So now the left deranged mob is invading Churches. You think things won’t get worse, then they do. I really don’t want to see what is next.
And just how was Don Lemon there?
Using sign language, KOKO , if asked, could describe the Russian / Ukraine conflict far more intelligently than did Kamala “Cackling” Harris.
Come to think about it, KOKO could “speak” in far clearer and concise terms , than anything “The CACKLER” could say.
And speaking of The Cackler; she just purchased an $ 8.1 MILLION , OCEANFRONT home in Calif.
Please recall the numerous speeches she gave in which she spoke about rising sea levels due to global warming.
I will surmise her cooking stove uses big, bad, evil, methane producing natural gas.
But hey, she is just following the example of that other global warming advocate, barack HUSSEIN ocommie; he bought TWO ocean front homes; one in Hawaii and one in Martha’s Vineyard (yep, he just sold the latter).
His $ 8 million home in DC is not near the ocean. I will surmise he is hedging his bets in the event his Ocean front Hawaiian home gets inundated by rising sea levels.
OK, I just made that up; he had a DC home to be near the politically powerful folks he needs to be close too.
Perhaps the obama’s can jump aboard the private plane of Bill Gates and go visit the Cackler’s new home.
Ooops, forgot; Gates recently jumped off the global warming bandwagon and is now promoting nuclear and gas turbines to power his AI investments. Yep, no way now that the global warming folks will get within 100 miles of the traitor, Gates.
A couple of years ago I posted Heartsignals, a collection of songs referencing various types of communications media…letters, telegrams, telephone calls, etc. Today’s post does the same thing for modes of transportation, ranging from horses, mules, and wagons to cars, motorcycles, ships, airplanes, and rockets.
Our Anglican Church in Houston area has for the last 3 years placed a policeman near the entranceway of our church reception area and his vehicle is visible well before one needs to enter. Also many of the parishioners are packing. Not sure how the Don Lemon led crew would react if they attempted to enter our church.
Don Lemon and the leftists assumed that Minnesotans are sheep who don’t actually value their God-given rights.
Per a site I consulted, Koko actually weighed about 280#. Supposedly, this episode was broadcast in July of 1998. Francine Paterson had been working with Koko for about twenty-five years at that point.
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The Biden administration grappled with research suggesting natural immunity was more effective than COVID-19 vaccination shortly before federal vaccine mandates in 2021, admitting the rigor of the massive Israeli study and worrying it might undermine its promotion of one-size-fits-all vaccination, newly released emails show….
Essentially a metaphor for the entire coverup-of-a-coverup-of-a-coverup-ad-infinitum Democratic Party (and its merrye minions)….
(Gotta luv that “grappled” bit, OH yeah—guess one could say the same for “promotion”….)
@JohnTyler:Gates recently jumped off the global warming bandwagon…no way now that the global warming folks will get within 100 miles of the traitor
100% false. He has not changed his views on global warming at all. He is funding their causes just as he ever did. He does want to make money from powering AI though. He figures he can do both. He is not on our side, he is not our friend, he is not helping our team.
You always have to go back to the source on stuff like this because so many people lie about what other people say in order to advance their own narratives. Bolded words bolded in the original.
He still thinks global warming is a real problem which must be solved using your money while allowing him and his allies to profit. He says it nicer than that.
I know that some climate advocates will disagree with me, call me a hypocrite because of my own carbon footprint (which I fully offset with legitimate carbon credits), or see this as a sneaky way of arguing that we shouldn’t take climate change seriously.
To be clear: Climate change is a very important problem. It needs to be solved, along with other problems like malaria and malnutrition. Every tenth of a degree of heating that we prevent is hugely beneficial because a stable climate makes it easier to improve people’s lives.
I’ve been learning about warming—and investing billions in innovations to reduce it—for over 20 years. I work with scientists and innovators who are committed to preventing a climate disaster and making cheap, reliable clean energy available to everyone. Ten years ago, some of them joined me in creating Breakthrough Energy, an investment platform whose sole purpose is to accelerate clean energy innovation and deployment. We’ve supported more than 150 companies so far, many of which have blossomed into major businesses. We’re helping build a growing ecosystem of thousands of innovators working on every aspect of the problem.
