Good morning.
Are you nuts? I’m not. Yet.
1. You want deranged? This is deranged. MSNBC put analyst Frank Figliuzzi on the air to explain the Nazi symbolism at the White House. Figliuzzi is a former FBI assistant—think about that as you read this—and he has been given media credibility of late because he had predicted that white supremacist violence was potentially imminent due to President Trump’s rhetoric. Of course, I predicted months ago that the relentless divisive rhetoric from “the resistance” would get someone killed soon, and nobody’s calling me to blather on TV…and I’m not insane, like this guy.
Figliuzzi alerted MSNBC World about the sinister numerical connection between neo-Naziism and the Trump administration’s decision to fly flags at half-mast until August 8 in honor of the victims of the Dayton and El Paso shootings.
“If we don’t understand how they think, we’ll never understand how to counter them,” he said. “The President said that we will fly our flags at half mast, until August 8. That’s 8/8. Now, I’m not going to imply that he did this deliberately, but I am using it as an example of the ignorance of the adversary that’s being demonstrated by the White House. The numbers 88 are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement. Why? Because the letter ‘H’ is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and to them the numbers 8-8 together stand for ‘Heil Hitler.’ So we’re going to be raising the flag back up at dusk on 8/8. No one is thinking about this.”
Once again, this calls for Sidney Wang...
The reason that nobody is thinking about this, you idiot, is that it is deranged. How crazy can “the resistance” get and not start a stampede to the President, in reflex revulsion to the lies, the disrespect, the paranoia, the smears and the hysteria? The Times this week was musing about why Trump’s approval ratings are rising even as the mainstream media has been proclaiming that he’s a Nazi racist and responsible for every shooting in America.
To ask the question is to answer it.
(I just realized my piano is a Nazi…)
2. THIS is how we get fake news. The Washington Post correction below runs over 500 words, and was so long it carried over to a second page. It relates to a feature by Korsha Wilson called, “Black families once lived off their southern farmland. Their descendants are struggling to hold onto it”:
Corrections: A previous version of this article contained many errors and omitted context and allegations important to understanding two families’ stories. This version has been updated.
• The first name of Emanuel Freeman Sr. was misspelled.
• Contrary to what was reported in the initial article, Freeman Sr.’s grandson, Johnny, did not refuse to move off a Halifax, Va., sidewalk for a white woman; he was talking to her, which drew the ire of some white locals, including the Ku Klux Klan. When a crowd gathered at the Freeman home where Johnny fled, gunfire was exchanged, and one family member’s home was set ablaze.
• The 2017 U.S. Agricultural Census compared farmland owned and operated, not simply owned, by white and black farmers.
• The number of children Freeman had with his second wife, Rebecca, was eight, not 10.
• Ownership of Freeman’s property was not transferred to heirs when Rebecca died. In fact, he used a trust before he died to divide his property among his heirs.
• The partition sale of the Freeman estate was in 2016, not 2018, and it included 360 acres of the original 1,000, not 30 acres of the original 99.
• The story omitted key details that affect understanding of ownership of the land. Melinda J.G. Hyman says “Jr.” and “Sr.” were left off the names of father and son on documents, and the land was mistakenly combined under Rebecca’s name, meaning some descendants did not receive proper ownership. After requesting a summary of the property, Hyman says, she found her great-aunt, Pinkie Freeman Logan, was the rightful heir to hundreds of acres, but they were not properly transferred to her. In 2016, Hyman says, 360 acres of the original 1,000 were auctioned off after a lengthy court battle, a decision she says she and some other family members dispute.
• The article omitted Hyman’s statement that actions by law firm Bagwell & Bagwell constitute apparent conflicts of interest and omitted firm owner George H. Bagwell’s response denying that allegation.
• A description by agricultural lawyer Jillian Hishaw of laws governing who inherits property when a landowner dies was a reference to the laws in most states, not more than 20 states. She was also generally describing these laws, not referring to Virginia law.
