"What Are They Calling Us Now?" by Alpha Unit

New Alpha Unit. My Mom works on the board of the Madera County Mental Health Committee. She has her reasons for doing this, which I don’t need to go into. There’s a Black woman on there, older, and pretty funny like a lot of older Black women are. One day she said something like, “I’m Black, or colored, or Negro, or African-American, or whatever the Hell they are calling us nowadays.” I was reminded of that when I read this post. On my birth certificate, issued way back in the early sixties, my mother is declared to be Colored. So am I. I remember hearing my grandmother talking about this or that “colored man” or “colored woman.” I have a distant memory of hearing my mom refer to a “colored” nurse. My earliest school records refer to me as a “colored” child. So I grew up thinking of myself as colored. I have a vivid memory of realizing that I was Black. I was just a little kid, but I can clearly recall James Brown declaring triumphantly through the radio, “Say it loud–I’m Black and I’m proud!” It was roughly the same time that I was hearing “Black is beautiful” all around me. It was a great time to be a little Black kid in America. I was Black all through high school. Everyone was conscious of the need to affirm Blackness, even the White people who ran the school district. So in my high school, it wasn’t enough to have a homecoming queen. We had two homecoming queens–a Black one and a White one. There wasn’t just one girl voted Most Beautiful; we had to vote for a Black one and a White one. Wherever possible, we had to have racial equilibrium. Some time after I entered college I became, for official purposes, African-American. I still don’t know how that happened, actually. I kind of remember the first time I ever heard the term “African-American,” although I have no memory of how or where I encountered it. I remember pondering it for a little while, the way you would examine something interesting you had never seen before. The only other thing I can remember about it is wondering whose idea it was, and guessing, in my youthful and careless way, that maybe it was Jesse Jackson’s idea or something. All I can say is that I hope we’re done thinking of things to call ourselves. I don’t care a whole lot for “African-American,” really. It’s kind of meaningless, since Africa is an entire continent of disparate peoples. I have a feeling that some time in the future someone will decide we should be called something even more interesting and specific. I have a nostalgia for “Black.” I became Black at a very special time in my life. It was Beautiful, something to be Proud of. That’ll do nicely.

"To All the Pretty Young Things," by Alpha Unit

Latest by Alpha Unit. When I first read the title, of course I had to think of David Bowie’s song , right? If you’ve never heard it before, check it out. It’s from Hunky Dory, one of his greatest albums, but it’s not very well known. Early Bowie is like early Elton John. Great but little known. Rick Wakeman (later of  the band Yes) is on piano, and the rest of the lineup is the same as the Spiders From Mars. It’s now widely regarded as one of the best rock albums ever made, but at the time, hardly anyone was listening to it, and it was extremely underground, druggy, counterculture music. Bowie was also widely despised by many young rock fans. The previous album, The Man Who Sold the World, was even more underground, druggy, counterculture and hated. My father is one of my heroes. He is the standard by which I measure a lot of men, especially young black men. I am always saying, “If my father could succeed against the odds dealt him, then what’s their excuse?” My father was a true Alpha Male in my eyes: disciplined, hard-working, dependable. I get my stubborn streak, along with my eyes and a certain way that I smile, directly from him. I am very happy that the first man in my life was someone I respect enormously. Now, was my father a saint? I can see my mother getting a laugh out of that. Of course he wasn’t. Even the canonized weren’t actually saints. All of the people we have great admiration and respect for have character flaws, weaknesses, shortcomings. But the good they’ve done is undeniable. I am a great admirer of men. I like them, in general, and when I was younger, I used to envy their greater exercise of freedom in the world. There is plenty about them that young girls don’t know yet. Especially about their lust. Male lust is the most abundant thing on earth. So it really isn’t very valuable, in a sense. It has great value to pornographers and brothel operators, for sure. But the fact that it is directed at you doesn’t make you special. Young girls don’t know this. They don’t know, many of them, that males will screw just about anything. Many others have pointed this out and explained it better than I can. But males have been known to have sex with women both young and old. They have sex with children, sometimes even babies. They have sex with other men, sometimes, even if they are not normally inclined to. They have been known to have sex with animals. They’ve been known to have sex with inanimate objects–including corpses. Girls, have you ever heard of something called “sloppy seconds?” Some of you have, even though at your age I hadn’t yet. Well, you see, males will actually line up to take turns having sex with one female. You can imagine how that gets after a while. Ewwwww. For most of you, things like this aren’t even on the radar screen, and rightfully so, I suppose. You just want to have fun, like Cyndi Lauper said. (Ask your mom who Cyndi Lauper is.) And carnal pleasures can be so exquisite. Well, you’ll learn one day that what’s really impressive about guys isn’t what’s in their pants. That there are things they can deliver besides a good time. You might even find that now, while you’re so nubile and hot, that you can offer yourself up to one like a platter of goodies, and he’ll actually turn you down! Those are the really smart ones, especially if they are quite a bit older than you are. Those are the ones who are going to look really good years and years from now.

What In the Hell is the Matter With White Boys These Days?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aae_HL6OenA&fmt=18] I can’t seem to figure out White boys these days. I swear to God, they are turning into Black people. Like the mysterious Flynn Effect, the Wigger Effect changes are occurring much too fast to be due to genetic changes, so environmental changes must be at work. Social scientists are busy at work during to untangle the mysterious Wigger Effect. The Wigger Effect holds many interesting questions for the future, assuming it continues. In the future, will White Wiggers be eligible for Affirmative Action also? Is the offspring of a Wigger and a White woman biracial? Is the offspring of a Wigger and a Black woman pure Black? Are IQ tests biased against Wiggers too? If a Wigger beats up a Black dude (assuming that’s even possible) is it a Hate Crime or Black on Black violence? We have seen the first Black President. So when will we see the first Wigger President? As an aside, this* has to be one of the worst music videos ever made. Shout out to whoever did it. Like 50’s sci-fi flicks, it’s a masterpiece in a certain sense. I have some comments. Why did this kid hire his Mom to be a go-go dancer in his video? Or is that his sister? Or is it a hooker he hired for $50? If it’s his Mom, she sure is hot! If it’s his sister, forget it. If it’s a hooker, I want to know what she will do for $100? Is that his Dad’s motorcycle? Why did this video have to be 5 minutes long. At the 3 minute mark, I realized I would have to watch two more minutes of this, and I swear to God I almost committed suicide. Is this kid retarded? Does he have Down’s Syndrome? Cerebal palsy? Was this done for the Make a Wish Foundation? Was this kid in the Special Olympics? Those flips in the backyard are pretty gangsta. This guy hails from Halliburton, Ontario, Canada. His next album is going to be called “Straight Outa Halliburton.” Kids, listen, this is why you need to stay in school. This is what happens when you drop out. Seriously. That layup was weak. You ain’t no baller. If this kid was Black, he would probably be on B.E.T., right? I am thinking maybe we should make it against the law for White people to act like Black people. I mean Black people acting like Black people, well, that’s just natural. But White people acting like Black people, that’s like a crime against nature, you know? I asked some of my gangsta friends to watch this video. These are their comments: “Fuck yea! Boostalk all up in dis joint.” “Look out Jay-Z! There’s a new king in town!” “Boostalk is the numba one hustla!!” “The girl is mad busted!” “Mad beats dawg!” “Those are some sick flips and shit.” *The video is Boostalk doing We Gon Rock. The video was reportedly made on a $50 budget. I guess the $50 was to hire the dancing escort girl.

Record-Breaking Month on Robert Lindsay

Last month was the busiest month ever on Robert Lindsay, surpassing the previous month by 75,000 hits. A total of 165,277 hits were recorded, as the 100,000 hit mark was broken for the first time. In addition, 6,569 visits were recorded on the old site.

   Traffic  Month            
1. 171,846: September 2009    8
2. 91,413:  August 2009        
3. 85,805:  July 2009         5
4. 56,844:  June 2009         9
5. 28,870:  May 2009

As you can see, traffic has grown every month since May.

Visage Fendu dans Accident de Plongeon

The video has been removed following discussions with WordPress staff. Try here instead. I am looking for translators to translate this post into Hebrew, Greek, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Hungarian, Slovak, Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, German and Chinese. Email me if you are interested. Bad reactions to the video including nausea, vomiting, dry heaves, paleness, shivering, shaking, spinal chills, headache, rapid heartbeat, nightmares, inability to stop thinking of the video and pain in the face, have been reported. Adverse reactions have lasted up to three days. Please exercise caution in viewing the video. This post has been translated into Portuguese as Video Acidente de Mergulho Rostro Dividida Ao Meio (em Português), into Spanish as Video Accidente de Clavadista con Cara Partida (en Español), into Finnish as Sukellusonnettomuus (on Suomen), into Serbo-Croatian as Ronilačkih Nezgoda Sa Licem Podijeljen U Dva (u Srpsko-hrvatski) and into Italian as Incidente Di Tuffo Che Divide Il Viso In Due (traduzione in Italiano). This is a French translation of the Face Split Diving Accident Video post by my finest translator of all, Natalie from France. C’est une des vidéos les plus regardées. Elle est apparue sur le Net aux alentours de la troisième semaine de juillet, elle a commencé à faire un tabac ces dernières semaines. En général elle n’a pas de nom. Elle est mentionnée en quelque sorte par la description de l’évènement Horrible Diving Accident, Bridge Fail, Worst Diving Accident, Horrific Diving Accident, Awesome Diving Accident, Disgusting Diving Accident, Jump Accident, Cellphone Horrific Diving Accident and Diving Accident, je l’ai nommée Dive Fail faute de mieux. Il n’y a pas de violence, pas d’agression. C’est seulement la vidéo d’un terrible accident. Un adolescent plonge depuis la promenade du front de mer à Beyrouth, et glisse juste avant de plonger. La glissade lui fait louper la mer et heurter le bloc de béton en dessous, là où les pêcheurs pêchent. Il touche le béton face la première, puis tombe dans l’océan. En très peu de temps la mer se teint en rouge sang tout autour. Il y a des personnes et des bateaux en train d’essayer de lui porter secours et des jeunes filles qui hurlent. La scène se déplace ensuite dans l’hôpital où le malheureux est ausculté par une équipe de docteurs et infirmières. Son visage a été coupé en deux parties, verticalement, par le milieu ! Il est encore vivant et conscient, il respire et ses yeux bougent. Il a l’air terrifié. Par deux fois, le docteur prend les côtés de sa figure et les rapproche de façon à recomposer son visage. Il y a beaucoup de rumeurs disant que cette vidéo est fausse, mais apparemment elle est vraie. Cet accident est arrivé à Beyrouth durant la deuxième semaine de juin 2009. L’adolescent et son ami étaient en train de montrer leur habileté en plongeant de la Manara Promenade, qui se trouve sur le boulevard qui traverse l’Université Américaine de Beyrouth, sur le port de Beyrouth. C’est arrivé en contrebas de la corniche Manara, plus de douze mètres plus bas. Le jeune et son ami ont effectué plusieurs plongeons, tout allait bien, jusqu’à ce qu’il glisse et que le terrible accident se produise. Cette partie a été enregistrée par un Nokia qui filme de façon assez sombre l’après-midi. Cette séquence a été filmée par une fille présente, que l’on peut entendre hurler “Oh mon Dieu, mon Dieu, que quelqu’un appelle les secours !” en Arabe. La deuxième partie de ce clip montre le même enfant à l’hôpital, mais a été filmée avec un téléphone différent, donc elle semble différente. L’équipe médicale parle le Libanais (Arabe). Cette partie de la vidéo a été tournée dans la forte lumière des urgences de l’Hôpital Universitaire Américain, proche du lieu de l’accident. C’est la raison pour la quelle cette partie de la vidéo est beaucoup plus lumineuse. Certaines personnes disent que ce n’est pas possible qu’une telle vidéo ait pu être tournée dans les urgences d’un hôpital. Quoi qu’il en soit il est très fréquent dans les pays en voie de développement, que les familles et les amis soient présents aux urgences à proximité des patients, pendant que l’équipe médicale s’affaire autours d’eux. Tout ce que les chirurgiens pouvaient faire était recoudre sa blessure, profonde et sévère. Bien que certains médecins sur le Net aient dit qu’un bon ORL aurait pu réparer cet enfant de façon convenable, ce pauvre gamin n’a pas pu être sauvé. Tout ce qu’ils ont pu faire a été de le maintenir en vie dans une unité de réanimation, durant deux jours, avant qu’il ne meure. La ville de Beyrouth a essayé de stopper cette pratique en posant des barrières et du fil barbelé aux endroits où la population aime plonger, mais des adolescents et des jeunes hommes âgés d’une vingtaine d’années continuent de plonger depuis la promenade, en prenant beaucoup de risques. Avant cet accident, il y en a eu de nombreux autres, horribles, dans la même zone, tous impliquant des garçon et de jeunes hommes. Il y a quelque chose de vraiment effrayant dans ces images, que je n’arrive pas à définir. Depuis l’avertissement non professionnel trilingue au début (Arabe, Français et Anglais, suggérant que nous sommes au Liban), aux cris horribles après l’impact, au rouge sang diffus sur une importante surface de l’océan, autour des 20-30 personnes réunies dans l’eau pour lui porter secours, jusqu’à la scène terrifiante à l’hôpital où l’enfant a le visage coupé en deux. La respiration effrayante et laborieuse de la victime associée avec le regard d’horreur dans ses yeux sont deux choses qui ne vous quittent plus. Tout au long de ces images, il y a une musique instrumentale bizarre, moche, difficile à décrire, en fond musical, qui fait croître la sensation de terreur. Pareillement pour la façon brute, saccadée de filmer en amateur avec un téléphone portable. J’ai été traumatisé durant plusieurs jours après avoir vu cette vidéo, et pourtant j’ai déjà vu pas mal de choses terribles.

