From the link:We know they think this is of us, good to hear them say it.
Our friend BM would probably inform us that it is not kosher to bring up the contempt that many progs/libs/Demos have for us wingnuts. We should ignore it and turn the other cheek, like Dubya, McCain, Mitt etc.
🙂
About today’s video– FWIW, the Japan Times recently published a review of a 2021 film (titled Whole) about two biracial Japanese men who become friends. Bilal Kawazoe, the filmmaker, is of Japanese and Pakistani heritage. He is quoted as follows: “This is something you don’t see on TV or in Japanese films,” Kawazoe says. “It may seem overdramatic, but there are people, not very visible in this society, who really go through these things, and that’s something we wanted to show because we felt that it’s not always rainbows and butterflies for people who have mixed heritage in Japan.” The film offers no pat conclusion, no simple uplifting message. “There is no one answer to the question of your identity and your place,” Kawazoe says. “Every mixed-race person goes through different experiences and everyone has their own way of finding their identity.
“The film is not saying, ‘Hey, this is the answer’; it shows the journey of two people. We hope that it would give insights to those who are struggling or to those who just don’t understand what it’s like to be different in a homogeneous society.”
While the film is not about half black/half Japanese people in particular, it does raise the larger question of mixed race identity in Japan. Trailer with English subtitles embedded at the link.
FWIW, a Japanese friend of mine says that the marital status of a mixed race person’s parents also makes a difference– illegitimacy still carries a heavy stigma in Japan. Thus a mixed race person born to a single mother has an additional social burden to carry.
So,
1) USA: +1, other country: 0.
2) they’re all 1/2 black.
I was fascinated seeing the typical head-bobbing mannerisms of a Japanese woman in the first subject. Thanks for linking it.
So what’s it going to be? Fighting inflation or recession.
The government is spending money like a drunk politician, and the Fed signals that the good times are over.
Wall St didn’t like that message.
What’s the chance Powell has the guts to carry out his threat?
The video was interesting. It sounds like most of these mixed race kids are from single mothers.
If physicsguy is around, he might be interested in this indication that COVID is really over– Big Pharma’s internal lawsuits are starting to fly: “Now that the vaccine race is over and shots are broadly available, Moderna has filed suit against Pfizer and BioNTech, claiming they infringed on Moderna’s mRNA patents from 2010-2016. Moderna, a Massachusetts-based firm, filed suit against New York-based Pfizer and BioNTech in Düsseldorf, Germany, related to the firms’ joint Comirnaty vaccine and its similarities to Moderna’s Spikevax. . . . Derek Lowe notes in Science that there is ‘almost never an example of a breakthrough biopharma technology that does not end up setting off a flurry of patent lawsuits.’ Moderna had to license an RNA modification, after initially claiming it had invented its own. Lowe also notes that Moderna is currently being sued by two other companies claiming that their own lipid nanoparticle patents were infringed.”
The young woman states that she’s half Japanese and half black.
Then states, “since my roots are black”… yet lived with her mother in Japan from 5 till college.
Not neither one nor the other
or both
But rather that she embraces her blackness, while dismissing her japanese side.
I wonder if she went to live in Africa, if most africans would agree that her roots are black.
And of course Obama did the same thing.
Geoffrey Britain:
I didn’t interpret that as her saying her roots are ONLY black, just that they are black as well as Japanese and she was trying to familiarize herself with her black roots since she had already been so rooted in Japan and had barely known about her black relatives till she visited.
And of course Obama did the same thing.
Obama had no particular connection to the domestic black population in this country. When Gov. Blagojevic said “I’m blacker than Obama”, he was telling the truth. There aren’t many blacks on Oahu and his grandfather’s one black friend was a rather eccentric fellow, very unlike rank and file blacks in Chicago or South Carolina.
And, of course, he knew his father primarily through the eyes of Ann Dunham and Neil Abercrombie, neither of whom were familiar with the Luo matrix in which his father had been reared. He spent five weeks with the man in 1971 and was ready to see the back of him by the end of that time. Compare Theodore Dalrymple’s accounts of how Africans he’s known look upon family obligation and Obama’s treatment of fairly proximate paternal-side relatives living in the United States.
A bisexual stalinist, yes I would call that eccentric, before I knew about his complex upbringing I thought he might have been beneficial to urban youth aspiration, but he absorbed a smorgasbord of leftists influences from every sans his stepfather who was an army officer and small businessman
Re recent cellphone thread:
FWIW, I’ve been using conservative company Patriot Mobile for 2+ years, without problems. Customer service has been responsive and US-based. They have discounts for military, first responders and NRA members.
Good times. I lived in Japan for 7 years. If you’re white you still get discriminated against. But if you’re bold enough you just power through.
Motteru
????
English: Have
It means a lot more than just have. No words translate/transliterate one-for-one. It means basically having the right stuff. Somebody looks at you and knows they’re dealing with someone of substance. Maybe not at first. But they come to realize it.
This next few bits may sound like a brag. But it’s nothing anyone who has made it through armed services accessions training can’t say. Just don’t quit.