• A study the article said compared the prevalence of estate planning by older white and older black Americans was published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, not the National Library of Medicine, and was about possession of advance health directives, not estate planning.
• Tashi Terry said, “Welcome to Belle Terry Lane,” not “Welcome to Belle Terry Farm.” The property is named Terry Farm.
• Aubrey Terry did not buy 170 acres with his siblings in 1963; his parents bought the 150-acre property in 1961.
• The eldest Terry brother died in 2011, not 2015.
• The article omitted Tashi Terry’s account of some incidents that led to a lawsuit seeking a partition sale of her family’s farm and her allegations against Bagwell & Bagwell, which the firm denies.
• A law proposed to protect heirs from losing land in partition sales is called the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act, not the Partition of Heirs Property Act. “Tenants in common” are not solely defined as those living on a property; they are all those who own a share in the property. The act would not require heirs living on a property to come to an agreement before it can be sold, but would instead provide several other protections.
All this wasn’t necessary, really. All that needed to be said was that the Post received a stealth slavery reparations propaganda piece by an African American freelance journalist, so they didn’t bother to check it, vet it, edit it responsibly or generally ensure that it wasn’t misinforming readers, or maybe it just gave the thing a pass because it conveyed a greater truth. Or something.
Other than the correction itself, the Post is refusing to elaborate on how this happened. The fact that it could happen at all, however, speaks volumes.
3. Reason #6,324 why baseball is superior than football. A recently published study indicates that Major League Baseball players live longer than athletes from other sports and American males in general. Football, meanwhile, kills its players.
4. Totalitarian creep. No, I don’t think I’m being paranoid any more...Quentin Tarantino is being attacked far and wide in the media and by pundits because his latest movie, “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood,” is insufficiently “woke,” specifically on matters of women and feminism. For the record, I think Tarantino is a jerk; he’s also a genius and a masterful director and writer, though one who sometimes swings and misses—but then, so do the Coen brothers, Spielberg, and Scorcese. What is becoming apparent, however, is that the attacks on Tarantino’s unique, cynical, violent and admittedly perverse view of humanity are designed to send a threatening message to artists and the public at large: failure to conform with progressive norms will not be tolerated now and in the future. Drama and entertainment must help enforce virtuous conformity, and inculcate the masses with the right beliefs and ideology. Directors like Tarantino who are more comfortable with and skilled at telling stories with primarily male characters, or who habitually use female characters in submissive, subordinate or stereotypical roles, must be shamed, punished and forced to conform.
Thus Anna Purna Kambhampaty and Elijah Wolfson of TIME counted every line in “Once Upon A Time…” as well as his other nine feature length films, and concluded that
The data show clearly that men have gotten the majority of dialogue in Tarantino’s films. In part that’s because most of the director’s films have male leads as well as a majority-male cast. But even Tarantino films with female leads and more female characters tend to give more dialogue to men: in Kill Bill: Volume 2, for example, the share of lines going to male actors was 17.5 percentage points higher than those given to women; in Jackie Brown, it’s a startling 39.8 percentage points higher.
Bulletin: I-DON’T–CARE.
But this is the diversity mentality: to the progressive directors who would remake our culture, art is simply a means to an ideological end. Red China and the Soviet Union understood this—it also explains why Putin once said that bootleg Beatles albums helped bring down Communism. Now the increasingly doctrinaire and militant Left is insisting that art, like Tarantino films, that does not advance acceptable images of the Left’s component oppressed tribes must be brought into line.
This approach is hardly new: 40 years ago, I had to fight to produce and direct a production of “Twelve Angry Men” at Georgetown Law Center because a women’s rights groups protested that a play with only men was per se sexist. Now, however, this attitude is widespread, if not quite mainstream, and it’s not just about women.
The objective is to indoctrinate the public. It is soft totalitarianism on the march. Because Tarantino is a jerk, he rejects this pressure with a sneer. Nicer artists, like Spielberg, do not and will not. They become wilful collaborators with the enemies of real diversity, the intellectual kind.