Re: Koko & Mr. Rogers
Wonderful! Both were.
Mr. Rogers was quite brave, notwithstanding the presence of the trainer and Koko’s human-oriented upbringing. Apes from the chimpanzee on up are capable of seriously hurting a human.
I’ve been watching a lot of animal videos lately. It does strike me that people who are good at working with animals are really good at non-verbally communicating calmness and caring.
Mr. Rogers can do that in spades. And Koko could read it easily.
According to a post at the WORLD website by Joe Rigney, the protesters in Minneapolis entered as if they were worshippers, sat through the early part of the service, and then stood up and began shouting at the pastor and parishioners, including children. The presiding pastor asked them to leave, and they did not. The DOJ is investigating violations of the FACE Act.
So, reading just now about Denmark proposing an increased Arctic presence, it occurred to me that when an EU country says NATO, they mean, “with funding primarily from the USA.” Is Trumps goal, perhaps, to shift the necessary *US* NATO spending from their hemisphere to ours? In other words, we spend less protecting the EU, but use the savings, under NATO, to protect Greenland?
Having a major defense operation in Greenland would allow the US to exit NATO and still protect our eastern flank. Also enables a power pivot to the Arctic. With Canada cozying up to China this is crucial. Lots of advantages with this. Closer to home, and as you say, Jim, the money is spend in our hemisphere.
I wonder if the panic on the Euro’s part is really about the prospect of us leaving or substantially reducing our commitment to their continent.
Mark,
I’ve been in more than one Catholic mass with one or more uniformed policeman in attendance. Vandalism is even common in churches when services are not being held. I believe, statistically, Jewish synagogues have led U.S. statistics in religious vandalism for decades.
Don Lemon wasn’t very good when reading a teleprompter, but he’s even less creative when he has to come up with his own scripts.
UAP encounters. He describes two encounters. What were they?
That’s this 2m video with a lovely young Goth woman named Waifu Amelia. She “is now the mascot of UK nationalism and has gone viral after the UK panicked and took her game down.”
The final cutting scene sees Amelia on the throne like Elizabeth II, with the zinger “Get cracking lads,” instructing young men to fight for England once again, like before.
THEN “Love— Amelia” like a patriotic love letter cum call to almost arms. Brilliant and reachable meny times.
Michelle Obama has said that [she is mindful to avoid white owned businesses], + that other people should do that too.
…That is racist.
You are telling people to [not] do business with someone, because of: the [race] that they belong to, or by the color of their skin.
That is unfair.
I believe- The Democrats, or read that as- [most] Democrats if you like, are acting like cowards.
They are not being brave at all.
They let Michelle Obama And Barack Obama be as unfair, or as racist, as these two want to be, because the Democrats are afraid of telling the first Black president…B. Obama, and his wife, Michelle Obama, that their behavior is wrong.
I believe They won’t tell the Obamas that they are being bad, because the don’t want to look bad to their fellow Democrats.
You cannot boycott- white people owned businesses, or black people owned businesses, or any group’s businesses, and say that you’re doing it to help some other group of people. That is wrong.
Unfair boycotts of businesses is unfairness.
The people of The United States are against all forms of unfairness and discrimination, and Mr. Obama and Ms. Obama need to be held accountable, and told, when they are being racist or unfair to others.
The United States’ people stand for being fair to everyone, and not just being fair to the people that the Obamas favor.
I believe that the Obamas need to be told that their actions are wrong.
Please look for other people for political guidance, and not to the Obamas.
That video is really well done!
“Surely you can handle welfare tourists.”
I love the story behind it, how some enterprising youth took a character from a preachy educational game meant to make them feel shameful for being patriotic and made her an emblem of the St. George flag movement.
Just to clarify my idea:
You cannot boycott- white people owned businesses, or black people owned businesses, or [boycott or be unfair] to anyone or their business…their business as in- their company, because of: their racial group, or for the color of their skin, or their ethnicity, or for similar reasons.
To boycott someone or their business, [because of their racial group, or for the color of their skin, or for their ethnicity], is unfair.
Fairness, and equality, and being polite all people, are values that The United States, and the people of The United States, support and cherish.