Tahoe Wolverine is Not From California

Repost from the old site.

The first wolverine detected in California in 86 years, photographed at a camera station at Sagehen Creek near Lake Tahoe on February 28, 2008, has now been shown to be not from either California or Washington.

Scientists located wolverine scat near where the photo was shot and analyzed it for genes. A single gene was sequenced, the wolverine was shown to be a male, and the gene has been reported only from wolverines in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. It is also found in southern Canada.

The only conclusion possible is that the wolverine is from the Rocky Mountains and is not a native California wolverine. No one has any idea how it got to California. It’s pretty hard to live-trap these things and transport them unless you are a wildlife biologist.

It doesn’t make much sense that this wolverine cruised down from the Snake River region in Western Idaho along eastern Oregon to the Cascades, then down the Sierras to Tahoe, but according to a recent study, that is exactly what it seems to have done. It seems to have some from the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho.

At least they are back in California, but I never thought they left anyway. The Sierra Nevada is their natural home, and I don’t think it matters where this animal came from. They are back, they exist, and we need to keep them around.

As far as how this animal showed up north of Tahoe, that will just have to fall into the category of one of life’s strange mysteries. Captive wolverines have been dumped before – one was plunked down in Iowa in 1960, where a farmer later shot it in a cornfield.

Click the wolverines label at the end of the post to see other posts on wolverines in the US, including many sighting reports and photos.

Health Care Reform in Taiwan and South Korea

A couple of nice articles about health care reform, and frankly national health care, in Taiwan and South Korea. The article about South Korea is rather complicated, and I did not understand all of it. It’s from the American Journal of Public Health. The article about Taiwan is much easier to understand. Taiwan has more of a single payer system. One of the main beefs that US conservatives have about single payer is that you don’t get to choose your doctor, and the government wastes too much money and won’t spend efficiently. Actually, it’s the private sector that is inefficient. Taiwanese health care has the lowest administrative costs on Earth, and it’s a single payer system. Medicare also has very low administrative costs, around Both are beginning to run into problems, but that’s inevitable. For an example of the sort of problems Taiwan experienced before national health care, in 1999, 5 South Korean health care reform actually started in 1977, when the government began requiring companies to cover employees with health insurance. It’s pretty amazing that even this reform is apparently completely off the table in the crazy US. This is actually closer to the Japanese model. All Japanese are covered, mostly through their work. I believe that the corporations are mandated to cover employees, but they typically covered them anyway, since Japanese corporations have a much more paternalistic attitude than the “Fuck off and die!” attitude that US corporations take towards their employees. South Korea’s model is called “decentralized” and hence similar to that of France or Germany, but I don’t understand what that means. South Koreans have had problems with cost containment on the supply side as private hospitals, private physicians run up costs unnecessarily. There are also problems with increased outlaw for pharmaceuticals. I am told that the physicians’ groups, the hospitals, the pharmaceutical companies and the insurance companies reportedly promised Obama that they would not kill health care reform if he pushed it. He made this deal with them when he was running for President. All the ranting and raving you hear about health care is coming from independent rightwingers and the Republican Party – the corporations have stayed out of it. That’s possibly why the arguments sound so shrill and insane. If the corporations were running this campaign, they would be a lot slicker about it. Obviously, this was a quid pro quo. What we need to know is what Obama promised in return. I bet he promised nothing more than a public option and to declare single payer DOA. 6 The US seems to be the only country on Earth where people actually protest against health care. Americans are nuts.

The Failure of the Neoliberal Model For Developing Countries

On the 60th Anniversary of Chinese Liberation post, James Schipper says that I should compare China to Taiwan and South Korea instead and see who did better. I pointed out that a book on China by the reactionary Time-Life Corporation in 1962 at the height of the Cold War noted that Taiwanese miracle was not reproducible in China. They wished it was, but there was no way to do it. For one thing, one thing that helped create the Taiwanese miracle was a flood of US aid. In order to China to receive a concomitant amount of aid, China would have to have received an unheard-of figure that was simply not possible to achieve at that time, or even now. Further, there was the problem of feeding the people and rural poverty. Taiwan solved this, mostly by doing a land reform, but Taiwan is a little island, and feeding the island was not an insurmountable task. The book pointed out that the main problem facing China was feeding the population. Only 2 Everywhere on Earth, US imperialism has always fought the imposition of any kind of national health care, state involvement in the economy and especially land reform. Many nations have been overthrown by the CIA and other agents of US imperialism for attempting even those most meager reforms. Indeed, all Hugo Chavez seems to be doing is trying to create some sort of social democracy in Venezuela. Yet in Taiwan and South Korea, the US agreed to national health care, massive land reform, trade barriers, heavy state involvement in the economy, the whole works. This is because I believe that the US knew that all of these were necessary to develop an economy. Taiwan and South Korea were intended by imperialism to be “showcases against Communism”, to be sparkling examples of what “capitalism” could do better than say North Korea or China. It’s really amazing how cynical imperialism is, but if imperialism has to do a bit of a socialist dance to fight Communism, then that’s what it will do. The sad thing is that if the North Korean, Soviet and Chinese “threats of a good example” did not exist, there would be no reason for imperialism to create these “anti-Commie showcases” and the model for those countries may well have been the Philippines, Thailand or Indonesia instead. I would like to point out a few other things, mainly that we are comparing one socialist country to another, since I consider Taiwan at least to be a socialist country and South Korea to be a partly socialist country. As I’ve said on this site, I support all kinds of socialism. The main thing is that we are not comparing a socialist China to a neoliberal capitalist South Korea or Taiwan. Taiwan at least is a very socialist country. They did a land reform, and they have universal health care that even includes dental care! I don’t know much about South Korea, but I know that they did a land reform. It’s important to note how essential that land reform was developing those two nations. Neoliberal dumbasses never seem to figure that out. You have to deal with the problem of feeding your people and take care of the problem of rural poverty by doing a land reform, and then you can think about becoming a developed country. Until then, the best you can hope for is some backwards clusterfuck wreck like Brazil or Equatorial Guinea. Also, neither Taiwan nor South Korea are examples of neoliberal capitalism. Both were very heavily state-directed, state-guided and even state-involved economies. The state was pretty much setting economic policy and telling the corporations what to do. The state and the business sector were very much tied together. It was almost a “national socialism.” Also both countries protected their budding industries with huge trade barriers until they got big enough to compete with the big guys. All developing countries need to protect their budding industries from competition with huge economies – otherwise you are never going to develop. Of course all of this – land reform, national health care (including dental!), heavy state involvement in the economy, trade barriers to protect budding industries until they are big enough to compete – are anathema to the neoliberal agenda that holds sway over the entire world, mostly due to US imperialism. Neoliberalism never developed one undeveloped country ever, and probably never will.

Derrion Albert Beating Death Video

The video has been removed following discussions with WordPress staff. Try here instead. This video shows the melee on the south side of Chicago in which groups of Black youfs from two different schools, all future NFL players, engaged in a fight in the streets which resulted in the death of Derrion Albert, a 16 year old boy said to be an honor student. The fight occurred on Thursday, September 24. The video is not that bad; it just shows a fight. After Albert goes down, his prone body is blurred out. This sort of thing happens all the time in Chicago, but the fact that an honor student bought it this time has promoted a spate of articles. Albert is said to be an innocent bystander who just accidentally strolled into the middle of the brawl or was accidentally caught up in it. That is certainly possible. The brawl took place as students were getting out of school and the streets were blanketed with students. When a brawl takes place in such a situation, obviously a bystander could happen to get caught up in it. However, I have reviewed this tape extensively, and I conclude that Derrion Albert may not have been so innocent after all. Although the cellphone video is not the best and I don’t have the necessary tech to slow down videos or review frame by frame, after repeated viewings, it seems that Albert deliberately ran into the middle of the fight and then participated in some sort of fighting. The fighters on the other side seem to have retaliated against him for this. One hit him in the head with a large plank of wood. After that, he falls to the ground, but gets up quickly. As soon as he gets up, he is immediately punched in the face and hit again with the railroad tie and goes down hard. This time he stays down. At least one person comes up and kicks him in the head several ties when he was down. Somewhere in this rain of blows, he suffered enough injuries that he was killed. Bystanders quickly surround him, keep people away from him, and then cover his prone body with some sort of a white sheet. I don’t think this kid deserved to get killed, and he may well have been an honor student. But I’m not so sure, looking at the video, that he’s so innocent. Right before he gets hit with the board, it looks like he tries to punch a member of the opposing faction. The fight occurred in SW Chicago in the 300 block of West 111th Street. My mother grew up around 65th Street in the 30’s and 40’s. Back then, the area where the fight occurred was White and safe, but not anymore. It’s now a heavily Black ghetto, but there seem to be a lot of Whites and Hispanics in the area too. The fight occurred around Fenger High School. This is a notorious ghetto school with tons of problems and lots of violence. The fight was between two groups of youths from different areas, one from the Altglen Housing Project and one from an area known as the “ville.” Altglen is a notorious project. This is where Obama did some of his earlier community organizing work. His claim to fame there was asbestos removal at the project. This area is not far from where Chicago wants to host the 2016 Olympics. At this rate, they may as well call it the Gladiator Games.

60th Anniversary of the Liberation of China

Very nice article sums up very well the great changes that occurred in China on October 1, 1949. The author finds that almost every Chinese woman he meets his joyous about the Chinese Revolution. Why? It was the greatest movement for he liberation of women that has ever occurred in the history of the world. On that day, for instance, Mao issued a decree forbidding forever the binding of feet, a practice that was rampant under Chiang’s Nationalist government. Arranged marriages were ended and women received 1/2 of their husband’s property. As Mao put it, “China stood up.” Indeed. Were the Revolution never to have taken place, surely Chinese women would still have bound feet, would get screwed (literally in marriage) and would suffer form arranged marriages. In the rural areas, education and health care would be rare to nonexistent, just as it is in India today. Mao also tried to stop wife-beating, an ancient tradition in China. His methods were ingenius. Mao ordered women all across China to order the men in the villages to stop beating women. If they did not stop, there would be consequences. Many men did not stop, so party cadres in the villages told Chinese women to gather up their farm implements and raid the houses of the beaters and beat them up with farm tools. So all across China, in 100’s of thousands of villages, women armed with hoes and shovels stormed into houses and beat up men who were beating their wives. Wife-beating quickly dropped to a low level, though unfortunately it still continues today. The Chinese government is said to be capitalist, but that is not really true. The latest government educational decree sent teachers to all villages with over 200 residents. In the 3rd World, capitalist countries don’t do things like that. The reigning neoliberal model says the less the state spends on education, the better, as it is regarded as a waste of society’s money that would be better spent by the public sector. Instead, private schools are encouraged. The US “liberal”mass media cheers the closing of schools in the Third World and government issuance of nonpayable school fees. When the Sandinistas were thrown out of office in 1990, the entire US media stood up and cheered. Nearly all legislators of both US parties (the “liberal” Democrats nearly more than the Republicans) roared their approval for the defeat of the Sandinistas. The ultra-reactionary Violeta Chamorro got down to business very quickly. One of the first things she did was to close health clinics all over Nicaragua. Next she issued a $30/year fee that parents had to pay for every student in the public schools. This was unpayable for huge numbers of parents, so swarms of students all over Nicaragua quickly dropped out of school. I assume that that’s still the case today. It is for such things that the entire US media cheers. Floods of students being thrown out of schools all over the land because they can’t pay the bills. Countless health clinics closing all over the land, leaving poor 3rd Worlders with no medical treatment. Both parties, “liberal” Democrats and Republicans, roar their approval of such atrocities. The World Bank and the IMF, both of which are controlled both by US imperialism and also by World Jewry, imposes similar conditions all through the 3rd World. In order to get a loan, government spending must be slashed to the bone, especially health and education spending. Subsidies to poor for anything, for food, transportation, utilities, anything, are ordered to be slashed or ended altogether. Prices for food, utilities, transportation, you name it, rocket upward and taxes are raised on the poorest of the poor. At the same time, taxes on business and the rich are gutted or eliminated and poor country must be opened up to economic colonization by corporations from the rich nations, often US corporations. Careful studies have shown that IMF/World Bank policies have resulted in declining education and health figures across the board. The best estimates show that these sanctions have killed millions over the past couple of decades, and possibly continue to kill millions every year. So US imperialism and World Jewry are probably deliberately killing millions every year in the 3rd World through structural adjustment alone. So any government that massively increases education to its people in these days must be a socialist nation, since capitalist countries by their nature do not do such things. In the US, on Wikipedia and among reactionaries everywhere, there’s a new line out: the Chinese Revolution failed. Next time someone tells you that, think again.