Topic for another day and another post: what does it tell us when jerks like Tarantino and Donald Trump emerge as the most steadfast defenders of personal and intellectual freedoms?
Ethics Alarms 
Just fixed about 12 dumb typos. A crucial phone call interrupted my post-posting final proof-read. Sorry.
In just a few years every movie will be like “Spider-Man: Far From Home” which I enjoyed on some level, but which did not come close to having anything to say, or any kind of creative vision.
Every story must be carefully produced by a committee. Every director has to be a pushover who’s just happy to be there, so he or she won’t mind having all of their ideas gutted by the time they see the finished product. All cast and crew must agree about everything, wear a permanent smile, and provide all the necessary sound bites about how great the studio is and how the movie is the best thing ever made. All jokes should offend no one. Every scene, character, and line of dialogue must be calculated so that there is perfect balance between races and sexes.
Instead of having a “moral” or “message” or even a “point,” movies must now contain clever-sounding, forced philosophical dialogue to create the appearance of depth, but the message should contradict itself throughout the movie so that no one viewpoint is elevated above another. Everything must be dumbed down as much as possible. Be sure to include a quote by a famous person the audience has heard of before, so they can feel smart. The ratio of action, comedy, romance, and violence should always be exactly the same, determined by research to be the perfect ratio to appeal to all four quadrants without offending any of them. Art!
We don’t have ‘the Americanization of Emily,’ we have the blandification of the arts. But the arts are not necessarily pretty. You can’t have drama, adventure, or depth if everyone is the same. That was a little of why I didn’t care for ST next generation. Everyone was nice and no one had significant flaws. When most fans were hating Wesley, I was happy we had one character who was more human, making mistakes and getting in trouble like kids do, A reboot would make him a girl and she would never make mistakes: the stuff of plot and drama.
The core thing to me is the difference between the Hero’s Journey and the Heroine’s journey. The hero’s journey (male or female doesn’t matter, the Wonder Woman movie was a good one) is to make mistakes, have guides and reverses to earn their progress, and bring knowledge/victory back to their people. The heroine’s journey is mostly internal: realizing their existing power, they don’t need companions and don’t have to deserve any progress. La, you are to put them on a pedestal for the realization, they haven’t proven their virtue before or after the powerup, I prefer the selfless far more than the selfish, Everyone singing their folk songs around a campfire is just talk, until they put up. You’re not a hero until you have given up things, have suffered, that your heroism has grit. Drama is mistakes and pain. Adventure is danger and the risk of greater pains. Take away risk, mistakes, and pain and its boring- people will hate your leads.
Interior journies just are not going to be exciting even if you add explosions or superpowers. There will be some huge failures in the next decade. Then to almighty dollar will force a return… but how many companies with valuable IPs will fold. DC comics is in poor shape when the big lines went woke. There’s nothing wrong with the heroine’s Journey, but it’s not for the big summer FX blockbuster. Everyone makes mistakes, everyone is different from everyone else, people empathize with screwups who are like them. Then their victory is ours too.
1. Turns out this master of all things Nazi was involved in counterintelligence. Nice to see he has now joined the no intelligence crowd. And the left thinks Trump supporters wear tin hats?
Since we are piling on the FBI, here’s an article that points out that such analysts have never solved a major crime.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/sep/14/psychological-profile-behavioural-psychology
So let’s imagine the following dialogue by a male underling and his female boss:
Employee: Ms. Smith, the developers have brought in several sets of plans for the new project. I have them right here for your review. Once you decide, please let me know so that I can advise them which way to proceed.
Boss: Okay.
The employee clearly has more lines, but the female is clearly in charge. SO what the heck do the number of lines have top do with anything. It sounds to me as if some people are looking for an issue so that they can be suitably offended.
1. Deranged
This guy has watched National Treasure too many times. He needs to trim that tinfoil, too, because those Nazis are going to get their mind-control beams through if he doesn’t.
Oh, and that video clip is clearly a racist parody of the Chinese. Just sayin’ …
2. Fake news
Trump proven right again, tragically. I would ask what happened to the editors, but I know — the original was just too good to edit from the viewpoint of the Post.
