Bravo!!! Award that dog a Grammy for best performance.
This was one of the comments on YouTube: “25 years playing the violin. 4 years at Juilliard. 12 years as first chair. And the dog is the one that gets the applause; for laying down.”
I’ve tried a couple times to access Amazon through your link, but it doesn’t appear in my Chrome browser. Instead of the link there is the page with a frown.
Sharon W:
I just tried it and didn’t have any problem on Chrome. I’m not sure what’s going on with your computer. Make sure you don’t have an ad blocker on for my site. Or try a different browser? Other than that, I just don’t know.
I appreciate the effort, though.
NEO – Something totally off the wall. Have ever done or consider doing an interview with a podcaster like Viva Frei? I know you like to conceal your identity. But I believe that you are becoming an influencer as the size of the audience grows.
John McWhorter has an awesome, new piece on Substack. McWhorter takes anti-racism to task not just for being wrong and toxic, but ultimately deeply damaging to blacks. He provides facts and insights I’ve not seen elsewhere. Heartbreaking.
____________________________________________
In 1987, a rich donor in Philadelphia “adopted” 112 black sixth graders, few of whom had grown up with fathers in their home. He guaranteed them a fully-funded education through college as long as they did not do drugs, have children before getting married, or commit crimes. He also gave them tutors, workshops, after-school programs, kept them busy in summer programs, and provided them with counselors for when they had any kind of problem.
45 never made it through high school. Of the 67 boys, 19 became felons. Twelve years later, the 45 girls had had 63 children, and more than half had become mothers before the age of 18.
So what exactly was the “racism” that held these poor kids back that could have been erased at the time and created a different result for these children? The answer is none. Social history is too complex to yield to the either-or gestures of KenDiAngelonian propositions. What held those poor kids back was that they had been raised amidst a different sense of what is normal than white kids in the ‘burbs.
Hello Neo,
I am directing this note to you after you have commented lately on the Bee Gees and the Everly Brothers and their wonderful, seemingly natural gift for singing in harmony. I thought you might find these links of interest.
First, there is a very interesting video on YouTube that drills deeply into Steely Dan’s making of the masterful album Aja: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjRisxOHAE4 – at 17:30 you hear Michael McDonald describe how Becker & Fagen had him lay down tracks on top of each other resulting in his voice singing chords in the background vocals of “Peg”. McDonald says how challenging it was to sing each take so very close to the previous track and differentiate the tone.
Second, I greatly enjoyed the early Eagles before Bernie Leadon left the group and the band’s music evolved from a heavily acoustic country-oriented sound into guitar-oriented stadium rock. The boys covered a great Gene Clark song “Train Leaves Here This Morning” on their first album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aS7370jLc – This cut contains wonderful unison singing. I use the word “unison” because to my ear, the backing voices (Leadon is singing the lead) do not separate by thirds or sixths to sing harmonically, they appear to all sing the same notes together. In any event, the voices together are very pleasant to my ear.
I hope you enjoy the links, have a great day!
McWhorter continues by linking black welfare culture to the Cloward-Piven program of the New Left:
___________________________________________________
That is, yes, another way of saying “culture,” and the sky will not fall in to say so. Those cultural factors can certainly be traced to racism in the past, such as dehumanization leading a people to see themselves as separate from the norms of their surrounding society. Or, less comfortable to point out – black people in the late sixties encouraged by white Marxists to sign up for welfare payments they didn’t previously think they needed, out of an idea that this would cause the collapse of the economy and force a restart. In the wake of this, future generations of poor black people came to think of it as a normal choice to not work for a living. Not that this was the choice anything like everyone made in poor black communities – but only after this hard leftist drive to make as many black people sign up for welfare as possible did it become one of many norms in poor black communities to not work 9 to 5, whether you were a man or a woman. Even poor black people before about 1966 would have seen the norm afterwards as bizarre.
Whew! Yes, I know that sounds like I am making it up, but it is simple fact, and I must refer you to, well, sources like my Winning the Race for presentation of the details. I can tell you in full confidence that so very much of what perplexes many readers here traces to what these supremely effective Marxists accomplished via the National Welfare Rights Organization in the late 1960s – do look up the NWRO.:
Scott:
Thanks. I don’t have time to look now, but I plan to later.