Early Elton John, 1969-1973

Listening to Springsteen doing This Land Was Made For You and Me, I was reminded of early Elton John. Early Elton John is not very well-known, and he was quite an underground artist at this time, but this music has weathered very well with time. Have you ever heard the great song by the early Elton John, Skyline Pigeon? This song is off his very first album that almost no one has ever heard of, Empty Sky. The second album, Elton John, is also excellent, though also unknown. Tumbleweed Connection is great, especially the song, Country Comfort. It’s one of his greatest albums of all. Madman Across the Water is also great, but it’s also unknown. We were listening to this stuff in the mid-1970’s, and at the time, this stuff was very underground, almost druggy, psychedelic music. It was underground hipster stoner music, not really very popular, and Elton John was a cult artist. Tiny Dancer, Levon and the title track are all killer. Robert LindsayPosted on Categories Music, Rock4 Comments on Early Elton John, 1969-1973

Bruce Springsteen, "This Land is Your Land"

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yuc4BI5NWU&fmt=18] A truly great video of Bruce Springsteen doing one of the greatest (or as Springsteen says, the greatest) songs about America ever written, This Land is Your Land. No matter what you think of Springsteen, I think you have to admit that this is one Hell of a killer rendition. I like it better than Guthrie’s original and a lot of the folkie renditions by Pete Seeger, Alto Guthrie and others. The song was written by Leftist (Communist, really) Woody Guthrie in February 1940. This is one of those songs that really captures the essence of what America is really all about. It’s a song that all real Americans, that means not only Whites but Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and any other assimilated groups, should embrace. If you can’t embrace this song because your heart is still stuck in Calcutta or Tijuana or Guatemala City or San Salvador or wherever, you’re not assimilated. That’s all there is to it. Springsteen’s albums, especially from the 1980’s, really hearken back to a working class White American heartland that seems to be dead and gone. Driving through California towns that have been turned by the 100’s into Tijuana or San Salvador, the last thing I want to sing is This Land is Your Land. If there was another version called This Land is Not Your Land, I would sing that instead. Increasingly, this feels like elegiac requiem from an America gone and never to return. Oh well, we still have memories, some of us do anyway. It’s a beautiful song anyway, and it’s actually a very leftwing song (hardly anyone ever seems to recognize this), especially the “forgotten lyrics”, one stanza of which Springsteen revives for this rendition. Most Americans have never heard of the “forgotten stanzas” since they are never sung in the version taught to schoolkids. Most people have not analyzed this song very well. In order to do so, you need to understand Guthrie’s life, for the song is actually autobiographical. It was written during WW2, but it is about events that took place 9 years earlier when he was 19 years old. Guthrie left  Texas in the midst of the Dust Bowl that laid millions of acres of prime farmland to waste. The refugees moved West to California, in particular the Central Valley farming region, where they became known as the “Okies.” There are still many White descendants of these Okies here in the Central Valley where I live. They are sort of “redneck” and working class, but I don’t mind them that much. There is one that lives in my apartment complex and at first I did not like him too much. I complained to a Black female friend about him, and she said, “Oh, he’s an Okie! They’re worse than niggers!” The movement of Okies to the Central Valley was not an easy one and it was memorialized for all time in John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck is one of the all-time great California writers and Grapes is a fantastic American novel. It was also made into a film but I never checked it out. But check out the book Grapes if you ever get a chance. Steinbeck also wrote some other acclaimed books, but I forget if I read them or not. They all dealt with California.

This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

This stanza is simply a paean to America and in particular its natural beauty.

As I went walking that ribbon of highway I saw above me that endless skyway I saw below me that golden valley This land was made for you and me.

This stanza is about Guthrie and his young wife heading out from Oklahoma to California along the famous Highway 66, a great American highway long memorialized in many folk, country, country-rock, rockabilly, etc. songs. The golden valley was California’s Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions on Earth.

I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts While all around me a voice was sounding Saying this land was made for you and me.

This stanza is again about the trek from Oklahoma to California. The “sparkling sands of her diamond deserts” refers to the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona that the highway passes through.

When the sun came shining, and I was strolling And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling A voice was chanting, As the fog was lifting, This land was made for you and me.

This part is a little hard to understand. “…The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling” must refer to the wheat fields of Oklahoma and the dust clouds of the Dust Bowl. But this line, “A voice was chanting, As the fog was lifting” must refer to California. There’s a lot of fog in the Central Valley of California, and there is not much fog in Oklahoma, unless maybe you are near a lake.

As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said “No Trespassing.” But on the other side it didn’t say nothing, That side was made for you and me.

This is one of the famous “missing stanzas” that (with variations) is not often played, but sometimes it is, especially by the folkies. This is obviously a Commie dig at private property rights in the US. Such rights were particularly belligerently enforced in 1930’s America, when labor and environmental laws basically did not even exist.

Nobody living can ever stop me, As I go walking that freedom highway; Nobody living can ever make me turn back This land was made for you and me.

This stanza is almost never heard, but it sounds pretty nice. The second half of it below is a lot more common.

In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple; By the relief office, I’d seen my people. As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking, Is this land made for you and me?

This is a very radical verse, apparently referring to the relief offices patronized by the Okies in Depression-era California. It’s interesting that almost no Americans have ever heard of these lines. This stanza is played by Springsteen, to his credit, above.

Face Split Diving Accident Video

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This post has been translated into:

French: Visage Fendu dans Accident de Plongeon (en Français).

Portuguese: Video Acidente de Mergulho Rostro Dividida Ao Meio (em Português).

Spanish: Video Accidente de Clavadista con Cara Partida (en Español).

Finnish: Sukellusonnettomuus (on Suomen).

Serbo-Croatian: Ronilačkih Nezgoda Sa Licem Podijeljen U Dva (u Srpsko-hrvatski).

Italian: Incidente Di Tuffo Che Divide Il Viso In Due (traduzione in Italiano).

Greek: as: Näo Lõhkenud Õnnetusjuhtumi Sukeldumise Video.

Bad reactions to the video including nausea, vomiting, dry heaves, paleness, shivering, shaking, spinal chills, headache, rapid heartbeat, nightmares, inability to stop thinking of the video and pain in the face, have been reported. Adverse reactions have lasted up to three days. Please exercise caution in viewing the video.

This is one of the latest viral videos going around. It actually appeared on the Net around the third week of July 2009, but it only started going viral in a huge way around the second week of September 2009. It first appeared on Arabic and Turkish sites, and finally found its way around the Net. In general, it never has a name.

It’s just referred to by some description of the event like, Horrible Diving Accident, Bridge Fail, Worst Diving Accident, Horrific Diving AccidentAwesome Diving Accident, Disgusting Diving Accident, Jump Accident, Cellphone Horrific Diving Accident , and Diving Accident. I named it Dive Fail since I could not think of anything better. Later I changed the name to Face Split Diving Accident.

There’s really no “violence” in this video. It’s just a video of a horrible accident.

A teenager, a 16 year old boy, dives off the seaside promenade in Beirut, Lebanon and slips before the dive. The slip causes him to miss the ocean and instead hit the concrete slab below where fishermen fish. He hits the concrete face first, then goes into the ocean. In a short while, the ocean for yards around has turned red with blood. There are people in the water and boats trying to help the guy, and girls are screaming all over the place.

The scene then shifts to a hospital where the poor guy is being overseen by a team of doctors and nurses. His face has been split clear in two down the middle vertically!

He is still alive, conscious, and, and his tongue is still moving around. He appears terrified. A couple of times, the doctor takes the sides of his face and pushes them together to make a whole face again. The doctor says, “Where do I begin?” a few times in Arabic. We know this is an operating room in Lebanon because the doctors and nurses are speaking Lebanese Arabic.

People are wondering how he could survive such an injury. The front part of his brain may have been injured, but others are saying that it appears to be intact. At any rate, basic things like breathing are done by the brain stem. The brain stem appears to be intact. People are also wondering about pain. The brain has no pain receptors. On the other hand, the damage to his face must be very painful.

There are a lot of rumors saying that this video is fake, but apparently it is a real video. We know this because people in Lebanon are reporting it. Some had friends who were at the Promenade that day, others said it was reported in the Lebanese press, and others say that they were aware of stories on the street about the video. There is an article in Arabic from the Lebanese press online proving that this event occurred, but it’s in the archives, and looking through the archives costs money.

This event occurred in Beirut in the second week of June 2009. The teenager and his brother were showing off their diving skills by diving off the Manara Promenade ( supposedly proves that this video is fake. In the other video, the hospital footage is said to be of a failed 9mm suicide. However, no way can a 9mm do that kind of damage to your face. Furthermore, in a longer video version of the ER scene, the two doctors are discussing in Lebanese Arabic how he landed “on a rock” when he jumped into the water. This dialogue would not exist in a gun suicide video.

In addition, some are saying that the victim in the failed gun suicide video had a similar injury that differed from this one in certain ways; in particular, this one has a dichotomy of the jaw at the chin, and the other did not.

There are claims that instead of a 9mm failed suicide, this is a shotgun failed suicide. However, there are many photos of shotgun suicides on the Web, for instance, at Rotten.com. In general, shotgun failed suicides do not neatly clove one’s face in two in the way that this injury did. If it’s really a failed gun suicide, why are they speaking Lebanese Arabic just like they are speaking during the dive accident?

Sources in Lebanon who were there at the promenade and witnessed the dive accident claim that the word on the street in Lebanon is that the second half was shot in the hospital and is footage of aftermath of the diving accident. In addition, the young man in the hospital at the end is wearing swim trunks, just as the diver wore. What are the chances that a video of a failed shotgun suicide by a young man wearing a bathing suit occurred and was filmed in Lebanon around the same time of this accident?

Many people have questioned the nature of the wound. It does not seem to be possible to hit a concrete slab and split your face vertically like he did. However, if you look at the dive footage, there is steel casing around the concrete slab that he hits. The concrete slab has worn away and a lot of the steel casing is exposed. The steel casing runs parallel to the shoreline. Even then, hitting the steel casing would seem to be a horizontal hit.

However, look at the way that the boy is flailing wildly in the air. In his dive, he is twisting and turning like the wind. With such a flailing dive and while probably curving to try to avoid the concrete, it’s possible for him to him to turn the 90 degrees he needs to turn to hit the sharp edge of the steel casing vertically instead of horizontally, which would result in the injury we see later.

There is another theory suggesting that the hospital footage is not even real – it’s faked using special effects. I find this dubious. Looking at the cheap quality of the video especially and the fact that faking something like this is the terrain of motion picture studios with huge budgets, I think it is clear that the guy in the hospital suit is not “some rubber thing.” One problem is that the hospital guy is quite pale, while the jumper is a typical brown-skinned Arab. This is possible if the diver lost a lot of blood.

Another suggestion, perhaps not as odd as it sounds, is that he is already dead on the ER table. The body can make a few involuntary movements after death, there are such things as death rattles, and the breathing is said to have been artificially forced by the tube. But why tube a dead man? And if you look closely, you can see that his tongue is moving, and his chest is going up and down. He appears to be gasping for breath. A funeral director on the Web felt that he was still very much alive. She also said gun suicide injuries never cleave the head so perfectly. Only accidents can do that.

