Fuck its silent in here.......

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Not sure which is better - Carol Brady's rockin' femullet or Uncle Fester's sweet 'stache.

Holy shit.  All these years I had no idea that that belligerent, lying asshole was portrayed by the same actor who played Uncle Fester.  Thank you.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Not sure which is better - Carol Brady's rockin' femullet or Uncle Fester's sweet 'stache.

Holy shit.  All these years I had no idea that that belligerent, lying asshole was portrayed by the same actor who played Uncle Fester.  Thank you.

I just remember being amazed that magnets worked on chalkboards.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

I'll give The National Review's John Derbyshire this much credit: he rarely minces words when it comes to his, uh... unpopular beliefs, whether it's in regard to his beef with women's suffrage, his contention that women over the age of 20 are TOO OLD! to be considered physically attractive, or his shockingly severe warnings to his delicate white children to, for sake of their own safety, stay the hell away from the blacks (who we're not even allowed to call "niggers" anymore, by the way).

[J. Walter Weatherman]

But maybe you think I'm kidding...

There is much talk about "the talk."

"Sean O'Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons," Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (NJ) Record tells us. Meanwhile, down in Atlanta: "Her sons were 12 and 8 when Marlyn Tillman realized it was time for her to have the talk," Gracie Bonds Staples writes in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Leonard Greene talks about the talk in the New York Post. Someone bylined as KJ Dell'Antonia talks about the talk in The New York Times. Darryl Owens talks about the talk in the Orlando Sentinel.

Yes, talk about the talk is all over.

There is a talk that nonblack Americans have with their kids, too. My own kids, now 19 and 16, have had it in bits and pieces as subtopics have arisen. If I were to assemble it into a single talk, it would look something like the following.

* * * * * * * * * * * * *

(1) Among your fellow citizens are forty million who identify as black, and whom I shall refer to as black. The cumbersome (and MLK-noncompliant) term "African-American" seems to be in decline, thank goodness. "Colored" and "Negro" are archaisms. What you must call "the 'N' word" is used freely among blacks but is taboo to nonblacks.

(2) American blacks are descended from West African populations, with some white and aboriginal-American admixture. The overall average of non-African admixture is 20-25 percent. The admixture distribution is nonlinear, though: "It seems that around 10 percent of the African American population is more than half European in ancestry." (Same link.)

(3) Your own ancestry is mixed north-European and northeast-Asian, but blacks will take you to be white.

(4) The default principle in everyday personal encounters is, that as a fellow citizen, with the same rights and obligations as yourself, any individual black is entitled to the same courtesies you would extend to a nonblack citizen. That is basic good manners and good citizenship. In some unusual circumstances, however—e.g., paragraph (10h) below—this default principle should be overridden by considerations of personal safety.

(5) As with any population of such a size, there is great variation among blacks in every human trait (except, obviously, the trait of identifying oneself as black). They come fat, thin, tall, short, dumb, smart, introverted, extroverted, honest, crooked, athletic, sedentary, fastidious, sloppy, amiable, and obnoxious. There are black geniuses and black morons. There are black saints and black psychopaths. In a population of forty million, you will find almost any human type. Only at the far, far extremes of certain traits are there absences. There are, for example, no black Fields Medal winners. While this is civilizationally consequential, it will not likely ever be important to you personally. Most people live and die without ever meeting (or wishing to meet) a Fields Medal winner.

(6) As you go through life, however, you will experience an ever larger number of encounters with black Americans. Assuming your encounters are random—for example, not restricted only to black convicted murderers or to black investment bankers—the Law of Large Numbers will inevitably kick in. You will observe that the means—the averages—of many traits are very different for black and white Americans, as has been confirmed by methodical inquiries in the human sciences.

(7) Of most importance to your personal safety are the very different means for antisocial behavior, which you will see reflected in, for instance, school disciplinary measures, political corruption, and criminal convictions.

(8) These differences are magnified by the hostility many blacks feel toward whites. Thus, while black-on-black behavior is more antisocial in the average than is white-on-white behavior, average black-on-white behavior is a degree more antisocial yet.

(9) A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks—around half—will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.

...

[J. Walter Weatherman]

...

(10) Thus, while always attentive to the particular qualities of individuals, on the many occasions where you have nothing to guide you but knowledge of those mean differences, use statistical common sense:

(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.

(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.

(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).

(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.

(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.

(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.

(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.

(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.

(10i) If accosted by a strange black in the street, smile and say something polite but keep moving.

(11) The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of blacks have IQs that low. Only one black in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average black. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They are reflected in countless everyday situations. "Life is an IQ test."

(12) There is a magnifying effect here, too, caused by affirmative action. In a pure meritocracy there would be very low proportions of blacks in cognitively demanding jobs. Because of affirmative action, the proportions are higher. In government work, they are very high. Thus, in those encounters with strangers that involve cognitive engagement, ceteris paribus the black stranger will be less intelligent than the white. In such encounters, therefore—for example, at a government office—you will, on average, be dealt with more competently by a white than by a black. If that hostility-based magnifying effect (paragraph 8) is also in play, you will be dealt with more politely, too. "The DMV lady" is a statistical truth, not a myth.

(13) In that pool of forty million, there are nonetheless many intelligent and well-socialized blacks. (I'll use IWSB as an ad hoc abbreviation.) You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with IWSBs. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice.