By the way, although I can’t find the interview now, I read an interview with someone who worked on the technical end of the Bee Gees’ records and he said that Barry in particular could lay down enormous numbers of tracks that matched exactly in terms of phrasing and timing, breaths and inflections. It was uncanny what absolute control he had over his voice.
Hello Neo – yes, no one can express doubt about Barry Gibb’s talent as a vocalist. I love the stories about artists who go into the studio and just nail it. I once read studio hands used to jokingly call Karen Carpenter “Two Take Karen” because that was the absolute most she ever required. I have a life-long fascination with session players – these super-talented people could do what you describe Barry Gibb doing with his voice on their particular instrument every time they took it out of the case. Dead on first take – or you didn’t get called back.
Huxley, thank you for pointing me in the direction of the acquitted essay. It was excellent!
For acquitted, please read McWhorter.
Here is some seemingly bad news out of the 9th Circuit Court that can be interpreted as good news.
The previous 3-judge panel struck down the ban on open carry. Before that the 9th Circuit had forbade shall-issue conceal and carry licensing. The Heller decision required some form of carry at the discretion of the law abiding citizen. Since “shall-issue” was already banned, the 3-judge panel stated that open carry must be allowed.
Now with this en banc ruling, citizens of Hawaii and CA have no rights to carry in any form, except at the pleasure of bureaucrats.
What’s the good news? Some feared that the en banc ruling could have been delayed for years. Now on to the Supreme Court.
TommyJay:
Crazy Maize can sleep peaceably now, safe from those dangerous, armed, white males.
om,
The en banc decision went back to firearm regulation under King George, as though the U.S. Constitution were a mere suggestive modification of British common law. So I guess some armed white males, i.e. King George, need to be respected.
I prefer Hazy Mazie.
SCOTTtheBADGER:
Yes, I thought the McWhorter piece was one of the best I’ve read in a while. Glad you appreciated it.
I followed a link to a glass-half-full article on the Belmont 112 students in my first comment:
While it was disappointing that so many of the sponsored students fell into the pitfalls of street life, there were also many who succeeded in staying the course. Twice as many of them got diplomas from high school, community college and four-year college than others in their demographic.
So, it’s a bad news/good news situation.
Hello. There’s some interesting shipping news.
1) The Soo Locks have opened for the season! Hooray!
2) A huge container ship has run aground in the Suez Canal, jamming up all commercial through traffic. The shipping pile-ups on either end are really impressive. There are even some of what I take to be other Asia-bound vessels stuck in the lake in the middle waiting for the tugs or some other method to clear the situation. Will be interesting to see what this does to European fuel prices in the next few days.
@Philip Sells:
Do you spend all day glued to the Duluth Harbor Cam channel?
I don’t… but it’s in my subscription feed along with Virtual Rail Fan. The internet may be driving us all more insane by bringing us more together than we should be, but there’s still something special about a virtual window into everyday happenings in another place far away.
Zaphod – not generally, no 🙂 But I’ve taken an interest in Great Lakes shipping in particular for the last couple of years. I was surprised to have become a bit of a boat nerd at this stage in my life, but it seems to have happened. (Trains can certainly be similar – witness all the train review videos I’ve been looking at lately.)
The Duluth Harbor Lookout site is a favorite of mine because it shows the cargo involved.
There’s even a couple of live cams directed at the Iceland volcano.
@PS:
In that case I’m off to look for the volcano cam.
SpaceX feeds are good. If Ayn Rand were still alive, Elon Musk would have completed his Mars Colony already just to get away from her stalking. Not that Musk’s taste in women is all that good… hopefully there are some tattooed, pierced Cluster B Martians yet to be discovered living in caverns.
I don’t know much about Great Lakes vessels but their form follows function look is very different and it’s interesting how old some of them are. And there’s SS Badger which is coal-fired. Hopefully they can keep the EPA off her case.
The first clear step in the direction everyone knew the left always intended to go:
I read most of the McWhorter excerpt #5, and was curious about the precise definition of “The Elect.” That is answered near the bottom of excerpt #2 in the section entitled: WHAT TO CALL THEM.
The over simplified answer is that The Elect are those that elect themselves to be Grand (or not-so-grand) Inquisitors. His point is to avoid pejorative slapping the followers of the left leaders in a way that shuts down consideration. Instead, invite them to consider why they are sitting in judgement of others when perfect equality for everyone is the goal.