At the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter if the video is “fake” or not, because it isn’t. When we watch a scary Hollywood movie, do we all scream, “Fake!”? Of course not. What matters is if a movie is scary. And this video is downright terrifying.  It’s scary like Saw or Hostel is scary. At the end of the day, that’s all that matters.

There is something really creepy about this video that I can’t quite put a finger on.

From the very amateurish trilingual warning at the beginning (Arabic, French and English, suggesting once again it was made in Lebanon) to the horrible screams after he hits, to the blood-red ocean spreading in a large area around the 20-30 people gathered in the water to help him, to the absolutely terrifying scene in the hospital where the poor kid, incredibly, has a face split clear in two. The labored, terrified breathing of the victim combined with what appears to be a the look of horror on what’s left of his face is something that really stays with you.

Throughout the video, there is some weird, cheesy, hard to describe instrumental music going in the background that for some strange reason that really adds to the fear. This music is actually the soundtrack to a medical show on US TV that may or may not be on anymore. It’s either the soundtrack to ER or Chicago Hope. The amateurish cellphone footage that jumps around jerkily also in some way makes the video even scarier. I think maybe the frightening thing about all this amateurishness of the video is that it makes it seem so real (i.e. – it’s not just a Hollywood movie!)

I was traumatized for several days after watching this thing, and I’ve watched a lot of nasty stuff.

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Tsunami Kills 134 People in Samoa

An incredibly huge 7.9-8.3 magnitude earthquake hit the South Pacific early on Tuesday. The tsunami caused some waves that were 5 feet above height, and there were deaths from the tsunami in both American Samoa and Western Samoa, over 100 deaths in Western Samoa and 34 deaths in American Samoa. 1 New Zealander, 3 Koreans and 1 Australian were among the victims. 6 Australians and 1 Koreans were still missing. Fautasi was one village that was completely obliterated. There were at least 5 dead in the village, and the death toll there could go into the 100’s in that village alone. The village of Salesatele was destroyed, and 37 bodies have been found there. A reporter saw at least 20 bodies in the southeastern town of Lalomanu. The town and surrounding region were flattened. There were 7-8 dead in Malaela, and many are missing. There were also many dead in Vailoa and Aleipata. The village of Sau Sau Beach Fale was wiped out. There were also an unknown number of deaths in Talamoa. 40 bodies had been brought to the local hospital in Apia. 20 bodies were seen in a hospital in the city of Upolu. 100 bodies were reported from the southern coast alone and the total was rising all the time. Tsunamis were recorded at Apia and Pago Pago in American Samoa. Tsunami waves 15-20 feet high struck Tutuila Island, where Pago Pago is, and moved up to 1.6 miles inland. The National Park Service office on the island was completely obliterated. 8 Hawaii was spared by the tsunami, but waves 1-2 feet higher than normal hit the California coast a couple of hours ago.

Flaws in the Genetic View of Racial Behavior

As you can see in this horrible article, Blacks in Zaire*, including all parties in the war there, think it’s pretty cool to kill Pygmies and eat them for food. They’ve even set of Pygmy Meat stalls in the local market so you can pick out the choice cuts for yourself and save yourself a Human Hunting Expedition. The article is six years old, but I understand that this behavior is ongoing. This is part of a long-standing slow-motion genocide against the Pygmies that the Bantus have been waging against them since they conquered them 2,000 years ago. Bantus have also been slo-mo genociding the Khoisan in Southwest Africa for about 800 years ago. That’s also ongoing in places like Botswana. Blacks in West Africa have also been eating their enemies in the recent wars there. It seems to be sort of an Africanism to eat your enemies in wartime. Actually, this is common tribal behavior not just in Africa but in New Guinea, the Philippines, Polynesia, Melanesia, the Amazon and probably other places. White nationalists on sites like American Renaissance love articles like this and always use them to point out the innate depravity of Blacks. I think this theory is in error. Perhaps if you want to make a case for the innate depravity of African Blacks, you might be on slightly better grounds, but even there, the theory would probably bite the dust. A good example of why theory is flawed can be seen in US Blacks. Racist posters on Amren are always talking about how American Blacks “would probably try to eat you” after they killed you in some street crime assault. This is faulty thinking because it conflates US Blacks with African Blacks and assumes that the behavior of both is identical because it is genetically encoded. But as much as we complain about US Blacks here, but they don’t do stuff like those below, and they probably never will. But if US Blacks had never come to the US and were still in Africa, they would probably still be running around: 1. Consuming other humans in backyard barbecue get-togethers, 2. Slaughtering each other by the millions in insane, cruel and stupid wars, 3. Killing other humans to cook up their body parts as voodoo recipes, 4. Burning witches, 5. Launching pogroms against albinos, 6. And all sorts of other charming and highly evolved behaviors. It’s not only US Blacks, but all Blacks in the West that don’t do this stuff, including Blacks in the Caribbean and South America. But as I’ve noted, the Western Hemisphere Blacks would probably be doing all this sick stuff if they were still back in Africa. Why? Because that’s what Blacks do in Africa. And why don’t they do it here? Because Blacks in the Western Hemisphere have lost a lot of their African traditions and have become culturally a part of Western Hemisphere cultures instead. So, the reason US Blacks don’t do 1-6 above is because they are Americans, and Americans don’t do things like that. Have they genetically changed in America, and is this the reason they don’t do these things? Probably not. But they have culturally changed, and that culture change has been so long-lasting that behaviors like 1-6 above have been wiped out in the US for centuries. Using this behavior as an argument for the innate depravity of Africans is also difficult. Because quite a few of the folks doing 1-6 above will quit doing it at some point if you take them out of Africa and put them in, say, the Western Hemisphere. Racialists are always bashing culture, but it’s much more important than you think. They bash culture at their peril. *The Blacks in Zaire cannibalizing the Pygmies include many Rwandans also. There’ also a long tradition of cannabalism in the Congo, dating back centuries.

Text To Speech Application on the Net

This is pretty weird! This avatar babe (or avatar guy) will say anything you tell her to! Just like all women should be! Haha. Anyway, just type in the words you want her to say, and she says them. Better than a parrot or a myna bird. If you don’t like the way she says it, you can use effects. So far, being a degenerate, I’m making her say all sorts of dirty things to me, since lately not enough real women do that to me. When you make her talk dirty, the “slow down” and “longer” effects work better to stretch out her robot-like speech. You can also make the avatars speak other languages, or speak English with an accent, whatever you like. Ladies, I don’t know what you want to tell this young lassie to do. Maybe make her say something like, “Sure I’ll clean your house for free!”, or “How would you like your dinner, Ma’m, rare or well done?” Or maybe you can make the avatar dude say whatever you wish and thereby command him to. Too bad this chick is just an avatar on the Net. I want my own full-blown personal android babe with this special effect, damn it. You know what else I want? I want a handheld remote control for humans, just like the one you have for your TV. So next time someone is yelling at me or blabbing on about something stupid, I will just point the remote at them and hit “Mute.” That means their mouth will keep moving, but I won’t be able to hear them anymore. Anyone else that cares to will still be able to hear them. That would be so cool. I would be such a millionaire if I could invent that thing.

Another Excellent Week on Robert Lindsay

Despite the brief site closure at the beginning week and a slowdown in traffic, the site continued to generate high traffic last week, although the traffic is declining somewhat. Nevertheless, last week saw the second highest traffic to date on the site. Records are for both sites combined.

Old record: September 7-13: 40,030
New record: September 21-27: 41,508*

Asked about the traffic, Lindsay said, “This web site is colossal! There’s nothing else like it in the universe!” *5,930 hits/day average.

Shocking Photo of Heroin Addicts Shooting Up

The man in the red, standing, is receiving the shot of heroin. They guy in the background, seated, is shooting him up.
The man in the red, standing, is receiving the shot of heroin. The guy in the background, seated, is shooting him up. ©Loocid and Oakhurst Technology 2009. All rights reserved.
Sure there are lots of photos around of heroin addicts shooting dope. That’s not so shocking. But what is amazing about this photo is that the guy receiving the shot of heroin is actually getting shot up in his dick! His penis, that’s right. The veins in his arms and legs are all collapsed (this is what happens to addicts), and his dick is one of the only remaining places where he has good veins. The addicts are Serbian. The photo was taken two to three months ago in Serbia. The two guys are junkies who don’t even own a TV set, so we don’t have to worry about them getting upset about seeing their pic on the Net. I know that this pic is real because I know the photographer, Loocid, who took the pic, and he vouches that it is real. Heroin is quite popular in Serbia and probably in all of Eastern Europe and Russia these days. It’s quite pure and relatively cheap. Cocaine, on the other hand, is fairly rare, and it’s heavily cut with all sorts of stuff. There are a lot of heroin addicts in Serbia, contrary to what you might think.

Man Gets Eaten By Lion in Africa

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Many, many people insist that this video must be fake, and actually, it is.

The story is that this is a very famous video that was taken in the mid-1970’s in Africa on a safari. The tourist was apparently from London.

It was entered as evidence in a court case. The insurance company used this tape evidence in court to deny the life insurance claim for the guy. They argued that the man engaged in “gross stupidity” and therefore they were not on the line for payout.

In truth, this video is fake. It is said to have occurred in Wallasee National Park in Angola in the mid-70’s. There is no such place in Angola or anywhere in Africa.

The “attack victim” is named Pit Dernitz, and he has his own IMDB entry for this video. He is a very famous lion trainer.

This clip was taken from an Italian Mondo film called Ultime Grida Dalla Savana, which contains many similar clips.

This film was never entered into any court case.

Libertarianism – The Enemy of all Non-Human Life on Earth

As several posts on Occidental Dissent make clear, libertarianism (and its mainstream congener, neoliberalism) is utterly incompatible with the preservation of any non-human and non-domesticated or non-utilitarian life forms. Libertarians like to throw up weird scenarios whereby preserving wildlife, wild spaces and wild places would somehow be more economically viable than exterminating them, exploiting them, and devastating them. The problem is that this never works out in praxis. Even when we environmentalists produce reports showing that preserving forests and meadows is worth way more than chopping them down or ruining them with cattle, 10 Since neoliberalism is just libertarianism, neoliberalism also can never support environmentalism. Market-driven environmental policies must be some kind of a cruel joke. They can never work. In strict economically rational terms, it is either never or almost never economically rational to save species, habitats or places. Destruction and extermination is where the money is, and in neoliberal theory, maximum return is the only variable we are allowed to consider. Libertardarians now argue that humans (I guess maybe those of White European stock) now care enough about environmentalism that we can zero out government, privatize everything, and everything will still be hunky dory for the bighorns, the spotted owls and timber wolves. Yeah right. In the first place, this would only work with White people, because only Whites can be environmentalists at the moment, and only more advanced Whites in North America and Europe need apply even here. That’s because Whites in Latin America and Russia have proven to be utterly capable of taking care of the environment. Native Americans and Siberians can probably preserve things too, but they don’t run any states. Let’s test out the libertarian theory on most liberal-minded of the more progressive Whites on Earth, the ultra-liberals in California (though not a White state anymore, nevertheless, California is one of the most pro-environmental states in the nation). The argument that humans now care enough about species to preserve them is proven wrong here in the West. Even here in ultra-liberal California, the glorious salmon are nearly extinct. The striped bass fishery in the Delta and Bay has also been ruined. The vast herds of Tule Elk that roamed all over the valleys and coastal areas of our state have been decimated and only exist on miniscule preserves that look like petting zoos. Fishers and spotted owls are being driven extinct by the timber industry as we speak. A lot of CA endangered species are not real celebrities, but salmon would seem to have quite a bit of worth. Yet the salmon fishery in CA and up and down the West has been decimated. And even the ultra-liberal CA senators like Dianne Feinstein insist that we have not creamed the salmon enough, and need to take them out once and for all now. Feinstein’s mostly doing this for one of her rich Jewish buddies, Stewart Resnick of Beverly Hills. So much for liberal US Jews! The notion that humans (Anywhere!) now value wildlife enough to be trusted with preserving them in a libertarian society is seriously wrong, and we can prove it right here in California. In the 3rd World, humans are so bestial, venal, animalistic and backwards that they indeed are well on the way to extrerminating everything non-human, non-domesticated and non-utilitarian in sight. An excellent argument in favor of White superiority (which I agree with) is, as I noted above, that Whites are really the only humans on Earth (who run states) that care about non-human life enough to preserve it.* Virtually every other race and ethnic group of man will gladly exterminate every single non-domesticated species and non-utilitarian species in its land at the drop of a hat. Preserving species is something only Whites can do. And it’s something that only White governments can do, the White private sector haven proven endlessly to have failed at this endeavor. *I honestly wish that non-European states were capable of not exterminating everything in sight, but I doubt it. The Middle East is an environmental catastrophe. The only environmentally decent place is Israel, but that’s populated by White people. The only environmentally progressive place in Latin America is Costa Rica, but once again, that’s a White country. It seems that all Arabs and mestizos can do is destroy. Asians seem like a nightmare in environmental terms. They aren’t even capable of tender feelings towards cats and dogs, which they massacre for sport and food, so how can they possibly be trusted with non-domesticated things. The Japanese have been some of the worst scofflaws in international fishing and their bestial exploits in whaling have earned them the scorn of the planet. True, in some ways, Koreans and Japanese seem to want to preserve what’s left on their lands, but environmentally, those places are pretty much human-nuked anyway, mostly by overpopulation. A preservationist impulse isn’t worth much if there is nothing left to preserve. The hunter-gatherers of Southeast Asia never had the caretaker mindset of American Indians, instead opting for the more primitive mindset of “kill everything that moves.” The extinction process in SE Asia is very advanced and the state does very little to stop it. Environmental consciousness is extremely low. Probably Vietnam is one of the more standout states. China is just now starting to develop an environmental ethic, but it doesn’t seem to be very advanced, and in a lot of ways, environmentally, China looks like America 1890. I’m amazed that anything non-human and non-bovine is still walking around in India, where the extinction process is quite advanced, the state is extremely weak, and poachers are everywhere. Russians have always been some of the most backwards and barbaric of the Whites, and environmentally, that’s still the case. Since the collapse of the USSR things have really fallen badly apart. Market hunters and poachers stalk the land. In Siberia, the poacher harvest of salmon is the same size as the legal harvest. The Amur Leopard and the Siberian Tiger are hanging on by their bare claws, and I expect them to go extinct soon. Africa has to be one of the worst places on Earth to be a species of wildlife. Africans are primitive people, and primitives tend to kill anything that moves, usually for food. The only reason that there were still huge wildlife populations 50 years ago is due to White colonists, who forbade the Africans from wiping out the animals. With decolonization, Africans quickly set work slaughtering anything that moved. That they had not done so in centuries past was due only to the crudity of their weapons. You can’t kill many animals with a spear. In 1965, Africans with firearms were a threat the animal population of the continent. The large megafauna were only saved when the former White colonists were called back in by concerned Africans to save the animals. Many of the large animal populations still exist, but poachers and bush meat hunters take a devastating toll. I don’t see anything positive in the future. Africans don’t seem to be capable of not exterminating animals. One argument is that non-Whites do these things because they are poor. Equatorial Guinea now has a PCI of $21,000/year. Anyone seen any nice environmental initiatives coming out of there? Has the wealth of the Japanese prevented them from killing whales? Has Korean wealth prevented them from waging mass pogroms against dogs and cats? Has the relative wealth of Brazil and Argentina prevented environmental devastation in these places? The Gulf Arab countries are extremely wealthy, but my understanding is that they are environmental wrecks. So much for the “they do it because they are poor” line.