I somehow fumbled my way through a social network I knew nothing about to a guy who owned a bar (nothing mysterious about that) who played on a corporate rugby team.
Now, who wants a rugby player who folds into the fetal position and cries? They extend practice in the Tokyo summer from 4 to 5 to 8 hours. It’s starting to dawn on them that there is something seriously wrong with the white guy they let on the practice field. Let’s face it. If you play Rugby there is something wrong with you.
I never let them know that my screen saver was a picture of Helldivers over burning Japanese carriers. That wouldn’t have helped my case.
You probably are excited about the advent of “Organic Cricket Flour”. It’s produced in Canada, used in some salty snacks and kid’s school lunches. Best of all, if you eat crickets, you’ll eat less beef and the oceans won’t boil!
Now you can be excited by yet another product that normalizes consumption of … well … bugs. https://uncanceled.news/cockroach-milk-touted-by-scientists-as-over-three-times-more-nutritious-than-cows-milk/
Cockroach Milk Touted by Scientists as “Over Three Times More Nutritious” Than Cow’s Milk
re: Americans stranded when Afghanistan fell.
There were a ton of desperate people hoping for help in getting out including, iirc an entire school class on a visit (who vouched to the school and parents that the kids would be safe???).
In a recent interview I watched, the interviewee asked if the MSM had printed any stories about Americans getting back safely. Personally, I don’t recall any. Probably some, many, most got back. But I don’t recall any stories. Certainly not failure stories but even personal interest stories of what the people felt and what they went through. I would assume this is to avoid upsetting a Dem Agenda but perhaps I am not being fair.
According to glenn beck who used his own money to exfil vetted people out of afghanistan many are still stranded in third countries like uzbekistan because state wont grant exit papers
Maybe less focus on pronouns
https://mobile.twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1563396758847516678?cxt=HHwWjMDT4bTEprIrAAAA
https://mobile.twitter.com/karol/status/1563547597469429762?cxt=HHwWhMClibCQ67IrAAAA
Here’s a bit of bizarre choreography:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uepv9VduQG4
Miguel cervantes on August 27, 2022 at 12:56 pm
From the link:We know they think this is of us, good to hear them say it.
Our friend BM would probably inform us that it is not kosher to bring up the contempt that many progs/libs/Demos have for us wingnuts. We should ignore it and turn the other cheek, like Dubya, McCain, Mitt etc.
🙂
About today’s video– FWIW, the Japan Times recently published a review of a 2021 film (titled Whole) about two biracial Japanese men who become friends. Bilal Kawazoe, the filmmaker, is of Japanese and Pakistani heritage. He is quoted as follows: “This is something you don’t see on TV or in Japanese films,” Kawazoe says. “It may seem overdramatic, but there are people, not very visible in this society, who really go through these things, and that’s something we wanted to show because we felt that it’s not always rainbows and butterflies for people who have mixed heritage in Japan.” The film offers no pat conclusion, no simple uplifting message. “There is no one answer to the question of your identity and your place,” Kawazoe says. “Every mixed-race person goes through different experiences and everyone has their own way of finding their identity.
“The film is not saying, ‘Hey, this is the answer’; it shows the journey of two people. We hope that it would give insights to those who are struggling or to those who just don’t understand what it’s like to be different in a homogeneous society.”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2021/09/30/films/bilal-kawazoe-whole/
While the film is not about half black/half Japanese people in particular, it does raise the larger question of mixed race identity in Japan. Trailer with English subtitles embedded at the link.
FWIW, a Japanese friend of mine says that the marital status of a mixed race person’s parents also makes a difference– illegitimacy still carries a heavy stigma in Japan. Thus a mixed race person born to a single mother has an additional social burden to carry.
So,
1) USA: +1, other country: 0.
2) they’re all 1/2 black.
I was fascinated seeing the typical head-bobbing mannerisms of a Japanese woman in the first subject. Thanks for linking it.
So what’s it going to be? Fighting inflation or recession.
The government is spending money like a drunk politician, and the Fed signals that the good times are over.
Wall St didn’t like that message.
What’s the chance Powell has the guts to carry out his threat?
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/08/27/fed-chair-powell-speaks-the-truth-and-the-dow-plummets-1000-points-n1624657
As a kicker, Powell earlier said the deficit spending is unsustainable. Really?
Better arrange a meeting with Biden. He didn’t get the memo.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/fed-chair-jerome-powell-says-government-debt-unsustainable-path-economy-shrinking/
The video was interesting. It sounds like most of these mixed race kids are from single mothers.
If physicsguy is around, he might be interested in this indication that COVID is really over– Big Pharma’s internal lawsuits are starting to fly: “Now that the vaccine race is over and shots are broadly available, Moderna has filed suit against Pfizer and BioNTech, claiming they infringed on Moderna’s mRNA patents from 2010-2016. Moderna, a Massachusetts-based firm, filed suit against New York-based Pfizer and BioNTech in Düsseldorf, Germany, related to the firms’ joint Comirnaty vaccine and its similarities to Moderna’s Spikevax. . . . Derek Lowe notes in Science that there is ‘almost never an example of a breakthrough biopharma technology that does not end up setting off a flurry of patent lawsuits.’ Moderna had to license an RNA modification, after initially claiming it had invented its own. Lowe also notes that Moderna is currently being sued by two other companies claiming that their own lipid nanoparticle patents were infringed.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/moderna-sues-pfizer-biontech-over-mrna-patents-but-vaccines-are-safe/
The young woman states that she’s half Japanese and half black.