Freedom is also an American value, and as a free person I can buy or not buy from anyone for whatever reason I want, even if it’s racist or unfair, and my motives do not need to be accounted for or justified to anyone.
@Niketas Choniates,
That is true.
But any unfairness to someone’s ethnicity, or racism, or any other unfairness [done by me or by any other person]- can then encourage other people to do racism or unfairness to me or to others.
In the past and in the present- [some people encouraging…not doing racism], and [some people encouraging other forms of fairness], has encouraged and encourages other people to do fairness.
Encouraging and supporting fairness, promotes people being unfair to others.
Encouraging unfairness, promotes people to be unfair.
Fairness and equality are things that help a civil and positive society.
TR, what you’re describing is a society with holds a compact as Supreme.
That is God. Our constitution recognized that their organizing principles came from God.
God forbid we ever adopt a system whose organizing principles are human in origin.
When societies reject those principles, my first question to you would be– who gets to decide what’s unfair?
@ Brian E,
in an ideal society or nation, the majority of the people decide what [fair + helpful- actions + behaviors] they want to have done, and then these people [encourage or instruct] their government to do and/or instruct [these actions and behaviors].
Just to be clear I don’t, neither have I in the past- demand or mandate, that people be fair and helpful and etc..
Neither, if I understand your idea correctly, am I trying to usurp [any God or gods that you have chosen, or that God’s principles.]
However, a society and government [that is fair and helpful] are things that [the founders of the USA’s constitution, who are also the founders of the USA itself], are two things that the founders tried to build.
And by looking at their example, I try to build the same.
Cheers.
TR, so what you’re saying is there ought to be a law that no one cannot buy a good or service from anyone based on ethnicity.
Short of that, you’re suggesting that we use shame/shunning (or its antithesis) as a motivation, which probably results in the division you’re trying to avoid.
Brian E,
Really, no.
I’m not trying to promote either of those things.
I’m trying to promote that people be helpful + fair.
Cheers.
Gosh who would have considered that people aren’t angels and life isn’t fair?
I think if you look at the social, political, and legal norms of 1939, there were a number of amendments desirable.
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A. There should have been vigorous and scrupulous efforts to promote impartiality and best practices in the operation of public agencies. That means the police, the courts, the penal system, the electoral registrars, the civil service examiners, &c. Well staffed adequately compensated public defenders’ offices should have been the order of the day, along with parastatal legal aid societies.
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B. Recruitment and promotion in the public sector should have been regulated by various sorts of impersonal examination systems and the record of hiring, promotion, and dismissal of supervisors audited to detect and excise people abusing their discretion. Also, there should have been no caste regulations in the public sector. Blacks so employed live in the same barracks, eat in the same canteens, use the same restrooms.
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C. Outside the public sector, examination systems should have been imposed on private natural monopolies. It should have been debarred for collective bargaining agreements to restrict or promote the prospects of any communal group. Otherwise, freedom of contract and association should have prevailed.
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D. Service provision in education should have been scrupulously impartial. That would have meant something anathema to most Southerners, an end to formally parallel school systems. “Racial balance” should not have been a concern. Apposite formulae to distribute state funds to local school districts, apposite formulae to distribute the funds available to local boards between schools, broad availability of instructional programs across a district, non-racial assignment schemes (geographic or lottery systems), voucher programs for those wishing to opt out, and annual regents examinations should have been the order of the day. Consortial programs for those not apposite for common-and-garden schools should have been available, Day detention centers for incorrigibles should have been available. State ombudsmen for parents wishing to contest disciplinary decisions should have been available. Examination systems to distribute berths at state tertiary institutions should have been available. Private schools should have been left in peace, bar certain audited disclosure statements required, pricing systems (not pricing levels) required, and participation in state regents examinations required.
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E. Governments should have beat a retreat from the housing market. That would have meant liquidating the government-operated secondary mortgage maws, liquidating the government’s mortgage insurance business, liquidating public housing stocks, dismantling rent control, ending the enforceability of restrictive covenants on real estate, dismantling rent control, and disallowing certain restrictions on the development of residential housing (e.g. minimum lot sizes). Avoiding regulatory measures which unduly restricted the provision of certain housing types (apartments with shared kitchens, boarding houses, SRO hotels, flop houses, &c) would have been desirable.