Why Was The Bankster-Destruction of the World Economy Necessary?

According to Libertarian (Libertardarian) theory, or neoliberal theory, the recent blowup of the US economy by the FIRE (Finance, Insurance and Real Estate) sector was absolutely necessary, or at least was absolutely normal. Any attempts to regulate US capitalism to try to prevent such economic ruin in the first place would have been and would be catastrophic. It’s important to note that Libertardarian theory and neoliberalism are essentially the same thing. Neoliberalism rules the West, especially the US. It’s firmly in place in much of the Third World. And since Thatcher, it’s made major inroads even in socialist Europe. Almost all US Economics departments have been colonized by neoliberal crazies. If you go anywhere in the US to study Economics, you come out a wild-eyed neoliberal nutcase. Nearly the entire US mass media has been intellectually colonized by Neoliberal Madness, including all of the major US dailies, the major US newsweekly magazines, all major US network TV, and most of the paid intellectuals at US intellectual policy foundations. The Republicans have been a neoliberal party for decades now, but the Democrats are not far behind. The “socialist” Obama is no such thing. On the FIRE question, he’s as insane as George Bush or Milton Friedman. Obama’s administration is littered top to bottom with bankster and FIRE crooks, from Larry Summers to Robert Rubin to Tim Geithner to Robert Reich. Much of the blame for the horrific destruction to the US and world economy can be laid at the feet of the Clinton Administration, who tried to out-reactionary the Republicans in deregulating the FIRE sector. The recent G20 summit solved nothing, Obama’s braying aside. Despite a lot of loose Obama talk, little to nothing has been done to regulate the FIRE sector. The banks are back gambling again in the same way they did before, the same way that ruined the economy of the planet, and no one is going to stop them. The next blow-up is probably going to be even worse. Libertardarianism is ridiculous. It’s never been attempted anywhere, really, and the only places where it’s been de facto in place, such as the Third World and pre-civilized America, ended up or end up pretty well wrecked. The only people who have fun in these places are the rich people. Everyone else gets screwed. A lot of White Americans think that Libertardarianism is tres cool. What they really mean is it’s good for White people. A bunch of White nationalist retards recently got on board for supposedly the same reason when they supported the Ron Paul campaign. Libertardtarianism is behind the recent blowup of not just the US but the world economy. Qui bono? Almost no one. White people? Get real. Upper middle class or middle class Whites? Not really. Basically what happened is that the banks and FIRE (finance, insurance and real estate) sector robbed the national economy blind. They had to be bailed out to $10 billion, which came out of our savings from our taxes, out of Social Security and Medicare. SS and Medicare are pretty well nuked now, but that was the project all along. The economy is screwed. Income has been flat since 2001, and wages have been flat since 1980. My friends in Europe are moaning. The economy there is ruined by the US bankster-crooks. It’s gone for all the rest of the year and all next year. My friends were White Europeans with good incomes living very well. Their incomes and lifes have been screwed hard, and so have the lives and incomes of millions of other European Whites. So you’re an upper middle class White in the US. You made out? Dubious. You probably lost your corporate job, you may have lost your house, your car, God knows what else. How many American Whites have been screwed like this by this Banker Ripoff? My Mom bought her house 4 years ago for $130K. It’s now worth $48K. She’s a normal, elderly White woman, who’s worked her whole life. Why did she need to get fucked like this for some lying Banksters? This blowup has screwed the US economy. A lot of companies are hurting bad or out of business altogether. How did this Bankster Ripoff Scam benefit US business, or US capitalism? It didn’t. All it did was blow a hole in the safe and make off with a ton of loot and leave us holding the bag. The Republicans won’t reform the FIRE criminals, and neither will the “socialist” Obama. Why not? He’s not a socialist! Both parties, even the “liberal” Democrats, are 10 Can anyone even give me a pro-capitalist, pro-business or pro-White argument about why this Greatest Bankster Robbery even needed to happen in the first place? I don’t get it. It was bad for business, bad for capitalism, bad for Whites. Yet Libertariantards not only justify but champion such Free Market Fundamentalist Mumbo-Jumbo.

Roman Polanski Arrested, Sane People Express Outrage

US film director and fugitive Roman Polanski has been arrested on an extremely old sex charge of giving drugs to a 13 year old girl and having sex with her at Jack Nicholson’s Hollywood home. The arrest sparked outrage in a sane part of the world (Europe), in particular in two sane countries, France and Poland. Europe in general and France and Poland in particular are not yet been feminized cultures, and are not under the domination of the Female Spirit as is America. In France, even the women are sane, and America-style feminist Cunts are relatively rare. Polanski was arrested in Zurich on directions of the US government when he went to a film festival there to receive a lifetime achievement award. The US has been trying to extradite him for four years now. Government ministers, movie directors, writers and intellectuals (sane people) expressed shock and outrage at his detention. In Paris, Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand (sane person) said he was “dumbfounded” by Polanski’s arrest. Other reports said France and Poland (sane governments) are to ask the US to drop the charges and consider a presidential pardon over the case. Calling Polanski, who won Best Director Oscar for The Pianist in 2003, one of the greatest film directors of our time, the festival directors said they had “received this news with great consternation and shock.” At the time, Polanski said the girl was sexually experienced and had consented to sex, which was apparently true. The girl is now a grown woman living in Hawaii. Fortunately, she was sane enough to blow the whole thing off instead of allowing this pleasurable experience to cause “lifetime mental illness” of course needing very expensive lifetime therapy with all-female, pure Cunt therapists, as so many silly young teenagers are doing nowadays. It’s the all-female “sexual abuse therapist industry”, extremely feminist, all Cunt and pure man-hating, that is driving much of the Pedophile Mass Hysteria in the US. Every time a teenage girl has sex with someone a day over age 18 and the guy gets caught, half of the females in her life start swarming around her insisting that she “got molested” and is “a victim of child abuse.” The girl is usually confused and insists she was just having a good time. Her female friends all insist that that’s called “identifying with your abuser” and they say  in reality, she’s all fucked up in the head now but she just doesn’t realize it. A lot of silly impressionable teens don’t know what to think and fall for it. They end up in very expensive therapy for many years, develop various self-created, needless mental illnesses and life dysfunctions, but there’s always a silver lining. That teenybop hop in the sack with the older gentleman tutor can always be pulled out of the hat whenever the now-adult female needs any kind of excuse for fucking up her life. “I got abused!” She shrieks, and tens millions of American females wail along with her, howling at the sky. The whole thing would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad, stupid and cruel. France is supporting Polanski because he fled there after his arrest. France has a reasonable low age of consent law and they don’t much give a damn about older guys fucking young women or even teenage girls, nor do they care about older women fucking young men or even teenage boys. This sort of thing is sort of a French tradition. Poland is supporting Polanski because he’s a Polish native, born a Jew in France but sent to Poland at an early age. Polanski lived in the Warsaw Ghetto in WW2, but somehow escaped, yet his mother was murdered at Auschwitz. On the other hand, I guess Polanski is lucky he didn’t commit this act in Poland nowadays, otherwise he would be looking forward to lifetime chemical castration. Polanski is 76 years old and looks fantastic. He’s the Sophia Loren of men. The “victim”‘s name is Samantha Geimer. She says she doesn’t want to press charges, but that never stops a DA.

Samantha Geimer in her Lolita getup in 1978 at age 13. Good God, Roman, what were you thinking. I mean, I would do it if I were a 16 or 17 year old boy, but you were a 46 year old man. What gives homeboy?
Samantha Geimer in her Lolita getup in 1978 at age 13. Good God, Roman, what were you thinking? I mean, I would do it if I were a 16 or 17 year old boy, but you were a 46 year old man. What gives homeboy?
Her song and dance has always been the usual, “He raped me!” but a commenter on my site recently offered another explanation:

On Polanski – The girl has been interviewed and told in detail what went on between them. She, with her mother’s help, was doing anything to get into show business, including having sex. Polanski wasn’t her first time to have intercourse. The girl was already using drugs such as LSD and cocaine regularly while consuming alcohol. She got in the hot tub, took off her clothes and aroused Polanski with her hands and body. Polanski and the girl both testified that Polanski expressed concern about her age and that he did not want to have intercourse with the girl. They both decided to have anal intercourse instead. So much for the innocent little girl theory that a lot of people had in mind.

I figure this is probably closer to the truth.