“Mattress girl” would totally approve.
4. Totalitarian creep
So now we have to count words in movies to make sure we aren’t racist/sexist/homophobic/xenophobic?
Well, gosh, that whole “88” thing seems a lot more rational after reading this idiocy.
4. These are doubtless tenured professors in some women’s studies department. Counting words is now considered scholarship. I think it comes from that post modernist school of literary criticism. What a racket.
Doubtless.
Number 2 reminds me of whenever SNL does a skit about Fox & Friends; the segment always ends with an endless scroll of the fictional producer’s fact checking and corrections of the on screen commentary.
If the Babylon Bee had created list of fact checks that long, Snopes would have an equally long one….
Well, as Instapundit is fond of saying, they would need a bigger blog… 🙂
1.No, no, no…White Supremacists do not get to appropriate the number 8. August 8 is a perfectly legitimate date and there is absolutely nothing wrong with using it. What we have to counter is this insane idea that Neo-Nazis are allowed to steal perfectly normal things and make them taboo to the rest of the world.
This is just like that stupid “Edelweiss” controversy a few months ago.
Wait, have I forgotten my Roman Catholicism fundamentals? Isn’t August 8th a Holy Day? The Assumption? Mary was assumed into Heaven?
I have a NY Steinway and a Berlin Bechstein. I must be a NAZI. Having plants in NYC and in Hamburg, it’s reported the Steinways spent all of WWII convincing the US government they weren’t NAZIs and convincing the NAZIs they weren’t Jews.
The Feast of the Assumption is August 15th, so you are off by a week. There are several saints who have their feasts on 8/8, but most are fairly unfamiliar to most people. Perhaps people are familiar with St. Dominic, as he is the founder of the Dominicans and mentioned in several litanies, especially the big one at the Easter Vigil. It is the Afterfeast of the Transfiguration in Eastern Orthodox traditions. However, I don’t care what it is, it isn’t a special Nazi day and the early comment about the tinfoil hat seems appropriate.
Ooops. Oh well, every day gets at least one saint since babies are born every day, right?
Actually, saints are given dates on the day of their death, but yeah, every day has multiple saints as people die every day.
China launched the Olympics on 8/8/8 because 8 is a lucky number in there culture. NAZIS! Everyone of them!
1: It has become increasingly necessary, when referencing some pronouncement or action by the “woke” to make a disclaimer to the effect that “This is a real thing, not satire or sarcasm”.
4: Sort of on point, but not exactly the same. Ads for the impending movie The Hunt (original title, Red State vs Blue State), where leftist elites hunt ball-cap wearing deplorables, have been pulled. https://www.themix.net/2019/08/the-hunt-maga-hunting-deplorables/?utm_campaign=TMNNews08082019morning&utm_source=TMNNews08082019morning&utm_medium=email&utm_content=b1eabd1fa9b11a3fa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI
Having not, of course, yet seen the movie, I have some reservations about whether iit should be taken the way most people have seemed to, and which one might be initially inclined to do, considering the general plot. It could be that rather than glorifying the extermination of right-wing opponents, it paints the “sophisticated” violent left in a bad light. Wouldn’t hold out much expectation of that, but we’ll see.
“The Hunt” looks like an awful movie, but I’ve never been especially entertained by gory ultra-violent films. It’s from the same producer (though not director) as “Get Out.” From the trailer, it does seem that the lead role is a “Red State” person, and the “Blue State” people are the antagonists. But who knows what message is intended or imparted, if any.
I’m not sure there is any way to make such a movie in the current environment of overheated rhetoric that would be responsible. Seems like the imagery of Americans hunting each other is just pouring more fuel on the fire, no matter what the “message” is. We live in a 140-character world now, and subtlety is vanishing like spit in a hot skillet.
Synopsis of the topic for another day: Sometimes you have to be a jerk, jerkiness begets jerkiness.