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F. Legislative prescription of the custom of certain sorts of service providers: government agencies and government corporations, private natural monopolies, the medical sector, and (more contingently) business which provide services specifically for travelers (as gas stations and hotels do but restaurants do not). Outside of such prescriptions, freedom of contract and association ought to prevail.
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G. The composition of impersonal rules-based systems for constituting elected conciliar bodies and drawing electoral constituencies. There are ways to get by without contrived gerrymandering; you do have to abandon a goal of strictly equipopulous districts, though.
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H. The use of tabulation systems other than first-past-the-post in competitive elections.
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I. Welfare programs at all levels which addressed a discrete array of systematic issues, did so impartially, and did so without incorporating perverse incentives or constructing agencies employing the terminally officious. Income transfers for the elderly, the disabled, and survivors agreeable; indemnities for the injured agreeable; term-limited transfers for the involuntarily unemployed, agreeable; vouchers and insurance for veterans agreeable; term-limited vouchers and indemnities for disaster victims agreeable; state operated or financed custodial programs (for the insane, for the disabled, for juveniles w/o custodial parents) agreeable; schools and school voucher programs agreeable; public medical and ltc insurance agreeable; public defenders and legal aid lawyers agreeable; subsidies to earned income agreeable; open ended doles for the non-elderly and non disabled, disagreeable; permanent work relief programs, not agreeable; subsidies for housing and groceries, not agreeable; Wagner act unions, not agreeable; high minimum wage rates, not agreeable.
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What is regrettable is that we did not act to remove the contrived disabilities imposed on blacks while at the same time leaving blacks (and others) to work and attempt to thrive within a system of natural liberty. Another failure was failing to build an immigration system worthy of the name. Allowing each year about 250,000 aspirant settlers (screened for language proficiency) to enter the country and admitting them on a more-or-less first-come-first-served basis would have served all of us (the blacks especially) better than the system adopted.
TR, I guess I misunderstood you. Had you wrote “should not” rather than “cannot”, I would agree with you.
If I boycott a business it’s because of a political statement that business espouses, not on ethnicity.
You’re right, that’s the way it should be.
Hi Brian E,
Sure, that’s cool.
I sort of wrote my original comment, off the cuff, + in a “I’m feeling like Ming the Merciless”…(see him in the 1980s film, Flash Gordon), type of mood, + was feeling a, “most everyone should do [these] things, to be ethical)…type of a feeling.
Oops.
I didn’t think it all out, rationally, before I wrote it.
Well, that’s that. 😀
Cool.
Thank you for discussing ideas like these with me, even when I’m writing like an brain-addled, mixed up, Yosemite Sam. 😀
Cheers,
TR
Hi Brian E,
In other words, I think your phrase, [we should not do…something], works better than my phrase, [ we can not do…something].
The way I said it, it sounded like [I was telling people what they can + can’t do].
That never goes down well. Oops.
*facepalm*
Man, I can act like such a meat-head, sometimes. 😀
Cheers,
TR
Those are good points, Art Deco.
Brian E on January 20, 2026 at 1:57 pm:
“God forbid we ever adopt a system whose organizing principles are human in origin.
When societies reject those principles, my first question to you would be– who gets to decide what’s unfair?”
How can it ever be otherwise? Who (which men?) decide what God (or G-d) revealed to themselves or others? I.e., who decides what God (or G-d) decided? Who decides if they should be believed? Who elects to follow or not follow that (divinely inspired or man made) belief system?
The system (and the “American Mind” liberty oriented mindset ) that we adopted in the 1770’s to 1792 (Bill of Rights) were created by men, supported by men, and ratified by men. Many or most were presumably believers in God as the source of those ideas, but a decently modest number were not such believers, looking only to “Nature” and reason.
R2L, I can think of a couple of humanist governments in the last couple of centuries, most notable being Marx and Mao.
Compare and contrast our Bill of Rights to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Which one would you want to live under?
Lucky us!