To Catch a Predator is Shit

Even Rolling Stone agrees.The more you read about these Perverted Justice nuts, the more they sound like a bunch of nutjobs, or even a cult. Here’s an article about one of these freaked out loons who tried to take down Rolling Stone magazine for “pedo enabling.”  I’d rather sit down with a room full of adult males who want to fuck a 14 year old girl than a room full of these freaked out vigilante scumbags. This To Catch a Predator show is downright unfair. It’s outrageous that guys can go down for “child molesting” and have to register as “sex offenders” when there wasn’t even any victim, for talking to an adult pretending to be a teenager! That’s just insane. It’s entrapment of the worst sort. Supposedly, these faggots and cunts who work for this organization are immune to all charges of entrapment since they are not cops, they are non-LE. These poor suckers getting entrapped into this crap for sleazy entertainment for manginas and cunty females are ending up doing 5-10 years in prison! After that, they have to register as sex offenders for life! And there was no 14 year old girl! I don’t know what to think about any guy over the age of 21 who is trying to screw a 14 year old. It shouldn’t be legal, but still…In the overwhelming majority of cases, if the girl is willing, she is not harmed. Studies have proven this so many times that there’s no point arguing about it anymore. Below age 13 for both girls and boys, things get a Hell of a lot dicier, and this sort of thing needs to be illegal. Anyway, 14 year old girl isn’t a child, she’s a teenager. She’s turning from a girl into a woman. The guys trying to boff her, whatever they are, they aren’t pedophiles or child molesters. I don’t know what they are. I’d say that they are just normal human males who are violating some modern-day standards and laws. What’s even worse about Pedophile Mass Hysteria, worse than these poor schmucks doing 5-10 for trying to a screw a nonexistent 14 year old girl, is the number of totally innocent guys who are being persecuted by this mass hysteria. I’ve been doing research on this for a couple years now and it’s pretty amazing. Completely innocent guys all over the US are being accused of being “pedophiles.” Are they pedophiles? Of course not. Are they having sex with underage boys or girls? They certainly are not. Are they engaging in any inappropriate behavior towards underage teens? Not really. Are they looking at child porn online or offline? Nope. Ok, so why are they “pedophiles?” In a lot of cases, these guys are just loners. They are often living alone and are typically not dating. Nowadays, if a guy is living alone and not dating, he’s a fucking pedophile! Wow, nuts! A lot of them are sort of odd or neurotic, and many seem to have anxiety issues. Many are extremely shy in social situations and rarely approach women. So why are they being accused of being “pedophiles?” In some cases, it’s just because they look sort of weird, shy or anxious. In other cases, they are checking out hot little teenage girls or even young female adults. A lot of teenage girls are dressed to kill these days. A good number of them might as well be prostitutes, considering how they are dressed. It’s a sad day indeed when checking out a hot little teenybopper dressed like a Sunset Boulevard trollop proves that one is a “pedophile.” In other cases, some of these guys are trying to talk to teenage girls. Once again, it’s a pretty insane society that decides that adult males are “pedophiles” for chatting up the 16 year old girl in back of them in line at the store. America is getting so nuts about this issue that past a certain age, adult males just can’t talk to underage girls at all. We can’t discuss the weather, ask them for the time, anything. Because you know, any time an adult male tries to talk to a teenage girl, he’s really secretly trying to fuck her! Because all males are sick, evil, perverted scum with 24 hour hardons trying to use these evil penile devices to permanently injure the the precious little pristine vaginas of these pure little darling paragons of sweetness, light and beauty. Fuck off Perverted Justice. Fuck off To Catch a Predator. Fuck off Pedophile Mass Hysteria. Fuck off the tens of millions of Cunts and Manginas of America.

New Article About the Peopling of India

A new article has come out in Nature Magazine dealing with the Peopling of India, a subject I have dealt with quite a bit on this site. The Indian nationals who hate the Aryan Invasion concept have been jumping up and down for joy over this article. I’m not sure where these people are coming from, but generally, it’s a silly, anti-scientific and reactionary place. Their argument is usually that the Aryan Invasion could not have taken place since our Hindu texts say that it never happened. Well, there is not much to say to such a powerful scientific argument like that! Those who oppose the Aryan Invasion theory are generally Far Rightwing Hindu nationalists or Hindutvas. They also tend to be associated with the higher castes, especially the Brahmins. One argument is an Indian nationalist one. This crazy line says that there was no Aryan invasion – instead this was a lie made up by the evil British colonialists to “divide the people of India.” As Hindutva fascism claims (falsely) to be a national unification project, as all such projects do, they rail against the “outsiders who divide our people.” Problem with this argument is that the Indians themselves and the Hindus in particular had done a mighty fine job dividing up the Indian people themselves into many thousands of insane, cruel, backwards and anti-human caste structures. Another crazy Indian nationalist argument is that there was no caste until the evil Brits came. Or there was caste before then, but it was nothing. The evil Brits came and made caste so much worse. This argument is favored with high castes, typically Brahmins. It’s dubious. Caste was probably much worse before the British came. The British, civilized folks that they were, hated the animalistic, bestial, primitive caste system and tried to eliminate as part of the necessary mission of civilizing the Indians. This article notes that caste is as old as India, and that the British did not hoist it upon the unwilling heads of the innocent and pure Indians. Another crazy Indian nationalist line is that there was no race structure in India. Race was invented in India by those evil Brits again. The Brits divided the peaceable, loving, brotherly and Kumbayaa-singing Indian people into two races, a northern race that appeared European or Aryan and a southern race that they called Dravidian. There does seem to be something to the concept of a somewhat bimodal race structure in India. The people of the South are darker and have a different physical type than the Northern Indics, who look more Iranian or even European. Some say that the Dravidians are the remains of a Mediterranean Caucasian Race that moved into India 13-17,000 years ago. That seems reasonable to me. This article turns that on its head and argues that all Indians are a mixture between North Indians and South Indians. The South Indians are more Asiatic types and the North Indians are a more European type, yet all of the Indian people are thoroughly mixed between the two. This also seems reasonable. Articles about the piece, especially from the reactionary Brahmin-controlled Indian media, are crowing about “the death of the Aryan invasion theory.” But the Nature piece proclaims no such thing. The Nature article claims that the South Indians came to India 70,000 YBP. The only remaining pure members of the South Indian group are the Negritos of the Andaman Islands. This part is reasonable enough. The piece also claims that the North Indians (or Aryans) came to India 45,000 YBP. This much is a real shocker, and I do not know what to make of this. 45,000 YBP, there were no real Caucasoid types anywhere. Further, skulls from even north India dated at 24,000 YBP look like Aborigines. So these North Indians must have looked like Aborigines at first. In fact, all Indians looked something like Aborigines until 8,000 YBP when they started transitioning to Caucasian types. Anyway, there was an Aryan invasion. Or at least, a group of Indo-Aryans moved down from Kazakhstan into Iran, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, the Caucasus, Pakistan and North India about 3,500 YBP. They all speak related languages that we can provably trace back to the Russian steppes. We can follow their movements archeologically as they moved down from Kazakhstan into North India. Now whether or not these folks were “invaders” is open to question. Perhaps they were “migrants.” Maybe they were “undocumented workers.” Maybe they were going on an extended vacation down South. I haven’t the faintest idea. But there was clearly a movement of Indo-European speaking Indo-Aryan folks down from Kazakhstan into Central and South Asia 3,500 YBP. That’s a fact of history, and no sane person questions that. Nor does this paper call that into question. Another argument that Indian nationalists are making is that Indians are a unique race, a separate race, not part of any other race. If you look at the data, that’s an interesting argument, but skull and genetic data (see Cavalli-Sforza for instance) show that Indians are a member of the Caucasian race, though they are one of the most divergent members of that group. One interesting finding is that Gujaratis seem to form their own separate minor race in India and differentiate from all the others. I can’t explain that, but it may have something to do with stories about Scythians moving into that area 1,200 YBP. One of the more sensible dissections of the article is here by Razib of GNXP Science Blogs. Razib is sounding a lot more sensible since he got his better writing gig at Science Blogs. If you think this website is valuable to you, please consider a contribution to support the continuation of the site.

Rob Taylor Redux

Rob Taylor, author of Red Alerts, is a very strange fellow. He’s an extreme rightwing biracial (formerly mulatto) Republican, a neoconservative, a Bush supporter, some weird guy who seems like he just walked out of your TV set when Fox News was on. Rob has some very strange obsessions. As a person of color, he’s got race all figured out. The Right, and especially the Very Far Right, are the friends of Blacks and Browns not only in the US but all around the world. It’s the liberals, the Democratic Party and especially the Commie Left who are secret White Nationalist Nazis, trafficking in Jim Crow White racism and bristling with hostility towards Blacks, Browns and non-Whites in general. In addition, the liberals, the Left and the Democrats all hate the Jews. This is the well from which the evils of anti-Semitism seep – the well of liberalism and especially Communism. No Judeo-Bolshevism for Mr. Taylor! Nay, indeed, he devotes much of his site to make the case for the obvious Commie-Nazi Judeociding nexus. Like all good Republicans, Taylor just can’t get enough of the Jews. He ought to just convert and get it over with. The shitty little country the Jews stole, a little hate state called Israel, is the Western Civ’s greatest, most shining golden edifice. Rob’s also done some long and hard thinking about terrorism. There is no rightwing terrorism. It doesn’t exist. All terrorism is Commie terrorism. That includes Islamist Terrorism, because Commie Terrorism and Islamist Terrorism are one and the same, since Commies are all Islamists nowadays and vice versa. At first glance, most reasonable folks looking over a brainwave resume like that are tempted to call the cops on a 5150 call. But lo and behold, Rob Taylor is nothing but a glimpse into the lunatic heart of American conservatism, late 2000’s style. No wonder they are losing elections. They’re insane. They’re too crazy to win office anymore. Rob may have cafe au lait erection as wide as the Gaza Strip for the Jewish state, but he’s also pretty turned on by this website. He’s had a raging and vindictive hardon for Robert Lindsay for years now. Here’s a snippet of Rob’s latest rantings (Don’t worry, he’s been re-banned):

You claim to not find 12-year-olds attractive but I remember you claiming to have “almost” nailed a 12-year-old when you were 20 and a janitor at a school. Just one of the many lies you told in this piece you rubbed out while looking at that oh so hard to find child porn. Did you claim to have pedophilic thoughts O.C.D related to OCD just a couple of years ago? You blocked access to the page but I distinctly remember blogging about it. In other words isn’t this all a load of crap from a registered sex offender pretending the world is unfair?

Rob really ought to just hang up the blog and go work for Carl Rove. He’s like a Republican Dirty Tricks beacon blinking away in the intellectual fog of the Net, blinking out new beams of character assassination every few days or so. Rob has published several strange posts attempting to smear me as a “pedophile.” I actually think this is humorous. It’s so ridiculous that I actually encourage it – please call me a pedophile! Rob has the nose of a great investigative reporter and he’s done his facts. He has determined that I am actually Robert Lindsay, a sex offender and meth cook in Arizona who burned down his house and fought hand to hand with the cops who came to arrest him. He’s published a photo of this guy and he says it’s me. I guess I must be writing this post from prison or something? He also found some webposts of mine proving that I’m a pedo. 1. Indeed, I have written about OCD, as I suffer from it. I have never admitted to having “Pedophile OCD.” I have written some articles on “Pedo OCD” because I have noticed that a lot of mostly young OCD sufferers have developed this new form of the illness. I work with these people a lot online and learned a lot about this subtype, so I started writing articles about it. At the moment, I know of two young people, one male and one female, who have this. I do therapy with them online. Pedo OCD is just OCD. The person worries that they are a pedophile, but they are not. They worry that they may molest a kid, but they never do it. It’s an anxiety disorder, and it has nothing to do with pedophilia at all. That’s all I can say about it at the moment. Rob says that because I know about this strange OCD subtype and work with sufferers, that that makes me a pedophile. There is not much I can say to that. 2. Rob brings up a case I wrote about. When I was 20, I was working as a janitor at a school. I had a little friend there, an 11 yr old 6th grade girl. I guess that’s practically illegal nowadays due to shitheads like Rob Taylor, but back then people were sane and it was nothing. I never thought twice about it, and neither did anyone else. She used to follow me around like a mascot and help me do my job sometimes. Anyway, the job ended, and I was jogging in the park that summer. There she was, jogging. We stopped and talked. She was a straight A student, a star athlete (runner), plus she was beautiful, and as you can see below, she was 12 going on 35. Then she said, “I’ve been thinking about sex a lot lately.” “Oh really?” I answered. What am I supposed to say to that? “Yes I am,” she said. “Ok,” I said, not sure where this was headed. “I’ve been thinking about doing it,” she said, smiling. “Um, ok…” I said. How do I answer? She got a mischievous grin on her face. “I’ve been thinking of doing it with you!” She said. Well, that was an interesting experience. How many 20 yr old guys deal with that? Back in those days, I was an uber-alpha male* and it seemed like about half the females I met wanted to jump on me. The more females I slept with, the more wanted to sleep with me. That’s how it works. You start accumulating some kind of “Females Love Me” vibes about you, and each new female just piles the vibe higher and higher. Females being intuitive creatures can smell the vibe at 50 paces and come running like fetching puppies. I assume this kid was just plugging into the vibe. I didn’t answer right away because I was so freaked out, but I answered pretty fast. “I don’t think that would be a very good idea,” is all I remember saying. 12 year old girls looked a lot better at 20 than they do now at 51, and afterward, I used to sometimes wonder what it would have been like. I still do, once in a while. The fantasy never seems to work because the girl seems too little or small something (hard to explain). Now, according to Rob, the fact that some 12 year old girl asked me to fuck her makes me a pedophile. That I wondered what that might have been like had I taken her up on it for sure makes me a pedophile. Once again, there’s not much to say. 3. Rob Taylor also insists that I am a registered sex offender, some guy named Robert Lindsay from Arizona. It’s not so. I’m not the Robert Lindsay from Arizona that he says I am. That guy looks nothing like me (pics available on the Net). Anyway, that guy’s in prison, and I’m writing this from my home. There is not much I can say to that. 4. Rob Taylor also says I’m a pedophile for looking at child porn on the Internet, in this case the Brooke Shields bathtub scene from Pretty Baby. First of all, that scene is legal. It’s not CP. CP is illegal. You can find that Pretty Baby scene easily on the Net, and its actually rather boring. Any male readers who want to instantly turn from normal guy into Pedo For Life are encouraged to go check out this video. Can someone tell me why Rob Taylor does these weird things? *Nowadays, I’m sort of an uber-Omega, but at least I can die happy.

