots of children. But they are going to produce some male offspring who have too many of those feminine hormones. Some of their male offspring are going to be attracted to men.
I think that is why there are homosexuals.
In the cowboy movies, the Real Men, the heroes, are bachelors. The guys who have wives and raise children are store keepers, farmers, and other tame types. Those who have too many purely masculine hormones probably tend to be some kind of cowboys. They don't take the effort and they don't have the talents it takes to attract women.
This could be wrong. After all, I have had thousands of conversations with other men and from what I can tell, I am the only living male who ever had trouble bedding legions of females. Every man I know of except me and Hugh Hefner lost his virginity before he lost his umbilical cord.
Hugh Hefner said he went into the Army as a virgin and he came out of the Army as a virgin. Hefner can afford to admit that. I am too stupid not to.
I think one of my problems with women has been was that I am too male. I would be interested to hear what other guys think is their problem with attracting females. But they will first have to admit they have a problem, so I am not going to hold my breath.
June 2, 2004
That is an excellent theory, but Yuppie Republicans can't carry it out, as you will see.
So the Republicans got in contact with some black militants. The blacks militants insisted that the Republicans go into the ghetto at night for a tal. The blacks wanted to impress them, so they wanted the thing on their turf.
I, of course, insisted on going along. I told the Yuppies that I would sit quietly and listen. I fully intended to do just that.
It sounds like a line from a movie. Nobody would believe it.
So Hannity looks straight into the camera and tells America that Jesus Christ died on the cross for interracial dating. O'Reilly tells the same camera that the Founding Fathers wanted the government to sponsor interracial dances because they called this country the UNITED States of America.
Do Hannity and O'Reilly mean what they say? Yes, they do. They mean it to the extent that any psychopath means anything. They would not understand what the term "meaning it" actually signifies. They are psychopaths. There is something missing in them. They do not "mean" anything in the same way you do.
Not all leftist spokesmen are psychopaths. They mean what they say.
June 1, 2004
Women's Liberation has helped to overcome the word stewardess. Another evil sexist term that has been beaten back by Political Correctness is the word "secretary." The word is now "Office Assistant."
"Secretary" is an evil sexist word, invented to humiliate women. Can you imagine being a self-respecting man working in the Pentagon, and having someone refer to you as the mere "Secretary" of defense?
No man has to put up with the label "secretary," so no woman should either.
Thank God for Liberation!
There is another term that the brilliant and highly inventive leaders of Women's Liberation came u0p with.
In the old Pogo cartoon, there was a character called "Miz Beaver." She was older and married and had a lot of kids, but the "Mrs." no longer fitted, so she was called "Miz" Beaver.
Younger women in the South were called "Miss" or Mrs." so that men would know whether they were available or not. In the South, older women were routinely called "Miz" regardless of their marital status.
Then the genius of Women's Liberation came on the scene. Women's Liberation declared that the division of women into "Miss' and "Mrs." was an Evil Plot invented by men. So the geniuses of Women's Liberation searched for a term to substitute for "Miss" and "Mrs." After years of research and development, they invented the term "Miz."
Thank God for Liberation!
I want to apologize profusely to David Duke. I sent him the May 31 piece below and he was deeply hurt. David told me he had no way of knowing that the lovely young lady was going to sing "The American Trilogy" and he couldn't just grab her off the stage.
This is not the first time my sense of humor has blinded me to the fact that I was hurting someone. All I can do is apologize.
I particularly hate to hurt someone who is a loyal Southerner and who is deeply offended at the idea that he would deliberately do something offensive to the South. That was one hell of a convention, and I said something bad about it.
I make mistakes. What can I do but say I'm sorry?
My boss on Capitol Hill was Congressman John Ashbrook of Ohio, NOT Senator John Ashcroft of Missouri.
John had personally prevented the Martin Luther King Holiday, and the year he died it became law.
In 1982 John Ashbrook decided to leave the House after 22 years and run for the Senate against the super-liberal Democratic incumbent, Howard Metzenbaum. There was no doubt that John would get the Republican nomination in the May primary.
An incumbent senator like Metzenbaum almost never directs all his fire entirely at one person who is still just a nominee for the opposing party's nomination. When he does that, he is announcing that that person already has the nomination sewed up and is already on the same plane with the incumbent senator.
That is exactly what we wanted, of course.
So some smartass on John's staff --who shall remain nameless -- started attacks on Metzenbaum long before the primary was to be held. Cleveland had a huge busing program, and as always busing was only aimed at working class white kids. Every judge I have ever known about who ordered busing sent his own grandchildren to private schools and the one in Cleveland was no exception.
The working class white vote was the one which would decide the vote on Metzenbaum's re-election.
So we sent out press release after press release press release announcing that "Senator Metzenbaum casts his one hundred and fifty-fourth consecutive pro-busing vote." Every vote that touched on the issue got a press release from us.
Metzenbaum went ballistic. We were perfectly correct, so all Metzenbaum could do was attack John.
Metzenbaum's poll numbers against Ashbrook were dropping like a rock.
In April of 1982 John Ashbrook, who had always been perfectly healthy, died mysteriously of a hemorrhage from a tiny perforation in the inside his stomach. You get that from the old Borgia method of drinking crushed glass in a drink.
John's brother had been strangled the year before by the mob for a gambling debt. I don't say there is a connection, but this sort of coincidence is unusual even in hardball politics.
Some years later, Sonny Bono was also on his way to getting the Republican nomination against the leftist incumbent senator. Her poll numbers were also dropping fast in a one-on-one match up. Bono mysteriously went out skiing alone on a winter night and ended up having a fatal "accident."
If either Bono or Ashbrook had died AFTER the nomination, a lot of questions would have been obvious. When the fellow running against you dies, questions always come up.
In fact, Ashbrook's body was not in the coffin at his funeral because the Ohio police were investigating unnamed "suspicious circumstances." They never named those "circumstances," and you wouldn't if they had anything to do with an incumbent senator and you couldn't prove your case.
So, conveniently, both Ashbrook and Bono died before their primaries were held.
If Metzenbaum and the liberal California senator had had Italian names, a Mafia connection would be suspected in the convenient and mysterious deaths of their rivals. But Metzenbaum and the California liberal were not Italian. They were both Jews.
Jews have always had enormous power in the Mafia. Bugsy Siegel is just an outstanding example, not a unique one.
It sure looks like a duck to me
John Ashbrook was my friend as well as my boss. So no matter if it does make me look like conspiracy nut, it is my obligation to report this set of coincidences.
But long before that green plants covered the world with oxygen and wiped out the real Native Americans, those life forms based on sulfur.
But we can do even better than that.
Vegetables are the parents of all animal life, including humans. How dare you kill them?
Vegetables have as much feeling as any embryo. But sulfur plants do too. The green plants evolved from them, animals evolved from the green plants, and animals evolved into man.
Link to Bob's blog for May 2004