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So now the left deranged mob is invading Churches. You think things won’t get worse, then they do. I really don’t want to see what is next.
And just how was Don Lemon there?
Using sign language, KOKO , if asked, could describe the Russian / Ukraine conflict far more intelligently than did Kamala “Cackling” Harris.
Come to think about it, KOKO could “speak” in far clearer and concise terms , than anything “The CACKLER” could say.
And speaking of The Cackler; she just purchased an $ 8.1 MILLION , OCEANFRONT home in Calif.
Please recall the numerous speeches she gave in which she spoke about rising sea levels due to global warming.
I will surmise her cooking stove uses big, bad, evil, methane producing natural gas.
But hey, she is just following the example of that other global warming advocate, barack HUSSEIN ocommie; he bought TWO ocean front homes; one in Hawaii and one in Martha’s Vineyard (yep, he just sold the latter).
His $ 8 million home in DC is not near the ocean. I will surmise he is hedging his bets in the event his Ocean front Hawaiian home gets inundated by rising sea levels.
OK, I just made that up; he had a DC home to be near the politically powerful folks he needs to be close too.
Perhaps the obama’s can jump aboard the private plane of Bill Gates and go visit the Cackler’s new home.
Ooops, forgot; Gates recently jumped off the global warming bandwagon and is now promoting nuclear and gas turbines to power his AI investments. Yep, no way now that the global warming folks will get within 100 miles of the traitor, Gates.
A couple of years ago I posted Heartsignals, a collection of songs referencing various types of communications media…letters, telegrams, telephone calls, etc. Today’s post does the same thing for modes of transportation, ranging from horses, mules, and wagons to cars, motorcycles, ships, airplanes, and rockets.
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/75872.html
Our Anglican Church in Houston area has for the last 3 years placed a policeman near the entranceway of our church reception area and his vehicle is visible well before one needs to enter. Also many of the parishioners are packing. Not sure how the Don Lemon led crew would react if they attempted to enter our church.
Don Lemon and the leftists assumed that Minnesotans are sheep who don’t actually value their God-given rights.
Per a site I consulted, Koko actually weighed about 280#. Supposedly, this episode was broadcast in July of 1998. Francine Paterson had been working with Koko for about twenty-five years at that point.
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A confederacy of
duncespsychos…https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/emails-show-fauci-collins-plotting-circumvent-impressive-data-covid
Essentially a metaphor for the entire coverup-of-a-coverup-of-a-coverup-ad-infinitum Democratic Party (and its merrye minions)….
(Gotta luv that “grappled” bit, OH yeah—guess one could say the same for “promotion”….)
@JohnTyler:Gates recently jumped off the global warming bandwagon…no way now that the global warming folks will get within 100 miles of the traitor
100% false. He has not changed his views on global warming at all. He is funding their causes just as he ever did. He does want to make money from powering AI though. He figures he can do both. He is not on our side, he is not our friend, he is not helping our team.
You always have to go back to the source on stuff like this because so many people lie about what other people say in order to advance their own narratives. Bolded words bolded in the original.
He still thinks global warming is a real problem which must be solved using your money while allowing him and his allies to profit. He says it nicer than that.
Re: Koko & Mr. Rogers
Wonderful! Both were.
Mr. Rogers was quite brave, notwithstanding the presence of the trainer and Koko’s human-oriented upbringing. Apes from the chimpanzee on up are capable of seriously hurting a human.
I’ve been watching a lot of animal videos lately. It does strike me that people who are good at working with animals are really good at non-verbally communicating calmness and caring.
Mr. Rogers can do that in spades. And Koko could read it easily.
According to a post at the WORLD website by Joe Rigney, the protesters in Minneapolis entered as if they were worshippers, sat through the early part of the service, and then stood up and began shouting at the pastor and parishioners, including children. The presiding pastor asked them to leave, and they did not. The DOJ is investigating violations of the FACE Act.
https://wng.org/opinions/a-brazen-invasion-of-christian-worship-1768807502
SHOUT OUT TO OUR HOST neo and others in New England!
WBZ-TV in Boston says there is a high chance of prime Aurora Borealis watching tonight (commonly called “Northern Lights”).