The Cunts Versus the Men

This is an extremely provocative title, but it’s meant to be that way. It’s about the War On Men. There are two types of women. Real women and feminists (cunts). The Cunts in the title refers to feminists. Feminists are females who not only embody the Female Spirit (that much is normal for any female) but wish to use utilize the Female Spirit as a template for society’s rules, mores and laws. Their project is to codify the Female Spirit and use it as a club to bash the Male Spirit (in reality, that just means real guys) with every day of their wretched existence. In effect, a Female Dictatorship over Men. Such a project can only be seen as an all-out frontal assault on males and the Male Spirit. What’s amazing is not that there is a female project to subject males. That follows from anthropology. What’s shocking is that, like the self-hating Whites who double over themselves to turn White countries into Third World wrecks, there are so many self-hating males who have joined the women in their jihad against Maleness. The two projects are similar, and both are part and parcel of PC crap. In PC language, White is shorthand for Evil, and non-White is transcribed as Good. For Good to prevail, the non-Whites must overthrow the Whites and put us under their thumb. Similarly, PC sees Males as Evil and Females as Good. For justice, light and beauty to triumph, Females must overthrow Males and put us under their 4-inch high heels. As a men’s rights activist (MRA) this is an issue near and dear to me. The war on men is being led, of course, by women. This is an age-old war, as old as mankind. I’ve studied many primitive cultures. It’s one of my hobbies. One of the things that I noticed about many primitive cultures is that there was often sort of a “war between the men and women” going on. In Patagonia, in New Guinea, everywhere, it seems. It wasn’t always, as the lunatic feminists insist, just guys being Guy-Nazis and keeping the ladies down. And why would they do that? As my favorite woman (my Mom) says, “Well, men are bigger and stronger, so they rule, they make the rules, and they keep the women down.” So it’s rule by force, the strong over the weak, the law of the jungle, kind of like the cats at this house here. A nice dominance hierarchy is ongoing with these five *female* cats in this place. It shifts around a bit, but everyone knows where their spot is. One cat, formerly a wimp who just got her ass kicked, moved to a new house with three other cats. Two the the three died, and the third is the wimpiest cat that God ever made. So formerly Wimp Cat (Callie) is now more or less Top Cat. She rules. Three new cats entered the household, and Callie is now Top Cat over all these except one, who wants to rule the roost. Cleo, a new cat, always beat up Callie until I guess one day Callie kicked Cleo’s ass. Now Callie’s on top, and Cleo is afraid of Callie. This sort of thing, ever-shifting, goes on and on. Anyone with cats understands me. Why do I bring this up? As it goes with cats, so it goes with men and women. Men didn’t just rule over women to be pricks, they did so because one must rule over the other. Men and women want very, very different things. The men want the Male Paradigm to rule, and the women want the Female Paradigm to rule. If the men don’t rule the women, the women will try to rule the men. Equality is impossible. If you don’t want to be lorded over by the ladies, you’d better keep them down so they don’t rise up and repress you. Many primitive societies, I noticed, had evolved a culture where the men and women were in conflict. The men, instead of being Guy-Nazis keeping the babes down for kicks, were really in fear of the women. They kept them down for fear of them being loosed from control and thereby running amok. The women needed to be controlled. At puberty, many tribes separated the males from the females. Boys went off to live in Guy Village and girls went off to live in Girl Village. Many tribes had separate languages for the sexes – in particular, there was a “Women’s language,” apparently invented to the women could talk and the guys could not understand them. On occasion, Pantagonians would engage in a ceremony where the guys would dress up like monsters and terrify the females. The females would be told from girlhood about the existence of these deadly monsters and to avoid them at all costs. Then during the ceremonies the guys would dress up like these monsters just to terrify the girls. After a while, females started telling the boys about other monsters, and then the women would raid the boys’ villages during these ceremonies and scare all the boys. I bring this up in the context of Child Molester Mass Hysteria, or Pedophile Mass Hysteria. Sure it’s ridiculous. But why is it so stupid? Because it represents a smashing victory of the Female Principle over the Male Principle. Wikisposure is an interesting webpage. It’s run by anti-pedophile activists, and it’s not a bad project. What’s nuts is that Pedophile Mass Hysteria is so insane that if I say I went to the Wikisposure site to learn about pedos, that means I’m a pedo! If I say I’ve been studying pedos intensively for many years now (I have been, as they fascinate me) that means I’m a pedo too! People have told me this right to my face! I told them I’ve been studying pedos for many years now, and have read half a forest of paper about them, and people either get this really weird look on their face when I say that and start moving away from me, or, in some cases, out and out tell me that all that reading proves right there that I’m a pedo. Check out the page of this guy, Siva. The Perverted Justice folks (they run Wikisposure) are launching a campaign against this guy, Siva. They are thinking of flyering his neighborhood. I have nothing against that. This guy is just an idiot, a nut, a weirdo and a jerk. I don’t know if what he does hurts kids. I don’t care. What he does is weird, and it can’t be allowed on that basis alone. On the other hand, these guys can’t go down just for admitting to be pedos. It’s not even illegal to claim to have engaged in illegal acts, as this idiot does. I can say I murdered 50 people. I can write about it every day on my website. I can make up names of fake victims, fake timelines, everything. Should I be arrested for that? Of course not. I’m a bit worried that we may start going after these guys just for being pedos (which in and of itself, is not and should not be against the law), or for “admitting to committing crimes” (in general, this is not illegal either unless you identify evidence of a crime, evidence of a victim, etc.) In other words, if this guy says he takes showers with little girls, that’s not illegal. But at some point, if you can get some statements from an actual victim, you may be able to build a case against the guy. Perverted Justice is a much more dubious enterprise than Wikisposure. It’s all about arresting adults for fucking teenagers. Except in most cases the guys don’t even fuck the teenagers. They just talk dirty to adults posing as teens, send them porn and porn links, show themselves naked on cam, etc. They also make plans to visit and have sex with adults posing as teens. I’m a bit mystified as to why this is illegal. There is no teenage girl, a 14 year old in this case. No porn was sent to a teenage girl. No porn links were sent to a teenage girl. No one talked dirty to a teenage girl. No one got naked on cam for a teenage girl. I don’t think anyone even made plans to screw a teenage girl, since there was no teenage girl, just an adult posing as one. I don’t think any of these Perverted Justice cases ought to see the light of day. There’s no victim. This whole legal mess is founded on the incredibly dubious legal minefield known as “conspiracy.” Now, if you want to get real teenagers and have them go online and entice these guys, that’s one thing. But adults posing as teenagers wrecks the whole thing, and makes it dubious whether any of these busts ought to even be allowed. Every day on Perverted Justice, they highlight new cases showing “the dangers of the Internet.” This is just another way of bashing males. The Internet is made out to be this creepy, horrible, evil place crawling with sick, perverted men all trying to fuck hot young teens. The cases allege that men abducted, raped, and drugged teenagers. Except in almost all cases, none of that happened. The girl who got “raped” was always way more than willing. This is how it happened. The girl went to see the guy. The guy said, “Let’s have sex.” The girl said, “We think alike, baby!” The guy fucks the girl. The girl has lots of fun. After it’s over, the girl says, “Wow, that was fun! Let’s do it again!” That’s called “rape.” Weird, huh? The “abduction” occurred when the teenager hopped a train or plane and flew out to meet some guy to screw him. In other words, the girl abducted herself to the train station, kidnapped herself onto a train, and then imprisoned herself across several state lines to go meet some guy. That’s called “abduction.” The “drugging” occurred when some guy asked a teenage girl if she wanted to smoke a joint and she said, “You’re reading my mind!” That’s called “drugging.” See what I mean? More mass hysteria. I don’t give a damn about adult queers fucking 15-17 year old queer boys. I don’t give a damn about some guy bonking a 15-17 year old teenybopper. I don’t care about 20-something female teachers fucking teenage boys. They should be given medals of honor. As far as fucking teenagers, it was a blast for a while, but at my age, it’s illegal. I wouldn’t do it myself, but I don’t much care if others do. Who are the punks at Perverted Justice who engage in entrapment of males seeking to screw a teenager? They’re women, of course, in this case Cunts. There also a lot of guys on there, but I noticed that almost all of them are fags. Well, of course, it makes sense. Queers, despite their promiscuity, embody in their essence the Female Spirit, and their very existence seems to be about waging war on the Male Spirit. Sure, there are macho queers like William S. Burroughs, but they’re the minority. Queers are manginas squared, the very embodiment of manginatude. Of course they’re lining up with the feminists against the Men. It’s asshats like Perverted Justice that are conflating pedophilia with statutory rape, tangling the two all up into mess of ivy vines where you can’t tell one from the other. To Catch a Predator is a much, much more dubious enterprise, a TV show in which the clowns who run Perverted Justice conflate pedos with guys trying too screw teenage girls. Of course it’s not the same thing, but the Female Paradigm says it is. According to the lunatic world of women, a guy who screws a girl aged 17 and 11.5 months is the same as that Siva pedo who surrounds himself with naked 6 year olds. Fuck that. Any sane person knows we are talking about two completely different things. But that leaves out 5 So we have To Catch a Predator. In which adult women pretend to be teenage girls, go online to chat rooms and talk dirty to moronic guys and pretty much entice them to come on over the get laid by a hot teenybopper. The sucker drives over the house, thinking he’s going to bag a 15 year old hottie. Instead he meets up with TV cameras and cops with handcuffs. He gets arrested and goes down for “Conspiracy to Try to Attempt to Think About Fucking a 15 Year Old Girl” or some BS. Perverted Justice supposedly gets paid $100,000 an episode for these stupid shows, which shows that they are corrupt as Hell. That TV show is pandering to the sleaziest and lowest of the Female Spirit in its most diabolically man-hating essence. To Catch a Predator is nothing more than society’s War On Men. Now, 10’s of millions of “men” probably love this show, but that’s because they’re manginas, not males. A mangina is worse than a Beta Male or even an Omega Male. Betas and Omegas are guys at least. They’re just guys who are trying to get laid but aren’t getting any. A mangina isn’t even a man, biologically, sure, but in spirit, he’s nothing but a woman. He’s a traitor, a spy, an agent who works for the enemy against his male brothers in the War of the Sexes. How do I feel about the guys getting cuffed? Well, they’re morons. They’re victims, but they’re also fools. The law’s the law. After age 20 or so, don’t mess with teenage girls. In the present climate, you’re going down hard. On the other hand, that show shouldn’t even exist. In the liberated 1970’s, it never would have seen the light of day. It only exists now as an expression of a malign Female Spirit waging a savage war against Maleness. At my age, I can’t even look at young girls. There are a bunch of silly little stupid twats around where I live. These bitches are about 12-14, I guess. They look at me all the time. I haven’t the faintest idea why they look at me, and if you try to look back and try to figure out what the stare means, you will be baffled. It could be anything. They seem like they’re checking me out. Or maybe they’re not. It’s not a hostile look. I don’t know how to describe it. I used to look back, but not anymore. Now, when I see these little Female Devil Twats, I try to look at the ground the whole time. I look anywhere but at them, at the sky, at the birds, at my feet, anywhere. Why? Because I figured out a while back that if you look back at them with any sort of look at all on your face, they might shout, “Pervert!” Ridiculous, huh? This is what the Feminist Dictatorship is doing to young girls. It’s training them to see all of us males as diabolical, criminal pedophiles, rapists and killers. The wicked To Catch a Predator show plays into this. Men are dangerous. Dangerous and evil. Girls and women are pristine, wonderful and good and must be on alert at all times against evil, sick, perverted males. Why are we sick, evil and perverted? Because we have dicks that get hard, and that is a dangerous thing. I find the notion of American teenage girls, age 15-17, as some kind of precious little snowflakes as comical. I’ve been to their forums, following links to this site, out of curiosity. According to Pedophile Mass Hysteria, that makes me a pedophile right there! I’m not allowed to look at the profiles teenage girls set up on the Internet! Looking over their profiles, about half of the teenage girls in America seem to be having a contest to see who can out-slut who. The notion that these Paragons of Female Goodness need to be protected chivalrously from the Perverted Male Spirit (perverted because it wants to fuck them, and no less of a reason) is so ridiculous it doesn’t even bear repeating. Things are so weird now that I can’t even talk to a teenager, especially a teenage girl. I taught kids for years, so it’s normal to talk to them. I can’t even smile and say, “Hello.” I can’t say anything, can’t ask directions, nothing. There’s about nothing that’s ok for me to say to them ever under any circumstances. Increasingly, this even applies to young women, aged 18-20 or so and maybe even older. I can’t talk to them either. If they’re behind the counter getting my order, I can’t chat them up. They’re perfectly legal, but the Female Paradigm says they’re still virginal little girls. Anyway, since I’m old enough to be Daddy, I’m sick and evil (because my aging dick still gets hard) so these woman-children need to be protected from Old Rapist Pedo Me. Sometimes, a few of them act real friendly and even flirty, but I’m usually terrified to talk to them much for fear of being called a pervert or a pedo. This is SHIT! Pedophile Mass Hysteria also applies to that horrible specter, Child Porn. Child Porn is very hard to find. I’m not going to say how I know that, but trust me. If you sit there at your computer for hours a day, days on end, and maybe know the right people who can send you some links, I’m sure you can find it. But the insane notion of an Internet swarming with child porn lurking behind every other hyperlink is a manifestation of the paranoia in the Female Spirit. That’s the way Feminist Woman sees the world. There’s an evil rapist hardon around every corner, just waiting to rape some double X innocent. I know lots of guys who have seen child porn. They told me that they’ve seen it. None of them are pedos. Most of them either saw it out of curiosity or stumbled upon it in darker corners of the Net, like the Chans. They all told me that it was either boring and some degree of disturbing, weird or sick, and they don’t want to see it anymore. They just wanted to see it to sate their curiosity and see what all the fuss was about. Pedophile Mass Hysteria says all these guys are pedophiles. Fuck that. Someone sent me to a link tonite. I won’t link it, but you can find it if you want. It’s Brooke Shields’ scene from Pretty Baby, a movie from the 1970’s. She plays a 12 year old prostitute, and there’s a bathtub scene where she stands up and yeah, she’s fully nude. It’s legal because 1978 was a era of sanity, before the Feminist Psychos won. No way would it be the legal nowadays. I just watched this clip, and I don’t understand the appeal of it. Am I supposed to get turned on by a 12 year old girl? I like full grown females, not little girls. 16 and up, minimum. 18 and up for play. The weird thing about the video was that it wasn’t even very erotic. A 12 year old girl, even a fully naked one, is sort of boring to me. It’s not a very erotic object. Since it’s not even very erotic in the first place, why all the fuss? Sure, it turns on the pedos, but they’re a tiny group. Why should we ban this scene? On the grounds that it’s boring? I don’t understand the mindset behind someone who wants to ban these things. But the malign Female Spirit not only wants to ban that dull clip, it wants to make you a criminal for yawning your way through it. Then it wants to label you “pedophile” and stamp it on your head like a scarlet A forever. In fact, just by admitting that I watched that tonite, the Pedophile Mass Hysteria shitheads will already label me pedo. Who else would look at such a clip, right? Excuse me? This is shit. Feminist shit. It’s nothing but War on Men. There is no patriarchy. The War Between the Sexes is over, and the Cunts (the feminists) won. We men live under a Feminist Dictatorship that seethes with hatred for male sexuality. The cops, the media, the therapists, the educators, everyone just about, are working for the Cunts. And millions of our brothers have cut off their dicks, grown manginas and gone over to the enemy. What bullshit.