Zaphod,
The Montana Daily Gazette article is incredible. It’s a pity that they didn’t a little more info. on who all those federal agents were and who’s orders they were were following.
TommyJay:
Decades ago Thomas Sowell called them “the anointed.”
Sharon W.,
I mostly avoid Chrome but have noticed with other browser(s) that using Private or Incognito windows prevents the link from working.
Firefox works for me.
“He’s embedded it after his own intro so it might take them another day or so to catch it and delete it.” – Zaphod
So, I copy-pasted the auto-transcript and saved it. Maybe I’ll check back in a couple of days to see how long it takes the Terminator Bots to do their thing.
The poster’s prologue (“Coach Red Pill” is his nom) gives added value to the American Mind podcast.
Milquetoast perhaps, but served in the Café Apocalyptic.
Or maybe, “Flight 93: The Sequel” – now playing at a theater near you.
Getting minds thinking is the first step to getting feet moving.
On-going check of Coach Red Pill’s post from American Mind “The Ruling Class Strikes Back” to see how long it takes YouTube to cancel it:
Still up as of:
3/27 evening
3/30 evening
4/2 evening
Still up – I guess he has slipped by under the radar of the conservative cancellation cabal, at least so far.
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Bravo!!! Award that dog a Grammy for best performance.
This was one of the comments on YouTube: “25 years playing the violin. 4 years at Juilliard. 12 years as first chair. And the dog is the one that gets the applause; for laying down.”
I’ve tried a couple times to access Amazon through your link, but it doesn’t appear in my Chrome browser. Instead of the link there is the page with a frown.
Sharon W:
I just tried it and didn’t have any problem on Chrome. I’m not sure what’s going on with your computer. Make sure you don’t have an ad blocker on for my site. Or try a different browser? Other than that, I just don’t know.
I appreciate the effort, though.
NEO – Something totally off the wall. Have ever done or consider doing an interview with a podcaster like Viva Frei? I know you like to conceal your identity. But I believe that you are becoming an influencer as the size of the audience grows.
John McWhorter has an awesome, new piece on Substack. McWhorter takes anti-racism to task not just for being wrong and toxic, but ultimately deeply damaging to blacks. He provides facts and insights I’ve not seen elsewhere. Heartbreaking.
____________________________________________
In 1987, a rich donor in Philadelphia “adopted” 112 black sixth graders, few of whom had grown up with fathers in their home. He guaranteed them a fully-funded education through college as long as they did not do drugs, have children before getting married, or commit crimes. He also gave them tutors, workshops, after-school programs, kept them busy in summer programs, and provided them with counselors for when they had any kind of problem.
45 never made it through high school. Of the 67 boys, 19 became felons. Twelve years later, the 45 girls had had 63 children, and more than half had become mothers before the age of 18.
So what exactly was the “racism” that held these poor kids back that could have been erased at the time and created a different result for these children? The answer is none. Social history is too complex to yield to the either-or gestures of KenDiAngelonian propositions. What held those poor kids back was that they had been raised amidst a different sense of what is normal than white kids in the ‘burbs.
–“THE ELECT: THE THREAT TO A PROGRESSIVE AMERICA FROM ANTI-BLACK ANTIRACISTS
Serial excerpt No. 5: Why it won’t do to admit this is a religion and “own” it – The Elect harbor a religion that harms black people in countless ways.”
https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/the-elect-the-threat-to-a-progressive-598
Hello Neo,
I am directing this note to you after you have commented lately on the Bee Gees and the Everly Brothers and their wonderful, seemingly natural gift for singing in harmony. I thought you might find these links of interest.
First, there is a very interesting video on YouTube that drills deeply into Steely Dan’s making of the masterful album Aja: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjRisxOHAE4 – at 17:30 you hear Michael McDonald describe how Becker & Fagen had him lay down tracks on top of each other resulting in his voice singing chords in the background vocals of “Peg”. McDonald says how challenging it was to sing each take so very close to the previous track and differentiate the tone.
Second, I greatly enjoyed the early Eagles before Bernie Leadon left the group and the band’s music evolved from a heavily acoustic country-oriented sound into guitar-oriented stadium rock. The boys covered a great Gene Clark song “Train Leaves Here This Morning” on their first album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aS7370jLc – This cut contains wonderful unison singing. I use the word “unison” because to my ear, the backing voices (Leadon is singing the lead) do not separate by thirds or sixths to sing harmonically, they appear to all sing the same notes together. In any event, the voices together are very pleasant to my ear.