Then states, “since my roots are black”… yet lived with her mother in Japan from 5 till college.
Not neither one nor the other
or both
But rather that she embraces her blackness, while dismissing her japanese side.
I wonder if she went to live in Africa, if most africans would agree that her roots are black.
And of course Obama did the same thing.
Geoffrey Britain:
I didn’t interpret that as her saying her roots are ONLY black, just that they are black as well as Japanese and she was trying to familiarize herself with her black roots since she had already been so rooted in Japan and had barely known about her black relatives till she visited.
And of course Obama did the same thing.
Obama had no particular connection to the domestic black population in this country. When Gov. Blagojevic said “I’m blacker than Obama”, he was telling the truth. There aren’t many blacks on Oahu and his grandfather’s one black friend was a rather eccentric fellow, very unlike rank and file blacks in Chicago or South Carolina.
And, of course, he knew his father primarily through the eyes of Ann Dunham and Neil Abercrombie, neither of whom were familiar with the Luo matrix in which his father had been reared. He spent five weeks with the man in 1971 and was ready to see the back of him by the end of that time. Compare Theodore Dalrymple’s accounts of how Africans he’s known look upon family obligation and Obama’s treatment of fairly proximate paternal-side relatives living in the United States.
A bisexual stalinist, yes I would call that eccentric, before I knew about his complex upbringing I thought he might have been beneficial to urban youth aspiration, but he absorbed a smorgasbord of leftists influences from every sans his stepfather who was an army officer and small businessman
sure she will render an honest assessment,
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11152669/Intelligence-chief-assess-potential-national-security-risks-posed-byMar-Lago-documents.html
Re recent cellphone thread:
FWIW, I’ve been using conservative company Patriot Mobile for 2+ years, without problems. Customer service has been responsive and US-based. They have discounts for military, first responders and NRA members.
Good times. I lived in Japan for 7 years. If you’re white you still get discriminated against. But if you’re bold enough you just power through.
Motteru
????
English: Have
It means a lot more than just have. No words translate/transliterate one-for-one. It means basically having the right stuff. Somebody looks at you and knows they’re dealing with someone of substance. Maybe not at first. But they come to realize it.
This next few bits may sound like a brag. But it’s nothing anyone who has made it through armed services accessions training can’t say. Just don’t quit.
I somehow fumbled my way through a social network I knew nothing about to a guy who owned a bar (nothing mysterious about that) who played on a corporate rugby team.
https://www.enfsolar.com/nippon-avionics
Now, who wants a rugby player who folds into the fetal position and cries? They extend practice in the Tokyo summer from 4 to 5 to 8 hours. It’s starting to dawn on them that there is something seriously wrong with the white guy they let on the practice field. Let’s face it. If you play Rugby there is something wrong with you.
I never let them know that my screen saver was a picture of Helldivers over burning Japanese carriers. That wouldn’t have helped my case.
https://sep.yimg.com/ay/airplanepictures/midway-the-attack-on-the-soryu-by-anthony-saunders-sbd-dauntless-2.jpg
You probably are excited about the advent of “Organic Cricket Flour”. It’s produced in Canada, used in some salty snacks and kid’s school lunches. Best of all, if you eat crickets, you’ll eat less beef and the oceans won’t boil!
Now you can be excited by yet another product that normalizes consumption of … well … bugs.
https://uncanceled.news/cockroach-milk-touted-by-scientists-as-over-three-times-more-nutritious-than-cows-milk/
Cockroach Milk Touted by Scientists as “Over Three Times More Nutritious” Than Cow’s Milk
hmm
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/08/28/damning-info-in-trump-affidavit-that-raises-even-more-questions-about-fbi-doj-action-n619067
the same crew that enabled this
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/08/28/he-murdered-these-people-documentary-claims-us-colonel-blocked-busloads-of-americans-trying-to-flee-afghanistan-n619028
re: Americans stranded when Afghanistan fell.
There were a ton of desperate people hoping for help in getting out including, iirc an entire school class on a visit (who vouched to the school and parents that the kids would be safe???).
In a recent interview I watched, the interviewee asked if the MSM had printed any stories about Americans getting back safely. Personally, I don’t recall any. Probably some, many, most got back. But I don’t recall any stories. Certainly not failure stories but even personal interest stories of what the people felt and what they went through. I would assume this is to avoid upsetting a Dem Agenda but perhaps I am not being fair.
According to glenn beck who used his own money to exfil vetted people out of afghanistan many are still stranded in third countries like uzbekistan because state wont grant exit papers
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2022/08/27/that-mushroom-cloud-you-see-is-another-trump-media-narrative-exploding-before-your-eyes-n1624712