(14) Be aware, however, that there is an issue of supply and demand here. Demand comes from organizations and businesses keen to display racial propriety by employing IWSBs, especially in positions at the interface with the general public—corporate sales reps, TV news presenters, press officers for government agencies, etc.—with corresponding depletion in less visible positions. There is also strong private demand from middle- and upper-class whites for personal bonds with IWSBs, for reasons given in the previous paragraph and also (next paragraph) as status markers.

(15) Unfortunately the demand is greater than the supply, so IWSBs are something of a luxury good, like antique furniture or corporate jets: boasted of by upper-class whites and wealthy organizations, coveted by the less prosperous. To be an IWSB in present-day US society is a height of felicity rarely before attained by any group of human beings in history. Try to curb your envy: it will be taken as prejudice (see paragraph 13).

* * * * * * * * * * * * *

You have to follow my version of the talk point for point; but if you are white or Asian and have kids, you owe it to them to give them some version of the talk. It will save them a lot of time and trouble spent figuring things out for themselves. It may save their lives.

[Bort]

Holy shit.

[Wheezer]

Not sure which is better - Carol Brady's rockin' femullet or Uncle Fester's sweet 'stache.

Holy shit.  All these years I had no idea that that belligerent, lying asshole was portrayed by the same actor who played Uncle Fester.  Thank you.

I just remember being amazed that magnets worked on chalkboards.

And what did you surmise to be the cause of this?

[Gilgamesh]

Dubya seems to be enjoying his retirement.

In his 15-minute opening speech to the gathering of prominent conservative politicians and economists, Bush pushed heavily for a pro-growth economic strategy.

"Much of the political debate — and I guess rightly so — is about our balance sheet," he said. "That makes sense. I mean, when you look at the debt to GDP,  it's pretty high."

I wonder why?

Though he did appear to do the one thing that the Jimmy Carters of the world never did for him. 

Regarding his successor:

"I don't think it's good, frankly, for our country, to undermine our president, and I don't intend to do so," Bush said.

But then I didn't understand if the last line of the article was Dubya attempting to be folksy or he just came off as a dick.

To keep contact with the troops, Bush said he hosts mountain biking and golf outings for veterans.

"You know, I love to mountain bike ride," he said. "What I don't like to do is be beaten on a mountain bike ride by a one-legged veteran, but it's likely to happen."

Full article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-pn-bush-talks-economics-says-he-wont-undermine-our-president-20120410,0,7417656.story

[Internet Apex]

Dubya seems to be enjoying his retirement.

In his 15-minute opening speech to the gathering of prominent conservative politicians and economists, Bush pushed heavily for a pro-growth economic strategy.

"Much of the political debate — and I guess rightly so — is about our balance sheet," he said. "That makes sense. I mean, when you look at the debt to GDP,  it's pretty high."

I wonder why?

Though he did appear to do the one thing that the Jimmy Carters of the world never did for him. 

Regarding his successor:

"I don't think it's good, frankly, for our country, to undermine our president, and I don't intend to do so," Bush said.

But then I didn't understand if the last line of the article was Dubya attempting to be folksy or he just came off as a dick.

To keep contact with the troops, Bush said he hosts mountain biking and golf outings for veterans.

"You know, I love to mountain bike ride," he said. "What I don't like to do is be beaten on a mountain bike ride by a one-legged veteran, but it's likely to happen."

Full article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-pn-bush-talks-economics-says-he-wont-undermine-our-president-20120410,0,7417656.story

Bush doesn't give a wit for the one-leggeds. Or the blacks.

[Tonker]

What would YOU ask Mitt Romney?  The "does this look infected" one made me laugh until the tears rolled down my cheeks.

[Slaky]

What would YOU ask Mitt Romney?  The "does this look infected" one made me laugh until the tears rolled down my cheeks.

#askRomney do you think you could dunk on Obama. Do you believe you have the sick dunks this country needs

[morpheus]

What would YOU ask Mitt Romney?  The "does this look infected" one made me laugh until the tears rolled down my cheeks.

#askRomney do you think you could dunk on Obama. Do you believe you have the sick dunks this country needs

#askRomney can you hit better than 20% from behind the arc?

[Internet Apex]

What would YOU ask Mitt Romney?  The "does this look infected" one made me laugh until the tears rolled down my cheeks.

#askRomney do you think you could dunk on Obama. Do you believe you have the sick dunks this country needs

#askRomney can you hit better than 20% from behind the arc?

Would you foul on the floor up three with under 10 seconds left in regulation *smashes cubicle* wait what were we doing?

[CBStew]

So some clueless Democratic consultant makes a dumb remark about Ann Romney never having held a job and the Repugnicans get to capitalize on it by going on about how every mother has the hardest job in the world.  I wonder how many servants (house slaves) Ann had to assist her in raising her 5 sons?  The fact is that the Romney family was very poor.  Mitt was poor.  Ann was poor.  Their five sons were poor.  Their butlers were poor.  Their housemaids were poor.  The cooks were poor.  The chauffeurs were poor.  Their illegal alien gardeners were poor...They were all poor.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/is-missouri-about-to-secede-again/255980/

Did you know that Missouri is (again) thinking about seceding from the Union? Neither did I until I stumbled across SJR 45, a wince-worthy measure introduced earlier this year by Tea Partyist Brian Nieves, a Republican state senator whose anti-government rhetoric is strident even by today's grim standards. The proposed state constitutional amendment -- it would have to be approved by voters even if it makes it by the politicians -- is patently unconstitutional but remarkably candid in expressing the seditious level of dissent circulating through some state legislatures around the country.