I held my nose and voted for HRC thinking Trump was well beyond the pale and a sleazy real estate developer (whose style I am not fond of, having spent twenty years practicing real estate law). But I became a fan on election night upon seeing the hilariously and unabashedly mortified faces of all the people on TV news. I instantly started rooting for the guy. As soon as I stopped laughing out loud. I also no longer watch any TV news or commentary. I’ll read web pages, but not watch people reading or opining on the news. Too biased.
I forgot re 1. The Chinese opened the summer Olympics on August 8, 2008. This obviously proved the Fascist/Communist relationship that the left tries to deny. Alternately, if you’re an MSNBC (or NYT, or WaPo, or…) hack, it proves Trump was doing a shout-out to his Chinese buddies with the flag thing.
RE: #1 (and with a hat tip to #4 (in re Tarantino): apparently O Ren Ishi was a neo-Nazi, in that her gang of Yakuza were called the Crazy 88s,
Re #2: Other than that, the story was accurate. – James Taranto
Your comment on #2 reminds me of a line from Absence of Malice:
1. Pity my poor, slightly older, sister and my much younger neighbor who both became neo-Nazis by doing nothing more than being born on 8/8, some 75 years apart.
Well, wait a minute! Even before this new, stupid, use of 88, there was the much more widespread use of the Western Union “92 Code” adopted in 1859 which used numbers in place of short phrases. Some of it (including 88) has been used by ham radio operators. To both, 88 was shorthand for “Love and Kisses.”
So, there. Those who see Nazis everywhere can make whatever hateful statements they like about 8/8. The rest of us, those with at least a few active brain cells, can spread love and kisses with the real meaning of 88.
Must not forget Nabokov’s HH in Lolita! Humbert Humbert.
What I remember is a high school buddy (with a terrific ham rig in the trunk of his car) telling me to whisper “88” to a beautiful young lady I was dating at the time, and, when she asked what that meant, to show rather than tell. I’m sure some parts of “Lolita” would stick in my memory, but not quite like ’88’ did.
I did the same but on June 9th. Or was it September 6th. Sometimes I just don’t remember which way is up.
What’s a ‘ham rig’? I am afraid to contemplate or to speculate . . .
My apologies for the late reply, Alizia. He had a complete amateur (ham) radio station in the trunk of his car, wired to a microphone, speaker, and controls in the front, and to a large antenna on the car. He was able to contact other ham radio operators locally and around the world, (and now in space) just to pass the time of day, pass on information, or socialize. Ham operators also help out in emergencies when other means of communication are unavailable.
Back in ancient times, i.e., the 1950s and 1960s, ham radio operators served as the links for making phone calls back home from Korea and Vietnam. A local phone in the war zone could connect to the Military Affiliate Radio System which then networked with one or more ham radio operators to relay the call to a home phone in the U.S. It was a bit clunky and availability was limited, but it worked.
One account that seems credible is that the term “ham” comes from the last names of three guys who operated an amateur radio station in the early 1900s. Apparently, they started out with their full names as their call sign, but it evolved into the three letters, the initial letters of their last names, and that term came to be applied to amateur radio operators.
That’s so interesting. I had no idea of such a thing. Thank you.
RE #4 – let’s do a fun case study and see if Men or Women get the most lines in the opening scene of this movie – and see if the number of lines has a correlation with a positive or negative perception of the characters.
Yes, Jack. Your piano holds more evil than you knew. Besides the hatey-hate keys*, it is a racist instrument having 52 white but only 36 black keys, the latter considered abnormally irregular, being either sharp or flat.
*Bosendorfer has a 97-key piano, the better to execute the compositions of Busoni, Bartók, and Ravel (as well as piano transcriptions of Bach’s major organ works) but Steinway knew what he was doing settling on the 7 octaves plus three bass notes: apparently the 88 are best suited to the comfortable limits of the human ear. This may explain why dogs are not fond of classical music.
