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Post by timothylane on Nov 6, 2019 19:02:07 GMT -8
The main thing I remember from having seen The King and I as a child is the re-enactment of the escape across the Ohio from Uncle Tom's Cabin. The performers (servants, or more likely slaves, I think) would describe the appearance of ice and snow as "Buddha send a miracle". Unfortunately, Buddha wasn't sending a miracle here. Of course, once the statue of Buddha fell it was too late.
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Post by artraveler on Nov 6, 2019 20:16:30 GMT -8
Perhaps it was good luck for others who might have been influenced by this guy. You know, karma is a bitch.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 6, 2019 20:38:53 GMT -8
I had a similar thought. Speeding him along to his next incarnation.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 14, 2019 11:24:30 GMT -8
The EU is now going to impose a warning label on products made in certain areas of Israel. These people are nuts. Health Warning: Made By JewsIt is good to see that some in government are warning the EU that they are putting trade with the USA in jeopardy. This is another good reason for the U.K. to leave the EU. |
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Post by timothylane on Nov 14, 2019 12:03:44 GMT -8
I suppose they have to call it a health warning, even though it's really just a warning for bigots. I suppose they could justify it on the grounds that purchasing Israeli products can be hazardous for your health if an Arab sees you buying it, but to me that would be an argument for getting rid of the thuggish Arabs.
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Post by timothylane on Nov 18, 2019 10:15:07 GMT -8
There's a nice piece on Hot Air about the effects of their homeless policy. It should come as no surprise that a new study found foot traffic down, and the closer a store is to a homeless shelter the worse it is. (Starbucks disputes this, of course.) The link is: hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/11/18/starbucks-study/ |
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 19, 2019 12:04:42 GMT -8
It appears the USA is poking the EU in it's figurative eye after the EU demanded that some Israeli products be given a health warning label. The West Bank is Open for SettlementI have no doubt that there will be more to come. |
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Post by timothylane on Nov 19, 2019 12:16:39 GMT -8
Israel actually allows its Arabs citizenship rights -- more than they would have in any Arab nation. Yet leftists such as Jimmy the Creep compare this to apartheid, even as the Arabs insist on keeping their countries Judenrein.
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Post by artraveler on Nov 19, 2019 15:11:12 GMT -8
In 1948 there were hundreds of thousands of Jews living in Arab countries, most under the most extreme conditions from Morocco to Iran. When the State of Israel was established and the war of independence was won these Jew, some with histories going back to the time of Jesus, were summarily thrown out without any compensation for their property and without passports, so they were stateless.
Israel accepted all of them without any conditions, other than their Jewishness. They assimilated into the new state and over the last 70 years and have made Israel one of the most diverse Jewish population centers in the world. They are warriors, scientists, teachers and Keenest members. A wealth of human capital lost to Arab nations and gained by Israel.
On the other hand, the Arabs of Palestine who ran out with the prompting of their leaders were never absorbed into the Arab countries around Israel, never given any but the barest of support, and were never citizens. The Arabs who stayed in Israel are full citizens, members of the IDF and an important part of the state.
This change back to the policy of Reagan is directly aimed at the EU. I look forward to seeing more products with the Made in Israel stamp.
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Post by timothylane on Nov 19, 2019 16:51:52 GMT -8
This has been noted before, of course. The Israelis, being part of Western civilization, regarded the Jewish refugees as fellow humans to be treated as such. The Arabs, not being part of Western civilization, regarded the Arab refugees as pawns to be used against Israel.
This loss of human capital is nothing new. It was a British laborer (named Slater, I think) who emigrated to America in the early 19th Century and provided from memory the design of a British textile factory. I think Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish immigrant. No doubt there have been many similar stories over the years.
One you no doubt know about is the damage done to Nazi German nuclear research by the loss of so many Jewish scientists (and non-Jews who left for other reasons). And perhaps not just nuclear research; one emigrant was the chemist Fritz Haber, and no doubt others. (I. G. Farben had a lot of Jews until they were forced out of the cartel's companies during Gleichschaltung, and probably mostly fled the country.)
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Post by artraveler on Nov 19, 2019 18:49:45 GMT -8
Tim,
True enough. It is possible to take brain drains about as far back as you desire. One of the most interesting unintended consequences of brain drain is Henry VII of England. He started the process of enclosure in England. England began to specialize in textiles and to that end they needed more wool. Landlords were encouraged to "enclose" their property for ranching sheep. Enclosure pushed hundreds of thousands of undereducated farmers off the land and into the cities.
This situation continued through the next century and the families of these displaced farmers moved from Catholic to the form of Protestantism we call Puritan. By the 1620s the means, ocean going ships, to leave England was available and over the next 20 years or so over 40,000 took up hearth and grandma and left for the Caribbean and North America. These were not the illiterate farmers of their grandfathers but well educated and 95% literate, if only to better read scripture.