I hope you enjoy the links, have a great day!
McWhorter continues by linking black welfare culture to the Cloward-Piven program of the New Left:
___________________________________________________
That is, yes, another way of saying “culture,” and the sky will not fall in to say so. Those cultural factors can certainly be traced to racism in the past, such as dehumanization leading a people to see themselves as separate from the norms of their surrounding society. Or, less comfortable to point out – black people in the late sixties encouraged by white Marxists to sign up for welfare payments they didn’t previously think they needed, out of an idea that this would cause the collapse of the economy and force a restart. In the wake of this, future generations of poor black people came to think of it as a normal choice to not work for a living. Not that this was the choice anything like everyone made in poor black communities – but only after this hard leftist drive to make as many black people sign up for welfare as possible did it become one of many norms in poor black communities to not work 9 to 5, whether you were a man or a woman. Even poor black people before about 1966 would have seen the norm afterwards as bizarre.
Whew! Yes, I know that sounds like I am making it up, but it is simple fact, and I must refer you to, well, sources like my Winning the Race for presentation of the details. I can tell you in full confidence that so very much of what perplexes many readers here traces to what these supremely effective Marxists accomplished via the National Welfare Rights Organization in the late 1960s – do look up the NWRO.:
Scott:
Thanks. I don’t have time to look now, but I plan to later.
By the way, although I can’t find the interview now, I read an interview with someone who worked on the technical end of the Bee Gees’ records and he said that Barry in particular could lay down enormous numbers of tracks that matched exactly in terms of phrasing and timing, breaths and inflections. It was uncanny what absolute control he had over his voice.
Hello Neo – yes, no one can express doubt about Barry Gibb’s talent as a vocalist. I love the stories about artists who go into the studio and just nail it. I once read studio hands used to jokingly call Karen Carpenter “Two Take Karen” because that was the absolute most she ever required. I have a life-long fascination with session players – these super-talented people could do what you describe Barry Gibb doing with his voice on their particular instrument every time they took it out of the case. Dead on first take – or you didn’t get called back.
Huxley, thank you for pointing me in the direction of the acquitted essay. It was excellent!
For acquitted, please read McWhorter.
Here is some seemingly bad news out of the 9th Circuit Court that can be interpreted as good news.
Ninth Circuit En Banc Ruling Upholds Hawaii’s Ban On Open Carry
The previous 3-judge panel struck down the ban on open carry. Before that the 9th Circuit had forbade shall-issue conceal and carry licensing. The Heller decision required some form of carry at the discretion of the law abiding citizen. Since “shall-issue” was already banned, the 3-judge panel stated that open carry must be allowed.
Now with this en banc ruling, citizens of Hawaii and CA have no rights to carry in any form, except at the pleasure of bureaucrats.
What’s the good news? Some feared that the en banc ruling could have been delayed for years. Now on to the Supreme Court.
TommyJay:
Crazy Maize can sleep peaceably now, safe from those dangerous, armed, white males.
om,
The en banc decision went back to firearm regulation under King George, as though the U.S. Constitution were a mere suggestive modification of British common law. So I guess some armed white males, i.e. King George, need to be respected.
I prefer Hazy Mazie.
SCOTTtheBADGER:
Yes, I thought the McWhorter piece was one of the best I’ve read in a while. Glad you appreciated it.
I followed a link to a glass-half-full article on the Belmont 112 students in my first comment:
http://www.inquirer.com/philly/education/2007TheBelmont112TwentyYearsLater.html
While it was disappointing that so many of the sponsored students fell into the pitfalls of street life, there were also many who succeeded in staying the course. Twice as many of them got diplomas from high school, community college and four-year college than others in their demographic.
So, it’s a bad news/good news situation.
Hello. There’s some interesting shipping news.
1) The Soo Locks have opened for the season! Hooray!
2) A huge container ship has run aground in the Suez Canal, jamming up all commercial through traffic. The shipping pile-ups on either end are really impressive. There are even some of what I take to be other Asia-bound vessels stuck in the lake in the middle waiting for the tugs or some other method to clear the situation. Will be interesting to see what this does to European fuel prices in the next few days.