Jewish Materialism and Success and Anti-Semitism

Regarding the Twain article, I think Twain is just tellin’ it like it is. Jews outcompete White Gentiles and they are really, really, really, into money. This is in large part why so many people don’t dig em. Even many philosemites agree that Jewish success breeds anti-Semitism. Ask any Jew. If they are honest, they will agree. If you go to the Jewish Defense League (JDL) website, there is a forum there with emails from readers. There are lots of emails from Jews who don’t have a lot of money, or even poor Jews. They rail about how US Jews are totally into money. They go to family gatherings and it’s all, “How much money do you make? He makes more than you do. You’re a loser! Start making some money.” US Jews are simply ruthlessly materialistic and competitive people, and even a lot of their own people hate it. Poor Jews, low income Jews and homeless Jews wrote into the JDL site telling about how their relatives treated them like shit because they didn’t have much money, or refused to help them when they were homeless, or practically disowned them because they didn’t have much money. A lot of them said they refuse to go to family gatherings anymore because they are so tired of being called losers for not having pockets full of loot. I have to agree with that. Most of the Jews I’ve known in life were really into money. A lot of them were really nice people, but I never bring up money around them due to the response. If you tell them how much you make, or how successful you are in any way, shape or form, usually they immediately one-up you and make you feel like a loser. For instance, I told a Jewish friend of the family that my site got 300 visitors a day. He brushed me off, “That’s nothing. Ours gets 3,000.” That didn’t feel so good! I met a Jewish guy at a Democratic Party gathering (a real asshole – solipsistic, narcissistic and seriously full of himself in that way that quite a few Jews are) and told him I had Google Adsense ads on my site, but it was hard to make money off them (It is hard to make money off those ads, trust me.) The guy took two steps back, looked shocked, and said, “No way! LOTS of people make money with Adsense. My friends make $100/day with Adsense ads!” Whoa. He burned me. I felt like a total loser. I don’t know anyone who $100/day off Adsense ads, but hey, he’s a Jew. I’m sure his Jewish buddies might have figured out a way to do that. I may add that all of these Jews were really liberal people, all liberal Democrats. With US Jews, very liberal politics often goes hand in hand for ferocious materialism. Many of these people were really honest too. I’d almost trust them with a large sum of money, to give to them and have them return it later on. That’s how honest they are. Anyway, that’s just the way it is with Jews. They’re like the worst Gentile yuppies on steroids to the nth power when it comes to being ferociously competitive and engaging in one-upmanship. A lot of the Jews above are really nice people, good people in general (and I generally like Jews pretty well), but I know very well to stay away from any conversations about money or success, since it seems like they immediately try to one-up you and make you feel bad.

Mark Twain On The Jews

A great article. The anti-Semites love this stuff, but I don’t consider this to be anti-Semitism. Truth ought to be a defense against anti-Semitism. I also doubt if Twain was an anti-Semite. He doesn’t come across as one here. He’s just telling it like it is. This article doesn’t even seem hateful. It has a strange, disembodied, scientist-like objective distance about it, as if he were an alien writing a report on a new planet’s culture to his superiors. From The Rebel, an anti-Semitic site which like many such sites also often has a lot of good stuff, including much material that is not anti-Semitic at all. Mark Twain’s true opinion of the Jews is probably the best kept secret in American literary history. Immediately after his death, his eccentric daughter Clara married a Jewish piano player, Otto Gabrilowitsch. Twain’s publishers were given speedy instructions to delete Concerning the Jews from the collected works, where it had appeared in the book The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories. The following is taken from Harper’s Monthly Magazine, September 1899, as quoted in William Grimstad’s Anti-Zion.

Concerning The Jews

by Mark Twain

Can fanaticism alone account for the persecution of the Jews? It is now my conviction that it is responsible for hardly any of it. In this connection I call to mind Genesis, Chapter 47. We have all read the story of the years of plenty and the years of famine in Egypt, and how Joseph with that opportunity made a corner in broken hearts and the crusts of the poor and human liberty—a corner whereby he took away the nation’s money to the last penny; took a nation’s livestock all away to the last hoof; took a nation’s land all away to the last acre. Then he took the nation itself, buying it for bread, man by man, woman by woman, child by child, till all were slaves; a corner which took everything, leaving nothing, a corner so stupendous that by comparison with it, the most gigantic corners in subsequent history are but baby things; for it dealt in hundreds of millions of bushels, and its profits were reckoned by the hundreds of millions of dollars. It was a disaster so crushing that its effects have not wholly disappeared from Egypt even today, more than 3,000 years after the event. Was Joseph establishing a character for his race which survived long in Egypt, and in time would his name be familiarly used to express that character – like Shylock’s? It was hardly to be doubted. Let us remember that this was centuries before the Crucifixion. In the U. S. cotton states, after the war, the Jew came down in force, set up shop on the plantation, supplied all the Negroes’ wants on credit, and at the end of the season was the proprietor of the Negro’s share of the present crop and part of the next one. Before long the Whites detested the Jew. The Jew is being legislated out of Russia. The reason is not concealed. The movement was instituted because the Christian peasant stood no chance against his commercial abilities. The Jew was always ready to lend on a crop. When settlement day came, he owned the crop, and the next year he owned the farm, like Joseph. In the England of John’s time everybody got into debt to the Jew. He gathered all lucrative enterprises into his hands. He was the King of Commerce. He had to be banished from the realm. For like reasons, Spain had to banish him 400 years ago and Austria a couple of centuries later. In all ages, Christian Europe has been obliged to curtail his activities. If he entered upon a trade, the Christian had to retire from it. If he set up as a doctor, he took the business. If he exploited agriculture, the other farmers had to get at something else. The law had to step in to save the Christian from the poorhouse. Still, almost bereft of employments, he found ways to make money. Even to get rich. This history has a most sordid and practical look. Religious prejudices may account for one part of it but not for the other nine. Protestants have persecuted Catholics – but they did not take their livelihoods from them. Catholics have persecuted Protestants – but they never closed agriculture and the handicrafts against them. I feel convinced that the Crucifixion has not much to do with the world’s attitude toward the Jew; the reasons for it are much older than that event… I am convinced that the persecution of the Jew is not in any large degree due to religious prejudice. No, the Jew is a money-getter. He has made it the end and aim of his life. He was at it in Rome. He has been at it ever since. His success has made the whole human race his enemy. You will say that the Jew is everywhere numerically feeble. When I read in the Encyclopedia Britannica that the Jewish population of the United States was 250,000, I wrote to the editor and explained to him that his figures were without doubt a misprint for 25,000,000. People told me that they had reason to suspect that for business reasons, many Jews did not report themselves as Jews. It looks plausible. I am strongly of the opinion that we have an immense Jewish population in America. I am assured by men competent to speak that the Jews are exceedingly active in politics…

New Top Weekly Visitor Record on Robert Lindsay

Despite the brief site shutdown over the weekend, last week, September 13-20, still set a new weekly top visitor record on Robert Lindsay, home of the “Prince of Humbugs.” The new record averages out to 6,754 hits a day.

Old Record: September 7-13:  40,030
New Record: September 14-20: 47,281

Told that readers were complaining of his endless bragging and showing off, Lindsay was unrepentant. “I am a showman by profession…and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me,” he said defiantly.

“The Human Beast Next Door," by Alpha Unit

Another fine piece by guest poster Alpha Unit. Not only quoting Sade but even managing to get a grasp on him – good show! Baltasar Gracian, a 17th-century Spanish Jesuit famous for his wisdom, wrote, “The things we remember best are those best forgotten.” He is correct. That is why I’ve never watched the video Human Beasts (background here) and have no desire to do so. Besides, human cruelty was documented long before those teenagers recorded themselves committing heinous acts. Cruelty comes easily to you and me. What would be extraordinary is a human being with virtually no capacity for it. The Marquis de Sade was a fan of cruelty, considering it a virtue. It is “the first sentiment Nature injects in us all,” he stated, and “the energy in a man that civilization has not yet altogether corrupted.” The Marquis de Sade is not my idea of a role model, to be sure, but he told it like is when it comes to human instincts. Anyone unable or unwilling to face what people are capable of is asking for it, and, unfortunately, that’s most of us. That is why we are so shocked at the killing spree that the nice, sweet boy next door just went on. Who would ever have guessed it? People who understand human nature will tell you that if you are ever robbed or similarly victimized, you must under no circumstances let the person take you to another location. You are going to be found dead, in all likelihood. The rush this person will get from having absolute power over you is not going to let them stop until they have done you in. Too much power – too much freedom – only unleashes the worst in people. And the worst is always there. How fascinating that the very worst of our instincts can give such pleasure when we give in to them. Killing might be the Mother of All Delights for Human Beasts, but the lesser morsels can be quite tasty. If you ever find yourself wondering why a certain person is such a jerk, prick or bastard, there is no need to wonder. Maybe he’s loving every minute of it.