This two minute clip explains the basic physics involved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAcFeiVSRBg
My folks let me view a great sky show as a kid, and it later turned me into a serious amateur astronomer.
ITS AWSUME!
Il Fauci, continued:
“Doctor punished for questioning COVID vaccines says she could have made up to $35M by giving shots“—
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Scamsville….
So, reading just now about Denmark proposing an increased Arctic presence, it occurred to me that when an EU country says NATO, they mean, “with funding primarily from the USA.” Is Trumps goal, perhaps, to shift the necessary *US* NATO spending from their hemisphere to ours? In other words, we spend less protecting the EU, but use the savings, under NATO, to protect Greenland?
Having a major defense operation in Greenland would allow the US to exit NATO and still protect our eastern flank. Also enables a power pivot to the Arctic. With Canada cozying up to China this is crucial. Lots of advantages with this. Closer to home, and as you say, Jim, the money is spend in our hemisphere.
I wonder if the panic on the Euro’s part is really about the prospect of us leaving or substantially reducing our commitment to their continent.
Mark,
I’ve been in more than one Catholic mass with one or more uniformed policeman in attendance. Vandalism is even common in churches when services are not being held. I believe, statistically, Jewish synagogues have led U.S. statistics in religious vandalism for decades.
Don Lemon wasn’t very good when reading a teleprompter, but he’s even less creative when he has to come up with his own scripts.
UAP encounters. He describes two encounters. What were they?
Thunderbird Fighter Pilot Shares Wild UAP Encounters!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DD2SYGXbrQ
Brilliant! And hysterically funny.
That’s this 2m video with a lovely young Goth woman named Waifu Amelia. She “is now the mascot of UK nationalism and has gone viral after the UK panicked and took her game down.”
Click here and enjoy! https://instapundit.com/770660/#disqus_thread
The final cutting scene sees Amelia on the throne like Elizabeth II, with the zinger “Get cracking lads,” instructing young men to fight for England once again, like before.
THEN “Love— Amelia” like a patriotic love letter cum call to almost arms. Brilliant and reachable meny times.
Michelle Obama has said that [she is mindful to avoid white owned businesses], + that other people should do that too.
…That is racist.
You are telling people to [not] do business with someone, because of: the [race] that they belong to, or by the color of their skin.
That is unfair.
I believe- The Democrats, or read that as- [most] Democrats if you like, are acting like cowards.
They are not being brave at all.
They let Michelle Obama And Barack Obama be as unfair, or as racist, as these two want to be, because the Democrats are afraid of telling the first Black president…B. Obama, and his wife, Michelle Obama, that their behavior is wrong.
I believe They won’t tell the Obamas that they are being bad, because the don’t want to look bad to their fellow Democrats.
You cannot boycott- white people owned businesses, or black people owned businesses, or any group’s businesses, and say that you’re doing it to help some other group of people. That is wrong.
Unfair boycotts of businesses is unfairness.
The people of The United States are against all forms of unfairness and discrimination, and Mr. Obama and Ms. Obama need to be held accountable, and told, when they are being racist or unfair to others.
The United States’ people stand for being fair to everyone, and not just being fair to the people that the Obamas favor.
I believe that the Obamas need to be told that their actions are wrong.
Please look for other people for political guidance, and not to the Obamas.
[Here’s a link to this story]:
https://www.newsbreak.com/reelscorner-rc-343915120/4450419196251-americans-are-furious-with-former-first-lady-michelle-obama-after-she-plead-with-voters-to-boycott-white-owned-brands-she-is-mindful-to-try-to-avoid-white-owned-brands-and-others-also-should-be
TJ,
That video is really well done!
“Surely you can handle welfare tourists.”
I love the story behind it, how some enterprising youth took a character from a preachy educational game meant to make them feel shameful for being patriotic and made her an emblem of the St. George flag movement.
Just to clarify my idea:
You cannot boycott- white people owned businesses, or black people owned businesses, or [boycott or be unfair] to anyone or their business…their business as in- their company, because of: their racial group, or for the color of their skin, or their ethnicity, or for similar reasons.
To boycott someone or their business, [because of their racial group, or for the color of their skin, or for their ethnicity], is unfair.