@Philip Sells:
Do you spend all day glued to the Duluth Harbor Cam channel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ1-DNvf8BQ
I don’t… but it’s in my subscription feed along with Virtual Rail Fan. The internet may be driving us all more insane by bringing us more together than we should be, but there’s still something special about a virtual window into everyday happenings in another place far away.
Zaphod – not generally, no 🙂 But I’ve taken an interest in Great Lakes shipping in particular for the last couple of years. I was surprised to have become a bit of a boat nerd at this stage in my life, but it seems to have happened. (Trains can certainly be similar – witness all the train review videos I’ve been looking at lately.)
The Duluth Harbor Lookout site is a favorite of mine because it shows the cargo involved.
There’s even a couple of live cams directed at the Iceland volcano.
@PS:
In that case I’m off to look for the volcano cam.
SpaceX feeds are good. If Ayn Rand were still alive, Elon Musk would have completed his Mars Colony already just to get away from her stalking. Not that Musk’s taste in women is all that good… hopefully there are some tattooed, pierced Cluster B Martians yet to be discovered living in caverns.
I don’t know much about Great Lakes vessels but their form follows function look is very different and it’s interesting how old some of them are. And there’s SS Badger which is coal-fired. Hopefully they can keep the EPA off her case.
The first clear step in the direction everyone knew the left always intended to go:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2021/03/23/biden-administration-urges-supreme-court-to-let-cops-enter-homes-and-seize-guns-without-a-warrant/?sh=4814bd212829
@Philip Sells:
Have you seen the Japanese Imperial Train before on EvilTube? It’s really something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRYjiUB50wU
Here’s the now abdicated Heisei Emperor slumming it on the Shinkansen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYHIdsy2_dE
Highly recommended listening from the American Mind podcast (Claremont Institute):
The Ruling Class Strikes Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_lRh5TrCp0
Bit Milquetoast if you ask me, but good Normie Bait to get them thinking (we hope).
Zaphod: The Ruling Class Strikes Back indeed — it’s been removed from Eviltube for violating their “standards”….
@Nancy B:
Thanks for the heads up.
Well that was quick! Went out for a bike ride, came back, showered and it’s gone!
It’s still here on this guy’s channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0H_V96EkE0
He’s embedded it after his own intro so it might take them another day or so to catch it and delete it.
^^^— But all of this makes sense when you live in a country like this –>
https://montanadailygazette.com/2021/03/15/feds-confiscate-guns-in-flathead-valley-with-30-vehicles-three-tanks-and-helicopter/
I read most of the McWhorter excerpt #5, and was curious about the precise definition of “The Elect.” That is answered near the bottom of excerpt #2 in the section entitled: WHAT TO CALL THEM.
The over simplified answer is that The Elect are those that elect themselves to be Grand (or not-so-grand) Inquisitors. His point is to avoid pejorative slapping the followers of the left leaders in a way that shuts down consideration. Instead, invite them to consider why they are sitting in judgement of others when perfect equality for everyone is the goal.
Zaphod,
The Montana Daily Gazette article is incredible. It’s a pity that they didn’t a little more info. on who all those federal agents were and who’s orders they were were following.
TommyJay:
Decades ago Thomas Sowell called them “the anointed.”
Sharon W.,
I mostly avoid Chrome but have noticed with other browser(s) that using Private or Incognito windows prevents the link from working.
Firefox works for me.
“He’s embedded it after his own intro so it might take them another day or so to catch it and delete it.” – Zaphod
So, I copy-pasted the auto-transcript and saved it. Maybe I’ll check back in a couple of days to see how long it takes the Terminator Bots to do their thing.
The poster’s prologue (“Coach Red Pill” is his nom) gives added value to the American Mind podcast.
Milquetoast perhaps, but served in the Café Apocalyptic.
Or maybe, “Flight 93: The Sequel” – now playing at a theater near you.
Getting minds thinking is the first step to getting feet moving.
On-going check of Coach Red Pill’s post from American Mind “The Ruling Class Strikes Back” to see how long it takes YouTube to cancel it:
Still up as of:
3/27 evening
3/30 evening
4/2 evening
Still up – I guess he has slipped by under the radar of the conservative cancellation cabal, at least so far.