What the FBI analyst said is that those who choose the date — 8/8 — should have been aware that the date and those numbers would be interpreted by some people as referring to HH. What he is doing is taking a strange anecdote, though a true one, and amplifying it so that it becomes a revelation which fits into the general hysterical mood. But of course this is what goes on in almost every front page opinion and article in the Times. What is going on here is the cultivation of hysterical views which serve a specific purpose. This is really quite common.
The reason this is done is illustrated by HRC’s ‘basket of abominables’ comment and her attempt to slant the term ‘Alt-Right’ in a specific, frightening way. It backfired of course, but so will every effort to use such anecdotes as the 14/88 thing as a scare-tactic. It will work for a moment, but if it happens that a person does more investigation they will see that there is more to it.
The 14 Words are: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” It was said by David Lane a member of the white supremacist terrorist group known as The Order who died in prison.
The numbers 14/88 do have instantaneous recognition and meaning in many forums and among many different people. The ’14’ refers to the Fourteen Words and, yes, 88 is a reference to HH.
In the Times just yesterday, rather amazingly, they are now talking about Madison Grant and they are beginning to open up the ‘conversation’ (pseudo-conversation) they manage to certain facts about the ideas that are coming to the surface.
There is a great relatively recent (2015) book for example, written by a definite Leftist/Progressive I should say, and very critical and even mocking, on Madison Grant called Defending the Master Race: Conservatism, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant. I read most of it and learned a great deal. Madison Grant — and hundreds of other American intellectuals of the era — would certainly qualify as ‘supremicists’. These were old-school ultra-Protestant types of the original stock of America. It is wise to understand how they thought if only because they provide a link to the way the original Founders of America saw and thought. The original Founders, if they were on the scene today magically transposed here, would speak like Madison Grant and likely quite closely to David Duke. This is ‘just a fact’ as I am fond of saying.
The crisis deepens. It will not go away, I don’t think, and I have definite doubts that it will be or can be defeated or pushed back by paramilitary state-police measures and tactics. But, dealing with these ‘crises of democracy’ is what they are especially good at, given a great deal of intelligence experience in those far-flung places we know so well. Latin America, the Far and Middle East. One has only to study the Postwar. Counter-intelligence and Psy-Ops, you know, its a real thing. We must surely see that this is going on around us right now.
For thinking people, one has to know the inner dimensions of these things. That is, what caused David Lane to develop his radicalism. And what makes David Duke have the position of David Duke. But this is not relevant to the cold and dramatic political struggles nor to the manipulation of populations which must, I think we’d all admit, must be rendered docile and sufficiently manageable.
In the best case possible scenario it would happen that this ‘difficult period’ in America’s history would be overcome and transcended so things could return to ‘business as usual’. To do that, of course, requires eliminating problem-thinkers. That is all well and good as far as it goes. Except that when you create a docile public you create, concurrently, a dumbed-down population. But that is not a bad option from the perspective of the management class. It is moreover what they seek.
Which America will be transcendent? Where is this tending? What is going to happen next? And then in the next 5-30 year period? Those are the good questions.
What the FBI analyst said is that those who choose the date — 8/8 — should have been aware that the date and those numbers would be interpreted by some people as referring to HH.
It would seem the proper thing to do is to utterly ignore the pseudo-numerology surrounding these fringe groups. To move public policy one iota in response to their idiocy is to give it legitimacy. These so-called “dog whistles” are really just tea leaves that people are reading.
My head hurts trying to think why why Trump chose Thursday night instead of Friday (really, from having to think that there must be a reason). The official flag protocol calls for the flag to remain at half staff for various public official’s from the date of their death until their interment. It would not be practical to wait for the burial of all 31 victims, however, so a cut off must be chosen. Occum’s Razor would suggest an arbitrary 4 day period.
