tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.comments2024-03-18T08:02:51.154-07:00Had Enough Therapy?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger40578125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-11109957108183390432024-03-18T07:52:38.561-07:002024-03-18T07:52:38.561-07:00A quote attributed to Notre Dame football coach Lo...A quote attributed to Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz:<br /><br />"Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them."<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-22195667782244136122024-03-17T22:13:54.430-07:002024-03-17T22:13:54.430-07:00I have never understood how a woman can “feel like...I have never understood how a woman can “feel like” she’s a man or a man ‘feel like” he’s a woman. At best we can only guess, through a combination of observance and imagination, what it is to be the other. Or as the lady of the house has rather wonderfully said, “If you can’t tell me how you felt when you got your first period, had your first vaginal orgasm, gave birth to your first child, and somewhere in between , how you wept inconsolably over a bad haircut, please don’t tell me that you feel like a woman.” Waltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-7726607084756693532024-03-17T11:05:09.094-07:002024-03-17T11:05:09.094-07:00Maybe Gen Z sees with their own eyes how F'd u...Maybe Gen Z sees with their own eyes how F'd up the previous generations women are and have decided not to follow a failed path.<br /><br />This is actually good news.<br /><br />Maybe the family will become the centre of society again and humanity can resume its journey with a bit of wisdomDeNihilistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-54369269917870343222024-03-17T06:54:47.309-07:002024-03-17T06:54:47.309-07:00Biology>ideologyBiology>ideologyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-12301893822319340632024-03-16T14:57:51.879-07:002024-03-16T14:57:51.879-07:00I blame Biden for the doomed stalemate in Ukraine ...I blame Biden for the doomed stalemate in Ukraine too. Waltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-62369929016789561372024-03-14T17:01:04.654-07:002024-03-14T17:01:04.654-07:00And Schumer has apparently chosen to get the votes...And Schumer has apparently chosen to get the votes of Michigan Arabs and anti-semitic sophomores over the votes of his adult Jewish constituents. Waltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-9937348496960391952024-03-14T10:03:25.135-07:002024-03-14T10:03:25.135-07:00This from a retired Navy officer blogger. The ship...This from a retired Navy officer blogger. The ship bearing the dock is an army ship that sails very very slowly. It will be weeks before it gets there. By that time the situation on the ground will be changed. Might never actually happen. Kansas Scouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15744438882831933314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-17861526561527261462024-03-14T08:45:17.788-07:002024-03-14T08:45:17.788-07:00That Palestinian guiding slogan "From the riv...That Palestinian guiding slogan "From the river to the sea" pretty much precludes any two-state solution unless, of course, you are out of touch with reality or a useful idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-51778209839199131142024-03-13T10:06:56.689-07:002024-03-13T10:06:56.689-07:00I found the Sullivan piece as an excerpt on Twitte...I found the Sullivan piece as an excerpt on Twitter. I suspect that it was part of a Substack, but I do not have a link.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-70293925085028371232024-03-13T09:32:14.540-07:002024-03-13T09:32:14.540-07:00Have you got a link to the Sullivan piece? As you ...Have you got a link to the Sullivan piece? As you say, that’s terrific writing.Waltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-81747746238527629172024-03-13T08:07:35.405-07:002024-03-13T08:07:35.405-07:00Why has President Biden declared war against Israe...Why has President Biden declared war against Israel?boronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05780356895910449471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-38467925823790405442024-03-13T06:13:26.023-07:002024-03-13T06:13:26.023-07:00Headline from the New York Times April 16, 1999: &...Headline from the New York Times April 16, 1999: "CRISIS IN THE BALKANS: THE PRESIDENT; Civilian Deaths Inevitable In Warfare, Clinton Says"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-51981042248041093252024-03-11T13:07:19.301-07:002024-03-11T13:07:19.301-07:00"No one wants to think in terms of defeat, bu..."No one wants to think in terms of defeat, but such is the prospect facing us in Ukraine."<br /><br />Us? Are you Ukranian?<br /><br />Oh, it's a proxy land-war against Russia in an area intimately tied up with Russia for over 1,000 years. Totally our concern. The Global American Empire orchestrated a coup in 2014 because they didn't like how Ukrainians voted (pro-Russia). The West then attempted to continue expanding NATO ever-eastward to include Ukraine, and thereby establish Western military bases on Russia's doorstep. Not at all provocative to the Russians, who still remember the Mongolian invasion of their lands.<br /><br />You don't have to be a Putin apologist to see how the West provoked this confrontation. Not if you remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. (If I remember my history, Washington was a bit perturbed at the thought of a Soviet base 90 miles from Florida).<br /><br />But Putin is an evil dictator! Meanwhile Zalensky has cancelled elections and jailed political opponents. And there are (or were, heh) actual Ukrainian NAZI's in the east attacking ethnic Russians living in the Donbass, etc. Not play-Nazi's, but as close to the real thing as exists today.<br /><br />But Ukraine's borders were invaded! Right. Our rulers scoff at the invasion of our borders, but we're supposed to care about Ukraine? The Russians are just "newcomers" to Ukraine, really. Shouldn't they be given hotel rooms and 10 K debit cards?