Fairness, and equality, and being polite all people, are values that The United States, and the people of The United States, support and cherish.
Freedom is also an American value, and as a free person I can buy or not buy from anyone for whatever reason I want, even if it’s racist or unfair, and my motives do not need to be accounted for or justified to anyone.
@Niketas Choniates,
That is true.
But any unfairness to someone’s ethnicity, or racism, or any other unfairness [done by me or by any other person]- can then encourage other people to do racism or unfairness to me or to others.
In the past and in the present- [some people encouraging…not doing racism], and [some people encouraging other forms of fairness], has encouraged and encourages other people to do fairness.
Encouraging and supporting fairness, promotes people being unfair to others.
Encouraging unfairness, promotes people to be unfair.
Fairness and equality are things that help a civil and positive society.
TR, what you’re describing is a society with holds a compact as Supreme.
That is God. Our constitution recognized that their organizing principles came from God.
God forbid we ever adopt a system whose organizing principles are human in origin.
When societies reject those principles, my first question to you would be– who gets to decide what’s unfair?
@ Brian E,
in an ideal society or nation, the majority of the people decide what [fair + helpful- actions + behaviors] they want to have done, and then these people [encourage or instruct] their government to do and/or instruct [these actions and behaviors].
Just to be clear I don’t, neither have I in the past- demand or mandate, that people be fair and helpful and etc..
Neither, if I understand your idea correctly, am I trying to usurp [any God or gods that you have chosen, or that God’s principles.]
However, a society and government [that is fair and helpful] are things that [the founders of the USA’s constitution, who are also the founders of the USA itself], are two things that the founders tried to build.
And by looking at their example, I try to build the same.
Cheers.
TR, so what you’re saying is there ought to be a law that no one cannot buy a good or service from anyone based on ethnicity.
Short of that, you’re suggesting that we use shame/shunning (or its antithesis) as a motivation, which probably results in the division you’re trying to avoid.
Brian E,
Really, no.
I’m not trying to promote either of those things.
I’m trying to promote that people be helpful + fair.
Cheers.
Gosh who would have considered that people aren’t angels and life isn’t fair?
I think if you look at the social, political, and legal norms of 1939, there were a number of amendments desirable.
==
A. There should have been vigorous and scrupulous efforts to promote impartiality and best practices in the operation of public agencies. That means the police, the courts, the penal system, the electoral registrars, the civil service examiners, &c. Well staffed adequately compensated public defenders’ offices should have been the order of the day, along with parastatal legal aid societies.
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B. Recruitment and promotion in the public sector should have been regulated by various sorts of impersonal examination systems and the record of hiring, promotion, and dismissal of supervisors audited to detect and excise people abusing their discretion. Also, there should have been no caste regulations in the public sector. Blacks so employed live in the same barracks, eat in the same canteens, use the same restrooms.
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C. Outside the public sector, examination systems should have been imposed on private natural monopolies. It should have been debarred for collective bargaining agreements to restrict or promote the prospects of any communal group. Otherwise, freedom of contract and association should have prevailed.
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D. Service provision in education should have been scrupulously impartial. That would have meant something anathema to most Southerners, an end to formally parallel school systems. “Racial balance” should not have been a concern. Apposite formulae to distribute state funds to local school districts, apposite formulae to distribute the funds available to local boards between schools, broad availability of instructional programs across a district, non-racial assignment schemes (geographic or lottery systems), voucher programs for those wishing to opt out, and annual regents examinations should have been the order of the day. Consortial programs for those not apposite for common-and-garden schools should have been available, Day detention centers for incorrigibles should have been available. State ombudsmen for parents wishing to contest disciplinary decisions should have been available. Examination systems to distribute berths at state tertiary institutions should have been available. Private schools should have been left in peace, bar certain audited disclosure statements required, pricing systems (not pricing levels) required, and participation in state regents examinations required.
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E. Governments should have beat a retreat from the housing market. That would have meant liquidating the government-operated secondary mortgage maws, liquidating the government’s mortgage insurance business, liquidating public housing stocks, dismantling rent control, ending the enforceability of restrictive covenants on real estate, dismantling rent control, and disallowing certain restrictions on the development of residential housing (e.g. minimum lot sizes). Avoiding regulatory measures which unduly restricted the provision of certain housing types (apartments with shared kitchens, boarding houses, SRO hotels, flop houses, &c) would have been desirable.