If we we were to reject 8/8 for its alleged neo-Nazi significance, then Trump would suddenly open himself to accusations of inappropriately supporting any unpleasant occurrence on 8/9, the following day. Some examples include:
* 1500 – Trump endorsing the Ottoman capture of Methoni, Messenia
* 1810 – Trump endorsing Napoleon’s annexation of Westphalia
* 1826 – Trump endorsing Stonewall Jackson’s victory at Cedar Mountain, GA (Far clearer evidence of endorsing White supremacy if you ask me)
* 1945 – Trump endorsing his puppet master’s invasion of Japanese occupied Manchuria
* 1974 – Trump foreshadowing his own resignation in disgrace by channeling Richard Nixon’s
* 2014 – Trump OPENLY disrespecting Michael Brown by raising the flag on the anniversary of his death by shooting
Purporting that Trump, or any president, meant to comment on any of these flies in the face of common sense. At some point, like the proverbial proof that X holiday was ACTUALLY inspired by Y religion, there is a something of significance that had occurred on any date.
Even if Trump’s advisers were aware that naves might equate “8/8/19” with something sinister, the Nazi’s were big researchers of the occult, so it would seem LESS Fascist to ignore their superstitious drivel, not indulge it.
[emb]2. THIS is how we get fake news. [/emb]
I’m not sure why this even qualifies as a reason or accusation for reparations. This just looks like a common inheritance dispute. That kind of shenanigans happens for first-generation immigrant families as much as 200-acre truck farms held for over a century. You really cannot preserve a family farm among multiple children, and this was an unusually large family. Stuff gets stolen, ‘forgotten,’ and replaced with cheapos before the legal people get involved. Preservation pretty much requires a single heir if you want the land to stay in the family and be viable. If you want to ensure it stays a farm instead of a heel and jowl development or new strip mall and parking, set it up with a preservation trust that has some teeth. Without good planning, you almost guarantee a mess where the obnoxious benefit more than the meek, ie greedy thieves.
This spat has nothing to do with race, religion, location, or era. It’s basic human nature.
This story fails in the important aspects of news, it is NOT new and it’s not compelling.
Every body should know that Trump would never celebrate AUgust 8th. He’d celebrate September 9th, to-wit “I,I”
Nine Nine? As in, “Nein”, German for “No”? And just like that, we’re back to Nazis.
I’d be willing to wager that there is no date on the calendar that these Trump-deranged dunces can’t tie back to Hitler just as firmly as this “8/8” nonsense. By “firmly”, of course I mean “as weak as Bernie Sanders’ grasp of basic economics”.
Nevermind that… Think Bigger… On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month WWII ended. 11/11/11 is KKK. Obviously we wouldn’t say that the Allies picked the date they were ending the war on to aggrandize an American hate group, but that just shows their ignorance of the enemy. They, obviously, should have continued the fighting for at least another hour in order to avoid such a scandalous occurrence. The support the KKK got from this oversight obviously bolstered white supremacist groups for generations!
Were piano’s a Nazi invention?
Italian. Cristofori. But the Germans and Austrians perfected them, along with the English. The Chinese now crank out five thousand a day in Guangzho. Steinways split between US and Germany since the 1840s. They didn’t invent the piano or many of the piano’s components, but they were master marketers and have dominated concert hall piano sales since the late 19th Century. And they are perfectly fine pianos. Not the only sound but the sound almost everyone associates with classical piano music given most recordings are done on Steinways. There are many other fine makes of piano.
This message is for Frank Figliuzzi: Happy Heil Hitler Day!
(Three 8s are widely viewed in some cultures as signs of good luck.)
Since numerological delusions are now part of the arsenal of the “resistance,” or “pissedoffterate” or whatever those TDS-afflicted loons are best called these days (Hillaryty Furies?), let’s play their</i) hand for a minute:
What about that suspicious character, Frank Figliuzzi? Hmmmm…
No, I don’t mean how the end of his last name sounds so similar to what is, or should be, a particular illegal automatic firearm* – but, that’s reason enough to be suspicious of him. There’s something much more sinister…
Just recall that he used to be “Frank Figliuzzi, FBI.” Those three Fs equate to 666, and…well, there is enough on the Internet already that explains, and reflects, THAT particular Source And Virtually Inexhaustible Arsenal Of Evil. Now, to wrap up the latest left-think with a pretty little bow, recall: Once guilty, forever guilty. One sin = total ruin. Former FBI matters for naught. Figliuzzi must be destroyed!