150 years later their great grand children would forge together to "a more perfect union". England never recovered from the Puritan brain drain. The same is true of the great Spanish exodus of Jews in 1492 and how that is the direct cause of the German enlightenment.
BTW, enclosure was only formally ended by England in the 1950s.
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Post by timothylane on Dec 3, 2019 11:30:08 GMT -8
The Babylon Bee reports on a survey that finds the Yellow Jester very popular among 1920s workers for his "No Malarkey" tour. Of course, they're all dead now, but are still a major Demagogue voting group. The link is:
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 12, 2019 20:05:54 GMT -8
It appears that the Tories have crushed Labour in today's parliamentary elections in the U.K. Boris Johnson is likely to have a majority of between 60 and 80 seats, which is enormous. Labour is on course to suffer its worst election result since the 1930s.
Johnson has promised to get Brexit done by January 31, 2020. Will he do it, and what type of Brexit will it be? Those are the questions.
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Post by timothylane on Dec 12, 2019 20:45:44 GMT -8
Margaret Thatcher's 1979 win foreshadowed Reagan's in 1980, and the Brexit referendum victory foreshadowed Trump's 2016 win. I hope that Johnson's big victory foreshadows a Trump win 2020. But, as the saying goes, past performance doesn't guarantee future results.
So far we still mainly have the exit polls, but it's been over 40 years since the predicted number of seats was off by enough to keep Johnson from a majority. And the results could just as easily be over the predicted 368 seats as under. A few posts on the Town Hall thread on the election mentioned Conservatives picking up Labour seats.
Even more interesting, with the Scottish Nationalists winning 55 votes and Brexit likely -- finally -- to take place next year, we may see another referendum on Scottish independence, and it may succeed. This would make it even harder for Labour in the future.
It would be better if Johnson had a better grasp of the toxicity of political correctness and multiculturalism combined together. But who aside from (presumably) a few pundits does?
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Post by timothylane on Dec 13, 2019 9:03:10 GMT -8
It appears that the final results are a tad better for Labour, but still their worst performance since 1935. The Tories won 364 seats, Labour 203, the Scottish Nationalists 48, and the Liberal Democrats 11. Nigel Farage's Brexiteers were skunked, and I haven't seen how many seats the other parties got. I'm sure the Welsh and Ulster parties got a few; 24 seats either hadn't yet been resolved or were won by others.
Callooh, callay! (Well, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a Tory, and maybe even an MP from Oxford, so this seems an especially appropriate response.)
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 13, 2019 15:52:51 GMT -8
It appears the Tories have a clear majority of 80 seats, which is very large. Johnson is clearly in the driver's seat, so it will be interesting to see what he does. I have the feeling that he will soften the terms of the eventual Brexit which takes place.
Mark Steyn, who worked for Johnson in the newspaper business, called him an "unprincipled opportunist", and Steyn seems to like Boris. I don't think we should expect too much.
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Post by timothylane on Dec 13, 2019 17:38:41 GMT -8
It's amazing how many similarities there are between Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. We'll find out next year just how many.
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Post by artraveler on Dec 13, 2019 20:26:29 GMT -8
I wonder what kind of a trade deal the Trump administration has thought up? The UK freed of the restrictions of the EU could become a forth partner in the USMCA (USUKMCA)? Any agreement that skewers the EU is a positive in my view. More importantly as the economy continues to improve it will life all boats in countries that deal fairly with us. I could see possible agreements with Australia, New Zealand, Japan, S Korea, India, Poland, and Israel coming quickly on a UK agreement.
That thought brings a massive amount of political pressure on those left out, Russia, China N Korea, and all the Moslem countries. Economics is a massive gun if used correctly and I think President Trump has a handle on it.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 13, 2019 20:55:50 GMT -8
I have long been a proponent of an English Speaking economic trade block of some sort. I don't necessarily want something like the EU, but agreements which gave those in the trade block special tariffs or deals would be fine by me.
Your list of countries is close to what I have in mind, although I am not completely sure about S. Korea. Given the reality of geopolitics and history, we would probably have to include it.
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Post by artraveler on Dec 13, 2019 23:00:55 GMT -8
The one universal is trade, it crosses all borders and cultures, makes friends and enemies, but knows no racial or cultural differences. I think it was Harding who said, "the business of America is business". It seems to me that DJT is following in those footsteps. I was not as quick to come to Trump as others, but what convinced me was his speech in Detroit to a mostly Black audience and he told them right up that Democrats were only keeping them on the plantation. He said, "after all these years and disappointment, what do you have to lose?" No republican in my memory has ever done that. A billionaire white republican with Jewish grandchildren is breaking up the stranglehold democrats have on Black voters--amazing.
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