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F. Legislative prescription of the custom of certain sorts of service providers: government agencies and government corporations, private natural monopolies, the medical sector, and (more contingently) business which provide services specifically for travelers (as gas stations and hotels do but restaurants do not). Outside of such prescriptions, freedom of contract and association ought to prevail.
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G. The composition of impersonal rules-based systems for constituting elected conciliar bodies and drawing electoral constituencies. There are ways to get by without contrived gerrymandering; you do have to abandon a goal of strictly equipopulous districts, though.
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H. The use of tabulation systems other than first-past-the-post in competitive elections.
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I. Welfare programs at all levels which addressed a discrete array of systematic issues, did so impartially, and did so without incorporating perverse incentives or constructing agencies employing the terminally officious. Income transfers for the elderly, the disabled, and survivors agreeable; indemnities for the injured agreeable; term-limited transfers for the involuntarily unemployed, agreeable; vouchers and insurance for veterans agreeable; term-limited vouchers and indemnities for disaster victims agreeable; state operated or financed custodial programs (for the insane, for the disabled, for juveniles w/o custodial parents) agreeable; schools and school voucher programs agreeable; public medical and ltc insurance agreeable; public defenders and legal aid lawyers agreeable; subsidies to earned income agreeable; open ended doles for the non-elderly and non disabled, disagreeable; permanent work relief programs, not agreeable; subsidies for housing and groceries, not agreeable; Wagner act unions, not agreeable; high minimum wage rates, not agreeable.
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What is regrettable is that we did not act to remove the contrived disabilities imposed on blacks while at the same time leaving blacks (and others) to work and attempt to thrive within a system of natural liberty. Another failure was failing to build an immigration system worthy of the name. Allowing each year about 250,000 aspirant settlers (screened for language proficiency) to enter the country and admitting them on a more-or-less first-come-first-served basis would have served all of us (the blacks especially) better than the system adopted.
TR, I guess I misunderstood you. Had you wrote “should not” rather than “cannot”, I would agree with you.
If I boycott a business it’s because of a political statement that business espouses, not on ethnicity.
You’re right, that’s the way it should be.
Hi Brian E,
Sure, that’s cool.
I sort of wrote my original comment, off the cuff, + in a “I’m feeling like Ming the Merciless”…(see him in the 1980s film, Flash Gordon), type of mood, + was feeling a, “most everyone should do [these] things, to be ethical)…type of a feeling.
Oops.
I didn’t think it all out, rationally, before I wrote it.
Well, that’s that. 😀
Cool.
Thank you for discussing ideas like these with me, even when I’m writing like an brain-addled, mixed up, Yosemite Sam. 😀
Cheers,
TR
Hi Brian E,
In other words, I think your phrase, [we should not do…something], works better than my phrase, [ we can not do…something].
The way I said it, it sounded like [I was telling people what they can + can’t do].
That never goes down well. Oops.
*facepalm*
Man, I can act like such a meat-head, sometimes. 😀
Cheers,
TR
Those are good points, Art Deco.
Brian E on January 20, 2026 at 1:57 pm:
“God forbid we ever adopt a system whose organizing principles are human in origin.
When societies reject those principles, my first question to you would be– who gets to decide what’s unfair?”
How can it ever be otherwise? Who (which men?) decide what God (or G-d) revealed to themselves or others? I.e., who decides what God (or G-d) decided? Who decides if they should be believed? Who elects to follow or not follow that (divinely inspired or man made) belief system?
The system (and the “American Mind” liberty oriented mindset ) that we adopted in the 1770’s to 1792 (Bill of Rights) were created by men, supported by men, and ratified by men. Many or most were presumably believers in God as the source of those ideas, but a decently modest number were not such believers, looking only to “Nature” and reason.
R2L, I can think of a couple of humanist governments in the last couple of centuries, most notable being Marx and Mao.
Compare and contrast our Bill of Rights to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Which one would you want to live under?
Lucky us!