*Actually, I don’t know if that firearm is illegal. If it is, it shouldn’t be, IMO.
Sorry, missed my HTML train – more Italics than intended. It’s Figliuzzi’s fault!
Re: No. 2; the Disenfranchisement of Black America’s Farmland Ownership.
I read that article when it came out. It was posted on a Facebook lawyer page, with weeping and gnashing of teeth over the consequences of not having a will. Buried in the text was the assumption that the legal system has been set up to take African American land away from African Americans. It was maddening. It was clear from my reading of the article that the author did not understand the complexity of state laws of descent and distribution and what happens when a will is not available to govern the disposition of property. I should not be surprised by this as the author writes primarily about food. Here is her Twitter page:
https://twitter.com/korshawilson?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
As for the correction, here is a piece in the Washingtonian about the article:
https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/08/07/the-washington-post-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-the-monster-correction-it-published-today/
Now, remember, your humble correspondent here is a lawyer, practicing in Houston, Texas. While a large part of my practice is in the area of bankruptcy law, I do a fair amount of real estate. I have handled many, many cases involving owners of property who die intestate (without a will). They are mind-bogglingly complicated cases, taking years to figure out when a property was acquired, whether there were partitions over land, finding heirs to the decedent, and trying to clear title so that the land can be sold. Did I also mention that the cost a fortune? We are talking about multiple levels of heirs to property, some of whom have passed away with their own heirs. Property taxes don’t get paid and properties are sold at public auction for delinquent taxes (and many taxing jurisdictions don’t have the complete title history of the properties so what they sell at auction is problematic).
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1. Is the kind of story that I love. Not because it’s good, but because I think it shows the electorate at large exactly how crazy these people are. Figliuzzi reminded me of that meme of the lady explaining the connection between Monster Energy and the devil because the M in monster kind of looked like the Jewish character for 6 three times in succession.
What I’d love is for the left to live by their own standards. Last December, Marc Lamont Hill ended an address at the United Nations with a call for unity “from the river to the sea”. Now, anyone who has spent as much time as Hill has in that corner of the universe knows that the full saying is “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and is a call for a single state solution involving a Jewish genocide. Hill played stupid, he denied that “from the river to the sea” was a call for a single state solution… Which begs the question, if not the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, which river and which sea? And if it is the Jordan and the Mediterranean you’re talking about… Where does the other state go? At the time, I said that “from the river to the sea” was Hamas’ “1488”.
You know what happened? Nothing. Despite all the kvetching these people will do about dog whistles and anti-Semitism, the moment one of their own spouted an anti-Semitic dogwhistle, the usually suspects fell all over themselves to white knight and sealion for their home team. And now they expect us to buy that Trump was supposed to connect the dots between August 8th and Heil Hitler? Excuse me while I gag. No, this is, yet again, nothing more than a power play, and I will, yet again, ignore said power play except to make fun of it until I see a situation where the left writ large actually stands on the principles they purport to have and hold their own bad actors accountable… Just once, without resorting to some variation on the theme of “Republicans Pounce” or “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy”.
I won’t hold my breath.
From your lips to God’s ears.
The Left doesn’t have to live up to their own standards because their standards are not intended for them — they are intended for the right.
They know they can get away with this, because the media will ignore their “failures” and amplify that of conservatives, Republicans, or other opponents to the Left. So any explanation, however implausible and rationalized, will be parroted as perfectly reasonable.
The Left talks about “dog whistles” all the time, but they are the biggest practitioners of them.
I believe the Left has about used up the ration of American ‘obliviousness’ they have counted on to get away with hypocrisy.
Times are changin’
I hope you’re right, but I’m not sanguine.
… but I’m not sanguine.
Is that like a penguin? I’m asking for someone else.
(Hush, Alexandria; I’m on the computer right now, trying to find out!)