<br /><br />If anything, Putin had been restrained. Yet we continue to poke the Bear. It's almost as if the NeoCons in our State Department want escalation.A-Baxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-89277757298159582872024-03-11T07:29:43.064-07:002024-03-11T07:29:43.064-07:00Interest rates are not high. Before Alan Greenspan...Interest rates are not high. Before Alan Greenspan went crazy these rates were normal. The last 20 years were the aberration with ZIRP rewarding profligate spending, causing multiple asset bubbles, punishing savings and ultimately reigniting inflation. The Chicago Fed maintains an index of economic conditions (NFCI) which currently shows things have been getting looser since early 2023 after the initial tightening when the Fed began to raise rates.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-15020724977976750682024-03-10T13:13:04.387-07:002024-03-10T13:13:04.387-07:00Once again, none of this would have happened witho...Once again, none of this would have happened without the ascendancy of women in politics, business, academia and the clergy. It will be a necessary condition to remove them from such positions before the West can even begin to recover. <br /><br />https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/20/the-return-of-patriarchy/370H55V I/me/minenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-50337823902537663532024-03-10T05:52:01.359-07:002024-03-10T05:52:01.359-07:00The self-imposed defeat of the West can be seen mo...The self-imposed defeat of the West can be seen most clearly in the inner cities of the West. But you cannot sell books if you say that aloud.Freddonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-77595129973077063122024-03-06T08:01:32.539-08:002024-03-06T08:01:32.539-08:00I suspect you can tell how badly Hamas is doing by...I suspect you can tell how badly Hamas is doing by how loud the calls for a cease fire are from their useful idiots on the left.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-31098464537796208962024-03-06T06:38:22.802-08:002024-03-06T06:38:22.802-08:00"If anyone thought the geopolitical dimension..."If anyone thought the geopolitical dimension of subsea cables is purely theoretical, here is a reality check"...I don't know why any knowledgeable person would have thought it was purely theoretic. One of the first things the British did when WWI began was to cut the German telegraph cables.<br /><br />https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/64898.htmlDavid Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-33828537488993266852024-03-05T13:21:07.672-08:002024-03-05T13:21:07.672-08:00"For reasons that escape me, the Democratic p..."For reasons that escape me, the Democratic party has become intellectually incoherent".<br /><br />They argue in bad faith. Their party platform is to hold power, full stop. Intellectual arguments are okay when advancing their agenda, to be jettisoned when not. Coherence is unimportant (a hobgoblin of legacy America). What they experience is not cognitive dissonance but the moral certainty of the true believer / fanatic. You are bad and they are good, that's the extent of their actual thinking. The more clever ones have elaborate verbal window-dressing, but no actual ideas.<br /><br />The Democratic party from WWII through Clinton is dead and gone. What's in it's place is a Leftist religion/cult. "Our Democracy" means they rule and you can keep quiet or be sent to the gulag with the rest of the J6ers. If you're lucky.<br /><br />This won't change as a result of anyone voting one way or another. Our rulers and their servants in the political and media class will not tolerate genuine challenges to their rule.A-Baxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-36314121726123000932024-03-05T06:22:26.751-08:002024-03-05T06:22:26.751-08:00Rana is one of the move intelligent FT columnists,...Rana is one of the move intelligent FT columnists, but she needs to think about the old marketing saying:<br /><br />"It doesn't matter how good the market research is for your new dog food, how brilliant the marketing campaign and how many awards it gets, how sizzling your presentations to top management, if **the dogs won't eat it**David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-58939804244505913002024-03-05T04:34:19.880-08:002024-03-05T04:34:19.880-08:00Perry is feminist-lite. She really only cares abou...Perry is feminist-lite. She really only cares about how this affects women. Don't let the pretty face fool you.Bardelys the Magnificentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-45947495329068164902024-03-05T00:01:39.356-08:002024-03-05T00:01:39.356-08:00Women’s sexuality has always been subject to socia...Women’s sexuality has always been subject to social fashion. The 50’s Doris Day style uber virginity was no more natural or universal than the 80’s style Carrie Bradshaw sex-in-the-city. Some women are more (or less) sexual/sensual than others and always were and always will be. The problem, I think, comes when women follow the fashion rather than their own natures and instincts. Waltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-89508996589769264862024-03-03T12:02:40.341-08:002024-03-03T12:02:40.341-08:00Yup, I noticed the "desire" difference b...Yup, I noticed the "desire" difference back in the beginning throes of open sex.<br /><br />A couple of the girls that I picked and consummated, expressly made clear that they only wanted a 1 night stand.<br />My room mate at the time spent a few days lying to them on the phone that I was not home at the moment.DeNihilistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-30102892532964581662024-03-03T07:04:54.406-08:002024-03-03T07:04:54.406-08:00"The marital commitment was not for the eveni...<i><b>"The marital commitment was not for the evening or even the weekend. It was for life."</b></i><br /><br />For a moment there I thought Stuart was about to break into song, channeling Irving Berlin:<br /><br /><i>Not for just an hour,<br />Not for just a day,<br />Not for just a year,<br />But always.</i><br /><br />Or possibly Leonard Cohen's update of it:<br /><br /><i>Not for just a second, or a minute, or an hour<br />Not for just a weekend or a shake down in the shower<br />Not for just the summer and the winter going sour<br />But always, always, always</i><br /><br />Regardless, the sentiment is beautiful and a healthy society depends on it.JPL17https://www.blogger.com/profile/10649330420822802850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-61056550209308000932024-03-02T10:46:36.645-08:002024-03-02T10:46:36.645-08:00Reading is fundamental. Reading is fundamental. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com